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ON THE COVER Three-year-old Frankie Blomquist of Oglesby gets some help from her mom, Kat, putting in the DVD aisle during the Yorkville Library Mini Golf FUN Raiser on Sunday.

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SHAW MEDIA As tax season approaches, the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office would like to remind citizens to be aware of potential scammers claiming to represent the Internal Revenue Service.

In recent years, thousands of people have lost millions of dollars and their personal information to tax scams and fake IRS communication.

These scammers claim to be from the IRS and tell intended victims they owe taxes and that their taxes must be paid promptly by using a prepaid debit card, money order or a wire transfer. If the victim refuses to cooperate, they are often threatened with arrest, deportation or suspension of a business or driver’s license.

In some cases, the scammer becomes hostile and insulting. The victims may also be told they are owed a refund to get them to share private information. Do not give out any information – hang up immediately. If the phone isn’t answered, the scammers often leave an “urgent” message

advising legal action may be taken against them if they do not call back.

The IRS will never: • Call to demand immediate payment over the phone, nor will the agency call about taxes owed without first having mailed you.

• Threaten to immediately bring in local police or other law enforcement groups to have you arrested for not paying.

• Demand that you pay taxes without giving you the opportunity to question or appeal the amount they say you owe.

• Require you to use a specific payment method for your taxes, such as a prepaid debit card or other gift cards.

• Ask for credit or debit card numbers over the phone.

The Kendall County Sheriff’s Office encourages taxpayers to be alert to phone and email scams that use the IRS name. The IRS will never request personal or financial information by email, text message or any social media.

For information on IRS tax scams, visit irs.gov/uac/taxscams-consumer-alerts.

Woman 2 Woman luncheon set for Valentine’s Day KENDALL COUNTY RECORD The Yorkville Area Chamber of Commerce Woman 2 Woman group will host its monthly luncheon Tuesday, Feb. 14, at Casa Santiago, 227 Heustis Street in Yorkville. The luncheon program this month, “An Interactive Love Affair,” will be presented by Tom Kozlowicz. Embrace all that Valentine’s Day is about, as it will be a sharing of love accompanied by some classic “live” love songs.

Kozlowicz is the assistant general manager and director of sales at the Holiday Inn Express in Oswego. Over his career, Kozlowicz spent 20 years in the financial services industry, achieving CEO status for a good portion of those

years. He owned two businesses before entering the hospitality industry. He is an advocate for Big Brothers Big Sisters, mentoring three littles while serving as chairman of the Resource Council for the past 12 years. Kozlowicz has conducted an addiction class at Provena for the past 10 years. He works with the Vocational Development programs at the Oswego high schools.

In 2012, he was selected to represent the U.S. and carry the Olympic Torch in England, and was named Person of the Year by the Rotary Club in Oswego.

That same year, the Inspiring Women in Oswego also named him Inspirational Man of the Year. He currently serves as president of the Yorkville Chamber of Commerce and also is a member

of the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce. He serves as a board member on Yorkville District 115 Board of Education.

The W2W luncheon will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 14 at Casa Santiago. Cost for the luncheon is $20 for YACC members and $25 for nonmembers. Networking and registration begins at 11:30 a.m. followed by lunch and program at noon.

Lunch punch cards are available at the luncheon. Purchase a card for the cost of five luncheons and receive the sixth lunch for free.

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BRIEF Newark man charged with posting sexual images of ex on social media

The Kendall County State’s Attorney’s Office has charged a Newark man with non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images.

The sheriff’s office took a report and began an investigation on Sept. 1, 2016, from a female Brandon M. Colyer victim who stated that an ex-boyfriend had posted private sexual images of her on social media without

her consent.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested Brandon M. Colyer, 23, of Newark on Tuesday after prosecutors charged him with two counts of non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, both Class 4 felonies.

The sheriff’s office reported Colyer was taken into custody without incident and posted bond Tuesday. He awaits his next court date, police said.

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Melissa Molitor, a program director for the organization called Elyssa’s Mission, speaks to parents at Yorkville Middle School last Thursday at a program dedicated to suicide prevention. working with the school for the past two months, facilitating grief groups for students affected by the loss in October.

“We were also able to train other school clinical staff to be able to facilitate other groups to additional students who needed that support,” she said. “Students were chosen for those groups based on information from the crisis response team that came to the school after the loss as well as school staff. Each student was interviewed individually and consent from parents was needed in order to be in the groups.

And it has been great to see their growth from the beginning. They’re a bunch of great kids in this district and those groups specifically that we’ve gotten to know. It’s been a joy getting to know them.”

Molitor said she was a very close friend of Elyssa’s growing up. She said the girl came from a loving home and a loving family, but “faced challenges.”

Molitor said Elyssa was sexually assaulted in the fifth grade, and was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

“In about seventh grade she started talking to me about these thoughts of depression and suicide,” Molitor said. “I remember specifically one day in seventh grade, we were sitting in social studies class before it started, and she started showing me cuts on her wrists, and she asked me if I would attend her funeral if she killed herself. I remember sitting there thinking, ‘What is going on? What kind of question is that? If I say yes, does that mean I’m supporting her in this decision? If I say no, am I a really bad friend?

So I kind of sat there and said ‘I can’t answer that.’”

Elyssa was later bullied by senior girls who did not like the fact she was dating senior boys as a sophomore, Molitor said.

“She was the target of some harassment and was

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A group of parents gathered at Yorkville Middle School last Thursday evening for an important conversation, as one school district official put it.

The school hosted a program on youth suicide and depression presented by Northbrook-based Elyssa’s Mission. The organization was founded in 2006 by the uncle and mother of Elyssa Meyers, a New Trier sophomore who took her own life after suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in 2004.

The program was especially important because of the loss of a Yorkville Middle School student to suicide last October, organization officials said.

Elyssa’s Mission states on its website that it provides “hands-on support to area public and private schools in order to educate students, staff and parents on how to recognize and assist those teens most at-risk” of suicide.

The organization states that it has helped educate more than 100,000 students since it was founded, and conducts prevention programs in 120 Illinois middle schools and high schools.

Katie Baker, program director with Elyssa’s Mission, said the organization uses the S.O.S. or “Signs of Suicide” national program when they teach suicide prevention. She said the organization did not create the program, but that it helps schools implement the program.

Baker said the program is brought to the schools free of charge, and that they will be bringing the program to eighth-grade classrooms at Yorkville Middle School later this spring.

Before the presentation began, Dr. Hassan von Schlegell, the district’s director of student services, said having a discussion about suicide and depression was important.

“There is probably no conversation more important than tonight’s conversation,” von Schlegell said.

“So thank you for recognizing that it is an important discussion for us as a school district and as a community.”

Melissa Molitor, a program director with the organization and a close childhood friend of Elyssa Meyers, thanked the parents for attending Thursday’s presentation.

“We want to acknowledge that this community has recently experienced a tragic loss,” she said.

“There have been other losses in this district over the years, and that’s not unlike other schools across the country. Tonight, your presence, being here, is a critical step towards prevention, and that is to become educated on the warning signs, the risk factors for depression and suicide, and learning how to talk to your child about this often taboo topic.”

Molitor said the team at Elyssa’s Mission has been

bullied at times, and that was very hurtful for Elyssa,” she said.

Molitor said Elyssa also “did a great job of wearing a mask.”

“A lot of times she was laughing and joking and the life of the party, but underneath all those layers she was struggling every day,” Molitor said.

Katie Baker, a program director with Elyssa’s Mission, said if a teen or preteen is struggling, typically their friends will know before their parents or other adults.

“We have to educate the students,” she said.

“What we know about adolescents is when they’re struggling, probably the first person that’s actually going to know about it is a peer.”

Baker said suicide is the second leading cause of death for 10- to 34-year-olds. There are 4,600 youth lost each year to suicide, Baker said. However, she said many deaths by accident are actually deaths by suicide, so the numbers are underreported.

Baker said four out of five people give “very clear warning signs” prior to killing themselves, and they are mostly given to friends and family.

The signs include a marked personality change, a loss in their ability to concentrate and a rapid drop in grades, and having thoughts of suicide, along with social isolation, increased anger and irritability.

Baker said depressive disorders, alcohol and substance abuse, and previous suicide attempts are the top three risk factors for suicide.

She said access to lethal means, including having firearms in the home, is one of the risk factors for suicide. She said the use of firearms is the most common and most lethal way to commit suicide.

“Having a firearm in the home increases the risk of someone dying by suicide in that home, even if no one has a diagnosable mental disorder,” Baker said. “I’m always so happy to have an audience of parents, because I can’t tell you enough, if you are concerned about your child, if they are in a current mental health crises, if they have a history of mental health crises, I ask you to remove the firearm from your home. If that is not an option for you, I ask you to temporarily remove it from the home until the crisis can pass. Those are the first two best options.

There are some people that still will not do that, and if that’s the case, please have your ammunition separate from your firearm so it’s an unloaded firearm and both are kept in separate locked compartments that kids can’t get into.”

Baker said when she trains school staff she tells them to have a conversation with parents about firearms in the home.

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Moving parade to Thursday makes sense It wasn’t too long ago that Yorkville High School alumni would gather on crisp, fall Saturday mornings for the annual homecoming parade, followed by the football game.

In 2006, following a great deal of debate, the district changed the football game from Saturday afternoon to Friday evening, to accommodate students who were getting ready for the homecoming dance Saturday evening.

More than a decade later, YHS Student Council members and their teacher class sponsors have decided to move the parade from Saturday morning to Thursday evening. It’s a move that may upset

some longtime alumni, but a change we feel is long overdue.

One of the main purposes of the homecoming parade is to cheer on the home team against the rivals, which doesn’t make much sense if the game was already played the night before. That has caused the parade turnout to dwindle over the years, understandably so.

With a Thursday evening parade followed by an alumni Hall of Fame ceremony, both students and alumni will get a chance to root for the Foxes against their opponent the day before the big game.

We also think the Hall of Fame induction ban-

quet Thursday evening after the parade, and the idea of having the distinguished alumni tour the high school on Friday to visit with students and talk about their time at YHS, are fine proposals that will help bring alumni and students together.

The powder puff game and bonfire are other great traditions that will live on with this new homecoming schedule.

Having a homecoming parade on a weeknight evening is different for Yorkville, and we get that.

But not all change is bad, and this could be a chance to breathe some life back into a rich Yorkville tradition.

The brief, but important career of the I&M Canal REFLECTIONS Roger Matile From the earliest times, farmers worried about getting their crops to market. But during most of man’s history, it wasn’t all that big a worry, since the average farmer grew just about enough to feed his own family.

But in the 19th century, agriculture began to quickly advance. Individual farmers were finally able to grow enough food to feed several people besides their own families, thanks to improved varieties of grain and livestock, using more scientific ways of approaching farming itself, and mechanization.

By the time the first permanent American settlers arrived in the Fox Valley, American farming was well on its way to becoming the world leader it is today. But there was still that nagging problem: How to get crops to market. In some areas, the problem was solved by turning corn, barley and other grain into whiskey and other such products. Several bushels of grain could thus be compressed into a single keg of a valuable, easily transportable product.

But people could only drink so much – man does not live by whiskey alone (even single malt). Besides, there was a growing market for crops like wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley and all the other grains grown on the Illinois prairie, along with the pork, beef and other meats local farmers produced.

At first, farmers took their produce to Chicago, where it was loaded on sail and steam ships for transport east, or

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The I&M Canal as it appeared in the 1930s, decades after it was a bustling route for commerce in the mid-19th century hauled it south to Ottawa, where it could be loaded aboard steamboats, flatboats and barges for transport down the Mississippi. Cattle and hog drives from the Fox Valley into Chicago were common until railroads were built west of the city in the mid-1800s.

But overland transport in the pre-railroad days of the 1830s was both labor and time intensive.

In the East, a canal-building frenzy had swept the nation in the early 1800s. When New York State’s Erie Canal, connecting the Hudson River (and the Atlantic Ocean) with Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes, opened in

1825, it became an immediate financial success. In 1829, Illinois officials decided a canal connecting Lake Michigan with the headwaters of navigation on the Illinois River would fuel a similar economic boom.

It was not a new idea. Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette both suggested in their accounts of their epic 1673 voyage of discovery through the heart of today’s Midwest that Lake Michigan could easily be connected to the Illinois-Mississippi river system and the Gulf of Mexico.

While it did not prove quite as easy as Jolliet and Marquette believed, a ca-

nal was entirely feasible. The idea had received official U.S. blessing when an article was inserted in the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, formalizing the first cession of land by local Indian tribes with an aim towards building a canal. In the subsequent Treaty of 1816, the tribes ceded a strip of land six miles wide on either side of a line running down the middle of the Chicago, Des Plaines and Illinois rivers.

After an initial survey was completed in 1824, it wasn’t until 1832 the map of the surveyed route was published.

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Now I’m not sure where Althoff and Barickman stand on the proposed taxes, but I have been informed that Rezin is interested in supporting the income tax increase with State Sen. Dave Syverson and Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno.

To date, no state senator or representative will have pay cuts or lose their $10,000 committee stipends. It appears that, like Hillary Clinton, Illinois Republicans blame, and are going to punish, taxpayers for a lack of capital. Obviously Illinois Republicans and Democrats are two different sides of the same tax-andspend coin who believe taxes are for peasants.

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limestone, so an unplanned lock and pumping station – the Santa Fe Slip – had to be built just seven miles from the canal’s start on the Chicago River at Ashland Avenue.

From the slip, the canal crossed 30 miles of prairie at a slight gradient to Lock Number I at Lockport, where the canal’s 150-foot drop to the Illinois River began. In all, 16 “pound” locks (so named because they impounded water between two lock gates), including the Santa Fe Slip, were built. Since lake water could not be used to feed the canal, dams were built on the Fox River and AuSable Creek to provide feeders for the canal.

Finally, in one of the most interesting engineering solutions, four aqueducts were built to carry the canal

To the Editor: Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis once said, “If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” As I look at Illinois, I see innocent people being killed on the streets of Chiraq, violence on Chicago’s west side and poverty on the south side. It would then be easy to blame Chicago and Illinois’ Democrats, but I’d be a fool.

Republicans have long held the dictum that the power to tax is the power to destroy, so as I did a search to find out what Illinois Republicans were doing to protect us, I discovered that they were much in line with the Democrats. Among the new taxes are a 30 to 40 percent increase in the income tax. A new “opportunity tax” of $225 – $15,000 in taxes on payroll for a taxable year. A new sugar tax plus an increased tax on landscapers are just some of the taxes that I have found to date, and there’s more.

In addition to the financial collusion, friends on social media found their anti-tax remarks removed, not off the Democratic social media pages, but rather Republican Illinois Senate Minority leader, as well. Thus they are now showing positive, constructive and support for higher taxes from the commoners. I myself was blocked on Twitter and allowed back in after several supporters seemed to have complained on my behalf. Upon being allowed back I found the funds not in cuts but rather in fundraisers instead.

Among the Republican coffers were fundraisers for State Sen. Pam Althoff consisting of $2,500 per person which includes two spas. Sports fans could’ve attended a State Sen. Jason Barickman Blackhawk fundraiser where $3,500 will

Continued from page 4 And it took several more years before construction began. The Panic – depression – of 1837 halted construction, bankrupted thousands of canal speculators, destroyed the state’s financial system, and, tangentially, resulted in the formation of Kendall County in 1841. But that’s a story for another time.

As originally planned, the canal was to have been dug at lake level from the Chicago River through the 8-foot-high ridge that divides the Lake Michigan and Illinois–Mississippi river watersheds. However, it was quickly determined the ridge was composed of hard

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To the Editor: Yorkville High School students were Donations of supplies came from The fourth annual “Mini Golf FUN present to move the greens and equipRaiser” at the Yorkville Public Library was Parfection Park, Sugar Grove Family ment from the loft in the Pfister Meeting held on Sunday, Jan. 29, and the Friends Fun Center, West Suburban Bank and Room to both floors of the library and Yorkville Community Unit School District of the Library want to thank everyone then back again after the event. They 115. who made this event so successful. All were energetic and extremely helpful.

We enjoyed special appearances from profits will be going to fund children’s Thank you to coach Dan McGuire, coach “Ozzie” of the Kane County Cougars, programs and the purchase of library Luken, and assistant coach Scott Mabooks. This year, over $6,000 was raised “Spikes” from the Joliet Slammers, the linowski and their players. from this “fun” fundraiser and more than Merry Hearts Clowns, “Brock the Croc” Thank you, Yorkville. Plan to come to from Raging Waves, Belle from “Beauty 350 people of all ages played golf in the next year’s Mini Golf FUN Raiser at the and the Beast,” and several “Star Wars” library. library. characters courtesy of Jeff Frost.

The Yorkville community supported Raffle items were donated by Valley this event in so many ways. Thank you Judy Somerlot Fresh Market, Jimmy John’s, Whitetail to our wonderful sponsors: Blackberry Friends of the Yorkville Public Library Ridge Golf Club, NCG Cinema, Pepe’s Oaks Golf Course, York Towne Dental, Yorkville Merlin 200,000 Mile Shop, Two Men and Mexican Restaurant, O’Reilly’s Auto • Continued on page 6 Parts, Paramount Theater, York Towne a Truck, Midland States Bank, Yorkville

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across streams whose beds were too passed southbound shipments of white low to cross at grade level. The longest pine from Michigan and Wisconsin, aqueduct still stands (in fact it was assuring that Chicago would become recently restored) in Ottawa, where a the center of Midwestern commerce 400-foot span carries the canal across even before the railroad era. the Fox River on its way to Lock 15 on The easy transport of crops to distant markets meant the price of corn the Illinois River at LaSalle. and wheat in Eastern markets dropped, The canal finally opened in 1848, and became a mighty engine that lifted encouraging more farmers to plant the Midwest’s economy for the next de- more crops. Technology was refined, cade. Unfortunately for the I&M, railand land grant colleges began to make roads were developing at the same time agriculture ever more efficient and as the canal, with the first rail line laid productive. Today, the I&M is largely paralleling the canal route in 1854, just deserted, but as a reminder of how our six years after the I&M opened. region was built, it is a historic monument of the first order.

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out the community is endless. Yet Trump made the elimination of this relatively Trump limits borrowers insignificant change one of his first courses To the Editor: of action as president.

Donald Trump’s schizophrenic start of his The Wall Street Journal noted that presidency is making people really nervous. economic growth since Harry Truman You would think that a man who held up has decreased every time a Republican his business acumen as the standard by president took over from a Democrat and which all other candidates were to be increased when the Democrat took over measured would focus on business profrom a Republican. Obama left office with motion as his first presidential action. But a 2.2 percent growth in his second term. If he hasn’t, and that is not a good sign. One Trump keeps going in the many directions thing that is disturbing is that a man who he has displayed, he will have a hard time made his fortune in real estate would make even sniffing that number. one of his first executive orders something Ed Washak that would do harm to the real estate Yorkville marketplace.

Just before President Obama left, he ordered the FHA to lower an insurance rate Jr. Women’s Club sends thanks To the Editor: they charge to borrowers by a quarter of On behalf of the Yorkville Junior Women’s a percent. FHA deals mostly with midClub, I would like to offer a huge thank dle-class and lower-income borrowers. This you to everyone who participated in some was deemed helpful to those scrimping way with our Club’s 24th year of Operation to purchase the American dream. This Santa Toy Drive. We were able to provide insurance cut would lower the payment a just over 1,100 children in need in Kendall borrower had to make by over $500 a year County with toys for Christmas who may for borrowers who took out the average sized FHA loan of about $200K. FHA makes have otherwise gone without.

The YJWC relies on the help and contribuabout 800,000 loans a year and this cut would allow about 40,000 more borrowers tions of our community every year to pull this program off. Thank you to the Kendall to qualify for a loan. You might think so County Community Food Pantry that what? allowed us the use of their space and all of The ripple effect of a home purchase is pretty far reaching for a community. Buyer the volunteers that helped this year.

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Thank you to all – I know that this is a busy time for students and families and we appreciate the time you took out of your busy schedule to help with this.

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bring women together and connect them with other 261 runners globally.

This is a wonderful way to continue to give back and support other women long past the time of the Boston Marathon. Every woman out there deserves to have the chance to reach their own starting line and feel fearless. I know that I would have never had this opportunity without the support that I received throughout my journey. I am very thankful for my mentor, coaches and those that have run with me for countless miles.”

Despite an inauspicious beginning, the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) early on realized the seriousness of women’s desire to participate and the potential of their endurance. In 1972, five years after the Switzer Incident, the BAA welcomed women as official competitors, becoming the first major marathon to do so.

This year, the Boston Athletic Association has continued its commitment to women’s running by inviting the 261 Fearless team to participate in the 121st running of the Boston Marathon on April 17.

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Yorkville resident Heather Pierce, 44, will be lacing up her running shoes April 17 for the run of her life.

Pierce, as well as 100 other runners, will be running the 121st Boston Marathon to represent 261 Fearless, Inc., a new nonprofit benefiting women’s running initiatives from legendary marathoner Kathrine Switzer.

In 1967, Switzer became the first registered women to compete in the Boston Marathon. At that time, the race was considered a male-only event. But, using her initials, Switzer managed to obtain an official bib, number 261.

Mid-stride in the competition, an angry race director leapt from the press truck and attempted to pull Switzer from the race. In one of sport’s most dramatic moments, Switzer’s burly boyfriend bounced the official off the course, allowing Switzer to go on to finish. The photo of the incident became one of Time-Life’s “100 Photos That Changed the World.”

“Switzer not only broke the glass starting line,” says Pierce, “But she continued to champion the cause of women’s running for the next 50 years. 261 Fearless – a global wom-

en’s running network – is the result.

This charity uses running to empower women around the world. That’s why I’m running for 261 Fearless.”

“It is a joy to run with Heather in the 121st Boston Marathon,” said Switzer. “What was a dramatic incident 50 years ago became instead a defining moment for me and women runners like Heather. The result is nothing less than a social revolution; there are now more women runners in the United States than men, and these women are both fearless and compassionate, wanting to help other women around the world achieve their goals. Because of women like Heather, 261 Fearless will be able to spread our message far and wide.”

“I know I have some hard work ahead of me,” said Pierce, who is an endurance duathlete that dedicates 12 hours a week to training. Running, cycling, strength exercises and yoga are her regimen regardless of the weather. She’s also trying to raise more than $7,000 for 261 Fearless. “With the money we raise, this nonprofit organization is able to help establish social running Clubs and create coaches’ education and communication programs, even right here in our own community.” Pierce said. “We aim to

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LEFT: Merry Hearts Clowns, Cool Beanz (left) and Lily create a balloon animal for Kylie Ziegler, 8, of Aurora and her mom, Dawn.

ABOVE, LEFT: Five-yearold Jacqueline Villa (center) and her brother Oliver, 7, of Yorkville enjoy snacks with their mom Gladys.

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Fifteen-year-old Kyle Koch of Yorkville putts between a canyon of books and landscape obstacles during the Friends of the Yorkville Public Library Mini Golf FUN Raiser on Sunday.

About 350 golfers participated in the event, which raised more than $6,000 for the library.

ABOVE, RIGHT: Fiveyear-old twins Sloane (left) and Ari Terman of Yorkville play in a sea of Legos after a round of golf.

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DUI Yorkville police arrested Jason Sima, of the 4000 block of Garritano Street, Yorkville, for driving under the influence at 8:40 a.m. Jan. 25 following a traffic stop in the area of Galena Road and Cannonball Trail.

‘Open air sniff’ leads to arrest Kendall County sheriff’s deputies were aided by their K-9, Luke, in making an arrest in Oswego Jan. 30. Police said they stopped a vehicle driven by Tabitha Kay White, 34, of the 1900 block of Garden Hills Drive, Champaign, for a speeding violation at Rt. 31 and Mill Road at 11:52 p.m. Police said a deputy had Luke conduct what they described as an “open air sniff” on White’s vehicle. Luke subsequently alerted deputies to the presence of narcotics in the vehicle and recovered cocaine and cocaine paraphernalia. Police said they charged White with possession of a controlled substance.

Revoked license Yorkville police arrested William C. Mulvaney, 35, of the 800 block of Elm Street, Sandwich, for driving while license revoked Jan. 26 following a traffic stop in the area of Route 47 and Route 71.

Stolen Cadillac Yorkville police took a report that at some time between Nov. 30 and Dec. 3 a white 1999 Cadillac Deville was stolen from a residence in the 600 block of Tower Lane.

Tax scam reported A Boulder Hill resident told county sheriff’s deputies Jan. 29 that she received a 2016 W2 tax form in the mail that contained her personal information from an employer she did not work for

DUI among charges County sheriff’s deputies arrested Theodore John Cole, 54, of the 2600 block of Caton Farm

The Kendall County Highway Department Has Scheduled a Public Meeting for the Collins Road Extension Phase I Study

Burglary attempt reported County sheriff’s deputies took a report of an attempted residential burglary at a residence in the 0-10 block of North Cypress Drive in Bristol Township Jan. 28 at noon.

Police said unknown suspects attempted to force their way into the garage of the residence.

Boulder Hill hit-and-run County sheriff’s deputies took a report of a hit-and-run crash that occurred Jan. 29 between 6 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. in the 0-20 block of Codorus Road in Boulder Hill.

Police said the victim’s vehicle was legally parked in the street at the time of the crash.

Medications stolen Numerous prescription medications were taken from a residence in the 0-10 block of South East Street, Newark, Jan. 25, according ID, fund stolen to the County Sheriff’s Office.

A Boulder Hill resident told coun- Police said the medications were ty sheriff’s deputies that someone taken sometime between Jan. 19 used his ID information to take and 24.

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The meeting will be conducted on an informal, open house basis. Exhibits will be on display and representatives from the Kendall County Highway Department and their consultants will be present to receive input, provide information, and answer questions.

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Hit and run Yorkville police took a report that a North Aurora man was driving westbound on Galena Road east of Kennedy Road when a 2003 Chevy Impala struck the rear bumper of his vehicle, and his vehicle then struck the rear bumper of a car in front of his. The driver of the Impala left the scene without providing information; the vehicle was later located off Orchard Road in Oswego unoccupied, police said.

Boulder Hill damage County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a case of criminal damage to property at a residence in the 0-100 block of Saugatuck Road in Boulder Hill Jan. 30.

during the year. Police said an Road, Joliet, after stopping the attempt to reach the business was vehicle he was driving for a lane unsuccessful. use violation Jan 28 at 6:28 p.m. on Schlapp Road at Caton Farm Road in NaAuSay Township. Police Internet scam reported said Cole was ticketed for failure An Oswego Township resident told county sheriff’s deputies Jan. to signal and driving without 27 that someone used his name in insurance. He was also charged an attempt to obtain a loan online. with driving under the influence, according to police.

Police said they are investigating the incident as an internet scam.

Respond to domestic County sheriff’s deputies ID theft reported responded to a domestic A Boulder Hill resident told disturbance at a residence in the county sheriff’s deputies Jan. 27 that someone used her debit card 0-100 block of Boulder Hill Pass in Boulder Hill Jan. 27 at 10 p.m. in an attempt to purchase gift Police said a juvenile damaged a cards online. Police said they are door inside the residence during investigating. the incident.

Warrant arrest Investigate threats County sheriff’s deputies County sheriff’s deputies are arrested Jasmine Damarie Garcia, 23, of the 10 block of Harbor Drive, investigating an incident in which an intoxicated male threatened Oswego, at her residence while a female employee at a business investigating a domestic battery Jan. 29 at 1:38 a.m. Police said Gar- in the 1300 block of Route 30 in cia was wanted on an outstanding Oswego Township Jan. 29 at 1:19 a.m. warrant from the Aurora police.

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YORKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUTH PROGRAMS The Yorkville public library has announced the following upcoming programs. The library is located at 902 Game Farm Road in Yorkville.

For more information, call the library at 630553-4354, visit yorkville.lib.il.us, check out our Facebook page or our Twitter @Yorkvillekidsread.

Drop In Story Time: Friday, Feb. 3, 10:30 to 11 a.m. Stop by to hear wonderful books read by a volunteer from the Yorkville Jr. Women’s Club.

Spanish Story Time: Monday, Feb. 6, 10:30 to 11 a.m. Come join us for an adventure as we read books in Spanish. Presented by Marta Duran. Register at the Youth Service desk.

Afternoon Read: Monday, Feb. 6 and Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1 to 1:30 p.m. Ages 4-5. This program consists of reading stories along with a fun related craft and snack. Children must be able to work independently. Register and pay nominal fee at the Youth Service desk.

Morning Read: Tuesday, Feb. 7 and Monday, Feb. 27, 10:30 to 11 a.m. Ages 4-5.

This program consists of reading stories along with a fun related craft and snack. Children must be able to work independently. Register and pay nominal fee at the Youth Service desk.

Tots and Toddlers: Thursday, Feb. 9, and Friday, Feb. 24, 10:30 to 11 a.m. Parents, bring your little ones to listen to stories, rhymes and a complete a craft. Register and pay $1 (YPL card holders) at the Youth Service desk.

Movie at the Library: Friday, Feb. 10, 1 to 3 p.m. It is a day off of school. Join us for a free family movie. Popcorn will be available for purchase. Register at the Youth Service desk.

LEGO Club: Saturday, Feb. 11, 10:30 to 11:30 p.m. Ages 9 and older. We will make unique creations to display in the children’s department. Register at the Youth Service

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stressors – such as divorce, financial difficulties, or a sick family member; stigma – if parents are denying treatment because they cannot admit that their child has a problem.

Another risk factor is lack of acceptance from family and peers, particularly for those students who are LGBTQ-plus, Baker said. That acronym means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer and questioning, she said, and the plus “is any other title that someone would use to identify by.”

LGBTQ-plus youth are “four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers that identify as straight,” Baker said.

“When a youth who identifies as LGBTQ-plus comes from a rejecting environment – family, friends, etc. – they

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Ice Cream Book Club: Saturday, Feb. 11, 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Ages 9-16. Children need to read a chapter book to share with the group. Registration is required. Register and pay fee at the Youth Service desk.

Make and Take Valentine Craft: Saturday, Feb. 11 and Tuesday, Feb. 14. Each day, we will offer a different Valentine’s card to make. You can give it to someone special.

Stop by and create.

LEGO Duplo: Monday, Feb. 13 and Tuesday, Feb. 28, 10:30 to 11 a.m. Ages 2 and older with a parent. This LEGO club is for the younger set with a parent. We provide the LEGOs. Children provide the creativity. Please register.

Panera Story Time: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2:30 to 3 p.m. The Yorkville Librarians will be at the Yorkville Panera presenting story time.

The Yorkville Panera will provide registered children with milk and cookies. All ages are welcome to attend. Register at the Y.P.L. Youth Service desk.

Beginning Readers: Thursday, Feb. 16, 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. We are excited to announce a new program. Give your child a head start in reading. We will focus on phonics through reading and writing. Ages 4-6.

Literacy Centers: Thursday, Feb. 16, 5 to 6:30 p.m. or Friday, Feb. 17, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ages 3-6. Stop by any time between 5 and 6:30 p.m. on Thursday or 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Friday to experience a parent guided opportunity for hands on literacy instruction.

Literacy Centers are designed to give children ample opportunity to practice the very important skills of listening, reading, writing, and speaking.

PLARN: Saturday, Feb. 18, 10:30 a.m. to noon. Join us for our monthly PLARN program.

We will create PLARN mats for the homeless.

No experience is needed. Take time to give back. Presented by Jessica Faedtke. Register at the Youth Service desk. are eight times more likely to attempt suicide than their LGBTQ-plus peers who come from an accepting environment,” she said. “So that accepting environment is a huge protective factor.”

Baker said such rejection causes mental health issues in youth.

“What we know is that when parents alienate their child because they don’t agree with their sexual orientation or they don’t agree with the gender that the child wants to be if it’s not the gender assigned at birth, it causes extreme and dramatic mental health issues,” she said. “My action to you is, if this is you, you’re not alone. If you’re not agreeing with this and this has impacted your relationship with your child, you’re not alone. But please get some help. Get some counseling. Join a parent group for those who identify as LGBTQ and get some support.”

Those who want more information on the program can visit elyssasmission.org.

Student of the Week

Nicole Doles

Nicole Doles is a candidate for the 2017 Student of the Year scholarship award.

The daughter of LaVonne and Mike Doles, she plans to study biomedical engineering at an undetermined university this fall.

A total of 25 YHS seniors, selected by a panel of faculty members and a junior Student Council representative, will be recognized throughout the school year in the Record.

Seniors applied for consideration through the high school guidance office.

Co-Sponsored by First National Bank and the Kendall County Record, the $4,000 Student of the Year Scholarship will provide $1,000 each year for four years to the college of the recipient’s choice.

The 2017 Student of the Year will be announced in May. A panel of community leaders will choose the finalists and the winner based on their transcripts, applications and an interview. Nomination and the final selection will be based on scholastic achievement, involvement in school and community, leadership and responsibility, ambition and citizenship. Financial need is not a consideration.

Activities and Honors Nicole Doles has become an expert in time management during her years as a YHS student.

Involved in cross country, as well as indoor and outdoor track and field, varsity golf, and the pep and symphonic bands, carving time out for practice and school work can get tricky.

“My personal planner is superglued to my hand like a cell phone is glued to others’,” she said. “No hour of my day goes by wasted. I have mastered the art of responsible time use.”

When she’s not running, putting or studying, you’ll find Nicole volunteering as a member of the school’s T.R.Y (Teens Reaching Youth) Club, or as a Student Ambassador, welcoming new kids to school.

She’s organized events about suicide prevention, taught middle school children about the importance of friendship, and helped raise money for community organizations like the Ronald McDonald House.

“I have found that volunteering has proved to be more satisfying than winning medals or acing tests,” Nicole said. “Volunteer work gives me a sense of pride; I can happily say I am making an impact.”

Thought her volunteer work, Nicole has gown a passion for helping others which she said will help bolster her future career.

“My belief in helping others has chosen my future career path as a biomedical engineer--developing new medical technologies for the betterment of people’s health,” she said. “Without volunteering, I would have never discovered that I enjoy dedicating my time for the benefit of others.”

In the future, she hopes to work developing prosthetics for the veterans who lost limbs “while sacrificing their freedom for ours.”

“Through everything I have done, I have learned how to give back and take pride in knowing that my service will be of aid to someone,” Nicole said.

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Yorkville Chamber ‘Breaking Barriers’ program Friday

Yorkville residents Steven Amoni, Audrey Fitzgerald, Sydney Seeman, Brittany Straznickas and Alexa Weiss were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester of the 2016-17 academic year at Illinois Wesleyan University.

••• Muaaz Khan of Yorkville was named to Iowa State University’s College of Business dean’s list for fall 2016.

••• Joshua Ackerman of Yorkville made the dean’s list for the fall 2016 semester at the University of Dayton.

••• Kurtis Brummerstedt and Elysia Elizondo, both of Yorkville, have been named to Eastern Illinois University’s fall 2016 deans’ list.

The deans’ list at EIU recognizes undergraduates with a declared major whose academic performance has been excellent.

Students who achieve a GPA of 3.80 to 4.00 (on a 4.00 scale) while completing a minimum of 12 graded semester hours, excluding credit/no credit grades, in a fall or spring semester are named to the deans’ list.

••• Degrees were awarded to more than 725 fall 2016 graduates at Eastern Illinois University.

Local graduates include Elysia Elizondo of Yorkville.

KENDALL COUNTY RECORD The Yorkville Chamber of Commerce’s PAY (Professionals Advancing in Yorkville) professional development series will focus on Breaking Barriers in 2017. Programs are offered quarterly, open to the public, free of charge, and provide an opportunity to meet

with experts and discuss an assortment of business-related topics.

On Friday, Feb. 3 from 9 to 10 a.m. featured speaker Carin Young of Carin’s Systems will offer tips on time management, productive interactions, and organizing your workspace. The event will be held at the Chamber office (lower level, Old Second Bank,

Yorkville). Light breakfast refreshments provided courtesy of Norwex Michele Sittig, sales leader.

To RSVP and take advantage of this programming as an opportunity for personal, professional, and business growth, contact the chamber at support@yorkvillechamber.org or phone 630-553-6853.

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Yorkville S.T.E.P teams participate in scavenger hunt Students from the YMS S.T.E.P. Team and the YHS Yorkville Stepping Foxes hosted their first Indoor Scavenger Hunt at the Home Depot of Yorkville. About 50 students, parents and District 115 staff showed up to take pictures of clues spread out around the store. Store manager Dorreen Erhardt greeted the guests and even learned how to perform a step with the students after they performed in the parking lot at the end of the scavenger hunt.

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The work of local artist Adrienne Smith is on display at the Yorkville Public Library through March 14. Smith uses vibrant colors, interesting shapes, and gingko leaves in her pieces. She has created a joyful collection of artwork that patrons won’t want to miss. The display wall is on the second floor of the library.

Yorkville resident Jessica Finnerty (left) was among Rosary High School ensemble singers who performed at Marmion Academy in Aurora on Jan. 29. From left are Finnerty, Aurora residents Marissa Sepulveda and Maddy Gilmore and ensemble director Megan Drahos. Musicians from Marmion, Rosary and Holy Angels schools in Aurora performed during the Marmion Music Boosters’ annual pancake breakfast fundraiser to benefit Marmion’s music program and Marmion-Rosary High School band.

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Dylan Patrick had 18 points and four assists and Cam Myre and Beau Brown each scored 16 points for the Norsemen, who breezed past Hiawatha 88-39 and into the semifinals of the Little Ten Conference Tournament at Somonauk. Will Clausel added 10 points.

Newark next plays at 5:30 p.m. Thursday against the winner of Somonauk vs. Leland/Earlville.

Patrick had 20 points, eight assists and five steals in Newark’s 93-25 win over LaMoille on Jan. 27. Clausel added 14 points, five rebounds and four steals.

Yorkville sophomores: The Foxes fell to Oswego 32-29 on Jan. 28. Jake Polowy led Yorkville (10-7) with nine points and Andy Reichert chipped in eight points. Yorkville previously lost to Kaneland 42-31 on Jan. 27. Reichert scored eight points.

Parkview Christian: Parkview Christian lost two of three games recently in the Illinois Christian Conference.

On Feb. 24 the Falcons lost to Families

of Faith from Channahon 68-57. Josiah Finnestad led Parkview with 15 points and Austin West added 12. The Falcons beat Community Christian of Manhattan, 61-57, on Jan. 27. West scored 18 points, Jake Angelo 12 and Finnestad 11 for Parkview. The Falcons lost at Kankakee Christian, 48-45, Jan. 28.

Finnestad scored 13 and Jeremy Osika had 11 points and 12 rebounds for Parkview.

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Yorkville sophomores: The Foxes lost to Oswego 39-38 on Dec. 28.

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Yorkville: The Foxes dropped a dual meet to Downers Grove South 54-15 on Jan. 26. Nick Stemmet notched a pin for Yorkville at 182 pounds, Jacob Simmons had a pin at 220 and Keenan Ness won a decision at 285.

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Yorkville: The Foxes defeated LaSalle-Peru 2,953-2,738 on Jan. 25. Hannah Jaros’ 694 series led Yorkville.

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Riane Tomsa didn’t pause when asked.

Just how much does Newark work on passing?

“A lot,” said the Norsemen’s 5-foot-5 junior guard. “A lot of passing, a lot of drills. We are very repetitive in practice. We work on passing the ball, being strong with it. That’s a big part of our game.”

That crisp passing was crystal clear Monday.

Newark passed its final Little Ten Conference test of the season, pulling away to win at Somonauk 47-30.

Alyssa Schofield scored 14 points, Jasmine Mitchell had nine points and nine rebounds and Tomsa nine points for the Norsemen (18-8, 8-0).

Newark’s shots didn’t fall early, and the Norsemen led just 8-6 after a quarter. The way they zip the ball around the court, those struggles were bound not to last.

“It starts with our point guard [Meggie Scott]. Everything runs through her,” Newark coach Barb Scott said. “We have been a team all year that works together. They don’t care who scores. They are very unselfish. I have drilled passing into them and it’s starting to pay off. They’re a

fun team to watch when they move the ball around. Anybody can score.”

It was Tomsa’s turn during the second quarter that turned the game.

She hit a corner 3-pointer on Mitchell’s kickout from the post seconds into the quarter. It seemed to open things up. Later, Mitchell assisted another Tomsa 3-pointer. Tomsa scored all nine of her points during a quarter that saw Newark outscore Somonauk 19-8.

“Her shot’s not consistent all the time, but she can definitely hit them,” Scott said.

Tomsa knows to be ready when the ball goes into the post. Mitchell, a 6-3 center, draws plenty of attention.

“If they double team her we’ll just spot up for a shot. I’m pretty confident in it,” Tomsa said. “That second quarter we just slowed the game down, started putting in our shots and played our offense like we normally do.”

Schofield, another junior guard, scored seven of her 14 points in the third quarter. Newark’s 12-0 run that spanned the end of the second quarter and beginning of the third blew the game open.

Newark will start postseason play Feb. 8 at the Class 1A St. Francis de Sales Regional on Chicago’s south side. It’s a nice 70-mile drive for the Norsemen, the No. 1 seed in the regional.

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Yorkville freshman Stemmet ‘handing out the lumps’ Foxes take young lineup into Class 3A regional at Rock Island

By JOSHUA WELGE jwelge@kendallcountynow.com

Nick Stemmet is not your normal freshman wrestler.

It is not unusual for a freshman to make a varsity lineup at one of the lower weights.

Not Stemmet. The Yorkville freshman has wrestled up at 170 pounds all year. It’s hard to believe he’s a year removed from junior high.

“Freshman wrestlers, usually they’re the ones taking the lumps,” Yorkville coach Jake Oster said.

“Nick is handing out the lumps.”

Indeed he is.

Stemmet is 32-8, with the most wins on the Yorkville team. He’s coming off a conference championship, and is ranked 11th in the latest Illinois Matmen rankings.

He’ll lead a young group of Foxes with 10 freshmen and sophomores in the lineup into this Saturday’s Class 3A regional at Rock Island.

“It’s cool to think about what we’re accomplishing now, and what our future could be,” Stemmet said. “I know this weekend is going to be challenging, but it’s exciting. I think I’ll do well.”

Stemmet’s success shouldn’t necessarily sur-

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Nick Stemmet of Yorkville grapples with Artimus Cunningham of Sycamore during their 170-pound final of the Northern Illinois Big 12 conference championship tournament on Jan. 21 at Kaneland High School in Maple Park.

Stemmet won by 7-6 decision. prise.

He started wrestling at four years old with his twin brother and training partner, Ben. Stemmet took third in the state in seventh grade.

In eighth grade he did IKWF with the Bolingbrook Wrestling Club, and he won a state championship.

He took second at preseason nationals.

“He’s doing what we thought, maybe better,” Oster said. “His approach to the sport is great. He comes to work every day.”

Stemmet took sixth at the prestigious Dvorak tournament, was fifth at Barrington and third at Sycamore.

“I don’t know if I was completely prepared for the intensity of wrestling in high school but I adapted early on,” Stemmet said. “I didn’t really have to use my technique in junior high, I just kind of overpowered people. Now that I’ve had to use my technique my style’s got a lot better.”

Stemmet was one of four conference champions for team champ Yorkville, joining fellow freshman Cale Reeder (138), senior Brett Stauffenberg (145) and sophomore Zack Katula (152).

Yorkville’s opponents this weekend won’t be unfamiliar.

The Foxes wrestled Rock Island, Minooka and Plainfield South in the first weeks of the season.

Nine of the wrestlers in Yorkville’s current lineup, though, either were not in that earlier lineup or are at a different weight.

More recently Yorkville finished a little behind Rock Island but ahead of Moline at Sycamore.

“We’ve taken our lumps, but we’ve seen a lot of improvement,” Oster said. “It should be a close team race. Our goal is to win it.”

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YMCA swim team hosts clinic

Yorkville Fury wins Redhawks Holiday Classic

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The Fox Valley Family YMCA’s Aqua Force Swim Team hosted their first Fitter and Faster Swim Tour Clinic at the Central Branch Pool in Plano, Jan. 23 and Jan. 24. Olympic Medalist and Navy SEAL Lieutenant Larsen Jensen and NCAA Champion Laura Sogar were on hand to teach and inspire more than 100 area swimmers on how to execute a faster and more efficient freestyle and to increase speed and power off the blocks.

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The Yorkville Fury seventh grade boys basketball team won the Redhawk Holiday Classic Dec. 27-28 in Naperville. Pictured are (back row) Wade Davis, Connor Corrigan, Jaden Schutt, Matt Bivens, Charlie Poppen, (front row) Brandon Johnson, Cameron Colquitt and Danny New. Not pictured is Luke Fisher.

Coming full circle to tell stories to readers VIEWS Joshua Welge asking to speak to the “sports guy” are still learning my name.

Since I first scanned the agate page for box scores, before I even read my first book, I felt a connection to sports through newspapers.

I’ve lived all over, from Pennsylvania to Connecticut to the cornfields of western Illinois to the south suburbs, Park Forest to be exact, but I feel I’ve come full circle. My father grew up just a short drive down Routes 34 and 30 in Joliet. He remembers towns like Oswego when there were more cornfields than Costcos.

I got my start writing in the city, in college at Marquette, but I cut my

teeth professionally in Dixon (some may know it as the hometown of Ronald Reagan). My writing took me to New York state, an hour from the city, and eventually back to the western suburbs of Chicago 13 years ago.

I’m still learning where all the pizza places and Paneras are in Kendall County, but in a sense I feel right at home. Newark and its stuffed gym reminds me of my salad days covering Rock Falls’ state champions in 1999.

(How do they fit all those people in a place the size of my junior high?)

Oswego East almost IS home, a stone’s throw from where I live with my wife in Aurora.

I’ve covered more big playoff basketball and football and baseball games than I can remember, but that isn’t what I love about my job.

It’s telling stories.

I’ve already shared some great ones

here. Like the story of the Plano basketball player who didn’t even “know what basketball was” until a year ago.

Now he’s a budding star for a conference champion.

Or the Yorkville girl who was scared coming from a Lutheran grade school, and will leave her high school as one of its best girls basketball players ever.

I’ll be waiting to tell those stories, in print, on your computer or on your iPhone. Look me up on KendallCountyNow.com, or on Twitter at @KCNpreps or @jwelge96. If you’re like me, you want your scores, highlights and stories ASAP, and at your fingertips. That’s a good place to start.

Until then, it’s great meeting you.

I can’t wait to find out the next story waiting on the back of the baseball card to tell you.

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Long before Twitter and Instagram brought our sports heroes into the palm of our hands, we met them through pieces of cardboard wrapped with a stick of bubblegum.

It’s where my love was born.

Those baseball cards I bought every week at the 7-Eleven counter told so many stories. Where my favorite player was from. What he looked like.

How old he was. And, most important to me, all those statistics permanently burned in my brain like my favorite flavor of ice cream.

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Now, it’s my turn to tell the stories.

Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Joshua Welge, the new sports editor of Kendall County Record Newspapers.

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SPORTS GIRLS BASKETBALL: YORKVILLE 59, OSWEGO 35

A HOUSEHOLD NAME

Nolan closing in on career scoring mark, helps Foxes top Panthers

By JOSHUA WELGE jwelge@kendallcountynow.com Yorkville’s Katie Nolan got a taste of fame recently from a familiar name.

Katie Nolan.

Nolan, the host of Fox Sports 1’s “Garbage Time,” tweeted congratulations to the Foxes’ senior of the same name after she scored her 1,000th career point.

“That was pretty cool,” said Yorkville’s Nolan. “I actually knew about her already. My dad looked up my name once and she came up. We kind of watch her stuff, but it’s really late.”

Nolan is a name that will be remembered at Yorkville for a while.

She scored 10 points with 13 rebounds in the Foxes’ 59-35 win on Saturday at Oswego in the seventh annual Communities vs. Cancer event.

Nolan, already Yorkville’s career rebounding leader, is closing in on another milestone. With 1,024 career points she only trails Meghan Voiland (1,091) and Kelly Kramer (1,048) on the program’s career scoring leaderboard.

Leaving Yorkville on top would mean a great deal to Nolan, who came to the high school as a freshman from Cross Lutheran.

“The transition to public school was pretty intimidating,” said Nolan, a four-year starter now committed to Division II Seton Hill in Pennsylvania. “People didn’t know me, I didn’t think I would have a chance.

The coaching staff is amazing. I owe it all to them for giving me a chance.”

Saturday’s game was an emotional one for Nolan and the Foxes.

cer. She was recognized before the game as an honorary captain. Trembley scored 11 points and Lauren Daffenberg had 15 for the Foxes (21-1), who broke open a 23-15 halftime lead with a big third quarter.

“We just really wanted this one,” Nolan said. “It means a lot to us, especially with Ellysse’s mom having cancer. I felt like this year was super emotional.

The first half we played OK, but we turned it on in the third quarter.”

Lindsey Jones scored 10 points and Kira Sneed six for Oswego. The event held special significance to Sneed, who moved to Oswego two years ago from Chicago. Both of her parents passed away from cancer.

The Panthers (7-15) only trailed 21-15 near halftime after a basket from Angelina Schlinger, but from there went scoreless for almost five minutes during an 11-0 Yorkville run.

“The tale of our season,” Oswego coach Dave Beebe said. “We were competitive in the first half but we can’t put our head down when we make mistakes. We played a good first half against a 20-1 team and then we threw the ball over the place.”

Daffenberg hit back-to-back jumpers, Natalie Malinowski had a basket and Nolan a score during the stretch that saw Yorkville open up its lead.

Nolan picked her spots scoring, but Oswego had Steven Buyansky for Shaw Media no answer for her on the glass.

Yorkville’s Katie Nolan (23) puts up a shot over Oswego de“Especially with Lindsay [Harrison] out we have fenders Megan Rasmussen (center) and Holly Gotchie (5) to have her stepping up the way she is,” Yorkville during a varsity girls Communities vs. Cancer basketball coach Kim Wensits said.

Yorkville went on to clinch its second straight game Saturday at Oswego High School.

Northern Illinois Big 12 East championship on TuesCharri Trembley, the mother of Yorkville senior day, beating Ottawa 53-36 behind Daffenberg’s 13 Ellysse Trembley, is currently fighting breast can- points and 11 from Audrey Macciomei.

BOYS BASKETBALL: OSWEGO 49, YORKVILLE 27

Jones’ hot shooting, Oswego ‘D’ too much for Yorkville

By JOSHUA WELGE jwelge@kendallcountynow.com Jaylen Jones knows that a shooter is only as good as his assist man.

Jones, Oswego’s senior guard, was darn good Saturday.

He scored 10 of his 20 points in the first quarter, sparking the Panthers past Yorkville, 49-27, in the seventh annual Communities vs. Cancer event at Oswego.

Jones hit three of Oswego’s eight 3-pointers.

“I got most of my threes from my teammates finding me when I was open,” Jones said. “I was just getting in the flow of the game.”

It didn’t take long for him to do just that.

Jones swished a 3-pointer from the left corner a minute in, then came off a screen for a second three. Jones later dropped off a slick pass to Elliott Pipkin for a layup, and knocked down a medium-range jumper. Then he stole a Yorkville pass in the backcourt and hit a short jumper to finish a first quarter that saw Oswego jump ahead 15-2.

“My confidence level felt good,” Jones said. “It definitely boosted the team. It helped us on defense, too.”

Oswego (6-13), which got seven points from Pipkin and six from Elijah Winston, definitely got a boost over the weekend.

On the heels of losses to state powers Bolingbrook and Joliet West, the Panthers bounced back to beat Plainfield Eas, 60-44, Friday behind Jones’ 20 points.

It seemed to carry over.

“It was a much-needed weekend for us,” Oswego coach Matt Borrowman said. “What we went through last week playing two of the state’s best really helped us to see what it’s all about. The kids have been positive all the time, and that’s key. Winning four or five games isn’t ideal, but the kids have brought it every day.”

They brought it defensively Saturday, particularly in the first half.

Jones’ deep 3-pointer completed

an 18-1 run with Oswego ahead 21-3.

Yorkville (9-10) went without a made basket until Javell Moore’s breakaway layup with 17 seconds left in the first half.

“The action [Yorkville] will run with the screens, it can stress you out as a coach,” Borrowman said. “I told the guys that if they’re ready to play defensively we’ll be OK, but if they’re not it will be a long night. Give our kids credit. They set the tone with their defense.”

Moore scored nine and Logan Habada added six for Yorkville. The Foxes came into the weekend riding a threegame win streak, but lost at Kaneland, 43-33, Friday. Jake Eberhart scored 10 points to lead Yorkville in that game.