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Filling a growing need McHenry County College opens veterans resource center
Armory to get $586K in upgrades Woodstock facility receiving new roof, other renovations By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com
Kyle Grillot – kgrillot@shawmedia.com
Associate Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences Loreen Keller (left) talks with U.S. Army veteran Chris Beadles (right) and his daughter Amy Carzoli about resources available in the Student Veterans Resource Center after the Veterans Day ceremony Friday at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake. By JEFF ENGELHARDT
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For a listing of local Veterans Day events, turn to PAGE 3.
CRYSTAL LAKE – For the past three years, McHenry County College’s veterans resource center has been Donald Curfman. The accounting instructor would take nearly all questions and requests from veterans, doing his best to point them in the right direction for the services they sought. But
with a growing veteran population that has reached more than 320 students, the college has opened an official space for all veterans needs. “We’re putting a whole bunch of resources at MCC in one location so if someone has problems with taxes or is having a meltdown and needs a counselor, it’s all right there,” Curfman said. “They used to have to come to my office, and I would do what I could.”
The new Student Veterans Resource Center, located in Room C122, offers services in registration, scholarship applications, post-traumatic stress disorder counseling and information about the Get Skills to Work statewide initiative – a career training partnership with manufacturers and community colleges.
WOODSTOCK – The Woodstock armory learned it will get a nearly $600,000 face-lift one year short of its 100th birthday. The state has announced a $586,000 renovation of the Illinois Army National Guard Readiness Center, 1301 Sunset Road, Woodstock. The facility, built in 1914, will get a new roof, drains, flashing and gutters, among other repairs. The center is home to training and storage for the 1st Battalion, 178th Infantry of the Illinois National Guard, which includes about 100 soldiers. “It has been in the works for several years,” said Capt. Dutch Grove, spokesman for the Illinois National Guard. The upgrades in Woodstock are part of a larger effort to update National Guard facilities across the state. Gov. Pat Quinn’s office has announced several such projects this fall. In Chicago, three facilities will receive upgrades at a total cost of $3.3 million. Woodstock’s project will include tuckpointing, sealing masonry, painting the drill hall ceiling, and upgrading drives and sidewalks outside the facility, according to a news release from Quinn’s office, which touted the upgrades as an economic stimulant because of their ability to create construction jobs.
About the work n Cost: $586,000 n Project: Will include tuckpointing, sealing masonry, painting the drill hall ceiling, and upgrading drives and sidewalks outside the facility n Project: Contract awarded to Elens and Mauchin Roofing and Sheet Metal Inc. of Joliet
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Storm survivors in the Philippines struggle
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been obliterated. From the air the entire city looked like a giant garbage dump punctuated by a few concrete buildings that still stood. Survivors wandered through the remains of their flattened wooden homes looking to salvage belongings or to search for loved ones. Very little assistance had reached the city, residents reported. Some took food, water and consumer goods from abandoned shops, malls and homes. “This area has been totally ravaged”, said Sebastien Sujobert, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross
in Tacloban. “Many lives were lost, a huge number of people are missing, and basic services such as drinking water and electricity have been cut off,” he said. He said both the Philippine Red Cross and the ICRC offices in Tacloban had been damaged, forcing staff to relocate temporarily. Haiyan hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippines on Friday and quickly barreled across its central islands, packing winds of 147 mph that gusted to 170 mph, and a storm surge of 20 feet.
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EPIC EVENT PLANNED AT CL LIBRARY The Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock St., will host the EPIC Exploration Event from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Local experts in many fields will introduce attendees to hobbies, crafts and disciplines. There will be prizes, giveaways, a birthday cake and other surprises. For information, call 815-459-1687 or visit www.clpl.org.
FRIDAY: ‘The Best Man Holiday,’ starring Monica Calhoun, opens in theaters. Universal Pictures
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Residents cover their nose from the smell of dead bodies Sunday in Tacloban city, the Philippines. The city is littered with debris from damaged homes as many complain of a shortage of food and water, and no electricity since Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the province Friday.
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TACLOBAN, Philippines – Rescuers faced blocked roads and damaged airports Monday as they raced to deliver desperately needed tents, food and medicines to the typhoon-devastated eastern Philippines where thousands are believed dead. Three days after Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the region, the full scale of the disaster – the biggest faced by the Philippines – was only now becoming apparent. The winds and the sea waves whipped up were so strong that they washed hulking ships in-
land, which now stood incongruously amid debris of buildings, trees, road signs and people’s belongings. Authorities estimated that up to 10,000 people may have died. But the government, stunned by the scale of the disaster, has not given an official death toll yet. Still, officials who have surveyed the area say there is little doubt that the death toll will be that high or even higher. In Tacloban city, the capital of Leyte province, corpses hung from trees and were scattered on sidewalks. Many were buried in flattened buildings. The entire town appeared to have
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