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ON THE COVER Contractors for the Illinois Department of Transportation level asphalt at the corner of Route 71 and Orchard/Minkler Road in Oswego on Tuesday. Passage of a stopgap state budget last week in Springfield assured that construction along the busy highway will continue.

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Local school officials urge funding reform for Illinois D-308 asst. superintendent: Money ‘a blessing,’ but big problems remain

By TONY SCOTT tscott@kendallcountynow.com Local school district officials are happy that the state legislature approved full appropriations for education following budget talks last week, but some say it doesn’t fix the underlying problem with school funding.

Dr. Hector Garcia, superintendent with Plano School District 88, said he appreciates the district’s approximately $250,000 in increased state funding.

However, he said the state hasn’t fully funded school district appropriations in the four years that he has been superintendent.

“For school districts like ours, it’s truly playing catch-up on a few issues,” he said. “So this money is welcome, at the same time we’ve been doing a great deal with a lot less every year.”

Garcia said the funding is based on a model that needs improvement.

“When we talk about fully funding it, it’s taking a step in the right direction,” he said. “It is not, by any means,

resolving the issue.”

Kristine Liptrot, director of communications and community engagement for Yorkville District 115, said the news was “extremely positive for us.” That district is set to receive approximately $4.6 million in new funding.

“Just being fully funded for the first time in years is wonderful and will do great things for our students, but on top of that being fully funded, there was also the equity grant. And out of that equity grant, our portion is $83,000. So we will have an extra $83,000 on top of being fully funded, so it’s tremendous for us.”

However, Dean Romano, chief operations officer for District 115, said the district is being “cautiously optimistic” when budgeting for state fund payments.

“While we anticipate to receive more in general state aid and state funding, we’re going to be cautiously optimistic with regards to how we actually expect the appropriations to

BRIEFS Fireworks suspected in Oswego Township house fire

Fireworks were the possible cause of a fire at a home in the 100 block of Laurie Lane in unincorporated Oswego Township early Tuesday, according to the Oswego Fire Protection District.

Fire district firefighters were summoned to the blaze at approximately 12:04 a.m.

The fire was confined to the rear exterior of the home, according to the fire district.

Prior to the arrival of firefighters, all occupants had been safely evacuated from the home and a neighbor used a garden hose in an effort to extinguish the fire.

Upon arriving at the scene, firefight-

come to us,” he said.

Ali Mehanti, assistant superintendent for business and operations for District 308, said the district is facing a $6 million budget deficit and the approximately $4 million the district is set to receive should help the district “end up in the black next year.”

However, like Garcia, Mehanti lamented the state’s funding formula, which relies heavily on property tax revenue to fund local schools.

“It’s a blessing to our district, however, there are still issues with the funding formula,” he said.

Mehanti said the state should have been funding school districts fully for the past four years.

“This is something we should have gotten to begin with – 100 percent funding – because we lost around $21 million in the proration,” he said. “Now, this year we’re receiving 100 percent funding, which we should have gotten anyway, every year.”

Garcia said he supported the legislature’s action but that there is more to do.

“It’s welcome and I’m glad they were able to resolve it; the alternative was going to be much worse,” he said.

“There’s still some work to be done down in Springfield.”

CIVIC MEETINGS ers used approximately 10 gallons of water from an extinguisher to douse the fire.

Damage to the home was estimated at $10,000, according to the fire district. No civilian or firefighter injuries were reported.

Sheriff investigating Oswego Township break-in, battery

Kendall County sheriff’s police are investigating a home invasion that occurred July 1 at 4:30 a.m. at a residence in the 1000 block of U.S. Route 30 in Oswego Township.

Police said someone kicked in the door of the residence and battered a 49-year-old occupant of the home.

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Lack of state budget could have shut down work on Route 71, Route 34

By TONY SCOTT tscott@kendallcountynow.com State lawmakers’ approval of a stopgap budget measure has officials throughout the county breathing a collective sigh of relief, as it was possible that some major road projects would have stalled had the measure failed.

The Illinois Department of Transportation this month told state contractors that if a budget was not approved

by July 1, the start of the state’s fiscal year, all road projects would come to a halt. Gov. Bruce Rauner and legislators negotiated all day June 29 and June 30 on a variety of budget issues, including IDOT funding.

“We have a standing directive from

IDOT that all federally-funded projects will be shut down,” Fran Klaas, Kendall County Highway Engineer, said last week. “The way the money comes through Illinois, it goes through their state budget so essentially anything with federal money in it is shut down.

So any work on a state highway is done as of Friday, unless something breaks loose in Springfield.”

On July 1, Klaas said the approval of stopgap funding means officials are heaving a “big sigh of relief.”

“All projects can now move forward uninterrupted … at least until the end of the year,” he said.

Projects funded with county motor fuel tax and transportation sales tax were not impacted, Klaas said. The only

federally-funded project that is ongoing right now is Eldamain Road from the Menards Distribution Center north to Galena Road in Plano, he said.

In Oswego, where contractors are in the midst of working on Route 71, such a stoppage would have halted that project and could have also affected the project to widen Route 34 between Orchard Road in Oswego and Route 47 in Yorkville, according to Oswego Public Works Director Jennifer Hughes.

Hughes also said she was relieved that the stopgap budget was approved so as not to interrupt projects.

Montgomery Public Works Director Todd Hoppenstedt said while projects in the village would not have been directly affected by the shutdown, a stop-

gap will help local agencies.

Yorkville City Administrator Bart Olson said the funding is “a relief.”

“It provides funding for the Route 34 expansion and Route 71 expansion to continue forward and has full funding for municipal revenues,” he said.

Plano Mayor Bob Hausler said he is concerned that the stopgap measure did not address the root of the state’s financial problems.

“I think it was a necessary piece of legislation and had to be passed to avoid really disastrous consequences for the state,” he said. “But it still doesn’t address the root problems of the budget, and when you talk about social service agencies, a lot of the damage has already been done.”

Batinick says measure ‘keeps us out of hell’

By TONY SCOTT tscott@kendallcountynow.com

State Local state legislators gave mixed Rep. Mark reviews to the stopgap budget approved Batinick R-Plainfield by the General Assembly on June 30.

Lawmakers adopted the $50.6 billion budget measure on the deadline of the state’s fiscal year, which began July 1.

The plan includes funding for K-12 and higher education, transportation and infrastructure projects and human services programs.

State Rep. Mark Batinick, R-Plainfield, said he wasn’t happy with the stopgap budget, but that the alternative would have been worse.

“It keeps us in purgatory but it keeps us out of hell,” he said. “There is something to hate about every one of those bills, but the alternative would have been much worse if some of that stuff didn’t pass.”

State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit D-Oswego

State Sen. Linda Holmes D-Aurora

State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, said she was glad that funding was approved for schools, human services and road projects, but was disappointed that the state still does not have a full-year budget.

“While I am pleased we were able to provide emergency funding to agencies and organizations, I am frustrated Illinois still does not have a complete, balanced and responsible full-year budget,” he said. “I encourage the legislative leaders and the governor to continue working towards a balanced and responsible full-year budget.”

State Sen. Linda Holmes, D-Aurora, said the stopgap budget “produced

State Sen. Jim Oberweis R-Sugar Grove

State Rep. Keith Wheeler R-Oswego

very mixed feelings for many of us.”

“This stopgap measure is not ideal, and it’s going to be small comfort to college students who couldn’t go back to school because of a lack of MAP grants, or the social services that laid off staff or closed their doors because the state simply didn’t pay them for the humanitarian work they did,” she said. “Yet, once Gov. Rauner laid aside an unpopular, unrelated agenda and negotiated a compromise in good faith, we were able to ensure our schools and universities stay open, adequate funding will be provided to IMSA, our most vulnerable citizens are cared for, and much-needed construction projects

won’t see costly interruptions.”

Holmes added, “Let’s do as our friends and neighbors have demanded, and set aside ego to keep seeking compromise as we move forward.”

State Sen. Jim Oberweis, R-Sugar Grove, praised the legislation as something the state needed immediately.

“We worked for nearly a year to pass a balanced budget and meaningful economic reforms to expand job opportunities, fix a corrupt political system and mend a failing state economy. The stop-gap budget passed June 30 is not what our state needs long-term, but it does provide what we need right now.

It provides a temporary resolution to the impasse,” Oberweis said.

State Rep. Keith Wheeler, R-Oswego, said the stopgap measure “isn’t perfect or complete.”

“It is the product of a negotiated, bipartisan compromise,” he said. “Ultimately, there will be critical discussions this fall that will address needed reforms to grow the Illinois economy and to create jobs to reduce Illinois’ unemployment rate, which is currently the highest in the nation.”

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Food pantry board taking reassuring steps “A dark time.” Those were the words that Jeff Young, acting director and chairman of the Kendall County Food Pantry’s governing board, used to describe the past several weeks for the pantry, its supporters, its many volunteers and patrons.

As we reported, the Yorkville police department is continuing its investigation regarding “suspicious transactions and possible theft of funds” from the pantry accounts that began in late May. Police Chief Rich Hart has said the results of the investigation may go before a grand jury later this month.

Meanwhile, the pantry’s former longtime director and board chairman, Maria Spaeth, was found dead in her Lake Holiday vacation home June 21. She and her husband, Ken, the food pantry’s treasurer, resigned from their respective positions June 7, after the Yorkville police had begun their investigation.

In a statement, Young said the news of the police investigation and the Spaeths’ resignations were “both hard to swallow and a complete surprise, was devastating to the other pantry volunteers, our clients and Kendall County community as a whole.” Young acknowledged the departure and subsequent death of Maria Spaeth thrust the pantry “into a darkness fueled by fear, speculation and a demand for answers.”

Nevertheless, we’re encouraged that Young, the remaining pantry board of directors and its volunteers have kept the pantry’s doors open at 208 Beaver St. in Yorkville to serve the many of our county in need.

Importantly, according to Young, the pantry board is confident the impropriety alleged in the police investigation is “isolated to two individuals who are no longer affiliated with the pantry in any way” and the board has promised to put safeguards in place “to prevent any similar breach of trust from ever happening again.”

Young’s words are reassuring to us and should be to the thousands of county residents who have supported the pantry and volunteered their time there over the years. In order for the pantry to operate, it must enjoy the full trust and confidence of the community it serves. To rebuild that trust and confidence, the public needs to know that their donations of money, food and other items are indeed going to the members of our community who need it the most.

We believe the board has taken the first steps toward doing just that. For the thousands of individuals and families that rely on the pantry for meals, school supplies and other assistance, it is of vital importance that the board succeeds.

Old advertising campaigns tell us much about recent history REFLECTIONS Roger Matile When it opened for business in 1960, Commonwealth Edison’s Dresden Atomic Power Station became the first privately-owned nuclear power generating station in the nation. The facility was – and still is today – located on the Illinois River just south of Morris and was named for the old crossroads post office village of Dresden.

The plant was a technological marvel, and I remember Verne Killian inviting me to go down to visit it with a bunch of his fellow Oswego Lions Club members the year it opened when I was a freshman in high school.

For those of us who grew up in the 1950s, nuclear power was going to be the nation’s economic salvation. Nuclear power plants, we were told as kids, were going to make the generation of electrical power so cheap that electric meters would join buggy whips on the historical dust heap of once-common items no longer needed. The ComEd guy conducting our tour wasn’t quite that optimistic, but he suggested that Dresden and the other nuclear generating plants planned by other utility companies across the U.S. would make power extremely cheap.

That claim was drummed into the heads of us and our parents along with all the other products and ideas being sold in commercials on our brand new television sets. Anyone who grew up during that era will likely never forget the annoying little cartoon bird, named “Little Bill” singing that catchy jingle: “Electricity costs less today, you know, than it did 25 years ago! A little birdie told me so – Little Bill!”

Thanks to financial manipulations, ComEd no longer owns its own generating plants. That capability was spun off into a company named Exelon – another one of those corporate names that sound like a brand of asthma inhaler. The nation’s nuclear generating capacity, of course, is shrinking these days, and we unfortunately never got to the point where ComEd crews were going house to house removing electric meters. Instead, coal plants still predominate, spewing their greenhouse gases and, ironically, emitting more radiation than nuclear plants do, thanks to trace radioactive elements in the coal they burn.

So Little Bill and the whole concept of too-cheapto-bill electricity is long gone. But the bird’s catchy jingle (which is now rattling around in my head, probably for the rest of the day) is not the only advertising ploy progress has dumped into history’s dustbin.

Remember Esso Gasoline’s “Put a Tiger in Your Tank” campaign? Back in the ’60s, the company even manufactured little tiger tails customers hooked to the side of their gas tank filler door so it looked like they might really have a tiger lurking in their tank.

And while we’re on the topic of gasoline, the guys out there might remember the Sunoco stations with gas pumps that had dials allowing customers to select the octane level they wanted. Guys who went street racing usually filled up with 260 octane, the highest

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“Put a Tiger in Your Tank” was the slogan Esso Oil Co. used to sell gas in the 1960s, when muscle cars were in vogue. the dials allowed (today’s regular gas is 87 octane), the next best thing to jet fuel.

Nor should we forget all those cereal ads aimed at kids. Back then, sugar was considered necessary to give kids sufficient energy to get through the day – lots of sugar.

Tony the Tiger used to plead with us to eat Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes. Then sugar came into disrepute, and marketing required downplaying its presence. So Tony’s flakes became simply Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes.

Same goes for Kellogg’s Sugar Corn Pops. Wild Bill Hickok and his sidekick Jingles Jones hawked the cereal on their Western TV series because, as the jingle went, “Kellogg’s Sugar Corn Pops: Sugar Pops are tops!” And they were good, too. But we can’t buy Sugar Pops nowadays, although we can buy boxes of Corn Pops, which, except for excising the word “sugar,” are pretty much identical.

Remember Sugar Smacks? That was the puffed wheat cereal coated with a sugar glaze. Sugar having gotten a bad rap, the company decided to change the subject by touting the cereal’s sweetness while also wrapping themselves in “natural” food cloak by morphing Sugar Smacks into Honey Smacks. It’s a well-known “fact” that “natural” sugars are much better for us than bad old refined sugars. Which is pretty much hogwash (chemically, sugar is sugar), but giving consumers what they think they want is a grand old American business tradition.

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FORUM To the Editor: After the June 28 terrorist attack at Istanbul’s airport, I was wondering where were the calls from the president and Hillary Clinton for new bomb control laws?

Come to think of it, what about the House Democrats staging a sit-in on the floor of the House Chamber to demand “responsible” bomb control legislation?

Michael F. Becker Montgomery

Wasteful spending

To the Editor: Wasteful spending reached record heights in Oswego and Kendall County.

Some examples follow. Remember, our property taxes rank 29 of 3,143 counties nationally.

An expensive downtown Chicago law firm was hired by the village of Oswego to mail an advisement that I live next to the proposed TIF district. A TIF is a taxpayer bond issue that makes you pay for some developer costs. Prior trustees found a TIF wasteful. The new trustees paid a firm $22,000 to tell them a TIF was OK. These trustees’ wasteful “vision” recreates Oswego, adding luxury condos and strip malls. The map enclosed in the letter covers virtually all of Oswego west and east of the river, all of downtown, reaching out east beyond Route 71, and north into the residential property just bought by the library district at $25,000 more than appraised. A recent Oswego Village Board meeting found irate taxpayers up in arms about the TIF – but our “visionary” trustees have deaf ears. So, get ready for a huge increase in Oswego village taxes in the future.

The TIF area sheds light on the Oswego Public Library District Board that still hasn’t come clean on its wasteful purchase of 19 North Street (partly why our library taxes jumped by almost 3 percent this year). The library said they wanted to preserve the beautiful view onto that property by preventing all building on

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Continued from page 4 In other cases, new technology did away with perfectly good advertising ideas. Take Gillette Blue Blades for instance. Originally, the company’s razor blades were simple high-carbon steel. But then someone got the bright idea of bluing them like gun barrels to keep them from rusting so easily. Gil-

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it. Yet it got a court order to invalidate the restricted covenant that banned any building, in perpetuity, on that property.

They lie to us with a straight face. And now, the TIF area includes the property bought by the library. Smells bad, doesn’t it?

A letter on these pages chided the Oswegoland Park District for neglecting the Augusta Lake Park pond, which was “free of charge” by the residential developers of that area. The park district thoughtlessly accepted the “gift.” Did it consider the lifetime operation and maintenance costs? Of course not. So now it is stuck with a water retention pond that is useless as a park and neglected.

Another recent article, i.e., the impending financial collapse of School District 308. That collapse will be the undoing of many citizens who can hardly pay their tax bills today. More on that to come.

have caused the people of the world to suffer. Did we learn a great deal by being divided?

The creation of the United Nations brought adversaries to the table for discussion of differences rather than taking them to the battlefields only to cause death and destruction.

More hope came with the creation of a United Europe. Whoever thought that England, France, Germany and Italy along with the many other countries which make up the European Union could ever come together? What is in store for the world if Europe again becomes split up, divided, into competing adversaries? How long will it be before armies once again face each other in battle? Will history be repeated?

use of same were false and that the district’s intentions are to protect the site, to be good stewards of that property for all of us, now and in the future.

I am asking them to show us, not just tell us, by cleaning out the clogged gutters on the old barn, repairing the broken windows and removing the volunteer saplings growing against the foundation.

In two days and for very little money these problems could be taken care of.

I can’t imagine me buying a property and after three months I still hadn’t fixed broken windows.

Tom Todd Oswego

Declare your independence

To the Editor: A well-warranted worry, according to Montgomery the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Meat & Poultry Hotline, is food poisoning by A great time for all nasty E. coli and Salmonella bugs hiding To the Editor: Sunday in the Park was a great time for in hot dogs and hamburgers at millions of backyard barbecues. The hotline’s all that came. On behalf of the village of Montgomery I would like to thank the Fox advice is to grill them longer and hotter.

Of course, they avoid mentioning that the Valley Park District, the Kendall County high-temperature grilling that kills the Mounted Patrol, Engineering Enterprises of Sugar Grove, School District 308 bugs also happens to form cancer-causand the team of volunteers and staff ing compounds. that made the Sunday in the Park event Fortunately, some forward-thinking U.S. a success. It was great to see family, food manufacturers have solved these friends and neighbors all gather to enjoy issues by creating an amazing assortment a little relaxing time together. The music, of healthy and delicious veggie burgers food and free ice cream were great. You and soy dogs. No nasty pathogens or cannot beat great food, great music and cancer-causing compounds in these tasty Leonard R. Wass a great community. Thanks again to all plant-based foods. They don’t even carry Captain, USN (Ret.) that came out for this event.

Oswego cholesterol, saturated fats, antibiotics or pesticides. And, they are conveniently Doug Marecek Will history repeat? waiting for us at almost every supermarVillage of Montgomery Trustee To the Editor: Montgomery ket.

It has been said that if we do not learn This summer offers a great opportunity from the study of history then we are Fix the broken windows to declare our independence from the bound to make the same mistakes as in To the Editor: meat industry and to share wholesome the past. Divided people suffered because The Oswego Public Library District pur- veggie burgers and soy dogs with our of the Crusades, our own Civil War, World chased the three acres just north of their family and friends.

War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam. downtown Oswego facility more than Perhaps you can name a few additional three months ago, telling the citizens that Aaron Kendleson examples of how divisive differences Aurora many stories going around about their lette Blue Blades were an advertising staple of prizefight broadcasts on the radio and early television. But then the technology became available to make razor blades out of stainless steel, so then we were treated to Wilkinson Sword Blades – an exciting macho product name if there ever was one.

In other cases, changing the way services are provided has eliminated advertising campaigns, not to mention whole brands. Cities Service gasoline

Richard Kastner

“Trust the Man who Wears the Star,” stations, for instance, would look and lots of us did. pretty silly in this day and age of no Old advertising slogans and ad camservice but self-service. And remember “The Man who Wears the Star, the paigns can tell us a lot about recent Big Bright Texaco Star?” The motto history, and about the times in which was popular in the days when guys at they were hatched, just as today’s gas stations wore crisp uniforms and slogans and ad campaigns tell us a lot would actually dash out like an Indy about how our world has changed. pit crew to fill your gas tank, wash your windows, check your oil and • Looking for more local history? water, and provide...well...service at a Visit http://historyonthefox.wordservice station. We were told we could press.com.

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One hurt in rollover crash OSWEGO LEDGER An Oswego resident, Dwight P. Lie­ bold, 64, of the 20 block of Beau Meade Road, was injured in a three-vehicle crash June 29 at 2:15 p.m. on Boul­ der Hill Pass at Circle Drive West in Boulder Hill, according to the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office.

Police said Liebold was taken to Rush-Copley Medical Center in Auro­ ra by Oswego Fire Protection District paramedics.

Police said the crash occurred when a vehicle driven by Ashley E. Paul, 22,

of the 60 block of Marnel Road, Boulder Hill, failed to yield at a stop sign at the intersection and struck Liebold’s vehi­ cle. Police said Liebold’s vehicle was pushed into a third vehicle and then rolled over, coming to rest on its side.

The driver of the third vehicle, Ro­ gelio Pacheco, 39, of the 700 block of Edgelawn Drive, Aurora, and two chil­ dren in his vehicle were not injured, according to police. Police said Paul and three children in her vehicle were also unhurt.

Police cited Paul for failing to yield at a stop sign.

MONTGOMERY POLICE REPORTS Warrant arrest Montgomery police arrested David Geyer, 51, of the 100 block of Riverside, Montgomery, at 2 p.m. June 28 in the 100 block of Riverside Drive on a Kane County warrant for criminal sexual assault.

Warrant arrest Montgomery police arrested Robert Hamilton, 26, of the 1300 block of Sycamore Lane, Montgomery, at 9:15 p.m. June 29 on Montgomery Road at Douglas Road. Police said Hamilton was wanted on an Aurora police department warrant for driving on a suspended license.

Possession arrest Montgomery police arrested Andres Lopez, 28, of the 2100 block of Walcott Road, Aurora, at 1:11 a.m. June 26 on Montgomery Road at Pearl Street. Police said Lopez has been charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

Warrant arrest Montgomery police arrested Fran Leypold, 51, of the 1000 block of Harmony Drive, Montgomery, at 11:48 p.m. June 29 on Har-

mony Drive. Police said Leypold was wanted on a Cook County Sheriff’s Office warrant for driving on a suspended license.

DUI warrant arrest Montgomery police arrested William Paul, 27, of the 2200 block of Stacy Circle, Montgomery, at 7:26 p.m. June 30 at the village police station. Police said Paul was wanted on a DuPage County Sheriff’s Office warrant for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Traffic violations Jonathan Ortega-Carrera, 26, of the 500 block of Glenview Street, Aurora, operating a motor vehicle when registration is suspended.

Juan Ramirez, 29, of the 25000 block of Willow Drive, Plainfield, no valid driver’s license.

Rebecca Herren, 32, of the 300 block of Lakelawn Boulevard, Aurora, driving on a suspended license.

Silvia Martinez, 53, of the 100 block of Harbor Drive, Oswego, driving on a suspended license.

Karina Sanchez-Castro, 19, of the 400 block of North Avenue, Aurora, no valid driver’s license.

OSWEGO POLICE REPORTS Battery reported Oswego police took a report of a battery that occurred at a residence in the 0-10 block of Yeadon Lane in the village July 3 at 3:15 p.m.

Vehicle hits fence Damage was estimated at over $1,500 when a vehicle driven by a Plano man, Daniel M. Scott, 22, of the 3200 block of Tamaria Street left the roadway and struck a fence on Pearce’s Ford Drive in Oswego July 3 at 8:18 p.m.

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OSWEGO POLICE REPORTS • Continued from page 6 Juvenile arrested Oswego police arrested a 14-year-old on Merchants Drive near Fernwood Road at 6:10 p.m. July 3 on a charge of battery.

Vehicle burglary A debit card and $300 in cash were stolen from a vehicle that had been left unlocked in the 400 block of Grapevine Trail in Oswego on either June 29 or June 30, Oswego police reported.

Devoe Drive theft An Oswego resident reported her cellphone stolen from a residence in the 400 block of Devoe Drive in the village June 30. Police said the cellphone is valued at $700.

Identify theft reported A resident of Raintree Drive in Oswego filed an identity theft report with Oswego police July 1. Police said someone used the victim’s name and Social Security number to add the victim onto a credit card account as an authorized user.

Cyclist hits motor vehicle Oswego police responded to an accident involving a cyclist and a motorist on Orchard Road at Mill Road at 5:10 p.m. June 28. Police said the cyclist failed to use the crosswalk button and came into contact with a vehicle

turning right off Orchard Road onto Mill Road. Police said the cyclist was injured, but declined medical treatment. Police said they did not issue any citations.

Felony reckless driving Oswego police arrested Tiffany A. House, 27, of the 4900 block of West Superior Street, Chicago, on felony charges of reckless driving after the vehicle she was driving was involved in a property damage accident on Gloria Lane at Seton Creek Drive in the village June 28 at 2:05 a.m. Police said House and the driver of the other vehicle involved in the crash were not hurt.

Retail theft Merchandise valued at $303.90 was reported stolen from a store in the 2300 block of Route 34 in Oswego on June 28, village police reported.

Traffic violations Christian D. Seidelman Jr., 18, of the 800 block of Richard Street, Aurora, aggravated speeding.

Gustavo Alba, 43, of the 900 block of Superior Street, Aurora, no valid driver’s license, speeding and no insurance.

Sherry M. Brendell, 54, of the 2500 block of South Red Stable Lane, Channahon, driving on a suspended license.

Rocky J. Delamora, 30, 1000 block of Howell Place, Aurora, driving on a revoked license.

Aurora man cited for littering SHAW MEDIA Kendall County sheriff’s deputies issued a littering citation, a Class B misdemeanor, to Eugene Brock, 55, of Aurora, June 22 after an investigation that involved personnel from the Bristol Township Highway Department, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Kendall County building and zoning department.

Police said they started the investigation April 19 after taking a report of garbage being dumped in a creek on East Beecher Road south of Galena Road in Bristol Township.

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ment employees reported on three separate dates having to clean up black plastic trash bags containing household garbage which had been dumped in the creek, according to police.

Police said the items dumped included pieces of mail, license plates, used motor oil and a used oil filter.

The creek feeds into the Rob Roy Creek, which flows into the Fox River.

During the investigation, it was reported that more household garbage including pieces of mail had been dumped in the same creek.

Police said Brock is scheduled to appear in court on the charge July 14.

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The next meeting of the Hilltop Gardeners Garden Club will be July 14 at the home of Carolyn Finzer, 970 Sylvan Circle, Naperville. Members and guests will gather at Hudson Crossing Park at 9:30 a.m. to carpool and will return about 1 p.m.

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Waubonsee Community College is offering a basketball skills camp for girls from sixth grade through those entering their senior year of high school.

The one-day camp will be take place on July 12 in the Erickson Hall Gymnasium on Waubonsee’s Sugar Grove campus. There will be two sessions that day, a three-hour morning session from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., and an afternoon session from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Space is limited to 15 players in each session. Interested individuals can register online at www.waubonseetickets. com. The cost for the skills camp is $150 for each participant, payable online when you register. For more information, call Sury at 630-466-5766.

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campus. If necessary due to inclement weather, activities will be held in Waubonsee’s Fieldhouse. In case of space constraints, the Sugar Grove Sports Complex on Wheeler Road will serve as an alternate site.

All camp participants will receive a free t-shirt and a voucher for one free admission to an Aurora Borealis Soccer Club home match during the 2016 season. There will be a focus on basic, intermediate and advanced passing skills, shooting and ball skills, and specific player positioning.

The cost for the weeklong camp is $35 each for kids in second grade and up, and $25 each for first-graders and under. Discounts will be available for registering multiple players. To register, go online to www.waubonseetickets.com, or contact Waubonsee’s Athletic Office at 630-466-2524. All registration will be conducted through Waubonsee online ticketing.

Waubonsee Community College is offering a youth soccer camp from July 11-15. The camp is open to boys Cheerleaders needed and girls of all ages, and will be held Waubonsee Community College is each day from 4 to 6 p.m. on Waubon- looking for students who are interestsee’s soccer field at the Sugar Grove ed in being a part of the school’s co-ed

Oswego alum receives award OSWEGO LEDGER Millikin University, in conjunction with the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin, has announced its Jack Swartz Award recipients and the CCIW Academic All-Conference team for spring season of 2016.

Millikin track and field athletes senior Michaela Ponstein (Oswego) and junior Timothee McElroy (Mt. Zion) were selected as the Jack Swartz win-

ners for the spring season.

To be considered as a Swartz Award winner, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.50 grade point average, have earned a letter in their varsity sport and have made a leadership contribution to their program.

Ponstein earned All-Conference honors in women’s track and field while excelling in the classroom as an elementary education major at the Decatur university.

Former Chicago Bear to host clinic OSWEGO LEDGER Former Chicago Bear wide receiver Macey Brooks will host a USA Football FUNdamentals clinic for children going into first through fifth grades from 10 a.m. to noon and sixth through eighth grades from noon to 2 p.m. July 11-12 at Prairie Point Park, 4120 Plainfield Road.

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Resner recently resigned from Bettendorf and will cross back over into Illinois to teach math at Sherrard High School, located just south of Moline in Rock Island County.

“Sherrard is maybe 20 minutes from Augustana, so I’ll be able to do both,” Resner said. “We have this whole year to set up and recruit, so that helps.

We’d like to get some competitive bowlers in there, and upperclassmen who are already at Auggie to help out the newer people we’ll be bringing in.”

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As a senior at Oswego High School, Marty Resner was a member of the Panthers’ inaugural bowling team and was the first individual medal winner in school history.

The 2009 Oswego graduate carried a 210 average and helped the Panthers to an undefeated regular season and a seventh-place finish in the IHSA state tournament.

Now, Resner is about to make history once again after being selected as Augustana College’s first women’s bowling head coach.

The Vikings announced in April the addition of women’s bowling and men’s volleyball for the 2017-18 school year, and Resner was officially tabbed on June 10.

“Last summer, I contacted Mike Zapolski, the athletic director at Augustana, and mentioned that I’ve really enjoyed coaching bowling and wondering if it would be possible to get a club team started at Auggie. I wanted to

spread the sport around,” Resner said.

“He thought it was a good idea and said we could talk about it. Once I heard it might be added as a sport, I got excited. I got my resume updated, and when they officially announced it, two hours later I turned in my application.”

Resner is an Augustana alum and three-year football letterwinner for the Vikings, but is looking forward to transitioning back to the sport he first picked up at the age of 5.

Marty After graduating Resner from Augustana in 2013, he has spent the past three years as a math teacher and coach at Bettendorf High School in Iowa. He was an assistant coach for the boys and girls bowling teams, assistant football coach at the varsity and freshman levels and coached the sprinters in track and field.

“My dad [Mike] coaches at Oswego, my brother [Mickey] coaches at Minooka High School and my oldest sister

“My dad [Mike] coaches at Oswego, my brother [Mickey] coaches at Minooka High School and my oldest sister [Sandy] bowled at the University of Illinois; I come from a bowling family.”

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By LAURA M. MEDINA sports@kendallcountynow.com A wild-pitch offense might not always be the ideal game strategy, but it worked for the Oswego Cats, as an errant toss allowed the winning run to score in the 11th inning against the Crestwood Panthers on June 30 at Jackie’s Field of Dreams in Oswego.

Oswego (13-11, 6-9 Chicago Suburban Baseball League) won its second straight after losing five in a row and wrapped up a stretch in which the team split 12 games by celebrating after left fielder Jeff Woods came home on the wayward throw during Clark Brinkman’s at-bat for the 4-3 victory.

“With a runner on third, you’ve always gotta have your guy aware of what’s going on and ready, and hopefully, you get a fortunate break like that, and that one was more fortuitous than I would have expected; it worked out,” Cats field manager Todd Miller said.

“In a situation like that, the important guy is the leadoff guy, and Jeff got on, and then we got the bounce over to second. I was hoping maybe that [catcher] Mike Cherven [2-for-5] would come through, and he got the ground ball and kept us out of a double play. It wasn’t Clark’s best night, but those are the guys you want in that situation.”

The late-inning heroics were essential against Crestwood starter Danny Guido, who was tough from the outset.

The right-hander made quick work of the first five batters he faced, but he allowed shortstop Chris Saltijeral (2for-4, RBI) a two-out triple that scored Sandwich alum Woods (3-for-5, two runs) in the bottom of the second.

The Panthers, though, earned two back in the third off of Cats righthander Andrew Bruss and added another off of him in the fifth to jump ahead 3-1.

Oswego wouldn’t trail for long, getting a spark in the sixth from first baseman Michael Fidler’s two-run home run over the left-field fence to knot the score.

“It moved really quickly there for a few innings, but we weren’t putting the ball in play,” Miller said. “We definitely struggled, and we had a tough time catching up to [Guido].

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Oswego Cats pitcher Andrew Bruss fires one home Thursday night against the Crestwood Panthers. Bruss gave up six hits, walked three and fanned four in 6 1⁄3 innings.

“They went up 3-1, and we were hoping we could battle back here, and we just weren’t getting anything going. Then with the strikeouts [10 before the homer], that just didn’t help, but we got a big boost there, and that helped us out.”

It also helped that Bruss was able to pitch himself out of a few jams on his end. He gave up six hits, walked three and fanned four in 6 1⁄3 innings before giving way to left-hander Andy Grunewald, who was stellar in relief against the non-CSBL Panthers.

“Andrew Bruss did a really good job,” Miller said. “He got into some situations, but he got himself out of them.

Andy, too, came in, and he threw the ball very well. He was pounding the strike zone, and he had [six] strikeouts in a row at one point. He’s done very well for us.”

In fact, Grunewald fanned eight total – six straight over the eighth and ninth – and surrendered two hits in 4 2⁄3 frames.

“I think that’s the most strikeouts I’ve had in an outing,” Grunewald said. “I’m not a strikeout guy, but I was finding the zone.”

Oswego had other offensive chances in the seventh, eighth, and ninth, but it wasn’t able to solve Crestwood’s pitching, much like the Panthers were

unable to get to Bruss or Grunewald in that same stretch.

The timely hit in the 11th, however, allowed the Cats to revel in a comeback win, something that could bode well for them when they return to the diamond in July, a month rife with tough CSBL competition.

“It’s a morale-builder, especially facing that guy we faced, to claw your way back and then take the win,” Miller said. “I mean, the way we were hitting, we could have just rolled over.

We didn’t, we kept fighting, we kept getting base-runners, and I told our guys that’s what we need to do, just a little at a time.”