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of experience, freelance opportunity Another student has completed an internship at the Kane County Chronicle.

Jonah Nink, a senior at St. Charles North High School, finished his internship last month.

As the editor-in-chief of the Stargazer student newspaper at North, Jonah came into our newsroom with quite a bit of journalistic knowledge.

But he still learned a thing or two while at the Chronicle.

“I’ve learned more in these past few months than in any class I’ve ever taken, or probably will take,” he wrote in a recap about his experience as an intern. “I remember coming in my first day and thinking, ‘Crap, what am I walking into?’ I was a little nervous, as my only previous work experience was a short-lived retail job that I still [have] nightmares about. Thankfully, all of that worry immediately subsided the minute I stepped inside the office.

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Spay Illinois to host walk-in vaccination clinic March 14

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Spay Illinois offers discount preventive veterinary services at FYDOLand, 1317 E. Main St., St. Charles. The next event will be from 5 to 8 p.m. March 14. No appointment is necessary. Interested parties are asked to arrive at least 15 minutes before the end of the event. FYDOLand offers packages of core vaccinations for cats and dogs.

For information, call 630-961-8000 or visit www.spayillinois.org.

The Kane County Bar Association will conduct monthly Ask A Lawyer Days during 2017 because of the program’s popularity.

Ask A Lawyer Day was established during the group’s 150th anniversary celebration a few years ago.

On the second Saturday of each month, residents are encouraged to call 630762-1900 between the hours of 9 a.m. and noon for a free consultation with a

volunteer attorney.

Last month, callers were helped with legal problems ranging from real estate, landlord/tenant, criminal, estates and wills, divorce, child custody, collections, bankruptcy and traffic issues.

The next Ask A Lawyer Day will be Feb. 11. There is a very high call volume, so callers are asked to keep trying if the phone lines are busy as volunteers are not able to retrieve messages left on the voicemail.

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From my first day all the way up until my last day, I’ve never actually felt like an intern. Movies always show the intern as a grunt whose sole purpose is to get coffee and take punches, but I’ve never felt like that.

I’ve always felt like a valued member of [the] staff, even from day one.”

During his internship, Jonah typed up briefs, wrote stories, posted items to our website – www.kcchronicle. com – worked with social media and shadowed employees.

“I can’t tell you how cool it is when people ask me if I have a job, and I get to reply with, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m a contributor to the Kane County Chronicle. Now if you excuse me, I have some news to

do,’’ Jonah commented. “I know taking on a high school student in the middle of your already busy schedule can be a lot to ask, but trust me, it’s incredibly valuable to us. I want to thank the office as a whole for allowing me to have this experience. I don’t think I’d be the same person if I hadn’t gone through with the program.”

Thanks to Jonah for all of his hard work the past few months.

Readers will still see his byline in the paper and online, as Jonah has signed on to become a freelance writer for us.

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Children work on creating pinwheels Jan. 28 during the second annual Science & Art Fair at Batavia Public Library.

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LEFT: SciTech Hands On Museum in Aurora shows the workings of a harmonograph.

Blythe Wimber, 6, of Batavia works with magnets Jan. 28 during the Batavia Public Library’s second annual Science & Art Fair.

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By MARK FOSTER editorial@kcchronicle.com BATAVIA – The building at 111 N. River St. in Batavia has been added to the list of structures expected to be demolished next month when the city of Batavia takes control of the Larson-Becker property.

Commonly known as the red pump house, the building dates from the 1890s and is on the west side of River Street, along the east bank of the Fox River, right next to the Peace Bridge pedestrian span.

The front of the building bears a plaque dated 1945 for the Larson-Becker Company. The city will be able to add about 12 parking spaces to the 111-space temporary lot it already is planning to create along the west side of River between State and Franklin streets.

Batavia city aldermen agreed during a committee meeting Jan. 31 that the pump house building is to be torn down.

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Expected to be demolished next month is the red pump house next to the Peace Bridge across the Fox River. It is one of the buildings on the Larson-Becker property being acquired by the city of Batavia.

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

The temporary parking lot will be designed to accommodate downtown visitors during construction of the nearby

One Washington Place mixed-use development.

The city has gone out for bids on the demolition project, which, along with creation of the parking lot, is estimated to cost $300,000. Also to be razed is the vacant, deteriorating house at 124 N. River St. on the east side of the street.

By clearing the property along the river, the city will be able to create a riverfront linear park, roughly 35 feet wide, that will provide a better connection for the existing bicycle trail, Mayor Jeff Schielke said.

The park will be named for the Larson-Becker firm, Schielke said.

“The Larson-Becker Park will be one of the nicest in Batavia,” Schielke said.

“It’s a dynamite site.”

The old tin shop building in the 100 block of North River Street on the east side of the street, as well as a three-bay garage next door, will not be immediately torn down.

The garage will be used by the Bata-

via Public Works Department to store equipment used in the downtown area.

The tin shop building, a large two-story wooden structure, is in very good structural condition, Batavia Building Commissioner Jeff Albertson said.

City officials are hoping someone will want to buy the building and move it to another location. Schielke dismissed the idea of having the city staff use the structure as a staging area during construction of the One Washington Place project.

The downtown area will lose about 129 parking spaces during the construction of the One Washington Place project. The temporary parking lot on the Larson-Becker property is intended to make up for that loss.

Once the mixed-use development with its 350-space public parking garage is complete, the city expects to sell off the Larson-Becker properties on both sides of River Street for further commercial development.

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ABOVE: Kids learn to draw a bird Jan. 28 in a class sponsored by Water Street Studios during the Batavia Public Library’s second annual Science & Art Fair. Activities were sponsored by SciTech Hands On Museum, DuPage Children’s Museum, Fox Valley Wildlife Center, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, Kane County Forest Preserve District, Water Street Studios and Dr. Mondrian Contreras, a veterinarian.

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Get to know Kelly Schmidt-Durbala

By TARAH THORNE tthorne@shawmedia.com

Kelly Schmidt-Durbala, a real estate agent at Baird & Warner in St. Charles, was at an Elburn Chamber of Commerce luncheon when she answered questions for News Editor Tarah Thorne.

Thorne: Where do you live?

Schmidt-Durbala: Elburn, born and raised.

Thorne: What do you like most about the community?

Schmidt-Durbala: It’s growing, but it’s still a small town.

Thorne: Do you have any pets?

Schmidt-Durbala: Two dogs. I have a 1-year-old golden retriever named Cooper, and a 2-year-old Zuchon named Lola.

Thorne: What’s your favorite TV show right now?

Schmidt-Durbala: I like “This Is Us.” Thorne: What do you like to do in your free time?

Schmidt-Durbala: I have three kids, so I love spending time with my family.

Thorne: What’s a fun fact about yourself that other people might not know?

Schmidt-Durbala: I was on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

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Children of all ages enjoy a Family Open House at Fermilab in Batavia. This year’s event will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. Feb. 12 and will help mark the lab’s 50th anniversary milestone with several new events.

Fermilab open house jam-packed with hands-on, family-friendly activities KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE editorial@kcchronicle.com BATAVIA – Because this is Fermilab’s 50th anniversary year, its annual free Family Open House will feature a variety of new attractions for kids and their parents to enjoy from 1 to 5 p.m.

Feb. 12.

It’s a chance for the whole family to spend an afternoon learning about science in a hands-on and entertaining way, according to a news release.

New this year is a show called Dynamic Forces, with Fermilab scientists Jamie Santucci and Andrew Dalesandro, who will explore everyday forces and electromagnetism.

As usual, Fermilab’s Jerry Zimmerman, better known as “Mr. Freeze,” will demonstrate the cool effects of liquid nitrogen, and about a dozen scientists will answer questions in the exhibit area on the 15th floor of Wilson Hall.

In the atrium, families can enjoy a physics carnival, including interactive student exhibits.

Fermilab’s Remote Operations Center on the first floor of Wilson Hall

If you go n WHAT: Fermilab’s Family Open House n WHEN: 1 to 5 p.m. Feb. 12 n WHERE: Fermilab, entrance Kirk Road

and Pine Street, Batavia n COST: Free n INFO: fnal.gov

News to your phone Sign up for breaking news text and email alerts at KCChronicle.com/subscribe. will be accessible. Many of Fermilab’s experiments are controlled from the room, and there will be operators at their stations, all of them ready to talk about the work they are doing.

Nearby, a panel of lab employees will present an interactive talk about their day-to-day jobs.

New this year is a guided bus tour of the Fermilab site, covering the lab’s history of scientific discovery and its promising future. Tour highlights will include several experimental sites, as

well as a visit to a bubble chamber, a historical trip through the Fermilab Village and a chance to see the lab’s herd of bison. Stops will be made along the tour, weather permitting.

Also new is a virtual tour of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, S.D., the future home of Fermilab’s flagship Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Tours will be given of the Linear Accelerator and Main Control Room. Registration is required for all tours, and spaces are limited.

“The Family Open House is a great opportunity for kids of all ages to experience science in an up-close and fun way,” Fermilab education program leader Amanda Early said in the release. “We hope this event inspires children to pursue science as an interest, or even as a career, and to think of it as something approachable and enjoyable.”

The event is made possible by an anonymous donor to the nonprofit organization Fermilab Friends for Science Education. Fermilab is America’s premier national laboratory for particle physics research. To learn more, visit fnal.gov.

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Batavia grocery store deal falls apart

By MARK FOSTER editorial@kcchronicle.com BATAVIA – Negotiations have collapsed for the Blue Goose Market to locate a store in downtown Batavia.

“The deal isn’t going to work out,” Blue Goose President Paul Lencioni said. “Everybody tried their best. It’s disappointing. I really wanted Batavia to be the second Blue Goose.”

Lencioni was negotiating with Batavia Enterprises, owner of the Batavia Plaza shopping center in the 100 block of West Wilson Street, to open a store in the space vacated by Walgreens last March.

After considerable time, expense and planning, Lencioni and BEI Vice President Austin Dempsey concluded Feb. 1 that they would not be able to reach a mutually beneficial agreement.

“It was not for a lack of effort on anybody’s part,” said Dempsey who, like Lencioni, also expressed disapPaul Lencioni pointment.

Ultimately, putting a deal together would have involved “too many compromises and too much risk,” said Lencioni, whose existing Blue Goose specialty food store has been a fixture in St. Charles since 1928.

Last spring, both Dempsey and Lencioni had hoped to see a new supermarket open in a renovated plaza space by the fall of this year.

BEI sought tax increment financing funds from the city of Batavia to help make the project work. The city spent $12,500 for an independent consultant to analyze a potential

TIF deal with BEI. “We all tried to put forward our very best offers,” City Administrator Laura Newman said. “I don’t think you can point to any one thing. Every party stretched.”

However, it was clear that there was a limit to how far the city could stretch its offer of TIF funds to BEI, which in turn limited how low the property firm could go when setting the rent for Blue Goose.

“That was a piece of it,” Dempsey confirmed. “But it was just a piece. We all just came up short in a bunch of different ways.”

There were no recriminations between the two businesses.

“Austin and I are friends,” Lencioni said.

“Paul is a class act,” Dempsey said.

Both men heaped praise

on Newman for her efforts to make the deal work.

“Laura Newman is a star,” Dempsey said. “Her desire to bring this kind of user to our community was incredible.”

Mayor Jeff Schielke also was disappointed at the failure to come to an agreement.

“The city was trying to make a supportive offer,” the mayor said. “I guess it just wasn’t to be.”

Schielke and Lencioni both said they will be meeting Feb. 6 to discuss other potential sites for the Blue Goose in Batavia.

However, Lencioni also noted other area municipalities have expressed interest in attracting his supermarket.

Dempsey said BEI will begin marketing the 12,650-squarefoot space in the shopping plaza within a couple of weeks.

“We need to find a tenant

for our space,” Dempsey said.

For three decades, the space was home to a Jewel grocery store before Walgreens moved in. Last March, Walgreens moved across the parking lot into a new building specially developed by BEI. Constructed in 1961, the plaza hosts a variety of businesses, including Panera Bread, Prairie Path Cycles, Daddio’s Diner, East China Inn, Great Clips, a laundromat and a liquor store.

But the vacant space is the largest in the plaza.

Once BEI identifies a potential tenant, will it go back to the city with a request for a financial incentive?

“It’s very possible,” Dempsey said in answer to that question. “Downtowns are very tricky. It depends on the user.”

Police charge Batavia Batavia MainStreet urges consumers to woman with felony for ‘show your love’ for downtown businesses filing false crime report

By RENEE TOMELL

rtomell@shawmedia.com

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE editorial@kcchronicle.com ST. CHARLES – A Batavia woman has been charged with a Class 4 felony of disorderly conduct for filing a false crime report. She turned herself in on a warrant to the St. Charles Police Department on Jan. 25.

At 2:10 a.m. Jan. 22, Taylor Granato, 26, of the 600 block of North Batavia Avenue, approached officers who were patrolling the downtown district in St. Charles. Granato was covered in blood and had several stab/cut wounds, according to a news release. Officers immediately provided first aid and called for an ambulance.

Granato told officers that she was confronted by two offenders in a parking lot in the 100 block of North Second Street, the release stated.

Granato reported that one of the offenders pulled a knife and began cutting and stabbing her, the release stated, and then they fled

north on Route 31.

Granato was taken to Delnor Hospital and treated for her injuries. She had injuries to her face, right arm and abdomen, according to the release.

None of the injuries were considered life threatening.

Officers secured the area, searched for the offenders and processed the scene for evidence. Officers were unable to find any blood in the area where the incident was to have occurred. They found a large amount of blood in the passenger seat of her car, the release stated. During a search of the car, investigators found the knife, covered in blood, in the glove box.

Investigators determined the attack did not occur as reported and the wounds were self-inflicted. Investigators obtained an arrest warrant, and Granato turned herself into the police station. She was released after posting $100 cash bond. Her first court date is Feb. 8 at the Kane County Judicial Center.

BATAVIA – Warming up the start of February, Batavia retail businesses think pink – and red – as they transform their shops and windows into a valentine.

To celebrate their efforts, Batavia MainStreet debuts the monthlong “Show Your Love for Downtown Batavia” promotion that will give away prizes to shoppers who think local.

Following a successful Christmas season, foot traffic usually slows in cold weather, Batavia MainStreet Executive Director Jamie Saam said.

“Nobody wants to be out shopping,” Saam said. “We have to remind people that businesses are still open during the winter [and to] continue to patronize them.”

She said when people contemplate valentine gifts for family and loved ones, she’d like them to think about Batavia.

For the “Show Your Love for Downtown Batavia” promotion, people can pick up a heart-adorned card at any of the around 30 participating businesses.

When they make any size purchase at one of the businesses during February, a sticker will cover that business’ name.

“Once you fill up 10 different spots, you can turn it in to enter the raffle drawing,” Saam said, noting that three winners will be selected.

A variety of businesses will be featured, from restaurants to A Step Above Dance Academy, which soon will be moving into expanded digs. Highlighting its new location will be Batavia Floral in Bloom, now set behind Sue’s Family Hair Co., Saam said. Black Cactus Print House will sell T-shirts it designs.

The February event was developed at a quarterly brainstorming session Batavia MainStreet conducted with retailers.

The participants are contributing prizes, gift certificates and services for the raffle, and to a Romantic Night on the Town grand prize. To qualify for the grand prize drawing, one must fill up the entire card by making a purchase at every location.

Saam said the grand prize

will include an overnight stay, dinner for two, a massage, a Salt Escape experience, and other gifts. All the services do not need to be used in one day.

Participating businesses include Acosta’s Consignment, Aliano’s Ristorante, All Spoked Up, Bar Evolution, Batavia Academy of Dance, Batavia Creamery, Batavia Floral In Bloom, Beardsgaard Barbers, Bee Attitudes Antiques, Black Cactus Print House, FAWN Gifts, For All Occasions, Furniture Dollies, Gaetano’s Batavia, The Market at Gaetano’s, Gammon Coach House - Crafted Brews & Comfort Foods, Healing Arts Metaphysical Center, Instrument Exchange, Katrina Salon and Spa, Kiss The Sky, Limestone Coffee & Tea, Pal Joey’s Restaurant Batavia, The Rivers Edge Bar & Grill, The Salt Escape, The Salvaged Heart Vintage Wares, Special Occasions Batavia, Sue’s Family Hair Co., The Tea Tree, Urban Style Salon & Spa, Water Street Studios, Wilson Street Tavern, and 715 Vintage.

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Van Haften co-wrote ‘The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address’

BATAVIA – Authors Dan Van Haften of Batavia and David Hirsch of Iowa will sign copies of their newly released book, “The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address,” on Feb. 9 at a Chicago book shop, where an online interview event will be streamed live.

The book explains the 272-word speech more thoroughly than any book previously published, a news release stated. With the aid of colorized,

degree in mathematics. Hirsch is an attorney in Des Moines. They also co-authored “Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason” and “Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, and the Structure of Reason.” For information, see thestructureofreason.com.

The book signing is set from 6 to 7 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 842 W. Superior St., Suite 100, Chicago. For details on the shop’s online program, trademarked Author’s Voice, visit authorsvoice.net.

The program is produced by Bjorn Skaptason, who said people are welcome to view the filming of the live, interactive event in which he will interview the authors at the book shop.

“They have produced a short, concise and easily understood rhetorical breakdown of the Gettysburg Address,” Skaptason said. “If there’s any mystery in your mind on why you love Abraham Lincoln, [I think it’s because] what he says is true – demonstrably true.”

He said Author’s Voice programs connect readers with their favorite authors via live events streamed from the Chicago store to the world. Books can be ordered for shipment, and will be signed by the writers.

For information on the venue, visit alincolnbookshop.com. To learn about the publishing house, visit savasbeatie.com.

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VFW replaces parade with picnic KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE editorial@kcchronicle.com BATAVIA – A 42-year-old patriotic tradition will return in changed fashion this spring, following an announcement by the Batavia VFW that the annual Loyalty Day Parade will not be held.

Instead, the post plans a Loyalty Day Celebration on May 7, according to a news release from Post Commander Joshua Pfeuffer.

“Our organization has a wonderful group of volunteers that, just like the many generations before us, have ensured the success of our organization and the community activities we have

supported for over 80 years,” Pfeuffer said in the release. “The parade has been a Batavia tradition for over 40 years. However, due to the tremendous workload and stress, it is with sadness I inform you that our organization has made the decision not to organize a Loyalty Day Parade for 2017.”

In its place, the post plans a family-friendly, community picnic and barbecue, with special activities for children, the release stated.

Pfeuffer described the coming event as an opportunity to “all get together and reflect upon why we are loyal to our great nation.”

The rain-or-shine gathering will be

held at the Batavia VFW Post, 645 S. River St. The post will announce additional details later.

“As a last thought on this subject, I would like to especially thank the city of Batavia, police, fire and all of the others within our community for their professionalism and support with the previous Loyalty Day parades,” Pfeuffer said. “It has truly been a community event.”

Last year, the parade involved numerous road detours affecting Route 25, Route 31, Wilson Street and the Donovan Bridge. Motorists also were advised to use the Fabyan Parkway and Route 56 bridges as detours.

BATAVIA – “Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope” is the One Book, One Batavia 2017 selection, with a Feb. 14 discussion planned.

The book recounts how three newly pregnant young women were sent to Nazi concentration camps, were separated from their husbands, endured starvation, illness and punishments, and hid their pregnancies and childbirth from the Nazis, according to a news release.

Stacey Peterson, the Batavia Public Library’s adult services manager, will facilitate a discussion about the book, written by Wendy Holden, at 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 14.

“This book is a remarkable true story of three women who persevered against terrible odds to save the lives of their babies,” Peterson stated in the release.

Registration is not required for the discussion, but participants are asked to read the book ahead of time.

At 2 p.m. March 19, the library will host “The Gift and the Curse,” featuring Karen Berk Barak, award-winning pianist and composer. Barak’s multimedia presentation illustrates her personal story growing up as the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her uplifting performance explores how Barak used her musical artistry to transform a legacy of loss, sending a powerful message of resilience and remembrance.

Registration is required at OneBookOneBatavia.org or 630-879-1393, ext. 200.

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The Batavia VFW announces that after 42 years of holding a Loyalty Day Parade, it instead will host a Loyalty Day Celebration this spring, featuring a community picnic and barbecue at the post home.

Last year’s parade theme marked the “Flag Day Centennial Anniversary.”

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step-by-step diagrams, the authors deconstruct the speech into its basic elements and demonstrate how the scientific method is basic to its structure.

Abraham Lincoln’s fascination with geometry is well-documented, the release stated, adding that Hirsch and Van Haften are the first to discover and demonstrate Lincoln’s use of the six elements of a proposition, and then diagram and explain how his in-depth study of geometry helped him compose the Gettysburg Address. The book is described as ideal for all ages, especially people interested in history, the use of language and logic.

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Batavia native to guest star in symphony concert

By RENEE TOMELL rtomell@shawmedia.com BATAVIA – It will be a musical homecoming on two fronts for Batavia native Jonathan Rudy, an award-winning organist who will guest star for the first time with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra in concerts Feb. 11 and 12.

But this won’t be his first experience appearing with the ESO, the 2006 graduate of Batavia High School said.

“I was part of the choir program there,” he said, calling his high school alma mater fantastic. “My senior year, the Chamber Singers Choir performed with the Elgin Symphony, when they did Beethoven’s Ninth. We learned the piece and took several trips down there paired with other high school choirs and community choirs.”

Today, he lives in Tennessee with wife, Katie, a fellow organist. In addition to serving as director of music at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Cookeville and guest choral conducting, Rudy performs across the country. He won the first prize and the audience prize in organ performance at the American Guild of Organists 2014 National Young Artists Competition.

Currently completing his doctorate at Indiana University, he started musical training early on, studying organ with Karl Bruhn through high school and piano with his mother, Melinda Rudy, who is an accompanist for the Fox Valley Children’s Chorus.

Batavia native Jonathan Rudy, an award-winning organist, will perform Feb. 11 and 12 with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra.

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“I grew up in a house where my mom taught all the lessons at home,” he said. “I got to hear all her students play and practice. It was very cool.”

When he takes the stage with the ESO, he will play a large digital organ.

“Digital instruments these days are absolutely fabulous,” Jonathan Rudy said, noting that speakers will be placed at various points in the concert hall to imitate the sound of a real organ with different placements of pipes.

In keeping with valentine’s week, the concert program emphasizes passionate pieces. They will include Paul Dukas’ “The Sorcerer’s Appren-

tice,” featured in Disney’s “Fantasia”; Anatoly Liadov’s “Enchanted Lake”; Ottorino Respighi’s “Fountains of Rome”; and Saint Saëns’ Symphony No. 3. Rudy will be guest artist in the latter two works, and conducting will be ESO Music Director Andrew Grams.

In the Saint Saëns symphony, Rudy said the organ partners with the orchestral instruments, rather than solos, to create beautiful textures and harmonious melodies.

“They come together [in a] really beautiful conclusion,” he said of the Saint Saëns work. “It’s very passionate, very exciting music. I have a

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personal affection for it. Because it’s so popular, it’s a nice entryway to appreciate orchestral music and organ music.”

He said both of the organ works are picturesque and impressionistic.

“The ‘Pines of Rome’ [is] meant to be a symphonic tone poem,” he said.

“It’s meant to paint a musical picture in your imagination.”

Rudy said his siblings and his parents, Melinda and Dale, are all musicians, professionally or as an avocation.

“We all grew up singing and playing instruments,” he said. “I have enormous respect and love for my family and everything they’ve supported me in. They brought me up in the music trade. It’s a joy.”

Bridal Showcase is one-stop shop for local brides I know from personal experience that planning a wedding can be overwhelming. Brides are ecstatic after being asked the big question and then the excitement quickly turns to panic once you start your to-do list. You need to choose a date, secure a venue, book a photographer, find a dress, order a cake, and the list goes on.

The Batavia Park District hopes to ease some of that anxiety for local brides by providing a one-stop shop at the second annual Bridal Showcase from 9 a.m. to noon Feb. 25 at Shannon Hall. The event is free to attend, and no tickets are necessary.

Ellen Lacher Hernandez attended the first-ever showcase last year and found it inspired her in the planning process.

“I loved the Bridal Showcase at Shannon Hall,” Hernandez said. “I went to a few others, but they seemed large and impersonal. I didn’t feel that way at the Batavia Park District’s event. There were some great vendors

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Hernandez ended up having her wedding ceremony in Shannon Hall for a number of reasons. Several family members, including her parents,

were married there and she grew up going to church in the building before it became a park district facility. Cost was also a factor, but the facility itself played a big part in her decision.

“When we walked in to check it out, I knew it was perfect because of the beautiful stained-glass windows filling the space with sunshine, the newer wood floors and neutral colors,” she said. “I knew it was just what we were looking for!”

Another thing that sold Hernandez on the space was the value of the rental.

“I really liked that we had an opportunity to decorate any way we wanted, and everything we needed was included, such as chairs, tables, sound system, parking and clean bathrooms,” she said, “Shannon Hall is really great for the DIY couple. No matter your vision, it can be brought to life there.”

Hernandez enjoys driving by Shannon Hall and seeing the recent up-

grades to the exterior and reminiscing about her special day at the historic venue. She’d definitely recommend it for a wedding, a shower or a reception.

“I think it’s the perfect setting,” she said.

The Bridal Showcase will take place at Shannon Hall, 14 N. Van Buren St., Batavia. A wide variety of vendors will be on hand, including photographers, DJs, florists, bakers, caterers and so much more. For a full list of vendors, please visit bataviaparks.org.

For more information about the Bridal Showcase or renting Shannon Hall, please call 630-406-5282 or visit bataviaparks.org.

Kari Felkamp is director of marketing and public relations for the Batavia Park District. The “Park District Dish” column runs the second Thursday of each month in the Kane County Chronicle. Contact Felkamp at editorial@kcchronicle.com.

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On Feb. 1, 1953, flames engulfed nearly an entire block of buildings on the south side of State Street between First and Second streets in Geneva.

Starting in the Lance Classic Barber Shop at 122 W. State St., the fire traveled next door to Rosenfelder’s Ace Hardware Store containing a variety of flammables that caused multiple explosions.

As soon as the siren blew, telephone operators immediately began calling firemen at their homes. Bill Rosenfelder was among the volunteer firemen battling the blaze that completely destroyed his family’s hardware store at 124 W. State St. Fire units from seven towns struggled for six hours to squelch the fire in 10 degrees above

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zero weather, while the water froze under their feet.

By the early morning hours, the First National Bank building, Averill Electric Shop, Rosenfelder’s Ace Hardware

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Other disasters that have caused

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Welcoming committee Not that it’s really all that different from the dozens of Chicago area winters I’ve lived through before, but I feel like the last few weeks have been grayer and wetter than normal.

When I arrived at the busy Beardsgaard Barbers in downtown Batavia for a story, my mood immediately picked up when I was greeted at the door by Mia, one of the barber’s pet pooches. She was such a sweetheart, and I could tell how loved she was.

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Poorly adapted to northern climates and with an average lifespan of less than two years, the opossum is nonetheless one of our most successful mammals. Its ancestors date back 65 million years.

GOOD NATURED Pam Otto discovered a skull they say belongs to the forebear of the opossums we have today. Even more remarkable, their depiction of the ancient Mimoperadectes houdei looks an awful lot like our own Didelphis virginiana.

Clearly opossums had the good fortune to, early on, develop a set of behaviors and adaptations that literally have withstood the test of time. For one, they can and will eat almost anything. Invertebrates like worms and insects might make up one meal, pet food the next, then a frog or berries for dinner and garbage for dessert.

Opossums also breed rapidly and give birth to large litters – 20-plus young at a time are possible, although most litters average eight or nine.

Here in Illinois, breeding occurs twice a year, so their reproductive capacity is high.

And as marsupials – the only marsupial native to North America, incidentally – their young are born just 13 days after conception. These

teensy creatures, weighing just 0.0056 ounces each, creep into mom’s pouch, where they are relatively protected, and stay for anywhere from 60 to 100 days. Upon leaving the pouch, they may hitch a ride on Mom’s back for a couple of more weeks, further extending the benefit of parental protection.

Another advantage opossums can claim is their ability to call just about anywhere home. Wooded areas are preferred, but shrubby fencerows work fine, too. As do attics, garages those dark spaces under sheds and decks, and basements. (Just ask my dad about that last one.)

Although mostly terrestrial, opossums can from time to time be spotted hanging out in trees – although not by their tails, as is often rumored. Yes, their tails are weakly prehensile and can curl around objects, but they just aren’t strong enough to support the animal’s entire body weight. Besides, opossums have another really cool adaptation for moving about the branches – opposable thumbs on their rear feet.

Despite these many fine qualities, opossums often are labeled as “dumb.”

Sure, they’re slow and lumbering, and their defensive displays rarely pass

beyond teeth-baring and hissing; their well-known trick of “playing possum” (which actually is instinctive and not controllable) also makes them look like pushovers.

It doesn’t help that their brain is pretty small relative to their body size. (An opossum’s brain cavity holds 25 beans; a cat’s, 125.) Even so, when scientists tested the opossum’s intelligence using the ever-popular runthrough-a-maze method, our marsupial friend actually performed better than its cat and rat competition.

One thing opossums don’t have going for them is longevity. Fewer than 10 percent survive their first year, and an opossum of 2 or 3 years of age is an elder indeed. The group as a whole, though, has had what it takes to survive 65 million years on this planet.

And, who knows? They may be around 65 million more.

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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I spoke with a woman the other day who was calling to report an opossum feasting on the fallen seeds beneath her bird feeder. Her vivid description reminded me of how genuinely poorly opossums are adapted to our northern Illinois climate, where temperatures are – or at least used to be – quite chilly at this time of year. Naked ears, naked tail and a naturally low body temperature of 94 degrees Fahrenheit to 97 degrees – none of these features do opossums any favors when the thermometer dips below freezing.

Add to that the fact that opossums do not hibernate, and you end up with a mammal that seems destined to fail.

But then I remembered that the opossum, Didelphis virginiana, exists today in pretty much the same form its ancestors displayed 65 million years ago. And that thought, in turn, reminded me of a column I wrote in 2010. I hope you enjoy this blast from the past, which, thanks to the opossum’s resilient nature, is still relevant today.

I can still picture the old photograph that hung in my folks’ hallway when I was growing up. It dated to around 1870 and showed my mom’s great-grandfather and grandmother Heyen, along with their daughters, Martha, Tildie, Katie and Rachel, decked out in somber black finery. As was the custom of the day, the whole group posed ramrod-stiff, stern gazes fixed forward, looking as though they’d just experienced something distasteful.

(I always imagined they disapproved of the modern world they looked out on.

Then again, it was the 1870s.)

Walking past that picture multiple times a day for a decade or more, I often wondered what exactly I had in common with those German farmers who settled in Menard County, Ill. We didn’t look alike, and no doubt our behaviors differed substantially. But we were undeniably linked, and I have the family tree to prove it.

Just like opossums.

Well, maybe not exactly. While my ancestry was traced by a distant relative in Missouri, the opossum’s lineage was tracked down by a group of paleontologists from the University of Florida. And whereas mine starts to get murky somewhere around the time of the Civil War, the opossum’s dates to the end of the Cretaceous Period and the mass extinction that spelled the end of the dinosaurs.

That’s right, that chunky, clunky little critter you see pottering around your neighborhood on garbage night has roots that go back 65 million years.

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BY TERRY AND KIM KOVEL KOVELS.COM Valentine’s day is a holiday that has its roots in ancient times. But it was celebrated with gifts until the first cards appeared about 1760. Since then, valentines have changed with the fashions and technology, and they are a popular collectible. Cards were made at home, with drawings, poems, cutouts and other ways of expressing love. In 1848, Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts, started making valentines from pieces of fancy paper lace and printed pictures with handwritten messages of affection. Soon, she was selling valentines to friends, and started a business that lasted until 1880. The style of the valentine can help tell its age. Mechanical cards with parts that could move so a pictured girl could wave her arm were the newest type in the 1890s. Embossing also was popular.

In the early 1900s to 1920s, postcards were used. Postage was one cent. Diecut cards that could be punched out of a single sheet of stiff paper were developed in about 1900. These often came as a set with 25 cards for students and one for the teacher. Folded cards were in style by the 1930s and these, plus photographs and digital cards, are still sent today. Vintage homemade lacy cards made from paper lace, “scraps” and small shaped and printed pictures, sell today for $10 to $100 or more. Age, condition and beauty determine the value. Save the cards you get each year and look for older examples saved by family members. *** CURRENT PRICES Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States.

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Cake pan, Oscar the Grouch, Sesame Street Muppets, garbage-can shape, Oscar peeping out, tin, Wilton, 1977, 16 inches, $15.

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Cane, walking stick, black shaft, dog head handle, white greyhound, carved resin, golden eyes, brass collar, Art Deco, 36 inches, $110.

Boy Scout Troop Pennant, Patrol 3, Troop 117, Pontiac Indian, arrow, red, yellow and silver canvas, 2-sided, 1940s,40 x 40 inches, $195.

Advertising sign, Ever Ready Sold Here, India’s Best Batteries, blue enamel, white and orange, 1930s, 18 x 12 inches, $300.

Porcelain night light, figural polar bear, sulfur eyes, fragrance lamp, stamped, Bohne & Soehne, c. 1925, 10 x 7 inches, $410.

Mailbox, cast iron, embossed, Pull Down, Letters, red, white and blue, side door opening, lock and key, 1908, 20 x 13 inches, $725.

Cellarette, mahogany, shaped lift top, square knob, beaded edges, carved, brass handles, splay feet, 1800s, 22 x 27 inches, $2,000.

Locket, heart shape, blue enamel, guilloche rays, diamonds, 18-karat gold and silver, two compartments, gold frames, scrolls, 1800s, 3 x 3 inches, $4,575. *** “Kovels’ Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide, 2017,” 49th edition, is your most accurate source for current prices. It’s available now and includes a special bonus section that tells you how to declutter the Collector’s way and make money! If you order directly from the Kovels, you’ll receive our FREE Companion eBook with ALL of the book’s 25,000 prices - ready for downloading to your eReader. “Kovels” is the best book to own if you buy, sell or collect. The paperback has more than 2,500 color photographs and over 700 categories of antiques and collectibles.

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This handmade 1930s card is made from store-bought paper lace and features small chromolithographed pictures of children and flowers. The printed cardboard background is made to fit in an envelope.

A collector bought it for $25 about 1980 and felt the message “To Miss Nash” on the back added to the value. It would cost about $50 today. *** Q: My mother recently passed away, and I received her collection of Pennsbury Pottery she’d been collecting for 40 years.

I would like to sell the pieces, as I have no room for them. Suggestions?

A: Pennsbury Pottery was founded

by Henry and Lee Below in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, in 1950. The pottery was named after nearby Pennsbury Manor, the home of William Penn. The pottery was in business until 1971. Dinnerware and decorative items were made. You can try to sell the collection to a resale shop that handles pottery, to an online matching service like Replacements.com or at an auction that sells Pennsbury. Some pieces sell for $12-$35. Pennsbury cookie jars sell online for about $85. *** Q: I have a matching set of two High Point Bending & Chair Co. office-style walnut chairs labeled “Pattern No. 6711.”

They are in good original condition. How do I determine their value?

A: This company started as Siler City Bending Co. in Siler City, N.C., in 1901.

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made bentwood chairs and other furniture. It became Boling Chair Co. in 1956.

It remained open until at least 1999. Your chairs, with swivel seats and rolling casters, are called banker’s chairs. The price of your chairs is only about $15. They are not in a style that is popular today, and old office chairs are not wanted. Wooden chairs are not as comfortable as the new padded or mesh chairs. *** Q: I have an old Rumrill green vase. I’d like to know a little more about it.

A: Rumrill Pottery was designed by George Rumrill of Little Rock, Arkansas, and made at other potteries. It was produced by the Red Wing Pottery of Red Wing, Minnesota, from 1933 to 1938. In January 1938, production was transferred to the Shawnee Pottery in Zanesville, Ohio. The clay Shawnee used was too porous and the vases leaked, so Rumrill was moved to Florence Pottery Co. in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, in December 1938. The factory burned down in 1941 and Rumrill was then produced by Gonder Ceramic Arts in South Zanesville. Production stopped by early 1943. You didn’t send a picture of the vase and the Rumrill mark, so there is little we can tell you about its price.

A large, unusual vase could sell for over $100. An average vase with simple decoration might be worth $25-$50. *** Q: I inherited a 1916 Edison Diamond Disc Official Laboratory Model Phonograph, No. C-19. It is an upright dark oak cabinet that is 4 feet 3 inches high. There are 80 excellent thick records. How can I sell these? The player is windup and in perfect condition.

A: Edison’s Model C-250 Chippendale was introduced in December 1915 and originally sold for $285, which was expensive at the time. Cabinets were made in oak or mahogany, and later in walnut. The Diamond Disc phonograph had a diamond stylus that lasted longer than an ordinary stylus and could only play the records especially made for it. The quarter-inch thick records couldn’t be played on other phonograph machines and were more expensive than other records. The words “Offi-

cial Laboratory Model” were trademarked in 1920 but had been in use since at least 1918. Chippendale Model C-250 became Model C-19 beginning in April 1919, so your phonograph must have been made after that. The value of the phonograph is about $200-$300. The records sell for about $3-$10 each. *** Tip: Do not store paper collectibles in photograph albums with black pages. The acidic paper will cause damage. *** 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. *** (c) 2016 by Cowles Syndicate Inc.

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Forum to look at effects of stormwater on Fox River KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE ST. CHARLES – A public forum, “We’re All in the Same Boat: Stormwater and the Fox,” will be presented from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Pottawatomie Community Center, 8 North Ave., St. Charles, according to a news release.

Tara Neff from The Conservation Foundation will be the presenter at the forum, which is hosted by the League of Women Voters of Central Kane County.

Stormwater runoff has the potential of polluting the Fox River, the release stated, because runoff is a major cause of water pollution in urban areas – it carries trash, bacteria, heavy metals

and other pollutants from the urban landscape.

Higher flows resulting from heavy rains also can cause erosion and flooding in urban streams, damaging habitat, property and infrastructure, the release stated.

The public is invited to the forum to learn how cities in Kane County are dealing with stormwater management, whether they are using a green infrastructure, how dams affect the river systems, and steps citizens can take to protect the quality of local water resources, the release stated.

For information, email the league at lwvckc.education@gmail.com.

NEWS BRIEF Geneva Park District auctioning John Deere wide-area mower

GENEVA – The Geneva Park District is auctioning a John Deere Wide-Area Mower that can cut a swath as wide as 10 feet 8 inches, a Kubota RTV 900, a Dodge Dakota tailgate, a Dodge Dakota rear bumper, and a Dodge Dakota hitch.

To view and place a bid on the John Deere mower and Dodge Dakota items, go to http://bit.ly/2jDD3QY. To view and place a bid on the Kubota RTV 900, go to http://bit.ly/2kWh8Wc. All bids must be placed by 10 a.m. Feb. 13. Call 630-2328670 for information.

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GENEVA – A fallen tree limb is believed to be responsible for knocking down a power line that caused an electric outage and a fire at Geneva High School early Feb. 7, officials announced on the city’s website, www.geneva.il.us.

The initial outage, which impacted 621 customers, took place around 6:25 a.m. from Anderson Boulevard west to Highbury Lane and from State Street north to Gray Street, the website stated.

The outage caused a small electric motor to overheat and start on fire at Geneva High School, and although it was extinguished quickly by school personnel, some smoke had entered the building, the website stated.

The Geneva Fire Department responded to the scene immediately to help ventilate and inspect the building.

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ST. CHARLES – The family of Ann Schuster will host an artist open house at which her work will be displayed from 3 to 7 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Fine Line Creative Arts Center, 37W570 Bolcum Road, St. Charles.

Schuster of St. Charles passed away Dec. 6 after a long illness.

She was 79. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Fine Line Creative Arts Center.

Batavia American Legion to host monthly meeting

BATAVIA – Batavia American Legion Post 504 will host its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Batavia VFW, 645 S. River St. Meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month.

For information, visit bataviapost504.org.

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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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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.

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

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

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POLICE REPORTS Information in Police Reports is obtained from local police departments.

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

KANE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

authorization.

• Criminal trespassing was reported Jan. 29 in the 39W700 block of Campton • Curtis F. Lippold, 27, of the zero to Hills Drive, St. Charles.

99 block of Gastville Street, Aurora, • Jeffrey D. Summers, 59, of the was charged Jan. 26 with driving on a 10N800 block of Rippburger Road, suspended license, operating an uninPlato Center, was charged Jan. 30 with ELBURN sured vehicle and failure to reduce speed domestic battery.

A sheriff’s office report Eric N. Cress, 54, of the 500 block of to avoid an accident along Route 47 in stated he kicked the victim in the right South Main Street, Elburn, was charged Sugar Grove. side of the chest.

Jan. 22 with driving under the influence • Guadalupe Gutierrez, 19, of the 100 • Theft was reported Jan. 31 in the at Main and North streets in Elburn. block of North Summer Avenue, Aurora, 1S400 block of Wyatt Drive, Geneva. A was charged Jan. 26 with driving without sheriff’s office report stated a ring valued SUGAR GROVE a valid license and speeding 101 mph in at about $800 was stolen.

• Credit card fraud was reported Jan. a 45 mph zone along Kirk Road in Batavia.

24 in the 800 block of Longview Court, • Fraud was reported Jan. 18 in the ST. CHARLES Sugar Grove. A police report stated a 5N800 block of Kingswood Drive, St. • John T. Bell, 18, of the 300 block of $283.30 airline ticket from Chicago to Charles. A sheriff’s office report stated Queens Parkway, Bartlett, was charged Miami was purchased without authoria resident received a call from someone Jan. 29 with retail theft. zation, and $16 in charges were made who claimed his grandson was in jail and • Taylor A. Olson, 22, of the 1100 block in-flight. in need of $4,500. The caller instructed of Collins Drive, Elburn was charged Jan. • A hit-and-run was reported Jan. 20 the resident to buy $4,500 in gift cards 28 with retail theft. at the BP Station located at Cross Street from Best Buy, the report stated.

• Daniel E. Spudich, 50, of the 6N800 and Route 47 in Sugar Grove.

• Vicki L. Crombleholme, 54, of the block of Elgin Avenue, St. Charles Town1000 block of Mark Street, South Elgin, ship, was charged Jan. 28 with DUI, imwas arrested Jan. 28 on a DuPage County CAMPTON HILLS proper lane use and improper signaling.

Philip J. Anderson, 39, of the 800 block warrant for failure to appear in court.

• Mario Van Lachica, 26, of the 1800 • Identity theft was reported Jan. 28 in of Oak Street, Woodstock, was charged block of Forrest Boulevard, St. Charles, the 39W500 block of Schoolhouse Lane, Jan. 28 with driving on a suspended liwas charged Jan. 28 with DUI, possession cense at Burlington and Kings Mills roads Geneva. A sheriff’s office report stated a of 10 grams to 30 grams of marijuana, Comcast account was opened without in Campton Hills.

possession of drug paraphernalia and improper lane use.

• Kenneth J. Osterman, 75, of the 2000 block of Audubon Drive, Glendale Heights, was charged Jan. 31 with DUI, illegal transportation of alcohol, obstructing a police officer and speeding.

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• Timothy J. Bronzino, 48, of the 200 block of Maple Lane, Geneva, was charged Jan. 19 with two counts of misdemeanor domestic battery. According to police reports, Bronzino and another person, who also works at Bronzino Salon, 322 W. State St., Geneva, had an argument over there being no cash left in the register, which escalated into an altercation.

• Power tools, including a concrete saw and cordless drill, were reported stolen Jan. 18 from an unlocked vehicle in the 1600 block of Scott Boulevard.

• Luis A. Herrera, 46, of the 300 block of Yarwood Street, Elgin, was charged Jan. 22 with driving under the influence, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident and leaving the scene of an accident.

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An election will take place from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Kane-DuPage Soil and Water Conservation District office, 2315 Dean St., Suite 100, St. Charles.

Three directors will be elected to serve the Kane-DuPage Soil and Water Conservation District. Residents living within the district are able to vote in the election.

For information, visit www.kanedupageswcd.org or call 630-584-7960, ext. 3.

the 200 block of North Randall Road, Batavia.

• Changes were made to a bank account, according to a Jan. 29 police report of identity theft in the 400 block of Wolcott Lane, Batavia.

• A truck was scratched by a key or other hard object in the 1600 block of Kennedy Drive, Batavia, according to a Jan. 29 police report about criminal damage to property.

• An unopened box of pots and pans was reported stolen Jan. 30 from a business in the 800 block of North Randall Road, Batavia.

• J. Matthew Nelson, 24, of the 700 block of Foxfield Court, St. Charles, was charged Jan. 30 with driving 54 mph over the posted limit and operating an uninsured vehicle in the 1500 block of South Kirk Road, Batavia.

• Fraud was reported in the 1100 block of Ward Road, Batavia, after a credit card was opened and charges made totaling about $800, according to a Jan. 31 police report.

• Nina N. Reyes, 27, of the 800 block of North May Street, Aurora, was charged Jan. 31 with driving with a suspended license on South Randall Road, Batavia.

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operating an uninsured vehicle on South Randall Road, Batavia.

Continued from page 24 • Graffiti was reported Jan. 27 on a vehicle in the rear parking lot of a business • Michael G. Matthews, 23, of the in the zero to 99 block of East Wilson 200 block of West North Street, Street, Batavia.

Dwight, was charged Jan. 22 with • A city of Batavia electric box was DUI, driving with a blood-alcohol defaced with graffiti in the 1500 block level greater than 0.08 percent and of Haines Drive, according to a Jan. 27 failure to reduce speed to avoid an police report. accident.

• Some city of Batavia light posts • Two pairs of running shoes valued at were damaged in the 100 block of West $300 were reported stolen Jan. 24 from Wilson Street, according to a Jan. 27 an unlocked car parked in the 1100 block police report. of Fargo Boulevard.

• A Walgreens store sign was damaged • A gym bag containing workout in the 100 block of West Wilson Street, clothes and a garage door remote Batavia, according to a Jan. 27 police was reported stolen Jan. 24 from a car report. parked in the 1000 block of Kendall • Unauthorized credit card charges Street. were reported in the 700 block of Cottage Road, Batavia, according to a Jan. BATAVIA 27 report of fraud.

• Juan C. Moreno, 34, of the 600 block • Dazhey J. Washington, 24, of the of South Jackson Street, Aurora, was 2900 block of Aberdeen Drive, Montcharged Jan. 26 with driving with a gomery, was arrested Jan. 28 in the revoked license and operating an unin1100 block of East Wilson Street, Batsured vehicle in the 1300 block of South avia, on an Aurora Police Department River Street, Batavia. warrant connected to possession of • John R. Kopp, 33, of the 200 block marijuana. of North Kingsway Drive, Aurora, was • M. Alexandria Aguiniga, 27, of the charged Jan. 27 with speeding at least 600 block of Concord Street, Aurora, 35 mph over the posted limit and was charged Jan. 29 with retail theft in

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Inmates are running the institution In 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union won suit against the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice. The suit aimed to improve treatment, conditions and programming for incarcerated youth. However, the resulting ACLU interventions have led to disastrously disparaging conditions for all involved.

In 2013, IDJJ closed its Joliet maximum security youth prison and Murphysboro youth boot camp.

Due to the intensity and structure of these facilities, this move was likely made to appease several of the parties involved. Politicians could show cuts in spending, and the ACLU could claim a win over perceived archaic treatment of youth.

The problem: This move did nothing to alter youth behavior. Instead, very acute populations of youth were often downgraded from maximum to medium security classification and absorbed at remaining facilities that were ill-equipped to address their intense behaviors.

At first, the change was surprisingly welcomed. Several facilities received guards who were trained

COMMUNITY VOICE J. Meister and experienced to deal with volatile situations. For a short period, discipline and structure improved. Then, stories started circulating about guards being suspended or fired for using academy-trained detaining procedures on actively threatening and aggressive youth.

Security officers muted their normal responses, and Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports rolled out to improve relational de-escalation.

In January 2014, a youth advocate-attorney was appointed director of IDJJ. Youth advocates also were selected for other executive level administrative positions. These new hires lacked the proper education, experience and training in rehabilitative environments.

The new administration got to work quickly, visiting each facility and extensively interviewing the

youth about how to improve conditions. Few, if any, frontline personnel were approached about possible changes. The new direction and development was largely determined by delinquents.

Rapidly, confinement was reduced from five days to 59 minutes. Use of physical restraints was so heavily scrutinized that I witnessed a guard balk at putting handcuffs on a youth who had just spit in the assistant warden’s face.

Youth who enter the school and immediately begin fighting have been removed from school only to return before lunch and engage in another fight. Youth have punched security guards in the face and immediately put their hands on their head to aptly avoid being handcuffed. Youth have exposed and fondled themselves in front of female employees, often while advancing on them. Distressed workers are expected to resume working around these youth the same day or within 24 hours.

The ACLU’s entrenched tenure with IDJJ has hopelessly devolved

past the point of no return. Four corrections officers have been arrested; hundreds of innocent state employees have faced daily abuse to the point of trauma; and public lives have been lost as a result. (IDJJ reduced its population over 45 percent during the past three years while the murder rate in Chicago has skyrocketed.)

And the ACLU’s response: “We are pleased to see the state ... hold the staff accountable. Because nobody in (Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice facilities) should ever be subjected to the kind of horrific mistreatment that is described in these indictments.” The ACLU has caused unbearable conditions, and they clap with blood on their hands.

J. Meister is a former employee of the Illinois Youth Center in St. Charles. He wrote “The Throwaway Kids” about his experiences with at-risk youth under the pseudonym Jonathan Masters. For more information, visit www.widerlensproductions. com. Feedback on this column can be sent to editorial@kcchronicle.com.

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RONALD LEE BOWGREN

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Ronald “Ronnie” Lee Bowgren, age 80, of La Fox, passed away unexpectedly at his home, Tuesday, January 31, 2017. Leaving without being able to say goodbye, we are left with memories and the sure and certain hope that he is looking down on us as our guardian angel.

He is survived by his three children, Steve (Gaye) Bowgren and their children, Cody and Jessica; Mike (Jackie) Bowgren and their children, Nick and Allyson, and Mark (Traci) Bowgren and their children, Hunter and Jase; one sister, Janet Callaghan; and special friend and companion, Nancy Wilkison; and several nieces and nephews and a community of close friends.

He is preceded in death by his parents; his wif, Beverly; one grandson, Travis Bowgren; and one daughter, Lori Bowgren.

Visitation will be from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m., Friday, February 3, 2017, at Conley Funeral Home, 116 W. Pierce St., Elburn, IL 60119.

A funeral service to celebrate his life will begin at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, February 4, 2017 also at the funeral home. Interment will follow the service at Garfield Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established in Ron’s name. Checks may be made to the “Ronald Bowgren Memorial” 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.

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PATRICIA KAY LARSON

Patricia Kay Larson, 72 of Kaneville passed away at her Send obituary information to obits@ home January 16, 2017.

KCChronicle.com or call 815-526-4438.

She was born in 1944 the Notices are accepted until noon Tuesdaughter of the late Clifford day for Thursday’s edition. Obituaries T. and Frieda I. (Runge) also appear online at KCChronicle.

Smith-Barnes. She grew up com/obituaries where you may sign the guest book, send flowers or make a in Aurora graduating from West Aurora High School in 1962. She met the love of her life, memorial donation.

David Glen Larson and they were united in marriage on October 1, 1966 at Redeemer Luand Technology where he met and married theran Church in Aurora. They began their life together in Aurora before moving to Kaneville his wife, Marlene, in 1959, and went on in 1974 to raise their children. to graduate and start a family. He moved As a young woman, Pat realized she wanted to Columbus, OH where he worked as an electrical engineer at Jeffery Manufactur- a meaningful job which took her to the office of Charles A. O’Connor, M.D. There with ing Co. “Charlie”, she began a 27 year career in the He specialized in designing motors for medical field helping others which she said mining machinery and locomotives and was always her “calling”. She was proud eventually became Chief Engineer. Ed to be Charlie’s confidant and treasured the and his family moved to St. Charles, IL, in bond she formed with him and his patients.

1980 where he continued to work as an electrical engineer at Goodman Equipment When he decided to retire, she was saddened knowing she would not see her other family.

Co. where he got to travel the world for As destiny, would have it, Pat found another his job. He went to South Africa, Chile, family at Farmers Insurance in 1994. She Korea, Canada and Mexico, as well as other mining sites in the U.S., to go down treasured the friendships she made, retiring into the coal, silver or salt mines to repair in 2007 saying goodbye to yet another family but looking forward to retirement and travel motors on mining equipment. in her golden years, but most importantly to Ed was a family man who loved to spend more time with the pride and joy of her play with his children and his pets, took life, her four grandchildren, Connor, Grant, his family on many camping vacations, Gray and Seth. has traveled to over 25 states and was Always involved in the lives of her children, always visiting relatives. Ed was an active she and her husband would be seen at every member of St. Marks Lutheran Church in school event including sports through their St. Charles for 36 years and was a very sons’ college days cheering them on wherloving and caring man with a smile and a handshake or hug for anyone. His passions ever they competed. She loved being on the DALE RANDALL EVANS were singing in the church choir and solv- Mississippi River waterways, the outdoors, Born: June 25, 1958 traveling and gardening. She is a member of ing Sudoku puzzles.

Died: February 1, 2017 St. Mark’s Lutheran Church and past member He is survived by his wife, Marlene; 4 of the Kaneland Sports Boosters. Pat leaves children, Esther, Edwill Jr., Heidi (Ronald) Dale Randall Evans, of Ft. Pierce, FL., many legacies from a life lived with joy, and Rebecca; 9 grandchildren, James born June 25, 1958, passed away on Februdetermination and devotion. The footprints of Jordan, Lloyd Jones, Ryan Jordan, Nickolas ary 1, 2017 after a lengthy illness. her love and friendship can be found on many Jordan, Paris Horn (Colin), Jordan ManiHe was the beloved father of Elexus paths, but the most treasured will be the ones Evans of Ft. Pierce, FL.; son of Darrel Evans er (Melinda), Rheanna Probst, Maxwell left on the hearts of her family and all who Jordan, Lindsey Ede; 6 great grandchildren; and step mother Cynthia Evans of Batavia, knew her. sister, Rosalie Easton, sister, Carlene McIL.; brother to Delores (Bob) Perkins of She is survived by her sons, Brad wife, Monagle, sister, Cheryl Hansen; brother, Sandwich, IL., Steven (Mary) Evans of Tracy and their children, Grant and Gray of Walter Jordan; and several nephews, Hiram, OH., Rodney Evans of Colorado Charlotte, NC, and Ryan wife, Veronica and nieces and other relatives.

Springs, CO., and Tammie Birmann of Visitation was Tuesday, February 7, 2017 their children, Connor and Seth of Loganville, Orland Hills, IL. GA.; one sister, Ruthie Lee Toma of Oswego; from 4:00pm to 6:30pm at Yurs Funeral He was preceded in death by brother, her brother & sister-in-law, Gerry & Alma LarTimothy Evans; and mother, Jean Carlson. Home, 405 E. Main St., St. Charles. Funeral son of St. Charles, MO; sisters-in-law Nancy service was on Wednesday, February 8, Larson of Johnston, IA; and Sara Schneider of 2017 at 10:30am at St. Marks Lutheran EDWILL R. JORDAN, SR. Williamston, MI; as well as, numerous dear Church, across the street. Proceed to Born: July 18, 1938; in Racine, WI nieces, nephews and cousins. cemetery afterwards.

Died: February 4, 2017; in Sycamore, IL She now joins her family who proceeded In lieu of flowers, memorials may be her in death, husband, David; daughter, Beth; made to St. Marks Lutheran Church, 101 S. Edwill “Ed” Rodney parents, Clifford T. and Frieda Smith-Barnes; Sixth Avenue, St. Charles, IL 60174.

Jordan, Sr., age 78, of St. step-father, Clifford H. Barnes; brother and Charles, passed away on sister-in-law, Clifford E. and Betty J. Smith; in-laws, Glen and Stella Larson; brother and Saturday, February 4, 2017 sister -in-law, Ronnie and Shirley Larson; at Kindred Hospital in brothers-in-law, Donald Larson, Al Larson; and Sycamore, IL. He was born nephew, Bart Larson. on July 18, 1938 to Eduard Per Pat’s wishes, graveside services and and Emily Jordan in Racine, WI. interment will be private. A funeral reception Ed attended Michigan College of Mining

will be held February 17, 2017 at Bliss Creek’s Pine Room, 1 Golf View Road, Sugar Grove, IL 60554 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm for all family and friends.

“The grave itself is but a covered bridge leading from light to light, through a brief darkness”.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Capital Campaign Fund 27 S Edgelawn Drive, Aurora, IL 60506 or do something Pat would do, visit with a neighbor, help a friend or talk to a stranger.

Arrangements were handled by The Healy Chapel, Sugar Grove.

To sign the online guestbook, please visit www.healychapel.com (630) 466-1330.

EDWARD R. PEKAREK

Born: July 11, 1933; in Chicago, IL Died: February 5, 2017; in Sycamore, IL Edward R. Pekarek, age 83, of St. Charles, passed away Sunday, February 5, 2017 at Kindred Hospital in Sycamore with his loving family by his side.

He was born July 11, 1933 in Chicago, the son of Edward and Marie (Koss) Pekarek.

Edward is survived by his children, Brian (Marcia) Pekarek of DeKalb and Brenda (Craig) Glass of Watervliet, MI; grandchildren, Jeremy Pekarek, Courtney and Logan Glass; and step grandchildren, Kyle and Austin; and many dear nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and was a huge sports fan. Edward’s favorite pastime, however, was spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren.

If he wasn’t with them, you could guarantee a fishing pole or gun was in his hand. The memories and stories were being created for all to hear. He was a sweet and kind man that will be dearly missed.

Edward served his country in the United States Air Force. He spent most of his career as a sheet metal worker in Chicago and was a lifetime member of local union 73.

He was preceded in death by his parents; siblings, Elaine Callahan, Karen Hlad, and Wayne Pekarek; and his loving wife, Cheryl (Harke) of 41 years who passed away in 2008.

Visitation will be held on Saturday, January 11, 2017 from 12:00 pm until the time of his memorial service at 3:00 pm at Malone Funeral Home, 324 E. State Street (Route 38), Geneva, Deacon Larry Motyka officiating.

For information call 630-232-8233 or visit malonefh.com.

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with the Roper Mountain Science Center and a member of the Piedmont Master Elaine A. Wilson, 85, of Gardener’s Association, the Green Thumbs Hudson, NH, passed away Garden Club, the Carolina Golf and Tennis peacefully at her home on Monday, January 30, 2017. Club, the Furman Paladin Club and the Elaine was born in 1931 in Friends of the Clemson Botanical Garden.

In 2008, Elaine and Ron moved to Hudson, Chicago to the late Anton and Elizabeth Austermann. NH, to be nearer to family.

Survivors include a daughter, Rhonda She attended grammar and high schools O’Keefe (Michael) of Hudson, NH; two in Chicago and received a BA degree in grandchildren, Michael and Meghan English from Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, O’Keefe; a sister, Esther Kucera of LomIL in 1951. bard IL; a sister-in-law, Ramona Long of Elaine married her beloved husband of St. Charles; nephews, Roderick (Laura) 64 years, the late Ronald C. Wilson, in Osborne and Gary (Peggy) Long; nieces, 1951 after meeting him while both were Terrie (Michael) Parsons, Cynthia (Tom) students at Elmhurst College.

Swihart, Linda (Steve) Barnes, and Tonna After living first in Chicago and then (Tim) Walter; and several great-nephews in Mt. Prospect, IL, the couple moved to Wenham, MA in 1972. Elaine was employed and a great-niece.

A memorial service will be held on Febas an office manager by Magnecoil Corp. in Peabody, MA, volunteered in the library ruary 6, 2017 at First Church, Nashua, NH. Elaine’s ashes will be interred alongside of the Bessie Buker School, and was an active member of First Church in Wenham, her husband’s at the New Hampshire State Veteran’s Cemetery in Boscawen, serving on the music committee.

NH. Elaine and Ron retired to Greenville, SC In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to in 1986. While there, Elaine became a MasHome Health & Hospice Care, 7 Executive ter Gardener. She enjoyed gardening and golfing with her husband and spending Park Drive, Merrimack, NH 03054 (www. time with close friends. hhhc.org/how-to-help/donate/) would be In Greenville Elaine was a volunteer appreciated.

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the United States Army as a 1st Lieutenant, and was stationed in Germany as part of the post-WWII allied occupation JONATHAN C. RUSSELL forces.

Jonathan C. Russell, age 33, of Chicago, After returning home, Tom joined the IL, passed away on February 4, 2017. accounting firm Arthur Andersen, which Arrangements by Malone Funeral Home, would be the first stop in his lifelong 630-232-8233. work as an accountant in the Chicagoland area.

KAREN A. SIVERT The apple of his eye was always his wife, Karen A. Sivert, age 75, of Elburn, IL, Fritzie (Reinsch) Vrtis, the large family passed away surrounded by the love and they raised, and the even larger family to prayers of her family, Thursday, Februwhich they belonged. Tom and Fritzie were ary 2, 2017 following a long battle with married in 1955 and celebrated 61 years of dementia. marriage together.

She is survived by her loving husband They were blessed with eight chilof 48 years, Buck Sivert; Three children, dren, seventeen grandchildren, and two Brenda (Randy) Swanson, Cindi (Paul) great-grandchildren.

Paschal and Dan (Adrienne) Sivert; Eight Tom took great pride in his children’s grandchildren, Tabitha, Robert, John Reilly, and grandchildren’s accomplishments Tori, Jakob, Sabrina, Emily and Dayna; Two throughout his life, and was always degreat-grandchildren, Ripley and Hallie; voted to keeping them tied one to another Four siblings, Marilyn Long, Elma (James) - and to the extended family – through Wilmath, Earl Jr.Wilkison and Sally (John) family reunions.

Malnar; many nieces, nephews and a He was a devoted Catholic and founder countryside of friends. of the Silver Foxes, a social organization She is preceded in death by her parents, with a religious foundation, at St. ElizaElla and Earl Wilkison Sr.; one sister, beth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Lake Arlene Wilmath; one sister-in-law, Cindy Ridge, Virginia.

Wilkison; and one grandson, Luke SwanA loving and caring husband, father, son; two nephews, Earl G. “Little Earl” grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, Wilkison and Randy Long. and friend, Tom was also a terrific golfer, Visitation will be from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m., a ten-time winner of the Vrtis Cup Golf with a funeral service to celebrate her life Tournament, a lover of the outdoors and to follow at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, February traveling, an avid swimmer and walker, 7, 2017, at Conley Funeral Home, 116 W. a patron of the arts, and someone who Pierce St., Elburn, IL 60119. Interment will was always eager to set aside anything to follow, Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 at have a conversation.

Blackberry Township Cemetery Elburn, at Those left to cherish his memory include 10:00 a.m. his wife, Fritzie; his eight children (and In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been their spouses), Thomas, Jr. (Christel), Ann established at Old Second National Bank (Robert), Monica, Joseph (Lori), Michael in Wasco, IL. Checks may be made to the (Angela), Peter (Bente), George (Anne), “Karen Sivert Memorial Fund” and mailed and James (Angie); his seventeen grandin care of P.O. Box 420, Wasco, IL 60183. children, Ian, Nathan, Alexander, ChrisTributes may be forwarded to the Conley topher Robin, Nicholas, Zachary, Adam, Funeral Home Facebook Page, or at www. Jeremy, Christopher Michael, Ella, Patrick, conleycare.com.

Margaret, Samantha, Harrison, Hayden, Meadow and Henry; his two great-grandchildren, Camden and Saga; his five brothTHOMAS CHARLES VRTIS ers and sisters, Charles, Martha, Mildred, Born: December 24, 1929 Mary, and John; and many more relatives Died: January 28, 2017 and friends.

In addition to his parents, Tom was preThomas Charles Vrtis ceded in death by his eldest sister, Cecilia; of Woodbridge, Virginia and his youngest sister, Susan. (formerly of St. Charles, A Visitation will be held on Friday, FebIllinois) passed away at home on January 28, 2017. ruary 3, from 1:00 to 3:00pm and 6:00 to 8:00pm, at the Miller Funeral Home, 3200 He was 87.

Tom was born on Decem- Golansky Blvd., Woodbridge, Virginia.

Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, ber 24, 1929, in Oak Park, February 4, at 10:30am, at St. Elizabeth Illinois, the son of Charles Ann Seton Catholic Church, 12805 Valand Anna (Kucera) Vrtis. leywood Drive, Lake Ridge, Virginia. Tom He grew up in La Grange, will be laid to rest alongside his parents in Illinois, with seven brothers and sisters.

After completing his elementary education Chicago, Illinois, at a later date.

The family wishes to offer its heartfelt at St. Francis Xavier School in La Grange thanks to the many loved ones, friends, and his high school education at Fenwick physicians, and caregivers who have so High School in Oak Park, Tom attended Loyola University of Chicago and graduat- generously and kindly contributed to our well-being, especially over the past two ed with a degree in accounting in 1951.

Following college, he served two years in years.

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EDITORIAL

BOARD

Ryan Wells General Manager

Kathy Balcazar Weekly Group Editor

Tarah Thorne News Editor

Jason Rossi Sports Editor

Renee Tomell Kane Weekend Editor

LETTERS Overcoming struggles with stuttering

To the editor: For many people, ringing in the new year brings hope and joyful anticipation. But for those who struggle with stuttering, the old fears of speaking and being teased remain the same – year after year.

Many of your readers don’t know that help for stuttering is available from so many places. Trusted information on stuttering is available at your local public library. Public schools have speech counselors, and children are entitled to free evaluation and help by law. Seek out a speech-language pathologist in your area, trained in helping those who stutter.

Universities often offer speech clinics.

Finally, the internet can be a wonderful resource on stuttering – with free books, videos and reference materials. Visit our website as a starting point, www.StutteringHelp.org. Make 2017 the year you find the help you and your family need.

Jane Fraser

President of The Stuttering Foundation

Two weddings and a blossoming movement A month ago our family flew to San Francisco for my nephew’s wedding, where we spent close to the price of the Louisiana Purchase.

Worth it, from the dim sum feast at Yank Sink to a beer at the Vesuvio Café, where ghosts of Beat poets still hang out.

However, after landing around midnight, nothing scorched my memory more than – when driving to our hotel – we swerved to avoid a man in a colorless jacket and baggy blue jeans sprawled among street-strewn garbage bins. This stark, Dickensian image overshadowed the weekend, dimming even the Mark Hopkins Hotel’s crystal-chandelier lobby.

A week later, another marriage took place, uniting our nation and new president. Unlike a groom toasting his lovely new wife and the joyous joining of families and friends, the inaugural speech rang rancorous and exclusionary, portraying his bride as “carnage.”

Next morning, I woke up to what Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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RIVER TOWN CHRONICLES Rick Holinger would have called a renaissance of wonder. In bold “Lysistrata” fashion, women pushed back, pink hats blossoming in city streets around the world, scenting the air with a bouquet of resistance.

Readers, recognizing life imitates art, drove George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” up bestseller lists.

Its protagonist, Winston Smith, feels helpless when language no longer clarifies but obfuscates: “‘Blackwhite’ means … the habit of impudently claiming that black is white. ... Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white … . But it means also the ability to believe that black is white … and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past ... .”

Ignore or deny history, science and photographic proof, and reality blurs into fantasy. Crowds become as large as imagined. A campaign-promised travel ban, called a “ban” when implemented, next day is denied as a ban – even though favoring admittance into the country people professing one religion over another.

And if someone disagrees with your policy or ideology, delegitimize the person (and, by association, the governmental branch) by calling into question the competence of the “socalled judge” or intelligence official.

Is our bridegroom looking to replace the Statue of Liberty’s torch with a Keep Out sign, and her July 4, 1776, tablet with a scepter?

Prejudice is not hatred; prejudice is ignorance, prejudgment. “Roots” author Alex Haley’s Reader’s Digest essay (March 1963) chronicles despicable acts his brother, George, endured in law school, mostly because his nemeses carried a skewed, stereotypical misconception of African Americans. After getting to know

him, white students were able to “discard their own preconceptions;” George concluded: “Improving race relations is at least 50 percent a matter of simple communication.”

The Women’s March validated truth, not “alternate facts”; caring, not paranoia; love, not scapegoating.

Congress needs to follow the ladies’ lead.

On my own little march last night with our dog, I passed a yard sign declaring, “We Are Not Afraid (wewelcomerefugees.com).” Maybe I’ll send that as a Valentine’s card to the president.

Perhaps it will help him think pink – before our national character ends face down, destitute, among the garbage bins.

Rick Holinger teaches high school English and facilitates a local writing workshop. His poetry, fiction, essays, criticism and book reviews have appeared in numerous literary journals. Contact him at editorial@ kcchronicle.com.

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

What ‘I love you’ means to me

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BEFORE THE DIPLOMA Denise Cartina

I rarely tell my family or friends that I love them on a regular basis, and maybe to some people that seems wrong. I believe it’s better to show the ones that you care about that you love them through your actions. I’m a believer in the idea that actions speak louder than words. family member), as many of you probably know. I can love my mother or my best friend, but I am only in love with my boyfriend. When it comes to being “in love” with someone, I’m more eager to say I love you because, let’s be real, being in love is awesome.

Yet, I don’t go around telling my boyfriend every second that I love him, nor do I need him to tell me that he loves me, because we both know that we’re in love. We show that we love each other by going out on dates to the movies or to a fancy restaurant, and by being affectionate together. I don’t believe saying “I love you” to a loved one every second is needed, but that’s not to say that people who always say that phrase should cease to keep saying it as often as they do.

Love is love.

Denise Cartina is a student at Waubonsee Community College and graduate of Batavia High School. In addition to writing, she enjoys watching sappy romantic comedies, eating peanut butter and keeping elegance alive. Her column runs every other Thursday.

Contact her at editorial@ kcchronicle.com.

LETTERS Don’t misplace emphasis

To the editor: If we fill our minds and hearts with negativity, our lives will be full of frustration, anger and division. But if we exercise the self-discipline it requires to concentrate on positives, we will lead happier, healthier and more productive lives in 2017.

May I give you a good example of this important practice?

Kane County government achieved many of its most useful goals in 2016. Yet, the Kane County Chronicle highlighted in its year-end recap edition a temporary difference in opinion between me and the state’s attorney regarding the legal authority of the countywide-elected chairman’s office.

Much more important than sensational coverage of differing opinions are the following 10 accomplishments, which represent our collective efforts for an entire year on your behalf.

In the past year, Kane County’s hardworking team: 1. Continued the county’s property tax levy freeze.

2. Improved transparency by expanding the OpenGov website.

3. Saved $2 million by delivering a new, computerized

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court case management system essentially on time in 2016 and under budget. This happened through multiyear cooperation from the chief judge, public defender, sheriff, circuit clerk, state’s attorney, IT, court services and the County Board.

4. Stabilized the Workforce Investment Board, which annually invests $5.8 million in employment and training initiatives.

5. Put Animal Control’s budget in the black. Animal Control is now only a year away from paying off the “mortgage” debt on its beautiful building.

6. Fully funded pensions with

prepayments on our long-term obligations to IMRF and SLEP. 7. Balanced leadership opportunities for chairmen of county standing committees by party, gender and ethnicity.

8. Brought Kane County government and business leaders together in a summer summit that unveiled the county’s 47 miles of fiber-optic cable infrastructure – another nonproperty-tax source of revenue.

9. Successfully negotiated all but one of our 13 collective bargaining agreements. We begin the process again in 2017.

10. Continued progress toward completion of the $120 million Longmeadow Parkway.

In 2017, we again have a choice to emphasize the positive or dwell on the negative. Too often, reporters and editors make people in public life appear contentious – then bemoan what they see as the degradation of our democratic institutions.

I recommend that newspapers take some responsibility for their role and, when merited, accentuate the real progress that’s being made every day on behalf of Kane County taxpayers.

Christopher J. Lauzen Chairman of the Kane County Board

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It’s time to break out a box of chocolates, wear a red or pink shirt with hearts on it and get into the spirit of love because Valentine’s Day is near.

With that in mind, I’d like to discuss a question about love. Is it necessary to always say “I love you” to your loved ones? I may be outnumbered with most people’s answers.

I’ll try to explain what my question is about by giving an example.

If I am with a friend and they are talking on the phone with a parent, usually before they hang up they will tell their parent “I love you.” My friends also repeat this same phrase to their parent whenever I am with my friends and we end up leaving their house to go out.

I’m going to be honest here.

I don’t say the phrase “I love you” regularly. Maybe I’m the only person who doesn’t tell her family members or friends that I love them all the time.

I don’t think it makes me a bad daughter, sister and so forth. I just grew up without saying the phrase “I love you” so lightly and in everyday conversation.

I’m not saying that people who tell their loved ones or their friends that they love them quite frequently is a terrible thing. This is just not something that I do or am used to doing. I rarely tell my family or friends that I love them on a regular basis, and maybe to some people that seems wrong. I believe it’s better to show the ones that you care about that you love them through your actions. I’m a believer in the idea that actions speak louder than words. I’ve been around my family my entire life, and – at this point in time – I do not think that I must tell them that I love them for them to believe that I do.

However, there are situations when my opinion on saying “I love you” changes a bit. Specifically, when an individual is “in love” with someone. Now, try to follow me here. Being in love is a much different feeling than just loving someone (like a

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Geneva’s Matt Johnston goes up for a shot while leading a fast break Feb. 3 during a game at Batavia. The Vikings won 62-52 to improve to 25-0 on the season.

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IT’S THE NAVIGATO SHOW Cole, Dom Navigato take over as Geneva defeats Batavia to stay unbeaten

By CHRIS CASEY editorial@kcchronicle.com BATAVIA – Cole Navigato is a man of few words.

But sometimes it’s the fewest of words that can have the most meaning.

When the Geneva senior talked with coach Phil Ralston on Feb. 3 after injuring his ankle in the third quarter of a rivalry game against Batavia and told his coach “I’m good,” it was all Ralston needed to hear.

Cole and brother Dom Navigato took over the game late, scoring 21 of Geneva’s 33 second-half points as the Vikings remained unbeaten with a 6252 Upstate Eight River road win.

Both Ralston and Cole Navigato were unsure if Cole re-entering the game after rolling his right ankle was the correct decision, but his performance left no questions.

“When he gives me more than one word in a sentence like that, I know he’s good,” Ralston said with a laugh. “[Cole and Dom] did a nice job there bringing us home.”

“It hurt really bad when it happened, but I guess the adrenaline kind of took away the pain,” said Cole, who scored 17 points in the win. “[Dom and I] were just aggressive towards the end of the game, crashing the glass and doing everything we could to get this team the win.”

While many of the Geneva faithful held their breath as Cole limped off the court, it was his equally quiet brother Dom who helped carry the load.

After Batavia’s Colin Cheaney (game-high 22 points) hit the second of his back-to-back 3-pointers immediately after Cole Navigato exited to cut the Geneva lead to two at 37-35, the 6-foot-5 Dom Navigato took over for the Vikings (25-0, 10-0 UER), scoring a team-high 19 points with 10 rebounds and four blocked shots.

“We were a little nervous when Cole went down, but I knew when he went out that I had to get myself into the game and take over,” said Dom, who scored 13 points in the second half.

“And then once he came back in the game, I knew we were going to win. We started pounding the ball inside and scoring.”

Cole missed less than three minutes of game time at the end of the third quarter.

The Navigato brothers’ 12 straight points from the end of the third quarter

into the fourth stretched Geneva’s lead over the Bulldogs (14-13, 4-6) to eight, forcing a timeout from Batavia coach Jim Nazos.

That break in time allowed the Geneva “Blue Crue” student section to start one of their many Navigato-based chants of “Navi-show.”

After the timeout, Geneva freshman Nate Santos stepped up and delivered the biggest impact of his young career, knocking down the second of his two 3-pointers to give the Vikings their biggest lead of the night at 54-43 Santos finished with 10 points and helped carry some of the scoring load, despite a slow start to the game.

“There was a little interaction early in the first quarter where I thought he made a lazy pass for a turnover and I had to take him out,” Ralston said of the freshman. “I told him, ‘Listen, this is an important game. You need to step up.’ He really took it to task after that.

He really played like one of our firstline guys. He hit big shots, and the best part was that he played within our offense perfectly.”

Batavia’s Nazos had to have liked his team’s position, trailing 41-40 heading into the fourth quarter, but he pointed to a series of possessions where Geneva executed in the fourth quarter and his team came up empty.

Those possessions turned into the

8-0 run that was aided by the Navigatos and Santos’ 3-pointer. “[Geneva] did a nice job of executing and getting the looks that they wanted in the fourth,” Nazos said. “I thought we did not do that. They’re a hot team right now. They execute, they play games one at a time and they do a lot of things right out there. They have a lot of nice pieces.”

On a night in which Geneva missed nine free throws and maybe wasn’t clicking on its usual all cylinders, it once again found a way to keep that zero in the loss column.

It was nice for the seniors such as Matt Johnston, who scored just one point but affected the game in many other ways, according to Ralston, to have their final game in a rival gym end in that fashion.

“This was not one of our best shooting nights,” Ralston said. “For us to compete and play in a tough environment like this … I say it every year, Batavia is one of the toughest places to win a game, especially for Geneva. It’s probably the toughest place for us to play, and for our kids to pull this one out when we weren’t clicking on all cylinders was good to see.”

The Batavia win has Geneva one game from clinching the UER title, which it can do with a senior night win against St. Charles East on Feb. 10.

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Geneva’s Dom Navigato drives toward the basket Feb. 3 while Batavia’s Jordan Moore guards him.

Navigato scored 13 points in the second half to help lead the Vikings to a 62-52 win.

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Saints’ seniors set tone in conference meet North’s Will Myhre sets records with medley win

By TAMMY SWANSON editorial@kcchronicle.com ST. CHARLES – Strength up and down the lineup wins meets for the St. Charles East boys swim team.

The Saints’ dominance continued at the Upstate Eight Conference meet Feb. 4 at St. Charles North. They won the UEC with 327.5 points.

“It’s a great team effort. We’ve never had this kind of depth before,” East head coach Joe Cabel said. “It’s one of the best teams I have ever coached.”

St. Charles North came in second in the UEC with 289.5 points.

Third place went to the West Chicago-Batavia co-op with 165 points.

Close behind was the Bartlett-Streamwood co-op with 163 points for fourth place. West Aurora finished fifth with 154 points, and South Elgin (101) took sixth. Elgin (89) was seventh.

It was a day for the Saints’ seniors.

Outstanding swims by Nick Boryk, John Cranfill and Kyle Dunlap set the stage for success.

Boryk won the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 52.61 seconds and came in second in the 100 freestyle in 47.88.

“As a team, it was phenomenal,” Boryk said of the meet.

Cranfill came in first in the 100 butterfly with a time of 53.08.

“I am happy with myself personally. I’m happy we got the win,” Cranfill said. “We haven’t won conference in years.”

Dunlap won the 100 freestyle in 47.66 and took second in the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:57.18.

“We came in here and just wanted to swim fast,” Dunlap said.

“Our seniors all really stood out today. They set the tone,” Cabel said.

Other highlights include the firstplace finish by Matt Nagler (21.83) and second-place showing by Harrison Hollman (22.51) in the 50 freestyle.

Kyle Lewarchick won the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:50.00. In the 200 freestyle relay, the team of Nagler, Dunlap, Cranfill and Harrison Hollman took first in 1:26.83.

The Saints’ quartet of Nagler, Boryk, Cranfill and Dunlap won the 400 freestyle relay in 3:13.47.

Next up for East is the Feb. 18 sectional meet they will host. The solid swims at the conference meet and extra time to prepare have the Saints excited about their sectional prospects.

“No one was tapered coming in, so we’re excited for sectionals,” Dunlap said. “We have our sights looking forward to the state meet.”

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St. Charles East’s Matt Nagler (third from left) checks his time after competing in the 50-yard freestyle Feb. 4 at the Upstate Eight Conference meet. Nagler took first place in 21.83 seconds.

St. Charles North

If the performances at the Upstate Eight Conference meet are any indication, the St. Charles North boys swim team soon will reach the stars.

The North Stars came in second at the UEC with 289.5 points, finishing behind St. Charles East (327.5 points).

“It was a good meet for us,” North head coach Rob Rooney said. “A lot of things for us to build on for the future and for years to come.”

One of the major highlights was the pool, meet and UEC records set by Will Myhre in the 200 individual medley. He won with a mark of 1:52.30.

Myhre also won the 100 breaststroke in 56.18.

“I surprised myself with the IM,” Myhre said. “It’s the second time swimming that this year.”

Nathaniel Baxter, Myhre, Jack Williams and Nick Wolff broke pool, meet and UEC records in the 200 medley relay, winning with a time of 1:34.97.

Ricky Williams was first in the 200 freestyle with a 1:46.99.

“I think Ricky Williams as a freshman in the 200 free was the other big swim of the meet,” Rooney said.

ABOVE: St. Charles East’s Kyle Dunlap competes in the 200-yard individual medley Feb. 4 during the Upstate Eight Conference meet.

RIGHT: St. Charles North’s Will Myhre does the backstroke during the 200yard individual medley Feb. 4 at the Upstate Eight Conference meet.

GIRLS BASKETBALL POSTSEASON PREVIEW

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Batavia

Regional: Batavia Sectional: Glenbard West Sectional seed: No. 15 First game: 7 p.m. Feb. 13 vs. No. 17 West Chicago Outlook: It has been a struggle of late for the Bulldogs, who were saddled with a 7-19 record heading into the last week of the regular season. Although wins have been hard to come by recently, Batavia has a couple of things in its favor heading into the Class 4A playoffs.

First is home-court advantage, which could provide a boost for the Bulldogs if they can get past West Chicago and into a regional semifinal against No. 2 seed Wheaton North.

The second advantage is that Batavia doesn’t rely on just one superstar to carry the load. Geddy Rerko, Ava Sergio and Hailey Orman are just three pieces of a balanced offense. The 6-foot1 Sergio and 6-foot Rerko have size that few teams can match.

If Batavia can get on a roll and get past West Chicago and Wheaton North, it would play in the regional final Feb. 17.

Geneva

Regional: Hoffman Estates Sectional: Glenbard West Sectional seed: No. 1 First game: 7 p.m. Feb. 13 vs. No. 16 Glenbard East/No. 20 Hoffman Estates Outlook: Back-to-back losses to Os-

wego East and St. Charles North in the middle of January seemed to awaken the Vikings from their midseason doldrums. They won six straight by double digits after falling against the North Stars. Recent success notwithstanding, Geneva is a team to contend with in the Class 4A postseason.

Guard Margaret Whitley and post Grace Loberg both average double digits in scoring, but they are far from the only weapons. Stephanie Hart, Madison Mallory and Lindsay Blackmore are offensive threats who average five points or more per game. Meanwhile, the Vikings’ defensive intensity is tough to play against.

Geneva will be favored to win the

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St. Charles East’s Sara Rosenfeldt (left) and St. Charles North’s Jaz Harmon go after a loose ball Jan. 24 during a game at North. The Saints are the No. 4 seed and the North Stars are seeded No. 6 in the Class 4A Glenbard West sectional. regional semifinal and move on to the 4A playoffs, and they have a chance to Feb. 17 regional final against No. 8 do just that.

Glenbard West or No. 9 York.

East possesses a slew of offensive weapons that include Sara Rosenfeldt in the post and sharpshooting guards Rosary Nicole Jordan, Sam Munro and MaRegional: IMSA rissa Urso along the perimeter. HomeSectional: Kaneland court advantage will be an added bonus Sectional seed: No. 4 First game: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 vs. No. 6 Plano for the Saints, who have lost back-toback games only once all season.

The Saints will be favored to win the Outlook: The Royals have to like their chances against Plano in the regional semifinal and move on to the Class 3A regional semifinal. They won Feb. 16 regional final, where No. 5 seed 64-37 in a regular-season meeting Feb. 6 Wheaton Warrenville South could be the likely foe. The Saints topped the between the two teams.

Seniors Mary Kate Bakala, Aubrey Tigers 56-45 early in the season.

Fisher, Lauren Smith and Caitlyn Unruh will be looking to keep their seasons go- St. Charles North ing in the playoffs. If Rosary gets past Pla- Regional: Conant no once again, it would meet No. 1 seed Sectional: Glenbard West Kaneland in the regional final Feb. 17.

Sectional seed: No. 6

Camryn Pozna and Sami Sample bolster the offense, and North will be looking for more strong defensive play that has limited opponents to less than 40 points in four of the last seven games.

It will take a well-rounded effort to get past Conant in the regional semifinal, but if North can pull it off it likely would face No. 3 seed Rolling Meadows in the Feb. 16 regional final.

St. Francis

Regional: Wheaton Academy Sectional: Kaneland Sectional seed: No. 3 First game: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15 vs. No. 5 Aurora Central Catholic

Outlook: Isabel Bettag, Antwainette Walker, Mia Mazza and crew got a nice draw in the subdivided Class 3A KaneFirst game: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14 vs. No. 11 Conant land sectional. The Spartans are seeded St. Charles East behind No. 2 Sycamore in the regional, Regional: St. Charles East Outlook: A pair of recent three-game but a short trip to Wheaton Academy for Sectional: Glenbard West winning streaks shows that the North the regional is better than a long road trip Sectional seed: No. 4 Stars are on the right trajectory, and to Sterling, Rockford Lutheran or IMSA, First game: 6 p.m. Feb. 14 vs. No. 13 Lake they are hoping some of that momentum the other regional sites in the sectional.

Park/No. 19 Elk Grove carries over to the Class 4A postseason, A gritty Aurora Central Catholic In junior Anna Davern and senior team will pose a challenge. If St. FranOutlook: The Saints hope to keep a Lizzy Olsem, North has two reliable cis wins, it likely would face Sycamore tremendous season going in the Class scorers. Jaz Harmon, Grace Quinn, in the regional final Feb. 17.

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The months of practices and games was a precursor to the postseason for area teams Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles East and St. Charles North.

Here’s the outlook for those teams and others as the Class 3A and 4A playoffs get set to begin.

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Steel reach new level of success in Geneva

By KEVIN DRULEY editorial@kcchronicle.com GENEVA – For proper dissection of the Chicago Steel’s U.S. Hockey League season to date, begin with a glance at a front office white board.

There, beneath time listings for typical pregame rituals such as stretching and power play review, sits a telling bottom line.

On Jan. 27, it read, “7:05: Beat Cedar Rapids,” something the Steel did 5-1.

On any other night at Fox Valley Ice Arena, the last words after the scheduled puck drop may as well scream, “INSERT OPPONENT HERE.” Were the Steel, sitting with a 25-101-3 record entering the week of Feb. 6, second best in the USHL’s Eastern Conference simply because of an occasionally soothsaying sign outside the locker room? Hardly. But it sure stokes the club’s confidence, and that never hurts.

“It kind of gets us in the right mindset to not just show up and play every night, but win every night,” left wing Reggie Lutz said. “Grind out every game that we possibly can.”

The Steel earned 27 victories during the 2015-16 season, their first in Geneva after relocating from Bensenville in August 2015. There have been plenty of wins in Geneva, plus some other milestones. Chicago Steel Blackhawks Night on Jan. 21 brought a record-setting attendance figure of 2,156.

A torrid first month of this season put them firmly on course to eclipsing the win mark in a bid for the Steel’s first USHL playoff berth during the Fox Valley era. Chicago outscored opponents 38-10 in winning its first 10 games, needing overtime in only one.

Apart from a three-game losing streak that followed, the results haven’t leveled off behind an electric work ethic and energy.

“We come in every week and we try and do better than the week before,” defenseman Graham Lillibridge said.

“We just stay hungry and continue to do better, and then our coaches also do a great job of making sure we have that proper mindset to be chasing that title at the end of the year.”

To be sure, coach Dan Muse adds the requisite, “There’s still a lot of work to do,” after providing his own favorable state of the union as 21 regular-season games remained entering a four-game road trip that begins Feb. 10.

Lillibridge, a savvy, puck-moving defender Muse helped recruit to Yale before relocating his family to take the Steel job, even follows that ethic away from workouts and games.

A May 2016 trade with Muskegon (Mich.) not only allowed Lillibridge to return to his hometown of Gene-

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Former Chicago Blackhawks player Jamal Mayers (center) does the ceremonial puck drop as the Chicago Steel’s Marc Johnston (right) looks on Jan. 21 during Chicago Steel Blackhawks Night. The event drew 2,156, the largest crowd in the Steel’s time at Fox Valley Ice Arena. va and severely curtail his family’s commutes to home games, it opened a promotional door.

A Geneva senior who doubles as the Steel’s top-scoring defenseman (three goals and 18 assists for 21 points), Lillibridge takes time to enlighten classmates in USHL 101 as needed.

“I think it’s real cool that now that I’m back, I kind of get to explain or show them kind of the route that I’ve taken and what this league is all about,” Lillibridge said. “So it kind of opens some eyes to what junior hockey is and the path you take, since it’s different than other sports.”

The Steel roster features 21 NCAA commitments, including the “Mankato Line” of Minnesota State Mankato recruits Lutz, center Jake Jaremko and right wing Walker Duehr, who each have at least 27 points.

Jaremko and Duehr are among the holdovers from last season. Another, Michigan State-bound center Mitch Lewandowski, sensed something brewing when the Steel closed 2015-16 with eight wins in their last 13 games.

“We knew last year was kind of a

Walker Duehr of the Chicago Steel cuts to the net Jan. 21 during a game against the U-18 Team USA squad. The record-setting crowd of 2,156 in attendance was just one of several highlights so far this season for the Steel.

build-up year, and this year, we’ve got room every day and know that you’ve a lot of chemistry in the locker room,” got a shot to win every single game.”

The process begins by looking at the Lewandowski said. “Everyone clicks well. It’s really nice to walk into the board.

NAYS spring basketball tourney coming to area in March

JUSTIN BENJAMIN St. Charles East Sophomore | Wrestling Why Benjamin was selected: Benjamin won all three of his matches – two by pin and one by technical fall – at the Class 3A West Chicago regional to earn the 120-pound championship on Feb. 4. His efforts also helped St. Charles East capture the team regional title.

St. Charles East sophomore Justin Benjamin has some postseason experience despite his young age. At 113 pounds as a freshman, Benjamin won one of his three matches at the state meet. He has hopes to get back to state, this time as a sophomore at 120 pounds. The Feb. 4 West Chicago regional was a good start as not only did Benjamin win an individual regional title, but he also helped East win a team regional title. Benjamin, the St. Charles Bank & Trust Athlete of the Week, spoke with Kane County Chronicle correspondent Chris Casey to discuss what lies ahead, including the Hoffman Estates sectional beginning Feb. 10.

Casey: What did it mean to help East win a team regional title?

Benjamin: It felt really good. It’s school history with us being the first team to win a regional since the [St. Charles] schools split [in 2000]. It was just a rewarding feeling knowing that all of our hard work is paying off.

Casey: What has this week of preparation before sectionals been like for you?

Benjamin: It’s a lot of fine-tuning as an individual and as a team as a whole.

Continuing to show that mental toughness and not break in any match is huge this time of the year.

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Camps coming to the area: • June 12 to 16 in Carol Stream from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. daily.

Registration is open for youth basket• June 19 to 23 at the Bartlett Commuball tournaments to be hosted by North nity Center in Bartlett from 8:30 to 11:30 American Youth Sports in Aurora in a.m. daily.

March, May and July.

• July 10 to 14 at Berens Park in ElmThe tournaments will take place at hurst from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. daily.

East Aurora High School on March 25, • July 17 to 21 at Wredling Middle May 20 and July 8.

School in St. Charles from 8:30 to 11:30 Each tournament will have 12 bracka.m. daily. ets: Fourth- and fifth-grade boys; fourth• July 24 to 28 in Geneva from 8:30 to and fifth-grade girls; sixth-grade boys; 11:30 a.m. daily. sixth-grade girls; seventh-grade boys; For information about cost or to regisseventh-grade girls; eighth-grade boys; ter for the camps, visit www.Bears eighth-grade girls; ninth- and 10thCamps.com or call 312-226-5553. grade boys; ninth- and 10th-grade girls; 11th- and 12th-grade boys; and 11th- and 12th-grade girls. All brackets are based Kane County Cougars to host job fair Feb. 19 on the current grade of enrollment.

The Kane County Cougars will hold a The entry fee for each tournament is job fair for prospective seasonal em$160. ployees from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 19 at The deadlines to register for the tourNorthwestern Medicine Field. naments are March 10, May 5 and June Those interested are encouraged to 23, respectively. visit the ballpark at any time during the For more information, visit www. four-hour window to complete an applinorthamericanyouthsports.org or call cation.

The following part-time and fullthe NAYS hotline at 1-866-352-5915. time seasonal positions are available for the 2017 season: Chicago Bears youth football • concession stand staff (includes camps coming to area cashiers, food runners, cooks and picnic The Chicago Bears will host a number supervisor); of noncontact youth football camps in • picnic servers; the western suburbs in June and July.

• beer servers; Designed for children ages 6 through • vendor suite attendants; 14 and led by professional, USA Foot• Strike Zone servers; ball-certified coaches, kids learn to run, • cooks; and throw, catch, defend and compete like a • suite cooks. pro. Through safe, noncontact instrucApplications also are available at kction, the program develops athletic cougars.com or can be picked up at the skills, football skills and life skills.

Cougars front office at Northwestern Former Chicago Bears players Rashied Medicine Field.

Davis, Kris Haines, Al Harris, Michael For questions, contact the food and Haynes, Jason McKie and Jim Morrissey beverage department at 630-232-8811. will be on hand to lend instruction for – Kane County Chronicle the camps.

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Saints win Round 3 vs. North Stars KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE editorial@kcchronicle.com

ST. CHARLES – A longrange barrage helped lead St. Charles East to a big win against St. Charles North in the third meeting between the teams Jan. 31.

The Saints drained 12 3-pointers through three quarters – on 23 attempts – as they went on to win the Upstate Eight River game 67-57.

Justin Hardy, who finished with 16 points and 14 rebounds, drained three treys, as did Alec Champine (11 points) and sophomore Charles Murphy (nine points). Zach Robinson and Nathan Ortiz added seven points apiece for the Saints.

Kyle King finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds for North while senior guard Anthony Delisi had 16 points, six rebounds and five assists.

East followed its win with a 61-46 victory against Galesburg on Feb. 4 to improve to 14-7 overall.

North topped Elgin 47-32 on Feb. 3 to improve to 6-3 in UER play, but lost on the road against St. Joseph 75-68 on Feb. 4 to slip to 14-6 overall.

BOYS BASKETBALL Marmion

Sam Doroff scored a gamehigh 15 points, but Marmion lost 67-50 in a Chicago Catholic League game against Loyola on Feb. 3.

Jett Haas scored 12 points, Mick Sullivan added 11 and Ethan Bowman scored eight, but the Cadets slipped to 3-18 overall and 0-9 in CCL play.

GIRLS BOWLING Geneva

The Vikings fell short of a team sectional berth with a score of 4,122 at the Metea Valley regional Feb. 4, but Maddie Voss moved on individually to the Oak Lawn sectional with a 1,090 score.

St. Charles East

Strong showings from Meagan Markovich (1,146), Lorna Lopez (1,132), Cassandra Cartee (1,079) and Emma Vitallo (1,037) powered the Saints to

(220) placed second to move on, while Michael Donatelli won his third-place match at 138 to earn a sectional spot.

Marmion

Six champions led a parade of Cadets to the awards podium as Marmion captured the team title at the Class 3A Batavia regional Feb. 4.

Michael Jaffe (106 pounds), Trevor Chumbley (126), Anthony Cheloni (138), Brad Gross (152), Nate Jimenez (160) and Peter Ferraro (170) were Marmion’s champs. They earned first-round byes at the Downers Grove North sectional.

Jake Polka (145) made the finals and placed second, while Jacob Tinajero (113), Nathan Callaway (132) and Tyler Surges (195) won third-place matches.

St. Charles East

The Saints owned the lower weights and had a few champs at the upper weights as they won the team title at the Class 3A West Chicago regional Feb. 4.

Joe Ruffino (106 pounds), Ben Anderson (113), Justin Benjamin (120) and Lucson Schneider (126) took home regional titles, as did Max Hatch Jeff Krage - For Shaw Media (170), Cody Glidewell (182) and St. Charles East’s Justin Hardy (left) is defended by St. Charles North’s Cade Callaghan on Jan. 31 during a Max Schumann (285). game at St. Charles North. The Saints used long-range accuracy to build a big lead in a 67-57 win against Louis Gordon (132) and the North Stars.

Niko Derain (138) were runners-up at their weights, while third place at the Lake Park re- mores Jordan Walters (770) Grove North sectional.

Tommy Schneider (145) and and Faith Maranion (766) and gional Feb. 4.

Justin Hall (220) won thirdCourtney McCarron (573) senior Christy Koonce (266) Burlington Central place matches to make the secand Samantha Fisher (240) also contributed.

Austin Macias (126 pounds), tional. also helped East move on as a Nick Termini (132) and Erik team to the Fremd sectional at COMPETITIVE Hansen (195) were champs at St. Charles North Arlington Lanes on Feb. 11. the Class 2A Sycamore regionKolbe O’Brien won the CHEERLEADING al Feb. 4. They earned first- 132-pound title at the Class 3A St. Charles East round byes at the Sterling sec- West Chicago regional Feb. 4 St. Charles North A score of 81.91 in the Feb. tional.

Junior Alyssa Byers posted to move on to the Conant secSean McMillan made the tional. Chad Reynolds (152) a 1,309 score to win the individ- 3 prelims sent the Saints to the state finals, where they tallied 152 final and placed second to and Dominic Testa (160) placed ual title at the Lake Park regional Feb. 4. Her score was 10 an 82.63 to place eighth in the also earn a sectional berth for second to also qualify for the pins ahead of runner-up Emily state in the large team divi- the Rockets. sectional field.

Tornabene from Lake Park, sion. which won the team title with Geneva St. Francis a 5,645 total. North placed sec- WRESTLING Nick Sowers (160 pounds) Ben Bougadis (113 pounds), ond (5,220) to move on to the Batavia strode to the top of the awards Vincent D’Orazio (126), Stan Fremd sectional at Arlington Justin Major (second at 132 podium at the Class 3A West Hilger (138), Colin James (145), Lanes on Feb. 11. pounds), Seth Winkle (third at Chicago regional Feb. 4 to Daniel Dickerson (152) and Seniors Claire Sebastian 145) and Joe Posledni (third lead a slew of Vikings into the Daniel Skold (170) all moved (1,143) and Brooke Paulson at 160) survived the Bulldogs’ Conant sectional. on from the Class 2A Fenton (966) were the Nos. 2 and 3 tough Class 3A regional Feb. Honor Nguyen (113), Kevin regional Feb. 4 to the Wauconbowlers for North. Sopho- 4 to move on to the Downers Huck (145) and Cole Campbell da sectional.

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5 THINGS TO DO IN AND AROUND KANE COUNTY

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WHERE: Gallery 125 at Sugar Grove Public Library, 125 S. Municipal Drive, Sugar Grove WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 15 COST & INFO: Free admission; 630-466-4686, sgpl.org ABOUT: Oil pastel artist Deann Alleman of Sugar Grove is among the exhibitors in a spring show featuring handcrafts, oils, murals and photographs. Opening remarks will start at 7 p.m., and wine and refreshments will be served. Acoustic guitar music will be provided in the café by Santos Ramos of the band Saint Astro. The opening is paired with a Sugar Grove Chamber of Commerce after-hours event.

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HOME SHOW

WHERE: Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 10 to 12 COST & INFO: $7 for adults ages 18 and older, and $4 for ages 62 and older; kennedyproductions.com, 630-515-1160 ABOUT: New to The Old House New House Home Show, “Decorating Style School” will be offered by The DIY Playbook at noon Feb. 12. Bridget Matkovich and Casey Finn, style-savvy bloggers, will share their decorating tips and how-tos with homeowners.

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WHERE: Les Arends Forest Preserve, 2S731 Lincoln Way (Route 31), Batavia WHEN: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 16 COST & INFO: Free; advance registration required at 630-444-3190 or programs@kaneforest.com ABOUT: A two-hour Trek with a Naturalist will be offered by the Forest Preserve District of Kane County for adults ages 18 and older. It’s described as an active ecology hike and will be followed by another trek from 5 to 7 p.m. March 16 at Jon J. Duerr Forest Preserve, 35W003 Route 31, South Elgin.

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WHERE: Aurora University’s black box, Stephens Hall, 347 S. Gladstone Ave., Aurora WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10, 11 and 15 to 18 COST & INFO: Free; 630-844-7594, aurora. edu/arts/theatre ABOUT: Nigel Bennett and Ben Donahue are in the world premiere of a dark comedy called “Fuller (and Edgar) in the House of Usher.” It features Poe stories and poems with a central narrative about the relationship between feminist writer Margaret Fuller and Poe.

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MONKEE SHINES

WHERE: Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles WHEN: 8 p.m. Feb. 11 COST & INFO: $39; arcadalive.com, 630-962-7000 ABOUT: Micky Dolenz will take the stage. After selling more than 65 million records worldwide as the star of “The Monkees” television show, Dolenz has pursued a varied career as actor, director, writer, producer and performer. The Monkees’ debut single, “Last Train to Clarksville,” featuring Dolenz on lead vocals, hit the charts in the fall of 1966 and rocketed to No. 1.

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Crazy Fox Bar & Grille finds cozy den in St. Charles

By RENEE TOMELL

LEFT: The Crazy Fox Bar & Grille recently opened at 104 E. Main St. in St. Charles, in the heart of the entertainment district.

rtomell@shawmedia.com ST. CHARLES – The proprietors of the newly opened The Crazy Fox Bar & Grille in downtown St. Charles hope the name will be synonymous with crazy good.

Located a block east of the Fox River, it’s easy to see where Daniela and Peter Zaikowski came up with the naming inspiration. He said they contemplated several variations, but knew they had a winner when a graphic artist friend created an amusing cartoon of a crazed fox that captured the spirit they intended.

“We wanted it to be fun and relaxing at the same time,” he said of the vibe for the new venture, noting the chef has been a family friend for 20 years. “[We] sat down together and came up with a menu we all liked and we think everyone else will like,” Peter Zaikowski said.

Popular dishes include the charcuterie platter, pastas, chicken Vesuvio, burgers, pan-roasted salmon and calamari. The charcuterie platter tempts taste buds with three types of meats and cheeses, a little honeycomb, olives, grapes and dried apricots. The menu also features sandwiches, salads and a signature Death

by Chocolate dessert.

Peter said Crazy Fox is intended to be a blend of family-friendly casual, with dining options that run the gamut. The concept grew out of the couple’s combined 30-some years of experience running restaurants. He said The Crazy Fox’s motto is service.

“We decided to open up our own place instead of work for someone else,” he said. “It’s been a dream of ours. And when the space opened up in St. Charles, we couldn’t pass it up.”

To create their vision, he and his wife, and son Stojko, a manager, worked every day for months after buying the building in September.

They chose the 2,200-square-foot space because of its location in the heart of St. Charles’ entertainment district.

“We totally remodeled everything,” Peter said. We [have] a brand-new kitchen. My wife designed the bar, and I built it.”

The rich curving wood of the bar top has a modern backdrop of stone to showcase the extensive choice of libations, including 10 rotating beers on tap.

“Right now, we’re getting our feet wet,” he said. “We have a good selection of wines, and over 100 different kinds of spirits. We were looking for a warm cozy feeling, where people can come in and relax and have dinner or a glass of wine or a drink.”

BELOW: Pan-roasted salmon is prepared with a honey mustard glaze and bread crumbs, and served with roasted potatoes and vegetables at the newly launched The Crazy Fox Bar & Grille in downtown St. Charles.

Photos by Sandy Bressner sbressner@shawmedia.com

Crazy Fox Bar & Grille has 10 rotating beers on tap.

The Crazy Fox Bar & Grille ■ WHEN: 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. daily; kitchen

The Crazy Fox launched just less than a month ago. Peter said patrons can bring their children and friends to grab a burger and watch a game on one of six televisions, or have a date night with a fine meal and a bottle of wine.

And now that The Crazy Fox is in play, the couple can turn their attention to building out their own home.

is open until 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday ■ WHERE: 104 E. Main St., St. Charles ■ INFO: 630-940-2876 or facebook. com/TheCrazyFoxStCharles “We live in Bartlett, and will be living above the bar,” Peter said. “With all the hours we’re working, it makes sense to live right above. We love St. Charles.”

Pretzel sticks are served with cheddar cheese sauce and hot bacon honey mustard at Crazy Fox Bar & Grille in St. Charles.

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Stageworks to present ‘Wizard of Oz’

By STEFANIE FRAZIER editorial@kcchronicle.com GENEVA – During a recent rehearsal for “The Wizard of Oz,” the Stageworks cast sang, acted and danced inside a black box theatre.

Stageworks in Geneva provides educational and performing opportunities for students ages 3 to 93.

Amber Mitchell, artistic director of Stageworks, speaks to parents about the benefits of participating in theater – ranging from a boost in self-confidence and literacy imagination to critical thinking and problem solving, increased empathy, public speaking skills and better teamwork. “[I want] to help develop a love of theatre and to create a rehearsal process where they’re learning about theatre as they are learning to be in a show,” Mitchell said. “And we’re definitely about the process of theatre.”

“Wizard of Oz” includes 35 cast members. The youngest character is 1 year old. These cast members travel from all over – Sugar Grove, Elburn, South Elgin, Geneva, North Aurora, Aurora, Wheaton and Warrenville.

The black box theater consists of an intimate room. The rectangular stage for “The Wizard of Oz” includes plants with colorful leaves, representing trees.

One side has stairs and a balcony.

Mitchell clapped her hands as children whirled quickly around Connie Gush, subbing as the Cowardly Lion; Chloe Totman, playing Toto; Caylin Wheeler, as Dorothy; Mindy Kaplan, as the Scarecrow; and Ryan Barabasz, as the Tin Man. “Running like banshees is not what I’m looking for,” Mitchell said. “We’re going to try with music and see what happens.”

Mitchell then let out a big “ha, ha!”

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Glinda the Good Witch (center) is surrounded by Munchkins from the cast of Stageworks’ “The Wizard of Oz.” She sat by a stand with music and played “The Jitterbug” track on a laptop. Mitchell warned the cast of what to expect initially.

“This is going to be like a train wreck,” Mitchell said. “I know that it will be rough.”

During the next take, music played again. A few held scripts as the main characters wore worried facial expressions.

They crossed their legs, walking to the side. Again, kids whirled around them.

“Let’s try that again,” Mitchell said. “Not too bad.”

After several takes and added choreography, cast members began to rush and spook, making crawly fingers and evening learning some kick-steps.

In between, Mitchell called out directions like “Be careful! Go back!

Wait for it!”

“That went pretty good,” Mitchell said.

Aurora resident Ava Barabasz, 4, had a determined look on her face as she rushed around the main characters. Hers sneakers lit up in pink.

During the break, Ava, who plays a monkey, Munchkin, poppy and Ozian, spoke about a particular part she likes to play.

“I like being a flying monkey,” she said. “I feel like a strawberry when I fly a little bit.”

Many cast members expressed what they get out of being in “The Wizard of Oz.” Elburn resident Connie Gush, 71, plays the Wicked Witch of the West.

“It’s given me a bright outlook on life again,” Gush said. “It makes me just feel good.”

Linda Ray, 10, of Sugar Grove, plays a Munchkin, Ozian, tree, jitterbug and poppy.

“I love being part of this,” Linda said. “I just love to act.”

Fourth-grader Keiton Westfall, also of Sugar Grove, is no stranger to the stage.

He even played the little boy in the Kaneland Arts Initiative’s “Mary Poppins.”

This time, Keiton will be playing a Munchkin, barrister, crow, Winkie and jitterbug.

“It’s sort of like nervousing,” Keiton said. “But once you get into the habit of it, you’re like, ‘Hmm. This could be fun.’”

Camber Wesley, 10, of Elburn also plays multiple characters.

She recently saw “The Little Mermaid” at Paramount Theatre in Aurora, and was inspired.

“I was thinking like that could be me one day,” Camber said.

“The Wizard of Oz” musical will run from March 10 to 12 at Stageworks, 204 Dearborn Court, Suite 104, Geneva.

Call 630-750-1010 for information.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Steve Richards concert at EvenFlow

By BRENDA SCHORY bschory@shawmedia.com GENEVA – Tribute artist Steve Richards will perform a free concert from 8 to 11 p.m. Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, at EvenFlow Music & Spirits, 302 W. State St., Geneva.

Richards said he will perform a medley of love songs from Neil Diamond, Elton John, Garth Brooks, Elvis and Billy Joel, among others.

“I started doing Elvis – as many people have done,” Richards said. “I enjoyed his music and tried to emulate him, and I started to sound a lot like him. Friends said, ‘Why don’t you do it at party?’ And all of a sudden, you

do it in front of people and their jaws drop and eyes open and it’s, ‘Where did that come from?’ and you start getting attention you never got before.”

Steve Richards began Richards developing his ability to mimic other artists, right down to their stage presence, resulting in a 25-year career of tribute performances, he said.

“I always had a love for music, just a great deal of heart and passion for it,” Richards said. “Music is universal.

Women, men – everybody enjoys it. It takes you back to a time and a place

– if its done the right way – where you remember when it came out. It’s amazing how it transports you. Like something that happened in school, or your first date or the first time you wear a suit.”

But Richards’ tribute career also had a 15-year detour.

“The Beatles started singing because they got girls,” Richards said.

“I met a girl, and it was, ‘Oh Honey, I wish you’d give that up.’ I said, ‘OK.’ and I gave it up.”

Then Richards saw a newspaper ad seeking a Neil Diamond impersonator for a band someone was setting up.

“I went to the audition. I sang ‘America’ for him, and [he] lost his

mind,” Richards said. “He said, ‘You are the guy I have been looking for.’ I was a trailblazer. No one had done [or] could do what Neil Diamond does in concert.”

His relationship ended, but his career as a tribute singer blossomed and expanded. By sheer accident during a Neil Diamond rehearsal, one of the band members started doing “Benny and the Jets” and Richards started doing Elton John.

“I did not know what I was capable of until I started,” Richards said. “[Elton John] has a high range. … I can go very high and very low, and keep it without cracking. I’ve been called the Rich Little of musical impressions.”

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EARL & THE AGITATORS WITH MEMBERS WHO HAVE PLAYED WITH BUDDY GUY AND FOGHAT: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9, Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles. Coming events include Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad and Foghat double bill, 8 p.m. Feb. 10; Micky Do-

Wright, Walter Frazier & Howard Raftery, lenz of The Monkees, 8 p.m. Feb. 11; the opera starring Mojo & The Bayou Gypsies from New Jacques Brownson and Thomas Emma, as “Carmen” by Teatro Lirico d’Europa, including Orleans, 8 p.m. Feb. 24; and legendary actress Rita Moreno, one of only 12 living performers well as builders such as the Wilson Brothers.

40-piece orchestra, 3 p.m. Feb. 12; Valentine’s to have won an Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Day with The Buckinghams, Ides of March, Grammy, 3 p.m. Feb. 26. Visit arcadalive.com Saturday. Admission is $3, $2 for children New Colony Six, Cryan’ Shames and Shadows or call 630-962-7000. ages 3 to 10. For information, visit Genevaof Knight, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14; a Charlie Chaplin AN ARCHITECTURE EXHIBIT: Through Nov. HistoryMuseum.org or call 630-232-4951. silent movie, “The Kid,” with Jay Warren on 4, Geneva History Museum, 113 S. Third “SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF the Arcada pipe organ, 7 p.m. Feb. 15; two St., Geneva. “Inside & Out: Geneva’s Faces, FLEET STREET:” Through March 19, Paramount different Genesis tribute concerts by The MuPlaces & Spaces” highlights the people who Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora. The Sondsical Box, 8 p.m. Feb. 17 and 18, authorized by designed, constructed and lived in some heim musical is described as a Victorian-era, Peter Gabriel; actor Jack Lemmon’s son, Chris of Geneva’s most interesting homes and pitch-black comedy filled with thrills and terrors.

Lemmon, in “A Twist of Lemmon: The Jack buildings. The exhibition is sponsored by the Lemmon Story,” accompanying himself at the Fabyan Foundation, and features Frank Lloyd piano, 3 p.m. Feb. 19; a Mojo Mardi Gras Party See CALENDAR, page 49

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Carving out a creative space at home The world always seems to want to put us into particular boxes and categories, especially when it comes to the subject of creativity. I believe we all posses an amount of creativity and the ability to bring to life tangible expressions of what we visualize in our imagination.

Whether that concept is in the form of a beautiful watercolor painting or a complex mathematical equation, our ability as humans to muster new ideas is always at the ready, like a little seed ready to burst forth from the ground!

Often what we are lacking to produce these momentous creations is a space in which to mold our ideas into life. Our task for today is to unearth that space somewhere in your home.

This area does not have to be large or a fancy remodeled addition to your home (although it can), what it does need to be is a space where your mind can think freely.

For example, I live in a teeny, tiny house, so opportunities for space is very limited, so I have carved out a corner of my couch that is almost like a nook, to read or research. I feel safe and cozy there and know I can execute a more loosey-goosey kind of creating (i.e. reading magazines to get inspired, jotting down notes in my journal, scrolling through Instagram for beautiful images to share later). But when it’s go time and I have major deadlines looming, I head straight to my kitchen table armed with a cup of tea and essential oils diffusing behind me. The wood chairs demand my posture to be at attention, ready to be productive.

Of course, I felt compelled to reach

THE MODERN DOMESTIC WOMAN Elizabeth Rago out to some of my creative friends to see how their space differed from my own, so I asked Miss Amy Guth, host of the “Saturday Night Special” on WGN and executive director of the Chicago-based production company, Strangewaze, for a peek into her creative space of choice.

“I’m a big believer in the connection between environment and how we feel, so I tend to be very tidy and organized in order to minimize distractions and time spent looking for things, and to generally have a straightforwardly calm vibe going on,” Guth said.

Depending on the nature of work Guth is creating, her space changes. “I picked a tall kitchen table, so it can be both an art space and a standing desk in addition to a regular table, and I often stand there to do work or to work on paint and calligraphy commissions, Bluetooth speaker nearby for a soundtrack.”

While standing keeps her motivated, which Guth states is a “breeding ground for positivity and confidence,” she opts for her bedroom desk or even her bed when she is focusing on more heart-rendering work.

“There’s something completely safe and reassuring about bedrooms, and since I have to sometimes consciously remind myself that vulnerability is ideal and OK, it doesn’t hurt to support and reinforce with my surround-

ing environment before letting the vulnerable work commence.”

While she retreats to her safe creative space at home, Guth still finds value in a coffee shop or coworking space when she needs a change.

Chicagoland native and a fellow Rosary High School alumna Jenn Harris was my next go-to when it comes to peeking into creative spaces. An actress and producer, Harris has been creating in the same space for 16.5 years in Brooklyn, New York.

“I’m a creature of comfort, not so much in my actual work, there I like it uncomfortable, but surrounding me needs to be highly familiar and clean so I can make my messes,” Harris said.

“I’m easily distracted so if something is out of place where I’m trying to work, I’m not able to focus as much.”

Similar to Guth, Harris has carved out two places in her apartment to create – her bed and a space she lovingly refers to as “the blue room.”

“My bed is king-sized (best purchase ever!) and cozy and reserved for more intimate work like researching, learning lines, editing something I wrote, reading scripts, etc. I have a tray that rests on top with tea and coffee and snacks, and I will almost always have a candle lit or some incense.”

I love the idea of color to bring about ideas, and Harris has found creative asylum in a space she painted a vibrant yet focused robin blue hue.

Her desktop computer is housed there, and this particular space is reserved for bigger projects.

“I’ll edit content we’ve shot, work

on a writing submission, handle production work, promotional material, props work, always with music playing. In the blue room I can spread out Barbies and props and get [a] bigger picture of what I’m going for with a performance piece.”

And let’s not forget about music.

“Music ALWAYS inspires something bigger outta me, and usually if I start playing it in my bedroom I’m going to have to move to the blue room to get bigger!”

These two ladies have really shed some light on elements that rally ideas, making me more interested than ever in seeking out specific digs that get my creative juices flowing. In an effort to keep on with this idea of “heart-keeping,” we must map out a space that makes us feel safe, or simply dust off the memory of what once brought us to create. No pressure, in fact, baby steps in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire, are the best course of action when finding the creative you.

Smitten with domestic life, but not to the point of unhealthy obsession, “The Modern Domestic Woman” author and St. Charles resident, Elizabeth Rago, is a freelance writer who spends her days writing for PB Kitchen Design in Geneva. You can visit her blog at thecircularhome.com or connect with Rago on Facebook at facebook.com/TheModernDomesticWoman. Rago’s column in the Kane County Chronicle runs the first and third Thursdays of the month. Feedback can be sent to editorial@kcchronicle.com.

Get hyperpersonal music retail experience with Jank KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE editorial@kcchronicle.com ST. CHARLES – The Jank Music Group – via The Jank Guitar Store in St. Charles – has debuted a fresh, hyper-personal music retail experience with the release of “Playlist: The Collection” by the musical group Casely and The Jank.

The unique music store combines the convenience of digital distribution with features such as easily accessible lyrics and liner notes, typically lost with digital music retailers, stated a news release. The user-driven platform allows fans to “Build Your Own Album” – selecting their favorite tracks from the 82 songs of “Playlist: The Collection” to create their own personal musical experience.

The Jank Guitar Store provides an MP3 version, plus a high-definition

WAV version of each song, along with its artwork. This provides a “superior listening experience” for any user devices, the release stated. In the first quarter of 2017, collectible merchandise – such as custom designed T-shirts – will be released for each track, further individualizing this one-of-a-kind experience.

The Jank Guitar Store owner, Scott Corbin, said that he is especially proud of this expansion because of his own personal connection to the music.

“I’m very proud of this piece of work because the main ingredient of this special genre called ‘Jank’ is guitar,” he said in the release. “As a professional guitarist and someone who just loves and appreciates the instrument, a strong, defining guitar presence means a lot to me.”

The Jank Guitar Store’s digital music platform is the first of its kind, according to the release. The user-centric combination of allowing the

listener to “Build Your Own Album” from a selection curated by the artist; the complete availability of music, artwork, lyrics and liner notes in a single platform; and the line of track-specific merchandise allows users to immerse themselves in music like never before.

“Our goal was to really deliver a complete experience to every listener,” said Steve Douglas, member and creative director of Casely and The Jank, in the release. “No matter what roads we travel on in life, music is a defining element. Each song means something different to each listener. We’ve worked to make this a platform that lets the listener define that element from our collection, where every track is hand-picked to create their own personal sound. Giving them the complete package – and the control to decide which songs speak to them and make their own albums – lets them create the

soundtrack for their personal journey.”

“Playlist: The Collection” is the first album to be released on The Jank Guitar Store’s platform. “Playlist: The Collection” was released in Asia on Nov. 30, 2016, and had more than 875,000 downloads in its first week, the release stated. The music was made popular by several previous collections the group had released via services such as iTunes and Youku to build their international appeal.

The Jank Guitar Store is the exclusive North American distributor of “Playlist: The Collection,” which is on special limited release in St. Charles, to be followed by its nationwide North American release June 12. More select artists will be distributed via The Jank Guitar Store beginning in 2020.

“Playlist: The Collection” can be accessed at www.thejankguitarstore. com/ptc-2016.

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What are students eating this year?

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A friend recently shared with me the rules and regulations from her daughter’s school regarding food.

The letter, two pages long, explains the administration’s decision to stop offering peanut products because of students’ allergies.

It also addresses birthday and holiday treats – the focus of which, the letter emphasizes, should turn away from food as rewards, for health reasons and allergy safety.

Stickers, pencils and erasers are among the treats suggested for sharing; cupcakes, brownies and chips are now forbidden.

“Those kids are going to be eating the erasers,” one of my crusty co-workers commented as we discussed the policies.

The rules, I know, are similar to those adopted at many other schools throughout central Ohio.

Nowadays, schools deal with a host of students’ allergies and dietary issues that were virtually unheard of in my day.

The letter, though, made me wonder what school lunch is like in 2016 – and the staff and students at High Point Elementary School in Gahanna, Ohio, graciously allowed me to satisfy my curiosity.

Not sure what to expect, I was surprised to find “breakfast for lunch” being served on the day I visited.

The menu: Miniature maple-flavored pancakes, chicken sausage patties, seasoned sweet-potato hash browns, a choice of orange slices or fresh strawberries, salad and milk.

I dined across from third-grader Samara Schroeder, who offered me plenty of advice about negotiating the cafeteria. (As a shout-out to her parents, I am convinced that she will be advising presidents someday.)

If you don’t want milk, Samara pointed out, there’s water instead.

Check.

The pizza, when available, is good, she advised, “but the calzone is nasty.” Duly noted.

Samara, who had two sausage patties on her tray, explained that the lunch ladies are happy to give a second but prefer that students ask

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School lunches have changed in recent years to comply with new federal nutrition guidelines aimed at getting children to eat more healthfully. They feature more whole grains, fruits and vegetables. when in line the first time. Worth remembering.

The pancakes served that day seemed popular, as were the fresh strawberries. The kids, however, were pretty evenly divided over whether sweet potatoes are delicious or evil.

The plastic “spork” made eating difficult, and I noticed that most kids used their hands to pick up their sausage patties and pancakes.

Call me the manners police, but I’m not sure this change represents one for the better.

Linda Green, child-nutrition supervisor for Gahanna-Jefferson schools, said many changes are taking place in the lunch room – some because of allergies.

The district schools don’t serve

peanut butter, she said, but children are allowed to pack it in their lunches.

Lunch tables are clearly marked as “peanut-free zones.”

Green said the school offers a Wowbutter and jelly sandwich containing a toasted soy peanut butter substitute. (I sampled it and was not wowed. It has the same look and texture of peanut butter but lacks the flavor. Maybe kids don’t notice the difference.)

Most of the lunch changes, though, were made to comply with new federal nutrition guidelines aimed at getting kids to eat more healthfully, she said.

Whole grains are in everything from the pancakes to pizza crusts and pasta, Green said. At least three fruits or vegetables must be offered daily; and the schools have opted to offer

tossed salad fixings every day to help satisfy those requirements.

Encouraging children to eat salad is always a good idea.

Eight-year-old Samara, however, clued me in that the salad is consumed “mostly by visitors.”

Her best advice, I was pleased to discover, is unfazed by food allergies or nutrition guidelines: The faster students eat, the more time they have on the playground for recess.

It’s good to know that some things don’t change.

Lisa Abraham writes about food for The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.

Email her at labraham@dispatch.com or follow her on Twitter at @DispatchKitchen.

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FAMILY

OH NO! Middle school!

A frazzled girl shares journey, insights into preteens

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s a middle-schooler, Booki Vivat stressed over what her “thing” was: What was the thing that made her special? Now, the 20-something is mining that territory in a book that is resonating with tweens.

Her debut book, “Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom,” chronicles the life of sixth-grader Abbie Wu. Vivat, an associate publicist at Harper Collins Children’s Books, wrote and illustrated the book, which incorporates black ink drawings with text to tell the tale of a beleaguered adolescent.

We spoke with Vivat, 27, about middle school, finding a “thing,” and the allure of books that combine art with text.

Washington Post: Why set your book in middle school?

Booki Vivat: When I was deciding what I wanted to write, I had this character

in mind and a character that was a fictionalized version of myself when I was young. I went back to thinking about when things started changing for me – when I started feeling this sense of impending doom and the sense that I wasn’t sure what I was doing and where I was going. For me that was middle school; I felt this pressure to have things figured out.

The great thing about kids is What better place to have my character who is terrified of change, terrified of they are honest about having not knowing where she is going, than in [big] emotions. As an adult, middle school?

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WP: What are Abbie’s big concerns?

BV: Abbie is wrestling with three big

questions – she’s wrestling with them in her middle school context, but these are questions we’re all kind of dealing with as we grow up. The questions of who I am, where do I belong and what is my thing.

WP: What do you mean by a “thing?”

BV: What am I good at, what am I

known for? Everyone is searching for their thing. In our culture, our society, there is an expectation that when you know what your thing is you know who you are. For me, that was a question that came up in middle school.

you feel like you have to hold it in, but as a kid you have the freedom to feel things. When you start getting older, you’re told to calm down, be more controlled. I wanted my readers to feel like the big feelings were valid and completely understandable.”

Booki Vivat Young adult author

WP: What makes middle school so scary?

BV: In middle school things get a little more serious. There’s a level of uncertainty and change that feels very big, going from elementary school to middle school.

For me, in middle school we went from having one teacher to having a bunch of

teachers to having lockers to having shifting schedules. Also, in middle school you are changing so much. You enter one way and you get out physically a different person, as well as mentally. There is this level of uncertainty that is terrifying.

WP: Abbie has big emotions.

BV: The great thing about kids is they

are honest about having those emotions. As an adult, you feel like you have to hold it in, but as a kid you have the freedom to feel things. When you start getting older, you’re told to calm down, be more controlled. I wanted my readers to feel like the big feelings were valid and completely understandable.

WP: What was your goal in writing this book?

BV: I wanted to highlight the fact that

growing up and getting older is a process. You can feel like something is your thing one moment, and then the next moment it’s not your thing anymore.

WP: What is the appeal of illustrated books for kids?

BV: Kids nowadays are very savvy, and they are visual learners. They can ascribe a lot of meaning to actual images because so much more is readily available. It’s a whole new level of literacy. They are seeking out different ways of telling stories and different ways of reading stories.

WP: How did the book come about?

BV: It didn’t start with a manuscript

or query letter or any typical form of getting a book published. I have these planners where I write down my appointments, and I started keeping them a few years ago. I noticed as the years have passed I started doodling and playing around with text and using it as a creative outlet. Soon doodles started taking over the page. I’ll draw my appointments but also how I’m feeling that day. At one point, this fell into the hands of an editor at Harper Collins. She saw a doodle I had done; it was very dramatic and very personal.

It said ‘I live my life in a constant state of impending doom.’ It was a picture of me being crushed by words. She said ‘There’s a story here. That’s our girl.’

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8 p.m. on @ WFLD Sleepy Hollow The keys danced back and forth, Sometimes even heroes are prone to overthinkbright little soldiers on their hooks, ing, and in a new episode called “Homecoming,” several deep.

Crane (Tom Mison) and his team suddenly real“When weDreyfuss bought(Jeremy it, the house ize the talisman Davies) was has been seeking very wellthe be stashed already 150could years old,” ownerinofthe the most of places.

That epiphany shopobvious said. Her daughter walkedsends passed the group racing to secure the prize before evil in theare narrow the counter. forces aligned.space Later, behind Jenny (Lyndie Green“Mom,” herare daughter wood) and Crane haunted bymurmured, bittersweet memories as theyfor return to Sleepy on Hollow hand resting a moment herand revisit important partsLock of theirand past.Key Service shoulder.

Van’s p.m. onI R WPWR in Aurora,8where brought the broReign bedroom door ken parts of my son’s “With Friends Like These,” whichcool opens the In handle for repair, is one place. fourth and final season of this historical soap, business since 1969, the kind folks at finds Queen Mary (Adelaide Kane) back in her Van’s the job the machine Scottishgot homeland, yetdone. still notAs sure whom she employed tolearning do so rumbled to James’ life can trust. After of her brother (Dan Jeannotte) meeting with wall John Knox (Jona-I adjacent to the sparkly of keys, than Goad), she decides to put histhe loyalty to the almost giggled imagining cascade test. Queen Elizabeth (Rachel Skarsten) agrees and the cacophony they tumble to help Lord Darnley (Willshould Kemp), hoping to torfrom their perches. wished I with could pedo the powerful suitor’sIrelationship Mary.

Megan Follows stars.on behind that see what wasalso going little wall. It wason so^ WBBM unlike me, not to 9 p.m.

Bloods ask. But I wasBlue tired, tired of the news, A manofwhose drunken and drivingworrying, caused two and and wondering deaths is murdered in thein new episode “Lost of so I reveled instead the comforts Souls.”

Determining that a survivor of thechair victims the sturdy, old leather-covered may have committed the killing, Danny and by the door,Wahlberg, from where could see Baez (Donnie MarisaIRamirez) weigh empathy against duty in trying to decide how to proceed. Erin’s (Bridget Moynahan) request for Anthony (Steve Schirripa) to wear a wire to gather evidence against a friend gives him mixed Continued from 45(“House”) guest feelings. Robert Seanpage Leonard stars.

9 p.m. on + WTTW An English barber murders his customers with Smokey Robinson: The Library of Congress a straight razor Prize and –for with his accomplice Gershwin Popular Song – processes their corpses into meat pies.

Beloved singer-songwriter and rhythm-and-blues icon Smokey receives the 2016 GershRated PG-13,Robinson it is staged and choreographed win for Director Popular Song in ceremonies taped byPrize Artistic Jim Corti, who staged last last November at the Daughters of the American season’s Jeff Award-winning best musical Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. “WestbySide Story.” runtheWednesday Hosted Samuel L. Shows Jackson, event features an appearance

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Rotating among threethe different courses and then coaxed it and various in this region of California this event from other old parts I’d carried in comes the bag, the Pebble Beach Golf Links, which sits right on back together like a puzzle.

Perfect the Pacific Ocean offering incredible views forfit.

Nothing spectators wasted. and TV viewers alike.

“Just missing screw,” he said, 6:30 p.m.aon ^ WBBM Grammy Red where Carpet Live pointing to the place it should be, and then we both leaned inO’Dell to inspect “Entertainment Tonight’s” Nancy and Kevin Frazier work the carpet and theI’d microphone the balled-up shopping bag carried to it interview many of music’s top stars as they enter in.

Nothing but dust.

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Los Angeles’ Staples Center for the recording “It’s probably myAsson’s carindustry’s big, annual on event. is usual on such pet,” I said. haven’t vacuumed yet, occasions, the “I brief-by-necessity conversations may not be Ioverly substantial, butmy as long as one though,” added, hopeful domestic key question is asked — “Who are you wearnon-goddess-ness had an upside. But ing?” — the great majority of viewers should be the man with the parts in his hands satisfied. had already7 moved on. p.m. on ^ WBBM “I’ll see what I’veGrammy got,” heAwards said, as he The 59th Annual headed to the of Karaoke” his shoponand rumAs the master of back “Carpool his latenight show, James Corden is an appropriate maged through the possibilities until choice to host recording he found onethethat fit. Ofindustry’s course top he annual did! night of musical recognition and celebration.

A place like this has seen every manOriginating from Los Angeles’ Staples Center, ner of such wares passperformances through it.byGood the event is slated to offer Adele, I’d Bruno Mars, John Legend, Metallica,good folks. been referred by another CarrieSteve Underwood and Keith Urban. Beyonce is guy, of “Steve’s Sanding,” who’d the leader among the nominees with nine bids, sent me to Van’s in the first place after while Drake, Rihanna and Kanye West have delighting eight each. in near-reverence at the age 7 p.m. on + WTTW Mercy Street military and local police and fire personnel.

Numerous Union soldiers are in need of treatReservations areSecond encouraged at Bull riverfrontment following the Battle of Run in the new episode “Southern Mercy.” Hopkins and playhouse.com and 630-897-9496.

Emma (Luke PREMIERE Macfarlane,OF Hannah James) grow THE WORLD AN ORIGINAL closer during their mission to save the wounded DARK men.

COMEDY SEAN GRANEY: 7:30 p.m. military FosterBY(Josh Radnor) is surprised 10, 11, 15 to 18, about Auroraone University in AubyFeb. what’s discovered soldier. AnnaSophia GaryitsCole, Murphy, Norbert rora,Robb, opening newDonna black box studio space Leo Butz, Jack Falahee and Tara Summers also in Stephens Hall.

“Fuller (and Edgar) in the star.

House of Usher” was completely reworked 7 p.m. on @ WFLD from Graney’s original adaptation. The new The Simpsons piece features five actors, more Poe stories in The healthy-cuisine rage overtakes Springfield the episode forcing Homer andnew poems and“Fatzcarraldo,” a central narrative about the (voice of Dan Castellaneta) to seek out the last relationship between feminist writer Margalocal restaurant that offers the kind of greasy ret Fuller and Poe. Admission is free and there eats he craves.

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Important dating rules to follow Dr. Wallace: I’m 15 and my parents have just allowed me to start dating.

I understand that dating privileges can be considered an honor and I don’t want to abuse the trust my parents have placed in me.

I would really appreciate it if you could list your five most important dating rules for teens when it comes to keeping parents happy.

I promise to cut them out and keep them with me whenever I’m dating. – Eve, St. Louis, Mo. Eve: Your request was a challenge and it took me some time to narrow a lengthy list down to a “Top Five” list of the most important dating rules for teens when it comes to keeping parents happy.

I had to rely on my own days as a teen, and as a parent of teens, as well as my teaching experience to come up with this list of the Top Five Dating Rules: 1. Arrive home a few minutes before the designated curfew.

Never come home after the time set by your parents unless it is totally unavoidable. In this rare incident, the parents must be called or notified if humanly possible.

2. Inform your parents where you will be going on the date and go there.

3. If things don’t go as planned and you are being pressured to compromise your moral judgment (re drugs, alcohol, sex, etc), ask to be taken home or call your parents to pick you up.

4. If on a car date, insist that your date (if he is the driver) obey all the traffic laws and drive safely and defensively.

5. Insist that your date come to the house and meet your parents when he picks you up and insist that he walk you to your front

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’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace door at date’s end.

Dr. Wallace: Help! I’m 16 and started attending a different school last month.

I’m trying to be nice to everybody because I want to be accepted in my new school and I also want to make a lot of new friends.

Last week a guy in my English class asked me to go to a school basketball game with him.

He’s a nice guy, but not my type, so I told him that I’m on restriction for six months. He bought my story.

Then yesterday a different guy asked me to the same basketball game and I said yes because this guy was my type. We went to the game last night and we had a fantastic time.

The only blemish is that I saw the guy that I lied to at the game and he saw me. Now I feel like a jerk.

What should I do? – Nameless,

Elkhart, Ind. Nameless: You should have

been honest the first time, so be honest now. Tell the boy who asked you out first that you lied to him and that you weren’t on restriction.

Apologize and tell him that even though you two won’t be dating, there is no reason why you can’t be good friends.

Dr. Wallace: I think I’ve fallen in love with a pen pal who lives in Canada.

We’ve written to each other 10 times and I’m positive that this guy could be Mr. Right. Greg is

intelligent, has a great sense of humor, and is very handsome.

We’ve exchanged photos and he has written that he thinks I’m “cute as a doll.” He always signs his letters, “Be good, Greg.” I sign mine, “Take care, Jenny.” I don’t want to tell him I love him, but signing off with “love, Jenny” just might let him know how I feel.

What do you think? – Jenny, Port-

land, Maine.

Jenny: Don’t force the love is-

sue. That could be the fastest way to end a good friendship. If love is in the future, it will blossom when you and Greg meet face to face.

Dr. Wallace: I’m 17 and live alone with my mother. My parents were divorced four years ago. I haven’t seen my father since the divorce because he moved to Florida, but he keeps in touch with me on my birthday and all other special occasions.

This past Christmas he sent me $1000 to use for my college expenses and said that he would continue supporting me financially when I’m in college. I’d like to invite him to my high school graduation.

I’m not even sure he would come; still, I’d like to invite him.

My mom says it’s up to me, but she would rather I didn’t.

What should I do? I love my mother very much, but I also love my father. – Nameless, Toledo,

Ohio.

Nameless: Since your moth-

er says it’s up to you, and you would like to invite your father to your high school graduation, by all means, invite him. Even if he can’t come, he will have appreciated the fact that you have invited him.

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

Playmate spills beans about birds and bees

Dear Abby: I DEAR ABBY had planned to wait until my Jeanne daughter was 12 Phillips and in the sixth grade to teach her about sex. Unfortunately, she was given a very graphically described education by a playmate. Her playmate was in second grade.

My daughter was in the third grade. I was devastated. Not only did I feel she was too young, I felt robbed of an experience that should be cherished between a mother and daughter. I believe parents should decide when to teach their children about sex. When I confronted the mother, she deflected by becoming offended that I would assume they weren’t responsible parents. She defended her daughter by saying, “Kids will talk. I’m sure she wasn’t out to ruin your daughter’s world.” Am I wrong to be so offended? – Offended in New Jersey Dear Offended: Yes. Children DO talk, and 12 is far too late for them to start learning about sex. By then, they have probably received an abundance of misinformation about it from their friends. Children are naturally curious about the world around them. That’s why “the talk” should start as soon as a child begins asking questions.

The facts don’t have to be given all at once; the conversation should be ongoing, with more information added in an age-appropriate way.

Dear Abby: My “boyfriend” and I are in our mid-40s. Three-and-a-half years ago, he was in a bad accident. Because our relationship seemed to be getting serious, he moved into my house. He was planning on returning to construction work a few months later, once his doctor cleared him.

Unfortunately, the doctor said he would never be able to resume work in construction. He applied for Social Security Disability and, after two years of paperwork and waiting, he was denied.

He keeps himself busy by painting pictures.

Occasionally, he sells one or two paintings online or through art shows. However, what he earns is not nearly enough to support himself.

I had to take a significant pay cut at work, and I’m having a hard time supporting both of us.

My savings are being depleted, and my credit card balance is skyrocketing.

I have told him repeatedly that he needs to get a job. He could work – he just can’t go back to construction. He insists he’s going to make it big selling art. I tell him art is his hobby, not his career. I have also told him that I’m a financial wreck and that I’m going to lose my house, but he doesn’t care. He says, “Buy a smaller house.” I tell him he has to get a job or move out, but he doesn’t do either. I’m ready to sell my house and live in a small apartment by myself. But I can’t get him to leave. What can I do? – Over This in Illinois Dear Over This: Because this man has lived with you for so long, getting him out of there may take the help of a lawyer. He’s not an artist; he’s an ingrate and a freeloader. Although you are having financial difficulties right now, it will be money well spent. Please don’t wait.

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

ASK THE DOCTORS / ELIZABETH KO AND EVE GLAZIER and remain focused.

The problem is that Adderall abuse among young adults is rising. According to research conducted at Johns Hopkins University, the number of prescriptions for Adderall among young adults remains steady. However, levels of abuse, as well as visits to the emergency room due to adverse effects of that abuse, has spiked.

The newest research shows that misuse of Adderall is highest among young adults between the ages of 18 and 25. Although some may obtain their own prescriptions, most are either buying the medication illegally, or are getting it from family members or friends.

Between 2009 and 2011, the time period covered by the study, use of Adderall among young adults without a prescription rose by 67 percent. During that same time period, ER visits associated with non-prescription Adderall use rose by more than 150 percent.

The drug has a reputation as a study aid that increases concentration and sharpens focus. But non-prescription use of Adderall carries serious risks. Common side effects include stomach upset, increased heart rate, dizziness, dry mouth and mood swings. Adderall is a controlled substance, and possession without a prescription is a felony.

The bottom line is that non-prescription use of Adderall for any reason is both dangerous and illegal.

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 know that Adderall is prescribed to children with ADHD. But lately, I’ve been reading stories about college kids who use Adderall to help them study. What is Adderall and who should take it?

Dear Reader: You’ve hit on a topic that’s timely, complex and quite often controversial. When prescribed and used properly, Adderall can be beneficial. But as with any prescription drug, off-label use can create a host of problems.

Look at first-person accounts and you’ll find numerous parents of children with ADHD – that’s attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – who detail the ways that Adderall has helped their son or daughter.

But it doesn’t take much digging to find that abuse of the drug is a growing problem.

Let’s start with the drug itself. Adderall is the brand name of a prescription drug composed of two stimulants – amphetamine and dextroamphetamine. It has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat children, adolescents and adults who have been diagnosed with ADHD, a condition marked by a cluster of disruptive behaviors.

These may include agitation, lack of focus, disorganization, forgetfulness, fidgeting, excessive talking or frequent interrupting. Adderall is not approved for use by anyone younger than 6 years old.

As with all stimulants, Adderall increases the levels of dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is a chemical known as a neurotransmitter, which plays a role in learning ability, movement, attention and in feelings of pleasure or even euphoria.

Adderall helps people with ADHD feel calm

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FOX VALLEY REAL ESTATE GUIDE

February 9, 2017

OPEN HOUSE on SUNDAY, 2/12, 1-3pm Quality built with NEW PRICE in sought after Oakmont area of Mill Creek. New A/C in 2014 and dual thermostat zoned system.

Volume ceilings, open floor plan, and sun-filled windows make this home inviting. The large kitchen shines with custom maple cabinetry, hardwood floors, stainless appliances including double ovens, granite counters, tile backsplash, and island. Dramatic two-story family room with vaulted ceiling, surround sound wiring and wood burning fireplace. Spacious master suite with his & her walk-in closets. Deep-poured basement with rough-in plumbing, ready for your finishing touches. Mill Creek community has golf courses, pool, tennis, paths and parks, while conveniently located to Metra, shopping/dining.

0N592 Sounders Drive, Geneva.

$434,900

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202 Campbell St. • Geneva, IL Phone: 815-245-2277 www.miscella.com

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS 860 N Deerpath Rd: Sold on or before 010617 by Richard T Barnes to Scott Beavers; $298,500

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by Chicago Title Land Trt Co Ttee to Jay M Heck & Carrie J Heck; $175,000 6N257 Woodland Rd: Sold on or before 011717 by Howard Knoll to John Biensz & Teresa Biensz; $133,000 1106 W Main St: Sold on or before 010617

by Covalsky Trust to Joseph V Arbogast; $295,000 152 Remington Dr: Sold on or before 010617

by Calatlantic Group Inc to Thomas F Shockey Jr & Maria E Shockey; $249,000 158 Remington Dr: Sold on or before 010917

by Calatlatic Group Inc to Timothy R Lund & Mary M Lund; $243,500 164 Remington Dr: Sold on or before 010617

by Calatlantic Group Inc to Shelley Johnson Varga; $272,500 170 Remington Dr: Sold on or before 010617

by Calatlatnic Group Inc to Seth Elijah Abernathy & Laura Lynn Abernathy; $260,000 2942 Langston Cir: Sold on or before 010917

by Christopher Hennessey to Andrew Dittbenner & Jacquelynn Dittbenner; $209,000 323 Walnut St: Sold on or before 123016

by Patrica H Hagerty to Boy In Tree Llc; $120,000 See TRANSFERS, page 61

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712 Campbell St: Sold on or before 011017 by 2S085 Willow Creek Dr: Sold on or before Patricia Pelzer to Pelzer Trust; $467,500 011117 by John Michael Lenahan to Daniel J 731 S Jefferson St: Sold on or before 011717 888 Britta Ln: Sold on or before 010917 by Hilby & Jessica A Hilby; $260,000

by Gelen E Galis to Nicholas M Igara & Ryan Ewart to Miral H Patel; $235,000 400 W Reader St: Sold on or before 010917 Lindsey A Murphy; $310,000

by Connor Trust to Jennfier L Goan; $195,000 908 Britta Ln: Sold on or before 011017 by Kmb 1021 S Harrison St: Sold on or before 010517 by Homes Inc to Samantha L Lay; $205,000 Fred S Olesuk to Nicholas Johnson; $151,500 1122 Lexington Ln: Sold on or before 010617 Geneva 1557 Eagle Brook Dr: Sold on or before Maple Park

by Christopher C Theisen to Nahjl Peel & 010517 by Ireland Trust to John A Marconi 50W254 Keslinger Rd: Sold on or before Margaret Peel; $282,500 Jr & Lisa M Redwolf; $530,000 011717 by Kristin Schrringhusen to Steven 2080 Main St: Sold on or before 010617 by 1605 Scott Blvd: Sold on or before 123016 by Kastel & Wendy Kastel; $545,000 Aldi Inc to My Properties Llc; $1,005,000 Susan L Cherney to John T Cain; $185,000 2S318 Herter Ln: Sold on or before 010917

by Brandt Trust to Bruce A Sudler & Cather- 1811 Williamsburg Ave: Sold on or before North Aurora 010617 by Brian Bowen to Michael T Freine L Sudler; $565,000 2796 Plante Rd: Sold on or before 011717 meau & Mary M Fremeau; $311,000 344 Pine St: Sold on or before 011117 by

by Joseph J Davids Iii to Ignacio Maravilla; 1899 Eldorado Dr: Sold on or before 011117 Benjamin W Geer to Adam L Lamanna & $304,000

by Dean N Gregory to Brian M Goewey; Samntha M Lamanna; $240,000 639 Bennett Dr: Sold on or before 011717 by $572,500 519 Bliss Rd: Sold on or before 010917 by Danielle L Campabello to Robert J Steinmetz 2818 Caldwell Ln: Sold on or before 011017 Phillip Anderson to Thomas C Anderson & & Cristin C Steinmetz; $330,000

by Grant Weaver to Matter Properties 2 Llc; 1349 Ritter St: Sold on or before 011017 Laura A Anderson; $71,000 $222,000 627 Kramer Ct: Sold on or before 010517 by

by Thecodore R Cooley to Majidah B Taki; John A Hawkins to Hp Illinois I Llc; $190,000 3713 Ridge Pointe Dr: Sold on or before $317,000 010917 by Frank E Wilburn to Harks Trust; 652 Alberosky Way: Sold on or before 202 Briar Ln: Sold on or before 011117 by $430,000 010317 by Timothy P Graham to Cartus Maricllen King to Cynthia Stob; $167,000 39W886 S Hathaway Ln: Sold on or before Finacial Corp; $622,000 2312 Schrader Ln: Sold on or before 010317 123016 by Shodeen Homes Llc to Jeffrey J

by John A Arvanites to Felix Yoffe & Ina Schmidt & Alicia A Schmidt; $674,000 Elburn Yoffe; $320,000 413 N 2nd St: Sold on or before 123016 by 200 W South St 9B: Sold on or before 32 Parkside Ct: Sold on or before 011017 Park Place Of Geneva Llc to Mark Ludike & 010517 by Deutsche Bank Natl Trt Co Ttee

by William R Ferencak to Mejia Group Llc; Chris Ludike; $498,000 to John Edgar; $90,500 $205,000 601 Forest View Dr: Sold on or before 011117 540 Meade Blvd: Sold on or before 010617 208 Paul St: Sold on or before 010617 by T

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by James Schultz to Joshua C Hard & Amalia Radliski; $504,000 Inc; $360,000 J Hard; $282,500

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The large outdoor patio provides ample space for family dining and entertaining.

Home on the

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By KATHERINE SALANT Special to The Washington Post HENDERSON, Nev. – The “Contemporary Farmhouse” constructed in a subdivision outside Las Vegas in what once had been a desert, is a modest-sized dwelling that lives big and throws convention out the window.

This very different house, with its unusually large outdoor living areas and a smaller footprint that covers only about half the lot, is not such a big leap for Las Vegas buyers, according to the builder, because they already have begun to move in this direction. But in the future, it could

become a model for how homes are built in other parts of the country.

Buyers here increasingly are choosing smaller houses to open up more area outdoors that can be turned into “outdoor rooms.” To get them, they are willing to jettison bonus rooms and large game rooms that once were highly desirable but have fallen out of favor, said Klif Andrews, division president for Nevada-based Pardee Homes, which built the experimental dwelling for the International Builders Show.

The second story of the “Contemporary Farmhouse” in Henderson, Nev., recalls the farm“In essence, buyers are trading space inside the house for space that’s houses of the Midwest, while the wide expanse of adobe-colored stone on the first floor is outside,” he said. reminiscent of the simple, one-story houses built by working ranchers in the Southwest.

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modest two-story, wood-frame houses that were built across rural and urban America from the 1890s to the 1930s, while the wide expanse of adobe-colored stone on the first floor is reminiscent of the simple, one-story houses that were built by working ranchers in the Southwest. And, surely a first for a production home builder, the lintels over the door and window openings, as well as the retaining walls for the landscaping, are made of Cor-Ten steel, a material more commonly found in bridges and highway overpasses because its protective, rust-colored coating resists real rust.

While this atypical mix suggests that something unusual is afoot, the design celebrates what is inside as much as what is outside.

The main indoor living area of the 2,100-square-foot house is L-shaped, with a living and dining area in each leg and the kitchen centrally located where the two legs meet.

Four of the five outside walls that overlook three private outdoor areas appear to be entirely made of glass, because the outsized stacking glass doors in each wall are 12 feet wide and 8 feet high. Two sets of the stacking glass doors in the living and dining areas intersect. When each one is pulled all the way back, there is no corner

post or anything else to indicate the presence of a wall – the space is completely open to the outside.

The outdoor areas are neither garden nor lawn; they are furnished outdoor rooms, similar in size to the adjacent indoor spaces, paved with the same floor tile and enclosed on the far side by the 5-foot-high, adobe-colored stone wall that surrounds the property. Two of the outdoor areas are covered, including one on the front of the house that the architect characterized as a “reverse-facing porch” because it faces the patio, not the street.

The walls of glass and the outdoor rooms will beguile most visitors, but the scale of the interior living areas is equally important in creating the overall effect – a space that feels both expansive and intimate at the same time. The large openings for the stacking glass doors create the impression that the living and dining areas are quite large; in fact, they are 12 by 15 feet, a modest size that lends itself to intimate conversation and does not require oversized furniture to look right.

Findings of a marketing survey of millennial housing preferences helped inform the design by Hans Anderle for Bassenian Lagoni Architects of Newport Beach, Calif.

The survey focused on a subset of this group – the 46 million millennials between the ages of 24 and 35 who have been notably skittish about purchasing a home, compared with similarly aged members of previous generations. The survey was commissioned by TRI Pointe Group, the parent company of Pardee Homes, and carried out by Ketchum International.

Zeroing in on an even smaller subset of those millennials who are homeowners or actively looking for a house, the survey produced some surprising findings. One of the biggest was the desire for outdoor living space. It was the No. 1 “must-have,” even among those who live in places where outdoor areas cannot be used year round, said Linda Mamet, Tripointe’s vice president for corporate marketing.

Other surveys of millennial homeowners and home buyers have produced similar numbers. The National Association of Home Builders’ top must-haves for this group included a patio, front porch and a deck. A survey by Better Homes and Gardens of millennial-aged female homeowners found that a majority of respondents wanted a deck or patio in their next house.

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This paradigm shift began about five years ago with the end of the recession and the introduction of a new generation of affordable, three-panel, stacking glass doors that are 12 to 15 feet wide, Andrews said. These were a “game changer,” he said, compared with the standard 8-foot-wide sliders, because the glass area in an outside wall could be much bigger, the opening is much larger when the doors are pulled back and the tracks in the floor below the doors are so minimal that they are barely noticeable.

As the line between interior and exterior areas became less distinct, it was only a matter of time before homeowners began to spend more time out there, Andrews said.

Indoor-outdoor relationships are a central theme in the Contemporary Farmhouse, but the first thing to catch a visitor’s eye is the exterior, an unusual marriage of rural and urban vernacular traditions that could only happen in a suburb of Las Vegas, a place where home builders have creatively reinterpreted Tuscan, Tudor, Spanish, Italian, French Mediterranean and Pueblo styles for more than 20 years.

The simple single-gable shape of the second floor of the two-story Contemporary Farmhouse recalls the

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The large covered outdoor sitting area, which the architect calls “a reverse-facing porch,” faces the outdoor dining patio that is open to the sky.

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A design by Windowfarms, a group that promotes sustainable food production.

Elegant yet efficient: Hydroponics for the home

By SHAYLA LOVE The Washington Post The International Space Station and your 500-square-foot studio have more in common than you might think: Both environments are a great place to experiment with hydroponics.

Hydroponic systems grow plants not in soil but in water that is enriched with nutrients. The process is water-efficient and can be done easily in tight quarters.

Gene Giacomelli, a professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering

at the University of Arizona and director of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, said that for those interested in commercial agriculture, incorporating hydroponics into largescale production seems the way of the future.

But is it possible to create a hydroponic system at home?

Absolutely, Giacomelli said.

“If you understand the fundamentals, what the plants need, and you have some practical use of tools, it can be just a kiddie pool filled with water and a floating piece of Styrofoam

board with holes cut in it,” he said.

There are six kinds of hydroponic systems, the most basic of which is called a deep-water culture. This is what Giacomelli is referring to. It’s essentially a container of nutrient-filled water, with plants floating on top of it.

You’ll need an air pump to introduce oxygen into the water, but it can be simply made with Ikea storage bins, a foam cooler, a bucket or any other container, as long as it sits in a place that gets a lot of light.

There are benefits to using hydroponics in small spaces, just as on the

International Space Station.

“You don’t have to haul around the heavy soil or artificial soil mixes, which are dirty,” Giacomelli said.

“You don’t want these things floating around your apartment.”

You can grow your plants yearround, increasing productivity by eight to 20 times as much as if you were subject to seasonal changes. Most important, Giacomelli said, all the water is recycled, so you’ll use a lot less than when watering traditionally.

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Absolutely gorgeous brick/stone/cedar home. Geneva park district & library. Beautifully maintained home with crown molding throughout, columns and wainscoting in the dining room & foyer. First floor den or 5th bedroom right next to full first floor bath. Two story family room w/two story fireplace & rear staircase to upstairs. Chef’s kitchen featuring custom cabinetry, granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, under cabinet lighting & breakfast bar. Screened in porch off the kitchen overlooks the beautiful landscaped fenced backyard and large deck. Front & backyard has ambiance outdoor lighting, irrigation system, sideload 3 car garage (epoxy floor & hot & cold water) with a concrete driveway. Extremely spacious master bedroom with master spa bath & large walk in closet. Guest bedroom with private bathroom, two additional bedrooms with a shared bath. Additional bonus room between guest & 3rd bedroom. Basement (1776 sq. ft.) has rough in plumbing. New roof in 2014, attic A/C in 2014, new (2) water heaters, furnace in 2014.

2803 WEAVER LN., BATAVIA, IL

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$539,900

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60 Aurora

$489,900

1143 Flanders Ct. 5 bdrm, 3.5 bath home on cul-de sac. Many updates! Cozy fam rm, gourmet KT w/ breakfast nook, spacious master, finished bsmt. MLS ID 09386877 Shirley & Tom Guercio

630-236-6500

Aurora

$459,000

2700 Harlstone Dr. Large 4700 SF, rare 6 bdrm, 4 bath jewel in Oakhurst North. 2 story foyer, recently redone hardwood flrs. Open KT w/ pantry, Loft overlooking liv rm. Stone patio. 1500 SF bsmt w/ bar & game rm.

204 award winning school district. MLS ID 09488472 Vitali Kniazkov 630-236-6500

Aurora

$314,900

2278 Cheshire Dr. 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath home w/ pond views! Open flr plan w/ soaring ceilings.

Eat-in KT. Fam rm w/ FP. Amazing master ste.

MLS ID 09391361 Erin & Jerry Hill

630-236-6500

Aurora

OPEN SUN 2-4

Aurora

$163,700

2432 Wilton Ln 2432. 2 bdrm, 2 bath end unit w/ private backyard. New flooring, luxury master bath, eat-in KT, and many more upgrades.

MLS ID 09392183 Sherri Nugent

DeKalb

630-236-6500

$114,900

1552 Grand Dr 5. 2 bdrm, 2.5 bath “Ruby” Model Condo in Summit Enclave! End unit w/ great views overlooking green space. Features oak cabinets, updated appliances, new carpet on stairs to Master bdrm. Virtually no maintenance, 2 car garage. MLS ID 09495869 Matt Hart 815-756-2557

Elgin

$574,989

40W850 Stonecrest Dr. On just over an acre in Stonecrest, Main flr 5th bedroom & 4th ba ideal for related living, fin bsmt, master suite balcony, slate patio, sun rm, pool. MLS ID 09269494 Darlene Kearney

630-232-6900

DeKalb

$235,000

1687 Sunglow Ln. 4 bdrm, 2.5 bath home on nature preserve and overlooks 2 ponds. Separate liv/din rms. Fam rm and eating area off KT w/ island. 1st flr laundry, pantry. 2nd flr bdrms. Unfinished bsmt has English windows. 3 car garage. MLS ID 09489551 Diane Hammon 815-756-2557

Elburn

$699,900

DeKalb

$139,900

630-553-9000

Elburn

$695,000

39W705 Fabyan Pkwy. 6+ acres with private lake, Geneva schools, 5200 sq ft, 4 bedrooms incl main flr master with 3rd fpl & staircase to loft/den. Fin walkout, 3 car garage. MLS ID 09171478 Charles Kirkwood 630-232-6900

43W802 Willow Creek Dr. Motivated Seller! 7000+ sq ft estate w/ pool and pond on nearly 6 acres. Features wide plank hardwood, marble floors, updated KT, 9 FPs, antique mantles/wood trims. Family rm w/ 2-story brick wall. Master suite has balcony, workout rm and sauna MLS ID 09373683 Daniel Randall 630-232-6900

Elgin

Geneva

$475,000

3810 Trillium Trl. Custom 4 bdrm, 4 bath home.

Dream gourmet KT w/ brkfst bar & pantry. Large master w/ sitting area, nice-sized bdrms. 2 story foyer, hardwood flrs, crown molding. Zone heating/ cooling. 3 car garage. Paver patio. MLS ID 09492113 Jacqueline Bronson 847-658-5000

$287,000

561 Green Meadow Ln. In Geneva East, hardwood flrs thru main level incl fam rm with fpl.

3 bedrooms, 2.5ba, fin bsmt has custom builtins. Large paver patio. MLS ID 09355677 Erica Hauser

Aurora

$209,999

2255 Church Rd. On 1.5 acres, Batavia schools, min from I-88! Fully remodeled, 4 bedrooms, 1.5ba, priced under assessed value.

MLS ID 09360716 Tracey Hopkins

815-756-2557

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722 Haish Blvd. 2 bdrm bungalow style home.

Wonderful upgrades. Charming front porch.

Remodeled KT and bath. Custom staircase.

Large fenced yar w/ patio. MLS ID 09410497 Robin Freiman

$215,000

1660 Margaret Ln. Sprawling 2 bdrm, 2 bath ranch on large corner lot. Endless possibilities in 2000 SF of living space. Unfinished bsmt.

Newer furnace w/ whole house humidifier. 2+ garage. Must See! MLS ID 09495708 Edward Sweeney 630-236-6500

630-232-6900

DeKalb

$125,000

422 S 11th St. Lovely restored 2 bdrm homeevery room has been redone! See listing for all improvements. Near schools. MLS ID 09405714 Diane Hammon

Elburn

815-756-2557

$599,000

526 N Main St. Victorian mansion on 10 acres, 10 bedrooms most with private baths, beautiful woodwork, 4 fpl. Also incl 12 bedroom dorm with offices & assembly hall plus addtl bldg.

Property may be divided. MLS ID 09358837 Charles Kirkwood 630-232-6900

DeKalb

$122,900

Elgin

$625,000

2173 Patriot Dr. 2 bdrm, 1.5 bath home. Hardwood flr foyer, combo din/living rm w/ FP, sliding doors to patio.

Spacious KT w/ brkfst bar. Large bdrms, full bsmt w/ roughed-in plumbing. No direct backyard neighbors.

New carpeting and freshly painted. MLS ID 09484108 Julie Fabrizius 815-756-2557

11N480 Hunter Trl. On 1.79 acres, Burlington schools! Oak hardwood flrs & doors, main flr office/5th bedroom, 5th full bath in fin bsmt, incl home warranty! MLS ID 09240869 Darlene Kearney

630-232-6900

Genoa

$209,900

Genoa

$144,900

31141 Oakview Ln. 3 bdrm, 3 bath home on almost 3/4 of an acre. Spacious master bdrm, 1st flr laundry. bsmt w/ large fam rm. Covered deck, beautiful backyard. 2 car garage w/ additional detached 1 car garage. Underground pet fence. Move in ready! MLS ID 09496210 Scott Suchy 815-784-4582

226 S Brown St. Updated 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath home on large city lot in established neighborhood. New KT cabinets & countertops, as well as new windows, carpet/flooring thruout. Spacious liv rm. Fenced-in backyard w/ additional building/garage. MLS ID 09474272 Angie Lampard 815-784-4582

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North Aurora

$324,900

Sandwich

$359,900

South Elgin

712 Waters Edge Dr. Beautiful 5 bdrm, 4.5 bath in popular Thornwood subdivision. KT w/ granite island, finished bsmt. Gorgeous view, pond & fenced yard. New AC in 2016, new hot water heaters in 2014/16. Include pool, clubhouse, tennis courts, trails. MLS ID 09491959 Cheryl Adams 630-232-6900

$594,900

St Charles

975 N 2nd Ave. Sweeping river views surround this 4 bdrm, 4.5 bath ranch w/ walkout LL. Large bdrms. Luxury KT, screened porch, din rm w/ dramatic trim, vaulting ceiling in fam rm.

MLS ID 09405424 Jonathan Nutt 630-232-6900

$997,000

St Charles

$975,000

St Charles

$699,000

St Charles

$599,000

St Charles

$467,700

St Charles

$399,900

St Charles

$262,500

580 Hamilton Ln. Stunning 4 bdrm, 2.5 bath w/ tree-lined yard on forest preserve. Custom KT, hardwood flrs thruout, finished bsmt w/ bar & rec room, large master w/ custom closets& vaulted ceilings. MLS ID 09485164 Laura Webb 630-232-6900

30 Highgate. Exquisitely rehabbed 4 bdrm, 4.5 bath ranch. Hardwood flrs thruout. Liv rm w/ unique barrel ceiling & FP. Gourmet KT. Nature views. Great master suite, 2nd bdrm could be additional suite. 4500 SF unfinished bsmt. Private yard. MLS ID 09496271 Brenda Galauner 630-232-6900

15620 S Memory Ln. Amazing 4 bdrm, 3.5 bath home.

Thoughtfully reproduced farmhouse styling w/beautiful detailing & quality. WOW! Hickory plank flring w/ warranty, Acorn KT cabenetry, farm sink. Den w/ separate entrance & built-ins. FP in fam rm, luxury master. MLS ID 09399971 The Heckelsberg Team 630-896-3100

4N627 Snowbird Ct. 5 bdrm, 4 bath ranch on 4 acres! Nature at its best. Walk-out bsmt, remodeled KT, dinette, fam rm, 2nd KT, workout rm, winearea, shop/plant rm. Hot tub! MLS ID 09476225 Jonathan Nutt 630-232-6900

2602 King James Ave. 4 bdrm, 3.5 baths, 2 home office rooms, 3 car-gar, English bsmt w/ approx 4,000 sq ft of finished living space on a premium wooded lot. Gourmet KT w/ island & pantry. Features FP, builtin shelves, tray ceilings, mud rm. MLS ID 09479635 Imelda Sangalang 630-232-6900

39W792 N Robert Frost Cir. On almost half acre 1 block from elementary school, 3,270 sq ft, upgraded millwork, 4-5 bedrooms, 5ba, hardwood flr & island in kit, fin bsmt. MLS ID 09294664 Lisa Carberry 630-232-6900

Lot 23 Highwoods Ct. Build you custom 4 bdrm, 3.5 bath ranch on premium wooded lot in cul-de-sac. Unobstructed views of nature.

Call Southampton for building options. MLS ID 09470875 Jonathan Nutt 630-232-6900

406 S 10th St. 3 bedroom 2ba tri-level in-town.

Updates incl new interior doors, hardwood flring in liv & din rms, & thermal windows. Paver & concrete patios in prof landscaped yard. MLS ID 09342911 Marce Vanglabek 630-232-6900

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By JEANNE HUBER Special to The Washington Post

Freddy Hill’s new white oak Townsend Credenza features a plaid pattern created with different types of wood instead of stains. It costs $3,800 and is available at freddyhill1976.com.

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Designers pine for natural wood

By KYLE TROUTMAN Special to The Washington Post Using wood in design is nothing new. Keeping it natural – without a stain or a single stroke of paint – isn’t new, either. However, a growing number of designers and woodworkers are putting the natural aesthetics of bare wood center stage, to great effect.

In the home-design world’s very recent past, paint was everything. Find a vintage wooden chair at a flea market?

Strip it, then paint it. Now, straight from the design shows in Milan, New York and Los Angeles, designers have opted to keep their wood pieces au naturel or with minimal processing to maintain a sense of purity, substance and authenticity.

“The natural colors of walnut, cherry, maple, sassafras, hickory and oak are so beautiful, I can’t find any reason to cover them up. The designers and woodworkers that I draw upon as influence all work that way,” Ohio-based furniture designer Freddy Hill said when discussing his new Townsend Credenza. “What’s most important to me is trying to distill my designs down to their barest element. Nothing is added simply for the sake of decoration.”

Of course, designers sometimes have to use a clear stain for comfort, safety or manufacturing reasons, but

lacquer may lie there and seem OK, but you can take your fingernail and it will shear right off.”

However, he added, the product isn’t marketed as an industrial-quality finish and that the company doesn’t guarantee that it will stop tarnish forever. Hardware manufacturers that offer long-term guarantees against tarnishing use a baked-on lacquer finish, which is more durable. “But in an air-dry product, our lacquer is as good as it gets,” Pritchard said.

If your tables do eventually tarnish after you spray them with lacquer, there’s an easy, if smelly and messy,

for the most part, many modern woodworkers are keeping it simple.

John Pemberton, founder of San Francisco-based Carlysle Manufacturing, uses tung oil to keep his wood furniture pieces clean and protected and to bring out the grain’s natural richness. “I’ve never cared for the appearance of one wood species being stained to look like another. It takes away the uniqueness and detail of each board,” Pemberton said.

However, Los Angeles-based designer Shin Okuda, whose “Waka Waka” project focuses on handmade wood furniture, thinks of the material as “a blank piece of paper.” Baltic birch plywood, used with his new rocking chairs, “is a material that doesn’t speak first,” Okuda said. And that’s just fine. Bare-wood designs are perfect for creating a relaxed energy in a space because of their neutrality.

They’re not loud or quiet. Rather, they fit into any space without being a blatant distraction.

There are dozens of reasons designers choose wood. Sure, it’s a readily available material that’s easy to manipulate. But some of the latest designs are proof of the particular pride woodworkers take in using raw wood in natural ways. In other words: keeping the piece’s origin story a major part of its final design.

35W377 Maple Ave: Sold on or before 010517 by Fannie Mae to Christian D Garcia; $120,000 36W501 Bristol Rd: Sold on or before 011017 by Anthony L Damico to Gintautas Ciabilis & Vidia Ciabilis; $580,000 3795 E Main St: Sold on or before 010617

by Us Bank Na to Db Triple Dipper Restaurant; $1,880,000 37W219 Deer Pond Ct: Sold on or before 010517 by Kirstie L Depaul to Wen Hsin Cheng; $1,275,000 3871 E Main St: Sold on or before 010617

by Jrg St Charles Llc to Saint Main Llc; $4,910,000 42W306 Ravine Dr: Sold on or before 011017 by Scott Etters to Bryan A Creed & Heather Creed; $310,000 4335 Canterbury Ct: Sold on or before 011017 by Michael Jania to Hugh S Robinson & Christine R Robinson; $312,000 4383 Canterbury Ct: Sold on or before 123016 by Robert W Powell to Tippy Wicker; $287,500 4N477 Pheasant Run Dr: Sold on or before 123016 by Dunne Jr Trust to Daniel J Hodnik & Amanda M Hodnik; $325,000 4N980 Prairie Lakes Blvd: Sold on or before 011017 by Harks Trust to Brian W Depaul & Kirstic J Depaul; $800,000 5N271 Hanson Rd: Sold on or before 010617

by Ih3 Property Illnois Lp to William Broeski & Katherne Heyer; $223,000 610 Sidwell Ct N: Sold on or before 010517

by Krause Family Lp to Virden Holdings Inc; $207,500 7N830 Columbine E: Sold on or before 011017 by Mark A Obanion to Patrick Nolan & Kathleen Tullos; $550,000 845 Reserve Dr: Sold on or before 010617 by Meritus Homes Inc to Zhou Yu; $569,000 8N044 Falcons Trl: Sold on or before 123016 by Dubeis Trust to William Steaman & Altrese Steaman; $361,000

remedy: Use a chemical stripper labeled as effective against lacquer to take off the finish, polish off the tarnish and respray.

Lacquer for Brass is a solvent-based product, so be sure to read and follow the safety precautions on the label. Work outside, if possible.

To ensure an even finish, clear the nozzle by spraying for a second or two on scrap paper before you begin to spray your tables. And keep the can aimed at the same angle as you move your body back and forth to pass over the surface; don’t just tilt the can in different directions.

South Elgin

10 N Gilbert St 102: Sold on or before 011117 by River Crossing Se Llc to Richard A Mogler & Elizabeth S Mogler; $150,000 1284 Jenna Dr A: Sold on or before 010917

by Deanna E Blankenship to Baltazar Diaz Ortega; $142,500 1400 Timber Ln: Sold on or before 123016

by Gouglas W Haller to Edgar Garcia; $179,000 2052 Lily Pond Ln: Sold on or before 010317 by Ann Marie Lee to Laura Langelan; $300,000 295 Crystal Ave: Sold on or before 011117

by James R Swanson to Joshua K Martin; $145,500 325 Spruce St: Sold on or before 123016 by Castroro Ltd to Tpi Properties Llc; $145,000 346 Riverview Ave: Sold on or before 010917 by Daniel A Moser to Newday Apartmnts Llc; $315,000 403 Joseph Dr: Sold on or before 011017 by Cjr Enterprises Llc to 403 Llc; $1,210,000 640 E State St: Sold on or before 010917 by Joseph Dichiaroo to Juan M Arellano Nieto & Alejandra Gomez Hernandez; $165,000 7N625 Woodcliff Dr: Sold on or before 010917 by Teter Trust to Chicago Title Land Trust Co; $195,000 828 Asbury Blvd: Sold on or before 010617

by K Hovnanian At Sagebrook Llc to Jennifer Bednarek & Scott Melzer; $396,000

Sugar Grove

65 Arbor Ave: Sold on or before 011717 by Micheal A Sondelski to Ryan N Kovarik; $262,500 1712 Beta Dr A: Sold on or before 123016

by K Hovnanian At Meadowridge Vil to Kenneth L Cooper & Denise B Cooper; $306,000 47 Ke De Ka Rd: Sold on or before 011017

by James G Ratos to Kenneth J Knierim & Christina L Knierim; $375,000 78 Terry Dr: Sold on or before 011017 by Briston Terry to Rchard Stiles; $164,000 827 Hoyden Ct: Sold on or before 010917

by Larry E Nunnery Iii to Rodney Reams & Debra Reams; $530,000

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I have three engraved brass tables that require a lot of effort to polish, and then they tarnish after a few weeks. I have used a kit that restores brass and protects it, but it did not last long. I have heard that spraying it with lacquer will protect the brass, but I am not sure what product to use and do not want to do something that will cause more problems. Can you help?

Huber: You’re right: Spraying with lacquer is the way to keep brass from tarnishing so quickly. Mohawk’s Lacquer for Brass, formerly marketed as

Behlen Lacquer for Brass, is designed especially for this use, as the name implies. A 13-ounce spray can costs $12 (301-984-9033; woodcraft.com).

Phillip Pritchard, technical service representative for Mohawk Finishing Products (800-545-0047; mohawk-finishing.com), said this is a traditional nitrocellulose lacquer formulated with a resin that sticks especially well to brass, as well as ingredients that help keep brass from tarnishing. “You won’t get those two features in standard lacquer,” he said. “Standard lacquer will flake off, while ours does not. Standard

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An unusual feature of this house is a 9 foot long sliding glass doors that pull back from the corner so that the indoor/outdoor demarcation disappears.

ABOVE: The spacious feel of the modestly sized master bedroom is created by the sloped ceiling and the adjacent outdoor deck.

RIGHT: Master bathroom shower: The shower floor was tiled in a tribal pattern; a glass enclosure was added later. The bathroom floor appears to be conventional wood planks, but it is actually a tile look-alike that was used throughout the house and all but one of the outdoor living areas.

Photos provided by Brett Beyer

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Continued from page 57 Delving more deeply into how millennial households actually use their outdoor spaces, the magazine found that more than half use it for family meals; 71 percent characterize it as an important area for their family to spend time together; and 70 percent use it for entertaining, a hugely important activity for this group.

Jill Waage, executive editor of Better Homes and Gardens, suggested that an important reason for the popularity of outdoor spaces with millennials is the ease of furnishing them now.

Compared with 20 years ago, outdoor furniture is much more affordable and virtually maintenance-free. “You can leave it out there all winter and just hose it off,” she said.

Additional findings in Ketchum’s survey led the design team to tailor other features to the perceived tastes of

millennials. The closets are smaller and there is less kitchen storage because the data indicated that this group “wouldn’t own as much stuff,” Mamet said. There is no home office because the survey showed it ranking at the bottom of the millennials’ list of must-haves.

As many millennials have shown a keen interest in customizing their living spaces themselves, some interior finishes were selected as examples of do-it-yourself projects, said Los Angeles-based Bobby Berk, who designed the interiors. The repurposed wood paneling in the master bedroom is Stikwood, a thin veneer with a sticky tape backing that can be easily installed by a homeowner. The woodlike ceiling beams in the living/ kitchen area are actually Fypon, a high-density polyurethane product that a homeowner can easily install and stain, Berk said. The wood deck on one side of the living area is another example of a DIY project.

If survey data was an important

design input, equally important was the nature of the project. It was a “concept house,” Andrews said.

Likening it to a concept car at the annual Detroit Auto Show, he said that the Contemporary Farmhouse was intended to test the waters “well outside of our comfort zone and gauge the response. When you build a concept house, you throw it out there and see what happens.”

How has the public responded?

About 5,000 visitors toured the house during the International Builders Show in January, Andrews said.

Millennials loved it, but so did every other home buyer demographic, including downsizing baby boomers and middle-aged Generation Xers.

It turns out that the same things appealed to different groups for different reasons.

For example, the first floor has a private suite with a kitchenette and a separate entrance at the front. The designers saw this as an accessory

dwelling unit that could be rented to help pay the mortgage, a natural fit for millennials, who routinely patronize “the sharing economy” that includes companies such as Uber and Airbnb.

Downsizing baby boomers took one look and saw a first-floor master.

Generation Xers with aging parents saw its potential as an in-law suite.

And all the households with family members who regularly come to visit for months at a time would use it as a guest suite.

Is the crossover appeal large enough for Pardee to build more houses like this one?

With some modifications, Pardee is hoping to offer ones very similar to the Contemporary Farmhouse next year. They are expected to sell for about $350,000, and if they do well, Pardee’s parent firm may begin to offer them in other markets.

And given the copycat nature of the home-building business, other builders may offer them, too.

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Scott Johnston has his feet on the ground but his heart in the air. Day in and out, he trusts his life to a harness, coils of half-inch rope and 35 years of knowledge gained by working in trees.

“Do you want me to rig up and climb a tree?” he said. That’s all right, I said, clinging to my notebook. I’m not sure my nerves could take it, even as a spectator. Johnston, who is 58 and looks like a maturing matinee idol, thinks nothing of getting high into an 80-foot oak or tulip tree. As an independent certified arborist, he has devoted his working life to trees, is passionate about them and, if you scratch below the cambium, is vexed by the way we treat them.

His firm, Johnston Tree Care (motto: A cut above), is based in Marshall, Va. I caught up with him at the State Arboretum of Virginia, just east of Winchester, where he was giving a class on pruning.

The students were gathered under the canopy of a yellowwood, a beautiful native tree that can be finicky: The same smooth, gray bark that gives the tree character is also easily damaged, and this one had three large inner branches with significant elongated wounds from winter sun scald.

If the students were looking at the damage, Johnston was seeing the healing, the way the tree was beginning to wrap the exposed heartwood with enclosing sapwood. Other branches that I might have taken out, he’d leave.

Every leaf you take away, he said, reduces the tree’s ability to feed itself.

The various parts of trees speak to one another, hormonally. If you remove a lot of the canopy, the roots respond by dying back – not a good thing.

So he is conservative when it comes to pruning, and subordinates our aesthetics to the tree’s biology. “I see trees made poorer by overpruning; it makes me cautious,” he said.

As close as we may live to trees, it’s amazing how many people don’t really see the big plants that give us shade, beauty, color and even, when leaves rustle, a little music. Or maybe we just shrink from them because of their sheer scale and mass. (The General Sherman sequoia in California, Johnston has calculated, weighs as much as 20,000 people.) “Trees are beyond me,” said one homeowner in the class.

“I just put them in God’s hands.”

Just don’t put them in the hands of the tree man who comes knocking on your door looking for work, especially if he arrives bearing photos of trees that have fallen on houses. This is a scare tactic to elicit work that isn’t necessary and will probably harm your trees, Johnston said. These days, the practice

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Scott Johnston checks out a mature Norway spruce at the Sate Arboretum of Virginia. of simply reducing the size of a tree by arbitrarily cutting branches back “topping” – is universally understood to be harmful (except for crape myrtles, inexplicably). But a common alternative practice of thinning the canopy by stripping branches of foliage and leaving “lion’s tails” can be just as bad, Johnston said. Apart from the loss of foliage, the technique weakens branches, causes them to flail in a gale and break apart.

Even within the mainstream treecare industry, Johnston says, a lot of risks are overstated and work is oversold, with the idea that any tree with some decayed heartwood is ready to collapse. “People get excited because there’s a little cavity,” he said. Carpenter ants don’t cause trees to fall – they nest in already decayed wood – and a big limb above a house doesn’t neces-

sarily need removing. In fact, he said, to do so may cause more damage should the tree topple because the bough will brace the rest of the tree. “I have seen a lot of trees ruined,” he said, by the removal of a large overhanging branch.

Formative pruning is important.

This is the practice of taking out undesirable branches when first planted to leave a proper scaffold of branching.

Moreover, when you buy a young tree, pick an individual “that isn’t full of problems,” he said.

During his career, he has seen more sophisticated climbing gear and a greater reliance on rope systems developed for other enterprises, including rock climbing and caving. What hasn’t changed is the chance to live and work in a world that most people don’t experience.

It can be a place unsuited to the fainthearted. He has been known to come face to face with blacksnakes and hornets. And yes, cats really do get stuck in trees and need someone to rescue them.

They are not necessarily grateful. Tip: Carry a pillowcase as a sack.

The more he is around trees, the more he is in awe of them. In his own years in their world, so much more has become known about how they live with soil organisms, how they repair damage and how they can communicate with other trees. “We know if a woodland is attacked by gypsy moths, trees miles away start producing far more defensive chemicals,” he said. It seems unlikely that Johnston will ever find a tree to be anything less than a living miracle.

“I can’t imagine working this hard if I didn’t care about it,” he said.

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Jeanne Huber: The fuzzy film and stains are efflorescence, caused by water-soluble salts that the irrigation water picked Reader: The concrete planters in the arcade up from the soil or concrete. As the of our 80-unit condo building were piped for water evaporated, the salt crystallized irrigation last spring. A fuzzy film is appearing on the outside of the planters. on the outside, seemingly the result of water Although it’s possible to remove efpushing some elements of the concrete to the florescence through scrubbing and the outside. There is also a stain on the brick beuse of masonry cleaners, it will keep low the planters that was actually black at one forming as long as salty water is movtime. We removed the dirt from one planter ing through the masonry. To keep that and discovered three small drain holes about from happening, it might be enough to half an inch in diameter in the bottom, and we simply switch to water-thrifty plants assume that all the planters have that same and cut back on irrigation, especially if drainage. I am landscape chair of the condo the efflorescence didn’t start until the association and have been given this problem irrigation system was installed. Salts in to solve. What would you suggest? fertilizer can exacerbate efflorescence, Special to The Washington Post

so consider reducing that as well.

If that isn’t enough, investigate where the water that drains from the planters winds up. Are the drain holes simply resting on the cap of the brick wall underneath, preventing the water from draining readily and causing it to seep into the brick wall? If you find that there is no good way for water to drain from the planters, you might want to set potted plants in the planters, rather than fill them with soil. Set the pots on trays so that any water that drains can evaporate without having to pass through the concrete. If the pots aren’t as deep as the planters, set the pots on spacers. The added air gap

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LEFT: California designer Michael Zick Doherty helped create this vertical hydroponics system.

Continued from page 58 “Every drop that you put into the system, if you’re careful, all of it is used to grow the plant,” Giacomelli said. “In our hydroponic indoor closed systems, we might use, easily, only 10 percent of the water you would use outdoors.”

It sounds appealing, especially for those in urban areas where gardening is not an option. But who wants a bunch of buckets or foam coolers in their apartment? Michael Zick Doherty, a permaculture designer from California, said that once you’ve got the basics down, it’s easy to transform a hydroponic system into something that adds to your home decor.

He designs hydroponic systems by taking into account the surrounding environment, whatever it may be: architecture, cabinet color, kitchen tiles. He’s a fan of using innovative materials: On a research residency in Singapore, he experimented with systems made of clay.

“I think hydroponics has gotten a pretty negative image because they aren’t aesthetically pleasing a lot of the time,” he said. “I think it’s easy to take that next step. Even pipes: Something as simple as making a wood enclosure around them would totally change the feel of them. Find ways to obscure the more mechanical parts.”

While living in New York in 2013, Doherty was part of a small team that designed a hydroponic kitchen island.

It’s a sleek piece of furniture with drawers that pull out to reveal trays of microgreens. The water reservoir is hidden at the bottom.

They also built a window system that uses the nutrient film technique,

will also help to keep the concrete dry.

If there is a way for water to drain and you want to keep soil and irrigated plants in the planters, consider painting the inside surfaces (after cleaning them thoroughly) with a waterproofing paint or coating. A waterproof liner would probably be even more durable. You might try using adhesive-backed, rubberized material sold as roof underlayment.

Grace Ice & Water Shield is labeled as suitable for sticking to concrete and costs $138 for a roll 36 inches wide by 75 feet long at Home Depot. Cut the liner where needed so it doesn’t block the drain holes.

Photo provided by Izzy McGowan

where the water is pumped up and trickles down over the roots of a plant.

These systems cost more to create, but if they look nice, they can become a seamless part of a well-designed home or office.

Beautiful doesn’t have to be expensive. Britta Riley is the founder of a social enterprise called Windowfarms, and its first designs used water bottles to create a similar window system. She started an open-source website, on hiatus for this summer, so designers all over the world could share their designs.

If you’re interested in hydroponics but not ready to build your own system, there are plenty of ready-made ones to buy, Doherty said. Some are aquaponic systems, which put fish in the water to create the nutrients the plants need. Windowfarms has created a product to buy, although the designs are available (at bit.ly/2b9kVhF) for

those who want to take a do-it-yourself approach.

Online, there are hundreds of instruction sets and designs, varying from low- to high-end. Doherty created a Pinterest board (pinterest.com/neufuture/designer-horticulture) where a hydroponics novice can browse and get inspired.

You don’t have to grow food plants in your system, although many people in the hydroponics community are part of a growing urban agriculture scene.

“The past 15 years, I’ve seen this tremendous movement to locally grown food and an interest to know where the food comes from,” Giacomelli said. “They say, ‘Hey, I’ll grow it myself, and I feel more comfortable eating it knowing exactly how it’s grown.’”

Riley emphasized that using hydroponics in your apartment does

not mean you will stop going to the grocery store. It won’t save you loads of money on food, but it will provide you with a small supplement to your diet and insight into the life cycle of a plant.

Doherty said that if it’s your first time, take it easy. Try an herb, such as basil or mint.

“Mint is a weed, and it loves hydroponics,” he said. “Just see how it works, and then once you’ve grown that mint and you’re happy and you understand a little bit about the system, then start branching out, grow some basil, but just don’t grow tomatoes.”

He laughed and said that tomatoes, often a first inclination for new indoor gardeners, are one of the hardest plants to grow.

“Don’t even think about it - just grow mint,” he said. “Everyone loves it. You can make so many mojitos from all the mint you grow.”

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That pause might also be critical in a comedy. At the bridge table, though, we might need one card to be well-placed. In this deal, South was in six hearts. Which one card did he hope East held? How did South play after West led the spade 10?

South’s jump to four hearts, a superaccept, promised four-card support and a good hand for hearts.

I believe, though, that the hand should have had a doubleton.

Declarer had 10 top tricks: two spades, six hearts and two diamonds.

He could have established a club winner and had two finesses that he might have tried.

There was a temptation to take the spade finesse at trick one, but South realized that that could wait. If he could just find East with the club ace, the contract was safe.

Declarer took the first trick with his spade king, drew trumps ending on the board and led dummy’s club.

East defended well by not taking the trick. However, South won with his king, ruffed the club three, played a trump to his hand, led the club queen and, instead of ruffing it, discarded dummy’s low diamond.

East took the trick, but was endplayed. If he led a spade or diamond, it would have been away from his queen into dummy’s tenace. So he tried the club jack, but declarer ruffed in his hand (a seventh trump trick) and discarded the spade jack from the dummy. He claimed two spades, six hearts, two diamonds, one club and the club ruff.

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Call today to set appointment.

CALL or TEXT NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR or EMAIL myhomes2syc@aol.com

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NEW CONSTRUCTION

Seller Offering $3000 Rebate South DeKalb Townhome

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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. 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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

Petitioners

JUVENILE DIVISION

YOU

THE

CUSTODY

AND 9/23/2016, Elgin, IL Case No. 16 P 624 PUBLICATION NOTICE RIGHTS, AND TO APPOINT A INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CON- To: CREDITORS, CLAIMANTS, UNSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY KNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO 1. Notice is hereby given of the YOUR CHILDREN. IF THE PETI- death of Helmut K. Lukas who died TION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION on 9/23/16, a resident of Elgin, IlliOF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND nois.

THE APPOINTMENT OF A 2. The Representative for the estate is: Doris A. Lukas, 812 Greenwood GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO Avenue, Carpentersville, IL 60110 CONSENT TO ADOPTION, YOU (pro se).

MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS 3. Claims against the estate may TO YOUR CHILDREN. be filed on or before 7/26/17.

Unless you appear you will not be Claims against the estate may be entitled to further written notices or filed with the Clerk of the Circuit publication notices of the proceed- Court, 540 S. Randall Rd., St. ings in this case, including the fil- Charles, IL 60174 or with the Reping of an amended petition or a resentative, or both. Any Claim not motion to terminate parental filed within that period is barred.

Copies of a claim filed with the rights.

Now, unless you appear at the clerk must be mailed or delivered to the Representative within 10 days hearing and show cause against after it has been filed. the petition, the allegations of the 4. On 1/06/17 an Order Admitting petition may stand admitted as the Will to Probate, Appointing the against you and each of you, and Representative was entered. an order or judgment entered.

5. Within forty-two (42) days after the effective date of the original /s/ Thomas M. Hartwell Order Admitting the Will to Probate, Clerk you may file a petition with the Court to require proof of the validity Dated: February 1, 2017 of the Will by testimony or witnesses to the Will in open Court or other (Published in the Tri-Cities Republi- evidence, as provided in Article VI can on February 9, 2017) 5/6-21 (755 ILCS 5/6/21).

1264717 6. Within six (6) months after the effective date of the original Order PUBLIC NOTICE Admitting the Will to Probate, you may file a petition with the Court to IN THE CIRCUIT COURT contest validity of the Will as proFOR THE SIXTEENTH vided under Article VIII 5/8-1 of the JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/8-1).

KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS 7. The estate will be administered 16 MR 1522 without Court supervision unless an NOTICE OF PUBLICATION interested party terminates indepenREGARDING NAME CHANGE dent supervision administration by Public notice is hereby given that filiing a petition to terminate under on February 24, 2017, in Court- Aricle XXVIII 5/28-4 of the Probate room No. 250, of the Kane County Act (755 ILCS 5/28-4).

Courthouse, 100 South Third /s/ Doris Lukas Street, Geneva, Illinois, at the hour Signature of Executor of 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter January 26, February 2, 9, 2017 as this matter may heard, a Petition Kane County Chronicle 1260682 will be heard in said Courtroom for the change of name of Michael Wayne Moser-Booth to the new PUBLIC NOTICE name of Michael Wayne Booth pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/21-101 et IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE seq. /s/ Michael Moser-Booth SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS Petitioner IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF (Published in the Kane County (DECEDENT): Chronicle on January 26, February Name: Marino Lopez Address: 232 South Lincoln Avenue 2, 9, 2017) 1260581 City, State, Zip: Aurora, IL 60505 Date and Place of Death: August PUBLIC NOTICE 31, 2016 Aurora, IL Case No. 16 P 647 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT PUBLICATION NOTICE FOR THE SIXTEENTH INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION JUDICIAL CIRCUIT TO: CREDITORS, CLAIMANTS, UNKANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS KNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES 16 MR 1522 1. Notice is hereby given of the NOTICE OF PUBLICATION death of Marino Lopez who died on REGARDING NAME CHANGE August 31, 2016, a resident of Public notice is hereby given that 232 S. Lincoln Avenue, Aurora, Illion February 24, 2017, in Court- nois. room No. 250, of the Kane County 2. The representative for the estate Courthouse, 100 South Third is: Heriverto Lopez.

Street, Geneva, Illinois, at the hour 3. The Attorney for the estate is: of 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter Mark M. Berardi, 207 South Water as this matter may heard, a Petition Street, Wilmington, IL 60481. will be heard in said Courtroom for 4. Claims against the estate may the change of name of Yadira be filed on or before August 9, Gronzalez to the new name of 2017. Claims against the estate Yadira Booth pursuant to 735 ILCS may be filed with the Clerk of the 5/21-101 et seq.

Circuit Court, 540 S. Randall Rd., /s/ Yadira Gonzalez St. Charles, IL 60174 or with the Petitioner Representative, or both Any claim not filed within that period is (Published in the Kane County barred. Copies of a claim tiled with Chronicle on January 26, February the Clerk must be mailed or deliv2, 9, 2017) 1260577 ered to the Representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it PUBLIC NOTICE has been filed.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 5. On January 3, 2017 an Order SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Appointing the Representative was KANE COUNTY, ILLIINOIS entered.

IN THE MATTER OF THE 6. Within forty-two (42) days after ESTATE OF: the effective date of the original OrHELMUT K. LUKAS der Admitting the Will to Probate, 513 Ryerson Avenue you may file a petition with the Elgin, IL 60123 Court to require proof of the validity Date and Place of Death: of the Will by testimony or witness9/23/2016, Elgin, IL es to the Will in open Court, or othCase No. 16 P 624 er evidence, as provided in Article PUBLICATION NOTICE VI 5/6-21 (744 ILCS 5/6/21).

INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION 7. Within six (6) months after the To: CREDITORS, CLAIMANTS, UN- effective date of the original Order KNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES Admitting the Will to Probate, you

ADOPT GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINORS, 74 CLASSIFIEDTODARIEL • Thursday, February 9,IN2017 • Kane / KCChronicle.com THE INTEREST OF: County Chronicle ALEXANDER SOTO, TO TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL A minor

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, ILLINOIS ADOPTION DIVISION MARGARITO JIMENEZ SANCHEZ and ZOYLA GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Petitioners TO ADOPT DARIEL ALEXANDER SOTO, A minor No. 16 AD 90 ADOPTION PUBLICATION NOTICE

No. 16 AD 90 ADOPTION PUBLICATION NOTICE NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU, ADOPTION NOTICE-STATE OF ILLINOIS, County of Kane, ss.-Circuit Court of Kane County.

In the matter of the Petition for the Adoption of DARIEL ALEXANDER SOTO, a male child. Adoption No. 16 AD 90. To CARLOS ERNESTO PACHECO, any unknown fathers and to all whom it may concern.

Take notice that a petition was filed in the Circuit Clerk of Kane County, 540 Randall Rd., St. Charles, IL 60174 for the adoption of a child named DARIEL ALEXANDER SOTO. UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the office of the Circuit Clerk of Kane County , 540 Randall Rd., St. Charles, IL 60174 on or before March 4, 2017, A JUDGMENT OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT. Name: CUNNINGHAMLOPEZ LLP Attorney for: Petitioners Address: 120 W. Madison St. Suite 611 City: Chicago State: Illinois Zip: 60602 Telephone: 815-923-2107 Attorney No. 6306808 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 9, 16, 23, 2017) 1262957

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS In Re Marriage of Blanca Flores Plaintiff vs.

Armando Flores - Hernandez Defendant.

CASE NO. 16 D 1284 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 FOR 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 of this Court, by filing the same in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on or before March 13, 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 January 30, 2017 Name: Robert W. Smith Attorney for: Blanca Flores Atty Registration No: 02653117 Address: 75 Market St., Suite 1 City, State, Zip: ELGIN, IL 60123 Phone: 847-931-5060

AVA BRUESSARD MINOR. GEN. NO. 16 JA 88 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN: John Doe and any/all unknown fathers.

Take notice that on the 15th day of September, 2016, a Petition for Adjudication was 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 Bruessard, Ava, MINOR(S)''and that on Monday, March 06, 2017 in courtroom of the Kane County Courthouse, Geneva, Illinois, at 9:00 A.M. In Courtroom #140 or as soon thereafter as this cause may be heard, an ADJUDICATORY HEARING will be held upon the petition lo have the minor declared a ward 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.

/s/ Thomas M. Hartwell Clerk Dated: February 1, 2017 (Published in the Tri-Cities Republican on February 9, 2017) 1264732

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUVENILE DIVISION

IN THE INTEREST OF: AVA BRUESSARD MINOR. GEN. NO. 16 JA 88 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN: Alexandria Singleton, - Mother Take notice that on the 15th day of September, 2016, a Petition for Adjudication was 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 Bruessard, Ava, MINOR(S)''and that on Monday, March 06, 2017 (Published in the Kane County in courtroom of the Kane County Chronicle February 9, 16, 23, Courthouse, Geneva, Illinois,at 2017) 1264097 9:00A.M. in Courtroom #140 or as soon thereafter as this cause may PUBLIC NOTICE be heard, an ADJUDICATORY HEARING will be held upon the peIN THE CIRCUIT COURT tition lo have the minor declared a FOR THE SIXTEENTH ward of the court under the Act. JUDICIAL CIRCUIT THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS THIS PROCEEDING TO TAKE FROM JUVENILE DIVISION YOU THE CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINORS, IN THE INTEREST OF: TO TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL AVA BRUESSARD RIGHTS, AND TO APPOINT A MINOR. GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONGEN. NO. 16 JA 88 SENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY

es to the Will in open Court, or other evidence, as provided in Article VI 5/6-21 (744 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).

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 /s/ Signature of Executor Heriverto the Seal of said Court on Lopez 1/19/2017. /s/ Thomas M. Hartwell (Published in the Kane County Clerk of the Circuit Court Chronicle on February 9, 16, 23, SEAL 2017) 1264098 Name: Humberto Villagomez Attorney for: N/A Atty Registration No.: N/A Address: 1012 North Camden PUBLIC NOTICE City, State, Zip: South Elgin, IL IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 60177 SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Phone: 224-388-0400 Attorney E-mail: N/A KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN RE: MARRIAGE OF (Published in the Kane County Lisa Guerette Chronicle on January 26, February Plaintiff/Petitioner 2, 9, 2017) 1260933 vs.

Hank Guerette Defendant/Respondent PUBLIC NOTICE Case No. 17 D 26 PUBLICATION NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE The requisite affidavit(s) having SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL DEFENNo. 17 MR 130 DANTS IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION, that said action has been NOTICE OF PUBLICATION commenced in said Court by the REGARDING NAME CHANGE plaintiff(s), naming you as defenPublic notice is hereby given that dant(s) therein and praying Hank Guerette (Date of Birth: on March 24, 2017, in Courtroom No. 250 of the Kane County Court2/28/1968) house, 100 South Third Street, formerly of Geneva, Illinois, at the hour of 9:00 1515 Exposition Avenue a.m. or as soon thereafter as this Aurora, IL 60506 and for other relief; that summons matter may be heard, a Petition will has been issued out of this Court be heard in said Courtroom for the against you as provided by law, change of name of CATHERINE and, that this action is still pending MARY RUSSO to CATHERINE MARY CREAMER, pursuant to 735 and undetermined in said Court.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you file ILCS 5/21-10. your answer or otherwise make your appearance in said action in Dated January 31, 2017 at St. this Court, by filing the same in the Charles, Illinois. office of the Clerk of the Circuit /s/ Catherine M. Russo Court on or before 2-22-17.

Petitioner AN ORDER OF DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINEST YOU. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have February 9, 16, 23, 2017 hereunto set my hand and affixed Kane County Chronicle 1264116 Seal of said Court on Jan 9, 2017.

Thomas M Hartwell PUBLIC NOTICE Clerk of the Circuit Court (SEAL) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT Name: Law Office of Gordon R. FOR THE SIXTEENTH Hughes, Jr. JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Attorney for: Plaintiff KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS Atty Registration No.: 1281399 17 MR 134 Address: 1737 S. Naperville Rd., NOTICE OF PUBLICATION Suite 207 REGARDING NAME CHANGE City, State, Zip: Wheaton, IL 60189 Public notice is hereby given that Phone: 6302601770 on March 31, 2017, in Courtroom Attorney E-mail:logh@sbcglobal.net No. 250, of the Kane County Courthouse, 100 South Third Published in the Kane County Street, Geneva, Illinois, at the hour Chronicle on January 26, February of 9:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter 2, 9, 2017) 1260898 as this matter may heard, a Petition will be heard in said Courtroom for the change of name of Shirzad PUBLIC NOTICE Stephen Gorjinia to the new name of Stephen Gorjinia pursuant to IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 735 ILCS 5/21-101 et seq.

SIXTEETH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT /s/ Shirzad Stephen Gorjinia KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS Petitioner 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,

(Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 9, 16, 23, 2017) 1264055

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

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 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)

(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.

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 /s/ Michael Pech, AVP First American Bank Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, 2017 1262088

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN RE THE MATTER OF: Amy Dulmage gonzalex on behalf of Scott Alexander Becker CASE NO. 17 MR 132 NOTICE OF FILING OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To: Shawn Becker 411 Leah Lane Woodstock, IL 60098 Notice is given you, the public, that on March 17, 2017 at 9:00 a.m.

Scott Alexander Becker, a minor,

by Amy Dulmage Gonzalez, his/her biological mother and next friend, will request that this Court change his/her present name of Scott Alexander Becker to the name of Scott Alexander Dulmage. The hearing will take place at 719 South Batavia Avenue, in Geneva, Illinois.

(Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 9, 16, 23, 2017) 1264741

PUBLIC NOTICE

Sycamore, IL 60178, 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 January 4, 2017, an Order Admitting the Will to Probate and/or Appointing the Representative was entered.

The estate will be administered without Court supervision unless an interested party terminates independent supervision administration by filing a petition to terminate under Section 28-4 of the Probate Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. Ch. 110 1/2, Par. 28-4) (Published in the Kendall County Record on February 9, 16, 23, 2017) 1264646

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of Geneva Community Unit School District 304, Kane County, Illinois will receive sealed bids for White and Colored Copier Paper for the 2017-2018 school year. Specifications may be obtained from the District 304 Business Office by contacting: Donna V. Oberg, Assistant Superintendent – Business Services, 227 North Fourth Street, Geneva, Illinois 60134, at (630) 4633030. Sealed bids must be received in the Business Office by 10:30 AM, Friday, February 24, 2017.

The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any and all bids (Published in the Geneva Kane County Chronicle on February 9, 2017) 1264748

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Village of Lily Lake is looking for bids for yard care from April to October of 2017. All Bids need to be submitted to the Village office by 12:00 pm on March 1, 2017.

Bid packets will be opened at the Public Works Meeting on March 2, 2017.

Please stop by the Village Office, 43W870 Empire Road, to obtain your copy of the bid package.

Interested bidders will need to submit a certificate of liability insurance with the proposal.If you have any questions, please contact the Village at 630-3659577 or by email at clerk@villageoflilylake.org.

(Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 9, 2017) 1263172

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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PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on Friday, January 27, 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: 39 W 108 Campton Hills Dr St Charles, IL, 60175 Dated: 1/27/2017

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE

Public Notice is hereby given that on Friday, January 27, 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 9, 16, 23, addresses of all persons owning, 2017) 1263980 conducting and transacting the business known as: PUBLIC NOTICE Addix Sales Helfrick Recruiting ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE located at: located at: 2308 Tracy Ln 2721 Wessex Drive Public Notice is hereby given that West Dundee, IL, 60118 Algonquin, IL 60102 on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of Dated: 1/27/2017 the County Clerk of Kane County, Dated: 1/27/2017 Illinois, setting forth the names and /s/ John A. Cunningham addresses of all persons owning, /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk Kane County Clerk conducting and transacting the business known as: (Published in the Kane County (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, Chronicle on February 9, 16, 23, COOLLEX 2017) 1262627 2017) 1263965 located at: PUBLIC NOTICE 469 Gertrude St PUBLIC NOTICE Elgin, IL, 60123 ASSUMED NAME ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Dated: 1/17/2017 PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that Public Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, January 19, 2017 a /s/ John A. Cunningham on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of Kane County Clerk certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and (Published in the Kane County the County Clerk of Kane County, addresses of all persons owning, Chronicle on January 26, February Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the 2, 9, 2017) 1260574 conducting and transacting the business known as: business known as: PUBLIC NOTICE Beauty By Ashlynn LR Compliance Services ASSUMED NAME located at: PUBLICATION NOTICE located at: 601 W. State St Suite J 913 Gosselin Circle Geneva, IL, 60134 Public Notice is hereby given that Batavia, IL, 60510 on Thursday, January 26, 2017 a Dated: 1/19/2017 certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Dated: 1/31/2017 /s/ John A. Cunningham Illinois, setting forth the names and Kane County Clerk addresses of all persons owning, /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk conducting and transacting the (Published in the Kane County business known as: (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on January 26, February Chronicle on February 9, 16, 23, 2, 9, 2017) 1260573 County Line Farms 2017) 1263975 located at: 50W372 Peterson Road PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE Maple Park, IL, 60151 ASSUMED NAME ASSUMED NAME Dated: 1/26/2017 PUBLICATION NOTICE PUBLICATION NOTICE

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Public Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, January 26, 2017 a was filed in the office of certificate Virgil Drainage Ditch District #3 the County Clerk of Kane County, 2017 Meeting Notice: February 21 8:00 a.m. Illinois, setting forth the names and June 20 8:00 a.m. addresses of all persons owning, July 18 8:00 a.m. conducting and transacting the business known as: September 12 Election 2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. breathe . in . essentials November 21 Annual meeting 8:00 a.m. located at: Meeting Location: 120 Cobbler Ln Midwest Trading Headquarters Office 48W805 IL Rt 64 Maple Sugar Grove, IL, 60554 Park, IL Dated: 1/26/2017 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle and the Elburn Herald on /s/ John A. Cunningham February 9) 1264099 Kane County Clerk

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Richard A. Missing, Sr. Deceased Case No. 2016 P 136 INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION PUBLICATION NOTICE TO: Creditors and Claimants 1. Notice is given of the death of Richard A. Missing, Sr., who died on November 10, 2016 a resident of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois.

2. The Representative for the estate PUBLIC NOTICE and his/her address is: Richard A. Virgil Drainage District No. 1 Missing, Jr. of 217 S. Lake Street, 2017 Meetings Grayslake, IL 60030.

Virgil Township Office 3. The attorney for the estate and 49W181 Winters Road his/her address is: Strohschein Law Maple Park, IL 60151 Group, 455 Dunham Road, Suite 200, St. Charles, IL 60174.

Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 4. Claims against the estate may 7:00 p.m. be filed on or before August 9, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, 7:00 p.m.

2017. Claims against the estate may be filed with the Clerk of the Tuesday, November 21, 2017, 7:00 p.m.

Circuit Court, 133 W. State St., Sycamore, IL 60178, or with the (Published in the Elburn Herald on Representative, or both. Any claim not filed within that period is February 9, 2017) 1264761 barred. Copies of a claim filed with Find. Buy. Sell. the Clerk must be mailed or delivAll in one place... HERE! Everyday in ered to the Representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it Kane County Chronicle Classified

the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as:

(Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, 2017) 1262070

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on Friday, January 27, 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: Broderick Development

/s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk

/s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk

Public Notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office (Published in the Kane County of the County Clerk of Kane County, Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, Illinois, setting forth the names and 2017) 1262071 addresses of all persons owning, conducting and transacting the PUBLIC NOTICE business known as: ASSUMED NAME Mohawk Renovations PUBLICATION NOTICE 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

located at: 2261 Feltes Ln Aurora, IL 60502

located at: 381 Fountain Ave, Elgin, IL, 60124

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on Monday, January 30, 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: Shlimon Odisho Trucking located at: 26 Creekside Circle Unit A Elgin, IL, 60123 Dated: 1/30/2017

Public Notice is hereby given that on Friday, January 27, 2017 a was filed in the office of certificate (Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, setting forth the names and 2017) 1260677 addresses of all persons owning, Have a photo you'd like to share? conducting and transacting the business known as: Upload it to our online photo album at Project and Process Solutions KCChronicle.com/MyPhotos

on Monday, January 30, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illinois, concerning the business known as Triad Services

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE

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

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Public Notice is hereby given that on Friday, February 3, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, Illi(Published in the Kane County nois, setting forth the names and Chronicle on February 9, 16, 23, addresses of all persons owning, 2017) 1263970 conducting and transacting the business known as:

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Dated: 1/30/2017 /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk

(Published in the Kane County Chronicle on February 9, 16, 23, 2017) 1264036 Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up? Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!

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Public Notice is hereby given that on Thursday, January 26, 2017 a Dated: 2/3/2017 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, conducting and transacting the (Published in the Kane County business known as: Chronicle on February 9, 16, 23, 2017) 1264767 Silver Lead Technology Advisors located at: 1502 Winners Cup Circle St Charles, IL, 60174 Dated: 1/26/2017

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Public Notice is hereby given that on Monday, January 30, 2017 a certificate was filed in the office of the County Clerk of Kane County, (Published in the Kane County Illinois, concerning the business Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, known as 2017) 1262074 CLOVE TECHNOLOGIES /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk

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, /s/ John A. Cunningham setting forth the names and Illinois, Kane County Clerk addresses of all persons owning, (Published in the Kane County conducting and transacting the Chronicle on February 2, 9, 16, business known as: 2017) 1262668 Valerio's General Contractor

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located at 39W142 Warner Lane, Geneva, IL, 60134 which certifisets forth the following cate Public Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 a changes in the operation thereof: /s/ John A. Cunningham certificate was filed in the office of Kane County Clerk the County Clerk of Kane County, Krishnam P Raju and Udaya P (Published in the Kane County Illinois, setting forth the names and Raju have ceased doing business Chronicle on February 9, 16, 23, addresses of all persons owning, under the above named business 2017) 1263985 conducting and transacting the and has no further connection with or financial interest in the above business known as: named business carried on under such an assumed name.

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Publisher's Notice: All real estate located at 39W142 Warner Lane, Geneva, IL, 60134 which certifi- advertising in cate sets forth the following this newspaper is subject to the changes in the operation thereof: Fair Housing Act Krishnam P Raju and Udaya P which makes it Raju have ceased doing business illegal to advertise "any preferunder the above named business ence, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, reliand has no further connection with or financial interest in the above gion, sex, handicap, familial named business carried on under status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such such an assumed name. preference, limitation of discrimiDated: 1/30/2017 nation." Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custo/s/ John A. Cunningham dians, pregnant women and Kane County Clerk people securing custody of chil(Published in the Kane County dren under 18. This newspaper Chronicle on February 9, 16, 23, will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which 2017) 1264043 is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that PUBLIC NOTICE all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an SUPPLEMENTAL equal opportunity basis.

ASSUMED NAME To complain of discrimination PUBLICATION NOTICE call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777.

Public Notice is hereby given that The toll-free telephone number on Monday, January 30, 2017 a for the hearing impaired is certificate was filed in the office of 1-800-927-9275 the County Clerk of Kane County,

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