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Start 2016 off helping others VIEWS Kate Schott I returned from a week off to a stack of unopened mail, a half-dozen voicemail messages, nearly 1,000 emails and the following lovely letter from a reader in Shorewood named Bonnie.

“Just a note to tell you how much I have enjoyed all the articles about people in our area helping other people in need. It is good to see evidence of human love and kindness in the midst of world turmoil.

Please keep giving us these uplifting stories.”

I love being able to share those types of stories with our readers. While it’s essential we cover the daily happenings at government meetings or from the courthouse – which often yields articles that few would categorize as uplifting – it’s always been a joy to share the good news too. There are numerous instances where people lend a hand for no other reason than it is the right thing to do, but we usually don’t hear about them because those doing such acts don’t think what they are doing is anything special.

We can’t promise we can cover every instance like that, but I encourage you to let us know when they occur so we can do our best to get to them.

I’d also like to challenge you to be part of those uplifting stories. And there’s a great opportunity in our community do so.

A week out, organizers for the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service continue to look for more projects and volunteers.

The day of service, called “Day On, Not A Day Off,” is a collaborative community volunteer day of service when dozens of

projects are completed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Last year’s day of service saw 689 volunteers help complete 28 community service projects.

This year, the event will take place Jan. 18. Co-organizer R. Dale Evans has told us the goal is to get 50 projects with 1,000 volunteers.

The United Way of Will County is handling organization of projects for the event. Any agency with a project can contact UW Executive Director Michael Hennessy at mike@uwwill. org, and he will email back a project request form to complete.

Volunteers can sign up through Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet by emailing ewilliams@cc-doj. org or calling 815-724-1142.

Evans reminded me about another part of the MLK weekend, the Community Unity Jazz Brunch, which is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 16 at the Jacob Henry Mansion, 15 S. Richards St., Joliet.

The keynote speaker is University of St. Francis President Arvid Johnson.

Cost is $40 a person, with a table of 10 costing $350.

The proceeds will benefit the Unity CDC Operations, HAF Family Self-Sufficiency program incentives and WJHS Scholars Program.

For information, contact Evans at rdaleevants2000@ gmail.com.

We look forward to covering the day of service Jan. 18. Here’s hoping maybe a few of our readers show up in our article and photos.

Thank you for reading The Herald-News.

• Kate Schott is editor of The Herald-News, the Morris Herald-News and Herald Life. She can be reached at kschott@shawmedia.com or 815-280-4119.

Follow her on Twitter @ Kate_Schott78.

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Workers at Vintage Tech Recyclers on Dec. 23, 2014 disassemble electronics to be recycled in Plainfield.

Citing rising costs and an “extremely unstable” market, Will County’s longtime electronics recycling vendor is bowing out of its contract.

Vintage Tech to leave Will County electronics recycling contract

By LAUREN LEONE–CROSS lleonecross@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Citing rising costs and an “extremely unstable” market, Will County’s longtime electronics recycling vendor – Vintage Tech Recyclers – is bowing out of its contract, leaving the county’s popular e-recycling program with an uncertain future.

A similar story is playing out in the rest of the state, where a growing, unsustainable Illinois program is becoming a victim of its own success.

Electronics have been banned from landfills in Illinois since 2012, and under a state program, manufacturers that sell products in Illinois must recycle a certain weight of what is sold and pay to have those items collected and recycled.

Government bodies participating in the state recycling program do not pay the vendors with which they enter into contracts, as the state program is structured for manufacturers to cover the cost. However, once manufacturers meet the state-mandated annual goals, they no longer have to pay recycling companies.

When issues arose last year, a change to state law increased

“The bottom line is ... and I don’t like it either … my first reaction was, ‘Don’t pay it.’ But at the same time, our residents are used to having this service. We’re doing a great thing by taking it out of the landfill.”

Dean Olson Will County’s Resource Recovery and Energy Division

manufacturers’ weight obligations from 36.2 million to 49.6 million pounds to meet manufacturers’ demand.

Now, electronic manufacturers are at odds over price negotiations with recyclers such as the Plainfield-based Vintage Tech, forcing vendors into a tough position: Absorb the costs of local governments’ recycling programs, bow out, or exit the state program and charge local governments for services.

Dean Olson, who heads Will County’s Resource Recovery and Energy Division, said the

county can choose to pay for a scaled-down program – estimated at $680,000 or more, depending on bids – or drop the program entirely.

“The bottom line is ... and I don’t like it either … my first reaction was, ‘Don’t pay it.’ But at the same time, our residents are used to having this service.

We’re doing a great thing by taking it out of the landfill,” Olson said.

In the meantime, Olson will seek approval from the County Board to put out a formal bid for a new vendor.

“If [the bids come in] really high, it will be tough to do it,” Olson said.

Drop-off site services will end Feb. 11, and the recycler’s front-door residential pickup service will be evaluated for discontinuation, according to a memo dated Dec. 11 from Vintage Tech to the county.

The county’s contract with Vintage Tech doesn’t expire until May 2017, but a clause states the service is dependent on the company securing contracts from manufacturers. Olson said the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office is reviewing the contract.

Richard Hipp, president and

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People exercise Saturday at the Morris Community YMCA during the one-year anniversary celebration of the facility.

1-YEAR CELEBRATION Morris YMCA’s first anniversary brings out community, Y members

By JEANNE MILLSAP Shaw Media Correspondent MORRIS – A lot has happened in the past year at the Morris Community YMCA, and the facility celebrated its first anniversary Saturday with demonstrations of new equipment, health screenings, giveaways, games and refreshments.

A steady flow of well-wishers attended to congratulate staff, and several signed up as new members.

Jill Nabzdyk and her father, Ed Nabzdyk, did just that, receiving their new membership

cards on the spot. Jill Nabzdyk said she’s looking to drop a few pounds, and her father said his goal is to just get healthy. Ed Nabzdyk said he will most likely focus on the treadmills and weights.

“I may try the hip-hop class,” Jill Nabzdyk said.

Y member Danielle Kuntzi was a little taken aback when she came in the door to the crowd, balloons and cupcakes.

She knew the celebration was this weekend but said she forgot what time it was scheduled.

“I just came in to work out,” she said.

But Kuntzi took advantage

of the affair and stopped by the tables set up by Morris Hospital, an affiliate of the YMCA. A grip strength test showed she had a stronger grip than most.

She found her left hand was stronger than her right, even though she is right-handed.

Kuntzi’s goal is to lose an additional 20 pounds, on top of the 100 she has already lost.

Morris YMCA Executive Director Missy Durkin said the facility has been popular with the community its first year.

“It way exceeded any expectation,” she said.

In its first month, membership kicked off at 600 units.

One unit may be an individual membership or a family membership. As of Saturday morning, it was at more than 870 units. About 400 people take fitness classes at the facility each week, Durkin said.

“They really enjoy the environment, and they really appreciate our staff,” she said.

“We offer a whole comprehensive approach to wellness ... our members don’t feel intimidated, they don’t feel pressured.”

Member Linda Petrick was there Saturday to see what the new programs were. She brought her grandchildren and laughed when she said

they enjoyed the cupcakes, candy and piñata the best. Petrick works out at the YMCA regularly on the machines and in the adult hip-hop class, which her daughter, Stacey Hutchcraft, teaches, along with a children’s hip-hop class.

They are popular classes, Hutchcraft said, and are easy to follow.

“It’s a cardio dance workout,” she said.

Pound Class is another new offering. It adds drumsticks to a high-intensity workout.

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ABOVE: People exercise Saturday at the Morris Community YMCA during the one-year anniversary celebration of the facility. BELOW: Sarah Lauterbach leads an exercise class Saturday at the Morris Community YMCA during the one-year anniversary celebration of the facility.

New Power Center unveiled during anniversary celebration • YMCA

Continued from page 3 Trainer Crystal Montgomery said she’s had people ages 16 through 74 participate. She said it’s a fun and vigorous workout.

Members drum while doing workout moves such as squats.

“The drumming keeps your mind off what you’re doing,” she said.

Health and Wellness Director Ian Stewart unveiled a brand new Power Center at the

facility, which he said has cable systems, a power rack for squats and dead lifts, pre-set barbells at 20 to 110 pounds and a Synrgy 360, which is a multifunctional piece of equipment with TRX ropes, battle ropes, wall balls and resistance bands.

“It’s for anybody who enjoys fitness and is looking to change things up,” Stewart said. “It’s something to switch out their workouts and push themselves at different intensities.”

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Survey shows colleges can’t keep fronting MAP funds

By FELIX SARVER fsarver@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Nearly half of Illinois colleges responding to a recent survey indicated they would not put up their own money again this spring to help students struggling to pay for their education with grant funding tied up in the state’s budget impasse.

However, Joliet Junior College plans to front Monetary Award Program funds for students this spring semester. The program provides grants, which do not need to be repaid, to students who attend a MAP-approved school and demonstrate a financial need.

Kelly Rohder, the college’s spokeswoman, said JJC officials will decide to continue providing the money on a semester-by-semester basis.

“It’s imperative that our students have all the tools and support they need,” she said.

Rohder said the college hopes to be reimbursed for the funds by the state, but doesn’t know whether it will be.

A survey from Illinois Student Assistance Commission – a clearinghouse for student aid – that was released Thursday showed that out of 84 colleges and universities, 41

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schools reported they would not carry the MAP load for students once more this spring and about a dozen more haven’t decided.

The deadlock over the state budget that should have taken effect July 1 will force needy college students to make some tough choices, the ISAC survey indicated.

Illinois colleges put up $168 million of their own money to help students attend classes last fall because of the state budget impasse.

For the fall semester, JJC applied $553,000 toward MAP grant students, Rohder wrote in an email. For the spring semester, $470,000 has been applied as of Friday, bringing the total JJC has fronted to more than $1 million, she wrote.

She said about 900 students at JJC are supported by MAP grants.

She said without that funding for students, the longer-term impact would be on the workforce since people come to JJC to train and im-

prove their lives.

The popular, bipartisan MAP provided income-based grants totaling $373 million last school year. Although there wasn’t a state budget agreement when classes began again in August, three in five schools fronted the money out of reserves because state reimbursement typically doesn’t arrive until December.

Overall, the ISAC survey found 58 percent of respondents credited MAP grants for the first semester.

Six of 12 public universities fronted the money in the fall and will continue to. Just one in five community college respondents said it would continue paying this spring.

Of 31 schools that indicated to ISAC they would continue upfront spring payments, several said they’d pursue reimbursement from students if the state doesn’t come through; half said they were undecided on making students pay in such a case.

“It’s obviously a serious situation,” said state Sen. Pat McGuire, D-Joliet, who heads the Senate Higher Education Committee.

The committee held a

See GRANTS, page 26

More than 500 grams of liquid meth discovered during Wilmington traffic stop SHAW MEDIA WILMINGTON – A traffic stop led to the evacuation of nearby apartments and a specialist being called in Friday night in Wilmington after a bottle of liquid methamphetamine was found inside a vehicle.

The incident occurred about 9 p.m., when an officer pulled the vehicle over in an alley near the 200 block of North Water Street for a traffic violation, according to a Wilmington Police Department news release. The officer determined the driver – Benjamin A. Hoover, 27, of Wilming-

ton – had a suspended license.

While talking to the passenger – Mala Diloreto, 29, of Wilmington – officers learned a plastic bottle on the front floor of the vehicle contained liquid meth.

Wilmington police requested assistance from the Illinois State Police Meth Response Unit and nearby apartments were evacuated, the release stated. A special agent from the meth unit donned a protective hazmat suit and respirator to stabilize the 570 grams of liquid meth, while Wilmington Fire Protection District personnel stood by to assist in case of explosion or fire. The

chemicals used to make meth can become extremely volatile and can explode, according to the release.

Hoover was charged with methamphetamine manufacturing, possession and transportation of methamphetamine precursor, possession and transportation of methamphetamine manufacturing material, unlawful use of property to possess methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine. Diloreto was charged with possession of methamphetamine.

Both were transported to the Will County Jail to await a bond hearing.

Morris man shot in head; incident being investigated as accident

By ANNA SCHIER aschier@shawmedia.com MORRIS – A Morris man is in critical condition after being shot in the head Friday night, according to a Morris Police Department news release.

Officers responded about 9 p.m. to the 2400 block of Oakland Circle for a report of a gunshot victim, the release stated. Upon arrival, they found a 24-year-old man unconscious and bleeding with a single gunshot wound to the head.

The victim was taken to Morris Hospital by Morris Fire Protection & Ambulance District personnel and later taken by ambulance to Loyola Medical Center

in Maywood. Police Chief Brent Dite said the victim’s identity is being withheld, but the chief did confirm the victim is a Morris resident.

As of Saturday evening, the victim is in critical condition.

Foul play is not suspected, according to the release, and a preliminary investigation indicates the injury was the result of an accidental discharge of a firearm.

No one has been charged in the incident, Dite said.

Morris police contacted a crime scene investigations unit from the Illinois State Police to assist, the release stated.

The shooting remained under investigation Saturday evening.

Braidwood police: Coal City mom claimed daughter missing to make shoplifting getaway

By BRIAN STANLEY bstanley@shawmedia.com BRAIDWOOD – A 2-yearold Coal City girl was found unharmed two hours after being reported missing Friday.

Police Chief Nick Ficarello said Jennifer R. Standridge, 36, called police about 3:15 p.m. to Dollar General, 145 Jennifer R. E. Main St., to Standridge say her daughter was missing. Police from Braidwood, Coal City, the Will County Sheriff’s Office and the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office began searching.

“The mother was acting suspicious and was showing a lack of concern that caused officers to review the entire situation,” Ficarello said.

“Video from the Dollar Gen-

eral showed she hadn’t come into the store with the girl or left with her.”

But Standridge allegedly did leave without paying for a number of items, including diapers and Keurig coffee pods.

“We believe she reported her daughter missing as an escape plan when she took the items,” Ficarello said. “She [admitted] shoplifting, but insisted she didn’t remember where she took her daughter.”

The child was located about 5 p.m. at a relative’s house. Ficarello said the Department of Children and Family Services was notified about the incident and approved having the child stay with an aunt.

Standridge, of the 100 block of East Fourth Street in Coal City, was arrested on a charge of shoplifting and booked into the Will County Jail.

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Henkle said that at the same time the district was managing its fiscal responsibilities, students were scoring among the highest in the area, garnering the district the Bright Star Award several years in a row.

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A nice industrial tax base led by ExxonMobil helped the district become debt-free, administrators agreed.

In addition, Schroeder said, in 2005, the board accelerated the district’s debt service payments, saving more than $8.4 million over the life of the bond issue. A combination of re-funding and abatements took millions more off the original bond payment schedule.

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options,” Schroeder said, “determining how to make the biggest impact on the debt structure by returning dollars to the taxpayers effectively over the 20-year life of the bond debt.”

Having zero debt will save local taxpayers money. Schroeder estimates homeowners with houses valued at $250,000 will spend $220 a year less on the district’s portion of their property tax bills in 2016 to 2020 compared with what they

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CHANNAHON – Financial guru Dave Ramsey would be proud.

Channahon School District 17 is now officially debt-free.

After a final $1,459,500 check was signed Dec. 1 by Chief School Business Official Michael Schroeder and sent on its way to make the district’s last bond payment, the district has zero debt.

“It’s exciting,” Schroeder said. “It’s pretty great.”

The district’s bond series of $19.5 million was taken out in 2001 to pay for the construction of Channahon Junior High School. It was approved by a voter referendum for a 20-year term, which would have taken it out to 2020, but Schroeder said a state capital development bond grant of $4.1 million took five years off the back end.

Klein Hall CPA partner Scott Duenser, the independent auditor for the school district, said it is unusual to see an area district become debt-free.

“In my 20-year career,” he said, “I don’t think I’ve seen it once. ... It’s very unusual to see a district that has paid off all its bonds and debts.”

Duenser said schools take on debt for three main reasons: to finance construction of a new building, for building maintenance and to issue working cash bonds. It’s not always a bad thing, he added.

Districts don’t have the cash on hand to finance building a new school, for instance.

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Superintendent Nick Henkle just signed on with the district last spring and said he’s proud of what has been achieved.

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A woman who lived with Robert J. Bielec told Will County sheriff’s police that about 10:50 p.m. she heard arguing outside the house in the 1700 block of Houston Avenue and then a loud noise, Deputy Chief Rick Ackerson said. She went outside to find Bielec lying in the driveway.

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Her husband, Larry Belcher, works as a supervisor for Target in Romeoville.

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Pushing those carts – and carrying some gifts – were staff members at the downtown branch of the Joliet Public Library. During the holiday season, the library hosted a “giving tree” to collect donations for Guardian Angel Community Services, which is located near the library.

“They’re like a next-door neighbor.

We thought it was a good fit,” said Denise Zielinski, Joliet Public Library community engagement officer.

The giving tree is the Joliet Public Library holiday tree. On it, staff placed ornaments listing items needed for Guardian Angel, known as a safe haven for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

The organization is the oldest nonprofit in Will County and moved last

idea of donating the gifts using a “human chain,” where everyone involved in the giving tree project would link together, starting from the back door of the library to the front door of the Guardian Angel building.

She said the idea was to give recognition of staff who helped with the donations.

Friday’s cold, rainy weather was not conducive to this effort. Instead, library staff decided to round up the donations Eric Ginnard - eginnard@shawmedia.com to put on carts and some carried them.

Staff members with the Joliet Public Library stack boxes of donations Friday in the baseJane Jungles, Guardian Angel office ment of the Guardian Angels Community Services building in Joliet. manager, said the donations made to the year to its downtown location.

Library officials said the response nonprofit Friday will aid clients and proThe items needed included toiletries, was overwhelming, and more than 40 grams for the next several months.

Jungles also said Valerie Pastwa, clothes, food, household items and back- boxes of goods were gathered.

Guardian Angel development specialist, to-school supplies.

“We’re just really thrilled the com- worked closely with Zielinski on the givPatrons who visited either library munity embraced this idea and the ing tree effort. branch – Black Road or downtown – amount of items they turned back in,” “We have an awesome community could adopt an ornament from the tree Zielinski said. and they pitched in to give back,” Junand make donations.

Zielinski initially came up with the gles said.

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ManhattanHistorical@yahoo.com. com or 815-741-2734, or visit • Networking Your Way to willcountystampclub.wordpress. a New Job – 9 a.m., Workforce com.

Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. May schedule Jan. 15 individual, digitally recorded mock • LinkedIn Lab – 9 a.m., Workinterview. One hour. Free. RSVP force Center of Will County, 2400 by contacting 815-723-3885 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. Need basic or pabbott@willcountyillinois.

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Library, 11327 W. 195th St., Mo• English as a Second Lankena. For information, visit www. guage Grammar Club – 10 a.m., jobs4people.org.

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• Fish Fry/Karaoke – Fish • Midwest Crossroad Chorus • “Land Management of Will fry is 4 to 8 p.m. Karaoke is 8 of Sweet Adelines International County Forest Preserves” – 6:30 p.m. to midnight, Cantigny VFW – 7 p.m., Trinity Christian School, p.m. at the Barber & OberwortPost 367, 826 Horseshoe Drive, 901 Shorewood Drive, Shorewood. mann, Horticultural Center, 227 N. Joliet. Call 815-722-5398.

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• English as a Second Language Grammar Club – 10 a.m., Plainfield Public Library District, 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield.

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• FAFSA Workshop – 3 to 7 p.m., University of St. Francis, St. Albert Hall, rooms A102 & A112, 500 Wilcox St., Joliet. USF financial aid staff will answer questions about Free Application for Federal Student Aid. For information, call 866-890-8331.

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OBITUARIES Born: July 21, 1949; in Joliet, IL Died: Jan. 6, 2016 ; in Joliet, IL Richard J. Butler “Rick,” age 66, of Plainfield, died suddenly Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, at Presence St. Joseph Medical Center.

He was born July 21, 1949, in Joliet, where he was raised and educated, a graduate of Joliet Central High School with the class of 1967. Rick discovered his God-given talent in auto-body restoration during high school and enjoyed a successful career as a body and paint man with Bill Jacobs Chevy, Cleo’s Lincolnway Body Shop and Cliff’s in West Chicago.

Beloved husband of Annette (nee Arneson); loving father of Eddie, Brandy and the late Tammy Jo Butler; dear brother of Kathleen Butler; fond stepfather of Stephanie Eberhart and Michael Lehmann; proud grandfather of Candice Butler, Paulie, Emily and Jacob Eberhart; devoted great-grandpa of Treyton. Several aunts, uncles, many cousins and dear friends also survive.

Preceded in death by his beloved daughter, Tammy Jo in 1970; parents, John J. (1990) and Frances M. (nee Lake) Butler in 2013.

Rick, a selfless, kind soul would help anyone, anytime. He had been his son, Eddie’s, devoted and thorough caregiver for over the past 25 years. He possessed a green thumb, loved painting and was a jack of all trades, who could fix or retrofit anything. His huge heart and personality will always be remembered; he was the life of the party and his ability to converse with the best of them will never be forgotten.

Funeral services for Rick Butler will be held Sunday, Jan. 10, 2015, 6 p.m. at the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black Road (at Essington Road) Joliet. Pastor Karl Hess officiating. As it was Rick’s wish, cremation rites will follow services. Visitation also Sunday from 2 p.m. until the services begin at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, memorials to his family would be greatly appreciated.

For information (815) 741-5500 or visit his Book of Memories at www. fredcdames.com.

ROBERT E. CANTWELL Robert “Bob” E. Cantwell of Wilmington, passed away at Miller Rehabilitation in Kankakee, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. Age 76 years.

Survived by his wife of 56 years, Bette J. Cantwell (nee Foster); a daughter, Margaret Casey; and a son, Edward C. (Vicki Lynn) Cantwell; six grandchildren, Brendan Casey, Jr., Ryan Cantwell, Bridget Casey, Becki Cantwell, Brenna Casey and Kevin Casey; his brother, Donald (Betty) Cantwell; and his sister, Joan (Gene) Brooks.

Preceded in death by his parents, Edward C. Cantwell, Jr. and Lillian Cantwell.

Bob was born in Joliet, June 13, 1939. He graduated from Joliet Township High School Class of 1957.

He was an active member of Pipefitters Local #597 for 38 years. Bob was an accomplished metal engraver and enjoyed fishing and tying fly fishing lures. His favorite activity was spending time with is grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at the Carlson-Holmquist-Sayles Funeral Home, 2320 Black Road, Monday, Jan. 11 at 10 A.M. Memorials to Kankakee Valley Hospice will be appreciated. Visitation will be held Sunday from 3 until 7 P.M.

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At Joseph’s request, cremation rites were accorded. Memorial to follow at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, IL at a later date.

MARJORIE J. KAITIS Born: May 5, 1923 Died: Jan. 6, 2016

Marjorie J. Kaitis (nee Campbell) , passed away at Sunny Hill Nursing Home, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. Age 92 years.

Survived by her daughter, Gwyn Kaitis; and her son, Keye (Jennifer, nee Kreidler) Kaitis. A sister-in-law, Glenore Campbell, all of Joliet.

Preceded in death by her husband, Florian A. Kaitis (1968); and three brothers, James, Richard and Walter Campbell.

Marjorie was born in Joliet on May 5, 1923, to James and Alma Campbell. She graduated from Joliet Township High School Class of 1941, Joliet Junior College and University of Illinois with her degree in Education.

She formerly taught at F.E. Marsh School. Marjorie enjoyed reading, especially a good mystery story.

Visitation will be held at the Carlson-Holmquist-Sayles Funeral Home, 2320 Black Road, Monday, Jan. 11, from 4 to 8 P.M. Private interment will be held.

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Preceded in death by his wife, Jeanne Jurvick (Dodge) 2007; and parents, Joseph Sr., and Julie Jurvick (Kovalcik).

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THOMAS J. LACKEY JR.

Born: Dec. 18, 1936; in Pontiac, IL Died: Jan. 2, 2016; in Cedar Hill, TX Thomas Jacob Lackey Jr., passed away Jan. 2, 2016, after a brief bout with lung cancer.

His wife and son were at his side at the time of his passing.

Born in Pontiac, to Meddie Belle Grimmer Lackey and Thomas Jacob Lackey Sr. Raised in Joliet, where as a young man established himself as Marble King of the YMCA boy’s division.

After graduating from Joliet Township High School, he served his country in the U.S. Air Force A1C where he was awarded the National Defense Service Medal and Good Conduct Medal.

He loved the St. Louis Cardinals.

He also loved to golf and was proud to be able to say he had not one but two hole-in-ones.

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REV. STANLEY G. LANE

Born: Aug. 20, 1925; in Yuma, CO Died: Dec. 30, 2015; in Joliet, IL Rev. Stanley G. Lane of Joliet, went home to God, Wednesday evening, Dec. 30, 2015, after struggling with Alzheimer’s and a heart condition since 1997.

He was born in Yuma, Colorado, on Aug. 20, 1925. He was the only child of Lloyd J and Nellie (Atkinson) Lane.

They worked a ranch just outside town, where Stanley was a cowboy.

He was U.S. Army tech artillery Sergeant during WWII serving in France and Germany. He met the love of his life, Betty Lou Voight, while stationed in Oklahoma. They were married on

June 6, 1947.

Stanley graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University, Garrett Theological Seminary, and took chaplain training at Topeka State Mental Hospital all while being a Methodist Minister at Kingston, Illinois, Scales’ Mound, Illinois, and Elizabeth, IL, and Williamsburg, Kansas. He was the Chaplain, at the Illinois Youth Commission, Reception and Diagnostic Center for Delinquent Boys on McDonough in Joliet in 1961 and served for 30 years.

He was instrumental in starting the Community Services Center, the Senior Services Center and the Big Brothers of Will County. He served on numerous boards throughout Will County. He later volunteered at Saint Joseph’s Hospital for over 10 years.

Stanley is survived by his children, Jerry (Jean Evans), Sydney (Catherine), David, and Linda (Stephen) Meister; 11 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.

Stanley is preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Betty (2010); grandson, Jeremy L Lane (2013); daughter-in-law, Mary Lane (2014); and his parents.

Stanley requested full military honors at Abraham Lincoln Cemetery’s Colombarium. Since most friends and associates are sensitive to weather, the family will hold memorial services Friday, April 29, 2016, at 11 a.m., at Grace United Methodist Church, followed by a light luncheon at the church. Inurnment will take place at 1:30 p.m. at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. We hope you will bring your families to see this honor to one of our nation’s veterans.

Memorials to Grace United Methodist Church of Joliet in lieu of flowers are greatly appreciated.

MARY LOVATI Mary Lovati (nee Parini), passed away Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016, at age 77. Surrounded by her loving family.

Survived by her loving husband Robert with whom she shared 57 years of marriage. Their children, Debra (Robert) Lindstrand, Robert (Kim) Deanne (Thorsen) and Roger.

Loving grandmother to Christopher

Lovati, Ashley Lindstrand, John Thorsen and Kagan Lovati. Two great-grandchildren, Landon and Regan Lovati. Loving brothers, Chuck, Emil and Sylvester Parini.

Preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Louise Parini; brothers, Louis, Joseph, Angelo, Frank Jr.; and two sisters, Edith Calcaterra and Ann Milavec.

Mary’s greatest joy was cooking and entertaining her family. She was an excellent cook. Mary will be missed and forever in our hearts.

Mary also loved St. Jude’s Children Hospital and Boys Town. In lieu of flowers please make a donation in memory of Mary to these wonderful charities.

Mary’s wishes were to have a private service with the family she loved so much. Burial will be at a later date.

ELISA MARYNIAK Born: April 23, 1922 Died: Jan. 7, 2016

Elisa (Molandro) Maryniak, (nee Caruso), age 93, passed away Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, at Presence St. Joseph’s Medical Center.

Born in Italy on April 23, 1922, living in the United States most of her life.

She worked for A & P, Gordon Food Service and retired from Jewel Foods.

Member of the Church of St. Anthony and enjoyed singing in the church choir for many years.

Preceded in death by her first husband, Lawrence Malandro (1961); her second husband, Joseph Maryniak (1988); her parents, Basilio and Domenica (nee Alberico) Caruso; two sisters, Jeanette (late Santo) Brandolino and Candida (late George) Pacini.

Survived by her two sons, Dennis (Elaine) Malandro and David Malandro; two grandchildren, Dennis Malandro and Jennifer Malandro Mann; three great-grandchildren; one brother, John (Elda) Caruso; and

numerous nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be at the Carlson-Holmquist-Sayles Funeral Home 2320 Black Road, Joliet on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Followed by a procession to the Church of St. Anthony for a mass at 1:30 p.m. Entombment Resurrection Mausoleum.

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BERENICE McGURK Berenice “Nancy” McGurk, nee Ormsby, age 82, late of New Lenox.

Nancy passed away Dec. 31, 2015, at her home.

She is survived by her children, Mary Beth (Mark) Petric, Catherine McGurk, Frank (Wendy) McGurk, Matthew (Monica) McGurk, Nancy McGurk, Mark (Kelly) McGurk and Patricia (Sharon) McGurk; 15 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; sisters, Mary Kruger and Esther Levine; and a brother, Ban Ormsby.

Nancy was preceded in death by her husband, Robert C. McGurk; and two sons, Robert and Michael McGurk.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Joliet Area Hospice or Alzheimer’s Association.

A Memorial Mass will be celebrated Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, 11:30 A.M. at St. Jude Catholic Church in New Lenox. Private interment will be at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.

For info: Hickey Memorial Chapel, 815-485-8697.

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Patricia A. Keneipp (Myscofski), age 72, of New Lenox, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, at her home in New Lenox.

Patricia is survived by her loving family, husband, Arthur Keneipp; children, Keith (Noreen Koontz) Keneipp, Karen (Philip) Burczak, Joseph (Cheryl) Keneipp; siblings, Lynette Givens, Judy (Don) Dziedzina, Tim Myscofski, Jerry Myscofski; grandchildren, Rebecca Burczak, Jerod Burczak, Rhiannon Burczak, Olivia Keneipp, Delaney Keneipp, Jacob Keneipp, Julia Keneipp; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Patricia was preceded in death by her parents, Bruno and Mary Myscofski (Gnojek).

Patricia retired from Jewel Osco in 2002 after 26 years of service. She greatly enjoyed making crafts with her sister and selling them at local craft shows and festivals.

Family will receive friends at Kurtz Memorial Chapel, 102 E. Francis Road, New Lenox, IL 60451 on Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, from 3 P.M. to 9 P.M. Funeral service, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, at 10:30 A.M. at the funeral home. Interment, Good Shepherd Cemetery, Orland Park, IL. For information, www.kurtzmorialchapel.com or 815-485-3200.

Bakery and was a member of the Teamsters Union Local 179, American Legion Post 0005 IL and AARP. In 2004, he and his wife moved to Cedar Hill, Texas to get away from the snow and cold.

Preceded in death by his parents, Meddie and Thomas Jacob Lackey Sr.; his siblings, Cyrus Andrew Lackey (at birth), Janet and Bill Irwin, Virginia Moore; nephew, David Irwin; nieces, Carolyn (Irwin) Georgantas and Catherine Ciccotelli.

He was a loving husband, father and grandfather and will be missed by all. He leaves behind his loving wife of 53 years, Marlene (Richards) Lackey; his daughter, Tammy and husband, Bob Freimund of Rochester MN; and his son, Thomas and wife, Sherri of Duncanville, TX; grandchildren, Nick, Mitchell, Adam, Hayden, Thomas “Seth,” and Teryn and fiancé Shane Everitt; his sister in-law, Mary Lou Ciccotelli and husband Gino; and brother in-law, Harold “Radie” Moore.

Along with loving nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews and greatgreat-nieces and nephews.

Cremation rites will be performed and a memorial mass will be held at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church, 4015 S. Hampton Road, Dallas, TX, on Jan. 16, 2016, at 11:30 a.m., with a visitation an hour prior to the memorial Mass. At a later date, another memorial, visitation, and inurnment will take place in Joliet.

Memorials in Thomas Jacob Lackey Jr.’s name can be made to St. Jude Children’s Hospital and condolences can be made to mtbird@aol.com or on our guest book online.

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KATHRYN F. NIELSEN Kathryn F. Nielsen (nee Veach), age 77, of Elwood, passed away peacefully Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, at Presence St. Joseph Medical Center, Joliet, surrounded by her loving family.

A lifelong resident of Elwood, passing away after a long battle with kidney disease. She was the daughter of the late Hugh and Ida Mae (nee Sherman) Veach. Graduate of Joliet Township High School, Class of 1956.

A member of the secretarial staff at Joliet Junior College for 40 years having served as secretary to the English Department, Head of the clerical pool, secretary to the Music Department and secretary to the Agriculture/Horticulture Department. Joliet Junior College honored Kathryn as Secretary of the Year, the first in her category to be so honored.

Kathryn loved to cook and bake, collect cookbooks, travel extensively throughout the continental United States and including many trips to Hawaii and cruising the Caribbean, the Bahamas, the Baja Peninsula and Mexico, reading and enjoying the company of family and friends.

Surviving are her beloved husband of 57 years, LeRoy Nielsen; sisters, Susan Russell of Phoenix, AZ, and Sally (Tim) Woodland of Chaska, MN; numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews; dear friend, Annette Theodore; and many friends and neighbors.

Funeral Services for Kathryn Nielsen will be held Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. at Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington Roads, Joliet. Pastor Carrie Kapral officiating. Interment Woodlawn Memorial Park.

Memorials in her name to Elwood Community Church, 101 N. Chicago Street, Elwood, IL 60421.

Visitation Wednesday, 4 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

For information (815) 741-5500 or visit her Book of Memories at www.fredcdames.com.

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KATHLEEN R. PERSHEY Born: Sept. 19, 1958 Died: Jan. 7, 2016

Kathleen “Kathy” Rose Pershey, age 57, passed away Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, at Sunnyhill Nursing Home.

Born in Joliet Sept. 19, 1958, to the late Robert Stephen and Margaret Mary (nee Alstott) Pershey. She was a longtime Joliet resident who owned and operated a dog grooming service out of her home. She was the beloved mother of Daniel Chidsey and Eugene Morretti; loving sister of Roberta (Dave) Cheney, Bonnie (Robert) Hischier, James (Debbie), David (Marcia), Roy (Lorrie) Pershey and Marlene (John) Schwider; proud and devoted aunt of many nieces and nephews; she also leaves many cousins. Kathy will be remembered for her outgoing, friendly demeanor. She easily made friends and cherished every relationship. She will be eternally remembered by her sons as an amazing mother. Some of her favorite things included her Red MG, dancing and listening to music, especially live performances.

Funeral Services for Kathleen R. Pershey will be held Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, at 7 p.m. at the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington Roads, Joliet. As it was Kathy’s wish, Cremation Rites will follow the services. Inurnment St. Joseph Cemetery at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, memorials to the family would be appreciated.

Visitation 3 p.m. until the time of service at the funeral home.

For more information: (815) 7415500 or visit her Book of Memories at www.fredcdames.com.

FRANCIS R. PIRC Francis R. Pirc “Frank” “Plan your work and work your plan.” That’s the motto by which Frank Pirc lived his life.

Born in Joliet in 1939, Frank was the third child in a set of four. A graduate of Catholic High, he went on to join the U.S. Army in 1958, and was stationed in Germany in the same unit as Elvis.

But Frank’s real dream was owning his own business, and he worked hard to achieve it. Starting as a stock boy at A&P, he moved up through the ranks at Jewel, and in 1976, opened Frank’s Country Store and Garden Center in Channahon. At first, he rented just a section of the building on Route 6, but quickly took over the entire thing. Then in 1984, another dream was realized, when he built his own store just across the overpass.

His one-stop-shop concept was his pride, but the people who came in were his real joy, and his workers became a second family.

At home, “Butch” was a loving husband to Maureen. The two were married in 1963, and were the proud parents of Laurie, Joe and Kim. He encouraged them always to “keep smiling”: and he was the one who usually brought those smiles, with a joke or silly face – his sense of humor, and good humor, was endless.

Frank sold the store in 2004, but soon found his days to be quite full again, with the arrival of his four grandchildren, Jack, Hope, Abby and Sawyer. They brightened his every day, and in turn, adored their papa. He was truly the sunshine of the family, and his light will be missed. Frank died Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, at the age of 76.

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He wanted to thank all of the customers who came into the store throughout the years, and share his appreciation for all who sent prayers and good thoughts his way.

Frank was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Helen; his daughter, Laurie; his brother, Donald; and numerous brothers and sisters-in-law.

Survived by his wife, Maureen (Jackson) Pirc; son, Joe (Amy) Pirc of Highland Park; daughter, Kim (Mike McSteen) Pirc of Plainfield; grandchildren, Jackson, Hope, Abigail and Sawyer; sisters, Dorothy (Edward-deceased) Briscoe of Downers Grove and Carol (Robert-deceased) Mason of Woodbridge, VA; brothers-inlaw, Marty Jackson of Countryside and George Jackson of Coal City; sisters-in-law, Mary Jackson and Bern (nee Marchando) Pirc, both of Joliet; numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

Visitation for Frank Pirc will be held today, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington Roads, Joliet. Funeral Services will be held Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, at 9 a.m. from the funeral home to the Church of St. Jude for a Mass of Christian Burial to be celebrated at 10 a.m.

Interment Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in his name to St. Baldrick’s Foundation at www.stbaldricks.org would be appreciated.

For more information: 815-7415500 or visit his Book of Memories at www.fredcdames.com.

1955; retired in 2000 from the Chicago Fire Department after 39 years of service, then moved to Lockport after his retirement.

A former member of St. Gabriel Church in Chicago; member of St. Joseph Church in Lockport, Gaelic Fire Brigade, Chicago Firefighters Union and a proud member of B.O.B. Jack was an avid golfer and a devoted Chicago Cubs fan.

Preceded in death by his parents, John A. and Mary (O’Brien) Russell; sister, Mary Alice Zilla; brother, Bernard Russell; sister-in-law, Sharon Russell; and brother-in-law, Edward Higgins.

Survived by his loving wife of 57 years, Rose A. (Higgins); five children, John (Aggie O’Bryan) Russell, Terri (Jack Kenney) Zurales, Kathy (Mike) Kozlowski, Jean (Dennis) Kluk and Colleen (Ray) Hecker; 15 grandchildren, Greg (Carole), Pete, Travis (Melissa), Chris, Casey (Lauren), Andy (Sarah), Becky (David), Michael, Sarah, James, Bryan, Kelley, Lindsey, Connor and Anthony; four great-grandchildren, Brendan, Dylan, Cameron and Layton; brothers, Jim (Pat) Russell and Denny Russell; sisters-in-law, Diane Higgins and Geri Russell; brother-in-law Tom Zilla; and numerous nieces, nephews and friends.

In lieu of flowers, memorials to CFFU Burn Foundation, 440 W. 43rd St., Chicago, IL, 60609 would be appreciated.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, 9:30 a.m. from the O’NEIL FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL, 1105 E. 9TH ST., (159TH ST.), LOCKPORT, to St. Joseph Church, Lockport for Mass of Christian Burial at 10 am. Interment Good Shepherd Cemetery, Orland Park. Visitation Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, from 4 to 8 p.m.

Family and friends can sign the online guestbook or to attain direction at: www.oneilfuneralhome.com.

JOHN D. RUSSELL John D. Russell “Jack,” age 78, of Lockport, passed away peacefully Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, surrounded by his family.

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• Pot Roast with Vegetables Dinner – 4 to 7 p.m., Elwood Community Church, 101 N. Chicago St., Elwood. $10 (adults) and $ (kids 12 and under). Purchase tickets at door. Carryouts available.

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Continued from page 19 • Fish Fry – 4 to 7:30 p.m., Croatian Cultural Club, 1503 Clement St., Joliet. Baked or fried cod, shrimp, catfish or fried chicken breast. Dine-in or carryouts. For information or carryouts, call 815-7233154.

Jan. 16 • A Fair Tax meeting – 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Silver Spoon Restaurant, 1601 W. Jefferson St., Joliet. A lively discussion to abolish the IRS. For information, call 815-474-4385.

• Fish Fry – 4 to 8 p.m., Knights of Columbus Council 4400, 1813 Cass St., Joliet.

Fish, chicken and shrimp. Carryout. Call 815-723-3827.

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U of I says policy on background checks clears review

URBANA – The University of Illinois says a law firm it hired to review its policy on background checks has concluded it complies with federal equal opportunity guidelines.

The policy approved in September extended criminal background checks to prospective hires for faculty jobs and other academic employee positions.

Previously only positions considered security-sensitive required background checks.

Some faculty members said the new policy wasn’t needed and could discriminate against minorities.

Employment law firm Jackson Lewis of Chicago conducted the review.

The Champaign News-Gazette reported Vice President for academic affairs Christophe Pierre said it concluded the policy is “entirely consistent” with guidelines from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. University officials did not provide a copy of the findings.

Checks are conducted only on applicants who have been offered and accepted jobs.

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Second lawsuit filed over non-payments to lottery winners

CHICAGO – Illinois lottery winners who weren’t paid because of the state’s budget impasse have filed a lawsuit contending they are owed interest accrued during the months winning tickets weren’t honored.

Jan. 17 • Forest Preserve District of Will County Volunteer Workday – 8 a.m. to noon,

Thomas Zimmerman, attorney for the plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit filed Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court, told the Chicago Tribune he estimates interest accrued on withheld lottery winnings to be about $1.5 million.

Illinois stopped paying out winnings of more than $25,000 on July 1. A lawsuit was filed by lottery winners in September.

In October, Illinois halted all payments on winnings of more than $600.

Payments resumed in December after Gov. Bruce Rauner and House Democrats agreed to release $3.1 billion for municipal 911 centers and lottery winners.

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Rauner to release more detailed calendar

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office ended a monthslong fight over details about his workday Friday, releasing more complete appointment calendars in response to an attorney general’s decree that he was withholding more information than allowed under state records-access law.

A lawyer for the first-term Illinois Republican disclosed fresh versions of his calendar from early 2015, nearly four months after the state public access counselor’s ruling. The new versions revealed little new information.

The issue over what Rauner is doing, when and with whom has been contested by The Associated Press, the Chicago Reader and the Illinois Times, whose staff writer, Bruce Rushton, filed a lawsuit over the matter, an action Rauner lawyer Don Tracy of Springfield blamed for the delay in disclosure.

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Sugar Creek Administration Center, Joliet. For information, email rgauchat@fpdwc.org or call 815-722-7364.

• Indoor Flea Market – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., The Oaks Recreation & Fitness Center, field house, 10847 W. La Porte Road, Mokena. For information, call Mokena Park District at 708-390-2401 or visit www. mokenapark.com.

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Eddie Coy Williams, age 68, made his transition into eternity on Jan. 2, 2016. He was born to Pompie Sr. and Lorena Williams in Pontotoc, Mississippi, on July 7, 1947.

He was the 11th of 14 children. He moved to Joliet in 1968 where he has resided for 48 years.

Eddie retired from Caterpillar in 1998 after 30 years of service. He moved into a second career and became a barber working at the Williams Barber Shop for 18 years up until his death.

Prior to this, he was a professional model and he also worked at Midway Airport.

Eddie confessed Christ at an early age and was an usher at Mount Zion Baptist Church.

He’s known to many as a fun-loving person who loved God and was very respected. He was a mentor, motivator, a carpenter who could fix anything, as well as a person who loved life.

He is preceded in death by his parents; four brothers, Levi, Felix, Raymond and Pompie Williams Jr.; one sister, Luray Mayfield; two sisters-inlaw, Loucreasie Williams and Annie Ruth Williams; and two brothers-inlaw, Ernest Smith and Arzell Mayfield.

Eddie is survived by his devoted daughter, Serena Williams; and her sister, Kyla McDaniel, who he loved like a daughter, of Joliet; two sisters, Wille Mae Smith of Meridian, MS, and Hazel Williams of Detroit, MI; six brothers, O.J. (Shirley) Williams, James (Pellie) Williams, Bobby (Dorothy) Williams and Pastor Gary R. (Diane) Williams, all of Joliet, Lamanuel Williams and Larry (Joan) Williams of Pontotoc, MS; three sisters-in-law, Annie and Ilene Williams of Joliet and Vickie Williams of Laurel, MS. He was uncle to 205 nieces and nephews who will miss him royally. He also leaves in God’s loving care a host of other relatives and friends.

Visitation will be held on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, from 2 until 5 P.M. at the funeral home, and Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, from 10 until 11 A.M. at Mount Zion Baptist Church, 402 Singleton Place, Joliet IL. A Celebratory service for Eddie Williams will be held at 11 A.M., Dr. David G. Latimore, eulogist.

Interment following at Elmhurst Cemetery, Joliet, IL. Minor-Morris Funeral Home, Ltd. 112 Richards St. (815) 723-1283

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of a strike, work slowdown or lockout.

No strike has happened during the past 40 years of state government collective bargaining.

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and both sides wondering whether negotiations will continue.

Each side blamed the other for the standstill, casting uncertainNews from across the state ty about whether the talks will continue without possibility of a strike or legal action.

FBI investigating It’s the latest development in another fatal Chicago the prolonged negotiations bepolice shooting tween the American Federation CHICAGO – The FBI is conductof State, County and Municipal ing a civil-rights investigation Employees, which represents into the fatal 2013 Chicago police about 36,000 state workers, and shooting of a motorist whose Rauner, a wealthy businessman family is challenging officers’ who favors restricting union accounts that he was armed and powers.

It was one of his main opened fire. campaign talking points when A brief mention of the case he defeated Democratic Gov. Pat was contained in thousands of pages of emails related to police Quinn in 2014.

The Rauner administration shootings that the city released contends that AFSCME rejected on New Year’s Eve, the Chicago additional meetings next week.

Tribune reported Saturday.

But AFSCME officials said it’s According to sworn depoRauner who’s refusing to particisitions by the two officers pate in more bargaining sessions pursuing him, Esau Castellanos while they’re willing to continue was speeding at 80 mph and talks. crashed on the city’s northwest Rauner spokesman Lance Trovside. The officers said when they er said AFSCME shot down all of approached, Castellanos opened the governor’s proposals Friday fire. His family disputes that, and there was “no meaningful and no gun was ever found. The progress.” officers fired 19 shots at Castella“We must now evaluate the nos, hitting him three times. benefit of future sessions given Chicago’s police department AFSCME’s intransigence,” Trover has come under intense scrutiny, said in a statement. including a U.S. Department of AFSCME spokesman Anders Justice Investigation, since the Lindall said it’s not true that release in November of squad union negotiators declined car video showing a white officer additional meetings.

He said shooting a black teenager 16 they couldn’t meet next week times. because of the short notice, but offered to continue negotiatRauner, AFSCME ing during the following three appear gridlocked weeks. on contract talks The two sides have been in SPRINGFIELD – Ongoing labor contract talks for more than a talks between Illinois Republiyear and met three times this can Gov. Bruce Rauner and the week.

The previous contract state’s largest public employee expired June 30, but both sides union concluded Friday without agreed last year to keep negoprogress toward an agreement tiating without the possibility

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Man charged with attempted murder of cop

PHILADELPHIA – A man who investigators say claimed he shot and wounded a Philadelphia police officer in the name of Islam was charged Saturday with attempted murder.

Edward Archer also was charged with aggravated assault, assault of a law enforcement officer and several firearms crimes.

He is being held without bail.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 25. The Defender Association of Philadelphia, listed in court documents as representing him, couldn’t be reached Saturday for comment.

Authorities say Archer, 30, of Yeadon, fired at least 13 shots toward the officer as he patrolled his usual west Philadelphia beat shortly before midnight Thursday.

They say Archer fired repeatedly as he raced toward the officer’s car, then reached into the driver’s side, still firing, hitting the officer three times.

Officer Jesse Hartnett, although seriously wounded, was able to get out of his car, chase the man and return fire, wounding him in the buttocks, police said. Other officers chased Archer and apprehended him about a block away.

Investigators said Archer told them he was “following Allah” and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, and he believed the police department defends laws that are contrary to Islam.

President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address Jan. 20, 2015, before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington as Vice Presient Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listen.

Police: Paris attacker lived in German shelter

RECKLINGHAUSEN, Germany – German police on Saturday raided an apartment at a shelter for asylum-seekers in the western city of Recklinghausen that they say had been occupied by a man shot and killed as he stormed a Paris police station.

North Rhine-Westphalia state police said in a statement late Saturday that they were acting on “concrete evidence” they had obtained from French security authorities.

They say the results of the search are still being evaluated with their French counterparts, but that there is no evidence of further possible attacks being planned.

Police said they would not release any further information at the moment to avoid jeopardizing the ongoing investigation.

Mexico willing to extradite drug lord

MEXICO CITY – Mexico is willing to extradite drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States, a federal law enforcement official said Saturday, a sharp reversal from the official position after his last capture in 2014.

“Mexico is ready. There are plans to cooperate with the U.S.,” said the Mexican official, who spoke on the condition anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to comment.

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In final State of Union, Obama aims to define his presidency

By JOSH LEDERMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Out of time to push a new legislative agenda, President Barack Obama will look past Congress and to the American people in his final State of the Union address, aiming to define his presidency and his legacy before others can do it for him.

Unlike the six such speeches he’s given before, Obama plans to skip the traditional list of grand proposals, new policies and presidential appeals for new laws in favor of a bird’s-eye view of what he has accomplished since 2009 and what’s left undone in his final year in office. Aides said the president on Tuesday night will give his assessment of what the country looks like in 2016 and the direction he hopes it will take in the future.

To the extent he can, Obama will also try to give a burst of energy to initiatives he is hoping to push past beyond the life of his administration.

At a marathon meeting with top advisers last week to ready his executive actions on gun control, Obama issued two directives, aides in the meeting said. The first: “Everything this year should be infused with a sense of pos-

sibility.” The second: “Don’t take the foot off the gas pedal.”

Despite his inevitable slide into lame-duck status and the partisan politics of the election year, Obama is emboldened by recent successes that formed one of the most productive stretches in his presidency.

Over the past year, Obama has reached a nuclear deal with Iran, relaunched diplomatic relations with Cuba, secured a global climate pact and an Asia-Pacific trade deal, and negotiated a budget deal with the Republican-led Congress. Unemployment fell to an impressive 5 percent and renewed confidence in the economy led the Federal Reserve to finally start raising interest rates.

Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, said Obama planned in his speech to cite those achievements to argue that “we’ve brought America back.”

This year, to keep the momentum going, Obama must contend with a presidential campaign that’s already reverberating loudly and will only get louder. The White House scheduled this year’s speech earlier than usual, in part to ensure Obama had room to run before voting starts with the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1.

To the dismay of some in

his party, Obama doesn’t plan to use the address as an opening argument for Democratic candidates in the November election. White House officials pointed to his speech at the Democratic National Convention in July and his first rally for the Democratic nominee as his opportunities to frame the campaign.

Still, anything Obama says or does in an election year will be heavily politicized. Republican candidates have already seized on Obama’s unilateral moves to tighten gun policies, a topic for Tuesday’s speech, as the latest example of why voters cannot trust Democrats.

“The president hasn’t had a problem getting attention for what he’s proposed as important issues we should be focused on,” said Jen Psaki, the White House communications director. She said those issues often have spilled over into the campaign. “Because of his decision to be bold, we fully anticipate that will continue.”

Obama’s best prospects for achievements this year are on the few issues where he and Congress at least partially agree. Central to his speech will be a renewed call for a criminal justice overhaul and for approval of his Asia-Pacific trade agreement, which many Republicans support.

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Continued from page 2 CEO of Finland-based Kuusakoski, the company that acquired Vintage Tech in early 2015, said the company’s decision had “multiple root causes,” with a lack of contracts with manufacturers being a key driver.

“When we reached out to the [manufacturers], explained our costs and opened the books, [the contracts] weren’t accepted,” Hipp said.

Commodity prices for copper, metal and petroleum are also “worth a fraction of what they used to be,” he said.

“Throughout the year, the margin got squeezed because commodities kept falling and falling. You’re locked into a contract ... and last quarter, it was a bloodbath,” Hipp said.

Cathode ray tube glass

Complicating matters is cathode ray tube glass – a toxic material used in old TVs and monitors that’s extremely heavy, expensive and difficult to recycle.

CRT glass accounts for most of the material received

by Vintage Tech, Hipp said, and companies are “losing money hand over fist” to properly dispose of the material.

Smelting factories that handle CRT glass are few and far between worldwide with limited capacity, Hipp said.

And the India-based Videocon – the only remaining recycling plant in the world for CRT glass – shut down its furnace in late 2015, leaving recyclers with few outlets.

Most manufacturers ship material overseas, but a new option recently cleared by

state lawmakers allows manufacturers the cheaper option of sending it to the Peoria-based CRT glass crushing plant opened in 2014 by Kuusakoski.

There, it would be stored at a landfill until it could be properly recycled.

‘The wild, wild west’

Walter Willis, executive director of the Solid Waste Agency of Lake County, said he believes manufacturers are trying to force the cost onto taxpayers by refusing to contract with well-reputed recyclers in the state program unless they go down to an unrealistic price point.

Lake County’s contract with Vintage Tech expires in May and the company does not plan to renew.

“It’s impossible to do business in this state with the way manufacturers are driving the lowest cost on the recycler. That’s my take. Quite frankly, they’re going to ruin the law in Illinois. They know.

They’re killing the recyclers,” Willis said. “It’s been the wild, wild west out there.”

Jerry Peck, associate director of government affairs for the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, said that while he couldn’t speak to individual manufacturers’ reasons for not contracting, he said “everyone is looking for the best deal, the best way to [reach the weight goal.]”

He said he hears this argument every year during contract negotiations.

“It’s not uncommon to hear this story. It’s always a game of musical chairs to get the best price,” Peck said. “At the end of the day, manufacturers pick up the tab ultimately.”

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“I think it’s fantastic,” board President Joe Pope said. “I’m really proud as a

board president, as well as a community member. Being a fairly new board member, a lot of this goes on the backs of previous board members that have served through the years and really put in the work to get us where we are right now.”

office.

“They were cooperative [but] after the interviews were completed, we reviewed the case with the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office and had charges approved,” Ackerson said.

Both suspects face three counts of murder. Morgan was booked into the Will

County Jail and is being held on a $1.5 million bond. The younger suspect was booked into the River Valley Juvenile Detention Center.

Morgan lives next door to Bielec. The juvenile also lives in the area and may be related to Morgan. Police did not identify the 17-year-old Saturday, but Ackerson said he is expected to be charged as an adult when he appears in court Monday.

Morgan was arrested last

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February by Joliet police on charges of battery and aggravated battery to a police officer. He pleaded guilty in August and was sentenced to two years of court supervision.

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tion.

At McGuire’s request, ISAC reported that schools statewide had provided State Sen. $168 million Pat McGuire of their own money for the fall semester. He told The Associated Press last month several

educators had asked him to pursue at least partial reimbursement.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has resisted the idea because he opposes “piecemeal” approaches to a budget deal without fundamental business-climate and political changes he seeks.

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pushes Pyongyang closer to its goal of a nuclear-armed missile that can reach the U.S. mainland.

In the wake of the test on Wednesday, the two Koreas have settled into the kind of Cold War-era standoff that has defined their relationship over the past seven decades.

Since Friday, South Korea has been blasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda from huge speakers along the border, and the North is reportedly using speakers of its own to keep its soldiers from hearing the South Korean messages.

A top North Korean ruling party official’s recent warning that the South’s broadcasts have pushed the Korean Peninsula “toward the brink of war” is typical of Pyongyang’s overthe-top rhetoric. But it is also indicative of the real fury that the broadcasts, which criticize the country’s revered dictatorship, cause in the North.

North Korea considers the South Korean broadcasts tantamount to an act of war. When Seoul Korea briefly resumed

Syrian government ready to attend peace talks in Geneva

By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE The Associated Press ​DAMASCUS, Syria – The Syrian government announced Saturday that it is ready to attend peace talks later this month with the opposition in Geneva as a new airstrike in northern Syria killed and wounded scores of people, including many militants.

But Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Damascus also wants to see lists of the opposition groups who will attend and ensure that “terrorist” groups will not be represented.

State news agency SANA said al-Moallem made his comments Saturday while meeting in Damascus with U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura. Al-Moallem’s comments came shortly before opposition activists said an airstrike had killed at least 39 and wounded dozens of oth-

ers.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 39 people were killed, including many fighters from al-Qaida’s affiliate in Syria, the Nusra Front, as well as detainees in the northwestern town of Maaret al-Numan. It said the targeted area included a jail and a courthouse run by Nusra Front.

The Nusra Front is one of the country’s most powerful factions and is opposed to peace talks with the government, saying its aim is to step up an Islamic state in Syria. The group is fighting against government forces, the Islamic State group as well as some U.S.-backed rebel factions. Much like its rival, the Islamic State group, the Nusra Front imposes its own vision of Islamic Shariah law in territories it controls – including Islamic courts and prisons.

The Syrian government has

been carrying out airstrikes for years, which activists say have killed thousands of people. Russia began its own air campaign Sept. 30, saying its airstrikes are meant to weaken the Islamic State group and other “terrorists” in Syria.

The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, said the airstrike killed 51. The group posted a photo on its Facebook page showing several bodies covered with blankets and lined on a pavement. Another showed two dead bearded young men being loaded into an ambulance.

Syria-based activist Hadi Abdallah wrote on his Twitter account that the air raid killed 43 and wounded more than 100, claiming it was carried out by Russian aircraft.

The “terrifying massacres was carried out by Russian warplanes,” Abdallah wrote, without saying why he believed they were Russian.

propaganda broadcasts in August after an 11-year break, Seoul says the two Koreas exchanged artillery fire.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing an anonymous military source, reported late Saturday that the North had started its own broadcasts, presumably to keep its soldiers from hearing the South Korean broadcasts.

The North’s broadcasts were too weak to hear clearly on the South Korean side of the border. South Korean military officials wouldn’t confirm the Yonhap report.

Besides the “brink of war” comment, Workers’ Party Secretary Kim Ki Nam said in comments broadcasts on state TV on Friday that Pyongyang’s rivals are “jealous” of the North’s successful hydrogen bomb test.

Many outside governments and experts question whether the blast was in fact a powerful hydrogen test.

South Korean troops, near about 10 sites where loudspeakers started blaring pro-

paganda Friday, were on the highest alert, but have not detected any unusual movement from North Korea along the border, said an official from Seoul’s Defense Ministry, who refused to be named, citing office rules.

Yonhap said Seoul had deployed missiles, artillery and other weapons systems near the border to swiftly deal with any possible North Korean provocation. The ministry did not confirm the report.

Officials say broadcasts from the South’s loudspeakers can travel about 6 miles during the day and 15 miles at night.

That reaches many of the huge force of North Korean soldiers stationed near the border, as well as residents in border towns such as Kaesong, where the Koreas jointly operate an industrial park that has been a valuable cash source for the impoverished North.

Seoul also planned to use mobile speakers to broadcast from a small South Korean island just a few miles from North Korean shores.

U.S. Navy releases video of ‘provocative’ Iran rocket fire

By JON GAMBRELL The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The U.S. Navy on Saturday released footage it said showed Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels firing rockets near warships and commercial traffic in the strategic Strait of Hormuz late last month, a move raising tensions between the nations despite the recent nuclear deal.

The Navy said it released the footage in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, though it also comes as U.S. ally Saudi Arabia has cut ties to the Islamic Republic after attacks on diplomatic posts there after the kingdom’s execution of a Shiite cleric.

The 45 seconds of blackand-white Dec. 26 footage, which the Navy said was shot from a Seahawk helicopter, shows what appears to be an oil tanker passing by. A flash

appears on the left side of the video and after zooming in, it shows small boats the Navy said were Iranian firing rockets.

The Navy has said the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, the USS Bulkeley destroyer and a French frigate were nearby at the time, as well as commercial vessels.

There was no immediate reaction in Tehran to the video’s release. Previously, Gen. Ramezan Sharif, a Revolutionary Guard spokesman, said his forces didn’t carry out any drills there at that time and called the American comments “psychological warfare.”

Military vessels taking part in the war against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria also pass through the strait, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman. The U.S. Navy previously said Iran gave 23-minutes warning over radio before opening fire with unguided rockets.

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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea’s leader has taken a victory tour to celebrate the country’s widely disputed claim of a hydrogen bomb test, seeking to rally pride in an explosion viewed with outrage by much of the world and boost his domestic political goals.

Kim Jong Un’s first public comments about last week’s test came in a visit of military headquarters, where he called the explosion “a self-defensive step” meant to protect the region “from the danger of nuclear war caused by the U.S.-led imperialists,” according to a dispatch Sunday from staterun Korean Central News Agency.

“It is the legitimate right of a sovereign state and a fair action that nobody can criticize,” Kim was reported as saying during his tour of the People’s Armed Forces Ministry.

The tone of Kim’s comments, which sought to glorify him and justify the test, is typi-

cal of state media propaganda.

But they also provide insight into North Korea’s long-running argument that it is the presence of tens of thousands of U.S. troops in South Korea and Japan, and a “hostile” U.S. policy that seeks to topple the government in Pyongyang, that make North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons absolutely necessary.

During his tour, Kim posed for photos with leading military officials in front of statues of the two members of his family who led the country previously – Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung. He also sought to link the purported success of the nuclear test to a ruling Workers’ Party convention in May, the party’s first since 1980. He’s expected to use the congress to announce major state policies and shake up the country’s political elite to further consolidate his power.

Kim’s comments came as world powers looked for ways to punish the North over a nuclear test that, even if not of a hydrogen bomb, still likely

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Germany’s Merkel pledges new laws The ASSOCIATED PRESS COLOGNE, Germany – Women’s rights activists, farright demonstrators and leftwing counter-protesters took to the streets of Cologne on Saturday to voice their opinions in the debate that has followed a string of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults and robberies blamed largely on foreigners.

Amid the heightened public pressure, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party proposed stricter laws regulating asylum-seekers in the country – some 1.1 million of whom arrived last year.

Police said that around 1,700 protesters from the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement were kept apart from 1,300 counter-demonstrators in simultaneous protests outside the city’s main train station.

PEGIDA members held banners with slogans such as “RAPEfugees not welcome” and “Integrate barbarity?” while the counter-protesters pushed the message “refugees welcome.”

Specifics of the New Year’s Eve assaults and who were behind them are still being investigated. The attackers were among about 1,000 men gathered at Cologne’s central train station, some of whom broke off into small groups and surrounded women, groping them and stealing their purses, cellphones and other belongings, according to authorities and witness reports. There are also two allegations of rape.

The PEGIDA demonstration Saturday was shut down early by authorities using water cannons after protesters threw firecrackers and bottles at some of the 1,700 police on hand. Police said four people were taken into custody but no injuries were immediately reported. Earlier, hundreds of women’s rights activists gathered outside Cologne’s landmark cathedral to rally against the New Year’s Eve violence.

“It’s about making clear that we will not stop moving around freely here in Cologne, and to protest against victim bashing and the abuse of women,” 50-year-old city resident Ina Wolf said.

In response to the incidents,

Merkel said her CDU party on Saturday had approved a proposal seeking stricter laws regulating asylum seekers.

Merkel said the proposal, which will be discussed with her coalition partners and would need parliamentary approval, would help Germany deport “serial offenders” convicted of lesser crimes.

“This is in the interests of the citizens of Germany, but also in the interests of the great majority of the refugees who are here,” Merkel told party members in Mainz.

However, she also reiterated her mantra on the refugee issue, insisting again “we will

manage it.”

Bonn University political scientist Tilman Mayer said he doesn’t see the CDU proposal as either a change of course, nor one likely to dispel many Germans’ concerns.

“This is just a building block in a chain of statements from the government and also the chancellor,” he said on Phoenix television.

Though Merkel has decried the assaults as “repugnant criminal acts that ... Germany will not accept,” they provide fodder for those who have opposed her open-door policy and refusal to set a cap on refugee numbers.

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4 stocks that are looking ‘too speculative’ Dear Mr. Berko: I am 77 and have an $80,000 5.1 percent municipal bond, which my father left me 22 years ago, that just matured. The $2,040 in interest every six months is very important to me. My income, not including this bond, comes from Social Security, a pension and a small structured settlement – totaling $3,139 a month. I owe $2,300 on my car and $1,700 to Visa, but my home has no mortgage.

The stockbroker who has my bond money says I could get between 8.5 and 13.6 percent if I invested $20,000 in each of the following: Apollo Global Management, KKR & Co., Plains All American Pipeline and Tribune Publishing. That would come to about $8,000 yearly and would be twice as much as I was getting with the bond.

But my accountant, who says he knows you, told me these issues are “too speculative” and wouldn’t advise buying these shares. However, he said I should ask for your

distressed buyouts, recapitalizations, restructuring, acquisitions, and turnarounds.

APO also trades oil, agriculture commodities, mining properties, chemicals and various metals. It also raises, opinion. Should I put $10,000 invests and manages money in each, which would almost replace what I used to get from for pensions, endowments, the bond? – PS, Oklahoma City institutions, individuals and sovereign wealth clients. BeDear PS: I met your man 25 years ago, when he was an au- cause 2016 earnings may come in at $1.93 a share, the $1.40 ditor for the Federal Reserve. dividend, yielding 9 percent, He wasn’t a talkative fellow. appears safe and could be Rather, he’s the type of guy raised. But in today’s market, whom, when there’s a loss in APO’s business model makes the family, you’d want along me a bit itchy. as a mourner. And if he says KKR & Co. is in the same investing $20,000 each in Apolbusiness as APO, though by lo (APO- $15.22), KKR (KKR$15.68), Plains (PAA-$23.51) and comparison, its revenues and income exceed APO’s nearly Tribune (TPUB-$9.36) would be “too speculative,” he’s right sixfold. The $1.40 dividend, yielding 8.7 percent, is easily as rain. Put that money in a covered, and expected 2016 certificate of deposit for now.

Apollo Global Management, earnings of $2.37 a share would be better than this year’s $1.74. a $1.1 billion-revenue global But KKR, with worldwide ofinvestment firm, manages hedge funds and mutual funds fices, has much more exposure to world events than APO, primarily for U.S. clients. Its which scares the bejabbers out private equity investments of me. include traditional and

TAKING STOCK Malcolm Berko

Plains All American Pipeline, a $27 billion master limited partnership, transports, stores, terminals and markets crude oil, refined products and liquefied petroleum gas. PAA has 17,800 miles of pipeline and 73 million barrels of storage capacity. PAA has little exposure to volatile commodity prices because it doesn’t own product in its pipelines. Rather, it’s more like a railroad, collecting fees for transporting products.

PAA trades at book value, and even though the $2.80 dividend, paying 14 percent, looks safe, it gives me conniptions.

Tribune Publishing was spun off from the huge Tribune Co. in 2014 on a 1-for-4share basis. TPUB owns the iconic Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Sun Sentinel, the Orlando Sentinel, The Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Morning Call and the Newport News Daily Press. Though revenues of $1.65 billion won’t improve much in 2016, earnings will

rise from this year’s 96 cents to $1.35, from lower operating costs, improvement in digital marketing and content syndication. The 70-cent dividend yields 7.2 percent but probably won’t be raised in 2016.

J.P. Morgan is bullish, and so is Oaktree Capital, with Value Line writing: “We see significant share-net growth over the 2018-2020 stretch. ...

Based upon a conservative valuation there’s plenty of room for upward share-price movement.” That broker finally gave you a rank recommendation I like. Still, it’s too bloody speculative.

Consider a reverse-annuity mortgage. At your age and stage, a RAM could pay you about 5 percent of the market value of your home every year, tax-free. And your accountant would approve.

• Please address your financial questions to Malcolm Berko, P.O. Box 8303, Largo, FL 33775, or email him at mjberko@yahoo.com.

Court dispute over union fees could curb labor’s clout

By SAM HANANEL

Rebecca Friedrichs is the lead plaintiff in a case to be heard by the Supreme Court.

The case is brought by public school teachers who say mandatory union fees violate the First Amendment rights of workers who disagree with the union’s positions.

The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The largest teachers union in Michigan still represents Jason LaPorte at the bargaining table, but he no longer pays anything to support the union.

LaPorte and thousands of other public school teachers stopped contributing to the union after the state’s new right-to-work law took effect in 2013. Membership in the Michigan Education Association has since dropped by 19 percent.

A similar fate could soon be in store for public-employee unions around the country as the Supreme Court considers whether government workers who choose not to join a union can be required to nevertheless pay fees that cover collective bargaining.

The high court hears argu-

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ments Monday in a California case brought by a group of public school teachers who claim such mandatory fees violate the First Amendment rights of workers who disagree with the union’s positions.

Unions fear the potential loss of tens of millions of dollars in fees could reduce their power to bargain for higher

wages and benefits for teachers, firefighters, sanitation workers and other government employees.

While half the states already have right-to-work laws banning mandatory fees, most members of public-employee unions are concentrated in more liberal-leaning states that don’t, including Califor-

nia, New York and Illinois.

The lead plaintiff in the case is Rebecca Friedrichs, a public school teacher in Orange County, California, who says she left the California Teachers Association after becoming disillusioned with its mission. She wants the high court to overturn a 39-yearold ruling that said states can require non-members to pay “fair share” fees. These fees cover what it costs the union to represent them in bargaining as long as the money doesn’t go for political purposes.

That 1977 case, which involved a group of Detroit schoolteachers, said the fee system prevents non-members from “free riding,” since the union still has a legal duty to represent all workers. The high court has raised doubts about the viability of the ruling in two recent cases, but has stopped short of overturn-

ing it.

Opponents of the fee system want the justices to essentially convert those more liberal states into de-facto right-towork states for public employee unions, where workers still covered by the union can pay nothing at all.

In Michigan, a historic labor stronghold, the loss of revenue at the MEA has led to cuts in staff and more time spent urging members not to leave, said spokesman Doug Pratt. That means fewer resources for bargaining contracts or efforts to reduce class size, curb standardized tests and increase school funding.

While it may be too early to tell whether Michigan’s law has had an impact on the bargaining process, Pratt said it has encouraged union officials to spend more time reminding members what the union does for them.

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Real ID Act is overreaching Illinois doesn’t have to comply with the federal Real ID Act, and it shouldn’t spend millions to do so.

The initiative provides little in the way of increased security. Its implementation has been delayed more than six years, and yet somehow we’ve all carried on.

It’s better off abandoned. Barring that, Illinois and the 27 other states that are not in compliance should make no effort to fall in line.

The provisions of the federal Real ID Act, which was passed in 2005, essentially lay the groundwork for creating a national ID card, civil liberties advocates such as the ACLU say, because it would create a national database of citizens’ information.

Complying also would require Illinois to spend as much as $60 million more in the coming years, Secretary of State spokesman Dave Druker told the Quad-City Times. It also could lead to issuing of driver’s licenses from a centralized location rather than at local facilities, and require more burdensome documentation procedures for people seeking an Illinois driver’s license.

The practice of people holding a state ID and a driver’s license would end, as would seniors’ ability to have a state ID that did not expire.

The federal government estimated nationwide implementation of this federal ID system would cost $4 billion, but no money was appropriated.

Sorry, we’ve got enough money troubles in Illinois without helping create a national ID system.

Besides, the federal government has no constitutional authority to create a national ID. The framers didn’t spell one out, and the 10th Amendment is clear when it says “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Without the Constitution on their side, federal officials are turning to inconveniencing people in order to persuade their state governments to get in line.

Federal officials say they won’t honor IDs issued by Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Washington state and New Mexico starting this year.

Adults will need another form of ID to pass Transportation Security Agency checkpoints before boarding planes or entering federal facilities that require ID, such as nuclear plants.

Let them enforce that system on us, and then on the citizens of more and more states, until as a country we’re fed up.

There is no demonstrated need for this costly and unnecessary federal driver’s license program. A majority of the states are not in compliance, and if it remains that way, common sense would dictate this invasive initiative can be overturned.

In the meantime, owning a passport – a handy document if you ever travel outside the U.S. – is a good idea.

THE FIRST

AMENDMENT

Unfinished business on guns After years of trying to motivate Congress to act on improving gun safety laws, President Obama has decided to go it alone. I fully understand his motivation to proceed cautiously.

We have arrived at a point where we will sell guns to a terrorist or a criminal in the false claim of protecting ourselves, even though Americans hold half of all guns owned by civilians in the entire world.

The handgun statistics are as cold as death. Four million American citizens were assaulted, robbed or otherwise harmed by handgun violence during the last 10 years. In the same time period, 2,000 American children were slain yearly by bullets.

Last year, 30,000 people died by guns. More than 18,000

VIEWS Donna Brazile ill souls used guns to commit suicide. More than 12,000 citizens were cut down on public streets by gun violence.

Throughout his presidency, Mr. Obama has consoled grieving families multiple times – from Aurora to Charleston to Newtown to San Bernardino and beyond. The hardest times were when children were victims.

Joshua Dubois, an ordained Pentecostal minister who worked at the White House, accompanied the president on his trip to Newtown, where Obama met with and consoled the parents of the 20 murdered

children and the families of slain staff members.

Dubois said his White House staff reserved eight classrooms just to hold two to three of the families of those killed, and that Obama spent hours with them individually, grieving with over 100 family members. It’s important we know this, because the president met with each family on our behalf, on behalf of the nation, as well as himself.

He consoled 20 sets of parents of 6- and 7-year-olds who had been brutally slaughtered.

Kim Parker, director of social trends research at the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, just this week tweeted that “31 percent of U.S. parents worry their child might be shot at

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

See BRAZILE, page 31

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Thanks to those who took part in Santa Run/Santa Stroll

To the Editor: On Saturday, Nov. 28, the JTHS Alumni Association painted the town red with the 2015 Santa Run/Santa Stroll through downtown Joliet. Our sincerest thanks to the 300 Santas including children who donned the red suits to participate in the

JTHS Director of Alumni Relations & JTHS Alumni Association Board of Directors

Election ballots should be printed in duplicate

To the Editor: With all this pre-election mania in the air, I have a question. Maybe someone out there can provide the answer.

Why aren’t ballots printed in duplicate

so everyone casting votes can have a copy of their own to keep instead of just being issued a stub for showing up?

If the reason(s) should be obvious without explanation, why that isn’t standard policy, it went right over my dense head, so please help me out. Perhaps too costly is my only guess.

Because doing the exact opposite makes more sense to me. Something that seems so elementary, it should be an automatic practice.

I’d love having records of some of my past choices, to reflect on the wisdom, or lack of it, that I displayed back in the day.

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option before resorting to a bullet. However, several cities did away with tasers because they can also be lethal to some people resulting in lawsuits.

Bill Nixon The 12-year-old boy shot in Cleveland is Crest Hill alleged to have pointed a pellet pistol at the police when they drove up. The pellet They’re just human pistol looked just like the .38 caliber To the Editor: pistols that have flooded the stores and Cops around the country are catching streets. a great deal of flak for the actions of a As we all know, a trigger doesn’t know few which resulted in deaths. A few were how old the finger is. The real question just plain wrong and absolutely stupid. should be, “Why did the parents allow Shooting someone 16 times indicates him to go out with a pellet gun?” poor training and someone who should I have talked with cops from Chicago to have been put on a desk long ago.

Morris and Aurora and Kankakee and sevThe death of the 55-year-old woman eral chiefs. The consensus seems to be was obviously an accident. It happened the closer a cop comes to a high-crime when a cop was defending himself area the more likely the cop is to resort against a bat-wielding man. The cop lost to a gun. They must make split second fire control and sprayed the area with life or death decisions on whether to bullets. shoot or maybe wait a few moments and The Chicago Police said it will put more die. Wearing that vest reminds them they tasers out for use, but having them in the are in a dangerous job. We are stuck with trunk will not change the need to shoot humans; not robo-cops. or not to shoot. Each cop in a one-man car or one of a two-man car should be Chuck Johnson Morris carrying a taser. It would give cops the

GOP opposes even executive actions that include their ideas • BRAZILE

Continued from page 30 some point; concern is much higher among lower-income parents.”

These tragedies must stop. When opponents of gun checks focus on mental health, I say, “I agree. That’s why everyone needs a background check. How do we stop people with mental health issues from getting a gun if we don’t conduct a check?”

When foes of any gun regulation mention gun deaths in Chicago, which has some of the most stringent laws in the country, I point out that a majority of the guns confiscated in Chicago came from

out-of-state gun shops without tough background checks.

Two Milwaukee police officers brought suit against a gun shop that sold 537 guns recovered from crimes in one year, including the guns used to shoot both officers in the face.

When someone quotes NRA officials as saying none of the background checks that Obama is proposing would have stopped any mass shooting, I say, “Does that mean we shouldn’t stop killings where we have the power to do it?”

Even post-Paris terror attack polls show 85 to 90 percent public support for universal background checks.

Frankly, the kinds of things that Obama has been pushing

have been so common-sense that people don’t even consider them controversial.

Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush endorsed the kind of background reviews the president proposes – reviews that would guarantee gun ownership for mentally balanced, nonviolent citizens.

President Obama said that “background checks make a difference.” In Connecticut, gun deaths decreased by 40 percent after they chose background checks. But when Missouri repealed background checks, gun deaths there increased to “almost 50 percent higher than the national average.”

Everybody knows that the NRA owns the Republican

Congress along with a handful of Democrats – so absolutely nothing will come out of them to curb gun violence. If families care as much about doing something to help stop mass killings as they say they do, then Obama acting on his own is literally the only path forward.

President Obama included in his actions many of the GOP’s solutions – increased help for mental health, enforcing existing laws – and they still oppose and dismiss it.

When Republicans oppose even their own suggestions, it shows why Obama was left no choice but to act on his own.

Opposing Obama on these simple, modest revisions is the same as advocating doing

nothing. And while we do nothing, the mentally ill, and those with evil in their souls will be doing something that we will read and weep about ... again.

Bottom line: President Obama will work to keep guns out of the wrong hands. This is not a lame-duck president.

This is a transformational president who is willing use every bit of his authority, however modest, to make life safer for Americans.

• Donna Brazile is a senior Democratic strategist, a political commentator and contributor to CNN and ABC News, and a contributing columnist to Ms. Magazine and O, the Oprah Magazine.

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To the Editor: Policemen may soon be wearing bodycams. It appears useful to both the police and citizens alike. I think most policemen are professional and do good work but as it is in all professions, there are those who don’t belong. Those should be removed and legal action taken against them if called for. The justice department would be in a better position to make the proper decision after viewing the footage of the event.

Equally important, I think all politicians should wear these. I wonder how much money would be saved by the transparency of the actions between politicians and the people they come in contact with. I’m sure we would have much better representation and by their actions we would be able to select those people that would have our interest not theirs.

Illinois could once again become a leader in our country. Unfortunately we know who would enact these rules. What’s the possibility?

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: ST. FRANCIS 73, ST. XAVIER 61

NO. 1 BITES THE DUST St. Francis women use fourth quarter to upset top-ranked St. Xavier ​By KAITLYN JASNICA kjasnica@shawmedia.com JOLIET – When coach Sam Quigley walked into the University of Saint Francis women’s basketball locker room after the game, the Fighting Saints started screaming.

After not being ranked going into the season, St. Francis battled through 16 games to earn a No. 7 ranking after going 15-1 overall and 7-0 in Chicago Catholic Athletic Conference.

On Saturday night in front of a packed crowd at the Sullivan Center, the Fighting Saints upset top-ranked St. Xavier, 73-61, in the NAIA Network Women’s Division II Game of the Week.

“Coach said that the No. 1 next to their name is just a number,” junior Charnelle Reed said. “They’re just anoth-

er team, another set of girls our age. If we come out, play basketball and do what we know how to do, which is pressure on defense, then we’ll do the unexpected and get what we want.”

“Everyone expected the No. 1 seed in the nation to win,” Quigley said. “They expected them to come out hot from three, which is how they play.

We were telling our girls we had to do some things that were unexpected.”

In the first quarter, the Saints found themselves in a 25-14 deficit because some of their shots weren’t falling.

Enter the unexpected.

USF tallied two back-toback 18-point quarters, then outscored the top-ranked foe, 23-7, in the final quarter.

“We responded in an awesome way,” Quigley said. “After they punched us down, we punched back and thats speaks

volumes about the type of people we have.”

“A lot of teams don’t pressure them the way we did,” Reed said. “They weren’t used to having someone being in their shorts the whole game.

Coach said they were tired. Of course we were, too, but the emphasis was that they were and we had to wear them out.”

The fourth-quarter performance resulted from St. Francis’ full-court, man-to-man defense. The pressure made St. Xavier (18-1, 8-1) tired, and USF (16-1, 8-0) stayed in attack mode instead of trying to run out the clock.

Not only were the Cougars unable to score in the fourth quarter because of USF’s defense, the Saints’ offense was able to put forth one of their best showings.

With a more than four minutes remaining, St. Francis

trailed, 58-57. Reed – who led with 26 points – converted a three-point play after being fouled and sinking the free throw to give the Saints their first lead, 60-58.

She turned around and yelled, “Let’s go,” and her team listened.

Junior Jordan Giddings blocked a shot, and Reed hit a 3-pointer. With 1:15 remaining, classmate Kamari Jordan converted her own three-point play to give the Saints a 68-61 lead.

“We feed off of each other’s energy,” Jordan said. “Even in practice when we’re doing drills, if one person is just grinding and getting into my shorts and hits a 3, we just feed off of that as a team and that’s the best thing about us.”

Reed and Giddings both recorded 10 rebounds, while Christina Ekhomu added

six. The trio had one block each, and Giddings, Angelica Osusky and Alexis Brown each had two steals to lead the defense.

Eight players – Reed (26), Jordan (16), Ekhomu (nine), Giddings (seven), Osusky (seven), Brown (four), Tirsh Stritzel (two) and Ivana Markovic (two) – got on the board for the Saints and each contributed at pivotal moments.

USF is 6-0 at home and extended its win streak to 10 games while also extending its regular-season streak in NAIA games to 22. “[The win] means that everyone is going to be out to get us now,” Reed said. “We just made a mark in the conference and in the nation. It puts us in a great spot.”

“I’m just happy,” Jordan said.

All the Saints agree.

BOYS BASKETBALL: GENESEO 44, MORRIS 39

By ROB OESTERLE roesterle@shawmedia.com

• Sunday, January 10, 2016

MORRIS – When a close basketball game is in its final stages, the importance of each possession – both good and bad – gets magnified.

But, for Morris coach Joe Blumberg, the difference in Friday night’s 44-39 loss to Northern Ilinois Big 12 rival Geneseo didn’t come when the Redskins turned the ball over on their final two possessions when they had a chance to take the lead or tie the game after rallying from a deficit as big as 14 points in the second half.

The difference was allowing the deficit to get that big in the first place.

“It’s 61 days into the season and we finally got our first conference home game,” Blumberg said. “And we got outplayed in the first half right out of the gate. That’s what stings the most.”

Morris (7-8, 0-4) scored the first two baskets of the game for a 4-0 lead before Geneseo went on a 13-0 run to take a 13-4 advantage. The Maple Leafs got consecutive 3-pointers by Anthony Bravata to move ahead 6-4, then Quentin Radue made a 3-pointer and was fouled for a rare four-point play and a 10-4 lead.

Bravata then converted an old-fashioned three-point play and Geneseo led 13-4 with 2:45 to play in the first quater.

Morris ended its scoreless drought when sophomore Tyler Spiezio scored underneath, but Geneseo’s Will Daniels scored on an alley-oop play at the buzzer to give Geneseo a 15-6 lead entering the second quarter.

Both teams went cold in the second quarter, and the Leafs led, 17-10, entering halftime.

“We came out and gave up 15 points in the first quarter,” Blumberg said.

“That made us play catch-up all night.”

The Redskins had an even bigger lead to catch early in the third quarter, as Geneseo opened the second half with a 7-0 spurt that opened up a 24-10 lead wth 5:20 left in the third quarter.

From that point on, Morris outscored Geneseo, 29-20, but the rally was just too little, too late.

Spiezio, who finished with nine points and five rebounds, broke Morris’ scoring drought in the second half with a pair of free throws with 4:51 left before Shaw drained a 3-pointer at the 4:22 mark. A bucket by Jordan Miracle off an assist from Tommy Balentine pulled Morris to within 29-21 late in the third quarter, but Bravata made a pair of free throws and scored on putback bucket to end the third quarter for Geneseo to put the Leafs up, 33-21 entering the fourth.

Geneseo kept the lead steady

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Morris’ JaQuon Boxley drives around a Geneseo defender in a 44-39 loss Friday night. through the early stages of the fourth, holding a 38-28 edge with 3:10 to play before Morris caught a little bit of fire and staged a late-game rally.

Nathaniel Halcomb converted a three-point play before Matt Walker scored underneath to get the Redskins to within 38-33.

After Daniels made a pair of free throws, Walker drained a 3-pointer from the right corner to pull Morris to within 40-36.

With 1:19 to go, Geneseo missed the front end of a one-and-one, and Miracle got the rebound for the Redskins.

Shaw, who finished with a team-lead-

ing 13 points, scored on a putback of his own missed shot and was fouled.

He missed the free throw, but Morris was within a basket at 40-38 with 51.7 seconds left.

Spiezio was fouled and made his first free throw with 21.7 seconds left to make it 40-39, but he missed the second and Geneseo’s Jacob Pauley got the rebound. He was fouled and missed his first free throw but made the second.

Morris turned the ball over on a traveling call with 10.5 seconds left.

Bravata was fouled and made one of two free throws for a 42-39 lead and Morris had the ball with a chance to tie

it with a 3-pointer.

The Redskins turned the ball over again with 3 seconds left and Bravata made both foul shots to seal the win.

“As poorly as we played in the first half, we were only down seven at halftime,” Blumberg said. “Their run to start the second half was a killer, too.

We are a young team with a lot of players that are one-dimensional right now. A bad shooting night like we had tonight is tough for us to overcome. We were 2 of 14 from 3-point range and we missed nine free throws. We have to be able to score when we get chances like that.”

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BOYS BASKETBALL: JOLIET CATHOLIC 51, PROVIDENCE 43

Hilltoppers hold off determined Celtics

By DICK GOSS dgoss@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Forget the records.

This is Providence vs. Joliet Catholic, the epitome of a high school rivalry.

The JCA Student Activity Center was the setting Saturday night as the two Catholic-school neighbors battled in their usual intense manner.

The Hilltoppers (11-2), who are enjoying a strong season, prevailed, 51-43, but not before the youthful Celtics (311) made things more than interesting down the stretch.

“I thought Providence played a great game, and we knew they would,” JCA coach Joe Gura said. “They’ve been backed into a corner, not winning many games, but we knew how they would play tonight.

“This was a great night for both schools. It was high school basketball at its best.

A big, enthusiastic crowd and kids on both sides playing with heart. What more could

you want?”

Providence’s version of the Energizer Bunny, senior guard Eric Justice, did what not many have been able to do, especially in the second half. JCA took a 34-25 lead into the locker room at halftime as explosive scorer Jalen Jackson, who came in averaging about 22 points, had 10.

In the second half, Jackson did not score a basket and added only two free throws to his total while Providence clawed its way back. The Celtics got as close as 46-43 with inside of two minutes left before JCA put it away at the foul line.

“Justice did a great job on Jackson, and he has shut down other great players we have faced,” Providence coach Tim Trendel said. “If anyone plays harder, I’d like to meet the guy.

“I think it says something about our team the way we keep bouncing back like we did tonight.”

With Jackson limited, JCA needed others to step up. Se-

niors Harry Davis and Luke Mander answered the call.

With the Hilltoppers in the bonus, Davis took the ball to the basket in the fourth quarter. He hit two layups and 5 of 6 free throws to finish with 13 points. In Friday night’s 49-33 nonconference victory over Longwood, Davis was scoreless.

“I called him after last night’s game to tell him, ‘Harry, we need you,’ ” Gura said.

“He really did a nice job stepping up.”

“Coach told me I had to step up today,” Davis said. “In the fourth quarter, I saw driving lanes and took it. I started going to the hole. I knew we were in the bonus and I probably would get fouled. Being able to knock down our free throws at the end was a a big key.”

JCA finished 14 of 16 from the line. The Hilltoppers hit 12 of 20 shots in building their first-half lead, but went 2 of 14 from the floor in the third quarter.

Providence had similar numbers, but did not get to

the line as often. The Celtics were 9 of 17 from the floor in the first half, 6 of 24 in the second half and finished 7 of 9 on free throws. Jake Schutter led Providence with 18 points.

“We had a lot of opportunities to extend the lead in the third quarter and didn’t do it,” Gura said. “They took Jalen away, which teams will try to do, but the other four guys have to step up, and they did.

“There were stretches where we played outstanding defense, and stretches where we played average defense.

But when we needed defense at the end, we got it.”

Another key was rebounding. Mander had nine points, a team-high seven rebounds, three assists and a huge late interception. Pete Ragen, who scored 10 points, had six boards and Donavan Finch, who chipped in seven big first-half points, and Davis grabbed five rebounds each.

The Hilltoppers outrebounded Providence, 29-20.

“The rebounding was a huge key,” Gura said.

“It’s always fun to play Providence,” Mander said.

“We knew it would be tough.

This is the first time our class beat them in basketball.”

“We got ’em twice this year,” Davis said, referring also to the football season opener.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

JCA trailed Longwood, 2321, at halftime Friday before holding the visitors scoreless in the third quarter en route to the 49-33 victory. Jackson scored 16 and Ragen 13.

“We were flat the first half and shot poorly,” Gura said.

“We rushed things. The second half we ran our offense and played good defense.”

Providence, meanwhile, fell behind, 21-10, and never quite got back, dropping a 67-60 decision at Bishop McNamara. Schutter scored 21 and Scott Slocum hit five 3-pointers for 15 points.

“It was the same story, that we have to play four quarters, 32 minutes, to start winning some of these games,” Trendel said.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: ST. FRANCIS 82, ST. XAVIER 81

Presniakovas hits game-winner for St. Francis

By CURT HERRON cherron@shawmedia.com JOLIET – When you’re playing a quality team that also happens to be a rival, and your top scorer has no points with less than five minutes to go, it usually spells big trouble.

That’s just where the University of St. Francis men’s basketball team found itself in Saturday’s Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference game against St. Xavier.

But the No. 2 Saints got big efforts from numerous players, including a 26-point game from Edvinas Presniakovas, and top-scorer Ilya Ilyayev scored four key buckets down the stretch as the Fighting Saints rallied for an 82-81 win over the Cougars at the Sullivan Center.

The win was a big one for the Fighting Saints (15-2, 7-2), who hoped to bounce back from a Thursday loss at Calumet St. Joseph by knocking off a Cougars squad that was tied for the North Division standings with Robert Morris.

Presniakovas fought for a rebound and converted a conventional three-point play with 59 seconds left to tie the score at 79, and after Larry Motuzis (32 points) hit a layup 13 seconds later to give SXU its final lead, the Plainfield South graduate tossed in a 3-point shot with 34 seconds remaining for the game-winner.

The Cougars (10-7, 7-2) got three more shots off in the final 20 seconds, including two in succession before the final buzzer sounded, but Stanley Moore (13 points) missed a

jumper and Kyle Huppe’s rebound attempt rolled off of the rim.

“It feels great,” Presniakovas said. “We know that if somebody struggles, we’re always going to pick them up, no matter what game is. We saw that Ilya was struggling in the first half so we had to have other guys step up since that’s how we play. We’re a deep team and somebody can have a big night on any given night. This is a really special group.

“Our bench guys are always in the game and they’re ready when their number is called, and that’s a big thing for us. I just try to step up when I need to. I want the ball in my hand at the end, especially if I’m having a good night, and I was having a pretty good shooting night. It was a really

important win. We know that we’re going to get everybody’s best shot at us since we have a target on our backs, so we just have to play with high energy in each game.”

Ilyayev, who came in averaging 23.6 points, had missed all nine of his shots when he came off the bench with just over five minutes remaining and his team trailing.

He made a layup with 4:41 left to collect his first points and pull his team to within 69-68 and then he hit a jumper with 3:59 to go to tie the score at 70. A rebound bucket by Ilyayev with 3:18 remaining pulled the Saints to within 7372, and he made a layup with 2:28 left to get his team to within 75-74.

Ilyayev finished the night with a game-high 10 rebounds.

The Saints also got 16

points from Jens Kennedy, 12 points from Jo Jo Ballestero and nine points from Landus Anderson. “[St. Xavier] had a little bit of a slow start this year but did so against great competition and now you see them come in here at 7-1 in the league,” USF coach Ryan Marks said. “It was a typical (Tom) O’Malley team in the way that they’re trajectory is going.

“Ilya showed a lot of growth because he could have been very frustrated. We subbed a lot and he was fresh on the court at the end and we finally got him in some good places where he’s comfortable. And Edvinas is so reliable for us.

He picks his spots really well and on a night like tonight where he’s feeling confident, he likes the ball in his hands down the stretch.”

BOYS BASKETBALL: MINOOKA 65, PLAINFIELD SOUTH 38

By DICK GOSS dgoss@shawmedia.com

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Plainfield South’s Jacob Buchner goes up for a layup over the arms of Minooka’s Joseph Butler during Minooka’s 65-38 victory Friday in Channahon. sively and defensively, every player did a great job. The reason we got good shots all night is we played inside out real well.”

The Indians were without starting center Blake Parzych, who brings the muscle. He was on a football visit to the Air Force Academy. He is set for Southern Illinois, but with the coaching change there, he

is weighing his options.

“I guess we really didn’t miss him tonight, but he’s a huge help to our team,” Roberts said of Parzych.

Nick Clemmons stepped into the starting lineup, joining Roberts, Joe Butler, Jon Butler and Keagan Graebner, and the Indians were a welloiled machine from the get-go. “[Joe] Butler has always

been a good player, and he has added size and strength this year,” South coach Tim Boe said of Minooka’s No. 1 man.

“He has quickness, and his rotation on the ball when he shoots looks good.

“He was a nice player last year, and this year he is even better. Their team knows it.

They look to him. When they post him up, you have trouble

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CHANNAHON – The Minooka boys basketball team decided Friday was the ideal time to stage a clinic.

The Indians were facing Ridge Road and Southwest Prairie Conference rival Plainfield South, and they took the Cougars out of the game early on. Larry Roberts scored 19 points to pace a balanced attack and Minooka enjoyed a 35-16 halftime lead en route to a 65-38 victory.

It came down to running a patient offense, which the Indians (10-5, 4-1) are capable of doing so well. Time and again, they set each other up for layups or kicked the ball out to an open 3-point shooter after getting it inside.

Roberts was a primary beneficiary of the kick-out passes.

He hit 6 of 7 shots, including 5 of 6 from 3-point range. The Indians finished 9 of 17 from beyond the arc, 52.9 percent, and shot .600 overall on 24 of 40. When coach Scott Tanaka cleared the bench with 6:30 left, Minooka was connecting at a .656 clip on 21 of 32.

“This is a big rivalry game for us,” Roberts said of facing South (3-11, 0-5). “We were very patient running our offense. We got the best possible shot. I don’t think we took any bad shots. We were always shooting open shots.”

“We’ve been doing a lot of communicating about becoming a complete basketball team,” Tanaka said. “Offen-

guarding him without fouling. He got two of our guys in foul trouble.”

Joe Butler finished with 13 points on 5-of-10 shooting. Jon Butler hit 3 of 4 shots and 3 of 4 free throws for nine points and dished out a handful of assists. Clemmons scored seven to go with six rebounds.

“It’s a credit to coach Tanaka that he had their team ready to go without their starting center,” Boe said.

“Roberts really stepped up with their big man gone.”

Jacob Buchner, South’s top player and Roberts’ defensive assignment, closed with 12 points on 5-of-13 shooting after a 2-for-9 first half. Deantre DeYoung and Patrick Meyer chipped in seven points each.

“It was a big battle against Buchner,” Roberts said. “Really, all I wanted to do was play our base defense against him, stay in front of him and try to get charges.”

“Larry Roberts was fantastic,” Tanaka said. “He guarded their best player and was our best player tonight.”

Minooka will be busy for a while. The Indians host Maine South on Monday in the off-site game in the Galesburg Martin Luther King tournament, play Tuesday and Friday nights in the SPC and then have two games Saturday and two Monday at Galesburg.

“Seven games in eight days is a lot, but playing games, that’s what it’s supposed to be like,” Roberts said with a smile.

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BOYS BASKETBALL: JOLIET CENTRAL 63, LINCOLN-WAY EAST 44

Joliet Central starts 2016 with win

By CURT HERRON

cherron@shawmedia.com FRANKFORT – Joliet Central’s boys basketball team didn’t finish the 2015 part of its schedule as it hoped, dropping five of their past six games.

So the Steelmen were determined to start the new year off on a better note, but needed to do so at Lincoln-Way East, which also looked to make amends for a rough finish to 2015.

Central was able to accomplish its goal by using an early 9-0 surge to move in front for good and then gradually pulled away in a 63-44 SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue victory.

The Steelmen (7-6, 3-1) outshot the Griffins (4-9, 1-3) by a 51-34 percent margin from the floor and also owned a decisive 37-23 rebounding advantage.

“We didn’t finish the way we wanted to Christmas-wise,” Steelmen coach Jeff Corcoran said of his team’s 1-3 showing at Rich South’s Big Dipper tournament. “We played with the lead in two of those games and sort of fell apart. So getting back to practice with some quality time in the gym,

we tried to clean some things up. The kids got a good look at some stats and film over the break, so it was pretty evident to them what they needed to do.

“It’s a credit to our guys that they were able to execute on the road. We had them on the ropes and wanted to put them away, but it wasn’t from a lack of effort. The kids were trying to make things happen and some times they have to realize that lengthening a possession is a lot better than a quick shot. We didn’t do the little things that matter well at the Dipper, so it was good to see us execute the game plan tonight.”

Leading the way for the Steelmen was Malik Fuller, who scored 20 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, which were both game-highs. The Griffins, who have lost seven of their past eight, were paced

by Sam Shafer, who came off the bench for 17 points and seven rebounds.

Central scored the contest’s first four buckets, with Taquan Sims (11 points) hitting a layup and 3-pointer to give the visitors a quick 9-0 lead just 1:36 into the game.

But the Griffins responded to the early threat by pulling

“We didn’t finish the way we wanted to Christmas-wise. We played with the lead in two of those games and sort of fell apart. So getting back to practice with some quality time in the gym, we tried to clean some things up. The kids got a good look at some stats and film over the break, so it was pretty evident to them what they needed to do.”

Jeff Corcoran Joliet Central boys basketball coach, on his team’s 1-3 showing at Rich South’s Big Dipper tournament

to within 17-14 at the initial break.

Things stayed tight through the early segment of the second quarter, but Jose Grubbs (14 points, five rebounds) converted an old-fashioned threepoint play and later tossed in a 3-pointer to help the Steelmen grab a 31-23 halftime lead in their first of three Friday SWSC Blue road games to kick off the new year.

“We came out and pushed the ball from the start,” Sims said. “And sometimes in the third quarter we fall apart, but we kept it together. We were 6-6 before this game, but we said it was a new season and we’re 0-0 and we came in

here and did our business in a conference game on the road.

And that’s good because this is a tough conference.

“We know that guys one through 16 can play and that we can put out anybody on any given night. So Malik, Jose and me have to keep it together and keep our group going.”

The visitors managed to kick their advantage up to 4025 less than three minutes into the third quarter, but East hung tough and was down, 4232, with one quarter left.

It was still only an eightpoint game early in the final quarter after Max Shafer (12 points, five rebounds) and

Sam Shafer hit consecutive layups to make it 46-38. But the Steelmen closed with a 15-4 run, as Fuller provided three baskets and Grubbs added two buckets and a free throw.

Central also received seven points apiece from Treveon Ward (six rebounds) and Cameron Blackmon while East also got five points each from Zach Parduhn and Kyle McDermed.

“We wanted to come off of the break and play together and get a win since we didn’t do so well at the tournament,” Fuller said. “This was a big win for us because it was a conference game, and now we’re 3-1. So we just want to continue and push the momentum that we got from tonight into our game next Friday.

“Coach has been telling us about how we needed to get better starts offensively and get stops early so that we get a lead and keep it and we want to go into the second half with some momentum so we don’t need to worry about fighting back. Today we came out strong and finished strong.

If we can play our game, we should be fine for the rest of the season.”

BOYS BASKETBALL: BOLINGBROOK 58, LOCKPORT 45

Bolingbrook takes control in Lockport’s old gym

By JEFF DE GRAW Shaw Media Correspondent LOCKPORT – When Bolingbrook met Lockport on Friday night in a SouthWest Suburban Blue boys basketball matchup, you would have thought the Raiders were the home team as the game started.

Playing at Lockport’s old home floor at the Central campus, Bolingbrook jumped to a 23-8 first-quarter lead and won, 58-45.

The Raiders (5-7, 2-2) hit four 3-pointers and got 11 points on three 3s and a basket from Nana Akenten in the quarter.

“We really came out ready to play in the first quarter,”

Bolingbrook coach Rob Brost said. “It’s always good to get a road win, especially in this conference.”

The Raiders extended the lead to 38-19 at the half.

“We now have started 12 of our 13 games with a terrible first quarter,” Lockport coach Brett Hespell said. “It’s my job to figure out the problem, but I can tell you we have tried just about everything. You can’t continue to do that against a well-coached team like Bolingbrook and the players that they have.”

The third quarter saw a totally different game, as both teams played sloppy offensively and no rhythm was established by either side. The

Porters outscored the Raiders, 5-4, in the quarter.

Lockport (6-7, 1-3) got a basket by Andrew Flanagan at the 7:10 mark and a 3-pointer

by Brandon Credit at the 2:25 mark. Bolingbrook didn’t score until Devon Sams hit a runner in the lane with 1:38 remaining in the quarter.

Antowine Locke hit two free throws to finish out the third quarter with Raiders leading, 42-24.

“We have to stop playing one-on-one basketball,” Brost said. “We played so well in the first quarter, but our bench played really well tonight and we are deeper than what I thought at the beginning of the season. The bench is a great

equalizer in big games.

“Zach [Grady] got a lot of touches early and that really helps us and we need to continue getting him touches through out the game. We are clearly getting better and we will be a good team by the end of the season.”

The Raiders pushed the lead to 50-29 with 4:04 left before Lockport went on a 14-2 run to cut the difference to 5241 with two minutes left, but could get no closer.

“We play hard, but it’s a chore to score,” Hespell said.

“We have to be better at all the other facets of the game. We just aren’t there yet, but these kids are working and you’re supposed to play your best at

the end.

“Playing in this gym feels like home. Even coach Brost said he would play here again.

We have such a rich tradition and the kids know that. This is a much better atmosphere for noise and enthusiasm and hopefully we could play more games here in the future.”

Akenten’s 11 first-quarter points led the Raiders. He also grabbed six rebounds. Freshman Joseph Yesufu contributed nine points and Grady added eight.

Credit led the Porters with 18 points as he hit five 3-pointers. Casey Schlusemann grabbed six boards. Both teams had 10 players reach the scoring column.

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Oswego’s Elijah Winston (left) and Jacob Niesman (center) battle for the ball with Plainfield East’s Jordan Reed (right) during Friday’s Southwest Prairie Conference game at Oswego. the tone.”

Robinson got an assist from Jaylen Jones (12 points) early in the second quarter to extend Oswego’s lead.

The Bengals (6-9, 1-4) could not stop a 9-0 run by the Pan-

thers, who led, 22-9, after a Robinson layup.

“Brice ended up with a nice game, but we wanted to try to eliminate any type of easy action on the inside,” Adkins said. “They’re a big team, and

they did a really good job with their ball screen offense.

“For us, it’s more effective to try and zone them. When we’ve done that, we’ve had some success with other teams that are similar to them, but

BOYS BASKETBALL: LINCOLN-WAY WEST 46, ANDREW 37

Warriors make plays late, hold off Thunderbolts

By KAITLYN JASNICA kjasnica@shawmedia.com NEW LENOX – When Lincoln-Way West and Andrew’s boys basketball teams meet, both expect it to be a hard one to win.

So it’s no surprise that Friday night’s SouthWest Suburban Red matchup went down to the final minutes.

With about three minutes remaining, Marco Pettinato drove to the basket to increase the West lead to six points. After staying on the ground for a few seconds, Pettinato bounced up and played for a minute. He subbed out after realizing he had sprained an ankle.

It looked like it could be a long two minutes without Pettinato, but West and its veteran leaders didn’t let up.

Twice in the last minute, Andrew was shut down by blocks from seniors Cam Gavin and Jon Marotta, and the strong Warriors’ defense led West to a 46-37 victory.

“Every time we’ve played them, it’s been an absolute dog fight,” Warriors coach Brian Flaherty said. “Coach [David] Wilson does a good job. They’re really well coached. They’re tough kids. I have nothing but praise for their program. They had a nice game plan coming in, they stuck to it, but we defended well enough to put ourselves in a position to win.”

“They played us well and at the end, we just outlasted them and made a couple more plays than they did,” said Pettinato, who expects to play Friday against Thornridge. “Definitely a credit to them, they played

a good game. We knew it was coming. Andrew always plays us tough.”

The game started off like a ping-pong match, with both teams responding to each score.

After Gavin converted a steal into a layup, Pettinato picked up two steals, a layup and a 3-pointer to close out the first quarter with a 12-9 West lead. Junior Jay Bumstead (five points) started the momentum in the second quarter by hitting a 3-pointer in the first 30 seconds.

Despite playing well, West (8-4, 3-1) held a narrow 23-18 lead at the half.

Pettinato scored 21 points and added seven rebounds, but he wasn’t the only clutch performer.

Fifteen seconds in, Gavin blocked a shot to set an ag-

gressive tone. He followed that by outhustling everyone for a rebound at the sideline and bounced it off an opposing player’s leg.

The senior led West with nine rebounds and added six points, four steals and two blocks.

Marotta and Nolan Green hit 3-pointers to give the Warriors their largest lead of the night, 33-23, in the third quarter.

Green finished with six points and five assists. Marotta had a strong game with eight points, four steals, a blocked shot and ended the game with a layup.

“We’re at the point now where we’re fortunate and have a couple of guys who weren’t really looking at the basket before. ... We had other guys step

up today and knock down shots to keep the lead,” Flaherty said.

“We’re a much better team when we have it than when we don’t.”

“It was a good win. We came out and played as a team,” Gavin said. “We knew it was going to be a good game because they play us hard every year, but we came out and did what we needed to do. We all had to score the ball today and play defense.”

“When guys needed to make plays, they stepped up and made them,” Pettinato said.

“We pride ourselves on that.

We think that we have a very talented team. Everyone needs to step up and knock down shots when open. We had a pretty even point distribution tonight. It’s always what you want in a basketball team.”

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OSWEGO – Plainfield East boys basketball coach Branden Adkins knew the Bengals had to contain Brice Robinson in the paint, but the 6-foot-7 Oswego senior found another way to break onto the scoreboard.

Robinson opened Friday’s game with back-to-back 3-pointers on his way to a game-high 24 points as Oswego earned a 50-42 win over visiting Plainfield East in Southwest Prairie Conference action.

With a slow pace to start, Oswego (12-2, 5-0) called a timeout with 4:46 to play in the first quarter and the Panthers leading 4-2. That’s when Robinson dropped six quick points, and Oswego was off and running.

“We’ve been on him because Brice can really shoot it, and their big kid doesn’t always come out and guard at the arc, so he needed to take that shot,” Oswego coach Matt Borrowman said. “I give him credit. He came out and shot two or three of them and it set

what really was the story line was some 50/50 situations.

They ended up with 10 or 12 offensive rebounds. We need to do a better job of sealing it out and going after the ball.”

East’s Elyjah Goss took advantage of Oswego’s early foul trouble, hitting 7-of-8 first-half free throws as he scored 11 of his team-high 18 points at the line. The Panthers built a 25-19 halftime lead, but East continued to cut its deficit into single digits.

Bengals guard Jordan Reed hit a 3-pointer late in the third to make it 33-29 Oswego before Robinson scored the final four points of the quarter. The Panthers again pulled ahead by 10 on a Conor Morton basket, but a pair of threes by Vinny Tarello kept East in the game and within 47-40 with 1:29 to play.

“They could have easily folded and they didn’t. They kept fighting and it was a two-possession game within a minute left,” Adkins said.

“We just couldn’t capitalize.

We came out and tried to pressure, but they found a way with that loose ball and we didn’t.”

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LINCOLN-WAY CENTRAL WRESTLING MEGA DUALS

Plainfield South goes 3-0 at mega duals

By CURT HERRON cherron@shawmedia.com NEW LENOX – Plainfield South’s wrestlers are enjoying another successful season despite graduating quite a bit from last year’s successful team.

The Cougars were fourth at last week’s Granite City Schmitt Invite, to add to seventh-place efforts at Barrington and Harlem. They capped a four-win week with a 3-0 showing Saturday at Lincoln-Way Central’s mega duals.

Coach Jason Acevedo’s squad beat Warren Township, 40-27, Barrington, 36-35, and Hinsdale South, 62-14, to improve to 15-1. Their lone loss came to Moline, a team they’ll see again in the Bradley-Bourbonnais Regional. A year ago, Moline nipped both Yorkville and South for a regional title.

Six Cougars had 3-0 efforts Saturday. They were Enzo Silva (106), Noah Bickett (113), Marc Fleenor (132), Erik Santiago (138), Danny Saracco (195) and Eric Johnson (220).

Johnson (30-0) – a state runner-up a year ago at 220 – and Saracco (30-2) both reached the 30-win mark while Fleenor (29-4) is one victory away.

“We’re doing pretty good as a team,” Johnson said. “I think we’re finally starting to find out who we are as a program and we’re starting to form the beginning of a tradition since we’re still a young school. We lost about half of our squad last year but already the younger kids are stepping up and taking charge and getting better and better.

“It’s fun to see my team progress, and the rest of the year should be exciting. The younger guys are still having some trouble when they go

against seniors, so they get discouraged a bit, but I do see growth in them and they’re starting to put everything together. As the state series comes up, I feel like we’re really going to start making some big strides.”

It’s been a frustrating year for Minooka, which has battled through injuries and inexperience. One of its three seniors, Carson Oughton, a two-time state placewinner, has only wrestled once. But coach Bernie Ruettiger knows what doesn’t hurt you only makes you better, and his Indians went 2-1 after claiming wins over the hosts and Bradley before falling to a Lyons Township team that’s ranked among the five best in Class 3A. “We have three seniors, 10 sophomores and one freshman, and a lot of those kids never had varsity experience

before,” Ruettiger said. “Our goal this year was to get the numbers back up in the program, and we’ve done that.

But it’s tough for me since I’m getting old. We wrestle a pretty good schedule and we’ve taken some beatings, but the kids are responding. We may be getting pummeled, but each match we’re also getting better.”

The host Knights have also had some tough times and faced a rugged schedule – which included a recent trip to The Clash – while fielding a relatively young lineup. After falling to Minooka, Central beat Fremd and then fell to Barrington. Coach Jason DePolo was pleased with a 3-0 effort from Noah Upchurch (182) and a 2-1 day from Jackson Hosman (126 and 132).

“After The Clash, we wanted to wrestle against some teams who we could compete

with since we’re a younger team,” DePolo said. “We’re getting toward the end of the season so we’re trying to get those key matchups as we prepare for our postseason. I love working with this group since they’re all hard-nosed kids.”

Bolingbrook sent several of its younger kids to tournaments, so it gave away 24 points in each of its three meets. But the Raiders fell, 4130, to Lyons and then bounced back from a loss against Hinsdale Central with a victory over Glenbard East in their finale.

“This shows the tenacity of our team,” Raiders coach Dan Bullivant said. “It’s the seniors who are really going out and working for those extra points when they need them.

This is the team atmosphere that I’ve really been looking for and trying to build in my years here.”

AREA ROUNDUP

Lewis women overcome deficit, beat Missouri S&T rick contributed 11 points, 11 Coal City 45, Seneca 35: rebounds and four blocks for Claudia Paulson led Seneca (5-13, 3-3) with 10 points, eight ROMEOVILLE – The No. 9 the Comets.

Thornton 77, Lincoln-Way boards while Lyda Robinson Lewis University’s women’s basketball team used a 22-11 Central 57: M i k e K o s z e l a added nine points and Karlie edge in the third quarter to scored 18 points and grabbed Cade had nine rebounds. overcome a one-point half- 14 rebounds, and Jarret Gmatime deficit in Saturday’s 70- zel scored 13 points to lead WRESTLING Lincoln-Way West mega 58 Great Lakes Valley Confer- the Knights (10-3, 2-2).

O t h e r s c o r e : H o m e - dual: The hosts went 3-0, ence home win over Missouri wood-Flossmoor 70, Joliet while Morris was 1-2.

S&T. West beat Plainfield East, T h e F l y e r s ( 1 4 - 1 , 5 - 0 ) West 47 61-12, Tinley Park, 52-6, and owned a 44-27 rebounding adMorris 76-3 as Gehrig Simon vantage, because of Mariyah GIRLS BASKETBALL Minooka 44, Plainfield South (126), Kyle Ruettiger (145) and Brawner-Henley, who had 20 rebounds. She also had 13 33: Brooklyn Bachmann and Grahm McClure (152) all went points. Jessica Kelliher add- S a v a n n a h J o h n s o n e a c h 3-0.

Morris beat Rich East, ed 17 points and six rebounds, scored 13 points Friday while while Tiana Karopulos scored Sydney Arlis added eight 45-24, and fell to Metamora points for the Indians (10-5, as Cody Baldridge (182) won 13 points.

4-2). three matches.

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Plainfield East 64, OsweBOYS BASKETBALL Romeoville 56, Plainfield go 38: Maddie Sidman (14 North 55: Mike Salter scored a points), Kennedy Collins (10 points, eight rebounds), Olivia Jenkins (10 points), Taylor Cogdell (nine points) and Reed-Custer 70, Herscher Jada Neal (seven points, sev50: Travis Schoonover had 21 en steals) led the Bengals.

St. Joseph-Ogden 68, Peopoints and five steals, Tommy Shaw added 14 points, Neil tone 57: Josie Graffeo and O’Donnell had 13 points and Dani Benninghoff both scored eight assists, and Brent Head- 12 points for Peotone (14-4). late basket off an assist from London Stamps to lift the host Spartans (6-8, 3-2) on Friday.

Brian Burns (182) and Devin the high jump with a leap O’Rourke (220) had falls for of 5-feet-5-inches and Keanu the Griffins.

Taylor took first in the triple jump with a mark of 38MEN’S BASKETBALL 1.5. Chantel Stennis won the Lewis 84, Missouri S&T 80: 55-meter dash (7.05 seconds), Delaney Blaylock had 27 Lane Kadlec captured the points and eight rebounds, shot put title with a heave of Frank Vukaj added 18 points, 43-2.5, Taylor Jones won the Max Strus had 16 points and 300-meter dash (43.87 seceight boards, and Capel Hen- onds), Phoenix Smallwood shaw added 13 points for the took home the long jump title Flyers (10-4, 2-2). with a leap of 17-9.

Lewis men capture Open tiMEN’S VOLLEYBALL tle: Hunter Siler won the shot Lewis 25-25-25, King 15-18- put with a toss of 46-3.25 and 14: Patrick Lilly led the No. 8 took first in the weight throw

Flyers (3-0) with 12 kills Friday in Hawaii.

Trevor Weiskircher hit .444 with 11 kills, Giovanni Joliet West 36, Joliet Central Llinas Rosa pitched in with 27: Meekah Ben-Israel, Rob- 10 kills and Matt Yoshimoto ert Ford, Marco Paramo and recorded 35 assists.

Josh Durrly got pins for the Tigers, while Tyler Lawson COLLEGE TRACK & FIELD Flyers women win Lewhad a fall for the Steelmen is Open: Amber Cook won Friday.

Lockport 43, Lincoln-Way East 24: Baylor Fernandes (145), Zach Reese (152) and Trevell Timmons (160) got pins for the Porters, while

with a heave of 48-5.25.

Devin Ingram won the 55-meter run in 6.52 seconds, while Dan Lentz captured the 55-meter hurdles (7.71) title.

Isaac Jean-Paul took home the long jump title with a NCAA provisional leap of 234.5, while Mervyn John took first in the triple jump with a mark of 45-4.5.

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AFC WILD-CARD GAME: CHIEFS 30, TEXANS 0

Chiefs beat Texans for first playoff win since 1994

By KRISTIE RIEKEN The Associated Press HOUSTON – After 22 years without a playoff victory, the Kansas City Chiefs secured this one early thanks to a touchdown off the opening kickoff and a harassing defense that forced five turnovers and shut out the Houston Texans on Saturday.

Alex Smith and the Kansas City offense was effective, if not explosive, while Texans quarterback Brian Hoyer had the worst game of his career and was booed most of the afternoon in a 30-0 loss in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs.

The Chiefs extended their NFL-best winning streak to 11 games and will face Denver or

New England next week.

On the opening kickoff, Knile Davis got three good blocks around the 10-yard line and then simply outran the rest of the defenders for the 106-yard kickoff return score, the second-longest kickoff return TD in postseason history.

The defense took over after that, forcing Hoyer into a fumble and a three of his ca-

reer-high four interceptions before halftime to help the Chiefs (12-5) take a 13-0 lead.

Smith threw a touchdown pass late in the third and Spencer Ware added a 5-yard TD run on the first play of the fourth quarter to make it 27-0.

The victory breaks a streak of eight straight playoff losses by the Chiefs and is their first postseason win since beating

the Oilers in Houston on Jan. 16, 1994.

Hoyer was 15 of 34 for 136 yards as Houston (9-8) lost a home playoff game for the first time. Travis Kelce, who also had more than 100 yards receiving in the first meeting with the Texans this year, had another big day, finishing with eight receptions for 128 yards.

• Sunday, January 10, 2016

ever Tannenbaum hires to replace Dickey and whether the talent pool continues to flow.

That, and whether or not Tannenbaum, who should be It’s been clear for weeks involved in nothing but the now that Adam Gase’s time to finances of the franchise, can be a head coach had come. The resist the temptation to preonly question that remained tend he is actually a football was whether he’d get the right guy. opportunity with the best Perhaps more importantly chance to win. to most of you reading, where Of the seven teams with does it leave the Bears at head coaching openings offensive coordinator? before Gase accepted the job A week ago, I would have in Miami, the Dolphins pretty put my money on Mike McCoy clearly have the best current as the Bears next offensive roster of talent to work with. coordinator, but he still is in Lamarr Miller, Jarvis charge in San Diego, and alLandry, DeVante Parker, though that’s a bit of an upset, Mike Pouncey, Ndamukong my next best guess was Ken Suh, Cameron Wake, Olivier Whisenhunt, but now I’m not Vernon, Brent Grimes and so sure.

Reshad Jones is a nucleus I’m hearing that quarteryou can win with right now. backs coach Dowell Loggains In that regard, Gase appears might be the leader in the to have knocked it out of the clubhouse right now. park.

H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com That is not necessarily a Of course, that’s not the Bears’ quarterback Jay Cutler and offensive coordinator Adam Gase talk on the Bears’ sideline during a bad thing. It’s just really hard only factor that will dictate game between the Bears and Washington on Dec. 13 at Soldier Field. Gase was hired as the Miami Dolphins to get your arms around how Gase’s success with the fish. much of the Bears success coach Saturday.

(Save your calls and letters, with Cutler and changing the please, as I know they are in Nos. 2 and 3 off the checklist, I Does he have the relationships It seemed to me and a culture on offense was “all” fact mammals and not fish, it’s love the marriage of Gase and necessary to get help from oth- number of other NFL analysts, Gase and exactly what role just fun to call them the fish.) the Dolphins. er coaches around the league who I respect far more than Loggains played.?

Some would argue the The only question marks with honest opinions and will myself, that after TannenHere’s the interesting wrinthird-most important considare, what kind of staff will they encourage quality veterbaum turned the New York kle. Whisenhunt or maybe eration for a prospective head Gase be able to put together ans to join him?

Jets into a sitcom, that it was someone such as Greg Knapp coach after overall talent is, do and will ownership and the Fifty-years-olds don’t often unlikely he would get control is a solid and seemingly safe they have the quarterback? front office give Gase everyenjoy working for 30-someof another NFL franchise. call that doesn’t really put Ryan Tannehill is far from thing he needs to be super, or things, no matter what indusIn addition to Joe Philibin John Fox on the spot. a finished product, but so was will they perpetually be in his try they’re in. getting the gate early this Loggains might be safe, but Jay Cutler. way?

The bigger issue is, past season and interim head it’s really going for it and if he Tannehill doesn’t have the I believe Gase has proved although Dolphins owner man Dan Campbell being sent gets the job, Fox will be well golden arm Cutler does, but he knows football talent, and Stephen Ross was sky-high on packing earlier in the week, out on the limb with him. he’s a better athlete, has plenI suspect he can identify good Gase and determined to not general manager Dennis ty of arm and has only been a coaches. let him leave town after the Hickey was canned a couple of • Chicago Football editor quarterback since his junior The problem he faces is the second interview, he also has weeks ago, too.

Hub Arkush can be reached at year in college. same as any other young, first- given the keys to the castle to Gase’s success in Miami harkush@chicagofootball.com When it comes to knocking time head coach in the NFL. Mike Tannenbaum. will be tied directly to whomor on Twitter @Hub_Arkush.

BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

NBA

Young scores 25, Pitt beats Notre Dame

EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 25 9 .735 — Bulls 22 13 .629 3½ Indiana 21 15 .583 5 Detroit 21 16 .568 5½ Milwaukee 15 23 .395 12 Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 24 15 .615 — Boston 19 17 .528 3½ New York 18 20 .474 5½ Brooklyn 10 27 .270 13 Philadelphia 4 35 .103 20 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Miami 22 14 .611 — Atlanta 23 15 .605 — Orlando 20 18 .526 3 Charlotte 17 19 .472 5 Washington 16 19 .457 5½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 32 6 .842 — Dallas 21 16 .568 10½ Memphis 20 18 .526 12 Houston 18 19 .486 13½ New Orleans 11 24 .314 19½ Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 26 11 .703 — Utah 15 20 .429 10 Portland 15 24 .385 12 Denver 13 24 .351 13 Minnesota 12 25 .324 14 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 34 2 .944 — L.A. Clippers 24 13 .649 10½ Sacramento 15 21 .417 19 Phoenix 13 26 .333 22½ L.A. Lakers 8 30 .211 27 Thursday’s games Atlanta 120, Bulls 105 L.A. Clippers 97, Charlotte 83 Washington 105, Orlando 99 Toronto 108, Philadelphia 95 Detroit 103, Brooklyn 89 Miami at Utah (n) Golden State at Sacramento (n) Sunday’s Games New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 4 p.m.

Boston at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Houston, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Denver, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Portland, 8 p.m.

Utah at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 43 29 10 4 62 148 114 Blackhawks 43 26 13 4 56 120 101 St. Louis 44 23 14 7 53 109 111 Minnesota 40 21 11 8 50 108 96 Nashville 41 19 15 7 45 107 111 Colorado 42 21 18 3 45 122 117 Winnipeg 41 19 19 3 41 109 117 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 40 26 12 2 54 107 88 Arizona 40 20 16 4 44 112 125 Anaheim 40 17 16 7 41 77 97 Vancouver 41 16 16 9 41 100 115 San Jose 39 19 18 2 40 109 108 Calgary 40 19 19 2 40 105 124 Edmonton 42 17 22 3 37 104 125 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida 41 25 12 4 54 114 88 Detroit 41 21 13 7 49 103 107 Montreal 43 23 17 3 49 122 107 Boston 40 21 14 5 47 123 108 Ottawa 42 20 16 6 46 118 124 Tampa Bay 41 20 17 4 44 104 100 Toronto 40 16 17 7 39 104 112 Buffalo 41 15 22 4 34 93 113 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 41 31 7 3 65 132 89 N.Y. Rangers 41 22 14 5 49 121 109 N.Y. Islanders 42 22 15 5 49 114 107 Pittsburgh 41 20 16 5 45 97 100 New Jersey 42 20 17 5 45 95 101 Philadelphia 40 18 15 7 43 91 108 Carolina 43 18 18 7 43 102 118 Columbus 43 15 24 4 34 109 139

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s results Washington 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, OT Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Islanders 0 Pittsburgh 3, Montreal 1 Ottawa 2, Boston 1, OT Carolina 4, Columbus 3, OT San Jose 7, Toronto 0 Minnesota at Dallas (n) Nashville at Arizona (n) Tampa Bay at Vancouver (n) St. Louis at Los Angeles (n) Sunday’s Games Colorado at Blackhawks, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Winnipeg, 3 p.m.

Ottawa at Washington, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Florida at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

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Bulls forward Taj Gibson (22) goes up for a shot against Atlanta Hawks center Tiago Splitter (11) in the first half Saturday in Atlanta.

HAWKS 120, BULLS 105

Bulls fall to Hawks

By GEORGE HENRY The Associated Press ATLANTA – Al Horford thinks the Atlanta Hawks are finally showing how good they can be.

“Moving the ball, hustling on defense and trying to do it consistently – as a team I feel like we have some lapses in those areas,” Horford said. “When we’re able to be more consistent on the defensive end, we’re just a totally different team.”

Horford scored a season-high 33 points and had 10 rebounds, Paul Millsap added 18 points and the Atlanta Hawks beat the Bulls, 120-105, on Saturday.

Jimmy Butler scored 14 of his 27 points in the third quarter and Nikola Mirotic had 24 points for the Bulls, who ended a six-game win streak.

Mike Scott had 14 points and Dennis Schroder and Kyle Korver each scored 13 to help the Hawks lead throughout. Atlanta has won two straight after dropping three of four.

Thanks in part to Butler’s prolific third quarter, the Bulls went on a 22-11 run to pull within two on a pair of free throws

by Derrick Rose at the 3:38 mark of the period, but the Hawks went back up by 17 on Schroder’s jumper with 9:20 left and the game essentially decided.

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Women’s basketball North Carolina at Notre Dame, noon, ESPN2 Georgetown at Marquette, noon, FS1 Northwestern at Michigan St., 1 p.m., BTN Maryland at Iowa, 2 p.m., ESPN2 Penn St. at Wisconsin, 3 p.m., BTN Villanova at DePaul, 3 p.m., CBSSN Texas A&M at LSU, 3 p.m., SEC Connecticut at South Florida, 4 p.m., ESPN2 Golf PGA Tour, Hyundai Tournament of Champions, final round, 5 p.m., TGC Winter sports FIS Alpine Skiing, Audi World Cup: Women’s Super-G, 4:30 a.m.; Men’s Slalom, second run, 6 a.m., NBCSN Soccer FA Cup, Swansea City at Oxford United, 6 a.m., FS1 FA Cup, Scunthorpe United at Chelsea, 8 a.m., FS1 FA Cup, Leicester City at Tottenham, 10 a.m., FS1

3-pointers, which included a 4-point play, and had 11 points in the first half. Smith-Rivera SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Fast was 9 of 14 from the foul line as starts in both halves were enough for No. 24 Pittsburgh to the Hoyas (10-6, 3-1 Big East), overcome slow finishes against who won the game in Chicago 70-58, went 20 of 25 from the Notre Dame. stripe in the second half.

The Panthers started the Billy Garrett Jr. went 12 of 12 first half on a 13-0 run and the from the foul line and scored second half with a 9-2 spurt, 16 points for the Blue Demons building 18-point leads twice before having to hang on for an (6-10, 0-4), who were 20 of 23 from the line but had just three 86-82 victory Saturday in its first road game of the season. 3s. DePaul’s last surge cut it to 53-50 with 7:43 to play, but Michael Young scored a season-high 25 points despite then the free-throw parade began. getting in foul trouble late in the first half, Jamel Artis had 19 points and Sheldon Jeter added Falzon leads 18 points, 14 in the second half, Northwestern to win MINNEAPOLIS – Aaron Falzon as the Panthers outscored Irish made sure that a bump in the 40-24 in the paint and outreroad didn’t turn into a disaster. bounded the Irish 34-24.

The Irish used a 9-0 run to cut Falzon tied his career-high a 16-point deficit to 79-77 on a with 20 points and Tre Demps 3-pointer by Demetrius Jackson added 13 as Northwestern defeated Minnesota, 77-52, and layup by Steve Vasturia.

James Robinson ended a 1-of-9 Saturday.

Joey van Zegeren added 11 shooting streak for the Panpoints and Bryant McIntosh thers with a basket inside. had 10 assists for the Wildcats Smith-Rivera, Peak lead (14-3, 2-2 in the Big Ten), who Georgetown past DePaul had lost two straight games after opening the season 13-1.

WASHINGTON – D’Vauntes After their past two seasons Smith-Rivera and L.J. Peak were derailed by extended scored 17 points apiece and Georgetown hit 11 3-pointers to losing streaks, the Wildcats beat DePaul for the second time knew they had to nip this one in 10 days, 74-63, on Saturday. in the bud.

– Wire reports Peak hit all three of his

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Professor studies species in Will and Grundy counties

By DENISE M. BARAN–UNLAND dunland@shawmedia.com When Joseph Milanovich, Ph.D., of Loyola University Chicago, embarked on a two-year study of a threatened species of turtle in Will and Grundy counties, he knew the best way to find them.

Bring in some turtle dogs.

“This gentleman from North Carolina has trained these dogs to find turtles, much like dogs find ducks or track bears,” said Milanovich, an assistant professor in the Loyola biology department. “So we hired him for a few days to locate these turtles for us.”

Milanovich received a grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Preservation Fund titled “Demography, Stress, and Diet of the Ornate Box Turtle (Terrapene oranta) in the Sand Hills of Will and Grundy Counties, Illinois.”

With it, Milanovich “investigated the ecology of a threatened terrestrial turtle species historically found in large numbers in the prairies of Will and Grundy Counties,” a Loyola news release stated.

He worked at two sites: the Wilmington Shrub Prairie and Goose Lake Prairie in Morris. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources owns both prairies.

The project focused on understanding the turtles’ habitats, hibernation sites, stress levels, physiology and diet, with the goal of better management strategies for the turtle species and area prairies as a whole, Milanovich said.

The investigation, Milanovich said, ended in December. He is now processing the data. Milanovich said his findings are significant because even one threatened species in the areas of Will and Grundy counties can upset the entire prairie ecosystem.

That, of course, includes the ornate box turtle, a prairie-adapted species, he said.

“All species should exist where they should exist,” Milanovich said.

The first thing Milanovich did was survey the turtles. That confirmed their threat status as well as how robust the population status was in those two sites.

A comparative study, Milanovich said, seemed to indicate fewer turtles in Will and Grundy counties than in other areas in Illinois, he added.

One red flag, he said, was the age of

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An adult male ornate box turtle as seen at Wilmington Shrub Prairie. the turtles. Most of the turtles he found were more than 10 years old, which is not terribly old for turtles, as they can live for decades.

What was unknown, he said, is the age turtles stop mating. An older population of turtles might indicate fewer births.

Age is determined by looking at the panels on the turtle’s shell, which resemble floor tiles, Milanovich said.

Each tile has rings and each ring represents one year of growth.

“You get a good estimation of age by counting all the rings,” Milanovich said.

In his investigation, Milanovich encountered more male than female turtles, which might be climate-related, he said. More males are born in warmer temperatures and “fractions of degrees” can determine sex, he said.

“It might [also] be that the female is more susceptible to predation,” Milanovich said.

Milanovich then added radio

transmitters resembling little antennas to 26 turtles (one turtle later died of natural causes, Milanovich said) and tracked them for 12 months through the seasons.

The findings

Ornate box turtles hibernate several hundred days of the year, Milanovich said, and hibernate deeply enough to withstand temperatures 0.5 degrees above freezing. They select hibernation sites close to each other, tend to return to the same sites each year and emerge in April, just in time to mate in May. The eggs hatch in June or July, he said.

By studying blood samples and nail clippings, Milanovich learned that the turtles ate a wide variety of plants, even seeking out sodium-rich plants if they felt the need for more sodium in their diets. They also enjoyed meals of earthworms, slugs and beetles.

“Typically box turtles are generalists,” Milanovich said. “They eat more

or less what’s in front of them.”

Milanovich determined how the turtles coped with stress through measuring certain hormone levels in their white blood cells. One threat Milanovich expected to see and did not was disease – the ranavirus in particular, a nasty virus seen in other turtles for which no vaccination exists.

“It’s very easily spread during mating seasons from secretions in the eyes and mouth,” Milanovich said.

Overall, Milanovich feels that reptiles and amphibians are understudied, which leaves huge knowledge gaps in understanding the changing environment.

Because they are small and less mobile than other species, Milanovich said, reptiles and amphibians provide valuable ecological information.

“Birds can fly away from climate changes,” Milanovich said. “Reptiles and amphibians have to deal with whatever happens to it.”

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USF Mock Trial Team to compete in Joliet The HERALD–NEWS JOLIET – The University of St. Francis Mock Trial Team placed third at the United States Air Force sixth annual Thunderbird Invitational in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Team captain Justyna Jozwik, co-captain Emily Limbach, Giovanna Almada, Miranda Castro, Karen Guzman, Cori Herbert and Alejandra

Medina all worked together to bring home this big win.

In the previous two tournaments, the team collected several awards for their performances.

At the Case Western Reserve event in Cleveland, Ohio, Jozwik earned an outstanding top lawyer distinction and Herbert was given the outstanding witness honorable mention.

Following that event, Limbach earned a top five lawyer spot at the Demon Deacon Mock Trial Invitation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

The team will compete next at the St. Francis Midwest Challenge taking place Jan. 23 and Jan. 24 at the St. Bonaven-

ture campus in downtown Joliet.

The four-round tournament will begin at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Jan. 23. Rounds on Jan. 24 will begin at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

The team is vying to place in the top seven at regionals in February at the Will County

Courthouse, which will allow them to move on to the Opening Round Championship Series.

Judges still are needed for the Midwest Challenge. Contact Stephanie Washington at swashington@stfrancis.edu or at 815-740-2265.

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termediate School Honor Society hosted Coins for Coats, which raised money to purchase coats, hats, gloves and scarves for needy WBO students and their families.

• Troy Middle School staff bought gifts for students living in the households of several families in need. Students and staff also collected and donated items for Operation Care Package for those in military service overseas.

• Troy’s Transportation Department provided gifts for 35 needy children who attend district’s schools; donated canned goods and $150 in cash to Mt. Zion Baptist Church food pantry; and donated approximately 300 new or gently used books to the Presence St. Joseph Medical Center Pediatric Ward.

• The Troy district office staff gave bundles that included toys and gifts, clothing and a food basket to four district families in need.

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gade for nine months to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The unit’s mission is to support trusted regional partners with bilateral and multilateral military exercises and theater security cooperation activities in the Central Command area of responsibility.

Tranchitello is a 2007 graduate of Romeoville High School.

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LEMONT – Coe College student Allison DeArcangelis of Lemont spent the fall term in Chicago studying at The Newberry, Chicago’s Independent Research Library, as a participant in an accredited off-campus study program. DeArcangelis, a 2012 graduate of Lemont Township High School, is the daughter of Michael and Michele DeArcangelis. Study abroad at Coe College in Iowa allows students to take a full load of courses for a term or a yearlong program in locations around the world.

Romeoville resident deploying to Kuwait

ROMEOVILLE – Army Staff Sgt. Kyle M. Tranchitello, a fire support sergeant with the 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regimen, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas, will be deploying with the “Dagger” Bri-

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JOLIET – The Joliet Unity Movement honored the following people at its Dec. 19 gala.

Adult honorees:

• Bad News Bears Baseball Team – Dr. Jodr F Battistini, sponsor; Willie Wright, general manager; William Brady, coach; William Holman, coach; Tommy Wayne Poe, manager; Michael Holder, volunteer; and the following players: DeAndre Webb, Jermaine Evans, Sylvester Brady, Mason Simpson, Trintina Thompson, Darren Cooley Jr., Jakobe Parrish, Richard Garcia, Robert Garcia, Trevonte Luckett, Luis M Magana, Nicholas Duncan, Rodney Bass and Tavion Foster.

• Eddie and Tiffany Frazier – ARCAPT • Keeyan Snap – Will County Warriors Wrestling Club • Matt Munoz – Belmont Little League • Elizabeth Protich – social service/ social justice • Willie Jones – youth programming • In Memory – Raul Weeks, Joliet Central High School, Honorable mention: Boys & Girls Club, avid sup• 4.0 Challenge contesporter of youth; Julie Godi- tants 2014-2015 – Samantha na-Williams, Joliet Titans, Portis, Theasia Davenport, area youth supporter Tamaryn Jordan, Jordan Youth honorees: King, Janiah Lee, J’karius • Taevion Chamberlain Youngblood, Ka’vion Rob• Je’Brieyah McClellan inson, Timarion Blakney, • Ryan King Jr. Elijah Moffett, Anissa West• Jason Bingham Jr. brooks and Tatiana Williams.

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Students, staff and the community of Troy Community School District 30-C gave from their hearts this holiday season to several shelters, pantries, needy families, soldiers and other deserving organizations and individuals.

Each one of Troy’s seven schools hosted its own drives, and district office staff and the transportation department continued their traditions of collecting and giving to brighten the season for needy families.

• Troy Craughwell Elementary School collected shoes for “American Heritage Girls” that will be sent overseas; collected food and personal hygiene items for Operation Care Package for military personnel overseas; and collected for their own Thanksgiving Angel Network for Craughwell families in need.

• Troy Crossroads Elemen-

tary School collected food and incidental items for veterans; partnered with Boy Scouts on a coat drive for area families in need; donated proceeds from a Healthy Snack Sale to Day Break Shelter; made cards for residents of The Timbers and collected toys for area needy families.

• Troy Heritage Trail Elementary School adopted seven needy families to help and made homemade cards for a Joliet retirement community.

Troy Hofer Elementary School held Angel Tree adoptions and distributed winter clothes to needy families.

• Troy Shorewood Elementary School’s Student Ambassadors partnered with Boy Scout pack 256 for “Yes-ember,” which resulted in food, coats and personal hygiene items that were donated to St. John Lutheran Church Food Pantry and the Northern Illinois Food Bank.

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ILLINOIS STATE SCHOLARS ROUNDUP Students at high schools in Will and Grundy counties have been named Illinois State Scholars.

The following students in Grundy County schools are Illinois State Scholars: Coal City High School • Barkley, Clarissa • Chiarappa, Michael • Fischer, Andrew • Gernenz, Alyssa • Grizzle, Holly • Halloran, John • Horn, Hannah • Horrie, Ryan • Johnson, Seth • Kauzlaric, Riley • McLuckie, Adam • Micetich, Nicholas • Olsen, Abigail Gardener-South Wilmington High School • Adelman, Guy • Bartels, Sydney • Cash, Collin • Johnston, Jennaveve • Mankowski, Michael • Residori, Maranda Minooka Community High School • Alessio, Madeline • Allee, Persephone • Anderson, Kelli • Arlis, Sydney • Baranski, Brandon • Bautista, Marielena • Beaudin, Daniel • Bebar, Sydney • Boeringa, Sarah • Burdick, Daniel • Burjek, Andrew • Burjek, Drew • Burjek, Mark • Butler, Joseph • Button, Jordyn • Chesko, Mackenzie • Chetney, Shane • Cinkovich, Taylor • Claassen, Matthew • Connellan, Liam • Conway, Michael • Cortesi, Robert • Crouch, Morgan • Dayag, Vinni • Degraaf, Mitchell • Dobbyn, Paige • Doster, Jacob • Engel, Andrew • Fuller, Katelynn • Fuller, Kaylee • Goffinet, Conrad • Gornik-Tiberghien, Jacob • Gossen, Kathleen • Hagen, Chelsea • Haritopoulos, Kallie • Hayden, Marcus • Horvat, Chandler

• Jepsen, Andrew • Karczewski, Benjamin • Kasuba, Marissa • Kaufman, Madison • Keener, Alexander • Kirkolis, Jeffrey • Kopp, Brandon • Krohn, Jacquline • Krusinski, Tessa • Lindstrom, Amber • Machnikowski, Hailey • Malinowski, Michael • Marquardt, Justin • Mart, Peyton • Marti, Kathryn • Martinez, Marisa • McComb, Kayla • McFee, Kylie • Motsch, Alexandra • Nielsen, Dylan • Pappas, Michelle • Petersen, Zachary • Peterson, Alec • Prindle, Katelyn • Raether, Jason • Ranieri, Hayley • Reynolds, Jacob • Robare, Austin • Rodriguez, Anthony • Romac, Theo • Roop, Alex • Ruggeri, Gillian • Rumsey, Patrick • Sadler, Isabella • Sartore, Jacqueline • Saveas, Nicholas • Scholtes, Morgan • Schulz, Hannah • Siesser, Samuel • Silveri, Jailene • Stallion, Nicholas • Swank, Jacob • Swanson, Nicholas • Taylor, Gabrielle • Trouvais, Benjamin • Ustura, Berker • Van Drie, Emma • Vaught, Nathaniel • Walter, Alyssa • Ward, Margaret • Wasiak, Allison • Wilson, Kevin • Withall, Paige • Wolz, Justin • Zelko, Heather Morris Community High School • Bashor, Maren • Borgstrom, Matthew • Christensen, Peyton • Degrush, Regan • Dingbaum, Emma • Dudley, Maxwell • Foland, Dakota • Gagnon, Evan • Guth, Nathan • Jurak, Jason • Jurak, Jessica • Marino, Mikaela • Norris, Avery • Nystedt, Haley • Palko, Kaitlin • Paulson, Matthew

• Rain, Alexa • Schlappi, Mykayla • Schmidt, Lindsey • See, Autumn • Shaw, Summer • Tibbott, Eleanor • Trobl, Alyssa • Webber, Jessica • Wills, Hunter • Wills, Ryan The following students in Will County schools are Illinois State Scholars: Bolingbrook High School • Aggio, Madison • Ahmed, Ayesha • Ahmed, Nusra • Albright, Timothy • Banerjee, Rohit • Baylon, Natanael • Bell, Janell • Bovaird, Campbell • Bovaird, Spencer • Bovenzo, Marissa • Bush, Nina • Cave, Jennilyn Joy • Chandler, Lindsey • Cheng, Caseylin • Ciullo, Gregory • Di Domenico, Jaycie • Dimgba, Maxwell • Dyke, Jonathan • Ederle, Curt • Faci, Zackarya • Flood, Madison • Freeze, Michael • Greenberg, Jared • Harris, Dania • Holmes, Tyler • Hoy, Nathan • Hoyt, Emma • Karevich, Jeremy • Kayhart, Jack • Khan, Asma • Khan, Raweel • Lacan-Bradley, Carmen • Liu, Stephanie • MacLennan, Jack • Madura, Haley • Magdziarz, Colin • Manrique, Adrian • Martin, Antoinette • Martin, Ashby • McNulty, Corey • Miller, Cameron • Nazos, Peyton • Neal, Lauren • Nevills, Sarah • Nguyen, Quynh-Nhi • Nuber, Haley • Obi Obasi, Chinwendu • O’Brien, John • Ogunbuyide, William • Olivares, Jimena • Perkins, Dharia • Pioquinto, Geriann • Plotzke, Jason • Polenc-Busby, William • Roche, Rosemary • Roman, Jose

• Saul, Amber • Scott, Preston • Singh, Amritpaul • Skudlarek, Joshua • Suwanski, Caleb • Taylor, Dorothy • Taylor, Jordan • Tomei, Rachel • Upadhye, Renuka • Uribe-Torrijos, Brandon • Vaccaro, Brianna • Valek, Alyssa • Vappi, Tyler • Volkart, Linnea • Wagner, Ryan • Wangler, Grace • Worlton, Gregory • Yun, Lydia Joliet Catholic Academy • Alt, Addison • Callans, Alyssa • Cora, Evie • Corless, Casey • Earl, Cade • Emerson, Ethan • Fischer, Zoe • Fossberg, Michaela • Geissler, Jack • Gutierrez, Samuel • Harrison, Meghan • Johnson, Kristen • Jorgensen, Matthew • Konopek, Nicholas • Krumviede, Faith • McInerney, Alexander • McNulty, Megan • McSteen, Harry • Olson, Jared • Payne, Anne • Peters, Madilyn • Simon, Jessica • Tyler, Madelyn • Waldron, Jay

• Hobbs, Jalyn • Jones, Abbey • Jones, Derek • Kadubek, Matthew • Keating, Samantha • Kelly, Sydney • Klahn, Alyssa • Kolbus, Cody • Kolyvas, Peter • Korzen, Mateusz • Kulinski, Michael • Leitshuh, Toni • Leonard, Jake • Lustyk, Nicolette • Maca, Morgan • Martino, Jenna • McDade, Rachel • Medina, Naidelyn • Meyers, Jenna • Nolan, Kyle • Nommensen, Michael • Oldenburg, Jaclyn • Pachol, Aaron • Payne, Peyton • Pentek, Emmalee • Richardson, Austin • Rose, Abbey • Sargis, Mark • Schaefer, Marc • Schmitt, Molly • Sieja, Meghan • Silberman, Justin • Smith, Joseph • Smith, Kailey • Taylor, Neva • Torres, Troy • Triner, Kevin • Tucker, Chad • Tures, Stephen • Vanroosendaal, Hailey • Vega, Jasmine • Walshon, Jordain • Wardinski, Austin • Wasowicz, Jeremy • Watson, James • Weigal, Courtney • Wesel, Allison • Whitney, Matthew • Winter, Mallory • Wisinski, Thomas • Wozniak, Katherine • Wypych, Tyler • Yurkanin, Justin • Zaczek, Verity

Lincoln-Way Central High School • Bernhard, Kimberly • Boyle, Maxwell • Carroll, Devin • Chianelli, Nathan • Cosgrove, Megan • Dauzvardis, Ryan • Dedo, Robert Lincoln-Way East • Degroot, Michael High School • Deninger, Samantha • Anderson, Kyle • Dundek, Makayla • Bailey, Kaitlyn • Fleckenstein, Matthew • Barkauski, Douglas • Forsythe, Kaitlyn • Bax, Ashley • Gamen, Rachel • Bortscheller, Ryan • Gavin, Amanda • Borys, Nell • Gengo, Amelia • Bullard, Joseph • Gerritsen, Lauren • Christensen, Abby • Gianares, Justin • Christensen, Benjamin • Gorecki, Abigail • Conry, Megan • Grady, Amanda • Corcoran, Trevor • Gustafson, John • Cox, Alexa • Haberkorn, Noah • Dahlman, Brian • Hathaway, Colin • Dawczak, Hanna • Haubenreiser, Jacob • Detella, Mia • Hausner, Paulette • Dibartolomeo, Ales• Healy, Jennifer sandra

• Dixon, Gwyneth • Eckert, Kelly • Egan, Alexa • Esparza, Julia • Esposito, Nicole • Fialkowski, Maggie • Fillak, Jessica • Fioretti, Abigale • Franceschini, Jennifer • Goldsmith, Allison • Groen, Kayla • Grybas, Jeanna • Habib, Sarah • Hackett, Patrick • Haskins, Elena • Hasson, Abigail • Jacobsen, Eric • Jankowski, Elise • Johnson, Taylor • Jones, Olivia • Juracka, Claire • Juracka, Grace • Juracka, Jake • Just, Ashley • Kandow, Alyssa • Kettmann, Christine • Kioussis, Eleni • Kolimas, Michael • Kubin, Andrew • Lang, Darby • Lao, Jaysen • Leavy, Bailey • Lehman, Samantha • Lewandowski, Trevor • Liden, Renee • Manka, Nicholas • Manning, Joseph • McBride, Delaney • Michuda, Jacqueline • Mikulich, Cassie • Napoli, Joseph • Narcissi, Dominic • Nelson, Ross • Novotny, Ellie • Olivieri, Abby • Patel, Krupa • Pearson, Austin • Plourde, Kyle • Poplawski, Autumn • Reda, Kayla • Rojas, Alexa • Rose, Anna • Rudy, Jake • Samanic, Morgan • Sandberg, Regan • Savaria, Gino • Shah, Sahil • Shea, Erin • Smolinske, Megan • Stovall, Hannah • Swan, Elizabeth • Tarach, Anna • Terrones, Armando • Tunstall, Ethan • Tyler, Erica • Vanwyhe, Nathan • Vaundry, Max • Vogt, Alyssa • Wall, Wesley • Wardenburg, Kate • Williams, Kaylee • Winkler, Logan • Zamora, Jessica • Zubenko, Daniel

Lincoln-Way North High School • Bayless, Jacob • Bell, Noni • Benak, Kayli • Berry, Collin • Blanchard, Kelsey • Blaney, Molly • Bronzell, Justin • Browning, Kelsey • Champlin, Kassidy • Chesla, Drew • Chomiak, John • Contreras, Marisa • Cooke, Matthew • Corp, Justin • Dababneh, Mayrna • Daugherty, Justine • Demuri, Valarie • Dilger, Erin • Eng, Jennifer • Figus, Nicholas • Flynn, Sinead • Galassini, Brian • Genis, Kyle • Gerk, Allison • Goss, Hannah • Gray, Tierra • Greer, Alexander • Gutierrez De Velasco, Arturo • Hagler, Leah • Harris, Mark • Hauser, Madeline • Hill, Kenneth • Horner, Blake • Hunter, Mitchell • Jones, Qurannah • Jung, Jacob • Kaminski, Ryan • Kapala, Molly • Kosiek, Alexis • Kotze, John • Kougan, Nina • Kuchta, Violet • Lam, Rebecca • Lee, Alexa • Lenz, Jacqueline • Marc, Timothy • Marchal, Carly • Maylone, Clare • Murray, Jillian • Newman, William • Nush, Brittany • Panici, Demetri • Pop, Ashley • Pryszcz, Makenzie • Purcell, Sierra • Rauch, Daniel • Ritter, Samantha • Ruzevich, Natalie • Schmidt, Delaney • Shoaf, Sarah • Stec, Stephanie • Steck, Sabrina • Taylor, Sierra • Troike, Benjamin • Troike, Patrick • Walles, Marissa • Welch, Justin • Wiltjer, Nicole • Witkowski, Joseph

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linois University • Alisha Tuning – Tennessee NEW LENOX – The follow- State University ing received scholarship grants National Association for the from the Silver Cross Healthy Advancement of Colored People Community Commission: (NAACP) Joliet Chapter: $1,000

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Familias Unidas por la Educa- each cion: $1,000 each • Anjae Holder – University

of Kentucky • Kyla McDaniel – Ball State University • Jarais Musgrove – Roosevelt University • Ethan Phillips – University of Missouri • Julisa Scotland – Joliet Junior College • Tommie Sherman Jr. – Concordia University • Alejandra Zamudio To learn more about the Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission, visit www.silvercross.org.

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Pictured are Julisa Scotland, Joliet Junior College; Jarais Musgrove, Roosevelt University; Betty Washington, secretary/treasurer of the Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission; Mike Clark, president of NAACP Joliet branch; Danny Cochran, NAACP Joliet branch scholarship chair; Anjae Holder, University of Kentucky; Kyla McDaniel, Ball State University; and Tommie Sherman, Jr., Concordia University.

Alejandra Zamudio received a $1,000 scholarship from the Joliet Chapter of the National Hook-Up of Black Women through a grant given by the Silver Cross Healthy Community Commission.

ILLINOIS STATE SCHOLARS ROUNDUP • Continued from page 46 • Wojcik, Michael • Wols, Kayla

• Mueller, Madison • Norton, Sabrina • Panici, Dario • Paul, Elizabeth • Pavlovich, Zak • Preston, Benjamin • Robbins, Brooke • Root, Mallory • Ruskowsky, Amanda • Rymek, Allison • Singh, Rachel • Tanquilut, Erika • Taylor, Mattie • Trout, Justin • Vargas, Danielle • Wainwright, Daniel • Wintercorn, Matthew • Wojnarowski, Kristin

Lincoln-Way West High School • Austin, Morgan • Baber, Deena • Balquin, Zeusan • Bovard, Nicholas • Caravette, Abriella • Carlson, Jacob • Castaneda, Anthony • Christensen, Scott • Crisman, Anna-Christina • Cucci, Timothy • Czaja, Rachel • Czart, Jenna Providence Catholic • Davis, Katie High School • Degroot, Olivia • Baffoe, Grace • Durling, Regina • Baudek, Claire • Feehan, Mitchell • Bernas, Lauren • Fron, Allison • Brankin, Colin • Galloway, Brandon • Broderick, Margaret • Grubisich, Samuel • Christianson, Amanda • Hastings, Ryan • Connelly, Patrick • Heyer, Brianna • Diehl, Kevin • Iori, Adam • Dillman, Thomas • Jandek, Dakota • Fitzgerald, Kevin • Leo, Clara • Garces, Joven • Lewandowski, April • Gorski, Rachel • Macha, Mark • Heimlich, Mason • Martos, Christopher • Hernandez, Allison • Mathews, Jenna • Huguelet, Grace • McGhee, Aidan • Jaskierski, Caleigh • McGrory, Daniel • Juodvalkis, Joseph • McHale, Haley • Kamowski, Michael • Medendorp, Amanda • Kay, Patrick • Mierzwa, Emma • Kelley, Thomas • Monti, Grace • Klein, Hunter • Monti, Julia • Moore, Jacquelyn • Lambert, Jakob

• MacNab, Christina • Massaro, Mia • McDonald, Daniel • McGill, Olivia • O’Hara, Brendan • Papes, Maria • Richards, Valerie • Scholl, John • Schultz, Mary • Spesia, Catherine • Strick, Joseph • Struck, Kyle • Tatro, Scott • Townsend, Ryan • Wasicki, Benjamin • Webster, Anne • Wolf, John • Ziska, Kaitlyn Reed Custer High School • Adams, Lauren • Alton, Mallory • Anderson, Faith • Beyer, Jessica • Davalos, Kasey • Duffy, Brandon • Harding, Brandon • Layne, Cameron • Mitsdarffer, Alyssa • Rabe, Mollie • Sefcik, Jenna • Sharper, Isabella • Shroba, Aaron • Tiangco, Alyssa • Vecera, Elizabeth • Winkler, James Romeoville High School • Andrews, David • Andrews, Samuel • Autenrieth, Rachel • Brand, Sarah

• Caballes, Michael James • Carpenter, David • Czajowski, Robin • Fickett, Nathan • Friedrich, Rebecca • Fudala, Patryk • Gitogo, Stanley • Heisterman, Iyonna • Huebner, Emily • Hughes, Kammeran • Irvine, Ian • Kamara, Alameen • Lara, Jasmine • Lee, Korey • Lefaiver, James • Lessentine, Bradley • Mancol, David Lawrence • Medina, Yazmine • Murillo-Quiroz, Ivan • Patino, Victoria • Ramos, Brandon • Rodriguez, Heidy • Rosendahl, Alyx • Ruiz, Isabel Joyce • Sandoval, Leslie • Sessoms, Nicholas • Shafi, Namra • Spiewak, Anthony • Suliga, Gabriella • Ziegler, Nicole • Zipperich, Nathaniel Wilmington High School • Bruno, Brenna • Cooling, Brandon • Dempsay, Tanner • Enz, Alicia • Hermes, Autumn • Lombardi, Chloe • Roth, Alec • Smock, Steven • Studer, Benjamin

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Five students received Community Service Block Grant scholarships: (front row, from left) Katarena Shiner, Tia Carr, (back row, from left) Lynn Nicholson, Jacob Halstead and Hannah Shiner.

Kendall-Grundy Community Action Board helps students The HERALD–NEWS Jane Swinney and Janet Goehst, members of Kendall-Grundy Community Action Board, a division of the Kendall County Health Department, awarded five area students with Community Service Block Grant scholarships at the board’s annual dinner at R-Place restaurant in Morris.

The scholarships are made possible by funding from Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. The recipients

were chosen on a competitive basis, upon scholarship potential, commitment to civic affairs and career goals. The scholarships awards ranged from $1,000 to $1,200.

The scholarship recipients are: • Tia Carr – Kendall County • Katarena Shiner – Grundy County • Hannah Shiner – Grundy County • Jacob Halstead – Grundy County • Lynn Nicholson – Grundy County.

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• Deisi Alcantar – Joliet Junior College • Juana Alvarado – St. Benedictine University • Heidy Del Toro – St. Xavier University • Erica Guzman – University of St. Francis • Jesus Patino – Joliet Junior College Joliet’s Lebanon Baptist District Association: $1,000 each • Kyra Creal – University of Kentucky • Anna Gatson – Western Il-

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Will he lead the right suit?

CELEBRITY CIPHER

Lewis Grizzard, a writer and humorist, said, “Life is like a dogsled team.

If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”

The opening lead can make a big difference in the scenery – the result – at the bridge table. This deal occurred near the end of last year’s Polish Teams Championship. As described yesterday, at the first table, South opened three no-trump, showing a long, solid minor suit and no side ace, king or void; West overcalled four spades, and North jumped to seven clubs.

After East doubled, North ran to seven no-trump. When West woodenly led the spade king, the grand slam made for plus 2,220.

The auction at the second table is given. Note West’s imaginative – crazy? – four-heart overcall on his singleton. North, thinking he could probably defeat this contract, doubled for penalty.

When West ran to four spades, North, realizing what West was doing, jumped to six no-trump, the contract he thought his partner could make.

After East doubled, what do you think West led?

He knew he was being asked to pick a red suit, but which one? As you can see, if West had chosen a diamond, the contract would have been a quick down three. But he opted for the heart four.

Now you probably think that declarer took all 13 tricks for plus 1,880 and a small loss.

But no – declarer thought West had all five missing hearts for his four-heart overcall, so he finessed dummy’s nine!

East won with his 10 and cashed the diamond ace for down one. Wow!

Note To Readers: This column is an update of one that originally appeared in October 2012.

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was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. My doctor says I need to have lots of other doctor appointments as a result, including seeing the eye doctor. Can you explain how diabetes affects vision?

Dear Reader: Both of the common types of diabetes, Type 1 (which usually begins in childhood) and Type 2 (which usually begins in adulthood), can affect vision in several ways.

After 20 years of having Type 2 diabetes, most people have eye problems. But the risk can be reduced, as I’ll explain.

The most serious eye problem resulting from the uncontrolled high blood sugar levels that can occur with diabetes is diabetic retinopathy. It can cause severe vision loss and even blindness.

Diabetic retinopathy occurs when high blood sugar leads to the damage of small blood vessels in the retina. (The retina is the light-sensitive tissue in the back of the eye that sends images to the brain.)

The damaged vessels leak fluid and blood into the retina. They also can close entirely, robbing the retina of its blood supply.

When your doctor looks inside your eyes, he or she looks for the telltale marks and scars that diabetic retinopathy leaves on the retina.

If the fluid or blood leaks near the macula – the part of the retina responsible for sharp, central vision – sight becomes impaired. When fluid leaks into the center of the macula, it can swell, blurring vision. This is called macular edema.

When a damaged blood vessel closes, the retina tries to repair itself by sprouting new blood vessels to replace the damaged ones. That’s another thing your doctor is

ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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Grandma In Texas Dear Hurt Grandma: I don’t

think so. I’m not sure how your daughter planned to “handle it” and make things right for the boy who was bullied and stolen from, but by doing what you did, you ensured that he got his money back.

One can only hope that Michelle got a talking-to from her parents about what she did, and has learned not to repeat it.

But if she’s tempted to do it again, it’s just as well that her teacher will keep a closer eye on her.

Dear Abby: My husband has been in prison for three

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips and a half years, but now he’s moving to a halfway house where he will have much more freedom. He wants to attend my church with me, and I know people there will have questions.

Only a few of them know where he has been because I shared it with them. What’s the best way to make this comfortable for both of us and share it as we need to? –

Free At Last Dear Free At Last: That

your husband would like to attend church with you is laudable, and I hope his entry into the congregation will be a smooth one.

I have often said that once a “secret” is known by more than one person, it no longer is a secret. Discuss this with your clergyperson and let him or her guide you in the process. If you do, it may help to avoid any rough spots along the way.

Dear Abby: Many people these days rely on their devices to auto-correct spelling and grammatical errors.

Too often, I see signage on businesses with misspellings. A few of my friends own their own businesses, and their postings on social media often are misspelled.

Sometimes they ask for my opinion. Should I offer advice or ignore this growing trend? – Miss Pelled In The

South Dear Miss Pelled: Offer

advice only when it’s been requested. Advice that is unasked for usually is unwelcome. Unless you want to be known as the “grammar hammer,” keep it to yourself.

• Write to Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Pearls Before Swine

Dear Abby: Yesterday, when I picked my granddaughter “Michelle” up from school, she asked me to take her to get a pizza.

I told her I had no money, and she responded that she had her own money. She then pulled $40 out of her pocket.

Michelle is only 9 and has no job. When I asked where she got the money, she told me, “A little boy who’s disabled gave it to me.” I didn’t believe her story, and after I questioned her further, she confessed that she had taken the money from a boy who is not disabled.

I took the money from her and gave it to her teacher. Her teacher said the boy had accused Michelle, but Michelle had sworn she hadn’t taken it. Abby, my granddaughter not only took his money, but also lied about it. I was devastated.

When I told my daughter, she said I should have let her and her husband handle it because now Michelle’s teacher won’t like her and may treat her differently.

My daughter is upset with me, but I was just trying to do the right thing. Did I do the wrong thing? – Hurt

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Opportunity is apparent if you are ready to take action.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Attending cultural events or family or friendly gatherings will lead to a connection with someone who wants to collaborate with you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Take care of relationship matters before it’s too late. It’s important that you are on the same page as the person you want to head into the future with.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Try something different and share your likes and dislikes with someone you enjoy being with. You can base changes that you make to your home on the information you share.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Take care of personal business or make plans to do something with your children or pet. Set new ground rules in order to improve an important relationship.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Make plans to do something you enjoy. Participating in everything that comes your way will lead to

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – You’ll be riled if things don’t go your way. Don’t make matters worse by withholding information. Reveal your concerns so that you can move on and enjoy your day.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Short trips to a place that offers fun activities or entertainment will revitalize you. If you join in and share information with the people you encounter, something good will transpire.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Putting in a little extra time pumping up your resume or checking out online job prospects will encourage you to reach for higher goals.

Self-improvement projects will pay off.

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properties Stately Joliet Home Respectfully Rehabbed room. There is also a recreation room

this updated vintage home in Joliet’s

in the basement. The deck in back

historic Cathedral area. It has many fine

overlooks the 157 foot deep fenced

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seating area. There is a very functional open dining room-living room-family room arrangement. The dining room has a built-in hutch with stained glass windows and a coffered ceiling. There is a bay area in the living room and a fireplace in the family room. Updates in this home include the electric, upstairs windows and a stunning kitchen with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, an island with a cooktop and ceramic floor. A breakfast room is right off the kitchen. At the top of the stairway is a large area that would bedrooms include a 16 x 16 master with a 16 x 10 multi-purpose tandem 2520 Plainfield Road, Joliet

Address: 809 W. Buell Ave., Joliet Size: 1,920 square feet, 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths Room sizes: Foyer 20-by-15; dining room 13-by-13; living room 14-by12; family room 14-by-12; kitchen 15-by-14; breakfast room 10-by-10; recreation room 20-by-14; master bedroom 16-by-16; tandem room 16by-10; additional bedrooms 14-by-13 and 13-by-10 Price: $195,000 Realtor: Don Michalski of Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell 708-567-3407, 815-207-4002 or e-mail michalski218@gmail.com

2 bed, 2 bath ranch on 1.3 acre lot with mature landscaping.

Large kitchen with lots of cabinet space. LR has vaulted ceiling and stone fireplace. Offered at $159,900 Jane Hopkins, 730-1900 x23 MLS# 09105466

1312 Richmond Street, Joliet

2 bed, 1 bath home.

Move in ready. Hardwood floors in bedrooms. Master has 2 spacious closets. Great location near shopping.

Bsmt. Fenced yard.

Offered at $119,000 Jane Hopkins, 730-1900 x23 MLS#09076753

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4 bed, 2 1/2 bath home. New Lenox schools K-8. 1st floor den. 2nd floor laundry.

Full basement. Great backyard with patio Offered at $219,000 Tom Mulvey, Managing Broker, 730-1900 x22 MLS# 08965416

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Offered at $244,900 Jane Hopkins, 730-1900 x23 MLS#08954872

Tom Mulvey X22

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$340,000, 2292 Pebblestone Way, Bolingbrook 60490-5061, 01-26-409016-0000, K Hovnanian At River Hills Llc To Kristen E Refness & R Scott Refness, November 13 $485,000, 711 Crestview Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-9060, 02-04-210-0730000, U Sung Park To David Baek & Hanna H Baek, November 12 $185,500, 572 Emerson Cir, Bolingbrook 60440-2675, 02-09-402-016-0000, Oscar Taylor To Candace Laramie & Lorenzo Alcantara, November 25 $100,000, 543 Norman Rd, Bolingbrook 60440-1388, 02-02-304-056-0000, Bruno M Humberg To Arvind Aggarwal, November 5 $207,000, 513 Goodwin Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-2079, 02-11-214-013-0000, Tomas Ulinskas To Anthony M Howard, November 24 $84,000, 470 Mallview Ln, Bolingbrook 60440-2908, 02-14-102-077-0000, Juana Avila Sandoval To Maria S Moreno & Jose Moreno, November 17 $93,000, 437 Greentree Ln, Bolingbrook 60440-2935, 02-14-102-099-0000, Erasmo Gonzalez To Isidro Muoz & Alma D Ruiz, November 11 $459,000, 337 Chick Evans St, Bolingbrook 60490-2074, 01-13-406-001-0000, Delperdang T4rust To Bhaumik Shah & Yeshaben Shah, October 13 $99,000, 317 Emerald Ct, Bolingbrook 60440-2885, 02-15-107-081-1000, Fannie Mae To Thomas Kuba & Eizabeth Barton, November 17 $148,000, 239 Seneca Way, Bolingbrook 60440-1738, 02-09-428-025-0000, Wells Fargo Bank To Francisco Acevedo & Desiree Alfonso, November 3 $220,000, 238 Fox Bend Cir, Bolingbrook 60440-3278, 02-16-301-004-0000, Tracy L Roberson To Muhammad Imran Sharif & Zeeshan Mona, October 6 $490,000, 714 Crestview Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-9059, 02-04-215-004-0000, David E Loomis To Anil Gulati & Mala Rao, November 19 $145,000, 120 Lee Ln, Bolingbrook 60440-1913, 02-10-402-005-0000, Jose A Nava To Brian Holloway & Amy Schopper, November 25 $127,500, 241 Yellow Pine Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-1748, 02-09-419-015-0000, Fannie Mae To Brian Boese, October 7 $170,500, 228 N Ashbury Ave, Bolingbrook 60440-2428, 02-11-414-012-0000, Barry C Ward To Jeffrey Klein & Victoria Mack, November 19 $136,000, 223 Riverside Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-2327, 02-11-304-048-0000, Santa Cruz Enterprises Llc To Alvaro Ruiz Gonzalez, October 27

$83,000, 213 Rockhurst Rd, Bolingbrook 60440-2329, 02-11-307-004-0000, Meador Trust To Michael Mazzoni & Angela Mazzoni, October 30 $257,000, 193 Christine Way, Bolingbrook 60440-6136, 02-09-306-029-0000, John Pemberton To Mohammed Majeeduddin, October 16 $149,500, 180 Grady Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-1563, 02-17-106-022-0000, Saleem Mohammed To Matthew Huck, November 19 $95,500, 173 Norman Way, Bolingbrook 60440-1344, 02-02-304-058-0000, Fannie Mae To Shoo Chen, November 17 $176,500, 165 Vernon Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-2420, 02-11-404-050-0000, Christopher A Kahl To Paul M Baris, July 30 $242,500, 1456 Waterside Dr, Bolingbrook 60490-5484, 02-19-410-003-0000, Jason Santos To Mihai Mihailescu & Ioana Mihailescu, October 27 $230,000, 903 W Briarcliff Rd, Bolingbrook 60440-5217, 02-08-479-009-0000, Craig Zerfass To Kevin Tragesser, January 7 $173,000, 1428 White Pine Ln, Bolingbrook 60490-3182, 02-19-214-019-0000, Bienvenido F Villadolid To Michael Allegretti & Angela Buckley, October 19 $366,000, 1355 Danhof Dr, Bolingbrook 60490-5040, 01-35-201-025-0000, Dyanna Hughes To Christopher O Hunigan & Felicia Iiunigan, November 20

Frankfort 60423-1779, 09-15-404-0230000, First Midwest Bank Trustee To Arlynn Renee Woodley, October 19 $198,200, 8239 Pecan Pl, Frankfort 60423-1768, 09-14-417-048-0000, Tammi Duckworth To Jesse Valera Jr & Lisa Valera, November 6 $519,000, 9045 Big Sable Pt, Frankfort 60423-1774, 09-15-404-002-0000, First Midwest Bank Trustee To Matthew A Krivos & Tiffany L Narwick, May 18 $236,500, 298 Mulberry Rd, Frankfort 60423-1212, 09-21-305-009-0000, Barbara Anderson To Thomas Lunz & Melinda Lunz, November 6 $145,000, 20548 S Acorn Ridge Dr, Frankfort 60423-8145, 09-13-306-0250000, Ronald L Muldoon To Edgar Luciano, November 23

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$110,000, 1084 N Division St, Braidwood 60408-2334, 24-06-400-030-0000, Chicago Title Land Trt Co Ttee To James J Wagner, November 2

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$286,000, 24316 S Dupage Dr, Channahon 60410-9316, 10-07-404-050-0000, David G Mihclich To Eric J Guillette & Trudi C Guillette, November 17

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$205,000, 16429 Coventry Ln, Crest Hill 60403-0718, 04-20-309-004-0000, Bank Of New York Mellon Ttee To Maria M Mendoza, November 4 $75,000, 1908 N Center St, Crest Hill 60403-2516, 04-33-400-009-0000, Federal Home Loan Mtg Corp To Fernando Hernandez, October 9

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$218,000, 901 Redwood Dr, Elwood 60421-6078, 11-20-105-022-0000, Joseph W Berscheid To Matthew Alan Hoebing, May 15 $240,000, 25141 S Chicago Rd, Elwood 60421-9512, 11-15-300-031-0000, Joan K Gelin To Javier Rodriguez, November 25 $200,000, 901 Cottonwood Dr, Elwood 60421-6075, 11-20-104-033-0000, Vincent E Buchenau To Gary K Magennis & Jennifer Magennis, September 30

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$327,500, 13616 Pheasant Cir, Homer Glen 60491-9483, 05-04-101-035-0000, Cheryl M Yaeger To Kostas Kondratas & Laura Kondratas, December 1 $424,000, 17232 S Parker Rd, Homer Glen 60491-8294, 05-26-303-007-0000, Joan M Streit To Leigh Schelsky & Dena Schelsky, November 12 $489,000, 16430 S Kensington Dr, Homer Glen 60491-8476, 05-22-402-0050000, Robert Wysocki To Mariusz Zubek & Karolina K Zubek, November 19 $129,500, 903 Manor Ct, Joliet 604361509, 07-17-213-030-0000, Patrick J Carlin To Carlos J Pacheco & Melissa M Pacheco, November 5 $125,000, 901 Westwood Ave, Joliet 60436, 07-17-227-028-0000, First Midwest Bank Trustee To Ethan Sweeney & Michael Sweeney, March 9 $47,000, 1215 Schriber Ave, Joliet 60435-3925, 07-05-327-022-0000, Robert E Fitzpatrick To Yesica Ortiz & Reyes Hernandez Fonsec, December 1 $115,000, 2011 Douglas St, Joliet 60435-5626, 07-07-122-016-0000, Barbara Bazaar To Lloyd Craig & Estella Craig, November 17 $42,500, 905 Cochrane Ave, Joliet 60436-2007, 07-17-414-017-0000, Rigoberto Cardenas To Juan A Hernandez & Josefina Campos, June 19 $45,000, 901 Gael Dr B, Joliet 604352979, 06-01-409-026-0000, Bank Of New York Mellon Ttee To Mona Khan, October 28 $83,500, 905 Cora St, Joliet 604354618, 07-04-411-022-0000, Colleen O Connor To J Carmen Rodriguez & Agustin G Juarez, October 23 $70,000, 12 Anderson Ave, Joliet 60433-1416, 07-13-107-003-0000, Sofia Zavalla To Arnulfo Arellano & Maria Delcarmen Calderon, December 1 $109,000, 1007 Brentwood Dr, Joliet 60435-3207, 07-06-304-023-0000, Ndm Llc To Suzanne M Brenczewski, November 23 $44,000, 904 W Park Ave, Joliet 60436-

2033, 07-17-414-014-0000, Hsbc Bank Usa Trustee To Pedro Rojas, May 26 $143,500, 2106 Belmont Ave, Joliet 60432-2208, 07-12-204-014-0000, First Bank Of Manhattan Ttee To Fidel Montemayor, November 20 $52,000, 208 Mississippi Ave, Joliet 60433-1929, 07-15-218-005-0000, Fannie Mae To Veronica Perez, November 20 $45,000, 1101 Norley Ave, Joliet 604354017, 07-05-209-021-0000, Fannie Mae To David S Black & Debra S Black, October 27 $99,629, 812 Fuller St, Joliet 604332517, 07-14-302-026-0000, Will County (il) To Darhonda Gaston, November 30 $140,000, 129 S May St, Joliet 604361403, 07-17-211-060-0000, Mary T Jansen Estate To Daniel R Makowski, October 27 $62,500, 707 Nicholson St, Joliet 60435-6115, 07-09-105-024-0000, Hud To Aurora Martinez, November 18 $172,000, 705 Homestead Pl, Joliet 60435-5107, 06-12-201-007-0000, Michael A Pasteris To Alexander S Pasteris, November 6 $105,000, 904 Norley Ave, Joliet 60435-4120, 07-05-222-003-0000, Fannie Mae To Veronica Contreras, February 9 $55,000, 14 Kenmore Ave, Joliet 604331527, 07-13-201-006-0000, Roberta C Disalvo To Daniel Collins, November 19 $73,500, 900 Plaza Dr, Joliet 604353841, 07-05-322-011-0000, Hud To Deirdre A Austin & James A Lilek, February 6 $106,000, 903 Stonegate Ct, Joliet 60435-3482, 07-06-316-004-0000, Wells Fargo Bank Trustee To Jimmy Tran & Khanh T Chau, November 18 $105,900, 412 Ray May Dr, Joliet 604332148, 07-13-310-007-0000, First Bank Of Manhattan Ttee To Miguel Guzman, November 25 $101,000, 1412 Cleary Ave, Joliet 60435-3739, 07-05-102-004-0000, James M Doolan To Dawn M Wierzbinski, November 18 $122,000, 904 Krings Ln, Joliet 604353833, 07-06-415-006-0000, Gina Becker Espinoza To Alejandro Davalos, April 28 $75,000, 401 Peale St, Joliet 604332141, 07-13-301-008-0000, First Midwest Bank Trustee To Mary Lou Wilson, December 1 $185,000, 3901 Landings Rd, Joliet 60431-1571, 03-35-303-046-0000, Brian S Pagano To Ricardo Diaz Diaz, August 4 $135,000, 3461 Pandola Ave, Joliet 60431-2891, 06-02-207-024-0000, Kathryn L Wright To Eric Bedolla & Nichole Bedolla, October 30 $52,000, 1406 Arthur Ave, Joliet 604321006, 07-02-105-018-0000, Leon Smith Jr To Maria E Luna & Salvador Luna, October 12 $163,500, 1419 Coral Bell Dr, Joliet 60435-3980, 07-05-119-019-0000, Stoklosa Trust To Cosima M Tines, November 25

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Main floor laundry, patio overlooking beautiful yard, and tons of storage... $299,900

Priced to sell! Barb Gall / Doug Geissler greet you!

Charming all brick ranch located in popular Glenwood Manor. This beautiful home was custom built & features 2 bedrooms – both are master suites w/full private baths. North side master bath features dual sinks, large soaker tub & marble tiles. Vaulted/volume ceilings are in almost every room w/this floor plan. Foyer greets you by front door. Spacious living rm w/brick fireplace & French doors leading to outside patio area. Galley kitchen w/volume ceilings, hardwood flooring & wood beams compliment kitchen area. Full finished basement featuring 3rd full bath, family rm w/ fireplace, rec area & full 2nd kitchen w/large table space & built in shelving. Access to 2.5 garage off mason & infantry drive. This is truly a custom home – solidly built!

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123 Dwight, Joliet (Midland - Mario - Dwight) SPRAWLING BRICK RANCH – STOP IN TODAY! This well kept home offers 4 main flr BRS, 2 full baths, all large rooms, fin bsmt w/ tons of storage & large yard w/shed. Offered by the original owner! $139,900 – See Terry Fenoglio today!

627 Washington, Shwd (Rt. 52 - Del Webb Pleasant west - Freedom south - Patriot west - Wshgtn) DEL WEBB – STOP IN TODAY! Fantastic 2BR, 2 bath home featuring 9’ clngs, gorgeous open kitchen w/maple cabs & SS appls, private master w/WIC, more! $245,000 – See David Hufford today!

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506 William, Joliet (Glenwood - William north) DRASTICALLY REDUCED Spotless home offering 3BRS, 1 1/2 baths, gorgeous fenced yard w/big patio, newer furnace/air, superbly fin bsmt w/custom oak bar & half bath, 2 car garage! NOW $139,900 – Nancy Hibler

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CHANNAHON’S REMINGTON WOODS – JUST $90,000! Situated in a 55+ adult community, this 3BR, 2 bath home features upgrades throughout! Crown molding, 6 panel doors, outstanding kitchen, FR w/fireplace, 4 season room, all appls & 2.5 car garage! Call Grant Chignoli today!

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WEXFORD DUPLEX – LOOK NO FURTHER! Well maintained & decorated ranch-style unit offering 2 big BRS, 2 bath, high vol ceilings, nice front porch, patio in fenced yard, main flr lndry, full bsmt & 2 car attached! Low assessments! NOW $154,500 – Call Jim Karges, Mng Broker!

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PRIVACY AT IT’S FINEST – OAKWOOD ESTATES! Quality built 2-story condo offering over 2,800 sq/ft, 4BRS, 3.1 baths, main floor master, Florida room, FR w/frpl, main floor laundry, bsmt rec room, dual furnace/air, much more! $199,900 – Call Maggie Karges Watson today!

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SHOWCASE of HOMES ELWOOD RANCH ON OVER ACRE LOT-JUST REDUCED! 19413 Timber Dr… Beautiful 5 bedroom ranch on professionally landscaped 1 acre corner lot!! Spacious 20x13 living room with brick wood burning fireplace. Custom kitchen offers upscale cabinets with granite counter tops, crown molding, tray ceiling, large pantry, all kitchen appliances stay and sliding door to 20x40 deck. Formal dining room with hardwood floor and bow window.

Newly finished basement features huge 29x27 family room, bedroom and large 24x12 laundry room. Now asking $267,900!

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Call Lee Hansen today at 815-478-3872 for a personal tour. View even more photos at www.lee-hansen.com

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1208 Taylor St… Charming Cathedral area brick 3 bedroom home with curved archways, crown molding, plaster walls & hardwood floors! Inviting foyer opens to living/dining room with brick fireplace & built-in bookcases. Sunlit family room overlooks newly fenced yard with two patios, one a brick paver. $199,900 includes home warranty! Jim greets you at the open house today or call him at 815-693-2970.

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3411 Timberfield Way…Best priced home for the money in Timbers Edge - Ranch villa with 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. Wood laminate floors in living room with fireplace, dining room, sun room plus large den/office that could be an additional bedroom. Enjoy the clubhouse amenities with exercise room, library, plus outdoor in-ground pool. Quick close & posssession possible! Call Judy for a private showing today at 815-791-9028.

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602 E Palladium Dr….Spacious brick ranch in convenient location on corner lot! 2,200+ sq ft, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, very open floor plan with vaulted ceilings & floor to ceiling windows. 21x12 kitchen opens to 24x21 living room, finished basement. Other amenities include sprinkler system & zone heating. Call Rosalie today at 815-263-8641 for an appointment to see this lovely home. Preview multiple photos at www.cbhonig-bell.com

17651 S Virginia Dr…Custom built on over one acre in Williamsburg off Caton Farm Rd. 3,200+ sq ft, office or 5th bedroom on main level, walk-in pantry & island in 20x15 kitchen opens to family room with fireplace. Full basement, 3 car garage, shake roof, professional landscaping, security system. Asking $284,900. Carrie greets you at the open house today or call her at 630-210-6965. Preview multiple photos at www.cbhonig-bell.com

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1208 Taylor St, Joliet 1912 Tuscany Ln, Romeoville 25641 S Bridle Path, Channahon 17651 S Virginia Dr, Plainfield MLS 09093092...Cathedral area, hardwood flrs in din rm, MLS 09091820...Remodeled in Lakewood Falls, MLS 09058870...Hunters Crossing Townhouse, 2 MLS 09030714...1-owner Williamsburg 2 story on 1+ acre, liv rm with fpl & 2 of 3 bedrooms. 2 patios (one paver), Plainfield schools. 3 bedrooms, 2.5ba, fam rm fpl, paver bedrooms incl 18x13 master, 2.5ba, hardwood in liv/din 3,200+ sq ft, office or 5th bedroom on 1st flr, bsmt, 3 car $199,900 Jim Skorupa 815-693-2970 patio, $214,900 Andy Domas 815-744-1000 combo, fin bsmt, $162,000 Amy Rogus 815-210-8633 gar. $284,900 Carrie Jass 630-210-6965

13930 Cambridge Cir, Plainfield 2525 Caton Farm Rd, Joliet 594 Berry Ridge Dr, Joliet 2410 Byrum Blvd, Joliet 308 Kenwood Ave, Joliet MLS 09071009...Plainfield Schools, 2,600+ sq ft stone MLS 09063268...Townhouse in Silver Leaf, 2 bedrooms MLS 09083688...On half acre min from I-55, Plainfield MLS 09101464...Ranch on almost half acre needs work, MLS 09110843...Quick close possible! 2000+ sq ft townhouse, ranch on half acre, hardwood flrs, liv rm fpl, partly fin plus 10x10 loft, 1.5ba, wood laminate flrs in kit & fam rm, Schools, 3 bedrooms, wood laminate flrs in liv & fam rms, Plainfield Schools, 1,475 sq ft, 2 bedrooms, 2ba, fpl, 3 bedrooms, vaulted liv rm with fpl, hardwood flr in kitchen & dining area, $178,500 Ellen Williams 815-483-5788 bsmt. $214,900 Fran Hondros 815-715-1235 $135,000 Linda Hentsch 815-245-2381 2 car gar, $142,000. Bill Sheridan 815-954-9660 $120,000 Leah Kapsimalis 630-337-8387

1617 Clement St, Crest Hill 709 Glory Dr, Shorewood 352 Coneflower Dr, Minooka 2709 Stonebridge Dr, Plainfield 2014 Steward Ln, Plainfield MLS 09078164...Brick ranch on 134x98 lot, updated kit & MLS 09103289...Active adult community, 2,700+ sq ft, MLS 09009939...3 big bedrooms incl 15x19 master, 2 MLS 09109828...4 bedrooms, engineered wood flring thru MLS 09106223...On cul-de-sac in Kendall Ridge, 3 baths, sun rm, rec rm plus possible 3rd & 4th bedrooms in 3 bedrooms, 3ba, hardwood flrs, liv rm fpl, 34x14 paver full & 2 half baths, fin bsmt, new roof. $174,900 Nancy main level, 2 story liv & din rms, kit opens to fam rm, bsmt, bedrooms, updated baths, hardwood flr in kit & liv rm, fin bsmt, $155,000. Carol Bradac 815-210-3288 patio, $289,900 Don Michalski 708-567-3407 Leggett, Managing Broker 815-790-4526 $224,900 Ellen Williams 815-483-5788 bsmt, $225,000 Patty Balun 815-666-3176

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1605 Brighton Ln, Plainfield 14412 S Silver Ln, Plainfield 12916 Peppertree Dr, Plainfield 12738 Wild Rye Ct, Plainfield 1800 Roberts St, Wilmington MLS 09105996...Brighton Lakes, approx 2,700 sq ft, 4 MLS 09074769...Min from I-55 on 150x198 lot, 3 MLS 09110392...Oswego Schools, 4 bedrooms, 4ba, MLS 09106148...Grande Park, Oswego Schools, open flr MLS 08607243...Remodeled on 120x100 lot in Lakewood bedrooms, kit opens to fam rm with fpl, $238,000 Sara bedrooms, fpl, part fin bsmt, tandem 3 car garage, island in kit, vaulted fam rm with fpl, coffered ceiling in plan, 3.5ba, 3rd bedroom in bsmt, 2 car gar, $225,000 Sara Shores, was 3 bedrooms (23x11 master), $110,000 Bob Young, Managing Broker 815-685-5090 $169,900. Lesa Meade 815-483-7233 liv rm, bsmt, $474,900 Leticia Tassone 815-545-7713 Young, Managing Broker 815-685-5090 LaTour 815-744-1000 X255

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1051 W Mason Ave, Joliet 820 Caton Ave, Joliet 355 Wilcox St, Joliet 314 S Midland Ave, Joliet 4201 Fawn Ct, Joliet MLS 09010070...Brick Tudor on corner lot, 3 bedrooms, MLS 09104586...Brick, 4 bedrooms, 2ba, orig woodwork, MLS 09066235...Completely renovated down to the MLS 09096244...On 2 lots (66x269)! 2 bedrooms, loft, MLS 09110011...2,100+ sq ft townhouse, 2 bedrooms, walnut cabinets in kit, bsmt, just reduced to $129,900! hardwood flrs, new windows & roof, 2 car gar, $145,000 studs! 4 bedrooms, 1.5ba, 15x27 liv rm, bsmt, 2 car gar, 22x15 liv rm, sun rm, bsmt. $90,000 Bob LaTour 815- loft, liv rm fpl, fam rm, bsmt rec rm, 3 car gar, deck, Andy Domas 815-735-0902 Sara Young, Managing Broker 815-685-5090 $167,900 Jim Blackburn 815-474-0549 744-1000 X255 $229,900 Lee Hansen 815-478-3872

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foyer and take in the views of the impressive open floor plan. The formal living and dining room both have soaring ceilings, large windows and neutral carpeting.

Perfect for entertaining, the gourmet kitchen is a chef’s dream offering striking cherry cabinetry, all stainless steel appliances, center island with breakfast bar and separate eating area! Right off the kitchen is the spectacular family room with cozy fireplace and breathtaking sun room with vaulted ceilings & huge windows – letting in plenty of light! Head upstairs to the luxurious master suite with luxury bath which includes a soaking tub, separate shower and dual sink vanity. You’ll also find three additional bedrooms with neutral carpet and large closets. These additional rooms offer plenty of space and storage for all of life’s necessities.

Heading downstairs, the full basement boasts lots of storage space and is ready for your ideas. Outside, the entertainment sized patio overlooks the expansive yard.

Located in a wonderful community, this home is one you will not want to miss. It truly has it all!

Join us today for your personal tour of this fantastic property during our OPEN HOUSE today from 12:00 to 2:00 or you can set up a viewing any time by contacting Rosemary West with RE/MAX Professionals Selects at 815-729-1814. Visit www.rosemarywestteam.com for more information on this home and many other properties.

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1110 VALENCIA DR., SHOREWOOD

Well maybe not today, but plan to in May – this home has an in-ground pool in the privacy fenced back

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yard! 3BR/2BA all brick home on Joliet’s West Side. Just listed and offers a dry basement, oversized 2 car

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garage & enclosed rear patio. Great condition. $195,000. Call Mark Meers today for a look! 815-347-7900

• The Living & Dining Room Features Unique Reclaimed Marble Trim! • Huge Deck, Above Ground Pool & 4 Car Garage are a Real Plus!

• Huge MAster Suite with 2nd Fireplace and Balcony!

• Large Family Room has Beautiful Fireplace with Marble Surround! • Priced to Sell in the LOW $200s!

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What a great price for this charming home offering hardwood floors, high profile trim & built-ins throughout! There’s a large walk-up attic with plenty of room to build additional space, an enclosed front porch, a full dry bsmt & 2 car garage! $85,000 – Don’t hesitate, call Nancy Hibler today at 815-263-57911!

Pride in ownership is evident in beautifully kept 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath ranch. Large spacious eat-in kitchen, updated bath, 2 greenhouses, full dry basement, and attached garage. $135,000. Call Rebecca Parks at 815-355-6864.

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$55,000, 16649 W 144th Pl, Lockport 60441-2332, 05-07102-010-0000, Wendy S Estand To Ronald Lindsey & Gerald L Lindsey, November 19 $130,000, 16541 W 146th Pl, Lockport 60441-2345, 05-07108-002-0000, Jason J Kramer To Marta Pitrowski, November 11 $340,000, 213 Robson Dr, Lockport 60441-3325, 04-13408-004-0000, Paul A Newman To April Renalio, November 30 $190,000, 900 Valley Ln, Lockport 60441-3751, 04-24-305002-0000, Deborah E Piazza To Peggy Pelkonen, November 10 $105,000, 549 E 10th St, Lockport 60441, 04-23-411-0200000, Todd C Randich To Steven J Spencer, November 24 $92,000, 902 E Division St, Lockport 60441-4547, 04-24313-011-0000, Hud To Jeffrey Noll, July 1 $160,000, 900 Mckinley Ct, Lockport 60441-3659, 04-23420-009-0000, Cronholm Jr Trust To Filiberto Garcia, April 24 $347,500, 900 N Glenmore St, Lockport 60441-2787, 04-13214-007-0000, S&l Group Llc To Mark S Liescke Jr & Joy N Liescke, October 1

MANHATTAN $265,000, 15466 Lakeview Dr, Manhattan 60442-8152, 12-17213-010-0000, Clifton D Dillman To Robert M Smith & Megan L Smith, September 16 $109,989, 340 Lee St, Manhattan 60442-8134, 12-21-110-0050000, Hud To Timothy Scanlan, June 12

MINOOKA

$92,800, 408 Grande Dr B, Minooka 60447-9006, 10-06302-013-0000, Langford Trust To Shawn Gauer, September 19

PLAINFIELD

$301,500, 13051 S Elaine Dr, Plainfield 60585-9768, 01-31107-009-0000, Beth Ann Moss $54,900, 19330 Wolf Rd 10, Mokena 60448-1159, 09-07-207- To Christopher M Bell & Leeanne Bell, November 26 034-1000, Fannie Mae To Alice $321,000, 13414 Vicarage Dr, Backus, November 16 Plainfield 60585-5054, 01-33$295,000, 9009 Willow Ln, 305-012-0000, Gerald K BirkenMokena 60448-8376, 09-10402-001-0000, Glenn S Brothen heier To Blair J Berg & Melanie K Berg, September 8 To David Mitchell & Amanda $218,000, 13521 Golden Eagle Mitchell, July 31 Cir, Plainfield 60544-5354, $183,500, 11236 194th St, Mo03-04-205-037-0000, Corrine kena 60448-8433, 09-07-207020-0000, Susanne M Hogan To M Pieroni To Hysni Hoxhalli, November 30 Amy L Osborne, October 17 $195,000, 2202 Red Hawk Dr, $292,000, 10140 Lancaster Dr, Plainfield 60586-5381, 03-32Mokena 60448-7830, 09-09208-063-0000, Bank Of New 102-021-0000, Fannie Mae To John Oconnell & Rachel Oconnell, York Mellon Ttee To Chibuzor Anyanwu, October 13 November 25 $340,000, 24231 Eagle Chase $350,000, 19358 L Geaster Dr, Mokena 60448, 09-09-102-008- Dr, Plainfield 60544-9844, 0304-208-003-0000, Bridgette N 0000, Standard Bank & Trust Borgnini To Sean Taylor & Ashley Trustee To Edward Carroll & Mcbride Taylor, November 30 Rodica Carroll, October 19 $180,000, 20944 W Spruce Ln, Plainfield 60544-6424, NEW LENOX 02-31-407-041-0000, Atg Trust $382,500, 2874 Foxwood Dr, Co Trustee To Norene Kriks, New Lenox 60451-8546, 08-33303-045-0000, Standard Bank & November 25 $142,500, 4225 Rivertowne Ct, Trust Trustee To Keith J Formell & Elizabeth B Formell, October 27 Plainfield 60586-6900, 03-34$250,000, 3400 Edgecreek Dr, 206-009-0000, Federal Home Loan Mtg Corp To Elizabeth New Lenox 60451-9513, 08-05Perez, October 27 376-026-0000, Gregory Stech $104,500, 21502 Franklin Cir, To Anthony J Jones & Megan B Plainfield 60544-6091, 04Jones, September 10 06-301-099-0000, H Nelson $268,000, 1511 Lambeth Ln, Mcgeoch To Karol Evanoff, New Lenox 60451-9644, 08-08November 21 106-003-0000, Frank J Lingle $200,000, 2009 Prairie Ridge To Vincent R Rayola & Sarah E Dr, Plainfield 60586-6197, 03Rayola, November 12 32-402-001-0000, Geoffrey S $195,000, 2920 Oak Rail Dr, Peterson Inc To Thomas Johnson, New Lenox 60451-2826, 08-35November 20 404-009-0000, Linda S Alvara$420,000, 25815 Stony Man Ct, do To Patrick R Bennington, Plainfield 60585-5036, 01-31November 3 205-022-0000, David D Blind $240,000, 903 Blandford Ave, To Michael P Durkin & Allison M New Lenox 60451-8626, 08-05354-014-0000, Kevin J Mcdonald Durkin, November 20 $165,000, 15011 S Des Plaines To William Mcdonald & Kacie

MOKENA

St, Plainfield 60544-1801, 03-09404-006-0000, Brandon Graves To Kevin L Woodall & Olivia D Woodall, November 10 $338,365, 25322 W Maggie Ln, Plainfield 60586-6831, 03-29101-015-0000, Nvr Inc To Angela J Gorr, November 24 $225,000, 15334 S Indian Boundary Line Rd, Plainfield 60544-1468, 03-17-203-0280000, Ryan Ringenberg To Kimberly J Webb, November 30 $256,000, 11336 S Belmont Dr, Plainfield 60585-6137, 01-21206-014-0000, John W Stonis To Andrew J Greco, June 27 $408,000, 12851 Hawks Bill Ln, Plainfield 60585-2536, 01-31204-001-0000, Sandra Wendland To Su K Koong & Yunis Koong, November 25 $311,000, 12927 Parterre Pl, Plainfield 60585-2561, 0132-108-017-0000, Starwood Waypoint Trs Llc To Terry Duane Austin & Srey M Austin, November 4 $326,460, 25342 W Cerena Cir, Plainfield 60586-6816, 03-29101-013-0000, Nvr Inc To John A Atwood & April E Atwood, November 25 $199,894, 25460 W Gateway Cir, Plainfield 60585-7636, 0132-307-010-0000, Arlp Reo I Llc To Michael Fiene, November 5 $117,000, 2609 Canyon Dr, Plainfield 60586-5924, 0330-302-052-1000, Cheryl A Lauderdale To Alex Vasiliades, October 7 $520,000, 24848 Barolo Dr, Plainfield 60586-5987, 03-20208-007-0000, Jti Investments Inc To Joseph D Bates & Leanne M Bates, November 17

ROMEOVILLE

$170,000, 108 Calendula Ct, Romeoville 60446-4850, 04-07206-084-0000, Jose A Gonzalez To Yesenia Roman & Alejandra Roman, November 1 $172,000, 1609 Cadillac Cir, Romeoville 60446-5223, 04-18310-061-0000, Helen L Miller To Guido J Marchetti & Peggy A Marchetti, November 30 $120,000, 117 Azalea Cir, Romeoville 60446-5276, 04-07104-147-1000, Matthew J Swies To Kimberly J Chapman, November 6 $230,000, 1592 Amaryllis Dr, Romeoville 60446-5134, 04-07305-146-0000, Roselund Real Estate Inc To Todd W Keller & Tamara L Keller, November 16

SHOREWOOD

$199,900, 904 S Raven Rd,

Shorewood 60404-9150, 06-16403-029-0000, Rmr Investments Llc To James Confer & Kara Confer, February 6 $216,500, 905 Colonade Rd, Shorewood 60404-9140, 06-16304-007-0000, Fitzgerald Trust To Sarah L Jeropke & Andrew P Zurales, June 22 $390,000, 24708 W Park River Ln, Shorewood 60404-7669, 06-21-351-017-0000, First Fsb To George Ferreti & Lisa Marie Raucci, November 30 $221,000, 900 Butterfield Cir E, Shorewood 60404-8143, 06-20205-009-0000, Michael J Paul To Patrick Pfeifer, February 11 $165,000, 900 Summit Creek Dr, Shorewood 60404-8204, 06-03-326-232-0000, Austin L Judice To Daniel Farley, September 21 $256,000, 902 Marion Dr, Shorewood 60404-9810, 06-04306-016-0000, Joshua J Quinn To Kevin J Blabas & Lauren D Blabas, July 21 $208,900, 903 Colonade Rd, Shorewood 60404-9140, 06-16304-006-0000, Senta Berggruen To Cameron Jensen, May 8 $205,000, 905 Caprice Dr, Shorewood 60404-9159, 06-16303-023-0000, Jeffery C Devore To Brian J Bednowicz & Deanna J Bednowicz, July 15

WILMINGTON

$237,500, 214 Hintze Rd, Wilmington 60481-1719, 24-12-200013-0000, James T Williams To David Reichel, November 30 $130,000, 904 S Buchanan St, Wilmington 60481-1510, 17-36-210-009-0000, Christina M Garrison To Marion G Jones & Glen A Jones, June 19 $144,500, 900 Mae St, Wilmington 60481-1537, 17-36-211008-0000, Scott T Murphy To Michael R Shaffern & Melanie T Favero, June 10 $136,000, 901 S Joliet St, Wilmington 60481-1520, 17-36210-001-0000, Dave Van Duyne To John Kerulis, February 3

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$340,000, 1257 Janas Ln, Lemont 60439-6120, 22-28-212005-0000, Federal Home Loan Mtg Corp To Helena Wojciak, September 15 $174,000, 832 John St, Lemont 60439-4221, 22-29-227-0140000, Dennis J Francis To Daniel J Solakiewicz Jr, November 30 $347,500, 12328 Province Dr, Lemont 60439-4630, 22-30-308014-0000, 12328 Province Dr Trust To Nicole Owens, October 4 $393,500, 13705 Anne Dr, Lemont 60439-8762, 22-34-413014-0000, M I Homes Of Chicago Llc To Russell Mitera & Cristina Mitera, November 20 $350,000, 117 Timberline Dr, Lemont 60439-4425, 22-30-404013-0000, Lawrence J Major To Tomasz K Banach & Joanna Banach, December 1 $247,000, 14 Valley View Dr, Lemont 60439-4450, 22-31-306007-0000, Bmo Harris Bank Na To Scott Stewart & Katarzyna Stewart, December 1 $263,000, 903 Hillview Dr, Lemont 60439-4333, 22-29-233004-0000, Brandon J Cotter To Nina Jankauskiene, March 26

Mcdonald, February 16 $285,000, 904 Stafford Ct, New Lenox 60451-2163, 08-21302-015-0000, Eugene K Foley To Ryan Foley, April 9 $200,000, 1812 Tudor Ln, New Lenox 60451-2642, 08-26-302006-0000, Murnyak Trust To Michael T Reilly & Pamela Reilly, November 4 $187,500, 901 Foxwood Ct, New Lenox 60451-1492, 08-33301-052-1001, Richard A Puig Jr To Dawn M Carlson, July 17 $155,000, 802 Shagbark Rd 802, New Lenox 60451-2499, 08-28-301-022-1004, Dennis P Sachschik Jr To Robert Reiser & Marie Reiser, November 23

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