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Officials watch for tainted drugs McHenry County Sheriff’s deputy: No ‘evidence’ heroin laced with fentanyl circulating that caused dozens of overdoses in Chicago has made it into McHenry County, but local poWOODSTOCK – Leaders lice are watching for the potent of McHenry County Sheriff’s drug cocktail. Office Narcotics Task Force McHenry County Sheriff’s don’t believe tainted heroin Deputy Aimee Knop said the
By KATIE DAHLSTROM
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Area man charged in death enters plea
county’s task force monitors the drugs in the area, and members of the task force haven’t found any of the heroin laced with the powerful painkiller fentanyl, which caused 74 nonfatal overdoses in the span of
72 hours in Chicago early this month and late last month. “We have not seen any evidence to believe it is in McHenry County,” Knop said. Police on the task force work with the Rockford office
of the Drug Enforcement Administration to keep a close eye on drug trends. Still, Knop said there’s always a concern drugs from the Chicago area, where most of McHenry County’s heroin supply originates, will flow
into the area. In Marengo, police suspect heroin caused a woman’s Oct. 2 death, but Detective Shaun Boeckh said short of toxicology
See HEROIN, page A5
McHENRY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTS IMPLEMENT BEHAVIOR INITIATIVES
Son denies killing, impersonating dad By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A McCullom Lake man formally denied charges alleging he killed his father and used the slain man’s cellphone to pretend to be him. Michael L. Bakker, 46, was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder and two counts alleging he concealed the homicide. He pleaded not guilty Friday before McHenry CounMichael ty Judge MiL. Bakker chael Feetterer. Bakker is accused of shooting his father in the head on or about Sept. 4. Authorities were called to 69-year-old Daniel Bakker’s home Sept. 17 and, according to a search warrant, the elder Bakker’s body had begun to decompose. Court records said Daniel Bakker was found by his daughter and son-in-law at his 2501 Alton Road Home in McHenry, sitting upright on a sofa with a blanket draped over his head. Police further alleged that Michael Bakker used his father’s cellphone to send text messages to other family members, and purported to be Daniel Bakker. Michael Bakker told family members and associates that Daniel Bakker, 69, was alive and receiving medical treatment, but unable to talk, according to the complaint. Michael Bakker is being represented by Assistant Public Defender Kim Messer. His next court date is Nov. 6. Bakker is being held in the McHenry County Jail on a $5 million bond. First-degree murder is punishable by 20 to 60 years in prison.
Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
Fifth-graders Haley Herrera (left), 10, and Aidan Guerrero, 10, partner on a learning activity about different perspectives during class Wednesday at Fox River Grove Middle School. The school has a system for new social and emotional learning. Fox River Grove District 3 is implementing a new Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports program this year, which is a component of the state-mandated Response to Intervention focused on emotional and social learning.
Stressing positive behaviors Districts aim to curve classroom problems through intervention program By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com FOX RIVER GROVE – By the end of a lesson during social studies Wednesday, a classroom of Fox River Grove District 3 fifth-graders had a better understanding of how to see from someone else’s point of view. “We would have a situation and look at it from each person’s perspective,” explained fifth-grade teacher Jane Szybowicz. “Then we looked at how we could take a moment and make sure we’re tak-
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ing the other person’s perspective into account.” This type of weekly lesson is part of the district’s new program, Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports, or PBIS, a mechanism to the reach social and emotional learning standards that are part of the state-mandated Response to Intervention. While PBIS is not mandated, some districts in McHenry County have started implementing some form of it in hopes of seeing fewer behavioral issues among students. PBIS has been in existence for about 10 years, said Sheri Luecking,
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co-director of the Midwest PBIS Network. There are about 1,000 schools implementing it throughout the state, Luecking added. While districts in Fox River Grove and Crystal Lake are starting new programs this year, Huntley Consolidated School District 158 has had a system in place since roughly 2008-2009, said Julia Cloat, the district’s director of curriculum for RTI and literacy. “PBIS is a structure that we have in place so that students know what the expectations are,”
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