Go Magazine August 2014

Grundy County’s Own Magazine August 2014

School required vaccines can save lives FREE school services and supplies Morris Redskins tradition and more‌

Don’t Forget Your Child’s Back 2 School Physical

Schedule your appointment today!

Student physicals are required at all schools. All kindergarten, sixth and ninth graders must have certain immunizations. And, don’t forget that any athletics that start before school may also require a sports physical.

Riverside is offering school and sports physicals for only $40.* Appointments are required.

Flexible days and times are available. *Special $40 rate applies if patient chooses not to have insurance billed. Payment is due at time of service. Physicals include urine dip, but do not include other lab work or immunizations.

To schedule your child’s physical, please call any of these locations: KanKaKee/Bradley/BourBonnais area: Primary Care Associates – Bourbonnais 400 Riverside Drive, Suite 2800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (815) 935-1100 Primary Care Associates – Kankakee 401 N . Wall Street, Suite 206 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (815) 937-2044 Riverside Medical Center of Kankakee East Court 1701 E . Court Street, Kankakee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (815) 935-9394 Riverside Medical Center – FastCare Inside Walmart • Bourbonnais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . no appointment necessary Riverside Women and Children’s Health Center 338 Larry Power Road, Bourbonnais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (815) 935-4651 neighBoring Communities: Riverside Medical Center – West Campus 5775 E . Highway 113, Coal City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (815) 634-0100 Riverside Medical Center of Manteno 395 N . Locust, Manteno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (815) 468-6870 Riverside Medical Center of Momence 3761 N . Route 1/17, Momence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (815) 472-3923 Riverside Immediate Care Gilman Inside Doc’s Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . no appointment necessary Riverside Immediate Care Monee 25711 S . Egyptian Trail, Monee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (708) 534-7523 Sport & camp physicals available on walk-in basis . School physicals by appointment .

Riverside Medical Center of Pembroke 3400 S . Main, Hopkins Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (815) 944-5545 Riverside Specialty Services in Watseka 1490 E . Walnut St, Suite A, Watseka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (815) 432-0250 Riverside Medical Center of Wilmington 105 S . First Street, Wilmington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (815) 476-5210

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The Bookworm

Columnist

Terri Schlichenmeyer

A simple river rat Salwey recounts daily life in the Mississippi backwaters through the eyes and perspective of a river rat (this book is ideal for 12 - 15 year olds).

It was hard staying focused in school this year.

The problem was the window in the classroom.

In the fall, you watched birds fly south, and you imagined them calling to one another. Winter teased you with outdoor challenges and fresh, brisk air.

And in the spring, when wildlife is most active? Well, you might as well not be in school at all.

You wonder what it might be like to live closely with nature.

Your forebears did it – could you?

In the book “Muskrat for Supper”

by Kenny Salwey, you’ll find out by reading the story of a river rat.

It was quiet along the Mississippi River, with nothing to disturb the river rat as he sat and listened to the wind and the birds. The swamp was his favorite place to be, and he waited for his visitors. He’d known the parents for many years and as they pulled up in their car, he was eager to meet their children.

The kids, of course, were full of questions.

There was a hollowed-out stump of a tree over there, and skeletons hanging from the side of the tiny cabin. What were they? The river rat was happy to explain that the tree is now a bathroom and the bones were gifts from friends and from nature.

The river rat told the children stories of his own childhood. His father and grandfather were river rats, which meant that they lived off what the Mississippi gave them. From those old-timers, the river rat learned to feed himself and make shelter; to whittle a good, sturdy walking stick; and to fill his “possible bag” before every walk.

The best way to learn about the world around you, said the river rat, is to go outside and listen for birds and wind.

Watch, and you’ll see ants and mice. Get down on the ground, and you’ll see a spider web that most adults wouldn’t notice.

Then he told the children this: if you want to be a river rat, “plan on working harder than you would for any regular job.” Plan on not much

INSIDE THIS EDITION: SPORTS Tradition: What is it and what makes it ?

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HEALTH School required vaccines can save lives

MORRIS DAILY HERALD

Grundy County’s Own Magazine A division of Shaw Media

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COMMUNITY Families could take advantage of free school services and supplies

LOCAL HISTORY The Commercial Hotel

Coach Alan Thorsen discusses the Morris Redskin legacy

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money, but expect riches beyond anything you could imagine.

Can’t get enough of the outdoors? Wish you could live outside 24/7, year ‘round? Then “Muskrat for Supper” was practically written with you in mind.

With gentle common sense and a self-taught naturalist’s eye toward preservation and sustainability, author Kenny Salwey weaves a semi-fictional story in with his own exciting, true-life tales about living in the Mississippi backwaters. Salwey, also known as The Last River Rat, romanticizes his life but includes plenty of honesty: it’s not easy to share space with a snake or to pull yourself out of broken ice, but the rewards and the beauty outweigh those small inconveniences.

While this book is meant for 12-to-15-yearolds, I surely think that environmentally-concerned, like-minded grown-ups will get just as much enjoyment from it. If you’re the kind of person who’d rather be outdoors any day, in fact, “Muskrat for Supper” is a book you’ll eat up. n

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Shaw Media Correspondents: Jeanne Millsap and Kris Stadalsky Photographer: Heidi Terry-Litchfield Columnist: Terri Schlichenmeyer Ad Director: Rich Ponulak Art Direction and Design: Rob Szekely Ad Sales Representatives: Gina Ringer and Denise Pankey

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Sports

tradition:

What is it and what makes it?

By Rob Oesterle Shaw Media Sports Writer

Tradition.

It’s a word heard often in the sports world.

Usually a team or program is steeped in it, bathed in it, cloaked in it or sometimes, utterly devoid of it.

The dictionary defines tradition as an activity that happens regularly and has become the usual thing. In sports, the word “winning” often comes before the word “tradition,” but in general sports terms, if the word winning isn’t there, it’s implied.

The Illinois High School Association recently released a list of the 200 winningest football programs in state history. The IHSA’s list is sorted by number of wins, giving a large advantage to schools that have had a football program for a long period of time. They still must win games to be on the list, but having a program since 1900 is certainly an easier route to the list than starting one in 1978.

East St. Louis tops the list with 737 wins entering the 2014 season, followed by Chicago

Mount Carmel with 708. Rounding out the top 10 are some familiar names in high school football circles, such as Wheaton-Warrenville South (673), Tuscola (672), Arcola (669), Carthage (658), Champaign Central (657), Rock Island (642), Loyola Academy (641) and Geneseo (640). Joliet Catholic narrowly missed the top 10, taking the 11th spot with 634 wins since 1920, while Morris is 18th with 598 wins since 1900.

All storied programs, to be sure. The above paragraph also is littered with multiple state championships besides total wins. The question is, what constitutes tradition? Is it sheer volume of wins? State championships? Winning percentage?

Playoff appearances? The last two aren’t a factor on the IHSA list, which is too bad for local school Coal City.

The Coalers actually have the area’s highest winning percentage, .653, in their 36-year history.

They have 245 wins against 130 losses, including a state title (1993) and a runner-up finish (2004).

They also have reached the playoffs in 24 of the last 27 seasons.

It’s hard to deny that Coal City has a winning tradition, but they don’t fall on the top 200 on the IHSA’s list because the volume isn’t there. But for the last 25 years or so, they are hard to beat.

The current head coach of the Coalers, Lenny

Onsen, was a member of the first varsity team the school fielded, so he has seen it grow from the start. He was on the coaching staff during the state title run of 1993 and head coach in the runnerup year of 2004. He has seen the building of a tradition from the ground up.

The school’s first varsity team was in 1978, when Onsen was a senior. He coached one year in Dwight, in 1987, before returning to Coal City in 1988 and has been there ever since. He even came back on weekends during college and worked on the chain gang.

“When it comes to tradition, I always think of a town like Morris,” he said. “They have kids that have had brothers, dads, uncles, cousins, grandfathers and even great-grandfathers go through the program. We are just starting to have kids playing for us that had dads that played here. It’s the family, the generations, the help make the tradition.”

Winning certainly helps that too, he added.

“There is nothing like a small-town playoff game, and we’ve been fortunate enough to have quite a few of them,” he said. “We also hold our youth camp on the game field, just to let the young kids know that someday they can run through that tunnel with the fireworks going off. That creates a lot of excitement. We also get

Morris head coach Alan Thorson watches during a seven on seven exercise at Bolingbrook High School on Tuesday, July 8, 2014 above).

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to everyone around here.”

Thorson stresses to his team that it’s the name on the front of the jersey that is important, not the name on the back.

“That’s what makes our program special,” he said. “We know what it means to everybody. I mean, there are people in the reserved section of the bleachers that have been in the same seat for 25 years or more, whether they have kids in the program or not. The football team is a big deal to the community, and we know that.”

Even after players graduate, it’s important to them that the players after them continue what’s been going on, he added.

“We know we had a hiccup last year and missed the playoffs, but I think that will only help us this year,” Thorson said. “A lot of the times, Morris kids are just used to winning because that’s what they do. They went 3-6 last year and realized that it takes a lot of hard work. They just don’t throw their helmet on the field and expect to win. Every team that has made it to state has put that work in. If these kids want to be one of those teams, there’s work to do. And we expect it. In my family, we don’t make many plans over Thanksgiving weekend. We expect to still be playing football that weekend.”

Seneca is next on the area list as far as winning percentage, going 134-120 (.528) over its 26-year history, according to the IHSA. The Fighting Irish won a state title in 1990 and had a run of 11 playoff appearances in 13 years before suffering from an 11-year playoff drought that finally ended last season.

Minooka has never reached a state title game, but has reached the semifinals twice, in 1996 and 2003. The Indians’ winning percentage is .508 (195-189) in 40 years and they have made the playoffs 13 times, but none since 2011. n

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a lot of help from our Touchdown Club that feeds the kids on Wednesdays during the season and holds fundraisers. They are a big part of our tradition, too.”

Morris is next on the area list with a .615 winning percentage in 90 years. The IHSA has the Redskins with a 531-206 record, including state championships in 1980, 1984 and 2005 and runner-up finishes in 1979, 1989, 1994, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2012. Three different head coaches have taken the Redskins to a title game. Dan Darlington presided over the bulk of the success, winning the 1980 and 1984 titles as well as guiding the second-place finishes in 1979, 1989, 1994, 2001 and 2004. George Dergo took over in 2005 and won a state title that year before guiding the 2007 runnerup. Current coach Alan Thorson was in charge of the runner-up team of 2012.

The 32-year-old Thorson had yet to be born when Morris first reached a title game and won a state title and, even though he grew up in Seneca, he knew of the Redskin tradition from a young age.

Now, he’s immersed in it and trying to keep it going.

“You always heard, even in Seneca, about the great program Morris had,” Thorson said. “Even when I got out of college, my first job was at Plainfield South, and I got to see it from the other side. Plainfield South was trying to build a program and we were going up against Morris, one of the top programs in the state. That was 2004, when they were the state runner-up, so we saw a really good team.”

For the team now, the expectations are the same every year.

“We have our main goal as winning a state title,” Thorson said.

“We want Morris to be one of the best programs in the state, year in and year out. We want to do it for the program and the community. We know how important the football program is

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Health

School-required

vaccines can save lives

By Jeanne Millsap | Shaw Media Correspondent

One of the most important things in getting kids ready for the first day of school is making sure their immunizations are up to date.

Many times its in kindergarten when some parents discover their children might have missed a shot or two. Five-year-old McKenzie Alonzo of Morris, won’t enter White Oak Elementary School unprepared, though. Her mother, Jenny, made 6 GO magazine • August 2014

sure of that.

“We finished them a week or two ago,” Alonzo said. “She’s gotten everything she needs.”

McKenzie said she knows the shots are good for her, so she doesn’t mind getting them – even if the process is a bit unpleasant.

“I felt kind of a little bit nervous and a little bit happy about it,” she said. “It kinda hurted a little.”

McKenzie said she’s glad she got them so she can go to kindergarten, where she said she hopes to learn about butterflies, caterpillars, bugs and flowers.

It’s a given to Alonzo that her daughter receive immunizations. She hears rumors occasionally about how immunizations might be dangerous, but she said she’s talked to enough experts to

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All these diseases from the past coming back are scaring me…If I can fight the chance of her getting polio or measles with a shot, I will…

Jenny Alonzo ~ Mother of a 5 year old

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Vaccines like this one shown above are essential in eradicating dangerous diseases (top left).

Phylicia Malone, one of the nurses at the Grundy County Health Department, works on preparing a vaccine for use (top right).

believe vaccines are the way to go.

“All these diseases from the past coming back are scaring me,” she said. “If I can fight the chance of her getting polio or measles with a shot, I will…

I feel that if there’s a side-effect, it won’t be as bad as getting those diseases.”

Channahon School District 17 school nurse Julie Wright said students in her district are required to show proof of required immunizations by the first day of school.

“If they show up at school without it,” she said, “we call their parents to either bring it in or come and get them. They are not let back into school until they turn it in.”

If a parent refuses immunizations for their children on religious or medical grounds, she said, they may be given an exemption. The district has only given 12 exemptions in the past nine years.

Wright said she is a firm believer in immunizations.

“I have been in nursing a long time,” she said, “and I have seen what polio, chicken pox

and pertussis can do to a child.”

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a bacterial infection that was on the decline for years since introduction of the vaccine – but cases of it have risen significantly in the past couple of years due mostly to parents deciding to forgo immunizations for their children, Will County Health Department medical adviser and infectious disease specialist Dr. Gary Trager said.

Morris family physician Dr. David Vermillion said whooping cough is a serious disease. If a baby younger than six months is infected, the mortality is 50 to 60 percent. It also can be serious in older children and adults. He recommends the full spectrum of required vaccinations for his patients and explained the purpose of each one.

DTP, or diphtheria, and tetanus Diphtheria, Vermillion said, is a nasty and deadly diarrhea.

Colorful bandaids brighten up the spot where an injection is given (above).

“Fortunately we don’t see it much here anymore because of the vaccine,” he said.

Most people usually associate tetanus, or lockjaw, with getting wounded with a rusty nail, he said, but it can be contracted from any wound and is frequently fatal.

Polio Up until recently, Vermillion said, polio was thought to be nearly eradicated worldwide because of the use of vaccines. There is currently a huge resurgence, however, arising in the Mideast and Africa due primarily to fears about Western medicine.

MMR, or measles, mumps and rubella Vermillion said the number of measles cases also is on the rise, and it can cause encephalitis with permanent brain damage. A misleading and August 2014 • GO magazine 7

inflammatory British article years ago led to a bit of hysteria, he said, regarding the safety of this vaccine, but “study after study after study” have shown there is no link between this vaccine and such conditions as autism.

Mumps can be a milder disease than measles, Vermillion said, but when adolescent males contract it, it can cause lifelong sterility. Rubella can cause severe birth defects if contracted during pregnancy.

Hepatitis B This virus can cause cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer.

Varicella Some cases can result in temporary or permanent brain damage.

Pneumococcal disease This vaccine prevents various strains of pneumococcal disease, Vermillion said, and meningitis and ear infections.

Hib, or haemophilus influenza type b This is not the flu, despite the “influenza” verbage. Vermillion said it’s a bacterial infection that causes meningitis, severe hearing loss and epiglottitis, which can cause death by suffocation.

Before the vaccine, he used to see cases of meningitis or epiglottitis every week.

“Now, I haven’t seen a case in at least 20 years.”

Meningococcal vaccine Vermillion said this vaccine should be given before entering sixth grade, high school or college. The disease can cause meningitis and sepsis, resulting in permanent disabilities and death.

According to nurse Wright, beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, this will be a required vaccine for sixth-graders. n

Phylicia Malone, a nurse at the Grundy County Health Department, prepares immunizations to be given to a client.

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Community Services

More families could take advantage of free back to school services and supplies

By Kris Stadalsky | Shaw Media Correspondent Each year hundreds of children and teens from low-income families get free school supplies and services through the Grundy County Back to School Fair. But there are many more children in the county who could be taking advantage of the opportunity This year the Back-to-School Fair committee received 300 applicants; five years ago, when it first began, there were 400 applicants, said Karen Nall, United Way of Grundy County Executive Director.

United Way is a co-sponsor of the event with the Community Foundation of Grundy County.

“We know that there are more

than 400 children who come from low-income homes,” Nall said.

“We need to reach more families, we have the resources.”

The fair, which will be Aug. 2 at the Coal City Early Childhood Center on Carbon Hill Road, will be held from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.

Services for pre-registered families include regular and sports physicals courtesy of Morris Hospital, dental check-ups by The Mobile Dentists and vision screening sponsored by the Morris Lions Club.

“All physicians volunteer their time for that day,” Nall said.

“At least two physicians and two other staff members have volunteered

at the fair each year since it began,” said Janet Long, public relations manager for Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers.

“The Back-to-School Fair really is an excellent program for the underserved,” Long said. “It’s a really good match for us. It’s another example of the [community service] things we do.”

Students also will have an opportunity to get a new pair of gym shoes, courtesy of KYKS (Keep Your Kids in Shoes) and a backpack with school supplies donated by We Care of Grundy County.

Depending on the family’s income level, they will receive a voucher to

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Wal-Mart to shop for more supplies and clothing, courtesy of Operation St. Nick.

United Way and the Community Foundation of Grundy County have partnered with Grundy County Transit System and Illinois Central School Bus to make sure transportation is available to all pre-registered children. If not, arrangements will be made, Nall said.

“We want to make sure no child is unprepared [for school] for lack of transportation,” she said.

Even though the application deadline has passed, all families are welcome to come to the expo and see what other services are available throughout the county for their children.

About 40 organizations will be on hand to provide information, such as Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Easter Seals will offer pre-developmental screening to make sure pre-schoolers are ready to learn and provide ideas for what parents can focus on to help them prepare.

“Northern Illinois Food Bank also will be there, giving away a bag filled with healthy snack samples and information for parents on what to buy so kids have healthy snacks when they get home from school,” Nall said.

United Way also held a book drive for gently

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used books; last year about 2,000 books were given away at the expo.

“Anyone can come to the expo and learn about different resources for families with children,” Nall said.

All Grundy County families whose children qualify for a free and reduced lunch program at their school are encouraged to pick up an application once school begins in the fall or get in touch with any of the listed partners so they can pre-register for the next Back to School Fair. Applications are turned into the coordinators during the month of May. “We could certainly do more [physicals],” Long said. “We would love to see more people who qualify come out and take advantage of the services.”

On another note, the Back to School Fair is run strictly by volunteers and the sponsoring organizations are always looking for extra hands to set up and guide families through the process.

Out of respect for the families, only volunteers 18 years of age and older are accepted.

“We highly rely on volunteers to help us,” Nall said. “With 300 plus participants and their families and siblings, it’s pretty crowded.” n

The annual Back to School Fair supplies hundreds of Grundy County students with school supplies, physicals, dental exams and other necessities before they return to school in August (above left).

The United Way of Grundy County holds a book drive every year prior to the Back to School Fair so that students who attended the fair can all leave with books for their reading level (above).

The Back to School Fair offers dental exams to those registered for the event. This year there were 300 applicants for the annual fair (below left).

We Care of Grundy County provides school supplies at the Back to School fair annually.

(Left) Operations Manager Lori Sandgren and Executive Director Denise Gaska have manned the fair in years past to assist qualified families in obtaining items (below right).

Local History

of WOMEN OMEN distinction ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS through August 16, 2014

Commercial Hotel The Commercial Hotel was located on Washington and Fulton Street where Davis and Son’s Funeral Home is today. (photo submitted by Conley Jacobson)

The Women of Distinction Award is given to women who have made a difference in Grundy County and who are representative role models as leaders in their fields and communities. Nominations are being taken now, and the honorees will be chosen by a selection committee from Grundy County.

A welcome reception in October will provide networking opportunities that will precede lunch and the awards ceremony. The awards ceremony will honor women of distinction and provide honorees with an opportunity to share their stories.

To nominate a Woman of Distinction go to morrisdailyherald.com or heraldlife.com, click on the Women of Distinction logo and complete the nomination form by August 16, 2014.

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