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Suspect in shooting incident ID’d Police fired on man with rifle after he made threats LEDGER–SENTINEL Oswego police have identified the suspect in an early Saturday morning shooting in the village as Taylor J. Cano, 24, of the 0-100 block of Ashlawn Avenue.

Police said Cano recently moved to the Ashlawn Avenue residence, which is located in the Cedar Glen subdivision one block

east of Ill. Route 25.

Cano, who was shot by two police officers, is being treated for his injuries while under police custody at an area hospital.

The Kendall County state’s attorney is expected to file charges against Cano later this week. In addition, the Illinois State Police are conducting an investigation of the incident.

According to police, Cano called police dispatch shortly after midnight Saturday “indicating that a massacre was going to occur and he was going to shoot himself in the street.” Additional calls between police dispatchers and Cano were interrupted several times, police said.

When dispatchers managed to re-establish contact with Cano, he

told them that he had a rifle and would shoot anyone who came to help him, police said.

When police arrived at Cano’s Ashlawn Avenue home shortly after 12:18 a.m., police said he raised a rifle towards the officers.

When the officers commanded him to drop his rifle, police said Cano did not comply and two officers fired their weapons, striking him in the torso.

Police Chief Jeff Burgner said Monday the incident marked the

first time in a decade that village police officers had discharged their firearms at a suspect.

In a statement, police said they wish to thank the Kendall and Kane County sheriff’s offices and the Montgomery, Yorkville and Aurora police departments for their assistance in responding to the incident.

Police asked anyone with information concerning the incident to call Illinois State Police at 815-726-6377.

Local police to wear body cameras?

Montgomery may be first in Kendall to equip officers

By JOHN ETHEREDGE

jetheredge@shawmedia.com Officers from at least one Kendall County law enforcement agency will be wearing body cameras beginning next year.

Montgomery Police Chief Daniel Meyers announced this past week he expects village patrol officers and sergeants will be equipped with body cameras by mid-to-late 2016.

Meanwhile, Kendall County Sheriff Dwight Baird and other county police chiefs are considering equipping their officers with the small cameras, which capture video of officers’ on-duty interactions with the public.

But Baird and the other chiefs also expressed concerns about the cost to purchase the cameras and then maintain the hours of video they will produce.

Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation last month creating statewide standards for the use of body cameras by police. The legislation, however, does not require police departments to use the cameras.

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Montgomery Police Officer Daniel Puskaric displays a body camera that he and other village police officers will begin wearing sometime in mid-to-late 2016, according to Village Police Chief Daniel Meyers.

To help police departments pay for equipping their officers with cameras, the legislation imposes a $5 fee on traffic tickets issued by police statewide.

Noting that police across the country have been under in-

creased scrutiny over the past 12 to 18 months, Meyers said he believes the video cameras will ultimately serve to protect his officers against complaints from the public.

He added the majority of vil-

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lage officers have been supportive of the idea of using cameras.

“There has been a lot of discussion about body-worn cameras among our officers over the last two years and they know that someday we will be

wearing them and they support that,” Meyers said.

Meyers noted that village police have had cameras in their squad cars for the past 15 years.

“We’ve used those videos [from the squad car cameras] in court and it has helped,” he said.

Meyers said how the department will pay for the cameras and associated software to maintain the videos will be the subject of discussions over the next several months as work proceeds on his department’s annual budget.

The police department’s budget is included in the village’s annual budget, which is adopted by the village board every April. The village’s next fiscal year will begin May 1.

Meyers said the funds his department will receive from the $5 traffic ticket surcharge will eventually cover the full cost for the cameras.

“The purchase of the cameras is the small part of this,” Meyers explained, adding, “The software and the storage [of the videos] is where it will get costly.”

“We have between five and six officers on patrol for each shift, so I’ll probably purchase eight or ten [cameras]. The officers will sign them out for each

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Baird said he will investigate bringing the cameras to the sheriff’s department but isn’t ready to move forward with them just yet.

“That’s something we’re going to look into,” Baird said, adding that he was part of an effort with Oswego Police Capt. Jim Jensen to equip an Oswego squad car with a camera in 1993 – a first for Kendall County.

“I have mixed reviews on the cameras. I think that they can offer some level of recording and documentation of what happened on a particular case, but they don’t see everything,” he said.

For instance, he noted that peripheral vision is less than that of a human. Another problem, he said is that people will request the footage under the Freedom of Information Act and edit the videos out of context.

“Oftentimes people will try to tell the story with a mere Polaroid snapshot of what happened,” Baird said.

Another concern is cost.

Baird added that he is not budgeting for the cameras this year without knowing how much state funding the county will be getting.

He said the sheriff’s office researched grants for getting cameras as well but is not ready to move forward on the cameras.

“I haven’t thought about cost but I think the state of Illinois needs to get their financial woes figured out before they start passing down unfunded mandates, which I’m glad to see this is not mandatory,” Baird said. “I’m not opposed to them – just who is going to pay for it. I think more research needs to be done.”

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“I think if police executives were given more latitude on holding their officers and deputies accountable that some of this police misconduct could be avoided,” Baird said. “You allow us to clean up our profession and that will really help a lot of this, but not all of it.”

Yorkville Police Chief Rich Hart says he thinks the cameras are a good idea and believes the police department will adopt them one day. However, he also has concerns about paying for the devices, which could run as much as $100,000 to equip officers.

There are 30 full-time sworn officers and five part-time officers on the Yorkville Police Department, and of those, about 21 are patrol officers.

Hart said he would like to equip most of the officers with cameras, including patrol officers, patrol sergeants and detectives.

“I’d say they are a good idea,” Hart said. Many people are calling for police to carry these cameras to catch cases of police abuse, Hart

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Hart said the cameras could actually make his department’s job easier.

“It’s going to be more evidence for us against people in criminal cases. And that’s what the public doesn’t understand about police video cases is that when we go to domestic situations where people are intoxicated and they act horribly,” Hart said. “I think a lot of people will be in for a shock once we get these video cameras because they’re thinking it’s to keep down police brutality issues and it’s going to be quite different.”

Both Hart and Baird also say they have concerns about the limitations of the cameras.

“They don’t get it all and there is an example of a shooting in Chicago where the police looked like they were shooting an unarmed man when he actually had a gun behind his back,” Hart said.

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Montgomery Mayor on the Move will tour water treatment plant Sept. 12

Residents are invited to drop by to meet the village president on an informal basis and discuss items of concern with him.

Everyone is encouraged to bring their comments, questions and ideas to the session.

“As village president, I enjoy visiting with residents and hearing what issues are important to them,” Brolley explained.

“I also hope to tap into some of the great ideas people may have for improving life in Montgomery.”

Montgomery Village President Matt Brolley will host a “Mayor on the Move” gathering from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at the water treatment plant at the corner of Gordon Road and Fairfield Way. Tours of the water treatment plant and the base of the water tower will be provided. Coffee and light refreshments will be available.

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Hart said that people might be shocked if a video of them appears in court.

“I can tell you from personal experiences that we’ll deal with some of these domestic situations or neighborhood disputes and people are out of control,” Hart said. “And then when it comes time for court two or three months later they’re in a suit, clean cut and a pillar of their community.”

Oswego Police Chief Jeff Burgner described village police as being in “research mode” on the use of the cameras.

“I have no problem with cameras,” Burgner said. “I would like to have the ability to do that [videotaping].”

He added that he has not polled the department’s 49 officers on the use of the cameras, but believes they would also be supportive.

“I have heard no negative pushback from our officers,” he said.

Burgner said the department is researching the overall use of the cameras and their potential impact on the district’s finances and operation.

“I think we are all pretty much looking at them,” Plano Police Chief Steve Eaves said, referring to his department and others in the area.

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Oswego OKs downtown TIF district study

By NATALIE STEVENS

news@kendallcountynow.com The Oswego Village Board took a step this week toward creating a tax increment financing district in the village’s downtown area.

In a 5-0 vote Tuesday evening, the board approved the hiring of a financial consulting firm, Kane McKenna and Associates Inc., to conduct a two-phase study examining the feasibility of a TIF district.

The board is considering the TIF district in an effort to encourage the redevelopment of selected downtown properties.

As approved by the board, the first study phase will include a preliminary review of potential qualification factors and economics of the proposed TIF area and the second phase will include a complete redevelopment plan and projection for the TIF district.

The first phase of the study is estimated to cost between $12,500 and $18,000 and is not to exceed $18,000. The second study phase is expected to cost between $17,000

and $22,500 and is not to exceed $22,500. The range in costs is due to the current lack of a specific boundary of the study area and assumes a housing impact study would not be required. Village staff believe one will not be needed.

Village Attorney David Silverman said they would make clear that should the board desire to terminate the TIF project following phase one the village will not be billed for phase two.

The two phases could take upwards of seven months to complete, according Silverman.

A few weeks ago, trustees gave the go-ahead to start the process of developing a TIF district for the downtown following a presentation by Silverman.

Trustee Pam Parr voiced her support for Silverman and his expertise with TIF districts, saying she was “so excited” to have someone working with the village who not only understands the potential benefits of a TIF, but the pitfalls and how to avoid them. “[TIFs are] a charged topic riddled with misconception, mis-

understandings and mistruths,” Parr said. “… Everyone in the room, listen up. Dave [Silverman] knows what he’s talking about.”

Silverman said he has heard that TIFs are subject “to abuse” but noted that everything is subject to abuse.

He said it is the responsibility of the municipality to make sure the TIF is properly administrated, and that in recent years legislature has made TIFs operate in a more “transparent method,” such as assigning a joint review board made up of representatives from all the taxing bodies in the TIF district.

So what is a TIF district? Under state law, the equalized assessed value (EAV) of properties in a TIF district is frozen at a base level for up to 23 years.

The owners of TIF properties continue to pay property taxes to local taxing districts based on the base level EAV, but any additional property tax revenues generated from new development that occurs in the TIF district are paid into a separate TIF fund to pay for public improvements in the TIF

district.

For example, Silverman said say the downtown area the TIF is being considered for is valued at $1 million at the start of the TIF. Through growth and new projects, the EAV will go up. If in the first year $100,000 is captured in taxes, that is the base amount.

The next year, if $150,000 is collected, the difference of $50,000 will go into a special fund for the improvements.

Silverman has worked on various projects in the area, including downtown Aurora and Romeoville, which have successfully used TIF districts to fund projects.

In Romeoville, Silverman said, there now is an athletic and event center, formerly a vacant store, that was funded through a TIF district.

He described the TIF district as being the “catalyst” in bringing people to the area.

The idea of the TIF district falls in line with the village’s comprehensive plan goals to “portray downtown as the heart of the community and enhance its potential

for redevelopment opportunities” and “investigate and discern available funding techniques for development potential,” according to village documents.

Village President Gail Johnson said she’d heard concerns from business owners about having to pay more taxes with the TIF. “Taxes are the same,” Silverman said. “They don’t pay any more and they don’t pay any less.

It’s just a function of how money gets allocated from the clerk to taxing districts.”

The TIF fund would start out with zero dollars, and eventually grow as there are increases in the EAV and subsequently taxes.

Trustee Ryan Kaufmann expressed concerns about a misconception of TIF districts, saying he has heard that “TIF districts are a developer giveaway” and wanted to know if that idea was an old one.

Silverman responded that there are only certain things TIF money can be spent on and you “can’t just give it to somebody.

It’s not a developer giveaway; it’s a pretty thoughtful process.”

Oswego Village Board to lose Montgomery accepts ‘tax hawk’ trustee Scott Volpe study on cooperation President will need to appoint someone to fill empty position

By NATALIE STEVENS

news@kendallcountynow.com Oswego Village Trustee Scott Volpe will be stepping down from his position later this year.

Village President Gail Johnson made the announcement on behalf of Volpe during a board meeting Tuesday evening.

Volpe was absent from the meeting.

Referring to Volpe, Johnson said he will leave the board because “his company is moving and he is moving” out of the village.

There is no exact date on Volpe’s departure, but Johnson said it would likely be Oct. 31 or “whenever his house closes.”

Volpe has served on the board since April 2009 and was re-elected in April 2013.

During his more than six years on the board, Volpe has been vocal and determined to keep taxes down in the village and has opposed tax increases in the form of home rule sales tax and gasoline tax as well as the creation of a TIF district.

“My concern is that we’ve looked at the different ways to raise money, but I don’t think we’ve spent enough time looking at ways we can use the existing funding streams that we have,” Volpe said at an earlier meeting this year, adding, “I think at some point, we’re gonna be sales taxed to death.”

Volpe’s term was to run through April 2017.

Under state law, Johnson will have the authority to appoint a village resident to complete Volpe’s term.

Her appointment will be subject to a vote of approval by the five remaining village board members.

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Campus construction and renovation funds are accumulated in operations and maintenance, a restricted fund, she wrote.

About $5 million is being budgeted for renovation of the college’s Copley Campus, which is scheduled to begin in late December.

Property taxes provide more than half of the college’s operating revenue.

Tuition and fees provide about a third of the college’s operating revenue, with state funds providing less than 10 percent, according to Wennmacher’s email.

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The Oswegoland Heritage Association and the Oswego Public Library are gearing up for the annual Oswego Cemetery Walk.

They are looking for several adults to escort groups of visitors to gravesites.

The Oswego Cemetery Walk will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, at the Oswego Cemetery on South Main Street, Oswego. In the event of rain, it will be held the following day, Friday, Oct. 9, at the same times.

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The budget was adopted at the board’s Aug. 19 meeting, college spokeswoman Stephanie Wennmacher wrote in an email.

With the completion of the 2020 College Master Plan this past March, officials are allocating less money to campus construction projects this upcoming year, she

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jetheredge@shawmedia.com Consultants for the city of Yorkville and villages of Montgomery and Oswego have completed a shared services study that examines ways in which the three municipalities can work together to save money while at the same time enhancing the services they provide to their residents.

The Montgomery Village Board voted unanimously Monday evening to approve a resolution accepting the study.

Village Administrator Jeff Zoephel told the board the village obtained a grant along with the two other participating municipalities through the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning last year to pay for the study.

Zoephel said the goal of the study is to help the municipalities save and control costs, increase quality, expand their scope of services, increase efficiencies and improve public relations by increasing regional cooperation.

Zoephel said village staff will meet with their counterparts from Oswego and Yorkville later this summer or early this fall in an effort to identify some of the recommendations contained in the plan they wish to pursue over the next year.

He said, for example, there may be a piece of equipment the three communities could share that they could jointly seek bids for and then purchase.

“So we will get together and plan that out so we all know go-

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“[Village and city officials] will get together and plan that out so we all know going into our budget process which items we want to tackle.”

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Montgomery village administrator ing into our budget process which items we want to tackle, so each of the communities can factor that into their budgetary plans,” he said.

Zoephel added, “Once we meet, we’ll report back to the board and tell you what we are thinking about doing, how it will help our community.”

When questioned by board members, Zoephel noted the village is not obligated to follow the recommendations in the study.

By accepting the study, Zoephel explained the board members are not indicating they support all of its recommendations, only that the village is willing to work with its neighbors “when it makes sense, is practical and feasible, which may not be on every item.”

Board member Denny Lee noted he would not support a study recommendation that suggests the three municipalities jointly hire a purchasing agent.

“To me that would be a waste of money because everyone has their own budget. It doesn’t seem feasible,” Lee said.

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Fred and Claire Willis and their REO Speed Wagon at their new tin shop in the Parke Building – now American Male & Company – at Main and Jackson streets in downtown Oswego in 1914.

From the Sept. 30, 1914, Kendall County Record: “Willis Bros. have moved their tin shop from the Helle building to the J.A. Shoger stone building [American Male & Company] where they will continue their business.” The tin shop was once one of many small manufacturing businesses in the county.

OUR VIEW

Still no answer on Metra RTA question Would Kendall County have to join the Regional Transportation Authority in order to have Metra commuter rail service extended into the county?

For nearly 20 years we’ve attempted to get a definitive answer to that question, but continue to come up short in our efforts.

Over the years, supporters of the local Metra effort have suggested joining the RTA might not be a requirement, while opponents – wary of the imposition of the RTA gas tax here – have considered it a fait accompli.

Our reporter, Matt Schury, tried again last week during a press conference at Oswego Village Hall. Answering questions posed by Schury and other area media were two of Metra’s current top dogs, Martin Oberman, chairman of Metra’s Board of Directors, and Don Orseno, the agency’s executive director.

Oberman expressed uncertainty when asked if Kendall County would have to join the RTA. He said, “That is one possibility; there are legal ways to structure extending service out of the RTA geography – it’s never happened.”

Referring to Kendall County, Oberman added, “They wouldn’t have to join the RTA, but the real question is what’s the cost?”

Ah, the cost. Everyone interested in extending Metra service to Kendall County agrees it will cost millions and millions of dollars to construct stations and upgrade the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway mainline tracks to accommodate commuter trains.

Further complicating those efforts, Oberman acknowledged, is Metra’s continuing budget deficit. He noted the agency currently needs to make $11 billion in capital improvements to its existing equipment and infrastructure.

Oswego Village President Gail Johnson should be commended for organizing last week’s meeting of county mayors and Metra officials.

It is important that county and local municipal officials are fully aware of all the issues that would first need to be resolved in order to extend Metra service here. But given the current budget realities facing Metra, Kendall County and county municipalities and the continuing lack of clarity on the RTA issue, the prospect of Metra commuter trains rolling down the tracks from Aurora to Montgomery, Oswego and other county municipalities seems as remote to us now as it did nearly 20 years ago when the idea was first raised in a long-range Metra planning study.

Perhaps Oberman said it best when asked if county residents anxious for Metra service should have their hopes raised by last week’s meeting.

“I don’t think people’s expectations should be falsely raised or falsely closed. It’s an ongoing process. I think everybody believes mass transit is a good thing, but is it practical in these economic times to say this is going to be happening in the foreseeable future?

We don’t know the answer to that,” he said.

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When everything needed was ‘Made in Kendall County’ As another Labor Day approaches, we are hearing a little less these days about “makers” and “takers” in the nation’s political dialog, which is fine with me.

That’s because when the debate got going hot and heavy during the last presidential campaign, it seemed to me that those making such arguments got the definition of who is a “maker” and who is a “taker” pretty much backwards.

“Makers,” we were told, were the high-flying financiers who crashed the world’s economy, while the “takers” were the average Joes and Janes who worked for a living actually, you know, making things.

Back in the days when Kendall County was on the Illinois frontier, there were a lot of makers who turned out all sorts of things right in their own communities.

Virtually all of the towns up and down the Fox River, with the exception of Aurora, owed their existence to the farmers who surrounded them and who relied on them to provide necessary services. Such services varied widely, from blacksmithing and farrier services to maintaining markets for the crops and livestock farmers and their families produced.

Most of the area’s first factories were small operations, more like workshops, that supplied goods to their immediate areas. To modern eyes, those early factories were hardly imposing. In fact, the earliest “manufactories,” as they were often called back then, were not factories at all in the modern sense.

The related Townsend and Davis families emigrated to Kendall County in the 1830s from New York with the goal of establishing an industrial community. They had the necessary funds, and appar-

a local market for the crop as well as offering some jobs while producing a product Roger that virtually every home and Matile business needed.

Also locally produced were the wagons and other horseently they had the ability to drawn vehicles so vital for make things – one of their transportation during that era. first ventures was some early The wagon factories located competition for Cyrus McCormick’s harvester – but in their in local towns were generally small affairs that employed enthusiasm they ignored conditions that wound up causing less than a dozen men, each of whom had special skills. their eventual failure.

Wheelwrights were responsiFirst, they located their ble for assembling the wheels manufacturing operation in the wagons needed, blackthe Aux Sable timber due smiths produced the metal south of Oswego off today’s fittings, bolts, and nails used Grove Road, where building in construction, and carpenmaterials were abundant as ters fitted the parts together. was fuel for the primitive Virtually every town had its steam engine that provided own wagon manufacturing their power. But they were operation, sometimes more miles away from the nearest than one. In the 1850 Kendall supplies of raw materials and County census, four county since they were a few miles residents listed their occuoff the major road in the area, pations as wagon makers, 14 they also had no way to get completed products to market. as wheelwrights, and 34 as blacksmiths. In Oswego, Oliver Not surprisingly, they soon Hebert, a French Canadian, gave up on manufacturing and John Young both manufacand decided to concentrate on tured wagons and carriages for farming. locals, as did William Hoze and Meanwhile, a number of William Randall. other entrepreneurs were Randall was a fairly typical establishing small subsistence “artisan” of the period. Accordmanufacturing operations to ing to county histories, Ranserve their neighborhoods.

Merrit Clark built a dam and a dall was a blacksmith by trade, who produced a variety of small woodworking operation at Oswego where he turned out items the settlers needed. Ranchairs, a good, sensible product dall walked to Kendall County from his Pennsylvania home line for a frontier community.

Chairs, for the non-woodwork- in 1835, and decided to settle on the west bank of the Fox River ers out there, are not as easy opposite Oswego. According to build as they seem, so chair factories were some of the very to one history: “He made axes, first industrial concerns to pop hatchets, knives and steels, for both whites and Indians; also, up in pioneer areas. guns, wagons, plows and imIn Plattville in 1849 and Osplements of all kinds. He died wego in 1854, broom factories at Newark in 1874.” were established, the one at Ezra Smith manufactured Oswego apparently being the both shoes and tenor drums in most successful and longest lasting. Brooms of the era used Oswego; a Mr. Grover produced pottery in Millington; locally grown broomcorn for and H.L. Warner built harvesttheir bristles, and so provided

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ers in Newark. Also in Newark, Nelson Messenger invented and first manufactured his famed “Messenger’s Gopher” corn cultivator in 1860. The operation was then moved to a small limestone building in Millington, where it continued for many years.

Meanwhile over at Millbrook, the Millbrook Shops were opened in 1872 with Edward Budd in charge building “gophers,” or corn cultivators, plus riding plows. The Rev. E.W. Hicks wrote in his 1877 history of Kendall County that “Both the gophers and the riding attachment to the plows are Kendall County inventions, and have had a large sale.” Not until Steward & Marsh opened their factory complex in 1863 in Plano to manufacture harvesters did Kendall County get its first real, Industrial Age factory.

The county’s earliest manufacturing operations were small but suited to providing necessities, from brooms to wagons, for residents of the surrounding countryside. Not until efficient transportation methods became available throughout the nation did it become uneconomical to manufacture wagons or chairs on what was essentially a one-off basis. With the invention and perfection of interchangeable parts and assembly line methods, manufacturing moved from small towns to big cities.

Now, however, the local tide seems to have turned once more, and “Made in Kendall County” labels are again appearing on a growing variety of manufactured goods, though brooms and “gopher” cultivators are (so far, at least) not among them.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Consequences of running state like a business

To the Editor: Last week we saw the future of Illinois. Several social agencies pled their case in the forum section and with an editorial. With no budget, they have no money. They serve the people society pretty much ignores.

Battered women and children going into the state system. You can add other services that work with the elderly and disabled. They are on the cutting block.

If you elect a person who says he will run the state like a business, you had better be able to show you have value. Lost in all the noise regarding collective bargaining, tort reform, disability claims and pensions are people we just don’t see. But Bruce may have a plan.

In a world Mr. Rauner would love to see, we have budget-saving ideas.

First, let’s release all the teachers.

Give every student a laptop and an internet connection and have a satellite link that would beam in a person who could teach that grade.

Say every fifth grade class in the state sees that one teacher on the screen. Same for all other grades.

You could hire people to patrol the halls and keep order. Maybe ask parents to help out in the kindergarten and first grades to help with the crayons. Next just outsource maintenance and janitorial services to lowest bidder.

Next Bruce can ask legislators to use their phones and computers so they do not have to commute to Springfield all the time. Telecommuting would cut the per diem stuff, plus we could close the Statehouse and save utility costs. Maybe even sell the building. Throw in a couple of state planes to sweeten the deal.

The big ticket item, though, is Medicaid. Recently it was shown that Chicago and Aurora were two of the worst places for retirees. We could offer every elderly Medicaid patient a one-way ticket to the best retirement city in the survey, Tampa, Florida. Give each a voucher for some meals and housing to get them started. This is big money savings we are talking about.

Bruce could probably bid out the driver’s license facilities. You could get some company overseas to handle the renewals. Just like your credit card companies do. The service would be priceless. With some of the savings we could lower corporate taxes to zero or maybe pay companies to locate to Illinois.

We could eliminate the tax rate for the very wealthy people because Reagan proved there is trickle-down income with that idea. More jobs.

So far our beloved governor has been lacking in ideas to reduce the $6 billion deficit, outside of busting up the unions. It has gotten so bad that the lottery says it can’t pay winners if there is no budget. The lotto ball lady will announce you have won, here’s your IOU. Sounds like we learned something from Greece. How bad has it become that we can’t even quit your job if we scratch off the winning number. Do the winners hold up the check or the IOU? Ed Washak Yorkville

Vandalism, graffiti are growing concerns

To the Editor: The Kendall Forest Preserve recently decided to close the old “walking bridge” near Millbrook.

They indicated safety concerns.

They secured the entrance with welded steel bars and large cautions signs. Within a few weeks these signs were ripped off and tossed away by young vandals. They were photographed by a neighbor and police were called. I somewhat understand, having counseled teens many years ago. I think I understand why this was done. Just group mischief, even though not right.

This past week in the same area we had graffiti painted on the street to express a political opinion. This obviously was done by a person local to the village or township… an adult of voting age and probably a homeowner. It was a cowardly act by someone unable to stand up at a meeting and express their point of view. Maybe a narcissistic individual who thinks only their position is right? Where is the respect for the community? Graffiti on the street doesn’t do anything positive for our neighbors, our real estate values, our local businesses or the image of what we hope people passing through will think of us.

There are meetings of the Forest Preserve District, the village of Millbrook, the Estates of Millbrook and Fox Township boards that allow for expressions of opinions. The graffiti painter should go. If they had, they would find that their scrawled political message had already been taken care of. I guess it is easier to write on roads than to go to a meeting and find out that the person you were targeting had already resigned.

If you don’t have the ability or courage to speak in front of people, maybe you could contact our local Republican Committeeman, Todd Milliron. I generally consider Todd a pain but he attends most meetings and has the courage to speak his mind and will represent the opinions of others. As a veteran, I appreciate courage… not cowardly graffiti.

Bob Heim Millbrook

Thankful for generous grant

To the Editor: Oswegoland Seniors Inc. would like to thank and extend its gratitude to the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley for its generous grant of $10,275. This grant will be used by the Oswego Senior Center to purchase much needed equipment for use in the direct delivery of our programs and services in the areas of education, health, exercise, fitness, recreation, meals and events. Through their generous grant, the Community Foundation will enrich the lives of seniors in our communities and ensure the continuation of a positive, innovative and supportive atmosphere, in which area seniors can learn, live and thrive.

Robert Wyngard

Executive Director Oswego Senior Center Oswego

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New East View assistant principal hired LEDGER –SENTINEL East View Kindergarten Center in Oswego has a new face in school administration for the 2015-16 year.

The Community Unit School District 308 Board of Education recently approved hiring Michelle Sands as the new East View assistant principal at its Aug. 10 meeting. Sands comes to District 308 with experience as the student resource team leader for

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State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, presents a certificate to Kyle Knoernschild of Oswego, who has cerebral palsy, for his achievement of gaining 100 times his birth weight of one pound, one ounce when he was born premature at 24 weeks.

Rep. Kifowit honors inspirational youth, Kyle Knoernschild LEDGER – SENTINEL Gaining weight to some individuals can seem like a negative occurrence, but not to Kyle Knoernschild of Oswego, who suffers from cerebral palsy, which can inhibit growth. He was recently presented with a certificate from State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, for achieving 100 times his birth weight.

“Gaining weight is a struggle for many children who were born premature with special needs, and I believe Kyle is an inspiration to us all for making his weight goal of 100 times his birth weight,” Kifowit said.

“He was given less than a 2 percent survival rate at birth and has accomplished what others thought he would never do. This certificate is the least I can do to acknowledge a phenomenal individual.”

Kifowit honored Kyle at his home with his family and friends. He was born premature at 24 weeks and weighed only one pound, one ounce. Kyle was so small at birth that his arm could fit through his father’s wedding ring. At that time, he was given a 2 percent chance of survival and doctors had warned that his growth would be stunted, he would not be able to walk or talk and his long term prognosis was grim.

However, through the

work of early intervention specialists and doctors helping him, Kyle, who was diagnosed with ataxic cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and autism, is thriving. Kyle is now a vibrant and energetic 11-yearold that not only walks and speaks, but is part of his school’s Special Olympics track and field team, most recently receiving his first medal.

Kyle’s dreams include running in the New York Marathon and attending a university to become a speech therapist and to help kids like him to achieve what he has been able to accomplish.

“No label, diagnosis or prediction has ever prevented Kyle from doing what he wanted in life,” said Kyle’s parents, Karl and Katra Knoernschild. “While his future goals may seem unreachable to some, we believe, as Kyle has always shown us, that if it’s in his heart to do something, he will find a way.

Through all of his struggles in life, countless medical procedures, challenges and limitations, Kyle remains happy and positive about his life and future, and is an inspiration to everyone in his life.”

The Knoernschilds are forever grateful to the Ronald McDonald House Charities who provided space for them while Kyle was in the NICU for over two months.

the Valley View Early Childhood Center in Romeoville, a position she held from 2013 to 2015.

The board approved Sands’ salary at $61,000. “ M s .

Sands is a great addition to the Michelle Community Sands Unit School District 308 and the East View Ele-

mentary team,” Associate Superintendent for Administrative Services Dr. John Sparlin said.

“We look forward to working with her, and we know she will be a great leader in our kindergarten community.”

As assistant principal, Sands will assist Principal Janet DeMont with building leadership duties. In her previous role, Sands collaborated with the building principal to solve problems

and make decisions reflective of the building’s mission and belief statements.

Before that she worked as an assessment team leader for the Valley View Early Childhood Center.

Sands received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

She earned a master’s degree in early childhood special education from Elmhurst College.

Assistant principal hired for Plank Jr. High LEDGER – SENTINEL Former Interim Plank Junior High School Assistant Principal Leslie Springer was recently promoted to the position on a permanent basis.

The School District 308 Board of Education approved Springer as the permanent hire at its meeting on Aug. 10. Springer has served as an elementary resource teacher at Churchill Elementary School since 2014. She also served as interim assistant principal at Plank Junior High School from January 2015 un-

til March 2015.

The board approved Springer’s salary at $61,000.

“We have some wonderful, worldclass teaching and administrative talent Leslie homegrown in School Springer District 308,” Associate Superintendent for Administrative Services Dr. John Sparlin said.

“It is always great when we can promote from within to better serve our students and our community.”

As interim assistant principal,

Springer managed student discipline, facilitated the hiring of staff, and supervised the building’s athletics, clubs and extra-curricular activities.

She will return to many of these duties on a permanent basis.

Springer has a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Millikin University in Decatur. She also has a master’s degree in special education from Lewis University in Romeoville and another master’s degree in educational leadership from Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais.

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If you guessed the logo on the sign, you’re correct. Castle Bank joined the First National Bank family years ago, and it’s time to change our name to reflect that. And that’s the only change: Our branches and banking experience will remain the same, and our dedication to our customers and community will be as strong as ever. We’re the same bank we’ve always been.

Hilltop Gardeners plan art workshop for September Hilltop Gardeners Garden Club will meet on Thursday, Sept. 10 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Little White School Museum, 72 Polk Street in Oswego.

Award-winning artist, JoAnne Laudolff, will give a workshop on “Nature Printing” using dried botanicals to make notecards. Each at-

tendee will bring home six to eight cards. There is a $5 fee for non-members. To ensure adequate supplies, RSVP to vgierhart@aol.com if you plan to attend.

For more information about the workshop or to join the garden club, call Diane at 630-551-1970.

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Oswego police station tour Sept. 26 LEDGER - SENTINEL Oswego Police Chief Jeff Burgner is offering the public an opportunity to tour the village’s existing police station to help understand why village officials are working towards the construction of a new facility.

The current police station was built in 1991 and was intended to last 20 years and hold up to 50 employees. Currently, the police department has 69 employees and no room to expand or create an addition at the department’s location on Route 34.

From 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 26, the public is invited to come for a guided tour and observe the day-to-day operations of the police department. Tours will be given on a first come, first served basis and take about 20-30 minutes. No appointment is necessary on the day of the event.

In a statement, Burgner said, “The village of Oswego is dedicated to engaging with community members during this project in an effort to be transparent as well as mindful of community needs in this new facility.”

The Oswegoland Park District’s Limelight Theater Company will kick off its fall radio play season with “Midnite Movie Double Feature: The Mole People & The Beast of Yucca Flats 2: The Beast Hits Miami” at 7 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 5, at the Fox Bend Golf Course.

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The Oswego Police Department’s location on Route 34 is said to be too small for the department’s current needs.

not object.

In selling the park to the township, the park board The Oswegoland Park stipulated the property can District Board recently ap- only be used for the expanproved the sale of a small sion of the cemetery and canpark north of the U.S. Route not be sold by the township, 34 and Ill. Route 71 inter- according to Zielke. section in Oswego to OsThe only other requirewego Township to provide space for the expansion of the township-owned Pearce Cemetery.

The board set the sale price at $1.

The property, known as Jack Pfund Park, was originally deeded to the park district in the will of the late Jack Pfund, a longtime village resident who died in 2002.

Rich Zielke, park district executive, described the park as “kind of passive.”

“It has no amenities, there’s no bench; there’s really nothing there. We just kind of mow the turf.

Because of the size and location, and difficult access, it’s just kind of a passive park,” Zielke said.

Zielke said there is one home close to the park and when notified of the possible sale to the township, they did

ment is that the township maintains the road leading to this area, he added.

The commissioners said they will have a plaque mounted on a stone or boulder in the park as a memorial to the Pfund family.

This will be the second

such memorial to the family.

The park site was deeded to the park district after Pfund’s death. Pfund had left the park district 25 percent of his estate when he died.

When the district received the property, the board named it Pfund Park.

The Oswego Fire Protection District will hold its annual open house from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, at Station No. 1 located at 3511 Woolley Road in Oswego.

Meet the firefighters, try on gear, climb in the fire trucks and see the station.

Attendees will receive a

Passport to Fire Safety to travel through the station, learning about safety at each “country.” Children will have an opportunity to win a ride to school in a fire truck.

Light refreshments will be available.

For information, call 630-554-2110.

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Cottage tells tale of Montgomery’s history

By JOHN ETHEREDGE

jetheredge@shawmedia.com The village of Montgomery’s historic Settlers Cottage proved a popular Montgomery Fest attraction.

Denny Lee, a village board member, told his board colleagues Aug. 10 that an estimated 200 people visited the cottage during the festival Aug. 8 and 9.

The small, wood frame cottage which sits on the front lawn of Village Hall at 200 N. River St. is the oldest structure in the village and was once owned

by Daniel Gray, the village’s founder.

The cottage was slated for demolition nearly a decade ago to make way for the construction of the new

village hall. However, the village board approved a request from the village’s Historic Preservation Commission to spare the cottage. The HPC made its request after an expert in historic architecture determined that it was a workman’s cottage built sometime between 1842 and 1857 – if not earlier.

But in voting to allow the restoration and preservation of the cottage, the village board stipulated that no tax money be used.

The HPC subsequently secured grants and used revenues from fundraisers to restore the cottage to its original mid-19th-century appearance.

Restoration work was completed in 2010.

The cottage is open to the public from 12:30 to 2:30

p.m. on the first and third Sunday of each month. Admission is free.

Visitors to the cottage can view displays and artifacts depicting the village’s rich history. Exhibits include the Civil War and the training camp that was once located in the village, early businesses, recreation in the early 1900s, the newly discovered 1851 Gray Family Bible, the sheep yards, the early history of the village and more.

The HPC continues to welcome historic photos and other memorabilia of the village’s history. For further information, contact Debbie Buchanan, the village’s executive assistant and liaison to the HPC, at 630-896-8080, ext.

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Oswego museum offering replicas of historic buildings

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The newest set of the “Oswego’s Main Street Series” miniature replicas of historic Oswego buildings includes the Dairy Hut; the Schwartz House (Tripp Insurance); the A.O. Parke Building (American Male & Company); and the Durrand House (The Village Grind).

10 NEWS • Thursday, September 3, 2015 • Ledger-Sentinel / KendallCountyNow.com KENDALL COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORTS

Property damage Someone damaged a vehicle parked between noon Aug. 29 and 3:20 p.m. Aug. 30 in the 0-99 block of Circle Drive East in Boulder Hill, the owner told Kendall County sheriff’s police.

Reports said the vehicle appeared to be hit by a car driving along the street.

DUI charge Katherine J. Bellis, 36, of the 600 block of Lincoln Station Drive, Oswego, was charged with DUI of alcohol and drugs in connection with an incident at about 11:25 p.m. Aug. 25 at Route 31 and Caterpillar Drive in Oswego Township, Kendall County sheriff’s police said.

According to reports, Bellis also was charged with speeding and illegal transportation of alcohol.

Jeremy A. Dillard, 29, of the 1100 block of Ridgeway Avenue,

Aurora, was charged with DUI in connection with an incident at about 2:15 a.m. Aug. 30 at Orchard and Galena roads in Bristol Township, Kendall County sheriff’s police said.

Andrew J. Bromeland, 33, of the 13000 block of Walker Road, Yorkville, was charged with DUI after a one-car rollover crash at about 11:15 p.m. Aug. 27 at Grove and Reservation roads in Oswego Township, Kendall County sheriff’s police said.

According to reports, Bromeland was also charged with operating an uninsured vehicle, improper lane use and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.

Robert G. Currire, 37, of Willowbrook, was charged with DUI at about 12:05 a.m. Aug. 29 at a parking lot in the 1100 block of Cornell Lane in Yorkville, Kendall County sheriff’s police said.

According to reports, Currire’s vehicle was observed parked in the sheriff’s department parking lot when two deputies approached him and determined that he was intoxicated.

Suspended license Reese Price Jr., 62, of Chicago, was charged with driving on a suspended license at about 12:10 a.m. Aug. 26 at County

Line and Walker roads in Na-AuSay Township, Kendall County sheriff’s police said.

Several charges Karen J. Reeves, 47, of the 0-99 block of Eastfield Road, Montgomery, was charged with unlawful possession of cannabis, unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing identification in connection with an incident at about 8:40 a.m. Aug. 25 at Longbeach and Stratford roads in Boulder Hill, Kendall County sheriff’s police said.

According to reports, Reeves was observed driving 34 mph in a 20 mph school zone. After deputies stopped the vehicle, the driver gave deputies a false name, reports said. Reeves also was cited for speeding, operating an uninsured vehicle, driving on a revoked license, driving in the wrong lane and failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.

License revoked Brian E. Neupert, 50, of the 100 block of Circle Drive West, Boulder Hill, was charged with driving on a revoked license and operating an uninsured vehicle at about 7:35 p.m. Aug. 25 at Boulder Hill Pass and Circle Drive West in Oswego Town-

ship, Kendall County sheriff’s police said.

Fleeing and eluding Kendall County sheriff’s deputies are investigating an incident of fleeing and eluding at about 12:20 a.m. Aug. 30 at Douglas and Old Post roads in Oswego Township. According to reports, the driver of the offending vehicle refused to stop and led police on a chase through portions of Boulder Hill.

Domestic battery Nicholas L. Lesure, 36, of the 0-99 block of Knollwood Road, Boulder Hill, was charged with domestic battery in connection with an incident at about 2:20 a.m. Aug. 30 in Oswego Township, Kendall County sheriff’s police said.

Veronica Rocha, 44, of the 0-99 block of Hubbard Way, Boulder Hill, was charged with domestic battery in connection with an incident at about 6:05 p.m. Aug. 30 in Oswego Township, Kendall County sheriff’s police said.

Warrant arrest Andrew L. Olin, 58, of Plainfield, was charged with driving on a suspended license at about 6:45 p.m. Aug. 28 at Route 34

and Orchard Road in Bristol Township, Kendall County sheriff’s police said. According to reports, Olin was found to be wanted on a Kendall County warrant for a violation of an order of protection.

Bicycles missing Kendall County sheriff’s police are investigating the theft of a gray Trek Hybrid bicycle and a black Giant bicycle between 4:30 and 6 a.m. Aug. 30 in the 1500 block of Light Road, Oswego Township, report said.

A value on the bicycles was not listed.

Theft suspect charged The Kendall County State’s Attorney’s Office has charged Bradley Phillips, 51, of the 100 block of East Rickard Drive, Oswego Township, with possession of stolen vehicle parts, a Class 2 felony, and theft over $500, a Class 3 felony.

According to the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office, the charges stem from the theft of a truck, spare wheels and tires from a residence in the 100 block of Rickard Drive March 26.

Phillips was taken into custody Aug. 26 without incident and later posted bond pending his next court appearance, the

OSWEGO POLICE REPORTS Home site burglarized Oswego police are investigating a burglary at a home under construction in the 200 block of Julep Avenue in the village sometime Aug. 28 or Aug. 29.

Police said someone cut copper pipes in the home, which flooded the first floor and then left a foot of water in the basement. Police said damage to the home was estimated at $5,050.

Domestic battery arrest Oswego police arrested Savannah L. Andrews, 18, of the 60th block of Van Buren Street, Oswego, on a charge of domestic battery at her residence Tuesday at 12:38 a.m. Police said Andrews was transported to the Kendall County jail in Yorkville pending court proceedings.

Burglars hit poker machine

Oswego police are investigating a burglary at a social club in the 1000 block of Harvey Road in the village Aug. 30. Police said someone broke into a poker machine at the club and stole an unknown amount of money.

Domestic incident reported Oswego police took a report of a domestic incident in a residence on Otter Way in the village Aug. 31 at 6:36 p.m.

Police said a resident of the home told them another family member, who also resides in the home, struck him in the back.

Police said both parties agreed to stay away from each other.

Juvenile arrested Oswego police arrested a 13-year-old on an in-state warrant at the District 308 Center

on Franklin Street Aug. 31. Police said the suspect was detained at the Kane County Juvenile Center pending court proceedings.

Warrant arrest Oswego police arrested Ashley K. Moore, 25, of the 60th block of Amesbury Road, Boulder Hill, at a store in the 3500 block of U.S. Route 34 in the village Aug. 21 at 10:32 p.m. Police said Moore was wanted on a warrant for failure to appear in court on a prior charge. Moore posted bond and was released pending a court appearance schedule for next week.

Suspect faces charges Oswego police arrested Robert E. Skelton, 40, of the 1100 block of Willow Lane, Oswego, after stopping his vehicle in the 1100

block of Douglas Road in the village Aug. 31 at 10:48 a.m.

Police said Skelton had been charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of less than 2.5 grams of cannabis and speeding. Police said Skelton posted bond and was released pending a court appearance next month.

the stolen merchandise is worth $120.

TV, coffee table stolen A 55-inch color television and a coffee table worth a combined $627 were stolen from a store in the 2300 block of U.S. Route 34 in Oswego at 10:38 a.m. Aug. 30, village police reported.

Warrant arrest made Oswego police arrested Deshone L. Jackson, 20, of the 200 block of Sweetbriar Lane, Plano, on an in-state warrant on U.S. Route 34 at U.S. Route 30 in the village Aug. 28 at 12:25 a.m.

Retail theft reported Oswego police took a report of a retail theft at a store in the 2300 block of U.S. Route 34 in the village Aug. 30. Police said

Gift card stolen A gift card valued at $493.76 was stolen from a store in the

Credit card fraud Oswego police took a report of a credit card fraud incident in the 300 block of Cascade Lane in the village Aug. 28 at 7:28 p.m.

Police said $588.24 was charged to the victim’s account.

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MONTGOMERY POLICE REPORTS DUI arrest on Route 30 Montgomery police arrested Efrain Gonzalez-Montiel, 31, of the 1100 block of Howell Place, Aurora, after they stopped his vehicle at 12:42 a.m. Aug. 27 on U.S. Route 30 near Ill. Route 25.

Police said Gonzalez-Montiel has been charged with driving under the influence.

1200 block of Ogden Avenue in the village. Police said they observed Hernandez sleeping behind the wheel of his vehicle.

He has been charged with driving under the influence.

Cannabis arrest Montgomery police arrested Marlon Dickerson, 26, of the 400 block of Garfield Avenue, Aurora, at 3:48 a.m. Aug. 26 in the 500 block of Montgomery Road in the village. Police said Dickerson faces charges of unlawful possession of cannabis.

DUI arrest on Ogden Montgomery police arrested Jesus Hernandez, 21, of the 800 block of Fifth Street, Aurora, at 3:52 a.m. Aug. 30 in the

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Traffic citations issued Montgomery police issued traffic citations to the following motorists over the past week: Keonna Stephens, 26, of the 1300 block of East Wilson Street, Batavia, driving on a suspended license.

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Sara Rangel, 31, of the 500 block of Abe Street, Plano, driving on a suspended license.

Warrant arrest Montgomery police arrested David Woodson, 52, of the 4400 block of Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, at 8 p.m. Aug. 25 in the 2200 block of Lynn Drive in the village. Police said Woodson was wanted on an outstanding warrant issued in Cook County.

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MONTGOMERY

Police DUI crackdown under way for Labor Day LEDGER–SENTINEL The Montgomery Police Department is ramping up its traffic enforcement efforts as part of the national crackdown on drunk driving. The campaign, Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over, is a partnership with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Illinois Department of Transportation to curb drunk and drugged driving and save lives.

Through Sept. 7 (Labor Day), law enforcement partners nationwide and all around Illinois will show zero tolerance for drunk driving. Increased state and national messaging about the dangers of driving impaired by alcohol or other drugs, coupled with roadside safety checks and increased officers on the road, aim to drastically re-

duce the toll of impaired driving.

In addition, seat belt law violators will receive a ticket – no exceptions.

In 2013, there were 10,076 people killed in drunk driving crashes in the U.S., almost a third of all traffic fatalities. And 38 percent of crash fatalities on Labor Day weekend that year involved drunk drivers (with blood alcohol concentrations of 0.08 or higher), amounting to 161 lives lost.

“Too many people think their actions don’t affect anybody else,” said Deputy Chief Armando Sanders.

“They know it’s illegal.

They know it’s wrong. But they do it anyway – they make decisions as if those statistics just can’t happen to them.”

Of the 10,076 people who were killed in impaired driving crashes in 2013,

65 percent were the drunk drivers themselves, according to police.

In every state, it’s illegal to drive with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 or higher. The Montgomery Police Department wants to remind drivers that it’s not a recommendation, it’s the law. And during the enforcement period that started Aug. 24, there is a special emphasis on drunk driving enforcement.

Sanders emphasized the preventable nature of drunk driving: “All it takes is a little planning ahead.

Designate a sober driver or call a cab. But whatever you do, don’t drink and drive.

And remember, a seat belt is your best defense in a crash, so Click It or Ticket.”

The law enforcement crackdown is funded by federal traffic safety funds through IDOT.

OSWEGO POLICE REPORTS • Continued from page 10 2700 block of U.S. Route 34 in Oswego at 1:33 p.m. Aug. 26, village police reported.

Ticketed after wreck Oswego police ticketed Billy J. Bailey, 69, of the 200 block of Fernwood Road, Boulder Hill, with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident after his vehicle was involved in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. Route 34 at Douglas Road.

Minor injuries in crash An Oswego resident, Jeanna A. Coglan, 17, of the 500 block of Secretariat Lane, received minor injuries in a single-vehicle crash in the 200 block of Foster Drive in the village Aug. 29 at 11:10 p.m., village police reported. Police said Coglan was treated at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora. Damage as a result of the crash was estimated in excess of $1,500.

Cellphone stolen at Plank Oswego police are investigating the theft of a cellphone at Plank Junior High School at 510 Secretariat Lane in Oswego on Aug. 24. Police said the phone is valued at $100.

Retail theft Merchandise valued at $493.17 was stolen from a store in the 2300 block of U.S. Route 34 in Oswego at 1:50 p.m. Aug. 26, village police reported. Police said they are investigating.

One hurt in Route 71 crash An Oswego resident, Rachael S. Stacy, 21, of the 400 block of

Knight’s Bridge Court, Oswego, was injured in a two-vehicle crash on Ill. Route 71 near Douglas Street in the village Aug. 26 at 6:30 p.m. Police said Stacy was taken to Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora.

The driver of the other vehicle involved in the crash was not hurt, police said.

Police said Stacy was ticketed for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. She posted bond and is scheduled to appear in court next month.

Protection order violation Oswego police said they are investigating several reported incidents of violation of a protection order at a residence in the 200 block of Springbrook Trail south in the village. Police said the incidents were reported to have occurred between Aug. 23 and Aug. 27.

DUI on Route 34 Oswego police arrested Corey M. Scott, 46, of the 100 block of Campbell Drive, Bolingbrook, after stopping his vehicle on U.S. Route 34 at Pearce’s Ford Drive in the village Aug. 26 at 2:03 a.m. Police said Scott faces charges of felony unlawful possession of a controlled substance and driving under the influence of drugs. He was detained pending a bond hearing, police said.

Blue Ridge Drive domestic Oswego police arrested Delfin Bayon Jr., 42, of the 400 block of Blue Ridge Drive, Oswego, at his residence Aug. 25 at 6:52 a.m. on charges of domestic battery and interfering with the

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Brush pickup resumes this month LEDGER–SENTINEL The village of Oswego Public Works Department monthly brush pickup program is continuing.

There are two designated pickup zones. Zone A is comprised of all homes located north of U.S. Route 34, while Zone B is comprised of all homes located south of U.S. Route 34.

Public works crews will pick up brush from each zone one week each month.

Remaining pickup dates for Zone A are Sept.

14-18 and Oct. 5-9.

Remaining pickup dates for Zone B are Sept.

21-25 and Oct. 12-16.

All brush must be placed at the curb by 7 a.m. on the Monday morning of the designated week, but no earlier than noon the prior Friday. The public works truck will pass through an area once and will not return for brush placed after the deadline.

Brush is defined as tree and bush branches that are less than five inches in diameter.

Unbundled brush should be placed parallel or perpendicular to

the street in neat bundles with all cut ends facing the same direction. Do not put brush in a container or in the street.

Logs, wood, root balls, cuttings or grass clippings will not be picked up.

Crews will place an orange tag on doors indicating the reason they did not pick up the brush if it is the wrong material or placed at the curb at the wrong time.

The village does not accept landscaping generated by contractors.

For more information, contact the public works office at 630-554-3242.

BRIEF Antique Group gathers Sept. 9

The Antique Study Group will meet on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 12:30 p.m. The meeting will be hosted by Elizabeth Cherry with Kay Hatcher as co-hostess.

Along with several short programs, Cherry will give a talk on Butter Pats.

The program for the August meeting was “Show ‘n Tell” a sharing of treasures found over the summer at garage sales or while cleaning out the attic or basement. The

meeting was hosted by Karen Lamboley.

Pat Hornburg was co-hostess.

The study group was formed in 1964 by Berniece Clouse who loved antiques and wanted others with the same interest to learn more about them.

Anyone who loves antiques and is interested in becoming a member should contact Mary Collins at 630-551-6146 for more information.

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Bayon was detained at the Kendall County jail in Yorkville pending a court appearance.

Warrant arrest Oswego police arrested Joseph G. McWilliams, 30, of the 1400 block of Heather Drive, Aurora, at a business in the 3500 block of U.S. Route 34 in the village Aug. 24 at 3:20 p.m. on an outstanding warrant for a prior theft charge.

Debit card fraud Oswego police took a report concerning someone using a debit card without authorization. Police said the victim found $212 charged to his account at a business in the 2700 block of U.S. Route 34 in the village. Police said they are investigating.

Traffic citations issued Oswego police issued traffic citations to the following motorists over the past week: Evelyn Ortiz, 19, of the 700 block of Lebanon Avenue, Aurora, driving without a valid license, without a seat belt and without insurance.

Chelsea Campbell, 24, of the 100 block of Boulder Hill Pass, Boulder Hill, operating a vehicle with suspended registration, no seat belt and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.

Darwin B. Triplett, 40, of the 300 block of Barnaby Drive, Oswego, driving on a suspended license and no seat belt.

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OYTF ROUNDUP

Football teams go 8-4 in second week of play STAFF REPORT

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8U DIVISION 12

Oswego Blue 38, Sandwich

Yorkville White 20, Oswego Orange 13: The Os-

wego Orange 8U team lost its home opener against Yorkville White, moving both teams to a 1-1 record.

Oswego got right down to work scoring on touchdowns from Anthony Massoth and Joey Hartmann, however, both scores were quickly matched by Yorkville putting the score tied at 13 going into halftime.

The second half was a defensive battle with both teams shutting down each other’s running attack.

Oswego awarded its game balls to Brett Zajac (DT) and Louie Cikauskas (C) for outstanding play and leadership.

Oswego Orange will travel to Burlington White (1-1) on Saturday at 11 a.m.

9U DIVISION

Oswego Orange 19, Sandwich 0: Taiden Thomas and

Colin O’Grady led the full defensive team effort, shutting down Sandwich and winning 19-0. Noah Vera, Ryan Pass and Joey Abdallah helped plug holes all game.

The offense moved the ball with a steady dose of Johnny Cannavino and Owen Carlson and some break away touchdowns by Devin White.

The offensive line led by Grifen Brown, Aiden Mueller, Dalton Platt, Hunter Garton and Ryan Kunitzer did a great job opening up holes.

The OYTF Orange 10U cheerleaders perform on the sidelines last weekend.

An OYTF Blue player breaks free for yards last weekend in Week 2 of the season.

Oswego had two touchdowns called back, including a great kickoff return

by Grant Zegar, who rumbled 60 yards.

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The offense was led by Julian Rodriguez, Charlie Reavley, Alex Massoth, Kolin Perry and Joel Johnson.

A total team effort help lead Oswego Orange to a 31-0 victory.

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Blue Panthers took on Yorkville last Saturday. On the first play from scrimmage, Cole Yearsley threw an impressive touchdown pass for 45 yards to make the score 8-0.

The Panthers answered quickly on a 37-yard run by Antonio Hughes. After an impressive defensive stop, the Panthers struck again on a Nikolas Hampton 19yard run.

After another defensive stop, Joey DeMarco broke a 55-yard run to set up Antonio Hughes for his second TD of the game. Panthers answered quickly on 5-yard run by Joey DeMarco.

On Yorkville’s next possession, DeMarco picked off

Oswego Blue 22, Sandwich

St. Raphael Naperville Central 24, Oswego Orange 0

11U DIVISION

Oswego Orange 31, St. Raphael Oswego Wolves 0: On

the opening kickoff, Zack Selvig returned the kick 60 yards for the first touchdown. The Orange defense was fired up and came out with a series of stops throughout the game. The defense was led by Carson Cathey, Nate Perry, Brandon Kunitzer and Nathaniel Brazen.

The Orange offense was able to keep the momentum going with a series of well executed drives, resulting into several hard earned touchdowns.

Oswego Blue 31, Sandwich

St. Raphael Waubonsie 38, Oswego White 0: The

Warriors struck first after taking the opening kickoff and finally scored on a pass play for a 7-0 score after the extra point was made.

The Panthers then took over and tried to put together behind the fine blocking of Alan Andrade and Moises Perez, and the quarterback play of Ayhem Elabed were not able to score a touchdown on that drive.

The Warriors were able to score a few more times for a score of 38- 0 and try as hard as the Panthers did they just could not punch the ball over that goal line.

The defense fought hard all day and was led by Josh-

7TH GRADE DIVISION

Oswego Blue 34, Yorkville 22: The Oswego 7th Grade

a pass to setup Kyle Morrissey for a 2-yard TD run.

The game was sealed with a great defensive play

by Nikolas Hampton deflecting a pass which then was picked off by Peyton Heckman.

Standout defensive performances by Aidan Tweedy and Dominic Drago. The offense was led by strong blocking up front from Jake Polubinski, Jaime Montes, Ryan Burdo, Max Coldwate, CJ Jensik and Antonio Hughes.

Oswego Orange 26, St. Raphael Nequa Valley 13

8TH GRADE DIVISION

Oswego Orange 31, St. Raphael Naperville Central 14 Plano 28, Oswego Blue 14:

After a scoreless first quarter, the Reapers struck first around the left side to take a 6-0 lead. The Panthers (11) answered on their next

possession with an 11-yard touchdown pass from Joey Niesman to Aiden Avalos.

Plano continued to move the ball well and eventually built a 28-8 lead in the second half.

Oswego put together a few nice drives including one ending in a 3-yard touchdown run by KK Thompson behind solid blocking by Logan Franzen and Shane Murray, but the Panthers were unable to overcome Plano’s lead and eventually fell by a final score of 28-14.

Jack Perillo put in a workhorse effort at fullback totaling 14 carries for 84 yards aided by the interior blocking of Trever Carroll, Adam Ingalls and Javy Magana.

The Oswego defense was led by strong efforts from Ryan Chivari and Jacob Dior.

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The Oswego freshman football squad opened the 2015 season with a hardfought victory over the Batavia Bulldogs in front of a charged home crowd by a final score of 25-20.

After an early defensive battle, the Panthers broke open the game offensively with 18 points in the first half.

Despite a handful of scores, the Bulldogs could not overtake the Panthers, and the home team was able to hold on for the victory.

The Panther offense was led by tailback Charles Coleman, whose 205 rushing yards and three touchdowns set the tone for the Oswego win.

Also adding to the offensive effort was Jett Weav-

er, who hauled in a 64-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Noah Parker.

Helping to move the ball up front was a steady offensive line that included Luke Hunter, Hayden Bielawski, Cole Kiesewetter, Hayden Anderson and Alex Rubio.

Defensively, the Panthers were led by linebackers Chris Medero who had two tackles for loss, and Geno Lukowski who added a blocked punt to the team effort. Overall, the defense covered the field well from start to finish.

Due to the weather that was in the area, the Freshman B team was unable to finish their game against the Bulldogs. The Panthers will travel to New Lenox on Saturday to take on Providence Catholic at 9:30 a.m.

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Oswego Bears vs. Stickney Wolfpack: The Tiny Mite

Oswego Bears 0, Genoa Mighty Cogs 0: Mitey Mites

(2) had a great defensive battle between two good teams. The defensive line led by Brodie Slou, Chayse Adams, James Lemos and Brenden Bisgrove did an outstanding job keeping Genoa off the scoreboard.

With an interception by Logan Stabb and team tackling, they were able to put an end to all Genoa drives.

Oswego Bears 6, Plainfield #2 35: Matt Gandy had a 60-yard kickoff return for a touchdown with some great blocking by Caleb Yanos. We had some great team efforts and look forward to a better result next week against Hampshire.

SENIOR MITEY MITES DIVISION

Oswego Bears 30, Stickney Wolfpack 0: Nick Tickle

threw a 55-yard touchdown pass to Andy Lewis (David Drendel kick) for the first score of the game.

Runs by Christian Martyn and Dave Drendel and a pass completion to Bryson Mello set up a 21-yard touchdown run from Tickle (Martyn kick).

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by Drendel, the Bears capitalize with a 10-yard run

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Drendel ran in a 35-yard touchdown. Andrew Wiggins had a 38-yard touch-

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ABOVE: Tiny Mite player Nolan Robertson carries the ball for a 22-yard gain against Stickney Wolfpack during the Oswego Bears Pop Warner season opener last weekend. BELOW: Oswego Bears varsity player Sam Wilson runs for a touchdown during last Saturday’s Pop Warner season opener against the Hoffman Estates Redhawks. down. Flawless snaps were provided all game by Brogan Mello along with great blocking from Maddox Gerwig, Bryson Mello, Gabe Harris and Derek Gordon on the outside.

Noah Mason, Nico Goduto, Parth Patel, Tyler Knizner and Colin Ryan were also key contributors on both sides of the ball.

The Oswego Bears Senior Mitey Mites travel to Arlington Heights on Sunday, Sept. 6, as they take on the Northwest Elite Lions.

JR PEEWEE DIVISION

Oswego Bears 13, Stickney Wolfpack 6: Oswego Bears

Junior Pee Wee team defeated Stickney Wolfpack 13-6. Oswego jumped out to a quick lead when Jackson Gillen scored on the first play from scrimmage on a 65-yard touchdown. Oswego defense didn’t let up a first down in the first half led by MLB Colin Rowe.

The Bears defense played great all day led by DE Chris Dicosola. In the second quarter the Bears scored for a second time on Tyler Bibbs 40-yard TD run and Bibbs ran in the extra point.

The second half was back and forth, but the Bears defense continued to shut down the Wolf pack with Chase Gerwig, Matt Rodarte, Kian Triplett and Noah Dial not letting them move the ball. It was a great team effort for the Oswego Bears and a great way to start the season.

PEEWEE DIVISION

Oswego Bears 34, Stickney Wolfpack 0: The Bears Peewee team had a total of 372 yards of total offense. Ty

Carlson had 210 yards running and four touchdowns.

Hunter Gibson had a TD run at QB. On defense only gave up a total of 22 yards. Brandon Heffernan had five tackles including a QB sack. Jordan Logan had 4.5 tackles at DE and Darren Oregon had a fumble recovery and an interception from CB on defense.

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Oswego Bears 33, Hoffman Estates Redhawks 6: From

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The quarterback play of Corey Provow who ran for two touchdowns and threw another guided the offense to 27 first half points and winning the game 33-6.

Sam Wilson added a long touchdown run and led the defense who limited the Hoffman team to only six points.

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After the first week of the season, the Oswego East girls’ tennis team is 1-0 while Oswego is 0-2 after both squads saw their matches canceled on Saturday due to the weather.

On Aug. 26, Oswego East

defeated Aurora Central Catholic, 7-0. The Wolves’ quad with Bolingbrook, St. Ignatius and Reavis was rained out.

Oswego East takes on IMSA and will be a part of Ottawa’s invite on Saturday.

As for Oswego, the Panthers dropped a pair of 7-0

After dropping its season opener, the Oswego East boys’ soccer team won its next two games against West Aurora and Brother Rice.

The Wolves defeated West Aurora, 2-1, in nonconference action at home last Thursday before topping Brother Rice, 2-1, on Monday in the first game of Hinsdale Central’s Red Devil Cup Tournament on Monday.

The Wolves started to play Elgin on Saturday, but 25 minutes into the contest, lightning postponed the game. The Maroons were up 2-0. The contest will resume at Oswego East on Sept. 16 at 4:30 p.m.

Oswego East is now 2-1 overall resuming play in the tournament this week against the No. 1 ranked team in the state, Hinsdale Central, and Downers Grove South. The Wolves will then start Southwest Prairie Conference action on Tuesday at Plainfield South.

Against West Aurora, Manuel Magana scored on an assist from Michael

Waclaw, who later scored Oswego East’s second goal. Sam Jones posted seven saves in goal.

“The boys responded very well to get a win against West Aurora,” Oswego East head coach Steve Szymanski said. “Sam Jones played great for us in goal and kept us in the game. Arnold Arevalo also made a save by clearing the ball off the line before it went into the goal to preserve the win.”

Against Brother Rice, Dawson Johnson scored both goals for the Wolves, who were up 1-0 at halftime. Oswego East outshot the Crusaders, 12-2.

“The goal was a great goal,” Szymanski said of Johnson’s score. “Spencer Moriarty dribbled up the left sideline and made a perfect cross to the right side of the box, where Dawson Johnson volleyed the ball out of the air and into the back of the net. It was a very pretty goal.”

Johnson’s second goal was tallied about four minutes into the second half.

He found the back on the right side off a pass that got through the defense from Waclaw.

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team made some fantastic group tackles and worked well together throughout the game.

Some standout plays were made by Nolan Robertson who came out strong making some amazing blocks and tackles throughout the game keeping the Stickney Wolves at bay.

Dominic Batista scored the season’s first touchdown on a quarterback sneak from the 50-yard line.

Zachary Gilson, Kashton Wilson and Jonah Zukauskas progressed the Bears several yards running the ball. Matthew Odefey made some key tackles to keep Stickney from scoring.

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GIRLS VOLLEYBALL RECAP

Teams face chemistry test

By KRISTIN SHARP

ksharp@kendallcountynow.com Five tough matches in the annual 24-team Plainfield North Invite provide area volleyball teams with a chance to develop early team chemistry on the court.

Oswego East (2-5) had a tough start with losses to Sandburg (22-25, 22-25) and Rosary (15-25, 20-25), but the Wolves picked up its first win over Oswego, 25-13, 2516 to start the Bronze Division on Saturday. Oswego East dropped a match to Plainfield South (21-25, 1725) and finished the tournament with a 25-13, 25-16 win over Wheaton Warrenville South.

Oswego East finished third in the bronze division for 19th place overall.

“We played seven matches last week, which is roughly one-fourth of our schedule. We had a real fast learning curve, but the girls responded well,” Oswego East head coach Adam Thurlwell said. “We were right there with Plain-

field South and we were in a much better situation in the tournament.”

For the Wolves, junior Meghan Delaney finished with 40 kills while senior Katelynn Kuehl had 33.

Junior Alli Bertrand had 10 kills while senior Cami Heinisch had 9.5 blocks and junior Katie Ayers had 90 assists. Kuehl also had 48 digs, Delaney had 42 and senior Alexa Jardenil had 40.

“We were finding our identity as players and finding our identity of the team. We turned a corner in terms of mentality and I was really, really proud.

We finished 2-3 and grew leaps and bounds in terms of trust and in terms of the team and individuals,” Thurlwell said. “Assuming that trend continue, it’s a huge step forward for us.

Sometimes it takes a team half the year to find their identity and really clock and we really started to do that at the end of the tournament. Hopefully we’ll be competitive from here on out.”

Oswego (1-4) opened pool

play with a pair of losses against Downers Grove South (15-25, 18-25) and Waubonsie Valley (19-25, 1225) on Friday to move into the Bronze Division against Oswego East last Saturday.

The Panthers lost to Bolingbrook 26-28, 26-28 and also lost a key player during that tournament match as junior outside hitter Holly Behrends left the game with a concussion.

She continued to remain out of the lineup Tuesday against Rosary.

“It was very unfortunate. Losing her was very difficult for our team,” Oswego head coach Traci Weiss said. “She’s a leader on our team and her third year on varsity, so losing her really shook our team.

We had to figure out a way to come together after that.

After she was unable to play in our last game, the team really pulled together for her and wanted to win the game for Holly.”

Oswego ended tournament play with a 25-23, 25-18 win over Tinley Park. Over the three-game championship play, Behrends finished with 23 kills before her injury.

Senior Katelyn Burke had eight kills, five aces, 53

assists and four blocks. Junior Allyson Manzella had seven aces, junior Kayla Sterr added 10 kills while junior Maddie Poulter had 26 digs and senior Gabby Veselik had 20.

“For us, this is a preseason tournament that we added back into the schedule last year,” Weiss said. “It’s really great competition and gives us an opportunity to see how we compare to other conference teams and other top teams in the area. It helps us evaluate lineups, evaluate players and determine what we need to work on.

We finished one place higher than we did last year, which was good. It’s preseason and we’re just trying to get the kinks out. There were highs and lows, and as a coaching staff we saw some really great things.

Towards the end we were really clicking. To me, that’s the whole point of the tournament.”

Waubonsie Valley 2, Oswego East 0: The Wolves lost to the Warriors on Aug. 26, 16-25, 21-25. Kuehl (7) and Delaney (6) led the team in kills while Ayers finished with 12 assists. Kuehl had 10 digs while junior Sarah Schultz had seven.

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West Chicago had just 12 yards rushing and 127 yards passing.

“Defense is going to be our strong suit to start the year out, and hopefully the offense can catch up to them,” LeBlanc said.

Senior Matt Moran had 11 tackles for the Wolves while seniors Jack Borvan and Sebastian Laskowski had two sacks each.

The Oswego East offense finished with 233 yards rushing and 169 yards passing.

Bailey had 150 yards on 17 carries for two touchdowns while Banks rushed

for 46 yards on 17 carries and two scores. He also went 12-for-17 passing for 120 yards with one interception. Kidd went 4-for-10 passing for 49 yards and one TD. Oswego East will bring its 1-0 record home next Friday, hosting Marian Catholic in a Week 2 non-conference game at 7:30 p.m. Marian (1-0) won its season opener 42-8 over Chicago Urban Prep.

“They’re a super athletic team, very fast and obviously they play in a very tough conference. They have a quarterback that’s very dangerous and a running back that’s pretty good,” LeBlanc said. “It’ll be a good test for us.”

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The Oswego-Oswego East girls’ swimming and diving team had an unusual off-season away from its own pool.

While the pool at Oswego East was being resurfaced and improved inside and out, the squad had to get its practice in at pools around the area, including Waubonsie Valley, Metea Valley and in Downers Grove.

The pool project, which also included getting new air filters, started at the end of February and ended in May. With all the repairs and changes made, head coach Deryl Leubner thinks his team has already benefited from it.

“These girls – and boys – work so hard,” Leubner said. “As far as a 12-month commitment goes, these kids are so proud to have a pool that matches what they’ve put into it. They were really excited to get back here. It was hard to be gone ... they faced some adversity, but we had a great summer training.

Everybody is faster now, so it was well worth it.”

Four of Oswego-Oswego East’s state-qualifying swimmers are back – twotime state qualifier and senior Macie McCallum (500-yard freestyle, 200yard freestyle), junior Alyssa Shugarman (100-yard breaststroke) and sophomores Georgia White and Mari Kraus (200-yard IM).

White, Shugarman and Kraus were also on the state-qualifying 200-yard medley relay team.

“They are all faster than they were at this time last year,” Leubner said.

“The bar is set high for them.”

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These were the swimmers that led Oswego to its sixth straight Independent Conference title and eighth-place finish at the Metea Valley Sectional.

The team just graduated one state-qualifying swimmer (Jessica James).

Other swimmers expected to contribute to the team include seniors Monica Jackson, RaeAnna Villarreal, Morgan McDowell, as well as two freshmen right away, Emily Giles and Riley Evans.

“We are really strong, and strong in different ways,” Leubner said. “For the first time, we are stronger in the freestyle than we are in the strokes. That’s OK because there are more freestyle events. ... [but] we are going to be something for the next few years. We have 36 girls – we have more kids than we’ve ever had. We need leadership and lots of it, so we’ll be relying on our seniors.”

Another league title is on the list of goals for Oswego. The Independent Conference meet is scheduled for Oct. 31 at Oswego East.

“It’s between us and DeKalb right now,” Leubner said. “Plainfield [coop] has about three superstars but not enough to score a lot of points. Of course, we have three divers now, so that will help.”

All three divers are freshmen – Ellery Zarnick, Abigail Lloyd and Courtney Broyles. There are 14 freshmen total – the most the program has ever had at one time.

The first week of the season will see duals against Neuqua Valley (a 96-90 win), Rosary and Waubonsie Valley. The first invite of the year is at Lincoln-Way Central on Sept. 12.

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Plainfield Central

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cbolin@kendallcountynow.com It was not the way the Oswego boys’ soccer team wanted to start Southwest Prairie Conference action on Tuesday, but at least the Panthers were able to score their first goal of the season.

Plainfield Central, however, posted its biggest offensive outing of the year after defeating the Panthers, 5-1, in Plainfield. The Wildcats improved to 3-0-1 while Oswego is now 0-2 overall.

“We are struggling right now ... but we did get that first goal in, so hopefully it will lead to something,” Oswego head coach Brian Falli said. “It’s tough to drop the first conference game with a 5-1 final. We beat ourselves, but you have to credit [Plainfield] Central.

They took it to us.”

“Our guys were ready to go, which was nice,” Plainfield Central head coach Kevin Fitzgerald added.

“Oswego is not a bad team.

One goal for us turned to

two and two went to three ... we can’t complain. We came out fast.”

Plainfield Central led 4-0 at halftime after Gustavo Sanchez, Edgar Cardenas and Max Woodward (two goals) all scored in the first half. The Wildcats led 5-0 when Cardenas scored again within the first five minutes of the second half.

Oswego played more aggressive in the second half, especially in the last seven minutes of the game. It paid off, as sophomore forward Julian Ibarra tallied the Panthers’ first goal of the year with 4:30 left to play.

“We just threw everybody out there,” Falli said.

“Everybody saw minutes.

If they were moving, you got minutes. The guys who were hustling were the ones who were out there.”

Oswego kicked off the 2015 season last Saturday, when Naperville Central defeated the Panthers, 3-0, in Oswego. Nick Kearns posted 12 saves in goal.

Perhaps Oswego will have better luck this Saturday, when it will travel to Batavia for a nonconference contest. The Panthers will then resume SPC action hosting Romeoville on Tuesday.

“We have a couple days off, so we’ll get some rest in and get back to the drawing board,” Falli said. “We’ll see what we can do.”

BOYS GOLF RECAP

Teams regroup at Panther Scramble

By KRISTIN SHARP

ksharp@kendallcountynow.com After a rough start to the season, the Oswego and Oswego East boys’ golf teams got back to familiar territory with Tuesday’s Panther Scramble at Blackberry Oaks.

Minooka won the long standing scramble tournament, beating Metea Valley in a scorecard playoff after both teams shot an impressive 58. Plainfield North and Wheaton Warrenville South tied with 60s and West Aurora had a 61 to round out the top five teams in the 18-team field.

Oswego Orange finished with a 63 and Oswego Blue

shot a 68. Oswego East 1 finished with a 62 and Oswego East 2 ended with a 72.

The match marked the first for the Wolves since an Aug. 20 meeting with West Aurora – its season opener – after several schedule conflicts and match cancellations over the past 12 days. Oswego East will continue play on Sept. 9 at Prairie Bluff Golf Course against Romeoville.

“We shot a 62, which is one of our best showings in this scramble,” Oswego East head coach Jim Vera said. “[Oswego coaches] Chad [Pohlmann] and Mike [Gerl] do a great job in running this tournament. It is a great way for the kids to

work as a team, and to have fun with their teammates.

Golf can be such an individual sport, so it is fun for me to see the boys compete and help each other on the course. It really is a fun day.”

Oswego 165, Minooka 152:

Oswego moved to 0-2 on the season with a loss to Minooka in the Southwest Prairie Conference opener on Monday.

Sophomore Matt Olgilvie led the Panthers with a 39. Matt Compton carded a 40, followed by Kobe Taylor (41) and Andrew Hiller (45).

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Panthers fall in final minutes

Bulldogs take early lead but fight to keep it

By KRISTIN SHARP

ksharp@shawmedia.com If last season taught the Batavia football team anything, it’s that a game against Oswego isn’t over until the final buzzer.

The Bulldogs tacked on a 20yard field goal from freshman kicker Jack Carlson with 1:43 remaining to give Batavia a 3628 lead over the Panthers in Friday night’s season opener.

Oswego drove to midfield on the final possession of the game, but senior quarterback Steven Frank’s last-chance pass was caught out of bounds at the Batavia 5 to end the night, leaving Batavia to celebrate the victory at Ken Pickerill Stadium in Oswego.

“This game was against two really good football teams to start the season. Highly-regarded and ranked. If you beat us, it’s going to be a really great football game,” Batavia coach Dennis Piron said. “I’m real proud of the kids and I couldn’t be happier for them.

They deserve victories. Last year’s team deserved to win that game. This was a fantastic football game.”

Oswego was the winner of a 40-38 decision in the 2014 season opener, another nail-biter.

Oswego was left shellshocked after Batavia scored three touchdowns in a span of 3:23 to take a commanding 20-0 lead early in the second quarter of play.

Batavia senior Zach Garrett capped off a 63-yard drive with his 11-yard touchdown run with 10:38 to go in the second quarter. Oswego fumbled the

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Oswego senior quarterback Steven Frank scrambles from the Batavia rush during Friday’s season opener at Ken Pickerill Stadium. ensuing kickoff and Batavia recovered at the Panther 20.

In one play, Garrett was in the end zone again for a 14-0 Bulldog lead.

Batavia surprised the Oswego special teams unit with an onside kick, and the Bulldogs kept their offense running with the recovery on the Oswego 46.

Batavia needed just seven plays to punch in its third touchdown – a 7-yarder by Garrett. Oswego blocked the point-after for a 20-0 score.

“It was huge. It changed the whole momentum of the game,” Garrett said. “They thought it

was going to be an offensive shootout, but it was just a defensive battle in the first quarter. I have to give all the credit to my offensive line.”

The Bulldogs gave the Panthers another one-two punch with a pair of quick scores in the third quarter, with quarterback Kyle Niemiec connecting with Canaan Coffey for a 30yard score before the Bulldogs defense intercepted Frank to set up another Niemiec-to-Coffey connection, this time from 11 yards out to give Batavia a 33-14 lead with 1:39 to play in the third.

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Oswego scored on an 11-yard touchdown pass from Frank to Conor Morton with 4:16 to play in the first half to trail 20-7 at intermission. Frank ran in a 33-yarder in the third before connecting with Jacob Nalley for a 13-yard score. Erik Vargas scored the final Panther touchdown on a 46-yard run with 7:54 to play, creating a 33-27 game after Brice Robinson’s fourth successful point after kick.

Frank finished with 12-of-25 passing with one interception for 140 yards and was Oswego’s top rusher with 94 yards on 16 carries. Vargas had 87 yards

on 12 carries. Batavia was led

by Niemiec’s 20 completions for 266 yards and Garrett’s 122 yards rushing.

“You can’t get in a hole with a team like Batavia. We played a good team tonight, but we also played ourselves,” Oswego head coach Brian Cooney said.

“A lot of breakdowns defensively, simple mistakes. Give credit it to Batavia; they did what they needed to when they needed. Just a lot of simple breakdowns. They’re pretty simple adjustments. That’s a good team we lost to, but we gave away a lot of opportunities.”

Wolves keep focus for win Oswego East takes 25-0 halftime lead despite turnovers

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Oswego East senior quarterback James Kidd (12) goes for a pass during Friday’s game against West Chicago. The Wolves scored three touchdowns in an eight-minute span en route to a win.

The Oswego East football team gained steam from the opening kickoff to the final buzzer, overcoming two early turnovers to exit West Chicago with a 34-6 victory in the 2015 season opener.

“Aside from the early turnovers, I thought we played pretty well,” Oswego East head coach Tyson LeBlanc said. “We ended up with 402 yards of total offense, so we were able to move the ball. We’ve got to clean up mistakes before we get into conference play, but I thought it went well. We definitely have potential to put yards up and put points on the

board.”

The Wolves (1-0) scored three touchdowns in an eight-minute span, jumping onto the scoreboard after a 3-yard touchdown run from junior running back Jaylon Banks in the first quarter of play.

“We turned the ball over on the first offensive play of the game and had two turnovers in our first two possessions, but once we got going, we did a good job,” LeBlanc said.

Banks was back in the end zone in the second quarter – this time on a 12yard run – and the extra point kick by junior Chase Bruns was good to give Oswego East a 13-0 advantage.

Junior starting quarter-

back Tyran Bailey broke free for a 59-yard touchdown run and he capped off the first half with an 8-yard touchdown run as the Wolves led 24-0 at the intermission.

Senior quarterback James Kidd came into the lineup and threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to junior Kijana Caldwell, and the Wolves closed out the scoring with a 42-yard field goal by Bruns with one minute left in the game.

West Chicago’s only scoring drive was set up by a deep pass and reached the end zone two plays later, but the Wildcats were contained all night by the Oswego East defense.

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Oswego East grad studies instrument’s history, future

“It’s incredibly cheap, it’s incredibly portable and it’s very easy to play. I can get a classroom of students learning a song after 10 minutes, which is a success rate I cannot get with the recorder, and it sounds great.”

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J

acob Prosek thinks the harmonica has a future in classrooms.

The recent North Central College graduate from Oswego traveled to Trossingen, Germany, this summer to research the culture of harmonica music. In the small southern German town, Prosek found a harmonica capital as well as a place that could serve as a model for what he sees as the future of teaching music.

“It is a town that has one of the highest concentrations of the world’s greatest harmonica players,” he said.

During his time in Germany, Prosek heard whole orchestras made up entirely of harmonica players and spoke to teachers who use the instrument extensively in teaching. He said he saw a junior high and high school harmonica orchestra play pop songs such as Michael Jackson’s “Billy Jean” and the Daft Punk song “Get Lucky.”

“The kids there think it’s totally normal, which is probably the coolest part,” he said.

The Oswego East graduate also toured the headquarters of Hohner, the world’s leading manufacturer of the instrument. Prosek spent a week in Trossingen conducting interviews, observing classes. He participated in their teacher training and observed private lessons.

He also did some archival research at Heidelberg University in Germany and interviewed a German music teacher to get some perspective on it.

“I was very curious before the research – how common is harmonica education in Germany right now and the answer is not very,” he said.

It turns out, Prosek said, Trossingen and some surrounding towns are in the forefront of using harmonicas to teach music.

He intends to present his research at North Central College during fall term and demonstrate a variety of harmonicas.

The goal of his research, Prosek says, was to find the best way to teach harmonica and share that with teachers in America.

He adds that with his research, if teachers want to include the harmonica in their curriculum, they will know the best practice for doing so.

“We have this opportunity to learn from all of this experience that the teachers in Trossingen

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ABOVE: Jacob Prosek shows off some of the various harmonicas he researched while he studied in Germany this summer. The Oswego East graduate hopes to use the harmonica as a teaching tool. TOP: Prosek plays the harmonica while in Germany this summer. The goal of his research, Prosek says, was to find the best way to teach harmonica and share that with teachers in America. have from decades and decades of teaching it to their children,” he said. “It was a really phenomenal experience. Everyone was incredibly welcoming and incredibly generous with their time.”

Prosek received a Richter Grant that paid for most of the travel expenses. Attached to the trip was a summer course he took through North Central.

Prosek couldn’t use traditional financial aid for the course so the Dunham Fund, an Aurora-based philanthropic organization, paid his course fee. Apollo Music Inc. of Aurora covered the research he did at Heidelberg University.

He mentioned that he first saw the idea of using harmonicas in the classroom after he read an article in Teaching Music magazine about implementing the harmon-

ica into general music. Before that, he said it never occurred to him to use the instrument.

“My hope is to try to give educators the tools they need to create the best experience possible for their students and I feel like harmonica can be a vital music tool in creating that experience,” he said.

Prosek has a few theories as to why harmonicas could overtake the recorder or xylophone as the preferred instructional instrument for teaching music.

“It’s incredibly cheap, it’s incredibly portable and it’s very easy to play,” he said. “I can get a classroom of students learning a song after 10 minutes, which is a success rate I cannot get with the recorder, and it sounds great.”

School districts on a tight budget may especially take notice

of the price. A harmonica that Prosek says he uses costs about $2 compared to $5 for a recorder.

“The savings could be huge,” he said.

Prosek says he can use the harmonica to teach the same things he can on the more popular recorder like traditional notation.

“Any qualified music teacher can teach diatonic harmonica and that was a sentiment that was shared with many of the experts in Germany,” he said.

One thing the harmonica doesn’t have going for it is the ability for students to learn fingering, but everything else about the instrument suggests that it could be a great learning tool, Prosek says.

He added that the kids love the harmonica and that is what

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motivated him to continue the research.

“It’s very easy to improvise on, it’s very easy to compose on because of the way that the instrument is designed,” he said.

“If you gave a child a bassoon or piano, it’s hard to improvise or compose.”

From the listener’s perspective, harmonicas have an advantage.

“Some educators would argue that 30 recorders is not the most pleasing aesthetic experience and you don’t have that issue with harmonica,” he said.

The history of the harmonica is something that also intrigued Prosek because in early 19th century, the harmonica was actually a popular instrument in classrooms. In fact, Prosek says the National Bureau of the Advancement of Music had 70,000 children playing harmonicas in schools in 1928 and by 1935 there were 5,000 harmonica bands in American schools.

“When we entered World War II, America stopped accepting German imports and the [harmonica] trend came to a halt and all of the bands kind of dismantled,” he said.

After World War II ended, Americans started buying harmonicas again but they never regained popularity as an instrument for schoolchildren.

Even today, while harmonicas are not prominent in popular music, the instrument is there in the background filling out the sound.

“I think with the resurgence of alternative rock and of Americana folk there has been a lot more interest in harmonica as of recently,” he said. “A lot of time a harmonica will be part of the fabric of a song and we don’t even notice it.”

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Born: April 19, 1939; in Lincoln, IL Died: Aug. 29, 2015; in Joliet, IL Judith Ann Dixon, age 76, of Montgomery, IL died August 29, 2015, Saturday at Joliet Area Community Hospice in Joliet, IL. She was born April 19, 1939, in Lincoln, IL the daughter of the late Lyle H and A nee Stephen Meliza. She graduated from Woodruff High School in Peoria, IL and she attended college at the Chicago Art Institute.

Judi went through life with a smile and always displayed compassion for others. She was a wonderful artist, great cook, loved to fish and enjoyed many vacations within the U.S. and many foreign countries. Judi was an asset to her husband working alongside him on many veteran related projects and events. She was employed by A.T.&T. for 18 years and Dreyer Medical Clinic for 8 years.

Judy is survived by her husband, Edward (Whom she married on May 17, 1980 in Aurora, IL); two daughters, Rebecca Locke, Cheryl (Jason) Tate; two step-sons, Norman Dixon, Scott L Dixon; ten grandchildren, fourteen great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her son, Edward Dixon, Jr.; granddaughter, Shannon Griffin; brother, Ronald Meliza; and sister-in-law, Gayle Navajar.

Visitation will take place on Thursday, September 3, 2015, from 4:00 p.m. until the funeral service/time of sharing at 7:00 p.m. with Pastor Deborah Tinsley-Taylor officiating at DUNN FAMILY FUNERAL HOME with CREMATORY, 1801 Douglas Road, Oswego, IL. Burial will take place on Friday, September 4, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, IL. In lieu of flowers memorials may be directed to the American Cancer Society, 143 First St, Batavia, IL 60510.

For additional information 630/554-3888 or www.dunnfamilyfuneralhome.com

SHIRLEY M. GRONER

Born: Sept. 29, 1935; in Springfield, IL Died: Aug. 27, 2015; in Aurora, IL Shirley M. Groner, age 79, of Yorkville, IL, passed away on Thursday, August 27, 2015, at Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, IL. She was born on September 29, 1935, in Springfield, IL, the daughter of Roy and Bertha (Crews) Sleeth. Shirley was united in marriage on December 2,

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1956, to Frederick L. Groner and they spent the next 53 happy years of their lives together until his passing on May 10, 2010.

Mrs. Groner was employed for many years as a claim adjuster

by Navastar International. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt who will be deeply missed by her family and friends.

She is survived by her three sons, Frtiz (Terra) Groner of Auckland, New Zealand, Rodney Groner of Florida, and Tom Groner of Oak Park, IL; her former daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Groner; her four grandchildren, Ben, Andy, Kyle, and Kaia Groner; her sister, Sandy Houser of Pontiac, IL; as well as several nieces and nephews, including her niece and caregiver, Penny Greider of Yorkville, IL. She was preceded in death by her parents, Roy and Bertha Sleeth; husband, Frederick L. Groner; and her sister, Jean Burton.

Interment will be private.

Arrangements by Nelson Funeral Homes & Crematory, (630)553-7611 or www.NelsonFuneralHomes.com.

was a skilled machine repairman and loved ethnic food and cooking. He always attended the outdoor concerts given by the Naperville Community Band.

In retirement he was with the AWANA non-profit of Streamwood, Illinois in the shipping department. Roland was a member of the Disabled Veterans of America, the Aurora chapter D-19. In 2013 he flew to Washington, D.C. as a guest of the Honor Flight. He was associated with the Fox Valley Older Adults of Sandwich, IL. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruby; and his son, Randy.

He is survived by his daughter, Robin (Jerry) Foster; daughter-law, Nancy Hougham; 6 grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren and several nieces.

A memorial service was held at the Millington-Newark Cemetery Chapel with Charles Johnson officiating.

Memorial gifts may be made in Roland’s name to the Fox Valley Older Adults Services, 1406 Suydam Rd. Sandwich, IL. 60548.

Cremation services were accorded by the Gabel-Dunn Funeral Home Ltd of Newark. www.dunnfamilyfuneralhome. com

JACQUELINE L. JANOSKI Jacqueline Lee Janoski, age 69, of Sandwich, IL, passed away on Sunday, August 30, 2015.

A full obituary will follow at a later date.

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JAY M. LOUCKS Born: Aug. 24, 1945 Died: Aug. 30, 2015

Jay M. Loucks, 70, of Montgomery, IL passed away surrounded by his family after a brief illness on August 30, 2015.

He was born on August 24, 1945, in Mt. Pleasant, PA , the son of William and Betty Loucks.

Jay was the manager of Sears Hardware in Montgomery, IL for several years and was most currently employed as a manager for Hobby Lobby in Elgin, IL. He loved spending time with his family and especially enjoyed his grandchildren.

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Roland Kelly Hougham, 91, of Mendota, Illinois, formerly of Downers Grove died Saturday, August 29, 2015, at Heritage Health Care in Mendota.

Roland was born December 14, 1923, to Andrew Jackson Hougham and Margaret (Kelly) Hougham in Berwyn, Illinois. He attended Tilden Tech in Chicago.

From there he enlisted in the Infantry and served in the U.S. Army in Africa and Italy. He was wounded during combat in Italy.

He married Ruby White in August 1953. They were residents of Downers Grove for many years. Roland was a member of the First Baptist Church of Downers Grove. Roland worked for the State of Illinois Finance Division as an Inspector. He also

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32 years, Diane (Giese). His children, Michael (Jill) Loucks, Ashley(Bryan) Mauer, Jay Loucks, Chad Loucks, Matthew Loucks, Pamela Doherty, and Robin Shockley; grandchildren, Makenzy, Olivia, Aubree, and Brayden Loucks and Kaylie Mauer. He is also survived by his mother-in-law, Mary Ellyn Giese; as well as many other relatives and dear friends.

He is preceded in death by his parents; and his father-in-law, Ralph Giese.

Family will be receving guests on Friday, September 4, 2015, from 4:00 p.m. until the time of service at 6:00 p.m. at Dieterle Memorial Home, 1120 S. Broadway Ave. Montgomery, IL. Interment will be private.

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ETHEL C. MERKEL

Born: Sept. 29, 1927; in Tonica, IL Died: Aug. 24, 2015; in Sandwich, IL Ethel Catherine Merkel, age 87, formerly of Leland, passed away on August 24, 2015 at the Sandwich Rehabilitation Center.

Ethel was born September 29, 1927 in Tonica, the daughter of E. Frank and Helen A. (Bruch) Cook. She married Raymond Albert Merkel on March 7, 1948 in Somonauk. Ethel and Ray were married for over 60 years.

She graduated from Somonauk High School in 1945.

After graduation, she worked at All-Steel Company and lived in Aurora for two years. After she was married, she lived on farms in the Leland area for the next 63 years. She enjoyed living on the farm, raising five children as well as helping in the fields.

She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church of Yorkville. She made quilts for the homeless and her grandchildren, and enjoyed watching her children and grandchildren in their sporting endeavors. She enjoyed gardening and when younger always canned and froze produce.

She is survived by three sons, Robert (Patty) Merkel of Madison, WI, Roger (Doy) Merkel of Stillwater, OK, and Ronald (Wendy) Merkel of Somonauk; two daughters, Linda (Thomas) Maley of Huntley and Carol (Gary) Lane of Earlville; 10 grandchildren, Christina (Michael) Metzdorf, Kyle Lane, Ashley (John) Lowe, and Elise, Indah, Rayna, Lela, Courtney, Caitlyn, and Rylie Merkel; one great-grandchild, Aubrey Lowe; one brother, Charles (Alyce) Cook of Morrison; and one sister, Irene Yingling of Sandwich; and two sisters-in-law, Alice Merkel of Sandwich and Gloria Cook of Somonauk.

Ethel was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond Merkel, in 2008; her parents; and two brothers, Elmer Cook and Raymond Cook.

Funeral services will be held

at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 29, 2015 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Yorkville, with Pastor Michael Neel officiating. Burial will follow at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Yorkville. Visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Friday at Turner-Eighner Funeral Home in Somonauk. Visitation also will be held at the church from 10:30 a.m. until the start of the service.

Memorials may be designated for the American Heart Association or to Immanuel Lutheran Church in Yorkville.

For more information or to sign the online guest book, go to www.EighnerFuneralHomes.com Turner-Eighner Funeral Home, 13160 W. Rt. 34 Somonauk, IL 60552; 815-4982363

GEORGE W. ROTT

Born: Nov. 18, 1938, in Lisle, IL Died: Aug. 29, 2015; in Aurora, IL George W. Rott, age 76, of Oswego, IL, passed away on Saturday, August 29, 2015, at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, IL. He was born on November 18, 1938, in Lisle, IL, the son of George V. and Martha (Rotz) Rott.

George was united in marriage on April 16, 1966 to the former Miss Elizabeth “Betty” Fairlie and they spent the next 49 happy years together. Mr. Rott was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Yorkville, IL as well as a member of the Knights of Columbus. He was employed for many years as an Iron Worker and was a member of the Iron Workers Union Local #393 in Aurora, IL. He was an avid gardener and was a collector of model trains. George was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, and uncle who will be deeply missed by his family and friends.

He is survived by his wife, Betty Rott of Oswego, IL; his five children, Larraine (Ed) Bertrang of Hill Point, WI, George (Stephanie) Rott of Casper, WY, John Rott of Yorkville, IL, Brian (Karen) Rott of Cortland, IL, and Judy Rott of Florence, KY; eight grandchildren, a great-granddaughter; and his siblings, Roy (Angie) Rott, Joanne Pike, Glen

(Sue) Rott, Ruth Ann (Jeff) Hoehn, and Mary Ann Rott; as well as several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, George V. and Martha Rott; and his sister, Caroline Kowalski.

A Funeral Mass will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 2, 2015, at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 406 Walnut Street in Yorkville, IL, with Father Matthew Lamoureux, M.I.C., officiating. Interment will follow in the Risen Lord Cemetery in Oswego, IL. Friends may visit from 4:00 until 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 1, 2015, at the Larson-Nelson Funeral Home, 1617 North Bridge Street in Yorkville, IL. Arrangements by Nelson Funeral Homes & Crematory, (630)553-7611 or www.NelsonFuneralHomes.com.

RICHARD G. UNDERWOOD

Born: March 13, 1931 Died: Aug. 29, 2015 Richard George Underwood, age 84, of Mountain Home, AR passed away on Saturday, August 29, 2015, in Mountain Home. He was born on March 13, 1931, in Chicago, IL the son George Earl and Astrid Naomi (Hansen) Underwood.

Richard was united in marriage on October 13, 1956, to the former Ruth Edna Funk in Berwyn, IL and they spent the next 58 happy years together.

He proudly served his country as a member of the United States Army.

Mr. Underwood was employed for many years by Huen Electric and was a member of IBEW Union Local 461 for 40 years in Aurora, IL. He is survived by his wife, Ruth Underwood of Mountain Home, AR; his children, Glenn (Mishal) Underwood of Ionia, MI, Steven (Andrea) Underwood of Livonia, MI, Ann (Gary) Hoskins of Newark, IL, Linda (Phillip) White of Phoenix, AZ, Janet (Craig) Miller of Waterman, IL and Gail (Timothy) VanRavenswaay of Rockton, IL; a sister-in-law, Mary Ann Under-

wood; his seventeen grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Astrid Underwood; a brother, Edward; and a grandson, Elijah.

Friends may visit from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Friday, September 4, 2015, at the Nelson Funeral Home, 1010 W. South St., Plano, IL and from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 5, 2015, at the Plano Bible Church, 1111 W. South St., Plano, IL. A Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 5, 2015, at the Plano Bible Church in Plano, IL. Interment will follow in Welsh Cemetery in Big Rock, IL. Memorials in loving memory of Richard may be directed to Broken Arrow Bible Ranch, 28 Broken Arrow Road, Vanderwagen, New Mexico, 87326.

Arrangements by Nelson Funeral Homes & Crematory, (630)552-7211 or www.NelsonFuneralHomes.com.

LILLIAN M. WATERLOO

Born: June 27, 1922; in Chicago, IL Died: Aug. 27, 2015; in Aurora, IL Lillian Marie Waterloo, age 93, of Sugar Grove, IL, passed away on Thursday, August 27, 2015, at The Grove of Fox Valley in Aurora, IL. She was born on June 27, 1922, in Chicago, IL, the daughter of Donato and Theresa (Grippa) Dores.

Lillian was united in marriage to George Waterloo and they spent many happy years together until his passing. She was a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and aunt who will be deeply missed by her family.

She is survived by her two children, David (Jeanee) Waterloo of Lombard, IL and Patricia (Warren) Hestekin of Sugar Grove, IL; eight grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; as well as several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Donato and Theresa Dores; her husband, George Waterloo; three sisters, Marie Dores, Sylvia Olsen, Gladys Healy; as well as her niece, Barbara Bohannon.

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WALTER MILTON YESIA

Born: March 24, 1933; in Richey, IL Died: Aug. 27, 2015; in Oswego, IL Walter Milton Yesia, age 82, of Oswego, IL died Thursday, August 27, 2015, at his residence.

He was born March 24, 1933, in Richey, IL the son of the late Milton James and Lillian Gertrude nee Harding Yesia.

Walter served his country honorably with the US Navy during the Korean Conflict. He had worked for AT&T for 32 years prior to his retirement. He was a member of the American Legion Posts in Oswego and Bloomington, IL. He enjoyed woodcarving, ceramics, guitar music, collecting John Wayne movies and Lewis Lamare books.

Walter is survived by his wife, Betty nee Cablk, whom he went to grade school with and married on September 18, 1954, in Chicago, IL, a son Jeff (Jaruwan) Yesia of Oswego, IL. He was preceded in death by two sisters, Helen Madsen and Gladys Hartwell.

Visitation will take place on Saturday, August 29, 2015, from 5:00 p.m. until a funeral service at 7:00 p.m. at the DUNN FAMILY FUNERAL HOME with CREMATORY 1801 S. Douglas Road, Oswego, IL. Military honor will be bestowed after the funeral service at the funeral home. Private family graveside services will be held at Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago, IL. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to either Oswego American Legion Post #675, 19 W. Washington St., Oswego, IL 60543 or Parkinson Disease Foundation, 1359 Broadway, Ste. 1509, New York, New York 10018 or the charity of the donor’s choice.

For additional information: 630/554-3888 or www.dunnfamilyfuneralhome.com

Veterans can get designation on ID

The Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs and the Illinois Secretary of State mobile unit will be visiting the Yorkville American Legion Post at 9054 Route 34 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9.

During this visit, veterans will be able to get their discharge documents (DD-214) certified by the IDVA and obtain a driver’s license with the word “veteran” on the front. This will be a “onestop-shop,” but veterans are encouraged to show up early as a large turnout is expected.

A veteran service officer with the Veterans Assistance Commission of Kendall County will be on-site as well to answer any questions and help veterans with non-driver’s license related issues.

For more information, contact the Veterans Assistance Commission of Kendall County at 630553-8357.

eBay sellers group will meet Sept. 8

The Fox Valley eBay and eCommerce Sellers will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 8, in Yorkville.

The evening’s program will feature guest speaker Gladys Ramos, eBay Top-Rated Seller and proprietor of her own successful online store, antiques-r-great.

Ramos will speak about search engine optimization, followed by a question and answer forum open to members.

Contact Dennis at 630-323-3788 for further information about the club, where meetings are held, and to reserve your place. Or visit meetup. com/Yorkville-eBay-andeCommerce-Meetup.

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Thursday, September 3, 2015 Kendall County Record • Plano Record • Ledger-Sentinel • Page 4

KENDALL COUNTY COURT CASES • Joseph A. Sova, 33, of the 0-99 block of West Washington Street, Oswego, was charged with domestic battery in connection with an incident July 30 in Oswego, Kendall County Court documents said. According to reports, Sova is accused of grabbing a female victim’s wrist and scratching her shoulder. Bond was set at $10,000 and a Sept. 28 court date was scheduled.

• Breana L. Gaddy, 22, of the 800 block of Georgetown Drive, Oswego, was charged with domestic battery, criminal damage to property and criminal trespass to residence in connection with an incident Aug. 1 in the 0-99 block of Birchwood Court, Montgomery, Kendall County Court records said. According to court documents, Gaddy is accused of slapping a male victim in the face and biting him on the chest along with

breaking two mirrors on a vehicle. Bond was set at $2,500 and a Sept. 3 court date was scheduled.

• Mohammed Benbouziyane, 32, of the 300 block of Rosebud Avenue, Aurora, was charged with domestic battery in connection with an incident July 15 in the 600 block of Roosevelt Drive, Oswego, Kendall County Court documents said. According to reports, Benbouziyane is accused of grabbing a female victim’s forearm and pushing her in the face. Bond was set at $1,000 and a Sept. 17 court date was set.

• Irene A. Burgert, 45, of the 0-99 block of Sonora Drive, Boulder Hill, was charged with attempted disorderly conduct and filing a false report in connection with an incident on April 20, Kendall County Court documents said. According to records, Burgert is accused of telling a Kendall County

sheriff’s deputy that an identity theft had been committed, knowing there were no grounds for such a claim.

Bond was set at $1,500 and a court date was scheduled for Sept. 21.

• Jennifer B. Rasmussen, 26, of the 500 block of Indian Creek Drive, Leland, was charged with unlawful use of a debit card in connection with an incident on July 1 in Plano, Kendall County Court documents said. According to reports, Rasmussen is accused of purchasing gasoline at a station using another person’s debit card without authorization. Bond was set at $1,500 and a warrant has been issued, according to documents.

• Francisco Garcia, 56, of the 300 block of South Fourth Street, Aurora, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance in connection with an incident Aug. 15 in

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Oswego, Kendall County Court documents said. According to reports, Garcia is accused of possessing a substance containing cocaine.

Bond was set at $5,000 and a Sept. 17 court date was scheduled.

• David Salinas Jr., 31, of the 200 block of North Calhoun Street, Aurora, is facing theft charges in connection with an incident Aug. 21 in Oswego, Kendall County Court documents said.

According to reports, Salinas is accused of taking a 2013 Case excavator tractor from a business. Salinas also is facing charges of unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle, DUI and leaving the scene of an offense, court documents said. Bond was set at $75,000 and a Kendall County judge denied an initial request for bond reduction, according to court records. A Sept. 28 court date was set.

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SHAW MEDIA Waubonsee Community College has named Kendall County Sheriff Dwight Baird its 2015 Distinguished Alumnus.

Baird attended Waubonsee after graduating from Oswego High School in 1986, to study criminal justice.

“I had heard great things about Waubonsee, and it was a good fit for me,” Baird said. “I could work a couple of jobs while still getting my education.”

When he earned his associate degree in 1988, Baird was still too young to test to become a police officer, and so he continued his job in loss prevention at the Montgomery K-Mart store until he turned 21 and was hired on at the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office by then-Sheriff Richard Randall, also a Waubonsee alumnus.

“The great thing I see in Waubonsee and other community college graduates is that they have often worked in the real world and have that life experience,” Baird said.

“That experience helps them relate to the people and situations they’ll be dealing with.”

After working as a sheriff’s deputy a few years, Baird spent more

than 22 years on the Oswego Police Department, rising through the ranks to become chief and also serving as the interim village administrator for a time.

As he moved up the ranks, Baird sought out additional education, earning his bachelor’s degree from A u r o r a University and his master’s d e g r e e from WestKendall ern Illinois County University.

Sheriff ThroughDwight Baird o u t t h e s e experiences, he continued to draw on his time at Waubonsee.

“I would still find myself reflecting on projects I did at Waubonsee or even referencing books I had used there,” Baird said.

Baird consulted his long-held career plan once again in 2014 when he ran for and was elected Kendall County sheriff.

“Kendall County is very diverse, ranging from suburban areas to more rural townships,” Baird said. “One day we could be dealing with a cow in a roadway and then the next with a driveby shooting. It’s a very diverse area, and the workload is ever-changing.”

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The VA Mobile Medical Unit will be on-site at the Kendall County Health and Human Services Building, 811 W. John St. in Yorkville, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on the second Monday of each month.

On the second Friday of each month, the Mobile Medical Unit will be at American Legion Post 675, at 19 W. Washington St. in downtown Oswego.

On staff with the Mobile Medical Unit are a nurse practitioner, a social worker, a registered nurse, a VA health care eligibility

clerk and a knowledgeable driver.

This crew is able to provide basic medical services like blood pressure checks, physical examinations and mental health intake.

Certain vaccinations are also available depending on the time of year and patient need.

For veterans not in the VA health care system, enrolling has never been easier. The eligibility clerk can enroll a veteran on the spot and they can receive care right away.

The Mobile Medical Unit cannot issue VA health care ID cards.

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6 COUNTYWIDE • Thursday, September 3, 2015 • Kendall County Record • Plano Record • Ledger-Sentinel SENIOR BRIEFS The Oswego Senior Center will host a seminar on Social Security from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 8.

During the seminar, participants will learn about Social Security, including how it works with employment, disability, what happens when a spouse passes, or in case of a divorce.

There will also be information about how Social Security is predicted to be changing for future generations. David Erickson from Edward Jones and Jackie Runnberg from Old Second Bank will lead the seminar.

To register or for additional information, contact the Oswego Senior Center at 630-554-5602.

Caregiver safety seminar set for Sept. 9

The Oswego Senior Center will present Hands-on Care: Caregiver Safety, part of the Caregiver Series, in the computer lab from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9.

Mobility issues are a challenge which many caregivers work with daily.

During this seminar, participants will learn best practices, safety tips, techniques for hands-on caregiving to maintain both the safety of

the person you care for and yourself.

Also, learn about the available equipment which helps make lifting and transferring easier. Natasha Jones of Autumn Leaves will be presenting, and a light lunch will be provided.

To register or for additional information, contact the Oswego Senior Center at 630-554-5602.

Polka band Sept. 15 at Oswego Senior Center

Eddie Korosa Jr., a Chicago polka band, will perform at the Oswego Senior Center from noon to 2:15 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 15. Come for an interactive performance of your favorite polka songs and dance.

Tickets are $20 for the entertainment and lunch of kielbasa, sauerkraut, baked potatoes and beverages.

Lunch will be served at noon.

Entertainment will begin around 1 p.m. Deadline to purchase tickets is Friday, Sept. 11.

To purchase tickets or for additional information, contact the Oswego Senior Center at 630-554-5602.

Lunch and learn about hearing on Sept. 16

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Dr. Eve Leinonen, audiologist from Affordable Hearing Solutions, will discuss what is considered normal aging of the ear and common concerns, symptoms and treatments.

Also, learn how the different hearing devices work.

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Senior Services will host its eighth annual Kendall County

A free diabetic vision screen, presented by the Lions Club, will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21.

A free hearing screen, presented by Connect Hearing, will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Thursday, Sept. 24. Limited appointments are available.

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Walking Club will visit Sandwich in September The Senior Services Walking Club will be visiting the Fall Festival of Crafts in Sandwich on Thursday, Sept.

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Bus departs at 8:11 a.m. from Beecher Center. Cost is $5 for the bus ride. Participants are responsible for their own lunch and purchases. Registration is required.

Space is limited. For information or to RSVP, call Patty at 630-553-5777.

Fall fashion show will be Sept. 20 in Aurora

Fall Fashion Show on Sunday, Sept. 20.

Starting at 11 a.m., this year’s Fashion Show fundraiser creates an “Autumn in Paris” theme featuring the newest fashions for everyone in the family available through local retailers.

The event includes a luncheon, local celebrity models, family and friends showcasing clothing for all ages, entertainment with Johnny Gray, a silent auction featuring hundreds of items, a Heads or Tails 50/50, and Balloon Pop raffles with prizes.

All proceeds from the fundraiser will be used to support programs for senior citizens in Kendall County through Senior Services Associates.

“Autumn In Paris” will be held at Pipers Banquet, 1295

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For more information or to order tickets, call 530-5535777.

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The Oswego Senior Center offers computer classes and mobile device help.

Intermediate computer program assistance is available from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Sept. 8, 10, 15, and 17. Registration is required.

The Mobile Device Lab is available from 2 to 4 p.m.

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SHAW MEDIA The Aurora Area Convention and Visitors Bureau held the Culinary Champion competitions to find the area’s best food and best restaurants.

Aurora, Batavia, Big Rock, Hinckley, Montgomery, North Aurora, Plano, Sandwich, Sugar Grove and Yorkville are the 10 communities comprising the Aurora area. Mayors or city officials of these communities took part in judging a monthly competition in nine categories.

These included the best steak, seafood, pizza, ethnic, burger, soup, dessert, BBQ and veggie/vegan dishes.

Restaurants in the listed communities were invited to participate. The dish had be a regular menu item.

Several “celebrity” judges participated: Chef Steve Langlois, Hyatt Lodge on McDonald Campus, was a judge for best burger; Chef Gale Gand, Hall of Fame Chicago Chef and Food Network star, was a judge for best dessert; World Food Championships certified Judge Debbie Donato was a judge for best seafood; Sen. Linda Holmes (a self-declared “foodie”) was a judge for best BBQ; Chef Scott Fischer, who prepared the wrap party food for “Dancing with the

Stars” and founder of Fisch & Chips “brown butter” cookies, was a judge for the best veggie/vegan.

Winners included: Best steak: Fairbanks Steakhouse in the Hollywood Casino Aurora for their Petite Lauren filet with lobster.

Best pizza: Raimondo’s Pizza & Pub in North Aurora for their Godfather; first runner-up: Pal Joey’s in Batavia; second runner-up: Aliano’s Ristorante in Batavia.

Best ethnic: Raimondo’s Pizza and Pub in North Aurora for their Osso Bucca; first runner-up: Taco Madre in Montgomery; second runner-up: Salsa Verde in Yorkville.

Best burger: Bull Moose Bar and Grille in Sandwich for their Caramel Apple Burger; first runner-up: Countyline Pub and Grill in Sandwich; second runner-up: The Foundry in Aurora.

Best soup: Gaetano’s Batavia for their Gumbo Mambo Italiano; first runner-up: The Foundry in Aurora; second runner-up: Roadhouse Country Bar and Grill in Yorkville.

Best dessert: Gaetano’s Batavia for their Millefoglie alla crema; first runner-up: Brenda’s Frozen Custard in Sandwich; second runner-up: Bull Moose Bar and Grille, Sandwich.

Best seafood: Aliano’s

Ristorante in Batavia for their Seafood Risotto; first runner-up: Mai-Quesi in Aurora; second runner-up: Raimondo’s Pizza and Pub in North Aurora.

Best BBQ: South Moon BBQ in Hinckley for their ribs with mac and cheese and baked beans; first runner-up: Rowdy’s in Yorkville; second runner-up: Thomas’ Barbeque in Aurora.

Best veggie/vegan: Gaetano’s Batavia for their Fiori di zucca; first runner-up: Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora; second runner-up: Rowdy’s in Yorkville.

Barley Fork Yorkville, Gonzo’s Pizzeria Sandwich, Midtown Pub Aurora, Naf Naf Grill Aurora, Oak Street Restaurant and Bar North Aurora, O’Mango Aurora, Pinheadz Bar and Grill Yorkville, Spizzico To Go Aurora, The Chocolate Shoppe Yorkville and ZOUP Aurora also participated.

The food was enjoyed by all of the spectators.

The Aurora Area Convention and Visitors Bureau partnered with Lauren Robin and Eric Fine of the Illinois Restaurant Association to plan the events.

The Culinary Champions and the first and second runners-up will be highlighted in the 2016 Travel Guide and featured in a new travel itinerary that will be used to attract out-of-town visitors.

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The American Legion Post 395 of Plano conducted the 5K Hero Run/Walk in Memory of Andrew Kuebrich on Aug. 16, with Post Officer Ralph Torres chairing the run. He called upon American Legion Riders Post 181 from Sandwich to man the registration booth and be posted at intersections on their bikes to direct the 5K participants. Pictured are ALR members Kevin Rife, Bill Kolb, Cliff Oleson and Bob Mauer, who are ready to ride to their intersections and direct the participants.

BRIEF American Pride Ride set for Sept. 19

The American Legion Riders Post 181 from Sandwich is sponsoring an “American Pride Ride” on Saturday, Sept. 19. The ride starts and ends at the Sandwich VFW, 713 S. Main St. in Sandwich.

Registration begins at 9:30

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Donations are $10 per rider and $5 per passenger.

There will be three stops.

After the ride, order a delicious meal at the Sandwich VFW at a nominal donation.

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All proceeds from this ride will go to the American Legion Legacy Scholarship, which benefits children who have lost a parent serving our country. For more information, go to the American Legion Riders Post 181 Facebook page.

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8 COUNTYWIDE • Thursday, September 3, 2015 • Kendall County Record • Plano Record • Ledger-Sentinel Local travel agency celebrating 30 years

Travel Services of Yorkville is celebrating their 30th anniversary. Join the staff for a free event to celebrate 30 years of business and 30 years of “thanks” to their customers. The anniversary open house will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at the office, 801 N. Bridge St., Route 47, Yorkville.

There will be live Caribbean music along with food, fun, 30 prizes for 30 years of thanks, and kids’ prizes, too. Grand prize is two roundtrip tickets to Riviera Maya, Mexico, compliments of Travel Services of Yorkville and Funjet Vacations. Additional prizes include luggage, travel supplies, travel gift certificates, local business gift cards and more.

RSVP is not required. Stop in, say hello, have some food and get a free 30th anniversary gift while supplies last.

Free parking as well as bike path access for bikers and walkers is now available right up to the front of the office.

For information, call 630 553-7200 or email info@travelservicesofyorkville.com.

WCC offers day trip to see Romeoville sights

What’s better than a day trip to a car museum and cake decorating school, finished off with some fried chicken and Frank Sinatra? Join Waubonsee Community College’s Community Education program on Thursday, Sept. 24, for a day trip to the Romeoville area.

The itinerary includes the Beller Car Museum, showcasing products of Detroit’s heyday, and an inside peek at the Wilton School of Cake Decorating in Darien.

After sightseeing, guests will enjoy the famous fried chicken at White Fence Farm and see a musical show celebrating the 100th anniversary of Frank Sinatra’s birth.

Tickets are limited, and are $89 per person. For more information, call 630-466-2360 or visit waubonsee.edu/trips.

Local doctor helps children in need in Mexico City Dr. Paul Bishop, Foot and Ankle Centers board certified podiatric surgeon, recently contributed his talent, skill, knowledge and his time to children and surgeons in need at Lombardo Hospital in Mexico City. In conjunction with surgeons from Shriners Hospital and the Walk-Run-Dream Foundation, Dr. Bishop operated on several children with lower extremity and trauma deformities. At least three times each year, Dr. Bishop teams with other surgeons including Dr. Edguardo Rodriguez and operates on children in extreme need in Mexico City, Chicago and Guadalajara, Mexico. All the surgeons’ work and equipment are provided pro bono.

Free GED services offered for local youth

The Kendall Youth Employment Program is offering free GED tutoring and other services to youth 16 through 24 years of age. Participants must live in Kendall, Kane or DeKalb County and apply to join the program.

“After assessing a youth’s academic prowess, we tutor one-on-one to strengthen weak areas and we also give access to websites and worksheets that specifically help prepare for the GED test,” said Laura Stransky, KYEP teacher.

The version of the GED test that began in January 2014 is more rigorous than the previous version because it is aligned with Common Core Standards. Youth who are 16 or 17 years old must provide documentation of formal withdrawal from high school.

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Family and friends are invited to help Charlotte Gabel celebrate her 90th birthday from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, during an open house hosted by her daughters Sandra Davis and Mary Haley at the Newark Lutheran Church. Charlotte is a lifelong resident of Newark. Prior to her retirement, Charlotte and her husband, Edgar (deceased), owned and operated the Larson-Gabel Funeral Homes in Newark and Sheridan.

Sandwich Chapter FO of the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Sisterhood and Redbud Creek Farm will sponsor a Fall Garden Tour and Fabulous Craft Show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, rain or shine.

Explore four gardens and look for ideas on plants, water features, art and kid-friendly design elements.

The Mueller Garden will be one of the featured gardens on the tour.

Paula Mueller’s love of gardening began as a child. She watched her mother create a beautiful garden and dreamed that some day she would do the same thing. She certainly has realized her dream. You will see gardens with personal touches and an overall harmony that charms the eye at every turn. A dry creek bed and border of flowers and grasses welcome you to the property.

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10 COUNTYWIDE • Thursday, September 3, 2015 • Kendall County Record • Plano Record • Ledger-Sentinel CHURCH SERVICES ANGLICAN Christ Our Light Anglican Church Meeting at the English Congregational United Church of Christ 301 Rhodes St., Big Rock Father Rand York www.christourlightanglican.org Saturday, 5 p.m.

APOSTOLIC New Hope Apostolic Church 201 W. Madison St. Yorkville, IL, 60560 Pastor: Junior D. Dixon Church phone: 630-552-1292 Sunday, 11 a.m. Sunday School and Worship Service Wednesday, 7 p.m. Night Prayer Faith Assembly Church 105 S. Main St., Montgomery Pastor Michael E. Hefner Assistant Pastor Emmanuel Rojas 630-264-2968 (Spanish Interpretation) Sunday, 10 a.m. Morning Worship & Sunday School 5 p.m. Worship Service Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Evening service ASSEMBLIES OF GOD Harvest Chapel 725 S. County Line Road Sandwich, IL 60548 www.harvestchapel.net 815-786-8669 Nursery is provided Sunday 9 & 10:45 a.m. Service; Elevate Kids Ministry ages 3 to 5th grade Wednesday 7 p.m. New Community; Adult Bible Study; MOSAIC student Ministries (6th-12th); Elevate Kids (4yrs-5th gr) New Life Church 3205 Cannonball Trail, Yorkville (Just west of Rt. 47) Pastor Jon Lawson 630-553-0200 www.nlcyorkville.org Sunday 9 & 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship Kids classes (6 weeks - 6 grade) Wednesday 7 p.m. Kids classes (preschool-6 grade) Student Ministries (7-12 grades) BAPTIST Harvest New Beginnings 5315 Douglas Road, Oswego 630-554-3858 • Fax 630-5543865 harvest@harvestnewbeginnings. com www.harvestnewbeginnings.com Sunday Service Times: 9 and 10:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.

Sunday School 2 years - adult 5:30 Awana, Adult Bible Study Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Awana, 3yr-6th/Jr. High Youth 7 p.m. Bible Study, Prayer Mtg. Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Sr. High youth Friday, 7 p.m. Celebrate Recovery Quality nursery provided at all services Grace Community Church 1108 Mill St., Yorkville 630-553-0700 Pastor Ivan Truman gccyorkville@sbcglobal.net www.gccyorkville.net Sundays Nursery available Sunday morning service Summer Schedule: No Sunday school 10 a.m. Morning Worship Children’s Church (begins during the offertory) Sunday Evenings, Teen Ministry and Small Groups see website calendar Crosspointe 8 W. Rickard Drive, Oswego Pastor J. Andrew Post 630-554-3875 www.crosspointeoswego.org Sunday

How to submit Send any changes or additions to your church listing to news@kendallcountynow.com. Deadline for changes is noon Mondays.

9 a.m. Sunday School-all ages 10:30 a.m. Worship 5:30 p.m. Revolution (grades 7-12) 6 p.m. TeamKid 6 p.m. Adult Bible Study Calvary Baptist Church 140 Montgomery Road, Montgomery, IL 630-896-7098 Sunday 9:30 a.m. Bible Study 10:45 a.m. Worship Service 6 p.m. Evening Bible Study First Baptist Church of Plano 116 N. Hale St., Plano Church: 630-552-3641 or 630-552-0544 Rev. Richard Kenneavy, Interim New Hope Baptist Church 4101 Needham Road, Plano 630-552-1400 Pastor Dennis Cocks Sunday, 9:45 am Sunday School all ages 10:45 am Morning Worship 6 pm Evening Worship Wednesday 7 pm Bible Study and Prayer Nursery is provided – all services.

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Fox River Baptist Church 1205 7th Avenue, Aurora Kerry James Allen, Pastor 630-820-5870 www.foxriverbaptistchurch.org Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Morning Service 6 p.m. Evening Service Wednesday, 7 p.m. Evening Service Valley Baptist Church 2480 Wolf Road, Oswego Pastor David Hemphill 630-554-8109 www.valleybaptist.com pastor@valleybaptist.com Sunday 9:45 am Sunday School all ages 11 am Morning Worship 6 pm Evening Worship 8 pm TV Ministry on Channel 10 Cable ACTV Wednesday 7 pm King Kids; eve. Worship 9 pm TV Ministry-chnl17 Cable Deaf Interpreter for all services Park Place Baptist Church 1144 S. Lincoln, Montgomery 630-897-6810 www.park-place.org Sunday 9 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. Coffee and Fellowship 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship First Baptist Church of Big Rock 211 Lincoln St., Big Rock Rev. Bill McMillen • 630-556-3535 Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. Worship Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Bible study and prayer The Federated Church American Baptist Presbyterian U.S.A. Pastor Dan DeWitt 403 North Main Street, Sandwich 815-786-8595 office@sandwichfederatedchurch.org www.sandwichfederatedchurch. org Office hours 8 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday Sunday Worship: June through August - 9 a.m.

September through May - 10:30 a.m.

630-388-5000 www.communitychristian.org Sunday 9:30 & 11 a.m. Worship service Grace Community Christian Church 2770 Montgomery Rd., Aurora 630-898-7990 • Fax 630-898-7955 www.graceccc.org Sunday 9 a.m. Worship service 10:30 a.m. Classes Nursery available 8 until noon Redeemer Community Church (meets at Plank Junior High) 510 Secretariat Lane, Oswego Office 630-820-9742 Sunday, 10 a.m. Celebration meeting (effective children’s ministry class unites during main meeting) Cornerstone Christian Church Bob Reid, Minister 254 S. Madison, Oswego 3 blocks south of Post Office 630-554-2292 • Fax 630-5541988 www.cornerstonecc.net Sunday 9 a.m. Bible Study 10 a.m. Worship Celebration & Kids Central (Nursery available) Wednesday 6 p.m. Fellowship Potluck Dinner 7 p.m. Prayer Service 7 p.m. Youth Group(Jr.-Sr. High) 1st Monday of each month from 6am 24-hr Community Prayer Vigil The Redeemed Christian Church of God Kings’ Court Parish 5313 US Highway 34, Oswego Tel/Fax 630-608-2011 kingscourtil@yahoo.com Sunday 9:45-10:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30-12:30 Worship service Wednesday, 7-8:30 p.m. Bible Study Friday, 7-8 p.m. Breakthrough Hour Community Christian Church 131 Montgomery Road, Montgomery 630-388-5000 Campus Pastor: John Rinehimer www.communitychristian.org Sundays 9:30 & 11 a.m. Worship Service Plano Christian Church 9 Schomer Lane, Plano Stan Motley, Pastor www.pcc4him.com 630-552-7640 Sunday 9 & 10:30 a.m. Sunday School & Worship Service Big Life Community Church Traughber Junior High School 570 Colchester Drive, Oswego www.biglifecc.org “It’s for you.”

Sundays, 10 a.m. Worship CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN Neighborhood Church of The Brethren 155 Boulder Hill Pass, Montgomery 630-897-3347 ncotb@sbcglobal.net Rev. Mark Flory-Steury, Pastor Sunday 9:15 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Worship Service Handicapped accessible building.

Neighborhood Counseling Associates 630-844-3001 CHURCH OF GOD

CHRISTIAN

Destiny Worship Center 1355 Hinman St., Montgomery Pastor James Schulker 630-851-5055 Sunday 10 a.m. Worship 6 p.m. UnDone Youth Worship Wednesday 6 p.m. Small groups-all ages Thursday 6 p.m. Men’s basketball-open gym

Community Christian Church 129 Commercial Drive, Yorkville Pastor Aaron Koehler

Plano Church of God 7 E. Dearborn, Plano Pastor John Todd

630-877-3604 Sunday, 10 a.m. Worship Service Wednesday, 7 p.m. Bible Study CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Oswego) 100 Hankes Road, Sugar Grove Bishop Jeff Haddon 630-940-7211 Missionary - 630-270-6664 Sunday 9 a.m. Sacrament Meeting 10:20 a.m. Sunday School- Primary 11:10 Priesthood-Relief Society Wednesday 7 p.m. Youth Activity/Scouts Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Prestbury) 100 Hankes Road, Sugar Grove Bishop Golden Hwang 630-466-3299 Sunday 9 a.m. Sacrament Meeting 10:20 am Sunday School/Primary 11:10 a.m. Priesthood/Relief Society Tuesday 7 p.m. Youth Activity CONGREGATIONAL Yorkville Congregational United Church of Christ 409 Center Parkway, Yorkville Pastor: Rev. Mark Gregory Office: 630-553-7308 Office hours: T-F 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 6 10 a.m. Worship Service with Communion served 11 a.m. Coffee Fellowship Monday, Sept. 7 Church and office closed Tuesday, Sept. 8 10 a.m. pastoral meeting with Goldie and Susan Noon preschool screening 6 p.m. PPR 7 p.m. Stewardship Wednesday, Sept. 9 2 p.m. Staff Meeting 4 p.m. Youth Drop-in 6 p.m. Pastoral Care 7 p.m. Adult Choir 7 p.m. PeaceJam CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Christian Science Society 117 E. Second St., Sandwich www.chicagospirituality.com Sunday, 10:30 Service EPISCOPAL St. David’s Episcopal Church 701 N. Randall Road, Aurora 630-896-7229 www.stdavidsofaurora.com Office hours: Mon. & Thurs. 9-1 Sunday, 9 a.m. Worship Service St. Edward and Christ Episcopal Church (Anglican) Christ Campus 2800 Grove Road, Yorkville between Rt. 126 & Caton Farm Rd. Rev. Kathryn White, Rector Rev. Richard Lundgren, Associate Rector 815-725-6800 www.secec.net Sundays, 11 a.m. Communion St. Thomas Episcopal (Anglican) 317 Goold Park Drive (Chapin St., West), Morris Rev. James L. Steele, Rector 815-942-1380 Sundays, 9 a.m.

Holy Communion, Nursery Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Teaching Service Prayer for the Sick LUTHERAN Plattville Lutheran Church 5475 Bell Road, Minooka Pastor Bret L. Reedy Office 815-475-7220 Parsonage 815-475-4127 Sunday 9:15 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Sunday School St. John’s Lutheran Church 235 S. Green St., P.O. Box 245 Somonauk, IL 60552 815-498-3667 Pastor William Weidenbach Jr.

www.elcastjohns.com Saturday, 5 p.m. Worship Sunday, 9 a.m. Worship 10 a.m. Faith Dialogue Bible Study – all ages welcome Thursday, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Our Sharing Pantry Cross Lutheran - LCMS Church and School Rt. 47, 3 miles south of Yorkville Church office 630-553-7335 Pastor Erik Gauss Susan Lopez, school principal www.hiscross.org Thursday, Sept. 3, GriefShare 7 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 4, Young at Heart Organization at Sunfield’s 1 p.m., Citizen Way Concert at Beecher Park 7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 5, Men’s Bible Study 6 a.m., Traditional Worship Service w/Communion 5 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 6, No Worship Services at Cross! Hometown Days Worship Service at Beecher Park 10 a.m., HS Bible Study - Offsite 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 8, Carlson/Nona Community Group 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 9, Senior Women’s Bible Study 9:30 a.m., Club 56 6:30 p.m., HS 24/7 Youth Night 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 10, Worship Service for Seniors 9:15 a.m., Heritage Woods Meditation 10 a.m., International Missions Meeting 6 p.m., GriefShare 7 p.m.

Grace Lutheran Church 10025 N. Route 47, Morris (3 miles north of Morris on Route 47 at Airport Road) Pastor Steven Heilman Church 815-942-2252 Sunday 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:15 a.m. Morning Worship 10:45 a.m. Sunday School and Adult Education Helmar Lutheran Church Corner of Lisbon & Helmar Roads, Newark Pastor James Molstre 815-695-5489 For September: Sundays: 9 a.m. Worship, 10:15 a.m. Sunday School Wednesdays (beginning on the 16th): 2:30 p.m. Senior Bible Study, 6:30 p.m. ROOTS, Adult Bible Study, 7:30 p.m. High School Bible Study 2nd Friday: Food Pantry 5 to 7 p.m.

4th Monday: Food Pantry 3 to 5 p.m.

Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. Men’s Bible Study 2nd Thursday: Faith Circle at 7 p.m.

Immanuel Lutheran Church (ELCA) 10104 Immanuel Road, Yorkville Pastor Michael Neel 630-553-5368 www.ImmanuelYorkville.org Sunday Service 9 a.m. Contemporary Worship Service 10:30 a.m. Traditional Service Sunday School begins Sept. 13 at 9:30 a.m.

Thursday, Sept. 3 Caring Visits 4:30 p.m. Hesed House Tuesday, Sept. 8 1:30 p.m. Ruth Circle 7 p.m. Council Meeting Wednesday, Sept. 9 9 a.m. Busy Hands Living Heritage Lutheran Church Rev. James Barbey, Pastor 630-552-3926 Services at the Chapel of Turner-Eighner Funeral Home 3952 Turner Avenue Sunday Services: 9 a.m. Divine Service 10:15 a.m. Adult Study and Sunday School St. Olaf Lutheran Church 1233 Douglas Road, Montgomery 630-896-1311 stolafchurch@sbcglobal.net Pre-School 630-896-3004 Sunday, 10:15 a.m. Worship Service

Fox River Lutheran Church 2785 E. US Hwy Rt. 52, Sheridan Pastor Kevin Garner 815-695-9926 Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:45 a.m. Sunday School all ages St. Luke’s Lutheran Church & School - LCMS 63 Fernwood Road, Montgomery Rev. Peter Hoffman, Sr. Pastor Robinette Flach,School Principal Church Office 630-892-9309 School Office 630-892-0310 stlcfamily.org Saturday, 5:30 p.m. Blended Worship Sunday, 8 a.m. Traditional Worship 9:30 a.m. Sunday School and Bible Study 10:45 a.m. Contemporary Worship with Praise Band St. Mark’s Lutheran Church 27 S. Edgelawn Drive, Aurora 630-897-6891 www.stmarksaurora.net Saturday, 5:30 p.m. Worship Service Sunday, 9 & 10:30 a.m. Worship Service and Sunday School (pre-K-5) Nursery available during all services.

Faith Lutheran Church ELCA 3000 Liberty St., Aurora 630-862-3500 Sunday 8 a.m. Traditional Worship 9:30 a.m. Blended Service KidWerks (Sunday School) 11 a.m. Praise Gathering New Song Community Lutheran Church (LCMS) 2858 Hafenrichter Road, Aurora www.newsongchurch.net Pastor Jason Dail 630-499-0542 Office Hours Mon. and Wed. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Tues. and Thurs. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday 10 a.m. Worship service Children’s message Nursery and Promiseland Kids offered at services Prayer team available after service Followers of Christ Lutheran Church (ELCA) 12357 248th Ave., Plainfield Pastor Ronald Voss 815-439-0700 • 630-554-4318 followersofchirst3@yahoo.com ww.followersofchirstelca.com Child care provided Sunday 9 a.m. Worship Service 10:15 a.m. Christian Education - all ages 12:30 p.m. Youth Group Monday, 4:30 p.m. Catechism 6:20 p.m. Youth Choir Tuesday, 7 p.m. Disciple Bible Study Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Adult Choir Practice Lisbon Bethlehem Church 108 E. Woodman St. (Lisbon) Newark, IL Rev. Larry Jacobsgaard, Pastor Ph. 815-736-6271 Sunday 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:45 a.m. Sunday School Newark Lutheran Church (A.F.L.C.) 101 E. Liberty St., Newark Pastor: Luke Emerson Church: 815-695-5251 newarklutheran@hotmail.com www.newarklcaflc.org Sunday Services: 8:45 a.m. Coffee and Fellowship 9:30 a.m. Worship Service 10:45 a.m. Adult and Youth Sunday School Our Savior Lutheran Church 420 W. Downer Place, Aurora Ph. 630-897-5936 Pastor Jeff Mikyska www.oursavioraurora.org Saturday, 5 p.m. Krentz Chapel Sunday, 9 a.m. Sanctuary 10:15 a.m. Sunday School First Lutheran Church 200 North Center St., Plano

630-552-8263 Pastor Bruce Booher June-August Worship Schedule: Saturday, 5 p.m. Worship Sunday, 9 a.m. Worship Holy Communion every Sunday Nursery area provided, but there are no attendants for the summer.

Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELCA) 1022 North Main St., Sandwich Rev. Wayne Derber, Pastor 815-786-9308 www.wearesalemlutheran.org Sunday, 8 a.m. Traditional Worship 9:15 a.m. Christian Education hour 10:30 a.m. Contemporary Worship Our Savior’s Lutheran Church 2465 W. Sandwich Road Corner of Pratt & W. Sandwich Rd., Sandwich, IL 60548 Office 815-786-6406 Rev. David J. Kaul, Pastor www.our-saviors.com Saturday, 5:30 p.m. Contemporary Worship Sunday, 8 a.m. Traditional Worship 9:30 a.m. Family Worship; Sunday School Events for the entire family: King’s Kids, grades K-3 Servants of Christ grades 4-6 Jr. High, Youth alive for Teens Helmar Lutheran Church 11935 Lisbon Rd., Newark, IL Pastor James Molstre Intern- Jon Langness Sunday- Worship 9 a.m.

Grief Share 6:30pm 2nd Friday of each month - Food Pantry 5-7 p.m.

4th Monday of each month- Food Pantry 3-5 p.m.

METHODIST Wheatland Salem Church www.wheatlandsalem.org 630-904-1035 One church, two locations 1217 Wolf Rd. Oswego Sunday 9 & 10:30 a.m. Worship and Sunday School Tuesday 6:30-8:30 p.m. Youth Group 1852 W. 95th St. Naperville Sunday 8:30, 9:45 & 11 a.m. Worship 9:45 & 11 a.m. Sunday School Wednesday 6:30-8:30 p.m. Youth Group Ministries for all ages all week See website for all of the offerings Millington United Methodist 200 Orleans Street Millington, IL 60537 630-531-0239 cell 630-416-0612 home 815-695-5378 church Pastor Kirk C. Scott Handicapped Accessible MillingtonUMConthefox.org Sunday 10 a.m. Worship service with children’s moments Thursday 10 a.m. Women’s Bible Study 1st & 3rd Thursdays Noon to 3 p.m. Little Dresses Sewing Mission Sugar Grove United Methodist 176 Main St., Sugar Grove Pastor CheonEui Oh Office hours: M, W, F 7 a.m.-Noon 630-466-4501 www.sgumc.net sugargroveumc@sbcglobal.net Sunday Services 8 a.m. Worship at Harter Road property under the pavilion 9:30 a.m. Worship at Main St. Plattville United Methodist Located at Church Rd. & Plattville Rd. 13025 Church Road, Yorkville Pastor Terry McLaughlin 815-475-4128 Sept. 4, 8:30 a.m., Walking Program Sept. 6, 10 a.m., Worship Service-Communion Sept. 7, 8:30 a.m., Walking Program 6:30 p.m., Line Dancing

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Kendall County Record • Plano Record • Ledger-Sentinel • Thursday, September 3, 2015 • • Continued from page 10 Sept. 8, 8:30 a.m., Walking Program Sept. 9, 8:30 a.m., Walking Program 6:30 p.m., Line Dancing Sept. 10, 8:30 a.m., Walking Program Bethany of Fox Valley United Methodist Church 2200 Ridge Avenue Rt. 34 & Ridge Ave, Aurora Rev. Sam Park, Pastor 630-851-8010 www.BethanyFoxValleyUMC.org Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Nursery Available Handicapped Accessible Sunday, 8 & 10:30 a.m. Worship 9:15 a.m. Sunday School for all ages Millbrook United Methodist 8360 Fox River Dr., P. O. Box 50 Millbrook, IL 60536 Pastor Kent Svendsen 630-553-7568 Nursery available Handicapped accessible Holy Communion 1st & 3rd Sundays of each month Sunday, 9 a.m. Worship Service, 9 a.m. Sunday School Thursday, 4-6 p.m. Pastor office hours, 6 p.m. Choir, 7 p.m. Bible Study Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church 5 W. Washington St. Downtown Oswego Philip W. Sheets, Pastor 630-554-3269 www.goodshepherdoswego.org Office Hours: Mon - Fri 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

United Methodist Church of Plano 219 North Hale Street Plano, IL 60545 630-552-3700 Pastor Kent Svendsen website: www.umcplano.org godrilla@accessus.netoffice@ umcplano.org Saturday, Sept. 5 10 a.m. Al-Anon Meeting 10 a.m. AA Sunday, Sept. 6 10:30 a.m. Worship Service 1:30 p.m. Templo Sion Tuesday, Sept. 8 6:30 p.m. Templo Sion *Handicapped Accessible* Trinity Church United Methodist 2500 Boomer Lane (corner of 47 & Cannonball Trail) Yorkville, 60560 • 630-553-7645 Pastor Michael Stoner

www.trinityum.net Trinitychurchoffice@gmail.com Office hours: Mon.-Fri. 9-2 Sunday 9 a.m. Worship Service 9 a.m. Kid’s church 10 a.m. Coffee Fellowship 10 a.m. Adult Classes 6 p.m. Youth Monday, 7:30 p.m. AA meeting Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. Al-Anon Wednesday Noon and 7 p.m. Study Groups Friday 6:30 Java Jesus Saturday 7:30 Weight Watchers The Warehouse Church 308 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora Pastor Randy Schoof 630-859-0600 www.warehousechurch.org Office hours: Tues-Fri 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Worship Service Sunday at 10 a.m.

PENTECOSTAL Gospel Assembly Church 7090 Route 34, Oswego, IL Pastor: D.L. Dycus 630-554-2313 Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Worship Service Sunday, 1 p.m. Worship/Sunday School 5:30 p.m. Worship Service Thursday, 7 p.m. Worship Service Suydam United Methodist Church Suydam Road and Route 23 Pastor Daegyu Yim (Dave) August: Joint Service with LUMC at Leland UMC - 9 a.m.

Communion served 1st Sunday of each month.

PRESBYTERIAN Au Sable Grove Presbyterian Church (the country church) Pulpit Supply Rev. Betty Weidert Grove & Wheeler Roads 1 mile south of Rt. 126 Yorkville, IL 60560 630-554-3507 www.ausablegrovepresbyterian. com Oswego Presbyterian Church 1976 Route 25, Oswego, Illinois 60543 Ph: 630-554-8194, Fax: 630-5540537 Transitional Pastor, Head of Staff Kimberly Hulen Associate Pastor Sunday, Sept. 6 10 a.m. Worship Monday, Sept. 7 6:30 p.m. We-Go Quiltin’ 7 p.m. Boy Scouts

Tuesday, Sept. 8 1 p.m. Staff Meeting Wednesday, Sept. 9 6:25 p.m. Adult Hand Bell Choir 7 p.m. Deacons Meeting 7:25 p.m. Chancel Choir 7:30 p.m. Open AA Big Book Study Thursday, Sept. 10 11:30 a.m. ROMEO’s to Tap House Grill 7 p.m. Stewardship Committee Meeting Wheatland Presbyterian Church 11839 S. Heggs Rd., Plainfield Two miles south of Wolf Crossing Road and Rt. 30 at the corner Heggs Road &119th St. Rev. Jack Lilley 630-904-1140 Sunday 9 a.m. Faith Focus: Adult Bible Study, Spiritual Growth, Youth Activities 10 a.m. Worship w/nursery care Children’s Sunday School Genesis Community Church 1300 South Broadway Montgomery Pastor Jeffrey Barrett 630-896-7773 • Fax 630-8593355 A Member of PC USA Sunday 9:30 a.m. Sun. School, all ages 10:40 a.m. Worship Service Wednesday 7 p.m. Prayer Service ROMAN CATHOLIC St. Mary Roman Catholic Church 901 N. Center Ave., Plano 630-552-3448 • Fax 630-5523450 www.saintmaryplano.com Rev. Andy Davy, M.I.C. Pastor Deacon Eduardo Murillo Deacon Douglas Wells Deacon Santos Martinez Masses: Monday thru Saturday: 8 a.m.

Saturday, 4-4:45 p.m. Reconciliation 5 p.m. Vigil English Sunday, 8 & 10 a.m. Mass Noon, Spanish Mass Religious Education: 630-552-1505 Wednesday, 6 - 7:30 p.m.

Office hours: M-F 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

St. Patrick Catholic Church 406 Walnut St., Yorkville 630-553-6671 • Fax: 630-5532695 Info@StPatrickYorkville.org www.stpatrickyorkville.org Pastor: Rev. Matthew Lamoureux, M.I.C. Deacons: Donald Cyr, Dale Metcalf

Mass schedule: Daily: Monday - Saturday 8 a.m.

Vigil Mass: Saturday 5 p.m.

Sunday: 8 & 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Childcare during 10:30 a.m.

Masses Confession Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.

Saturday 4:15 p.m.

Sunday 9:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m.

Religious Education: 630-553-6671 Preschool-8th Grade Registration: 630-552-3345 Parish Summer Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Friday 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

St. Peter Catholic Church 925 Sard Ave., Aurora Rev. Joachim Tyrtania, Pastor 630-896-6816 Saturday Mass, 4:30 p.m.

Confessions/Adoration, 3:30 4:15 p.m.

Sunday Mass: 7:30 & 9:30 a.m.

11:30 a.m. (Spanish) Monday: Communion Service 8 a.m.

Tues, Thurs, Friday: Mass 8 a.m.

Wednesday, Mass 8:30 a.m. (during summer 8 a.m.)

St. Anne Catholic Church 551 Boulder Hill Pass, Oswego 630-554-3331 • Fax 630-5540530 Pastor: Rev. John J. Ouper Pastoral Associate: Sr. Margaret Anne Spagnola, OSM Deacons: David Brockman; Duane Wozek; James Perry Masses 8 a.m. Mon. Wed. Fri. 7 a.m. Tues. Thurs.

7 p.m. Wed. Sat. 3:30 p.m. Confessions Sat. 5 p.m. Mass Sun. 7:30, 9:15, & 11 a.m.

St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church 340 W. Arnold Rd., Sandwich Rev. Gerard Christianson, Parochial Administrator Office: 815-786-9266 Mass Times: Monday, 8:30 a.m.

Tuesday, 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday 8:30 a.m.

Saturday Eve, 5 p.m.

Sunday Morning, 8 and 10 a.m.

Spanish Mass, noon OTHER SERVICES Sandwich Church of the Nazarene 205 West College St.,Sandwich Pastor Mark Abbott Church 815-786-8230 Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday School all ages 10:40 a.m.

Worship Service Wednesday, 7 p.m. Prayer Service

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Plano Fellowship Meeting at P.H. Miller School N. Lew St., Plano New families welcome Sunday, 10 a.m. Praise & Worship Family friendly Bible teachings Home Meetings during the week Call 552-8868, 552-3091, 5523373 or 553-5087.

Vineyard Christian Fellowship 155 Kirkland Circle, Oswego Pastor Al Arellano www.sentbyravensvcf.com 630-896-1322 Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Worship The United Church of Sandwich 512 Lions Road, Sandwich, IL 60548 815-786-9243 email address: ucssandwich@ frontier.com website: unitedchurchsandwich. org Saturday, Sept. 5, 8 a.m. Fair Stand setup Sunday, Sept. 6, 10 a.m. Worship @ Fair Stand Monday, Sept. 7, Labor Day Office Closed Wednesday, Sept. 9, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Visit us at the Sandwich Fair Thursday, Sept. 10, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Visit us at the Sandwich Fair

regular monthly retreats.

Worship

Oswego Family Church 5498 Route 34, Oswego www.oswegofamilychurch.com Sunday, 10 a.m. Worship Service

Plano Bible Church 1111 West South St., Plano Pastor: Ed Schoenberger Church office phone: 630-5528877 www.planobiblechurch.org Sunday 9 a.m. Christian Education Hour 10:15 a.m. Morning Worship Nursery available Wednesday 6:30 - 8 p.m. FYSH Youth Group for 7th thru 12th grades

Cornerstone Church 17347 Pratt Road, Sandwich 815-786-6300 Pastor Paul Banister www.cornerstoneofsandwich. com Sunday 10 a.m. Worship for all ages Nursery: up to age 1 Toddler: 2 & 3 years of age Children’s Church: 4 to grade 3 Kids Zone: 4-6 grade Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Prayer driven worship J.A.M. Time (Jesus and Me) 6:30-8:30 p.m. (K-6th grade) every other Friday Student Ministries (Jr. High & HS) Events to be announced L.I.F.E. Groups held in Sandwich, Somonauk, Hinckley Times and locations can be found in the church bulletin, website or call the church Food Pantry 12:30 p.m.

Serving residents of Plano, Sandwich, Sheridan, Somonauk 1st and 3rd of each month

Community of Christ 304-320 S. Center, Plano 60545 Co-Pastors Miranda Campbell and Jim Wynkoop 630-552-8990 Sunday, 9:30-10:15 a.m. Sunday School/ Rogers Hall 10:30 a.m. Worship Service at Stone Church - Easter through December and Rogers Hall January to Easter.

Stone Church Tours: Call Donna at 815-695-5937 River’s Edge Fellowship Meeting at Oswego. Civic Ctr. 5 Ashlawn Ave, Boulder Hill Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Worship Service For information, call F. Johnson, 630-546-9859

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Plano Church Of Christ 406 N. Lew St., Plano Bryan Bickford 815-786-7693 Sunday, 10 a.m. Bible Study 10:50 a.m., 4 p.m. Worship Wednesday, 7 p.m. Bible Study Vineyard Aurora Church Contemporary Church 505 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora Pastor Robby Dawkins 630-896-5196 www.vineyardfoxvalley.org www.sentbyravensvcf.com Sunday, 9 & 10:45 a.m. Services

Worldwide Deliverance Ministries, Inc. meeting at Lakewood Springs North Clubhouse, Plano Pastor Michael King Sunday 9-10 a.m. Sunday School 10:30-Noon Worship Service Wednesday 6:30-8 p.m. Bible Study

West Lisbon Church 14381 Joliet Road, Newark 815-736-6331 www.westlisbon.com office@westlisbon.com Pastor Rex J. Howe Sunday 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Worship Service Nursery: Infants - 3 years Children’s Church: 3 years - 3rd grade Wednesday 6 p.m. Awana 6-7:30 p.m. Jr. High Youth Group 7:15-8:45 p.m. High School Youth Group

Acorn Yokefellow Retreat Center Open 365 Days a Year 630-553-6233 Available to you, your church or participate in our

Southwest Community Church at Jones Elementary School 800 Barberry Way, Joliet 815-725-3782 www.southwestonline.org Sunday, 9:30 & 10:45 a.m.

Jacob’s Well 222 Mitchell Drive, Plano Services at NCG Cinema 1505 N. Bridge St., Yorkville www.welcometothewell.com 630-695-1444 Sunday 9 a.m. Worship Adult: Contemporary Worship & relevant Bible teaching Children: SPLASH! Jr: Age 3-5 SPLASH! Kindergarten through 4th grade SPLASH! BABY: Staffed Nursery Throughout the week: VAPOR: Teens, high school and post high school meet evenings weekly.

LIFEGroup: Casual adult gatherings throughout the week.

Emmanuel Church 701 Lions Rd., Sandwich Pastor Joe MacDonald 815-786-2400 www.emmanuelchurchsandwich. com Sunday, 10:45 a.m. Worship Message of the Cross Church 101 S. Ottawa Rd., Newark 630-768-3550 MOTCC@gmail.com Brian L. Haney Sunday, 10 a.m. & 7 p.m. Worship Tuesday, 11 a.m. Ladies Bible Study Wednesday, 7 p.m. Worship Service The Original Temple of God Church 626 N. Root St., Aurora, IL 60505 630-892-3757 • Fax: 630-8969608 Bishop Jettie Taylor, Pastor Friday, 10 a.m. Prayer-Bible Study Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Worship Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. Bible Study SPIRIT-FILLED Abundant Life Family Church 4000 Westbrook Drive, Aurora (1 minute from Fox Valley Mall) AbundantLifeFoxValley.org 630-851-LIFE (5433) Sunday, 10 a.m. Worship

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CHURCH BRIEFS West Lisbon Church planning dinner

The West Lisbon Church will host a pork chop/ chicken dinner, catered by 5Bs from Waterman, and a basket raffle drawing on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7, at the Lisbon Grade School.

Serving times are from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and $11 and are available at the church in advance and at the door the day of the event. All proceeds realized will go to Christmas gifts for missionaries overseas.

Meals include meat, coleslaw, applesauce, baked beans, beverage and a slice of fresh homemade pie or cake or kringla. Kids’ meals are also available.

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The St. Patrick Men’s Club awarded $2,000 in scholarship funds to two students at the 16th annual St. Patrick Golf Outing and Awards Banquet held at Blackberry Oaks Golf Course on Sunday, Aug. 16. Awards were given to Madeline Montgomery (St. Mary School – Plano) and Jenna McGill (Aurora Central Catholic – Aurora). ABOVE: (From left) Rev. Matthew Lamoureux, scholarship winner Madeline Montgomery, Rev. Michael Callea and Robert Montgomery. RIGHT: (From left) Rev. Matt Lamoureux, scholarship winner Jenna McGill and Rev. Michael Callea.

cialty items will be held at 1 p.m. at the school. Raffle tickets can be purchased on Labor Day prior to the drawing. The West Lisbon Church is at 14381 Joliet Road, Newark.

Trinity seeks crafters for Sept. 19 market

Trinity Church United Methodist is hosting its third annual Trinity Market Place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, at 2505 Boomer Lane, Yorkville.

The church is seeking crafters, flea marketers, vendors, and home-based business owners to join the market.

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Most scales are a bother earlier in the summer and magnolia scale later in August. This year, calls started coming in mid-June, well ahead of normal. Calls were not always about the scale in the beginning, rather “What is all this black stuff all over everything?”

As the young scale crawlers begin to feed on the plant juices, much of it passes through their bodies and onto surfaces below. That sticky exudate is a great growth media for sooty mold, the black material covering foliage, lawn ornaments, the grill, sidewalks and driveways, not to mention the car parked under the canopy

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Magnolia scale has very likely been living quietly and peacefully on the magnolia tree for a long time, going unnoticed or creating minimal sooty mold below. In order to have such a large population this year, conditions last year were perfect, allowing large numbers of female scales to overwinter to produce all the crawlers this year.

While the sooty mold is not desirable on plants below and other belongings, it is worse for the magnolia as it can completely cover the upper sides of the foliage, greatly reducing the plants ability to produce photosynthates.

Additionally, the crawlers are removing the liquids from the plant, as well. The magnolia will not overwinter as well as it should, may not produce the blooms for next year and even suffer dieback from winter cold weather. With these heavy infestations, losing interior foliage and limbs is a strong possibility.

With the abundance of crawler scales there should also be a strong increase in the number of

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natural predators feeding on the crawlers. The Twice Spotted lady beetle and other lady beetle larvae stages eat well. If predators are present, control options are limited to insecticidal soap. If management is going to include pesticides, the label will need to list the insect to be sprayed. Like other scale insects, dormant oil sprays are also effective in controlling overwintering female adult scales.

To help the magnolias with the loss of sap, water now and keep watering until it is time to remove the hose from the house for the winter.

Master Gardener Help Desk: Questions about your yard or garden? The Kendall County Master Gardener Help Desk is still open this season. Trained volunteers are available to help with your tree, garden, lawn and other horticulture questions from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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Natural Beginnings lead teacher presents at preschool conference KENDALL COUNTY RECORD Megan Gessler, manager and lead teacher of Natural Beginnings Early Learning Program, recently traveled to Gainesville, Ga., as a presenting speaker at the 2015 National Nature-Based Preschool Conference.

Gessler represented both the Kendall County Forest Preserve District, home of Natural Beginnings, and the Northern Illinois Nature Preschool Association.

In presenting the conclusion of the final seminar, Gessler detailed how she and Natural Beginnings have partnered with other local organizations – from Red Oak Nature Center’s preschool to the Morton Arboretum and the Chicago Botanic Garden – to share ideas and resources at a regional level.

“Megan was a great addition to the planning committee for the National Nature Preschool Conference. Her work on a regional level in creating NINPA is not only inspirational to other leaders, but provides the framework for getting started.

Her presentation brought that to life for the conference attendees in a fun and energizing way.

It was impressive the expanse of ideas that were generated during her session, and that people have already started implementing,” said Rachel Larimore, director of education at Chippewa Nature Center and author of “Establishing a Nature-Based Preschool.”

Gessler is currently working on her Master’s of Education from Antioch University New England, where there is specific instruction on running a nature-based early childhood education program.

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Megan Gessler was a presenting speaker at the 2015 National Nature-Based Preschool Conference. In 2013, she founded the Northern Illinois Nature Preschool Association to connect with other nature-based preschools.

“I have always loved the outdoors and I enjoy working with young children. It is a blessing to find a profession where your passion and your job duties unite. I am excited to see where the future of nature-based education is headed and I want to be a part of it,” said Gessler.

In 2013, Gessler founded the Northern Illinois Nature Preschool Association hoping to find other nature-based preschools to connect with.

NINPA now has over 30 members from more than 15 different facilities/programs.

As nature-based education is on the rise, NINPA strives to set standards for the profession through professional development opportunities, curriculum sharing, networking opportuni-

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ties and resource sharing. For more information, email ninpainfo@gmail.com.

As part of the Kendall County Forest Preserve District, Natural Beginnings is located on the county’s largest forest preserve, consisting of over 400 acres.

Hoover Forest Preserve provides an unparalleled location for nature-based learning. Children will discover the wonder and beauty found in Hoover’s prairies, woodland trails and creeks, as well as the Fox River.

This program is designed to encourage children to explore the connections between their lives and the world around them. For more information, email mgessler@co.kendall. il.us.

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Learn about preserving food SHAW MEDIA Whether you grow your own, or frequent the farmers market, there is nothing like the taste of fresh, ripe produce. Imagine experiencing it year round.

“Food preservation is an amazing way to stretch the flavor and freshness of your home harvest or local farmers market,” said Laura Barr, University of Illinois Extension Nutrition and Wellness Educator. “I have ‘put up’ strawberry preserves, green beans, dill pickles, corn relish, tomato sauce and salsa with the fresh, abundant produce of the season. However, proper methods and procedures must be followed for safe final products.”

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BRIEFS Fox Valley Festival Chorus seeks members

The Fox Valley Festival Chorus, under the direction of Mary Beth McCarthy, invites new members to join their fellow singers from Oswego, Yorkville, Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, Naperville, Elburn and the surrounding communities for a special season celebrating the 65th anniversary of this community chorus, which began as an activity for employees at Barber Green in Aurora.

Weekly rehearsals will begin from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 27 S. Edgelawn Drive, in Aurora.

Although the chorus rehearses in a church, the group itself has no religious affiliation. No auditions are required for chorus membership.

Additional information is available from foxvalleyfc@gmail.com or

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strations with the Aurora Farmers Market this summer.

Her next demonstration will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Aurora Farmers Market.

Barr will demonstrate how to make apple butter, and there also will be a taste testing of completed recipes.

University of Illinois Extension and the National Center for Home Food Preservation can provide the latest news on home food preservation.

For more on the NCHFP, visit http://nchfp.uga.edu.

For information about food preservation and other Nutrition and Wellness programs through the University of Illinois Extension, contact Laura Barr at llbarr@illinois.edu or 630-5846166, or visit http://web.extension.illinois.edu/dkk.

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Garage sale to raise funds for chorus

The Fox Valley Festival Chorus will hold its second annual garage sale fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 11, and Saturday, Sept.

12, at 377 Wildwood Drive in North Aurora.

The large sale includes furniture, books, toys, craft and sewing items, yarn, jewelry making, materials, sporting equipment, books, household items, picture frames and mats, jewelry and other accessories, decorative items, collectible stamps, DVDs, CDs, holiday items, and more.

Proceeds from the sale will help support the 65th season of the chorus. For additional information, contact foxvalleyfc@gmail.com.

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Creamy Polenta with Garden Tomato Sauce Garden Tomato Sauce ingredients: n 2 tablespoons olive oil n 1 medium carrot, peeled and diced, about ½ cup n 1 small celery stalk, trimmed and diced, about ½ cup n 1 medium onion, peeled and chopped n 2 large garlic cloves, diced n 18 plum tomatoes, peeled and chopped n ½ teaspoon dried oregano n ½ teaspoon salt n 4 to 8 pre-cooked Italian-style chicken sausage, cut into chunks (optional) n ¼ cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese

Creamy Polenta ingredients: n 2 cups reduced-fat milk n 2 cups water n ¾ teaspoon salt n 1½ cups stoneground cornmeal n 2 tablespoons butter Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add carrot, celery, onion and garlic; cook, stirring, 5 minutes.

Add tomatoes and any juice from the bowl.

Mash lightly with a wooden spoon. Add oregano and salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, about 20 minutes, until tomatoes have cooked down and formed a chunky sauce. Add sausage and stir to

combine. Cook 5 to 10 minutes, until sausage is heated through. Add cheese and stir well.

Remove from heat and keep warm until ready to serve.

To make polenta, combine milk and water in a large saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a simmer. Gradually add cornmeal, whisking constantly to avoid lumps. Add butter.

Reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring almost constantly, 25 to 30 minutes, until polenta is thick. Serve topped with warm sauce and chunks of sausage. Serves 4.

Recipe by Karen Berman; photo by Jessica Merchant.

By the editors of Relish Magazine

hen tomatoes are at their peak, make a delicious garden tomato sauce to serve over pasta or polenta (stone-ground cornmeal). Polenta is super easy to prepare: just bring water and milk to a boil, stir in the cornmeal and whisk like mad, whirling the grains around in the hot liquid until the whole thing thickens and becomes creamy.

The sauce works best with peeled tomatoes. Here’s an easy method: Bring a large pot of water to a boil. With a sharp knife, slice off stem ends of tomatoes and carve an “X” in opposite ends. One at a time, gently place them into boiling water. Prepare a large bowl of ice water. After a minute or so, you will see the skin around the “X” begin to curl.

With a ladle, transfer tomatoes to ice water to stop the cooking. When tomatoes are cool enough to handle, peel them while working over a bowl to catch any juices. Place peeled tomatoes in the bowl and chop coarsely.

In this recipe, we used chicken sausage because it’s less greasy and typically comes precooked, but you can use whatever sausage or meat you like (meatballs are good too), or prepare the dish with no meat at all. You can make the sauce ahead and reheat it just before serving.

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n ½ pound medium red beets, trimmed and cleaned n 1 can white beans n 2 tablespoons tahini n 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice n 1 teaspoon McCormick cumin (ground) n 1 teaspoon McCormick garlic powder n ½ teaspoon salt n ¼ teaspoon McCormick red pepper (ground) Heat oven to 425. Wrap beets in foil. Place in shallow baking pan. Roast 1 hour.

Cool. Peel and coarsely chop beets.

Drain beans, reserving ¼ cup of the liquid. Place beets, beans, tahini, lemon juice and seasonings in food processor; cover. Process until smooth, scraping down sides as necessary. Add reserved liquid; process until smooth. Spoon dip into small bowl. Cover.

Refrigerate.

To serve, drizzle dip with olive oil.

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Celebrating Our 37thth Year

16 COUNTYWIDE • Thursday, September 3, 2015 • Kendall County Record • Plano Record • Ledger-Sentinel

4-H’ers awarded at state fair SHAW MEDIA

Kendall County 4-H’er Zachary Perkins of Millbrook won Land of Lincoln Grand Champion Barrow Over All Breeds at the Illinois State Fair this August. A number of other area 4-H’ers also took home Illinois State Fair honors.

Kendall and Kane County 4-H’ers earned several honors in the Junior Show livestock events at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield in August. Local youth even claimed Champion and Reserve Champion titles during the annual competitions.

Local results, as posted on the Illinois State Fair website, are as follows:

SWINE

In the Berkshire Junior Show’s Barrow 298-300 class, Cody Pitstick of Maple Park placed second and Zach White of Yorkville placed third. Both earned the corresponding Land of Lincoln honors.

Pitstick also claimed a third-place ribbon in the Crossbred Barrow 275-276 class, and Kendall County 4-H’er Dylan Thompson of Morris placed first in the Crossbred Barrow 291-295 class, and second in the Crossbred Barrow 265-268 class.

In the Duroc shows, Zachary Perkins of Millbrook took third in the Barrow 295-299 class, with Land of Lincoln honors. Perkins went on to win Champion Duroc Barrow in the Open Show, and also won Land of Lincoln Grand Champion Barrow Over All Breeds.

Fellow Kendall County 4-H member Robert Dannenberg of Newark claimed second in the Landrace Barrow 250-300 class, and went on to earn Reserve Champion Landrace Barrow in the Junior Show with Champion Land of Lincoln honors.

He also claimed Champion Landrace Barrow in the Open Show.

In the Junior Show Gilt Classes, Pitstick earned

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Reserve Champion Crossbred Heavyweight Gilt, and both first- and second-place finishes in other classes.

Perkins won a third-place Junior Show ribbon with Land of Lincoln honors in Durocs, and Dannenberg took home third in Land of Lincoln honors.

Both Hailee Dannenberg of Newark and Jacie Panek of Batavia won a third-place finish and Land of Lincoln honors with their Spotted Swine gilts.

4-H’ers also placed throughout the Open Show including: Perkins Champion Duroc Barrow with a first-place finish in the 299300 class; Hailee Dannenberg with her second-place Duroc Barrow (280-289); Robert Dannenberg with his Champion Landrace Barrow, which took first in its 286-300 class, and his third-place Chester White Barrow (238-264); and Thompson with his first-place Crossbred Barrow (290-295) and his second-place Crossbred Barrow (250-267).

Tyler Perkins of Millbrook also claimed a thirdplace ribbon with his Crossbred Barrow (299-300).

POULTRY

Trustee To Maureen A Gonzalez, June 22 $225,000, 316 Century Dr, Oswego 60543-8348, 03-07-431013-0000, Carlos Cera Mauricio Sr To Jose L Gonzalez, July 14 $150,000, 309 Grape Vine Trl, Oswego 60543-6022, 02-01360-021-0000, Candace M Allen To Jennifer Fenske, July 7 $337,000, 317 Stoneleigh Ln, Oswego 60543-8962, 0309-426-009-0000, James M Olowniuk To Nicholas J Ferrin & Linda C Ferrin, July 23

August 3 $230,000, 2015 Havenhill Dr, Plainfield 60586-6528, 06-36274-011-0000, Julie Sampson To Joshua W Bivens & Tricia N Bivens, July 14 $207,000, 12924 White Pine Way, Plainfield 60585-2992, 03-36-182-040-0000, Nicholas Mckee To Kerry D Zenobi, July 28 $217,000, 12839 Blue Spruce Dr, Plainfield 60585-2985, 03-36-181-002-0000, Nvr Inc To Katharine M Grider & Ryan K Sheble, August 6

Kane County’s Matheu Poust of Maple Park racked up two overall Reserve Champion honors with his Illinois State Fair Junior Duck Show entries, following top finishes with his Bantam drake and duck, and his female and male entries in the miscellaneous poultry category. In large fowl chickens, Cydney Olah of Oswego placed second with her all other standard breeds cockerel and third with her pullet in the Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire and Plymouth Rock variety class. She also earned Reserve Champion Showmanship honors in the Junior Show.

In the Open Show, Olah went on to earn first-place ribbons with her Brahma Dark Cockerel and Continental any other Cockerel, and second-place finishes with her Cochin Black hen, and her Rhode Island Red single comb cock and single comb hen.

RABBITS

Abby DeDina of Hampshire earned Champion Havana Best Opposite Sex, and fellow Kane County

4-H’er Matheu Poust added a Mini-Lop Best Opposite Sex Champion honor to his poultry wins.

DeDina also claimed a first-, a second- and two third-place finishes in Havanas; a third-place in the All Other 4-Class Breeds division with her senior buck; a first-place and three second-place ribbons in the All Other 6-Class Breeds division; and a ribbon of each color from her Mini-Lop classes. Poust took home a first- and a second-place finish with his Mini-Lops, and a second-place junior doe ribbon in All Other 6-Class Breeds.

BEEF and DAIRY

Kendall County 4-H’er Jakob Setchell of Ottawa took second place in the Junior Chianina Heifer class at the Junior Beef Show. In the Junior Dairy Show, Kaitlyn Johnson of St. Charles won first in the Brown Swiss spring yearling class.

For full results, visit illinois.gov/statefair. For information on 4-H, contact Deanna Roby at roby@illinois.edu or visit http://web. extension.illinois.edu/dkk.

Learn about four Hs at 4-H kick-off event SHAW MEDIA Ever wonder what 4-H is, or what the four Hs stand for?

Answer these questions and learn more about this positive youth development program by experiencing the four Hs – head, heart, hands and health – through fun activities and informative stations this October.

Kendall County 4-H will host an open house to kick off the new 4-H year from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, in Yorkville.

The event provides an opportunity for interested families and community members to learn about 4-H, meet club members and volunteer leaders, check out 4-H curriculum and projects, and take part in hands-on activities.

“This annual 4-H open house welcomes interested families to come check out what Kendall County 4-H is all about,” said Kendall County 4-H Program Coordinator Kim Eisnaugle. “It also signifies the start of a new 4-H year and of National 4-H Week, which is Oct. 4 to 10 this year.”

Every county in Illinois has a 4-H program, which is operated through University of Illinois Extension.

4-H club membership is open to youth aged 8 to 18, and the Cloverbud program is designed for ages 5 to 7.

“4-H Youth Development programs provide hands-on learning, and focus on building leadership, citizenship and life skills,” said Eisnaugle.

“We also place an emphasis on community service and healthy lifestyles.

Through 4-H, youth can explore many areas of study, including culinary arts, visual arts, horticulture, technology, science and more than 100 others.”

According to a 10-year Tufts University research project, 4-H youth are five times more likely to graduate from college than non-4-H peers.

4-H members also are: four times more likely to make contributions to their communities, three times more likely to spend time exercising or being physically active, and twice as likely to be active in school and achieve academically.

The Kendall County 4-H kick-off event will be at the University of Illinois Extension office, 7775B Illinois Route 47 in Yorkville. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in any program, contact the office at 630-553-5823, at least two weeks prior to the event.

For more information on the 4-H program in Kendall County, visit web. extension.illinois.edu/ dkk. 4-H is part of University of Illinois Extension.

It is a community of young people across America learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. University of Illinois Extension provides educational programs and research-based information to help Illinois residents improve their quality of life, develop skills and solve problems.

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PLAINFIELD

$337,000, 13506 Arborview Cir, Plainfield 60585-2916, 06-01-127-011-0000, Darryl W Moon To Jeffrey Zawacki & Brandi Zawacki, April 10 $289,000, 12720 Grande Poplar Cir, Plainfield 60585-2826, 03-36-203-021-0000, John W Burrows To Kely K Kosmopolis & Michael P Fink, July 9 $217,500, 12915 White Pine Way, Plainfield 60585-2981, 03-36-181-006-0000, Nvr Inc To Rick Peterson & Laine Peterson, August 3 $216,000, 12712 Wild Rye Ct, Plainfield 60585-2978, 03-36108-015-0000, T & T Investors Inc To Patricia Recktenwald Vasys & Taundra Briscoe,

PLANO

$125,000, 3112 Edward St, Plano 60545-2148, 01-25-104010-0000, Matthew Kayser To Eric J Albright, July 15 $100,000, 3317 Alyssa St, Plano 60545-2182, 01-25-108009-0000, Us Bank Na To Pervez Hai, July 7 $88,000, 3011 Hoffman St, Plano 60545-1988, 01-23-430020-0000, Kryger Trust To Mary Oost, June 30 $178,000, 4106 Foh St, Plano 60545, 01-25-252-004-0000, Joseph Michalski To Efrain Cuellar Ramirez & Marylou Cuellar, July 24 $188,000, 3604 Hoffman St, Plano 60545-1897, 01-24-147-

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YORKVILLE

$163,000, 109 Center Pkwy, Yorkville 60560-1009, 02-20476-026-0000, Elizabeth M Carmichael To Nicholas White, June 8 $137,000, 10017 Lisbon Rd, Yorkville 60560-9344, 04-25-200-006-0000, John M Lundberg Estate To Ronald E Diederich & Martha A Diederich, April 30 $136,000, 231 Barrett Dr D, Yorkville 60560-3137, 02-04329-048-0000, Julian Brian Johnson To Sarah B Sapp & James Emory Sapp Sr, July 9 $597,000, 46 Woodland Dr, Yorkville 60560-9808, 02-33402-019-0000, Robert Mcquade To Ross Naheedy & Shelley Naheedy, July 27 $200,000, 394 Bertram Dr, Yorkville 60560-6020, 02-04427-004-0000, David T Jones To Sergio Ruben Rosado & Carmen Rosado, July 14 $135,000, 3754 Bailey Rd,

Yorkville 60560-4722, 02-11371-013-0000, Steven J Welter To Kathleen J Ogilvie, July 9 $236,000, 364 Sutton St, Yorkville 60560-8937, 05-09180-005-0000, Skaritka Trust To Richard V Potenza & Patricia R Potenza, June 29 $266,000, 3347 Caledonia Dr, Yorkville 60560-4649, 02-17202-018-0000, Christopher J Springborn To Susan A Dahms, July 10 $130,000, 309 Walter St, Yorkville 60560-1737, 02-33353-011-0000, Paul D Dean To Kenneth D Brown & Susan M Brown, May 13 $224,000, 2724 Alan Dale Ln, Yorkville 60560-3004, 02-17-452-002-0000, Joshua J Blomberg To Jody J Dolan & Brenda K Dolan, June 5 $129,500, 2243 Beresford Dr, Yorkville 60560-4703, 02-11352-004-0000, Charles Lamper To Angeline R Kingsbury, July 21 $275,000, 2508 Lyman Loop, Yorkville 60560-8932, 02-23130-013-0000, Ryan M Forgue To William Hope & Erin Hope, July 27 $237,000, 1463 Ruby Dr, Yorkville 60560-0139, 02-15376-027-0000, Pulte Home Corp To John M Genens & Christine Genens, July 30

$48,000, 226 Bertram Dr N, Yorkville 60560-3231, 02-04451-017-0000, Federal Home Loan Mtg Corp To Timothy W Sury, July 1 $214,000, 10 Highview Dr, Yorkville 60560-9406, 05-07127-005-0000, Leon K Boyer To Daniel E Miller & Rejena L Miller, July 22 $253,000, 2185 Hennning Ln, Yorkville 60560-4607, 02-14358-002-0000, Phh Mortgage Corp To Janine M Stalcup, July 10 $167,000, 2033 Ingemunson Ln, Yorkville 60560-7001, 05-03-353-006-0000, David R Moyer To Matthew D Hurd & Alison M Hurd, July 23 $280,000, 1837 Aster Dr, Yorkville 60560-5806, 05-05442-024-0000, Charles H Vacha Iii To Jonathon R Rosenberger & Terra Rosenberger, July 24 $135,000, 161 Willoughby Ct B, Yorkville 60560-3149, 02-04329-017-0000, Michael P Roth To Bryan Rickards, July 29 $123,000, 1512 Cottonwood Trl, Yorkville 60560-9311, 02-30-201-013-0000, David G Schafer To Nina R Guida, July 17 $164,000, 264 Burnett St, Yorkville 60560-6048, 02-04328-041-0000, Capital One Na To David L Butts, June 12