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MCC scales back expansion plan Some features of proposed health and fitness facility excessive, officials say By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com
Vicky Smith MCC president
CRYSTAL LAKE – A proposal to build a new health science and fitness facility at McHenry County College could be significantly reduced after trustees and administrators agreed that “health club” features would be
excessive. After touring existing health science and fitness facilities, trustees said a proposed $40 million-plus facility with 43,000 square feet for health fitness space for features such as a lap pool and a track was not necessary to meet program needs. MCC President Vicky Smith,
who has lobbied for more health fitness education space beyond the current 3,000 square feet, said features such as a pool and a track are easily expendable if it meant getting enough laboratory and classroom space for the equipment and resources personal trainer and health education students need.
“I don’t even know if we need 18,000 square feet,” Smith said. “I just want to make sure we have enough space to meet our programmatic needs.” The college has struggled to accommodate all the programs that use health fitness resources. Joel Chapman, fitness center coordinator, said the exercise science
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lab has room for only 24 students at a time, which can be difficult to meet with programs such as health and fitness, criminal justice and physical therapy assistant classes vying for time. The space also is open to residents to use for a membership fee.
See MCC, page A7
Policy addresses McHenry tensions Talks between staff, aldermen restricted By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com
Lathan Goumas – lgoumas@shawmedia.com
Cheryl Marback prepares dinner Tuesday at her home in Woodstock. Marback was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2012. Within 10 days of her diagnosis, she underwent an outpatient surgical procedure that removed the tumor and provided a one-time localized radiation treatment. Today she is cancer-free.
Woodstock woman benefits from new breast cancer treatment By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com Cheryl Marback barely had time to digest her diagnosis. The Woodstock woman was told she had cancer after doctors found a lump in her breast during a routine mammogram last fall. Then she received better news. Marback, it turned out, was a can-
didate for intraoperative radiation therapy, a relatively new procedure that allows for a one-time radiation treatment to the cancer site during surgery to remove the tumor. Without the normal six to eight weeks of post-surgery radiation, doctors said, Marback could be back on her feet and back to her normal life within a couple of
weeks. And she was. “It happened quickly,” Marback said. “I was diagnosed, they scheduled the surgery. ... And 10 days from beginning to end, I was virtually cured.” Though it isn’t yet widely used across the country, intraoperative radiation therapy is growing in influence as a treatment for breast cancer. Marback received
her treatment at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, one of the first in the Chicago area to use the technique. The Barrington hospital adopted the treatment in the spring of 2012. “It’s so intuitively obvious to patients when you say you’ll wake
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McHENRY – A new policy limiting communicating between McHenry aldermen and city staff is being enacted because of one alderman’s “antagonizing” behavior, the mayor said. The policy requires questions on City Council agenda items or the implementation of city policies to be sent via email to the mayor and the city administrator. It also bans Sue Low unscheduled meet- McHenry ings between staff mayor and City Council members. An email outlining the new policy was sent to the city’s seven aldermen Nov. 4 by Mayor Sue Low, Andy Glab who said she decid- Alderman ed to enact the policy after discussing ongoing communication issues with the city attorney and city administrator. “It had become a major issue at City Hall, at the municipal center, and I’m going to predicate this, that this is not everyone,” she said. “It’s one person. The dayto-day functions of the municipal center was being impeded by an alderman wanting to discuss philosophic differences on policy.” While Low declined to name the alderman, two other aldermen confirmed that the policy was designed because of Alderman
See TENSIONS, page A7
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McHENRY COUNTY
FORECLOSURES DROP 38 PERCENT The number of McHenry County homes entering foreclosure dropped nearly 38 percent in October compared to the same month in 2012, but foreclosure activity last month was up 9.4 percent from September. One in every 332 housing units in the county was in some stage of foreclosure last month. For more,
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