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ABOVE LEFT: Kendall County Board Vice Chairman Scott Gryder (left) honors Shaw for his years on the board at Tuesday’s meeting.

Shaw did not run for re-election in this year’s contest. ABOVE RIGHT: Kendall County Board member Jeff Wehrli (left) was honored at Tuesday’s County Board meeting for his years on the board. Wehrli has served on the board since 2003. Pictured with Wehrli is Board Chairman Shaw.

ON THE COVER Officers of the Oswego American Legion Post 675 salute the Oswego Fire Protection District Honor Guard presenting colors during the Veterans Day ceremony in downtown Oswego Friday.

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CIVIC MEETINGS WEEK OF NOV. 21-25 Monday, 6:30 p.m.: Montgomery Historic Preservation Commission, Montgomery Village Hall.

Monday, 7 p.m.: Montgomery and Countryside Fire Protection District Board, Station One, Montgomery.

Tuesday, 7 p.m.: Montgomery Village Board Committee of the Whole, Montgomery Village Hall.

But county state’s attorney says Oswego Township has corrected violations

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By ERIKA WURST news@kendallcountynow.com The construction of Oswego’s new $30 million police station is right on schedule and on budget, Village Board members learned Tuesday evening.

Final designs for the project, which has moved from the schematic phase to the design development phase, are expected to be completed in January. Until then, architects continue to tinker with details.

“It’s a really exciting night tonight,” Police Chief Jeff Burgner said Tuesday. “We’re bringing back a product that has a lot of input from the village board. We’ve taken your comments and considerations to heart and worked them into the design of the new police quarters.”

The station will be built along the south side of Woolley Road east of Plainfield Road next year, and will have a “noble presence” said Peter Ruggiero, Design Principal for Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. (HOK), who the village hired to take on the project.

Ruggiero was on hand to walk board members through minor changes made to the building’s design since its initial unveiling in October.

“Changes occur in design development, but those changes are evolutionary,” he said. “They are changes done in the name of economies and efficiencies, and the project is actually better for it.”

Designers continue to figure out ways to tie the new station to the existing fire station that sits on Woolley Road already. Their goal is to create a municipal campus between the adjacent sites.

Board Member Joe West said he wasn’t so sure the

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Retiring longtime Highway Department employees honored Kendall County Board Chairman John Shaw (center) honored County Highway Department employees Dan Reinboldt (left) and Andy Myers for their retirement at the County Board meeting Tuesday morning. Reinboldt has worked at the county for 45 years, and Myers for 38 years. County Engineer Fran Klaas told the board that Reinboldt is most likely the longest-serving employee in the county’s history.

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new station’s design, which is mostly flat, fit in with the aesthetics of the existing building.

“I know the planning committee approved the design,” West said. “But I still don’t like it. I don’t think it fits in with the community.”

Ruggiero commented that there are several common threads that will tie the campuses together, including the scale of the project, the material used and the architectural language. He explained that the modern design of the police station is one HOK feels encompasses Oswego’s wants and needs.

“Part of the charge we were given was to create a building that spoke to community policing,” he said.

“The idea of this balance between this building that has this solid base that speaks to integrity and foundation, and the more transparent upper floor which speaks to the sense of accessibility and transparency. It would be difficult to achieve that transparency and that amount of glass in a language that was much more traditionally based.”

Board Member Pam Parr said she most definitely understood HOK’s design mission in hi-lighting transparency and giving the building a modern feel.

“These days, the missions [of police work] are different, the philosophies are different and in many ways, the end result of policing is a little different,” she said.

“This building reflects that. ...You’ve done a brilliant job of melding the two together. While [the building] looks back to the prairie, it also looks forward to the 21st century and beyond, and that excites me.”

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The Kendall County State’s Attorney’s Office has determined that Oswego Township officials violated the state’s Open Meetings Act when they failed to post a meeting agenda within 48 hours of a meeting taking place.

A letter from State’s Attorney Eric Weis to Oswego Township Supervisor Jim Detzler dated Nov. 8 states that a review of material submitted to him “has led me to conclude that the meeting of September 13, 2016 was held in violation of the Open Meetings Act.” Weis’s letter states that township officials failed to post an agenda for the meeting not less than 48 hours before the meeting began.

However, Weis writes that the township “has taken subsequent steps to correct the violations of the Open Meetings Act ... by conducting separate meetings to allow for notice to the public of the meetings and items to be considered at the meeting.”

“The public was in attendance and the action items were subsequently approved by the Oswego Township [Board] at these subsequent meetings,” Weis wrote.

Weis said he finds that the action taken by the township following the Open Meetings violation “to mitigate any violations of the Open Meetings Act sufficient that no further action is required by my office.”

Weis also recommended that the Township Board, supervisor and township clerk “review the Illinois Attorney General Open Meetings Act training which is available online.”

He also wrote that he would “strongly encourage” township officials review with their legal counsel “procedures to prevent any future violations of the Open Meetings Act.”

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Local traffic: good news and bad news Frustrated by daily backups? Call your lawmakers Have you tried to get out of Kendall County in the morning or return to it in the early evening? We have and from what we see day-in and day-out on county highways – especially on Routes 47 and 30 and Orchard Road – it’s not getting any easier.

Like clockwork, every weekday morning traffic backs up in the northbound lane on Route 47 from Route 30 south, sometimes all the way to Corneils Road in Yorkville.

Meanwhile, the story is the same in Montgomery on Route 30 as eastbound motorists line up at the traffic light at Orchard Road, while northbound motorists on Orchard Road await their chance to cross or turn on to Route 30.

In the evening, as the commuters return home, the situation is exactly reversed as traffic backs up, often for miles, in the southbound lanes on Route 47 from Sugar Grove to Yorkville, and westbound traffic on Route 30 backs up east of Orchard Road in Montgomery.

In the Kane County portion of Montgomery motorists back up most evenings in the southbound lanes of Orchard Road from Route 30 to Aucutt Road.

The good news for motorists who have no choice but to travel Routes 47 and Route 30 to reach work and school each day is that the Illinois Department of Transportation is far

along with engineering studies for the reconstruction and widening of the two highways.

The bad news, however, is that it will likely be many more years before the two highways are fully improved.

Importantly, IDOT has not has not yet allocated any of the millions in dollars in revenues needed to pay for actual construction.

So what’s a motorist frustrated by the daily backups but with no choice but to continue to use the two highways to do? We recommend contacting local state and federal lawmakers and urge them to actively support efforts to fund the two projects.

Motorists should also encourage municipal and county officials to back efforts for interim or piecemeal improvements to the two highways. For

example, Montgomery Village President Matt Brolley and other village officials have been actively working to encourage the installation of additional traffic turn lanes at the Route 30 and Orchard Road intersection. The lanes could serve to speed traffic flow until the intersection can be fully improved.

In Yorkville the accident-prone intersection of Route 47 and Galena Road is long, long overdue for a makeover that would include additional turn lanes. The Yorkville City Council should adopt a resolution urging IDOT to move ahead with some interim improvements at the intersection.

Most importantly, motorists should also remember to allow for extra time and be patient while traveling the two highways during morning and evening rush-hour periods.

Kendall County’s 175-year-long road to today Kendall County’s modern history got its start as farmers moved to the grove-dotted prairies bordering the Fox River to make new lives for their families. Some of the earliest settlers came up from the south, but they found the expansive prairies oppressive and not at all like the forests out of which they were used to hacking a hardscrabble living, and most soon moved on.

The settlers with staying power came, for the most part, from the old Middle Colonies, particularly New York, and from the rocky hills of New England. Some moved in easy, gradual stages, pausing sometimes for a few years in Ohio and Indiana before finally arriving in what was then the western frontier state of Illinois.

They often traveled in family and neighborhood groups. Genealogists soon find when tracing their ancestors’ path from east to west that the same names keep popping up in communities where those restless pioneers stopped.

And not only that, but they tended to bring the familiar names of towns where they lived along with them, too.

Thus, Hudson’s name was brought west from New York and originally given to what is now the village of Oswego. But in 1837, when a post office was granted to the thriving village, the government named it Lodi, and it became a town with two names.

A vote taken by the hamlet’s

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The promoters of Hudson, however, were dismayed and carried the name with them as they, a footloose group, moved north and a little west to settle in what eventually became Hudson, Wisconsin.

In fact, if you look at a map of New York’s Finger Lakes region and the path of the Erie Canal, you can see how attached pioneers from that region were to their hometown names, because they’re mirrored up and down the Fox River, from Batavia and Geneva to Oswego, Yorkville and Newark.

Those settlers also brought their respect for New York’s activist governor, DeWitt Clinton, with them as well, naming two counties – DeWitt and Clinton – in Illinois in his honor, not to mention the villages of DeWitt and Clinton (the largest town in DeWitt County).

So this hardy band of New Yorkers and Vermonters and other New Englanders came west and discovered the deep, rich topsoil of the Fox Valley, and here most of them stayed. And in fact, many of their descendants still live in the Fox Valley communities

their ancestors settled.

The original settlers were soon leavened by the arrival of German, English and Scots immigrants who were seeking their own land where they could raise their families and prosper.

They were soon joined by Norwegians and a few Swedes and Danes.

The Norwegians settled in and around Norway just across the Kendall County line in LaSalle County, but quickly spread north to Newark, Helmar and Lisbon in Kendall County.

Like the earlier German arrivals, the Scandinavians brought their Lutheran faith and their churches rose near the earlier settlers’ Methodist, Congregational and Presbyterian churches.

Besides their faith, most of those early pioneer groups brought an appreciation of the importance of education with them. The earliest schools were held wherever room could be found, with teachers hired by collecting subscriptions from interested parents. By the 1850s, the Illinois General Assembly approved funding public schools through property tax levies, and one-room rural schools began popping up all over the county.

At one time or another, about 125 schools served country and town students in Kendall County. Many of these schools were closely tied to neighborhood churches. The Union School, which now sits at the Kendall County Historical Society’s Lyon Farm and Village, was used as a

school during the week and for religious services on Sunday. In Oswego Township, the German Methodists on Oswego Prairie east of the village built a church with a basement classroom, which served as a public school on weekdays and Sunday School on the weekends, with church services held on the building’s main floor.

Farming wasn’t the only economic engine driving Kendall County, of course. When the railroad pushed west of Aurora in the early 1850s through northern Kendall County, Marcus Steward agreed to build a town if the railroad passed through his land.

Which he did, creating the city of Plano, Kendall’s only industrial town where reapers and harvesters were manufactured and where foundries created the iron and steel needed for them. Plano was even Kendall’s “Motor City” for a few years when Holsman automobiles were turned out there in the early 1900s.

And we shouldn’t forget the inventions, either. From improved grain reapers to Messenger Gopher cultivators to the Plano Potato Planter to Scott Cutter’s innovative electrical and phone line insulators, Kendall inventors were busy coming up with new ideas, creating and improving things designed to make life easier – and themselves rich.

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FORUM To the Editor: It’s almost old news now but thank goodness we now have the chance to bring this country back from the brink of government-dominated socialism. It was an historical event indeed.

Our immigration laws protected us but were abandoned in favor of opening our borders to anyone and everyone. Letting in people who would be totally dependent on government help and care.

The laws of immigration allowed only people who would be responsible citizens who would use their talents to build a better life for themselves and others by supplying good jobs and opportunity.

By trashing our laws and and letting in the poor and dependent, we set the foundation for those wanting to be cared for and dominated by their government.

With widespread amnesty, the Democratic party was well on the way to accomplishing just that, along with Obamacare, and anything else that came with a “free” government check, we were sold on “free” college tuition for all students in all 50 states. Taxes, of course, would pay for it. With fewer people working, and more on government jobs, what do you think it would cost those working and still paying taxes?

We have narrowly escaped destroying our Democratic/Republic freedom. Now let’s see what we do with this second chance.

E.J. Pierce Aurora

Hooray for Trump

To the Editor: Somebody has finally figured out how to tap into the “silent majority” in this country. The global elite couldn’t do it, the biased media couldn’t do it nor could any politician – Democrat or Republican. It took a reality show host/billionaire/novice politician to do it. Why? Because he listened to his heart and to what the people were saying. He said he wants to Make America Great Again and it resonated with

people who want opportunity, national security, fiscal responsibility, law and order instead of sacrificing our country for the benefit of those with global ambitions.

The media and global elites talk disparagingly about the populist vote. The media’s polling turned out to be nothing more than propaganda, trying to guide the vote. It’s like they think an election is not supposed to represent the opinion of the population. It is supposed to do what the elites have rigged it to do. Go figure!

Shame on us for expressing our own opinion in the voting booth.

But the battle is just beginning for those of us who love this country. The leftist thugs are being let out of their cages to wreak havoc until they get their way. Just recently, the demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, got so revved up they started fighting with each other. It is odd how the left hates hate so much that they are full of “hate.” We should not be intimidated by them.

In fact, those who fund and give vicarious support to the disruptive demonstrators (George Soros and some of the media come to mind) should be held accountable. If the employees of a company break the law while executing their duties, the company is liable. The same logic should apply to an organization that funds demonstrations that turn violent and destroy property. Is the media not guilty of inciting violence when they justify the actions of people who are obviously breaking the law? They should be held accountable in some way. Maybe we should at least turn them off?

Donald Trump, the most unlikely of the contenders, stepped up to the plate to Make America Great Again. He certainly deserves the prayers and support of all those who care about our country.

Rod Beary Oswego

What they are really about

To the Editor: Well, Donald Trump won the election because he appealed to the people and to what they were concerned about. Poor

When Caterpillar Inc. and Western Electric, then the manufacturing diviContinued from page 4 sion of AT&T, were searching for places to locate new industrial facilities in Kendall County was always a pleas- the mid-1950s, they picked northern ant place, and, as it turned out, it was Kendall County where they had access also in the right place. During its farm- to a well-educated workforce and to ing heyday, the county’s rail and later the rail transport then considered a road links with the Chicago market necessity. Their arrival provided the were indispensable for farmers eager county’s first modern growth spurt, to ship grain and livestock to market. with subsequent population and

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economy with 93 million Americans not working; unchecked immigration, people pouring across the borders without any check and balance; high corporate taxes stifling international competition.

So Donald wins and what do liberals do, they demonstrate in front of Trump Tower in Chicago. You see, if you agree with a liberal progressive, everything is fine. If you disagree, the liberals cry foul, they cry racism, they cry homophobia, they block streets and traffic, and disrupt the lives of citizens who accept the results and move on.

If you want to know who the real deplorables are, look to the Democrat party. From Al Gore to Hillary they’re all the same. If it isn’t their way, we’ll just demonstrate and cause trouble.

We all see what they are really all about.

Don Lass Oswego

Gobbler Hobbler thanks

To the Editor: Each year, November offers a couple beautiful sunny days to tease us about the winter to come. Those who participated in the Oswegoland Park District’s 2016 Gobbler Hobbler 10K and Mashed Potato Mile were able to enjoy one of these days last Sunday. The air was crisp, but the sun was warm as so many adoring fans cheered on the over 1,500 athletes who crossed the finish line. The race up and down the Fox River has been a fall tradition for over 30 years.

Our sincere thanks to the staff at Fox Chase Elementary School for allowing us use of their school, and to all the District 308 staff who encourage their students to be active and come play. We are also appreciative to Top Golf, Physicians Immediate Care, and Advil for supporting the event. The Oswego Fire Protection District, Oswego Police Department, and the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office were at the ready keeping athletes safe on the roads. We are always thankful to have their presence. The Oswegoland Park District also thanks all the volunteers who spent Sunday morning smiling while flip-

economic growth spurred by Kendall’s border with three of Chicago’s six “collar counties.”

Today, Kendall County is still growing from the roots firmly implanted by those hardy pioneers who took a chance on making a new life on what was then the western frontier of the United States.

This year, Kendall County is celebrating its 175th birthday. And at

ping walking pancakes, pointing runners around corners, and handing out water.

The 2016 Gobbler Hobbler 10K and Mashed Potato Mile was a wonderful community event from start to finish. We are so glad that so many joined the park district in “creating opportunities for a healthy community,” both individually and as a whole. See you at the start next year.

Gobble Gobble!

Kristie Vest

Special Events Supervisor, Oswegoland Park District Oswego

Thanks to Oswego clerk for voting help

Dear Editor, I was calling my mother from Colorado on Election Day, when she told me how she had voted, but was very disappointed.

I was expecting her to tell me she was unhappy with the candidates but she was upset that my father couldn’t vote.

Both my parents have been excellent civic role models to my siblings and me by instilling in us our duty to vote. My father, 82 years old, fourth generation Mexican-American, military veteran, retired blue collar steelworker, is handicapped and cannot get around without assistance.

My 78-year-old mother drove my father to vote at Oswego East High School and, as she has done for previous elections, left my father in the car, went inside to vote and ask the poll workers to please bring his ballot outside to the car so he could vote. She was told by the poll workers they couldn’t do that, so my mother left disappointed.

I decided to call the Oswego village clerk. Linda, I believe was her name, agreed that my father should have been given the opportunity to vote. She was very polite and asked if my father had tried to vote at the Village Hall. I told her I didn’t know, so she asked me to wait a minute so she could “run downstairs” to check.

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1:30 p.m. this Saturday, Nov. 19, I’ll give a brief historical look back at the county as its anniversary year winds down at Oswego’s historic Little White School Museum. Stop on by and we’ll have a chat about our fascinating local history.

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the elections, but she would call them to make sure they knew the rules.

I called my mother back and asked her where she voted and told her to take my father back to vote. I called Linda again and told her where my father had tried to vote. Moments later, Linda called back and told me she had called the high school and said they were expecting my parents, so I called my mother again.

It was an hour later when my mother called giggling and laughing and said she felt like the “Queen of England” because of how she was treated when she took my father back to vote. My father voted and my mother was happy. Thank you village of Oswego, village clerk for taking the time on such a busy day.

Alfonso Ramirez Broomfield, Colorado

Intolerant liberals

To the Editor: Well, here we are. As I watched the election results mount, I was depressed to see Illinois as a lone smudge of blue in a sea of red. Once again, Illinois waved off the opportunity to move toward reality.

During this campaign, I joined an online

political forum that had members from all over the world. The common thread of liberal behavior on that forum made it clear that polite, intelligent people would not tolerate them as close friends. The filthy names they called Trump supporters would choke a billy goat. It was curious how they stopped posting their hateful threads the day after the election.

During the years of Obama, I have had enough exposure to liberals to know that they either lie or are ignorant of simple facts, and they are extremely intolerant.

For instance: Remember the Chicago liberals saying that concealed carry permits would mean blood and bodies in the streets? An hour of research on the Internet checking what happened in other states told me that nothing of the sort would happen, and it didn’t; at least, not from making it possible for law-abiding citizens to carry a firearm.

Do you remember that Jonathan Gruber, an M.I.T. economist that was one of the main architects of Obamacare, told the Democrats to lie about it because the people were “stupid” and would not accept it if they were told the truth?

News reports out of colleges around this country were filled with examples of glaring intolerance for conservatives, and

now we have liberals whining in massive mobs in cities all over the country because Trump won. The days of Obama are over, so get off the streets, and deal with it. Oh, and don’t take the “T” caps off the keyboards when you leave the White House.

some things, everything that he wanted to do was obstructed by the Republicans. Am I calling them out, you betcha.

It all started the night of his inauguration while dancing with his lovely wife, Michelle. There were several Republican leaders meeting at that same time, agreeCharles Christensen ing that even if it was something they Oswego had wanted, still wanted and it was good for the country, but if President Obama Interesting times ahead wanted it, they would obstruct it, all the To the Editor: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but time, every time.

Even when it came to appointing a you’ve been mad at the wrong thing. Now replacement for Supreme Court Justice that Trump has your attention, perhaps Scalia, who died Feb. 13 of this year, Presyou will figure out who or what you should ident Obama appointed someone who the have been mad at all along and perhaps Republicans were previously happy with, into the Trump presidency. but staying true to their obstructionism, Congress makes the laws, not the presthey still refused to do their Constitutional ident as some of you seemed to expect Obama to do. So I think you’ll be surprised duty. (I wish I could put an exclamation to learn the following – what is one of the point here, but consider that I just did.) first things Trump is talking about doing? They wanted to wait until the next elecA jobs infrastructure bill. This is déjà vu to tion when Trump could do the picking.

Well, they have their guy now, elected me because that’s exactly what Obama in great part by the shenanigans of the tried to do. It failed for Obama for only Russian government. I wonder who Putin one reason – obstruction by the Republiwants on our Supreme Court? can-held Congress.

Stay tuned.

We are in for some very I thought everybody knew about this interesting times ahead. obstruction, but apparently not. So I have another zinger for you. Everything that Judy Siedlecki President Obama wanted to do, not just Oswego

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Legislative forum for seniors set for Friday Offers attendees chance to speak to lawmakers PLANO RECORD Kendall County residents will discuss federal and state issues concerning aging and disability at a legislative forum on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Oswego Senior Center, 156 E. Washington St., Oswego. Registration and a continental

breakfast will begin at 9 a.m. and the forum itself will start at 9:30 a.m.

The forum’s purpose is for seniors, people with disabilities, caregivers and their advocates to discuss issues affecting those groups with federal and state legislators. The program will include presentations on topics of concern, presentations by state legislators representing Kendall County, and questions from the audience.

U.S. Sens. Richard Durbin and Mark Kirk, U.S. Rep. Bill Foster of the 11th

District and U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren of the 14th District have been invited to the forum, but they are likely to be in Washington, and may be represented by aides.

Illinois Sens. Jim Oberweis (25th Senate District), Sue Rezin (38th), Linda Holmes (42nd) and Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant (49th) have been invited, along with Illinois Reps. Keith Wheeler (50th Representative District), David Welter (75th), Stephanie Kifowit (84th) and Mark Batinick (97th).

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The forum is sponsored by the Kendall County Senior Providers, the Kendall County Triad, Kendall Area Transit, and the Agency on Aging of Northeastern Illinois. For more information, call Ginnie Moore at the Agency on Aging, at 630-293-5990.

The Area Agency on Aging of Northeastern Illinois is a nonprofit responsible for developing and coordinating a network of services for older persons throughout an eight-county area in northeastern Illinois.

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Pictured are the crew members on the call, including Mindi Jahp of KenCom Dispatch, Lt. Dave Jordan, Sean McNichols and Jimm Pechinski from Engine Company 3, and Tyler Roberts and Greg Lawton from Oswego Medic 3.

Oswego EMS crew gets award OSWEGO LEDGER Rush-Copley Medical Center awarded the Oswego Fire Protection District the STEMI Call of the Quarter. Recognition is awarded to a crew who were called to the scene of a patient having a heart attack (STEMI).

The criteria for this award is performing the proper medical treatment in a timely fashion. This means the crews have to work hand in hand with the Emergency Department as well as Cardiology to get the patient into surgery to correct the heart attack which

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One thing board members did agree on was the fact that they wanted to keep the station’s proposed solar energy tower, which gives the building its height and presence.

Currently out of budget for the project, the tower remains as an “add-on” feature, and its future hasn’t been set in stone. The tower, which was initially slated as a turbine tower, would now be filled with solar energy panels to heat the department’s water and to hide several mechanical features on the roof.

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The approximately $300,000 cost has a three- to five-year return on investment, Ruggiero said.

President Gail Johnson said she was pleased with the updated presentation.

“That you all for your opinions, even if it’s not what we want to hear,” she said to her board. “We know whatever we build, half of the people won’t like it and half will.”

Design updates come back to the board in January, and then construction and materials will go out to bid.

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Info session on PADS is tonight SHAW MEDIA Kendall County PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter) is hosting the second of two informational sessions for the public to learn more about the program. This informal presentation will be on Thursday, Nov. 17, at Yorkville Public Library, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

A panel of experienced volunteers will present a brief overview of PADS and then welcome audience questions. Attendees will hear about PADS – what it is, where and when the shelter sites are open, and what it does for the homeless men, women and children who come for aid.

The audience will see how PADS goes beyond its basic mission of giving temporary, overnight shelter and food; the organization provides links to many other social services for its guests. To make this all possible, volunteers are still needed to serve just four and a half hours each month for the six-month-long program.

Anyone who simply wants to learn more about how PADS cares for the homeless is welcome to attend. No pre-registration is required; no commitments are expected. If community members cannot attend, they can learn more about PADS on kendallcountypads.org, or they may call Director Anne Engelhardt at 630-553-5073.

Park district resumes prescribed burns OSWEGO LEDGER On Nov. 1, the Fox Valley Park District resumed its program of prescribed burns at selected park sites and natural areas.

For decades, the FVPD has conducted these specialized burns for their ecological benefits. Fire plays an essential role in creating healthy ecosystems by reducing the abundance of invasive, non-native plant species.

Prescribed burns create a setting for beneficial native plants and wildflowers to flourish.

Burning also releases nutrients into the soil, encourages new seed growth and opens woodland floors to allow increased sunlight that spurs vibrant growth and promotes plant diversity.

“Fire has occurred naturally for thousands of years, and plays an essential role in healthy, native ecosystems,” said Monika Kastle, natural areas specialist.

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• Blackberry Farm Following is a list of potential • Chesterfield Park sites targeted for burning between Nov. 1 and May 15: • Golfview Park • Lippold Park First Priority • Meadow Lake Park • Aurora Prairie • South Island Park • Blackberry Trail Park • Splash Country Water Park • Cheshire Lake Park • Tanner Trails Park • Church Road Park • Turnstone Park • Eola Hill The FVPD makes every effort • Orchard and Prairie (VG to notify neighboring residents Trail) as to when a prescribed burn will • South Broadway take place. For the latest details • Stuart Sports Complex and announcements, check the • Waubonsie Lake park district website’s, foxvalleyparkdistrict.org, and Facebook Second Priority page. For questions, call 630-897• Arrowwood Park 0516.

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The Oswego Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Andy’s Frozen Custard on Friday, Oct. 21.

Andy’s Frozen Custard recently opened in Oswego on Route 34 at the Route 34/Route 30 intersection. For more information on Andy’s Frozen Custard and all Oswego Chamber members, go to oswegochamber.org or call 630-554-3505.

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Sarah Skilton, Oswego Public Library District director, received a wage increase during a recent Library Board meeting.

She said the trustees discussed her wages during a closed session and agreed unanimously on an increase after returning to open session. Skilton said they approved an increase that will bring her salary to $115,500.

Her benefits have not been changed, she said. She receives 20 vacation days and 12 sick days each year and the district pays for her medical insurance.

In other business during the same closed session, trustees discussed giving an easement to Patrick and Cecelia McCarthy allowing them to have gas and water service extended across park district property to their home at 55 N. Madison St. When the library trustees approved the purchase of property on North Madison Street several months ago, it cut off the access for the lines to their property. During the open session, they unanimously approved the easement.

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Between November and May, the Fox Valley Park District will conduct prescribed burns throughout its network of parks, trails and natural areas to help create healthy ecosystems.

Oswego Legion hosts Veterans Day ceremony

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ABOVE: Oswego American Legion Post 675 Officer Don Dahm places a wreath at the Veterans Memorial in downtown Oswego as part of the Veterans Day ceremony Friday. BOTTOM LEFT: Oswego American Legion Post 675 Senior Vice Commander Herb Allen leads the Veterans Day ceremony. BOTTOM RIGHT: Members of the Thompson Junior High School chorus sing the National Anthem. For more photos from the ceremony, visit KendallCountyNow.com.

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The Oswego American Legion Post 675 hosted a Veterans Day ceremony Friday morning at the Veterans Memorial in downtown Oswego.

Leading the ceremony as emcee was Legion Post Senior Vice Commander Herb Allen. Legion Post Chaplain Ron Stark said a prayer for veterans during the ceremony, a rifle salute was given by the Oswego Police Department Honor Guard, the Pipes and Drums Team played “Amazing Grace” with bagpipes, and the Oswego Fire Protection District Honor Guard presented colors. Also, “Taps” was played, and the Thompson Junior High School chorus sang the National Anthem.

Oswego Village President Gail Johnson spoke at the ceremony, thanked veterans for their service, and presented a resolution marking Veterans Day in Oswego.

“Each year we gather here and we pause for a few minutes out of our busy lives to thank the people who paused their busy lives to serve us throughout the world and continue to do so today,” Johnson said. “So I ask that you remember their sacrifice, the sacrifices of their families and loved ones, and of our community this Nov. 11 each and every year.”

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Look for collection boxes in many local businesses and in the Oswego Community School main entrances.

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Christmas is coming and the Osweat the Legion Post Home. All members goland Optimist Club is again providing are encouraged to attend the meeting.

Hostesses are Delores Mooney and Jane toys and food to families within School District 308.

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Local veterans share their stories Audience hears of war from those who were there

By LYLE R. ROLFE news@kendallcountynow.com Seven veterans from several branches of the military turned back the hands of time as they spoke Sunday to a group of about 70 people about what their time in the service was like during a veterans program at the historic Chapel on the Green in Yorkville.

Carol Seeley was chairman of the event, Bob Johnston was master of ceremonies and Martha Price provided music.

Oswego resident Michael Cravatta, 91, was the youngest of five brothers who served during World War II. And all five came home safely after serving their time, he said.

Cravatta joined the Navy in March 1942 and was assigned to an LST, a naval vessel he said was created to support amphibious operations by carrying large numbers of vehicles, cargo and troops to distant shores where they were to fought in numerous missions.

“I had a brother who was stationed in Pearl Harbor,” he said, noting that his older brother Paul had worked on the USS Arizona, one of the ships that was sunk by the Japanese during their surprise attack. Paul was promoted and reassigned to the Saratoga before the attack.

Another brother, Dave, was a paratrooper in Europe and participated in the Normandy invasion, Cravatta said. He recalled this brother telling him that when they landed in Normandy on Omaha beach, everything was quiet until the Germans came out of the hills and attacked them.

“He told me he killed a few Germans himself,” he said.

His brother John was stationed in Texas, and broke his eardrum while boxing so they would not send him overseas, Cravatta said.

Cravatta said his ship pulled into shore near New Guinea where they unloaded tanks, other equipment and about 150 troops.

“About 75 percent of those men were killed. The Japanese were up in the hills waiting for them. John could have been one of them, but he was not here that day,” he said. “Another brother, Sam, was on a PT boat under the command of John Kennedy who

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Veterans who spoke at the Chapel on the Green’s event Sunday were (from left) Cliff Westphal, Richard Gardner, Lowell Mathre, Gerald Weidert, Michael Cravatta, John Milburn and Harlan Dick.

“The things I remembered most other than the heat, rain and war was Christmas because it was such a lonely time. Once it was over, I realized I had four months left.”

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Cravatta said his ship participated in different invasions in the South Pacific, including one where General Douglas MacArthur invaded the Philippines and was run out by the Japanese.

He recalled shooting Japanese planes out of the air with the 20mm guns on his ship and added that the gunner and loader next to him were both killed in this battle.

“We buried several of them at sea.

The real heroes are the ones who gave their lives and are buried today. If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t be living the lifestyle we’re living today,” he said. He was discharged in 1946.

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John Milburn of Oswego, who served in the Army from 1966 to 1968, said a veteran has the honor and distinction of serving and the responsibility and the sacrifice that comes with serving, especially overseas.

“Now anyone entering the military is a volunteer, but back in 1966, I was not a volunteer,” he said. “I was doing well in my job, I had graduated college, married and was trying to further my career. I came home from work on Oct. 14, 1966, which was my birthday and there in the mail was my greeting – you’ve been inducted into the Army.”

Milburn went to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and then to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He was an artillery surveyor because of his math background. After completing advanced training, 30 of his fellow soldiers were sent to Vietnam.

He said 30 names were called and he thought he was going to stay in the states, until an additional two were called, which included him.

Milburn was then sent to the DMZ to patrol local villages. Being able to read maps and coordinates made him an important person for this work, he said.

“The things I remembered most other than the heat, rain and war was Christmas because it was such a lonely time,” he said. “Once it was over, I realized I had four months left. I could have extended for 90 days and got out early, but I don’t believe in pressing my luck.”

Richard Gardner of Oswego, who served in the Army from 1966 to 1968, said he was drafted in 1966. His father tried to get him to enlist in the Navy Reserve in Aurora, but he did not want to give up four years.

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Lowell Mathre of Newark served in the Air Force Reserves from 1950 to 1952.

“There were five of us from Newark who joined the Reserves thinking we’d get out of active duty, but we didn’t,” he said. “We joined in December 1950 and got called to active duty in March 1951.”

They were expecting to be sent to Korea, but they were split up and went to five different bases.

“I was young and like to hunt and fish, so I wanted to go to Rapid City, South Dakota, where there was a lot of game like pheasants. But I ended up going to El Paso, Texas, where there were jackrabbits and rattlesnakes,” he said.

Mathre said he became a road crew member as a pick and shovel operator.

He was married while in the service and their first child was born while he was in the military. Mathre now has three children, 10 grandchildren, and 25 great-grand children. He recently celebrated his 65th wedding anniversary.

He was discharged Dec. 9, 1952, and joined the American Legion as soon as he got home. In March 1953, Mathre joined the Newark Fire Department and served as its chief for 52 years.

Gerald Weidert of Oswego served in the Marines from 1959 to 1975 and in the Army Reserves from 1976 to 85.

Weidert started out in San Diego, then the Philippines, North Carolina and then Cuba. He returned to the states and then transferred to Vietnam to serve in a helicopter unit at Marble Mountain.

There was a bar in the camp that most of them patronized, but one evening he did not go because he was reading a letter from his sister. At that time an enemy rocket hit the bar, killing everyone in it, he said.

Since then, he has retired, and is driving a school bus and having fun with the kids, he said.

Harlan Dick of Yorkville, who served in the Army from 1964 to 1966, said he did basic training at Fort Knox in Kentucky, and then was sent to Fort Gordon, Georgia, signal school for advanced training.

“I became a radio teletype operator.

We learned Morse code and teletype and learned cryptograph equipment that we used later on after we got a clearance,” he said.

They then took a 21-day boat ride from Texas around the horn to San Diego, California, where they picked up 300 Marines, took a 21-day boat trip across the Pacific ocean to the East China Sea to Okinawa, dropped off the Marines and went up to the Port of Incheon in South Korea. After several more stops he spent more than 10 of his last 13 months in the field, armed to catch infiltrators.

II vets were visiting areas where they fought, he decided to return to Vietnam and was able to find such a tour and visit with the people – even the North Vietnamese who they had been fighting.

Cliff Westphal of Yorkville served in the Coast Guard from 1966 to 1970, receiving basic training in New Jersey.

“Little did I know what I would experience during the next four years,” he said.

He was assigned to the USCGC Ingham, a cutter built in 1936. He was stationed in the damage control department to keep the ship floating. He said they did a lot of search and rescue, much of it in the North Atlantic.

“In March 1968 we got orders to go to Vietnam working with the Navy swift boats on various missions. We Lyle Rolfe for Shaw Media even had a firing mission with the during the veterans program Sunday at the battleship New Jersey, something very few Coast Guard cutters ever do,” he said. work and mine sweeping in the jungle He said six of the Ingham crew were areas. taken to villages as part of a medical Gardner said he was asked to team each morning and picked up extend for another six months to avoid in the evening. And his ship went duty back in the states. through three hurricanes, and two “But I had seen others who did typhoons with 30- to 40-foot waves. The this and it did not turn out too well Ingham is now a floating museum in for them, so I went back to the states Key West, Florida, for all maritime where I was sent to Yuma [Arizona] people who served.

Proving Ground to serve the rest of my “I spent three hours taking my wife time,” he said. through it, showing her where I lived When he learned that World War for four years,” he said.

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Rep. Kifowit helps debut USS Illinois OSWEGO LEDGER State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit was at the Commissioning Ceremony of the new Navy submarine named after her home state, the USS Illinois.

As the only veteran of the United States Marines in the General Assembly, Rep. Kifowit was honored and proud to be named to the delegation sent to Groton, Connecticut. The commission ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 29, was the final event for the U.S. Navy attack submarine, which officially became the USS Illinois SSN-786 and began active service after the ceremony. Tours of the submarine followed the ceremony.

“As a veteran of the Marines, protecting our freedoms is the foundation of our democracy,” Kifowit said. “We are blessed that America’s borders are safe, the American people are safe, and democracy is protected by our dedicated military men and women serving today. I am eternally proud to have served.”

The USS Illinois SSN-786 is a $2.7 billion Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine in service with the United States Navy built by Electric Boat. The USS Illinois is the 13th member of the Virginia-class; 11 more are under construction.

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State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit (left) attended the Commissioning Ceremony of the new Navy submarine, the USS Illinois, on Saturday, Oct. 29. years. The battleship USS Illinois (BB-7) was started in 1897 and sailed with President Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet.

The ship sponsor, First Lady Michelle Obama, addressed the crowd at the ceremony.

“Thank you for giving me the incredible privilege of being associated with you and with your families and with the Illinois for the rest of my life,” she told them. “I will continue to keep you in my prayers every single day and keep you in my thoughts, and know that you have a sponsor that cares deeply.”

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Rep. Kifowit served on active duty in the United States Marine Corps. Her husband, Steve, is a veteran of the United States Army. “Being on the Naval base brings back the feeling of family among the branches of our military. It reminds me of the sacrifices that our service men and women make for our country, in addition to the sacrifices of their families,” Kifowit said. “I am dedicated to making sure the state of Illinois lives up to this great honor and support for our active duty service members, their families in addition to our veterans and their families.”

Kifowit also heads the Illinois Veterans Suicide Taskforce, which is working to provide recommendations to help support our veterans in order to reduce veteran death by suicide. A recent report by the VA said about 20 veterans a day die from suicide.

The taskforce’s official report is due by the end of this year.

Kifowit represents the 84th District, which includes portions of Aurora, Boulder Hill, Montgomery, Naperville and Oswego. For more information, contact Rep. Kifowit at her constituent service office at 630-585-1308, email Stephanie.Kifowit@att.net or visit her website at ILDistrict84.com.

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Teens arrested after hit-and-run with stolen van

By TONY SCOTT tscott@kendallcountynow.com Oswego police arrested two male juveniles, a 17-year-old from Aurora and a 17-year-old from Chicago, Tuesday morning following a hit-and-run accident at U.S. Route 30 and Harvey Road.

Oswego police were dispatched to the accident at approximately 7:10 a.m. Tuesday morning, where a minivan traveling northbound on Harvey Road crashed head-on into a small SUV traveling southbound on Route 30, police said. The driver of the SUV, a 54-year-old woman from Aurora, was trans-

ported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Witnesses at the scene described two males approximately 16 to 18 years old wearing hoodies and dark jeans, allegedly fleeing the scene on foot after exiting the minivan, which had been reported as stolen to the Kane County Sheriff’s Office earlier Tuesday morning, police said.

Oswego police began searching the area, with the assistance of the Aurora Police Department Canine Unit, police said. The canine search led officers north into Aurora and police located two males matching the witness descriptions approximately three miles

KENDALL COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORTS

BRIEFS Oswego boy arrested, charged with Simons Rd. armed robbery

A 17-year-old Oswego boy has been charged in an armed robbery that occurred in September on Simons Road in Oswego Township.

Kendall County sheriff’s deputies took a report and initiated an investigation Sept. 24 for a robbery at gunpoint in the 1500 block of Simons Road. The victim alleged being battered and robbed by two acquaintances at gunpoint, police said.

The Kendall County State’s Attorney’s Office charged the juvenile Oct. 28 with armed robbery, a Class X felony; aggravated battery, a Class 3 felony; aggravated assault, a Class A misdemeanor; and criminal damage to property, a Class A misdemeanor. He was taken into custody Oct. 31 and transported to the Kane County Juvenile Justice Center.

Crime Stoppers tip leads to Montgomery woman’s arrest

A Montgomery woman was arrested based on a tip received through Kendall County Crime Stoppers.

Kendall County sheriff’s deputies arrested Catherine Myers, 26, of Montgomery on Nov. 4, as she was wanted on a Kendall County warrant for failing to appear in court on a charge of possession of a controlled substance.

Myers had been featured on the sheriff’s office’s Facebook page, and was apprehended due to a tip received through the Kendall County Crime Stoppers, police said.

Myers had been a fugitive in the county since Oct. 21, police said.

The Kendall County Sheriff’s Office encourages anyone with tips or information regarding crime to contact detectives@co.kendall.il.us or 630-553-5856.

Callers who wish to remain anonymous can contact the Kendall County Crime Stoppers at 630-553-5999.

north of the crash site.

The two teens were taken into custody at 9:45 a.m. and transported to the Oswego Police Department.

They were later transported to the Kane County Juvenile Justice Center pending court proceedings, police said.

The Kendall County State’s Attorney’s Office has charged both teens with leaving the scene of an accident with personal injury and possession of a stolen motor vehicle. Additionally, the Aurora teen was cited with no valid driver’s license, failure to yield, and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, police said.

Police: Aurora man charged with brandishing knife, fighting

Montgomery police arrested Juan Perez, 29, of the 400 block of 4th Street, Aurora, early Sunday morning for aggravated battery and armed violence after he was involved in a fight at a bar in the 200 block of Montgomery Road.

Juan Perez Police alleged Perez brandished a knife after striking a subject inside. All involved parties were medically treated on-scene.

Perez drove away in a vehicle which was later stopped by Montgomery officers.

He was subsequently charged with DUI in addition to the other charges, police said.

Two Aurora men charged in 2015 Boulder Hill burglary

Two Aurora men are facing criminal charges related to a Boulder Hill home burglary that occurred Dec. 21, 2015.

A resident of the 200 block of Fernwood Road reported to Kendall County sheriff’s deputies that two unknown subjects entered the residence without permission and removed property.

Following an investigation by the sheriff’s office, the Kendall County State’s Attorney’s Office on Oct. 26 charged Alfonso Niño, 21, of Aurora with one count of residential burglary, a Class 1 felony. Niño’s bond was set at $50,000 and he remains in custody at the Kendall County Jail in Yorkville following his arrest by the Aurora Police Department, police said.

Also charged with a count of burglary was Jose Arzate, 19, of Aurora, who turned himself in Nov. 7 and remains in custody at the Kendall County Jail, police said.

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Homeless man arrested lying on roadway Sheriff’s deputies arrested Steven Matthew Belinski, 38, homeless, after he was observed lying on the roadway in the 5000 block of Schlapp Road in Oswego Township at around 7 a.m. Sunday morning. Belinski was wrapped in a blanket and police said he was creating a traffic hazard. According to police, Belinski refused to provide his personal information on request and also failed to follow orders issued by deputies. Belinski was arrested for obstructing a peace officer and was issued a citation for pedestrian in the roadway, and was taken to the Kendall County Jail in Yorkville for processing.

alcohol, leaving the scene of an accident, and driving on a suspended license.

Arrested for drug possession at courthouse Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of a man in the Kendall County Courthouse parking lot who appeared to be intoxicated. Police arrested Paul Anthony Mastrodomenico, 26, homeless, for driving under the influence of drugs, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. Mastrodomenico was transported to the Kendall County Jail.

Arrested on warrant Sheriff’s deputies stopped Juan Alejandro Herrera Hernandez, 34, of the 600 block of East Galena Blvd., Aurora, for speeding on Nov. 10 near the intersection of Route 34 and Orchard Road. Deputies found that Herrera Hernandez had a valid DeKalb County warrant for failure to appear. Deputies arrested Herrera Hernandez and took him to the Kendall County Jail in Yorkville for processing.

DUI at Millington bar Sheriff’s deputies responded Nov. 7 at 11:15 p.m. to a call for an intoxicated male passed out in a car at a bar in the 300 block of South Church Street in Millington. They arrested Jackson T. Rogers, 21, of the 200 block of West Center Street, Sandwich, for DUI after failing sobriety tests and providing a breath sample over the 0.08 limit. Jackson was transported to the Kendall County Jail.

DUI following rollover accident Sheriff’s deputies arrested Angel Martin Leal, 21, of the 400 block of Blueridge Drive, Oswego, on Nov. 12 following an accident.

Deputies responded to a report of a rollover accident that occurred on Wolf’s Crossing Road just west of Douglas Road. When deputies arrived, the driver was no longer on the scene, but was located shortly after. After receiving treatment at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, Leal was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of

Violated order of protection Sheriff’s deputies arrested Jevon Carlos Donnell Jackson, 23, of the 8000 block of Van Emmon Road, Oswego Township, at 1:39 a.m.

Nov. 10 after finding that he was in violation of an order of protection.

Attempted house break-in Sheriff’s deputies were called to a residence on Fernwood Road in Boulder Hill Nov. 9 regarding two males who attempted to enter the residence earlier in the day. The incident is under investigation, police said.

DuPage DUI warrant Sheriff’s deputies arrested Charles Linberg Obrien, 46, of the 70 block of Springdale Road in Boulder Hill after police, conducting a well-being check, discovered that Obrien had a warrant out of DuPage County for failure to appear on a DUI charge.

Juveniles kicked football on roof Sheriff’s deputies responded to a business at 65 Boulder Hill Pass in Boulder Hill regarding two juveniles that were spotted on the roof of the strip mall. It was determined that a football was kicked onto the roof and the juveniles went up to get it. The juveniles were brought home to their parents, police said.

Soffits damaged at park district Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Oswegoland Park District on Winrock Road in Oswego Township Nov. 14 for a report of five aluminum soffits damaged over the weekend.

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OSWEGO POLICE REPORTS

Juvenile arrest for battery Oswego police arrested a juvenile for battery in the 1500 block of Harvey Road Nov. 9.

The juvenile was released to a parent.

In-state warrant Oswego police arrested Antonio G. Jamison, 46, of Ridgefield Drive in Oswego Nov. 10 for an in-state warrant. Jamison was detained at the Kendall County Jail in Yorkville.

iPad that had been stolen out of a vehicle parked outside a restaurant in the 1400 block of Douglas Road.

Retail theft investigation Oswego police took a report of a retail theft at a business in the 2700 block of U.S Route 34 on Nov. 10. The two suspects are described as a black male, 25 to 30 years of age, six feet tall, 195 pounds, and medium build, and a black male, 25 to 30 years of age, 5-foot-10inches tall, 180 pounds, and medium build.

Money stolen from business Oswego police took a theft report Nov. 14 at a business in the 2300 block of U.S. Route 34, in which a suspect took $818.

KENDALL COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORTS Traffic violations • Anthony Taylor Palacios, 20, of Joliet was cited on Nov. 7 for not possessing a valid Fraudulent charges investigated driver’s license.

• Sheriff’s deputies investigated a report • Jessica Lynn Luebbing, 26, of the 300 by a Boulder Hill resident of credit card fraud block of West Street in Plano was cited for that occurred on Oct. 27. Police said an driving on a suspended license, operating investigation determined that a fraudulent an uninsured motor vehicle, and speeding, anti-virus company received the resident’s during a traffic stop Nov. 7. bank account and credit card numbers and • Sheriff’s deputies arrested Wendell M. was charging the accounts. The incident is still under investigation by the sheriff’s office. Purham, 21, of the 6300 block of Morgan Ave. in Chicago, on Nov. 14 for driving on a • An Oswego Township woman reported to sheriff’s deputies that on Oct. 18 someone suspended license, after he was stopped for used her identity and credit card information speeding near Codorus and Scarsdale roads in Boulder Hill. to make purchases in Europe.

Arrested on warrant Montgomery police arrested Evelyn Betsinger, 37, of the 900 block of Ziegler Avenue, Aurora, Nov. 13 on a warrant for obstructing identification out of Kendall County.

Stole construction tools A contractor doing work in the 1300 block of Hinckley St. reported Nov. 6 that an unknown person or persons entered the property and stole construction tools.

Attempted ID theft A resident of the 1700 block of Newport Lane reported Nov. 7 that after her purse was stolen in Aurora, an unknown individual attempted to use a relative’s Social Security number to open an account with a cellphone company.

Driving on a suspended license • Montgomery police arrested Adam Howard, 29, of the 9000 block of Corneils Road, Bristol, for driving on a suspended license and cited him for operating an uninsured vehicle Nov. 15 following a single-vehicle

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Homes damaged Two separate residences on Gallant Fox Circle were damaged Nov. 14 after unknown offenders sprayed paint on the vinyl siding of the homes.

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crash involving injuries on Orchard Road at Knell Road.

• Brandon Foster of the 100 block of Central Avenue, Aurora, was arrested Nov. 11 for driving on a suspended license, and was also cited for expired registration.

• Montgomery police arrested Pete Piocar, 32, of the 150000 block of Hiawatha, Somonauk, Nov. 7 for driving on a suspended license after officers saw him disobey a traffic signal as he was traveling northbound on Douglas Road at U.S. Route 30.

• Montgomery police arrested Danny Presnell, 23, of the 100 block of Iris Court, Oswego, for driving with a suspended license after officers stopped his vehicle Nov. 14 for an expired registration. Presnell was also cited for having an expired registration sticker.

• Montgomery police arrested Adrianna Horton, 21, of the 300 block of East Abe Street, Plano, for driving with a suspended license after she was involved in a single-vehicle crash on Galena Road on Nov. 15. Horton was also cited for having a suspended registration and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.

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Juvenile alcohol arrest Oswego police arrested a 16-year-old male Retail theft warrant from Aurora on Nov. 10 at a business in the Oswego police arrested Destyne Totten, 21, 2300 block of U.S. Route 34 for retail theft and of the 100 block of East Downer Place, Aurora, possession of alcohol by a minor. Bond was on a warrant for retail theft Nov. 10. posted.

Warrant arrest Two Xboxes stolen Oswego police arrested Antonio G. Jamison, Oswego police took a report of two 46, of the 20 block of Ridgefield Drive, Boulder stolen Xbox One video game consoles from a Hill, for an in-state warrant Nov. 10. business in the 2300 block of U.S. Route 34 on Nov. 10. The consoles are valued at $299 Traffic citations each, police said. The suspects were driving a • Oswego police cited Riyad Qattum, 20, of 2015 black Chevy Cruze, police said. the 2000 block of Deerpoint Lane in Yorkville Nov. 9 for driving with a suspended license.

Stolen vehicle • Robert Jaggers, 55, of Yorkville was Oswego police took a report of a stolen ve- ticketed Nov. 10 for failure to yield turning left hicle, a 2005 Toyota Sequoia, overnight from following an accident at Orchard Road and the 200 block of Lombardy Lane Nov. 11.

Mill Road.

• Tony D. Collins, 27, of the 4000 block of Stolen iPad Chesapeake Drive in Aurora, was cited for Oswego police took a report Nov. 11 for an driving with a suspended license Nov. 14.

Retail theft Montgomery police arrested Aspen Lackland of the 2600 block of Sullivan Road, Aurora, for retail theft Nov. 9 at a store in the 2000 block of Orchard Road.

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DUI Oswego police arrested Tara L. Schiltz, 28, of the 800 block of Canyon Trail, Yorkville, for DUI and improper lane usage. Bond was posted and a court date was set for Dec. 19.

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Oswego East bowlers defeat Oswego, Larkin OSWEGO LEDGER

The Oswego East boys bowling team picked up a 10-0 win over Larkin on Nov. 16. Will Clark led Oswego East with a 606 series after a high game of 220. The Wolves also picked up a 10-0 win over Oswego and are now 2-0 in matches this season.

Oswego: On Nov. 10, the Panthers fell to Oswego East in a pre-conference match, 2,966-2,706. Kevin Cherven led Oswego with a high series of 569. On Saturday, Oswego found its way back to Woodridge Brunswick Zone for the Lake Park Invite. Oswego ended the day with a series of 5,183. Parker Bradford led the team and earned the team MVP medal with an average of 189 through the day.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Thompson Junior High: The eighth-

grade boys basketball team picked up two wins at Jefferson on Nov. 8.

Strong team defense led to a 34-20 win in the first game. Brady Peterlin led all scorers with a game high 15 points. Beau Miller and Isaiah Robles chipped in with six points each, while Sam Gwodz added four points.

The Tigers won the second game, 3824. Landon Sebestin led the team with 13 points and Jayden Aracho added seven points to pace the offense.

On Nov. 10, Thompson defeated Plano 33-28 in overtime to improve to 3-1. Landon Sebestin led the offensive attack with nine points, while Brady Peterlin and Isaiah Peterlin each added seven points.

Sam Gwodz and Beau Miller also contributed in the win. The Tigers lost the second game, 33-24. Jayden Aracho paced the offense with seven points.

East’s Sydney Schultz commits to Missouri State

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Oswego East senior Sydney Schultz signs her Letter of Intent to the Missouri State University women’s basketball team on Nov. 9. She was joined on National Signing Day by her parents, Daniel Schultz and Monique Trent, and brother Sam Schultz (back row, center) as well as Oswego East assistant coach Jeremy Main (standing, left) and head coach Abe Carretto (standing, right).

Oswego East now turns its attention to a four-game slate in the Naperville Central Tip-Off Tournament, which begins Friday with a 6 p.m. game against Metea Valley at Benet Academy. The Wolves also face Rockford Auburn and Batavia before championship bracket play on Nov. 25-26 with games at both Naperville Central and Benet.

“It’s nice to get this first game in before the tournament,” Carretto said Tuesday. “Now we’ve got a couple days and we know what we’ve got to work on. We’ve got to make adjustments defensively, and offensively we need to get more in sync.”

Oswego East will begin SPC play on Nov. 29 hosting Minooka. Oswego East will continue to host its annual Holiday

Classic on Dec. 27-30, and will return to the Chicagoland Girls Prep Classic at Willowbrook on Jan. 14. An additional game against Montini was added on Feb. 8, and Oswego East will travel to Lombard for that game against the 2016 Elite Eight team.

The final regular season game will be the only meeting between District 308 schools, as Oswego travels to Oswego East on Feb. 10 for the varsity doubleheader with the boys’ teams.

“The schedule is tougher, so we need to not focus so much on wins,” Carretto said. “The majority of teams we’re going to play in tournaments are not in our sectional or are downstate, so a lot of the other teams we play on the schedule will hopefully help us down the road in a sectional and super-sectional. Conference will be a different atmosphere too. We have to be on our game and ready to go.”

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Change to tournament schedule gives Panthers extra time to practice

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ing and senior forward Megan Rasmussen back for her third varsity season.

Seniors Madison Gossman, Zylyn Jenkins, Katie Manna and Kira Sneed will be back in the mix with juniors Kate Beebe, sisters Holly Gotchie and Lauren Gotchie, Emma Janiak, DaMyla Freeman, Lindsey Jones and freshman Angelina Schlinger rounding out the 14-player roster.

“They do a really nice job,” Beebe said. “We don’t have a dominant Division I player, so we’re going to have to play the team game.”

Oswego opens the Southwest Prairie Conference season with a home game against Plainfield South on Nov. 29.

The Panthers return to the Oswego East Holiday Classic from Dec. 27-30, and other non-conference games include Quincy, Marian Catholic and Yorkville as well as a unique opportunity to play Bartlett at the United Center on Jan. 7.

“We’re trying to do some different things,” Beebe said. “The Bartlett coach, Dave Mello, lives in Oswego and I coached against him back in the day so we’ve known each other forever. We talked about it and thought it would be good.”

GIRLS SWIMMING

Local co-op sending seven qualifiers to state meet Team wins three relays, two individual events at Metea Valley Sectional

By KRISTIN SHARP ksharp@kendallcountynow.com Seven athletes will represent the Oswego-Oswego East girls swim team in 10 events at the IHSA state swim meet in Evanston after the team had a dominant showing at the Metea Valley Sectional last Saturday.

The team posted five sectional championships including all three relay events, and coach Deryl Leubner was named Coach of the Year. Oswego will enter competitors in all but two state events – diving and the 100 breaststroke.

“I thought we had a great meet. The goal is to qualify as many things as we can, and we had pretty much a perfect day,” Leubner said. “We knew we’d be competitive. Our relays are strong. I felt good that they would win.”

The 200-yard medley relay team of sophomore Emily Giles, senior Alyssa Shugarmann, sophomore Riley Evans and freshman Grace Cooper finished with a winning time of 1:44.24.

The 200-yard free relay team of Cooper, junior Mari Kraus, junior Georgia

White and Shugarmann finished first “I thought we had a great meet. with a time of 1:35.39, and the 400-yard The goal is to qualify as many free relay team of Cooper, Giles, White and Kraus posted a winning time of things as we can, and we had 3:30.24.

Giles, Cooper, Kraus, White and pretty much a perfect day. We Shugarmann will go downstate in four knew we’d be competitive. events each. Shugarmann – the lone senior on the state-qualifying list – reOur relays are strong. I felt cently committed to the Eastern Michigood that they would win.” gan women’s swim team.

“She’s very excited,” Leubner said Deryl Leubner of Shugarmann, a two-time state qualifier. “Senior year can be magical and Oswego-Oswego East girls swimming coach she’s right on pace to have it end up swimming in the finals on Saturday at the state meet. It can’t get any better Kraus (58.34). than that.”

The state prelims begin on Friday In the individual events, White was at 3:30 p.m. at Evanston Twp. High second in the 200 free with a time of School.

1:51.35, and Shugarmann finished with The 200 free relay holds the seca state-qualifying time of 1:52.49 to take fifth. Kraus was second in the 200 IM with a time of 2:05.84.

Cooper was a named the 50 free sectional champion with her time of 23.45 seconds. Evans posted a qualifying time in the 100 fly (58.11) and White did the same in the 100 free (51.95).

Shugarmann was the 500 free sectional champion, winning the event by four seconds with a time of 4:58.75, and Giles also qualified in the event with her time of 5:06.67. Oswego also had double qualifiers in the 100 backstroke behind the efforts of Giles (58.29) and

ond-best time entering the state meet, the 400 free relay ranks third and the 200 medley relay is third among all state qualifiers. In addition, White’s 200 free time is in the top three behind swimmers from Stevenson and Rosary as does Cooper’s time in the 50 free.

Shugarmann, Kraus and White also hold times in the top 12 in several other events.

“We’re hoping that we’re getting every­one back on Saturday. We have a great opportunity for all three relays to score,” Leubner said. “Individually, we’ve got a lot of top seeds and a lot of girls are in the top 12 unshaved. We have expectations, and we feel like we have a good group of girls in the right mindset. We’re going to do the best we can to keep the season going another day.”

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Oswego coach Dave Beebe hopes a change to the tournament schedule is a positive move for the girls’ basketball program.

The Panthers replace the York Thanksgiving Tournament with the War Hawk Invite to kick off the season, but the newest tournament doesn’t begin until Saturday – giving the Panthers an extra week of practice.

“Last year at York, we started on Monday and played four out of five days in a row. This year, we’re going to West Aurora and Waubonsie and we have more time to prepare and get some stuff done,” said Beebe, who enters his second year as

head coach.

The season opens Nov. 19 against DeKalb, with games next week against Naperville North and West Aurora before the final crossover game on Nov. 26.

Oswego endured a rebuilding year last winter with a 4-26 record after making a Class 4A Sweet 16 appearance the previous season, but showed potential as the Panthers lost nine games by 10 points or less.

Oswego graduated two starters from that team, Kia Dwight and Gemma Keegan, leaving the Panthers with plenty of experience returning to the court.

“I feel we’ve made a lot of progression with the returning kids,” Beebe said. “Last year they had to fill in for a lot of great players we lost. They’re not just a bunch of role players anymore. We have to put a starting five out there, and now they’re the main players. We’ve seen a lot of positives at the practices we’ve had so far. On the offensive end, we’re sharing the ball more and I think we’re above and beyond where we were last year.”

Senior center Gillian O’Neil returns to the starting lineup, with senior guard Kacie Moran return-

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SPORTS GIRLS BASKETBALL: OSWEGO EAST 73, WEST AURORA 40

HIGH EXPECTATIONS Oswego East blends skilled veterans with young talent; opens with win

By KRISTIN SHARP ksharp@kendallcountynow.com Returning four starters from last year’s school-record 27-win team that reached the Class 4A Sweet 16, Oswego East coach Abe Carretto knew what his veterans were capable of as the 2016-17 season got underway.

On Tuesday, Carretto had a chance to see just what his newcomers were made of in the season opener at West Aurora. Junior guard Amaya Johns, a transfer from Plainfield North, was inserted into the Oswego East starting lineup with freshman point guard Christine Corpuz.

Sophomore guard Kaili Chval was the third new element introduced onto the court, and combined with seniors Ty Battle (16 points), Sydney Schultz (23 points), Jesinde Thomas and Jada Boatright, Oswego East (1-0) easily rolled to a 7340 win over West Aurora.

“I feel like Kaili Chval was the spark we needed,” Carretto said. “She does a great job defensively, and that’s what got us going. The underclassmen did a good job – the juniors, sophomores and freshman.”

Oswego East brings high expectations into the season after an undefeated Southwest Prairie Conference season and the first regional championship in program history.

“Our goal now is state.

We’re just focused on getting everyone together,” Schultz said. “We’re just taking it day by day.”

Battle returns after earning the conference’s MVP honor and was named an IBCA Second Team All-State selection.

She surpassed the 1,000 point career mark as a junior, averaging 15.2 points per game with 7.9 rebounds and led the Wolves with 174 assists and 139 blocks in her first year at Oswego East.

“I’m way more familiar now here in my senior year, espe-

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ABOVE: Oswego East’s Kaili Chval (right) grabs a loose ball from West Aurora’s Selene Martinez (left) during a varsity girls basketball game at West Aurora High School on Nov. 15. BELOW: Oswego East’s Abby Ford (4) presses West Aurora gurard Keva Tomas (23). cially with the guards and how everyone plays,” Battle said.

“I’m fitting in really well now.”

Schultz, who committed to Missouri State on Nov. 9, is also a returning All-SPC player and IBCA Honorable Mention, averaging 10.4 ppg with a team-best 37 steals. She now enters her fourth varsity season at Oswego East.

“I just wanted to have everything figured out so I wouldn’t have any stress over the season,” Schultz said of signing just days before the season opener. “The coach was really nice and the team was very welcoming. They made it to the tournament last year, so they’re a good team and they have a good record, so that helps a lot.”

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