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College student Matt Marten (left) of Cary and David Badillo of Chicago wait Tuesday for the inbound Metra train at the Cary station. Snow and ice-packed railroad switches – along with the number of hours railroad employees can work – are causing delays, cancellations and headaches for Metra commuters.

Arctic temps will end and lead to a weekend warm-up

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and STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com The blustery wind chills and arctic temperatures that shut down area schools and businesses this week should end Wednesday and lead to a weekend warm-up.

Wind gusts that caused wind chills to dip to 25 below zero Tuesday afternoon should drop to 10 mph overnight and remain light Wednesday, with temperatures expected in the upper single digits, National Weather Service Meteorologist Charles Mott said.

Temperatures are expected to climb through the rest of the week, reaching the mid-30s on Friday and Saturday. There is also a chance of light rain or light freezing rain or sleet Friday and a possibility of light rain or snow Saturday.

The higher temperatures could lead to flooding though, as icejammed rivers start to melt.

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PAGE A3 n The polar vortex froze travel and left motorists, airline passengers and commuters fighting to stay in motion.

PAGE A3 n The brutal air that has made the Midwest shiver over the past few days spread to the East and the Deep South on Tuesday, shattering records that in some cases had stood for more than a century.

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Metra employees board an inbound train Tuesday to Chicago at the Cary station.

Metra: Commuters dealing with delays should have better luck

By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com Metra commuters dealing with delayed and canceled trains the past two days should have better luck Wednesday morning, according to the rail company.

Metra reinstated its normal schedule for Tuesday evening’s commute on the Northwest Line, although Metra spokesman Michael Gillis didn’t rule out weather-related

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The McHenry City Council unanimously approved raising water rates by the rate of inflation, which was 1.3 percent during the 12-month period that ended in October. That brings the combined rate to $6.60 per 1,000 gallons plus $3 in additional fees, or about $45.90 for a 6,500-gallon bill, according to council documents. For

The Crystal Lake City Council agreed Tuesday to dedicate $1.08 million to a long-planned road improvement project on Route 14, which could start within the year.

The project also includes reconstruction to provide two through lanes with a raised landscape median from Lucas Road to Route 176. For more, see page B1.

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Snow- and ice-packed railroad switches along with federal limits on the number of hours railroad employees can work had caused delays and cancellations early Tuesday.

Four inbound Metra Northwest Line trains were canceled Tuesday morning. Trains that did depart, traveling either way, arrived with delays of at least a half hour and as

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WOODSTOCK – McHenry County Board Chairwoman Tina Hill is taking a leave of absence until further notice, citing poor health.

Hill, R-Woodstock, said in a statement that she has been “struggling with a multitude of health issues in recent weeks,” most recently the need for follow-up inpatient care after double knee replacement surgery. She also wrote that she has been struggling with complications stemming from gastric bypass surgery.

“I wish to thank the community for their many well wishes and my family for their love and support,” Hill Tina Hill County Board said.

Her statement, re- chairwoman ceived by county government late Monday, Breaking was read at Tuesday’s full County Board news to meeting by Vice Chair- you man James Heisler, RCrystal Lake, who will Text the serve in Hill’s capacity keyword until she returns.

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“We just have to hope that she gets herself all better,” Heisler said after the meeting.

Hill, first elected to the County Board in 2002, is serving her first twoyear term as chairwoman. She was elected by the County Board in December 2012 over former Chairman Ken Koehler’s bid for a fifth term.

While the chairman is the head of county government, day-to-day business ultimately falls to County Administrator Peter Austin. Hill said in her statement that Heisler and Austin will “capably serve in my stead, and I will take this time to focus on my health.”

Heisler, first elected in 1992, is the County Board’s longest-serving member. He was elected vice chairman in December 2012, and has held the office in previous terms.

Hill’s term as a County Board member representing District 5 expires in 2016.

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This return no quest for 2nd three-peat In the words of Chicago Bulls basketball great Michael Jordan, “I’m back.”

When I wrote a goodbye column that was published Nov. 27, I truly did not think that a return to this space would be possible.

I had been at the Northwest Herald for more than 23 years, and my departure from the newsroom was a source of great sadness. Part of leaving was giving up my column.

Life sometimes hands us surprises, and we’re left to try to figure out our next move.

So it was when I was transferred from the Northwest Herald. As it turned out, it was just one of the many curveballs that 2013 handed me, but it certainly was one of the biggest.

Mind you, it wasn’t as if I decided to sign a minor league contract with

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And the decision to leave the Northwest Herald wasn’t made out of exhaustion or the result of the death of my father or any number of the reasons that Jordan cited when he left the Bulls and the NBA. The man had his reasons, but in the end, he returned to the game he loved.

And in a twist of circumstances, I find myself back to write this column, something that I have to admit I’m awfully fond of, too.

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So please don’t try to send me any press releases. As much as I would love to help, I’m not in a position to do so.

However, if you have ideas for columns or just want to drop me a line, that is still possible. You’ll note the new email address for doing that at the end of this column.

No doubt when Jordan returned to the Bulls, he was a little rusty.

In fact we know he was, since he was 7 for 28 in shooting in that first game back against the Indiana Pacers, a game the Bulls lost, 103-96, in overtime on March 19, 1995.

Eventually he got back to form and went on to do great things.

I’m no Jordan, in basketball or column writing or anything else for

that matter. But I will admit to feeling a tad rusty, and it could take a week or two to get back into the swing.

So your patience would be very much appreciated.

Jordan’s foray into baseball, playing for the Double-A minor league Birmingham Barons and the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League, took about 21 months.

My absence from this space lasted about six weeks.

So does that mean I beat Michael Jordan at something?

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Deep freeze strands rail, air travelers nationwide

By JASON KEYSER The Associated Press CHICAGO – The Amtrak train slowed to a crawl as it hammered through snowdrifts in an empty stretch of Illinois countryside, delivering thuds and jolts to passengers, until it lurched into a mound big enough to grind its 8,000-horsepower engine to a halt.

About 90 miles short of their Chicago destination, passengers ended up stuck on the train overnight, reading books, watching movies on computers and taking what amusement they could from a conductor who cracked jokes

over the intercom. Food ran low and some tempers boiled over, but staff kept the heat on, entertained children and even escorted small groups of people outside for smoke breaks.

“You hear those horror stories about the cars that stop in the snow and they freeze to death. I thought, ‘Oh God, this is going to happen, we’re going to be in blankets,’ ” said passenger Chris Smith.

They weren’t alone. Across huge swaths of the country, the polar vortex froze travel and left motorists, airline passengers and commuters fighting to stay in motion and, when that failed, fighting to stave off boredom and cold.

Airlines again canceled several thousand flights Tuesday, as the extreme cold slowed everything from baggage-handling to refueling. On the roads, powerful winds pushing snow into desert-like dunes forced authorities to shut major highways, including a 75-mile stretch of Interstate 81 north of Syracuse, N.Y., to the Canadian border.

The snow-bound train stuck near the tiny village of Arlington in north-central Illinois was one of three Amtrak trains carrying a total of 500 passengers that got stuck in the state overnight. Amtrak officials eventually got them to safety, then bused them to

their destinations.

Smith’s train began its journey in warm Los Angeles but rolled into trouble in the frozen Midwest.

“They started to cut through heavier and heavier drifts,” said Smith, 45, a sound designer for films who got on the train at Garden City, Kan. “The passenger on my side was joking, he said, ‘I think we ran over somebody.’ They weren’t huge bumps, but it was enough to jerk the train.”

When the train stopped altogether, around 4 p.m. Monday, a conductor came on the loudspeaker and quipped, “As you can see, there’s a little bit of snow out there.”

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Polar air brings single-digit cold to the East and South

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The Chicago skyline is seen Tuesday behind a large chunk of ice near North Avenue Beach as cold temperatures remain with wind chills nearing minus 30 in Chicago.

Illinois faces day two of deep freeze; temps to rise

By TAMMY WEBBER The Associated Press CHICAGO – Illinoisans faced a second day of school closures and slippery commutes Tuesday, as dangerously cold conditions kept the state in a deep freeze and wind gusts created new snowdrifts and icy patches on roads only now being cleared of last weekend’s snow.

Temperatures fell to 14 below zero in the St. Louis suburb of Cahokia overnight, but no corner of the state was spared, with thermometers hitting minus 12 in the Chicago area, minus 11 in Springfield and minus 1 in Carbondale, National Weather Service meteorologist Ben Deubelbeiss said. He said temperatures were expected to climb into single digits during the day, but that the wind could make it feel much colder.

Emergency officials urged residents to keep taking precautions – and stay home, if possible – until the weather warmed and the roads were clear.

“Road conditions are improving, but the majority

of roads still are snow- and ice-covered; they’re still very slick and dangerous,” Illinois Department of Transportation spokeswoman Paris Ervin said. She said emergency workers were getting a lot of calls to assist motorists who ended up in ditches or got into fender-benders: “Motorists are just driving too fast for dangerous conditions.”

Cold temperatures and winds prevented salt from melting snow and ice from many roadways, stranding 221 travelers in Red Cross shelters throughout central Illinois overnight, spokeswoman Erin Miller said. She said some “were making the decision to go ahead and go” Tuesday, but shelters will remain open as long as they’re needed.

Chicago’s largest homeless shelter, the 155,000-squarefoot Pacific Garden mission, was overflowing and “placing people anywhere we can, using classrooms, offices, auditorium, moving seats to make available floor space,” Rev. Phil Kwiatkowski told the Chicago Sun-Times.

At least seven deaths have been blamed on the extreme weather, including a 64-year-

old Christian County man whose body was found in snow about a half mile from his home Monday and an 80-year-old Blue Island man who suffered hypothermia.

Dozens of commuter trains in Chicago were canceled Tuesday after equipment malfunctioned because of the extreme cold. Meanwhile, hundreds of Amtrak passengers who spent the night on board three trains stranded in northern Illinois arrived in Chicago.

Two trains were stuck near Mendota, about 80 miles west of Chicago, before passengers were loaded onto buses. A third train with 217 passengers spent the night at a BNSF rail yard in Galesburg; they were taking buses for the final 150 miles to Chicago.

The city’s two airports canceled almost 1,200 flights on Tuesday because of the cold, though temperatures were expected to reach 5 above by the evening.

The comparatively balmy temperatures Tuesday meant good news for at least one Chicago resident: Anana, the Lincoln Park Zoo’s polar bear, got to go outside.

ATLANTA – Fountains froze over, a 200-foot Ferris wheel in Atlanta shut down, and Southerners had to dig out winter coats, hats and gloves they almost never have to use.

The brutal polar air that has made the Midwest shiver over the past few days spread to the East and the Deep South on Tuesday, shattering records that in some cases had stood for more than a century.

The mercury plunged into the single digits and teens from Boston and New York to Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville and Little Rock – places where many people don’t know the first thing about extreme cold.

“I didn’t think the South got this cold,” said Marty Williams, a homeless man, originally from Chicago, who took shelter at a church in Atlanta, where it hit a record

New York City plummeted to 4 degrees; the old record for the date was 6, set in 1896.

“It’s brutal out here,” said Spunkiy Jon, who took a break from her sanitation job in New York to smoke a cigarette in the cab of a garbage truck. “Your fingers freeze off after three minutes, your cheeks feel as if you’re going to get windburn, and you work as quick as you can.”

Farther south, Birmingham, Ala., dipped to a low of 7, four degrees colder than the old mark, set in 1970.

Huntsville, Ala., dropped to 5, Nashville, Tenn., got down to 2, and Little Rock, Ark., fell to 9. Charlotte, N.C., reached 6 degrees, breaking the 12-degree record that had stood since 1884.

The worst should be over in the next day or two, when the polar vortex is expected to straighten itself out.

Warmer weather – that is, near or above freezing – is in the forecast for much of the stricken part of the country.

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low of 6 degrees. “That was the main reason for me to come down from up North, from the cold, to get away from all that stuff.”

The morning weather map for the eastern half of the U.S. looked like an algebra worksheet: lots of small, negative numbers. In fact, the Midwest and the East were colder than much of Antarctica.

In a phenomenon that forecasters said is not all that unusual, all 50 states saw freezing temperatures at some point Tuesday. That included Hawaii, where it was 18 degrees atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano.

The big chill started in the Midwest over the weekend, caused by a kink in the “polar vortex,” the strong winds that circulate around the North Pole. By Tuesday, the icy air covered about half the country, and records were shattered like icicles up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

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Bill would nix pay for nonwork accidents The ASSOCIATED PRESS SPRINGFIELD – Lawmakers will consider legislation this spring that aims to clarify who is responsible for injuries sustained in a traffic accident on the way to work.

Lee Enterprises Newspapers in Illinois reported Tuesday that Sen. Kyle McCarter, Rep., Lebanon, has introduced a measure that exempts an employer from paying for injuries if the

worker is not traveling specifically for work purposes.

“It makes practical sense,” McCarter said. “If the employer is not responsible for an accident, why would you make him pay?”

McCarter’s legislation stipulates that an injured worker could receive compensation only “if the injury arises out of and in the course of employment while he or she is actively engaged in the duties of employment.”

“It makes practical sense. If the employer is not responsible for an accident, why would you make him pay?”

Sen. Kyle McCarter, Rep., Lebanon The initiative mirrors a recent Supreme Court decision. In that case, a Springfield pipefitter, Gerald Daugherty, took a temporary job at a power plant in Rock Island County, near

the Quad Cities. Instead of commuting 200 miles from his home, Daugherty rented a motel room.

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Dealer: Gun sales ‘a business opportunity’

By CARLA K. JOHNSON The Associated Press CHICAGO – Firearms dealers near Chicago contemplated new business opportunities Tuesday following a federal judge’s ruling declaring the city’s ban on gun sales unconstitutional.

A day after U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang’s ruling, it wasn’t yet clear whether Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel would continue to defend the ban with an appeal or switch to less-restrictive tactics such as limiting where gun shops locate.

Illinois in July became the nation’s last state to approve concealed carry of firearms and established the toughest training regimen. Gun shop owners said Tuesday city firearms sales, combined with the new concealed carry law, would bring down crime rates in Chicago as more law-abiding citizens train to carry guns.

“It’s a business opportunity in a great city,” Barry Soskin, who owns a suburban gun shop named Article II Range, said of the judge’s ruling. While he’s not sure if he would open a gun store in Chi-

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Would-be panelists began filling out questionnaires Tuesday, and they’ll be questioned one by one later. Opening

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Brian Church, 22, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Jared Chase, 29, of Keene, N.H.; and Brent Vincent Betterly, 25, of Oakland Park, Fla., have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit terrorism, arson and other charges. All three defendants have been held in jail since their arrests just before the 2012 alliance gathering.

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Jobless bill clears hurdle in bipartisan surprise How they voted

By DAVID ESPO The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Election-year legislation to revive expired federal jobless benefits unexpectedly cleared an early hurdle on Tuesday, offering a hint of bipartisan compromise in Congress and a glimmer of hope to the long-term jobless and their families.

“Let’s get this done,” implored President Barack Obama at the White House, shortly after six Republicans sided with Democrats on a 6037 Senate vote to keep the measure alive.

Even so, the fate of the three-month reinstatement remained uncertain in an atmosphere of intense partisanship at the dawn of an election year.

The two parties have made it clear they intend to battle for the support of millions of

The Senate passed, 60-37, a motion to limit debate and consider legislation that would extend certain unemployment benefits. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., voted in favor of the motion. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., opposed the motion. voters who have suffered economically through the worst recession in decades and the slow, plodding recovery that has followed.

The often-cited phrase is “income disparity” – the gap between the rich and the economically squeezed. Democrats are expected to follow the effort on jobless benefits with another pocketbook measure, a proposal to increase the federal minimum wage.

The maneuvering Tuesday

was intense. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell proposed paying for the renewal of federal jobless benefits by delaying a requirement for millions of Americans to purchase coverage under “Obamacare” – an attempt to force Democrats to take a public stand on that highly controversial issue.

Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who generally seeks to shield his rank and file from politically painful votes, deemed McConnell’s proposal a nonstarter.

At the same time, Reid and White House officials suggested they would be receptive to cuts elsewhere in the federal budget to offset the cost of a yearlong renewal of the program, if Republicans would first agree to turn the benefits back on for three months without preconditions.

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But the two sides remain at odds over funding to implement so-called Obamacare and a 2010 overhaul of financial regulations, and they’re still sorting through more than 130 policy items known as “riders” in Washington-speak, many of which are backed by conservatives seeking to derail Obama administration environmental and labor regulations.

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All were wrongly receiving thousands of dollars in federal disability benefits, prosecutors said Tuesday in announcing a sweeping fraud case involving scores of retired officers, firefighters and jail guards.

The retirees faked psychiatric problems, authorities said, and many falsely claimed their conditions arose after the Sept.

STARKE, Fla. – A Florida inmate was executed Tuesday for fatally stabbing a prison guard with a sharpened spoon while on death row for abducting and killing a Miami couple.

Askari Abdullah Muhammad, previously known as Thomas Knight, was pronounced dead at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday after a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, the governor’s office said. The execution took place in the same prison where Muhammad killed corrections officer Richard Burke in 1980.

Muhammad, 62, was initially condemned to die for the 1974 abduction and killings of Sydney and Lillian Gans of Miami. Tuesday’s execution was specifically for Burke’s killing.

Long shots: Galaxies from 13.2 billion years ago WASHINGTON – The Hubble Space Telescope has peered back to a chaotic time 13.2 billion years ago when never-before-seen galaxies were tiny, bright blue and full of stars bursting to life all over the place. Thanks to some complex physics tricks, NASA’s aging telescope is just starting to see the universe at its infancy in living color and detail.

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Technology? Some justices want to keep distance

By MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON – At the Supreme Court, technology can be regarded as a necessary evil, and sometimes not even necessary.

When the justices have something to say to each other in writing, they never do it by email. Their courthouse didn’t even have a photocopying machine until 1969, a few years after “Xerox” had become a verb.

So as the legal fight over the NSA’s high-tech collection of telephone records moves through the court sys-

tem, possibly en route to the Supreme Court, some justices already are on record as saying they should be wary about taking on major questions of technology and privacy.

As Justice Elena Kagan understated last summer, “The justices are not necessarily the most technologically sophisticated people.”

The wariness shows up in rulings, too. When the court in 2010 upheld a police department’s warrantless search of an officer’s personal, sometimes sexually explicit messages on a government-owned pager, Justice Anthony Kennedy suggested caution. He

wrote, “The judiciary risks error by elaborating too fully on the Fourth Amendment implications of emerging technology before its role in society has become clear.”

Clear or not, the implications of technology are increasingly relevant. Constitutional protection against the prying eyes of government, without a judge’s prior approval, is embodied in the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures.

Last month, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon of Washington ruled that the NSA’s phone-records collection

program probably fails that Fourth Amendment test and is unconstitutional. Leon called the program “Orwellian” in scale.

The Obama administration has defended the program as an important tool in the fight against terrorism and is expected to appeal the ruling. Complicating matters, 11 days after Leon’s ruling, U.S. District Judge William Pauley III of New York declared the NSA program legal in dismissing a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. In addition, legislation in Congress and possible administration changes

could alter NSA surveillance and affect the court cases.

Still, many people expect the Supreme Court will have the final word on the program, especially if other appellate judges agree with Leon.

Among those who think the Supreme Court will weigh in is Justice Antonin Scalia, who addressed the topic in July in a question-and-answer session with a technology group.

He didn’t sound happy about the prospect of such a ruling. Scalia said the elected branches of government are better situated to balance security needs and privacy pro-

tections.

But he said that the Supreme Court took that power for itself in 1960s-era expansions of privacy rights, including prohibitions on wiretapping without a judge’s approval.

“The consequence of that is that whether the NSA can do the stuff it’s been doing ... which used to be a question for the people ... will now be resolved by the branch of government that knows the least about the issues in question, the branch that knows the least about the extent of the threat against which the wiretapping is directed,” he said.

Students expected to War policies tested from Mideast, Afghanistan return to classroom The ASSOCIATED PRESS

• WARM-UP Continued from page A1 “As this week goes on, the temperatures are going to warm so it’s possible the ice will break up,” Mott said.

“Because of that, certain areas could flood depending on how on the ice comes out of the river.”

The return of single-digit temperatures on Wednesday means area students should return to school from their extended winter break.

Woodstock District 200 and Crystal Lake District 47 posted notices on their websites saying school will be back in session Wednesday. Prairie Grove District 46 said a return to school looks “very promising.”

Schools, businesses, libraries and park programs were closed or canceled Monday and Tuesday, as frigid temperatures combined with dangerously low wind chills hit the area – the coldest in nearly two decades.

Drifting snow and icy roads caused several accidents, many of them involving vehicles slidding into ditches, according to various dispatch centers. Metra also experienced delays, including for both inbound and outbound trains on the Northwest line.

While the visibility problems caused by drifting snow may dissipate as the winds die down Wednesday, below-freezing temperatures could keep roads slick.

Independent truck driver Bob Geisman for R.E. Garrison Trucking of Cullman, Ala., has spent 33 years driving across the country. He pretreated and winterized his truck in Tennessee last week before making his way north.

He recommends that drivers dealing with snow and ice “accelerate slow, turn slow and change lanes slow to avoid any surprises.”

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is confronted with a recent burst of strength by al-Qaida that is chipping away at the remains of Mideast stability, testing his hands-off approach to conflicts in Iraq and Syria at the same time he pushes to keep thousands of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Al-Qaida-backed fighters have fought hard against other rebel groups in Syria, in a sideshow to the battle to unseat President Bashar Assad.

Across the border in Iraq, they led a surprisingly strong campaign to take two of the cities that U.S. forces suffered heavy losses to protect.

This invigorated front highlights the tension between two of Obama’s top foreign policy tenets: to end American involvement in Mideast wars and to eradicate insurgent extremists – specifically al-Qaida. It also

raises questions about the future U.S. role in the region if militants overtake American gains made during more than a decade of war.

In Afghanistan, Obama already has decided to continue the fight against extremists, as long as Afghan President Hamid Karzai signs off on a joint security agreement.

Obama seeks to leave as many as 10,000 troops there beyond December, extending what already has become the longest U.S. war. But officials said he would be willing to withdraw completely at the end of this year if the security agreement cannot be finalized.

That would mirror the U.S. exit from Iraq, the other unpopular war Obama inherited. A spike in sectarian violence followed the U.S. withdrawal at the end of 2011, and now followed by the recent, alarming takeover of Ramadi and Fallujah by an al-Qaida affiliate known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

• Photo Editor H. Rick Bamman contributed to this report.

Marina Ottaway, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, said the extremists taking hold in Iraq are a spillover from the conflict in neighboring Syria and have been bolstered by Obama’s reluctance to arm the more moderate rebels fighting Assad.

“There is no doubt that the U.S. policy helped create a vacuum in which the only effective forces were the radical forces,” Ottaway said Tuesday.

Syria’s bloody civil war had not yet begun when the U.S. was making plans to withdraw from Iraq.

But White House officials contend that keeping American troops in Iraq would have done little to stop the current violence.

“There was sectarian conflict, violent sectarian conflict, in Iraq when there were 150,000 U.S. troops on the ground there,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

“So the idea that this would not be happening if there were 10,000 troops in Iraq I think bears scrutiny.”

Still, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, a former top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said al-Qaida and other insurgents are seeking to take advantage of sectarian tensions across much of the Mideast.

“This is not just about Iraq,” Odierno told reporters Tuesday. “It’s something that we have to be cognizant of as we look across the Middle East: What’s going on in Syria, what’s going on in Lebanon, what’s going on inside of Iraq.”

Iraq now seeks more U.S. weapons, aircraft and intelligence assistance to help battle al-Qaida. Iraqi Ambassador Lukman Faily said in an interview that while Baghdad does not want U.S. troops to return, perhaps Kabul should not reject plans for Americans to stay in Afghanistan.

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Delays persisted but shortened as morning turned to afternoon.

The cold weather combined with ice and drifting snow during the polar vortex impacted railroad switches, the points where trains are guided from one set of tracks to another. Metra has heaters at the switches, but they struggle during the severe cold, Gillis said.

In addition, trains traveling through cleared switch-

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Under federal regulations, Metra had to ration its crew output after a long day Monday, Gillis said.

After widespread delays and cancellations Tuesday morning, Metra had only one line – the Burlington Northern Sante Fe line to Aurora – operating on a limited schedule Tuesday evening.

All schedules across the Chicago area were expected to go back to normal Wednesday, Gillis said.

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• “This case will bankrupt both of us.” This is a possibility. You might end up liquidating your assets or borrowing against them and going into debt on account of a bitterly fought divorce. It has been said, and it is true, that a bad settlement is better than a good trial.

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1st batch of chemicals taken out of Syria The ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT – The first batch of the most dangerous chemicals in Syria’s arsenal was loaded onto a Danish ship and taken out of the country Tuesday under tight security, an important milestone in the international operation to rid President Bashar Assad of the weapons by midyear.

The operation at Syria’s port of Latakia took place against the backdrop of a widening civil war and escalating infighting between a chaotic mix of Syrian rebel brigades and an al-Qaida linked militant group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

With the rebel-on-rebel fighting now in its fifth day, the shadowy leader of another faction affiliated with al-Qaida pleaded with his comrades to stop the spreading clashes, warning it threatened to upend gains made against Syrian government forces.

The chemicals were supposed to have been removed from Syria by Dec. 31, but poor security, bad weather and other factors meant the deadline was missed by a week.

The raw materials – precursor chemicals for poison gas – were moved to the government-held port of Latakia from two sites in Syria and loaded onto the Danish cargo ship, which then set sail, said Sigrid Kaag, the Dutch diplomat coordinating the joint mission by the U.N. and Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

“The vessel has now left the port of Latakia for international waters,” Kaag said in a statement. “It will remain at sea awaiting the arrival of additional priority chemical materials at the port.”

Security for the highly toxic cargo is being provided by warships from Russia, China, Denmark and Norway.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the progress.

The chemicals removed Tuesday will eventually be transferred to a U.S. ship, the Cape Ray, which has been fitted with special machinery.

Once aboard the American vessel, the materials will be placed in a titanium reactor that uses heated water and other chemicals to render the weapons inert.

The confirmed use of chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on Aug. 21, killed hundreds of people, according to the U.S. government. The U.S. and Russia – a staunch ally of Syria – later reached agreement to eliminate the Assad regime’s chemical weapons by mid-2014 in a deal that averted U.S. military strikes against Syria.

The infighting between rebel groups is concentrated in parts of northern Syria, spreading Monday to the northeastern city of Raqqa, a bastion of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

The group has alienated its opposition rivals, including the extremist Jabhat al-Nusra, for its extremely brutal tactics, including the kidnapping and killing of opponents, journalists and anti-government activists who criticize its practices.

Moderate forces among the opposition accuse the group of tarnishing the Syrian revolution and serving Assad’s interests.

“The [Assad] regime will revive itself after it was close to disappearing,” said Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the head of Jabhat al-Nusra. His comments in a rare audio recording posted on a militant website underscored the seriousness of the clashes.

The rising influence of al-Qaida extremists among rebel ranks has dampened U.S. support for the rebellion, and rebel infighting is further undermining the fight against Assad. The war, now in its third year, has killed more than 130,000 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Right, which keeps track of the fighting.

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Iraqi gov’t: Airstrike kills 25 militants

By QASSIM ABDUL–ZAHRA The Associated Press BAGHDAD – A government airstrike killed 25 alQaida-linked militants in a besieged province west of Baghdad amid fierce clashes Tuesday between Iraqi special forces and insurgents battling for control of the key cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, Iraqi officials said.

The al-Qaida gains in the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar – once bloody battlegrounds for U.S. troops – pose the most serious challenge to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite-led government since the departure of American forces in late 2011.

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Iraqi military spokesman Gen. Mohammed al-Askari said the Iraqi air force struck an operations center for the militants on the outskirts of Ramadi, the provincial capital, killing 25 fighters who were holed up inside.

He didn’t give more details about how the death toll was confirmed but cited intelligence reports. It was not possible to independently verify the military’s claim.

The airstrike came after clashes erupted about 12 miles

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There was no immediate word on casualties for those clashes.

Al-Maliki’s government has vowed to rout the militants, calling on Fallujah residents Monday to expel the al-Qaida fighters to avoid an all-out battle.

Iraq’s Cabinet met Tuesday to discuss the situation in Anbar and called for the mobilization of all efforts “to support the army and security services in expelling terrorists,” according to a government statement.

Military operations would continue, the Cabinet statement added, until Iraq is “cleansed” of terrorism.

In Washington, the Army general who led U.S. forces through some of the deadliest years of the Iraq war said he opposes sending U.S. combat troops in response to the recent gains by militants in Anbar province. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said he was disappointed by the Iraqi government’s loss of control of strategic territory, but the U.S. approach now should be to remain engaged diplomatically to help Iraqi government leaders get their political system back on track.

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A medical official in Fallujah said two civilians were killed and five were wounded, including two children, when they were caught Tuesday in an exchange of fire between militants and Iraqi army troops south of the city. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to release information.

The immediate trigger for the unrest was the Dec. 28 arrest of a Sunni lawmaker sought on terrorism charges, followed by the government’s dismantling of a months-old anti-government Sunni protest camp in Ramadi.

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Dan McCaleb Group Editor

Jason Schaumburg Editor

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 • Page A9 • Northwest Herald • NWHerald.com 8OUR VIEW

8SKETCH VIEW

Useful tool in domestic violence fight An order of protection on a sheet of paper can be quite worthless when you think about it.

Just ask the family of Diane Kephart, who obtained an order of protection against her ex-boyfriend after he pinned her down, held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her.

A month later, with an order of protection against him, he killed Kephart.

Or ask the Crystal Lake For the record woman who was recently held We urge lawmakers to hostage in her quickly move through the mother’s home by process and vote Wheeler’s bill an ex-boyfriend into law. Lives are at stake. despite having an order of protection out against him. Thankfully, she and her mother escaped without harm. Police shot and killed the exboyfriend after he shot at officers.

Ask the countless others in our communities who have order of protections taken out against an abusive partner only to see them ignored, leaving them fearful for their well-being.

Domestic violence is a serious crime. According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 24 people per minute, on average, are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States.

Nearly, 15 percent of women have been injured as a result of intimate partner violence that included rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

Too often, such behavior results in death.

More needs to be done to protect people from domestic violence. That’s why we support legislation introduced by state Rep. Barbara Wheeler, R-Crystal Lake, that would change the criminal code to provide that judges, as a condition of bond, can place GPS monitoring devices on defendants charged with a slew of violent crimes.

The option to use GPS monitoring as a condition of bond is already available to judges, but it is rarely used, said criminal defense attorney Ed Donahue, whom Wheeler consulted to help write the bill (HB3744).

“The law makes it incumbent upon the judge determining bond to make a finding whether it’s appropriate [to order GPS monitoring],” Donahue said.

Wheeler’s bill has added a number of co-sponsors, including Rep. Jack Franks, DMarengo. It is sitting in the House’s Rules Committee, which is expected to hear testimony on it this month or in February.

We urge lawmakers to quickly move through the process and vote Wheeler’s bill into law. Lives are at stake.

8ANOTHER VIEW

Using less electricity As of Jan. 1, production of 40- and 60-watt light bulbs was banned as part of efficiency standards signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2007.

While some will miss the old incandescent bulbs, the move is part of a successful effort to make the nation more energy efficient.

The government phased out 75- and 100-watt incandescent bulbs over the past few years.

But the latest ban will have a bigger impact on consumers because 40- and 60-watt bulbs are the most popular on the market.

When the first practical incandescent bulb was devised by Thomas A. Edison, it was a scientific and engineering marvel, cutting edge technology for its time. But by the time its production came to an end last Wednesday, it had become obsolete, an energy hog compared to compact fluorescent bulbs – CFLs – and light emitting diode bulbs – LEDs. Both of those more efficient bulbs are initially more expensive than an incandescent bulb.

But with much longer lifespans, sometimes lasting years, the new bulbs save considerable money over the long run.

The new light bulbs are part of a growing array of more energy efficient products that have allowed Americans to significantly cut the amount of electricity consumed in homes and businesses. The Energy Information Administration recently announced that in 2013, the average amount of electricity consumed in U.S. homes fell to levels last seen more than a decade ago.

Big appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioners also have become more efficient, thanks in large part to federal energy standards that grow stricter every few years as technology evolves. Even new TVs are far more efficient than the old cathode ray tube sets.

Some might complain about a “nanny government” that sets insulation standards and takes away our incandescent bulbs. But increasing efficiency remains the most effective way to reduce energy usage.

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8IT’S YOUR WRITE Medicare for all To the Editor: Thank you for your recent series about poverty in McHenry County.

As your reporters ably demonstrated, financial instability leads to overwhelming challenges in securing housing, food and transportation. Many among us suffer in silence.

Health care for the poor is another dimension warranting comment. Fortunately, the new Affordable Care Act will help some of our neighbors in need. Under the ACA, community clinics are expanding. Medicaid eligibility has been broadened.

Yet, there also are problems.

Those near the poverty line who do not qualify for financial aid now are obligated to take out healthinsurance policies. In order to hold costs down, many people will select bare-bones plans.

For some, this will be completely counterproductive. They will pay

premiums, yet they will receive no benefits because of high deductibles. Worse, this added financial demand will come on top of the everyday struggle to put food on the table and shoes on the kids.

In short, health care for some of the working poor might become a hollow promise. Under the ACA, it exists in concept. But from a practical standpoint, it may not exist in fact.

There’s a better approach. The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act (H.R. 676) now is before the Congress.

Although unlikely to pass soon, it points the way.

We hope that someday, every American – poor and rich alike – will have comprehensive healthcare coverage. Let us embrace the best of the ACA, and carry it forward to a Medicare for all program.

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Sin taxes

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To the Editor: I’m confused.

Throughout history drinking, drugs and gambling were bad for you.

The state has figured out a way to tax these activities, and I guess they are OK. What is next? Prostitution?

To the Editor: I wish to commend the Family Alliance transport crew for the care they take for their clients.

I see them pick up my elderly neighbor several times a week.

They are always patient and helpful, even shoveling a path through the snow. They are among the many, often unheralded, good guys.

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Compromise ideology when reality dictates French President Francois Hollande has been confronted by the glaring light of reality – sort of.

On New Year’s Day, as his massive tax increases began taking effect, Hollande, a member of the Socialist Party, admitted that taxes in France have become “too heavy, much too heavy.”

Indeed, as of Jan. 1, French households now must contend with a new value-added tax on many goods and services and, writes International Business Times, “French companies will be required to pay 50 percent tax on all employee salaries in excess of 1 million euros. ... The effective tax rate will amount to 75 percent.”

Unemployment, which Hollande promised to reduce, has risen to nearly 11 percent. Some companies and wealthy people have left France in search of business-friendly environments.

More surely will follow unless Hollande’s rhetoric is followed by actual tax reductions.

Hollande’s head-on collision with reality is reminiscent of President Bill Clinton’s remarks in 1995 at a campaign fundraiser in Houston: “Probably there are people in this room still mad

VIEWS Cal Thomas at me ... because you think I raised your taxes too much. It might surprise you to know that I think I raised them too much, too.”

Neither Hollande (so far), nor Clinton, followed up on their remarks by cutting taxes. Like many other politicians, these men tried to have it both ways.

The next political leader who will be forced to adjust his leftwing ideology to reality is the new mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, who has proposed a tax on the wealthy to fund universal pre-K education. He, too, thinks raising taxes on the successful is the way to prosperity for the poor. He should pick up the phone and ask Hollande how that is working for him, as Hollande’s approval ratings are sinking faster than President Barack Obama’s. Even better, he might recall Calvin Coolidge’s remark: “Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”

Penalize success and prosperity, and you get less of it.

8THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Subsidize bad decision-making by giving taxpayer money to the poor, and you may well undermine initiative and personal responsibility and create new generations of poor people.

The left in America and France have gained political power by appealing to voters’ emotions, but when they achieve power, their ideology harms the very people who voted for them when these well-intentioned programs prove unworkable.

This presents conservatives and Republicans with an opportunity, as well as risks.

Liberals are allowed to be as ideological as they wish, and the major media and too many among the unfocused public will mostly support them. The left is never told they must compromise their ideology when reality proves them wrong, or “work with Republicans and conservatives” to achieve common goals.

That is the trap liberals set for conservatives, who are repeatedly told they must compromise their principles if they hope to win elections, but whose squishy politics then become as unappealing as cold oatmeal.

Here is the path Republicans and conservatives must take if they not only want to win,

but bring positive change to the country. Instead of debating feelings and ideology with the left (territory on which they almost always lose – recall “compassionate conservative”), conservatives should hold their opponents accountable. Are their policies producing the results they claim? Is the record debt good for the country? Are agencies performing as their charter demands, and should their budgets be reduced or the agency eliminated if it can’t show results? Every government agency and program should be regularly required to justify, not only its budget, but its very existence.

Americans typically hate waste. It is why as children most of us were told to clean our plates because somewhere in the world there were hungry people.

Requiring the left to prove their programs and policies are producing outcomes at reasonable cost would shift the debate from ideology and good intentions to reality. This is where conservatives have a distinct advantage if they will embrace it.

• Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribune. com.

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8COMMUNITY NEWS

MAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN SEX CASE WOODSTOCK – A Lake in the Hills man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to more than two dozen charges alleging that he had sexual contact with children.

Otto L. Bobadilla, 47, is awaiting trial on 28 counts of various sex crimes. Some of the alleged incidents date back to 2008.

For the more serious charges – predatory criminal sexual assault of a child – he faces a possible sentence of six to 30 years in prison.

The alleged victims are related to Bobadilla, authorities have said.

Bobadilla first was charged Nov. 19. Additional charges were added and he later was served with a warrant while in McHenry County Jail.

He remains in custody on $400,000 bond.

More road salt on the way County Board OKs purchase with supplies ‘very low’ early into winter

By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A very snowy winter so far and potentially yet another freezing rain event this weekend prompted a short-notice Tuesday vote to allow the McHenry County Division of Transportation to buy more road salt.

The County Board voted, 19-0, to allow the DOT to spend up to $300,000 to purchase more salt. The money is already set aside in the DOT’s budget,

“We’ve pretty much lived at the DOT over the past month, and winter is just beginning.”

Mark DeVries McHenry County maintenance superintendent but a vote was required to authorize spending it.

Transportation workers have been on the job clearing and salting roads

every day since Dec. 8 except for one Saturday, Maintenance Superintendent Mark DeVries told County Board members. In that time, they have responded to at least 41 snow events, including three for freezing rain.

As a result, he said, the county’s supply has gotten “very, very low.”

The county DOT maintains and is responsible for plowing about 550 lane miles.

“We’ve pretty much lived at the DOT over the past month, and winter

is just beginning,” DeVries said.

The most recent significant snow event dumped between 3 and 6 inches on the McHenry County area last weekend, which was followed Monday and Tuesday by a record-setting cold snap that plunged temperatures Monday evening to close to 50 degrees below zero with the wind chill.

The coldest temperature observed in the area, not including the wind chill, was minus 20 degrees in

See SALT, page B2

Cold weather trucking

– Chelsea McDougall

TRAFFIC STOP LEADS TO DRUG CHARGES RICHMOND – A Michigan man faces multiple drug charges after Richmond police pulled him over Sunday for failure to signal and found marijuana and numerous prescription pills inside his car.

Kevin D. Paquette, 41, 36343 County Road 358, Paw Paw, Mich., was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, controlled substance possession, marijuana possession, drug paraphernalia possession and improper turn signal, according to a Richmond police news release.

In total, Richmond police recovered 40 methadone pills, 10 grams of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and $450 from Paquette’s car, police said.

Paquette is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning, according to the McHenry County Circuit Court Clerk’s office.

– Stephen Di Benedetto

8LOCAL BEST BET

PARK DISTRICT TO HOST HEALTH EXPO Crystal Lake Park District will host the Health, Fitness and Nutrition Expo from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at Park Place, 406 W. Woodstock St., Crystal Lake.

Businesses and organizations will offer information, consultations, discounts and raffle prizes. Admission is free.

For information, call Lauren Thibodeau at 815-477-5871.

Photos by H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com

ABOVE: Independent trucker and Arizona resident Bob Geisman fills out his log book Tuesday after making a fuel stop at The TA Travel Center in Hampshire during his trip through Chicago to Alabama. Geisman has spent 33 years driving the highways across the country. He pretreated and winterized his truck in Tennessee last week before coming north. Geisman’s cold weather tips include, “When starting the vehicle in the cold, do not rev the engine. The fluids have the consistency of molasses and the liquids need some time to warm up and circulate though the engine to lubricate the parts.”

8LOCAL DEATHS

LEFT: Geisman discusses winter driving techniques while making a stop Tuesday at the TA Travel Center in Hampshire.

He recommends while driving in snow and ice, “Accelerate slow, turn slow and change lanes slow to avoid any surprises,” he said.

Caroline A. Annen 72 Dorothy K. Beljaeff 80, McHenry Arline G. Crawford 89, Crystal Lake Susan T. English 65, McHenry Marie M. Lepinski 80 Ray A. Moore 85, McHenry John O. Orlowski 63, Crystal Lake Walter A. Raymond 64, Belvidere Robert Edward Rhead 70, Woodstock Margaret M. Woellert 79, Williams Bay, Wis. Betsy J. Wresch 77 OBITUARIES on page B5

Crystal Lake OKs $1M Water rates go for Route 14 upgrades up in McHenry

By EMILY K. COLEMAN

By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The Crystal Lake City Council agreed Tuesday to dedicate $1.08 million to a long-planned road improvement project on Route 14, which could start within the year.

The city’s financial support was the last agreement needed to trigger a joint project between Crystal Lake, the Illinois Department of Transportation and McHenry County College that will widen and resurface the road between Route 176 and Crystal Lake Avenue.

The project also includes reconstruction to provide two

“It’s kind of crazy how long this has been on the books.”

Aaron Shepley Crystal Lake mayor through lanes with a raised landscape median from Lucas Road to Route 176. McHenry County College will receive a main entrance that will be accessible off a new lighted intersection at Lucas Road and Route 14.

Under the project agreement, the city will be responsible for traffic signal modernization at the intersections of Route 14 and

Woodstock Street and Route 14 and Crystal Lake Avenue; installation of illuminated street name signs at the same intersections and Route 14 and 176; installation of emergency vehicle pre-emption systems; and relocation of underground utilities.

Funding for the utility relocation projects will come from the public works budget while motor fuel tax dollars will pay for the rest of the improvements. Payments would not start until 2015.

Mayor Aaron Shepley said he hopes to see the project sooner rather than later as the state still needs to get

See ROUTE 14, page B2

ecoleman@shawmedia.com McHENRY – Water rates in McHenry will creep up again this year.

The McHenry City Council unanimously approved raising water rates by the rate of inflation, which was 1.3 percent during the 12-month period that ended in October.

That brings the combined rate to $6.60 a 1,000 gallons plus $3 in additional fees, or about $45.90 for a 6,500-gallon bill, according to council documents. Last year, the same bill would have totaled $45.38 a month.

The rate increase goes into effect Feb. 1.

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Despite the increase, McHenry still falls on the lower end of area water rates, which ranged last year from $42.74 for using 6,500 gallons a month in Huntley to $68.52 for the same water usage in Fox River Grove.

Except for a three-year

See WATER, page B3

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MCHENRY COUNTY: MENTAL HEALTH BOARD

Applicants sought for vacancy to a consensus on a candidate to fill it. The term expires on Jan. 1, 2018.

The nine-member Mental Health Board primarily is tasked with maintaining a special property tax levy, which is disbursed to local social service agencies that work with the mentally and developmentally disabled.

Members attend one or two monthly meetings, usually in the evening, and each serve on at least one committee.

Applications will be accepted until 2 p.m. Jan. 31.

They can be downloaded from the county’s website at www. co.mchenry.il.us, or picked up at the County Board office, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock.

Mental Health Board members cannot be an employee of the Illinois Department of Human Services or a board member or employee of any agency under contract to the board.

A list of these agencies can be found in the board’s 2012 annual report on the board’s website at www.mc708.org.

HUNTLEY – The Huntley Area Public Library will be closed again Wednesday after the frigid weather burst the building’s pipes.

All library programs scheduled for Wednesday have been canceled, according to the library’s website. Residents still can drop off rented materials to the outside of the library, 11000 Ruth Road, Huntley.

Crews are working to repair the broken pipes, the website states. The extreme cold already forced library officials to close Monday and Tuesday.

Visit www.huntleylibrary.org for repair updates.

in any unit will be limited to two visitors at a time. Any child younger than age 14 will not be allowed to visit a patient in any unit. A limited number of visitors older than age 14 will be allowed to visit immediate family members in obstetrics and pediatrics.

Visitors who are feeling sick with a running nose, sore throat or fever are being asked not to visit family and friends in Centegra’s hospitals. Daily hospital visiting hours are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

January and February are peak months in the flu season, which typically lasts through May. For information about the visitation changes and flu vaccine offerings, call 815-338-6600.

state’s new concealed-carry law. The annual meeting begins at 9 a.m. Jan. 22 inside the Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St. For information, call president Mickey Schuch at 815-690-0248.

ruary. Once vaccinated, it takes the average person about two weeks to develop antibodies.

The vaccine is available at doctor’s offices, clinics, pharmacies, grocery stores and other locations countywide.

For information, visit www. mcdh.info or www.cdc.gov.

Centegra limits patient visitors during flu season

County Right to Carry association set to meet

McHENRY – Centegra Health System is restricting patient visitors during the flu season because of increased influenza cases and flu-related hospitalizations, according to a Centegra news release.

Effective Thursday, a patient

WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County Right to Carry Association will elect officers and review old business during its annual meeting Jan. 22 in Woodstock.

The pro-gun group also will discuss ongoing issues with the

By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com The McHenry County Board is accepting applications to fill a vacancy on the Mental Health Board.

A four-year term on the unpaid board is still open after a County Board committee late last year could not come

Continued from page B1 McHenry on Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

The county is not alone in worrying about its salt supplies. The city of Crystal Lake said Monday that it has used up about 80 percent of its winter salt on hand.

DeVries estimated Tuesday afternoon that the DOT will be able to buy about 4,000 tons of road salt with the re-

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– Stephen Di Benedetto

Experts urge residents to get vaccinated for flu It’s not too late to protect yourself with a flu shot, the McHenry County Department of Health advises.

With a surge of influenza cases nationwide, the health department is encouraging people six months of age or older to get the shot.

The latest report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the last week of December showed widespread flu activity in 25 states and Illinois, which have resulted in six pediatric deaths. Influenza-type illnesses have been reported in 19 other states.

Flu season typically runs through May, with cases hitting their peak in January and Feb-

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The salt will come from a vendor in Chicago because the one the county contracts with is located in Indiana, where the most recent winter storm and cold snap has shut down the roads.

The next chance for snow in McHenry County is Friday, with a 50 percent chance of a wintry mix of snow, rain and sleet.

A slight chance of rain, because of temperatures above freezing, is forecast for Saturday.

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“It’s kind of crazy how long this has been on the books,” he said.

While the roads will receive improvements in the

future, Shepley and council members praised city workers for maintaining existing streets as best they can during the stretch of extreme winter weather.

“You can see where the city limits start and end by the conditions of the road,” Shepley said. “I think that’s pretty

cool.”

Councilman Jeff Thorsen echoed the mayor’s sentiments and said he believed Crystal Lake had the best roads in the region throughout the snow and cold.

“I drove around a lot of northern Illinois,”he said.“It’s nice to drive in Crystal Lake.”

was charged Saturday, Dec. 21, with two counts of retail theft.

• Nathaniel L. Kessel, 37, 615 Park St., East Dundee, was charged Saturday, Dec. 21, with driving under the influence, driving too fast for the conditions, failure to reduce speed and improper lane usage.

• A 15-year-old Crystal Lake boy was charged Thursday, Dec. 26, with retail theft.

• Dennis K. Glasder, 21, 8413 Abbott Lane, Cary, was charged Friday, Dec. 27, with possession of marijuana.

• Margaret G. Pijanowski, 59, 140 Algonquin Road, Barrington Hills, was charged Friday, Dec. 27, with retail theft.

• Matthew A. Lulow, 24, 940 Noelle Bend, Lake in the Hills, was charged Saturday, Dec. 28, with retail theft.

• Katelynn C. Glusak, 18, 526 S. Johnson St., Unit 7, Iowa City, Iowa, was charged Sunday, Dec. 29, with zero tolerance, underage drinking and no headlights.

• Monika Wasilewski, 25, 1201 Jasper Drive, McHenry, was charged Sunday, Dec. 29, with retail theft.

• Josette E. Mendez, 26, 1234 Riverwood Drive, Algonquin, was charged Sunday, Dec. 29, with two counts of domestic battery.

• Terrance M. Borowski, 58, 2 Hickory Lane, Algonquin, was charged Tuesday, Dec. 31, with two counts of domestic battery.

• Janis J. Strauss, 62, 6 Cambridge Court, Cary, was charged Tuesday, Dec. 31, with hit and run, driving with a revoked license, failure to yield right of way at an intersection and no insurance.

8POLICE BLOTTER Algonquin • A 16-year-old Algonquin boy was charged Friday, Dec. 20, with possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and criminal trespass to land.

• A 15-year-old Algonquin girl was charged Friday, Dec. 20, with possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and criminal trespass to land.

• A 14-year-old Algonquin girl was charged Friday, Dec. 20, with possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and criminal trespass to land.

• Daniel W. Stephenson, 25, 571 Sussex Lane, Algonquin, was charged Saturday, Dec. 21, with retail theft.

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Cary garbage collection delayed additional day

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CARY – Garbage collection service in Cary has been delayed for an additional day, the village said in a news release.

Advanced Disposal notified the village that the below-zero temperatures led to equipment failures and canceled garbage collection Tuesday, according to the news release.

Extremely cold temperatures already had delayed service by one day.

The village now is anticipating the following schedule: • Monday routes are scheduled for Wednesday pickup.

• Tuesday routes are scheduled for Thursday pickup.

• Wednesday routes are scheduled for Friday pickup.

• Thursday routes are scheduled for Saturday pickup.

Holiday tree pickup will be Friday as scheduled. For informa-

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Woodstock Public Library hosting FAFSA programs The Woodstock Public Library is hosting two programs to help people navigate the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

Both programs will be at the library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock, this month.

During the Path to the FAFSA, at 7 p.m. Thursday, prospective or current college students and their parents can learn what happens to student information after a FAFSA is submitted and how to read an award letter from a college or university.

Organizers also will go over sample FAFSA questions, cost of attendance formulas and financial aid award letters.

Between 10 a.m. and noon Jan. 18, individuals can drop in for help during the FAFSA Completion Workshop. Participants should bring their social security numbers; income and asset information including 529 savings plans; bank account information; 1040, 0140A, 1040EZ or W2 forms; driver’s license number; and alien registration numbers.

During the workshop, paper forms can be filed out at the event or taken home to be completed online. Participants also can bring their own laptops.

For information, contact Beth Ryan at 815-338-0542 or bethr@woodstockil.info.

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Three county nonprofits plan Royal Bunco Bash CRYSTAL LAKE – McHenry County residents can support three local nonprofits during an

upcoming event that includes Bunco, raffles and drinks.

Adult and Child Therapy Services, Court Appointed Special Advocates and Northern Illinois Special Recreation Association are hosting the fifth annual “Royal Bunco Bash” on Jan. 17.

Attendees will meet at 7 p.m. inside the Crystal Lake Holiday Inn, 800 S. Route 31, for an evening of Bunco, an easy-to-learn dice game. Check-in begins at 6 p.m. Tickets are $30 a person, which covers three games of Bunco. A cash bar, desserts and several raffle prizes also will be available. A group of 12 people can pay $600 for premium “Golden Table” seating, which includes a dedicated server and two drink tickets a person.

Event proceeds benefit the three local nonprofits. To register, visit www.royalbuncobash. com.

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Firefighters investigate a structure fire Tuesday at 33 S. Route 14 in Cary.

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By STEPHEN DI BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com CARY – A Cary family was unharmed Tuesday after a fire started on a porch to their second-story home.

The Cary Fire Protection District responded at 1:29 p.m. to a structure fire at 33 S. Route 14. Firefighters arrived to see a porch attached to an exterior stairwell on fire, said Lt. Michael Douglas.

Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire within five minutes, he said. The cause is under investigation, but it’s not believed to be suspicious.

No one was injured in the incident.

The building is split between a first-floor business and a second-floor home, Douglas said. Departments from Fox River Grove and Barrington Countryside assisted Cary.

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Continued from page B1 stint that ended two years ago, the city always has raised water rates by the rate of inflation.

That policy wasn’t enough to keep the city’s water and sewer fund out of a deficit, so in 2008, city staff and the Finance and Personnel Committee recommended increasing rates by 7 percent for three years in order to reduce the deficit and cover system maintenance and improvements.

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With operating costs continuing to rise and additional maintenance and improvements expected, the City Council also unanimously approved a formal rate study to figure out what the city should be charging in the coming years.

Alderman Andy Glab said he hoped the study also would look at ways the water division can save money instead of just at raising rates.

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8BLOOD DRIVES Following is a list of places to give blood. Donors should be 17 or older or 16 with a parent’s consent, weigh at least 110 pounds, and be in good health.

• 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday – Home State Bank, 611 S. Main St., Crystal Lake. Appointments and information: Sandy, 815-788-3488 or www.heartlandbc.org.

• 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday – Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 404 N. Green St., McHenry. Appointments and information: Tracy, 815-385-4030 or www. heartlandbc.org.

• 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday – St. Thomas Church, 451 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake.

Sponsored by Knights of Columbus.

Appointments and information: John, 815-477-1048 or www. heartlandbc.org.

• 8 a.m. to Noon Sunday – Marengo United Methodist Church, 119 E. Washington St., Marengo. Walk-ins welcome. All donors earn points to redeem for

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online gift cards. Appointments and information: 815-568-7162 or www.heartlandbc.org.

• 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday – City of Crystal Lake, 100 W. Municipal Complex, Crystal Lake. All donors receive a centennial T-shirt. Appointments and information: www. heartlandbc.org.

• 1:45 to 5:45 p.m. Jan. 17 – Chauncey H. Duker School, 3711 W. Kane Ave., McHenry. All donors receive a sports backpack and participate in a raffle.

Appointments and information: Bonnie McCormack, 815-759-8502; bmccormack@d15.org or www. heartlandbc.org.

• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 18 – St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 3500 W. Washington St., McHenry. Appointments and information: Alice, 815-575-1002 or www.heartlandbc. org.

Blood service organizations • American Red Cross of Greater Chicago – 800-448-3543 for

general blood services; 312-7296100 general questions.

• Heartland Blood Centers – 800-786-4483; 630-264-7834 or www.heartlandbc.org. Locations: 6296 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake, 815-356-0608; 1140 N. McLean Blvd., Elgin, 847-741-8282; 649 W. State St., Geneva, 630208-8105; 1200 N. Highland Ave., Aurora, 630-892-7055.

• LifeSource Blood Center – Crystal Lake Community Donor Center, 5577 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake, 815-356-5173. Hours: noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday and Friday; 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Information: 877-543-3768 or www.lifesource. org.

• Rock River Valley Blood Center – 419 N. Sixth St., Rockford, 877-778-2299; 815-965-8751 or www.rrvbc.org. Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Fridays; 7 to 11 a.m. second Saturdays.

Wednesday • 11:30 a.m. – Countryside Garden Club meeting, 5809 Shadowood Drive, Crystal Lake.

Garden Jeopardy will be featured.

Information: 815-477-0854.

• Noon – Bingo, GiGi’s Playhouse, 5404 W. Elm St., McHenry. Play bingo and support the Playhouse, a Down syndrome achievement center. Information: 815-385-7529 or www.gigisplayhouse.org.

• 6 to 7:30 p.m. – Quit-smoking classes, Huntley Health Center, 10350 Haligus Road, Huntley. A seven-week class meeting Wednesdays offered by the McHenry County Department of Health and Centegra.

Cost: $25. Registration and information: 1-877-236-83472 or www. mcdh.info.

Wednesday to Saturday • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Heavenly Attic Resale Shop, 307 S. Main St., Algonquin. Offering books,

clothing, housewares, toys, linens, jewelry, sporting goods and more. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Sponsored by the Congregational Church of Algonquin to benefit those in need.

Information: 847-854-4552.

Thursday • 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. – Crystal Clear Toastmasters meeting, Panera Bread, 6000 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake. Information: www.crystalcleartoastmasters.org.

• 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Living Well for Women program, Senior Services, 3519 N. Richmond Road, McHenry. An interactive program for women age 50 and older encompassing all dimensions of health. Continues Thursdays through March 13. Free. Registration and information: 815-3443555.

• 7:30 p.m. – American Legion Post 171 meeting, Park Place, 406 W. Woodstock St., Crystal Lake.

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• 7 p.m. – McHenry bingo, VFW Post 4600, 3002 W. Route 120, McHenry. Food available. Proceeds benefit Wings of an Angel charitable organization for children with cancer. Information: 815-385-4600 or www.mchenrybingo.com.

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Did you know that 50 to 60% of your retirement assets may be taxed if you leave them to your heirs at your death?

This makes retirement assets one of the most costly assets to distribute to loved ones.

You work hard for those dollars – do you really want the government to get half?

Another option is to leave your heirs assets that receive a step up in basis (such as real estate and stock) and gift the retirement assets to charity. Charities are not taxed upon receiving an IRA or other retirement plan assets.

Remember your loved ones with non-retirement assets – dedicate your retirement assets to benefit your charities of choice.

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Caroline Ann Annen was born August 11, 1941 in Greenwood, Wisconsin, and she passed away peacefully January 1, 2014 at JourneyCare Hospice in Barrington.

Memorial visitation will be Saturday, January 11, 2014, 9:00am until the time of the funeral mass at 11:30am, at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, 1023 McHenry Ave, Crystal Lake, IL. Interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to JouneyCare Hospice Foundation, 405 Lake Zurich Road, Barrington, IL 60010.

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pr by parents Henry and Virginia Petersen, one brother John and one sister Mary Miller.

Friends may visit with the family from 5-8pm Thursday, January 9, 2014 and 9:30-10:30am Friday, January 10, 2014 at Salata Gurnee Funeral Home; 4190 Old Grand Avenue, Gurnee. Funeral services will begin at 10:30am at the funeral home with Fr. James Merold officiating. Interment will follow at Ascension Cemetery in Libertyville.

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He was born April 30, 1950 in Chicago to Otto and Margaret (Grandt) Orlowski. On April 2, 1977 he married Linda L. Linneweh.

John had been a resident of McHenry County since 1977. He was the proprietor of Hi-Pro Motor Sports in Crystal Lake.

Survivors include his wife of 36 years, Linda; a daughter, Stefanie Orlowski; two grandchildren, Noah and Benjamin; two brothers, Jeffrey Orlowski, Jerrold Orlowski; two sisters, Melody Farmer, Melissa Lownik; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, James Orlowski and Joel Orlowski; and a sister, Janette St. Clair.

A memorial service is being planned by the family for a later date.

Arrangements entrusted to Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, McHenry. For information, please call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com, where friends may leave an on-line condolence message for the family.

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ROBERT EDWARD RHEAD Born: April 25, 1943; in Monterey Park, CA Died: Jan. 4, 2014; in Chicago

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She was born on July 24, 1934 in McHenry. The daughter of John and Agnes (Whiting) Grasser.

Margaret was united in marriage to William Woellert, on July 13, 1963 in Woodstock. She had a passion for her horses, dogs, and her gardening.

Margaret is survived by her husband, William; two daughters, Kim Ogasawara of Niles, and Melody Pelodia of Williams Bay; her two sons, Allen Woellert of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Mark (Donna) Woellert of Genoa City, Wisconsin; five grandchildren, Samantha, Olivia, William, Ariana, and Noah; her four sisters, Anna (Roger) Wescott, Barb (Jerry) DeYoung, Judy (Tom) Peterson, and Betty Conley; and one brother, Joe (Lois) Grasser.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Lloyd; and one sister, Genevieve.

Memorial Service will be held at 11:00am on Friday, January 10, 2014 at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Delavan Wisconsin, with Paster Robert P. Rickman officiating.

Visitation will be held from 10:00am until service time at the church.

Monroe Funeral Home, in Delavan, is assisting the family. Visit us at monroefh.com.

Robert Edward Rhead, 70, of Woodstock, passed away Saturday, Obituaries also appear online at January 4, 2014 at the University of nwherald.com/obits where you may Illinois Hospital in Chicago. sign the guestbook, send flowers or He was born on April 25, 1943 in Monterey Park, California to Richard make a memorial donation. and Agnes (Haskell) Rhead. He Quentin Rd, married his childhood sweetheart Palatine, IL. Interment will be in Beverly M. Stone on August 23, MARIE M. LEPINSKI Elmwood Cemetery, River Grove.

1964 in Yucca Valley, California.

Born: Dec. 7, 1933; In lieu of flowers, the family Robert was a member of the Stevens Point, WI suggests memorials to JourneyCare Died: Jan. 3, 2014 ; Lake Zurich, IL Woodstock Assembly of God Foundation, 405 Lake Zurich Road, Church for over 32 years, serving as Barrington, IL 60010. the secretary treasurer for over 27 Marie M. Lepinski, age 80, passed years. He was also the head of the away on January 3, 2014, in Lake Grands Ministry at the church. He Zurich, Illinois.

ARLINE G. CRAWFORD coached basketball for the Marie was born in Stevens Point, Born: Sept. 7, 1924; Oak Park, IL Woodstock Christian School leading Wisconsin, to Christine and John Died: Jan. 7, 2014; Crystal Lake, IL his team to the championship game.

Olszewski, on December 7, 1933.

He also coached a little league Marie was married to Stanley Arline G. Crawford, age 89, of baseball team.

Lepinski, also of Stevens Point.

Crystal Lake and formerly of Robert grew up in the desert She is preceded in death by her Marengo, passed away Tuesday, climate and enjoyed going rock parents; husband, Stanley; and son, January 7, 2014 at Crystal Pines climbing and catching lizards and John.

Health Care Center. snakes. He enjoyed playing games Marie is survived by her sister, She was born September 7, 1924 DOROTHY K. BELJAEFF that challenge the mind, but Sudoku Kitty; sons, Michael and Theodore; Born: June 6, 1933; Cornucopia, WI in Oak Park, to John and Bessie and jigsaw puzzles were his daughters, Germaine (Dave) (Kuss) Curran. On May 6, 1950, she Died: Jan. 5, 2014; Woodstock favorites. He also enjoyed Fritsche, Charmaine, and Linda married Glenn C. Crawford, at the WALTER A. RAYMOND gardening.

(Peter) Przybysz. She is also Methodist Community Church in Born: April 9, 1949; Chicago, IL Dorothy Katherine Beljaeff, age He is survived by his loving wife of survived by a large family of 1st, Fox River Grove.

Died: Jan. 4, 2014; Belvidere, IL 80, of McHenry, died Sunday, 49 years, Beverly M. Rhead; his 2nd and 3rd generation BETSY J. WRESCH Arline graduated from the West January 5, 2014, at JourneyCare daughter, Kimberly (A. Bradley) grandchildren.

Born: March 2, 1936; Chicago, IL Suburban School for Nurses in 1946.

Walter A. Raymond, Jr., age 64 of Sass; two grandchildren, Chad Sass Hospice Center in Woodstock.

A private family memorial service Died: Jan. 4, 2014; Cary, IL She worked for 37 years at Belvidere, died suddenly, Saturday, and Sarah Sass; a great She was born June 6, 1933 in will be held in the future.

Memorial Hospital in Woodstock.

January 4, 2014, in his home after a granddaughter, Hailee Sass; his Cornucopia, Wisconsin, to Peter W. Betsy Jean Wresch (nee Larsen) She was a member of the First sudden illness. and Thekla “Tillie” (Fanik) Pristash. brother, Richard (Dety) Rhead; his RAY A. MOORE passed away peacefully on January Presbyterian Church in Marengo.

Wally was born April 9, 1949, in On October 2, 1955, she married sister, Ann Conzelman; and several Born: May 30, 1928; Chicago, IL 4th, 2014, surrounded by her loved She was also very active in the Chicago, the son of Walter A. and Oleg Beljaeff in Chicago. nieces and nephews. ones.

McHenry County Historical Society. Died: Jan. 4, 2014; McHenry, IL LaVerne L. (Shalk) Raymond, Sr. She attended grammar school in He was preceded in death by his Born March 2, 1936, in Chicago, Arline was an accomplished quilter, He married Lucille B. Brown on Ashland, Wisconsin, and moved parents. she married her high school Ray A. Moore, knitter, and baker. She also enjoyed November 13, 1992 in Chicago. with her family to Chicago, A visitation will be held on Friday, age 85, of gardening and traveling. She also Prior to retirement, Wally worked January 10, 2014 from 4-8pm at the sweetheart, David, and together attending Lucy Flower Technical they ran several businesses and McHenry, died loved animals. for Ford Parts Depot in Melrose Park Woodstock Assembly of God High School. After graduating, she loved sailing throughout the years.

Saturday, January She is survived by her niece, for 31 years. completed a year of art school.

Church, 1201 Dean St. in Most recently, she enjoyed being a 4, 2014, at Doreen Quinlan; her great-nieces, He was a member of the UAW and Woodstock. The visitation will Oleg and Dorothy lived in volunteer at Tri-County Thrift shop Centegra Hospital – enjoyed supporting various Caitlin (Steven) Miller, Bridget Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and continue at the church on Saturday, of Wauconda.

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Ostrowski, and Meghan Quinlan; charities; talking politics and Syracuse, New York. She was a January 11, 2014 from 11am until the Family was extremely important He was born May 30, 1928 in religion and watching Fox News, loving and caring wife and mother, great-great-nephews, Curran time of the funeral service at 12pm. to her and she enjoyed and was Chicago to Dale and Greta Ostrowski and Liam Miller; and MSNBC and CNN. He was a using her talents to encourage her All other services will be private. very proud of her grandchildren and (Bolander) Moore.

On October 20, great-great-niece, Shelby Miller. member of Immanuel Lutheran children in both art and music. She In lieu of flowers, memorials can great-granddaughter.

1949 he married Marjorie S. Zender She was preceded in death by her Church. loved reading, movies, and keeping be made to any organization of the She is survived by daughters, in Chicago. husband, Glenn; her parents; and Wally is loved and will be missed up with her children's activities. donor's choice.

Sandra Wresch of Auburn, Illinois, Ray was a veteran of the her brother, John Curran. by his wife, Lucille; mother, LaVerne After divorcing Oleg, Dorothy and For more information, call Judith (Brian) Faczek of Island Lake; Merchant Marines serving during Visitation will be from 11:00am to Rauch of Belvidere; daughters, the children moved to Skokie. After Schneider Leucht Merwin & Cooney and son, James (Kathleen) Wresch 1:00pm on Friday, January 10, 2014, WWII. He was later drafted into the Jacqueline A. Pollack of Belvidere, her mother's passing, the family Funeral Home at 815-338-1710 or of Crystal Lake; 7 grandchildren, U.S. Army. at Querhammer & Flagg Funeral and Rebekah S. (William) Guynn of moved on to Wheeling. visit us on the web at Tina (Joshua) Lowry, Courtney Formerly of Chicago, Ray had Waterford, Wisconsin; Dorothy was active in her church Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave., www.slmcfh.com.

(Jacob) Arruda, Christopher Faczek, stepdaughters, Theresa (Martin) choir, and was involved in the ladies Crystal Lake. The service will be at been a resident of McHenry since Alexander Faczek, Keenan Wresch, 1957.

He was employed for over 30 1:00pm.

Interment will be private in Brownlee of Valparaiso, Indiana, auxiliary, helping with the annual Delaney Wresch, and Kaley Wresch; years as an mechanic.

He enjoyed McHenry County Memorial Park, Renarda (Dwayne) Walker of MARGARET M. bazaar, a joy she also shared with 1 great-granddaughter, Cora Lowry. snowmobiling, boating on the Woodstock.

Ypsilanti, Michigan, Yvette (August) WOELLERT her daughters.

Preceded in death by her Chain-O-Lakes and woodworking.

Memorials may be made to the Easley of Chicago, Nicole Brown of She worked for the local school husband, Herman “David” Wresch.

Survivors include his wife of 64 McHenry County Historical Society Pontiac, Michigan; stepson, Antonio Born: July 24, 1934; McHenry, IL districts for a short time, then Died: Jan. 6, 2014; Williams Bay, WI A memorial service will be years, Marjorie; a daughter, Debra (Sherly) Bullette of Fayetteville, worked for a printing and business or to the First Presbyterian Church planned for a later date.

(Frank) Russell; two grandchildren, of Marengo.

North Carolina; a host of forms company, J.J. Collins' Sons, In lieu of flowers, memorial Michael Moore and Nicole Moore; For information, call the funeral Margaret Mary Woellert, age 79 of grandchildren and greatInc., until her retirement in contributions may be given to and a great granddaughter, Online home at 815-459-1760.

Williams Bay, Wisconsin, passed grandchildren; brother, Russell December 2000. She later moved JourneyCare Hospice, 405 Lake Brooklyn. condolences may be made at away Monday, January 6, 2014, at Rauch of Belvidere. to McHenry to be closer to her Zurich Rd., Barrington, IL. He was preceded in death by a www.querhammerandflagg.com. her home in Williams Bay. Wally is preceded in death by his grandchildren. son, Scott in 1997; and his parents. father, Walter; and grandparents.

She is survived by her five There will be a gathering of SUSAN T. ENGLISH Funeral services will be held at children, Gregory, Eugene (Amy), remembrance held on Saturday, Born: Oct. 28, 1948; in Chicago 11:00 a.m. Saturday, January 11, Tamara (Gary) Deterts, Claudia January 11, 2014, from noon until Died: Jan. 5, 2014; In McHenry 2014, in Immanuel Lutheran Church, Johnson, and Philip (Kimberly) 3:00 p.m. at the McHenry Moose 1045 Belvidere Rd., Belvidere, IL Belyaev; ten grandchildren, Lodge Richmond Road, McHenry, IL with Rev. Allan Buss officiating.

Kimberly, Christopher, Alexander, Susan T. English, 65 of McHenry Visitation will be from 10:00 a.m. to Nathaniel, Graham, Abigail, Andrew, formerly of Wildwood, passed away 60050.

For information, please call the service time at the church.

Kathryn, Zachary, and Alexis; a on Sunday, January 5, 2014 at funeral home at 815-385-2400, or Interment will be held at 2:30 p.m. great-grandchild, Ava Rose; a sister, Centegra Hospital in McHenry.

New and Used Computers visit: www.justenfh.com, where Saturday in Elmwood Cemetery, Mary Ann (Robert) Boscher of Susan was born October 28, 1948 friends may leave an on-line River Grove, Illinois.

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Memorials can be given in care of brother, Theodore (Lenore) Pristash English, Jr. on January 25, 1969 at Great Customer Service Pacific Garden Mission or the of Grayslake.

Immaculate Conception Church in JOHN O. ORLOWSKI Appalachian Children.

She was preceded in death by her Waukegan.

7510 S. Virginia Rd. Born: April 30, 1950; Chicago Arrangements by Buck-Wheelerparents.

Survivors include her husband Crystal Lake, IL Hyland Funeral Home, 218 W. Friends and family may gather on Robert, Jr., two sons Robert Ray and Died: Jan. 4, 2014; McHenry Hurlbut Ave., Belvidere, IL. To light Friday, January 10, 2014, from 9:30 Rodney Francis (Jennifer) English, 815-455-6200 a candle or to share a memory, a.m. until the service at 10:30 a.m. three grandchildren and one brother John Otto Orlowski, age 63, of at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Crystal Lake, died Saturday, January please visit William Petersen. www.buckwheelerhyland.com Church at 1449 N. Quentin Rd, She was preceded in death by her 4, 2014, at Centegra Hospital,

8FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Doris L. Andrews: A memorial gathering will be from 5 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 9, at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Summer St., Harvard. A memorial service will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9. For information, call the funeral home at 815-943-5400.

Arline G. Crawford: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 10, at Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. The service will follow at 1 p.m. Interment will be private in McHenry County Memorial Park, Woodstock. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-1760.

Neil A. Daly: The burial services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, in Abraham Lincoln Cemetery in Elwood.

William Charles Hunt: The visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 12, at Henke-Clarson Funeral Home, 1010 N. Wright Road, Janesville, Wis. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 13, at Richmond United Methodist Church with burial in Richmond Cemetery.

Betty J. Jackson: Friends may meet with the family from 10 a.m. until the 10:30 a.m. funeral Mass celebration Wednesday, Jan. 8, at St. Patrick Church, 3500 Washington

www.echeloncomputers.net Ave., McHenry. Interment will be private. For information, call Colonial Funeral Home and Crematory at 815-385-0063.

Randall G. Johnson: A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 29700 N. Saint Marys Road, Libertyville. For information, call Kenosha Funeral Services & Crematory at 262-652-1943.

Ray A. Moore: There will be a gathering of remembrance from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at the McHenry Moose Lodge, 3535 N. Richmond Road, McHenry. For information, call Justen Funeral Home & Crematory at

815-385-2400.

Robert Edward Rhead: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 10, at the Woodstock Assembly of God Church, 1201 Dean St., Woodstock. The visitation will continue at the church from 11 a.m. until the noon service Saturday, Jan. 11, at the church.

For information, call Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home at 815-338-1710.

Margaret M. Woellert: The memorial service will be at 11 a.m.

Friday, Jan. 10, at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Delavan, Wis. The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the service at the church.

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Can many socks are here? Have a friend try.

Did you find the same amount?

Replace the missing words.

fter ft performing f i iin a local summer show, kids waited around the ______ lobby to get his autograph. He has danced for Ben the Bachelor and the bachelorettes on television’s popular _______, The Bachelor. He has been asked to dance for a local teacher retirement party and other events.

Who iss this popular dancer?

Is he a movie star, a TV star?

Has he trained for years under the bestt ________ tors? instructors?

He is Luis ras, a 6th Contreras, grader in Sonoma,, CA. Hee taught himselff to dance just likee Michael Jacksonn and amazes ces of all ages audiences with hiss incredible on. imitation.

“I first heard about Michael Jackson when the _______ reported his death,” recalls Luis. “I asked my sister, ‘Who’s Michael Jackson?’”

Dancing isn’t the only thing Luis does. He also studies hard, earns good grades in school and plays basketball.

But, he does fit in dancing every day. He even dances down the aisles of the grocery store!

L i watched t h dY T b videos id Luis YouTube of Jackson dancing and he thought, “I can do that!” That was when he set the _______ of learning a Michael Jackson dance number.

Luis kept pausing and rewinding the videos to watch each dance _______ over and over. Then he’d try it.

Luis would stud study Michael Jackson’s dance dances one step at a time. “It took about ten m inutes to mas minutes master one sstep. st ep. I had to _________ it about 50 tim times.”

“He drove us a bit crazy,” says his m mom. “He kept playing tthe same music ov over and over and over. Bu and an But he wouldn’t give up until he got it right.”

Luis’s parents aare proud of his dedication and tthe hard work he has undertaken to achieve his goals. His mom ________ sequins onto a pair of socks, one sequin at a time. Each one sewn by ________ with love.

His parents don’t let him practice dancing until his homework is finished. But after that, with only a break for supper, he dances until his mother says to stop or he is just too tired to go on.

Luis is starting to study the dance moves of Justin Bieber and is looking forward to joining the school choir in 7th grade.

Standards Link: Visual Discrimination: Find similarities and differences in common objects.

MOONWALK IMITATION MACHINE DANCING SEQUINS GLIDING VIDEOS GOALS TIRED STUDY PROUD CHOIR STEP STAR PUSH

Find the words in the puzzle. Then look for each word in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities.

N O I T A T I M I F S T U D Y A N K C E N P R O U D L V N G I U D Y P A F I C L U S O E W N H D H I Q H T N R C O E O D E S O A A I T O I

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Compound Words Footwear, Moonwalk and homework are compound words – a new word made from two words. Look through the newspaper for 10 compound words and draw a line where the two words divide.

Standards Link: Grammar: Identify compound words.

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If Luis danced two hours a day six days a week for one year, how many hours has he danced?

52 X 6 = _________ X 2 = _________

Look through the newspaper for pictures of people who look determined. Cut these out and make an “I’m Determined!” poster.

Setting Goals Think of three goals you would like to achieve in your future. What can you do now to help you prepare?

I have twenty goals in my head. I guess, if I had to choose three I would choose to be an actor. I am already doing something about it. I go to a children’s theater group and I act in my school programs and at other places. I love to act! I also want to be a gymnast. I am going to go to the Redwood Empire Gymnastics Club. I love to do gymnastics. I also want to become a dancer and I do it twice a year in the theater group. I love to dance!

Hannah, 2nd grade I would like to move to Texas. I don’t know how to make that happen but it is my one resolution for the new year.

Kayla, 5th grade

When the time comes, I would like to be a pilot. I have already had lessons since I was eight. I ly at the local sky park. They have a program for kids eight to sixteen. I want to work on my art skills over time in order to improve. My teacher likes my art work.

One of my main goals is to use my organizational skills in everything. I will keep on putting things where they belong.

Max, 5th grade I would like to ice skate. I am going to take lessons. I also like to swim at my grandma’s pool. I took lessons and so I am very good. I like to ski. I took skiing lessons and so I am good at that too.

Gretchen, 1st grade I want to be super smart. To do this I want school to be much longer, possibly an extra three hours. I think if I have an extra three hours then I would become smarter.

Sean, 3rd grade

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Here are some goals for when I get older. I want to sell my art pictures because I like to paint. I will get ready for that by doing lots of art pictures right now! Another goal is to be a teacher. Now I help a student in my class with math. I like helping peopleand so I will continue to do that.

Victory, 2nd grade I would like to get more As on my tests, not that I need it! I just need to keep working hard to make this happen. I would like to have more family trips and happy memories. I would like to earn enough money to take a trip to Hawaii. I will suggest this to the whole family and offer to do lots of chores to make this happen.

Jordan, 4th grade

I would like to play soccer as a career.

Some soccer players are paid a lot of money. I need to practice, practice, practice and that is something I am happy to do. I also want to be more organized and my mom and dad said they would help me with this.

Cameron,3rd grade I want to be a professional snowboarder. I think to do this Iwould need to move to a mountain where there’s lots of snow all year round. I would build a half pipe and I would practice tricks every day. When I get good at one trick, I would start practicing another until I can do a complete run. Eventually I would like to be in the Olympics.

Juan, 4th grade

ICE SKATING I did an ice skating show with my friend Campbell. We skated on Sunday at Crystal Ice House. We did tricks to the music, You Don’t Know You’re Beautiful.

When we were done we went to get treats. I like to do ice skating a lot.

Ella, 1st grade

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McHenry City Council When: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 Where: McHenry Municipal Center, 333 S. Green St.

District 156 School Board When: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21 Where: District office board room, 4716 W. Crystal Lake Road, McHenry

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Johnsburg Planning and Zoning Commission When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Johnsburg Village Hall, 1515 Channel Beach Ave.

McHenry Police Pension Board When: 3:30 p.m. Tuesday Where: McHenry Municipal Center, 333 S. Green St.

Island Lake Village Board When: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23 Where: Island Lake Village Hall, 3720 Greenleaf Ave.

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District 46 School Board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Prairie Grove Junior High School library, 3225 Route 176, Crystal Lake

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Fox Lake public workshop on sign ordinance When: 6:30 p.m. Jan. 15 Where: Fox Lake District Library, 255 E. Grand Ave.

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SECTION C Wednesday, January 8, 2014 Northwest Herald

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Sports editor: Jon Styf • jstyf@shawmedia.com

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Staying in coaching the right call for Russell

By MEGHAN MONTEMURRO mmontemurro@shawmedia.com Michelle Russell was unsure if she wanted to get right back into coaching.

About a month after Russell was let go in March by Dundee-Crown as the girls varsity basketball coach, she was approached by Huntley coach Steve Raethz. They spent an hour talking about the opportunity for Russell to join Huntley’s pro-

gram and she was intrigued by their similarities in coaching style and philosophies.

Still, Russell mulled over the offer for a couple of weeks, before deciding, “What the heck, I’ll take a shot.”

She hasn’t regretted the decision.

“I spent the summer getting to know the girls and other coaches and it felt like a very good fit for me,” Russell said. “I really wasn’t 100 percent sure about it (initially), but I didn’t really want to not coach. I’m

DUNDEE-CROWN FOOTBALL

thankful [Raethz] did contact me.”

Russell coaches the Red Raiders’ sophomore team and has guided them to a 12-5 record this season. Raethz said he always admired how Russell got her playMichelle ers to compete at D-C. Russell “She does a great job teaching the game and she has a wealth of experience as a player and

coach,” Raethz said. “She has a great repport with the kids. ... I thought she’d be a great addition to our staff and she’s done a great job so far.”

It’s been an adjustment going from leading a program at D-C, where she spent five seasons at her alma mater, to preparing a sophomore team for varsity. The biggest change has been taking on a more behind-the-scenes role by coaching sophomores instead of being the “main event,” Russell said.

“But, in the end, you’re teaching girls and you’re there to be a good role model for them and teach them about life,” Russell said. “That’s what coaching is all about, helping them become better people.”

Despite the new job, it still was an odd situation for Russell when Huntley played at D-C in December. The Red Raiders again play the Chargers on Jan. 28 at home.

See RUSSELL, page C2

NORDIC JUNIOR WORLD SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS

Lane closer to full health

By JOE STEVENSON joestevenson@shawmedia.com Cody Lane will require more time to regain his speed, probably another three months of hard training.

But the Dundee-Crown senior running back is right on track with everything else in his football career, which was turned upside-down June 7 at a camp at Northern Illinois University. In a 1-on-1 drill with a linebacker, Lane, a Northwest Herald All-Area firstCody Lane team selection as a junior, tried to spin and get away.

Lane spun, but his left foot stayed put. He felt a pop in his left knee that signaled a torn ACL. Lane watched with mixed emotions – thrilled for his teammates, while agonized that he wasn’t able to help – as D-C went 6-4 and played in the postseason for the first time since 1994.

“It was hard at first,” said Lane, who rushed for 1,181 yards and 18 touchdowns as a junior. “But to see them smile and everything. They enjoyed it and I was there to support them.”

Now, Lane is ready to get back to football. He was cleared for all activities Dec. 20 and will spend the next month making college visits, mainly to NCAA Division III schools in Illinois and Iowa.

He is looking at Aurora, Benedictine, Dubuque, Elmhurst, North Central and Wheaton.

See LANE, page C2

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Kevin Bickner, who is a member of the Norge Ski Club in Fox River Grove, will compete in the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships this month in Trentino, Italy.

Taking on the world Local ski jumpers Kevin Bickner, A.J. Brown qualify for world event

By JEFF ARNOLD jarnold@shawmedia.com The bond that exists between A.J. Brown and Kevin Bickner can appear a bit odd – at least from the outside.

Brown and Bickner are teammates, having grown up honing their ski jumping abilities at Fox River Grove’s Norge Ski Club. They are friends – or as one characterizes the close relationship with the other, more like brothers. But Brown and Bickner also are friendly combatants who managed to grab two of four open spots with the American contingent Photo provided that will compete later this month in Fox River Grove native A.J. Brown competes in the recent world championship qualifier the Nordic Junior World Ski Champiin Park City, Utah. Brown, along with Norge Ski Club teammate Kevin Bickner, will com- onships in Trentino, Italy. pete in the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships this month in Trentino, Italy.

Considering the ties to the world

stage that creates for a Norge club that also produced Sochi Olympic hopeful Mike Glasder, it makes Brown and Bickner’s feat even more impressive.

“That doesn’t happen very often,” Bickner, a 17-year-old Wauconda native, said Monday night. “Having two from our club really shows that we have a strong program going and that everybody is really improving.”

American ski jumpers competing on the national level tend to be a close group. But for Bickner, a member of the U.S. national development team, and Brown, an 18-year-old Fox River Grove native, continuing their training together in Park City, Utah, has helped ease the transition into elite level competition.

See SKI JUMPERS, page C2

8VIEWS / BY JOE COWLEY

Fair or not, this Bulls’ mess is on Rose Derrick Rose might want to proceed with extreme caution.

The next thing he says should be thought out very well.

It’s time for the face of the Camp Rose franchise to gather the troops – brother/manager Reggie included – and deliver a simple message: Everyone needs to shut their mouths.

Because fair or not, the Bulls’ mess is on Rose.

He’s earning $17.6 million this season and still is owed roughly $60 million for the next three seasons. He has earned the complete trust of a franchise still committed to building around him, despite two knee surgeries. And he defiantly won’t involve himself in the recruiting game that goes on among the NBA’s elite.

So come the trade deadline Feb. 20, there shouldn’t be

one whisper out of Rose’s camp that he’s somehow unhappy with the direction of the team.

Not when his hands have been on the steering wheel the past four seasons.

The trade of Luol Deng late Monday was for financial flexibility, but it also came about because of Rose’s injury.

“When Derrick had the injury against Portland and we

learned that the surgery was going to keep him out for the remainder of the year, at that time our focus had to broaden a little bit,” vice president of basketball operations John Paxson said Tuesday. “We had to look more about the future and a little less about today.”

That’s because today is a mess.

See COWLEY, page C5

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Bulls forward Luol Deng (right) drives on Cleveland Cavaliers defender Alonzo Gee on Nov. 30 in Cleveland. The Bulls traded Deng, a two-time All-Star, to the Cavs late Monday for enigmatic center Andrew Bynum and future draft choices.

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NHL: N.Y. Rangers at Blackhawks, 7 p.m., NBCSN The Hawks’ league-best offensive attack has been stymied somewhat over the past four games. That’s proved to be no obstacle to the club continuing to pile up points. The Hawks look to extend their 10-game overall point streak and nine-game run of earning at least a point at home.

Florida State was selling a T-shirt on its website celebrating its BCS title but with the wrong team winning.

Ohio State defensive end Noah Spence had his suspension for failing a drug test reduced to three games. His father, Greg, told WHTM-TV that the drug was put in a drink Noah had at a recent party. Here are some other likely excuses: 1. “The test was wrong” 2. “It wasn’t my urine” 3. “My test was tampered with”

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RODMAN IN NORTH KOREA

Ex-NBA player: Game dwarfed by politics

By ERIC TALMADGE The Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea – Former NBA star Charles D. Smith said he feels remorse for coming to Pyongyang with Dennis Rodman for a game on the North Korean leader’s birthday because the event has been dwarfed by politics and tainted by Rodman’s own comments.

Smith and other former NBA players are scheduled to play with Rodman against a team of North Koreans on Wednesday that organizers said leader Kim Jong Un is expected to attend.

Many of the players Tuesday privately expressed second thoughts about going ahead because of an outpouring of criticism back home in the United States.

Smith, who played for the New York Knicks, said the North Korea trip has been dwarfed by politics and Rodman’s frequent boasts about his close friendship with Kim. “What we are doing is positive, but it is getting dwarfed by the other circumstances around it,” Smith told The Associated Press. “Apparently our message is not being conveyed properly due to the circumstances that are much bigger than us, and I think that has to do with politics and government.”

Rodman arrived Monday in Pyongyang with seven former NBA players and four streetballers for the game on Kim’s birthday, believed to be his 31st. Along with Smith, the squad features ex-All-Stars Kenny Anderson, Cliff Robinson and Vin Baker.

The game would be another milestone in Rodman’s surprising relationship with basketball fan Kim, who rarely meets with outsiders and is possibly the world’s most mysterious leader. Rodman has called the game a “birthday present” for Kim, but said he has received death threats for his repeated visits to this Dennis country and for calling Rodman Kim a “friend for life.”

“The way some of the statements and things that Dennis has said has tainted our efforts,” Smith said. “Dennis is a great guy, but how he articulates what goes on – he gets emotional and he says things that he’ll apologize for later.”

The White House said Tuesday it would not have approved Rodman’s latest trip to North Korea if it had any say in the matter. Spokesman Jay Carney said the visit was considered private travel and not subject to government review.

NBA commissioner David Stern has distanced his organization from Rodman’s squad.

“The NBA is not involved with Mr. Rodman’s North Korea trip and would not participate or support such a venture without the approval of the U.S. State Department,” he said in a statement. “Although sports in many instances can be helpful in bridging cultural divides, this is not one of them.”

Rodman is the highest-profile American to meet Kim since the

leader inherited power after his father, Kim Jong Il, died in late 2011.

He traveled to the North for the first time last February and came back just before Christmas to hold tryouts for the North Korean basketball team, although he did not meet with Kim then.

The plan to hold the game has been criticized because of the North’s human rights record, its development of nuclear weapons and its threats to use them if a conflict breaks out with Washington or Seoul. Rodman, in particular, has been slammed for not trying to use his influence with Kim to secure the release of Kenneth Bae, an American missionary with health problems who is being held in North Korea on charges of “anti-state” crimes.

8SPORTS SHORTS Judge: Paterno family lawsuit vs. NCAA can go on HARRISBURG, Pa. – Penn State University has to become involved in a lawsuit filed by Joe Paterno’s family and others against the NCAA in order for parts of it to proceed, a state judge ruled Tuesday.

The 25-page opinion by Judge John Leete delivered a mixed decision by dismissing some elements, keeping others alive and leaving the door open for an amended lawsuit to be filed.

Leete said breach of contract claims, however, cannot continue without Penn State’s participation because the school is an “indispensable party,” given that the lawsuit could affect the university’s interests and contractual rights.

8INSIDE GIRLS BASKETBALL Athlete of the Week JAZZA JOHNS Johnsburg, so., forward Johns scored 14 points in Johnsburg’s Fox Valley Conference Fox Division win Friday against Woodstock.

For an encore Saturday, the sophomore forward scored a game-high 23 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to lead the Skyhawks to a 58-57 nonconference win against St. Viator.

AP source: Petrino interviews for Louisville job

Noteworthy Johns bolsters Skyhawks: With the addition Johns to the Johnsburg lineup, the Skyhawks have gotten a boost on the court.

Johns gives the Skyhawks another formidable presence in the post to pair with junior forward Trace Chase. Together, Johns and Chase are one of the best scoring duos in the area. Friday against Woodstock, Johns’ athleticism and length gave the Blue Streaks problems whenever Johnsburg utilized the diamond press.

“That gives us a whole new look when we have almost two 6-footers underneath, and then you can kick it out to our [shooters],” Johnsburg coach Brad Frey said.

Game rescheduled: The cold weather forced area schools to close Monday and Tuesday, which also meant all activities and games were canceled.

The Crystal Lake Central-Prairie Ridge Fox Valley Conference crossover game, originally scheduled for Monday, is rescheduled for 2:30 p.m. Feb. 1 at Prairie Ridge.

Weather layoff effects preparation: FVC divisional play resumes Wednesday, but most teams will not have had much preparation heading into their respective games.

A three-day break heading into Wednesday’s games could lead to some sloppy games. But Huntley coach Steve Raethz said his team will be prepared for its game at McHenry after implementing some of the game plan last week.

“It’s something that we’re just going to have to deal with,” Raethz said. “We have a team meeting [Wednesday] to go over some things in regards to McHenry, but we’re just going to have to go out and play.”

This week’s top games Crystal Lake Central at Woodstock North, 7 p.m. Wednesday Crystal Lake Central needs a tough road win to stay in the upper half of the FVC Fox while Woodstock North is looking for its first division victory.

Marengo at Richmond-Burton, 7 p.m. Friday The two Big Northern Conference East Division foes square off for the first time this season.

Crystal Lake South at Cary-Grove, 2:30 p.m. Saturday A big game for both teams as the winner of South/C-G remains in FVC Valley title contention.

– Meghan Montemurro

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Norge Ski Club’s Kevin Bickner has been part of the U.S. National Development team for the past year and hopes to be improve the standing of American ski jumpers against the world’s best this month in Trentino, Italy.

Pair hopes to boost U.S. stature around world • SKI JUMPERS Continued from page C1 Following Glasder’s lead, Brown and Bickner hope to be part of the future of their sport. Both will leave Monday for Italy, where they will continue preparations for their respective world championships debut.

Bickner and Brown both remain dedicated to each chasing after a world championship among the 78 ski jumpers who will compete in Trentino. Despite sharing the same aspirations to reach the top of their sport, though, they won’t step on one another on their way to the desired destination.

“It’s not like a competitive, at each other’s throat, relationship,” Brown said. “It’s a friendly, push each other, [relationship]. We’re happy for each other.”

Each admits that he will be more re-

laxed heading into the world championships than he was going into the recent qualifying competition in Park City.

Brown and Bickner both feel as if they are well prepared for the biggest event they’ve participated in, again building off one another along the way.

It’s part of what makes their friendship unique in a competitive environment in which only a small number of opportunities to compete against the world’s best exist. Brown and Bickner both train with the same coaches and train with the same teammates and work toward the same goal of improving the reputation of U.S. ski jumping on the international stage.

“There’s nothing really to hide as a jumper,” Brown said. “We all know what we’re all working on. It’s all about what happens on the jump. It’s such a mental sport, and so there really aren’t any tricks we can pull out.”

Bickner’s world championship de-

but carries special meaning after he failed to qualify for the event last year.

Like Brown, he will take a worry-free approach into the competition, having spent the past year training to improve his performance. Although the pressure is off to be counted among the world’s best junior ski jumpers, Bickner has raised his expectations now that he has advanced past the qualifying stage.

Now, he said, it’s about making a dent in how American jumpers are perceived by their international competition.

“We feel like we’re getting better, and so we want to go over there and show, as a country, that we are improving and stepping it up in the world,” Bickner said. “I’d love to be one of those guys who really makes a difference in the sport. To be one of those guys who is suddenly winning all these competitions and is the first (from the U.S.) to do it, that would be awesome.”

Lane hoping tapes will impress Russell: It was • LANE Continued from page C1 Lane, who is 5-foot-9, 195 pounds, was able to lift weights with his upper body through the summer and fall months while rehabilitating his leg. It helped him maintain sanity.

“Every time I started thinking about my knee, I lifted upper body to get it out of my mind,” he said.

Lane now bench presses 300 pounds for four repetitions, which is significantly better than a year ago. He also deadlifted this week for the first time since the injury and had a personal best. He is working on speed and agility at Going Vertical in Huntley with trainers Mark Sommerville and Luke Rispoli.

“I’m pretty much back on track,” Lane said. “Speedwise, I’m maybe 70 percent. It will probably take two or three more months to get back or faster than where I was at.”

Squatting is one lift that Lane has not done with heavy weights yet, but that will come in ensuing weeks.

D-C managed to have its best season in 19 years despite missing its star player, a back who averaged 7.8 yards a carry in 2012 and was fourth in the area, without the benefit of any postseason games.

“It was hard. We were really excited about Cody coming back,” Chargers coach Vito Andriola said. “The first week after it happened, the kids acted like the season was over. It took us back.

We talked to the kids and him just being around was a good thing. That was really tough.”

Even without Lane, Andriola said he thought the Chargers had the best backfield he ever has coached. Running backs Caleb and Cordero Parson and T.J. Moss played well and D-C went 6-3 in the regular season. Lane provided another set of eyes for the coaching staff and offered help to the backs. When defensive back Malik Dunner was used more on offense late in the season, Lane was there to help him with where he needed to be.

“It was tough on [Lane],” Andriola said. “I told him it would be the hardest thing he’s ever done. He came around more and more and it got a little bit better (for him).”

Lane feels he had sufficient video from his junior season to show college coaches what he can do.

“I don’t think it affected my recruiting at all,” Lane said. “It would have helped to play, but personally I don’t think it affected any aspect at all. There are a lot of D-III schools in mind and a lot said they want me and I’m the best running back they’ve seen. That’s good to hear.”

Andriola said missing the season hurt Lane’s prospects, but sees one plus with not being on the field this season.

“When colleges came, we always talked about what he did as a junior,” Andriola said. “He’s a great kid, that’s one thing people should understand. It was tough for him to watch. Whoever gets him is going to get a hungry kid.”

‘uncomfortable’ to coach vs. D-C

• RUSSELL Continued from page C1 “It was uncomfortable to be there and play against my old players,” said Russell, who joins Raethz and assistant coach Paul Leiterman on the bench during varsity games. “I didn’t really like to do that, but it’s part of the job, so I have to. I didn’t want to coach against them, but that’s the way it is.”

As Huntley’s sophomore team has gotten to know Russell, the respect is there for a coach who still is D-C’s alltime leading scorer. Her team had a chance to see her name on the record board when Huntley played in a summer league at D-C. The work Russell accomplished in turning the Chargers from a twowin team in her first season into a second-place finish in the Fox Valley Conference Valley Division three years later stood out to Raethz.

“I went into it blind and with an open mind,” Russell said of the Huntley job. “I just took it for what it was.

Obviously, I miss the girls at DundeeCrown. I’ve known some of them for years and years growing up, so I miss that aspect and some of the parents.

But these (Huntley) girls are great.”

A person familiar with the situation said Western Kentucky coach Bobby Petrino has interviewed with Louisville for its opening.

The person said the former Arkansas coach met Tuesday with Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich, who is seeking a replacement for Charlie Strong after he took the Texas job over the weekend. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Dolphins general manager out after 6 seasons MIAMI – The first airborne banner calling for Jeff Ireland to be fired flew over the Miami Dolphins’ stadium in 2011.

Other similar signs followed, most recently in November, and Tuesday those wanting him out finally got their wish.

Ireland’s six-year stint as general manager ended with a brief announcement that he and owner Stephen Ross mutually agreed to part ways. The Dolphins said they would conduct an immediate search for a replacement to lead football operations.

Big Ten suspends Iowa’s McCaffery for 1 game DES MOINES, Iowa – The Big Ten suspended Iowa coach Fran McCaffery for one game and fined Iowa $10,000 on Tuesday for his outburst during a loss at Wisconsin.

McCaffery received back-toback technical fouls and was ejected for arguing with officials midway through the second half of Sunday’s game. The Big Ten said McCaffery’s actions violated the league’s sportsmanship policy.

McCaffery will sit out Thursday’s home game against Northwestern and assistant coach Kirk Speraw will take his place.

Close BCS title game draws fewer viewers PASADENA, Calif. – The BCS title game’s wild finish couldn’t draw in more TV viewers than last year’s blowout.

Florida State’s 34-31 win over Auburn on Monday was watched by an average of 25.6 million viewers on ESPN. That’s down 3 percent from the 26.4 million for Alabama’s 42-14 rout of Notre Dame in a matchup of two big-name programs. Auburn’s victory over Oregon in 2011 averaged 27.3 million viewers.

– Wire reports

BASEBALL HALL OF FAME

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Maddux will not be unanimous selection

By RONALD BLUM The Associated Press NEW YORK – Greg Maddux could break a 22-year-old record Wednesday, though he won’t become the first unanimous selection in the history of the baseball writers’ Hall of Fame ballot.

When Tom Seaver received 425 of 430 votes in 1992, his 98.84 percentage topped the mark set by Ty Cobb in 1936.

A dominant Tom Maddux pitcher when offense ruled in the Steroids Era, Maddux has a chance to enter Cooperstown with a little extra bit of fame.

Frank Thomas “I just have never come across any human being, whether they’re a voter or just a fan, that doesn’t think Greg Maddux is a Hall of Famer and one of the greatest pitchers who ever pitched,” The Boston Globe’s Nick Cafardo said Tuesday. “I can’t imagine someone not voting for him. So I would guess that he’s going to break Seaver’s record.”

Maddux is among three high-profile players on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot for the first time, joined by former Atlanta Braves teammate Tom Glavine and White Sox slugger Frank Thomas.

Holdovers include Craig Biggio, who topped voting at 68 percent last year, 39 votes short of the 75 percent needed for election. It was only the second time in four decades the BBWAA failed to elect anyone.

Ken Gurnick of MLB.com, a former reporter for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, said Tuesday the only player

Hall of Fame eligibles NEW YORK – Players on this year’s ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Election results will be announced Wednesday: Moises Alou, Jeff Bagwell, Armando Benitez, Craig Biggio, Barry Bonds, Sean Casey, Roger Clemens, Ray Durham, Eric Gagne, Tom Glavine, Luis Gonzalez, Jacque Jones, Todd Jones, Jeff Kent, Paul Lo Duca, Greg Maddux, Edgar Martinez, Don Mattingly, Fred McGriff, Mark McGwire, Jack Morris, Mike Mussina, Hideo Nomo, Rafael Palmeiro, Mike Piazza, Tim Raines, Kenny Rogers, Curt Schilling, Richie Sexson, Lee Smith, J.T. Snow, Sammy Sosa, Frank Thomas, Mike Timlin, Alan Trammell, Larry Walker he voted for was Jack Morris, on the writers’ ballot for the 15th and final time after falling 42 votes shy last year.

“To me, I didn’t exclude Maddux. I excluded everybody from that era, everybody from the Steroid Era,” Gurnick said.

“It wasn’t about Greg Maddux, it was about the entire era. I just don’t know who did and who didn’t.”

Gurnick said Morris also was the only player he voted for in 2013 and added he intends to abstain in future elections.

“Some people quibble over when the era starts, but the bulk of his career was in my opinion well before all of the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs,” Gurnick said.

Given that 569 ballots were submitted in 2013, Maddux likely could be omitted from six this year and still break Seaver’s record.

In 1992, Seaver was left off

by Paul Hagen of the Philadelphia Daily News, Bob Hertzel of The Pittsburgh Press and

freelance writer Bob Hunter.

They all submitted blank ballots to protest the decision by the Hall of Fame board of directors to bar Pete Rose from the vote because of his lifetime ban from baseball after a gambling probe.

Retired writers Deane McGowen and Bud Tucker also did not vote for Seaver.

“If it had cost Seaver anything, yeah, I probably would regret it at some level, but it didn’t really cost him anything,” Hagen, now with MLB.com, said Tuesday. “He still got the highest vote (percentage) total ever, and he wouldn’t have been unanimous anyway.”

The Steroids Era has affected the vote totals of players with stellar statistics. In initial appearances last year, Mike Piazza was at 57.8 percent, Roger Clemens at 37.6, Barry Bonds at 36.2 and Sammy Sosa at 12.5. Mark McGwire received 16.9 on his seventh try.

The Baseball Think Factory website compiled votes by writers who made their opinions public, and with 161 ballots had Maddux at 99 percent, followed by Glavine (96), Thomas (91) and Biggio (79).

The website’s count had Piazza (68), Jeff Bagwell (61) and Morris (60) falling short along with Tim Raines (55), Bonds (42), Clemens (41), Curt Schilling (37) and Mike Mussina (29).

McGwire (14) and Sosa (8) had little support.

Eighth on the wins list with a 355-227 record and a 3.16 ERA over 23 seasons, Maddux won four consecutive Cy Young Awards from 1992-95 and a record 18 Gold Gloves with the Cubs, Atlanta, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego. An eight-time All-Star, he won at least 13 games in 20 straight seasons.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 • Page C3

Last chance for Jack Morris

By DAVE CAMPBELL The Associated Press Mirroring his career as one of the sport’s toughest starting pitchers, the case for making Jack Morris a Hall of Famer has grown stronger as the game has gone on.

To leave this metaphorical mound with one more victory, though, Morris needs a furious late rally behind him.

The results will be announced Wednesday.

“The trend has been that when you get to that point, there’s that last push to get you over the hump, so I’m hoping that’s the case,” former teammate Alan Trammell said.

Bert Blyleven was elected in his 14th year in 2011. Jim Rice made it in his 15th year in 2009. Bruce Sutter was inducted in his 13th year in 2006.

Morris finished second on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot last year with 67.7 percent of

the vote, behind Craig Biggio with 68.2 percent. Election requires three-quarters or more of all ballots cast, so Morris was 42 votes short.

The 10-player maximum per ballot rule ultimately could cost Morris a spot in his 15th and final year of eligibility. Newcomers Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Jack Morris Mike Mussina, all premier starting pitchers of their generation, have warranted heavy consideration

by BBWAA voters along with slugger Frank Thomas. The performance-enhancing-drug specter over many of the sluggers still eligible has slowed the pace of inductions over the past five or so years, crowding the ballot more than ever. Nobody was elected in 2013.

Steroids helped Morris with at least one voter,

though. Ken Gurnick of MLB. com, a former reporter for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, revealed the only player he voted for was Morris. He said he excluded everybody from the Steroids Era. Morris has 254 wins, which ranks 43rd. He’s 32nd in strikeouts and 50th in innings on the career lists, and his 3.90 ERA would be the highest of any pitcher in the Hall.

Over his best decade of work from 1983-92, identifying a better starting pitcher other than Roger Clemens is difficult.

Morris made 34 or more starts in all but one of those seasons, averaging 247 innings a year. He led the American League in strikeouts and innings in 1983, shutouts in 1986, complete games in 1990 and wins in 1992. Then there are the three World Series rings: with Detroit in 1984, Minnesota in 1991 and Toronto in 1992.

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Page C4 • Wednesday, January 8, 2014

SOCHI OLYMPICS

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

FIVE-DAY PLANNER

U.S. skiing star Vonn out

TEAM

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

N.Y. RANGERS 7 p.m.

NBCSN AM-720

By HOWARD FENDRICH and PAT GRAHAM

at Milwaukee 7:30 p.m.

CSN AM-720

The Associated Press Less than two weeks after reconstructive surgery on her right knee in February 2013, Lindsey Vonn already was sounding a positive note, saying she was “really looking forward to Sochi” and defending her Olympic downhill gold medal.

Along the way to the next Winter Games, though, Vonn began facing setbacks. As she’d move past one, another would surface. In the end, it was too much, even for Vonn, the most accomplished U.S. ski racer in history. Expected to be one of the biggest stars at these Olympics, Vonn announced Tuesday – exactly one month before the opening ceremony – she won’t be able to race in Russia.

In a Facebook posting, Vonn said she is “devastated” to miss the Olympics, “but the reality has sunk in that my knee is just too unstable to compete at this level.”

Her personal publicist, Lewis Kay, said in a statement the 29-yearold from Vail, Colo., will have knee surgery again “shortly.”

Like many in her risk-filled sport, Vonn has dealt with injuries often, particularly at major events.

She withdrew midway through the 2011 world championships because of a concussion. She raced with a severely bruised shin in the last Olympics. She skipped a race in the 2009 worlds after slicing her

Wild-card Playoffs Saturday Indianapolis 45, Kansas City 44 New Orleans 26, Philadelphia 24 Sunday San Diego 27, Cincinnati 10 San Francisco 23, Green Bay 20 Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 11 New Orleans at Seattle, 3:35 p.m. (Fox) Indianapolis at New England, 7:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday, Jan. 12 San Francisco at Carolina, 12:05 p.m.

(Fox) San Diego at Denver, 3:40 p.m. (CBS) Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 19 AFC, 2 p.m. (CBS) NFC, 5:30 p.m. (Fox) Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 26 At Honolulu TBD, 6:30 p.m. (NBC) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 2 At East Rutherford, N.J. AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 5:30 p.m. (Fox)

NFL CALENDAR Jan. 11-12 — Division-round playoffs Jan. 19 — Conference championships Feb. 1 — NFL Honors awards show at New York Feb. 2 — Super Bowl at East Rutherford, N.J.

NFL DRAFT

NHL GA 124 95 108 113 131 131 139 GA 111 114 89 108 127 137 156 GA 89 102 103 121 132 141 136 118 GA 103 118 128 124 119 113 126 149

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

Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 5, Toronto 3 Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 2, OT Nashville 3, San Jose 2 Tampa Bay 4, Winnipeg 2 Phoenix 6, Calgary 0 Carolina at Buffalo, ppd., weather St. Louis at Edmonton (n) Pittsburgh at Vancouver (n) Boston at Anaheim (n) Minnesota at Los Angeles (n) Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Rangers at Blackhawks, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Colorado, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Florida at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Dallas at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Washington at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Nashville, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Boston at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

Detroit at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Columbus 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, SO N.Y. Islanders 7, Dallas 3 Montreal 2, Florida 1 Calgary 4, Colorado 3

CALENDAR Jan. 25 — NHL Stadium Series: Anaheim Ducks vs. Los Angeles Kings at Dodger Stadium.

Jan. 26 — NHL Stadium Series: New York Rangers vs. New Jersey Devils at Yankee Stadium.

Jan. 29 — NHL Stadium Series: New York Rangers vs. New York Islanders at Yankee Stadium.

Feb. 6-8 — Olympic break begins.

at Montreal 6 p.m.

WGN, NHLN AM-720

EDMONTON 6 p.m.

CSN AM-720

CHARLOTTE 7 p.m.

CSN AM-1000

8 p.m.: Illinois at Wisconsin, BTN, AM-670 10 p.m.: Boise State at San Diego State, ESPNU

TV/Radio MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 6 p.m.: Kansas at Oklahoma, ESPN2 6 p.m.: Georgetown at Providence, FS1 6 p.m.: Harvard at Connecticut, ESPNU 6 p.m.: Minnesota at Penn State, BTN 7 p.m.: Southern Illinois at Loyola Chicago, CSN 8 p.m.: Miami at North Carolina, ESPN2 8 p.m.: Texas at Oklahoma State, ESPNU

NBA 6 p.m.: Dallas at San Antonio, ESPN 8:30 p.m.: Phoenix at Minnesota, ESPN

NHL 7 p.m.: N.Y. Rangers at Blackhawks, NBCSN, AM-720

AP file photo

Lindsey Vonn speaks at a news conferencen Nov. 8 in Gold Peak, Vail, Colo. Vonn is going to skip the Sochi Olympics because of a right knee injury. thumb open on a champagne bottle.

She hurt her knee in training and missed a pair of races in the 2007 worlds. She took a scary fall during training in the 2006 Olympics, then left the hospital to compete.

“She’s come back. She’ll be back,” Vonn’s father, Alan Kildow, said in a telephone interview.

“You’ll see a lot of Lindsey Vonn in the future.”

Vonn left the 2010 Vancouver Games with two medals: the first Olympic downhill gold for an American woman, and a bronze in the super-G. She is also a four-time overall World Cup champion, by far the most recognized name in Alpine skiing at the moment – and, as

it happens, the girlfriend of Tiger Woods.

Add it all up, and she would have been the focus of plenty of media coverage in Sochi, certainly a main character in NBC’s coverage for a U.S. audience.

“Without Lindsey Vonn, the races are just not the same,” Canadian women’s Alpine coach Hugues Ansermoz said last month. “She just attracts so much interest. When Lindsey Vonn is here, there are more people coming to watch the race, there is more interest on TV, more journalists are interested.

And her relationship with Tiger Woods makes even more people interested.”

BASKETBALL

Russell Bodine, OL, North Carolina Blake Bortles, QB, UCF Chris Boyd, WR, Vanderbilt Teddy Bridgewater, QB, Louisville Jadeveon Clowney, DE, South Carolina Brandon Coleman, WR, Rutgers Brandin Cooks, WR, Oregon State Scott Crichton, DE, Oregon State Alvin Dupree, DE, Kentucky Dominique Easley, DT, Florida Kony Ealy, DE, Missouri Eric Ebron, TE, North Carolina Bruce Ellington, WR, South Carolina Mike Evans, WR, Texas A&M Khairi Fortt, LB, California Kameron Jackson, CB, California Storm Johnson, RB, UCF Marqise Lee, WR, Southern Cal Marcus Martin, C, Southern Cal Terrance Mitchell, CB, Oregon Donte Moncrief, WR, Mississippi Jake Murphy, TE, Utah Louis Nix III, NG, Notre Dame Ronald Powell, LB, Florida Loucheiz Purifoy, CB, Florida Darrin Reaves, RB, UAB Antonio Richardson, OT, Tennessee Paul Richardson, WR, Colorado Marcus Roberson, CB, Florida Richard Rodgers, TE, California Bishop Sankey, RB, Washington Lache Seastrunk, RB, Baylor Austin Seferian-Jenkins, TE, Washington Ryan Shazier, LB, Ohio State Brett Smith, QB, Wyoming De’Anthony Thomas, RB, Oregon Stephon Tuitt, DE, Notre Dame George Uko, DL, Southern Cal Sammy Watkins, WR, Clemson

COLLEGE SCHEDULE

HOCKEY

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Blackhawks 45 29 7 9 67 167 St. Louis 41 29 7 5 63 150 Colorado 42 26 12 4 56 123 Minnesota 44 22 17 5 49 106 Dallas 42 20 15 7 47 123 Nashville 44 19 19 6 44 105 Winnipeg 46 19 22 5 43 125 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF Anaheim 44 31 8 5 67 146 San Jose 44 27 11 6 60 144 Los Angeles 43 26 13 4 56 113 Vancouver 44 23 13 8 54 117 Phoenix 42 21 12 9 51 129 Calgary 43 15 22 6 36 100 Edmonton 45 14 26 5 33 117 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Boston 42 28 12 2 58 124 Tampa Bay 43 26 13 4 56 123 Montreal 44 25 14 5 55 114 Detroit 43 19 14 10 48 114 Toronto 44 21 18 5 47 122 Ottawa 44 19 18 7 45 126 Florida 43 16 21 6 38 102 Buffalo 42 12 26 4 28 74 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 44 31 12 1 63 142 Philadelphia 43 22 17 4 48 114 Washington 42 20 16 6 46 128 Carolina 43 18 16 9 45 105 N.Y. Rangers 44 21 20 3 45 108 New Jersey 44 17 18 9 43 103 Columbus 43 19 20 4 42 117 N.Y. Islanders 45 16 22 7 39 124

SUNDAY

ON TAP WEDNESDAY

Saturday, Jan. 18 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 3 p.m. (NFLN)

Early Entries Davante Adams, WR, Fresno St. Dion Bailey, S, Southern Cal

SATURDAY

at Milwaukee 7 p.m.

WCUU

FOOTBALL NFL

FRIDAY

Feb. 12 — Olympic men’s hockey tournament begins: Sochi, Russia.

Feb. 23 — Olympic men’s hockey gold-medal game: Sochi, Russia.

Feb. 26 — NHL regular season resumes.

SCORING LEADERS Through Jan. 6 GP Sidney Crosby, Pit 44 Patrick Kane, Hawks 45 John Tavares, NYI 43 Ryan Getzlaf, Anh 41 Joe Thornton, SJ 43 Chris Kunitz, Pit 44 Patrick Sharp, Hawks 45 Nicklas Backstrom, Was 42 Corey Perry, Anh 44 Jonathan Toews, Hawks 45 Evgeni Malkin, Pit 33 Alexander Ovechkin, Was 40 Kyle Okposo, NYI 43 Duncan Keith, Hawks 45

G 23 23 20 20 5 23 25 10 23 15 11 31 16 3

A PTS 40 63 31 54 31 51 28 48 43 48 24 47 21 46 36 46 21 44 29 44 33 44 12 43 26 42 39 42

AHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division W L OL SL Pts GF Grand Rapids 23 9 1 2 49 121 Wolves 19 13 1 2 41 103 Milwaukee 17 10 5 1 40 87 Rockford 16 16 3 2 37 104 Iowa 14 14 2 2 32 78 North Division W L OL SL Pts GF Toronto 19 11 2 1 41 95 Hamilton 17 14 0 4 38 88 Lake Erie 17 13 0 3 37 93 Rochester 14 12 3 3 34 91 Utica 11 18 1 2 25 76 West Division W L OL SL Pts GF Abbotsford 23 12 1 1 48 117 Texas 21 10 2 3 47 128 Oklahoma City 13 17 1 5 32 100 Charlotte 15 18 0 1 31 93 San Antonio 13 20 0 3 29 93 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L OL SL Pts GF Manchester 23 9 2 4 52 117 Providence 19 11 1 5 44 124 St. John’s 18 14 1 2 39 105 Portland 14 13 1 4 33 89 Worcester 14 15 2 1 31 73 East Division W L OL SL Pts GF Binghamton 21 10 0 3 45 122 W-B/Scranton 20 10 1 3 44 99 Norfolk 18 12 1 4 41 101 Hershey 15 12 3 3 36 103 Syracuse 14 14 2 3 33 89 Northeast Division W L OL SL Pts GF Springfield 25 5 1 3 54 111 Albany 19 10 3 2 43 104 Adirondack 18 13 0 2 38 79 Bridgeport 13 18 1 4 31 89 Hartford 11 17 0 5 27 75

GA 83 95 86 127 88 GA 83 96 98 99 100 GA 102 101 121 108 114

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct Indiana 28 6 .824 Bulls 15 18 .455 Detroit 14 21 .400 Cleveland 12 23 .343 Milwaukee 7 27 .206 Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 16 17 .485 Brooklyn 13 21 .382 Boston 13 22 .371 New York 12 22 .353 Philadelphia 12 23 .343 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 27 8 .771 Atlanta 18 17 .514 Washington 15 17 .469 Charlotte 15 21 .417 Orlando 10 24 .294 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 27 8 .771 Houston 22 13 .629 Dallas 20 15 .571 New Orleans 15 18 .455 Memphis 15 19 .441 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 27 8 .771 Portland 26 8 .765 Denver 17 17 .500 Minnesota 17 17 .500 Utah 12 25 .324 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 24 13 .649 L.A. Clippers 24 13 .649 Phoenix 20 13 .606 L.A. Lakers 14 21 .400 Sacramento 10 22 .313

GB — 12½ 14½ 16½ 21 GB — 3½ 4 4½ 5 GB — 9 10½ 12½ 16½ GB — 5 7 11 11½ GB — ½ 9½ 9½ 16 GB — — 2 9 11½

Tuesday’s Games Bulls 92, Phoenix 87 Indiana 86, Toronto 79 Cleveland 111, Philadelphia 93 Washington 97, Charlotte 83 Miami 107, New Orleans 88 New York 89, Detroit 85 Golden State 101, Milwaukee 80 San Antonio 110, Memphis 108, OT Dallas 110, L.A. Lakers 97 Denver 129, Boston 98 Utah 112, Oklahoma City 101 Portland at Sacramento (n) Wednesday’s Games Dallas at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Indiana at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Houston, 7 p.m.

Washington at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.

Orlando at Portland, 9 p.m.

Boston at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Miami at New York, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Denver, 9:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Minnesota 126, Philadelphia 95 Brooklyn 91, Atlanta 86 L.A. Clippers 101, Orlando 81

BULLS 92, SUNS 87 PHOENIX (87) Tucker 1-2 2-2 4, Frye 5-11 0-0 11, Plumlee 5-11 1-2 11, Dragic 8-17 3-3 21, Green 6-16 0-0 15, Mark.Morris 2-9 2-2 6, Marc.Morris 1-4 2-2 4, Len 1-1 1-2 3, Goodwin 0-1 0-0 0, Smith 4-8 2-4 10, Christmas 0-2 2-2 2. Totals 33-82 15-19 87.

CHICAGO (92) Dunleavy 4-9 0-0 8, Gibson 9-16 1-4 19, Noah 5-15 4-6 14, Hinrich 3-5 1-2 9, Butler 4-18 5-6 13, Augustin 4-9 3-4 13, Mohammed 2-3 0-1 4, Snell 5-7 0-0 12.

Totals 36-82 14-23 92.

Phoenix Chicago

25 21 17 24 — 87 27 22 21 22 — 92

3-Point Goals-Phoenix 6-23 (Green 3-10, Dragic 2-3, Frye 1-3, Christmas 0-1, Marc.Morris 0-1, Mark.Morris 0-2, Smith 0-3), Chicago 6-14 (Hinrich 2-2, Snell 2-3, Augustin 2-4, Dunleavy 0-1, Butler 0-4).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Phoenix 49 (Plumlee, Frye 7), Chicago 59 (Noah 16). Assists-Phoenix 12 (Smith 3), Chicago 26 (Augustin 9). Total Fouls-Phoenix 21, Chicago 18. Technicals-Noah.

A-21,181 (20,917).

MEN’S COLLEGE TOP 25 FARED

GA 101 107 94 101 95 GA 105 82 94 96 103 GA 82 88 76 117 105

NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Tuesday’s Games St. John’s 4, Portland 2 Springfield 3, Albany 2 San Antonio 5, Abbotsford 1 Wednesday’s Games Rockford at Grand Rapids, 6 p.m.

Syracuse at W-B/Scranton, 6:05 p.m.

Binghamton at Rochester, 6:05 p.m.

Utica at Oklahoma City, ppd., weather Thursday’s Games Utica at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Tuesday 1. Arizona (15-0) did not play. Next: at UCLA, Thursday.

2. Syracuse (15-0) beat Virginia Tech 72-52. Next: vs. North Carolina, Saturday.

3. Ohio State (15-1) lost to No. 5 Michigan State 72-68, OT. Next: vs. No. 20 Iowa, Saturday.

4. Wisconsin (15-0) did not play. Next: vs. No. 23 Illinois, Wednesday.

5. Michigan State (14-1) beat No. 3 Ohio State 72-68, OT. Next: vs. Minnesota, Saturday.

6. Wichita State (15-0) did not play.

Next: vs. Illinois State, Wednesday.

7. Baylor (12-2) lost to No. 9 Iowa State 87-72. Next: vs. TCU, Saturday.

8. Villanova (13-1) did not play. Next: at Seton Hall, Wednesday.

9. Iowa State (14-0) beat No. 7 Baylor 87-72. Next: at Oklahoma, Saturday.

10. Florida (11-2) did not play. Next: vs.

South Carolina, Wednesday.

11. Oklahoma State (12-2) did not play.

Next: vs. Texas, Wednesday.

12. Louisville (13-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 24 Memphis, Thursday.

13. San Diego State (12-1) did not play.

Next: vs. Boise State, Wednesday.

14. Kentucky (10-3) did not play. Next: vs. Mississippi State, Wednesday.

15. Colorado (13-2) did not play. Next: at Washington State, Wednesday.

16. Duke (12-3) beat Georgia Tech 7957. Next: at Clemson, Saturday.

17. Oregon (13-1) did not play. Next: vs. California, Thursday.

18. Kansas (9-4) did not play. Next: at Oklahoma, Wednesday.

19. UMass (12-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Saint Joseph’s, Wednesday.

20. Iowa (12-3) did not play. Next: vs.

Northwestern, Thursday.

21. Missouri (12-1) did not play. Next: vs. Georgia, Wednesday.

22. Gonzaga (14-2) did not play. Next: at Portland, Thursday.

23. Illinois (13-2) did not play. Next: at No. 4 Wisconsin, Wednesday.

24. Memphis (10-3) did not play. Next: at No. 12 Louisville, Thursday.

25. Kansas State (12-3) beat TCU 65-47.

Next: at No. 18 Kansas, Saturday.

Tuesday’s Games MIDWEST Creighton 81, DePaul 62 Green Bay 98, Chicago St. 62 Iowa St. 87, Baylor 72 NC State 77, Notre Dame 70 St. Olaf 71, Concordia (Moor.) 61 Youngstown St. 75, Ill.-Chicago 62 EAST Baruch 69, Brooklyn 61 Boston U. 55, Navy 32 Brown 72, New Hampshire 68 Castleton St. 92, Colby-Sawyer 67 Dominican (NY) 98, Daemen 90, OT Gordon 76, W. New England 64 Hartford 68, Dartmouth 56 SUNY-IT 95, Utica 77 Saint Louis 59, Rhode Island 58 York (NY) 94, CCNY 72 SOUTH Alabama 68, Vanderbilt 63 Asbury 94, Berea 86 Benedict 76, LeMoyne-Owen 63 Coll. of Charleston 75, James Madison 61 Duke 79, Georgia Tech 57 Middle Tennessee 74, Tennessee St. 66 NC Central 74, Hampton 61 Syracuse 72, Virginia Tech 52 Tennessee 68, LSU 50 SOUTHWEST Cincinnati 61, Houston 60 Kansas St. 65, TCU 47 Mary Hardin-Baylor 76, Concordia-Austin 74

CONFERENCE STANDINGS Big Ten Conf 3-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 2-1 1-1 1-1 0-2 0-2 0-2 0-2 0-2

All 14-1 15-0 13-2 10-4 15-1 12-3 12-3 10-5 10-5 9-6 8-6 7-8

Horizon League Conf 2-0 1-0 1-1 1-1 1-1 1-1 1-1 1-2 0-2

All 12-3 8-8 11-5 9-7 9-8 9-8 6-11 10-8 5-11

Michigan St. (5) Wisconsin (4) Illinois (23) Michigan Ohio St. (3) Minnesota Iowa (20) Purdue Indiana Penn St. Nebraska Northwestern

Green Bay Detroit Wis. Milwaukee Cleveland St. Valparaiso Wright St. Oakland Youngstown St. Ill. Chicago

Mid-American Conf East Ohio 0-0 Kent St. 0-0 Akron 0-0 Buffalo 0-0 Bowling Green 0-0 Miami (OH) 0-0 West Toledo 0-0 East. Michigan 0-0 Cent. Michigan 0-0 W. Michigan 0-0 Northern Illinois 0-0 Ball St. 0-0

All 10-3 9-4 8-5 6-4 6-7 4-7 12-1 8-5 7-5 7-5 6-6 3-8

Big East Creighton Villanova (8) Xavier Georgetown Seton Hall Marquette Butler Providence St. John’s DePaul

Conf 3-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 1-1 1-1 0-2 0-2 0-2 0-2

All 13-2 13-1 12-3 10-3 10-5 9-6 10-4 10-5 9-5 8-8

WOMEN’S COLLEGE Tuesday’s Games MIDWEST Alverno 78, Marian (Wis.) 66 Concordia (Moor.) 83, St. Olaf 57 E. Illinois 75, E. Kentucky 71 Finlandia 98, Northland 56 Rutgers 78, Cincinnati 58 W. Michigan 82, Buffalo 72 EAST Baruch 57, Brooklyn 44 CCNY 52, York (N.Y.) 51 Daemen 80, Dominican (N.Y.) 64 E. Mennonite 80, Washington Adventist 57 Marist 78, Siena 60 Misericordia 65, Drew 58 Mount St. Vincent 69, Purchase St. 58 New Hampshire 58, Yale 53 UConn 90, Houston 40 W. New England 66, Gordon 42 SOUTH Asbury 83, Berea 78 Benedict 68, LeMoyne-Owen 63 Delaware St. 75, NJIT 72, OT South Florida 64, Temple 51 Southern Poly St. 73, Xavier (NO) 63 Winthrop 68, NC Central 46 SOUTHWEST Mary Hardin-Baylor 71, Concordia-Austin 64 SMU 80, Memphis 75, 2OT

BETTING ODDS

PREPS SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY

Girls Basketball: Crystal Lake Central at Woodstock North, Jacobs at CaryGrove, Dundee-Crown at Prairie Ridge, Hampshire at Woodstock, Huntley at McHenry, 7 p.m., Johnsburg at Rockford Lutheran, 7:15 p.m.

Boys Swimming: Jacobs co-op, Huntley at Dundee-Crown, 4:30 p.m.

Wrestling: Marengo, Woodstock, Belvidere at Marian Central Quad, 9 a.m., Johnsburg at Crystal Lake South, 6:30 p.m.

Boys Bowling: Marengo at Huntley, Woodstock at Elgin, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Bowling: Huntley at Marengo, 4:30 p.m.

THURSDAY

Boys Basketball: Alden-Hebron at Christian Life, 7 p.m.

Boys Swimming: McHenry at DeKalb, 5 p.m.

Wrestling: Marengo at Stillman Valley, 5 p.m.; Grayslake Central at Woodstock North, Woodstock at Crystal Lake Central, 6 p.m.; Crystal Lake South at Cary-Grove, 6:15 p.m.; Johnsburg at Hampshire, McHenry at Dundee-Crown, Jacobs at Huntley, Grayslake North at Prairie Ridge, 6:30 p.m.

Boys Bowling: Woodstock at Glenbrook North, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Bowling: Huntley at St. Charles East, Woodstock at Marengo, 4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY

Boys Basketball: Cary-Grove at Prairie Ridge, Crystal Lake South at McHenry, Huntley at Dundee-Crown, Hampshire at

Grayslake North, Crystal Lake Central at Grayslake Central, Richmond-Burton at Burlington Central, Rockford Christian at Marengo, North Boone at Harvard, Johnsburg at Woodstock North, Harvest Christian at Alden-Hebron, 7 p.m.; Marian Central at St. Edwards, 7:30 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Marengo at Richmond-Burton, 7 p.m.

Wrestling: Harvard at Princeton Invite, 4:30 p.m.; Cary-Grove at Jacobs, 6:15 p.m.; Rockford Lutheran at Woodstock, Grayslake Central at Dundee-Crown, 6:30 p.m.

SATURDAY

Girls Basketball: Crystal Lake South at Cary-Grove, Woodstock at Crystal Lake Central, Johnsburg at Hampshire, 2:30 p.m., McHenry at Dundee-Crown, Jacobs at Huntley, Marian Central at St. Francis, Woodstock North at Grayslake Central 7 p.m.

Girls Gymnastics: Prairie Ridge at Lake Forest Invitational, 6 p.m.

Boys Swimming: Cary-Grove co-op at Elk Grove Invite, Noon; Jacobs co-op, Dundee-Crown at Maine South Relays, 1:30 p.m.

Wrestling: Johnsburg at Round Lake Triangular, Crystal Lake Central at Waubonsie Valley Quad, Woodstock North, Marengo, Hampshire at Sycamore, Harvard at Princeton Invite, Richmond-Burton at Grayslake North, Cary-Grove, Huntley, McHenry at Sycamore Invite, Dundee-Crown at Newbill Invite, 9 a.m.

Boys Bowling: Marengo at Lake Zurich, 9 a.m.

Girls Bowling: McHenry at Grant, Dundee-Crown, Jacobs at Grant Bulldog Bowling Invite, Marengo at IMSA, 8 a.m.

COMMUNITY GOLF McHENRY COUNTY SENIOR LEAGUE

The McHenry County Senior Golf League will play on Monday mornings and is accepting new members for the spring schedule. Men 55 years old or older should contact Bob Kelly at 847-220-8174 for more information. League play will run from May through Oct. 1.

BASKETBALL MEN’S HALF COURT Spend your Tuesday evenings playing some recreational, yet competitive, basketball. Get your friends together and sign up for this high energy sport. Registration is currently in progress for our 3 on 3 Half Court Basketball League that begins

on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at the McHenry Middle School. The cost is $195 a team. A league roster and an information flyer are available on our website at www.ci.mchenry.il.us or call the McHenry Parks and Recreation at 815-363-2160.

VOLLEYBALL CO-REC VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE If you like volleyball and want to have fun get your friends together and form a team. Registration is currently in progress for our Co-Rec Volleyball League that begins on Thursday, Jan. 30 at the McHenry East Campus High School. The cost is $280 a team. Call the McHenry Parks & Recreation Department at 815-363-2160 or check our website at www.ci.mchenry.il.us for more information.

GLANTZ-CULVER LINE FAVORITE

PTS O/U Saturday at Seattle 8 (46½) at New England 7½ (53) Sunday San Francisco 2 (42) at Denver 10 (55)

UNDERDOG New Orleans Indianapolis at Carolina San Diego

NCAA Basketball FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at Cleveland St. 7 Detroit at Cent. Michigan 2½ Miami (Ohio) at UConn 5 Harvard at Oakland 7 Milwaukee Akron 6½ at Ball St. Toledo 3 at W. Michigan at Delaware 14 Hofstra at Northeastern 7½ UNC Wilmington at William & Mary Pk Drexel Minnesota 1 at Penn St. at Florida 16½ South Carolina at Buffalo 15 N. Illinois at Bowling Green 1½ E. Michigan at Kent St. 3 Ohio at Virginia 10 Wake Forest at St. Bonaventure 2½ Richmond at Duquesne Pk Fordham at UMass 8 Saint Joseph’s Villanova 7½ at Seton Hall Georgetown 2 at Providence Kansas 5 at Oklahoma at Loyola of Chicago 4 S. Illinois at Bradley Pk Missouri St. at Drake Pk Indiana St. N. Iowa 3½ at Evansville at Wichita St. 19½ Illinois St. at Missouri 13 Georgia at Kentucky 20½ Mississippi St. Arkansas 2 at Texas A&M at Wisconsin 11 Illinois Colorado 9 Washington St.-x at Oklahoma St. 14 Texas at North Carolina 10½ Miami at UNLV 10 Nevada Colorado St. 7 at San Jose St. at Fresno St. 6½ Air Force New Mexico 3½ at Wyoming at Washington 2½ Utah at San Diego St. 8½ Boise St. at E. Kentucky 8 Murray St. at Fairfield 4½ St. Peter’s x-at Spokane, Wash.

NBA FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG at Toronto 5 (196) Detroit at San Antonio 7 (207½) Dallas Golden State 5 (199) at Brooklyn Indiana 5 (191) at Atlanta at New Orleans 4½ (201) Washington at Minnesota 7½ (211) Phoenix at Houston 12 (213) L.A. Lakers at Portland 12 (205) Orlando at L.A. Clippers 9 (196) Boston NHL FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at Blackhawks -220 N.Y. Rangers +180 Montreal -115 at Philadelphia -105 at Colorado -145 Ottawa +125

TRANSACTIONS

GOLF

PROS PGA TOUR SCHEDULE Jan. 3-6 — Hyundai Tournament of Champions (Zach Johnson) Jan. 9-12 — Sony Open, Waialae CC, Honolulu Jan. 16-19 — Humana Challenge, PGA West (Palmer Private, Nicklaus Private), La Quinta CC, La Quinta, Calif.

Jan. 23-26 — Farmers Insurance Open, Torrey Pines GC (North and South), San Diego Jan. 30-Feb. 2 — Waste Management Phoenix Open, TPC Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Feb. 6-9 — AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, Monterey Peninsula (Shore Course), Pebble Beach, Calif.

Feb. 13-16 — Northern Trust Open, Riviera CC, Los Angeles Feb. 19-23 — WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Ritz-Carlton GC at Dove Mountain, Marana, Ariz.

Feb. 27-March 2 — Honda Classic, PGA National GC, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. March 6-9 — WGC-Cadillac Championship, TPC Blue Monster at Doral, Doral, Fla. March 6-9 — Puerto Rico Open, Trump International GC, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico March 13-16 — Valspar Championship, Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead Course), Palm Harbor, Fla. March 20-23 — Arnold Palmer Invitational, Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Fla. March 27-30 — Valero Texas Open, TPC San Antonio (AT&T Oaks Course), San Antonio April 3-6 — Shell Houston Open, Redstone GC (Tournament Course), Humble, Texas April 10-13 — Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC, Augusta, Ga. April 17-20 — RBC Heritage, Harbour Town GL, Hilton Head Island, S.C. April 24-27 — Zurich Classic, TPC Louisiana, New Orleans May 1-4 — Wells Fargo Championship, Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, N.C. May 8-11 — The Players Championship, TPC Sawgrass (Players Stadium Course), Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. May 15-18 — HP Byron Nelson Championship, TPC Four Seasons Resort, Las Colinas, Texas May 22-25 — Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, Colonial CC, Fort Worth, Texas May 29-June 1 — Memorial Tournament, Muirfield Village GC, Dublin, Ohio June 5-8 — FedEx St. Jude Classic, TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tenn.

June 12-15 — U.S. Open, Pinehurst No. 2, Pinehurst, N.C. June 19-22 — Travelers Championship, TPC River Highlands, Hartford, Conn.

June 26-29 — AT&T National, Congressional CC (Blue Course), Bethesda, Md. July 3-6 — The Greenbrier Classic, The Greenbrier (The Old White TPC), White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. July 10-13 — John Deere Classic, TPC Deere Run, Silvis July 17-20 — The Open Championship, Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, England July 24-27 — RBC Canadian Open, Royal Montreal GC, Ile-Bizard, Quebec July 31-Aug. 3 — WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Firestone CC (South Course), Akron, Ohio July 31-Aug. 3 — Reno-Tahoe Open, Montreaux Golf & CC, Reno, Nev. Aug. 7-10 — PGA Championship, Valhalla GC, Louisville, Ky. Aug. 14-17 — Wyndham Championship, Sedgefield CC, Greensboro, N.C. Aug. 21-24 — The Barclays, Ridgewood CC, Paramus, N.J. Aug. 29-Sept. 1 — Deutsche Bank Championship, TPC Boston, Norton, Mass.

Sept. 4-7 — BMW Championship, Cherry Hills CC, Cherry Hills Village, Colo.

Sept. 11-14 — Tour Championship, East Lake GC, Atlanta Sept. 26-28 — Ryder Cup, Glenagles Hotel, Perthshire, Scotland

RYDER CUP POINTS At Gleneagles Hotel Gleneagles, Scotland Sept. 26-28, 2014 Through Jan. 6 United States 1. Phil Mickelson 2,353.90 2. Jason Dufner 2,223.20 3. Dustin Johnson 2,012.41 4. Ryan Moore 1,778.50 5. Webb Simpson 1,758.50 6. Zach Johnson 1,746.68 7. Harris English 1,627.56 8. Jimmy Walker 1,409.83 9. Chris Kirk 1,188.86 10. Jim Furyk 921.04 11. Gary Woodland 900.60 12. Jason Bohn 859.00 13. Matt Kuchar 832.39 14. Jordan Spieth 779.64 15. Brandt Snedeker 752.95 Europe European Points 1. Ian Poulter 1541652.26 2. Thomas Bjorn 1525175.86 3. Victor Dubuisson 1478391.38 4. Henrik Stenson 1440939.97 5. Jamie Donaldson 1385379.56 6. Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano 1087850.43 7. Joost Luiten 874572.65 8. Francesco Molinari 786403.62 9. Justin Rose 765772.98 10. David Howell 742852.30 World Points 1. Henrik Stenson 240.65 2. Thomas Bjorn 119.13 3. Sergio Garcia 111.26 4. Ian Poulter 108.43 5. Victor Dubuisson 94.38 6. Jamie Donaldson 82.12 7. Justin Rose 78.84 8. Rory McIlroy 70.84 9. Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano 70.33 10. Luke Donald 69.15

WORLD GOLF RANKING Through Jan. 6 1. Tiger Woods 2. Adam Scott 3. Henrik Stenson 4. Justin Rose 5. Phil Mickelson 6. Rory McIlroy 7. Zach Johnson 8. Matt Kuchar 9. Steve Stricker 10. Sergio Garcia 11. Jason Day 12. Ian Poulter 13. Jason Dufner 14. Brandt Snedeker 15. Graeme McDowell 16. Dustin Johnson 17. Jordan Spieth 18. Charl Schwartzel 19. Luke Donald 20. Webb Simpson 21. Jim Furyk 22. Keegan Bradley 23. Hideki Matsuyama 24. Thomas Bjorn 25. Jamie Donaldson 26. Lee Westwood 27. Ernie Els 28. Bubba Watson 29. Bill Haas 30. Nick Watney 31. Victor Dubuisson 32. Ryan Moore 33. Hunter Mahan 34. Louis Oosthuizen 35. Gonzalo Fern,-Castano 36. Kevin Streelman 37. Graham DeLaet 38. Miguel Angel Jimenez 39. Billy Horschel 40. Francesco Molinari 41. Martin Kaymer 42. Jonas Blixt 43. Rickie Fowler 44. Matteo Manassero 45. David Lynn 46. Thongchai Jaidee 47. Jimmy Walker 48. Harris English 49. Peter Hanson 50. Joost Luiten 51. Richard Sterne 52. Branden Grace 53. Gary Woodland 54. Boo Weekley 55. Bernd Wiesberger 56. Scott Piercy 57. Chris Kirk 58. Bo Van Pelt

USA AUS SWE ENG USA NIR USA USA USA ESP AUS ENG USA USA NIR USA USA SAF ENG USA USA USA JPN DEN WAL ENG SAF USA USA USA FRA USA USA SAF ESP USA CAN ESP USA ITA GER SWE USA ITA ENG THA USA USA SWE NED SAF SAF USA USA AUT USA USA USA

11.48 9.42 9.06 7.03 6.93 6.35 6.24 6.20 5.61 5.23 5.22 5.16 5.09 5.08 4.91 4.80 4.79 4.68 4.66 4.54 4.46 4.23 3.83 3.72 3.62 3.61 3.48 3.44 3.33 3.20 3.20 3.18 3.16 2.93 2.92 2.86 2.82 2.75 2.74 2.73 2.67 2.64 2.61 2.56 2.54 2.54 2.48 2.35 2.34 2.32 2.30 2.30 2.29 2.27 2.25 2.20 2.11 2.10

BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with C Ramon Hernandez on a minor league contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jesse Chavez on a oneyear contract.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Designated OF Jerry Sands for assignment. Claimed LHP Pedro Figueroa off waivers from Oakland.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with OFs Shakir Albert and Julio Lugo, Cs Hendrik Clementina and Gersel Pitre and RHP Misja Harcksen.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with INF Robert Andino on a minor league contract.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Assigned RHP Adys Portillo outright to San Antonio (TL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Named Valerie J. Camillo chief revenue and marketing officer.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BULLS — Waived C Andrew Bynum.

LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Waived F Shawne Williams.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Sent F Ryan Gomes to Boston and cash considerations to Memphis, who sent conditional second-round draft picks in 2014 and 2017 to Oklahoma City and G Jerryd Bayless to Boston. Boston sent G Courtney Lee and a 2016 second-round draft pick to Memphis.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Waived C Daniel Orton.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed TEs Brett Brackett and Andre Hardy and G Christian Johnson to reserve/future contracts.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed OT Aaron Adams, CB Antonio Dennard, C Garth Gerhart, WR Alex Gillett, RB Orwin Smith, LB Chase Thomas, G Andrew Tiller and T Jeremy Vujnovich.

MIAMI DOLHINS — Fired Jeff Ireland general manager.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed LB Ja’Gared Davis from the practice squad and WR Reggie Dunn to the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed TE Daniel Fells, WR Preston Parker, LB Spencer Adkins, OL Troy Kropog and PK/P Brandon McManus.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed WR David Gettis, P Robert Malone, RB Davin Meggett, LB Gabe Miller, CB Ryan Mouton, TE Richard Quinn, OL Tevita Stevens and DB Peyton Thompson to reserve/ future contracts.

HOCKEY National Hockey League LOS ANGELES KINGS — Recalled F Tanner Pearson from Manchester (AHL).

MINNESOTA WILD — Loaned D Matt Dumba to Portland (WHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Reassigned G Robert Mayer to Hamilton (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer LA GALAXY — Acquired F Samuel on loan from Fluminese (Brazil-Serie A).

PORTLAND TIMBERS — Re-signed F Frederic Piquionne.

COLLEGES BIG TEN CONFERENCE — Suspended Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffrey one game and fined the school $10,000 for his violating the conference’s sportsmanship policy during Sunday’s game.

AUBURN — Announced OT Greg Robinson will enter the NFL draft.

HOFSTRA — Agreed to terms with men’s lacrosse coach Seth Tierney on a multiyear contract extension.

MISSOURI — Announced RB Henry Josey will enter the NFL draft.

NORTHWESTERN — Announced men’s basketball C Chier Ajou is transferring.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Named Kyle Steele volleyball coach.

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BLACKHAWKS

Ten Hawks to play in Olympics Sharp, Keith, Toews on Team Canada

Khabibulin might be out for year

By MARK LAZERUS

By MARK LAZERUS

mlazerus@shawmedia.com

mlazerus@shawmedia.com

Patrick Sharp insisted he was being honest when he said he wasn’t dwelling on his Olympic dreams, that he was serious when he said he wasn’t motivated by them. But even Sharp had to admit the past few days, waiting for Team Canada to reveal its 25-man roster, were “pretty stressful.”

So for a few days, at least, Sharp was like millions of other hockey fans around the globe – scouring the Internet for predictions, for speculation, for any hint of who’d Next be in and who’d be vs. N.Y. Rangers, out.

“Since the New 7 p.m. Wednesday, NBCSN, AM-720 Jersey game, really, it was kind of on my mind,” Sharp said. “The past couple of days, it’s been tough to go to sleep. You’re reading a lot of reports and trying to get as much information as you can.”

But when the call he’d been waiting for finally came – St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong telling him he’d made maybe the toughest team to make in hockey history – Sharp was in the shower.

“I had my phone with me the whole time,” Sharp said. “I was surprised I didn’t have it in the shower with me.”

That’s what the Olympics mean to the 10 Blackhawks who were chosen by their countries to play in Russia next month. Sharp has won two Stanley Cups, and every other Hawk who was chosen has won at least one. Six of them have previously played in the Olympics. But the thought of putting on their country’s sweater still resonates.

“I’m excited, it’s obviously a huge honor,” said Duncan Keith, who was a lock for Canada. “That gets said a lot, but it really is. You look at all

A groin injury kept Blackhawks backup goalie Nikolai Khabibulin off the ice for the past seven weeks.

But it’s a shoulder injury that likely will keep him out for the rest of the season.

Khabibulin had rotator-cuff surgery Tuesday. The timetable for his recovery is four to five months, which effectively ends his season and possibly his career. Khabibulin will turn 41 Monday.

General manager Stan Bowman said the shoulder had been bothering Khabibulin since before he injured his groin in a game Nov. 16 against the Nashville Predators. The groin injury allowed Khabibulin time to try to rehab the shoulder, but it eventually became clear that surgery was the only option. ‘‘It just never got better to the point where it was going to heal without surgery,’’ Bowman said.

Khabibulin’s job already was in jeopardy with the emergence of rookie Antti Raanta, who is 11-1-3 since being called up from Rockford. Bowman and coach Joel Quenneville are comfortable with Raanta backing up starter Corey Crawford the rest of the way. ‘‘He’s been great for us,’’ Bowman said of Raanta. ‘‘We signed him last summer hoping he would be able to do that, and you don’t really know until they come over to North America how they’re going to adjust to the different-sized rink. But it hasn’t taken him very long. He looks really comfortable, and certainly the guys play well in front of him. I think it’s been a nice combination so far.’’

“Antti’s done an amazing job for us, and he took advantage of an opportunity here,” Quenneville said.

“He really helped solidify that position for us.”

Khabibulin will stay on long-term injured reserve, so his $1.7 million contract won’t be factored into the Hawks’ salary-cap number.

AP photo

New Jersey Devils goalie Cory Schneider (left) makes a save on a shot by Blackhawks left wing Patrick Sharp as Mark Fayne (7), Dainius Zubrus (8) and Michael Ryder (17) defend during the third period Dec. 23 at the United Center. Sharp, along with Duncan Keith and Jonathan Toews, was selected to represent Canada in the Sochi Olympics next month. A total of 10 Hawks will be playing the Olympics. the people who play hockey in Canada, to represent the country is very special.”

Sharp, Keith and Jonathan Toews were chosen by Canada, which passed on Brent Seabrook and Corey Crawford. All three Swedish Hawks – Niklas Hjalmarsson, Johnny Oduya and Marcus Kruger – were picked. Marian Hossa and Michal Handzus will play for Slovakia, and Patrick Kane (United States) and Michal Rozsival (Czech Republic) already had been chosen.

The Hawks, along with the Blues and Red Wings, led the NHL with 10 Olympians each. As the 10 lined up in the corner of the rink Tuesday to pose for a group photo as the morning practice wound down, Andrew Shaw – of course, it was Shaw – tried to sneak his way into the shot.

“He’s probably going to try to get in some hockey bag or something and try to get there,” Hjalmarsson joked.

Ten is plenty. In fact, it’s an awful lot. Fully half a gameday roster will be traveling to the other side of the world to play up to seven high-intensity games while the majority of the league gets nearly three weeks off to heal and rest for the seven-week sprint to the playoffs. It’s a lot of wear and tear, particularly for veterans such as Hossa and Handzus.

“Those guys are pretty smart guys,” Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. “They take care of themselves.”

Several players pointed out that, in 2010, the Hawks had six players go to Vancouver for the Olympics, still a fair amount, before they won the

Stanley Cup. “It went pretty good that year,” said Hjalmarsson, who said he benefited from the time off in 2010, but that the Olympians were sharper coming out of the break. “Hopefully, we could do something like that again.”

With the speculation and tension at last behind them, the Hawks can focus on the next five weeks of NHL play before turning their attention back to Russia.

Although there surely will be a little trash talk in the meantime.

“A little bit, little bit,” said Toews, a possible captain for Canada. “I think most of all it’s great to see how many world-class players we have in our room. ... To have 10 guys in our room is pretty special. It goes to show why we’re such a good team.”

BULLS 92, SUNS 87

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS

Bulls top Suns in wake of Deng trade Deng fills Cavs’ needs Noah leads way with 14 points, 16 rebounds

By JOE COWLEY jcowley@suntimes.com CHICAGO – The Bulls had all of Tuesday afternoon to hang their heads and feel sorry for themselves in the wake of the trade that sent forward Luol Deng to Cleveland.

By Tuesday evening, it was time to take it out on somebody.

Next W r o n g at Milwaukee, place, wrong time for the 7:30 p.m.

Phoenix Suns.

Friday, Thanks to CSN, AM-1000 14 points and 16 rebounds from Joakim Noah, life without Deng on the roster for the first time in nine-plus years started with a 92-87 win at the United Center, with the Bulls improving to 15-18 on the year.

AP photo

Bulls center Joakim Noah battles multiple players for a rebound during the second half of Tuesday night’s game against the Phoenix Suns at the United Center. The Bulls won, 92-87.

Not that it came easy.

Leading by four points with two minutes left, Kirk Hinrich hit a huge 3-pointer to stretch the lead back to seven.

Phoenix cut the lead to five, but never could get over that hump. After three scoreless possessions, the Suns (20-13)

were forced to foul with 32.4 seconds left, and D.J. Augustin iced the game when he hit both free throws.

The key for the Bulls now will be keeping the momentum going, knowing they now are down two All-Stars on the roster with injured star Derrick

Rose (right knee) lost for the season.

Finally an apology: VP of basketball operations John Paxson admitted that the handling of Deng and the complications he had from the spinal tap late last season should have been handled better. Deng received the spinal tap after Game 5 against Brooklyn and never returned to the court for the postseason.

“We didn’t understand the gravity of it in that moment from his perspective,’’ Paxson said. “That’s on us. Over the summer, we talked to both Lu and (agent) Herb (Rudoy) and apologized. That’s something we dropped the ball on and hopefully learned from.’’

Around the rim: Carlos Boozer was sidelined for a second straight game with a sore right knee. ... With Deng no longer in the picture and Boozer out, the Bulls started Mike Dunleavy and Taj Gibson at the two forward spots. ... Paxson had no plans to add to the roster just yet, other than Marquis Teague likely being reinstated from the D-League in the next few days.

By TOM WITHERS The Associated Press INDEPENDENCE, Ohio – With their season quickly sliding toward yet another trip to the NBA lottery, the Cleveland Cavaliers had to do something to slow their freefall toward irrelevance.

They needed a scorer, a defender, a Luol Deng leader and, perhaps most importantly, someone to show their young players how to win.

Luol Deng fills every hole.

The Cavs acquired Deng, a two-time All-Star small forward with the Bulls, early Tuesday in a trade from the Bulls for Andrew Bynum, the enigmatic center whom Cleveland signed to a unique contract during the summer but recently dismissed for detrimental conduct.

Rose should be proactive • COWLEY Continued from page C1

Thibodeau plays good soldier after trade

By JOE COWLEY jcowley@suntimes.com CHICAGO – Jobs were defined in the past 24 hours, and Tom Thibodeau’s is to coach, period.

Thibodeau did his best to refrain from commenting on the trade of Luol Deng to the Cleveland Cavaliers, whether he agreed with it.

“Yeah, I had a chance to voice my opinion,” Thibodeau said Tuesday. “Their job is to make financial decisions, to make player-personnel decisions and things of that nature. Their job is to do that. My job is to coach the guys that are here.”

And that’s exactly what Thibodeau plans to do, with his foot pushed all the way to the floor, as usual.

“You handle whatever’s in front of you,” Thibodeau said. “I’ve been through all kinds of different situations. Tom We’ll deal with Thibodeau it. I’m not conceding anything.”

But how will this deal affect the fragile relationship between Thibodeau and general manager Gar Forman?

“Our working relationship with Tom is really good,” vice

president John Paxson said.

“Look, it’s not realistic to ask Tom or his staff to be happy about taking a player of Lu’s caliber off your team. Gar and I put ourselves in Tom’s shoes a lot, every day really. We know what he’s facing. We’re not sitting up here, saying, ‘Be happy about it.’ It’s hard, it’s difficult.

“But what has to happen in an organization is that when decisions are made, as a group, you have to align together and you have to move forward.

Our focus now has to be on how best to use the advantages of what we’ve just done.”

Thibodeau already seems to have done that, taking an

almost defiant stance that he can win with whatever talent management provides him.

There was speculation that Thibodeau might be so angry about the decision to move Deng that he no longer could work with Forman or Paxson, but that’s just not the case.

“No,” Thibodeau said of any resentment, “because you want to communicate with everybody – your owner, management. Sometimes things may not go your way, but you have to be professional about it and move forward.

“There are a lot of decisions that get made. As long as you have your input, that’s all you can ask for.”

In Deng, the Cavs believe they’re getting a multi-faceted player.

“He’s a guy who has won and won deep in the playoffs,” Cavs coach Mike Brown said.

“He has the ability to score, defend, moves well without the basketball, knows how to play offense very well, can post up, score off the screens, versatile.

He brings a lot of everything.”

Cleveland also gave the Bulls a first-round pick from Sacramento, two second-round selections and gave the Bulls the right to swap first-round choices in 2015 if the Cavs are not in the lottery.

As expected, the Bulls waived Bynum, who has chronically bad knees and has played only 24 games the past two seasons. Bynum was due another $6 million on $24 million, on a two-year contract he signed with Cleveland in July, and the Bulls would have had to pay him if he was kept past 5 p.m. Tuesday.

The Bulls were headed for no-man’s land, good enough to sneak into the playoffs but bad enough to be ousted early and miss out on what could be a fruitful draft lottery in June. Deng had to go.

And, of course, there were immediate whispers that Rose wasn’t happy with the decision.

“Both (chairman) Jerry (Reinsdorf) and (general manager) Gar (Forman) spoke to Derrick,’’ Paxson said. “I’m never going to speak for Derrick. Derrick can speak for himself, and I’m sure that when he feels like it, he will. Our communication with Derrick has never led us to believe that (he’s unhappy).”

Rose shouldn’t be. If

anything, he should be proactive.

He continued to insist last month that his only goal is to win a title. So he should start acting like a player who wants a ring.

Keep rehabbing, but get on the phone, reach out to possible free agents such as LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony or Chris Bosh and tell them that cap space is coming to the Bulls this summer.

More importantly, be the boss of the Rose franchise, and keep the worker bees in line.

Like Paxson said, Rose undoubtedly will address all of this soon.

It better be good.

• Joe Cowley covers the Bulls for the Chicago Sun-Times. Write to him at jcowley@suntimes.com.

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FLORIDA STATE: BCS NATIONAL CHAMPION

MEN’S BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Focus now shifts to sustaining success

No. 5 MSU tops No. 3 OSU

By KAREEM COPELAND The Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.

– Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher said winning the national championship was the culmination of a four-year process that began when he replaced Bobby Bowden as the head of the program in 2010.

The next challenge is to sustain that success.

Fisher finds himself in Bowden’s old shoes where titles will be expected from a passionate fan base. Florida State beat Auburn, 34-31, on Monday night to win its first crown since 1999.

“You’ve got to go back to ground zero and you can’t worry about expectations,” Fisher said Tuesday. “That’s the thing, once expectations get so high, is to not let complacency set in.

“It’s human nature, you take winning for granted. You take success for granted.”

A quick glance at the roster shows why Florida State (14-0) will enter 2014 as the favorite. The Seminoles return Heisman quarterback Jameis Winston for his sophomore season and lose only three senior offensive starters. Florida State must replace four senior defensive starters and Fisher said he thinks there are up to three underclassmen who have decisions to make about a possible move to the NFL. “The future is bright,” freshman cornerback Jalen Ramsey said. “We know what it takes now. We know how it feels. ...

“We want to make this thing a dynasty. Florida State is back to where it should always be.”

That senior class was Fisher’s first as head coach and

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– Keith Appling made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 29 seconds left and finished with 20 points, seven assists and six rebounds to help No. 5 Michigan State, which had a 17-point lead in the second half, defeat No. 3 Ohio State, 72-68, in overtime Tuesday.

The Spartans (14-1, 3-0 Big Ten) led 55-38 and the Buckeyes (15-1, 2-1) forced overtime with a 20-3 run to close regulation.

Ohio State entered the day as one of six unbeaten teams in Division I.

No. 2 Syracuse 72, Virginia Tech 52: At Blacksburg, Va.,

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Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher poses with The Coaches’ Trophy during a news conference Tuesday in Newport Beach, Calif. Florida State beat Auburn, 34-31, on Monday to win the BCS national championship. was the cornerstone of the new foundation. The 2011 class, however, widely was considered the No. 1 recruiting class in the country and one of the best in school history. Then there’s the 2012 class that includes Winston, another handful of starters and more young talent that had to wait their turn.

This was not an old team that will need to replace starters all over the field.

“I don’t care how talented you are,” Fisher maintained.

“This team has to go back, get its own identity, get its own leadership and develop that, and that’s going to be our challenge now. It’s how hungry can you stay to be able to do it over and over again, and that’s going to be the challenge and our mindset and that’s going to be my temperament going in, to be able to set that stage so we can do that and stay on top and be very competitive at the top.

“That’s our nature as humans, it’s not too grind, it’s not to push. That’s why there is only one champion at the end.”

Fisher did get a chance to savor the moment late after the game, surrounded by friends and family in his hotel room. He sat half asleep in a chair, exhausted, and nursed a pulled hamstring he sustained running down the sideline and chasing an official after Auburn wasn’t called for a horse-collar tackle at the end of a catch-and-run by Rashad Green late in the game.

“You feel like you want to sleep for about a week after these seasons,” Fisher said.

“We’ll get back tomorrow and give the staff a day or so and then we’ll get back recruiting and we got to get going.

“It’s time for another one,” he said.

Twenty years after Florida State won its first national championship under Bowden, the Seminoles won the third in school history with his successor. The Seminoles broke a string of seven consecutive national champions from the SEC. Now Fisher and Bowden both have an undefeated season on their resumés.

C.J. Fair scored 17 points and Syracuse (15-0, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) used a 16-0 run to pull away in the second half and beat Virginia Tech (8-6, 1-1).

No. 9 Iowa St. 87, No. 7 Baylor At Fort Worth, Texas Thomas 72: At Ames, Iowa, DeAndre Gipson scored 19 points and Kane had a season-high 30 points with nine assists, eight rebounds and five steals as Iowa State (14-0, 2-0 Big 12) set a school record with its 14th straight win.

Gary Franklin and Brady Heslip both had 15 points for Baylor (12-2, 0-1), which saw its win streak snapped at six games.

No. 16 Duke 79, Georgia Tech 57: At Durham, N.C., Rodney Hood scored 15 of his 27 points in the second half for Duke.

Quinn Cook added 13 points and slumping freshman Jabari Parker had 12 on 4-of-12 shooting for the Blue Devils (12-3, 1-1 ACC).

Marcus Georges-Hunt scored 18 points for the short-handed Yellow Jackets (9-6, 0-2).

No. 25 Kansas St. 65, TCU 47:

freshman Marcus Foster added 16 as Kansas State (12-3, 2-0 Big 12) ran its winning streak to 10 games with a win over TCU (9-5, 0-2).

Creighton 81, DePaul 62: At Chicago, Doug McDermott scored 19 points and played after an injury scare to his left shoulder, keeping Creighton (13-2, 3-0) unbeaten in the Big East with a win over DePaul (8-8, 0-3).

Youngstown St. 75, UIC 62: At Chicago, Kendrick Perry scored 23 points and Youngstown State (10-8, 1-2) beat Illinois-Chicago (5-11, 0-2) for it first Horizon League win of the season.

Green Bay 98, Chicago St. 62: At Chicago, Keifer Sykes and Alec Brown combined for 41 points as Green Bay (12-3) overwhelmed Chicago State (6-9).

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DO PROCESS Food processor makes resolution to eat more vegetables easy

By SARA MOULTON • The Associated Press

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t’s the same thing every year. We overindulge during the holidays, then make solemn (and quickly abandoned) promises to eat healthier and shed pounds in the new year.

So here’s a sane and simple resolution that will help you achieve both goals in a single stroke – eat more vegetables.

It’s no secret almost all vegetables are naturally low in fat and calories. Most also are good sources of dietary fiber, potassium,

folate and vitamins A and C. If you did nothing more than pile your plate with vegetables, add a small portion of lean protein, and ramp up your daily exercise a bit, you’d probably find all that extra holiday baggage dropping away without having to count calories.

The only problem with eating more vegetables is it can take a significant amount of time to prep them, and even more time to cook them.

Messing with root vegetables is often a marathon. Beets require 45 minutes to steam or an hour to bake. Carrots or parsnips also can be pretty time-consuming. You can cut the cooking time if you first slice them into smaller pieces, but not all of us are aces with a knife.

This is why I love my food processor. If you use it with the grating

Shredded Spicy Carrots

Shredded Parsnips With Walnuts

Start to finish: 15 minutes Servings: 4

Start to finish: 15 minutes Servings: 4

2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 pound carrots, peeled and grated using the large grating disk of a food processor Kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes (or to taste) Fresh lime juice 1/4 cup chopped fresh scallions 1/4 cup unsalted peanuts, toasted and chopped

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 pound parsnips, peeled and grated using the large grating disk of a food processor Kosher salt 1/4 cup walnuts, toasted and chopped 1/4 cup golden raisins 1 teaspoon chopped fresh sage Fresh lemon juice

In a large skillet over medium, heat the oil. Add the carrots and a pinch of salt, then cook, stirring often, for 3 minutes. Add the red pepper flakes and cook, stirring often, until the carrots are just tender. Stir in a bit of lime juice and the scallions and peanuts.

In a large skillet over medium, heat the oil. Add the parsnips and a pinch of salt, then cook, stirring often, until the parsnips are tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in the walnuts, raisins, sage and a splash of lemon juice.

Nutrition information per serving: 160 calories; 100 calories from fat (63 percent of total calories); 11 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 14 g carbohydrate; 4 g fiber; 8 g sugar; 4 g protein; 210 mg sodium.

Nutrition information per serving: 230 calories; 110 calories from fat (48 percent of total calories); 12 g fat (1.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 30 g carbohydrate; 6 g fiber; 12 g sugar; 3 g protein; 135 mg sodium.

disk attachment – as I do for this trio of recipes – you’re home free. Those marathon beets? You can grate and sauté them in minutes. Same for the carrots and parsnips. Best of all, having cooked up your grated veggies in

Shredded Beats With Balsamic Start to finish: 15 minutes Servings: 4

a bit of oil, you have maximized their flavor, as opposed to steaming or boiling them, which dilutes it.

Enhance the finished product however you want, with nuts, your favorite spices or herbs, or a squeeze of citrus or other acid. Just be sure to put a mix of colors on the plate; for the most part, the brighter the color, the better the nutrition.

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 pound beets, peeled and grated using the small grating disk of a food processor Kosher salt 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 1/2 cup dried cherries

In a large skillet over medium, heat the oil. Add the beets and a pinch of salt and cook, covered, stirring often, for 5 minutes. Stir in the vinegar and cherries, then cook, covered, until tender, about 2 minutes more.

Nutrition information per serving: 180 calories; 60 calories from fat (30 percent of total calories); 7 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 25 g carbohydrate; 5 g fiber; 17 g sugar; 3 g protein; 210 mg sodium.

MORE RECIPES TO GET YOUR YEAR STARTED RIGHT: Chef Elizabeth Karmel suggests a versatile celery salad to meet your veggie quota. Page D6.

Hoping to add more lean protein to your diet? Fish is an excellent choice, and with three different preparation styles to try, it could become a new dinner staple. Page D2.

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By STEPHANIE WITT SEDGWICK The Washington Post

E

ating more seafood can be a key to a healthful diet.

But it also can seem easier said than done. The hurdles? The people you cook for, and with, might not like fish. You might not know how to cook it. The cost can be daunting, and environmental questions can be confusing. Thankfully, each obstacle can be overcome.

For the fish-phobic: Start with mild, white-fleshed fish, such as tilapia, cod and sole. Avoid the oily choices with darker flesh, such as mackerel and bluefish. Darkfleshed fish have more healthful omega-3 fatty acids, but they’re an acquired taste. Mild fish, meanwhile, can take on the flavor of whatever spices, seasonings and sauces you desire, and they absorb marinades in minutes.

For the novice: Overcooking can render a delicate fillet tough and unappealingly fishy, and it can happen in a flash because fish cooks so quickly – but that’s also one of its best qualities. Your job is to keep an eye on it.

Quickly pan-fry thin fillets, browning them on each side until just opaque. Finish larger, thicker pieces in the oven or on the stove top in a vibrant broth or stew.

For the budget-minded: Shop wisely, control portion sizes and extend the seafood with other ingredients.

Mix a handful of shrimp with vegetables, pastas, grains, beans. If the fish is particularly pricey, remember: A mere pound can yield four servings. Shop for sales, get to know your fishmonger and don’t forget cold storage.

Mild fish takes particularly well to freezing, so you can buy when the price is right, with no pressure to cook it right away.

For the environmentally conscious: Turn to such sources as the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Program and the Blue Ocean Institute, both of which use color-coded rankings online to help you make smart choices. (The Natural Resources Defense Council, meanwhile, can help you identify fish that are low in mercury.)

Keep those strategies in mind, and you can make the most important change of all: no more excuses.

Chili-Crusted Tilapia With Corn-Jalapeño Sauté 4 servings 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 bunch scallions, white and light-green parts, coarsely chopped (about 1 cup) 1 large or 2 small jalapeño peppers, seeded and cut into 1/4-inch dice Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 2 cups fresh or frozen/defrosted corn kernels 1 tablespoon unsalted butter

1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh cilantro 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder 1 pound tilapia fillets, each cut into four pieces Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a medium nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Once the oil shimmers, add the scallions and jalapeño, stirring to coat.

Season lightly with salt and pepper. Reduce the heat to medium and cook, stirring every minute or so, until the jalapeño is soft.

Add the corn and butter, stirring

Shrimp, Fennel, Pea and Pancetta Rigatoni Washington Post photo

Shrimp, Fennel, Pea and Pancetta Rigatoni 4 servings Kosher salt 8 ounces dried mezze rigatoni (may substitute any shellshaped pasta) 8 ounces fennel bulb, stems and fronds attached 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for optional garnish 5 ounces peeled, deveined shrimp, preferably 31-40 count, each cut into four pieces 2 ounces diced pancetta (1/2

to melt the butter and coat; cook for 4 to 5 minutes, until the corn is heated through. Taste, and adjust the seasoning as needed.

Remove from the heat; stir in the cilantro.

Meanwhile, place the chili powder in a small bowl. Add salt and pepper (to taste), stirring to blend well.

Lay the fish pieces out on a large sheet of aluminum foil or a platter. Sprinkle the fish generously with the chili powder mixture.

Heat the remaining tablespoon of oil in a large nonstick skillet

cup; see headnote) 6 ounces sweet onion, cut into 1/4-inch dice (about 1 1/2 cups) Freshly ground black pepper 1 1/2 cups frozen peas, defrosted 1/2 cup dry white wine Bring a pot of lightly salted water to a boil over medium-high heat. Add the pasta and cook according to the package directions. Drain in a colander.

Meanwhile, trim off the fennel stalks; reserve them for another use, if desired. Finely chop enough of the feathery fronds to yield 2 tablespoons. Core the

fennel bulb, then cut the bulb into 1/4-inch dice.

Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large nonstick saute pan or skillet over medium-high heat. Once the oil shimmers, add the shrimp and cook, stirring, just until they are pink and barely opaque. Transfer to a plate.

Add the pancetta to the pan; cook over medium-high heat just until the pancetta pieces start to crisp.

Add the diced fennel and onion, stirring to coat. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Reduce the heat to medium; cook for about 8 minutes, stirring often, until the onion and fennel soften. Add

the peas and the wine; cover and cook for about 4 minutes, until the peas are heated through.

Uncover; return the shrimp to the pan. Toss to incorporate and heat through.

Remove from the heat; add the pasta and chopped fennel fronds.

Taste, and adjust the seasoning as needed.

Serve warm. If desired, drizzle each portion with oil.

Nutrition Per serving: 420 calories, 20 g protein, 59 g carbohydrates, 9 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 55 mg cholesterol, 440 mg sodium, 5 g dietary fiber, 7 g sugar.

over medium-high heat. Add the thicker pieces of fish; cook, flipping each piece to brown both sides evenly, until cooked through, about 4 minutes for the thinner pieces and about 8 minutes for the thicker pieces.

Divide among individual plates.

Serve right away, with the corn saute alongside each portion.

Nutrition Per serving: 280 calories, 26 g protein, 20 g carbohydrates, 12 g fat, 4 g saturated fat, 65 mg cholesterol, 200 mg sodium, 3 g dietary fiber, 4 g sugar.

Chili-Crusted Tilapia With Corn-Jalapeño Sauté Washington Post photo

MORE RECIPES: Learn to make Panko-Crusted Teriyaki Fish Strips, Cajun-Style Braised Cod and Salmon With Lentil and Bacon Ragout at PlanitNorthwest.com.

It’s all in the bag – cooking salmon en papillote Fish en papillote is the elegant-sounding name of a staple recipe of classic French cuisine. Translated into English, it becomes the much less elegant-sounding “fish in a bag.” By any name, however, this method of baking fish is a smash.

Typically, the fish is combined with vegetables and herbs, some butter or oil, and often some wine. All of this is wrapped up in a piece of kitchen parchment and baked. The parchment keeps the flavor and moisture trapped inside during cooking, allowing the juices from the fish and the other ingredients to mingle and become a wonderful sauce.

And because the parchment is stick-resistant, the recipe requires very little fat.

The small amount of oil in this recipe is there for taste and texture only.

In this recipe, the relatively few ingredients I’ve added to the salmon are in the service of the sauce. But let’s say you wanted to make a whole meal in a bag, sort of like a high-toned TV dinner. In that case, you could add some substantial vegetables, for example sautéed mushrooms, steamed cooked potato cubes, blanched broccoli or carrots.

If you do add vegetables, they’ll need to be pre-cooked.

The denser vegetables – such as carrots and broccoli –

EVERYDAY DINNERS Sara Moulton simply won’t have time to get tender during the 10 to 12 minutes of cooking needed by the salmon. Similarly, if wetter veggies – such as mushrooms and spinach – aren’t pre-cooked, they’ll release too much liquid in the packet and water down the sauce.

The only tricky part about cooking en papillote is you can’t see when the fish is done. If you slice open the bag, you risk losing some of the delicious sauce that’s coming together. My solution is to start with the basic rule of baking fish: In a 400 degree F. oven, give it 10 minutes of cooking time for every inch of thickness.

When I’m ready to test whether the fish is done, I stick a very sharp thin knife right through the parchment and down through the fish. No or little resistance? The fish is done. Significant resistance?

Bake it for a few more minutes. And by the way, this test works well regardless of how you cook the fish.

This recipe includes instructions on how to fold the paper to make a bag yourself, but if you can find the pre-made ones, grab them. I experimented with a pre-made

Salmon Baked In A Bag With Citrus, Olives and Chilies

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bag while testing this recipe and discovered that it worked perfectly well.

The beauty of this dish, besides its deliciousness, is it requires very little preparation and cooks in no time at all. I invite you to take this concept and run with it, making new recipes based on whichever fish and vegetables are in season.

Salmon Baked In A Bag With Citrus, Olives and Chilies

Start to finish: 35 minutes Servings: 4 1 small orange 1 lemon Four skinless 6-ounce center cut salmon fillet pieces 1/4 cup chopped fresh rosemary Kosher salt 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1/3 cup pitted and chopped olives, preferably oil-cured 1/2 serrano chili, thinly sliced crosswise

Heat the oven to 400 degrees F. Cut the orange and lemon in half crosswise. Thinly slice 1/2 of the orange and 1/2 of the lemon into thin slices. Juice the remaining halves of both fruits.

Set a 24-inch-long sheet of kitchen parchment on a baking sheet.

Fold the sheet in half across the short side, then open the folded parchment (like a book), leaving one half of it on the baking sheet.

Arrange about half of the orange and lemon slices in a single layer in the center of the parchment on the baking sheet.

Sprinkle half the rosemary over the citrus slices. Set the salmon over the rosemary, then sprinkle with salt, the citrus juices and oil.

Top each piece of salmon with a quarter of the remaining rosemary and citrus slices.

Fold the second half of the parchment over the fish, then crimp and fold the edges together to create a sealed packet. Bake – on the sheet pan – on the oven’s middle shelf for 10 to 12 minutes, or until just cooked through (stick a paring knife through the parchment and salmon; it should move easily through the fish if done).

Cut open the parchment, discard the citrus slices from the top of the salmon, then place each piece on a serving plate. Spoon some of the olives, chilies, rosemary and juices over each piece.

Nutrition information per serving: 440 calories; 260 calories from fat (59 percent of total calories); 29 g fat (5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 100 mg cholesterol; 9 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 5 g sugar; 35 g protein; 490 mg sodium.

• Sara Moulton was executive chef at Gourmet magazine for nearly 25 years, and spent a decade hosting several Food Network shows. She currently stars in public television’s “Sara’s Weeknight Meals” and has written three cookbooks, including “Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners.”

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Spread more than half of the coffeecake mixture in a greased 9-by-13 pan. Top with filling. Crumble the remaining batter on the filling.

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Salmon gets healthy boost from citrus fruits With 2014 just getting started, everyone is looking to eat healthier. I can help with this healthy, easy to prepare – yet delicious – Citrus Glazed Salmon. You can serve it with roasted vegetables, as I did, or over brown rice.

Citrus Glazed Salmon 4 6-ounce salmon fillets 2 oranges 2 limes 1 ruby red grapefruit For the glaze: 3/4 cup fresh orange juice 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice 1/4 cup fresh lime juice 1/2 cup vegetable stock 1/4 cup dark rum 1 garlic clove, minced

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2 tablespoons orange marmalade 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar 1 tablespoon light brown sugar 1 tablespoon butter Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F. Put fillets in a shallow baking dish.

Brush both sides of the fillets with olive oil and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Cut an orange, a lime and a grapefruit into quarters and squeeze the juice over the salmon. Bake for 20 minutes or

until fish is flaky.

For the glaze: Bring all of the ingredients to a boil in a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat, stirring to melt the preserves and to keep the mixture from burning.

Reduce the heat to a simmer and let the glaze reduce until syrupy, about 15 to 20 minutes. Adjust the seasonings with salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste.

Slice the remaining orange and lime to garnish the top of the salmon.

• Chef Debi Stuckwisch is the owner of Meals Like Mom’s Personal Chef service in McHenry County.

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(1) Pushes for quick involvement: Comes on strong and pressures the new partner for an exclusive commitment almost immediately.

(2) Jealous: Excessively possessive; calls constantly or visits unexpectedly; prevents you from going to work because “you might meet

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips someone”; checks the mileage on your car.

(3) Controlling: If you are late, interrogates you intensively about whom you talked to and where you were; keeps all the money; insists you ask permission to go anywhere or do anything.

(4) Unrealistic expectations: Expects you to be the perfect mate and meet his or her every need.

(5) Isolation: Tries to isolate you from family and friends; accuses people who are your supporters of “causing trouble.” The abuser may deprive you of a phone or car, or try to prevent you from holding a job.

(6) Blames others for problems or mistakes: It’s always someone else’s fault if something goes wrong.

(7) Makes others responsible for his or her feelings: The abuser says, “You make me angry” instead of “I am angry.”

(8) Hypersensitivity: Is easily insulted, claiming hurt feelings when he or she is really mad.

(9) Cruelty to animals or chil-

dren: Kills or punishes animals brutally. Also may expect children to do things that are far beyond their ability (whips a 3-year-old for wetting a diaper) or may tease them until they cry.

(10) “Playful” use of force during sex: Enjoys throwing you down or holding you down against your will during sex; finds the idea of rape exciting.

(11) Verbal abuse: Constantly criticizes or says blatantly cruel things; degrades, curses, calls you ugly names.

(12) Rigid gender roles: Expects you to serve, obey, remain at home.

(13) Sudden mood swings: Switches from sweet to violent in minutes.

(14) Past battering: Admits to hitting a mate in the past, but says the person “made” him (or her) do it.

(15) Threats of violence: Says things like, “I’ll break your neck” or “I’ll kill you,” and then dismisses them with, “I didn’t really mean it.”

If you feel you are at risk, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or www.thehotline.org.

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Dear Reader: I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, from my patients.

The truth is nobody knows if e-cigarettes are safe. That’s because e-cigarette makers have not submitted their products for FDA approval, which would require proof of safety and effectiveness. Ads claim e-cigarettes help people stop smoking, but I’m not aware of any strong evidence to back this up.

They all are built around a battery-operated heating element, a cartridge that contains nicotine and other chemicals, and an atomizer that converts the chemicals into an inhalable vapor. E-cigarettes vaporize a solution of nicotine dissolved in water and propylene glycol. That’s a fluid that helps nicotine dissolve.

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E-cigarette smokers inhale nicotine, water and propylene glycol. The nicotine stems the craving that drives some ex-smokers back to regular cigarettes. But e-cigarette smokers don’t inhale tar, carbon monoxide, or the thousands of other substances in tobacco smoke. So while an e-cigarette smoker does remain with a nicotine addiction, he or she doesn’t have to worry about getting cancer.

Or so the proponents of e-cigarettes say.

But don’t be fooled. There still are many reasons to worry about e-cigarettes.

First, the dose of nicotine delivered with each puff may vary substantially. Nicotine is a stimulant and very high levels can irritate heart rhythm.

Granted, there is no strong evidence e-cigarettes can cause dangerous heart rhythms – but that is because there are no large, high-quality studies

of the safety of e-cigarettes.

Second, e-cigarettes still contain an array of chemicals. These include diethylene glycol, a highly toxic substance; formaldehyde, a powerful carcinogen; and at least four other chemicals suspected of being harmful to humans. There is no proof e-cigarettes increase the risk of cancer the way real cigarettes surely do, but again, that’s because there are no good, long-term studies of safety.

Third, e-cigarettes are designed to simulate the smoking experience. By doing so, they might tempt ex-smokers into resuming the habit.

They also could be a gateway into cigarette smoking for young people who are not yet hooked. Until we have scientific studies, it’s buyer beware.

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Start with celery for a healthy, crunchy salad The Associated Press I know this will make me sound like some ultra-serious dieter – which I’m not! – but I love raw celery.

The humble celery stalk shines in so many ways, from a bloody mary to a snack stuffed with peanut butter or pimento cheese. To me, it’s the cracker of the vegetable world. It’s what I reach for when I want a snack or a salad that is pure and simple and uncomplicated. Conveniently, it also happens to be high in fiber and low in calories.

There is an urban legend that it has zero calories – meaning it takes more calories to digest than it contains.

That is not true, but it always makes me feel better when I am on a diet. And I bet celery sales spike in January, when everyone is trying a healthy makeover of their diet.

Sadly, raw celery often is relegated to the crudite platter that hardly gets touched when there are more crave-worthy (and fattening) dishes to choose from. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

This January, eat your celery in my favorite have-it-yourway celery salad.

This crunchy salad is seriously satisfying and elevates celery to gourmet status. The secret is in slicing the celery paper thin with a mandolin, or the slicing blade of a food

processor. A tart lemon vinaigrette and thin ribbons of real Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese enhance the dish.

The combination of cool crunchy slices of celery and thin bits of savory cheese is what makes this simple salad so satisfying. It also is a great foundation for add-in, one of the reasons that I make it all the time. Depending on my mood or what I find at the market, I fancy it up with mushrooms, fennel, apples, pears, beets – all thinly sliced – and/or walnuts, even pomegranate seeds. Try any ingredients that suit your fancy. Just keep the two main ingredients – celery and Parmesan cheese – the same.

A food processor is the fastest way to thinly slice large amounts of celery, but a mandoline does a better job of getting the slices as thin as possible. The trouble is it is almost impossible to use the hand guard of the mandoline when slicing celery. Some kitchen shops sell safety gloves for slicing, which can help. Another way to make it easier is to hold several celery stalks together (nestled into one another) when slicing.

Have-It-Your-Way Celery Salad Start to finish: 15 minutes Servings: 2 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive

oil 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard Kosher salt and ground black pepper 8 ribs celery, very thinly sliced crosswise 2-ounce chunk Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese Additional salad ingredients, as desired (fennel, sliced mushrooms, fruit, nuts, etc.)

In a medium bowl, whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice and mustard. Season with salt and pepper, then add the sliced celery.

Toss well to coat, then divide the celery between 2 serving plates.

Use a vegetable peeler to shave some of the cheese over each serving, then add additional salad ingredients as desired. Mushrooms, pluots and fennel make an excellent combination with this celery base.

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WOODSTOCK – The new owner of Angelo’s Family Restaurant wants customers to know the restaurant is still open.

George Kanakaris bought the restaurant, 117 E. Van Buren St., from its long-time owners in early December.

The restaurant will close for a week or two later this month to remodel before reopening as Papa G’s restaurant. It will remain as Angelo’s Restaurant in the meantime.

The restaurant is open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

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The GEM Leadership Appreciation Luncheon is 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Crystal Lake Country Club, 721 Country Club Road.

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Expert: Farm animals in Illinois can take the cold

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Mark Kupke, owner of the Covered Wagon Motel in Lusk, Wyo., stands next to one of four Tesla Supercharger units installed in December in the hotel courtyard. Lusk is on the route of Tesla’s first network of coast-to-coast Supercharger stations. The quickcharge stations promise to make cross-country travel by Tesla much quicker and easier.

Tesla goes remote Station to bring electric cars to Wyoming outpost

By MEAD GRUVER The Associated Press LUSK, Wyo. – In the least populated county in the least populated state, old Ford and Chevy pickup trucks roam – and rule – the roads.

Finding a Tesla, the sleek and pricey all-electric car, around these ranching towns is about as likely as spotting the mythical jackalope. And yet, one day last month, a Model S sedan pulled quietly in at the America’s Best Value Inn Covered Wagon Motel in Lusk, population 1,557.

Its mission was to plug in four gleaming white Supercharger units the company had just installed in the motel’s courtyard. The visit was part of a test of a planned coast-to-coast route of quick-charge stations for Tesla vehicles.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company plans dozens more across the middle of the continent in the months ahead to make it more feasible for the electric car to go from seashore to seashore.

Some folks in Lusk are cautiously hoping the stations will bring a steady stream of wealthy motor tourists. In the meantime, if and when the next Tesla shows up, locals who commonly plug in their cars and trucks to keep their engines from freezing may be left wondering about the visitors who plug in their cars to charge them.

After all, there’s no shortage of skepticism about electric cars out here – it’s not the kind of place for electric cars.

First, people are partial to the pickup truck because of its ability to tow heavy loads and endure the rat-

tling rides of going off-road. Second, Wyoming is famous for its open ranges, terrain that has worried electric car owners because they could end up being stranded.

The Model S, which begins at $70,000 but with options can top $100,000, can drive a long way for an electric car: Up to 265 miles on a single charge. Draining the battery pack and recharging it all the way takes more than 4 hours with the best available home charger.

The company’s Superchargers – Wyoming’s first are at the Covered Wagon – offer a trade-off that makes long-distance trips more feasible. The stations can charge a run-down Tesla battery pack to 90 percent in just 45-50 minutes.

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JPMorgan to pay over $2 billion in Madoff fraud

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS The Associated Press NEW YORK – JPMorgan Chase & Co., already beset by other costly legal woes, will pay over $2 billion for ignoring obvious warning signs of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme, authorities said Tuesday.

The bank will pay $1.7 billion to settle criminal charges and a $350 million civil penalty for what the Treasury Department called “critical and widespread deficiencies” in its programs to prevent money laundering and other suspicious activity.

George Venizelos, head of the FBI’s New York office, said the company failed to carry out its legal obligations while Madoff “built his massive house

of cards.”

“It took until after the arrest of Madoff, one of the worst crooks this office has ever seen, for J.P. Morgan to alert authorities to what the world already knew,” he said in a statement.

JPMorgan, the primary bank through which Madoff operated since 1986, withdrew about $300 million of its own money from Madoff feeder funds in late 2008, soon after the bank’s London desk circulated a memo describing JPMorgan’s inability to validate Madoff’s trading activity or custody of assets and his “odd choice” of a one-man accounting firm, the government said.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a release that “JPMorgan connected the dots when it mattered to its own profit, but was

not so diligent otherwise.”

He added that financial institutions “must exercise due care not only with their own money but with other people’s money also.”

The $1.7 billion represents the largest forfeiture by a U.S. bank and the largest Department of Justice penalty for a Bank Secrecy Act violation, the government said.

The settlement includes a so-called deferred prosecution agreement that requires the bank to acknowledge failures in its protections against money laundering but also allows it to avoid criminal charges. No individual executives were accused of wrongdoing.

The agreement resolves two felony violations of the Bank Secrecy Act in connection with the bank’s re-

lationship with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, the private investment arm of Madoff’s former business.

The civil penalty was imposed by the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The government said the civil penalty was assessed because the bank failed to pass along to U.S. authorities suspicions about Madoff it had reported to Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, and because the bank failed to detect and report other cases of suspicious activity, including more than $2 billion in transactions involving the Puerto Rican affiliate of an unidentified Venezuelan bank.

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SPRINGFIELD – Farm animals can withstand frigid outside temperatures if they’re cared for properly.

Jim Fraley is a McLean County beef farmer. He said livestock such as cattle and sheep have stomachs that ferment food. That allows them to get nutrients from fibrous material like hay.

Fraley said the process “creates a lot of heat.” So farmers make sure they have plenty of food and water.

He said cattle have thick hides and grow winter hair to stave off the cold. That means they don’t need to be inside if they have a wind break.

Fraley said modern-day pigs are leaner and have less fat, so some farmers keep them in heated buildings. But they also can bear the cold by burrowing in straw and piling on one another.

U.S. home prices tick up 0.1 percent in November WASHINGTON – U.S. home prices barely rose in November from the previous month and year-over-year gains slowed, reflecting declines in sales in the fall.

Real estate data provider CoreLogic said Tuesday prices increased just 0.1 percent in November from October.

That’s down slightly from October and far below August’s 0.9 percent gain.

The figures aren’t adjusted for seasonal patterns, such as cold winter weather that typically slows sales. Home prices have risen a healthy 11.8 percent from a year ago, CoreLogic said. But that’s the smallest yearly gain since March.

Rising home prices and higher mortgage rates held back sales at the end of last year.

Existing home sales fell from September through November.

But overall, 2013 represented the best year for housing since the financial crisis.

Once December’s figures are released, home prices will likely have risen 11.5 percent last year, according to Mark Fleming, CoreLogic’s chief economist. That would be the biggest gain since 2005.

– From local and wire reports

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For some, this means contemplating or even finalizing a retirement plan resolution.

It doesn’t take much to derail a retirement plan. Most of the errors in planning for retirement are those of neglect, omission or panic. If you don’t know exactly where your retirement plan stands, get some advice to review your overall retirement options and get some idea where to start.

Here are some common mistakes people make: Failing to start: For younger people, it’s amazing how many find many excuses never to start retirement savings. But no matter how daunting debt or other spending priorities seem, you have to save for retirement on a regular basis, even if it’s only a cursory amount.

Over time, those small assets will grow to something considerably larger.

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People stand in the lobby of JPMorgan Chase headquarters in New York. JPMorgan Chase & Co., already beset by other costly legal woes, has agreed to pay more than $1.7 billion to settle criminal charges accusing the bank of ignoring obvious warning signs of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme, federal authorities said Tuesday.

JPMorgan said it ‘could have done a better job’ • FRAUD Continued from page E1 Under the agreement, criminal charges will be deferred for two years as JPMorgan admits to its conduct, pays the $1.7 billion to victims of Madoff’s fraud and reforms its anti-money laundering policies, prosecutors said.

A statement of facts included in the agreement describes internal communications at JPMorgan expressing concerns about how Madoff was generating his purported returns. It says executives were disturbed by the fact Madoff wouldn’t let the bank examine his books.

“How much do we have in Madoff at the moment?” a bank analyst wrote in a 2008 email. “To be honest, the more I think about it, the more concerned I am.”

In a statement, JPMorgan said it recognized it “could have done a better job pulling together various pieces of information and concerns about Madoff from different parts of the bank over time.”

It noted that in late October 2008 it filed the U.K. suspicious activity report but didn’t file one in the United States.

The fraud was revealed with Madoff’s arrest in December 2008.

“We do not believe that any JPMorgan Chase employee knowingly assisted Madoff’s Ponzi scheme,” the bank said. “Madoff’s scheme was

Failing to link planning for your at-work and personal retirement portfolios: One

an unprecedented and widespread fraud that deceived thousands, including us, and caused many people to suffer substantial losses.”

It said it was making “significant efforts” to strengthen its anti-money-laundering practices and believed “the lessons we have learned will make us a stronger company.”

The deal was similar to one reached in late 2012 with the British bank HSBC, which agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle claims it laundered money for Iran, Libya and Mexico’s murderous drug cartels. Some observers called the HSBC settlement – which included a $1.25 billion forfeiture and $655 million in civil penalties – an example of the government stopping short of bringing criminal charges against a big bank or its executives because such prosecutions could be devastating enough to cause the institution to fail.

JPMorgan was Madoff’s primary bank in the later years of a multi-decade fraud that ended in 2008 when he revealed to the FBI that his investment advisory business was a Ponzi scheme.

Account statements for thousands of clients showing $60 billion in assets were fiction. Of the roughly $17.5 billion in principal that was real, most of it was gone.

Since then, a court-appointed trustee has recovered more than $9.5 billion to redistribute to burned clients.

of the critical problems in retirement planning comes from failing to treat investments you make at work versus the ones you make independently as a unified whole. Working with a financial planner can help you look at every place you’re putting your money and finding out if you’re implementing those assets the right way.

Failing to evaluate a prospective employer’s retirement options: Benefits can be worth as much as a nice paycheck. It’s possible you might be working for a company that still offers a traditional defined pension benefit

tion if the beneficiary is not the deceased’s spouse. That means your kids or any other designated recipient can inherit your IRAs without negative tax consequences at that time. Non-spouse beneficiaries need to check with a tax expert when they must begin distributions from an inherited IRA. Of course, no matter what the investment, make sure your beneficiaries are always current. Take a beneficiary inventory not only of your primary beneficiaries but also your contingents.

Investing Timothy Dooley plan in addition to a 401(k) plan. If you think you’re going to get an offer, it’s wise to interview prospective employers on the benefits side of what they’re offering you – particularly the time frames on when those various benefits kick in. Above all, company matching of any assets you place in your retirement funds is key, as well as the vesting period for making those assets your own.

Withdrawing money early from an IRA or blowing a rollover: Money taken out of

Failing to update your beneficiaries:

an IRA is subject to income taxes and a penalty if you are younger than 59½ years old and do not put it back into an IRA within 60 days. When moving assets, most of the time a trustee-totrustee transfer can be more efficient and less margin for error. If the IRA distribution check is made payable to you, there is a greater chance you’ll miss the 60-day deadline, and you’ll face taxes and penalties.

Failing to contribute the maximum: Not every one can afford to contribute the maximum allowed by your respective work retirement plans or individual retirement investments, but it should be the goal. You’ll be glad you did.

Have a happy, healthy and prosperous 2014.

A direct transfer from a deceased employee’s IRA, qualified pension, profitsharing or stock bonus plan, annuity plan, tax-sheltered annuity, 403(b) plan or governmental deferred compensation plan to any qualified IRA can be treated as an eligible rollover distribu-

Timothy J. Dooley, CFP, is president of Comprehensive Retirement Resources, Inc., an independent firm at 201 N. Draper Road, McHenry. He specializes in retirement and estate planning.

Reach him at 815-578-4217.

Failing to consider both kinds of IRAs: The biggest difference between a traditional IRA and a Roth IRA is the way Uncle Sam treats taxes on both types of investments. If you put money in a traditional IRA, you’ll be able to deduct that contribution on your income taxes. In a Roth, you don’t receive the tax deduction for those contributions, but when it’s time to take the money out, you won’t have to pay taxes on it.

If you and your spouse are not covered in workplace plans, you may be able to fund fully deductible IRAs. Talk to a tax professional or a financial planner about which options are best for you.

Tesla builds charging stations for coast-to-coast travel • TESLA Continued from page E1 In Lusk, that’s enough time to grab a burger at the nearby Outpost Cafe or Triangle 4 Cafe & Steakhouse, or visit the antiques stores downtown.

The Supercharger station will be a critical steppingstone between stations in Cheyenne and Rapid City, S.D. Highlights on the first coast-to-coast route – to be followed, Tesla said, by a couple more cross-country options by the end of this year – include the scenic Four Corners region and Mount Rushmore.

“That’s kind of the thought behind this first, initial route, is enabling the

great American road trip,” Tesla spokesman Patrick Jones said.

New Supercharger stations also are going in across Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania to connect existing facilities on the coasts. Tesla owners use the stations free of, well, charge. Tesla picks up the electric bill.

The last time Lusk got any attention for such cuttingedge technology was in the late 1990s, when a Microsoft television ad trumpeted the town’s connection to the Internet as an answer to tough times for the ranching community. In reality, a $3 million project to link Lusk to fiber-optic broadband was

“I’m a pickup girl. If they come out with one that’s an electric pickup, it might be all right.”

Inga Miller Wyoming bartender stalled for years.

For a time, high-speed Internet was as elusive as the jackalope, a creature based on a trick of taxidermy in which antelope horns are placed on a jackrabbit. Residents now can surf the Web pretty much like anybody else, but it’s an open question whether any locals will buy a Tesla, or any other electric car.

Niobrara County, popula-

tion 2,456, is home to plenty of wealthy ranchers who can afford a Tesla, Michael Mercer said between oil changes at a downtown auto repair shop.

The problem is most live in country far too rugged for lowclearance vehicles.

“They’re not going to take some hundred-something-thousand-dollar car off road,” he scoffed.

Inga Miller, a bartender and store clerk at the Lusk Liquor & Lounge, said her dream truck is a Ford F-150 extended cab with four-wheel drive, a great stereo system and a bed big enough to haul plenty of hay for her friends’ horses.

“I’m a pickup girl. If they come out with one that’s an electric pickup, it might be all right,” Miller said.

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By PHILLIP ALDER Newspaper Enterprise Association

It is inevitable that a meritorious deal or two will be missed by the person choosing the short lists for the annual International Bridge Press Association awards.

If this deal had been on the defense list, it might well have won.

It occurred during the Italian Club Championship in September 2012 (which was too late for the 2012 awards). Sitting West was Agustin Madala, one of the world’s most talented players, who was born in Argentina but represents Italy. It was originally reported by Ana Roth from Argentina.

In the auction, I am not sure about North’s double, which would usually be negative showing length in both minors.

Defending against four hearts, Madala led the spade jack, Rusinow, promising the queen. South won with dummy’s ace and would have done best to start trumps, but he played a club to his ace.

West saw that if he were on lead, he would sacriice a trick with whatever he led. So he discarded a spade.

Declarer cashed his top

heart. West, still not wanting the lead, threw his king under the ace.

South now led a low heart. West continued his brilliant work by playing low. East, Norberto Bocchi, won with his jack and shifted to the diamond queen. Declarer could have escaped for down one by playing low on this trick and on East’s diamondjack continuation. But in desperation, he covered the queen. West won with his ace, cashed the heart queen, and continued diamonds.

The defenders took two hearts and three diamonds for down two.

Contact Phillip Alder at pdabridge@prodigy.net.

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STOCKING & CASHIER – PART TIME. Nights & weekends.

Apply in person: Cardinal Wine & Liquor 305 Virginia St, Crystal Lake

1st Shift – Spring Grove Seeking mature, organized Warehouse Worker. CDL & good mechanical aptitude a must.

Responsibilities: Loading & unloading vehicles; Keep track of inventory in shop; Maintain equipment.

Requirements: CDL License; Strong mechanical aptitude; Ability to lift more an 40 lbs; Can follow instructions and work independently.

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Hiring Now! Caring Always.

Visiting Angels of Crystal Lake is seeking experienced caregivers for adults who need companionship and personal assistance.

24-hour shifts (with sleep period) for 1-3 days per week.

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ILLINOIS CONCEALED CARRY CLASSES Professional firearm training will qualify you for for the new Illinois CC permit. Train on an 80 acre country setting 15 minutes north of McHenry. Instructor is NRA certified pistol, NRA range safety officer, Utah certified CC instructor, former law enforcement officer with 50 years of pistol experience.

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District Contract Manager (DCM) The DCM will manage the distribution within a geographic area for ACI Midwest, LLC responsible for negotiating contracts with Independent Contractors, managing delivery fees, and achieving service targets. This is a salaried position. Market salary provided commensurate with experience. Previous supervisory experience required. Previous newspaper distribution experience is a plus.

Must have reliable transportation, proof of insurance and valid driver's license. Typical work schedule begins at 1 am.

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Agent Owned. 815-814-3348

ACI Midwest is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Security + ref req. 815-338-1734

District Assistant District Assistant will assist in all aspects of the daily distribution of the newspaper, including the delivery of open routes, ride-alongs with Independent Contractors and assisting with service issue.

Typical work schedule begins at 1 am. This is an hourly position with mileage reimbursement. Must have reliable transportation, proof of insurance and valid driver license.

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3600 sf, cul-de-sac, 4BR, 2.5BA, htd 3 car, frplc, bsmt, patio/porch. $2400/mo. 847-648-9230

NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTION ACI Midwest is seeking qualified applicants for full and part-time positions to assist in the distribution of local newspapers in Kane, DeKalb & McHenry counties.

Wonder Lake. 2 BR w/office, gar., shed, recently remodeled, W/D, fenced yrd, $875/mo 815-404-4190

First floor, $850/mo.

Heat, gas, water, D/W incl.

Pets extra. 847-707-3800

Knowledge in home construction and computer basics.

Fence quoting experience a plus.

If qualified send resume to: Email: woolf-hr@woolfdistributing.net or Fax: 815-477-9751

Woodstock 1BR $645, 2BR $745 All appliances, wall to wall carpet.

A/C, balcony On site laundry.

No pets. 847-382-2313 708-204-3823

$710

Building Material Customer Service

Woolf Distributing

Wonder Lake ~ Lake Front House Beautifully Remodeled 2BR, 1BA Huge deck and pier, $1150 + utilities, no dogs. Agent Owned.

815-814-3348

Studio, 1 & 2 Bedrooms

Prior experience in millwork estimating & construction knowledge.

Successful applicants must be customer oriented, have a positive attitude and work well with others.

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All utils incl. Direct TV. Storage on premise (13x25'). No pets. Very quiet, near Nippersink Creek. $625/mo+sec. 815-675-1460

Wonder Lake Very Cute, Cozy 1BR With huge deck, updated kitchen.

All utilities included, parking space.

No dogs, $695. Agent Owned.

815-814-3348

WILLOW BROOKE

Millwork Inside Customer Service

Door assembly and complete understanding of the construction of interior / exterior doors.

815-363-5919 or 815-363-0322

FT Positions Available

A leading building material and millwork company has several positions available. Benefits include Health Care, 401K matching & Paid Vacations

Millwork Shop

2 Car Garage, Pet Friendly Free Health Club Membership.

Wonder Lake ~ 2 Bedroom

WOODSTOCK

CNA's RN's & LPN's

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1 bath, bonus room, pets OK with deposit, $650 + sec. Mgr Broker Owned. Shawn 224-577-5521

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Healthcare

Fair Oaks Healthcare Center

CAREGIVERS

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Earn up to $1000 A Month!

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP F/K/A COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP Plaintiff, -v.LISA E. SMITH, GREENHILL SHORES PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION Defendants 10 CH 1208 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 5, 2012, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 14, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 2412 EAST CHESTNUT DRIVE, Wonder Lake, IL 60097 Property Index No. 09-19-305008; 09-19-305-009. The real estate is improved with a two story single family residence.

The judgment amount was $162,949.22.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, othhan hall th

, ot er than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: The sales clerk, FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 4989990 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. only. Please refer to file number 10-035137.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 498-9990 Attorney File No. 10-035137 Case Number: 10 CH 1208 TJSC#: 33-26782 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583103 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.BARBARA MAGANA, et al Defendants 13 CH 01065 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 17, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 11, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 493 W. CRYSTAL LAKE AVENUE, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014 Property Index No. 19-06-226010. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., NORTH FRONTAGE 15W030 ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-13-06479.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-06479 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 13 CH 01065 TJSC#: 33-21583 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attin lle debt and

tempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583111 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION Plaintiff, -v.MISCHELLE L. YANTIS, TIMOTHY R. YANTIS A/K/A TIMOTHY RYAN YANTIS Defendants 12 CH 1385 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 19, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 14, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 3714 OVERLAND DRIVE, Crystal Lake, IL 60012 Property Index No. 15-19-304010-0000. The real estate is improved with a 2 story single family residence.

The judgment amount was $441,753.02.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: The sales clerk, FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 4989990 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. only. Please refer to file number 12-058339.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 498-9990 Attorney File No. 12-058339 Case Number: 12 CH 1385 TJSC#: 33-24465 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583104 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, -v.LAURA R. KLIER Defendants 12 CH 2802 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 22, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 10, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 3009 MOURINE LN., McHenry, IL 60051 Property Index No. 09-25-305004. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $139,168.09.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highe bid by tified funds th

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Page E4• Wednesday, January 8, 2014 highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710.

Please refer to file number 123635.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 Attorney File No. 12-3635 Case Number: 12 CH 2802 TJSC#: 33-23106 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I582657 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC Plaintiff, -v.CARL DALEO, et al Defendants 13 CH 01136 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 1, 2013, nt fo Th Judicial Sal Co

an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 18, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 528 LEGEND LANE, MCHENRY, IL 60050 Property Index No. 09-32-428040. The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., NORTH FRONTAGE 15W030 ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-13-15152.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-15152 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 13 CH 01136 TJSC#: 33-22450 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583160 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, -v.AARON BOWERS, et al Defendants 13 CH 01154 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 7, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 18, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1914 BIRCH LANE, MCHENRY, IL 60051 Property Index No. 09-26-229001. The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., NORTH FRONTAGE 15W030 ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-13-06305.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-06305 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 13 CH 01154 TJSC#: 33-22718 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is

ey deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583135 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONWIDE ADVANTAGE MORTGAGE COMPANY Plaintiff, -v.MICHAEL E. FISHER, et al Defendants 13 CH 01163 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 9, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 18, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 740 DARTMOUTH DRIVE, ISLAND LAKE, IL 60042 Property Index No. 15-20-304017. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-13-15308.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE Yo

ago 4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-15308 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 13 CH 01163 TJSC#: 33-22811 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583134 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE To: Paul Rausch, Sr.; Paul S. Rausch; Leann Rausch; Jim Rausch; Ronald Isaacson; Occupant; occupants or persons in actual possession of real estate hereinafter described; County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois; unknown owners and parties interested in said real estate.

TAX DEED NO. 11TX10016 Filed December 9, 2013 TAKE NOTICE County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 31, 2011 Certificate No. 2010-02097 Sold for General Taxes of 2010 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and Special assessment number (Not Applicable) Warrant No. (Not Applicable) Inst.

No. (Not Applicable) THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at: 365 Millard Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois Permanent Index No. 18-01307-008 This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on July 2, 2014.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6-month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the County Clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming.

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before July 2, 2014.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, in Courtroom 203, Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois on July 18, 2014 at 1:30 p.m.

You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before July 2, 2014 by applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the County Court House in Woodstock, Illinois.

For further information contact the County Clerk Address: 667 Ware Rd Woodstock, IL 60098 Telephone: (815) 334-4242 LZ Investors, LLC Pu ha Assi

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com Purchaser or Assignee Dated 12/9/2013 #10-8848 I579673 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 6, 7, 8, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP F/K/A COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP Plaintiff, -v.LISA E. SMITH, GREENHILL SHORES PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION Defendants 10 CH 1208 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 5, 2012, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 14, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOTS 8 AND 9 IN BLOCK 26 IN THE PLAT OF WONDERVIEW UNIT NO. 3, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AND PART OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED FEBRUARY 18, 1959 AS DOCUMENT NO 350031, IN BOOK 14 OF PLATS, PAGE 13, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 2412 EAST CHESTNUT DRIVE, Wonder Lake, IL 60097 Property Index No. 09-19-305008; 09-19-305-009. The real estate is improved with a two story single family residence.

The judgment amount was $162,949.22.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall th qui d

gage shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: The sales clerk, FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 4989990 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. only. Please refer to file number 10-035137.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 498-9990 Attorney File No. 10-035137 Case Number: 10 CH 1208 TJSC#: 33-26782 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583103 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.BARBARA MAGANA, et al Defendants 13 CH 01065 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 17, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 11, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: THAT PART OF LOTS 30 AND 31 OF KELLOGG'S SUBDIVISION OF PART OF BLOCK 13 OF PIERSON'S ADDITION TO THE VILLAGE OF CRYSTAL LAKE, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 31 AND RUNNING THENCE SOUTHERLY ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT 31, 151.25 FEET TO A POINT WHICH IS 150 FEET SOUTH OF THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOTS; THENCE EAST PARALLEL WITH THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOTS; THENCE EAST PARALLEL WITH THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOTS, 65.45 FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY 150.2 FEET TO A POINT IN THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 30, 75 FEET EAST OF

PUBLIC NOTICE Crystal Lake School District 47 Crystal Lake, Illinois ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID Crystal Lake School District 47 will receive sealed proposals for: Access Control Security System ATTN: David Schuh, Director of Operations A MANDATORY Pre-Bid Conference is scheduled on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, at 11:00 AM CST to review the scope of work under consideration for this project. Failure to attend the Pre-Bid meeting on time and in its entirety shall disqualify anyone from bidding the project. The exact location and time of the pre-bid conference is included in the plans. Only plan holders shall participate in this pre-conference meeting.

The Contractor must pay the Prevailing Wage Rates for all work as applicable per Illinois Law. Response deadline indicating contractor's intent to participate in the online event is Tuesday, February 18 at 11:00 AM CST. PRICING SHOULD NOT BE PROVIDED AT THIS TIME. REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION PER THE BID SPECIFICATIONS IS TO BE SUBMITTED BY THIS TIME FOR THIS PUBLIC OPENING IN ORDER TO QUALIFY TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS BID. NO ELECTRONIC NOR FAXED COPIES WILL BE ACCEPTED. PRICING WILL BE TAKEN EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE AT A LATER DATE PENDING QUALIFICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN LIVE EVENT. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive irregularities in the bidding procedure, or accept the Bid that, in its opinion, will serve the best interest of the School District. Any such decision shall be considered final. The Owner reserves the right to set aside a Bid from a Contractor who, in the Owner's opinion, does not exhibit past experience equal to the size and scope of this project.

Obtain Bidding Documents after 8:00 AM CST on Thursday, January 9, 2014 at: Crystal Lake School District C.O.R.E Center 300 Commerce Drive Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Or by contacting Jerry Siegel, Project Manager, eBridge LLC at: jerry.siegel@ebridgeglobal.com No plan deposit required. One copy limit per bidder.

Cut-off date for picking-up plans is Tuesday, January 21, 2014 by 10:00 AM CST. Please note the district office is closed on Monday, January 20, 2014.

(Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 2014. #A2500)

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Consider ways to make your bank account grow. Offering a service or investing in something that will help you expand your marketable interests can pay off. Love is in the stars.

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Page E6â&#x20AC;˘ Wednesday, January 8, 2014 THE PLACE OF BEGINNING; THENCE WEST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOTS, 75 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, SAID SUBDIVISION BEING A PART OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 3, 1911, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 19086, IN BOOK 3 OF PLATS, PAGE 38, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 493 W. CRYSTAL LAKE AVENUE, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014 Property Index No. 19-06-226010. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., NORTH FRONTAGE 15W030 ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-13-06479.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-06479 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 13 CH 01065 TJSC#: 33-21583 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583111 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION Plaintiff, -v.MISCHELLE L. YANTIS, TIMOTHY R. YANTIS A/K/A TIMOTHY RYAN YANTIS Defendants 12 CH 1385 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 19, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 14, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 38 IN HIGHVIEW ESTATES UNIT 2, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST HALF OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED FEBRUARY 26,1996 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 96R009073, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 3714 OVERLAND DRIVE, Crystal Lake, IL 60012 Property Index No. 15-19-304010-0000. The real estate is improved with a 2 story single family residence.

The judgment amount was $441,753.02.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be

prope y open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: The sales clerk, FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 4989990 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. only. Please refer to file number 12-058339.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 498-9990 Attorney File No. 12-058339 Case Number: 12 CH 1385 TJSC#: 33-24465 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583104 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, -v.LAURA R. KLIER Defendants 12 CH 2802 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 22, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 10, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 15 IN BLOCK 3 IN HUNTERVILLE PARK SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 25, AND THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MARCH 30, 1929 AS DOCUMENT NO. 87599 IN BOOK 7 OF PLATS, PAGE 4, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 3009 MOURINE LN., McHenry, IL 60051 Property Index No. 09-25-305004. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $139,168.09.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710.

Please refer to file number 123635.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 Attorney File No. 12-3635 Case Number: 12 CH 2802 TJSC#: 33-23106 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector at-

tempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I582657 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC Plaintiff, -v.CARL DALEO, et al Defendants 13 CH 01136 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 1, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 18, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PARCEL 1: UNIT 6-4 TOGETHER WITH ITS UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS IN LEGEND LAKES CONDOMINIUM, AS DELINEATED AND DEFINED IN THE DECLARATION RECORDED AS NUMBER DOCUMENT 2004R0079828 AND AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, IN THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 AND THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PARCEL 2: EASEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF PARCEL 1 FOR THE USE AND ENJOYMENT IN AND TO THE COMMON ELEMENTS AS SET FORTH IN DECLARATION OF LEGEND LAKES RECORDED CONDOMINIUM SEPTEMBER 3, 2004 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2004R0079828 AND AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 528 LEGEND LANE, MCHENRY, IL 60050 Property Index No. 09-32-428040. The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the bid, th has ill

pon paym amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., NORTH FRONTAGE 15W030 ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-13-15152.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-15152 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 13 CH 01136 TJSC#: 33-22450 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583160 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, -v.AARON BOWERS, et al Defendants 13 CH 01154 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 7, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 18, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 23 IN THE OAKS OF MCHENRY, PHASE 1, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF THAT PART OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN IN MCHENRY COUNTY

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

MERIDIAN IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1914 BIRCH LANE, MCHENRY, IL 60051 Property Index No. 09-26-229001. The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-13-06305.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-06305 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 13 CH 01154 TJSC#: 33-22718 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is de ed be debt lle

ey deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583135 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONWIDE ADVANTAGE MORTGAGE COMPANY Plaintiff, -v.MICHAEL E. FISHER, et al Defendants 13 CH 01163 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 9, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on February 18, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 377 IN UNIT 7, FOX RIVER SHORES PHASE 4, VILLAGE OF WATERFORD BEING A SUBDIVISION IN PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 19 AND PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 20, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 9 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JULY 27, 1989, AS DOCUMENT NO. 89R-024141 IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 740 DARTMOUTH DRIVE, ISLAND LAKE, IL 60042 Property Index No. 15-20-304017. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominiu it th has of

prope y dominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., NORTH FRONTAGE 15W030 ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-13-15308.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-15308 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 13 CH 01163 TJSC#: 33-22811 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I583134 (Published in the Northwest Herald January 8, 15, 22, 2014)

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you file your answer or otherwise make your appearance in said action in this Court, by filing the same in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on or before February 19, 2014, AN ORDER OF DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on December 30, 2013. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (SEAL) Shara A. Netterstrom MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney. No.: 6294499 /s/ Shara Netterstrom One of Plaintiff's Attorneys (Published in the Northwest Herald, January 8, 15, 22, 2014. #A2497)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS THE VILLAGE OF LAKEMOOR, an Illinois municipal corporation, Plaintiff, v.

LEO J. KUCIA, MARILYN T. KUCIA, NORTHERN MORAINE WASTEWATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT, Unknown Owners and Record and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

Case No. 13 MR 528

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK ILLINOIS

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

PUBLICATION NOTICE

Notice is hereby given you, LEO J. KUCIA, MARILYN T. KUCIA, Unknown Owners and Record and Non-Record Claimants, pursuant to Section 2-206 of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure (735 ILCS 5/2206), that the above-entitled action to demolish unsafe building was filed by the Plaintiff, VILLAGE OF LAKEMOOR, in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, Illinois, on October 15, 2013 and is now pending in said court as Case Number 13 MR 528.

The names of the title holders of record are: Leo J. Kucia and Marilyn T. Kucia.

A legal description of the real estate sufficient to identify it with reasonable certainty is as follows:

The requisite affidavit(s) having been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION, that said action has been commenced in said Court by the plaintiff(s), naming you as a defendant(s) therein and praying for a judgment of foreclosure and sale other relief, that summons has been issued out of this Court against you as provided by law, and, that this action is still pending and undetermined in said Court.

LOTS, 1, 2, AND 9 (EXCEPTING THE EAST 58 FEET OF LOT 9) IN BLOCK 33 IN SAMPSON SEX & CO.'S LILY LAKE SUBDIVISION, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 9 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JULY 28, 1925 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 74254 IN BOOK 5 OF PLATS, PAGE 81, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Bank of America, N.A., Plaintiff, vs.

John D. Nero; Cynthia Jeanne Nero; Home State Bank, N.A.; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants; Plymouth Village Homeowners Association Defendants.

Case No. 13 CH 1961 1823 Somerfield Lane Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Judge:

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2007 FORD FOCUS SE Metallic gray, 57K miles.

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1997 Ford F150, Full cap, 4 wheel drive, $2500 firm 815-385-9603 6am-8pm

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Leather Coat Womans Star Motorcycle genuine Leather Coat, Black, Size Large, Excellent Condition- $75 224-569-3655

PARKA/JACKET

Women's, brand new, burgundy $35 and a baby blue jacket, $35.

815-385-3269 PURSES mostly by Relic.

Some wallets & a black leather fanny pack. Very good condition. $1 - $10. Beth 815-344-9894 Sweaters, hoodies, long-sleeved shirts & black dress jacket (10R) for boys/young men. Sizes 7/8 14/16. Brand names. Great cond! .75 - $5. Beth 815-344-9894

WAHL APPLIANCE Reconditioned Appliances Lakemoor 815-385-1872 Chest Freezer: 5.4 cu ft., 24â&#x20AC;?x24â&#x20AC;? $75 815-308-5626 DISHWASHER - ELECTRULUX PERFECT CONDITION. Used twice.

White. $250 obo. 815-690-7258

Microwave: GE Spacemaker, under cabinet, white $30 Pics Available. 847-476-6771

50â&#x20AC;? Ultravision TV, rebuilt 3 yrs. ago â&#x20AC;&#x201C; FREE. 815-678-9090

Art of Democracy Scholarship !! Contest !!

National 1st Prize $10,000 Local Prize $500.00 !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

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Student Age 14 - 18 Deadline April 1, 2014

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COUCH

Green and cream floral.

630-701-0277 FIREWOOD - FREE Mature maple tree down. Cut up and haul away for FREE firewood.

Call 815-354-0743 Furniture â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 90â&#x20AC;?, 3 Cushion Sofa, Light Background w/ Pink & Green Floral Pattern. Good Condition You pick up â&#x20AC;&#x201C; FREE 815-382-4456 TV: 36â&#x20AC;? color TV, JVC, FREE 815-790-4078

AIWA Stereo System â&#x20AC;&#x201C; CD, Turntable, Cassette, AM-FM. Cassette Needs Work, Manual Included - Paid $300, Asking $25. 815-338-9137 10a-10p Computer Monitor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Samsung Syncmaster 203b, Color, 15â&#x20AC;? $45. 815-455-1556

CORDLESS PANASONIC PHONE SYSTEM

With 4 hand set, answering machine, talking caller ID and speaker phone, $55.

847-829-4546 CRT TV Wall Mount w/component Mount up to 20" across. (Beige / white). No scratches! Internet price $55. Mine $15. 815-344-9894

DELL INSPIRON 6000

DPP-EX50. Prints wonderful pictures, $45/obo.

847-829-4546

TV TOSHIBA

20â&#x20AC;? DVD/VCR combo, excellent working condition! $100 847-829-4546 VCR & All Types of New & Used VCR Tapes,including Westerns, Over 100+, $50. 815-790-2064

For beds, 30â&#x20AC;?x36â&#x20AC;?, 100 for $40.

815-578-0212

MIXED FIREWOOD

Good Condition! $25/obo.

815-385-6530

Disposable Absorbent Pads

WALKER Oak - Maple - Cherry, $85/FC. Free stacking and delivery.

815-334-7914

COFFEE TABLE

Italian Provincial, oval, solid wood with 1â&#x20AC;? thick Italian marble top.

50â&#x20AC;?Lx22â&#x20AC;?Wx16â&#x20AC;?H, $125.00.

Pics Available. 847-476-6771

Coffee table w/ 2 matching end tables, all solid oak w/bottom drawers, Like new condition $395 815-568-7076 after 6pm Computer Cabinet by Sauder, All Wood, Cherry Veneer, 27â&#x20AC;? x 60â&#x20AC;? x 18â&#x20AC;?, Excellent Condition, Has Door Locks & Buyer Will Move - $75 815-459-8901 Computer desk, cherry laminate, 2' wide x 6' high x 6.5' long. $75 OBO. Will deliver. 847-532-5524

Wheelchair â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Never Used $75. 224-306-4716 WHEELCHAIR, NEW High Quality, adjustable/removable footrest. Black/Chrome, could deliver, $100 815-578-0212

Centerpiece â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Use for Weddings, Mother's Day, Baby Showers, etc., Beautiful Flower Pens - 50 guests can leave a message, $30-$50 847-428-4094 12-9pm Clam sleeper ice shack, 8x8 w/ 6 holes, $350 Call after 5pm 815-459-3659 COACH PURSE - Black leather with black stitching. Classic. 10 x 6â&#x20AC;?.

Great cond. $25. 815-459-1864 Crafts - 12 kits - Christmas skirts, stockings, wall hangings Prepare for next year. $75 815-459-5204

Drum Set 8 piece full size drum set complete $400/obo or trade for Gibson or Martin 6 Accoustic String Guitar. 708-363-2004 GOODWIN CLUTCH KIT FOR 800 (2002) POLARIS. HAD DEALER REMOVE AND ALL PARTS IN A BAG. $20.00. PHONE 815-675-2155.

HYFAX FOR POLARIS 800 SNOWMOBILE 2002 MAY FIT OTHER BRAND NEW SOLD SLED YRS. $25.00 FOR BOTH. 815-675-2155

Diningroom Hutch â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lighted dark oak, beautiful hutch w/ no scratches. 2 glass shelves, 2 drawers and 3 areas below to store china/dishes. $400 call 847-840-1956

Magazines: loaded w/advertisements, great shape, $10/book Look, Post, & Companion 847-515-8012

DRESSING TABLE Shabby Chic Painted White Dressing Table. Long, central mirror & 2 side mirrors with 3 drawers each side of middle opening. Large piece. $115.

815-459-1864

With ladle and 12 cups, still in box, never used. Perfect for the Holiday's! $25 815-477-2772

DVD Cabinet - Solid Oak DVD

Open Cabinet (no door) 24â&#x20AC;?W x 36â&#x20AC;?H x 6â&#x20AC;?D. LIKE NEW! 4 shelves, can fit over 200 DVDs, $50.

847-659-1852 Floral Tuffted Chair $50/OBO 815-385-1157 Hall Tree: Oak Mirror Hall Tree $100/OBO 815-385-1157 Kitchenette Set - Sturdy & Cute 4 black, padded metal chairs w/ small 38â&#x20AC;? matching black table. $75. 815-459-1864

VANITY Beautiful antique pine vanity w/ attached mirror & center drawer.

Brought from England by the dealer, 37-1/4" W, 20" D & 29-1/2" to top of vanity. Mirror 22-3/8" W by 35-3/8" H. Center drawer has metal pull. Legs & side mirror supports have charming decorative sculptured detail. $450.

815-236-1747 Vintage 1958 Westinghouse Stereo w/ Turntable & Speakers, Has 16, 32, 45 & 78 Speeds $95. 815-455-0971

Roll Top Desk and Chair Dark walnut. $100 815-385-4353 SHELF - Decorative Floor Shelf.

Wooden, w/ 3 shelves (top shelf less deep than others). Bottom shelf raised off floor. 25 1/2" W x 32"H x 11"D. Very Good Condition! $7.

815-344-9894

Vintage Medicine Cabinet/Mirror 56x39, exc. cond., incl. All black shelves, orig. 1967, mint $375 630-561-3402

Oak, 37â&#x20AC;?Hx15â&#x20AC;?Wx12â&#x20AC;?D. Excellent condition, $85. 847-829-4546

Pre-Fold Cloth Diapers

Metal with glass top. Holds 21 wine bottles, 36â&#x20AC;?x16â&#x20AC;?, $95.

847-829-4546

Leather Recliner Chair Black, Looks Great - $40.

815-308-5840 9am-7pm

CLOTHES for young women & women, size 6-16. Tops (summer / winter), shorts, jeans, nice dresses, swim wear & pjs.

Brand names! Great condition! $1-$15. Beth 815-344-9894 COACH PURSE in original brown bag. 10 inches by 7 inches. Black, white stitching and silver buckle.

Never used. $30. 815-459-1864 Coat, Faux Persian Lamb, Astrakin

by Lepshire. Ladies L/XL. Vintage.

See photo on web ad. $35.

815-455-7680 COATS & JACKETS - Boys size 10/12 - 18/20. Bibbed snowpants size 10/12. Brand names. Great cond! $3-$12. 815-344-9894

www.HuskieWire.com All NIU Sports... All The Time

24/15-30 lbs. 24/30-45 lbs. 10 diaper covers. Used 1 yr. $280 value. $100. 847-476-6771

SEWING MACHINE

SNOWPLOW

Myers, 7.5' plow and A frame. $300. 847-302-7009

VEGOMATIC In good condition. $10 815-477-2772 Drum Set 8 piece full size drum set complete $400/obo or trade for Gibson or Martin 6 Accoustic String Guitar. 708-363-2004

Pianos Quality Pre-Owned Pianos Delivered & Warrantied 815-334-8611

FERRET - Free, to good home only.

Young, spayed female ferret with large cage and supplies.

815-403-4914

TV STAND/PLANT STAND

Bike - Children's Trainer

Go-Glider, blue, 16â&#x20AC;?, orig. $120 like new! $60. 847-476-6771

O-Mark Unit Heater 220, New, Electric, 22â&#x20AC;?H x 19â&#x20AC;?W x 13â&#x20AC;?D $175. 224-569-3655

Pipe & Fittings/Copper, NEW 1/3 reduced price, $25.00.

815-943-6937 Office Chair ~ Brown Swivel, leather like $35. 815-385-4353

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24 Cup Coffee Maker Used Once, Great for party or office, Non-Drip Tray, Removable Water Tank, Was $49.95, Asking $20.

847-659-1980 Bathroom Set - Fish Motif for Kids, Includes: waste can, soap dipenser, tissue box, toothbrush holder & more! Very nice condition! $10.

Beth 815-344-9894 Candles / candle holders & vases.

Varied & in great condition.

See picture at NWHerald.com. .50 - $4. Beth 815-344-9894 COUNTRY WEDDING DECOR 25 Burlap table toppers 60" square, 30 sunflower centerpieces, 50' burlap runner $350 for all. 815-690-7258 Discovery Channel's Info Globe Digital Caller ID. Excellent Condition. $40. Beth.

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RUBY 1 1/2 year old female Terrier mix Laughing out loud with friends always beats an LOL by myself.

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CAMERA - Minolta Camera Freedom Family Zoom w/case & Hi-Matic AF2-M w/ case. Good Condition! $10 ea. Beth 815-344-9894 Camera: Sony Cyber-shot 3.2 mega pixel camera. Works!

Great condition. $50.

Beth 815-344-9894 TRIPOD - Quest Video Camera Tripod. Very Good Condition. $10. Beth 815-344-9894

Humidifier by Bemis, Console, H12 400 Series, 3-Speed - $75.

847-658-7547 1p-8p

KITTENS ~ FREE

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WANTED TO BUY: Vintage or New, working or not.

Bicycles, Outboard motors, fishing gear, motorcycles or mopeds, chainsaws, tools etc. Cash on the spot. Cell: 815-322-6383 Wanted: Motorized Power Wheelchair, Lil Rascal Type, Electric for 92 yr. old Lady.

815-356-7879 before 9pm

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ANOTHER POTPOURRI ESTATE SALE

FRI & SAT JAN 10 & 11 10AM - 4PM Outside Christmas Figurines Includes: Baby Jesus, Manager, Mary, Angel, Joseph, 3 Wisemen, Shepard Boy, Lamb & Donkey.

More Outside Decorations Available - $400 OBO. 815-477-1183 after 12pm Room Heater â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Gas, Force Air, Vented, 30,000 BTU, Almost New $175. 815-943-6933 TORO 8--24 2 stage snow blower 5sp foreword 2 reverse. Electric start. nice condition. $400 firm 815-675-2155 Toro CCR-1000 single stage snow blower 3 hp w/ new paddles & scraper bar. 20" cut, Good Condition. $275. 815-675-2155

Aaron's Snowblower 4 cycle, 2 stage, 5HP, 24â&#x20AC;?, low miles, electric start $425 815-337-0078 Everlast Official Boxing Bag $80 815-337-0078 Snow Blower - Craftsman 2-Stage, Electric Start, Gas, 24" clearing path. 5.0 hp engine & tires, in great condition, auger blade does not turn on one side and needs repair, $50. Call 847-804-5484 Snowblower - 8 HP, 2 stage snow blower, electric start, 6 speed forward, 2 reverse, 26" chute.

Made by Yard Machine.

Very good condition, always stored in garage year around. $375 Call 815-690-0235 TORO - Powerlite, 16" cut, 3 to chose from - All in very good condition. Priced from $230 to $300. 815-675-2155.

Toro CCR-2000-E single stage snow blower, new paddles & scraper bar. 4.5 hp Suzuki engine w/ electric start. older unit but runs great. $295. 815-675-2155

12446 FOX RUN CT. Off Del Webb Blvd, West to Cold Springs Dr, turn right, take the 2nd right into W. Fox Run Ct.

Whole house and Garage filled with great furniture and collectibles!

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Toro Snowblower â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Model 3521, Pull Start, Tecumseh Snow King, 5.5 Hp., 21â&#x20AC;?, 2 Stage, 4 Cycle, 3 Speed, 1 Reverse, Runs Great, $200. 815-344-4384 after 4pm

Air Hockey Game $50 815-679-6178 Baseball Bat by DeMarini.

Black Coyote. $10.

Beth 815-344-9894 JUICE 2 year old female Hound mix I always want to stop and look closely at what's below the surface of everyday life.

Today I'm tossing my to do list and enjoying just being. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

815-353-7668 Looking to Buy: Enesco Kim Lawrence Twilight Nativity set--THREE WISE MEN. 815-403-9045 Wanted to buy: Lenox Merry & Bright holiday dishes.

815-403-9045

ARCITC CAT 600 CLUTCH PRESS BRAND NEW NEVER USED SHOULD WORK ON OTHERS. SOLD SLED. IT WAS A 2003. $40. 815-675-2155

PUNCH BOWL SET

Singer with all accessories plus storage stool, $60.

815-385-4353

Train Engine, brass, HO scale, Milwaukee Road "Little Joe", Northwest Short Line, original box. $300. 815-455-7680

Lionel & American Flyer Trains

708-363-2004

Depends Underwear for Men 28â&#x20AC;?-40â&#x20AC;? waist, 18 count, 7 bags $45. 224-569-3655

TOYS - Small bags of McDonald's toys, Burger King toys, asst. toys, balls, stencils. Not new, but in good condition. .50 - $6.

Beth. 815-344-9894

Antique and Modern Guns

PORTABLE HEATER

Natural Gas, Vertical Salimander Heater with hose, $50.

847-476-6771 Shop Vac, 8 gallon, wet & dry, and blower, $40 708-363-2004

Gingerbread trim, shingled roof, 4 rooms, 18x12â&#x20AC;?, newly built. $50.

847-854-7980

Old Lever Actions, Winchesters, Marlins, Savages, etc. Old Pistols and Revolvers. Cash for Collection.

FFL License 815-338-4731

ARBOR PRESS

12â&#x20AC;?, $25.

WINE RACK

Bracelet, branch coral w/coral clip earrings. Vintage. $25 815-455-7680 CLOTHES FOR MEN L-2XLT, summer shirts, sweaters, long-sleeved dress shirts. XL Reebok jog set & 38x30 Conte di Milano dress pants. Great condition! $1-$10. Beth 815-344-9894

DOLL HOUSE

OLIVER 2 1/2 year old male Orange and White DLH The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness and the ability to love and have compassion.

It comes down to karma. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

Bench Glider Swing - 3 person wide, green metal frame w/ mesh bench complete w/ new full width cushion, $89. 815-236-1747

Malibu Pilates Exercise Chair w/ Handles. Barely used, comes with 4 dvds (2 unopened), poster & instructions. $100 Call or Text 630-302-8691 Weslo Air Rider â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Upper & Lower Body Workout - $35 OBO 815-337-0612

Bedroom Set: 5 piece queen pine bedroom set, $300 815-385-1157

Switch Tracks - Box of American Flyer & Lionel 027 and S Gauge, 1950s & 1960s - $150.

815-356-7879 before 9pm

SCHOOL SUPPLIES - assorted notebooks, binders, folders, mathematical tools, stickers, etc. .10 - $5.

Call Beth 815-344-9894

Soccer Training Net - a hand held net for self practice only. Great condition! $15, web on sale $98!

Great deal! Beth 815-344-9894

Printer ~ Digital Photo Sony

Presto Salad Shooter.

Great Condition! $10.

Call Beth 815/344-9894.

Dickens Heritage Village Collection People & Accessories. $275 OBO. 815-385-4353 HIGH CHAIR - Antique Pine, Child's.

39" H x 17" W w/ removable metal tray. Tray arm lifts. $125. McHenry 815-236-1747 JAR - Glass w/Metal Lid. Outside red w/ ridges in glass. Top opening 5" diameter. Jar is 7 1/2" diameter & 7" high. $25. McHenry.

815-236-1747 Lamp - Shake Rock & Roll Elvis Presley - (playing and singing figure) in box, $60.

815-459-1208 MIXING BOWLS - 3 matching: "Hall's Superior Quality Kitchenware - Eureka Homewood Pattern".

Lg 8 5/8", Med 7 3/8", Sm 6 1/8" $49. McHenry. 815-236-1747

MIRROR - Wall mounted black chalkboard/ mirror. 19"H x 15^"W, inside mirror is 9"H x 9"W. Comes with chalk & mini eraser. $5.

815-344-9894 Mirror-Entry Hall gold plated Beveled 66â&#x20AC;?x 26â&#x20AC;?. $100.

815-385-4353 Popcorn Machine â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Professional, Model by Gold Medal, 38â&#x20AC;?H x 19â&#x20AC;?W x 19D - $250 815-356-7879 before 9pm

Snowboard Boots, made by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Forumâ&#x20AC;?, Size 10 Mens, Like New Condition, $30. 815-245-8519

815-690-0527 text or lv mssg Playstation 3 w/3 controllers, new bluetooth, 16 games, $350 815-322-3948 Call of Duty Ghost for addit. $30

BEDROOM SET - High quality solid oak bedroom set includes two towers with lighted, mirrored bridge.

Includes 9 drawer dresser with mirror. $600 OBO. 815-444-8162

from 70's & 80's. $125/OBO. 815-385-4353 CHAIR - Antique Child's Red Wooden Chair 24-1/2" high at back. $28. McHenry.

815-236-1747 Collector Plates by P.B. Moss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fiddlers Twoâ&#x20AC;? & â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mary With The Lambsâ&#x20AC;? - $75 each 815-455-1556

FRAME - Wooden "baseball glove" supported by wooden "baseball bat". 9"H x 11"W. Picture opening 3 1/2"H x 2 3/4" W. Great condition. $5. Beth 815-344-9894

FOR PARTS ONLY! $60 firm

Pedestals for front load washers/dryers, white, 29â&#x20AC;? x 29â&#x20AC;? x 12â&#x20AC;?, no drawers $65 each. 815-398-9688

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Jeans, sweats, lounge pants for boys/young men. Sizes 8S14S/16R & 30x32 (jeans).

Brand names (mostly Levi)! Great condition! $1-$8. 815-344-9894

ANTIQUE OAK CHAIR - 36" H at back & seat x 16-1/2"W. 2 curved accent braces. Chair is in excellent condition & very sturdy. $50.

815-236-1747 Antique Secretary, Dark Finish, Good Condition, 40" x 72" x 20" $399 OBO. 815-236-1355

The Annual Town Meetings will be held April 8, 2014.

Charles A. Lutzow Algonquin Township Clerk

Harley Davidson T-Shirts!!! They are from: CA, England, WI Dells, TX, Hawaii, Switzerland, McHenry, Alaska, Mexico, TN (Graceland), Germany, New Orleans, GA, (1)XL(1)3XL..rest 2XL, gently worn, no holes or rips. $10-$40. Very nice!

Beth 815-344-9894

Handy Chopper Plus by Black & Decker. $15. Beth 815-344-9894

Snowmobile Suit ~ Leather

January 8, February 12, March 12, April 9, May 14, June 11, July 9, August 13, September 10, October 8, November 12, December 10.

FORMAL DRESS by Michaelangelo.

Sleeveless, lavender. Size 16.

Great condition $25.

815-344-9894 HANGERS: One style for outfits (with clips for skirts or pants) & clamp hangers for pants, etc. All wood or plastic. One plastic tie hanger. .50 - $2. Beth 815-344-9894

Century Heavy Bag & Stand w/ Speed Bag Attachment, Includes pair of Gloves & Mitts, Speed Bag Missing - $150 815-344-3076 8a-9p CLEATS - Nike Ladanian Tomlinson Shark Football Cleats Size 7. Good Cond. $10. Beth 815-344-9894 COVERALLS - WALLS BLIZZARD PROOF COVERALLS size 42-44 for thin person about 6 foot tall, heavy duty zippers, gray. Very good cond.

Good for ice fishing or ?. $35. email: bpk31257@yahoo.com Ice Power Augur, Magnum 3 Plus, 49cc, barely used $200.

815-701-4302 Old Wood Cross Country Skis & Poles - $100; New K5 Downhill Skis, 67â&#x20AC;? L, Made in USA - $100 815-790-2064 Pool Table $200 815-679-6178 Raquetball Raquet by Wilson.

Great Condition! $5.

Beth 815-344-9894

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9N673 Pueblo Peak Located in Catatoga 3 Across from Bowes Creek Country Club Art, home dĂŠcor, oversized vases of wood, metal & glass, candle holders of all sizes, area rugs, kitchen gadgets, dishes, glassware, picture frames, drapery, many wall hangings, furniture, day bed, pool table, Mustang car cover, poker game, board games

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