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The Northern Illinois Newspaper Association will host a training event about how the press interacts with police personnel from 8:30 a.m. to noon Feb. 23 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

The event will take place in two sessions.

Session one will look at covering small police departments and will feature speaker Don Thomas, who recently retired from a law enforcement career that spanned 40 years, including 24 years with the St. Charles Police Department.

Session two will delve into the importance of building positive media-police relationships, the value of social media when it comes to reporting on crime, and other topics.

That session will feature Pat Gengler, public information officer for the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.

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Norwegian National League seeking scholarship applicants

The Norwegian National League of Chicago is offering scholarships and cash prizes to deserving students who are of Norwegian heritage residing in the counties of Cook, Kane, Kendall, McHenry, Will, Lake and DuPage.

A $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to a high school senior with a minimum 3.0 grade-point average who has been accepted by a college or university.

Also, a $100 cash prize will be awarded to a high school student in grades nine to 11, and a $50 cash prize will be awarded to a student in grades five through eight. A $25 cash prize will be awarded to a student in grades one through four. To qualify, older students must submit an original essay on a Norwegian topic, and the students in grades one through four must submit an original drawing depicting a Norwegian topic.

Entries must be postmarked by March 1. For scholarship information and applications, visit www.nnleague.org or contact Tom Maxson at 847-297-1656 or tjmax@wowway.com.

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ON THE COVER Nancy and Ed Weiss, the 2016 Batavia Citizens of the Year Award winners, make a speech Jan. 27 during the annual Inspire celebration and awards event at Abbey Farms.

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Roy Bailey, joined by his wife, Jeanne Bailey, and Marilyn and Rudy Dubis, co-chairs of the Batavia ACCESS Toy Drive, makes an acceptance speech. The two couples were awarded the Spirit of Batavia Award from the Batavia Chamber of Commerce on Jan. 27 at the Nagel Emporium at Marmion’s Abbey Farms. ory,” Roy Bailey said of his mother, noting there’s another big motivation for the toy distribution, which this year helped more than 700 children.

“When you see the parents leave and say thank you, and you see the tears, that’s why we do it, because of the kids.

“These are our own Batavia children that we take care of,” he said.

“This award should go to the community.”

When it came to choosing the Ole Award recipients, it was a daunting task to pare down 60 nominations to the seven honorees, said Tom Wangler of Confident Aire, who chaired the Inspire committee. He called it an exciting process to stay on top of what’s happening in town, and emphasized that it’s important to take notice of what the nominees undertake and to support their businesses.

Taking its title from a traditional Swedish name, the Ole Awards are given to businesses for a significant improvement and investment either for new construction or remodeling.

The presentation was preceded by a video about the influx of Swedish and Scandinavian immigrants to Batavia after the Civil War, and their old world

craftsmanship that left its mark on the city.

The following honorees and their award categories were announced by 1st Ward Alderman Scott Salvati of Lighthouse Marketing: • New Construction – Commercial: Speedway and Batavia Enterprises for Walgreens • New Construction – Industrial: AMCOR Rigid Plastics • Remodeling – Industrial: Graf Tree Care and Pella Windows and Doors • Remodeling – Commercial: XFINITY Store and Sure Movements Yoga Gerry Dempsey, chairman and CEO of Batavia Enterprises, spoke about the community’s support for a downtown Batavia Walgreens, and gratitude that the company would choose to stay in the same area.

The evening saw the tables turned on Shirley Mott. Her public relations firm, The Write Word, often keeps her behind the scenes of much that goes on in the community. The chamber enjoyed directing the spotlight at her as Ambassador of the Year.

The Inspire celebration was held at the Nagel Emporium at Marmion’s Abbey Farms, a chamber member.

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and a firefighter could repair. The goal was to brighten the holiday for 43 children known to be facing a gloomy Christmas. The fire department came through with the help of the Batavia Rotary, and the women’s auxiliaries of the VFW and American Legion, who sewed clothes for each doll. Each child received a bike that year.

By the 1980s, Mildred Bailey took on the project, and recruited her family to help out, including her son, Roy, early on. With her passing four years ago, the project lives on, led by Roy and wife Jeanne, and Marilyn and Rudy Dubis.

Rudy Dubis, announcer for the Batavia Bulldogs, said he was recruited

by Mildred Bailey when they worked together at Furnas Electric.

“We love this program,” he said.

Roy Bailey called the award humbling, and said he has followed his mother’s example in recruiting family.

The next generation of Baileys already at work on the year-round endeavor include daughter Brittany Bailey-Cole, her husband, A.J., and their 9-year-old son, Darion; and son Stephen and his wife, Elizabeth.

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BATAVIA – The community’s spirit of volunteerism and service was celebrated at the Batavia Chamber of Commerce’s Inspire 2017 festivities Jan. 27.

The 2016 Citizen of the Year Award was shared by the dynamic duo of Nancy and Ed Weiss. In addition, the newly created Spirit of Batavia Award recognized two couples who have helped sustain the Batavia ACCESS Toy Drive for many years – Roy and Jeanne Bailey, and Rudy and Marilyn Dubis. And seven Ole Award businesses were honored for their investment in the city. The night also included a surprise debut award naming Shirley Mott as Ambassador of the Year for the chamber.

Batavia Chamber President and CEO Holly Deitchman said the Citizen of the Year honoree is selected by past recipients, noting she loves being in the room as they consider all of the “great deeds.”

“It’s very heartwarming,” she said.

Mayor Jeff Schielke praised past recipients for their ingenious and unique visions for the community.

“Ed and Nancy are two of the people who are big examples of that blessing,” he said.

A video saluted the couple – from her work on preserving native plant species at the Batavia Riverwalk Wildflower Sanctuary to his handson restoration of the windmills that dot the cityscape. She served on the Kane County Board and helped bring bike paths to the Fox Valley, while he helped guide a development boom in Batavia while serving on the Plan Commission for 16 years.

These are just a few of the contributions made by a couple who continue to work to make the world around them a more beautiful place, even raising monarch butterflies in their kitchen.

“We’re humbled to be part of this special group,” Ed Weiss said upon receiving the award. “We got involved not for the recognition. We saw a need, we were interested, we had time, and a lot of times, it was a lot of fun.”

Nancy Weiss said they originally moved to Batavia to a North River Street home, drawn to its views of the Fox River, adding that they like the diversity of the city. Today, they reside at The Holmstad in a cottage she’s ringed with native plants.

In announcing the Spirit of Batavia Award, Schielke talked about the origins of what would become the Batavia ACCESS Toy Drive, beginning with the Christmas of 1950, when the Batavia fire chief asked people to donate broken toys and bicycles that he

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Batavians make their voices heard during the second annual peace concert sing-along Jan. 29 on the Peace Bridge, a pedestrian span over the Fox River in downtown Batavia.

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Peace concert sing-along draws crowd Brenda Schory - bschory@shawmedia.com

Get to know Monica Aguirre

By BRENDA SCHORY bschory@shawmedia.com

St. Charles resident Monica Aguirre, 25, was at Kimmer’s Ice Cream in St. Charles when she answered questions for the Kane County Chronicle’s Brenda Schory.

Schory: Where did you grow up?

Aguirre: St. Charles Schory: Do you have any pets?

Aguirre: A shih tzu and bichon frise mix named Coco.

Schory: Who would play you in the movie of your life?

Aguirre: Jennifer Aniston Schory: As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Aguirre: I wanted to be a pediatrician. I just graduated from pastry school a year ago, and I’m in the process of becoming that. I decorate all the cakes here at Kimmer’s.

Schory: A book or movie you would recommend?

Aguirre: “The Conjuring” Schory: Favorite charity?

Aguirre: Feed My Starving Children Schory: What is an interesting factoid about yourself?

Aguirre: I have one dimple on the right side of my face.

By MARK FOSTER editorial@kcchronicle.com BATAVIA – A crowd of Batavians braved cold temperatures and snow flurries as people warmed themselves with songs of peace.

The group gathered on the Peace Bridge – a pedestrian span over the Fox River in downtown Batavia – for the second annual peace concert singalong held the evening of Jan. 29.

They sang songs such as “Let There Be Peace on Earth,” “What a Wonderful World” and “Peace Train.”

Organized by Batavia barber Craig Foltos, the event seems to have attracted an even larger crowd than last year, with perhaps 70 or 80 people in attendance.

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Gary and Sharon Goeden of Batavia were among many who came to the event for the first time.

“I think that we need even more focus on peace in this country than ever before,” Gary Goeden said.

The sing-along attracted people of all ages.

Alison Treger, a student at Rotolo Middle School in Batavia, said she turned out because she thought the event sounded like it would be fun.

“I would just like for everybody to

be happy and to help each other,” Treger said.

Wilma Van Arragon of Batavia lent her voice to the sing-along with thoughts of a better world for everyone.

“We can no longer be silent in the face of injustice,” Van Arragon said.

A karaoke machine provided the singers with some musical backup, leading to heartfelt renditions of “Let It Be” and “Imagine.”

Singer-guitarist Ryan Worthy of Batavia performed a pair of original compositions, while Sammi King of Batavia led the group in an a cappella version of “If I Had a Hammer.”

Foltos invited the participants to carry the message of peace forward, and to return to the bridge for another sing-along next year.

Batavia City Council seeks feedback on public art Conservation Foundation also taking orders for rain barrels KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE editorial@kcchronicle.com BATAVIA – The city of Batavia seeks comments on contenders for a bridge sculpture, and also announces its annual rain barrel sale.

Proposals have been received for the fourth and final sculpture for the William J. Donovan Bridge on Wilson Street designed to represent the theme of art, according to a news release. The work will take its place among the earlier pieces representing nature, history and science.

The Batavia City Council is seeking public input on the seven entries before it reaches a decision. It also will receive the opinions of a professional sculptor who works with public art, as well as from city staff in terms of durability, susceptibility to vandalism or

Know more To view the entries for the fourth and final sculpture for the William J. Donovan Bridge on Wilson Street, visit cityofbatavia.net/sculpture. Input is requested by email or an online form by Feb. 4. accident, and other considerations in selecting long-lasting pieces to grace the bridge.

To view the entries, visit cityofbatavia.net/sculpture. Input is requested by email or an online form by Feb. 4.

The seventh annual rain barrel sale, in tandem with The Conservation Foundation, will accept orders until the close of business May 1. The orders placed online are for credit card purchases only, and cash or check purchases can be brought to the “Conservation @ Home” program about rain barrels and rain gardens at 7 p.m. April 6 at City Hall to be placed directly with a Conservation

Foundation representative.

The rain barrels are 55 gallons each and made from recycled, food-grade plastic. They come equipped with a spigot, garden-hose-threaded overflow and screw-off lid with a screen to keep out bugs and debris, plus a one-year warranty. There are two options for pricing dependent upon delivery method: a barrel one must pick up or a barrel with home delivery at $60 or $65, respectively. They are available in black, blue, gray and terra cotta.

To place an order, go to cityofbatavia. net/rainbarrels. The orders will be delivered from 10 a.m. to noon May 6 at the Clark Island Skate Park in Batavia along the Fox River off Route 25 at about 411 S. River St. The delivery date for people who opt for home delivery will be coordinated with the supplier when enough barrels are purchased in the area.

If one cannot attend the presentation or has questions, contact Jim Kleinwachter with The Conservation Foundation at 630-553-0687, ext. 302.

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Commission votes no on Shodeen project Panel wants reduction in proposed building size

that we love,” plan commission member Sue Peterson said.

The proposal before the commission is a six-level, mixed-use building with 186 apartments, a public parking garage with 350 spaces, and retail space

By MARK FOSTER covering 14,350 square feet. editorial@kcchronicle.com “It looks like a high-rise in downBATAVIA – The Batavia Plan Com- town Arlington Heights,” commission mission has asked the developer of the member Sara Harms said.

Plan Commission Chairman Tom One Washington Place downtown redevelopment project to go back to the LaLonde sought to find a compromise with developer Shodeen Construction drawing board.

The commission voted 4-2 to deny of Geneva.

LaLonde suggested reducing the variances to the city’s parking requirements and other zoning issues during a number of apartments by somewhere between 10 and 20 in order to scale three-hour meeting Jan. 25.

Echoing comments from citizens at back the building’s presence over two marathon public hearings in re- North River Street. On that side of the cent weeks, commission members said development at the bottom of a hill, the building would be a full six stories tall, the project is simply too big.

“It really bothers me that in one fell reaching 81 feet from the ground to the swoop we’re going to change the town roofline.

The chairman said he liked the building’s appearance on the North Washington Avenue side, where the parking garage would be below ground on the sloping property, so that the visible structure would be four stories tall, rising 54 feet from the ground to the roofline.

Like the residents who had addressed them at the public hearings, commissioners expressed concern that the parking garage would not be sufficient to serve the residents of the building as well as the public.

The city’s code ordinarily would require about 400 spaces for a project of this size. Residents of the building and other downtown residents without parking of their own would be eligible for the 200 overnight permits that would be made available in the two-level garage, but would not have reserved spaces.

“Not having designated spots for each apartment seems foolish,” plan commission member Gene Schneider said. “It doesn’t sound right. It sounds stupid.”

Dave Patzelt, president of Shodeen Group, said assigning spots would be an inefficient use of the available spaces.

Under the “shared-use” parking concept, shoppers, diners and other visitors to the downtown would use the spaces while building residents are away, a concept strongly supported by Batavia economic development consultant Chris Aiston.

Patzelt and the plan commission are expected to revisit the size of the building March 15. Meanwhile, the panel’s negative recommendation goes to the Batavia City Council, which will be free to override the commission’s decision.

Expo to feature City to tear down Larson-Becker property local volunteer Site to be temporary parking Know more for use during construction opportunities lot of One Washington Place KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE

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BATAVIA – The Batavia Park District will showcase volunteer opportunities in the Tri-Cities from 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 4 at the Eastside Community Center, 14 N. Van Buren St., Batavia. At the Community Resource Expo, people can chat with representatives from local groups and find out how to get involved and donate time, expertise or resources.

“It is such a gift to live in a community like Batavia that has a vast collection of organizations and services for everyone to utilize or assist with,” Batavia MainStreet Executive Director Jamie Saam said in a news release. “[They] have been built to aid in every possible need. The Community Resource Expo allows people to gather information and interact with these organizations, opening up the doors of future use and partnership.”

To view a list of the two dozen participating groups, visit bataviaparks. org. For information, call 630-879-5235.

BATAVIA – Demolition of the Larson-Becker property on North River Street could begin by mid-March, setting in motion a massive redevelopment project in downtown Batavia.

The city of Batavia is buying land owned by the firm on both sides of North River Street for $1.25 million.

The demolition on the west side of the street, along the east bank of the Fox River between State and Franklin streets, will clear the way for an 111-space temporary parking lot, designed for use by downtown visitors during construction of the One Washington Place mixed-use devel- Laura opment.

Newman Batavia City Administrator Laura Newman said the city has gone out for bids on the demolition project, which along with creation of the parking lot is estimated at about $300,000. Demolition for the redevelopment site itself will be in two phases, Newman said, and also is estimated at $300,000.

The first phase will be to raze four buildings owned by the city, including the Baptist church, an insurance office, a dentist’s office and the Service-

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The cost of the land acquisition and demolition will be reimbursable to the city from revenue generated by the tax increment financing district the City Council is establishing for the One Washington Place project.

Master building along the 100 block of East Wilson Street. The second phase includes tearing down the two-level city parking deck at the corner of North River and State streets, which was constructed about 25 years ago.

The city expects to be able to hand over the property to Geneva-based Shodeen Construction in June, Newman said. Shodeen is working with the city to build a six-level mixed-use structure with 186 apartments, a 350-space public parking garage and retail shops, on a site covering most of a downtown block.

The Larson-Becker property demolition also includes the vacant, deteriorating residence at 124 N. River St., on the east side of the street.

The immediate fate of the old tin shop building in the 100 block of North River, as well as a three-bay garage next door, was uncertain as of Kane County Chronicle press time, with aldermen expected to discuss those buildings at a committee meeting Jan. 31.

Public Works Director Gary Holm said his department has been using the ServiceMaster building for storing vehicles that are used downtown, and said the garage would be useful.

Newman said the city staff is inter-

ested in using the tin shop building during construction of the One Washington Place project.

The two-story tin shop building is classified as “contributing” to the city’s downtown historic district, according to Batavia Building Commissioner Jeff Albertson. The Batavia Historic Preservation Commission is recommending that the city save the building.

Once the One Washington Place project is complete, city officials say they will judge whether the new parking garage is sufficient to handle demand in the downtown. They believe it will be, and, in the long term, plan to sell the Larson-Becker property for redevelopment.

However, a portion of the property will be turned into a linear park roughly 35 feet wide along the east bank of the Fox River, Mayor Jeff Schielke said. A park along the river there would allow for a better connection for the existing bicycle trail.

The cost of the land acquisition and demolition will be reimbursable to the city from revenue generated by the tax increment financing district it is establishing for the One Washington Place project.

Most of the Larson-Becker land is located on the west side of North River between State and Franklin streets.

Combined with property already owned by the city, the land buy on the west side of North River will produce a 73,000-square-foot parcel.

The temporary parking lot is intended to make up for the loss of 129 public parking spaces during the estimated two-year construction of One Washington Place.

By RENEE TOMELL rtomell@shawmedia.com

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Krista MacLean (right) has launched Bits n’ Spurs in Batavia, formerly operated as Oros Saddlery by Dori Oros (left), who retired from the business after 16 years.

MacLean said.

Already carried in the shop are handmade wares, including designs by a Yorkville crochet artist, Dorella Wilson, who makes hats for girls with ponytails with a special opening at the top.

Jennifer Hayes of Sugar Grove creates hair bows, commonly worn by riders with braids. The shop offers hand metal stamping, and people can order dog tags, necklaces or bracelets. Jewelry also is made

by Chris Vitosh of Leland.

And all proceeds from the sale

of jewelry by Marilyn Tebrugge will benefit Equine Dreams, a therapeutic riding program in Newark, according to MacLean.

She said Bits n’ Spurs is the first shop in Illinois to carry the Fluff Monkey, an item designed by an out-of-state mom that can be used for such things as wiping off boots before entering the horse show ring or washing horses’ faces like a washcloth. It has a clip, so it can be attached to the side of a bucket to dry out.

Running a store can be a little overwhelming at times, MacLean said, adding, “We’re

Batavia makes changes to its video gambling ordinance

By MARK FOSTER editorial@kcchronicle.com BATAVIA – As Batavia prepares for the introduction of video gambling in the community, city aldermen are making some changes to the game plan.

The Batavia City Council lifted its ban on video gambling in November, voting to allow local taverns, restaurants, social clubs and entertainment venues to install the gaming machines.

State law allows five video gambling machines in an establishment, and the fall ordinance approved by the council provides for a $25 annual per-

mit fee per machine, to be paid by the business.

A revised ordinance, which is expected to be approved by the council Feb. 6, would charge the actual owner of the machines $1,000 per location for an annual permit.

The owner of the machines and the establishment hosting them are not the same, Batavia City Administrator Laura Newman said.

Mayor Jeff Schielke, who was not in favor of allowing video gambling in Batavia, said the key is to know who is providing the machines.

“I think it should be totally above board who they are

and that we have addresses and phone numbers,” Schielke said. “We need to have a firm grasp with these machines that come into town.”

The revised ordinance also cleans up the language of the original, ensuring that businesses that already have coin-operated amusements and pool tables will be allowed to offer video gambling, and to make clear that the businesses will be subject to police compliance checks, Newman said.

Businesses offering video gambling must place the machines in separate areas for people age 21 and older, Newman said, and they must be

within the view of employees.

Each machine must have a sticker showing it to be a licensed terminal.

Under state law, municipalities receive 5 percent of revenues from the machines. If 12 businesses in Batavia each install five of the machines, the city could expect to receive $120,000 per year, on top of the permit fees, Newman said.

In order to receive a license, businesses must first apply to the Illinois Gaming Board.

Batavia Police Chief Gary Schira said that, so far, only Crosstown Pub on Mill Street near Randall Road has applied to the state.

Once approved by the state, the business would apply to the city, and the license would be issued by the mayor, with no action by the council needed, the chief said.

The introduction of video gambling in Batavia will leave Geneva as the only community in Kane County without the machines.

Batavia aldermen approved the original ordinance on a divided vote, with proponents saying they were responding to requests from local businesses, including the Batavia Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1197, the downtown Bulldog’s Cellar and Crosstown Pub.

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“We just use them for local shows and competitions,” she said. “My husband and I compete in eventing, [which] has three components: dressage, a jumper category in arena jumping [and a] cross-country course. You gallop along in the field jumping different obstacles along the way.”

Visitors to her store will discover that Bits n’ Spurs is supporting the work of local artisans.

“I’m always looking for artisans who make unique products in the horse community,”

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BATAVIA – Members of the equestrian community thought a longtime Batavia store catering to their needs would disappear with the retirement of its owner, but to the rescue rode Krista MacLean.

In December, she launched Bits n’ Spurs in the same site that was home to Batavian Dori Oros’ saddlery shop.

In addition to equestrian-oriented goods such as halters, bridles, blankets, saddle pads and leather care products, MacLean has outfitted the shop at 1931 W. Wilson St. with a variety of goods including jackets, shirts, socks, boots and accessories of appeal to the public. A grand opening is planned Feb. 18.

“What’s nice about this store location is it serves this greater area: St. Charles, Elgin, people from Maple Park, DeKalb, Oswego, Waterman and Yorkville,” MacLean said.

“We’ve been already very blessed.”

Being an attorney from Hinckley who practices in Sandwich, MacLean said the last thing she expected to do at the end of 2016 was buy a store.

“This has a lot more fun involved than my other job,” she said of Bits n’ Spurs. “I’ve never been a retail owner before.

It was all new to me.”

A former customer of Oros Saddlery, she keeps nine horses at her home.

inspired by people who are glad we’re still here.”

So is Dori Oros, who owned the store for 16 years.

“Around the time we opened, Kane County was the most densely populated horse community in the whole state,” said Oros, a nonrider who married into a family with a long history in the horse industry in Illinois.

She said the family business still provides a tack supply and repair service at Arlington racetrack, offering everything essential to horse trainers from exercise saddles to medications and shampoos all catering to the thoroughbred industry.

She said the Oros Saddlery in Batavia was an extension of the business her father-in-law began in 1949, and was incredibly rewarding thanks to wonderful employees.

Oros, who left a job in corporate America to operate the store and have more time for her growing family, said that in the beginning she was a neophyte.

“I didn’t know a bridle from a halter,” Oros said.

“I’m excited for Krista,” she said. “She has a real good vision for things to come [and] we have a viable need in the community.”

Bits n’ Spurs is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday; until 7 p.m. Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday; and is closed Sunday. To learn more, email bitsnspurs1@yahoo.com or call 630-482-3240.

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Siberian huskies pull a sled during a sled demonstration at a Sledding with the Siberians event Jan. 28 at Lippold Park in Batavia.

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CHIP IN Batavia plans prom dress giveaway at library KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE editorial@kcchronicle.com BATAVIA – For the fourth year in a row, CHIP IN Batavia (Community Helpers Impacting People In Need) is collecting and giving away prom dresses to area students.

This month, CHIP IN Batavia will team up with the Batavia Public Library for a prom dress giveaway.

The event is set from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Feb. 18 at the library. It is open to all girls, regardless of need, and will include more than 200 dresses, all offered without charge, a news release stated.

The giveaway is in anticipation of the Batavia High School prom set for May 6. The library will have private changing areas available to try on gowns.

“It is our goal to make sure everyone who needs and wants a dress can get one,” CHIP IN Batavia co-founder Joanne Spitz said in the release.

People can donate a gently used prom dress for the giveaway by dropping it off at the Batavia Public Library during normal business hours between now and Feb. 16 at 10 S. Batavia Ave., at the corner of Wilson Street and Route 31. Also welcome are donations, by cash or check, to be used for tuxedo rentals, prom costs and other needs for low-income students.

All donations will benefit CHIP IN Batavia to help students in need. For Photo provided by Simonetti Studios information, email info@chipinbataHigh school seniors from the Fox Valley area volunteered to act as models last year to via.org.

To learn more about the service or- promote the array of gowns that were part of CHIP IN Batavia’s annual program to give ganization, visit chipinbatavia.org. away prom dresses. The event will return Feb. 18, and donations are being accepted.

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I always love to peek behind the curtain and see what is going on behind the scenes.

While photographing a rehearsal of Batavia High School’s production of “The Legend of Robin Hood?” I asked whether I could have access to the dressing room, where the actors were applying their makeup in preparation for a dress rehearsal.

As predicted, it was a flurry of activity with actors going through racks of costumes and almost every mirror spoken for as they painted their faces. After asking whether it was all right if I took photos – after one of the students verified all actors were decent and clothed – I think every one of them answered with a resounding, “YES.” Like most stage players I’ve met, they were not shy around the camera and welcomed the extra publicity.

Pictured are juniors Emily Smith (left) and Mary Clare Perreault applying their makeup for a dress rehearsal of the school’s Black Box Theater production of “The Legend of Robin Hood?”

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The group started out as three, then grew to five, and now appears to be at seven. They’re somewhat clannish, yes, and can be loud at times, but overall we’re thrilled to see them over and over again.

I see them at Hickory Knolls in the late morning or early afternoon. Valerie says she usually sees them at her nature center, Creek Bend at LeRoy Oakes, early in the day and also later on, toward evening. They arrive together and leave together, and in between behave pretty much like the tight-knit family unit we think they are.

You’d think by now, almost four years into this relationship, that we’d know a little bit more about our frequent guests. But at this point we’re really only certain about two things.

One, we know the group’s name, Corvus brachyrhynchos, the American crow. And two, we know we’d love to someday devote more time to our study of these birds. In fact, we often joke about the lofty name we’ve chosen for our endeavor: The Centre for Corvid Research.

It may sound strange that Valerie and I have chosen to focus on a species that’s neither rare nor particularly well liked among the public. These big black birds have been labeled noisy, messy and disease-carrying. They are famous for raiding nests, helping

GOOD NATURED Pam Otto

Note to readers This column has been updated from its original version, which ran in 2010. themselves to eggs and baby birds alike. They’ve even had a deterrent device designed just for them – the scarecrow.

But for all their rabble-rousing, crows have at least one major redeeming quality: They’re sharp. Really sharp. So much so, in fact, that scientists rank them right up there with the great apes – chimpanzees and gorillas – in terms of intelligence.

If you’ve spent any time watching crows, you’ll know what I mean.

Instead of bypassing a discarded McDonald’s bag, crows will open it up to see what’s inside. Rather than banging away at a mussel shell, they’ll drop it from up high to open it. When a food scrap is too tough or dry, they do what my good German grandma did – they dunk it.

They’re team players, too, and are somewhat famous – or maybe infamous – for their group behavior, known as mobbing. Always on the lookout for potential danger, the birds will gather together and caw, loudly and repeatedly, when a threat

is detected.

(Nature watchers, pay attention when you hear this sound. If you track down where it’s coming from, you just might be rewarded with a view of a hawk or owl, two frequent targets for crow harassment. Then again, it might be a cat, another common object of their attention. Not quite as unusual, but still a cool display of anti-predator behavior.)

Crows also are quite good at getting other animals to do their bidding. I once watched a crow spend several minutes sizing up the contents of an open trash can. Some sort of worthy morsel must have been inside, but the can was nearly empty. Jumping inside the can, and potentially getting trapped, was not on the crow’s agenda for the day. Instead, it waited nearby, busying itself with preening and other such birdish chores.

After a short time, a fox squirrel came along, no doubt attracted by the same tasty morsel. It jumped down into the can, grabbed the tidbit – it looked like part of a sandwich – and took it out, intending to eat it someplace nearby. Like lightning, the crow flashed down from its perch and grabbed the treat. Mission accomplished!

Was this an act of stealing? By our human code of conduct, yes. But from an animal behavior perspective, the crow was simply practicing a widespread foraging technique called kleptoparasitism – taking food procured by others. (Interestingly, research shows this behavior in birds

is closely correlated to brain size: The bigger the brain, the more likely the species will be to kleptoparasitize its animal cohorts.) In this sense, it’s not stealing, it’s strategy.

For all their quirks, crows also have a decidedly warm-and-fuzzy side.

They’re playful, challenging one another to games such as tug o’ war and tag. They’re also great family birds.

Unlike most bird species, which push their young from the nest and out into the world, crows let their offspring stick around for several years past fledging. I think that’s what Valerie and I have been seeing with the Creek Bend-Hickory Knolls crows as we’ve watched their group grow.

While we haven’t done a lot to encourage the group – we haven’t begun feeding them or doing anything else that would artificially inflate their population – we haven’t done anything to discourage them either. And we’re eagerly awaiting this year’s breeding season, to see if the group grows larger.

How about you? Have you noticed an increase in crows in your neighborhood? If so, I’d love to hear about it.

Shoot an email if you have a chance, or give me a ... caw … .

Pam Otto is the manager of nature programs and interpretive services at the Hickory Knolls Discovery Center, a facility of the St. Charles Park District. She can be reached at potto@ stcparks.org or 630-513-4346. Feedback on this column can be sent to editorial@kcchronicle.com.

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Crows have a brain-to-body ratio that is similar to humans. They are able to problem solve, use tools and even engage in play. Their family ties are strong, too, with some individuals remaining with their parents for five years or more.

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ST. CHARLES – Lincoln State Cat Club Inc. will present its 56th annual Cat Fanciers’ Association All-Breed and Household Pet Benefit Cat Show from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 25 and 26 at the Kane County Fairgrounds, 525 S. Randall Road, St. Charles.

The event’s theme is “All Cats Matter” and will include purebred and household cats competing, vendors, guest speakers, a veterinarian and a pet behavior counselor.

Area shelters also will be on site, with cats available for adoption.

Admission is $8 for the public, $6 for seniors 60 and older and children 6 to 12, and free for those younger than age 6.

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Garden club to give scholarship to District 303 student

ST. CHARLES – The Pottawatomie Garden Club will award a $3,000 scholarship to a high school senior or college student who resides within St. Charles School District 303.

Any student interested in college studies related to botany, conservation, land management, ecology, forestry, agriculture, horticulture, environmental concerns and/or related studies may apply.

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By SUZANNE FLYNN editorial@kcchronicle.com ST. CHARLES – Three Fires Council, based in St. Charles, is working with the DuKane ABATE Chapter to plan the first-ever motorcycle ride Sept. 16 to benefit the council’s camp.

Three Fires Council is the head council for the Boy Scout districts within the Chicago western suburbs.

ABATE – or A Brotherhood Aimed Toward Education – is a motorcyclists rights organization dedicated to preserving their rights through education, safety, awareness and political activities.

The DuKane ABATE Chapter represents the state organization in northern DuPage and Kane counties.

Steve Odlin, vice president of technology for Three Fires Council, and Dan Zedan, council commissioner, are co-chairing the event with the help of Aaron Vikemyr, development director, and many others.

“Steve and Dan are both active riders in the community and have participated in other rides,” Vikemyr said.

“As a first-time event, our goal is always to raise at least $5,000. We like to get our events established and then grow them from there.”

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“They brought this idea to us, knowing that other Scouters love to ride, and [there are] other riders outside the organization who would love to reconnect with Scouting. We knew it would be a win-win event.”

Odlin is a member of ABATE, and with the help of those connections, they were able to secure Fox River Harley-Davidson as a co-sponsor.

The ride will start from Fox River Harley-Davidson, 31 Randall Road, St Charles, continue west for two hours, loop around and end at Camp Big Tim-

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Once at the camp, Scout families are welcome to join in on the fun.

There will be a reception at the ranger’s facility, food, games – including competitions between the Scouts and riders – and the motorcyclists will be given the opportunity to camp overnight if they would like.

“This event is going to require a lot of volunteers [50 to 70] to pull [it] off,” Odlin said. “From registrars and cooks to support at the camp site.”

Odlin hopes to get 250 riders at this first ride. There will be a fee to ride, with all proceeds going to benefit Camp Big Timber.

“As a first-time event, our goal is always to raise at least $5,000,” Vikemyr said. “We like to get our events established and then grow them from there. We’d like to replicate our success of the Fox Valley Marathon with this event and the biker community.”

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The third annual Run for the Nuns 5K run/walk will take place at 9:30 a.m.

March 5 at the Thornwood Community Center, 850 E. Thornwood Drive, South Elgin.

The run is being held in conjunction with the “Here I am Lord Conference” at St. Patrick Catholic Church in St. Charles.

All proceeds will benefit a religious community.

Prizes will be awarded to the top finishers.

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Health care advocates visit Hultgren’s office

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bschory@shawmedia.com CAMPTON HILLS – A group of nearly 20 constituents met for more than an hour Jan. 24 with a staff member at the Campton Hills district office of U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Winfield, to express their concerns about the GOP repeal and replacement of former President Barack Obama’s health care law.

“We represent a lot of constituents who have these concerns,” Tara Connolly of Batavia told Hultgren staff member Susan Russell. “And I brought cookies.”

Russell told the group the details on replacing the Affordable Care Act are still being worked out, but said that Hultgren welcomes input from his constituents.

In general, the group praised the health care law for making health insurance companies actually cover sick people and for slowing the increase in premium costs.

But Geneva resident Bill Scown said throwing millions off their insurance would result in the deaths of 15,000 people a year because they would not be able to afford going to the doctor.

Several voiced their concerns about pre-existing conditions, which health insurance companies had previously used

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Page Poris of Geneva (from left) and Pam Verner of St. Charles meet with Susan Russell, staff member with the Campton Hills district office of U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Winfield. The women were part of a group of about 20 who visited Hultgren’s office to voice their concerns about the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and how it would be replaced. as a reason to deny coverage.

Llona Steele of Geneva spoke about her daughter, who survived non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a blood cancer, 20 years ago.

“Physicians said … she won’t last three months,” Steele said. “She’s alive. She’s a constituent of this district of Rep. Hultgren. She appreciates the fact that he’s looking to do

something that maintains the pre-existing condition [ban].

She fought for health care because she was denied over and over and over because of the pre-existing conditions.”

Steele said Hultgren’s website also mentions “affordable” with regard to health coverage.

Steele said “affordable” means low-cost premiums, low, very low or no deductibles and very

low or no out-of-pocket co-pays or other charges.

“I know that HSAs – health savings accounts – have been kicked around,” Steele said.

“I paid for eyeglasses with a health savings account. My daughter would be dead if we had had to do her cancer treatment out of health savings account. There is just no way any family can do an HSA.” Steele said families that are already struggling cannot afford high premiums, deductibles, co-pays or health savings accounts.

The group also spoke against a GOP proposal to allow states to decide whether they want to continue with the Affordable Care Act, or they could take block grants or opt out of any federal help. The group said they opposed those options because that would result in a confusing patchwork of health coverage.

“I don’t know how you can maintain a marketplace for insurance if you do that,” Connolly said. “How are you going to mandate that insurance companies cover everyone with pre-existing conditions

if this state can do X and this state can do Y?” Steele said portability for care is important. When the family was living in Kansas at the time of her daughter’s cancer diagnosis, she was treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

“If you have a patchwork [of health coverage], what happens to portability?” Steele said.

Scown said none of the options to replace the Affordable Care Act are adequate for a cancer or other serious medical diagnosis.

“Doctors are meaningless.

Health care savings accounts are meaningless. What we want is something that provides open-ended coverage, regardless of pre-existing conditions, regardless of diagnosis,” Scown said. “Expand Medicare for all.”

Several agreed and advocated for a single-payer system, having Medicare expanded to cover all beginning at birth – or for access to the same health care plan that Hultgren himself has.

“We want the same insurance that Congress has,” Geneva resident Jeannie Scown said.

Pam Verner of St. Charles agreed.

“Basically, the same coverage that Randy Hultgren – and everyone else there – has,” Verner said.

D-302 board reviews textbook, approves sheriff’s office contract

By CHRIS WALKER editorial@kcchronicle.com There will not be any changes to the Kaneland Harter Middle School coursebook for the 2017-18 school year.

Michael Rice, director of grade six to 12 educational services for Kaneland School District 302, confirmed the decision during the Jan. 30 school board meeting.

“There were no changes, but there were some updates that came about from last year,” Rice said. “While there were no changes in the coursebook, there were some conversations, especially with our sixth-grade math and where kids are placed so they’re challenged as much as they can

“While there were no changes in the coursebook, there were some conversations, especially with our sixth-grade math and where kids are placed so they’re challenged as much as they can [be].”

Michael Rice Director of grade six to 12 educational services for District 302 [be]. If there are opportunities to accelerate the kids, we want to do that as much as possible, but we need to make sure our teachers are also prepared.”

Despite the lack of change, there were several subjects addressed in addition to math, including reading, language arts and science.

Placement of incoming sixth-graders regarding stan-

dard math versus basic math is one of the topics that Kaneland Harter Middle School Principal Brian Faulkner has been discussing with his team.

The school also has combined reading and language arts, and thus far such a change has been successful. Data might be limited in the short term so it will continue to be monitored to determine if such a change proves

to be beneficial long-term.

“We’re still waiting to see how that’s going to work out because we haven’t gotten the bigger assessments on this,” Rice said “But from what we’ve been able to learn. ... this has been a good thing.”

The removal of the eighthgrade enriched science course also has been deemed a success. The belief was that the increased rigor of the revised curriculum, as well as the capability of the STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – scores resources that were adopted throughout the district, would provide a deeper challenge for students. Rice said data would continue to be collected to verify the impact of such a change.

He also noted that curricular revisions made by the Career Technical Education/Physical Education/Fine Arts/Specials group would be shared with school board for review, but no changes would be possible until the 2018-19 school year.

The school board unanimously approved the 2017-18 coursebook during its meeting.

In other news, an intergovernmental agreement was approved between the Kane County Sheriff’s Office and the school board for a resource officer to continue to be employed at Kaneland High School. The agreement is retroactive and set for two years – from Aug. 22, 2016, to June 30, 2018. Deputy Sarah Conley is expected to remain in this role.

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department, where he was being treated for a gash on the head caused by a steel barrel, likely from a pellet gun, the report stated. It noted that the suspects, one white male and one Hispanic male, drove off after the attack.

• A gun was reported to have gone KANE COUNTY missing from the trunk of a car at some SHERIFF’S OFFICE point after it was towed following a Dec. 15 • R. Scott Johnson, 60, of the 600 block accident in West Chicago. It was first towed of Waterside Drive, South Elgin, was to Naperville and later to a repair shop in charged Jan. 18 with battery after a case Batavia, where it was picked up Jan. 16. The of road rage that began on Randall Road cased gun, a .380 Glock pistol valued at in St. Charles, according to a Jan. 18 sher$400, was reported missing by the owner, iff’s office report. It stated that Johnson a resident of Mill Creek in Blackberry Townfollowed the other vehicle to the 6N400 ship, according to a Jan. 21 sheriff’s report. block of Crane Road in St. Charles, where It noted that a bag with five magazines and he pushed the driver in the upper chest ammunition was still in the trunk. after the driver exited the vehicle.

• Ryan Patrick Siebert, 20, of the 43W500 ST. CHARLES block of Timber Crest Drive, Elburn, was charged Jan. 19 with possession of marijua- • Frank J. Calabrese, 48, of the 39W700 na between 30 and 100 grams, possession block of Henry David Thoreau Drive, Campton Hills, was charged Jan. 22 with of drug paraphernalia and speeding 93 mph in a 50-mph posted zone on Route 38 disorderly conduct.

• Maricela Santiago-Alcantra, 28, of the west of Bowgren Circle in Elburn.

900 block of Symphony Drive, Aurora, • A St. Charles Township resident was was charged Jan. 14 with driving under injured during his attempt to buy marthe influence and improper lane use. ijuana at his home, according to a Jan. • Heather L. Douglass, 39, of the 1900 19 sheriff’s report. A deputy interviewed block of Moore Avenue, St. Charles, was him at the Delnor Hospital emergency

charged Jan. 13 with DUI of drugs, unsafe lane change, improper signal and improper turn at an intersection.

• Timothy C. Audet, 22, of the 200 block of North 15th Street, St. Charles was charged Jan. 13 with two counts of misdemeanor domestic battery.

• John G. Koutselas, 59, of the 800 block of Oak Street, St. Charles, was charged Jan. 15 with DUI and illegal lane use.

• Dale A. Zimmer II, 33, of the 1500 block of Shelton Lane, Crystal Lake, was charged Jan. 24 with DUI and speeding.

• Bartholomew J. Curtin, 28, of the 900 block of Lorlyn Circle, Batavia, was charged Jan. 23 with criminal trespass to real property.

• Matthew R. Dean, 23, of the 200 block of Chasse Circle, St. Charles, was charged Jan. 16 with DUI, illegal transportation of alcohol and speeding more than 35 miles an hour over the speed limit.

• Blaine E. Jones, 33, of the 6N900 block of Elgin St., St. Charles Township, was charged Jan. 15 with DUI, improper lane use, driving with a suspended license and driving without insurance.

• Magen A. Sickel, 23, of the 200 block of North Brinton Avenue, Dixon, was charged Jan. 14 with improper lane use,

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• Peter J. Cairo, 28, of the 1600 block of Woodcutter Lane, Wheaton, was charged Jan. 18 with retail theft less than $300 at Wal-Mart, 801 N. Randall Road, Batavia.

• Michael A. Kiser, 50, of the 400 block of George Blevins Road, Monticello, Ky., was arrested Jan. 18 on Fabyan Parkway, Batavia, on a southern Iroquois County, Ill., warrant for burglary.

• Christian A. Blanco, 21, of the 500 block of Lakelawn Boulevard, Aurora, was charged Jan. 19 with driving with a suspended license and possession of drug paraphernalia on North Randall Road, Batavia.

• Shayan Pour Nazari Dezfoul, 19, of the 1100 block of East Wilson Street, Batavia, was charged Jan. 19 with retail theft less than $300 at Kohl’s, 251 N. Randall Road, Batavia.

• Kevin Hernandez-Bernal, 20, of the 1000 block of Lorlyn Circle, Batavia, was charged Jan. 19 with retail theft less than $300 at Kohl’s, 251 N. Randall Road, Batavia.

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ST. CHARLES – The St. Charles Chamber of Commerce is planning a five-part Business Plan Workshop Series.

“It was very important that we give our members tools they can really use, so every one of these will be held in a workshop style,” Chamber President Stacey Ekstrom said.

All workshops will be from 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesdays, beginning Feb. 8 with “Envisioning Your Better Future,” which will walk participants through an assessment to provide business owners and managers the ability to build more employee and client engagements by identifying their talents. The other workshops are: “Your Business Success Road Map” on March 8; “The Nuts and Bolts of Getting Things Done” on April 12; “Zeroing in on Profits” on May 10; and “Creating a World Class Team” on June 14.

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worth of items were stolen in the 800 block of North Randall Road, Batavia, but were recovered.

• The theft of 25 portable radios and chargers valued at more than $500 was reported Jan. 24 at Communications Direct, 735 Hunter Drive, Batavia.

• A vehicle plate was reported stolen Jan. 24 from a vehicle in the 0-99 block of South Randall Road, Batavia.

• Rachel L. Dhuse, 29, of the 1200 block of East Wilson Street, Batavia, was arrested Jan. 24 on Kirk Road, Batavia, on a Kane County warrant for failure to appear related to driving with a suspended license.

• Karla A. Cardoza, 27, of the 100 block of Main Street, West Chicago, was charged Jan. 24 with retail theft greater than $300 at Kohl’s, 251 N. Randall Road, Batavia.

• Anthony N. Nanfria, 29, of the 300 block of North View Street, Hinckley, was arrested Jan. 25 on a Kane County warrant for failure to appear related to possession of marijuana.

• Curtis R. Czubakowski, 51, of the 3000 block of Shetland Lane, DeKalb, was charged Jan. 25 with retail theft less than $300 at Wal-Mart, 801 N. Randall Road, Batavia.

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than $300 at Kohl’s, 251 N. Randall Road, Batavia.

Continued from page 18 • Frank P. Rosas, 25, of the 100 block of Lakeside Drive, St. Charles, was arrested • Jamal M. Warner, 28, of the 6500 Jan. 22 on a Batavia Police Department block of South Campbell, Chicago, was warrant for battery. charged Jan. 20 with driving with a • A report of fraud Jan. 23 involved suspended license and operating an un- four bank transactions, reported from insured vehicle on Randall Road, Batavia. a location in the 600 block of Sennett • Michael K. Baker, 25, of the 3S200 Street, Batavia. block of Sequoia Drive, Glen Ellyn, was • A white man was seen on camera charged Jan. 20 with illegal transporta- removing a $99 GPS unit from its box tion of alcohol on East Fabyan Parkway, and putting it in his pants pocket in Batavia. the 800 block of North Randall Road, • Linda L. Ahlgren, 63, of the 2400 Batavia, according to a Jan. 23 report of block of Big Woods Drive, Batavia, was retail theft. charged Jan. 20 with retail theft greater • Jacob D. Juarez, 18, of the zero to 99 than $300 at Kohl’s, 251 N. Randall Road, block of South Lakewood Court, South Batavia.

Elgin, was charged with trying to steal • An electronic tablet valued at $200 an auxiliary cable and a phone case in was reported stolen along with $30 in the 800 block of North Randall Road, change from a vehicle in the zero to 99 according to a Jan. 23 report of retail block of South Jackson Street, Batavia, theft. It noted that both items were according to a Jan. 21 police report. recovered.

• Unauthorized bank account transac• Michael P. Smith, 41, of the 0-99 tions were reported in the 2500 block of block of South Lakewood Court, South Kane Lane, Batavia, according to a Jan. Elgin, was charged Jan. 23 with retail 21 report. theft and unlawful use of a weapon, according to a police report, which stated • Julie A. Weeks-Johnson, 49, of the 900 block of Churchill Drive, Plano, was he was in possession of a switchblade charged Jan. 21 with retail theft greater knife. The report stated that about $45

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Fire Chief John Nixon of the Fox River and Countryside Fire/Rescue District testifies Jan. 24 at a Kane County Zoning Board of Appeals hearing. Nixon testified about the impact of increased calls for service that a proposed alcohol and drug treatment center would have on the district. Maxxam Partners LLC proposed the center in the former Glenwood School for Boys in Campton Township.

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By BRENDA SCHORY bschory@shawmedia.com ST. CHARLES – If a drug and alcohol treatment center is permitted at a former boys school, it would increase ambulance calls, impacting the closest fire district’s ability to deliver services, officials testified at a Kane County Zoning Board of Appeals hearing Jan. 24.

John Nixon, fire chief of the Fox River and Countryside Fire/Rescue District, laid out the challenges for the district, which serves 25,000 people in 38 square miles.

Nixon testified that if the district’s ambulances are responding to two overlapping emergency calls, the district does not have enough staffing to cover a third call for service. A third call would have to rely on mutual aid from other fire/rescue districts that are farther away, he said.

“The requirements under the Illinois Department of Public Health are that we must treat the patient until we go to the hospital or have a medical release,” Nixon said. “There is never a situation where a call would go unanswered.”

Nixon testified that the fire district, which serves Campton Hills, Wayne and St. Charles Township, had 905 am-

bulance calls – or 68 percent of its total of 1,344 calls – in 2016.

Additional calls for service to the drug and alcohol treatment center would further deteriorate its already aging fleet and equipment, Nixon testified.

At issue is a special-use permit sought by Maxxam Partners LLC to turn the former Glenwood School for Boys, 41W400 Silver Glen Road, Campton Township, into a 120-bed, private-pay, luxury alcohol and drug treatment center. The petitioners stated the center would primarily treat alcohol and drug addiction, and do detoxification of its patients.

This is the second set of hearings on the controversial zoning request.

The Kane County Board voted it down in March, but rescinded that denial in November, sending it back to the appeals board.

The board closed the hearings Jan. 26 and scheduled the next one for deliberation at 7 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Kane County Branch Court, 530 S. Randall Road, St. Charles.

Fire district board President Bob Handley testified that the financial condition of the district has not improved since the last Maxxam hearings

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Continued from page 21 Then, as now, the fire district’s officials testified against the facility because anticipated additional calls for service would be a burden.

“It’s worsened,” Handley said. “We unexpectedly had to replace an engine and an ambulance in a fairly short period of time. We are unable to afford new equipment and we do not have a capital improvement plan because we do not have enough revenue.”

Handley said the district is seeking a tax levy increase on the April 4 consolidated election ballot. If it does not pass, the district would have to go to more part-time staff to cut costs.

During public testimony, Campton Hills resident Ryan Jaros said that the proposed facility lacks the most basic security measures and would put a burden on local police and sheriff’s deputies in responding to emergencies there.

“This place is going to have the most desirable drugs on the planet in it,” Jaros said. “I have a very strong concern about the safety of this facility. … It’s not being fearful; it’s being responsible.”

Campton Hills resident Charles Cappell, a retired sociology professor and former village trustee, presented new evidence that countered Maxx-

am experts’ reports that found the presence of an alcohol and drug treatment facility would not harm local property values.

Cappell said he researched submitted reports that claimed to do meta-analysis and found that they did not. Instead, Cappell said, the authors summarized findings, which is not the same as the rigorous work meta-analysis requires.

“In this data, it artificially trims 47 percent of the original cases because they were ‘inappropriate,’” Cappell testified. “It refutes the conclusion that there is no damage to property values due to proximity.”

Cappell’s first report was submitted to the Kane County Board, but it was not included into the record before the board voted the request down.

Campton Hills resident David Richardson testified that if the adage “location, location, location” are the most important things to consider when buying a house, then “risk, risk, risk” is what Maxxam is proposing to local residents.

Richardson also challenged Maxxam’s experts’ reports that the presence of a drug and alcohol facility would not harm local property values.

“Studies could be found in other, similar areas where property values were greatly diminished,” Richardson said.

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By BRENDA SCHORY ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP – The death of a 48-year-old man who died in custody Jan. 24 at the Kane County Adult Justice Center is being attributed to a cardiac event, officials stated in a news release.

The Kane County coroner confirmed that a Jan. 25 preliminary autopsy of Elgin resident Alan Span showed the death was cardiac-related, and that toxicology is pending.

Span, who was being held in jail since July on $380,000 bail for charges of home invasion and delivery of a controlled substance, was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. at the jail, the release stated.

Span would have had to post 10 percent

or $38,000 bond in order to be released, officials said.

Corrections staff were alerted by Span’s cellmates that he was having a medical emergency, the release stated. Alan Span Staff provided emergency lifesaving measures, but they were unsuccessful, the release stated.

The Fox River & Countryside Fire/ Rescue District also responded, the release stated.

Illinois State Police were called to investigate because the death occurred while Span was detained in custody, the release stated. A preliminary investigation did not show that foul play was involved in Span’s death, the release stated.

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Rauner praises ongoing budget work in annual address

By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com Gov. Bruce Rauner took a more optimistic tone in this year’s State of the State address, but he said lawmakers need to work with him to resolve a budget impasse that has lasted a year and a half.

His address Jan. 25 before a joint session of the General Assembly – the Republican’s third since taking office – started with a sense of hope and highlighted accomplishments in making Illinois a better place. But he said both sides have to work together to reverse Illinois’ sagging fortunes.

Rauner’s 35-minute address comes as the leaders of the Illinois Senate craft a “grand compromise” budget deal that includes tax increases in exchange for some reforms. The evolving compromise package of 13 bills did not go to votes in the Senate on Jan. 25 as leaders had originally hoped.

“We have big challenges, and – like many of you – I’m frustrated by the slow pace of change in Springfield,” Rauner said. “But with great challenge comes great opportunity. By working together, we can overcome any obstacle.”

Rauner briefly went off script to thank the Senate for working on a plan,

“We have big challenges, and – like many of you – I’m frustrated by the slow pace of change in Springfield.

But with great challenge comes great opportunity. By working together, we can overcome any obstacle.”

Bruce Rauner, Illinois governor although he did not indicate whether he will support the 13-bill package being teed up in the Senate. He has maintained that he will not approve any tax increase without some of the reforms he Sen. Karen ran on to make the state McConmore friendly to job cre- naughay ation and taxpayers.

“Please don’t give up. Please keep working. The people of Illinois need you to succeed,” Rauner said.

Rauner spent much of his speech listing accomplishments such as ethics reform and increased government transparency; “innovative” new contracts with 20 state government employee unions; criminal justice reform; and increased education funding.

However, Rauner said, the state “is failing to be compassionate because we

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are failing to be competitive,” citing the budget impasse’s devastating effect on social services and the state’s ongoing loss of people and jobs to other states. Illinois for the past two years has led the nation in out-migration, according to U.S. Census estimates.

The lack of a budget is one of many problems Illinois faces. Its credit rating is the lowest of all 50 states, and it is expected to be lowered again if no budget deal materializes. State government has an $11 billion backlog of unpaid bills, and an unfunded pension liability of at least $130 billion – 20 percent of general fund spending now goes to pay state retirees.

Sen. Karen McConnaughay, R-St. Charles, said she is interested in Rauner wanting to increase commitment to education funding, on top of the $700 million extra in the past several years for K-12 schools and $100 million more

for early childhood education. She is a member of the Illinois School Funding Reform Commission that was expected to release its report on issues with the existing school funding formula Feb. 1.

“The governor has demonstrated that he is committed to making school funding in Illinois more equitable, and I look forward to working with him on that endeavor as we move into the spring,” McConnaughay said.

Rauner again implored lawmakers to put constitutional amendments to voters to impose term limits on elected officials and reform the way that legislative districts are redrawn by taking the responsibility out of lawmakers’ hands. The courts last year ruled a voter petition to put it on the November ballot was unconstitutional.

The lack of a budget and the reforms he said are necessary dominated the end of Rauner’s address. He said the state economy could “take off like a rocket ship” if lawmakers could come together on pro-jobs legislation. Democratic leaders of the General Assembly, who hold large majorities in both houses, have labeled many of Rauner’s proposed changes as bad for the middle and working classes.

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Continued from page 24 “When it comes to the budget, we all can agree Illinois has to do something different,” Rauner said. “Our administration has offered many proposals to achieve a truly balanced budget with changes that fundamentally fix our broken system. We must remember that to keep budgets balanced in the future, our rate of economic growth must be higher than our rate of government spending growth. It’s just simple math.”

On several occasions, Rauner touched on reducing Illinois’ property

tax burden, which one study puts as the highest of all 50 states. One of the proposed reforms in the Senate budget package is a two-year statewide freeze.

New state Rep. Allen Skillicorn, R-East Dundee, said property tax reform is vital, as is consolidating the state’s many units of local government, which Rauner also touched on in his address. At just fewer than 7,000 units, Illinois has more governments than any other state.

“If the governor provides bold leadership and legislators in Springfield focus on transformative policies that put taxpayers first, we can save our great state of Illinois,” Skillicorn said.

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Those who want to help an adult speak English and assimilate to life in the community can attend Literacy Volunteers Fox Valley’s free tutor training workshop.

It will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Mondays and Wednesdays, Feb. 6, 8, 13 and 15, at the St. Charles Public Library, 1 S. Sixth Ave., St. Charles.

The workshop will teach attendees how to tutor adults in English and will discuss the problems adults face when

they know little about American customs. Once a person completes training, he or she will be matched with one adult learner and teach one hour per week. Staff members will provide continuing support.

No previous teaching experience is necessary. Volunteers do not need to know a second language. Volunteers provide tutoring to adults in St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, Elburn, Campton Township, LaFox, Lily Lake, Wasco and Wayne.

To register or for information, visit www.lvfv.org or call/text 630-584-4428.

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SERVICE CALENDAR ASSEMBLIES OF GOD

Sanctuary: 1S430 Wenmoth Road. 10 a.m. Sunday service, 9 a.m. Sunday school for all ages. 7 p.m. Wednesdays. Bible studies and children’s Bible clubs are for all ages. 630-8790785, sanctuaryag.com.

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School (Missouri Synod): 950 Hart Road, Batavia. Traditional worship: 5:30 p.m. Saturday; 8 and 9:30 a.m.

Sunday; Contemporary worship: 10:45 a.m. Sunday. 9:30 a.m. Sunday education hour. Day school serves preschoolers through eighth-graders.

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New Hope Lutheran: 710 Western Ave., Geneva Park District, Geneva.

9 a.m. Sunday; 10:15 a.m. Sunday school, fellow and intergenerational.

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St. Mark’s Lutheran Church and Preschool (Missouri Synod): 101 S. Sixth Ave., St. Charles. 5:30 p.m.

Saturday; 8:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday; 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. education hour.

630-584-8638, stmarkschurch. church. Preschool for ages 2 through pre-K: 630-584-4850.

Batavia Covenant Church and Preschool: 1314 W. Main St., First Baptist Church of Geneva: Batavia. 9:30 a.m. Sunday coffee East campus: 2300 South St. 5 at Fellowship Hall, lower level; p.m. Saturday; 9:15 a.m. Sunday: 10 a.m. Sunday. 630-879-3721, Traditional and Worship Cafe; batabiacov.com. Preschool: 63010:45 a.m. Word & Table. West 879-3795. campus: 3435 Keslinger Road, 9:15 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday contemporary service; 630-232-7068, LUTHERAN fbcg.com. Hand in Hand Christian Bethany Lutheran Church: 8 S. LinPreschool, 630-208-4903. coln St., Batavia. 9 and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday; 10 a.m. Sunday coffee; 10:30 a.m. Sunday school; 5 to 7 CATHOLIC p.m. monthly last Friday communiSt. Peter Catholic Church: 1891 ty supper, free to community. 630- PRESBYTERIAN Kaneville Road, Geneva. 7 and 8 a.m.

Fox Valley Presbyterian Church 879-3444, bethanybatavia.org.

Monday through Friday; 8 a.m. and (USA): 227 East Side Drive, Geneva.

4:30 p.m. Saturday; 7, 9 and 11 a.m. Bethlehem Lutheran Church: 1145 8 (informal) and 10 a.m. Sunday; 9 N. Fifth Ave., St. Charles. 8, 9 and and 5 p.m. Sunday. School Mass at a.m. education hour; 10 a.m. church 10:30 a.m. Sunday; 9:15 and 10:30 8:45 a.m. Wednesday during school school; 8:30 to 11 a.m. nursery care; a.m. Sunday school for all ages; 5:30 year. Call church for holy day and 8:30 a.m. Adult Breakfast Club; 4 p.m. Saturday. 630-584-2199, bethholiday Mass times. Confessions: p.m. seventh- and eighth-grade lehemluth.org. Full-day child care/ 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday; confirmation; 7 p.m. youth group. half-day preschool: 630-584-6027.

8:30 a.m. and 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.

Immanuel Lutheran Church and 630-232-7448, foxvalleypres.org.

Saturday. 630-232-0124.

Group seeks volunteers to help bereaved

Fox Valley Hands of Hope, a community-based, nonprofit organization dedicated to serving those with life-threatening illnesses and the bereaved, is in need of volunteers for its adult and children bereavement programs.

The group also is in need of bilingual volunteers.

Volunteers provide emotional support, offer respectful caring and non-judgmental listening while providing a healing presence to clients and their families. Interested parties must contact Fox Valley Hands of Hope by Feb. 17 to participate in a new volunteer orientation Feb. 22. Bereavement care training will start Feb. 25 at Fox Valley Hands of Hope, 200 Whitfield Drive in Geneva.

For information on volunteering, contact Adriana Torres at 630-232-2233, ext. 227, or atorres@FVHH.net. Learn more at www.fvhh.net.

Conservation group hosting annual luncheon

GENEVA – Details of a fiveyear initiative designed to benefit communities along the Fox River will be shared during The Conservation Foundation’s Winter Membership & Awards Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 15 at Riverside Receptions, 35 N. River Lane, Geneva.

As part of the event, program manager Trish Beckjord of St. Charles will discuss the initiative, which is focused on communities in Kane, Kendall and LaSalle counties. Retired Wheaton College art professor Joel Sheesley will discuss his role as artist-in-residence for the Art of the Fox program.

The Conservation Foundation is one of the region’s oldest nonprofit land and watershed conservation organizations. Cost is $25 for members and $50 for nonmembers. Reservations may be made at theconservationfoundation.org until Feb. 10.

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DR. FRANCIS C. DUNN JR. Born: January 27, 1937 Died: January 18, 2017

Dr. Francis C. Dunn Jr., age 79, died on the evening of January 18th, 2017 with his family present at his bedside.

He was born January 27, 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Francis Christopher Dunn Sr. and Henrietta Lundy. He married Catherine Lorraine Brannan on August 12, 1967 in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Dunn attended the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree before graduating from Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1963. Dr. Dunn interned at Johns Hopkins before completing his residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He was a member of The American College of Surgeons, The American Society of Cataract Surgeons, The American Medical Association and The Doctors Mayo Society. Dr. Dunn also served in the United States Army as a flight surgeon from 1964 until 1966, attaining the rank of Captain.

Frank was extremely devoted to Kate, his deeply loved wife, and to his family and was a faithful, life-long Catholic. He practiced medicine for 38 years and truly loved his patients. Frank had close relationships with his nine grandchildren and always had fun activities planned when they visited or went on vacations with Grandmom and Pop. He loved talking with people and saw the best in everyone. He never knew a stranger. Even a trip to the gym was about socializing, not exercising. Frank was an avid sailor, hunter and fisherman and enjoyed model trains and photography.

Survived by Catherine Dunn, his spouse; children, Kathleen (Jeff) Porter of Prairie Grove, IL; Maureen (Mike) Schwaab of Kenilworth, IL; and grandchildren, Kevin Porter, Michael Porter, Emma Porter, Alex Porter, Ryan Porter, Lauren Schwaab, Tommy Schwaab, Connor Schwaab and Catherine Schwaab.

Visitation will be held from 8:30am to

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Notices are accepted until noon Tuesday for Thursday’s edition. Obituaries also appear online at KCChronicle. com/obituaries where you may sign the guest book, send flowers or make a memorial donation.

10:30am on January 25, 2017 at Yurs Funeral Home of St. Charles located at 405 East Main Street in St. Charles. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am on January 25, 2017 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church located at 6N491 Crane Road, St. Charles, IL 60175 with Monsignor Stephen J. Knox presiding. Burial will be at Prairie Cemetery in St. Charles, IL. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.

To leave an online condolence for the family, visit the funeral homes obituary page at www.yursfuneralhomes.com.

For more information, please call Yurs Funeral Home of St. Charles, 630-584-0060.

assigned to the West Coast Flying Training Command as an instructor pilot in the PT-17 Stearman and eventually the B-24 and B-17.

After the war ended, Dale began a 40+ year association with the Northrop Corporation as an aircraft engineer. He relocated his family to Blackberry Woods in Sugar Grove in 1966, departing in 1990 for a return to California after retirement from Northrop.

Dale lives vividly in the memories of his loving family; his beloved wife of 70 years, Fae (Moore) Huss; daughter, Jo (Larry) Sanders (KHS Class of ‘74) of Marion IL; daughter, Holly Huss (KHS Class of ‘78) of Chandler AZ; and son, Jon (Susan) Huss (KHS Class of ‘80) of Colorado Springs CO; as well as grandchildren, Sarah, James, Jordan, and Joel; and sister, A. Joy Huss of Minneapolis, MN. Because of his children, Dale was an ardent fan of the Kaneland High School football, basketball, cheerleading, and wrestling programs. He was an active committee member and cook for the early years of the Sugar Grove Corn Boil and his family believes he was the first documented “Superfan” of Ream’s Meat Market in Elburn.

Dale was proud to have served his country as a member of the nation’s greatest generation and his love for aviation and aircraft defined him from a young boy all the way to his nineties.

His family held a Service of Remembrance in Tempe on January 21, 2017.

DALE H. HUSS

DORIS ELIZABETH MEAD

Born: March 26, 1925; in Glendale, CA Died: January 18, 2017; in Tempe, AZ

Born: March 21, 1923 Died: January 8, 2017

Dale H. Huss passed away peacefully in Tempe Arizona on 18 January, 2017.

Dale was born in Glendale, California to Oscar and Leta (Hewett) Huss. He graduated early from John Marshall High School in April of 1943 to join the Army Air Forces’ Aviation Cadet Program. Dale earned his pilot wings at Luke Field, Glendale, Arizona in June of 1944 and was

Doris Elizabeth Mead, 93, of Geneva, IL and formerly of Muscatine, IA passed away on January 8, 2017.

She was born on March 21, 1923 in Hinsdale, IL the daughter of Sydney Douglas and Hortense (McClean) Jackson. She was united in marriage to John T. Mead Sr. on October 2, 1954, in Chicago, IL. She is survived by her three children, Dr. Karen Mead of Penn Yan, NY, John T (Nancy) Mead Jr. of Geneva, IL and Donald T. (Carol) Mead, of Iowa City, IA; seven grandchildren,

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Brian (Anna) Mead, Kevin Mead, Emily (Tim) Stover, Scott Mead, David (Jamie) Mead, Michael Mead and Jennifer Mead; four great grandchildren, Dashel Mead, William Stover, Peyton Mead and Reagan Stover.

She is preceded in death by her husband, John; a daughter, Jean Marie Mead; and two brothers, William and David Jackson.

A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM, Saturday, February 11, 2017 at St. Mark’s Church in the main church, 320 Franklin Street, Geneva, IL, 60134.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be directed to St. Mark’s Church in memory of Doris or Doris & John Mead, Sr.

MICHAEL J. NOVACK

Michael J. Novack, 55, of St. Charles, passed away January 28, 2017.

Arrangements by Malone Funeral Home, 630-232-8233.

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ELBURN – Ben Westfall and Kristin Paxinos were teaching together at a music studio seven years ago when they decided to go out on their own and open Da Capo Studio.

It was only 11 weeks from the time they decided to take the plunge that they opened their doors at their first location in the Elburn and Countryside Community Center.

Less than three years later, they outgrew that location and had to move to their current site at the corner of routes 47 and 38. Their new studio features a recital hall, expanded seating, a third isolation booth for private lessons and ensemble rehearsals, and is handicap accessible.

At Da Capo Studio, Westfall and Paxinos offer lessons in piano, guitar, flute, saxophone and clarinet. Most of their growth has been thanks to word of mouth recommendations from current and past clients, they said. “[Enrollment] numbers have climbed to about 130,” Westfall said.

“To keep up with the demand, we recently added two additional instructors and plan on adding another two to fulfill the request of voice and trumpet lessons that people are asking for. So those lessons will be added soon.”

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with a unique sense of style and color. She showed her paintings in galleries around the Fox Valley area. She was an active member of the Fermilab Auditorium Committee and the Art Gallery Committee for many years.

She is survived by her husband, John; and daughter, Vanessa (Craig Duplack).

She was preceded in death by her parents; her sisters, Susan Hager and Heidi Hanson; her brother, Bruce Detweiler; and her daughter, Jennet Peoples.

A memorial service will be held at Williams-Woodward Funeral Home, 820 Pine Street, West Chicago on February 4, 2017.

Visitation will be from noon until 2:00 p.m. with a service at 2:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, please consider making a contribution to The Anti-Cruelty Society, 157 W. Grand Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60654 (www. anticruelty.org) in memory of Brooke Peoples.

For more information call 630-231-1300 or visit the website www.williams-woodward. com to sign the online guest book.

Kathy was born Monday, October 23, 1944 in Manhattan, KS to parents, Robert and Svea (Johnson) Holbert and older brother, Fred.

The family moved to California where they resided for a few years until her Mom and Dad were divorced several years later. Svea, Fred, and Kathy moved to Elburn, IL to be close to Svea’s parents, Oscar and Ida Johnson, who settled there after emigrating from Sweden years before.

While playing her cornet in the Kaneland Dance Band, she met Everett who played the saxophone. Little did the young couple know they would spend the rest of their lives together. Over Christmas break of Kathy’s senior year, Everett asked for her hand in marriage.

Kathy spent her entire career in the telecommunications field. Before retiring in 2008 from Alcatel Lucent Technologies, she had three patents, numerous awards, and was recognized with both a Distinguished and a Consulting Member of Technical Staff designation. Kathy became a resounding voice for reasonable, responsible school finance when she served on the Kaneland School Board from 1985 to 1993.

Kathy had many favorite pastimes. She focused her brilliant mind on Suduko and exploring her family’s genealogy. Kathy was an avid card player and belonged to many card clubs. Kathy enjoyed sewing and enjoyed

planning and taking trips with her family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her son, Steven, who was killed a car accident; along with her father-in-law, Everett S. Whildin in 1975. Also taken too soon, was her daughter, Michelle, who was stillborn in 1976.

She leaves behind her loving husband, Everett Whildin; three children, Christina (Douglas) Foster, Kimberly (Michael) Nelson and Brian Whildin; one brother, Fred (Gloria) Holbert; and four grandchildren, Kaitlyn, Robert, Ryan, and Eddie.

Her courageousness, brilliance, generosity, love, and support will always be remembered.

A gathering of family and friends will be Thursday, February 2, 2017 from 10:00am to Noon at the Conley Funeral Home in Elburn. A memorial service will follow at noon, Thursday at the funeral home with Reverend Cheon Eui Oh of the Sugar Grove United Methodist Church officiating.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established in Kathleen’s name. Checks may be made to the “St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital” and mailed in care of P.O. Box 66, Elburn, 60119.

Tributes may also be forwarded to the same address, the Conley Funeral Home Facebook page, or at www.conleycare.com

BROOKE PEOPLES

Born: May 20, 1935; in New York City, NY Died: December 24, 2016; in Bartlett, IL Brooke Peoples passed away on December 24th at the Assisi Health Care Center of Clare Oaks in Bartlett.

She was born on May 20, 1935, in New York City to Frank and Joan Detweiler, and attended school in New Rochelle, NY and Plainfield, NJ. In 1953, she graduated from the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

She studied painting and design at Carnegie Mellon University and The Art Students League of New York.

She married John Peoples, Jr. in 1955. They lived in Baltimore and New York City before moving to Geneva, IL in 1973, when John joined the Fermilab scientific staff. He later served as the laboratory director from 1989 to 1999. In 1999 they moved to Wayne, IL, where she continued to pursue some of her favorite activities: painting, tending gardens and hiking with her family and dogs. In 2012, John and Brooke moved to Clare Oaks in Bartlett.

Brooke was an artist and a homemaker

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Kristin Paxinos and Ben Westfall own Da Capo Studio in Elburn, featuring lessons in piano, guitar, flute, saxophone and clarinet.

KATHLEEN C. WHILDIN Born: October 23, 1944 Died: January 27, 2017

Kathleen “Kathy” C. Whildin, age 72, of Sugar Grove formerly of Elburn, passed away with family at her side on Friday, January 27, 2017.

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Westfall and Paxinos teach their students more than just music. They try to teach them to set and achieve goals, teach them preparation, and give them the opportunity to test themselves under pressure.

Through all of that, Westfall said they learn about music and their in-

in their students’ lives.

Da Capo also was included in the book because of its dedication to providing performance opportunities for its students.

By the end of 2016, Da Capo had hosted its 117th student recital. This year, five students will perform onehour solo recitals at the studio.

These five veteran students will use their recitals as a fundraising opportunity, with donations going to a charity of their choice. The first solo recitals will be April 1 and 2, with the others being later in April and May. Check the calendar on the studio website for details at dcmusicstudio.com.

Da Capo is also highly dedicated to the Elburn community. Westfall and Paxinos co-chair the Elburn Christmas Stroll, and created and co-chair Folks on Spokes: A Community Bicycle Adventure!

Between these two events, they’ve helped raise $6,700 for the Elburn Chamber of Commerce’s Kaneland Scholarship Fund; $1,000 for the Elburn elementary school PTOs; and $1,600 for the Kaneland High School marching band.

Last year, because of their contributions to the community, the studio was awarded the Elburn Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year Award for the second consecutive year.

By SUZANNE FLYNN editorial@kcchronicle.com

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THE WRITE PLACE Emma Chrusciel ters in addition to my parents, often making our house of six a chaotic hodgepodge of personalities and opinions.

Some of us are bolder and some quieter; we each have our own way of doing things, as well as our own beliefs and attitudes. If we never listened to each other, or if we weren’t careful to make sure we said things in a way that could be understood, I imagine that our relationships would turn disastrous very quickly!

More than anything, I believe that communicating effectively is the best way to form deeper relationships with others and broaden your own perspective. By having a conversation with someone or watching the way they behave, you gain an insight into their world and begin to understand their point of view. When you listen to others share their opinions or express their feelings, you change the way you see the world by viewing it through the eyes of others.

Giving a presentation in speech class may still be mildly terrifying, but I now know how essential – and beautiful – it is that I have a means of sharing my thoughts, feelings and dreams with the world.

Effective communication is a skill that will last me far beyond the end of this semester, and I can’t wait to see where it leads me in the future.

Emma Chrusciel is a junior at Geneva High School. In addition to writing, she loves Broadway musicals, playing piano and spending time with her family and friends.

Her column runs every other Thursday. Contact her at editorial@kcchronicle.com.

LETTERS Hillary’s basket of excuses charged voter fraud, but to

no avail. Clinton’s campaign To the editor: manager tried to cover up his Hillary Clinton started down the slippery slope to defeat when own tactical misjudgments by with great disdain she dismissed blaming the Russians and their internet hacking, though there Donald Trump supporters as is no evidence that it affected being “deplorables,” meaning a basket full of racist, homophobic, the election outcome.

Hillary’s communications sexist, xenophobic and Islamphobic voters. It was taken as all director said she lost because encompassing scornful contempt Trump gave a platform to white supremacists and nationalists, for his supporters, in general, and another added that women very similar to Barack Obama’s condescending labeling of those voters were responsible due to internalized misogyny. Then, out of work in Pennsylvania and according to online reports, the Midwest as “cling[ing] to Bill Clinton played the race card guns or religion.” Both of their statements reek of their arrogant (somebody had to), claiming she lost due to angry white elitism.

Now the defeated Hillary and men, which is somewhat reminiscent of Hillary repeather supporters are running around looking for reasons and edly claiming there was a “vast right-wing conspiracy” against excuses as to why she lost, her husband while he was when all they need do is look president. in the nearest mirror. HowevThe Clintons have always er, that is a truth they cannot portrayed themselves as handle. victims, claiming they were Hillary lectured us on fake dead broke when leaving the news stories emanating from social media as one of her White House, but since have excuses, while supporters amassed a fortune estimated

in excess of $111,000,000.

Hillary’s basket of excuses overflows with hollow accusations and rationalizations.

If they can quit whining long enough to look in a mirror, it will reflect back a lack of trust, a devastating FBI investigation of her dangerous misuse of her private server, the scandals surrounding the Clinton Foundation, four dead Americans in our Benghazi embassy while under her watch, email cover-ups, and no clear statement of her policies and objectives as president, just the usual feelgood platitudes. It is all best summed up as “Clinton fatigue” and “voter concern” that she would just be Obama’s third term of ineptitude, lack of conviction to lead the free world and conceding to terrorists like Isis and ruthless dictators like Bashar Assad of Syria.

The mirror of reality does not lie.

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My revelation on communication Have you ever wondered what someone else is really thinking when you’re talking with them? Have you ever considered the impression they might be getting of you mid-conversation? These are just a few of the things I’m learning about in one of my new classes this semester: speech. I’m pretty introverted, so being the center of attention is not easy or comfortable for me. However, I’ve already learned a ton.

Our first unit focused entirely on the importance of communication and the most effective ways of doing it.

“Communication” is not just about what we say – it’s about how we say it, the situation we say it in, the person we say it to and many more factors I had never really considered.

The lessons and projects we did during this unit got me thinking about why communication is so essential to our lives and social interactions.

Let’s face it: We will likely never develop the ability to read minds or get inside the head of another person. Therefore, there must be another way for us to understand the thoughts and feelings of those around us. Communication, both verbal and nonverbal, is the key to learning what goes on inside the minds of others, as well as a means of expressing our own ideas and emotions to the people in our lives. Without the deeper understanding that comes with effective communication, relationships would fall apart and we wouldn’t be able to relate to each other.

I realize the previous paragraph probably sounded like a regurgitation of all the articles I’ve read in speech class, but let me offer a real-life situation to show how critical it is to communicate properly with those around us. I have three younger sis-

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Geneva’s Matt Johnston eyes the rim while leading a fast break Jan. 27 during a game against visiting Larkin. Johnston and the Vikings have taken things one game at a time, which has helped them to a 24-0 record this season.

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he believes there isn’t any pressure.

“I really don’t think there is. … I told them that there’s really nothing else to do but enjoy this,” Ralston said.

“We’re not worried about the record. ... The record is something that when they’re done with the season, they can talk about and enjoy. Right now, we’re trying to worry about conference, getting the best possible seed and getting into the sectionals.”

Starting McDonald and fellow sophomore Mitch Mascari, a sharpshooter, with the Navigatos and Johnston has created a unique mixture.

Having freshman Nate Santos come off the bench could end up producing the next trio of Geneva basketball players who have no fear or panic in close, late-game situations.

“They already don’t play like underclassmen,” Cole Navigato said. “It’s scary to think if they are playing this well now what they could do over the next two years. But at the same time, I think they want this year to be something special for all of us.”

For now, as it has been all season for the Vikings, the next game is the most important. That’s rival Batavia on Feb. 3.

By CHRIS CASEY editorial@kcchronicle.com GENEVA – Geneva boys basketball coach Phil Ralston expected his team to be good.

This good? It’s unlikely he thought having two sophomores in his starting lineup would contribute to the program’s best start in school history and his team still having an unblemished record on Feb. 2.

That’s where the Vikings sit.

Not panicking when trailing and continually finding a way to win often sounds like a broken record at times.

Well, it literally is just that.

In Geneva’s latest wins – an 80-68 victory on Jan. 27 over Larkin and a 62-30 win against Antioch the next day – the Vikings remained unbeaten to extend their school record to 24 games.

The Vikings earned win No. 23 against Larkin in front of some of the school’s all-time great teams and athletes as Geneva inducted its 2017 Hall of Fame class.

Cole Navigato’s 23-point, 12-rebound game, combined with sophomore point guard Jack McDonald’s career-high 21 points, led the Vikings to a victory that tightened their stranglehold on the Upstate Eight River.

“The specialness of the group dynamic we have is that we have a good mixture of the senior leadership … the guys that had a great year last year, but felt disappointment at the end, and then some younger kids that want to try and prove themselves,” Ralston said. “The egos have gone out the door.

That’s why we have accomplished what we have. This is about the team believing and a brotherhood. I’m more proud of the unique bond that this group has than I am of the record. It doesn’t happen every year.”

Not to be forgotten are Jan. 27 efforts from seniors Matt Johnston (15 points, six rebounds) and Dom Navigato (12 points, 13 rebounds), but it was Cole Navigato and McDonald who stole the show.

The two connected on a behind-theback pass from McDonald that resulted in a two-handed dunk from Cole Navigato just before the end of the first half.

Although dunks have become somewhat common for the Vikings (24-0, 8-0 UER) with the athletic Johnston and Cole Navigato, that play showed the transformation the sophomore point

Geneva girls basketball

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Geneva’s William Courter takes a shot Jan. 27 during a game against visiting Larkin. The Vikings won 80-68 to extend their winning streak to 23 games, then made it 24 in a row the next day against Antioch. guard has gone through having been around seniors showing little-to-no panic in otherwise stressful situations.

“Everyone on this team is doing what they need to do,” McDonald said.

“Everyone’s so unselfish on this team and we just want to win … no matter how we get there. Having guys like [Matt Johnston] and the Navigatos has been huge. They always calm things down, and we just never feel like a game ever gets away from us, even if we face a deficit.”

The Vikings are five games away from a perfect regular season, but they swear it’s a game-by-game mindset.

There are tough games left to play, starting Feb. 3 at Batavia, where Geneva lost last season.

Road games at St. Charles North, Quincy and Elgin, along with hosting St. Charles East on Feb. 10, still remain on the schedule.

Even though Ralston has told his team they are going to get everyone’s best shot with that unblemished record,

It took the Geneva girls basketball team 15 games to lose two games.

Although a loss is never something coach Sarah Meadows would want for her group, consecutive losses to Oswego East (52-49) and St. Charles North (61-49) provided a bit of a wake-up call.

“I think that North game, especially, was a good gut check for us,” Meadows said after her team made it three straight wins on Jan. 27 with a 74-33 victory against Larkin. “It put some things in perspective for us and was good for us, I think.

“We have big goals this season and I don’t want to say that we lost sight of those, but I feel like we were on cruise control a little bit. We needed to step it up, get more focused and get back to playing goal-oriented basketball.”

Meadows knew her team would have its hands full trying to stop Arizona commit Marlee Kyles of Larkin, but the Royals were no match for Stephanie Hart (17 points, five rebounds) and Grace Loberg (14 points, 11 rebounds).

Kyles still put up strong offensive numbers with 16 points, but the Vikings got back to playing their style of basketball over the last week. The telling tale of that was another winning streak.

Eleven Geneva players scored against Larkin, including Brittany Caskey’s two 3-pointers and Kyle Chenier’s four points off the bench.

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KANE COUNTY PREPS Glasgow hopes Senior Bowl ATHLETE OF THE WEEK work leads to NFL Draft Former Marmion standout looks to follow older brother and earn a job in the NFL

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kfishbain@profootballweekly.com MOBILE, Ala. – For the second year in a row, a Glasgow from the University of Michigan and Marmion Academy was in the trenches at the Senior Bowl, only this time it was on the defensive side of the ball.

Ryan Glasgow clearly has the bloodlines, and he entered the Jan. 28 Senior Bowl trying to do what his brother Graham did last year and improve his draft stock.

Ryan’s older brother got a late invite to the Senior Bowl in 2016 after a strong performance at the Shrine Game and continued to build off that momentum on his way to being a third-round pick and 11-game starter for the Detroit Lions.

“I watched last year’s draft stock go up [for Graham],” Ryan Glasgow said after Senior Bowl practice Jan. 24. “When I received my Senior Bowl invite I was ecstatic. I want to play like I have something to prove, and I want to show teams what I can do.”

In his career for the Wolverines, Glasgow played in 45 games with 33 starts. As a senior, he had four sacks and 9.5 tackles for loss. He checked in at 6-feet, 2.875 inches and 299 pounds with impressive 32 3/4-inch arms.

Glasgow considers himself strong against the run and “an underrated pass rusher,” and used the week of Senior Bowl practices to hone his pass rushing skills.

“I was trying to work on my pass rush. I think I did a good job in 1-on-

Why McDonald was selected: McDonald scored a career-high 21 points against Larkin on Jan. 27 (80-68 win) and had 12 points and two alley-oop passes for dunks against Antioch (62-30 win) a day later as Geneva stayed unbeaten.

Geneva’s Jack McDonald has come into his own as one of the better point guards in the area. His ability to find open teammates is second to none. Along with developing a consistent 3-point shot and crafty finishing ability around the hoop, McDonald has helped lead the Vikings to a 23-0 record. McDonald, the St. Charles Bank & Trust Athlete of the Week, caught up with Kane County Chronicle correspondent Chris Casey to talk about his career-high 21 points against Larkin and more.

Casey: What was the biggest key to victory against a tough Larkin team?

McDonald: We knew we didn’t really want to get in a running match with them. We started running our [offensive]

stuff and made them guard us. We also hit some shots, which definitely helped.

Casey: Is there pressure in close games knowing that zero is still in the loss column?

McDonald: Honestly, we’re just playing basketball. It’s so fun to be out there and be a part of this team. People ask us that, but it’s honestly just fun playing these games.

Casey: What is it about this team that has made it so successful?

McDonald: We do the little things to win games. Even when it’s close in the second half, we just always seem to go on a run and find a way. When you keep seeing that happen, it builds confidence.

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1s, but I need to translate that over to team [practices],” he said. “Converting from my run reads to pass quicker is something I definitely need to work on. Playing a little further away from the ball – I played on some tackles [on Jan. 24] – is not something I did very often at Michigan, so getting used to that.”

Glasgow learned from his older brother the importance of high effort during the Senior Bowl week, whether it’s in interviews or on the field.

“Don’t take a rep for granted,” he said of the advice he got from Graham. “Everyone’s watching. You’re getting evaluated constantly.”

Those giving Glasgow the closest evaluation were the Chicago Bears coaches. They were in charge of the North team, a nice perk for the DeKalb native.

“It’s pretty sweet,” he said. “Growing up a Bears fan in northern Illinois, watching them on TV every Sunday growing up, and then being able to be coached by their staff is pretty unreal.”

The Glasgow brothers – the youngest, Jordan, is a safety at Michigan – grew up going to Northern Illinois games because their father worked as a team physician. The experience watching the Huskies, Glasgow said, “inspired the [desire] to play in college.”

From wrestling with his brother growing up in the house to playing in the trenches on the football field, Glasgow now hopes to take that aggression and use it for good on what he hopes is a route to the NFL. “Graham and I talk a lot. We’re very close,” he said. “Having him there to prepare me … helped me get mentally in the right spot for the [Senior Bowl].”

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Geneva youth coach reaches milestone in final season at helm

By JASON ROSSI jrossi@shawmedia.com

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Lagger, who lives in Geneva with his wife, Laura, started as a coach when he was still in high school. He didn’t make the varsity basketball team, but there was a coaching position at his former middle school because of cutbacks. So as a high school junior, Lagger started his coaching career alongside his former coach.

“I was his assistant on the ‘A’ team and he was my assistant on the ‘B’ team,” Lagger said. “It wasn’t like I got tossed into the deep end without a life preserver.

“For me, it was a tremendous opportunity to coach with someone I was comfortable with, and I learned a lot in those two years. I learned I really enjoyed it. Things happen for a reason. If I had made my high school basketball team, things might not have worked out like this.”

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GENEVA – Jim Lagger never wanted recognition as a coach.

Too bad, Jim. On Jan. 28, Lagger coached game No. 1,500 of a volunteer coaching career that has spanned a large portion of his life and has seen him be on the bench for youth baseball, basketball and soccer teams.

The 1,500-game milestone came in a game against the Wheatland Wizards at the Stephen Persinger Recreation Center, but leading up to it Lagger was more concerned about the game itself than any personal milestone.

“I don’t want to be the focus of the game,” Lagger said. “I want the focus to be the kids.”

Which is why he got into coaching in the first place.

about life and helped me be a better person,’” Christie McKittrick said. “I thought, that was coming from a seventh-grader. It shows how dedicated he is to developing kids on and off the court.”

Fran and Melissa Cassidy, whose son, Michael, is an eighth-grader on the team, both agreed Lagger’s kids-first approach has made basketball that much more enjoyable for their son. Lagger’s coaching style definitely left a lasting impression on Sweet.

“He was very positive and very impactful for sure,” said Photos by Jason Rossi - jrossi@shawmedia.com Sweet, a senior at Geneva. “He Jim Lagger (standing) talks to his Geneva Park District Vikings basketball players on Jan. 28 during a game made practices fun and games against Wheatland. It was game No. 1,500 as a youth coach for Lagger, who will step down after the season. a blast.

“A lot of coaches have inway Lagger strives to serve. fluenced me, but coach Lagger He works full time with Muhas been the most influential.” tare Software after years with AT&T, and he also spends a The end of the road few days per month on camWith the Vikings, Lagpus at Illinois State Univerger made the choice to coach sity working with junior and fifth-graders and follow them senior business majors to find through their eighth-grade internships or jobs. seasons. His current crop of ViLagger also teaches night kings are mostly eighth-gradclasses at ISU (some on camers, which makes this season, pus, some remote) that offer a his 20th as a coach, his last. real-world look at the world of “Twenty years is a nice business, and he also is volunround number, and there are teering with the Boys and Girls things I’d like to do at the Boys Clubs of America in Elgin. and Girls Clubs and I’d like to “As my wife likes to say, I expand what I’m doing at ISU, have a lot of hobbies,” Lagger so the time is right,” Lagger said. said. “I’m sure I’ll miss it.”

Yet coaching always has A cake commemorating Jim Lagger’s 1,500th game as a youth coach Seeing as he has never been awaits a postgame party Jan. 28. been a particular passion. paid to coach it won’t be the Soon after graduating from paycheck he’ll be missing, but ISU, he coached for two years In fact, a few of the play- working with kids who need it walking away will be tough. with Strikers Fox Valley Soc- ers Lagger coached on that the most.”

“The most satisfying part cer Club, and he later returned first GPD Vikings travel is getting letters for thank you to the club for an eight-year team should be familiar to Lasting impression cards from the kids in their stint that included time as the Geneva basketball fans: Jack The day of game No. 1,500, handwriting at the end of the director of the boys’ program. Hood, Matt Johnston and Joe two former Strikers players, season,” Lagger said. “That He coached his daughter, Eri- Tucholski, members of the Ryan Zima and Matt Sweet, says a lot.” ca, and son, Jason, at Strikers, high school varsity team this were coaching little ones in He will miss seeing players and when Jason’s time with season. Logan Popovich, an- baseball, basketball and soccer grow and progress, not only as Strikers came to an end, Lag- other player from that first on the other side of the gym. athletes but as people, as well ger stepped away and returned travel team, is playing varsity Lagger’s approach to coaching as the chance to give kids who to his roots as a basketball ball for Badger High School in helped inspire them to follow want to play a sport a chance coach.

Kinsman, Ohio. to do just that. in his footsteps.

“That’s what I played, it’s Elise Reader, a former He never sought recogni“One thing he did that I apwhat I love, and it’s what I al- Strikers player, went on to preciated was he was always tion, but it has found him anyways wanted to do,” Lagger play in college at Louisi- positive,” Zima said. “He was way, and he hopes that his brief said. ana-Monroe, but Lagger never always building you up and he time as the center of the story He noticed some basketball endeavored to coach athletes never shot anybody down.” inspires others to volunteer players who wanted to play destined for success.

Christie McKittrick, mother their time as youth coaches. couldn’t catch on with some “I never wanted to take the of GPD Vikings eighth-grader After all, Lagger’s time as of the bigger travel teams in best teams,” Lagger said. “A Cal McKittrick, said that her coach has been nearly perfect. the area, so he teamed with the lot of people don’t want to take son gushed about Lagger’s ap“People have asked me, Geneva Park District to form a the ‘B’ or ‘C’ teams because it’s proach to coaching at an end-of- ‘Would you change anything?’” travel team and it immediately more work, but I always take season gathering last year. he said. “And I have to say no, took off. those teams. I always enjoy “Cal said, ‘He taught me I’d do it all again.”

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Mike Bell, vice president of player development for the Arizona Diamondbacks (from left); Jose Amado, Kane County Cougars hitting coach; Gil Velasquez, Diamondbacks infield coordinator; Rich Sauveur, Cougars pitching coach; and Butch Hobson, Cougars manager, gather Jan. 27 during the Meet the Diamondbacks banquet at Northwestern Medicine Field. Hobson, the Cougars’ new manager, and others in the organization met and spoke with fans at the event.

Hobson happy, ready to be on Cougars’ bench New manager meets fans at banquet

By KEVIN DRULEY editorial@kcchronicle.com GENEVA – New Kane County Cougars manager Butch Hobson navigated the club’s Jan. 27 Meet the Diamondbacks Party with the same colloquialism that’s defined his extensive baseball past.

Acquaintances of Hobson assure fans they’ll embrace the approachability of the 18th manager in Cougars history when the Midwest League season opens at Northwestern Medicine Field on April 6.

Still, umpires may experience another side of the man born Clell Lavern Hobson Jr. from time to time.

“He’ll put a show on about five times a year for you,” said Joe Klein, executive director of the independent Atlan-

tic League team and a former major league general manager. “‘Now, Butch.

Calm down.’ He’s very animated.”

Hobson, 65, forever will hold his hand up there, having known no other speed throughout a nomadic career.

From 1992 to 1994, he held one of the most grueling jobs in baseball – manager of the Boston Red Sox – and was Boston’s third baseman for parts of six seasons in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

After a 16-season sojourn as an independent league manager, Hobson is back in affiliated baseball for the first time in more than two decades, primed to capitalize on another opportunity.

“I’ve still got a lot left in my tank, and I’m looking forward to taking some of this young talent and helping them develop their talent and preaching a winning attitude and everything else,” Hobson said. “I’ve been doing it a long time and I love it, and I don’t want to do anything else.”

When the Atlantic League’s Lancaster (Pa.) Barnstormers announced they were not retaining him for a seventh

season in 2017, Hobson quickly turned to a vast network of contacts. He relied on the same support system to get a job in independent ball in 2000, four years removed from an arrest for felony cocaine possession while managing in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.

Hobson never was convicted of a crime in a case with several obscure elements, and completed community service.

Aware of the Diamondbacks’ frequent scouting of independent baseball, Hobson contacted Chris Carminucci, the organization’s independent league coordinator, this winter.

Carminucci consulted Diamondbacks farm director Mike Bell, and when Hobson heard that, he had a good feeling things might align with Arizona, the Cougars’ parent organization since 2015.

Bell’s father, Buddy, is a longtime friend and former playing contemporary of Hobson who now works in the White Sox front office.

“We’ve been internally talking about Butch for several years just be-

cause we have so many connections,” Mike Bell said. “He’s a guy you kind of gravitate toward, and on top of that, hearing my dad talk about him, he says that Butch is the toughest person he’s ever been on the field with.”

A backup quarterback under legendary Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant during the early 1970s, Hobson incorporates the icon into his clubhouse approach without donning a replica of Bryant’s famed houndstooth cap.

Most Midwest Leaguers are embarking upon their first full seasons of professional baseball, and Hobson believes his players can only benefit from the kind of outside-the-lines tutelage Bryant happily dispensed to him.

“I mean, he knew only one percent of us were going to go to the NFL, and I definitely was not in that one percent,” Hobson said. “I think me being able to share life experiences, good or bad, with the young players, I would hope that’s a big part of what the Diamondbacks see in me because it’s a big part of the game.”

WRESTLING POSTSEASON PREVIEW

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE The end of the postseason road for high school wrestlers is the State Farm Center in Champaign for the state tournament from Feb. 16 to 18. Here’s the outlook for Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles East, St. Charles North and other area schools as the postseason gets set to start with regional tournaments Feb. 4.

Batavia

Regional: Batavia Sectional: Downers Grove North Outlook: The Bulldogs’ postseason path starts at their own regional, which might be one of the toughest in Class 3A. Marmion, ranked No. 3 in the state, is the favorite to win the regional title, but Naperville Central and Wheaton Warrenville South are also ranked while the Bulldogs sit just outside the top 25.

Seth Winkle, an honorable mention in the Class 3A 145-pound rankings by IllinoisMatmen.com, will look to ride

the momentum of his Upstate Eight Conference tourney title into the postseason. Winkle, Joe Posledni (ranked at 160) and Nick Benson (honorable mention at 170) are aiming to finish in the top three at the regional in order to move on to the Feb. 11 sectional.

Burlington Central Regional: Sycamore Sectional: Sterling

St. Charles East’s Louis Gordon (left) wrestles with Geneva’s Ivan Vilchis in a 132-pound match Jan. 21 at the Upstate Eight Conference tournament. The Saints and Vikings will look for strong performances at the West Chicago regional Feb. 4.

ment, the Vikings saw Mike Donatelli (138 pounds) and Cole Campbell (220) wrestle for titles at the Upstate Eight Conference meet, while Kevin Huck (145) and Nick Sowers (160) won thirdplace matches. The Vikings are hoping that quartet and others can replicate those showings to move on to the Feb. 11 sectional.

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Regional: Batavia Sectional: Downers Grove North

as well as Belvidere North, Kaneland and Sycamore in the mix.

BC junior Austin Macias, ranked No. 2 in Class 2A at 120 pounds, is looking for his third state berth and a chance to improve on last year’s thirdplace finish at 120.

Nick Termini (132) and Erik Hansen (195) also are ranked.

Geneva

Regional: West Chicago Outlook: The Sycamore regional will Sectional: Conant

feature some of the best individual talent in the state with standouts from BC

Outlook: In their last big tourna-

Marmion

Outlook: Winning the Chicago Catholic League tournament over state heavyweights Montini, Mount Carmel and Brother Rice proved the Cadets are ready for the postseason grind. They are the No. 3-ranked team in Class 3A

by IllinoisMatmen.com, and Trevor Chumbley (126 pounds), Sean McKenna (132), Anthony Cheloni (138), Jake Polka (145), Brad Gross (152), Nate Jimenez (160) and Peter Ferraro (170) are ranked individually.

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Geneva dance wins fourth straight state title

By CHRIS CASEY ccasey@shawmedia.com BLOOMINGTON – This was finally the year someone else was going to win, right?

The Geneva competitive dance team had won three consecutive Class 2A state titles. With no seniors on the team and losing some key members of last year’s team, it surely couldn’t happen again, right?

Wrong.

The Vikings took that chatter personally, and on Jan. 28 brought home the program’s fourth straight IHSA competitive dance state championship at U.S. Cellular Coliseum.

Geneva’s score of 94.74 was the highest score of any of the 36 teams in all three classes competing in the finals. “No group has ever won a state title by being lazy, but the hard work that this group put in is something special,�

Geneva coach Amy Van Wagenen said. “Everyone thought this would be an off year for us, but these girls refused to accept that. They wouldn’t think down to other people’s thoughts, rose to the challenge, and the hard work they put in is really second to none.�

There was still anxiety waiting for

“Everyone thought this would be an off year for us, but these girls refused to accept that. They wouldn’t think down to other people’s thoughts, rose to the challenge, and the hard work they put in is really second to none.�

Amy Van Wagenen Geneva competitive dance coach

the results to be announced after heading into the finals tied with Lake Forest. Each team had scored 93.14 during the preliminary routines Jan. 27.

After cleaning up some minor mistakes, the Vikings felt that no matter what the scores showed, there would be nothing but elation in the finals.

A fourth straight state championship was the ultimate finish for a squad that likely will return every member of the team next year. “We knew we just wanted to leave everything we had out there and not look back and have regrets,� Geneva junior Alexis Pender said. “It honestly meant so much hearing our name called as champions. I’ve never been so close with a team or group of girls in my life. We didn’t know what to think

about this year, but we wanted to show that age doesn’t matter, but hard work and dedication do.� “I know at the beginning I’ll admit I was nervous having lost the seniors we did,� junior Kinzie Sheridan said. “But I’m also proud that we kind of took that personally and proved everyone wrong who thought we couldn’t win it all. I’m really proud of how far we have come and to have everyone back next year is really exciting. It’s only going to make us work harder to get back there again.�

There is rarity in some of the things Pender and Sheridan mentioned. Obviously, the four straight state titles is rare, but to graduate no one and have an already hungry team wanting to get back to the pinnacle of the sport is something for other teams to fear.

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Batavia

The Bulldogs’ dance team earned a score of 83.74 in the Class 2A prelims and finished 19th in the state.

St. Charles North

The North Stars dance team just missed making the Class 3A finals by the slimmest of margins. North earned a score of 87.94 in the prelims and was just .68 points back of 12th place and a spot in the finals. It placed 14th in the state.

St. Francis

A score of 83.62 in the prelims was good for 20th place in the state in Class 2A for the Spartans.

state-ranked wrestlers.

Ruffino, Anderson, Benjamin and Continued from page 37 Louis Gordon (132) were UEC champs and will be looking to translate those Cheloni is a two-time state medalist, finishes into strong regional perforand Ferraro, Gross and Jimenez each mances and berths in the sectional. won a state medal last year.

Marmion should be favored to win St. Charles North the regional, although Batavia, Naper- Regional: West Chicago ville Central and Wheaton Warrenville Sectional: Conant South could pose challenges. The Cadets should have a handful of top-three Outlook: The regional will be a regional placers and be well-represent- chance for some North Star wrestlers ed at the sectional Feb. 11, where indi- to shine. Senior Kolbe O’Brien, ranked vidual state berths are on the line.

No. 10 at 126 pounds by IllinoisMatmen.com, placed third at the Upstate St. Charles East Eight Conference tourney and has the Regional: West Chicago tools to finish in the top three in the Sectional: Conant regional and move on to the sectional on Feb. 11. Outlook: East’s wrestlers should Drew Schmitt (fourth at 138), Chad be plenty familiar with much of the Reynolds (second at 152) and Dominic competition at the Class 3A regional Testa (fourth at 160) also will look to as Upstate Eight Conference schools build on solid UEC tourney finishes at Bartlett, Elgin, Geneva, Larkin, South the regional.

Elgin and St. Charles North also are in the field. Glenbard North figures to St. Francis challenge the Saints for the team title. Regional: Fenton Whether or not East wins the re- Sectional: Wauconda gional, it should be well-represented at the Feb. 11 sectional as Joe Ruffino Outlook: The Spartans will be chal(No. 5 at 106), Ben Anderson (No. 8 at lenged right off the bat in the postsea113), Justin Benjamin (No. 8 at 120), son in a Class 2A regional that includes Niko Derain (honorable mention at state-ranked Fenton as well as ranked 138) and Justin Hall (honorable men- individuals from Elmwood Park, Glention at 220) are all IllinoisMatmen.com bard South and Ridgewood.

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But that’s the culture that has been built around Geneva dance: Winning. “For us juniors, we don’t know what it feels like to lose a state title and I think we don’t ever want to know,� Pender said. “There are some girls that like to dance, so they join their school dance teams. We want to dance and want to win. Some love to dance, but we really love it. It’s the hardest-working program I’ve ever been a part of, and I think the sky is the limit for this group.�

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Opera singer and artistic director Solange Sior’s next Soirée Lyrique program will be “A Concert for Peace and Redemption” on Feb. 5.

Batavia pianist Chiayi Lee will accompany Soirée Lyrique’s “Concert for Peace and Redemption” on Feb. 5, including excerpts from operas and religious works.

Batavia pianist to help opera stars soar

By RENEE TOMELL rtomell@shawmedia.com As the operatic voices of Soirée Lyrique power straight to the heart, fans know to look for accomplished musician Chiayi Lee of Batavia presiding over the piano. She will return as accompanist for the Feb. 5 afternoon concert, “A Concert for Peace and Redemption,” in downtown Elgin. It will star four award-winning vocalists and a children’s choir.

Lee has collaborated with Solange Sior, founder and artistic director of Soirée Lyrique, all the way back to a performance of “La Traviata” by Sior’s former troupe, Elgin OPERA, when the two first met.

“What Solange is doing is really nice for the community – to keep introducing new concerts – in a small venue, all these fantastic singers coming to present some very special music,” said Lee, who holds a doctorate in musical arts in performance and pedagogy.

She relishes the opportunity to work with many different singers.

“As a pianist, I can also learn so much from how they sing and how they interpret each piece,” she said.

“I like to collaborate with musicians – we can argue about how the phrasing should go. That’s the fun part.”

She said as accompanist, she has to adjust to the variations of the singer.

“The pianist has to anticipate when

If you go ■ WHAT: Soirée Lyrique presents “A

Concert for Peace and Redemption” ■ WHEN: 2 p.m. Feb. 5 ■ WHERE: Professional Building’s

eighth-floor arts space, 164 Division St., Elgin ■ COST: Suggested donations are $15 to $30 per person ■ INFO: soireelyrique.org, office@ soireelyrique.org or 224-595-1526 the singer is going to breathe or how they will push the tempo and relax the tempo,” Lee said. “If they miss an entrance or like to hold notes longer, I will be there for them. It’s my job … to make them look good.”

Lee’s life in music began when she was 5 years old and joined a children’s choir while growing up in Taiwan. By junior high, she had taken up double bass and played in the orchestra through college. But she also had begun playing piano, and discovered her true passion.

Today, she is pianist for the choir and other music department programs at Harper College, where she instructs a piano lab. She also teaches privately at her home and freelances as a pianist.

In addition, she is pianist for Fox Valley Presbyterian Church in Geneva.

The Feb. 5 concert will feature four vocalists, soprano Solange Sior, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Kosharsky, tenor Cornelius Johnson and baritone Aaron Wardell, plus the Elgin Master Chorale Children’s Chorus. The choir will open the second half of the concert.

Repertoire will include excerpts from operas such as “Carmen,” “Cavalleria Rusticana,” “Nabucco,” “Faust,” “Andrea Chenier,” “Hänsel und Gretel” and “The Pearl Fishers,” as well as religious works, with selections from the Verdi Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Handel’s “Messiah.”

“You don’t get to hear those pieces very often,” Lee said of the program.

“We just had a rehearsal. Every piece is so beautiful.”

Sior said the concert will kick off the new season for Soirée Lyrique.

“This is my third concert with a spiritual theme,” Sior said.

It will include a variety of prayers, including one sung by the title character in “Carmen,” as well as the famous prayer duet from “Hänsel und Gretel.” “[It begins], ‘When at Night I Go to Sleep,’” Sior said. “We’re doing it in English and German. It’s very pretty.

And the guys are doing the famous duet from ‘The Pearl Fishers.’ They are singing about a priestess. They’re both in love with her.”

She said one aria she will perform is “La Mamma Morta” from the opera

“Andrea Chenier,” set in the French Revolution. It gained added fame playing in a Tom Hanks movie, when his character in “Philadelphia” describes it to Denzel Washington.

“It’s one that was on my bucket list,” Sior said of the aria. “[Maddalena sings that she] heard the voice of God tell her you have to keep on living. God is love. It’s a fabulous number.”

Sior said translations of all the songs will be provided.

The coming concert will be performed at the eighth-floor performance space of a downtown Elgin high-rise. Sior said the high-ceilinged room with a wood floor has great acoustics, important because the singers do not use microphones.

The next concert will be “Light Opera” on April 23, followed by an outdoor concert June 11 on a 3-acre property next to Snuffy’s Prairie in West Dundee.

“It looks like Ravinia,” Sior said.

“We pick up people with golf carts. We have plenty of parking. People bring their picnic, [and we] do a little lighter program.”

There also will be young artists concerts in July, which will be accompanied by pianist Rosemary Schroeder of St. Charles. Sior has regularly brought her fellow singers to venues in the Tri-Cities, and in Geneva is the regular soloist at First Church of Christ, Scientist.

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Baritone Aaron Wardell will be one of four vocalists in Soirée Lyrique’s “Concert for Peace and Redemption.”

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Vegetarian dishes from a pro Ohio-based Carla Snyder wears many hats, including caterer, artisan baker, food writer and cooking school teacher, among others.

Her recently published book, “One Pan, Two Plates: Vegetarian Suppers” (Chronicle Books), is full of tantalizing recipes – more than 70 weeknight meals for two. Beautiful food photography by Austin-based Jody Horton provides another plus.

Various chapters cover soups and stews; eggs and cheese; grains and beans; pasta; and pizzas, tarts and tartines, and piadinas (a thin Italian flatbread, typically prepared in the Romagna region).

TOM’S COOKBOOK LIBRARY Tom Witom Home cooks will want to prepare Snyder’s roasted Brussels sprouts with butternut squash, apple and walnuts. It’s as pleasing to behold as it is to taste.

Journalist Tom Witom, who lives in Elgin, has written extensively for years about food and the food industry. Contact him at editorial@ kcchronicle.com.

ROASTED BRUSSELS SPROUTS Serves 2 8 ounces Brussels sprouts, trimmed and quartered 10 ounces butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch-chunks Honeycrisp apple, peeled and cut into one-inch chunks.

2 medium shallots, coarsely chopped Leaves from 2 sprigs fresh rosemary, chopped 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper One 15-ounce can butter beans or cannellini beans, drained and rinsed 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 1/4 cup dried cranberries, soaked in Photo provided 1/4 cup hot water for 5 minutes then Carla Snyder has written “One Pan, Two drained 1 tablespoon minced, fresh, flat-leaf parsley Plates: Vegetarian Suppers,” which includes food photography by Jody Horton.

Preheat oven to 425°F. Line sheet pan with spatula. Roast until sprouts and squash with parchment paper. are browned and tender, about 10 minutes In large bowl, toss together Brussels longer. Add butter beans and walnuts and sprouts, butternut squash, apple, shallots roast until warmed through, about 5 minutes. and rosemary. Pour melted butter and Remove sheet pan from oven and toss maple syrup over top and season with 1/2 cranberries with roasted fruit and vegetateaspoon salt and few grinds of pepper. bles. Taste and season with more salt and Toss until fruit and vegetables are evenly coated in butter and syrup. Spread fruit and pepper, if it needs it.

Transfer roasted fruit and vegetables to vegetables evenly on prepared sheet pan. heated plates and sprinkle with parsley.

Roast until fruit and vegetables begin to Serve hot. soften, about 15 minutes, then toss again

A&E CALENDAR Readers can post events to the Kane County Chronicle’s online calendar. Visit planitkane. com, click “+Add Event” and follow the prompts.

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A TRAVELOGUE, THE NEXT FREE SENIOR STROLL PROGRAM: 10 to 11:30 a.m. Feb. 2, Barbara Belding Lodge at Brewster Creek Forest Preserve, 6N921 Route 25, St. Charles.

Forest Preserve District of Kane County naturalist Josh Libman will share his recent adventure to the Dry Tortugas, off the coast of Florida. Registration is not required. For information, visit kaneforest.com.

PHOTOS BY KEN WICKHAM OF ST. CHARLES ARE PART OF THE “PICTURE THIS” EXHIBIT ON DISPLAY: Through Feb. 26 at the Norris See CALENDAR, page 49

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KANE WEEKEND | Conductor Colin Holman appears Jan. 28 during the 22nd annual American Grands concert.

A grand performance

Players of all ages perform during the 22nd annual American Grands program. Cordogan’s Pianoland of Geneva donated 12 grand pianos for the performance, which American Grands, under the direction of conductor Colin Holman and musical director included close to 500 local musicians.

Larry Dieffenbach, returns to Elgin Community College on Jan. 28 for its 22nd season.

NEWS BRIEFS Learn how to become a volunteer at Community Resource Expo

BATAVIA – The Batavia Park District will showcase local volunteer opportunities from 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 4 at the Eastside Community Center, 14 N. Van Buren St., Batavia, at a Community Resource Expo.

Chat with representatives from local groups to find out how to get involved and donate time, expertise or resources. To view a list of participating vendors, visit bataviaparks. org. More spots are available. The cost is $15, which includes an 8-foot table, recruitment opportunities and refreshments. Download

an application at www.bataviaparks.org. For information, call 630-879-5235.

Join in some family fun during game night at Elburn church

ELBURN – The Community Congregational Church, 100 E. Shannon St., Elburn, will host a free cabin fever family game night from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 11 in Fellowship Hall. Anyone from the community is welcome. Attendees are encouraged to bring a game. Refreshments will be provided. Call 630-365-6544 for information.

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Nathaniel Holman plays percussion for the 22nd annual American Grands program Jan. 28 at Elgin Community College.

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WHERE: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays to Feb. 18 WHEN: Riverfront Playhouse, 11 and 13 S. Water St. Mall, downtown Aurora COST & INFO: $17, $15 for students and seniors at riverfrontplayhouse.com, 630-897-9496 ABOUT: “When the Cat’s Away,” a risque British farce, by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, is about two husbands with vacationing wives. The husbands invite over two women not knowing that their spouses plan an early return home. Reservations are encouraged, and discounts are available for military and local police and fire personnel.

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WHERE: Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora WHEN: Previews start Feb. 8; show runs to March 19 COST & INFO: $44 to $59, ParamountAurora.com, 630-896-6666 ABOUT: The Sondheim musical, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” is a Victorian-era, pitch-black comedy filled with thrills and terrors. An English barber murders his customers with a straight razor and – with his accomplice – processes their corpses into meat pies. It’s staged and choreographed by acclaimed Artistic Director Jim Corti.

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WHEN: 8 to 11 p.m. Feb. 3 WHERE: Eddie Gaedel Pub & Grill, 117 N. Main St., Elburn COST & INFO: Free admission; eddiegaedelpubandgrill. com ABOUT: Singer-songwriter Michael C. Hayes of Glen Ellyn will perform at Eddie Gaedel. Hayes has been recognized for his signature vocal tone, individual songwriting style and dynamic performances. He performs across the country at more than 200 shows each year.

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WHERE: Batavia Fine Arts Centre on Batavia High School campus, 1399 W. Wilson St., Batavia WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4 COST & INFO: $19 to $33, bataviafineartscentre.org, 630-937-8930 ABOUT: “An Evening with Molly Ringwald” will feature the singer, author and star of “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink” presenting her concert act accompanied by her jazz quartet.

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WHERE: Schingoethe Center of Aurora University, 1315 Prairie St., Aurora WHEN: Reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Feb. 7, followed by 7 p.m. lecture; show runs to April 28 COST & INFO: Free admission; register for exhibit and lecture at shawurl. com/2zs8 or 630-844-4824 ABOUT: In the exhibit called “Art of Facts,” Brian Dettmer continues his work with books as sculptural material and cultural objects. Pieces also explore the totem form. An opening reception is set in the Schingoethe Center of Aurora University, whose new designation as a Smithsonian Affiliate will be announced officially at 6:45 p.m. in Crimi Auditorium, where Dettmer will lecture at 7 p.m.

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Geneva church All about vocals supports soles Q&A

Generations for Good party helps by cutting patterns for shoes for Ugandan children

By BRENDA SCHORY bschory@shawmedia.com GENEVA – Generations for Good will be an evening to connect women of all ages to find inspiration and make an impact. The event will take place from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Feb. 3 at the First Baptist Church of Geneva West Campus, 3435 Keslinger Road, Geneva.

The cost is $5. Participants will hear a portrayal of Corrie ten Boom presented by Gayle Haas of Stories Come Alive, and participants should bring a pair of new or used jeans of any color that they will cut into a pattern for shoes to be made for Ugandan children.

“The Women’s Ministry Committee put this together,” said Sue Egan, an administrative assistant at the church.

“It’s an outreach event that is open to anyone, not just church mem- Gayle bers. We have space for Haas 380, and we have 165 registered.”

Register online by visiting www. fbcg.com or by calling the church at 630-232-7068.

Cutting jeans into patterns for shoes supports Sole Hope, a charity that seeks to combat diseases that enter through the feet, according to its website, solehope.org.

Called a Sole Hope Shoe Cutting Party, the event will support the charity’s efforts to protect Ugandan children from jiggers, an insect that burrows into a child’s bare feet, causing infections and damage to the soft tissue, according to the website.

Providing children with shoes to protect their feet from jiggers helps create a positive physical and psychological difference in their lives, the website stated.

“They give us templates, and we cut them into a pattern and ship it back to them and they make the shoes,” Egan said.

Those attending also will be treated to a portrayal of Corrie ten Boom, a watchmaker from a devoutly Christian

If you go ■ WHAT: Generations for Good Sole

Hope Shoe Cutting Party ■ WHEN: 7 to 9:30 p.m. Feb. 3 ■ WHERE: First Baptist Church of Geneva West Campus, 3435 Keslinger Road, Geneva ■ COST: $5 ■ INFO: Register online at www.fbcg. com or by calling 630-232-7068. family who hid Jews and members of the Dutch underground in Nazi-occupied Holland.

Eventually the family was arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Ten Boom survived, and her book, “The Hiding Place” detailed the family’s efforts to hide Jews, as well as using the concentration camps to give witness to their Christian faith. The book also was made into a movie of the same name.

Haas said she found the story of ten Boom as told by Billy Graham at a crusade in the 1970s.

“She was my first real hero of the faith,” Haas said. “I grew up in Gary, Ind., and I had so many wonderful Jewish friends. Her work with the Dutch underground during World War II struck a chord in my heart.

I was blessed and intrigued by her story.”

While attending college for theater and drama, Haas said she found certain dynamics in the theater department were in conflict with her faith.

But in later years, she said she used her acting abilities in a children’s ministry at a church she and her husband pastored in Aurora.

“I was able again to use my passion for acting to share the gospel,” Haas said.

The church is no longer there, but her husband started a charity, A Future and A Hope Foundation, that helps ex-offenders return to society, and Haas founded her own company, Stories Come Alive, which allows her to continue acting for the faith.

“It has been a great joy to share [ten Boom’s] marvelous story,” Haas said.

“Her story of God’s love and forgiveness is so powerful, it changes us. I go to churches, to schools, any place that will have me.”

Mara Dale serves as voice teacher at Marquee Youth Stage

By VIOLET MARQUARDT editorial@kcchronicle.com

Since its inception, Marquee Youth Stage of St. Charles has had a goal to ignite creativity in youth through performance. Through singing and performing, kids are able to garner the confidence they need to lead inspiring lives.

Mara Dale, voice teacher at Marquee Youth Stage, knows the benefits of performing.

Since an early age, Dale aspired to be on the stage, and her pasMara Dale sion has followed her throughout her life.

Fast-forward to today; Dale is now a vocal instructor at Marquee Youth Stage, where she teaches everything from vocal lessons to sight-reading music to music theory.

Dale recently took the time to sit down with freelance writer Violet Marquardt to discuss her position as a voice instructor.

Violet Marquardt: How long have you been in the world of performance?

Mara Dale: When I was 5, I saw “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” in theater. I just thought, “I want to do that.” I did musicals and plays in school, I was in choir; I took AP music theory; I danced. … I tried to do all the art forms that I could. I ended up receiving my Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting from Syracuse University.

Marquardt: What inspired you to begin teaching?

Dale: When I came back after graduating [from Syracuse], I saw a position open at Marquee for music directing and

slowly I transitioned over to teaching.

Marquardt: How has teaching differed from performing? How do you like teaching thus far?

Dale: It’s a very fulfilling job working with kids and working in education. I love it. The kids are so lovely to work with. … They’re all great kids; they work hard; they practice; and they’re enthusiastic. They make it so much fun.

Marquardt: What are some of your goals as a teacher?

Dale: My goals are to help these young adults gain confidence in [themselves], gain confidence in their voice and learn to use their voice in a healthy way – not just in singing, but also in life. When you have that autonomy over your voice, you become a much more powerful person. I want to make them stronger people.

Marquardt: Can you further detail how singing and performing grants kids’ important life skills?

Dale: Kids gain skills in working together and collaborating in groups or a team. Kids gain confidence in themselves. … When kids are able to master a skill or get really good, they are able to take on leadership roles and teach other kids and have that relationship with their peers.

Marquardt: Besides teaching, how else are you involved in the world of performance?

Dale: I’m a professional actor in Chicago, I live here and work and audition here. Right now, I’m teaching with Barrel of Monkeys, which goes into Chicago Public Schools and teaches creative writing residencies.

We take the stories the kids write and adapt them for the stage, whether it’s song or dance or a series of vignettes.

We take the pieces back to the school and perform them for the kids, so they kind of feel like authors or rock stars.

Marquardt: And finally … do you think anyone has the ability to sing?

Dale: I do think anyone can sing. I have taught some tone-deaf people before, and they are less tone deaf after time. I think it’s possible. If you want to do it, do what makes you happy.

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valleys of Norway in the 1700s. The association is trying to preserve the traditional GENEVA – The Illinois Norsk Rosemal- Scandinavian art form. Students will learn ers Association will host a 2017 Winter basic strokes, design elements, color theory as it pertains to rosemaling and embellishBeginning/Intermediate Rosemaling class from 9 a.m. to noon Feb. 4, 11 and ing elements. No previous art experience is 18 and March 4, 11 and 18, at Good Tem- needed. All are welcome. The cost is $90.

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French, Spanish treats offer different take on traditional doughnuts

By PRUDENCE HILBURN

Prudence Hilburn of Piedmont, Alabama, has won more than 30 national cooking awards and written several cookbooks, including “Kitchen Keepers.” Write her at prudencehilburn@aol.com or visit prudencehilburn.com.

FRENCH MARKET BEIGNETS 1 cup milk ¼ cup sugar ¾ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon nutmeg 1 package dry yeast

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If it tastes anything like a doughnut, it certainly will find favor with my palate. My favorites are the classic yeastbased doughnuts, but I also enjoy the cake type from time to time.

When the kids want doughnuts in a hurry, my granddaughter, Meagan, told me she uses jumbo canned biscuits. After cutting a hole in the center of each one, she heats about 2 inches of oil and quickly fries the “doughnuts” and the “holes” until browned. Coated with a confectioners’ sugar glaze, these simple treats don’t last long.

I will never forget the first time my husband and I visited New Orleans. We had heard about the great French beignets and could hardly wait to try them. We were certainly not disappointed and we made more than one trip to the open air coffee shop, Cafe du Monde (Cafe of the World), located in the French Quarter.

I opted to enjoy my beignets with a glass of cold milk, while my husband wanted his with their special coffee.

Either way, these French “doughnuts” are special.

Sopaipillas are the Spanish version of the doughnut.

These hollow little “pillows” of bread are delicious served with honey. Yeast is optional in the following recipe.

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Beignets are a deep-fried French pastry similar to doughnuts. New Orleans’ French Quarter is famous for its beignets.

2 tablespoons lukewarm water 1 tablespoon oil 1 egg 3-½ cups all purpose flour confectioners’ sugar for coating cooking oil for frying

towel. Let rise in warm place until doubled. Turn soft dough onto wellfloured surface and knead gently.

Roll into 12 by 18 inch rectangle.

Cut into 36 small rectangles. Cover and let rise about 30 minutes. Heat cooking fat to 375 degrees. Fry few at a time until golden. Drain well on paper towels. Coat generously with confectioners’ sugar.

Heat milk and add sugar, salt and nutmeg. Cool to lukewarm. Sprinkle yeast over the 2 tablespoons lukewarm water. Stir until dissolved. To the lukewarm milk mixture, add oil, SOPAIPILLAS egg and yeast. Use a wooden spoon for mixing. Gradually add flour until 4 cups sifted all purpose flour soft dough is formed. Cover with 1-½ teaspoons salt plastic wrap and then with a clean 1 teaspoon baking powder

1 tablespoon butter 1 package dry yeast ¼ cup warm water About 1-¼ cup scalded milk 4 cups cooking oil

bowl over dough. Set aside for 10 minutes. Heat oil to 420 degrees.

Roll a fourth of the dough to ¼-inch thick. Cut into squares. Cover cut dough with towel while frying sopaipillas a few at a time. Continue Combine dry ingredients and cut in until all dough is used. Do not reuse butter. Dissolve yeast in lukewarm any leftover scrapes of dough. Drain water and then stir into scalded milk well on paper towels. that has cooled to lukewarm. If not NOTE: To assure that the dough using yeast, use 1-½ cups milk and puffs, slightly stretch each piece omit the ¼ cup warm water. Make of dough before lowering into hot well in center of dry ingredients. oil. Then place rolled or top side Add about 1-¼ cup liquid and work of dough into fat first so it will be into dough until firm and springy. bottom side. Hold each piece of Knead about 15 to 20 times. Invert dough in oil until it puffs.

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Columnist worries what’s ahead for child with Down syndrome, finds reassurance from son

By CHARLES MOSS The Washington Post

​M y 4-year-old son Emmett is adorable. I know, parents say that about their children all the time. But in Emmett’s case, he really is. Strangers attest to it at Costco and Publix and at our local children’s museum.

Even Mayim Bialik, of “Blossom” and “The Big Bang Theory,” risked her anonymity at a Legoland in Atlanta to tell us how cute Emmett is.

Of course, they are right.

Emmett also has Down syndrome. Because of the extra copy of chromosome 21, he has a few physical characteristics that define his condition. He has an enlarged tongue, which, in turn, forces him to keep his mouth open in a resting position most of the time. A lot of the photos we have of Emmett capture him in this position, with his tongue sticking out ever so slightly. This, in combination with his flattened facial features, low muscle tone, small stature and large, upward-slanted eyes are what make people notice him.

His outgoing, energetic and strong-willed personality, however, are what endear him to people.

He smiles more than any person I’ve ever met. And these aren’t just your average small smiles – half-curled, closed lips. In fact, to call them smiles would be wrong because they are much more than that. They are, by all accounts, insanely huge, contagious bouts of laughter and screams of joy that are unable to be contained in just the shell of a smile.

But it won’t always be like this.

What people see right now – myself included – is an adorable little boy with Down syndrome. He knows no strangers, is affectionate (sometimes overly so), and his inability to enunciate properly is cute and

Photo by David Andrews via The Washington Post

The author with his wife, Vanessa, and their sons, Emmett (left) and Noah.

My wife, Vanessa, thinks I worry too much.

She’s right. But whether we want to think about it or not, Emmett has a rough road ahead.

sometimes encouraged.

But what happens when he grows up, when he becomes a man? What happens when he still has trouble speaking, when his looks no longer are considered adorable but are seen as ugly, because he may not look like everyone else? What happens when Emmett has trouble holding down a job or finishing school or living independently from us? What happens when he becomes an adult and he still has a personality equivalent to that of an 8- or 9-year-old?

This is my fear.

When he is an adult, Emmett no longer will be able to play the cute card. His world will be a much more difficult place. He will be looked down on, made fun of and bullied.

At the same time, he will be coddled, felt sorry for and allowed to take shortcuts because of his looks and lower-than-average-intelligence. And he may allow his Down syndrome to define who he is.

Sometimes, as I watch Emmett

struggle to communicate with us, trying to find a way to express what he’s saying in sign language or with other physical movements, or trying over and over again to pronounce the word he’s trying to say, but we’re left clueless, I’ve felt my eyes well up because we are just starting to experience what life might be like for him as he gets older.

A few weeks ago, I picked Emmett’s older brother up from after-school care and I saw a girl, no older than 11 or 12, sitting by herself in the cafeteria, among throngs of other children playing in groups – joking, laughing and enjoying each other’s company.

Though this girl seemed to be perfectly fine sitting by herself, I thought about Emmett and how one day, most likely soon, this might be him.

I think about scenarios like this all the time. My wife, Vanessa, thinks I worry too much. She’s right. But whether we want to think about it or not, Emmett has a rough road ahead.

Just like my other son Noah, I don’t know what to expect regarding Emmett’s future. But I know the more research I do, the more his future will begin to be defined.

Because, subconsciously, I will start treating him accordingly, letting the books and articles I read dictate what his future will look like. Instead of treating him like his older brother, I will begin to treat him like someone who can’t do the things other kids can do. I will start to treat him as

someone with Down syndrome.

And that scares me to death.

A few weeks ago, I watched Emmett climb up the ladder of a bouncy house. At first, he struggled with how to tackle it because he was too small.

He reached his hand out for my help, pleading, “Daddy, Daddy.” Initially, I reacted. I tried to climb into the bouncy house to help him, to push him up from his little behind, so the kids lined up behind him wouldn’t have to wait any longer.

But then I noticed he was climbing the ladder on his own. He had discovered another way to climb it, his own way. And once he found his traction, boy, was he fast.

I know Emmett always will have a little extra help in his life. I know there will be things that he just won’t be able to do because, well, he’s human. His Down syndrome will play into how he’s treated as an adult, what kinds of jobs he’ll have and his relationships. His quality of life will be different from his brother’s.

But as I think about little Emmett climbing up that bouncy house ladder, it gives me comfort to know he won’t allow his Down syndrome to define who he is as a person and how he lives his life. He’ll find a way to get around it.

Charles Moss is a writer and father based in Chattanooga, Tenn.

You may connect with him on Twitter @chachimoss and Facebook.

You may also read more of his work on his website.

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Some parents go overboard

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issues. I, at times, am shocked that parents permit so many teens under the age of 16 to become involved romantically at varying levels.

I am not a prude, nor was I unpopular in high school. As a matter of fact, I was very much the opposite. As a result, I have guided my daughter toward academic goals that I did not achieve because I didn’t have a mother who devoted her time to my educational enlightenment.

My daughter graduates high school with honors in June and will start college this fall. Ever since she was in preschool, my husband and I have encouraged her to seize every opportunity available to her.

I strongly urge all parents to never let their teenagers begin dating under the age of 16 and I would suggest 17 or 18 as a more ideal age. Your comments, please.

Dear Abby: I DEAR ABBY am a 14-year-old identical twin.

Jeanne My sister and I Phillips are sick of the whole “twin” thing and want to go to separate schools. We really want to be our own people. We have wanted this for a long time now. However, I’m not sure we can because, where I live, you have to go to the school in the town you live in. Do you have any suggestions on things we can do to make new, different friends, and how we can look different from each other? We are moving this year, so next fall we will be in a new school. – The Twin Thing in New Hampshire Dear Twin Thing: You and your sister are smart girls. What you want to do will be healthy for both of you, and I congratulate you for wanting to do it. It’s important that each of you develop as individuals, and the move will give the perfect opportunity to start. If you have been dressing alike, make a point of not doing it from now on. If you have been wearing your hair in the same style, change that too.

When you enroll in the new school, join separate clubs, go out for different sports, etc. If you do, people will no longer perceive you as molded from the same cookie cutter. Good luck.

Dear Abby: As a baby shower gift for my (soonto-be) grandson, I plan on opening up a UTMA (Uniform Transfers to Minors) account for his college education with a $5,000 initial deposit. My idea is to add $1,000 every year on his birthday for the first five years. Would it be tacky to challenge, or encourage, his other three grandparents to contribute to the account by matching their contributions every year up to my $1,000? Or would it be better to just tell them my plans and let them know they can also make deposits to the account?

I don’t know the financial situations of the others, and I don’t want to offend anyone. Your thoughts?

Dr. Wallace: I’m 16 and have been seeing a certain guy. We’ve been dating for the past year.

Whenever he calls to talk to me, my mother puts us on the speaker phone for her and anyone else in the house to hear. I think this is utterly ridiculous.

I’m a good kid and I hate being treated like a criminal. I do believe that people behind bars have more privacy than I do. I’m writing to you because my mother always reads your column and I’m positive you will agree with me. I’ve never ever given my parents any reason not to trust me. Furthermore, I happen to be vice president of the student body at school and a member of the National Honor Society.

Don’t let me down! I’m tired of being treated like a baby. – Cindy,

Hyannis, Mass.

Cindy: It’s important for parents

to be aware of what their children are doing, but there are times when parents go overboard in monitoring them. This appears to be one of those times. Parents must make a decision to trust their children and respect their right to privacy so long as that trust remains unbroken.

Under the restrictions you describe, I’m positive you and your boyfriend don’t talk to each other too often on the telephone.

Dr. Wallace: I’m under a lot of stress at home. My parents are constantly screaming at each other and it looks like they might separate. This has been going on for about six months, and it gets worse every day. About six months ago, my face started to break out, and now I’ve got a pimple and acne problem.

Is it possible that my complexion problem could be caused by stress? I know that eating junk

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’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace food does not cause acne, but I’m not sure about stress. – Nameless,

Cumberland, Md. Nameless: Stress rarely causes

acne. It is possible, according to dermatologists, for an acne outbreak to be triggered by stress, but this would be a rare occurrence.

Most stressful situations do not cause acne. It’s important for you to get treatment from a licensed dermatologist for your complexion outbreak. With treatment, you may see improvement in a few weeks.

Dr. Wallace: Do you think I should sue my teacher? Yesterday a couple of friends and I were goofing off in class and I put a few tacks on the chairs of the three nerds we have in the class. Two of the three sat on the tacks and let out loud howls. Naturally, the teacher asked me if I was involved and, being honest, I told the truth that I was the culprit.

Instead of giving me a detention, she blurted out that I was a stupid jerk. That caused the entire class to laugh. I felt like a fool and was totally embarrassed. My dad said that my teacher abused my civil rights and could be sued for a lot of money. Is this true? – Name-

less, Columbus, Ohio.

Nameless: Anybody can sue a

person for “a lot of money.” Winning a verdict is another story, especially in your case where the teacher is telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Dr. Wallace: I have noticed that a good portion of your readers are consulting you regarding dating

– Mother, Atlanta, Ga. Mother: I’m glad your daughter

has done well in school, but so do many young people who are allowed to date. You seem to be saying that teens must choose either academics or a social life, but, in truth, they must choose a balance of both. Parental guidance is needed to help them find a balance.

While age 16 is a reasonable age for a teen to start dating, making a teen wait until age 17 or 18 could hinder social growth.

It’s also important to remember that there is no “one size fits all” approach to parenting. Love and respect are essential to the job; ironclad rules are not. Teens who are mature, trustworthy and dependable are capable of spending time with the opposite sex.

Write to Dr. Wallace at rwallace@thegreatestgift.com.

– About To Be a Grandpa in Arizona Dear Grandpa: I’m voting for your second idea,

for the reason you gave. While the concept of an education fund for your grandbaby is laudable, making it a “challenge” might create financial stress for the other grandparents and be perceived as one-upmanship if they are unable to donate as much to the fund as you do.

Dear Abby: An older friend and I have exchanged emails since last spring. Hers have been mostly political and disparaging toward minorities. I asked her to please not send this stuff since we have opposite opinions on the subject, and I don’t plan to change my mind. I enjoy our in-person talks because they are nothing like the emails she sends, which are “forwards” somebody else has put together. I quit reading them, but is there a way to politely stop her from disseminating nasty propaganda? I have tried fact-checking and sending corrections to her and to those on the long list of people she has sent these emails. It doesn’t work. – Fact Checker Dear Fact Checker: Because someone sends you emails does not mean you must read them all.

Filter your email so that the political rants go into a special folder, then delete them en masse.

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

ASK THE DOCTORS / ELIZABETH KO AND EVE GLAZIER Research into the causes of AFM, which affects children in greater numbers than adults, is a national priority. At the CDC, scientists and public health specialists are gathering blood samples as well as fluid specimens from the nose, respiratory tract and spinal cord of affected patients for testing. Results are collected into a database for study and analysis.

The symptoms of AFM are similar to several other conditions that are far more common. This has increased the challenge of arriving at an accurate diagnosis.

However, awareness of the disease among health care providers is growing rapidly, which means that diagnosis and reporting are become more accurate.

If you believe you or your child has symptoms that correspond with those of AFM, call your family doctor. The findings from a careful examination of the nervous system, with accurate mapping of the muscles and reflexes affected, and diagnostic tests such as an MRI and analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid, will allow a correct diagnosis.

Several germs are suspected in AFM, so the CDC recommends that your family is up-to-date on polio and all other recommended vaccinations, and that you protect yourself and your family from mosquito-borne viruses by using insect repellents.

The good news is that increased awareness of AFM is leading to an ever-larger volume of reliable data for researchers to work with. That means more information about what causes the disease, and more avenues in which to seek and find a cure.

Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and primary care physician at UCLA Health.

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Dear Doctor: I’ve been reading about a new illness that’s a lot like polio and is making children in parts of the country very sick. What is it, and should my family and I be worried?

Dear Reader: You’re referring to acute flaccid myelitis, also known as AFM, a rare neurological disease that affects the spinal cord. The symptoms mimic those of polio, which has helped to push AFM into the headlines.

Before we get into specifics, we want to stress that AFM is quite rare. Despite the sudden spate of alarming news reports that have, quite understandably, caused you concern, the rate of infection is extremely low – one person per million. As of last November, there were 120 confirmed cases of AFM in the United States in 2016.

So what exactly is AFM? It’s a syndrome that can cause the muscles and reflexes in the body to stop working normally. Symptoms often arise quickly. What begins as a fever or respiratory illness gives way to weakness in the limbs, including a possible loss of muscle tone.

In several reported cases, the first symptom in a child diagnosed with AFM was a sudden limp. Some patients have slurred speech or facial drooping. In the most serious cases, acute weakness in the muscles that control breathing has led to respiratory difficulties.

At this time, the causes of AFM are not fully understood. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suspect a range of viruses may be involved. These include West Nile virus, enteroviruses that enter the body through the intestines, and adenoviruses, which can cause coldlike symptoms, including sore throat, bronchitis, pneumonia, diarrhea and pink eye.

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sell back the trophy property should Luther Alpaugh go free but reneged after the acquittal.

Five years ago, journalIt is not known how much ists Roberta Baskin and Jim Purse paid Alpaugh for the land Trengrove, who built careers and cabin, said Dwayne Moyers, covering (and uncovering) a Prince William police officer fraudsters and politicians, beturned real estate agent who gan discussing the next stage of co-listed Alvictus in 2014 with their lives. Trengrove was conhis wife, Maryanne. Moyers tent to stay in the 2,600-squarespent weeks reading old news foot Colonial in Washington, stories and interviewing relaD.C., where they had finished tives and friends of the Purses. raising two daughters. Baskin, Alice Purse, who worked for however, dreamed about movwhat was then the Government ing to something smaller and Printing Office, had married farther downtown, in a walkVictor after becoming fabulously able neighborhood close to a wealthy through a record multiD.C. subway station. Neither million-dollar legal settlement, even considered relocating to a the result of nearly being killed larger place outside the city. in an auto accident involving a Then they read a 2014 WashGreyhound bus. And it was that ington Post story about Alvictus, money that likely allowed the a 4,654-square-foot home in a couple to turn the cabin, origisecluded location in the suburbs nally called Happy House, into of Washington, D.C., near their singular dream home, MoyManassas, Va. It had spectacular ers writes on his realty website. views of Lake Jackson, dramatic “I believe Alpaugh offered mid-century architecture and a Purse up to $30,000 to buy the tantalizing Cold War pedigree as land back. But Purse was wise a reputed CIA safe house. They enough not to sign an agreedrove 40 miles to the house, took ment, informing Alpaugh he a one-hour tour and signed a couldn’t have the land back contract on the spot. at any price,” said Moyers. A “‘CIA safe house’ was all nasty feud ensued. we had to hear,” jokes Baskin, “When Purse was building 64, of their $740,000 retreat. the massive extension to the The award-winning investiproperty, Alpaugh used heavy gative reporter for local and fireworks repeatedly to drive network television is now workers off the site by firing researching Alvictus as a mortars across the water as 20th-century stash-and-crash the retaining wall was under pad for defecting Soviet spies construction,” Moyers said.

– despite the CIA’s refusal to Purse fired back in a miniconfirm or deny the rumors. war that lasted two weeks.

“Please feel free to say CIA The never-modest Victor declined to comment,” agency named this bucolic fiefdom spokesman Jonathan Liu Alvictus for Alice and himself, suggested in a recent email and shaped the fishpond out response to queries from The front into a P, for Purse, visible Washington Post. from the commuter helicopters Of course, the CIA conneche envisioned using once he’d Photo by Goran Kosanovic - For The Washington Post installed a helipad to beat rushtion was not the overriding lure for the couple. There was Alvictus owners Jim Trengrove and Roberta Baskin bought the home in 2014, signing the contract on the hour traffic. (Never happened.) the dramatic modernist archi- spot after a one-hour tour.

Then he set about sharing the tecture: a great room boasting compound’s charms.

18-foot ceilings and walls “Victor Purse built Alvictus “It’s like being on permaand efficient enough to have brash and undiplomatic. Purse, of lake-facing windows, an for entertaining foreign digninent vacation,” says Trenimpressed Britain’s Queen in turn, found Eisenhower’s pointricate banister and floating grove, 63, who spent 21 years litical appointee downright stiff. taries and government officials Elizabeth II and Saudi Arabia’s staircase connecting the great at “PBS NewsHour,” mostly as King Saud, among others. But Two years later, far from the with influence. His lakefront room to the upper level, and Capitol Hill senior producer. when Purse’s first wife accepted limelight but still at State – and home became well known for a parallel balcony and walls its parties and networking Safe house or no, Alvictus Saud’s gift of a $3,000 Oldsmobile having survived a 1958 suicide shielding private quarters opportunities during weekend comes with a deliciously check- convertible in 1957 (she later attempt – Purse, along with from public view. Two acres of ered past. It was built by Victor refused to return it, and they getaways,” wrote Moyers. his second wife, Alice, bought woodland offered serene seclu- Purse, a State Department The Washington Star covered a log cabin and 18 choice lots divorced), Purse was forced out sion, Lake Jackson promised a 1959 party where Rep. John official whose happiest years in of his protocol post. Although it in Charles Alpaugh’s develperennial eye candy, and 100 Rooney, a Brooklyn Democrat Foggy Bottom were the three he was legal at the time for officials opment on Lake Jackson. The feet of private shoreline plus a spent as deputy and acting chief at State to accept such pricey who chaired the House subcomreluctant seller was Luther dock, 82 steps below the house, of protocol during President Alpaugh, a son of the developer, mittee that controlled the State largesse, protocol chief Wiley beckoned to those inclined Dwight Eisenhower’s first term. Buchanan resented his younger, who needed cash to fight a murtoward fishing and boating.

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Continued from page 55 Department budget, christened a five-ton ornamental water wheel Victor trucked from a defunct mill to the terrace below his 13-foot-deep pool.

Moyers also turned up stories from locals about Cold War-era “strangers with foreign accents” shopping in Manassas, Va., lending credence to the widespread belief that Alvictus was used as a Cold War safe house.

“You can consider it verified,” declares Vince Houghton, the International Spy Museum’s historian and curator, about the rumor. Houghton, whose doctorate focused on the history of intelligence, said he discussed Alvictus with a few former Russian and American operatives, whom he declined to identify.

And consider this description of a safe house, unnamed but unmistakably Alvictus, which surfaced in a 2015 spy novel titled “A Very British Ending.”

“It was the CIA’s best safe house: totally isolated in hilly woodland, but only a forty-minute drive from Langley,” wrote the English author, Baltimore-born Edward Wilson.

“The house had a swimming pool, lake frontage and an outdoor bar and barbecue. But what Angleton” – that would be James Jesus Angleton, the agency’s real-life chief of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1975 – “liked most about it were the spectacular azaleas, which were bursting into full bloom.

The house had been built in the 1950s using local stone and wood. There was nothing vulgar about it, except a water feature with Koi carp and a statue of Pan – but the overriding aesthetic style was unashamed American assertive.”

Despite those spot-on details, Wilson, who now lives in England, never saw the property.

“My only insider source on Alvictus was my own mother, now long dead, who was absolutely mad about azaleas (and cultivated them), and told me about the place. But what she knew and how she knew it is long dead,” Wilson said via email.

She lived and worked in Baltimore, so, “If she ever visited, it would have been between 1965 and 1968, when I was a student at the University of Virginia. Unfortunately, she had a secretive side which she never shared.”

In 1960, a year after build-

The 5-ton ornamental water wheel in the Alvictus garden was trucked in from a defunct mill to the terrace. It was christened, according to a newspaper report, during a 1959 party by Rep. John Rooney, a Brooklyn Democrat who chaired the House subcommittee that controlled the State Department budget.

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Decorating involved little more than painting several dark rooms lighter and arranging their possessions. Their daughters, Chelsea Trengrove, 28, a neuroscientist who consults from Boston with companies on Food and Drug Administration compliance, and Vanessa Trengrove, 25, a New York City documentary film editor for Oscar-winning directors, delight in their water-view bedrooms and try to visit monthly.

“Buying Alvictus was totally spontaneous,” Baskin says. “If we really thought it through, we wouldn’t have done it, and we are so glad we did. Almost two years into it, we still wake up and say, ‘Wow.’” The couple so relished the Alvictus reputation as a no-tell Photo by Goran Kosanovic - For The Washington Post motel for high-value KGB turnThe great room of Alvictus, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., has 18-foot windows offering a view of Lake Jackson. coats that they engaged in an act of mischievous carpentry ing the house, Alice and Victor and moved back to her native So do Baskin and Trenwhen they had a tall bookcase divorced. He moved to Florida, Wisconsin. In 1983, Victor sold grove. Urban and suburban built into one end of a guest amenities pale when viewed where his third and fourth Alvictus to Katherine Peters, room. On the far left of the midfrom this exurban paradise, marriages failed. Alice was the second of its five owndle shelf stands an old clothers. Peters lived there with and neither minds the hourstill living at Alvictus when bound copy of “Basic Marketdaughter Eowana Jordan and long car or train ride necesthe original cabin-turneding, a Managerial Approach.” sary when they work in the son-in-law Lenny Krieg for 11 guest-suite was used as a safe Press the spine and – voiyears, and saw Purse socially. city – Baskin for the global house. Victor arranged the la! – the whole unit swings higher-learning platform AIM- inward, revealing … clothes, “Victor told my mother CIA lease, his granddaughters 2Flourish and Trengrove as a and another relative told Moy- and me that it was used as shoes and scarves. ers, who wrote, “Family [visicommunications consultant. a CIA safe house during the The secret passageway tors] were sometimes met with JFK days,” said Jordan, who Despite differences of scale is a sight gag: Rather than men armed with rifles walking describes Purse as cocky, and layout between their Wash- provide an escape for Kremlin ington and Virginia homes, the grounds and rooftop of abrupt, charming and outdefectors, it simply connects rageous. “But he adored and all their furniture, rugs and Alvictus between 1965-1968.” two bedrooms, via Roberta art fit seamlessly at Alvictus.

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Get inspired in a designer house

By JURA KONCIUS The Washington Post The five-story house at 2509 Foxhall Road in Washington, D.C., was built for throwing parties. With three kitchens, a wine cellar, an elevator and an infinity pool, it was recently the French ambassador’s temporary residence. You can still spot the iron security gates and the house number sign painted in the colors of the French flag.

In October 2016, the 11,242-squarefoot home (for sale at $10.8 million) had been adopted by the design community for the annual DC Design House. The rooms are decorated for imaginary owners, 21 spaces transformed by designers into glitzy Russian-inspired powder rooms and secret whiskey bars and lairs for ladies.

A show house is meant to highlight the talents of designers and spark the imagination of visitors looking for inspiration – or a new decorator. It’s also a place to spend an afternoon with a friend and dish about the rooms.

Things like: Why is there a peacock sitting at the Steinway in the living room? Or: Is that really a mirrored console covering that toilet tank?

The business of show houses can be rough. Top designers can be hard to sign up and interesting homes tough to pin down. This show house was traditionally held in the spring, but because organizers could not find a suitable house for spring 2016, they moved the event to fall.

The DC Design House was formed in 2008 to bring back the popular annual event after the long-standing National Symphony Orchestra Decorators’ Show House ended its 34-year run in 2006. In 2008, 7,500 people visited the first DC Design House, an 1842 brick Georgetown home, raising $100,000 for Children’s National Health System.

The event continues: Last year’s Design House raised $365,820 from ticket sales, boutiques, sponsors and items designers sold from their rooms; virtually everything is for sale.

“We’re always looking for the next house,” said Skip Singleton, co-founder of the DC Design House. If you’ve got a place with at least 20 rooms that you’d be willing to move out of for several months, contact the organizers.

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for a few decorating ideas, here are our top six.

Luxury is sleep-friendly bedroom Master Bedroom Suite Designer: Victoria Sanchez Victoria at Home, Alexandria, Va. Bedrooms should be beautiful, but they should also be quiet and calming,

The master bedroom suite in the DC Design House; designer Victoria Sanchez says bedrooms should be beautiful, but also quiet and calming.

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Birthdays, graduations, holidays, weddings, potlucks – you may be ready to celebrate good times with friends and family, but is your house ready?

You may be adept at hosting successful dinner parties and family occasions, but your home may not be. Walls that normally embrace two or three family members can turn divisive and isolating with a larger group. Cozy hallways, with just a few more people added, can create a cumbersome circulation that is set on interrupting flow and causing traffic jams. Little annoyances with your home are proportionately exaggerated to unbearable as the number of people inside increases.

The truth is that despite your best efforts and desires as a host, not every house is designed to gracefully bear large groups. Planning ahead as a host goes beyond vacuuming the floors and cleaning the kitchen: It revolves around the spatial planning and architecture of your space.

So how do you design a house that easily accommodates groups and

travels much farther when there are no walls to cut it off or contain it), and what if you like entertaining but do not want to live in a big house?

Your architect will analyze how much space you have, how much you want and how much you need – which are often three completely different numbers – and let your goal and budget drive spatial decisions along the way.

• Create social zones: The next step is to define these different rooms as connected but distinct social zones.

The kitchen is usually where guests gravitate – no matter how big your house is or how messy your kitchen is. But having equally appealing and inviting alternatives to the kitchen will reduce crowding and better allow people to mingle.

To do this successfully, designers will create a visual connection between each of the core living areas and determine a focal point in each room.

(But just one primary focal point per room or space can feel chaotic and out of balance.) In the kitchen, this may be an island or spectacular backsplash behind the stove. In the living room, a roaring fireplace may be the draw; it could even be a well-lit, statement

piece of art. Then they design seating areas around these focal points. With a visual connection between rooms to new points of interest and comfortable areas to relax, you are setting up zones for people to stretch into, mingle and explore. Conversation flows as easily as people will from one space to another.

• Create flex spaces: The final element is adaptability: creating multipurpose spaces with multipurpose furnishings. The oldest trick in the book is the transformative “bedroom turned coat closet,” but this is a great idea that can be applied at many scales.

What parts of your house can you reimagine when you have company?

You can transform the purpose of the room (think a stylish Murphy bed in the office or library) or even smaller fixtures within it. For instance, I love designing in charming garden stools as guest room accent nightstands – keep them in place for smaller gatherings and overnight guests, but pull them out for extra seating in a pinch.

No matter the reason for hosting, designing your home’s architecture and floor plan to fit your needs and lifestyle will make your house as welcoming to guests as you are.

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parties – without its feeling cavernous when you are not entertaining? Here are three key elements to consider when planning a redesign with your architect or designer: • Create a smooth flow: Whether your dream home is a mansion or a house that could fit inside the closet of a mansion, there needs to be a smooth flow based on patterns of movement.

This flow connects the core living areas of your house, which are typically the kitchen, living or family room, dining room (if there is one) and any outdoor room or exterior living space.

It is important to design a visual connection between each of these rooms yet maintain architectural distinction. An easy way to achieve this is by expanding each doorway to be almost as wide as the room itself. This opens the floor plan but still maintains defined rooms. It also dramatically helps to scale a huge space, so it will not feel as cavernous when it is empty.

There is a general assumption that the larger your house is, the more conducive it is to entertaining – and the smaller it is, the less conducive. This is not necessarily true: Larger homes with the ever-popular open concept can have terrible acoustics (sound

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Designer Quintece Hill-Mattauszek created a cozy spot in a small outdoor area with this vintage cabana on the roof deck.

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LEFT: Designer Betsy Barmat Stires warmed up a vanilla kitchen in the 2016 DC Design House in Washington, D.C.

Continued from page 60 Sanchez said. Her dusty-blue bedroom, with a lavish upholstered bed and French doors opening to a balcony, draws you in and makes you long for an Arianna Huffington-approved nap.

The first thing she did was upholster the walls. “That assures that all the sound gets absorbed and makes the room really restful,” Sanchez said. She installed a big Stark rug in shades of blue atop a thick jute pad.

Other amenities include two kinds of reading lights: bedside lamps and swing-arm lamps. The ceiling was painted Farrow & Ball’s Skylight.

“A pale blue ceiling is perfect for a bedroom because it makes you look up and imagine the sky,” Sanchez said.

“It helps you unwind.”

Create a cozy spot in a small outdoor area

Vintage Cabana/Roof Deck Designer: Quintece Hill-Mattauszek Studio Q Designs, Alexandria, Va. One of the tiniest spaces in this house is also one of the most charm-

ing. When presented with a little roof deck on the top floor of the massive house, Hill-Mattauszek thought of a glam place she’d like to relax with a cup of tea. She imagined a comfy narrow sofa covered with a canopy top and side drapery panels that could keep out the sun. She built a cabana worthy of a retro Hollywood hotel pool, using indoor/outdoor white fabric and Tommy Bahama Home Swaying Palms print. She found galvanized-metal components for the

frame at canopiesandtarps.com.

“Who wouldn’t want a roof deck like this?” Hill-Mattauszek said, looking up at the trees. “But you could imagine this also on a small urban balcony or deck.”

Black and white is always right

Living Room Designer: Pamela Harvey Pamela Harvey Interiors, Oakton, Va. Classic architecture and molding give this formal room a head start

in the style game. Harvey painted it Pointing, Farrow & Ball’s creamy white, and used the crisp combination of black and white. “Black and white is timeless,” said Harvey, who added shades of green and lots of plants, including a seven-foot fig tree from Merrifield Garden Center and succulents from Home Depot.

She included a Steinway baby grand and three 1950s Hollywood Regency-style stools she found online at 1stdibs and upholstered in a green and white cut-velvet fabric. For the curtains, she chose a Schumacher black cotton moire. “Several designers stopped by and said, ‘Wow, you are doing black window treatments.’ They were amazed. I don’t think it’s that common. I think it’s super sophisticated,” Harvey said. A pair of sofas were upholstered in durable white Sunbrella fabric. “I want people to sit on them and not be afraid,” she said.

Warm up a vanilla kitchen

Kitchen Designer: Betsy Barmat Stires Frog Hill Designs, Alexandria, Va. Although the original kitchen was large and luxurious, with lots of off-white cabinets, a huge center

Something old can be reimagined Library Designers: Josh Hildreth and Victor Sanz There is a lot going on in the library, an Old World room with lots of fascinating art, photographs, vintage books and curiosities. And designers Hildreth and Sanz like it that way.

Their goal, they say, was to bring some patina and warmth to a plain, boxy room.

One of their major feats was to use an 18th-century French Aubusson woodland tapestry to create a rich look on one windowed wall, which otherwise looks onto a fence and the house next door. “The French put these on their castle walls to create warmth and create a view,” Hildreth said. “This also solves a modern problem.” Can’t spring for a tapestry?

Try an Oriental rug or an interesting textile, he said.

RIGHT: The library in the 2016 DC Design House in Washington, D.C., designed by Josh Hildreth and Victor Sanz whose goal was to bring warmth to a plain, boxy room.

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Back Stairs Designer: Eve Fay Farrow & Ball, Washington, D.C. The back hall is not a glamorous assignment in a designer show house.

But Fay stepped up to the job by keeping this space simple yet bold. The back stairs that go down from the main floor to an entertaining level below were papered with a navy grid-patterned wallpaper, Enigma, by Farrow & Ball.

A gold chain suspends a golden 30-inch orb, the Mill Ceiling Light by Aerin for Circa. “I loved this fixture because it had scale and presence and could float in the air like a giant sphere,” Fay said.

Fay’s decorating restraint was evident in her choice of window covering for the 11-foot stairwell window: none.

From the pool, someone enjoying an evening swim can catch a glimpse of that golden orb softly glowing inside.

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island and granite counters, it lacked a special sense of style. Stires said, “I wanted to warm up the neutral kitchen setting and build texture, since it had so little.”

Stires hired decorative painters from Dieter Pluntke Decorating to execute a wall treatment she created that resembles grasscloth in an overscale pattern. Farrow & Ball colors Mahogany and String and mixed glazes give it a polished and durable finish. The pattern nicely fills in the narrow spaces above and between the cabinets. She placed two gray antiqued balustrade lamps from Niermann Weeks on the counter. “I think lamps in a kitchen warm up the space and give any kitchen more of a human scale,” Stires said.

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Branch out and give this unique tree a try wild, and then try to work with our Chinese colleagues to work at the conservation When I look at the paperend of things,” he said. bark maple tree outside my As with pandas, the aim is window, I see a choice ornato have enough diversity to mental plant whose peeling, ensure the survival of the specinnamon-colored bark will cies even if it becomes extinct only get more beautiful with in the wild. age (sort of like me, ha-ha).

“The ultimate goal is to When Tony Aiello looks at preserve it in its native habihis home-garden specimens, tat, but, as a backup, preserve he sees the giant panda of the it in cultivation,” he said. plant kingdom.

In horticulture, plant hyLike the panda, this species bridizers also need a diverse geis running out of individuals netic pool to tweak a species for in its native habitat in central desired traits, which include China, and it may come down disease resistance, size and to those in our little plant habit, vigor and cold hardiness. zoos – that is, mine, Tony’s The paperbark maple has and yours, if you have one – to not been extensively bred help bring the wild Acer grisefor new traits, but the Krautum back from the brink. manns are about to release an No one is knocking on my upright columnar form, as yet door for pollen or seed at the unnamed, that will be grafted Photos provided by Paul Meyer, Morris Arboretum onto rootstock. moment, but the idea that I’m Garden versions of the paperbark maple are smaller than those in the wild, but they have the same decogrowing a tree that is imperMany ornamental tree rative bark. iled is sort of exciting and species, particularly from Asia, decidedly unexpected. were introduced in the United was sickly from the start.

“When I tell people it’s States a century ago or longer, I suspect my maple started endangered in China, they’re and our current stock may not life in the Salem, Ore., nursvery surprised,” said Aiello, have the genetic diversity that it director of horticulture at the ery of Mark and Jolly Krautneeds for its long-term security. mann, Heritage Seedlings.

Morris Arboretum in PhilaIn that respect, the paper(Nursery trees generally go delphia. bark maple is “something of a through two or three growers The paperbark maple was poster child” for all trees that before reaching a retail nursintroduced to the West more need the intervention of scienery.) The Krautmanns have than a century ago by the tists to ensure their future, said been propagating as many as intrepid plant collector E.H. Paul Meyer, executive director 40,000 paperbark maples anWilson, but it has remained of the Morris Arboretum. nually since 1985 from seeds a fairly uncommon garden And the idea of a tree in they collected in China or had plant, in part because Wilson horticulture preserving one in shipped to them. started with only about 100 the wild has precedence, the “We also collected from a seedlings. native Franklinia tree being tree here in Oregon that was Part of its rarity – in the obvious example. Collectvery fertile,” Mark Krautcommerce and in nature – is ed in Georgia by Philadelphia because it sets very few fertile mann said. botanist John Bartram in Aiello and colleagues at seeds. Another major problem 1770, it is now found in botanother botanical gardens are is that cuttings don’t root, ical gardens and a few private seeking to increase the diverso the nursery keeper has to ones but hasn’t been seen in make new plants from a limit- sity of paperbark maple, and the wild since 1790. last year they visited five Chied number of seeds.

Today, species of oak and nese provinces to collect DNA In recent years, its availmagnolia are facing the same samples and some seed from ability has increased subconundrum, Mark Krautwild specimens. Populations stantially, but the tree is still mann said. mostly found in the gardens of have become isolated from If you are seeking to plant one another as forest land has connoisseurs. It doesn’t have a tree as a piece of living In its native China, the paperbark maple is rare and often big; it’s also sculpture this fall, consider the been lost to agriculture and the flamboyant floral display endangered there. other human pressure. of, say, a magnolia or dogpaperbark maple. It has clean, “It was a very interesting wood, and its chief ornament, deep green leaves that turn a direct us to it,” he said.

From samples collected in the peeling red bark, requires way to see what it means to showy deep red-orange in the The team, organized under the wild and plant collections, fall. But it is during the winter a more refined appreciation. It be an endangered species beAiello and his colleagues are cause it took us a day to drive the North America-China deserves wider use. when its decorative, glossy and Plant Exploration Consortium, testing about 125 trees for between different” stands, It can grow to 50 feet in the exfoliating bark stands out the wild, but in the garden it tends Aiello said. The tree’s distinc- began its conservation project their DNA. This will create a most. Precious, in all its meanin 2013 and includes plant gene pool for future conserva- ings, seems the word to use. to be a much smaller tree that tive bark – at times a coppery scientists from the Morton tion efforts. orange – made it easy to find lends itself to use by a walkAs Michael Dirr, AmeriArboretum in Lisle, Ill., the Ar“We are trying to get an the survivors. “The Chinese way or patio. Mine was plantca’s woody-plant guru, has nold Arboretum in Boston and understanding of what’s in call it the blood-bark maple, ed that way about four years written: “No finer tree could ago to replace a stewartia that and people could generally the Beijing Botanical Garden. cultivation and what’s in the be recommended.”

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BY TERRY AND KIM KOVEL KOVELS.COM “For sale, typical English cricket table,” said the auction ad. But what is a cricket table? Is it used for sports like the English game of cricket? Does it have anything to do with the insect?

No. The cricket table was first named and used during the 16th century.

The French word “criquet” refers to its stick legs. And the table has three legs so it can be used where the floor is uneven. Remember your geometry - three points determine a plane, so all three legs of any length will touch the floor at the same time, while a four-legged table might wobble. Most antique cricket tables have triangular or round tops. Some have shelves halfway down the legs. It was a country furniture idea, and tables can be found that are made of sycamore, ash, oak, elm, cherry or walnut woods. A few have three drop leaves. In 2016, Thomaston Auctions sold an elaborate oak cricket table with sausage-turned legs and a T-stretcher for $1,170. *** Q: I have a pitcher decorated with flowers on both sides and marked on the bottom with a castle and the words “Leuchtenburg, Germany.” It’s 7 inches tall. I can’t find this city on the map. Can you identify this pitcher?

*** Q: How much is the book “My Turn at Bat, The Story of My Life” by Ted Williams as told to John Underwood worth? I have a copy autographed by Ted Williams.

Q: I have a Hummel boy doll but can’t find one that looks like it online.

It’s 11 1/2 inches high and made of rubber with painted eyes and molded hair. His head, arms and legs are in very good condition. There is a mark on the back with a bee inside a V. Can you tell me anything about its age and value?

A: Hummel porcelain figurines are based on the drawings of the German nun Sister Maria Innocentia, born Berta Hummel. They were first made in 1935 by the W. Goebel Porcelain Co. of Oeslau (now Rodental), Germany. The figurines were very popular and in the early 1950s, Goebel decided to transform the work of Sister Maria Innocentia into dolls. The earliest dolls had composition heads, arms and legs. In 1953, Goebel began to make these parts with a rubber material, like your boy doll. Vinyl dolls were made in 1960, and dolls with porcelain heads and cloth bodies were made in the 1980s. Your doll is from the 1700 Series, which was made from 1953 until about 1959. He is called Peterle and is marked with the “full bee” trademark used by Goebel from 1950 until 1959.

The dolls were sold dressed in cloth outfits, some with small accessories like a goose, stein or travel pack. It appears your doll’s clothing is a combination of pieces from other Hummel dolls and doesn’t have any accessories. Dolls like yours sell for $25 to A: This mark was used by C.A. $50.

Lehman & Son of Kahla, Thuringia, *** Germany, from about 1910 to 1919.

Q: Over 50 years ago my father The company was founded as a por- gave me a collection of about 20 E. celain decorating shop by Carl August Berliner gramophone records from Lehmann and Paul Zierold in 1885. the late 1800s. Most are signed by the It began making porcelain for export original artist, and they are names like in 1895. The company merged with The Sousa Band, F. Gianni, The Hayden Franz Bauer Porcelain Manufactory Quartet, E. Spangler, etc. He thought in 1935 to form Bauer & Lehmann. they would be valuable in time, and Leuchtenburg isn’t a city, it’s the I think they might be. How can I find name of a castle in Seitenroda, Ger- their value, and where can I sell them? many, a few miles from Kahla.

A: Emile Berliner (1851-1929) ***

This cricket table has the expected triangular top and three legs. It was made in England in the 19th century. The 25 1/2-inch high table sold for $1,170.

was a German-American credited with inventing the gramophone (phonograph) record, the first disc storage for recordings. He was granted his first patent for his method of recording on a flat disc in 1887, a time when cylinder recordings were popular. His first gramophone records were made in Germany for use on a toy gramophone. Berliner founded the United States Gramophone Company in Washington, D.C. and made gramophone machines as well as gramophone records beginning in 1894. The first discs were hard rubber. A few were celluloid. Shellac was used beginning in 1895. Sound was recorded on a single side of a 7-inch disc, which held about two minutes of recording. Early gramophones were hand-cranked. Eldridge Johnson, who made gramophones for Berliner, acquired the patents and changed the name of the company to Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901.

The largest collection of Berliner records is owned by the EMI (Electric and Musical Industries) Archive Trust in England. Early Berliner recordings are rare and few past public sales are listed online. A few years ago, 46 records sold for $6,655, or $144 each.

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A: This book was first published in 1969, when Ted Williams was manager of the Washington Senators. It recently has been republished with new pictures. A copy of the 1969 edition autographed by Ted Williams sold at auction this year for $132. *** Tip: Leather that crumbles to red powder has “red rot.” It is caused by absorption of sulfur dioxide and cannot be stopped. *** Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel answer questions sent to the column. By sending a letter with a question and a picture, you give full permission for use in the column or any other Kovel forum. Names, addresses or email addresses will not be published. We cannot guarantee the return of photographs, but if a stamped envelope is included, we will try. The amount of mail makes personal answers or appraisals impossible. Write to Kovels, (Name of this newspaper), King Features Syndicate, 300 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019. *** CURRENT PRICES Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions.

Bronze medal, Red Cross blood donor award, round, Dr. Karl Landsteiner portrait, Netherlands, 1939, 2 1/4 inches, $20.

Pasta machine, noodle cutter, cast iron and steel, green paint, table

mount, crank, metal core, Baccellieri Bros., c. 1910, $95.

Sterling-silver letter seal, etched flowers and garland, spoon handle shaped, round disk seal, France, c.

1905, 3 1/2 inches, $165.

Delft type serving tray, chips and dip, turntable, blue and white, windmill, flower swags, center bowl with lid, c. 1950, 4 x 14 inches, $290.

Writing Desk, wood, stained, lift top, drawer, serpentine apron, ball supports, baluster legs, 1800s, 32 x 32 inches, $380.

Time recording clock, 50 employee, tiger oak, glass, cast iron and brass, cabinet and detachable wheel, International, c. 1915, 39 x 35 inches, $600.

Hat box, leather, holds stovepipe top hat, canvas interior, strap and lock, curved lid with top loop handle, c. 1830, $775.

Wooden puzzle, sphere, carved pyramid shapes, fit to make ball, vertical leather straps, victorian toy, 8-inch diameter, $895.

Bronze vase, ritual, masks and symbols, banding, pierced dragon handles, gourd shaped, lotus blossom foot, Asian, 8 x 6 inches, $1,990.

Breweriana, portable beer tap, hardwood and brass, four taps, bottom cooler, angled feet, c. 1905, 39 x 26 inches, $3,600. *** NEW! Handbag collecting has surged in popularity since 2010, when the first large auctions were introduced. Today purses by brands, like Hermes, are sold for prices over $100,000. Sales, shows, stores and online retailers are selling used vintage handbags. Build your collection while prices of undiscovered brands are low. This report includes Makers information, trademarks, information on fakes, care and 130 color photos for more than 75 brands. Plus a free supplement with current prices. Special Report, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 46 pp.

Available only from Kovels for $19.95 plus $4.95 postage and handling. Order by phone at 800-303-996, online at Kovels.com; or mail to Kovels, Box 22900, Beachwood, OH 44122. *** (c) 2017 by Cowles Syndicate Inc. SM-CL0384651

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Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist, said, “If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him.”

First today, look at the North hand and the start to the auction.

What should North rebid over three diamonds?

Bridge players ought to know that when they have no major-suit fit and the values only for game (not a slam), they should steer toward three notrump. Only contemplate five of a minor if confident that three no-trump will fail.

In this deal, North should rebid either three hearts (which gives partner a chance to show three-card spade support or to bid three notrump with a club stopper) or three no-trump (which is the most likely game).

Note that if North is in three notrump, East will surely lead the club five, which gives declarer three tricks in the suit. He wins in hand, plays a diamond to the queen and ace, then returns a diamond toward his nine.

He cannot be defeated.

At the table, North raised three diamonds to four diamonds. South control-bid four hearts in case his partner was thinking about a slam, but North signed off in five diamonds.

West led the heart five: jack, queen, ace. If South had played the ace and another diamond, he could have survived. Instead, he played three rounds of clubs, ruffing the last on the board. Then he led the diamond nine to the queen and ace.

With perfect guesswork, declarer could have gotten home, but he understandably continued with a low diamond and lost three trump tricks to go down one.

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE DIVISION IN THE INTEREST OF: Primrose McCafferty MINORS GEN. NO. 15 JA 93 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN: John Doe & Unknown Father Take notice that on the 22nd day of September, 2015, Petitions for Termination of Parental Rights were filed under the Juvenile Court Act by Joseph H. McMahon, through his Designee in the Circuit Court of Kane County entitled "IN THE INTEREST OF Primrose McCafferty, MINOR(S)" and that on February 17, 2017 in courtroom #140 of the Kane County Courthouse, Geneva, Illinois, at 1:30 P.M. or as soon thereafter as this cause may be heard, an TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS HEARING will be held upon the petitions to have the minor declared wards of the court under the Act. THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS PROCEEDING TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINORS, TO TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILDREN. IF THE PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND THE APPOINTMENT OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILDREN. Unless you appear you will not be entitled to further written notices or publication notices of the proceedings in this case, including the filing of an amended petition or a motion to terminate parental rights.

Now, unless you appear at the hearing and show cause against the petition, the allegations of the petition may stand admitted as against you and each of you, and an order or judgment entered.

Thomas M. Hartwell Clerk Dated: January 9, 2017 (Published in the Geneva Kane County Chronicle on January 26, February 2, 9, 2017) 1259038

PUBLIC NOTICE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY–GENEVA, ILLINOIS The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successorto JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, not individually but solely as trustee for the holders of the Bear Stearns ALT-A Trust 2005-8, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-8 Plaintiff, vs.

but solely as trustee for the holders of the Bear Stearns ALT-A Trust 2005-8, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-8 Plaintiff, vs.

William Fox; Capital One Bank (USA), N.A.; Midland Funding LLC; Fifth Third Bank; Della Bobek; Charles Robison, Tina Robison; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Marilyn M. Robison; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; Richard Kuhn, as Special Representative for Marilyn M. Robison (Deceased) Defendants.

Case No. 16 CH 01126 Notice to Heirs and Legatees.

Notice is hereby given to you, the Unknown Heirs and Unknown Legatees of the decedent, Marilyn Robison, that on December 22, 2016, an order was entered by the Court, naming Richard W. Kuhn, 552 S. Washington Street, Suite 100, Naperville, Illinois 60540, Tel. No. 630-420-8228, 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: 273 E. Jefferson Avenue, Hampshire, IL 60140.

January 19, 26, February 2, 2017 Kane County Chronicle 1258969

Charleston, SC 29401) a notice of your intent and reasons to contest, intervene or otherwise respond to these adoption proceedings (and send a copy to the below named attorney for the Plaintiffs).

4. If you fail to file such a response within thirty (30) days of receiving this Notice your failure constitutes consent to adoption of the child and forfeiture of all your rights and obligations with respect to the child.

5. You must inform the said Court of your cunent address and any changes of address during these adoption proceedings.

January 5, 2017 /s/ R. Glenn Lister, Jr. Attorney for Plaintiffs P.O. Box 2534 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465 Phone: (843) 884-0555 (Published in Kane County Chronicle, January 19, 26, February 2, 2017) 1258980

PUBLIC NOTICE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOISIN

RE THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: CRISTAN DOUGLAS, FOR CHANGE OF NAME. Gen No.: 16 MR 1231 NOTICE is hereby given that on March 10, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as Petitioner may be heard, the Petitioner shall appear before the Honorable Judge Presiding in Courtroom 250 of the Kane County Courthouse, 100 S. Third St., Geneva, IL 60134, and then and there present her petition requesting that her name be changed from CRISTAN DOUGLAS to CRISTAN TORRANCE, pursuant PUBLIC NOTICE to the statute in such case made and provided.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT Any person interested in said refor change of name may apquest FOR THE SIXTEENTH pear at said time and place, if they JUDICIAL CIRCUIT so desire.

KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS Petitioner: JUVENILE DIVISION Cristan Douglas 2343 Glenmoore Dr. IN THE INTEREST OF: West Dundee, IL 60118 Gernae Bell Attorney for Petitioner: MINORS Michael E. Kelly GEN. NO. 16 JA 53 Law Offices of Michael E. Kelly PUBLIC NOTICE 118 W. Bartlett Ave. #1 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA Bartlett,IL 60103 COUNTY OF CHARLESTON NOTICE IS GIVEN: William Perry, 630.837.6600 IN THE FAMILY COURT John Doe and any/all unknown fa- Attorney Code 06185648 January 19, 26, February 2, 2017 NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT thers IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION Kane County Chronicle 1258913 OF SADIE, born on August 16, notice that on the 19th day of Take PUBLIC NOTICE 2015, in Kane County, Illinois.

May, 2016, a Petitions for SUMMONS and Adjudication was filed under the NOTICE OF ADOPTION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT Juvenile Court Act by Joseph H. TO THE DEFENDANT FOR THE SIXTEENTH McMahon, through his Designee in CHRISTOPHER PEREZ: JUDICIAL CIRCUIT YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED the Circuit Court of Kane County KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS and required to answer the Plain- entitled "IN THE INTEREST OF Ger16 MR 1522 tiffs' Complaint in this action (the nae Bell, MINOR(S)" and that on NOTICE OF PUBLICATION object and prayer of which is to Wednesday, March, 08, 2017 in REGARDING NAME CHANGE adopt the above minor child and to courtroom #140 of the Kane Public notice is hereby given that obtain other relief as set forth in the County Courthouse, Geneva, Illi- on February 24, 2017, in Courtsaid Complaint), the original of nois, at 1:30 P.M. or as soon room No. 250, of the Kane County which has been filed in the office of Courthouse, 100 South Third the Clerk of the Family Court of thereafter as this cause may be Street, Geneva, Illinois, at the hour Charleston County, S.C., on August heard, an ADJUDICATORY HEAR- of 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter 12, 20016, and a copy of which ING will be held upon the petitions as this matter may heard, a Petition will be delivered to you upon your to have the minor declared wards will be heard in said Courtroom for request being made to the Plaintiffs' of the court under the Act. THE the change of name of Michael undersigned attorney; and you COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS Wayne Moser-Booth to the new must serve a copy of your Answer PROCEEDING TO TAKE FROM YOU name of Michael Wayne Booth to the said Complaint on the under- THE CUSTODY AND GUARDIAN- pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/21-101 et signed attorney for the Plaintiffs, R. SHIP OF THE MINORS, TO TERMI- seq.

Glenn Lister, Jr., at his office at the NATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS, /s/ Michael Moser-Booth address below, within thitty (30) AND TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN Petitioner days following the date of last pubWITH POWER TO CONSENT TO lication, exclusive of the date of in the Kane County (Published ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL such publication .

Chronicle on January 26, February YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR 2, 9, 2017) 1260581 FURTHER that if you fail to appear CHILDREN. IF THE PETITION REand defend and fail to answer the QUESTS THE TERMINATION OF PUBLIC NOTICE Complaint as required by this Sum- YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND THE mons within thirty (30) days after APPOINTMENT OF A GUARDIAN IN THE CIRCUIT COURT the service hereof as stated above, WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO FOR THE SIXTEENTH exclusive of the day of such service, ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL JUDICIAL CIRCUIT judgment by default will be entered PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILKANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS against you for the relief demanded DREN. 16 MR 1522 in the Complaint.

Unless you appear you will not be NOTICE OF PUBLICATION YOU ARE HEREBY ALSO NOTIFIED entitled to further written notices or REGARDING NAME CHANGE THAT: 1. You have been identified by publication notices of the proceed- Public notice is hereby given that Rachel (the biological mother) as ings in this case, including the fil- on February 24, 2017, in Courtthe biological father of a Caucasian ing of an amended petition or a room No. 250, of the Kane County female child known as Sadie who motion to terminate parental Courthouse, 100 South Third Street, Geneva, Illinois, at the hour was born on August 16, 2015, in rights.

Kane County, Illinois, and believed Now, unless you appear at the of 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as to have been conceived in Kane hearing and show cause against this matter may heard, a Petition County, Illinois. the petition, the allegations of the will be heard in said Courtroom for 2. Legal proceedings to adopt the petition may stand admitted as the change of name of Yadira said child have been filed and be- against you and each of you, and Gronzalez to the new name of Yadira Booth pursuant to 735 ILCS gun in the Family Court of an order or judgment entered.

5/21-101 et seq.

Charleston County, S.C., (Case # /s/ Yadira Gonzalez 16-DR- 10-3084) on August 12, Thomas M. Hartwell Petitioner 2016.

Clerk 3. Within thirty (30) days of receiv(Published in the Kane County Dated: January 27, 2017 ing this Notice you must respond in Chronicle on January 26, February writing by filing with the Family Court of Charleston County (ad- (Published in the Geneva Kane 2, 9, 2017) 1260577 dress: Charleston County Family County Chronicle on February 2, PUBLIC NOTICE Court, 100 Broad Street, Suite 143, 2017) 1262069 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE Charleston, SC 29401) a notice of SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT your intent and reasons to contest, Buying? Selling?

KANE COUNTY, ILLIINOIS intervene or otherwise respond to Renting?

Hiring?

IN THE MATTER OF THE these adoption proceedings (and To place an ad, ESTATE OF: send a copy to the below named call 877-264-2527 attorney for the Plaintiffs).

HELMUT K. LUKAS

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLIINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: HELMUT K. LUKAS 513 Ryerson Avenue Elgin, IL 60123 Date and Place of Death: 9/23/2016, Elgin, IL Case No. 16 P 624 PUBLICATION NOTICE INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION To: CREDITORS, CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES 1. Notice is hereby given of the death of Helmut K. Lukas who died on 9/23/16, a resident of Elgin, Illirnois.

2. The Representative for the estate -is: Doris A. Lukas, 812 Greenwood Avenue, Carpentersville, IL 60110 (pro se). .3. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before 7/26/17. nClaims against the estate may be efiled with the Clerk of the Circuit SCourt, 540 S. Randall Rd., St. tCharles, IL 60174 or with the Representative, or both. Any Claim not filed within that period is barred.

Copies of a claim filed with the clerk must be mailed or delivered to ythe Representative within 10 days after it has been filed.

4. On 1/06/17 an Order Admitting the Will to Probate, Appointing the Representative was entered.

5. Within forty-two (42) days after the effective date of the original Order Admitting the Will to Probate, you may file a petition with the Court to require proof of the validity of the Will by testimony or witnesses to the Will in open Court or other evidence, as provided in Article VI 5/6-21 (755 ILCS 5/6/21).

6. Within six (6) months after the effective date of the original Order Admitting the Will to Probate, you may file a petition with the Court to contest validity of the Will as provided under Article VIII 5/8-1 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/8-1).

7. The estate will be administered without Court supervision unless an interested party terminates independent supervision administration by filiing a petition to terminate under Aricle XXVIII 5/28-4 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/28-4). d/s/ Doris Lukas rSignature of Executor r January 26, February 2, 9, 2017 n Kane County Chronicle 1260682 r l

PUBLIC NOTICE

STATE OF ILLINOIS ss.

COUNTY OF Kane In the Circuit Court of the r 16th Judicial Circuit, Kane County, Illinois, y Chancery Division y Partners for Payment Relief DE II, LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

Tim Ford, et al., Defendants.

Case No. 17 CH 10 The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Unknown Owners and Non-record Claimants, defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been dcommenced in the Circuit Court of rthe 16th Judicial Circuit, Kane rCounty, Illinois, Chancery Division, nby the said plaintiff against you rand other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows: to-wit: All that parcel of land in City of Aurora, Kane County, State of Illirnois, as more fully described in Deed Doc #2003K132622, ID# y1519178005, being known and y designated as Lot 60 in Blackberry Creek, Unit One, in the City of Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, by fee simple deed from Robert B. Zygadlo and Carol Zygaldo, husband and wife as set forth in Doc# 2003K132622 dated 06/19/2003 and recorded 07/31/2003, Kane County Records, State of Illinois.

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simple deed from Robert B. Zygadlo and Carol Zygaldo, husband and wife as set forth in Doc# 2003K132622 dated 06/19/2003 and recorded 07/31/2003, Kane County Records, State of Illinois.

Commonly known as: 2280 Apple Hill Lane, Aurora, IL 60506 P.I.N.: 15-19-178-005 Mortgagors: Tim Ford and Lynn Ford, husband and wife.

Mortgagee: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for GMAC Mortgage Corporation dba ditech.com .

Recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Kane County, IL, as Document No. 2004K103868.

Present owners of the property are the above mentioned mortgagors.

Notice is also given you that the said Complaint prays for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said above named defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Kane County, IL, on or before February 19, 2017, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

DANIEL O. BARHAM, (6319903), Attorney, 2644 Kull Road, Lancaster, Ohio 43130.

(Published in the Kane County Chronicle on January 19, 26, February 2, 2017) 1258872

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN RE: MARRIAGE OF Lisa Guerette Plaintiff/Petitioner vs.

Hank Guerette Defendant/Respondent Case No. 17 D 26 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit(s) having been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION, that said action has been commenced in said Court by the plaintiff(s), naming you as defendant(s) therein and praying Hank Guerette (Date of Birth: 2/28/1968) formerly of 1515 Exposition Avenue Aurora, IL 60506 and for other relief; that summons has been issued out of this Court against you as provided by law, and, that this action is still pending and undetermined in said Court.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you file your answer or otherwise make your appearance in said action in this Court, by filing the same in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on or before 2-22-17.

AN ORDER OF DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINEST YOU. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed Seal of said Court on Jan 9, 2017.

Thomas M Hartwell Clerk of the Circuit Court (SEAL) Name: Law Office of Gordon R. Hughes, Jr. Attorney for: Plaintiff Atty Registration No.: 1281399 Address: 1737 S. Naperville Rd., Suite 207 City, State, Zip: Wheaton, IL 60189

Hughes, Jr. Attorney for: Plaintiff Atty Registration No.: 1281399 Address: 1737 S. Naperville Rd., Suite 207 City, State, Zip: Wheaton, IL 60189 Phone: 6302601770 Attorney E-mail:logh@sbcglobal.net Published in the Kane County Chronicle on January 26, February 2, 9, 2017) 1260898

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS Humberto Villagomez Plaintiff/Petitioner vs.

Maria Baluaneda Rodriguez Angulo Defendant/Respondent 17 D 60 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit(s) having been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION, that said action has been commenced in said Court by the plaintiff(s), naming you as defendant(s) therein and praying DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE and for other relief; that summons has been issued out of this Court against you as provided by law, and, that this action is still pending and undetermined in said Court.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you file your answer or otherwise make your appearance in said action in this Court, by filing the same in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on or before 2/27/17. AN ORDER OF DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINEST YOU. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed Court on the Seal of said 1/19/2017. /s/ Thomas M. Hartwell Clerk of the Circuit Court SEAL Name: Humberto Villagomez Attorney for: N/A Atty Registration No.: N/A Address: 1012 North Camden City, State, Zip: South Elgin, IL 60177 Phone: 224-388-0400 Attorney E-mail: N/A (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on January 26, February 2, 9, 2017) 1260933

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS 17 MR 78 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION REGARDING NAME CHANGE Public notice is hereby given that on February 24, 2017, in Courtroom No. 250, of the Kane County Courthouse, 100 South Third Street, Geneva, Illinois, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as this matter may heard, a Petition will be heard in said Courtroom for the change of name of Christa Urlaub to the new name of Christa Castrogiovanni pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/21-101 et seq. /s/ Christa Urlaub Petitioner (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on January 26, February 2, 9, 2017) 1260575

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN RE THE PETITION OF: John David Albertsen-Knaub Plaintiff/Petitioner vs.

John David Albertsen Defendant/Respondent Case No. 17 MR 088

John David Albertsen-Knaub Plaintiff/Petitioner vs.

John David Albertsen Defendant/Respondent Case No. 17 MR 088 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit(s) having been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION, that said action has been commenced in said Court by the plaintiff(s), naming you as defendant(s) therein and praying Reason for Publication 1) Name Change and for other relief; that summons has been issued out of this Court against you as provided by law, and, that this action is still pending and undetermined in said Court.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you file your answer or otherwise make your appearance in said action in this Court, by filing the same in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on or before 3/3/2017 AN ORDER OF DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on Jan 18, 2017.

Thomas M. Hartwell Clerk of the Circuit Court (SEAL)

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with the representative , or privileges, programs, and activities

PUBLICATION NOTICE

a petition to terminate under both. Any Claim not filed generally accorded or made avail73that Kanefiling County Chronicle / KCChronicle.com Thursday, 2017 able February to students at2,the school.• It CLASSIFIED Article XXVIII 5/28-4 of the Probate within that period•is barred.

Public Notice is hereby given

(Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, 2017) 1260940

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ANNE G CONYNE 432 Wing Park Blvd Elgin, IL 60123 Date and Place of Death: 09/14/2016, Elgin, IL Case No. 17 P 28 PUBLICATION NOTICE INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION TO CREDITORS, CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES 1. Notice is hereby given of the death of Anne G Conyne who died on 09/14/2016, a resident of Elgin, Kane County, Illinois.

2. The Representative for the estate is: First American Bank, 218 W Main St, Dundee, IL 60118.

3. The Attorney for the estate is: James M Kiss, LTD, PC 96 N Kennedy Dr, Carpentersville, Illinois 60110.

4. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before August 2, 2017. Claims against the estate may be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court, 540 S. Randall Rd. St. Charles, IL 60174 or with the Representative, or both. Any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the Representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

5. On 1/17/2017, an Order Admitting the Will to Probate 6. Within forty-two (42) days after the date of the original Order Admitting the Will to Probate, you may filed a petition with the Court to require proof of the validity of the Will by testimony or witnesses to the Will in open Court, or other evidence, as provided in Article VI 5/6 (755 ILCS 5/6/21).

7. Within six (6) months after the effective date of the original Order Admitting the Will to Probate, you may file a petition with the Court to contest the validity of the Will as provided under Article VIII 5/8-1 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/8-1).

8. The estate will be administrated without Court supervision unless an interested party terminates independent supervision administration by filing a petition to terminate under Article XXVIII 5/28-4 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/28-4) Signature of Executor

Act (755 ILCS 5/28-4)

Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the Representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

5. The estate will be adminisPublished in the Kane County tered without Court supervision unless an interested party Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, 2017 1262088 terminates independent supervision administration by filing a petition to terminate under PUBLIC NOTICE Article XXVIII 5/28-4 of the IN THE CIRCUIT COURT Probate Act (755 ILCS FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD 5/28-4).

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT /s/ Robert Jelinski Administrator DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS (Published in the Elburn Herald IN THE MATTER OF January 19, 26, February 2, THE ESTATE OF 2017) 1258891 Richard A. Missing, Sr. Deceased PUBLIC NOTICE Case No. 2016 P 136 Public Informational Meeting INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION Dauberman Road Extension PUBLICATION NOTICE TO: Granart Road to US 30 Creditors and Claimants NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 1. Notice is given of the death of Kane County Division of TransRichard A. Missing, Sr., who died portation (KDOT) will hold an IntroonNovember 10, 2016 a resident ductory and Scoping Public Meetof Yorkville, Kendall County, Illi- ing concerning the extension of Dauberman Road from Granart nois.

2. The Representative for the estate Road to US Route 30, with a poand his/her address is:Richard A. tential grade-separated crossing at Missing, Jr. of 217 S. Lake Street, the BNSF Railroad and US Route 30.

Grayslake, IL 60030.

3. The attorney for the estate and The Public Informational Meeting will take place on: his/her address is: Strohschein Law Date: February 9, 2017 Group, 455 Dunham Road, Suite Time: 5:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. 200, St. Charles, IL 60174.

Hinckley-Big Rock Place: 4. Claims against the estate may Middle School be filed on or before July 19, 47W984 US Route 30 2017. Claims against the estate Big Rock, IL 60511 may be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court, 133 W. State St., The Public Meeting will be conductSycamore, IL 60178, or with the ed in an informal open house forRepresentative, or both. Any claim mat, with two 20-minute presentanot filed within that period is tions at 5:30 P.M. and 6:30 P.M. barred. Copies of a claim filed with Exhibit boards will be available for viewing and discussion with project the Clerk must be mailed or deliv- staff. The purpose of this public ered to the Representative and to meeting is to introduce the project, the attorney within 10 days after it describe the current planning prohas been filed. cess, review the existing conditions, 5. On January 4, 2017, an Order and gather input and information Admitting the Will to Probate from the community and public. Inand/or Appointing the Representa- put, comments and questions will be solicited on the project. Written tive was entered.

The estate will be administered comments and questions are welwithout Court supervision unless an come at any time but must be reinterested party terminates indepen- ceived by the County on or before February 23, 2017 by close of dent supervision administration by business to be part of the project filing a petition to terminate under record. Written comments can be Section 28-4 of the Probate Act (Ill. submitted during the meeting, Rev. Stat. Ch. 110 1/2, Par. 28-4) emailed to (Published in the Kendall County kdotcomments@co.kane.il.us, or Record on January 19, 26, Febru- can be mailed after the meeting to: Kane County Division of Transary 2, 2017) 1258817 portation 41W011 Burlington Road PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE St. Charles, IL 60175 Attn: Ms. Bonnie Flock, Project SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Manager KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF In compliance with the American THE ESTATE OF with Disabilities Act and other FedEDWARD F. JELINSKI, 400 Sulli- eral and State laws, the Public van Rd., Aurora, IL 60506 Meeting will be accessible to those Date and Place of Death: Novem- with disabilities. If any additional ber 11, 2016/Aurora, IL assistance is required, please conPUBLICATION NOTICE tact Bonnie Flock, Project Manager, INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION by telephone at (630) 406-7359 TO: Creditors and Claimants or by email at (ONLY) FlockBonnie@co.kane.il.us at least 1. Notice is hereby given of the five (5) business days prior to the death of Edward F. Jelinski meeting such that any additional who died on November 11, arrangements can be made.

2016, a resident of Aurora, Illinois.

January 26, February 2, 2017 2. The Representative for the Kane County Chronicle estate is: Robert Jelinski, 708 Elburn Herald Campbell St., Geneva, IL 1260660 60134.

Check us out online 3. The Attorney for the estate is: Craig D. Hasenbalg, Ottosen www.KCChronicle.com Britz Kelly Cooper Gilbert & DiNolfo, Ltd., 303 N. Main PUBLIC NOTICE St., Elburn, IL 60119 4. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before July 19, LORD OF LIFE PRESCHOOL NOTICE OF NON-DISCRIMINATORY POLICY 2017.

Claims against the estate may be filed with the Clerk of the Lord of Life Preschool admits stuCircuit Court, 540 S. Randall dents of any race, color, or national Rd., St. Charles, IL 60174 or or ethnic origin to all the rights, with the representative , or privileges, programs, and activities both. Any Claim not filed generally accorded or made availwithin that period is barred. able to students at the school. It Copies of a claim filed with does not discriminate on the basis the Clerk must be mailed or of race, color, or national or ethnic delivered to the Representative origin in administration of its eduSignature of Executor /s/ Michael Pech, AVP First American Bank

does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarships, and other school- administered programs.

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on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as: COOLLEX located at: 469 Gertrude St Elgin, IL, 60123 Dated: 1/17/2017

/s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk Public Notice is hereby given that on Friday, January 27, 2017 a (Published in the Kane County certificate was filed in the office of Chronicle on January 26, February the County Clerk of Kane County, 2, 9, 2017) 1260574 Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the PUBLIC NOTICE business known as: ASSUMED NAME Addix Sales PUBLICATION NOTICE located at: 2308 Tracy Ln Algonquin, IL 60102 Dated: 1/27/2017 /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk

Public Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, January 26, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as:

County Line Farms (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, 2017) 1262627 located at: 50W372 Peterson Road PUBLIC NOTICE Maple Park, IL, 60151 ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE

Dated: 1/26/2017 /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk

Public Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, January 19, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as:

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located at: 601 W. State St Suite J Geneva, IL, 60134 Dated: 1/19/2017 /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on January 26, February 2, 9, 2017) 1260573

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, January 26, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as: breathe . in . essentials located at: 120 Cobbler Ln Sugar Grove, IL, 60554 Dated: 1/26/2017

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Public Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, January 19, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as: Deb “N” Cher's Professional Home Staging located at: 1501 Colchester Lane Aurora, IL, 60505 Dated: 1/19/2017 /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk

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Public Notice is hereby given that on Friday, January 13, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, (Published in the Kane County Illinois, setting forth the names and Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, addresses of all persons owning, 2017) 1262070 conducting and transacting the business known as: PUBLIC NOTICE /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk

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Grain Renovations

located at: Public Notice is hereby given that 617 Hinman St. on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 a Aurora, IL 60505 certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Dated: 1/13/2017

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Public Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, /s/ John A. Cunningham Illinois, setting forth the names and Kane County Clerk addresses of all persons owning, (Published in the Kane County conducting and transacting the Chronicle on January 19, 26, business known as: February 2, 2017) 1258981 My Moment Meals Dated: 1/13/2017

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as: Linda's LA DI DA DESIGNS located at: 343 Hilltop Dr North Aurora, IL 60542

located at: 216 Mistwood Lane North Aurora, IL 60542 Dated: 1/11/2017

Dated: 1/26/2017 /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, 2017) 1262074

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Public Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, January 26, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, setting forth the names and Illinois, (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on January 19, 26, addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the February 2, 2017) 1258942 business known as: /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk

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Public Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office /s/ John A. Cunningham of the County Clerk of Kane County, Kane County Clerk Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, (Published in the Kane County conducting and transacting the Chronicle on January 19, 26, business known as: February 2, 2017) 1258935 Dated: 1/11/2017

Valerio's General Contractor located at: 259 Beach St Aurora, IL, 60505 Dated: 1/26/2017 /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, 2017) 1262072

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PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as:

located at: 858 Columbia Circle North Aurora, IL 60542

Public Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and (Published in the Kane County addresses of all persons owning, Chronicle on January 19, 26, conducting and transacting the February 2, 2017) 1258939 business known as: /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk

Willow Works Media

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Dated: 1/18/2017

Public Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 a /s/ John A. Cunningham certificate was filed in the office of Kane County Clerk the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and (Published in the Kane County addresses of all persons owning, Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, conducting and transacting the 2017) 1262668 business known as:

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as:

RMS MEDICAL BILLING located at: 4585 GREYWOOD DR. ST. CHARLES, IL 60175 Dated: 1/10/2017 /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on January 19, 26, February 2, 2017) 1258922

Molly Skeen Photography located at: 324 Chesney Dr Sugar Grove, IL 60554 Dated: 1/11/2017

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Public Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, January 26, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, (Published in the Sugar Grove Her- Illinois, setting forth the names and ald on January 19, 26, February addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the 2, 2017) 1258853 business known as: /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk

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Dated: 1/11/2017

Mohawk Renovations located at: 2261 Feltes Ln Aurora, IL 60502

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Silver Lead Technology Advisors located at: 1502 Winners Cup Circle St Charles, IL, 60174

Public Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Dated: 1/26/2017

located at: 418 Willow Lane Geneva, IL, 60134 Dated: 1/24/2017 /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, 2017) 1262073 Find. Buy. Sell.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS CAUSE NO. 17-TX-4: TO THE FOLLOWING NAMED PERSONS (AND IF DECEASED, TO THEIR UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES), AND TO THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, AND TO ALL INTERESTED DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES THEREOF, INCLUDING AMONG OTHERS KANE COUNTY CLERK , KANE COUNTY TREASURER , KANE COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY , ILLINOIS DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY, ILLINOIS DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY, ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL, ILLINOIS PUBLIC AID FIELD CONSULTANT, STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPT OF HEALTHCARE & FAMILY SERVICES (PUBLIC AID) GENERAL COUNSEL, CITY OF GENEVA, CITY OF AURORA, CITY OF BATAVIA, CITY OF ELGIN, CITY OF ST CHARLES, VILLAGE OF CARPENTERSVILLE, VILLAGE OF ELBURN, VILLAGE OF GILBERTS, VILLAGE OF MONTGOMERY, VILLAGE OF WEST DUNDEE, AND TO OCCUPANTS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND PARTIES INTERESTED IN THE PARCELS HEREINAFTER NAMED: Parcel Number Owners/Parties Interested Cert Number Street Or Common Address 15-08-231-015 MCCALLA, KATHLEEN A 2014-00041 I-88 15-11-331-005 GEHANT, SAM RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CORP, K GEHANT 2014-00077 MARIKAY AVE. 15-11-331-005 GEHANT,KDRESIDENTIAL BUILDING CORP, K GEHANT 2014-00077 MARIKAY AVE. 15-11-331-005 PRAIRIE PATH ESTATESD HOMEOWNERS ASSOC 2014-00077 MARIKAY AVE. 15-14-228-026 HART, EDWARD J 2014-00104 1050 N. FARNSWORTH AVE. G-7 15-14-228-026 HART, JAMES D 2014-00104 1050 N. FARNSWORTH AVE. G-7 15-14-228-026 LEON, LINDA R 2014-00104 1050 N. FARNSWORTH AVE. G-7 15-14-228-039 CHOI, CHOON C 2014-00106 1050 N. FARNSWORTH AVE. G-4 15-14-426-040 BURCH, JOHN E 2014-00128 AUSTIN AVE. 15-14-426-040 BURCH, IVORY J 2014-00128 AUSTIN AVE. 15-14-426-040 UNITED STATES OF AMERICAD ATTORNEY GENERAL 2014-00128 AUSTIN AVE. 15-14-426-040 FOX METRO WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT 2014-00128 AUSTIN AVE. 15-14-426-040 AURORA TOWNSHIP 2014-00128 AUSTIN AVE. 15-15-328-037 FOX METRO WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT 2014-00149 727 ORCHARD AVE. 15-15-328-037 AURORA WIRE COMPANY 2014-00149 727 ORCHARD AVE. 15-15-328-037 ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUED 2014-00149 727 ORCHARD AVE. 15-21-480-020 RIVER & BENTON LLC 2014-00303 OFF RIVER ST. 15-21-480-020 ARTLOW SYSTEMS INCD 2014-00303 OFF RIVER ST. 15-21-480-020 THERESA HALUCH-BRANCH MANAGERD CORELOGIC 2014-00303 OFF RIVER ST. 15-24-177-004 FOX METRO WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT 2014-00450 316 PARKSIDE AVE. 15-24-177-004 ARIZA, PRAXEDIS 2014-00450 316 PARKSIDE AVE. 15-26-231-015 ESPARZA, ROJELIOD 2014-00509 SUMMIT AVE. 15-26-231-015 ESPARZA, LETICIAD 2014-00509 SUMMIT AVE. 15-27-155-023 CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COD 2014-00543 344 WESTON AVE. 15-27-155-023 COPLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC 2014-00543 344 WESTON AVE. 15-27-155-024 COPLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC 2014-00544 WESTON AVE. 15-27-155-024 CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COD 2014-00544 WESTON AVE. 15-27-155-025 COPLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC 2014-00545 WESTON AVE. 15-27-155-025 CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COD C/O JOSEPH M TAGES MD 2014-00545 WESTON AVE. 15-27-155-026 COPLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC 2014-00546 WESTON AVE. 15-27-155-026 CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COD 2014-00546 WESTON AVE. 15-27-155-027 COPLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC 2014-00547 356 WESTON AVE. 15-27-155-027 CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COD 2014-00547 356 WESTON A 15-27-155-028 CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COD 2014-00548 WESTON AVE. 15-27-155-031 COPLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC 2014-00551 372 WESTON AVE. 15-27-155-031 CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COD 2014-00551 372 WESTON AVE. 15-34-410-018 SANCHEZ, EDUARDO 2014-00698 HINMAN ST. 15-34-410-018 RUSH-COPLEY MEDICAL CENTER INC 2014-00698 HINMAN ST. 15-34-410-018 ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUED 2014-00698 HINMAN ST. 12-20-401-034 S&P REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS LLC 2014-00734 MAIN ST. 12-20-401-034 PACIFIC WESTERN BANK 2014-00734 MAIN ST. 11-08-200-026 AMCORE INVESTMENT GROUPD B & B ENTERPRISES 2014-00845 KESLINGER RD. 11-08-200-026 AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF CHICAGO NKA JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N A 2014-00845 KESLINGER RD. 11-21-300-044 ABRAHAM, JOHN M 2014-00863 BLACKBERRY HILL RD. 08-25-130-019 FOX MILL LIMITED PARTNERSHIPD KANE COUNTY LAND CO 2014-00926 BAERT LN. 08-25-130-019 FOX MILL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP KANE COUNTY LAND 2014-00926 BAERT LN. 03-03-126-002 HOME STATE BANK OF CRYSTAL LAKED JOHN & FLORENCE WECK 2014-01087 WINAKI TRL. 03-03-126-002 HOME STATE BANK OF CRYSTAL LAKE NKA HOME STATE BANK N ADJOHN & FLORENCE WECK 2014-01087 WINAKI TRL. 03-03-126-016 HOME STATE BANK OF CRYSTAL LAKED JOHN & FLORENCE WECK 2014-01088 ONAWAY TRL. 03-03-126-016 HOME STATE BANK OF CRYSTAL LAKE NKA HOME STATE BANK N ADJOHN & FLORENCE WECK 2014-01088 ONAWAY TRL .03-03-126-032 HOME STATE BANK OF CRYSTAL LAKED JOHN & FLORENCE WECK 2014-01089 SAUWANAS TRL. 03-03-126-032 HOME STATE BANK OF CRYSTAL LAKE NKA HOME STATE BANK N ADJOHN & FLORENCE WECK 2014-01089 SAUWANAS TRL. 03-05-450-012 VILLAGE OF ALGONQUIND 2014-01146 WESTBOURNE PKWY. 03-05-450-012 CREEKS CROSSING OF ALGONQUIN LLCD 2014-01146 WESTBOURNE PKWY. 03-26-176-002 SPRINGHILL INVESTMENTS LLC 2014-01326 15N689 ELGIN AVE. 03-26-176-002 MIDTAX INC 2014-01326 15N689 ELGIN AVE. 03-26-176-002 VILLAGE OF EAST DUNDEE 2014-01326 15N689 ELGIN AVE. 06-15-257-053 MASEL, DAVID 2014-01539 N. MELROSE AVE. & HIGHLAND AVE. 06-15-257-053 MIRANDA, CAROLINA 2014-01539 N. MELROSE AVE. & HIGHLAND AVE. 06-24-433-008 VELAZQUEZ, ANTONIO 2014-01662 ILLINOIS AVE. 06-35-480-001 CALLAHAN, J L 2014-01760 HILLTOP LN. 06-35-480-001 UNITED STATES OF AMERICAD ATTORNEY GENERAL 2014-01760 HILLTOP LN. 06-35-480-001 BANK OF AMERICA N A 2014-01760 HILLTOP LN. 06-35-480-001 FIRST COMMUNITY BANK 2014-01760 HILLTOP LN. 06-35-480-001 GUPTA, VIJAY KUMAR 2014-01760 HILLTOP LN. 06-35-480-001 GUPTA, DOLLY 2014-01760 HILLTOP LN. 2014-01825 01-21-198-009 AMCORE BANK NAD DAVID MALONEY WILD PRAIRIE PT. 01-21-198-009 PRINCETON COMMERCIAL A HOLDINGS LLC 2014-01825 WILD PRAIRIE PT. 01-21-198-009 HAMPSHIRE PRAIRIE RIDGE 2014-01825 WILD PRAIRIE PT. 01-21-198-009 SCOTT PAPENDICK 2014-01825 WILD PRAIRIE PT. 02-13-402-010 BSLB, LLC 2014-01919 BINNIE LAKES TRL. 02-13-402-010 LUXURY BUILDING LLCD 2014-01919 BINNIE LAKES TRL. 02-28-306-007 CAMBRIDGE LAKES TOWNHOME OWNERS ASSOC # 2 2014-01937 CLOVER LN., GALWAY LN., SHAMROCK LN. & EMERALD DR. 09-11-178-012 GEWELKE, MARGARETD 2014-02000 WYOMING AVE. 09-11-178-012 SCHMALZ, TRUDYD 2014-02000 WYOMING AVE. 09-11-209-013 MCREYNOLDS, GEORGE ELLIOTT III 2014-02005 WATSEKA AVE. 09-11-209-013 MCREYNOLDS, DANIEL A 2014-02005 WATSEKA AVE. 14-10-333-025 KARR, JAMES 2014-02125 GLENGARRY LN. TAKE NOTICE THAT THE ABOVESAID PARCELS WERE SOLD ON OCTOBER 27, 2014, FOR GENERALTAXES FOR THE YEAR 2013 AND PRIOR YEARS, AND THAT THE PERIOD OF REDEMPTION FROM SUCH SALE EXPIRES JUNE 30, 2017. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT A PETITION FOR ORDER DIRECTING ISSUANCE OF TAX DEEDS HAS BEEN FILED IN THE ABOVESAID CAUSE AS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED PARCELS BY KANE COUNTY, AS TRUSTEE, AND THAT ON JULY 21, 2017 AT 9:00 AM, SAID PETITIONER WILL APPLY FOR AN ORDER THAT A TAX DEED ISSUE AS TO EACH ABOVESAID PARCEL NOT REDEEMED ON OR BEFORE JUNE 30, 2017. /S/ KANE COUNTY AS TRUSTEE, PETITIONER. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT THE COUNTY CLERK, ADDRESS: 719 S BATAVIA AVE BLDG B, GENEVA, IL 60134 TELEPHONE: (630) 232-5964 January 26, February 2, 9, 2017 Kane County Chronicle 1260444

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