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Great Harvest Bread location to close

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By BRENDA SCHORY bschory@shawmedia.com GENEVA – Blaming a lackluster economy, competition and the ever-rising cost of materials, the owners of the Great Harvest Bread Company, at 13 N. Third St., Geneva, announced they would close Feb. 1.

The bread store has been there since the 1990s; Marty and Kim Kane have owned it since 2009.

“It’s a matter of the economy,” said Marty Kane, a Geneva resident. “I’m not bringing in as much as I have to spend.

I can’t do it anymore. Taking care of my family is my priority. Business is down – down for a lot of reasons. It’s time to cut our losses and move on.”

Compared to a Walmart, a small-scale operator cannot get a volume discount on ingredients, he said.

“The cost of walnuts has gone up close to 300 percent.

Nobody is going to buy a $20 or $15 loaf of bread,” Kane said. “When people are struggling, they’re going to buy it where it’s the cheapest.”

Kane said he even grinds his own flour for the 200 to 300 loaves he bakes every day.

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Great Harvest Bread Company in Geneva will be closing its doors Feb. 1. The current owners, Marty and Kim Kane, have run the store since 2009.

Even at $5 to $8 a loaf, his margin is down to nothing at this point, he said.

“Is is really worth it getting up at 3 o’clock every morning?

No vacation in three years because I cannot afford to. I’ve got to work,” Kane said. “My

wife and I are completely sad ... but I have to find a real job now.”

Kane said he spent 20 years in corporate marketing and he would try to return to that.

Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns said he is sorry to see

the bread store close.

“Geneva is thankful to the Kanes for providing us with more than just delicious baked goods,” Burns said.

“They provided all of us with a warm welcome and extraordinary service.”

8LOCAL BRIEF Author to talk of novel ‘Critical Mass’ in STC ST. CHARLES – A presentation by author Sara Paretsky is set for 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the Carnegie Community Room at

the St. Charles Public Library, 1 S. Sixth Ave., St. Charles.

She is expected to discuss how Charles Dickens inspired her work as well as her latest novel, “Critical Mass.”

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. The event is sponsored by the St. Charles Public Library Foundation. It is open to St. Charles library cardholders.

Registration is required.

Sign up at the reference desk, call 630-584-0076, ext. 1, or visit www.stcharleslibrary.org/ evanced/lib/eventcalendar.asp.

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Where did you grow up? St. Charles Pets? A yellow Lab named Mowgli and a black Lab-terrier mix named Sabrina Who would play you in the movie of your life? John Cusack First job? Paper route As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Astronaut. I became a mutual fund analyst.

A book you’d recommend? “Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Favorite charity? American Cancer Society What game show would you be on? “Name That Tune” Favorite local restaurant? Sweet Tomatoes in St. Charles What is an interesting factoid about yourself? When I was 6, I stared down a gray wolf in Missouri. I was out in the country and this wolf came up and sniffed me and went away. I wasn’t ripe yet.

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Kane County Chronicle staffers pick the best of what to do in your free time

McDole PTO Trivia Fundraiser Night WHAT: The third annual McDole PTO Trivia Fundraising Night features a trivia competition, a silent auction and cash and prizes. Prizes will be awarded to winners, losers and the team with the most creative table theme. Tickets are $15 a person in advance and $20 at the door.

WHEN: 6:30 p.m. March 8 WHERE: Open Range Southwest Grill, 1 Golfview Road, Sugar Grove INFORMATION: For information or to register, contact Stephanie Beattie at beattiestephanie@gmail.com.

Kaneland Arts Initiative Fine Arts Feast planned WHAT: The purpose of the fundraiser is to raise money through donations from arts-minded individuals seeking to become KAI arts patrons. Guests are treated to dinner and entertainment along with an informational program on the financial need of the Kaneland Arts Initiative. All interested over the age of 21 are invited to attend.

WHEN: 5 p.m. Feb. 21 WHERE: Open Range Southwest Grill, 1 Golfview Lane, Sugar Grove INFORMATION: Reservations can be made by calling 630-365-5100, ext. 180, or emailing 10911@kaneland.org. The event is free to attend, though donations will be taken during the night. For information, visit www.kanelandart-

sinitiative.org.

Blackberry Township assessor plans workshop WHAT: Taxpayers will be provided with information on the property tax cycle, how assessments are being developed, and how to appeal your assessment to a board of review.

Taxpayers will have the opportunity to address specific questions concerning their property and discuss any other property tax-related concerns.

WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Town and Country Public Library, 320 E. North St., Elburn.

INFORMATION: Call Blackberry Township Assessor Uwe Rotter at 630-365-6580.

Habitat restoration day set at Bliss Wood WHAT: Participants will be cutting and stacking invasive brush. Participants should dress appropriately in layers, sturdy, warm shoes and work gloves. Refreshments will be offered at the break. Children younger than 14 should be accompanied by an adult. The work day will be canceled is the temperature is 18 degrees or lower.

WHEN: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday WHERE: Bliss Woods Forest Preserve, 5S660 Bliss Road, Sugar Grove INFORMATION: Send email to maryoxie@ sbcglobal.net or call Rob Cleave at the Kane

County Forest Preserve at 630-232-5980.

Black Cat Adoption Special at Anderson Animal Shelter WHAT: Throughout the month of February, Anderson Animal Shelter’s black and black with white cats adoption fee is reduced to $50 to qualified adopters. The shelter said black cats are often overlooked by adopters. The adoption fee includes spay or neuter, annual vaccinations, microchip identification, feline leukemia-FIV testing, deworming, collar and an ID tag and a carrying case.

WHEN: Throughout the month of February WHERE: Anderson Animal Shelter, 1000 Route 31, South Elgin INFORMATION: Visit www.andersonanimalshelter.org or call 847-697-2880, ext. 28.

Elburn Lions Club plans community dinner WHAT: The Elburn Lions Club has community spaghetti dinners each month. The dinner will be free, but donations will be accepted.

Donations will go toward Elburn Lions Club charities.

WHEN: 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday WHERE: Elburn Lions Club, 500 S. Filmore St., Elburn INFORMATION: Visit www. elburnlions.com or call 630365-6315.

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8LOCAL BRIEFS Book signing scheduled for Saturday at bakery GENEVA – Local author Crystal Mack and independent publisher Apologue Entertainment will team up with The Sugar Path bakery from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at 315 W. State St., Geneva.

The bakery will host a reading and signing of “The Pentrals,” a new young adult novel, and offer participants the chance to win prizes and taste a new dessert made specifically for the event. “The Pentrals” is a paranormal fantasy narrated by a shadow.

St. Peter School sets open house for Sunday GENEVA – St. Peter School, 1881 Kaneville Road, Geneva, has planned an open house from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday.

The school provides instruction for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. It is an opportunity to tour the school and meet with St. Peter faculty, staff and families.

Lunch will be served. RSVP to 630-232-0476 or via email tcummins@stpeterrockets.org

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‘Leading Ladies’ coming to Geneva theater GENEVA – Tickets are on sale for Playhouse 38’s production of “Leading Ladies.” This comedy, written by Ken Ludwig, starring local actors, will run Feb. 13 through Feb. 16.

The show follows two downon-their-luck English actresses in rural Pennsylvania who find themselves performing “Scenes from Shakespeare” on the Amish Country Moose Lodge circuit. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Feb. 13, Feb.

SUGAR GROVE 14 and Feb. 15, as well as 3 p.m. Feb. 16. Playhouse 38 is at 524 W. State St., Geneva.

Call 630-232-4542 for ticket information.

New app gives citizens way to connect with STC ST. CHARLES – The city of St. Charles encourages residents to install St. Charles Connect, an app, on their mobile phone or tablet. St. Charles Connect is a way for citizens to let the city know about issues, such as a broken street light, or to ask questions. It should not be used to report an emergency or any time-sensitive issue.

It is not a replacement for the power outage reporting system. Available for iPhone, Android, Windows 8 and Blackberry. Log in online at www. stcharlesil.gov/connect.

tricityfamilyservices.org, or call 630-232-1070. The cost to attend is $10 per person, and all proceeds benefit TriCity Family Services. Space is limited, and registration in advance is required.

Library steps up election efforts

Military History Fest to feature vehicles, music

Board again seeks to increase tax rate

ST. CHARLES – The Military History Fest is set for Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 at Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. Features include military vehicles, encampments from all eras, music, dancing, seminars and workshops. The cost is $20 for a one-day adult pass, $30 for a three-day adult pass and free for veterans and children 15 and younger. Visit www.militaryhistoryfest.com for information.

Museum’s nature event taking reservations

Trivia Night planned at Batavia Moose Lodge BATAVIA – TriCity Family Services’ Trivia Night is set to start at 6 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Batavia Moose Lodge, 1535 S. Batavia Ave., Batavia.

Teams of six to eight people (maximum 10) battle other teams to see who has the greatest knowledge of all things trivial. Each team has its own table and will answer trivia questions together. The evening is also highlighted by additional games and a 50/50 raffle.

The event is BYOF (bring your own food), and attendees are encouraged to bring food for their table to share, as well as a creative team name and theme. The Batavia Moose provides a cash bar. No outside alcohol is permitted.

Register online at www.

CAMPTON HILLS – Reservations for Garfield Farm Museum’s 29th annual Prairie, Woodlands, and Wetlands Management Seminar are being taken. The event takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 22 at the museum, which is west of Geneva off of Route 38 on Garfield Road.

For reservations, call 630584-8485 or email info@ garfieldfarm.org. The cost is $55, which includes lunch, for a full day. The half-day cost is $25. This seminar covers key methods and techniques of preserving and using the best adapted plants for the Illinois environment. Special topics include using native species with ornamental plants and the use of native trees and shrubs in home landscaping.

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By BRENDA SCHORY bschory@shawmedia.com SUGAR GROVE – In gearing up for its 11th rate increase request, Sugar Grove Library Director Carol Dolin said the library will offer multiple opportunities for voters to learn about what is at stake.

“We have put together a PowerPoint to explain what we are doing and how much it will cost and what we are going to do with it,” Dolin said.

“And what we have done in the past year and half to two years to make the library more available to our users.”

Dolin said the PowerPoint is being edited and will be available on the district’s website after the library board approves it. The board meets Thursday.

“We will have fliers and brochures and posters with the same information on it, so patrons can see it when they walk in,” Dolin said. “All staff will be prepared with information if they get questions.”

All staff members are voter registrars, so patrons also can register to vote, she said.

The request on the March 18 ballot asks to raise the rate to approximately 20.6 cents per $100 equalized assessed valuation. The current rate is 12.4 cents.

If voters approve, it would raise about $300,000 more in tax revenue, to $892,000 from

just under $600,000, according to the referendum documents. The increase would cost the owner of a $100,000 house $25.64 more in taxes, officials said.

The library’s efforts are within the law, Dolin said, as providing information, not promotional.

“Basically, we’re using our statistics, which is information we already had and is in the board packets every month,” Dolin said.

Another factor – possibly in the referendum’s favor this time – is more than half the people in the library district now have library cards, about 54 percent.

“Every day, we are registering new people who have not used the library before,” Dolin said. “And all our staff are voter registrars. We have early voting here in the building – maybe that will make people aware of the situation.

Whether they vote yes or no, that is their choice.”

The referendum’s goal is to have the library offer more programs and be open more hours. Dolin said the staff has tried to shift as much funding as possible toward offering more services to the public.

“And we’ve made some choices, such as deferred some maintenance, to demonstrate there are things here for people to want to use the library,” Dolin said. “We have been explaining why the library is an important addition to the community and should be open every day, so people can use the resources they are already paying for.”

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Power of giving:

From Smart Boards to gardens, school donations go a long way

By AL LAGATTOLLA alagattolla@shawmedia.com

E

ric Schaaf leaps at any opportunity to participate in book sale events at his sons’ schools.

Schaaf, a Sugar Grove resident, said he usually purchases many books, as he tries to encourage reading and “we’re not apt to say no to that kind of stuff.”

As a result, Schaaf said, there will be piles of gently-used books around the house, but that isn’t a problem. Schaaf said he regularly donates books to Kaneland John Shields Elementary in Sugar Grove, where his youngest son, Brent, is a fifth-grader. He recently sent a batch of 70 books, and he also has donated a fish tank and some furniture.

School districts welcome such donations, so long as the items are in good condition. Many such donations are like Schaaf’s, but there are donations of time, as well as especially large donations. District officials say it’s easy to donate – just call the district office or a school principal. Small cash donations can be useful as well. Donations then can be approved by a district’s school board.

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Fifth-grade teacher Heather Engelhart helps fifth-grader Jose Tellez with a math problem on her classroom’s Smart Board at Harrison Street Elementary School in Geneva. The board was donated to the school.

304, donation lists over the past few years show funds donated toward items for classroom instruction, including Smart Boards, which are white boards that can be used in different classrooms to incorporate the Internet and other computer-based learning and interactive experiences.

Other items range from classroom books to cross-country skis – the skis having been donated at a value of $6,784.70 – at Mill Creek

Elementary School.

At Western Avenue School in Geneva, a donation that stands out is a garden dedication, a significant undertaking that the school’s principal, Ron Zeman, at first thought might be too ambitious to be successful.

He said a group of parents approached him about it, and he said no.

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He said he previously had seen such gardens deteriorate into “weed fields.” But he said they were insistent and credible, with help from Jay Womack, director of landscape and ecological design for WRD Environmental.

“They said to me, ‘Will you please trust us? We promise that whatever we

do, that will not happen,’ ” Zeman said. “I said, ‘OK, I will trust you.’ Then the next thing I know, they are back with Jay Womack, and then they have these pavers donated.”

Womack was looking to help. He is a Geneva resident who attended Western Elementary School “way back.”

He said he was happy to help, and he said he donated a lot of time to draw plans and do the design, solicit materials and secure prairie plants through Midwest Groundcovers. He helped with fundraisers, and he has done weeding and watering. He also led a work day session with students.

“Everything they were talking about represented everything I stand for,” Womack said, citing education about being outside, being active and being healthy. He said he offered his services as a landscape architect to design the garden.

Zeman called it “an absolutely beautiful plan,” and praised the results. Womack said it was a thrill to do it, saying after he moved away, he was looking for a way to come back to Geneva and “really give back.”

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Eric Schaaf and his family have donated more than $1,000 in books and other equipment over a period of several years to Kaneland John Shields Elementary School in Sugar Grove.

Education Foundation, said Bullock was “almost growing his own engineers through the program.”

“It’s the world that he knows, and he wants to produce more engineers,” she said. “He’s been very good to the district.”

Bullock said he does it because it’s the right thing

to do and added that “a good part of this is self-interest.”

He praised the foundation, as well as Don Schlomann, superintendent of St. Charles School District 303, saying that “you want to make sure the investment you make has good stewardship.”

He said some of the interns that have been

Donations welcome, in good condition At Kaneland John Shields Elementary School, Principal Shelley Hueber said Schaaf’s donations go mostly to the classrooms of teachers who need to build their book collection. Schaaf said he knows of such a need, since his sister is a teacher.

Hueber said Schaaf’s

donations always are in good condition, and that it’s a big help. What’s not a big help, she said, would be donations of items in poor condition.

She said that sometimes happens.

“Other people might give us stuff we don’t want, and then we’re responsible for throwing it away,” Hueber said. She added that teachers welcome books or educational games.

“There’s always going to be somebody who wants those,” she said. “Books are always going to be an appreciated donation. ... Obviously money is, too.”

Schaaf said it’s a good feeling to donate. He said he moved to Sugar Grove specifically because of Kaneland School District 302 and said he has been pleased with the experience at John Shields, as well as Harter Middle School, which his older son attends.

“It’s a very caring community,” he said. “We’ve always just wanted to give back.”

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Ron Bullock, who owns St. Charles-based Bison Gear and Engineering, said there are many benefits that come with investing in developing future engineers from St. Charles schools. Donations he makes through the Greater St. Charles Education Foundation help provide funding to do that.

There are internships for students, and “externships,” to get hands-on training at their school. There are scholarships and training opportunities. And, he said, he has long been involved in statewide and national education and workforce initiatives, as he learned that there was a “real shortage of young people with good math, science and communication skills.”

Deb Mulrooney, president of the Greater St. Charles

sponsored have come back to work for Bison Gear. He said it was a positive experience, and he said he wished there were more who could know what it’s like.

“There’s not enough of us focusing on this particular issue,” he said.

Mulrooney said all kinds of items can be donated, and the foundation aims to raise money to make purchases that teachers request. The foundation’s signature event is a jazz event, which this year will take place Feb. 22 at the Royal Fox Country Club in St. Charles. For details, visit www.stced.org.

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GENEVA

Longtime barber dies

By BRENDA SCHORY

By AL LAGATTOLLA

bschory@shawmedia.com GENEVA – When Jerry Perrone owned the City Barber Shop on State Street in Geneva, he did not post the prices of the haircuts.

There was a good reason for that, said his daughter, Nancy Schaal.

“I asked him why not, and he said, ‘Because a father comes in with three young boys, he can’t pay $5 or $10 for a haircut. He pays what he can. Another man comes in who overpays, it all balances out.’ ” Perrone treated everyone who came to his shop with the same respect, whether it was the president of a company or someone who just needed a place to sit down for a while, Schaal said.

“My father had a big life,” said Schaal, of Monroe, Wis. “Any person my father met, he would get to know. Every Sunday growing up we were at my grandparents’ for spaghetti dinner. … There were people there who just came off the street, who just needed a good meal. That is how my father was raised and that is how he raised us.”

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Jerry Perrone, longtime owner of City Barber Shop in Geneva, cuts grandson Joseph Perrone’s hair while his wife, Teelie Perrone, watches.

Arden Courts, Geneva. A celebration of his life is scheduled for next month.

“Geneva has lost a friend and ambassador who embodied hospitality and graciousness,” Mayor Kevin Burns said.

Schaal said her grandfather had the barbershop business and her father went to work with him, eventually owning the shop.

“His work ethic was unbelievable,” Schaal said. “He was one of the hardest working men I ever knew. He loved

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the family, the barbershop, the American Legion and the community of Geneva.”

A World War II veteran, Perrone supported his wife and six children, five girls and a boy, from his work as a barber, Schaal said.

“We never had a lot of money, but we did not know we did not have a lot of money,” Schaal said. “We were rich in many other ways.”

SUGAR GROVE – A nearly head-on crash early Tuesday morning in Sugar Grove sent the drivers of both vehicles to local hospitals, Sugar Grove Police Chief Pat Rollins said.

The crash took place at 6:40 a.m. on Galena Boulevard, near Capitol Drive, west of Route 56, Rollins said.

There were no additional passengers in either vehicle, Rollins said. He said Galena Boulevard was closed for four hours between Capitol Drive and Route 56.

Rollins said the crash took place on snow-covered roads. One driver had to be extracted from a vehicle,

Rollins said, but he said he did not have details about the condition of those involved. He said the crash involved one male driver and one female driver, but he didn’t have further information, saying there would be a report available late Tuesday night.

There have been several weather-related crashes in the area, Rollins said, adding that there have been cars ending up in ditches or going off the road.

“Drivers need to be aware of the winter weather and the conditions,” Rollins said. “They should expect snow drifts to occur ... and give themselves a little extra time to get to their destination safely.”

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Elburn library program promotes winter reading

ELBURN – Elburn Boy Scout Troop 7 has planned an allyou-can-eat pancake breakfast from 7 to 10:30 a.m. Feb. 8 at the Elburn American Legion Hall, 112 N. Main St., Elburn. It will include pancakes, sausage links from Ream’s Elburn Market, juice and coffee. The cost is $5 for those ages 4 and older. It is free for those younger than 4. For information, visit www.troop-7.org.

ELBURN – The Read to Succeed winter reading program continues into the new year at the Town and Country Public Library, 320 E. North St., Elburn. This program is open to students of all ages who have a valid library card from the library. Everyone who registers gets a free full-day pass to Raging Waves Waterpark in Yorkville. Those who read for 300 minutes will receive prizes from the Chicago Wolves hockey team, Paisano’s Pizza, Colonial Café, Four Seasons Sports and McDonald’s. Read to Succeed ends Feb. 10.

Apply to work with Cougars at job fair GENEVA – The Kane County Cougars will have a job fair for seasonal employees from 1 to 4

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8POLICE REPORTS St. Charles • Shaun Orlando Sullivan, 30, of the 1800 block of South Fifth Place, St. Charles, was charged Friday, Jan. 17, with driving with a suspended license, driving with a suspended registration, driving without insurance, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

• John William Goodrich, 20, of the 1N400 block of Country Life Drive, Maple Park, was charged Friday, Jan. 17, with underage drinking.

• Kory Timothy Crotteau, 20, of the 4N400 block of Citation Lane, Elburn, was charged Friday, Jan. 17, with possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and underage drinking.

• Joseph Evan McLean, 18, of the 3S200 block of Juniper Lane, Glen Ellyn, was charged Saturday, Jan. 18, with underage drinking, possession of marijuana

and possession of drug paraphernalia.

• Javier Lima, 37, of the 1800 block of Covington Court, St. Charles, was charged Saturday, Jan. 18, with driving with a suspended license and driving with an expired registration. He was also arrested on a St. Charles warrant for failing to appear in court on a charge of driving without a license.

• Kayla Nicole Carey, 25, of the 1400 block of Creekside Court, Elgin, was charged Sunday, Jan. 19, with criminal damage to property for reportedly kicking a glass door at Alibi, 12 N. Third St., St. Charles, and shattering both glass panes.

• Tevin J. Thompson, 19, of the 500 block of State Avenue, St. Charles, was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 15, on a Kane County warrant for failing to appear in court on a charge of marijuana possession.

Born: Sept. 18, 1921; in Round Rock, Texas Died: Jan. 18, 2014; in St. Charles ST. CHARLES – Denny Ayala, 92, of St. Charles, passed away Jan. 18, 2014, peacefully at his home. He was born Sept. 18, 1921, to Simon and Augustina Ayala in Round Rock, Texas.

He grew up in Geneva and graduated from Geneva High School.

He married his loving wife, Blanche, of 57 years, making their home in St. Charles, where they raised their 10 children. He was a World War II Marine veteran. Denny was a devoted member of St. Patrick Catholic Church, where he was known for opening the door for daily Mass each morning for more than 42 years. Denny retired recently from Elgin Community College two years ago, where he had worked for more than 27 years.

He survived by nine children, Larry (Ettie) Ayala, Linda (Edward) Peterson, Anita Ayala, Darlene (Bob) Stellwagen, Diane (Dale) Wilderspin, Gary (Maureen) Ayala, Rita (David) Cuevas, Denise Service and Joseph (Chris) Ayala; 22 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Cora (Jesse) Ramariz and Mary McNally; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his loving wife; toddler son Denny Jr.; daughter Susan; and great-grandson Blake.

The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, at Yurs Funeral Home, 405 E. Main St. (corner of Routes 25 and 64), St. Charles. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan.

24, at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 400 Cedar St., St. Charles.

Contributions may be made to St. Patrick Church.

To leave an online condolence or remembrance to the family, visit the funeral homes’ obituary page at www.yursfuneralhomes. com. For information, please call Yurs Funeral Home of St. Charles, 630-584-0060.

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JERRY P. PERRONE Born: March 5, 1925; in Geneva Died: Jan. 19, 2014; in Geneva GENEVA – Jerry P. Perrone, 88, of Geneva, passed away Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, at Arden Courts of Geneva, surrounded by family.

He was born March 5, 1925, in Geneva, the son of Patsy and Theresa (Benedetto) Perrone.

Jerry served his country in the U.S. Marines during World War II. Back in Geneva, Jerry joined his father at the City Barber Shop as a co-owner and barber, where he was a fixture of the community for over 75 years. Jerry was active with the auxiliary police. He was a longtime member of the American Legion in Geneva and always enjoyed participating in their activities.

In his free time, Jerry liked to bowl and play poker. He also enjoyed time in his garden and was very proud of his tomato crop each year. Jerry was a kind

and dedicated husband and father and enjoyed his family. He will be greatly missed by all those whose lives he touched.

He is survived by his children, Cindy (Jack Claypoole) Grandin of Perrysburg, Ohio, Nancy (Jeff) Schaal of Monroe, Wis., Penny (John) Foiles of Wheaton, Judy (Todd Weinstein) Mastroni of Buffalo Grove, Jerry (Diane) Perrone of LaCrescent, Minn., and Cara (Greg Wilcox) Perrone of Northwoods; grandchildren, Adrian (Russ) Bredeson, Alex Anne Mastroni, Carly Tee Mastroni, Joseph Perrone, Therese Perrone and Cullen Wilcox; a sister, Rocadella “Rockie” (Terry) McConnaughay; a brother-in-law, Glenn McConnaughay; and many nieces, nephews and dear friends.

He was preceded in death by his loving wife of 62 years, Teelie (Lencioni), who passed away in 2010; his parents; and his sisters Anne Perrone and Mary McConnaughay.

Services and burial will be private.

A celebration of life visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, at Malone Funeral Home, 324 E. State St. (Route 38), Geneva.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Disabled American Veterans, P.O. Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH 452500301, or American Legion, 22 S. Second St., Geneva, IL 60134.

For information, call 630-2328233 or visit www.malonefh.com.

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8FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Marion M. Behling: The memorial service will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at First Congregational Church, 615 N. First St., DeKalb, with the Rev. Joe Gastiger and the Rev. Judy Harris officiating. Cremation is by Anderson Funeral Home Crematory. The visitation will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the church.

Bettye Frunzar: Private interment will be in River Hills Memorial Park in Batavia. A “celebration of

Obituary deadline The deadline for obituary notices is 4 p.m. for the next day’s edition. Obituaries can be emailed to obits@kcchronicle.com. For more information, contact news editor Al Lagattolla at alagattolla@ shawmedia.com. life” will be Friday, June 13, at a location to be determined. Con-

dolences to the family and memories shared may be forwarded to Healy Chapel, 332 W. Downer Place, Aurora, IL 60506. For information, call 630-897-9291 or visit www.healychapel.com to sign the online guest book.

Carrie E. Petrie: A celebration of her life will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at Elburn American Legion Post 630, 112 N. Main St., Elburn. Arrangements are being handled through the care of Conley Funeral Home in Elburn.

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ST. CHARLES – Moody’s Investors Service – a provider of credit ratings, research and risk analysis – has granted the city of St. Charles an Aa1 rating.

It is the second-highest rating offered by the agency. The complete Moody’s report can be found at www.stcharlesil. gov. For information, contact Finance Director Chris Minick at 630-762-7002.

p.m. Feb. 1 at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark, 34W002 Cherry Lane, Geneva. People are encouraged to stop by at any time during the three-hour session to complete an application. Positions include concession stand staff, picnic servers, beer servers, suite attendants and bartender.

Applications are available at www.kccougars.com or at the administrative office at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark. For information, call 630-232-8811.

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BATAVIA

Dairy Queen will replace Moo La La Location aims to open this spring, spokesman says

By BRENDA SCHORY bschory@shawmedia.com BATAVIA – The nowclosed Moo La La ice cream store at 1134 W. Wilson St. in Batavia has been purchased

by Noble Stores LLC, and it will be converted back to a Dairy Queen with a store opening this spring, officials said.

Noble Stores, based in Grafton, Wis., is the original Dairy Queen franchise, founded in 1940 by Sherb Noble, who opened the very first Dairy Queen in Joliet, the company announced in a statement.

The Wilson Street building initially was constructed and operated as a Dairy Queen.

Tom and Debi Kowske of Batavia operated it as a Dairy Queen starting in 1998, then as an independent ice cream store called Moo La La since 2009.

Moo La La has been closed since last fall. The Kowskes did not return voicemail messages seeking comment.

Joe Rintelman, spokesman for Noble Stores, said this will be the eighth store the company will operate. Noble owns the Dairy Queen in Geneva,

Charles Public Library, 1 S. Sixth Ave., St. Charles. Maureen E. Kelly, an immigration attorney, and Beatriz Rosa, who is Literacy Volunteers Fox Valley’s student liaison and teaches citizenship classes for World Relief in Aurora, will host the event.

Attendees will have an opportunity to talk individually with the hosts before and after their presentation on U.S. citizenship.

The program is free and open to anyone. For information, call Bea Rosa at 630-584-2811.

Contact the partnership at 630443-3969 or via email at info@ downtownstcharles.org with questions.

one store in Momence, one in Bourbonnais and two each in Aurora and Kankakee, he said.

“We are hoping to open in March, but we are not ready to commit to a date yet,” Rintelman said. “We are extremely excited to open a store in Batavia.”

The new owners are transitioning the building to their needs, including cleaning, installing new signs and upgrading the IT system.

Noble Stores chooses to run the business themselves rather than lease out franchise rights, Rintelman said.

“We are a franchise ... all part of the International Dairy Queen system, [but] we only serve treats, no food at ours,” Rintelman said. “We still make ice cream novelties by hand. We do not use high-fructose corn syrup. Sherb was a real purist. It wasn’t until after his death in 1991 that we introduced chocolate.”

8LOCAL BRIEFS ‘Magic the Gathering Club’ meeting tonight BATAVIA – The next “Magic the Gathering Club” meeting at the Batavia Public Library will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today.

The library is at 10 S. Batavia Ave., Batavia. Teens are invited to play the popular card game with other teens. Registration is not required. For information, visit bataviapubliclibrary.org.

Business group to talk about retail trends today ST CHARLES – The next Downtown St. Charles Partnership Business Exchange is set for 5 to 7 p.m. today at The Office Dining and Spirits, 201 E. Main St., St. Charles.

Leah Strohman of Vision Force Marketing will present Retail Minded’s training “Re-thinking Retail: Looking Ahead to the Trends of Retail.”

Learn how technology can help retailers, ways to stay competitive and how to keep merchandising relevant to customers. It is open to all and complimentary for DSCP members, with a $20 fee for nonmembers. To ask questions or to RSVP, call 630-443-3967.

Literacy group plans program on citizenship ST. CHARLES – Literacy Volunteers Fox Valley will host a program on U.S. citizenship from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the St.

St. Charles church to host used book sale Feb. 1 ST. CHARLES – Baker Memorial United Methodist Church, 307 Cedar Ave., St. Charles, will hold a used book sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 1.

Proceeds benefit the United Methodist Committee on Relief Midwest tornado relief efforts following the tornadoes in Washington and the surrounding areas. Contact the church at 630-584-6680 for information.

STC looking for parade entries for St. Patrick’s ST. CHARLES – The Downtown St. Charles Partnership is accepting entries for the 15th annual St. Charles St. Patrick’s Parade on March 15. Entry forms are due mid-February.

Volunteers and sponsors are also needed. Visit www. downtownstcharles.org/stpats for forms and information.

Learn about chocolate at library presentation ST. CHARLES – A Chocolate 101 class is set for noon Feb. 6 at the St. Charles Public Library, 1 S. Sixth Ave., St. Charles.

Chocolatier Kevin Roblee will talk about the flavors and nuances of chocolate from around the world. For nine years, Roblee traveled around the world taking on roles in chocolate product development, production and quality. Chocolate samples will be available to taste. Registration is required for this event. To register, call 630-584-0076, ext. 1, or visit www.stcharleslibrary.org/ evanced/lib/eventcalendar.asp.

Job fair targets teens ST. CHARLES – A teen job fair is set from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 17 in the Pottawatomie Community Center, 8 North Ave., St. Charles. Businesses will have representatives available to talk about their companies and employment opportunities. Participants may fill out an application on-site or take it home. It is for ages 16 to 24. Admission is free. Businesses interested in participating or needing information can call Lara Piner at 630-513-4330.

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What: “The Laramie Project” When: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday Where: Black Box Theatre at Kaneland High School, 47W326 Keslinger Road, Kaneville. Enter through door 32.

Tickets: $10 for adults, $8 for students and senior citizens.

Limited seating. Reserve tickets at 630-365-5100, ext. 180, or 10911@ kaneland.org.

Because of the subject matter, the play is not recommended for children younger than middle-school age, Dripps-Paulson said.

The Kaneland Arts Initiative selected the play as its first winter theater production for two reasons, she said. Its artistic director, Diane McFarlin, was in past productions and understands the drama’s message about acceptance and tolerance, Dripps-Paulson said.

Also, she said, the Kindness Campaign wanted to partner with the initiative.

The Kindness Campaign is an organization that has worked to combat bullying in the Kaneland School District.

The Kaneland Arts Initiative and the Kindness Campaign will lead a discussion after each performance for interested audience members.

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By ASHLEY SLOBODA asloboda@shawmedia.com ST. CHARLES – Bars that want to stay open until 2 a.m. in St. Charles must soon pay $900 more for that privilege.

The St. Charles City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved an ordinance that sets the base closing time at midnight and creates late-night permits available to those wishing to stay open until 1 a.m. or 2 a.m.

The new rules follow ongoing discussions that started with former Mayor Don DeWitte about over-serving and the rowdy downtown nightlife.

In a Liquor Control Commission meeting before the City Council meeting, Mayor Ray Rogina referenced the council’s split vote in September 2012 that tabled a

decision on moving closing time from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m.

Like the council’s decision then, Rogina said, these changes do not force any establishment to close at 1 a.m.

But, he said, it does place a premium on the 2 a.m. closers.

“In my mind, this is very fair,” Rogina said.

The base midnight license will cost $1,200, and the 1 a.m. permit will cost an additional $800. Rogina noted both options are less than the existing yearly license fee of $2,600.

The later permit, however, will cost liquor license holders $2,300 on top of the base fee, bringing the total bill to $3,500 – or $900 more than before.

Mark Hoffman, owner of Second Street Tavern, was the sole licensee to speak to the Liquor Control Commission on Tuesday. He characterized the 2 a.m. permit fee as a penalty.

“It doesn’t feel like we’re a value to the community,”

he said.

Resident Brian LaVolpe encouraged the commission to explore other solutions, such as a greater police presence and more training requirements for servers.

Playing with closing times isn’t the answer, he said.

“You’re not getting to the solution of the problem,” LaVolpe said.

Rogina said the fee structure isn’t set in stone.

“If things don’t change, it might be more,” Rogina said. “There’s no guarantee this proposal is going to work.”

Fifth Ward Alderman Maureen Lewis, who sits on the Liquor Control Commission, said efforts to improve the situation since 2012 haven’t been enough.

“I don’t think we saw the improvements we were looking for,” she said.

Liquor licenses expire annually on April 30, making the changes effective May 1, City Administrator Mark Koenen said.

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MAPLE PARK – Maria Dripps-Paulson understands that having just one role in a theater production can be challenging for actors, so preparing for “The Laramie Project” has been especially difficult for the cast of a upcoming show at Kaneland High School.

Each of the 11 cast members will portray multiple characters, she said, describing it as a “huge challenge.”

Composed of a series of monologues, “The Laramie Project” is the story of the residents of Laramie, Wyo., and their lives after Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. Shepard, who was gay, was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left to die.

Friday, the drama will open to audiences in Kaneland High School’s Black Box Theatre, making it the first production to ever be performed in that space, said Dripps-Paulson, executive director of the Kaneland Arts Initiative.

Performances are set for 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

Because of limited seating – the theater can seat 92 per show – Dripps-Paulson recommends attendees reserve tickets by contacting her at 630365-5100, ext. 180, or 10911@ kaneland.org. The cost is $10 for adults and $8 for senior citizens and students.

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Elburn salt supplies low; Geneva alderman delivery of more runs late Vogelsberg resigns

By BRENDA SCHORY

By AL LAGATTOLLA alagattolla@shawmedia.com ELBURN – The harsh winter season has affected Elburn’s salt supply. The village already has gone through more than 300 tons, and its superintendent of public works, John Nevenhoven, said Tuesday that Elburn’s supplier has been late with its shipments.

Nevenhoven was giving his department’s fourth-quarter report at the village’s Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday night.

After the meeting, he went into more detail with reporters. He said 280 tons had been delivered this season. He said the village is waiting on another 150 tons from the supplier, Cargill. Nevenhoven said the order was more than a week late.

Asked whether the village was in danger of running out of salt, Nevenhoven said it’s not something he could an-

swer definitively.

“Tell me what the weather is going to be for the next six weeks,” he said, adding that “it’s all weather-dependent.”

Nevenhoven did say that the village had never run out of salt in the time that he had been with the department, and he said this is his sixth winter there.

Elburn isn’t the only municipality with such an issue.

A news release issued Tuesday by the city of Aurora stated that a regional salt shortage was affecting the city’s snowplowing, and “officials are alerting residents that the use of salt for the foreseeable future will be focused on primary streets with very conservative salting taking place in residential areas.”

In Elburn, Nevenhoven said he told Village President Dave Anderson that “the streets will not be running black and wet,” meaning they might not be completely

cleared of snow.

During the meeting, board member Ken Anderson asked Nevenhoven whether it might make sense to let residents know that the plowing and salting might be only at intersections instead of entire roads. Nevenhoven said the village already had been strategic in its plowing, focusing on areas near stop signs, school bus stops, hills and intersections.

In other news, Village Board members advanced an item to the next board meeting’s consent agenda, which would provide the village president the ability to grant variances to the liquor ordinance for specific planned events.

The license holder must provide a written request for the variance. Dave Anderson said if he had a situation that would make him uncomfortable he would take it to the board.

Ancestors? – A Guide to Prairie State Genealogy.”

This presentation will be a live webinar moderated by Thomas MacEntee. Visitors are welcome to attend. For information, call 630-879-0672 or visit the society’s www.rootsweb.ancestry. com/~ilkcgs.

briefing book, which is available to buy for $20 at the library’s reference desk and also to check out. Registration is not required. For information, call 630-584-0076.

8LOCAL BRIEFS Graphic novel book club kicks off Thursday in STC ST. CHARLES – The St. Charles Public Library, 1 S. Sixth Ave., St. Charles, is offering a new graphic novel book discussion group for teens in high school.

It will be at 4 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of the month, beginning Jan. 23 with “Sweet Tooth, Vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woods” by Jeff Lemire. Snacks will be provided. Free. No advance registration is required.

For information, visit www. stcharleslibrary.org or call 630584-0076.

Genealogical Society to meet at History Center GENEVA – The next monthly meeting of the Kane County Genealogical Society will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the first-floor meeting room of the Geneva History Center, 113 S. Third St., Geneva. The topic for this meeting will be “Got Illinois

Great Decisions will discuss ‘China in Africa’ ST. CHARLES – The St. Charles Public Library is host to Great Decisions, America’s largest discussion program on world affairs administered and produced by the Foreign Policy Association. The discussion group meets at 7 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month.

This month’s discussion, “China in Africa,” will be Thursday in the Huntley Meeting Room of the library, which is at 1 S. Sixth Ave., St. Charles. Participants are asked to review the relevant chapter of the Great Decisions

Content marketing seminar set for Friday GENEVA – On Friday, 10 marketing professionals will join forces to present “GPS: Growth.

Profits. Success. Navigating Content Marketing in the Digital Age.” The half-day seminar takes place at the Kane County Cougars Conference Center, 34W002 Cherry Lane, Geneva, and begins with registration at 8:30 a.m. The event is broken into 15-minute presentations.

The day concludes by 2 p.m. with a panel discussion of all presenters. Lunch, snack, beverages, and a workbook are included in the fee. Register at www.gps-seminar.com.

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bschory@shawmedia.com GENEVA – Third Ward Alderman Dawn Vogelsberg resigned Tuesday, saying she was trying to do it all and had to cut back.

Vogelsberg, who has served as alderman for 10 years, said she wanted to free up her position so another person could step up and serve the city. She was appointed in 2004 and her term was up in 2017.

“This is my last City Council meeting,” Vogelsberg said at the end of the city’s meeting. “It was my privilege to serve the city and I wanted to give someone else a chance to serve the Third Ward. … I want to thank the citizens of Geneva for allowing me the privilege of serving the city I love so much. And I wanted to thank the city staff for teaching me how Geneva works, why we do what we do. And why we should all be proud of our customer service.”

Vogelsberg said she started a new job at the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office as support staff last April and realized she could only do so much.

“I thought I could keep doing everything, but you can’t keep doing everything

well,” Vogelsberg said.

Mayor Kevin Burns said Vogelsberg’s influence began long before she was appointed to fill a vacancy on the council, as she took the lead in getting a public safety referendum passed Dawn to build a new Vogelsberg fire station and upgrade the city’s police department.

“Nobody comes to the council saying they want to build a legacy,” Burns said.

“I think the thing that is amazing about Dawn … prior to her arrival, a whole hell of a lot was already done.”

Other council members praised Vogelsberg’s work for the city.

Fifth Ward Alderman Craig Maladra said they disagreed on nearly every issue that came up.

“We disagree on almost everything, but we agree to disagree with respect,” Maladra said. “I’ll miss you.”

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By BRENDA SCHORY bschory@shawmedia.com GENEVA – With his resignation letter still in the works, Geneva Library Director Matt Teske said Tuesday he is not being forced out.

“I will be presenting the board a letter at the Wednesday meeting, which will explain the circumstances and reasons behind my resignation,” Teske said in an email response. “I will state now that I am not being forced out of this position.”

The library board has a special meeting 6:30 p.m. today at 127 James St., for a series of personnel changes.

According to the agenda, after a closed session, Assistant Director Peggy Carlson is announcing her retirement effective June 27. Teske’s resignation then is to be accepted. Teske then would be appointed as an assistant director, followed by the appointment of Marilyn Boria as interim director.

Last week, the board approved a contract with Boria for her to serve as a tempo-

rary consultant to the library at 15 hours a week for $60 an hour.

Teske’s email did not respond to a voicemail question asking the reason for his seven-week leave late last year.

Board President Esther Steel said the board did not pressure or coerce Teske to resign. Steel said the succession of actions the board is expected to take would not be possible were it not for Carlson’s announcement of her retirement.

“We’ve come up with a solution that helps everyone,” Steel said. “I think the solution the library board has come up with is in the best interest of the library and the district. Our job is to take care of that library, taxpayers and patrons of that library. That has to be our first concern.”

Carlson said she will have been assistant director at the library six years in April and had been planning to announce her retirement, but she did not want to say anything too far in advance.

“My plans were in my

mindset a long time ago,” Carlson said. “It was just something I was going to say in the right timeframe. And when things unfolded with Matt, I thought it was time to say, if this was of any interest to the board, I wanted them to know that was my plan.”

As to the board’s apparent desire to have Teske step down and serve as an assistant director in tandem with her, Carlson said it would be no problem.

“Matt and I have always worked very well together,” Carlson said. “I think it will be just fine if that is what the board decides to do.”

Teske came under fire during a special meeting last week when Trustee Susan Shivers did not want to hire Boria as a consultant while still paying a director.

“Our director has been on the job six or seven years, and either he can get it right by now or he cannot,” Shivers said at the time.

The library board will discuss its next steps for a new director search at its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday.

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BATAVIA – The Batavia City Council on Tuesday agreed to provide financial assistance to the owners of a proposed downtown Italian restaurant.

Gaetano’s Batavia, to be located at 15 E. Wilson St. in the former site of The Rhino Room, will receive a $25,000 tax increment financing district grant and a $75,000 loan.

The 14-member Batavia council voted unanimously in favor of the assistance Tuesday at its regular meeting.

Gaetano’s Batavia will be an upscale, Italian fusion restaurant, according to a memo on the proposed assistance from Chris Aiston, the city’s economic development consultant. Owners Gaetano and Wendy DiBenedetto have a Gaetano’s location in Forest Park, but said they wanted to open one in Batavia where they live.

The DiBenedettos sought funds from Batavia because they expect improvements and equipment installation at the space to exceed $220,000.

Sitting in the council chambers Tuesday, they thanked the city staff and aldermen for their support.

“We very much appreciate their consideration, and we really couldn’t do it without their help,” Wendy DiBenedetto said.

A large portion of the ren-

ovations include creating a full-service kitchen that would have refrigerators, freezers, ovens and ranges.

The DiBenedettos plan to convert the basement into a dining area, in addition to seating at street level, including counter seats, 7th Ward Alderman Dave Brown said.

The restaurant will need upgrades to building plumbing, natural gas, electrical facilities and interior decorating, as well as the installation of multiple oven venting systems and a fire suppression system.

Brown and fellow 7th Ward Alderman Drew McFadden voiced their support for the Gaetano’s Batavia location redevelopment agreement. The agreement includes terms of the grant and the loan, which will be repaid over 60 months and carry an annual interest rate of 2.75 percent.

“It’s certainly another sign of the revitalization of downtown that we’re all committed to,” Brown said before the vote.

With the vote complete, the DiBenedettos said they await liquor license approval, as well as a permit to begin construction. They plan to come up with other resources to pay the remaining $120,000 in costs.

The DiBenedettos said they are moving slightly behind schedule for a March 1 opening, but they expect to open sometime that month.

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hosted several online security experts who testified to the website’s risks. David Kennedy, a so-called “white hat hacker,” testified that there are “clear indicators that even basic security was not built into the Healthcare.gov website.”

My colleagues and I wrote to President Obama in December 2013 detailing the risks and expressing our concerns.

But because the administration has not acted to address these concerns on behalf of American consumers and has only paid lip service to the threats of identity theft, I voted for the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act (HR 3811), which requires HHS to notify individuals of any breach on the exchanges within two business days.

I agreed with the administration’s official statement that “all Americans deserve to know if [personally-identifiable information] has been improperly exposed.” Too bad they then listed hollow reasons why the president opposed the bill.

The administration can’t have it both ways. They enforce federal laws that require companies like Target to notify

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Congress needs way to keep lid on Medicare spending THE WASHINGTON POST Even in the $1 trillion appropriations bill that passed Congress last week, a bipartisan achievement in a fractured Capitol, Republicans couldn’t resist forcing through a gratuitous shot at the Affordable Care Act, defunding for now one of its most promising elements.

This shouldn’t become a habit.

The Independent Payment Advisory Board has been called a “death panel,” but

it isn’t. The group of health care experts, appointed by the president in consultation with both parties in Congress, will be charged with making sure that Medicare spending doesn’t blast through generous growth caps. If the program’s actuaries project that spending will do so in a given year, the IPAB is supposed to figure out how to keep costs from expanding too quickly.

“Rationing!” critics allege.

But the law explicitly bars the board from rationing

care. It also cannot charge Medicare beneficiaries more for the services they get or change who’s eligible. All the panel can do is rejigger how and how much the government pays doctors, hospitals and other providers, ideally through innovative systems that reward efficiency in delivering good health outcomes – the sort of thriftiness that anyone concerned about saving taxpayer money should want to see. Lawmakers could overrule IPAB actions that otherwise would go

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into effect without congressional action. That’s critical, given legislators’ reluctance to offend health care interest groups.

If anything, the law constrains the panel too much.

It would, for example, be valuable for a group of carefully picked experts to have the authority to evaluate whether certain procedures and products waste taxpayer money. Lawmakers aren’t experts, and they so far haven’t been willing to control costs reasonably. But the law does

not allow the IPAB to weigh in on benefits.

Health care costs have slowed, for now, so the board’s defunding is not an urgent problem. But as the baby boomers retire and draw on federal entitlement programs, it will be crucial to ensure that Medicare doesn’t eat away the nation’s wealth, robbing everyone else of important public services. The strongest tool yet approved to do that should not be treated as a dispensable poker chip in budget negotiations.

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• Wednesday, January 22, 2014

To the Editor: American consumers are increasingly shopping online and expect their personal and financial data to be reasonably protected from hackers and indentity thieves.

When security breaches occur, like that of the data of now 70 million Target shoppers, customers must be notified immediately in order to avert indentity theft. That is the law.

As a result of the president’s health care law, many Americans are forced to shop through the government-run exchanges, and the personal information passing through Healthcare. gov is now one of the largest collections ever assembled.

Health consumers must input birth dates and social security numbers, as well as income and other financial information.

I have been seriously concerned about the government’s website security ever since we in the House Science, Space and Technology Committee

their consumers when personal data is compromised. But they refuse to have the president’s Healthcare.gov website held to the same standard.

Their excuse? Reporting Healthcare.gov security breaches is “administratively burdensome” and would create “costly paperwork requirements.”

It’s disturbing the administration would so blatantly shirk its responsibility to American health consumers and blame paperwork. Tell that to the small businesses crushed by Obamacare’s reporting requirements. Tell that to health care recipients whose identities are stolen down the road because not even basic security was built in.

It’s bad enough to force Americans to buy health insurance.

It’s even worse to endanger their online identity.

The president and Senate must do better for American consumers.

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• Wednesday, January 22, 2014

GENEVA’S FRESHMAN BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM INCLUDES FOUR NAVIGATO BOYS – THREE ARE THE TRIPLET, YOUNGER BROTHERS OF VARSITY STAR NATE, AND ONE IS A COUSIN. PAGE 18 Sandy Bressner – sbressner@shawmedia.com

Four Navigato boys are on the Geneva freshman boys basketball roster: (from left) Dominic, Blake, Cole and Devin. Dominic, Cole and Devin are triplets and Blake is their cousin.

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Which basketball individual performance this season has been most impressive?

• Nate Navigato (far left), Geneva boys, 41 points in win over Bloomington • Dom Adduci (second from left), STC East boys, 40 points in win over Elgin • Alec Goetz (second from right), STC North boys, 36 points in 3OT loss to Simeon • Liza Fruendt (right), Batavia girls, 51 points in win over Geneva

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GENEVA BOYS BASKETBALL

‘More than a novelty’ Vikings standout’s triplet siblings team up for Geneva freshmen

By JAY SCHWAB jschwab@shawmedia.com

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ENEVA – Perusing the Geneva boys basketball freshman roster often leads to a double-take.

A set of triplets amid a quartet of Navigatos is not easily digestable at first blush.

Vikings varsity standout Nate Navigato’s triplet younger brothers – Cole, Devin and Dominic – are joined by the boys’ cousin, Blake Navigato, as members of the Vikings’ freshman squad this winter.

“I tell them it’s easy just to yell out ‘Navigato,’ and somebody’s going to do what I need,” Geneva freshman coach Mike Kelly said. “Somebody will respond. Or if one of them gets me mad I’ll just yell ‘Navigato!’ and maybe I’ll catch somebody else.”

The reservoir of all-in-thefamily quirks run deep, but Kelly notes that the quadruple-barrel Navigato action in the freshman program is “more than a novelty.” Inevitable comparisons to Nate – a 6-foot-7 junior forward with Division I scholarship offers – are premature and perhaps unfair, but it’s already clear that the younger Navigatos have game, too.

All three triplets are starters on Geneva’s freshman ‘A’ team, and they each are carving out their own identities.

Cole is the team’s point guard and top ball-handler.

Devin is a “jack of all trades,” Kelly said, and a quality defender. At 6-2, Dominic is the tallest of the three so far and most similar to Nate from a skill-set standpoint – a post player who also has the shooting touch to thrive on the perimeter.

While this is the brothers’ first year suiting up together for high school basketball, they grew up playing feeder and Geneva Middle School North basketball alongside one another. Most of their court time, though, has come in the backyard.

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Devin Navigato shoots as his cousin, Blake, runs by during Tuesday’s freshman boys basketball practice at Geneva.

“It’s always been about basketball,” Devin said. “Sometimes we’ll be just watching a movie, and then there will probably be something about basketball. We always dribble the basketball around the house, and outside a lot.”

The family’s basketball lineage extends well beyond Nate; the boys’ grandfather and their father, Dan, both were successful players in their day.

Dan Navigato said he was initially concerned about the pressure the boys might feel to live up Nate’s big reputation but thinks they’ve handled that dynamic “really well” while helping lead the freshman team, which is unbeaten so far in conference play. He said this season has been

especially exciting because the brothers didn’t play at the same time as much in the past.

“Now they’re getting to do that a lot,” Dan Navigato said.

“It’s obviously fun as a parent to watch but I think they’re enjoying it, too. There’s really not a competition factor because they really play three different positions, so that works out nice.”

The brothers also have played baseball in the past but are leaning toward giving it up to focus on AAU basketball with Mercury Elite, following their big brother’s path. Dominic said he might go out for the golf team next year while, unlike the triplets, Blake Navigato also plays football.

The triplets will turn 15

a week from today. While they are not identical, Blake said his cousins’ family ties are evident when it comes to their driven, workmanlike approach to basketball.

“They don’t get mad if [a call goes against them],” said Blake, a point guard for Geneva’s freshman ‘B’ team.

“They’ll get back on ‘D.’ They don’t fight over the ball, and when they get the ball, they know what to do with it. They don’t argue with the coach.

They’re pretty similar.”

Kelly said it’s beneficial for the triplets to play together given their innate chemistry, but there are no guarantees they won’t be split up as their careers unfold. Dominic said “it’d be awesome” for one or more of them to have a chance to play with Nate on varsity before Nate’s career is through, but for now, the brothers are content to learn from their big brother through observation and demonstrations.

“His mentality is just to do whatever to win,” Devin said.

“He will do anything to make himself better, work on his weaknesses, and it gets to the point where you can’t tell what his weaknesses are.”

In addition to Nate, the triplets have another basketball-playing sibling in little sister Cassidy, a seventh-grader. By the time she hits high school, the already formidable Navigato name figures to resonate even more deeply around Geneva’s gymnasium, and beyond.

Already, Kelly reports plenty of head-shaking when opposing coaches and official scorers eyeball Geneva’s scorebook before freshman games tip off.

“Anyone that’s familiar with basketball in the Fox Valley sees that name and obviously knows Nate, so they’re amazed that we have three more coming,” Kelly said.

“And maybe that instills a little fear in their heart, knowing the success Nate’s had.”

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PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Boys basketball: Walther Christian at St. Francis, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY Boys basketball: St. Charles East at Metea Valley, 7:15 p.m.; North Boone at Burlington Central, 7:15 p.m.

Girls basketball: Batavia at Larkin, 7:15 p.m.; Streamwood at St. Charles East, 7:15 p.m.; Elgin at Geneva, 7:15 p.m.; St. Francis at Glenbard South, 7 p.m.; Rosary at Walther Christian, 7 p.m.

Boys wresting: Aurora Central Catholic, Walther Lutheran at St. Francis, 5:30 p.m.

Boys swimming: Neuqua Valley at St. Charles East, 4:30 p.m.; St. Charles North at Bartlett, 5 p.m.; Walther Christian at St. Francis, 5 p.m.

Girls bowling: Upstate Eight Conference Tournament at St. Charles East, 4 p.m.

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Navigato propels Aurora Christian girls Vikings to sweep basketball downs Rosary KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE

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AURORA – The Aurora Christian girls basketball team avenged an early-season loss to Rosary on Tuesday, topping the visiting Royals, 56-42, in a Suburban Christian Conference crossover.

“We played them early in the year, and they pressed us and played man-to-man against us when we played them earlier, and we smoked them,” Rosary coach Jessie Wilcox said. “ … I give the Aurora Christian coach and their girls a lot of credit. They made a lot of adjustments.

Instead of pressing, they dropped back into a zone and made us shoot from the outside, and we struggled.”

Alyssa Andersen scored 19 points and had six steals for Aurora Christian (12-9) while teammate Natasha Brown was credited with

Wheaton Academy 46, Guerin 32: At West Chicago, Alexandria Johnston scored eight points to lead the balanced Warriors to a home, Suburban Christian Conference win.

IC Catholic Prep 59, Aurora Central Catholic 43: At Elmhurst, Aurora Central Catholic (9-9) dropped the rescheduled SCC crossover game, which was scheduled for Jan. 14 but moved to Monday.

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GENEVA – Coach-speak and player-speak both reverberated Tuesday after Geneva capped a girls-boys basketball doubleheader sweep with a tight victory against Glenbard North.

Well, maybe Vikings boys coach Phil Ralston’s words really were English-teacher speak. That’s what Ralston is when he’s not steering the Vikings to control the tempo as they did in a 55-53 win.

“We’re hoping that this is going to help give us some legitimacy in our sectional,” Ralston said after the Vikings improved to 15-4.

Fair enough, but how does the guy who hit the pair of clinching free throws with 6.2 seconds to play feel?

“I think we can hang with anybody,” Geneva junior forward Nate Navigato said. “If we play and we pay attention to detail, we can hang with anybody. We can do what we want.”

The Panthers (12-4) watched the Vikings take control when it counted after the Geneva girls snapped a twogame skid with a 47-28 win in the doubleheader opener.

Geneva possessed the ball for most of the final 44.8 seconds of the boys game, corralling the rebound and calling timeout after its first attempt at grabbing a late lead – a Chris Parrilli drive down the left wing – was unsuccessful.

That set up an inbounds play with Parrilli taking the ball under the basket with the score tied at 53. Although Ralston later suggested that the shot angle wasn’t ideal and Navigato might have left a smidge too early, Parrilli got him the ball on the baseline. Then Glenbard North senior Chip Flanigan committed a foul as Navigato rose to shoot.

There was no one defending Navigato as he collected his game-high 24th and 25th

points from the line.

“At first when I was a sophomore and I hit those big ones, I kind of got really nervous,” Navigato said. “Over time, it gets better, and I feel more comfortable with them.”

The Geneva girls never trailed in the opener of the rare midweek doubleheader – “Definitely weird having it on a Tuesday night,” senior Sidney Santos said – but still came untracked later than they would have liked.

Despite shooting 28 percent in the first half, the Panthers were within 18-12 with 3:41 remaining before the break. A 9-1 run largely fueled by rebound put-backs pushed Geneva’s cushion to 14 by halftime.

Glenbard North outscored Geneva, 10-7, in the third quarter. While the Panthers (6-12) didn’t exactly snag momentum with that maneuver, they kept the Vikings from doing the same.

“We didn’t start out too hot there, but we know that,” Santos said. “We just need to keep focused for every game we play. We already played them before and we knew that we had won before, but that doesn’t matter. So next time, we have to come more ready to play.”

Geneva (15-6) defeated Glenbard North by 27 at the Glenbard East Thanksgiving Tournament in its second game of the season.

Two months later, the Vikings are a far different bunch. Point guard Michaela Loebel (knee) could be out for the season, causing Santos (14 points) to shift away from the post and prompting coach Sarah Meadows to promote freshman center Grace Loberg (13 points).

“You know, it’s good to get a ‘W,’ ” Meadows said. “It wasn’t really a pretty ‘W,’ but it’s still a ‘W,’ and we needed that after the weekend,” which included losses to Batavia and Champaign St. Thomas More.

16 rebounds to go with nine points.

Rosary (9-10) fell behind early and couldn’t sustain the needed energy to make a comeback, Wilcox said. Rachel Choice had 14 points and Quincy Kellett added 12 for the Royals.

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LIZA FRUENDT Batavia • Senior • Girls Basketball Why Fruendt was selected: Scored a career and school-best 51 points in Friday’s win at Geneva.

The line rationalizing Liza Fruendt’s selection as the most recent Kane County Chronicle-St. Charles Bank & Trust Athlete of the Week could be much longer. In addition to her 51-point outburst against Geneva, Fruendt scored 30 points in a Jan. 15 win at St. Charles East that saw her become the program’s all-time leading scorer. On Monday, she added 22 points to keep Batavia close in an eventual loss to Joliet Catholic. Chronicle sports reporter Kevin Druley caught up with Fruendt about her feats. Here’s an edited transcript: Has the hoopla from the past week changed at all now that you’re a few days removed from it?

It was crazy, obviously, but I’m just thankful to be where I’m at and happy to have the support behind us winning, and me reach-

ing whatever. There’s just such an awesome support group, and it’s been fun.

[Former Batavia boys standout] Corey Williams reached out to [girls coach Kevin] Jensen on Facebook to confirm that your 51 points are tops for boys and girls at Batavia. Do you know Corey?

No, I don’t. I saw the thing on Facebook, but that’s about it. I don’t know him personally. ... It was cool just to see him being interested and talking about old basketball memories.

What do you take away from the Joliet Catholic game?

We keep having these games where we’re so close, but obviously, we’re playing such good competition that, in the end, I think it’s only going to help us when we get to the time of regionals, sectionals.

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Ruth Vostal is a pragmatist.

It took a close friend to force the veteran St. Charles North girls soccer coach to allow herself to put the detail-sweating on hold.

Vostal found out earlier this month that she is a finalist for National High School Athletic Coaches Association Soccer Coach of the Year.

The seven soccer finalists – along with coaches nominated for other sports – are invited to a convention and banquet in June in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Quite the honor, Vostal acknowledged, even if it took some prodding to embrace the moment.

“The honest response, being a mother and someone who I plan a lot just to be organized and to keep life going smoothly, I was like ‘Oh, man, how am I going to get out there this summer,’ and ‘Do I take the whole family, or do I even go,’ ” Vostal said.

“I talked to my assistant, Annie (Lauterer) … and she said ‘Are you kidding me? This is the chance of a lifetime.

How much longer are you going going to be coaching?’

So she made me look more at the positive side, which I was very excited, but I was going into how am I going to fit this into my schedule.”

Vostal is the only girls soccer coach in North history, and surpassed the 200-career win mark early last sea-

PREP ZONE Jay Schwab son, her 13th with the North Stars. She has guided North to a pair of state runners-up finishes, and the North Stars have been a perennial force in the postseason.

Vostal initially won coach of the year through the Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association, advancing her to a pool of coaches for a regional award, which she also won. Vostal said North’s consistency and aggressive scheduling likely bolstered her candidacy.

“There are people with good records but I also think people who are making these decisions probably look at the quality of players coming through St. Charles and the quality of teams we’re playing,” Vostal said. “I look at the [Tournament of Champions in Iowa] we go to and we’ve been able to be real successful out there, and that’s not us going out there to play three teams to get three wins. We put ourselves in the most difficult bracket.”

Vostal, who starred at St. Charles High before playing college soccer at Michigan, has family roots in Maine, and said most of her vacations involve the East Coast, making the trip to Wyoming especially intriguing.

Regardless of who accompanies her, Vostal is leaning toward attending, which would put her on the hook for a short presentation given by each of the finalists as part of the coaching conference.

As for Lauterer’s rhetorical question – how much longer Vostal will keep coaching – Vostal acknowledges her coaching shelf life has crossed her mind.

Vostal and her husband, Reed, have three children – 8 year-old Hayden and 5-yearold twins Brennan and Lilly.

She still loves competing and includes her children in as many of North’s team activities as possible, but family considerations figure to become all the more pressing in the coming years.

“I think it’ll be when I feel like I’m missing more of my own children’s activities and sports and games, and that kind of stuff,” Vostal said. “When they look at me and say ‘Hey, why aren’t you here?,’ that kind of deal. As hard as it will be, if it’s 3:30 and I’m at my son’s baseball game or little one’s soccer game, we would all be able to get over [missing coaching] a little bit faster. But it’s easier to say, harder to do.”

• Jay Schwab is sports editor with the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5382 or jschwab@ shawmedia.com.

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IN THE GROOVE HANNAH FRAZIER BATAVIA, SO., F What she did: Frazier scored a career-high 25 points and added 15 rebounds in Monday’s McDonald’s Shootout loss to unbeaten Joliet Catholic. “She’s a very good basketball player, first and foremost,” Bulldogs coach Kevin Jensen said. “She’s got size, she’s got strength, she’s a good athlete, she’s a good shooter, she’s got good hands.”

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St. Charles East’s Hannah Nowling (33) has emerged in the frontcourt along with junior Chloe John after the Saints lost senior point guard Amanda Hilton for the rest of the season with a fractured kneecap.

BC boosts resume Fellow McDonald’s participant Burlington Central lost to Fremd, 55-35, in the finale of Saturday’s session.

Central, 15-4, entering the week, has fallen to a Class 4A foe in each of its losses, and hopes its rugged resume helps push it to more success in the 3A postseason. BC was a supersectional qualifier in 2012-13.

“It appeared to me we felt comfortable, most of the girls. I think some girls were nervous, and it showed,” Rockets coach Mark Smith said. “I just think that we want to get experience like this, and hopefully it will help us in a sectional, regional, whatever. They’re good, and what are you going to do?”

Amanda Hilton out for the season with a fractured kneecap, St. Charles East will look to all comers to fill the scoring void.

“We’ve got to find the baskets. We’ve got to find the points,” Saints coach Lori Drumtra said.

The Saints could transition to a more inside-oriented attack, as junior Chloe John has emerged alongside senior Hannah Nowling in the frontcourt.

“Chloe’s what I would just call a real solid player,” Drumtra said. “She usually gets nice boards for us. She’s got, actually, a pretty nice outside shot. She takes care of the ball. She doesn’t try to do more than what she can do. She knows what she’s good at and she does a really nice job with it.”

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It’s hard to dish dirt when your jaw’s on the loor.

This fox learned as much during the Friday of Fruendt. Fifty-one points, folks. Fifty-one. There’s not much to say other than, “Wow.” We’ll see how other teams look to play defense on Batavia’s Liza Fruendt during the regular

season stretch run. St. Charles North will get the most practice, as it’s the only UEC River team that hasn’t already seen the ‘Dogs once.

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SAM PRYOR BURLINGTON CENTRAL, SO., F What she did: Helped BC remain unbeaten in the Big Northern Conference East. With time ticking down Friday and the score tied against visiting Rockford Christian, Pryor corralled a rebound and was fouled at the buzzer. She hit a free throw with all zeroes showing on the scoreboard and the Rockets won, 35-34.

WHAT WE LEARNED LAST WEEK ...

St. Charles co-op gymnasts aren’t the only ones doing the split. North bounced back from a loss in the irst crosstown showdown of the season to defeat East, 63-54, on the road Saturday night. The North Stars will try to stretch their conference winning streak to three games Friday when they visit Batavia.

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Whether Kaneland can turn the tables on Sycamore. The Knights will look to avenge a 50-37 loss to the longtime rival Spartans on Friday in the opener of a girls-boys doubleheader in Maple Park.

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The buzz runneth over from Liza Fruendt’s 51-point effort in Friday’s key Upstate Eight Conference River Division victory at Geneva.

On Monday, it spread eastward as the Bulldogs played a McDonald’s Shootout matinee against Joliet Catholic at Willowbrook.

Fruendt certainly spread her profile with the Geneva game, but with the Vikings looming as possible opponents at next month’s 4A Batavia Regional, she won’t be going too far in her rivals’ minds.

“I feel like we’re going to have to box-and-one on her,” Geneva senior guard Morgan Seberger said. “Liza’s a good player, you know. I’ve played with her, I know how she plays. She wants it, and she goes in and gets after it. It’s incredible for her to get 51 points. I’m just hoping, you know, we can have one of our teammates get a good 51-point game.”

Geneva tried double-teams against Fruendt down the stretch. Her quickness and range added up.

“She’s a good player, but for her [Friday] night, the hoop was the size of a pool,” Geneva coach Sarah Meadows said. “I mean, everything she shot went in. She’s shooting at the 10-foot line and it’s going in. That’s hard.”

Fruendt and her teammates said they didn’t realize how many points Fruendt had scored until Bulldogs coach Kevin Jensen happily gave the report in the locker room after the game.

During the weekend, former Batavia boys star Corey Williams confirmed via social media that his career high was 49 points, giving Fruend the school’s all-time, single-game scoring high.

“Everybody was adamant that night that he had a game of 56,” Jensen said. “I know he had one that was up there. The thing is, he probably sat in the fourth quarter, because he was so good.”

Williams played collegiately at Arizona and currently is a TV analyst for men’s games.

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By KEVIN FISHBAIN kfishbain@shawmedia.com MOBILE, Ala. – When Northern Illinois safety Jimmie Ward saw another Mobile-area native, D.J. Fluker, get drafted 11th overall last year, it was a moment when it “really clicked” that he could go pro.

Ward said seeing players he played well against in high school go in the first or second round of the NFL draft helped make him realize he Jimmie Ward would get drafted, too. One play stood out, and not just because Fluker is 6-foot-5 and 339 pounds.

“On a screen – he might not remember – he thought he had a clear pancake,” Ward recalled. “I hit him on his knee, rolled him out bounds and took him out of the game for a little while. But he came back in.

He’s a big fella.”

It was one thing for Ward to strut his stuff against blue-chip Alabama players at Davidson High School in Mobile. If he does it against the top seniors this week in the Senior Bowl, it will improve his draft stock, and playing in this game in his hometown may mean more to Ward than other players.

“When I was young, I used to be one of these young kids running around here trying to get an autograph, looking up to

the guys thinking I want to be one of these guys one day,” he said. “It’s an honor and it’s a privilege to come out here and compete with some of the nation’s best players.”

It’s not just the scouts and coaches Ward is playing in front of this week. He will have family, friends and coaches in attendance. He laughed, mentioning that his high school coaches were already at the first practice.

“I’ve got to show them that I ain’t lost it,” he said, then paused. “Obviously, if I made it to this game. …”

NFL coaches will want to see that Ward didn’t just dominate MAC competition, but that he can also elevate his game against the offensive players from the SEC and ACC when he plays the South squad Saturday.

“I always have a chip on my shoulder,” Ward said. “It’s exciting. This is what I love to do.

I have a passion for the game.”

Ward measured in at 5-10⅜ and 191 pounds. His wingspan of 77⅛ is the second-biggest of any safety at the Senior Bowl.

He said coaches want him to work on his technique and recognition of plays from the back end.

Bears fans will take note of Ward’s biggest strength.

“I don’t miss very [many] tackles,” he said. “I emphasize that. I don’t like missing tackles. When you’re missing tackles in the secondary, it could be a touchdown.”

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By BERNICE BEDE OSOL Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – You have had to fight hard to overcome obstacles in the past. To ease the situation in the future, you must change your whole approach. Pressuring yourself has been a major part of the problem. The simplest methods will likely lead to the highest returns in the year ahead.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Implement a clear system to prepare yourself to meet your goals. Traveling may be the best way to find the information you need to move forward.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – You will be bogged down with added responsibilities today. You may have to handle someone else’s financial matters or estate. Get informed before making any big decisions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – You will tend to react prematurely and get into trouble if you don’t listen carefully to what others have to say. Nothing will be as it first appears. It’s best to wait and let others approach you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – The harder you are willing to work, the better off you’ll be.

Your eagerness to take on responsibility will impress someone who is searching for the right person to do an important job.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Plan to go out and have a fun and social evening. You are likely to have interactions with children, and you will be surprised what they can teach you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Family matters will probably require some damage control.

Awkwardness may result from your current limitations. Make use of your resources, even though family members may not be eager to follow orders.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – While you are busy defending yourself, you are likely to uncover some extremely valuable information. Find an opportunity to take a little trip.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Don’t let anyone impede your progress. Remain aware of past mistakes to avoid falling into the same patterns. Financial strategies should be presented carefully.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Don’t be overtaken by your emotions. You will do well today if you can present a stable front. Take the time to further develop your creative ideas.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – You will have good ideas for improving your finances. If you stay grounded, you will make all the right decisions. Trust your instincts, but don’t get carried away.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Restlessness will lead to personal changes. If you communicate your differences, reforms can be made fairly easily. Likeminded individuals will offer you their support.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Don’t be aggravated if things don’t turn out your way. Putting in extra time and energy will be necessary. Change is upon you, so prepare to accept the inevitable.

Oscar nominee Jared Leto talks about the film ‘Dallas Buyers Club’

By ED SYMKUS More Content Now Of the many praises that could be sung about the acting talents of Jared Leto, two really stand out: He never makes the same film twice, and he’s often unrecognizable from role to role.

Proof can be found with just a small selection from his arsenal – “Fight Club,” “American Psycho,” “Requiem for a Dream,” “Panic Room,” “Chapter 27.”

Seriously, did you even know he was in some of those films? And now, with seemingly chameleon-like ability, he’s racking up award after award for playing the transgender prostitute Rayon, opposite Matthew McConaughey, in “Dallas Buyers Club,” with a Supporting Actor nomination and almost locked-in win at the Oscars just around the corner.

What’s most amazing about all of this is that he hadn’t stepped in front of a camera since 2007, when he played John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman in “Chapter 27.” He’s been singing and playing guitar in his band 30 Seconds from Mars, but he’s back. Leto was interviewed in September when “Dallas Buyers Club” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Ed Symkus: There’s a rumor that you stayed in character for the entire shoot.

Jared Leto: Yes, I did. How could you not? How could you leave that beautiful creature?

But, yeah, it was part of the process. I’ve done that many times, but not on all films.

But in this one there were so many characteristics, so many attributes that were so

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Jared Leto is nominated for an Oscar for his role in the film “Dallas Buyers Club.” far away from where I live my daily life. Even if you just talk about the voices and the mannerisms, every time the camera cut, I couldn’t just drop all that, and then every time they said action, pick it back up and remember everything. So, I just chose to be there.

ES: You also lost a tremendous amount of weight for the part.

JL: I lost over 30 pounds. I got down to about 114 pounds, and then I stopped counting.

I’d lost weight before for “Requiem,” and I gained 60 pounds for “Chapter 27.” The weight is interesting because it provides a certain amount of fragility. It affected the way you walk, talk, laugh, breathe. It’s a great asset, but it’s also a commitment you can’t run away from. It brings with it an incredible focus.

ES: Was there anything uncomfortable for you in playing Rayon?

JL: What I find interesting was how people treated me different. Especially because I was in character all the time.

The toughest, most masculine guys were the ones that treated me the most gentle.

I think that in their eyes I became a different person, and there were lots of, “Right this way, ma’am,” and they’d hold my hand when I got out of the van. It was very sweet to be a dainty little lady like that (laughs).

ES: What was the hardest part of finding that character?

JL: I think probably it’s the commitment over a long period of time. Like when it’s 5 a.m. again and you’re covered in a ton of makeup and wigs, and you’re in the makeup chair for hours. It’s the commitment, the concentration, and the focus. Sometimes you just want to rip your wig off and run down the street and escape.

ES: What were your initial thoughts about doing the part?

JL: I had heard of this script, but I didn’t want to read it because I just didn’t have time in my life to squeeze something else in.

Then I got a nudge, and I read the script, and it was all over. I still had planned to meet [director] Jean-Marc Valle on Skype, and then turn it down. But then I did

an interesting thing; I wanted to see if I was capable, if there was something there for me.

So, I got on Skype with him for a meeting. I got some lipstick beforehand. I introduced myself, said hello, and a couple more words, then I reached over and picked up the lipstick and put it on.

Then I changed my voice a little bit, and I undid my jacket and I had a little pink sweater on. I was getting a little flirty with him. I got the call the next day and I had the part.

ES: Was it the band you were so busy with?

JL: Yeah, and we’ve had more success than we ever dreamed, if I can say that without sounding like a jerk. We’ve played from Africa to Asia to the Arctic, in the biggest shows that we could ever imagine.

And we’re still doing it. We played last summer in festivals in Europe, sometimes in front of 100,000 people. So, do you say no to that when it’s happening? It’s easy for five years to go by when you’re doing that.

ES: What was the return to acting like?

JL: I think that the break from acting was the best thing I’ve ever done for myself as an actor. It’s almost like I started again from the beginning, but with a greater sense of myself, a greater sense of confidence in my choices. I think I became a much better actor.

ES: Is this a definite return to acting or will you stick with the band?

JL: This is the last film I’ll ever make.

ES: Really?

JL: I don’t know (laughs).

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Bachelor attracts women seeking marriage Mom should not pick Dear Abby: I am a 53-year-old male who is fit, healthy and has a good job. I also have two failed marriages behind me, which have cost me dearly, both emotionally and financially. I have no intention of making that mistake again! I have been on my own for five years, and in that time I have had five relationships – always with women my age (give or take a few years).

My problem is that women my age seem to have only one agenda: marriage. One very nice lady finally clarified her feelings by saying that at this time in her life, she didn’t have time for “just dating” because in a few years she’d be 60.

I understand her dilemma, but I’m not interested in younger women. I try hard to make it clear at the beginning of any relationship that marriage is out of the question, and I don’t proceed with the relationship unless the lady wholeheartedly agrees. But somehow I have broken five good

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips hearts, whose only transgression was falling in love with me. – Nobody’s Retirement Husband Dear N.R.H.: I admire your self-image. You must be doing something right to have the ladies lining up the way they are. However, you may not be as effective a communicator as you think you are if five different women failed to get the message you said you convey. I have several thoughts about your predicament: If your only fear of marriage is that you would again be cleaned out financially, a strong prenuptial agreement could help you avoid any problem if a third marriage didn’t work. However, if variety is what you prefer, then you should restate your message every few months as these relationships blossom. (Or you could

move to a monastery and stop dangling yourself in the dating pool.)

Dear Abby: I hope you can help with this etiquette question. My son and his wife believe that when you finish a good meal, you toss your napkin on the now-empty plate. They say this sends a message that the food was great.

I do not agree. Is placing a grubby napkin on the plate inappropriate behavior or is this legit?

– Not A Napkin-Tossing Dad Dear Dad: Your son and his wife need to re-read the chapter on table manners in their etiquette book. When a meal is finished and the plate is empty, diners should place their used napkins on the table BESIDE their dessert plate.

It should not be placed on top of a dirty plate.

P.S. If they don’t own an etiquette book, it appears they could use one.

• Write Dear Abby at www. dearabby.com.

Make your deli sandwich a healthy meal Dear Doctor K: A deli sandwich is my go-to lunch most days of the week. Any suggestions for making my sandwiches healthier?

Dear Reader: If your sandwiches are like those most people eat, the question is not whether I can suggest healthier sandwiches; it’s whether I can suggest sandwiches that are less unhealthy.

Sandwich shops can be a convenient lunchtime choice.

The downside? Many deli sandwiches are made with cured and processed meats that have been linked to higher rates of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and colon cancer. Deli meats and cheeses often are loaded with unhealthy fats (saturated fats and trans fats), calories and sodium.

If you can, try to make and bring your sandwiches from home. When you make your own sandwich, you have full control over what’s in it. If that’s not possible, you may need to do some research. Many national chains offer online nutrition information that can help you make better choices.

A balanced sandwich contains lean protein, healthful carbohydrates and a hefty serving of vegetables. To build (or order) a balanced sandwich, follow these basic steps: Step 1: Start with a healthful

ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff foundation. You can make a sandwich on bread, tortillas, crackers, pita or any number of grain-based products. Just be sure to choose a whole-grain variety. That means choosing breads that list “whole” before the grain’s name as the first ingredient. Whole-grain breads have fewer “bad carbs” – carbohydrates that are broken down into rapidly absorbed sugars that increase your risk of getting Type 2 diabetes.

Step 2: Spread on a flavorful accent. Try a small amount of guacamole, mustard, light mayonnaise, roasted red peppers, tomato sauce or salsa.

Step 3: Add lean protein. Most of the meats I see friends eating in sandwiches are full of saturated fat. They are definitely not “lean” protein. Instead, try flaked tuna, chopped chicken, turkey breast, low-fat cheese, lean beef or hummus. If you really love cold cuts, look for whole-deli meats – minimally processed versions with less sodium.

Whole-deli meats are just seasoned and cooked meat, which is then sliced to make sandwiches.

Processed deli meats, on the other hand, contain finely ground meat mixed with meat byproducts, preservatives and flavoring agents. I would generally avoid them. (Yes, I take my own advice.)

Step 4: Add crunchy companions to any meat. Consider romaine lettuce, shredded carrots or celery, sliced apples, sliced red and green peppers, sliced cucumbers, tomato, roasted red peppers, mushrooms, snap peas or cherry tomatoes.

Step 5: Think big. Layer your sandwich to make a large and appetizing creation with spinach and watercress, tomato, cucumber and onion.

If you’re a regular reader of this column, you’ve heard it before and you’ll hear it again: eating an unhealthy sandwich (or any type of food) won’t kill you. Unhealthy foods are not like poison – a single sandwich of processed meats won’t do to you what a single dose of arsenic will. Occasional unhealthy foods are not the problem. The problem is a diet that regularly includes them.

• Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. Visit www.AskDoctorK. com to send questions and get additional information.

daughter’s dates Dr. Wallace: I’m a 16-year-old girl and I’m finally allowed to date, but only boys who are “hand-picked” by my mom. So far, she has picked only three boys who attend our church.

So far, none of them have asked me out, and it’s just as well because even if they did, I would have to say, “No, thank you.” None of them are my type, and I don’t have anything in common with any of them.

My mom thinks they are sweet boys, and she thinks since they go to our church they will be real gentlemen.

I consider myself a very sensible young lady. I’m a good student and have very high moral standards. I feel perfectly capable of choosing my own dates.

If you agree with me, please print my letter.

– Nameless, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada Dear Nameless: I’m on your side! While I’m a firm believer that parents should know the person their teen is dating and have a right to veto someone they consider untrustworthy, they should not “hand-pick” their child’s dates. That’s going too far.

Not only do young people have a right to make their own friends – of either sex – they also need to learn how to make wise choices.

An overly controlling parent, who insists on making crucial life choices for his or her child, denies the child the opportunity to learn and grow and come naturally to a secure, gradual sense of independence.

Dr. Wallace: My teacher said she would give me an A on this assignment if you would answer my question in your column. Would

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace you vote for a female to be president of the United States? Be honest! – Kelly, Atlanta, Ga. Dear Kelly: Yes, I would vote for a qualified female presidential candidate if I agreed with her vision for our country. It’s possible that both parties could nominate a woman to run in 2016, which would guarantee a female president.

Dr. Wallace: I’ve been dating Todd for over a year. He lives alone with his mother. His parents are divorced and he has not seen his father in over two years. Yesterday I was talking with Todd’s cousin and she told me that his father lived in California and that his parents divorced because his father was gay. I told my mother about this and she said that the father must have been a latent homosexual (it shows up later in life) and that homosexuality is an inherited trait and that it’s possible that Todd could become gay when he is older. Is this possible? – Nameless, Lowell, Mass.

Dear Nameless: I am not an authority on this subject, but my research shows that sexual orientation is not an inherited trait. I’m sure I’ll receive mail with some readers who will disagree with me.

Human sexuality causes great debate and, unfortunately, sexual orientation has little scientific fact and lots of unscientific conjecture.

• Email Dr. Robert Wallace at rwallace@ galesburg.net.

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Look before you leap is a wellknown adage. There is a bridge equivalent, which is highlighted by today’s deal. South is in four spades. West leads off with the top three clubs. How should South continue after ruffing the third?

Note North’s raise to two spades. This risked putting his side into a 4-3 fit, but to rebid one no-trump with no minor-suit stopper would have been worse.

Support with support, especially in the majors. And if South had enough to move higher and only four spades, he would have rebid something other than four spades (perhaps three no-trump). South’s jump to four spades promised at least a five-card suit.

South will fail only if he loses one trick in each major. The textbooks will tell you that the percentage play in spades is to cash the ace and king. If declarer does that here, though, he will go down, losing one spade, one heart and two clubs.

Instead, South should take the whole deal into account and do a little preparation, so that if he does misguess spades, he will still make the contract regardless of the heart position.

Before touching trumps, South should play off his two diamond winners. Then he should cash his spade king and lead a spade to dummy’s nine.

Here the finesse wins and the contract is home. But note that if East could win the seventh trick with the spade queen, he would be endplayed. If he leads a heart, declarer cannot lose a trick in that suit. Or if East returns a minor-suit card, South sluffs a heart from his hand and ruffs on the board.

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When ligaments are injured we describe this as a SPRAIN. Grade I Sprain: a stretching of the ligaments past their normal range of motion; mild pain and swelling.

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Grade II Sprain: a partial tear of the ligaments; usually with some bruising, more painful and swollen.

Pearls Before Swine Initial treatment can be RICE therapy: Rest Ice Compression Elevation Substantial pain and bruising with foot or ankle sprains should prompt a visit for evaluation by Dr. Mytych.

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Grade III Sprain: a severe injury with complete rupture of the ligaments; severe pain, swelling and bruising are present. Usually requires prompt medical attention.

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Ligaments: Connect bones to other bones, these are thickened areas of connective tissue that provide stability for your joints.

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Choir Director Seeking part-time Adult Choir Director for energetic, growing Lutheran Church. Direct and accompany traditional co-ed vocal choir and men's choral ensemble.

Contact Pastor John Nelson, Hosanna! Lutheran Church, at 630-584-6434 or PastorJohn@ HosannaChurch.com

FACTORY CARPENTER / TILE INSTALLER - FT Basic carpentry / handyman skills a must. Prior cabinet installation/trim/ tile experience a plus. St. Charles.

Multiple positions available.

Email resume: zwreceiving@colonydisplay.com or fax 630-762-1002

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Fox Valley Orthopedics, a busy orthopedic ambulatory surgery center is seeking...

STERILE PROCESSING TECH, responsible for decontamination, cleaning and sterilization of supplies and equipment. FT hours vary Mon Fri. NO CALL required. HS graduate/equivalent with some experience in health care preferred. Strong attention to detail. Excellent organizational skills. Must be self-motivated w/strong customer service skills.

Central Supply Certification desirable.

Resumes to nancyj@fvortho.com or fax to 630-584-1733

INSTALLERS West suburban Garage Door Company is looking for Experienced Residential installers.

Compensation based on previous experience in industry. Benefits and company truck provided, must have own tools.

Send resume to: resume@doormn.com

SERVICE TECHS West suburban Garage Door Company is looking for Experienced Residential Service Techs.

Compensation based on previous experience in industry. Benefits and company truck provided, must have own tools.

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Receptionist / Documentation Assistant A nationwide commercial equipment finance and leasing company located in Naperville, Illinois is seeking a Documentation Assistant to join its management staff. This newly created position is a ground floor opportunity for the right candidate to join a growing organization.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Receptionist duties, Preparation of commercial transaction documentation including UCC filings, compliance and follow-up, filing, overall file and UCC database management.

Qualifications: Minimum of 3 years business experience.

Quality phone skills.

Strong organizational skills.

Team player with a positive attitude A high level of computer literacy with proficiency in Word and Excel.

If you possess the experience, skills and desire to join our team, please send your resume with cover letter to jrusch@commercialcreditgroup.com or via mail at:

Commerical Credit Group Inc. 2056 Westings Ave. Ste 280 Naperville, IL 60563

ALWAYS INVESTIGATE BEFORE INVESTING ANY MONEY

NON-PROFIT Kane County non-profit seeks to fill two part time positions: Membership and Marketing Coordinator (20-25 hrs/wk) and Continuing Legal Education Coordinator (2530 hrs/wk). Both positions require excellent customer service skills, strong computer and technical skills, and experience with database and website management. Salary for both positions: $13 - 17/hour with additional consideration given to the candidate with exceptional computer, office software & technology ability. Full details of each job can be seen at http://www.kanecountybar.org/ kcba-help-wanted Resumes can be emailed to director@kanecountybar.org

by February 3, 2014.

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NEWSPAPER DELIVERY

Contact the Better Business Bureau www.chicago.bbb.org - or Federal Trade Commission www.ftc.gov

Earn up to $1000 A Month!

Looking for Contractors to deliver newspapers early mornings 7 days per week.

Routes now available in Kane County.

Please Call 630-549-7918

Be your own boss as an independent contractor!!

Contractors needed to deliver, build, maintain, and service single copy sales delivery routes in the BrookfieldWestchester area.

Deliveries are one day a week.

Must have reliable vehicle, valid drivers license, insurance, and a good driving record.

Black cat, declawed, Rt 25 North side of Batavia, found about 3 wks ago, 630-779-5791

DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center seeks director for 38 bed Alzheimer's Unit. This is a full time, salaried position to coordinate the integration of medical, social, psychological and spiritual aspects of resident care. Licensed nurse or C.N.A. helpful. This is a “handson” position and requires a working knowledge and understanding of the unique needs of persons with Alzheimers.

Minimum of 5 years experience, including 2 years of management working with persons with Alzheimers or other dementia.

OR Registered Nurse with at least one year of experience working with persons with Alzheimers.

Job Standard Includes: Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Ability to plan and conduct education programs and support groups.

Supervisory experience.

Initiative, organizational and decision making abilities.

Creativity and willingness to face challenges.

Flexibility with scheduling.

If you are passionate about meeting the unique needs of persons with Alzheimers, contact Cathy Anderson, Administrator at canderson@dekalbcounty.org. No phone calls please.

2600 North Annie Glidden Road DeKalb, Illinois 60115 EOE

2005 SATURN ION $3000, 87,000 miles, Air, Twin Roll-away Bed CD player, fair condition, 5 speed.

Almost new. $95 630-232-1982 Call Ron at 815-761-7519

2007 FORD FOCUS SE Carpet Sweeper Bissell Sweep UP, Non-electric - $10 630-761-6616 Cookware – Todd English Green Pan Gourmet Collection, 3 Saucepans & Lids, 12” Fry pan Never Used, $80. 630-761-6616

Metallic gray, 57K miles.

Automatic/power windows and lock. Great condition and very clean!

Reduced $9000 For More Details Call

815-701-3301

King Sheet & 4 Pillowcases, Used 2 Weeks, $20 630-761-6616 Shark Floor Steamer & Separate Hand Steamer, Perfect Condition $20. 630-761-6616

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs 1990 & Newer Will beat anyone's price by $300.

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan

or Luggage – New, Soft Side 5 Pieces With Wheels $80. 630-761-6616

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Call 815-455-4800

FUR COAT

Women's, full length, size 8.

Warm, very good condition. $175.00. 630-377-0628 Lot: Teen Girl Clothes, Huge Collection, Size Small, Over 50 Pieces – Jeans, Tops, Skirts, etc.

Name Brands - $10 for all 630-746-2034

815-814-1224 Handicap Ramp Van 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan 156k mi. $13,900.

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With wooden stand, no leaks, no cracks, Biowill filter + access. $175/obo. 630-677-5408

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Snowblower - Spirit 8HP, 27” Path, Electric Start - 6 Forward, 2 Reverse Speeds, $300.

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Large Air Hockey Table, good condition. $250. Will trade for Shuffle Board table. 630-365-5888

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Whirlpool Washer & Gas Dryer.

6 years old, VERY lightly used. $395 for both. 630-251-0926

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Excellent condition. Each has (2) built-in recliners, green and brown plaid. Sofa $100, Loveseat $75.

630-879-9281 DESK - Totally Refinished Desk Mahogany inlays in top 8 drawers - including middle drawer. Brass handles 42” width / 29” height $175. Call 815-825-2275

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ST. CHARLES Off/Ware Space 1,568sf - 19,000sf.

Docks/Drive-Ins Aggressive Move-In Package 630-355-8094 www.mustangconstruction.com

BATAVIA 1 BEDROOM Gas, water and garage included. $750/mo + security & credit check.

No pets/smkg. 630-386-1433

BATAVIA 1 BR starting at $860-$870 2 BR starting at $1010 3 BR TH starting at $1280

$300 1st Month's Rent 3 BR Apartments Dishwasher On-Site Laundry Facility Playground Washer & Dryer Connection 6 months free cable if you sign a lease by 2/28/14 230 McMillan Court Cortland, IL 60112

815-758-2910 income restriction apply

COUNTRY VIEW ESTATES Beautiful 2 bd, 1 ba. Clean quiet, remodeled. On-site laundry, management, maintenance. Off-street parking. Huge apartment with full appliances, balcony. $675-$725.

Call for showing: 815-784-4606 or 815-901-3346

SOUTH ELGIN 2 BEDROOM A/C, W/D in unit, no pets. $850/mo + utilities.

630-841-0590

SOUTH ELGIN ~ LARGE 2BR

S. E. Schools, A/C, W/D, no pets.

Garage, $900 + utilities.

630-841-0590

St. Charles - Newly Renovated

Studio $550,1BR $700, 2BR $800 NO PETS! 630-841-0590

ST. CHARLES 1st MO FREE! Lrg 1BR $769, Lrg 2BR from $829/mo. Incl heat, water, cooking gas, Appliances & laundry.

630-584-1685

Pingree Grove ~ 3BR, 1.5BA Appliances, W/D, 2 car garage on large lot, close to I-90. $1250/mo + security + ref. 847-464-5075

Plano House Rental to Share For Working Lady. Private bath and kitchen privileges + parking.

630-234-0497

St. Charles Large Furnished BR Includes refrig, microwave, new flatscreen TV, DVD player + more! $140/wk. 630-377-9006

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County at 540 South Randall Rd., St. Charles, IL 60174 on or before February 21, 2014, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a judgment entered in accordance with the prayer Dated: January 13, 2013. of said complaint.

Circuit Clerk /s/ John A. Cunningham Johnson, Blumberg, & Associates, Kane County Clerk LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1125 (Published in the Kane County Chicago, Illinois 60606 Chronicle, January 15, 22 & 29, 2014.)

Ph. 312-541-9710 Fax 312-541-9711 JB&A # IL 13 7880 I584703 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, January 22, 29 & February 5, 2014.)

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pe owning conducting and transacting the business known as THE NOBLE PIE located at 1945 Swarthmore Dr., Aurora, IL 60506.

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 16TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT KANE COUNTY - GENEVA, ILLINOIS GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC, PLAINTIFF vs.

HENRY R. ECKER, II; SERENA R. ECKER; GILBERTS TOWN CENTER CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION NO. 1; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, DEFENDANTS 13 CH 1708 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, HENRY R. ECKER, II; SERENA R. ECKER; and UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 16th Judicial Circuit, Kane County, Illinois by the plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage conveying the premises described as follows to wit: UNIT 254-1 IN GILBERT TOWN CENTER - UNIT 1A CONDOMINIUM, AS DELINEATED ON A SURVEY OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PARCEL OF REAL ESTATE: PART OF CERTAIN LOTS IN GILBERT TOWN CENTER - UNIT 1A, BEING A PART OF THE NORTH HALF OF SECTION 24, AND PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 42 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 22, 2005 AS DOCUMENT 2005K140427, AND ANY AMENDMENTS SUBSEQUENT THERETO IN KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. COMMON ADDRESS: 102 Town Center Blvd., Gilberts, Illinois 60136 P.I.N.: 02-24-125-054 and which said mortgage was signed by HENRY R. ECKER, II, SERENA R. ECKER, mortgagors, to Bank of America, N.A., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Kane County as Document No. 2012K032934; and for such other relief prayed; that summons was duly issued out of the Circuit Court of Kane County against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

NOW THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU, the said above defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of this Court in Kane

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on January 14, 2014 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 Shellys Cleaning Service located at 212 North St, East Dundee, IL 60118.

Dated: January 14, 2014. /s/ John A. Cunningham Kane County Clerk (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, January 15, 22 & 29, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on January 13, 2013 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,

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ITEMS WANTED OLD SLOT MACHINES, JUKEBOXES, PINBALL MACHINES, COKE MACHINES, NEON CLOCKS & ADVERTISING SIGNS WANTED

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ZIMMERMAN FORD 2525 E. Main Street St. Charles, IL 60174

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MOTOR WERKS PORCHE Barrington & Dundee Rds. • Barrington, IL

800-935-5913

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MARTIN CHEVROLET 5220 Northwest Highway Crystal Lake, IL

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888/600-8053

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LIBERTY VOLKSWAGEN 847-680-8000

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MOTOR WERKS SAAB

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39 N. Rte. 12 • Fox Lake, IL

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920 S. Milwaukee Ave. • Libertyville, IL

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111 S. Rte 31 • McHenry, IL

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800-935-5913

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BUSS FORD LINCOLN MERCURY

CLASSIC KIA 847-CLASSIC (252-7742)

847/683-2424

www.bullvalleyford.com

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www.clcjd.com

MOTOR WERKS HONDA

800/407-0223

847/202-3900

888/800-6100

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425 N. Green Bay Rd. Waukegan/Gurnee, IL

FENZEL MOTOR SALES

815/385-2100

1035 S. Rt. 31, One Mile South of Rt. 14 Crystal Lake, IL

1400 E. Dundee Rd., Palatine, IL Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

PAULY SCION

1460 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

ARLINGTON KIA IN PALATINE

407 Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

GARY LANG BUICK

BULL VALLEY FORD/MERCURY

1107 S Rt. 31 between Crystal Lake and McHenry

2145 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

KNAUZ BMW www.KnauzBMW.com

GARY LANG KIA

800 Dundee Ave. • East Dundee, IL

TOM PECK FORD

GURNEE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM

847/669-6060

888/471-1219

www.springhillford.com 13900 Auto Mall Dr. • Huntley, IL

www.TomPeckFord.com

800/935-5393

KNAUZ CONTINENTAL AUTOS 409 Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

847-234-1700

www.motorwerks.com

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www.gurneedodge.com

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847/381-9400

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225 N. Randall Road, St. Charles

847-235-3800

877/226-5099

www.knauznorth.com

www.st-charles.mercedesdealer.com

BARRINGTON VOLVO 300 N. Hough (Rt. 59) • Barrington, IL

www.Knauzcontinentalauto.com

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

www.clcjd.com

www.libertyautoplaza.com

200 N. Cook Street • Barrington, IL

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‘Huge honor’ for Harter jazz band KANELAND CONNECTION Al Lagattolla SUGAR GROVE – Rebecca Anderson was at a music conference, listening to middle school jazz bands perform, when she had a thought about the Kaneland Harter Middle School Jazz Band, which she directs.

“I thought, you know, ‘I think we have the kids to do this,’” Anderson said. She was right.

The Harter jazz band will perform Friday at the annual Illinois Music Education Association Conference in Peoria. Anderson said it’s a first for the Harter jazz band, and it “ranks up there pretty high” among the honors the band has achieved.

The band will perform along with a band from Paris High School, she said. The bands will perform separately and also will combine for one song.

The process started last year in January. Anderson had the group prepare an audition tape, which she submitted. She notes there are many changes since then, as some of the band members at the time were eighth-graders who have moved on to high school.

This year’s band includes 29 students, including one sixth-grader. The rest are seventh- and eighth-graders.

“This is a huge honor for both our district and this

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The Kaneland Harter Middle School Jazz Band will perform Friday at the annual Illinois Music Education Association Conference in Peoria. group of students,” Anderson said.

Kindergarten registration Kaneland has planned its 2014 Kindergarten Registration and Literacy Fair from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 8 in the cafeteria at Kaneland High School, 47W326 Keslinger Road, Maple Park.

Students with last names beginning with the letters A-H will register from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Students with last names beginning with the letters I-O will register from 9:30 to 11 a.m. And students with last names beginning with the letters P-Z will register from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Parents will need to bring an original and a photocopy of a driver’s license, the child’s birth certificate and proof of residency.

There will be information booths on such topics as rhyming, transportation, motor skills and what to expect in kindergarten.

For information, call Sarah Mumm, director of curriculum, at 630-365-5111, ext. 112.

Elburn Lions Club news

St., Elburn. Dave Broz, the Lions Club president, said the theme will be: “Anything is possible when you follow your dream.”

Also, the Elburn Lions Club is looking for participants on a team to climb in the Fight for Air Climb, set for Feb. 9 in Oakbrook Terrace. The Fight for Air Climb is an annual fundraiser for the American Lung Association. Information is available online at www.elburnlions. com.

The theme has been established for the 2014 Elburn Days festival, which will take place from Aug. 15 to 17 at Lions Park, 500 S. Filmore

• Al Lagattolla is the news editor of the Kane County Chronicle. Write to him at alagattolla@shawmedia.com.

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Kallie Anderson and her Kids Hope mentor, Terry Grumeretz, have meet once a week since October in the Literacy Lounge at John Stewart Elementary to talk, play games, do school work, read, and just enjoy each other’s company. The highlight of Kallie and Terry’s time together is Bella, a seven-year-old Golden Retriever. Since 2009, Bella has been titled a Canine Good Citizen (CGC), she is a therapy dog trained through Therapy Dog International (TDI), and has been part of the Elburn Library Paws to Read program since 2010. Kallie, Terry and Bella work together as a part of the Kids Hope USA program, which is a nonprofit organization that works in cooperation with St. Gall Church and John Stewart Elementary School in Elburn.

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As a part of the fifth grade Science year at John Shields our students focus on how landforms are created and the affect that they have on the ecosystem around them.

Within this study students learn how different types of maps allow us to predict and use land features in our lives. After the students learn about the purpose of different types of maps they study all the elements that make a map fully functional to people. The students then get to create an elevation map as a transition into our study of mountains.

The students quickly learn that the detailed process of map making can be very challenging work as they look down onto the library and become surveyors for a few days.

After making and recording their observations of the area that they are mapping they go to their map grid and turn to the work of a cartographer. The students strive to design maps to scale with correct labeling, and use color to represent the variations in elevation that they have observed.

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