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Playing politics on mental health How county government workings shielded board with mission to heal from reform By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com The “politicization” of the McHenry County Mental Health Board became too much for former member Brett Wisnauski. When he resigned last August – one of eight members to quit or be

forced out over the past 12 months – he alleged that County Board politics over the past year was hampering the board’s mission to help the county’s mentally ill and disabled. Recent upheaval comes after years of allegations that the agency has become a top-heavy bureaucracy that spends too much on itself.

But history tells a different story from the idea that the intertwining of the Mental Health Board and county politics is a new development. It has gone on for decades. And until now, the Mental Health Board very much benefited from it. Profligacy with public money – 90 percent of the board’s revenue comes

straight from taxes – has been a recurring accusation for the agency’s critics. It flared when the board gave raises and racked up questionable expenses during the County Board’s budget crisis in the late 1990s, and again in 2010 when it borrowed $4 million to almost quadruple the size of its Crystal Lake headquarters.

Accusations of bureaucratic bloating are nothing new. They arose as the Mental Health Board’s staff grew from 14 employees in the late 1990s to 50 full-time equivalents when the County Board approved the building expansion.

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A firefighter with the Davey Resource Group is surrounded by smoke and flames Nov. 13, 2012, during a prescribed burn at The Sanctuary of Bull Valley housing community in Woodstock.

Weather putting burns on hold Damp, cold days delaying usual fall grassland restoration work By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com During a short time frame in the fall, crews of eight from the McHenry County Conservation

District start burning brush in three to four events to help replenish nutrients in the ground. However, the cold temperatures and rainy days have stifled the district’s efforts to conduct pre-

scribed burns on district property. As of Nov. 11, the district had yet to conduct any controlled burns this fall. However, district staffers are on call the next three to four weeks in case they can drop other duties and conduct some burns. “The window of opportunity in the fall is very narrow from when things die back to when temperatures start regularly dipping

at and below the freezing mark,” Communications Manager Wendy Kummerer said. Burn season runs from Nov. 1 to early December, and from midMarch through the end of April. The district had planned to burn brush on about 400 to 500 acres, but weather patterns are not promising, Kummerer said.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s health care law risks coming unglued because of his administration’s bungles and his own inflated promises. To avoid that fate, Obama needs breakthroughs on three fronts: the cancellations mess, technology troubles and a crisis in confidence among his own supporters. Working in his favor are pent-up demands for the program’s benefits and an unlikely collaborator in the insurance industry. But even after Obama gets the enrollment website working, count on new controversies. On the horizon is the law’s potential impact on jobbased insurance. Its mandate that larger employers offer coverage will take effect in 2015. For now, odds still favor the Affordable Care Act’s survival. But after making it through the Supreme Court, a presidential election, numerous congressional repeal votes and a government shutdown, the law has yet to win broad acceptance. “There’s been nothing normal about this law from the start,” said Larry Levitt, an insurance expert with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. “There’s been no period of smooth sailing.” Other government mandates have taken root in American culture after initial resistance. It may be a simplistic comparison, but most people automatically fasten their

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Genia Mae Mustacisa pumps oxygen into the lungs of her three-day-old infant Saturday in front of the altar of a Catholic chapel inside the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center in Tacloban. The chapel is now being used to care for infants after Typhoon Haiyan destroyed the original facility of the hospital.

“She can’t breathe without them. She can’t breathe on her own. The only sign of life this little girl has left is a heartbeat.” Amie Sia, nurse at a hospital in Tacloban city vived initially. But six died later, “because we lack vital medical equipment that was destroyed,” said the attending physician, Dr. Leslie Rosario. Within days, however, 10 more babies born during or in the aftermath of the storm were taken in, including Althea. She was born in her family’s typhoon-wrecked home on Nov. 13, weighing 5.84 pounds, suffering from an inability to breathe. When she was rushed to the hospital, doctors performed CPR on her and since then they have been giving her oxygen from the hand-held pump connected to a blue rubber bubble that fits into her tiny mouth and draws sustenance from a green tank through a transparent pipe. Doctors said the storm had not been a factor in the

baby’s problems, noting that insufficient prenatal care most likely complicated the pregnancy for the 18-yearold mother. The baby was not born premature. Still, there was a good chance of saving Althea had the hospital been equipped with electricity that would have run a ventilator, incubator and other life-saving equipment. Until Saturday, the makeshift ward in the chapel had no light except candles. On Saturday, one small fluorescent bulb attached to a diesel generator was hung in the middle of the room where a few packs of diapers sit on the altar below a picture of Jesus. On the floor are a few more boxes of the only medical supplies left – water for IV fluids, syringes, a handful of antibiotics.

The ASSOCIATED PRESS MADRID – The spying revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden have made it a high-pressure, highstakes time to be a top media executive. In Britain, the editor of the Guardian pulverized entire hard drives of data leaked by Snowden to keep the government from seizing them. In the United States, The New York Times pointed out in a major NSA expose this month that it agreed to self-censorship of “some details that officials said could compromise intelligence operations.” And in Spain, the El Mundo newspaper said last week it would turn over Snowden

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documents to prosecutors inquiring whether the privacy rights of Spaniards had been violated. As revelations about the staggering scope of the NSA’s surveillance have leaked out, newsroom leaders around the world have been weighing ethical decisions over how much they should reveal about intelligence-gathering capabilities. Their decisions are guided, in part, by media protection laws that vary widely from country to country. “It’s a new era. There are new questions coming up and there are no clear answers here,” said Robert Picard, a specialist on media policy and director of research at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute. “The media

are trying to navigate it and it is not comfortable. You will get different opinions on the decision-making in different newsrooms and within the same newsroom.” The huge number of Snowden documents has generated a barrage of exclusive stories in the Guardian and The Washington Post, along with a stream of revelations about the NSA surveillance in countries such as France, Germany, Spain and Brazil. In some cases, publications that normally compete on stories have teamed up to get the news out. Britain’s Official Secrets Act guards against the dissemination of confidential material, and the government’s response to the Snowden leaks has become

stormier and stormier. When Britain’s deputy national security adviser warned that agents would confiscate the Guardian’s hard drives containing Snowden files, editor Alan Rusbridger made the deal to have them destroyed. “I would rather destroy the copy than hand it back to them or allow the courts to freeze our reporting,” he said in August. “I don’t think we had Snowden’s consent to hand the material back, and I didn’t want to help the U.K. authorities know what he had given us.” The fact that other copies of the material existed in the United States and Brazil meant he could delete the data held in Britain without fear that the story would die with it, he added.

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The hospital also lacks manpower. In the neonatal clinic alone, only three out of 16 staff are still working, Rosario said. The rest never reported back after the storm. The Philippines Department of Health sent two nurses from Manila to help. The hospital chapel’s windows are all shattered and missing. It is now filled with 24 babies – five of them in critical condition, the rest with fevers or other ailments. Many were born premature. Their parents are there too, resting on 28 rows of wooden pews. Three mothers have IV drips in their arms. Nanette Salutan, 40, is one of them. She said her labor contraction began just as the winds from Haiyan began howling. The contractions continued after the storm eased, and she walked to the hospital with her husband. It was an eight-hour trek through corpse-filled rubble and waist-high water. “All I could think was, I wanted my baby to live,” Salutan said.

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By TODD PITMAN TACLOBAN, Philippines – Althea Mustacisa was born three days ago in the aftermath of the killer typhoon that razed the eastern Philippines. And for every one of those three days, she has struggled to live. But she has clung to life because her parents have been pushing oxygen into her tiny body with a handheld pump non-stop ever since she came into this world. And “if they stop, the baby will die,” said Amie Sia, a nurse at a hospital in typhoon-wracked Tacloban city that is running without electricity and few staff or medical supplies. “She can’t breathe without them. She can’t breathe on her own,” Sia said. “The only sign of life this little girl has left is a heartbeat.” More than a week after ferocious Typhoon Haiyan annihilated a vast swath of the Philippines, killing more than 3,600 people, the storm’s aftermath is still claiming victims – and doctors here fear Althea may be the next. When the fierce storm smashed into this tropical country on Nov. 8, it transformed Tacloban into an unrecognizable wasteland of rubble and death. The bottom floor of the two-story government-run Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center was flooded, and the intensive care unit for newborns was left a muddy ruin. Life-saving machinery, like the facility’s only incubator, was soiled with water and mud. As the storm hit, doctors and staff took 20 babies who were already in the intensive care unit to a small chapel upstairs for their safety, placing them three or four in one plastic crib cart built for one newborn. With the chapel converted into an ad-hoc neonatal clinic, all the babies sur-

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the Gettysburg National Cemetery in Pennsylvania in November of 1863. Everett was collecting the speeches from Gettysburg’s dedication into one bound volume to sell for the benefit of stricken soldiers at a fair. The exact wording of the address varies among manuscript copies and media reports from the time. Cornelius said the Everett copy is the only handwritten copy of the address to include the phrase “under God,” which the Associated Press at the time reported that Lincoln said. Records show that in October 1943, Illinois State Historical Library trustee Oliver Barrett suggested school children help raise the money to buy the Everett copy from New York manuscript and rare books dealer Thomas Madigan. State superintendent Vernon Nickell communicated the task to schools, and the fundraising drive, as a result, was nicknamed “Nickell’s Nickels.”

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By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press CHICAGO – Despite dismal showings at the polls in recent elections and a highly-publicized change in party leadership, the chairman of the Illinois Republican Party says the state GOP is “alive, well and being very, very active.” But Jack Dorgan says change is needed if Republicans are going to make gains in a state government dominated by Democrats. Dorgan grew up in an Irish Catholic family in Chicago before starting a more than 30-year career in Republican politics. In remarks to the City Club of Chicago last week, Dorgan spoke bluntly, cracked wise and told the room of civic, business and political leaders that – being a Chicago guy –

“I just don’t think [name calling] helps. I believe that turns off a whole bunch of voters.” Jack Dorgan Illinois GOP chairman he’s not afraid to use a little “tough love” when necessary. Dorgan said the GOP’s message needs to center on improving the economy and creating jobs. He also said the party needs to do more to appeal to minorities and independent voters and that he’d like to see an end to the “name calling” among Republicans and with Democrats. “I just don’t think that helps,” Dorgan said. “I believe that turns off a whole bunch of voters.”

Watchdog calls for fixes to child welfare system The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – A state watchdog is calling for fixes to Illinois’ child welfare system, and a key lawmaker says he may call legislative hearings following reports that a rising number of children are dying from abuse and neglect – some after being on the radar of case workers. The Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ radio report that Denise Kane, inspector general for the Department of Children and Family Services, says there needs to be better coordination between police and DCFS. Kane also said child-welfare workers should work more evening shifts so they can have more interaction with working families, many of whom aren’t home until after 5 p.m. “The Department still doesn’t have a liaison with the Chicago Police Department so that we can work together,” she said. “That’s insane.” Kane’s comments follow a report by the news outlets

that found there were 111 child deaths statewide caused by abuse or neglect during the 12-month period that ended June 30 – a 30-year high for the state. The Sun-Times and WBEZ analyzed 10 years of Kane’s reports about deaths of children from abuse and neglect that occurred after DCFS had some involvement with the child. The investigation concluded there were 228 such deaths between July 1, 2002, and June 30, 2012. The number more than doubled – from 15 to 34 – between 2010 and 2011. In 2012 there were also 34 such deaths. Among the fatalities was 4-year-old Christopher Valdez, from Chicago’s Southwest Side. Authorities say he was beaten to death in 2011 by his mother’s boyfriend. Shortly before his death, the boy’s mother was arrested for beating him and later convicted. But DCFS and the courts allowed Christopher to resume living with her.

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CHICAGO – For nine people trying to leave the Cook County Administration Building in downtown Chicago on Friday, it wasn’t exactly the start to the weekend they had hoped for. The group became trapped inside an elevator for about an hour and a half Friday afternoon. County employee Sheila Atkins was among those waiting for firefighters to open the doors of the malfunctioning elevator, which became stuck near the bottom of the high-rise building. She told reporters afterward that the group passed the time calmly, getting to know one another, sharing gum, playing games on their phones and chatting.

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U.S. stopped to say farewell to JFK By JERRY SCHWARTZ The Associated Press The horse’s name was Black Jack. His saddle was empty, but boots were in the stirrups – backwards. Skittishly, he followed the body of John F. Kennedy on its last journey. You could hear his hooves against the pavement, along with the clip-clop of the team of six white horses that pulled the caisson bearing the flag-bedecked coffin. And you could hear the muffled drums that resounded across Washington, and across the nation. Fifty years have passed, but the sights and sounds of that November day are indelible. This was by design: With a fine eye, Jackie Kennedy helped orchestrate a funeral unlike any in American history, before or since. This was the final act in an unforgettable drama that began on Friday with the murder of the 35th president of the United States, continued on Sunday with the murder of his murderer, and came to a close Monday with the

“May the angels, dear Jack, lead you into paradise. May the martyrs receive you at your coming.” Cardinal Richard Cushing at Cathedral of St. Matthew kindling of an eternal flame on a wind-swept Virginia hillside. As one writer of the time suggested, the funeral was attended by 180 million Americans – the entire stunned populace. Only 50,300,000 American households had televisions in 1963, and it was estimated that 41,553,000 sets were tuned into the funeral. They had been watching for days. Cameras in the Capitol rotunda followed mourners – a quarter million in all – as they filed past the casket. Cameras in the basement of the Dallas police headquarters caught Jack Ruby as he thrust a .38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver into the gut of Lee Harvey Oswald and fired. And now they watched as an

extraordinary pageant unfolded in front of them. At the White House, mourners and dignitaries joined the procession behind Black Jack: the black-veiled widow, the Kennedy family, President Lyndon Johnson. France’s Charles De Gaulle, ramrod tall; Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian Lion of Judah, more than a foot shorter, his uniform festooned with medals and gold braiding; all together, 19 chiefs of state and heads of government, assorted royal personages, all of them on foot. At the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, they heard Cardinal Richard Cushing depart from the Latin: “May the angels, dear Jack, lead you into paradise. May the martyrs receive you at your coming.” Outside, as the coffin left the church, Jackie Kennedy leaned down and whispered a few words to John Jr., who turned 3 years old on that day. He lifted his right hand to his brow, a child’s farewell salute to his father; it would be the most memorable moment in a day full of them.

At Arlington, 50 jetfighters in a “missing man formation” roared overhead, Air Force One flew by and dipped its wings, a 21gun salute resounded. The honor guard crisply folded the flag from the coffin. A bugler played taps, but cracked the sixth note; it was an error, but many took it as a reflection of the American broken heart. Then, with the ignition of the eternal flame, it was over. Not the mourning – that would go on for months. And not the descent into violence – over the coming years, others would fall victim to assassins, among them the brother-inlaw, Robert, who was at Jackie Kennedy’s side. But the nation awoke from the fevered nightmare that had begun four days before, in Dallas. The funeral served that purpose. “It was just about the best America could produce – meaningful, democratic, sincere, sorrowful, no phony emotion of any kind,” said Angier Biddle Duke, the State Department’s chief of protocol. “It brought out the best in everybody.”

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ANNISTON, Ala. – The Pentagon spent $10.2 billion over three decades burning tons of deadly nerve gas and other chemical weapons stored in four states – some of the agents so deadly even a few drops can kill. Now, with all those chemicals up in smoke and communities freed of a threat, the Army is in the middle of another, $1.3 billion project: Demolishing the incinerators that destroyed the toxic materials. In Alabama, Oregon, Utah and Arkansas, crews are either tearing apart multibillion-dollar incinerators or working to draw the curtain on a drama that began in the Cold War, when the United States and the former Soviet Union stockpiled millions of pounds of chemical weapons. Construction work continues at two other sites where

DES MOINES, Iowa – Five chickens live in artist Alicia Rheal’s backyard in Madison, Wis., and when they age out of laying eggs, they may become chicken dinner. “We get egg-layers and after a couple of years we put the older girls in the freezer and we get a newer batch,” Rheal said. Rheal is a pragmatic backyard chicken enthusiast who likes to know what’s in her food. But others find the fun of bringing a slice of farm life into the city stops when the

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Workers continue the process of demolishing chemical waste incinerator Tuesday at the Anniston Army Depot in Anniston, Ala. technology other than incineration will be used to neutralize agents chemically, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the incinerator complex at the Anniston Army Depot – where sarin, VX nerve gas and mustard gas were stored about 55 miles east of Birmingham – the military this week said it’s about one-third of the way into a $310 million program to

level a gigantic furnace that cost $2.4 billion to build and operate. Tim Garrett, the government site project manager, said officials considered doing something else with the incinerator, but the facility was too specialized to convert for another use. Also, the law originally allowing chemical incineration required demolition once the work was done.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Authorities said Saturday that they’ve likely found the body of a Florida man who they say fell out of a private plane, three days into a land and sea search that included parts of the Atlantic Ocean near Miami. “Even though we presume that the body found is that of Gerardo Nales, investigators are pending ‘official identification’ from the Medical Examiner’s Office,” Detective Alvaro Zabaleta said.

8NATION BRIEFS Ex-U.S. Treasury Secretary to join private equity firm Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who played a central role in the government’s response to the financial crisis of 2008-2009, is joining private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The firm announced Saturday that Geithner will serve as its president and managing director starting March 1. Geithner led the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for more than five years before becoming Treasury secretary in 2009, when the economy had sunk into a deep recession. Few Treasury secretaries re-

OAKLAND, Calif. – San Francisco transit officials are calling for a return to the bargaining table, saying an expensive provision was “erroneously” included in a labor contract that settled a union dispute that had caused two recent strikes. Late Friday, the contract with San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit’s two largest unions appeared to be facing uncertainty as the agency said that it was

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Toronto mayor in crisis; some backers stay loyal The ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO – When Rob Ford was elected mayor of Toronto in 2010, his bluster and checkered past were widely known. A plurality of voters backed him anyway, eager to shake things up at a City Hall they viewed as elitist and

wasteful. Those voters – many from Toronto’s conservative-leaning, working-class outer suburbs – got their wish, and perhaps more turmoil than any could have expected. Now the loyalty of the mayor’s constituency, known as Ford Nation, is being tested

as he faces intense pressure to resign following sensational revelations about his drinking problems and illegal drug use, as well as repeated outbursts of erratic behavior and crude language. The City Council voted Friday, on a 39-3 vote, to suspend Ford’s authority to appoint

or dismiss the deputy mayor and his executive committee, which oversees the budget. Further efforts are expected Monday to strip Ford of most of his remaining powers, though he vows to resist with court action. Many of Ford’s political allies – including most council

members – are deserting him, and polls show his approval rate is down sharply from two years ago. Yet some of his loyalists want him to hang on. “Yes, he is an embarrassment, but not a thief,” said Joe Amorim, 49, a supply chain manager from the city’s Little Italy area. “People are tired

of smooth-talking politicians that waste public money and serve corporations and the wealthy.” That outlook is reflected on a Facebook site called “I Hate The War On Mayor Rob Ford” which praises him for trying to fulfill his campaign mantra: “Stop the gravy train.”

8BRIEFS NASA’s newest Mars flyer will explore atmosphere CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA hopes its newest Mars spacecraft lives up to its know-it-all name. The robotic explorer called Maven is due to blast off Monday on a 10-month journey to the red planet. There, it will orbit Mars and study the atmosphere to try to understand how the planet morphed from warm and wet to cold and dry. “A maven is a trusted expert,” noted NASA’s space science chief, John Grunsfeld. Maven will help scientists “build a story of the Mars atmosphere and help future human explorers who journey to Mars.” The $671 million mission is NASA’s 21st crack at Earth’s most enticing neighbor, coming on the heels of the Curiosity rover, still rolling strong a year after its grand Martian arrival. When Maven reaches Mars next September, it will join three functioning spacecraft, two U.S. and one European. An Indian orbiter also will be arriving about the same time. Maven will be the 10th orbiter to be launched to Mars by NASA; three have failed, testimony to the difficulty of the task. “No other planet, other than perhaps Earth, has held the attention of people around the world [better] than Mars,” Grunsfeld said.

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N.J. city moves forward to fight foreclosure IRVINGTON, N.J. – Irvington, N.J., is moving forward with plans to become the second municipality in the nation to use eminent domain to buy mortgages that are in foreclosure. At a rally Saturday, Mayor Wayne Smith said the city will perform a legal study of the proposal to use eminent domain, which has drawn forceful opposition from Wall Street, real estate groups and some in Washington, while gaining the support of a civil rights group typically opposed to the practice. “When you hear those words, it usually has a negative connotation,” Smith said. But, when used to take control of underwater mortgages the city will “recast it so people can stay in their homes.” The city of 53,000 that neighbors Newark has been hard-hit by foreclosures. Officials said nearly 1,800 homes here have been foreclosed on since 2008.

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Fears replace Christians’ high expectations in Egypt By HAMZA HENDAWI The Associated Press MAR GIRGIS MONASTERY, Egypt – There is no sign of the hundreds of thousands of Christian pilgrims who flock here every November. No tattoo artists inscribing crosses on the wrists of babies or images of saints on the arms of young men. No stalls selling crosses, icons or pillows embroidered with portraits of patriarchs. The only noise disturbing the quiet of the Monastery of Mar Girgis these days is the call for prayers blaring from the nearby mosque. The week-long festival of Mar Girgis, or St. George, has been held here annually for more than a century, attracting as many as 2 million

“The Copts have paid a high price since Jan. 25 and until now.” Maher Shoukri Christian activist, referring to the start of the 2011 uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak

pilgrims from across Egypt to one of the biggest and most exuberant events of the year for Orthodox Coptic Christians. This year, however, the government canceled the festival, fearing it would be a target for Islamic militants who have stepped up attacks since the July 3 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The cancellation – along with those of two similar festi-

8WORLD BRIEF Clashes hit Libyan capital after militia attack TRIPOLI, Libya – Soldiers and government-affiliated militias stormed a military base occupied by gunmen in Libya’s capital on Saturday, sparking fresh fighting that left four dead a day after a deadly militia attack on protesters. Armed residents and pro-government militiamen have set up checkpoints across Tripoli, as thousands of protesters gathered in the city center to mourn the 43 killed in Friday’s attack when militias fired on a crowd urging the dissolution of unlawful armed groups. Friday’s demonstrations had

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8WORLD BRIEF China baby policy change million Chinese parents will be allowed to have a second may not result in boom BEIJING – Don’t expect a new Chinese baby boom, experts say, despite the first easing of the country’s controversial one-child policy in three decades. Some 15 million to 20

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Natural resource manager: Humidity must be right • BURN Continued from page A1 Natural Resource Manager Brad Woodson said humidity has to be right, and there can’t be too many green leaves, to go forward with burning. Although there are areas planned for burns, whether the district carries out a controlled burn depends on the weather conditions each day. Decisions are not made until the morning of a burn. Ideal conditions are 35 to 65 degrees, with humidity between 20 and 60 percent. Wind speed has to be about 5 mph for prairie areas, and 20 to 25 mph in wooded areas, Woodson said. Conditions have to be dry enough so it’s conducive to

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Better late than never Huntley hospital project moves forward after judge’s decision We applaud a Will County judge’s decision backing Centegra Health System’s plan to build a new hospital in Huntley. Judge Bobbi Petrungaro earlier this month ruled in favor of the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board’s approval of the $233 million project. Illinois is a certificate-of-need For the record state, meaning that health care Centegra Health System providers must plans to build a $233 milion, first get state ap128-bed hospital in Huntley proval to build or that will serve residents in expand to avoid south McHenry and north Kane costly duplication counties. of services. After a prior attempt to get state approval to build the 128bed hospital at its existing campus at Haligus and Reed roads in Huntley fell short, Centegra won approval in July 2012 on a 6-3 vote. Because the board overturned its earlier decision denying Centegra’s Huntley project (on a 4-4 vote in December 2011, with one member absent; ties are considered a denial under the board’s rules), Mercy Health System, Sherman Health and Advocate Health Care filed separate requests in Will County Court seeking an administrative review of the board’s reversal. This legal battle had been going on for more than a year, delaying Centegra’s planned groundbreaking this fall. While we wish he had ruled sooner, Petrungaro’s decision is the right one. Centegra sufficiently proved its case – to our Editorial Board, which endorsed its proposal, and more importantly to the state review board – that a new hospital is needed to serve residents in the growing southern portion of McHenry County and northern part of Kane County. The state’s own data says that McHenry County is the most underserved area in lllinois with regard to the number of available hospital beds per capita. The second most underserved area in the state is northern Kane County. Centegra Hospital – Huntley will serve both areas. This project will be an economic boon to Huntley and the region. More importantly, it will provide residents who live in the area better access to health care. About 800 construction jobs will be created as it’s being built, and an additional 1,100 permanent jobs are expected to be added after the new hospital opens, tentatively scheduled for 2016. We are excited to see this project get under way.

8IT’S YOUR WRITE D-155 teachers union

Circus elephant abuse

To the Editor: Paul Kersey, in his op-ed “Closer look at District 155 union numbers,” was spot-on (Nov. 9) – good job! I’m a card-carrying, dues-paying union member in an industry based on competitive market forces – not taxpayer dollars. And, obviously, I’m also a taxpayer. I understand the District 155 union’s goal in presenting the information that Kersey points out. I also understand the impact of raising teachers’ pay on my phenomenally, ridiculously, egregiously high property taxes. My children will be products of District 155, and I appreciate the education they’re receiving. However, if the pay the teachers are receiving isn’t good enough, they should move to one of the districts cited on the union website. That way, they get what they want, and we get (kind of) what we pay for. And if I want them to teach my kids, I’ll move with them. Think about that for a second.

To the Editor: Thank you, DeAnna Chadwick, for your letter to the editor highlighting the abuse of elephants in the circus industry (Nov. 10). The abuse these animals, and all circus animals, suffer is a crime, and I do not understand why this is tolerated, and glorified, in this country. Google circus cruelty to animals for more information or read “Water for Elephants” for more understanding. I encourage everyone to research this subject before attending circus performances of any kind.

John Koss

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Lucky to get it To the Editor: Why all the fuss about 14-day delivery service? I received a postcard from my granddaughter, mailed March 31 from Mexico. I received it Sept. 25. I guess I was just lucky to receive it!

How to sound off We welcome original letters on public issues. Letters must include the author’s full name, home address and day and evening telephone numbers. We limit letters to 250 words and one published letter every 30 days. All letters are subject to editing

Fairness and equality To the Editor: I would like to publicly thank Rep. Jack Franks for his vote and support for the Marriage Equality Act recently passed by the Illinois General Assembly, enabling two persons of the same gender to be lawfully joined in marriage. I know from personal experience as an officiant in the weddings of several same-sex couples, which up until this point have only been symbolic, what a difference this makes to these couples, along with their families and friends who will now enjoy the same benefits and regard that heterosexual couples do. As states around the country,

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one by one, are acknowledging the simple fairness of this equal standing, our own state has joined their ranks. Approved by a margin of one vote, Franks and those who voted with him will know how much difference their vote made. Coming from a more socially conservative area, he will undoubtedly experience the loss of some support from those who opposed marriage equality. On the other hand, he will gain, I believe, more support from those who realize that fairness and equality have finally been served. Rev. Dan Larsen Woodstock

C.S. Lewis’ influence on Christian faith still is felt today Three famous men died on Nov. 22, 1963. The one getting the most attention, understandably, is John F. Kennedy. Less so the other two: Aldous Huxley, author of the futuristic novel “Brave New World,” and Clive Staples Lewis. Of the three, it was Lewis who not only was the most influential of his time, but whose reach extends to these times and likely beyond. His many books continue to sell, and the number of people whose lives have been changed by his writing expands each year. On the 50th anniversary of his death, C.S. Lewis remains perhaps the 20th century’s most towering intellectual practitioner of the Christian faith. Lewis combined humility – rare among those who have achieved fame – with a style that relied less on argumentation than

on logic and persuasion. He asks readers to join him on a journey he himself has taken and, like a tour guide, shows us a better world and a better life than the one he describes in “The Chronicles of Narnia” as being “always winter, but never Christmas.” A friend of mine once said, “Humility is so light a grace that once you think you’ve achieved it, you’ve lost it.” In so many places – from Washington to Hollywood – people have never had to worry about losing humility, because most have never possessed it. And that is said in all humility. It is a major reason, I think, why Pope Francis is enjoying so much favorable attention, including from non-Catholics and even non-Christians. The pope exudes humility in the style of Mother Teresa. There is

VIEWS Cal Thomas a natural – or supernatural – attraction to such people because it is a quality most know they should have, but are unsure where to find it. Many refuse to even embark on the journey. While no one has ever been argued to faith, C.S. Lewis provided a considerable number of arguments to counter those who do not share his beliefs. In perhaps his most influential work, “Mere Christianity,” Lewis addresses people who call Jesus of Nazareth something He never called Himself: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish

thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” It was this passage and Lewis’

8SPEAK OUT

Q “Do you think the U.S. economy is heading in the right direction?”

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“I think the economy is not heading in the right direction. Insurance is being taken away from people, which is making it harder for families to survive. ...”

“I don’t think it’s headed in the right direction because our government is spending more money than we possibly have and they just keep printing it and printing it. ...”

Megan Collier, Cary

Rich Roberts, Cary

8THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Northwest Herald asked this same question on its Facebook page. At right are a couple of the responses.

“In a healthy economy, you don’t need 85 billion a month in bond buying from the Fed.” Adam Brown

chapter on pride that brought Richard Nixon’s “hatchet man,” the late Charles Colson, among many others with hard hearts, to faith. On Sept. 8, 1947, Time magazine featured Lewis on its cover. It rightly called him “the most popular lecturer in the University,” which was Magdelen College, Oxford. Like many great writers, most of Lewis’ honors have come posthumously, including this Nov. 22 when his remains will be moved from a modest cemetery in Oxford, England, to Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, where his “neighbors” will include Charles Dickens, John Milton, Jane Austen and Geoffrey Chaucer. Some people long for another C.S. Lewis, but the original should suffice for at least another 50 years.

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Critic called Mental Health Board ‘an empire in the county’ • POLITICS Continued from page A1 It was accused of negligence when domestic violence agency Turning Point faced allegations of rampant budget mismanagement in 2004, and again last year when Family Service and Community Mental Health Center went bankrupt. Both incidents prompted efforts to oust a Mental Health Board president – one of county government’s few powers over such boards is the appointment of its members. In both cases, the Mental Health Board was accused of trying to strong-arm its client agencies into lobbying to save the presidents. In both cases, accusations arose that the County Board chairman was trying to stop change. People seeking reform of the Mental Health Board over the past 15 years have raised serious issues and asked pointed questions. They demanded new blood in the wake of decisions they considered the most egregious. And until very recently, public records show, “politicization” helped the Mental Health Board by ensuring reform attempts went nowhere.

’Tired of hearing it’ The Mental Health Board came a long way between its 1967 creation by referendum to disburse tax funds to deserving agencies and the County Board budget crisis of the late 1990s. Executive Director Dennis Smith oversaw a $400,000 budget when he became the board’s first and only employee in 1975. By 1997 the staff had grown to 14, Smith’s salary had grown to $76,835, and the board had a $9.1 million budget, $5.7 million of which came from its property-tax levy. As the County Board grappled with balancing a massive budget deficit, members of several key committees began questioning Mental Health Board spending. While the County Board mandated 16 percent budget cuts by all departments for the 1998 fiscal year, the Mental Health Board gave its employees two 2.5-percent raises, one of them retroactive. Criticism arose over benefit packages that were unavailable to other county employees, and over expenses such as $900 in restaurant bills in December 1997 alone. At a contentious September 1997 meeting of the Public Health and Human Services Committee tasked with Mental Health Board oversight, several members and then-County Board Chairwoman Dianne Klemm grilled Smith and his board. But they had a strong defender in Mike Tryon, who chaired the committee and held the County Board’s voting seat on the Mental Health Board. Committee member Wayne Kurzeja had started commenting on Mental Health Board spending when Tryon cut him off. “I’ve heard this speech before. I’m tired of hearing it,” Tryon told him. Kurzeja told Tryon that it was not “the chairman’s job to take people off the hot seat when we’re trying to put them on the hot seat.” A frustrated Klemm asked Tryon to “stop answering my questions” that she was asking of Mental Health Board leaders. Tryon and the Mental Health Board had legitimate concerns with the County Board budget process. In an effort to balance its own budget, county government in past years had cut into mental health revenue because it then had power to freeze that levy in order to raise others under its budgetary umbrella. Klemm in early 1998 tried to remove Tryon from the Mental Health Board, alleging that he was “acting like a mascot” rather than a watchdog. But Klemm dropped the idea – she was trying to remove other unrelated appointees as well – over strong protest that she was leading a political vendetta. Tryon prevailed, and later that year defeated Klemm

to become County Board chairman. The Mental Health Board prevailed as well, and lawmakers, at its behest, passed a law forbidding county boards from manipulating the mental health levy. After Tryon’s election in November 2004 to the Illinois House, the County Board elected two-term member Ken Koehler as chairman. He held the job barely a week before he, too, was drawn into Mental Health Board politics. The county’s public health committee decided more fiscal control was needed and voted to replace Mental Health Board President Bev Thomas. Koehler stopped that from happening.

‘Empire building’ Four days into Koehler’s chairmanship, the public health committee decided against appointing Thomas, an 18-year board veteran, on a 3-3 split. The bloc opposing Thomas’ reappointment said her board operated too independently and needed new direction to bring it into more compliance with county practices. The executive director of the county’s largest social service provider – which has also traditionally been the loudest critic of Mental Health Board spending – had much more to say. Jeff Epstein, then executive director at Pioneer Center for Human Services, submitted a rambling 37-page report to the committee accusing the board of “empire building,” bloated administration and favoritism in funding agencies. By 2004, the Mental Health Board’s budget had grown to $14 million – $8.6 million of it from the levy – and it had 24 employees, almost double its 1998 roster. Director Dennis Smith was now making $103,000 a year. “An empire has been built in the county, as it is known statewide, at the expense of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services [sic],” Epstein wrote in his report, obtained under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. He painted Smith as domineering and Thomas as unwilling to supervise him. Epstein also alleged that the board should have anticipated the 2004 financial meltdown at Turning Point, which fired its executive director amid allegations of financial mismanagement. Appointments to the board came up for a County Board vote in January 2005. Contrary to the committee’s recommendation, Thomas was among them. Koehler, who said Thomas had too much experience to be discarded, created a vacancy for her to fill by convincing another member to push up his planned departure a year early. The County Board approved all four Mental Health Board appointments on one 18-5 vote with no discussion. But discussion aplenty, and more fuel for critics, would be generated several months later. Smith, who was poised to retire after 30 years at the helm, made a controversial funding request to boost his Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund pension by 6 percent by buying three more years of seniority. After months of wrangling, a plan to allow Smith to get a 3 percent boost squeaked through on a 12-11 County Board vote. Smith paid $20,142 into the system, while the Mental Health Board paid $28,656. Critics questioned whether the money could be better spent. “My primary objection is that it’s using taxpayer money that could be going to other programs,” former County Board member Ann Kate said after the vote. Smith this year will receive $76,784 from the IMRF, according to records. His pension will increase to $78,665 in 2014. Smith was succeeded by Sandy Lewis, who made attempts to bring the board’s compensation decisions, though independent under state law, into greater compliance with the County

Names to know

Ken Koehler, Former McHenry County Board chairman

Sandy Lewis, Former Mental Health Board executive director

Mike Tryon, former Public Health and Human Services chairman

Tina Hill, McHenry County Board chairwoman

“An empire has been built in the county, as it is known statewide, at the expense of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services [sic].” Jeff Epstein, then executive director at Pioneer Center for Human Services in his 37-page report, obtained under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act Board’s wishes. But criticism mounted as the board’s size, spending – and headquarters – grew. The County Board, over the objections of Pioneer Center and several other agencies, voted in 2009 to allow the Mental Health Board to borrow $4 million in federal economic stimulus bonds to add 22,000 square feet to its Crystal Lake headquarters. Its staff by then had grown to 50 full-time equivalents. The Mental Health Board in 2012 spent about $1.8 million in a failed attempt to prevent Family Service, the county’s oldest mental health agency, from closing. Shortly after that, in a move the board said was unrelated, Lewis took another job and her two top deputies announced their retirement. Lewis accepted a job in Virginia as an assistant professor of psychiatry and director of a mental health center. She had received her doctorate just months earlier – under her contract, McHenry County taxpayers paid at least $30,000 of her tuition and fees, records show. Those spending decisions and leadership shakeup came months before an election shakeup at the County Board, which flipped the longtime trend of county politics shielding the Mental Health Board.

But Kurtz’ committee two weeks later grilled Ellis and recommended rejecting him in favor of three new members. Ellis’ statement in his column that the board spends only 6 percent of its budget on administration came back to haunt him at the hearing. The board’s own 2012 annual report later acknowledged that administrative expenses were in fact 17 percent – almost triple Ellis’ estimate – if the costs of the new building are factored in. The full County Board overwhelmingly approved the slate of new members. But Hill, like Koehler and Klemm before her, was drawn into a political fight. She faced allegations of politics as usual after she postponed the vote for two weeks because the agenda for the committee’s original vote did not comply with new Illinois Open Meetings Act requirements. Ellis’ supporters took advantage of the time to ask several members, as well as agencies receiving Mental Health Board funding, to fight

for his reappointment. Hill was later criticized for advancing her own candidate, who was ultimately approved by the board, after the public health committee’s controversial pick to fill another vacancy was crushed on an 18-6 vote. Hill also considered removing Sandra Fay Salgado, who often voted with the reform bloc, from Kurtz’s committee. Hill had alleged that Salgado’s membership was a conflict of interest, because she worked for Pioneer Center. But Hill relented under pressure – critics pointed out that former committee chairwoman Virginia Peschke worked for an agency that receives about $50,000 a year in Mental Health Board funding. Five of the seven present members of the Mental Health Board were appointed this year. They have a lot of work to do – a financial day of reckoning may have arrived.

Maxed out Property values, not politics, are driving the Mental Health Board’s present financial woes. Values plummeted with the bursting of the housing bubble. Most local governments have coped because they have not yet reached their maximum tax rates, and can raise them to ensure they don’t lose revenue when overall values decline. But the Mental Health Board has no such wiggle room. Its rate of 15 cents per $100 in assessed value is the maximum that state law allows mental health boards to levy. Its $11.475 million levy request for next year is down more than $1.2 million from what it received in 2012. This is on top of flagging state revenues. Its tentative 2014 budget keeps whole, and slightly increases to $8.7 million, what it disburses to the 24 agencies that receive its funding. But it has started taking an ax to the

long-criticized administrative and staff budget. Its staff roster for next year will decrease almost by half, from 33 to 19 full-time equivalents. It is spinning off its programs to coordinate services to client agencies. Its webpage has now been folded into that of McHenry County government. The new board sacked the long-time attorney after alleging he billed too much – the old board raised his hourly rate last year to $250 – for unnecessary services. Concerns about the building expansion may have turned out to be prescient. Kurtz and others pounce on the fact that the board, according to its annual report, spent $801,376 last fiscal year on facility expenses such as finishing the addition and paying back the bonds. Hill and Kurtz have differing opinions on whether county politics shielded the Mental Health Board from past restraint that would have staved off the present fiscal problem. While Kurtz called past actions a classic example of government officials “going with the flow” to protect the status quo, Hill cited the autonomy that state law gives mental health boards. “I wouldn’t say that there was a protective bubble per se, but that [the County Board] agreed with the direction the Mental Health Board was going, and didn’t want any change,” Hill said. Kurtz called the past incidents missed opportunities. “I think if the board and the previous executive directors recognized that keeping a very lean, mean administrative organization was critical to serving the needs of the public, they would have kept their organization small,” Kurtz said. “When you never have anybody trying to stop you on your administrative costs, you keep expanding. And that’s what’s happened here.”

Winds of change Just as his predecessor did seven years prior, Pioneer Center Executive Director Patrick Maynard implored the County Board in January 2013 to take advantage of four expiring terms to put new faces on the Mental Health Board. There was no lack of public interest – 15 candidates applied. More importantly, there was interest on the new County Board. The November election put nine new people on the County Board, which the following month elected Tina Hill as chairwoman, denying Koehler a fifth two-year term. Hill gave the chairmanship of the public health committee to Donna Kurtz, a longtime Mental Health Board critic. Hill said Kurtz made clear to her that she wanted to pursue reforms. “I wouldn’t say I support the reforms so much as I would say I supported the voice,” Hill said. But Hill didn’t know where other people on the new committee stood. It turned out that the shakeup gave Kurtz a majority on the seven-member committee with which to enact changes with full County Board approval. Hill also appointed fiscal hawk Paula Yensen, D-Lake in the Hills, to hold the board’s voting seat on the Mental Health Board. Mental Health Board leaders went on the offensive, just as past ones had done when faced with serious scrutiny. Board President Lee Ellis – whose term was one of those expiring – wrote a guest column defending the agency and critical of a Northwest Herald article about Maynard’s comments. Interim Director Todd Schroll addressed the County Board at its following meeting, and the board began submitting hundreds of pages of supporting documents to each County Board member.

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TWO INJURED IN JOHNSBURG CRASH JOHNSBURG – The driver in a three-vehicle wreck that sent two people to the hospital Saturday afternoon was under the influence of alcohol, Johnsburg police said. Luis A. Rosalio, 34, of Carpentersville, was charged with driving under the influence, driving with a suspended license, disobeying a stop sign and endangering the life of a child. Johnsburg police and the McHenry Township Fire Protection District responded to the accident at 5:19 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of McCullom Lake and Ringwood roads. Rosalio was eastbound on McCullom Lake Road when he ran the stop sign at the Ringwood Road intersection, hitting a car driven by Lori Lee Sciarrone, 35, of Wonder Lake, who was attempting to make a lefthand turn from Ringwood Road onto McCullom Lake, Sgt. Mike Vollmer said. The car was pushed off the road into the house at the southeast corner of the intersection, 3502 Ringwood Road, he said. The car caused minor damage to the porch, Battalion Chief Mike Majercik said. Rosalio’s car then hit a third car driven by Storm A. Melnick, 21, of McHenry, that was stopped at the intersection, facing west on McCullom Lake Road, Vollmer said. Sciarrone was taken to Centegra Hospital – McHenry with a head injury, and Melnick was taken to the same hospital with neck, back and knee pain, Majercik said. They had not been released from the hospital as of 10 p.m. Saturday. Rosalio and the two children in his car were not hurt. The accident remains under investigation, Vollmer said.

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D-155 board makes offers Salaries, pension costs among sticking points in union contract impasse By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Negotiations between District 155 and its teachers union have stalled over salaries, retirement benefits and teachers’ work loads, an analysis of both sides’ final offers show. Both the District 155 school board and the teachers union posted their most

recent offers on their respective websites, a step the entities had to take in the wake of both sides filing papers with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board declaring they had reached an impasse. At least two more negotiation sessions between the Community High School District 155 Board of Education and the teachers union, the District 155

Education Association, will take place before the end of the year as both sides try to avoid a strike. The board Thursday rejected a binding arbitration offer from the union that would require both parties to honor a contract drafted by an independent source.

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TRUCK FIRE SNARLS ROUTE 14 WOODSTOCK – A pickup truck was engulfed in flames about 12:30 p.m. Saturday along the southbound shoulder of Route 14. Thick, black smoke rose in the area between Emricson Park and the Westwood Lakes subdivision before Woodstock firefighters and police arrived and shut down the highway in both directions. No one appeared to be inside the vehicle, which was parked south of Kishwaukee Valley Road. Traffic was delayed for about an hour and firefighters were able to get the blaze under control within minutes. – Northwest Herald

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TURNING POINT AT McHENRY LIBRARY “Domestic Violence Awareness” will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the McHenry Public Library, 809 N. Front St. A representative from Turning Point will describe the programs and services available at the agency’s facility in Woodstock.

8LOCAL DEATHS Jose Cruz Avila-Galvez 40, Woodstock Thomas Joseph Gemmell 72 Bradley E. Giertz 55, East Dundee Russell G. LeClair 92, McHenry Linda K. Stephens 58, Fox River Grove Dennis Zidek OBITUARIES on page B6

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Sue Irvin of Crystal Lake makes a sound book with her granddaughter Esther Reynolds, 2, during an event Saturday celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Crystal Lake Public Library. The library first opened on Nov. 15, 1913, with 200 books. BELOW RIGHT: Raina Shizas, 16, of Algonquin and Natalie Trzeciak, 15, of Huntley play with the McHenry County Youth Orchestra.

EPIC Exploration event features crafts to make, hobby presentations By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Tammy Schneider had gone to the Crystal Lake Public Library on Saturday afternoon intending to do research for her school paper. But with materials stacked beside her, the Cary resident detoured to try out Zentangle, an art method based on repetitive line and shapes. “This is right up my alley,” Schneider said. “I can see this being very meditative.” Zentangle teacher Linda Cannizzo’s booth was one of 14 scattered across the library Saturday as part of the library’s

EPIC Exploration event held in concert with the library’s 100th anniversary. Volunteers demonstrated scroll sawing, how to make rubber band balls and how to play chess and gave presentations on beekeeping, fishing and 3-D printing. Cattycorner to Cannizzo was Linda Gullo, who showed visitors how to make homemade envelopes out of magazine covers, scrapbooking paper and dollies. “I never thought of it as any great talent,” Gullo said. “It’s just a no-brainer thing I do. ... I like to clip and cut and stuff, so I’m always doing these kinds of projects.”

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Voters in Algonquin again face question on rate negotiation By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com ALGONQUIN – After failing by a slim margin last year, village officials will again pose a referendum question that would allow them to negotiate lower electricity rates for Algonquin residents. The Algonquin Village Board in a committee meeting earlier this week unanimously agreed to put the electric aggregation referendum on the March 18 primary ballot. Members will take a final vote on the measure during a meeting Tuesday, where it is expected to pass.

“The board feels this will be very beneficial to the community,” said Michael Kumbera, assistant to the village manager. “It’s an opportunity for savings to both residents and small businesses.” Algonquin voters rejected the electric aggregation referendum in March 2012 by a mere nine votes. The move prevented the village from joining the more than 600 communities in Illinois that already use electric aggregation. The measure allows local governments to negotiate lower electricity rates for its residents. With increased bargaining power, the village would be able to secure lower rates for residents from an electrical supplier. ComEd would still deliver and provide service to the residents under the program.

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first projects to come By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – A new fieldhouse, redesigned main entrance and reconfigured parking are the first improvements set for the $30.8 million expansion of Huntley High School to start late spring. The changes are a part of an extensive overhaul detailed in a design plan presented to Huntley District 158 board members earlier this week. The plan includes new classroom space and science labs, a re-purposed library geared toward the 21st century, a retooled cafeteria, and multiple common areas. Members compared the concepts to features seen in community colleges. They now wait for March, when the first construction bid will

Text the keyword NWHHUNTLEY to 74574 to sign up for HUNTLEY news text alerts from the Northwest Herald. Message and data rates apply. be presented for approval. “I really want to hit the fast forward button and see what this looks like because this, to me, is incredible,” said Board President Don Drzal. “It’s very exciting.” The initial bid later this spring will kickstart a two-year construction project meant to accommodate the 3,000 students expected at Huntley High School by the end of the decade. By this summer, construction crews should be adding a fieldhouse to the southeast corner of the school.

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People get cupcakes during an event Saturday celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Crystal Lake Public Library. The library first opened on Nov. 15, 1913, with 200 books.

Library tries to showcase other services brary first opened in 1913 with 200 books in the Congregational Church,” she said. “Today, we circulate over a million items a year and we’re the busiest library in McHenry County. ... We also started with books, but today we have DVDs, audio books, video games, WiFi, computers, a lot of different materials.”

nealogy. Other members of the staff have become resources for residents on music, senior issues and business issues, including how to start an Etsy account, she said. The event is a way for the library to showcase its other services, public relations coordinator Linda Price-Natter said. “The Crystal Lake Public Li-

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Continued from page B1 Alice Hayes showed samples of sewing projects she’s made, most of them using books from the Crystal Lake Public Library. Hayes is a member of the library staff and the go-to person for questions on sewing and ge-

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spirit through simultaneous events held at the same time over the same weekend. The fee is one nonperishable food item to help stock McHenry County food pantries for the holiday season. Advance registration is required. Visit the conservation district’s website at www.MCCDistrict.org to view the pro-

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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.

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CRYSTAL LAKE – “Once upon a time …” sets the stage for imagination at the sixth annual Tellebration Celebration hosted by the McHenry County Conservation District and McHenry County Storytelling Guild. The event will run from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 23 at Prairieview

NORTHWEST HERALD McHENRY – The McHenry Public Library, 809 N. Front St., welcomes patrons to the following events. Many November programs are already full, but these still have openings: • The art of beauty – How to

look and feel your best in a natural way: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Learn what constitutes real beauty and healthy ways to glow. Discover natural daily and weekly beauty routines, the foods that nourish skin and soul and the truth behind the cosmetics industry.

Presented by Joanna Puciata, certified holistic health coach, trained hormone cure coach and certified gluten practitioner. For ages 14 and up. • Domestic violence awareness: 7 to 8 p.m. Nov. 21. Turning Point in Woodstock, the only comprehensive domestic violence agency and emergency shelter for women and children in McHenry County, will present information and dispel myths about domestic violence. For ages 18 and up. • Thanksgiving fun with Laura Doherty: 11 to 11:45 a.m. Nov. 22. Award-winning musician Laura Doherty will per-

form. Attendees also can get their picture taken with Tom the Turkey and take home a goody bag. For all ages. Register in person. Fee is $1 fee a child. CDs will be available to purchase; credit cards are accepted. • Half-price fines: Nov. 25 through Dec. 8, get 50 percent off fines. Money received during the two-week event will go to the local FISH Food Pantry. Lost or damaged items or accounts in collection are not included in this program. • Writer’s group: 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. Nov. 25. The writer’s group is about peers getting

together to discuss the craft of writing, share their writing with each other and help each other to become better writers. Participants should bring six copies of their writing to share. No registration is required. • Thanksgiving closings: The library will close at 5 p.m. Nov. 27 and remain closed through the Thanksgiving holiday. It will reopen at 9 a.m. Nov. 29. Most programs require registration unless otherwise noted. Register at www. mchenrylibrary.org, stop by 809 N. Front St. or call 815-3850036.

Design fits within district’s budget for project • EXPANSION Continued from page B1 The new main entrance, located toward the middle of the school, will eventually lead students and staff to a redesigned cafeteria and library. Construction on those interior improvements are set for the latter half of the project. The $30.8 million project overall includes $16.9 million for additions, $4.24 million for renovations, and $2.3 million for general site improvements. As presented, the design fits within the district’s budget for the project, which in-

cludes $3.64 million in completed work to the school’s football, baseball and soccer fields. Officials are using a $39 million construction grant from the state to pay for the changes. Superintendent John Burkey said the changes to the library, added common areas and redesigned classrooms all accomplish the flexible, open and collaborative learning space that administrators and teachers wanted during the design phase. “It’s getting to a place now where it’s really meeting the needs of what we set out to do. ... It is going to provide col-

laborative space for kids that doesn’t exist today,” Burkey said. The forthcoming changes later this spring could also include work that addresses the school’s traffic problems. The district and McHenry County have been in negotiations about adding temporary traffic signals at Main Street and Marengo Road, and at Harmony and Hemmer roads.

Continued from page B1 Residents could also choose to opt out of the program, if they so desired. Similar opt-out aggregation programs have generated as much as 24 percent savings on electricity, according to village figures. A customer using 1,000 kWh a month would save

between $55 to $150 annually. Nearby communities like Cary, Crystal Lake, Huntley, Barrington, Hoffmann Estates and East Dundee already use electric aggregation. Algonquin officials plan to educate voters about the program through its website and community-wide emails in the months leading up to the March election, Kumbera said.

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The district also wants to make improvements at the school’s exits along Harmony, including a new road east of the school that would lead students to a new student parking lot. The traffic changes could take effect by next school year, if the district secures the proper permits and finalizes funding with the county, Burkey said.

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Interchange, bridges among road projects done By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com With the end of construction season comes the end of our weekly Detour column. It will resume next spring when the snow melts, the orange construction cones bloom and the IDOT flaggers awaken from their hibernation. We’ll wrap up this season with a partial list of road projects that got finished this year, and remind you of some of the projects that will carry forward into 2014. • HUNTLEY INTERCHANGE: The full interchange at Interstate 90 and Route 47 south of Huntley is now open to traffic. The $61 million project

gives Route 47 near Huntley access to both eastbound and westbound traffic on I-90. The project is the first to be finished under the Illinois Toll Highway Authority’s $12 billion “Move Illinois” infrastructure program. • FLEMING ROAD: The long-needed rebuilding of Fleming Road between Route 120 and Country Club Road is done, and open to traffic. Local residents prevailed in a years-long fight with the McHenry County Division of Transportation, which pushed for a $5 million improvement plan that critics said would have destroyed the scenic drive. • JOHNSBURG ROAD: Johnsburg Road has been reopened

to two-way traffic between Route 31 and Chapel Hill Road. The improvement created a two-way continuous left lane in the middle of the road between Route 31 and Chapel Hill Road, and a roundabout where Johnsburg Road, St. Johns Avenue and Chapel Hill Road meet. • FOX RIVER GROVE: Metra finished a $3.5 million improvement of the village’s Metra station, which expanded the platform and warming shelters. The project had created delays on eastbound Route 14 because of occasional lane closures. • CHARLES MILLER ROAD: Work finished this year on adding another bridge span to Charles Miller Road over

the Fox River, increasing its capacity to four lanes and improving the intersection of Charles Miller and River roads. The next phase of improvements, set to start next spring, will widen Charles Miller Road west to Route 31 and improve the intersection of Charles Miller Road, Bull Valley Road and Route 31. • THE BRIDGES OF McHENRY COUNTY: Two county bridges were rebuilt and reopened in recent months. Workers replaced the Hill Road Bridge over the north branch of Nippersink Creek. The bridge had been closed since January 2012 because of failing structural elements. The work was supposed to be done last year,

but bidding complications pushed it back. The Lawrence Road bridge over Piscasaw Creek was reopened to traffic as well. • PARK AND RIDE: McHenry County’s first park-and-ride lot opened at Route 31 and Virginia Road in Lake in the Hills. The 105-space lot, which includes a bike rack, gives carpooling residents a place to meet and park rather than using parking lots for shopping centers and other locations. As for a few projects you will have to deal with through the winter ... • ALGONQUIN WESTERN BYPASS: Watch for workers and delays as workers continue a $33 million project to build

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By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com JOHNSBURG – The Johnsburg Village Board approved a series of salary increases for its nonunionized employees. While most of the raises hovered around 7 percent, they ranged from 4.75 percent for the facility cleaning position and deputy clerk to 15.38 percent for the administrative assistant that also serves as the village’s comptroller, according to village documents. “Our goal is to establish a competitive wage to attract and keep quality employees,” Village President Ed Hetter-

“Our goal is to establish a competitive wage to attract and keep quality employees. We understand the value of having the best possible person for a position, and we work hard to retain our employees while remaining fiscally responsible to our residents.” Ed Hettermann, Johnsburg village president mann said. “We understand the value of having the best possible person for a position, and we work hard to retain our employees while remaining fiscally responsible to our residents.” Due to the economy, the village’s nonunionized employees went four years with-

out an increase in pay, he said. The Village Board then approved a wage increase in 2011 to bring salaries back in line with other area communities, but it has not increased nonunionized salaries since then. Union employees had their wages frozen for two years.

The increases still do not get the board to its goal of having salaries fall within 5 percent of similarly sized communities with similar revenue streams, Hettermann said. The Village Board also approved the impact fees agreed upon in the annexation agreement for the townhomes in the Running Brook Farms subdivision. The impact fees raise funds for the school district, library district, fire protection district, Village Hall and park improvements, Village Administrator Claudett Peters said. They increase each year with the rate of inflation.

WOODSTOCK – State Rep. Jack D. Franks, D-Marengo, is offering students an opportunity to learn more about state government by interning in his constituent service office this spring and summer. College and graduate students are preferred applicants and will work with district office staff on outreach, policy, research and constituent service projects, and may be asked to staff events with Rep. Franks. The position is unpaid and

a 2-mile, four-lane highway west of downtown Algonquin to relieve congestion on Route 31. Delays could take place on Route 31 and Algonquin Road. • ROUTES 31 AND 120: There could be some scattered lane closures through the winter as utility companies place equipment ahead of construction to start in the spring. The project to start next year will widen both roads and place new traffic signals. • READ ALL ABOUT IT: You can sign up at NWHerald. com/newsletter to get a weekly email update on road projects throughout construction season. You also can find updates online at NWHerald. com/construction.

scheduling is flexible, and academic credit is available for students who have made the necessary arrangements with their adviser. The spring term runs from January to May and the summer term runs from June to August. Interested parties should email a résumé and cover letter to jack@jackfranks. org with information included regarding the term for which they are applying. For information, call 815-3340063. – Northwest Herald

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District 12 approves ‘worst-case scenario’ budget By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com JOHNSBURG – With a “worst-case scenario” budget in hand, the District 12 school board is looking to increase its property tax levy. The board voted unanimously Tuesday evening for a balloon levy that asks for an 18 percent increase even though the district expects to see an increase of about 1.5 percent, Superintendent Dan Johnson said. The state law caps how

much some local governments can increase their property tax levy to the rate of inflation plus new growth. The expected increase of about 1.5 percent would translate to an increase of about $12 for the owner of a $200,000 home on the District 12 portion of their tax bill. The board will give final approval to the levy request at its December meeting. The school board also unanimously approved an amended budget with an projected deficit of $1.4 million in

its education fund. Board member Michelle Martin, who is also the chairwoman of the finance committee, called it a “worst-case scenario” that takes into account what the district actually spent versus what it budgeted for over the last three years. The budget approved Tuesday takes into consideration all the contingencies and possible expenses the district might face as it deals with aging facilities and dropping enrollment, Business Manager Kim Giovanni said at the

board’s last meeting. Another budget passed in September is closer to what the district is actually shooting for. It projects a deficit of about $274,000 over its nine funds, including a $744,000 deficit in the education fund. About 100 people attended a forum this week to provide input on the district’s facilities, Johnson said. The district will use that information to identify trends and put together recommendations to help the district plan for the future.

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8FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Jose Cruce Avila-Galvez: The visitation will be at noon Wednesday, Nov. 20, at The Church of Holy Apostles, 521 Bull Valley Road, McHenry. The mass will be a 1:30 p.m. at the church. Interment will be in The Church of Holy Apostles Cemetery in McHenry. For information, call, 815-385-4200. Sidney Cohen: Chapel service will be at noon Monday, Nov. 18, at Beth Shearim Mausoleum at Shalom Memorial Park, 1700 W. Rand Road, Arlington Heights. For information, call Shalom Memorial Funeral Home at 847-255-3520. Dorothy Lenore Cooley: Please help us celebrate “the matriarch of our family,” and a life welllived, from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17. We will be sharing memories and serving her favorite lunch of hot dogs and Lays potato chips. The event will be in Johnsburg, but the location has yet to be determined. For more information, email celebratedorothy@aol.com, or call 623-2292666. Thomas Joseph Gemmell: The

visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Nov., 18, at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry and will continue at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8 with the service at noon Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 404 N. Green Street, McHenry. Interment will be at Windridge Memorial Park in Cary. For information call, 815-885-0063. Bradley E. Giertz: Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. Visitation will also be at noon until the service at 1:30 p.m., at The Church of Holy Apostles, 5211 Bull Valley Road, McHenry. Interment will be in the Church of Holy Apostles Cemetery, McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400. Joseph D. Murphy: A memorial service is set for 10:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at Smith-Corcoran Funeral Home, proceeding to an 11 a.m. Mass celebration at St. Thomas of Villanova Church. The visitation will be from 2 p.m.

LOCAL&REGION to 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, at Smith-Corcoran Funeral Home, 185 E. Northwest Highway, Palatine. Interment will be in St. Michael the Archangel Cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 847-359-8020. Russell G. LeClair: For information, call the funeral home at 815-3850063. Delmer H. Powell: The graveside service and interment will be at 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at Sunset Memorial Park in Danville. Jason Daniel Romano: The visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. The funeral service will be at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, at the funeral home. For information, call the funeral home at 815-3852400. Howard E. Walker: The visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner St., Harvard. Funeral services will follow at 11:30 a.m. Burial will be in Mt. Auburn Cemetery.

Salary and retirement differences SALARIES Board proposal Year 1: Pay increases based off accrued years of experience and/ or education and a $1,350 lump sum to teachers on the final two steps of the experience ladder. Year 2: Same as year 1. Year 3: Same as year 1. Union proposal Year 1: Pay increases based off accrued years of experience and/or education. Year 2: Same as year 1. Year 3: Pay increases based off

accrued years of experience and/or education and increase the base salary by the rate of inflation, up to 2.5 percent. RETIREMENT Board proposal Year 1: Board pays 74 percent of employee contribution. Year 2: Board pays 53 percent of employee contribution. Year 3: Board pays 32 percent of employee contribution. Union proposal Maintain current language under which the district pays 100 percent

of the employee contribution. TEACHING LOAD Board proposal Maintain current contract language. Union proposal Teachers who are assigned a sixth class receive a $3,000-per-semester stipend. On full-day institute days, teachers have at least four hours for grading and another professional matters. Teachers earn up to 8 hours of flex time for working after-school and weekend functions.

‘We’re willing to negotiate,’ says D-155 board president • D-155 Continued from page B1 Leaders from both sides said they would be willing to add more negotiation sessions to the two scheduled through December. “We’re willing to negotiate anytime, anywhere. If we have to go around the clock, we’ll do it,” said Board President Ted Wagner. “The absolute last thing we want to see is any infringement on the kids’ education.” While the two sides have not agreed on much, union president Justin Hubly agreed with the desire to avoid a strike. Though the union overwhelmingly authorized the authority to strike if needed with more than 99 percent of the membership in support, Hubly said there has been no “drop-dead” date set to pressure negotiations. Hubly said the union would continue to negotiate though it has been frustrating to receive only offers that include significant cuts from the previous contract. Negotiations have been going on since March 20 and the teachers’ contract expired July 1. “We just haven’t seen an offer that doesn’t involve cuts,” Hubly said. “But we’re not looking at negotiations with a set deadline. We do not want to go on strike. We really want to avoid that.”

“We just haven’t seen an offer that doesn’t involve cuts. But we’re not looking at negotiations with a set deadline. We do not want to go on strike. We really want to avoid that.” Justin Hubly, union president The union is looking for an increase to the base salary in year three of the proposed three-year contract while the district is instead offering lump sum increases to teachers at the top of the experience scale, according to documents posted to the two entities’ websites. The board’s offer also shifts an increasing portion of employee contributions to the Teacher Retirement System to the employees, the documents said. (It also pays the employer contribution.) By cutting the contribution, the district is in effect cutting teacher pay, the union argued on its website. The union also proposed that teachers who are assigned a sixth class receive a $3,000 stipend each semester. Wagner said he did not think having the offers go public would hurt future negotiations. “I quite frankly think the public seeing it is a good thing,” Wagner said. “The public needs to know what the board is offering and once that’s known, I think it will be considered a fair and equitable offer.”

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Hubly said he also looked forward to discussing the union’s offer publicly as there continues to be a discrepancy between the board and union in interpreting budget numbers and projections. Regardless of the details of the final contract, it will have a significant effect on the district budget that has already been approved. For every 1 percent potential increase in teacher salaries and benefits, the district must spend about $500,000, according to T. Ferrier, assistant superintendent of finance. The average teacher salary in District 155 is $94,866, but that number includes department chairs, which are not calculated in average teacher salaries for most districts. That reporting change will be made in District 155 next year. Hubly said the union would continue its public outreach efforts with an informational picket Tuesday before the board meeting at Crystal Lake Central High School. It will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. • Northwest Herald reporter Emily K. Coleman contributed to this article.

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OBITUARIES DENNIS ZIDEK Dennis Zidek, D.C., of McHenry, died Saturday, November 16, 2013, at Centegra Hospital-McHenry. Funeral arrangements are pending at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL, 60050. For information, please call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com.

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la, Antonia Avila, Javier (Lupe) Avila, and Martin (Jessica) Avila; 8 nieces and 9 nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother, Nocho. Visitation will be from 3 p.m. until 8 p.m. Tuesday, November 19, 2013, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. Visitation will continue from noon until the time of Mass Wednesday at The Church of Holy Apostles, 5211 Bull Valley Road, McHenry, IL 60050. The funeral Mass will be at 1:30 p.m. at the church. Interment will be in The Church of Holy Apostles Cemetery, McHenry. For information, please call 815385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com.

RUSSELL G. LeCLAIR Russell G. LeClair, 92, of McHenry, passed away on Thursday, November 14, 2013 at home. Born June 13, 1921, in Newark, N.J., the son of of George and Margaret (McAree) LeClair. He married Mary O'Connell in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1947. He joined the U.S. Coast Guard after Pearl Harbor and was trained sonar man. The joy in his life are in wife, children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, Door County and the U.S. County Guard. He is remembered for his love of music and his beatiful landscaped home in Door County. He is survived by his wife, Mary, children, Russ (Anita) LeClair, Maura (Bob) Frederick, Mike (Patsy) LeClair, Colleen Kurtz, Jeff (Lee) LeClair, Beth Dornelles, 14 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren and a sister Mae St. Germaine. Russell was preceded in death by a son, Joseph, his parents, and two brothers, Robert and Lawrence LeClair. Visitation will be Sunday, Nov. 17, from 1 to 5 p.m., at Colonial Funeral Home. 591, Ridgeview Drive, McHenry. Visitation will be at 9:30 a.m., Monday, Nov. 18. The service mass will be at 10:30 a.m. at The Church of the Holy Apostles, 5211 Bull Valley Road, McHenry. Interment will be at the church cemetery. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, 208, S. LaSalle St., Suite 900, Chicago, IL, 60604. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-0063.

LINDA K. STEPHENS Linda K. Stephens, age 58, of Fox River Grove passed away Friday, November 15, 2013 at her home. Arrangements are pending at the Kahle-Moore Funeral Home. Call 847-639-3817 for more information.

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, th ge lginite. Brad was a charter member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church and School. He was a graduate of Larkin High School in 1977. Born February Brad has been an East Dundee 18, 1941 in Chicago, resident for many years and properIllinois. At Rest ty owner in the Village River Street November 14, 2013. Business District. He was an avid Tom is survived hunter and fisherman. He was a 30 year member of Local 150 Internaby his wife, of forty-one years, tional Union of Operating Engineers. Aleta, daughters Dana Woods Surviving are his mother Dorris (Matt), Valerie Schweder (Ross), Haas Giertz of Elgin, his sister, Joni and Beatrice Behm (Rudy) and Sue (Timothy) Koertgen, his brothgrandchildren Chris, Michelle, er, Jeffrey (Christine) Giertz, his Michael, Alex, Nick, [Marker]and nephews, Russell Giertz, Eric Reiser great grandson Owen. He is also and Nieces, Sara Jo Koertgen and survived by siblings: Alice (Herb) Adamson; Richard (Kathy) Gemmell; Rebecca Giertz, many cousins and countless friends. Rose (Mike) Ciolkosz; Joe (Judy) He was preceded in death by his Gemmell; Phyllis (Jerry) Schultz; Father, Harrison Giertz in 2006 who Fran (Bruce) Strimel, and many was a honored Veteran of W.W.II at nieces and nephews, cousins, and the Battle of Iwo Jima. friends of all ages. Funeral Mass will be held at 10:00 He is preceded in death by A.M., Tuesday, Nov. 19 at St. parents, Thomas and Ceil (Peanuts) Thomas More Catholic Church, ElGemmell, a nephew, Robert, and his gin. Burial will be in St. Charles Boryoungest sister, Sally. remeo Catholic Church Cemetery, Tom served in the U.S. Army Hampshire. Visitation will be held on Monday from 3:00 P.M. to 9:00 1963 1969 (SP4 USAR), where he obtained training and certifications P.M. at Laird Funeral Home, Elgin and Tuesday in the church from 9:15 for Imagery Interpretation, A.M. until the time of mass. In lieu Psychological Operations and of flowers memorials may be given Intelligence Analysis. He was to JourneyCare Foundation, Barringassigned to the 218th Military ton. www.lairdfamilyfuneralserIntelligence Detachment Airborne with which he was deployed to and vices.com or 847-741-8800. provided support for the Vietnam JOSE CRUZE War and the Dominican Republic Revolution of 1965. Tom was a AVILA-GALVEZ member of The American Legion Jose Cruze Avila-Galvez, age 40, Post No. 0491. of Woodstock, died Friday, NovemHe worked as a Local Union No. ber 15, 2013, at his home surround1185 Carpet Installer for Morton ed by his loving family. He was born Floors/Shaw Flooring until his retirement in 2003. Until the time March 15, 1973 in Mexico to Alberto and Maria (Cruze-Galvez) Avila. of his passing, Tom was an avid Jose was educated in the District fisherman, bowler, and stamp 200 schools, graduating from collector. He especially enjoyed his Woodstock High School in 1994. He 'home away from home' in graduated with honors from Winneconne, Wisconsin. McHenry County College in 2002 He devoted himself to his family with an associates degree. He later and friends and lived life to the received his bachelors degree and fullest at all times. Tom was a truly later his masters degree in psycholgood man in every sense of the ogy in 2010 from Lewis University. word and he is dearly missed. He worked in the Hispanic/Latino Visitation will be Monday from 4 to community in the social services 8:00 p.m. at Colonial Funeral Home, sector and enjoyed being a mentor 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry. in the community to both adults as Visitation will continue Tuesday well as the children. from 11:30 a.m. until the Noon A member of The Church of Holy service at Shepherd of the Hills Apostles in McHenry, Jose was Lutheran Church, 404 N. Green close to his family and always was Street, McHenry. Interment will be willing to help others. at Windridge Memorial Park, Cary. He is survived by his parents, AlFor information please call 815berto and Maria; and brothers and 385-0063. sisters, Angel (Lupe) Avila, Alfrado (Emma) Avila, Samuel (Amelya) Avi-

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By MEGHAN MONTEMURRO mmontemurro@shawmedia.com NORMAL – For the 12th time in Game 3 of Saturday’s Class 4A third-place match, Crystal Lake South and New Trier found themselves locked in yet another tie. With each team only two points away from winning the match, the Trevians turned to one of their middle blockers the Ga- Class 4A scoreboard tors had struggled to stop most Saturday’s matches of the night. New New Trier def. Prairie Ridge, T r i e r ’ s 6 - f o o t - 22-25, 25-17, 25-23 (third place) 5 Sarah Shafiq Chicago Mother McAuley def. delivered the go- Benet Academy, 25-22, 25-19 ahead kill and (championship) match-winning block as the Trevians outlasted South for a 22-25, 25-17, 25-23 win. South’s fourth-place finish in Class 4A caps its best season since 1995, when the Gators placed second in Class AA. “It’s been an amazing experience,” senior middle blocker Nicole Slimko said. “Being together with everybody on the team, we’re really close. It’s just nice you get to share it with some of your best friends.” South (37-5) couldn’t build off an impressive performance in the first game, which featured seven aces. At one point in Game 1, the Gators recorded seven of eight points off aces to take a 14-7 lead. During that stretch, Slimko tallied four straight aces. “We scouted them a couple of times, and it didn’t look like they had as tough of a serve,” Trevians coach Hannah Hsieh said. “They held it for a long time. I think, in that first set, we came in kind of unsettled.”

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ROCKFORD – Some Harvard fans expressed skepticism a couple of years ago when football coach Tim Haak prepared for his retirement. Haak figured it fitting that he leave in 2014 with his daughter, Mallory’s, senior class. Those senior players, however, did not have much success as freshmen or sophomores. “Some of our football family said, ‘We’re

Hard-nosed Wolves bring FVC together ROCKFORD – Fifty-one miles of asphalt, stop lights and construction zones separate the football fields of Boylan and Cary-Grove. Yet C-G offensive lineman Michael Gomez and a few of his teammates made the drive west to Titan Stadium on Saturday. Because they wanted to see Prairie Ridge try to knock off the team that had ended their season seven days earlier. Because they wanted to support the last team standing in a crowded, competitive Fox Valley Conference. And when Boylan rallied to beat Prairie Ridge, 21-17, in the Class 6A quarterfinal, Gomez could not help but empathize with his conference rivals. “I feel bad,” Gomez said as he stood behind the Prairie Ridge sideline, “because I grew up with a lot of those kids. I know Shane [Evans] and I know Colin Leverenz. That’s the reason I came out here, to see the Fox Valley excel.” Almost every year, the

VIEWS Tom Musick conference does excel. But this year, for only the second time since 2009, the Fox Valley will not feature a team in a state championship game. Credit Prairie Ridge for giving the conference a shot this season. The Wolves were 2-4 in early October before finding their stride and winning their next five games, including playoff contests against Lakes and Marmion. By halftime Saturday, the No. 14 seed Wolves had established a 10-point lead against No. 1 Boylan, thanks to a dependable running game and a disciplined defense. But the Titans earned the top seed in the bracket for a reason, and they regrouped in the second half to improve to 51-1 since the start of the 2010 season.

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More coverage Read about Harvard’s 28-24 loss to Rockford Lutheran in the Class 4A football quarterfinals (page C4) and watch highlights of both local football teams’ games Saturday in the “Fastest Four Minutes” at McHenryCountySports.com. worried they aren’t going to be very good, and we don’t want you to go out like that,’ ” Haak said. Haak was going to stick with his guys, some of whom had been attending Mallory’s birthday parties since kindergarten. The Hornets did not disappoint.

Rockford Lutheran dampened the spirits somewhat on Saturday with a 28-24 Class 4A quarterfinal playoff victory over the Hornets at Rockford Guilford’s stadium. But Haak’s source of sadness came from something other than the end of his 29-year coaching career. “You hurt for them because they’re hurting,” Haak said. “Anytime there’s a finality, you hurt for them. I think that’s what bothers you the most. It was very enjoyable. The only tears they have is because they don’t get to hang out [and practice] next week. They’re a remarkable group.”

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CLASS 6A QUARTERFINALS: BOYLAN 21, PRAIRIE RIDGE 17

Boylan rallies to end PR’s streak, season By JON STYF jstyf@shawmedia.com ROCKFORD – Prairie Ridge was prepared to take control. Holding a 10-point third-quarter lead, the Wolves ran 8:13 off the clock as they approached the Boylan 10-yard line. But when the drive stalled and a 27-yard field goal attempt fell short, knocked down by a driving wind, the Wolves’ semifinal hopes hit the ground with a thud. Demry Croft threw an 80-yard touchdown pass on the next play, and top-seeded Boylan (12-0) dominated from there, scoring the game’s only 10 second-half points, in a 21-17 Class 6A quarterfinal victory over the 14thseeded Wolves. “We needed a touchdown or field goal there,” Prairie Ridge coach Chris Schremp said. “That hurt. “They quickly got a huge boost of confidence, and that goes a long way.” Randy Stukenberg for Shaw Media The loss ended Prairie Ridge’s Prairie Ridge quarterback Brett Covalt throws a pass five-game winning streak and finagainst Boylan during the second quarter Saturday in ished off the season for the Fox Valley Conference’s final team. Next time Rockford. Boylan won the Class 6A quarterfinal, 21-17.

they play a conference game, they will be a member of the Fox Division. Prairie Ridge (7-5) did all of its scoring in the first half, with most of the damage coming from running back Steven Ladd, who finished with 106 rushing yards and 56 receiving, including a 51-yard touchdown catch to give the Wolves a 17-7 lead in the final minute of the first half. “He was able to bust out a few times, but we weren’t able to get him open enough,” Schremp said. With back Brent Anderson missing part of the game with an ankle injury, finishing without a carry, Brett Covalt (23 for 49, TD) and Zack Greenberg (four for 20) were the Wolves’ only other rushing options. “Everybody was expecting us not to win or not even to come close,” Ladd said. “I think we came out and fought hard.” Prairie Ridge got the ball back for one last shot with 1:03 left but wasn’t able to put a drive together. A fourthdown Boylan interception from Matt Sciame near midfield with 19 seconds left put the game away.

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FACE OFF Michaela Matthys School: McHenry Year: Senior Sport: Swimming

What professional athlete would you most like to tutor you for an afternoon? Missy Franklin, what she’s accomplished to reach the Olympics, she’s an inspiration.

2. Who’s made the biggest impact on your athletic career? My coaches, John Lesniak (McHenry Marlins Aquatic Club) and Mike Shanahan (high school team), because they’ve supported me throughout everything since Day 1. Also former Crystal Lake Central co-op swimmer Marisa Barton (who attended Prairie Ridge), because she always had such a positive attitude and is such a great influence to swim with.

3. What’s your favorite class? Math. I just like being able to solve equations, where you have to think about it and the feeling you get when you do it right.

4. What’s your most prized possession? All my pictures. I love the way they capture the memories of things that happened.

5. What would be your dream job? I would definitely want to work with the Blackhawks. I love the Blackhawks.

Emma Burkle School: Crystal Lake South Year: Junior Sport: Volleyball

What professional athlete would you most like to tutor you for an afternoon? Misty May-Treanor. I’ve watched her play beach volleyball and seems like she works very hard and never gives up on things.

2. Who’s made the biggest impact on your athletic career? My parents, Kevin and Amy, they’ve been big supporters and pushing me to do well. They were both good in sports when they were younger.

3. What’s your favorite class? Visual art and technology. I like looking at graphic design and it’s really fun.

4. What’s your most prized possession? A picture of me and my papa (grandfather) because it was when I was little and I didn’t really get to know him before he passed away, so that’s one of my only memories of him.

5. What would be your dream job? Working in graphic design or something to do with art.

Keagan Smith School: Huntley Year: Sophomore Sport: Cross country and track and ield

What professional athlete would you most like to tutor you 1. for an afternoon? Olympic distance runner Galen Rupp.

2. Who’s made the biggest impact on your athletic career? My parents, Aaron and Christelle. They’re the ones who introduced me to running.

3. What’s your favorite class? Advanced strength and conditioning.

4. What’s your most prized possession? The medals from my key meets throughout my career.

5. What would be your dream job? I’d like to be a professional runner for a while, then become a physical therapist or something related to that field.

This week, the Atlanta Braves announced plans to move to a new stadium in suburban Cobb County. Sports editor Jon Styf and columnist Tom Musick discuss:

Musick: All right, Jon. Like it or not, you are the chairman of the McHenry County Board. And your constituents are tired of battling two hours of traffic to see a professional sporting event. Which team do you pursue? If Cobb County, Ga., can land a major sports franchise, then why can’t McHenry County? Styf: The best part about this hypothetical, which I’m sure you had no clue when you wrote it, is that my brother actually is a chair of economic development with Cobb County’s chamber of commerce. So I’ll channel my inner Dan Styf and make the case that Chicago’s suburbs are where the disposable income lives. The White Sox have history on the South Side, but they don’t have the fans for the long term there. They need to come to the people, bring the game to where people can reasonably go. And, that lot across Route 31 from our office is looking mighty empty. Musick: I had no idea that your brother was a Cobb County big shot. I now see which branch of the Styf family tree hogged all of the intelligence. But maybe you still have got a chance to be a big shot, too, because that Sox idea is a good one. The Sox averaged 22,105 fans a game this season in a metropolitan area of more than 8 million people. That’s pathetic. A move to the suburbs could inject some new energy into a stale product. Styf: Notice I didn’t bring up the Cubs. We’ve done that before, but the Sox simply would make more sense because their current home is way less sustainable than a renovated Wrigley. The fan base is there. Other pro sports teams have succeeded in the suburbs (think Detroit Pistons). Ultimately, you still have to win for people to pay. But ease of access can only help. Musick: Agreed. If you build it (and win within a few years of building it), they will come. The New England Patriots seem to do all right in Foxboro, Mass. Something tells me that the San Francisco 49ers will be just fine next season in Santa Clara, Calif. But here’s the big question: If you were to put up a big stadium along Route 31 or anywhere else in McHenry County, who ends up footing the bill? It should fall mostly on the team, yet that almost never seems to be the case. Styf: Reality is that public money for something like that likely doesn’t exist here. But moving the team closer to where the money does lie would make sense. There are communities that could make this happen. The Sox just have to be willing to, like the Braves, swing a deal that could upset some people (like Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel). Musick: Rahm will be upset no matter what. I’d be grumpy, too, if I weren’t tall enough to go on the rides at Six Flags. So, long term, do you think the Braves will have a better chance to win in Cobb County? And would the Sox have a better chance to win in the burbs? Styf: I really do. TV money is by far the biggest factor in a pro sports team’s success, which is why the Cubs made the right decision to declare for TV free agency. But you have to have fans show up, too. And the best way to get that to happen is to bring the game to the fans. Musick: You listening, Mr. Reinsdorf?

Hampshire football coach Dan Cavanaugh recently finished his final season with the WhipPurs, finishing his tenure with a 121-121 mark that included a Class 2A state championship in 1995. Cavanaugh, who is 55, also will retire from teaching at the end of the school year, making for perfect timing for him to leave the sidelines. But Cavanaugh, who began his coaching career in 1989, admits retirement hasn’t hit him yet and that from a football standpoint, it might not stick.

I still really enjoy [coaching]. The year-round part of it is certainly something that has changed and is a little bit of a grind. But I don’t think it was that so much. For myself, I’m retired from teaching and it’s time to go onto something else. I’ve had my fun and it’s time for someone else to have their fun now. I’ve talked to other coaches who have been in the same situation and they said, ‘You really miss it when the season rolls around again.’ You start ramping up in August and that’s when you really start missing it. Right now, I see the guys in the weight room and yeah, it hits you a little bit. But I think it will be something different when fall rolls around. I think I’ve learned patience more than anything else. You do learn a lot about yourself (through coaching). I have a good friend who coached at Lake Zurich and he said to me one time, ‘When you go into coaching, you feel like you’re worth at least eight wins a year.’ But you learn as you go on – and you learn very quickly – that’s not the case. It’s humbling as you go through the years and you work with the kids and you see all the great coaches out there and it humbles you. You don’t go in thinking about that. When you go in, you’re young and you think you have all the answers, and so I guess it’s surprising (to learn what you do about yourself) because you don’t expect it going in. But you sure learn things as you go along.

As you coach, you hope that the kids play for you. You always want your kids to play hard and I think our kids have always played hard. I don’t know if they [played harder because of the retirement]. But at the end, when it was all said and done, they all – to a man – came up and congratulated me and that means a lot. It always means a lot when your players and [former] players come back to talk to us. They’re on the sidelines with you and they come to practices and that always means a lot. You don’t really think about it when you’re going through that you’re making some kind of an impact on people. You hope that you are – that you’re having a positive impact on them. So that hope is kind of justified when you have players come and say things to you (when it’s over).

Down the road, I definitely think I’ll leave the door open to coming back. My plan now is to at least take one fall off, sit back and watch other teams play and go to some college games. Then, I’ll see if that itch is there – which I think it will be – and so I’ll certainly leave that door open for later on I’ve been doing this for 33 years – eight at Dundee-Crown and the rest [at Hampshire] and every autumn on Friday nights – it used to be on Saturday afternoon – you’re used to having games and scouting and just the whole routine, it will be different. No doubt about it.

• I’m Just Saying is a regular Sunday feature. If there’s someone you’d like to see featured, write to me at jarnold@shawmedia.com or send me a message on Twitter @NWH_JeffArnold.

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Dan Cavanaugh recently retired as Hampshire’s football coach after spending the past 25 years with the Whip-Purs. He said coaching taught him plenty about himself and that being retired from coaching won’t sink in until next season.

8SPORTS SHORTS Bears add Ozougwu to Greenville tops Mt. Carmel, Bryant returns to practice Bryant has given no timetable for his return to the court, but active roster, waive Grant 71-70, in Class 3A playoffs with Lakers LAKE FOREST – The Bears elevated defensive end Cheta Ozougwu to the active roster from the practice squad and waived linebacker Larry Grant. The moves were announced Saturday. Ozougwu had been on the Bears’ practice squad since Sept. 24. He appeared in two games for the Bears last season. Grant appeared in two games this season. The Bears play host to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday.

Greenville quarterback Tyler Hutchinson completed 43 of his 87 pass attempts for 645 yards and six touchdowns in a 71-70 victory over Mount Carmel (Ill.) on Saturday in a Class 3A state quarterfinal football playoff game. Golden Aces (10-2) quarterback Reece Metcalf completed 22 of 36 passes for 516 yards and seven TDs in a losing effort. Greeville (12-0) will play St. Joseph-Ogden in a semifinal matchup this week.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – Kobe Bryant has returned to practice with the Los Angeles Lakers for the first time since he tore his Achilles’ tendon seven months ago. Bryant rejoined practice Saturday with the Lakers. The fourth-leading scorer in NBA history hadn’t worked out with his teammates since getting hurt in April during a game against Golden State. He has been running on a treadmill for several weeks, but had done few basketball workouts.

previously had said he’ll need significant practice time before getting into game shape.

for his grandfather, Richard Childress, finished 12th. It was good enough to hold off Hornish by three points. Hornish crossed the line eighth.

Dillon edges Hornish for Nationwide title

Kings fans set record for loudest indoor roar

HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Austin Dillon won the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship, holding off Sam Hornish Jr. in a wild season finale Saturday. Sprint Cup regular Brad Keselowski won the race after moving up 10 spots in the final laps. Dillon, driving the famed No. 3

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Sacramento Kings have set a record for the loudest roar at an indoor stadium. The Kings said a sellout crowd of 17,317 at Friday night’s game against the Detroit Pistons broke the previous Guinness Book of World Records mark of 106.6 decibels set by Milwaukee

Bucks fans in 2008 three times. Sacramento fans reached 124.9 decibels during a first quarter timeout. The crowd topped that at halftime and again before the fourth quarter, setting the record at 126 decibels.

Motorcycle racer killed in Baja 1000 American desert motorcycle racer Kurt Caselli, 30, of Palmdale, Calif., died Friday after wrecking in the Baja 1000 in Mexico, event sanctioning body Score International said Saturday. – Wire reports

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GIRLS SWIMMING: SECTIONALS ROUNDUP

McHenry’s Matthys, C-G’s Rose to state By ROB SMITH rsmith@shawmedia.com VERNON HILLS – McHenry senior Michaela Matthys can add state qualifier to her swimming résumé. Matthys took second in the 100-yard butterfly (56.82) Saturday at the Vernon Hills Sectional and was well under the state qualifying standard of 58.94. It was her first time qualifying for state. At the Barrington Sectional, Cary-Grove junior Melissa Rose won the 100 breaststroke (1:05.44) to qualify for state for the third consecutive year. Matthys was confident heading into sectionals after beating the state cut several times during the season. That confidence was bolstered when she got a 25.46 in the butterfly leg of the 200 medley relay. “It definitely was a confidence boost because that was my fastest split (ever),” Matthys said. Matthys might have been the last person in the Vernon Hills natatorium to realize she made it to state because her view of the scoreboard from Lane 3 was blocked. “I couldn’t even see what I got,” Matthys said. “I had to jump a couple of times.” Warriors coach Mike Shanahan said the expectations were high for Matthys, but it was nice to see them fulfilled. “This has been her best training year by far,” Shanahan said. “But you never know, nerves play such a big part.” After swimming a personal best (1:05.91) at the Fox Valley Conference Championships a week earlier in the breaststroke, Rose followed that with another personal milestone at sectionals. “I feel a lot stronger this year,” Rose said. “Hopefully I’ll be able to do another personal best at state. I know what to expect this year.” Swimming at state the past two seasons has given her a lot of confidence, Rose said. “I’m a lot stronger mentally,” Rose said. “This year I’m a lot more confident.” Trojans coach Scott Lattyak said he was happy to see Rose improve on her time

from the FVC meet and is hoping that improvement will continue at state. “I think it’s all mental at this point,” Lattyak said. “She looks like a lot stronger swimmer. In practice she’s holding splits that impress me.” At Vernon Hills, Woodstock’s Tess Devinger missed qualifying in the breaststroke by less than a second but helped her team break a school record in the 200 medley relay. Devinger, along with Lizzy Kruse, Giannia McGuire and Allison DeWane, took sixth in the relay in 1:55.41 to beat the previous mark of 1:56.42. St. Charles East Sectional: No local swimmers qualified for state out of the sectional at the Norris Center. Jacobs finished fifth in the 13-team field with 111 points. St. Charles East (319) took first. Jacobs junior Nicole Sanchez just missed the state-qualifying standards in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle races. Her 54.45 seconds in the 100 was less than a second off the state-qualifying time. “I was pretty satisfied with it,” Sanchez said. “I had the best times in all my events. There’s not much else I could ask for.” Sanchez also was part of the Eagles’ 400 freestyle and 200 medley relay teams, swimming the anchor leg in both. “Medley relay did our best and same with the 400,” Sanchez said. “Again, there was not much more I could ask for because the girls were trying their hardest.” Crystal Lake Central finished seventh with 71 points, 17 more than eighth-place Huntley. The Tigers swam well in the 200 and 400 freestyle relays with Nora Mollitor, Julia Janeczko, Tessa Shorten and Elizabeth Pieroni, but were not quite fast enough to reach state. Marengo wound up with only 18 points, but that wasn’t too bad considering the Indians were represented by just one swimmer, Alexis Olson, who finished fourth in the 100 breaststroke. • Dennis Jacobs contribut-

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Crystal Lake South’s Cassy Sivesind (center) celebrates a point during Saturday’s Class 4A third-place match against New Trier in Normal. New Trier won in three games.

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Rockford Lutheran quarterback Kendall Lawson escapes the pursuit of Harvard’s Michael MacKenzie (left) and Isaiah Rudd during the first quarter of a Class 4A quarterfinal Saturday in Rockford. Lutheran won, 28-24.

CLASS 4A QUARTERFINALS: ROCKFORD LUTHERAN 28, HARVARD 24

Heartbreak for Hornets Lutheran rallies late, ends Harvard’s historic season By KEVIN MEYER kmeyer@shawmedia.com ROCKFORD – A season full of close calls and narrow escapes finally caught up with the previously undefeated Harvard football team Saturday in its Class 4A quarterfinal loss to Rockford Lutheran. This was the fifth time this season that a Harvard game was decided by six or fewer points. Lutheran scored 14 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to come back and win, 28-24. “This group had won 15 in a row; they have nothing to hang their heads about,” said Tim Haak, who is retiring after 29 seasons as Harvard’s coach. “We won a lot of close games, but sports are never over ’til that last whistle. “The only negative is that you hurt for them because they hurt so much. That’s the tough part.” The game was tied or led by No. 2-seeded Harvard most of the way through the end of the third quarter, where the Hornets

found themselves up 24-14. No. 6 Lutheran (11-1) scored twice in a seven-minute span to take the 28-24 lead with just more than a minute left. The Hornets (11-1) drove to midfield with about 15 seconds left, but Peyton Schneider was intercepted to seal the Crusaders’ victory. Lutheran will play Geneseo (11-1) on Saturday in a semifinal game. “It’s a great season, and all of us worked hard to get here,” senior Jose Mejia said. “It’s just heartbreaking to see the season go after all the hard work we put in.” With less than four minutes to play, Harvard was clinging to a 24-21 lead and trying to run out the clock. Christian Kramer, who had another great day running the ball for the Hornets, ran for 5 yards on a first-down play. Kramer, however, was not ruled down before the ball came loose, and Lutheran recovered at the Harvard 36-yard line. Six plays later, quarterback Kendall Lawson dived across the goal line from a yard out

Haak’s Hornets had won 15 straight games • PREP ZONE Continued from page C1 The seniors didn’t win a game as freshmen. In their final 1½ years of varsity, they won 15 games in a row before Saturday’s loss. In the fourth quarter, it looked like the Hornets would give themselves and their coach at least one more week. Harvard (11-1) had a 2414 lead to start the fourth quarter, but the Crusaders (11-1) rallied to win behind a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns, mostly without using star running back James Robinson, who injured his left knee. “The expectations were always high for us, but we

weren’t really on the radar,” wide receiver-defensive back Justin Nolen said. “We started making a run, it speaks to what these guys can do, their personalities, their hard work, their dedication.” Although it was downplayed during the season, the players embraced being on Haak’s final team. “It’s been special the whole time,” Nolen said. “We tried not to think about it, but it’s always in the back of our heads. It’s great to be the last one and do what we did as his last team.” Haak, who finishes at 173-108, will teach physical education through the rest of the year and coach wrestling this winter. His players will take with them lessons for a

lifetime. “Dedication, hard work, you have to put your time in to get what you want,” said Hornets guard-defensive end Dakota Trebes, his eyes red and voice cracking. “We definitely made our mark. It’s been a heck of a year.” Two of the first people to greet Haak as he walked off the field for the last time were former Hornets Mike Jones and Steve Wood. Jones played on Haak’s first team and is Libertyville’s coach; Wood played a few years later and now is Grayslake North’s coach. Hornets offensive tackle-nose tackle Adam Freimund managed a smile as he spoke about their season. “I’m extremely proud

New Trier overcomes Wolves’ Nirva: ‘We fought late deficit in Game 3 • CL SOUTH Continued from page C1 New Trier (31-4) led Game 2 from the opening point to set up the deciding third game. Neither team led by more than three points in Game 3, which had 12 ties and six lead changes. South led as late as 21-19 after an Avalon Nero ace. But two unforced errors quickly erased that advantage. South defensive specialist Tori Falbo’s kill again tied the game at 23 before Shafiq (match-high 15 kills) took over for New Trier. “The setter connection was a lot better this game, and it showed on the court I think that it improved a lot,” South junior outside hitter Carly Nolan said. The Trevians’ improved passing allowed them to run their middle blockers more frequently as the match progressed, and the Gators struggled to slow them down.

Complementing Shafiq, 6-foot-4 senior middle blocker Haley Fauntleroy recorded nine kills. Nolan led the Gators with 12 kills, while Nero and Slimko added seven and five kills, respectively. “We knew that the middles were going to be a challenge,” South coach Jorie Fontana said. “Height is not something that’s an easy fix sometimes right away. If they’re a lot taller than we are, then we have to be creative in fixing it. But we knew we were going to up our defense.” Although the Gators didn’t end the season with a win as they hoped, South believes it left everything it had on the volleyball court at Redbird Arena. “I think this was a great game to go out on,” Nero said. “I know for me I didn’t leave any regrets on the court, and I’m happy with the way we played even though the outcome wasn’t what we wanted.”

to give the Crusaders the winning score. Haak suggested that Kramer, who was banged up from earlier hits, probably shouldn’t have been on the field at the time, but Kramer asked to continue playing. “One play doesn’t make all the difference,” Haak said. “We don’t have any regrets. It was a great year, with the best kids, There’s nothing I would have changed.” Kramer ran the ball 32 times for 157 yards and two touchdowns. He was the main contributor to Harvard’s almost 200 yards on the ground. Mejia ran 15 times for 43 yards and a score. Schneider was 7 for 13 passing for 77 yards. He also connected on a 40-yard field goal late in the third quarter. Senior Justin Nolen was Schneider’s primary receiver with six catches for 72 yards. “We did better than everybody’s expectations this year, better than mine for sure,” senior linebacker and tight end Tate Miller said. “I’m proud of this whole team and how the community backed us. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.”

for all my extended family – we’re one big band of brothers,” Freimund said. “You can’t ask for anyone better. It’s unfortunate we couldn’t get it done in this game.” The Hornets were a testament to everything their coach asked them to do – lifting, working, grinding, doing anything they could to get better. Haak wanted to go out with them, and they should be gratified by sending him out in style. • Joe Stevenson is a senior sports writer for the Northwest Herald. He can be reached by email at joestevenson@shawmedia.com. You also can follow him on Twitter @nwh_JoePrepZone.

through the whole season’ • MUSICK Continued from page C1

“We fought the whole time,” Evans said after playing his final game for the Wolves. “It didn’t turn out like we wanted it to, but we fought.” That’s what teams from the Fox Valley do. As Gomez watched in person, other players in the conference such as Jacobs teammates Bret Mooney and Matt Di Fecchio wrote about the game on their Twitter pages. When the game went final, Di Fecchio sounded surprised, writing that he thought Prairie Ridge was going to come back. Wolves coach Chris Schremp gathered his players near midfield for a postgame speech. The disappointment from the narrow loss was fresh, and Schremp had other things on his mind than the fact that the Wolves were the Fox Valley’s final team in the playoffs. “That’s fun to be the last guy standing,” Schremp said. “But you

kind of get over that quick.” It might take awhile for the Wolves to get over their season-ending loss. But eventually, as the days pass, the big picture will come into focus. The Wolves should be proud. They represented a tough conference well. “I think we’re tough-nosed players, and we give it all we’ve got, all four quarters,” Evans said, reflecting on what it meant to play in the Fox Valley. “That’s how we like to play.” Teammate Austin Nirva agreed. “You have to be really tough and strong to fight through,” Nirva said. “We never gave up. We fought through the whole season. Highs and lows, we just fought through.” • Northwest Herald sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at tmusick@shawmedia. com and on Twitter @tcmusick.

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Prairie Ridge running back Danny Meikel tries to escape the grasp of Boylan’s Quinn Smolonski after catching a short pass in the second quarter Saturday in Rockford.

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Johnson ignores McNabb’s jab By JENNA FRYER The Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Jimmie Johnson is up almost every day by 5:30 a.m., the easiest time of day to do his training. He runs five days a week, logging up to 40 miles on foot, swims two days a week and cycles two days a week. Johnson has completed half marathons, multiple triathlons and now has his eyes set on an Ironman and the Boston Marathon, perhaps as early as next year. Yet as the most dominant driver of the decade closes in on his sixth NASCAR championship in eight years, his accomplishments fail to earn proper due. The latest slight came from retired NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb, who said on a Fox Sports 1 program that Johnson is “absolutely not” an athlete. “He sits in a car and he drives, that doesn’t take being athletic,” McNabb said Friday

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Driver Jimmie Johnson needs to finish 23rd or better Sunday in Homestead, Fla., to clinch his sixth Sprint Cup championship. night during a debate over the most dominant athletes in sports. “What athletically is he doing?” It triggered an immediate backlash on social media against McNabb, who ranked Johnson third on his personal list behind Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant. Fellow drivers rallied to the defense of Johnson, who stayed silent on the subject until Saturday morning. Johnson Tweeted his re-

sponse, posting: “The debate continues... Everyone is entitled to an opinion. #DriversAre Athletes.” Goaded by a fan to go harder on the topic, Johnson declined. “I choose to be respectful. There is way too much venom spewed these days,” he tweeted in response. And that was his final word on the subject as Johnson headed off for the final two practice sessions before Sunday’s season finale race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He can win his sixth championship by finishing 23rd or better. Matt Kenseth and Kevin Harvick both need for something to go terribly wrong with Johnson’s Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on the track to have any shot at snatching the title. Johnson’s 10-lap average ranked sixth in Saturday’s first practice, and he shot to the top of the leaderboard in the final session before Sunday’s race.

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Bears linebacker Lance Briggs (center) walks on the sideline during the second half of last week’s game against the Detroit Lions at Soldier Field.

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e hasn’t practiced since injuring his shoulder Oct. 20 in Washington, D.C., but Lance Briggs is going above and beyond the requirements of an injured player. An observer who didn’t know any better would figure Briggs is on the Bears’ coaching staff. “It’s a different situation when you got a guy you just played beside who’s now behind you screaming at you to get in the right in the gap,” said fellow linebacker James Anderson, who has taken over Briggs’ onfield playcalling role. Briggs is seen at every practice coaching the linebackers, helping position coach Tim Tibesar run the drills. He is active, showing players where to go and walking through the reps. Briggs is seen staying late with his teammates, continuing to coach. “He’s helping in the meeting room. He is coaching on the field,” defensive coordinator Mel Tucker said. “He is doing a great job with that – leading and doing everything he can to help us prepare and that’s what you expect from a guy like Lance.” Rookies Khaseem Greene and Jon Bostic can receive the biggest impact. Neither player was on the field for a snap of defense the first five games. Now, Bostic isn’t missing a play and Greene is in Briggs’ spot with the base defense. “Lance is always coaching us. Whether he was hurt or not, he would always coach the younger guys and help us out, which was definitely a blessing for both me and Jon because he knows so much about the defense,” Greene said. Like the rest of the defense, the linebackers are at fault for the team’s recent struggles in stopping the run, something

BEARS INSIDER Kevin Fishbain Briggs does better than most, so that’s an easy thing for him to teach. “Run fits, how to recognize plays, how to call it out before it happens,” Greene said. “Things that you develop with time and just giving it to us now and getting us used to doing it now is going to help me and Jon out in the long run and all the other guys who are out there after practice. It’s amazing.” It’s not just Greene and Bostic who learn from Briggs during these practices. Anderson is in his eighth NFL season, and Briggs isn’t going to let him off the hook. “He’s been on my case just as much as he’s been on their case. I feel like he’s actually coaching me more,” Anderson said. “Because being the lone veteran out there, the expectation levels are raised when you’re the older guy with a whole bunch of younger guys. “You’ve got to make sure you’re really still on top of your job. He’s been in my ear every play.” Anderson mimicked Briggs, calling out his name, “James! James!” as Briggs does in practice. “He’s taught me once you see what you see, trust it and go,” Anderson said. “Being a guy that’s labeled as a smart guy, that kind of tends to help everyone out. You tend to think a lot, and second-guess yourself because you think through so many scenarios. You see it, your first instinct is right, go with it. See it and go.” Briggs’ injury was expected

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Bears’ rushing offense vs. Ravens’ rushing defense Matt Forte is coming off his worst rushing performance of the season, thanks in part to some poor blocking. The Ravens allow 3.7 yards per carry with Haloti Ngata and Daryl Smith patrolling the middle of the field. Baltimore will look to put the game in quarterback Josh McCown’s hands as well, making it more difficult for Forte, who may be a more effective option as a receiver in this one. Edge: Ravens Bears’ passing offense vs. Ravens’ passing defense This is strength against strength. The Bears have moved the ball well with McCown in the game (103.2 passer rating), while the Ravens have 32 sacks with Elvis Dumervil and Terrell Suggs coming off the edge. Bears receivers Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery should win battles against Baltimore’s corners. Baltimore has given up 14 passes of 40 yards a more, the most in the league. Edge: Bears

Ravens’ rushing offense vs. Bears’ rushing defense Here is your weakness against weakness matchup, a battle of the ultimate disappointments. The Ravens are last in the league with a 2.8-yard rushing average. The Bears are allowing the second-most rushing yards in the league and will still be without Lance Briggs. Ray Rice hasn’t been able to run against anyone, and a third week in a row for this Bears front seven should give them the advantage. Edge: Bears

Ravens’ passing offense vs. Bears’ passing defense Coming off a Super Bowl and a fat contract, Joe Flacco hasn’t lived up to the billing this season with 12 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. Torrey Smith is having a strong season, though, and rookie Marlon Brown has impressed. The Bears are without Charles Tillman and the pass rush continues to be the defense’s downfall. Neither unit has been great, but Smith helps give Flacco and the Ravens the nod. Edge: Ravens Sunday’s edge This game has “weird” written all over it, considering how bad Baltimore’s offense and the Bears’ defense have been. Then, factor in the injuries (no Briggs, Cutler and Tillman) and wild-card implications. Baltimore does have playmakers on special teams to watch, but the Bears have home-field advantage, a better offense and a defense that looked improved against Detroit. They had a sour taste after last week’s loss, and make up for it against the defending champs. Bears 23, Ravens 19

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If ever there was a classic strength-on-strength and weakness-onweakness matchup, it’s Ravens and Bears. Baltimore’s offense comes in 29th in total yards, 32nd average yards per run, 25th average per pass, 24th in interception percentage, 23rd sacks allowed, 24th thirddown efficiency and 21st in points. The Bears’ defense is as bad in every category but one, 26th in total defense, 26th run average, 31st pass average, 28th sacking the quarterback, 26th on third down and 27th points allowed.

The one clear edge is the Bears are second in the league in interception percentage. The Bears must pick off Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco to gain an edge on defense.

The Ravens’ defense is loaded with studs, but the keys for the Bears have to be Haloti Ngata, Terrell Suggs and Elvis Dumervil. Ngata is one of the best defensive linemen in the game, a two-gap player who will have to be double-teamed all day. Jordan Mills will have little chance against Suggs or Dumervil without help from Eben Britton, which means Jermon Bushrod will be on an island all day. Bushrod must play his best game of the season for the Bears to have a chance. – Hub Arkush, harkush@shawmedia.com

to keep him out for six weeks. Sticking with that timeline, he could return for the Week 13 game in Minnesota. Briggs’ return would be a huge boost to the defense, but he’s made sure to have his presence felt still by coaching his fellow linebackers. “Lance has done a great job of just helping these guys out,” Bears coach Marc Trestman said. “I mean they are in early. They are in at 6:30 in the

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Baltimore Ravens outside linebacker Elvis Dumervil sacks Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton during the second half of last week’s game in Baltimore.

morning, these linebackers, and they’re in working and getting extra meeting time and they leave late. I am really proud of these guys the way they are working and becoming pros.” • Kevin Fishbain

covers the Bears for Shaw Media and HubArkush.com. He can be reached at kfishbain@shawmedia.com.

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There is both good news and bad news for the Bears this Sunday. The Baltimore Ravens will bring one of the NFL’s worst offenses to Soldier Field, struggling both on the ground and through the air and that could offer some tonic to a Bears defense that is also one of the worst in the league. On the flip side, the defending Super Bowl champion Ravens are still one of the best defenses in the NFL and, in his second start of the season, Josh McCown will face the best pass rush the Bears have seen this year. That is especially unsettling, realizing the Bears’ offensive line had its worst outing of the season last Sunday against the Lions. Joe Flacco is among the NFL’s wealthiest players with the contract he signed after the Ravens’ Super Bowl win, and one of the least productive quarterbacks in the game with a 77.3 passer rating, 25th in the NFL. Flacco managed just 6.7 yards a pass and his 12 TD passes are offset by 11 interceptions. Part of his problems may be the fact the Ravens are 30th in the NFL rushing the football and 32nd, dead last, in average gain per rush. That’s hard to believe when Ray Rice is your feature back, but he has just 115 carries through nine games for 289 yards, a 2.5-yard average. Bernard Pierce was supposed to be a great compliment to Rice this season, but he’s averaged just 2.5 yards a pop on 93 carries. Usually a huge factor in the Ra-

BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush vens’ passing game, Rice also has struggled there, managing 4.9 yards a catch on 33 receptions for 161 yards. The suspicion the Ravens would miss Anquan Boldin is borne out in No. 1 receiver, Torrey Smith’s numbers. While he’s caught 41 passes for 753 yards, an outstanding 18.4 average, Smith’s been targeted 84 times. No. 1 receivers who convert less than half their targets don’t stay No. 1s for long. The Ravens’ biggest problem has been the offensive line, which is puzzling because it began the season with four starters from the Super Bowl team and has been so bad the Ravens dealt for Eugene Monroe from Jacksonville before the trade deadline. Defensively, the Ravens have reloaded nicely after losing Paul Kruger, Ray Lewis, Dannell Ellerbe, Ed Reed and Cary Williams. The additions of Chris Canty, Daryl Smith, Elvis Dumervil and rookie Matt Elam have made the rebuilding of that unit somewhat seamless. The key matchups in this ballgame feature the game’s best nose tackle, Haloti Ngata, on the inside shoulders of Kyle Long and Matt Slauson at different times, and Terrell Suggs and Dumervil rushing off the edges on Jordan Mills and Jermon Bushrod.

The Ravens have 32 QB sacks, paced by Suggs’ nine and Dumervil’s eight. Jimmy Smith has nice size on one corner at 6-foot-2, but Lardarius Webb is smallish at 5-10, and that will create a mismatch for either Brandon Marshall or Alshon Jeffery. On the other side of the ball, Rice against the Bears’ two rookie linebackers is the key. As badly as Rice has struggled this year, defensive coordinator Mel Tucker has to be sure Jon Bostic and Khaseem Greene isn’t the antidote he’s been looking for. One other matchup to watch is John Harbaugh, one of the most successful coaches in the history of the NFL through his first five seasons, against first-year Bears coach Marc Trestman. Harbaugh is sure to have some custom pressures designed for McCown, and how Trestman and offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer counter could be the difference in the game. This is the Bears’ biggest game of the season. A Bears victory argues there’s no reason they can’t handle anyone else left on the schedule and 10-6 is realistic. Lose this one and the Bears winning five of their last six is about as likely as Bill Belichick hosting “Saturday Night Live.”

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• Hub Arkush covers the Bears for Shaw Media and HubArkush.com. Write to him at harkush@shawmedia.com.

Snow joke: Bowman traveled winding path LAKE FOREST – Replacing the greatest cornerback in Bears history is no easy task. But Zack Bowman has dealt with bigger challenges. Picture this: You’re a teenager. You’re a great athlete and you have a lot of friends. One day, your dad (an Air Force master sergeant) comes home from work and wants to talk. This is a dad thing, right? Dads like to talk about things. Cut the lawn. Cut your hair. Cut it out. Except this talk was different. The Bowmans of South Carolina were moving to Alaska. ALASKA?!?!? Yes, Alaska. Bowman discussed his unusual path to the NFL after Friday’s practice at Halas Hall. Musick: A lot of Bears fans might not know that you lived in Anchorage. What was that like? Bowman: It was different. Coming from South Carolina – that’s where I’m originally from – and going to Alaska, you’ve kind of got this process in your head that it’s just snow up there and it’s igloos and penguins and polar bears. I wasn’t too thrilled when my dad came home and told us we were moving to Alaska. But we ended up going up there, and when I got up there, of course it was snowing. But it was a lot different. There were buildings and it was city-like, and my high school was cool. So, I liked it. Musick: How old were you when you made the move? Bowman: Second semester of my freshman year. Musick: Could you see Russia from your house? Bowman: (Smiles) You couldn’t see it from my house. You had to go more toward the bay, and it had to be like a clear day, and you could see it. Musick: Were you already into football before you moved? Bowman: Yeah. I’ve been playing football since the fourth grade, and then it was just one of those

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BEARS INSIDER Tom Musick things. I got up there and I was the new guy, so basically nobody knew if I could play. Once they saw me play in the gym one time – we were just playing pickup ball – they were like, ‘Hey, this kid’s good.’ So, I didn’t even play JV, I played varsity all three years, and I played varsity [as a freshman] in South Carolina, too. Musick: And in Alaska, you were high school basketball teammates with Mario Chalmers? Bowman: Mm hmm. Musick: Did you ever think he might become an NCAA and NBA champ? Bowman: Yeah, I did. You could see it when we were in high school. He had a nice jump shot, had good ball skills, had good vision on the court. His big thing was defense, so obviously he was a good defender. Yeah, you could definitely see it. Musick: How did it work on the team? Was he the point guard and you the shooting guard? Bowman: I was the ‘3’ my first few years, and then my senior year I got moved to the ‘4’ because we didn’t have the height. Our tallest guy was like 6-5.

We were more like running guys. We had nothing but speed on the court. Everybody could shoot, everybody could lay it up, everybody could dribble. Our coach just sat back and watched us play. Musick: Do you still have any mementos from your state basketball title? Bowman: I do, I do. Matter of fact, I’ve still got the tape from the [state championship] game. It’s good to go back and watch every now and then. Musick: OK, quick detour back to football. On a scale of 1 to 10, how popular is football in Alaska? Bowman: It was very popular. They just don’t get a lot of pub up there. Basketball is a popular sport, too, they just don’t get a lot of pub from anybody, so it’s hard for a lot of those kids to get recognized. But there are guys who do come out playing basketball and football. Musick: So when you take on Baltimore this weekend, will you have some friends in Alaska getting up to watch the 9 a.m. kickoff? Bowman: Yeah, man. A lot of my friends watch it. They always send me text messages and stuff like that, so I know that those guys are watching. • Shaw Media sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at tmusick@shawmedia.com and on Twitter @tcmusick.

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BULLS 110, PACERS 94

Bulls hand Pacers 1st loss By JOE COWLEY jcowley@suntimes.com CHICAGO – Paul George’s jump shot Saturday night? Well, not so good. But his back-peddle, now that was All-Star caliber. Then again, a 110-94 loss and an end to a nine-game winning streak at the hands of the Bulls can humble a man. It was after the Nov. 6, 9780 win over the Bulls that the Pacers forward told NBA. com, “We want to step away from that shadow as the ‘little brothers’ of this division. [The Bulls’] success is the Michael Jordan era. This is a new age, this is a new team. It’s ours till they take it.” The Bulls not only took it, but smashed it and threw it in the trash, and afterward George ducked from it. “That was completely taken out of context,” George said. “What I meant by that is … I agree what Derrick Rose said, it’s not a rivalry. We haven’t won a championship, the team to beat is Miami, of course. All of that was taken out of context.” Whether it was or wasn’t, like “little brother,’’ the Pacers have been poking at Bulls players the past three seasons. Now that the Pacers are 9-1 and the streak is over, Bulls forward Taj Gibson has some big brotherly advice. “Players are going to talk,” Gibson said. “The best thing to do in this league is just play your game, worry about your game. Don’t worry about talking trash, just play your game. We let our game go out there and talk for us. We don’t have time to get into battles of he said, she said. “We just go out there and play.” That they did, and from the beginning. With Rose back on the court after missing Friday’s win in Toronto with a sore right hamstring, the Bulls (5-3) jumped out to a 31-20 first-quarter lead,

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Bulls guard Derrick Rose (left) looks to pass against Pacers guard George Hill during the first quarter of Saturday night’s game at the United Center. The Bulls won, 110-94, knocking off the NBA’s last undefeated team.

Next vs. Charlotte, 7 p.m. Monday, CSN, AM-1000 and never really looked back, building that lead to as much as 33 points. Rose was a big reason, tying a career-high with six 3-pointers, as well as scoring 20 points for the first time this season. “I was knocking down shots and really pushing the ball up the court,’’ Rose said. “Usually when we get a lead, go up 10, 15 points, we’ve let teams come back, but the shots they were giving me, they were going under screens – I don’t know why they were doing that – and I just sat back and shot them.” Luol Deng led the Bulls with 23 points, but also held George in check with 12 points. The same George who came into the night averaging 24.6 a game. “For us, we know when we play them it’s going to be a tough game and we just take

it that way,” Rose said of the comments from George. “Every night we play them they’re going to be the ones that are talking, and we can’t really feed into that. We have to play the way we normally play them, and that’s hard.” Not that the Pacers should be shocked that their streak ended. Since last season, the United Center is the place where streaks go to die. Miami saw a 27-game winning streak end there, and so did the Knicks’ a 13-game streak. And although the Bulls and Pacers won’t see each other until March 21, Carlos Boozer and Chris Copeland getting ejected for shoving each other was a reminder of the disdain shared between division rivals. “They approached the game how you’re supposed to approach it,” George said. “When an opponent comes on your floor, you don’t let them beat you. That’s how they played.’’ “Little brother’’ just might be learning.

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ANALYSIS: NO. 3 OHIO STATE 60, ILLINOIS 35

Beckman, Illini put up a fight in loss By STEVE GREENBERG

sgreenberg@suntimes.com CHAMPAIGN – This time, the improvement Tim Beckman keeps telling us is there was plain to see. It hasn’t always been during this frustrating, largely unsuccessful season. Almost to the end, the Illini scratched and clawed toward what would’ve been the unlikeliest of victories against No. 3 Ohio State (10-0, 6-0), which entered the game as a 33-point favorite. Beckman’s team didn’t get there, but it managed to slash a 28-point first-half deficit to 12 midway through the fourth quarter. The Illini fell apart from there and lost, 60-35, but surely they already had gained the Buckeyes’ respect. “They continued to fight,” Beckman said. Whether or not Beckman emerges from this game with more respect from athletic director Mike Thomas is an-

at Purdue, 11 a.m. Saturday, BTN, AM-560 other matter entirely. Beckman and his staff coached as hard as their team played Saturday. During one unfortunate third-quarter sequence, they might have coached a bit too hard. Trailing 35-21, the Illini (3-7, 0-6 Big Ten) faced a third-and-long near their own goal line, with Reilly O’Toole suddenly in for starting quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase, whose chin strap had busted on the previous play. Offensive coordinator Bill Cubit sent in a pass play, and O’Toole was sacked in the end zone for a safety. “I probably should’ve called a timeout there to get Nathan back in the game,” Beckman said. Cubit’s take was different.

Brian Griese – look really bad. Especially in light of previous embarrassing sideline incidents involving the second-year coach, specifically “Skoalgate” and a sideline-interference call in last season’s finale at Northwestern. Beckman has demonstrated a real knack for the awkward moment. “Never happened before in my career,” he said of the brouhaha. Again, Cubit’s take was different. “Happens all the time,” he said. Is there dysfunction on the AP photo staff? Beckman and Cubit say Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase loses his helmet after being not in the least. Regardless, Griese said sacked in the second half of Saturday’s game against No. 3 Ohio State Beckman will be fired if the in Champaign. The Illini lost, 60-35. Illini lose their last two, at Purdue and against visiting separated by fellow coaches. “I had faith in [O’Toole],” Northwestern. Would Griese Of course, video of the he said. “You believe in kids.” really know? Probably not. O’Toole never had a chance incident hit Twitter faster Thomas hasn’t given any than you can say 20-game Big on the play. It was 37-21, and clear indication about BeckTen losing streak. That made momentum swung back to man’s future, but the possibilBeckman – who already had the Buckeyes. That’s when Beckman and Cubit got into it been criticized harshly during ity Beckman is coaching for the ESPN telecast by analyst on the sideline and had to be his job the rest of November

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certainly is real. And every little bad thing only can hurt his cause. The score was 47-35 midway through the fourth quarter, and things looked pretty good. The crowd – small as always – was engaged. The Illini were doing themselves proud. But OSU running back Carlos Hyde ran for two long, demoralizing touchdowns to make it 60-35. Hyde rushed for 246 yards and became the fifth back this season to go over 200 and set a career high against the Illini. Buckeyes quarterback Braxton Miller added 184 yards on the ground. Those numbers must be as bad for Beckman’s standing as a sideline mini-scuffle. His defense has been beyond awful. But there’s fight in his players. “It’s so disheartening when they don’t get that victory,” said Beckman, “because they’re fighting to the end.” Their coach is, too.

FOOTBALL: MICHIGAN 27, NORTHWESTERN 19 (3OT)

Auburn’s miraculous victory NU misses opportunities sets up Iron Bowl showdown By SETH GRUEN

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touchdowns as the Seminoles (10-0, 8-0) rolled during the AtA miraculous play has Au- lantic Coast Conference game. Syracuse (5-5, 3-3) was held burn in the hunt for an SEC championship – maybe even a scoreless until late in the fourth quarter. national title, too. No. 4 Baylor 63, Texas Tech, The seventh-ranked Tigers beat No. 25 Georgia, 43-38, on 34: At Arlington, Texas, Bryce a juggling 73-yard touchdown Petty threw three touchdown reception off a tipped pass by passes and ran for two more scores as Baylor (9-0, 6-0 Big Ricardo Louis. Auburn finishes the season 12) stayed undefeated and against No. 1 Alabama and a overcame its first double-digit victory in the Iron Bowl would deficit of the season. Texas Tech (7-4, 4-4) lost put the Tigers in the SEC championship game. They its fourth straight game since have one-loss, but an SEC a 7-0 start for first-year coach championship might be able to Kliff Kingsbury. USC 20, No. 5 Stanford 17: At get them to the BCS championLos Angeles, Andre Heidari ship game. Though the other contend- kicked a 47-yard field goal with ers were dominant as usual 19 seconds to play, and SouthSaturday. No. 2 Florida State ern California’s stalwart destomped Syracuse, 59-3. No. 3 fense repeatedly came up big Ohio State got a little sloppy, in the upset. Cody Kessler passed for 288 but routed Illinois, 60-35. No. 1 Alabama 20, Mississip- yards for the revitalized Tropi St. 7: At Starkville, Miss., jans (8-3, 5-2 Pac-12). USC’s remarkable defenT.J. Yeldon rushed for 160 yards, A.J. McCarron threw sive performance included two two touchdown passes and fourth-quarter interceptions Alabama overcame four turn- against the powerful Cardinal overs to beat Mississippi State. (8-2, 6-2). No. 6 Oregon 44, Utah 21: At It was a lethargic performance for Alabama (10-0, Eugene, Ore., Marcus Mariota 7-0 Southeastern Confer- threw for 288 yards and three ence), which led 10-7 midway touchdowns and the Ducks (9through the third quarter be- 1, 6-1 Pac-12) rebounded from fore pulling away. Alabama last week’s loss to Stanford. Utah (4-6, 1-6) was dealt a has won six straight against blow before the game when the Bulldogs. Mississippi State (4-6, 1-5) starting quarterback Travis kept the game far closer than Wilson didn’t make the trip to most anticipated, but couldn’t Eugene because of a concustake advantage of Alabama’s sion. No. 7 Auburn 43, No. 25 Geormistakes. No. 2 Florida St. 59, Syracuse gia 38: At Auburn, Ala., Ricar3: At Tallahassee, Fla., Ja- do Louis scored on a deflected meis Winston showed no ef- 73-yard pass on fourth and 18 fects from a tumultuous week with 25 seconds left to lift Auduring Florida State’s win burn (10-1, 6-1 Southeastern against Syracuse. The redshirt Conference) to a stunning vicquarterback completed 19-of- tory over Georgia (6-4, 4-3). No. 11 South Carolina 19, 21 passes for 277 yards and two

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Florida 14: At Columbia, S.C., Elliott Fry kicked four field goals and South Carolina (8-2, 6-2 SEC) won its school-record 16th straight at home, sending banged-up Florida (4-6, 3-5) to its fifth consecutive loss.

No. 12 Oklahoma St. 38 No. 23 Texas 13: At Austin, Texas, Clint Chelf ran for two touchdowns and Oklahoma State (8-1, 6-1) stayed in the Big 12 championship chase with a win over the Longhorns (7-3, 6-1). No. 15 UCF 39, Temple 36: At Philadelphia, Shawn Moffitt kicked a 23-yard field goal as time expired after Rannell Hall got behind the Temple (10, 0-6 American Athletic Conference) defense for a 64-yard reception, and No. 15 UCF (8-1, 5-0) survived a scare.

No. 19 Louisville 20, Houston 13: At Louisville, Ky., Dominique Brown ran for a career-high 137 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score in the third quarter, and Louisville (9-1, 5-1 AAC) held on against the Cougars (7-3, 4-2).

No. 22 Oklahoma 48, Iowa St. 10: Norman, Okla., Bob Stoops matched Barry Switzer’s record for most coaching victories at Oklahoma as the Sooners (8-2, 5-2 Big 12) cruised. Iowa State (1-9, 0-7) held Oklahoma scoreless in the first quarter and led 10-3 before Jalen Saunders returned a punt 91 yards for a touchdown right before halftime. Duke 48, No. 24 Miami 30: At Durham, N.C., Brandon Connette rushed for a career-high four touchdowns and threw for a fifth score, and Duke (82, 4-2) took sole possession of first place in the ACC’s messy Coastal Division with an upset of the Hurricanes (7-3, 3-3).

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Ohio State drops Marquette The ASSOCIATED PRESS MILWAUKEE – Shannon Scott and Sam Thompson scored 13 points apiece, helping No. 10 Ohio State pull away from cold-shooting No. 17 Marquette for a 52-35 win Saturday. Aaron Craft added 10 points for the Buckeyes (3-0), who ended the Golden Eagles’ 27game home winning streak, second-longest in the nation. Todd Mayo led Marquette (2-1) with 11 points. It was the school’s first loss at the Bradley Center since Vanderbilt beat the Golden Eagles, 74-57, on Dec. 29, 2011.

No. 20 Wisconsin 69, Green Bay 66: At Green Bay, Wis., Frank Kaminsky scored 16 points and Sam Dekker added 13 to help Wisconsin rally for a win over Wisconsin-Green Bay. The Badgers (3-0) were

down seven in the second half and overcame a career-high 32 points by Green Bay junior guard Keifer Sykes. His potential game-tying 3-pointer bounced off the rim as the buzzer sounded. Wisconsin improved to 19-1 all-time against the Phoenix (1-1). Penn St. 83, Penn 71: At Philadelphia, Tim Frazier and D.J. Newbill combined to score 48 points as Penn State (2-1) built a huge first-half lead on its way to a win over Penn (1-2). NIU 60, San Jose St. 59: At DeKalb, Jordan Threloff and Daveon Balls came off the bench to score in double figures and lead Northern Illinois (1-2) over San Jose State (0-3) in the NIU Invitational. DePaul 81, Wright St. 72: At Rosemont, Cleveland Melvin scored 23 points to lead DePaul

(2-1) over Wright State (1-2) in the CBE Hall of Fame Classic. EIU86,UIC66: At Chicago, Reggie Smith scored a career-high 23 points on 7 of 13 shooting and added six assists to lead the Panthers (2-1) over the Flames (1-2). Saint Louis 76, SIU 67: At Carbondale, Mike McCall Jr. tied a career high with 19 points and Saint Louis (3-0) held off a late charge from Southern Illinois (0-2). Tulane 65, Loyola 59: At New Orleans, Jonathan Stark made 8 of 11 field goals for 25 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:41 to go, in Tulane’s 19-point second-half comeback, in a win over Loyola (1-2). The Green Wave improved to 3-0.

SIUE 100, Central Arkansas 93: At Edwardsville, Tim Johnson scored 21 points to lead SIU Edwardsville (1-2) over Central Arkansas (1-1).

EVANSTON – Northwestern’s 27-19 loss to Michigan at home Saturday took three overtime periods. By Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald’s estimation, his defense dropped seven potential interceptions. Twice Northwestern had a chance to stop Michigan on fourth down during the last drive of regulation before Wolverines kicker Brendan Gibbons sent the game into overtime with a 44-yard field goal that tied the score at nine as time expired. Three times the Wildcats settled for field goals in regulation, going without

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a touchdown until the first overtime period. Tony Jones dropped a ball that likely would have netted Northwestern a touchdown in the first half. The Wildcats forced a fumble on Michigan’s eventual game-winning drive and didn’t recover the ball. And after all that, Fitzgerald summed Saturday’s game up in two words: “Missed opportunities.” He might have been talking about Saturday, but

that encapsulates the entire season. Northwestern can bake the cake; it’s the icing the Wildcats’ struggle to perfect. Since the start of the conference season, Northwestern hasn’t been able to make key plays in the fourth quarter. Against Ohio State, it was a failed fourthand-1 conversion. At Iowa, a dumb penalty that negated a would-be game winning drive. Two weeks ago against Nebraska, the inability to stop the Huskers on fourth-and-15 set up the game-winning “Hail Mary” for the home team. Lesson learned, right? Not this team. Not this year.

BIG TEN FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

No. 14 MSU beats Nebraska The ASSOCIATED PRESS LINCOLN, Neb. – No. 14 Michigan State converted five Nebraska turnovers into 24 points and took a big step toward winning the Big Ten Legends Division with a 41-28 victory Saturday. Jeremy Langford ran 32 times for 151 yards and scored two touchdowns, and Keith Mumphrey caught a 27-yard touchdown from Connor Cook in the fourth quarter after the Cornhuskers pulled within six points. The Spartans (9-1, 6-0) beat the Huskers (7-3, 4-2) for the first time in eight all-time meetings. They would clinch the division with a win at Northwestern next week or a loss by Minnesota in either of its last two games. Michigan State plays Minnesota to end

the regular season. Big Ten leading rusher Ameer Abdullah ran 22 times for 123 yards for Nebraska. He went over 100 yards for the seventh straight game and eighth time this season and is the first player to do it against the Spartans.

No. 17 Wisconsin 51, Indiana 3: At Madison, Wis., James White rushed for a career-high 205 yards and Melvin Gordon added 146 for Wisconsin. The Badgers (8-2, 5-1 Big Ten) came in expecting a big game on the ground against the conference’s 10th-ranked rushing defense with the Hoosiers (4-6, 2-4) giving up an average of more than 217 yards a game. Wisconsin topped that just minutes into the second quarter, had 323 yards rushing at the half and finished with 554.

Indiana’s offense, meanwhile, was nowhere to be found. Second in the conference at 527 yards a game, the Hoosiers were held to just 224 yards. Indiana had been held scoreless in just three quarters the entire season, but matched that Saturday. Indiana also snapped a school record of 10 straight games with at least 28 points. Penn St. 45, Purdue 21: At State College, Pa., Penn State took off running – and a potent 1-2 punch grounded the idea the Nittany Lions are simply pass happy. Zach Zwinak ran for 149 yards and three touchdowns and Bill Belton rushed for 89 yards and a score, all part of Penn State’s 289-yard, five-TD running attack, leading the Nittany Lions (6-5, 3-3) over the Boilermakers (1-9, 0-6).

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haven’t seen that in a long time. It was a free night for them offensively. We were very gracious.” Crawford, who has played in 18 of the Hawks’ 20 games, now has given up 13 goals in his past two-plus games. But both he and Quenneville shrugged off the idea that Khabibulin’s struggles and the corresponding heavy workload are taking their toll. “I feel good,” Crawford said. “There’s no fatigue.” Still, the Hawks will have to give another goaltender a chance, especially with another game on Sunday, followed by the seven-game, 13-day circus trip. Raanta has had mixed results in Rockford but has been stronger lately (6-5, 2.84 GAA, .913 save percentage) as he adjusts to the smaller North American rink. Another possibility is Kent Simpson, who gave up a team-best four goals in 120 minutes during training camp, but is 2-4 with a 3.68 GAA in Rockford.

22 shots – smashing his stick after Weber scored the seventh of the night on the power play – as the Hawks looked sluggish and disinterested for the first two periods (even though it was the Predators coming off a 17-day road trip and a four-game losing streak) and didn’t do much to help either goaltender. “We’ve got to respond [Sunday] night,” said Hawks captain Jonathan Toews. “We’ve got to learn that we’re not too good to go out there and just play pond hockey. We’ve got to work for it every single night.” By the time Patrick Kane and Brandon Pirri scored to draw the Hawks within 4-2, it was too late, and the Predators poured it on with three more third-period goals – including one by former Hawks winger Viktor Stalberg 15 seconds after Pirri’s. • Mark Lazerus is a Chi“We were very generous cago Sun-Times sports reand gifting tonight on the porter who can be reached at goals,” Quenneville said. “I mlazerus@suntimes.com.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Clearly injured and unable to get up, a prone Nikolai Khabibulin, with whatever strength he had left in his body, lunged up to make a tremendous, gutsy save on Patric Hornqvist in the first period Saturday night. The question now after the Blackhawks’ dreadful 7-2 loss to the Predators – who had scored a total of two goals in their past four games – is, was it the last save Khabibulin will make in a Hawks uniform? Khabibulin was making his first appearance in 17 days after two straight poor outings. This one wasn’t going any better, as he gave up two goals on eight shots before leaving the game, slowly skating off the ice, hunched over. Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said he “could be out a bit,” and the team was evaluating its options – likely calling up Finnish import Antti Raanta in time for Sunday’s home game against high-powered San Jose. It was just a bad night getting worse, as Hawks star Marian Hossa – red hot of late, with five goals and four assists in his past eight games – was a surprise scratch after warmups with a lower-body injury. It was the first game Hossa missed all season, but Quenneville said there’s still a chance Hossa could play Sunday. After Khabibulin was hurt, Corey Crawford came in and gave up five goals on

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FOOTBALL CLASS 4A PLAYOFF QUARTERFINAL ROCKFORD LUTHERAN 28, HARVARD 24 Harvard Lutheran

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First quarter RL–Robinson 1 run (Pearson kick), 8:11. H–Kramer 1 run (Schneider kick), 3:04. H–Mejia 1 run (Schneider kick), 0:21. Second quarter RL–Robinson 7 run (Pearson kick), 6;15. Third quarter H–FG Schneider 40, 3:51. H–Kramer 5 run (Schneider kick), 0:00. Fourth quarter RL–Lawson 11 run (Pearson kick), 8:47. INDIVDIUAL STATISTICS RUSHING–Harvard: Kramer 32-157, Mejia 15-43, Schneider 1-minus 2. Totals: 49-198. Rockford Lutheran: Robinson 17-104, Koehler 2-9, Lawson 18-4, Anderson 1-minus 4. Totals: 38-109. PASSING–Harvard: Schneider 7-13-277. Rockford Lutheran: 18-26-1-140. RECEIVING–Harvard: Nolen 6-72, Reilly 1-5. Rockford Lutheran: Wieting 10-99, Koehler 4-26, Robinson 3-10, Ingardona 1-11. TOTAL TEAM YARDS–Harvard 274, Rockford Lutheran 249.

CLASS 6A PLAYOFF QUARTERFINAL BOYLAN 21, PRAIRIE RIDGE 17 PR Boylan

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First quarter PR–Eschweiler 23 FG, 6:50 Second quarter PR–Covalt 2 run (Eschweiler kick),6:43 B–Croft 16 run (Shumaker kick), 1:16 PR–Ladd 51 pass from Covalt (Eschweiler kick), 1:01 Third quarter B–Stull 80 pass from Croft (Shumaker kick),0:48 Fourth quarter B-Croft 10 run (Shumaker kick), 5:20 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing-PR: Ladd 18-106, Covalt 23-49,Greenberg 4-20. Totals: 45-175. B–Croft 12-57, Mathews 6-13,Stanicek 2-9, Pumilia 5-9, McGuire 1-2, Stull 1-2. Totals: 27-92. Passing-PR: Covalt 6-14-2-103. B– Croft22-30-0-235. Receiving-PR: Ladd 2-56, Meikel 3-37, Peterson1-10. B: Stull 8-125, Shumaker 4-53, Stanicek 4-27,Nalewanski 4-23, Pumilia 2-7. Total yards- PR 278, B 327.

SATURDAY’S RESULTS Class 1A No. 6 Lena-Winslow 24, No. 1 Stockton 14 No. 6 Chicago Leo 32, No. 1 Ottawa Marquette 27 No. 1 Downs Tri-Valley 48, No. 4 CaseyWestfield 27 No. 2 Maroa-Forsyth 22, No. 3 Camp Point Central 7 Class 2A No. 5 Sterling Newman Catholic 34, No. 7 Momence 33 No. 5 Aledo Mercer County 41, No. 2 Farmington 0 No. 2 Auburn 21, No. 1 Cerro GordoBement Coop 12 No. 8 Staunton 30, No. 3 Gillespie 14 Class 3A No. 5 Stillman Valley 34, No. 1 Winnebago 20 No. 10 Aurora Christian 36, No. 6 Seneca 27 No. 3 St. Joseph-Ogden 38, No. 1 Williamsville 26 No. 1 Greenville 71, No. 3 Mt. Carmel 70

Class 4A No. 4 Geneseo 41, No. 9 Chicago Phillips 8 No. 6 Rockford Lutheran 28, No. 2 Harvard 24 No. 2 Rochester 50, No. 8 Althoff Catholic 21 No. 3 Rock Island Alleman 31, No. 1 Quincy Notre Dame 13 Class 5A No. 1 Montini 22, No. 4 Joliet Catholic Academy 21 No. 2 Sycamore 21, No. 6 Lincoln-Way West 14 No. 1 Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin 42, No. 4 Highland 8 No. 2 Washington 41, No. 3 Normal University 7 Class 6A No. 1 Boylan 21, No. 13 Prairie Ridge 17 No. 2 Batavia 19, No. 6 Lake Forest (H.S.) 14 No. 1 Richards 12, No. 2 Lincoln-Way North 6 (OT) No. 6 East St. Louis 27, No. 8 Providence Catholic 26 Class 7A No. 1 Lake Zurich 16, No. 5 Wheaton North 6 No. 3 Glenbard West 42, No. 2 Schaumburg 21 No. 2 Chicago Mt. Carmel 7, No. 8 Downers Grove North 0 No. 1 Edwardsville 21, No. 3 LincolnWay East 14 Class 8A No. 1 Loyola Academy 35, No. 5 Maine South 0 No. 6 Stevenson 14, No. 2 Barrington 0 No. 8 Chicago Marist 21, No. 4 Oswego 7 No. 7 Naperville Central 47, No. 3 Neuqua Valley 18

SEMIFINAL PAIRINGS Class 1A No. 6 at Chicago Leo at No. 6 LenaWinslow No. 2 Maroa-Forsyth at No. 1 Downs Tri-Valley Class 2A No. 5 Aledo Mercer County at No. 5 Sterling Newman Catholic No. 8 Staunton at No. 2 Auburn

State qualifiers and local results 200 Medley relay: 1. Fremd* 1:46.58; 2. Stevenson* 1:47.69; 4. Cary-Grove 1:53.34; 11. Dundee-Crown 2:02.92 200 Freestyle: 1. Xiang* (Stev) 1:51.19; 2. Jacobsen* (Bar) 1:51.51; 3. Wawer* (Stev) 1:51.67; 4. Barnett* (Bar) 1:54.66; 5. King* (Fr) 1:54.80; 10. Seeger (CG) 2:02.22; 18. Purvis (CG) 2:14.33; 21. Trebat (DC) 2:17.89; 2. Wasilewski (DC) 2:28.04 200 Individual medley: 1. Vega* (Bar) 2:10.49; 6. Skoog (DC) 2:18.07; 13. Mucha (DC) 2:25.11; 16. Meyer (CG) 2:33.52 50 Frestyle: 1. Scheitlin* (Bar) 24.27; 2. Godlewski* (Wh) 24.30; 3. Stelnicki* (Fr) 24.34; 4. Kamin* (Stev() 24.35; 5. Morosan* (BG) 24.38; 6. Anderson* (Pal) 24.61; 9. Weber (CG) 24.99; 20. Pflanz (DC) 27.80; 21. Leal (DC) 28.41; 23. Peterson (CG) 29.09 100 Butterfly: 1. Takumiya* (Fr) 57.55; 2. Zahn* (Pal) 58.45; 3. Hannon* (Stev) 58.66; 11. Skoog (DC) 1:02.93; 14. Mucha (DC) 1:04.41; 18. Mega (CG) 1:07.80; 26. Dhindsa (CG) 1:16.45 100 Freestyle: 1. Xiang* (Stev) 51.66; 2. Wawer* (Stev) 51.86; 3. Anderson* (Pal) 52.65; 4. Scheitlin* (Bar) 53.08; 5. Kneller* (Fr) 53.11; 9. Baker (CG) 54.87; 14. Seeger (CG) 57.31; 22. Pflanz (DC) 1:02.12; 25. Leal (DC) 1:05.02 500 Freestyle: 1. Jacobsen* (Bar) 4:58.57; 2. Barnett* (Bar) 5:03.13; 3. Hannon* (Stev) 5:03.24; 4. King* (Fr) 5:03.70; 5. Salzman* (Stev) 5:09.79; 7. Elrod (CG) 5:17.90; 14. Trebat (DC) 5:58.20; 18. Kenaga (DC) 6:15.88; 21. Loch (CG) 7:22.43 200 Freestyle relay: 1. Stevenson* 1:37.25; t2. Barrington*, Fremd* 1:37.50; 5. Cary-Grove 1:40.41; 10. Dundee-Crown 1:50.72 100 Backstroke: 1. Godlewski* (Wh) 57.85; 2. Grzybek* (Fr) 58.31; 3. Takumiya* (Fr) 58.68; 4. Kirby* (Stev) 59.08; 9. Hamann (CG) 1:04.66; 21. Merkelz (DC) 1:15.80; 22. Swanson (DC) 1:16.61; 23. Follett (CG) 1:17.70 100 Breaststroke: 1. Rose* (CG) 1:05.44; 2. Bloodgood* (Stev) 1:06.09; 20. Kroll (CG) 1:22.65; 21. Wasilewski (DC) 1:24.70; 24. Bucholz (DC) 1:29.82 400 Freestyle relay: 1. Stevenson* 3:29.79; 2. Barrington* 3:31.89; 3. Fremd* 3:32.75; 5. Cary-Grove 3:43.11; 12. Dundee-Crown 4:39.33 *State Qualifier

VERNON HILLS SECTIONAL

Class 3A No. 10 Aurora Christian at No. 5 Stillman Valley No. 1 Greenville at No. 3 Joseph-Ogden Class 4A No. 4 Geneseo at No. 6 Rockford Lutheran No. 2 Rochester at No. 3 Rock Islan Alleman Class 5A No. 2 Sycamore at No. 1 Montini No. 2 Washington at No. 1 Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin Class 6A No. 2 Batavia at No. 1 Boylan No. 1 Richards at No. 6 East St. Louis Class 7A No. 1 Lake Zurich at No. 3 Glenbard West No. 1 Edwardsville at No. 2 Chicago Mt. Carmel Class 8A No. 1 Loyola Academy at No. 6 Stevenson No. 8 Chicago Marist at No. 7 Naperville Central

GIRLS SWIMMING BARRINGTON SECTIONAL Team scores: 1. Stevenson 274; 2. Fremd 249; 3. Barrington 241; 4. Palatine 165; 5. Prospect 104; 6. Cary-Grove 100; 7. Hoffman Estates 55; 8. Wheeling 50; 9. Buffalo Grove 48; 10. St. Viator 46; 11. Rolling Meadows 35; 12. Dundee-Crown 23

Team scores: 1. Lake Forest 299; 2. Warren 225; 3. Mundelein 220; 4. Libertyville 215; 5. Vernon Hills 108; 6. McHenry 77; 7. Woodstock co-op 64; 8. Zion-Benton 48; 9. Waukegan 22 State qualifiers and local results 200 Medley relay: 1. Libertyville* 1:46.64; 2. Warren* 1:46.99; 3. Lake Forest* 1:49.07; 6. Woodstock (Kruse, Devinger, McGuire, DeWane) 1:55.41; 7. McHenry (Palmer, Lesniak, Matthys, Walter) 1:55.47 200 Freestyle: 1. Falconer* (Mund) 1:51.26; 2. Nelson* (LF) 1:52.09; 9. Lange (McH) 2:02.43; 14. Naughton (McH) 2:11.70; 17. Roberts (Wood) 2:20.41 200 Individual medley: 1. Lanigan* (LF) 2:05.65; 2. Richert* (Lib) 2:09.18; 3. Grasty* (War) 2:09.58; 4. Rinaldi* (Lks) 2:09.62; 8. Devinger (Wood) 2:17.79; 13. Palmer (McH) 2:24.83; 18. Wright (McH) 2:36.18 50 Freestyle: 1. Pyshnenko* (LF) 23.31; 2. Wells* (War) 24.00; 3. Barker* (War) 24.22; t4. Kozokar* (Mund), Lex* (Lib) 24.66; 9. McGuire 25.61; 13. DeWane (Wood) 26.19; 17. Walter (McH) 27.14; 18. Ezop (McH) 27.19 100 Butterfly: 1. Lanigan* (LF) 55.92; 2. Matthys* (McH) 56.82; 3. Herchenbach* (Lib) 57.48; 4. Carney* (LF) 58.43; 10. Palmer (McH) 1:03.22; 100 Freestyle: 1. Falconer* (Mund) 50.16; 2. Pyshnenko* (LF) 51.94; 3. Kozokar* (Mund) 52.58; 4. Wells* (War) 53.09; 8. Kruse (Wood) 56.24; 9. McGuire (Wood) 56.48; 16. Ezop (McH) 59.97; 17. Wright (McH) 1:00.87 500 Freestyle: 1. Nelson* (LF) 5:00.62; 2. Vondra* (LF) 5:06.62; 8. Lange (McH) 5:25.86; 15. Brasile (Wood) 5:55.37; 18. Harris (McH) 6:19.18; 19. Roberts (Wood) 6:20.47 200 Freestyle relay: 1. Lake Forest* 1:36.36; 2. Mundelein* 1:36.75; 3. War-

GOLF PGA OHL CLASSIC At Mayakoba Resort (El Camaleon Golf Club) Playa del Carmen, Mexico Purse: $6 million Yardage: 6,987; Par: 71 Completed Second Round Leaders Kevin Stadler 67-63—130 -12 Robert Karlsson 63-67—130 -12 Harris English 68-62—130 -12 Rory Sabbatini 68-65—133 -9 Tim Wilkinson 70-63—133 -9 Ryan Moore 67-67—134 -8 Jhonattan Vegas 66-68—134 -8 Charles Howell III 67-67—134 -8 Chris Stroud 66-68—134 -8 Pat Perez 66-68—134 -8 Jason Bohn 67-68—135 -7 Scott Brown 69-66—135 -7 Jeff Maggert 69-66—135 -7 Brian Stuard 65-70—135 -7 Tommy Gainey 71-65—136 -6 Justin Hicks 69-67—136 -6 Jay McLuen 67-69—136 -6 Erik Compton 67-69—136 -6 Brendan Steele 70-66—136 -6 Chad Collins 69-67—136 -6 Bob Estes 68-69—137 -5 Jose Coceres 68-69—137 -5 Camilo Villegas 70-67—137 -5 J.J. Henry 72-65—137 -5 James Driscoll 69-68—137 -5 Brendon Todd 71-66—137 -5 Wes Roach 67-70—137 -5 Russell Knox 67-70—137 -5 Len Mattiace 69-68—137 -5 Davis Love III 69-68—137 -5 Alvaro Quiros 67-70—137 -5 Justin Leonard 70-67—137 -5 Jamie Lovemark 68-69—137 -5 Matt Every 71-67—138 -4 William McGirt 70-68—138 -4 Spencer Levin 70-68—138 -4 John Huh 70-68—138 -4

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At Guadalajara Country Club Guadalajara, Mexico Purse: $1 million Yardage: 6,633; Par 72 Third Round Lexi Thompson 72-64-67—203 -13 I.K. Kim 70-67-67—204 -12 Stacy Lewis 72-66-67—205 -11 So Yeon Ryu 68-67-71—206 -10 Anna Nordqvist 68-67-72—207 -9 Pornanong Phatlum 66-69-72—207 -9 Suzann Pettersen 70-68-70—208 -8 Lizette Salas 70-67-71—208 -8 Inbee Park 68-68-72—208 -8 Michelle Wie 69-73-67—209 -7 Azahara Munoz 71-69-69—209 -7 Carlota Ciganda 72-69-69—210 -6 Amy Yang 67-73-70—210 -6 Karine Icher 70-68-72—210 -6 Gerina Piller 71-65-74—210 -6 Brittany Lincicome 76-67-69—212 -4 Mo Martin 73-69-70—212 -4 Ilhee Lee 74-66-73—213 -3 Morgan Pressel 73-66-74—213 -3 Jenny Shin 69-69-75—213 -3 Chella Choi 74-68-72—214 -2 Jodi Ewart Shadoff 75-67-72—214 -2 Ai Miyazato 70-72-72—214 -2 Jessica Korda 72-68-74—214 -2 Caroline Hedwall 73-73-69—215 -1 Catriona Matthew 74-71-71—216 E Cristie Kerr 77-67-72—216 E Brittany Lang 71-72-74—217 +1 Angela Stanford 75-72-71—218 +2 Paula Creamer 74-67-77—218 +2 Margarita Ramos 75-72-73—220 +4 Sandra Gal 72-74-74—220 +4 Alejandra Llaneza 75-73-73—221 +5 Meena Lee 74-72-75—221 +5 Taylor Collins 74-77-76—227 +11 Beatriz Recari 72-77—WD

FORD ECOBOOST 400 LINEUP After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead, Fla. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 177.667 mph. 2. (78) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 177.445. 3. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 177.282. 4. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 177.061. 5. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 176.846. 6. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 176.655. 7. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 176.598. 8. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 176.436. 9. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 176.436. 10. (55) Elliott Sadler, Toyota, 176.413. 11. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 176.355. 12. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 176.355. 13. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 176.304. 14. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 175.747. 15. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 175.73. 16. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 175.69. 17. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 175.507. 18. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 175.433. 19. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 175.376. 20. (51) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 175.353. 21. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 175.347. 22. (14) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 175.273. 23. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 175.109. 24. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 175.092. 25. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 174.78. 26. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 174.61. 27. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 174.537. 28. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 174.329. 29. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 174.317. 30. (30) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 173.171. 31. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 173.099. 32. (83) David Reutimann, Toyota, 172.563.

33. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 172.287. 34. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 172.26. 35. (35) Josh Wise, Ford, 172.046. 36. (47) A J Allmendinger, Toyota, 171.734. 37. (36) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, Owner Points. 38. (7) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, Owner Points. 39. (33) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Owner Points. 40. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, Owner Points. 41. (32) Ken Schrader, Ford, Owner Points. 42. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, Owner Points. 43. (40) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

NASCAR NATIONWIDE At Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead, Fla. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (3) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 200 laps, 120.7 rating, 0 points, $83,475. 2. (8) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 200, 130.7, 44, $77,675. 3. (6) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200, 128.5, 0, $49,175. 4. (5) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 200, 111.1, 0, $40,860. 5. (9) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 200, 94.8, 39, $40,380. 6. (4) Joey Logano, Ford, 200, 121.6, 0, $26,580. 7. (16) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 200, 98.7, 37, $28,980. 8. (1) Sam Hornish Jr., Ford, 200, 114.1, 37, $32,555. 9. (13) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 200, 81.9, 35, $26,930. 10. (15) Nelson Piquet Jr., Chevrolet, 200, 77, 34, $27,080. 11. (2) Blake Koch, Toyota, 200, 81.6, 33, $25,880. 12. (11) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 200, 87.2, 32, $24,330. 13. (19) Ryan Reed, Ford, 200, 74.9, 31, $23,930.

14. (17) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 200, 78.2, 0, $23,730. 15. (12) Drew Herring, Toyota, 200, 82.1, 29, $24,220. 16. (18) Elliott Sadler, Toyota, 200, 92.3, 28, $24,415. 17. (23) Michael Annett, Ford, 200, 66.8, 27, $23,405. 18. (22) Travis Pastrana, Ford, 200, 62.4, 26, $23,590. 19. (14) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 200, 93, 25, $23,030. 20. (29) Jeff Green, Toyota, 200, 58.8, 24, $23,595. 21. (31) Johanna Long, Chevrolet, 200, 52, 23, $22,810. 22. (39) Bryan Silas, Ford, 200, 46.4, 0, $22,700. 23. (35) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, 200, 41.7, 0, $22,565. 24. (34) Dakoda Armstrong, Toyota, 200, 48.1, 0, $22,450. 25. (36) Jamie Dick, Chevrolet, 199, 38, 19, $16,790. 26. (30) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 198, 40.7, 18, $22,185. 27. (33) Dexter Stacey, Ford, 194, 34.7, 17, $16,070. 28. (28) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, accident, 184, 50.6, 16, $21,955. 29. (25) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, accident, 183, 75, 15, $21,850. 30. (32) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, accident, 183, 50.2, 14, $22,040. 31. (7) Brad Sweet, Chevrolet, 175, 68.3, 13, $21,930. 32. (10) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 173, 72.2, 12, $21,665. 33. (21) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 163, 57.8, 11, $21,460. 34. (20) Corey LaJoie, Ford, 148, 46.5, 10, $15,395. 35. (24) Kevin Swindell, Ford, accident, 127, 54.1, 9, $21,356. 36. (38) Ryan Ellis, Toyota, vibration, 102, 29.3, 8, $20,150. 37. (27) Mike Bliss, Toyota, electrical, 49, 37.7, 7, $14,085. 38. (37) T.J. Bell, Chevrolet, vibration, 20, 31.4, 6, $19,994. 39. (40) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, electrical, 5, 30.8, 5, $13,735. 40. (26) Michael McDowell, Toyota, overheating, 5, 29.7, 0, $13,700.

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL CLASS 4A THIRD-PLACE MATCH NEW TRIER 2, CRYSTAL LAKE SOUTH 1 (22-25, 25-17, 25-23) CL South Leaders- Kills: Nolan 12, Nero 7, Slimko 5. Assists: Sivesind 26. Digs: Falbo 10, Sivesind 7, Nero 7, Wilson 5. Aces: Slimko 5, Sivesind 2, Nolan 1, Nero 1.

STATE FINALS RESULTS at Redbird Arena in Normal Class 1A Friday Match 1: Keith Country Day 2, Sciota West Prairie 1 (25-16, 21-25, 25-17) Match 2: Stewardson 2, New Athens 0 (25-12, 25-23) Saturday Third place Match 3: Sciota West Prairie 2, New Athens 1 (18-25, 25-13, 25-22) Championship Match 4: Keith Country Day 2, Stewardson 0 (25-18, 25-17) Class 2A Friday Match 1: IC Catholic 2, Deer CreekMackinaw 0 (25-22, 25-17) Match 2: Edwards County 2, Fieldcrest 0 (25-22, 25-17) Saturday Third place Match 3: Deer Creek-Mackinaw 2, Fieldcrest 0 (25-14, 25-10) Championship Match 4: IC Catholic 2, Edwards County 0 (25-15, 25-19) Class 3A Friday Match 1: LaSalle-Peru 2, Chicago Payton 0 (25-18, 25-17) Match 2: St. Francis 2, Breese Central 0 (25-20, 25-10) Saturday Third place Match 3: Breese Central 2, Chicago Payton 0 (25-20, 25-13) Championship Match 4: St. Francis 2, LaSalle-Peru 0 (25-19, 25-7) Class 4A Friday Match 1: Benet 2, Crystal Lake South 0 (25-22, 25-18) Match 2: Mother McAuley 2, New Trier 1 (32-30, 22-25, 25-15) Saturday Third place Match 3: New Trier 2, Crystal Lake South 1 (22-25, 25-17, 25-23) Championship Match 4: Mother McAuley 2, Benet 0 (25-22, 25-19)

MLS PLAYOFFS CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP Eastern Conference Leg 1 — Saturday, Nov 9: Sporting KC 0, Houston 0 Leg 2 — Saturday, Nov. 23: Houston at Sporting KC, 6:30 p.m. Western Conference Leg 1 — Sunday, Nov. 10: Real Salt Lake 4, Portland 2 Leg 2 — Sunday, Nov. 24: Real Salt Lake at Portland, 8 p.m.

MLS CUP Saturday, Dec. 7: at higher seed, 3 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS PROS BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Miami G Mario Chalmers one game for throwing a forearm and making contact with the head of Dallas F Dirk Nowitzki during Friday’s game. FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed DE Cheta Ozougwu from the practice squad. Released LB Larry Grant. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed S Tony Dye from the practice squad. Released CB Chris Lewis-Harris. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed QB Tyler Wilson from the practice squad. Released DL Brian Sanford. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released QB B.J. Daniels. Activated OT Russell Okung from injured reserve. HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Assigned D Jesse Blacker to Norfolk (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled C Luke Glendening from Grand Rapids (AHL). TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Traded D Jesse Blacker and a 2014 third-round and seventh-round draft pick to Anaheim for Fs Peter Holland and Brad Staubitz. Assigned Staubitz to Toronto (AHL). WINNIPEG JETS — Recalled D Julian Melchiori from St. John’s (AHL). American Hockey League OKLAHOMA CITY BARONS — Recalled F Alex Lavoie from Allen (CHL). SYRACUSE CRUNCH — Recalled F Carl Nielsen from Florida (ECHL). Central Hockey League CHL — Suspended Missouri D David Pszenyczny three games. ARIZONA SUNDOGS — Released D Derek Matheson. Suspended F Chad Costello. Activated F Mike Kavanagh and placed him on waivers. QUAD CITY MALLARDS — Signed G Casey Sherwood. ST. CHARLES CHILL — Signed G Linus Lundin. TULSA OILERS — Waived F Preston Shupe.

COLLEGES RUTGERS — Announced freshman DB Jevon Tyree quit the football team.

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

BALTIMORE Noon CBS AM-780, FM-105.9 SAN JOSE 6 p.m. WGN AM-720

at Colorado 8 p.m. CSN AM-720

at Winnipeg 7 p.m. CSN AM-720

CHARLOTTE 7 p.m. CSN AM-1000

at Denver 9:30 p.m. WGN, TNT AM-1000 NEXT GAME Nov. 22 at Milwaukee

ST. CHARLES EAST SECTIONAL Team scores: 1. St. Charles East 319, 2. St. Charles North 268.5, 3. Bartlett 173, 4. DeKalb 129, 5. Jacobs 111, 6. Glenbard North 98, 7. Crystal Lake Central 71, 8. Huntley 54, 9. South Elgin 36, 10. Elgin 23, 11. Burlington central 19.5, 12. Marengo 18, 13. St. Edward 7

SOCCER

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ren* 1:37.36; 4. Libertyville* 1:38.85; 6. Woodstock (McGuire, Kruse, Devinger, DeWane) 1:43.74; 7. McHenry (Matthys, Walter, Wright, Ezop) 1:45.79 100 Backstroke: 1. Barker* (War) 57.48; 2. Rinaldi* (Lks) 58.40; 3. Lanigan* (LF) 58.48; 4. Rancap* (LF) 59.16; 5. Matthys (McH) 1:00.01; 14. Kruse (Wood) 1:05.80; 15. DeWane (Wood) 1:05.95; 18. Raquel (McH) 1:09.94 100 Breaststroke: 1. Kordik* (Mund) 1:05.36; 2. Neubauer* (Lib) 1:07.07; 3. Smith* (LF) 1:07.81; 5. Devinger (Wood) 1:08.94; 14. Ferguson (Wood) 1:14.82; 16. Lesniak (McH) 1:15.38; 20. Naughton (McH) 1:18.79 400 Freestyle relay: 1. Lake Forest* 3:29.12; 2. Mundelein* 3:30.82; 7. McHenry (Wright, Palmer, Lange, Ezop) 3:56.53 *State Qualifier

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MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

1 p.m.: Formula One, United States Grand Prix, at Austin, Texas, NBC 2 p.m.: NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Ford EcoBoost 400, at Homestead, Fla., ESPN

3 p.m.: Long Beach St. at Kansas St., FSN 4 p.m.: Michigan at Iowa St., ESPN2 4 p.m.: Towson at Villanova, FS1 6 p.m.: Robert Morris at Kentucky, ESPN2

CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE 10 p.m.: Playoffs, conference inals, teams TBD (sameday tape), NBCSN

NFL FOOTBALL Noon: Baltimore at Bears, CBS

FIGURE SKATING

3:25 p.m.: Green Bay at New York Giants, FOX

3:30 p.m.: ISU Grand Prix: Skate France, at Paris (sameday tape), NBC

7 p.m.: Kansas City at Denver, NBC

GOLF

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

1 p.m.: PGA Tour, OHL Classic, inal round, at Playa del

2 p.m.: California at Georgetown, FS1

FOOTBALL

BASKETBALL

NFL NATIONAL CONFERENCE North W L T Pct PF Detroit 6 3 0 .667 238 Bears 5 4 0 .556 259 Green Bay 5 4 0 .556 245 Minnesota 2 7 0 .222 220 East W L T Pct PF Dallas 5 5 0 .500 274 Philadelphia 5 5 0 .500 252 N.Y. Giants 3 6 0 .333 165 Washington 3 6 0 .333 230 South W L T Pct PF New Orleans 7 2 0 .778 265 Carolina 6 3 0 .667 214 Atlanta 2 7 0 .222 186 Tampa Bay 1 8 0 .111 146 West W L T Pct PF Seattle 9 1 0 .900 265 San Francisco 6 3 0 .667 227 Arizona 5 4 0 .556 187 St. Louis 4 6 0 .400 224 AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 7 2 0 .778 234 N.Y. Jets 5 4 0 .556 169 Miami 4 5 0 .444 193 Buffalo 3 7 0 .300 199 South W L T Pct PF Indianapolis 7 3 0 .700 252 Tennessee 4 6 0 .400 227 Houston 2 7 0 .222 170 Jacksonville 1 8 0 .111 115 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 6 4 0 .600 234 Cleveland 4 5 0 .444 172 Baltimore 4 5 0 .444 188 Pittsburgh 3 6 0 .333 179 West W L T Pct PF Kansas City 9 0 0 1.000 215 Denver 8 1 0 .889 371 San Diego 4 5 0 .444 212 Oakland 3 6 0 .333 166

NBA PA 216 247 212 279 PA 258 244 243 287 PA 163 115 251 209 PA 159 155 198 234 PA 175 231 209 259 PA 220 226 248 291 PA 186 197 189 218 PA 111 238 202 223

Thursday’s Game Indianapolis 30, Tennessee 27 Sunday’s Games Baltimore at Bears, noon Oakland at Houston, noon N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, noon Atlanta at Tampa Bay, noon Detroit at Pittsburgh, noon Washington at Philadelphia, noon Cleveland at Cincinnati, noon Arizona at Jacksonville, noon San Diego at Miami, 3:05 p.m. Minnesota at Seattle, 3:25 p.m. San Francisco at New Orleans, 3:25 p.m. Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 3:25 p.m. Kansas City at Denver, 7:30 p.m. Monday’s Game New England at Carolina, 7:40 p.m. Open: Dallas, St. Louis

BALTIMORE RAVENS at CHICAGO BEARS — RAVENS: QUESTIONABLE: WR Marlon Brown (knee), S James Ihedigbo (toe), DT Haloti Ngata (knee), LB Daryl Smith (thigh), CB Jimmy Smith (groin), CB Lardarius Webb (groin). PROBABLE: DT Chris Canty (knee), RB Bernard Pierce (toe, knee), WR Brandon Stokley (thigh), LB Terrell Suggs (neck). BEARS: OUT: LB Lance Briggs (shoulder), QB Jay Cutler (ankle), DT Jeremiah Ratliff (groin). DOUBTFUL: C Patrick Mannelly (calf), DE Shea McClellin (hamstring). QUESTIONABLE: TE Martellus Bennett (ankle). PROBABLE: T Jordan Mills (quadriceps).

BETTING ODDS GLANTZ-CULVER LINE

at Carolina

NFL PTS O/U UNDERDOG 3 (44) Baltimore Pk (43½) Atlanta 1 (41) at Buffalo 2½ (46½) at Pittsburgh 4½ (53) Washington 1½ (45½) at Miami 6 (41½) Cleveland 9 (41) Oakland 8½ (41) at Jacksonville 8 (49) Kansas City 12½ (46) Minnesota 3 (48) San Francisco 4 (42) Green Bay Monday 2½ (46) New England

NCAA Basketball FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at West Virginia 13½ Duquesne at Notre Dame 11 Indiana St. at UMass 12 Youngstown St. at Kansas St. 13 Long Beach St. at Baylor 16 La.-Lafayette at Clemson 6 South Carolina Michigan 1½ at Iowa St. at Villanova 12½ Towson at Illinois 12 Bradley at Maryland 10½ Oregon St. at Ohio 6½ Valparaiso at Boston College 19 FAU at Gonzaga 20 Oakland at Northwestern 10 Illinois St. IPFW-x Pk Tennessee Tech at Texas A&M-CC 4 Texas-Pan American James Madison-y 4½ San Jose St. Milwaukee 4½ at N. Illinois at Kent St. 14 St. Peter’s at Denver 1½ Stanford at North Carolina 15 Belmont at Loyola Marymt 11½ N. Arizona at Pacific 7½ W. Illinois at Morehead St. 5 Marshall at Purdue 13 Rider at Florida St. 22 UT-Martin at Washington 13 E. Washington at UConn 16½ Boston U. at Indiana 10 Stony Brook at Kentucky 20 Robert Morris x-at Corpus Christi, Texas y-at DeKalb, Ill. FAVORITE at Toronto Memphis at L.A. Lakers

NBA LINE O/U UNDERDOG 1½ (194) Portland 3 (192) at Sacramento 1½(205½) Detroit

NHL FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Columbus -145 at Ottawa +125 St. Louis -120 at Washington +100 at N.Y. Rangers -120 Los Angeles +100 at Chicago -140 San Jose +120 at Vancouver -160 Dallas +140 at Minnesota -190 Winnipeg +165

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct Indiana 9 1 .900 Bulls 5 3 .625 Detroit 3 5 .375 Cleveland 4 7 .364 Milwaukee 2 7 .222 Atlantic Division W L Pct Philadelphia 5 6 .455 Toronto 4 6 .400 Brooklyn 3 5 .375 Boston 4 7 .364 New York 3 6 .333 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 7 3 .700 Atlanta 6 4 .600 Charlotte 5 5 .500 Orlando 4 6 .400 Washington 2 7 .222 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 9 1 .900 Houston 7 4 .636 Dallas 6 4 .600 Memphis 4 5 .444 New Orleans 4 6 .400 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 7 2 .778 Oklahoma City 6 3 .667 Minnesota 7 4 .636 Denver 4 5 .444 Utah 1 9 .100 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 6 3 .667 Golden State 6 3 .667 Phoenix 5 4 .556 L.A. Lakers 4 7 .364 Sacramento 2 6 .250

GB — 3 5 5½ 6½ GB — ½ ½ 1 1 GB — 1 2 3 4½ GB — 2½ 3 4½ 5 GB — 1 1 3 6½ GB — — 1 3 3½

Saturday’s Games Bulls 110, Indiana 94 Dallas 108, Orlando 100 Cleveland 103, Washington 96, OT Miami 97, Charlotte 81 Atlanta 110, New York 90 Minnesota 106, Boston 88 Houston 122, Denver 111 New Orleans 135, Philadelphia 98 Oklahoma City 92, Milwaukee 79 Utah at Golden State (n) Brooklyn at L.A. Clippers (n) Sunday’s Games Portland at Toronto, noon Memphis at Sacramento, 5 p.m. Detroit at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Monday’s Games Charlotte at Bulls, 7 p.m. Portland at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m. Denver at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Golden State at Utah, 8 p.m. Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Blackhawks 20 13 3 4 30 73 60 St. Louis 18 13 2 3 29 65 42 Colorado 19 14 5 0 28 59 41 Minnesota 20 12 4 4 28 53 43 Dallas 19 10 7 2 22 56 55 Winnipeg 21 10 9 2 22 56 59 Nashville 20 9 9 2 20 46 63 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 22 15 5 2 32 71 56 San Jose 20 13 2 5 31 71 45 Phoenix 21 14 4 3 31 73 66 Los Angeles 20 13 6 1 27 57 46 Vancouver 21 11 7 3 25 55 56 Calgary 19 6 10 3 15 52 71 Edmonton 21 4 15 2 10 49 81 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 20 14 6 0 28 64 50 Boston 19 12 6 1 25 53 36 Toronto 20 12 7 1 25 57 47 Detroit 21 9 5 7 25 54 60 Montreal 21 10 9 2 22 52 45 Ottawa 19 8 7 4 20 57 58 Florida 21 5 12 4 14 46 70 Buffalo 22 5 16 1 11 41 68 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 20 12 8 0 24 56 47 Washington 20 11 8 1 23 65 58 N.Y. Rangers 19 10 9 0 20 42 49 Carolina 20 8 8 4 20 39 55 New Jersey 20 7 8 5 19 42 49 N.Y. Islanders 21 8 10 3 19 61 68 Philadelphia 19 7 10 2 16 35 48 Columbus 19 6 10 3 15 48 56 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Saturday’s Games Nashville 7, Blackhawks 2 N.Y. Islanders 5, Detroit 4, SO Toronto 4, Buffalo 2 N.Y. Rangers 1, Montreal 0 New Jersey 4, Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 4, Carolina 2 Phoenix 6, Tampa Bay 3 Florida 4, Colorado 1 Edmonton at Calgary (n) Sunday’s Games San Jose at Blackhawks, 6 p.m. Columbus at Ottawa, noon St. Louis at Washington, 5 p.m. Los Angeles at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m. Winnipeg at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Dallas at Vancouver, 7 p.m. Monday’s Games Boston at Carolina, 6 p.m. Anaheim at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m. Calgary at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

BULLS 110, PACERS 94

NFL INJURY REPORT

FAVORITE at Bears at Tampa Bay N.Y. Jets Detroit at Philadelphia San Diego at Cincinnati at Houston Arizona at Denver at Seattle at New Orleans at N.Y. Giants

HOCKEY

INDIANA (94) George 3-14 6-6 12, West 6-16 1-1 13, Hibbert 5-10 4-7 14, G.Hill 3-7 4-5 11, Stephenson 5-14 2-2 12, S.Hill 0-1 0-0 0, Scola 4-8 0-0 8, Watson 1-6 0-0 2, Johnson 3-4 3-3 9, Mahinmi 0-0 0-2 0, Copeland 4-5 2-2 13, R.Butler 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-85 22-28 94. CHICAGO (110) Deng 8-14 6-7 23, Boozer 6-11 1-2 13, Noah 1-6 2-4 4, Rose 7-16 0-0 20, J.Butler 2-3 5-6 10, Hinrich 4-10 4-4 13, Gibson 7-13 1-1 15, Dunleavy 4-5 0-0 10, Mohammed 1-1 0-0 2, Snell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-79 19-24 110. Indiana Chicago

20 15 24 35 — 94 31 29 24 26 —110

3-Point Goals–Indiana 4-16 (Copeland 3-4, G.Hill 1-2, Watson 0-1, Johnson 0-1, S.Hill 0-1, George 0-3, Stephenson 0-4), Chicago 11-19 (Rose 6-11, Dunleavy 2-2, J.Butler 1-1, Deng 1-2, Hinrich 1-3). Fouled Out–Noah. Rebounds–Indiana 50 (Hibbert 10), Chicago 51 (Gibson 8). Assists–Indiana 16 (G.Hill 5), Chicago 25 (Hinrich 8). Total Fouls–Indiana 19, Chicago 24. Technicals–Copeland, Boozer, Hinrich, Chicago defensive three second. Ejected–Copeland, Boozer. A–22,158 (20,917).

BULLS SCHEDULE Date 18 21 22 24 25 27 30 2 5 7 10 11 13 14 16 18 19 21 25 28 30 31 2 4 7 10 11 13 15 17 18 20 22 24 25 27 29 1 3 4 6 9 11 13 19 21 23 25 26 28

Opponent November CHARLOTTE at Denver at Portland at L.A. Clippers at Utah at Detroit at Cleveland December NEW ORLEANS MIAMI DETROIT MILWAUKEE at New York at Milwaukee TORONTO ORLANDO at Houston at Oklahoma City CLEVELAND at Brooklyn DALLAS at Memphis TORONTO January BOSTON ATLANTA PHOENIX at Milwaukee CHARLOTTE WASHINGTON at Orlando at Washington PHILADELPHIA L.A. LAKERS at Cleveland L.A. CLIPPERS at Charlotte MINNESOTA at San Antonio February at New Orleans at Sacramento at Phoenix at Golden State at L.A. Lakers ATLANTA BROOKLYN All Star Break at Toronto DENVER at Miami at Atlanta GOLDEN STATE at Dallas

Time 7 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 9 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 8 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 11 a.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 9 p.m. 8 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

PREDATORS 7, BLACKHAWKS 2 Chicago Nashville

0 2

1 2

1 — 2 3 — 7

First Period–1, Nashville, Cullen 3 (C.Smith, Jones), 7:28. 2, Nashville, Spaling 2 (C.Smith, Ellis), 8:25. Penalties–Brookbank, Chi, served by Pirri, minor-major (roughing, fighting), 2:06; Clune, Nas, major (fighting), 2:06; C.Smith, Nas (hooking), 12:17; Pirri, Chi (high-sticking), 13:42. Second Period–3, Nashville, Hornqvist 6 (Josi, Weber), 9:02 (pp). 4, Nashville, C.Smith 4 (Cullen), 18:18. 5, Chicago, Kane 11 (Bollig, Keith), 18:44. Penalties– Versteeg, Chi (roughing), 6:14; Bollig, Chi (delay of game), 8:05; Weber, Nas (interference), 10:24; Bartley, Nas (highsticking), 14:54. Third Period–6, Chicago, Pirri 5 (Seabrook, Versteeg), 6:14. 7, Nashville, Stalberg 2 (Bourque, Legwand), 6:29. 8, Nashville, Fisher 3 (Hornqvist), 12:19. 9, Nashville, Weber 5 (Josi, Legwand), 14:07 (pp). Penalties–Legwand, Nas (high-sticking), 4:10; Bickell, Chi (tripping), 13:44. Shots on Goal–Chicago 7-18-16–41. Nashville 10-13-7–30. Power-play opportunities–Chicago 0 of 4; Nashville 2 of 5. Goalies–Chicago, Khabibulin (8 shots-6 saves), Crawford 12-3-3 (15:33 first, 2217). Nashville, Mazanec 1-2-0 (41-39). A–17,113 (17,113). T–2:34. Referees–Francis Charron, Dave Jackson. Linesmen–Brad Lazarowich, Darren Gibbs.

AHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Grand Rapids 16 10 4 1 1 22 62 44 Milwaukee 14 8 3 2 1 19 41 37 Wolves 16 9 6 0 1 19 43 43 Rockford 18 9 8 1 0 19 54 61 Iowa 14 6 8 0 0 12 35 40 North Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Rochester 15 7 4 2 2 18 48 54 Lake Erie 15 8 6 0 1 17 43 42 Toronto 14 7 6 1 0 15 41 39 Hamilton 16 6 7 0 3 15 39 51 Utica 14 2 10 1 1 6 29 49 West Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Abbotsford 19 13 5 0 1 27 64 57 Texas 16 9 5 2 0 20 60 43 Oklahoma City 16 7 7 0 2 16 40 46 San Antonio 16 7 8 0 1 15 41 45 Charlotte 15 5 9 0 1 11 37 50 NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Saturday’s Games Wolves 4, Grand Rapids 3 Toronto 4, Charlotte 1 Worcester 2, St. John’s 1, SO Springfield 2, Portland 1, SO Hamilton 3, Lake Erie 2, SO Albany 2, Syracuse 1, SO Hartford 4, Bridgeport 1 Manchester 3, Norfolk 2 Texas 2, Utica 1 Binghamton 7, Rochester 3 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 3, Hershey 1 Oklahoma City 4, Abbotsford 1 Rockford 4, San Antonio 2 Milwaukee 1, Iowa 0 Sunday’s Games Portland at Providence, 2:05 p.m. Texas at Toronto, 4 p.m.

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Follow rules for nonprofit donations to avoid trouble Contribution reporting for nonprofits is one of the most complex areas of tax law. I receive more questions with respect to contributions than any other single topic relating to nonprofits. Since it is November and the year is winding down, it is time to talk about contributions as they relate to a most revered stakeholder in any public charity: the donor. This information is important for nonprofit leaders and the donors who support them.

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Area hospitals grade well By LAWERENCE SYNETT lsynett@shawmedia.com Area hospitals fared well in two recent national reports focused on patient care, procedures and safety conditions inside those facilities. The hospital safety scores and report cards released in October show mostly positive results in individual categories for health care facilities serving the McHenry County area – the majority on par with others, but in some cases, slightly below or above. Hospitals in Woodstock, McHenry, Barrington, Libertyville and Elgin received “A” grades in the fall update to the Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Score, which rates how

well institutions nationally protect patients from accidents, errors, injuries and infections. Of the 2,539 general hospitals issued a Hospital Safety Score, 813 earned an “A,” 661 earned a “B,” 839 earned a “C,” 150 earned a “D,” and 22 earned an “F.” “We want to provide the best possible care for our community,” said Dr. Kumar Nathan, vice president of clinical effectiveness at Centegra Health System, which operates the hospitals in Woodstock and McHenry that received an A. “Although our process for improvement is similar at our [McHenry and Woodstock] hospitals, the patients and physicians at each facility deserve individual attention.”

The national research estimates up to 440,000 Americans are dying annually from preventable hospital errors, according to a news release. It puts medical errors as the third leading cause of death in the U.S., underscoring the need for patients to protect themselves and their families from harm, and for hospitals to make patient safety a priority. The new data show many hospitals are making headway in addressing errors, accidents, injuries and infections that kill or hurt patients, but overall progress is slow. The Hospital Safety Score is calculated under the guidance of the Leapfrog Group Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, with a transparent methodol-

ogy analyzed in the peer-reviewed Journal of Patient Safety. The “A” grade for Advocate Health Care hospitals in Barrington, Libertyville and Elgin serves as reassurance that the health system is committed to patient safety. “We are so committed to being a safe organization that we meet every day, seven days a week, with leaders and associates across the hospital in a ‘daily safety huddle’ to discuss potential issues and how to proactively address them,” said Karen Lambert, president at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington. “I am very proud of this national recognition.”

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Reporting responsibility of the organization: You are required by law to report to your donors, before the due date of their individual income tax returns, cash contributions of $250 or more, and in-kind contributions of $75 or more for the year. You must include in your acknowledgement information regarding whether or not goods or services were given or received in exchange for a contribution. What donors need to know is that they must have that written acknowledgement to claim their deduction – a cancelled check is not acceptable documentation and there have been several court cases where the contribution deduction was disallowed for this reason.

By KAY JOHNSON and KELVIN CHAN The Associated Press

When is a contribution not a contribution? The first is the “Qualified Sponsorship Payment,” or QSP. Often businesses provide support and receive in return an insubstantial benefit, such as a business card ad. This type of support is generally considered contribution revenue for the organization; however, the donor business is provided a business rather than charitable deduction for its support. This is a tax benefit for small businesses because the business deduction provides more favorable tax treatment than the charitable deduction. A second example is the “trust funds” set up at a bank for the benefit of an individual or family in need. While a donor must inquire regarding the specifics, these funds are typically not a charitable organization and your contribution is not a tax-deductible contribution; rather, it is a gift and is subject to the gift tax rules. For more on gift taxes, see the excellent article written last week by my colleague and fellow Northwest Herald columnist, Mike Flood. Lastly, donors should know this general rule: a contribution that benefits a specific individual or family is not tax-deductible when donor knows who the recipient is. What else is deductible? In-kind contributions of property are taxdeductible. If the donated property is valued at $5,000 or more, it must be accompanied by a certified appraisal. Both the organization and the donor have documentation requirements for such contributions. A volunteer for a charitable organization may incur out-of-pocket expenses that may be deductible on his individual income tax return. The organization must be a qualified charitable organization and proper documentation of expenses maintained. • Miles driven for charity work may be deductible at 14 cents per mile; • You may be able to deduct unreimbursed travel expenses, such as train, plane, lodging and meals; • There must be no significant element of personal pleasure, recreation or vacation but the deduction will qualify even if you enjoy the trip; and • Your work must be real and substantial throughout the entire trip.

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Asif Damani makes pizza dough at Damani’s Pizza & Pastaria in Cary. Damani, who formerly owned Papa Savario’s in Cary, opened his own restaurant in mid-October.

Starting from scratch Damani’s Pizza & Pastaria builds on family legacy By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com CARY – After years in the pizza restaurant business, Asif Damani decided to bring a taste of his family’s Italian cooking to the Cary area. Damani, who previously owned Papa Savario’s in Cary and Rosati’s Pizza in Highland Park, jettisoned the franchised pizza business and opened his own restaurant in Cary last month. Damani’s Pizza & Pastaria, 716 Route 14, features a diverse menu of pastas, pizzas, sandwiches, chicken, ribs and shrimp all made with fresh ingredients from homemade recipes. Tired with the increasingly processed style of the franchises, Damani said that customers won’t see canned products used at his newest business venture. “If people are paying for something, they should get quality food for their hard-earned money,” he said. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner for take-out and delivery. The main offerings include pizza, from deep dish to thin crust, and pastas, from baked mostaccioli to chicken parmigana. Damani spent the past 14 months transforming a long-vacant retail space between Wendy’s and Jewel in a strip mall near Route 14 and Three Oaks Road. He brought the space up to code and added a new ventilation system. Cary village and business officials recognized the effort with a ribboncutting last week. The focus on homemade food and fresh ingredients should separate the restaurant from its competitors in an

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Asif Damani folds the edge of pizza dough to make the crust at Damani’s Pizza & Pastaria in Cary.

Damani’s Pizza & Pastaria Asif Damani’s newest venture offers a diverse menu of pizzas, pastas, sandwiches, chicken, ribs and shrimp. Located at 716 Route 14 in Cary, Damani’s serves lunch and dinner from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Sunday, on a take-out or delivery basis. For information, call Damani’s at 847-516-2020. area that lacks high-quality, on-thego Italian food, Damani said. “My pasta dishes, I don’t think anyone has them in town. Even with the pizza, a lot of the competition around here uses canned sauce, and the dough is frozen,” Damani said. “We make everything from scratch everyday – our pizza dough, mari-

nara sauce.” So far, the community has responded. Damani said he has served roughly 1,000 customers in his first month of operation, and he already seen has repeat customers. Damani also has the family pedigree for success. His father, Sam Damani, started the family in the pizza business when he worked as a delivery driver for the original Rosati’s family store in suburban Chicago. Sam Damani moved his way into management and now owns a Rosati’s in Crystal Lake. Asif Damani said his father was shocked but supportive to hear that he was opening his own business. Damani will now look to build on the new business’ early success in Cary. “It’s been off to a really good start,” he said.

HONG KONG – They gather in California churches, in Hong Kong shopping malls, at prayer vigils in Bahrain and on hastily launched Facebook pages. Philippine overseas workers, cut off from home after a super-typhoon killed thousands, are coming together to pray, swap information and launch aid drives. Above all, many of the more than 10.5 million Filipinos abroad – some 10 percent of the country’s population – are desperately dialing phone numbers that don’t answer in the typhoon zone, where aid is still only slowly trickling in and communications have been largely blown away. “I call again, and I keep trying and trying and trying but no one answered,” said Princess Howard, a worker at a money transfer business in Hong Kong, of her attempts to reach her 62-year-old grandfather and nine other relatives in the Leyte region that was flattened when Typhoon Haiyan hit one week ago. Sending $21.4 billion back home last year alone, Filipino overseas workers are a major part of their country’s economy, with their remittances equaling nearly 10 percent of gross domestic product. Spread out over more than 200 countries, they work as nurses in Europe, sugar cane laborers in Malaysia, housemaids in Hong Kong and construction workers in the oil-rich Middle East. Hong Kong alone has some 133,000 Filipinos, mostly domestic workers who tend to gather in local parks on Sundays, a day off. There are so many Filipinos in Hong Kong, that an entire shopping mall catering to them has developed – to buy goods from home and, crucially, wire money back to families. Howard, 18, works in a remittance agency at the mall and says that days after the storm, her family is still ringing missing relatives’ mobile phones 10 to 20 times a day with no luck. “Sometimes I lose hope. And sometimes I just carry on doing it.”

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Talk to children about the importance of giving Dear Dave,

– Brian

Dear Brian, Employer contributions do not count toward the 15 percent I recommend setting aside for retirement. It’s nice if you work for a company that offers perks like that, but I want you putting 15 percent of your money into retirement. Baby Step 4 of my plan says to put 15 percent of your income into retirement accounts. The first thing you should put money into is a matching retirement account. If you’ve got a 401(k), a Roth 401(k) or a 403(b) and your employer offers a match, you should do that up to the match before anything else. Let’s say your employer will match three percent. Since the goal is 15 percent, you’ve still got some

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has reached a $4.5 billion settlement with investors who said the bank deceived them about bad mortgage investments. The settlement, announced Friday, covers 21 major institutional investors, including JPMorgan competitor Goldman Sachs, BlackRock Financial Management, and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. The mortgage-backed securities were sold by JPMorgan and Bear Stearns between 2005 and 2008. The deal is the latest in a series of legal settlements over JPMorgan’s sales of mortgage-backed securities in the years preceding the

• NONPROFITS Continued from page D1 Some last reminders: Nonprofit leaders need to take care not to provide tax advice. I often counsel clients on the proper wording of their contribution acknowledgments. It is important to avoid a statement of fact, such as, “your contribution is tax deductible.” A better wording choice is, “Your contribution is deductible to the extent allowed by law. Please

financial crisis. As the housing market collapsed between 2006 and 2008, millions of homeowners defaulted on high-risk mortgages. That led to billions of dollars in losses for investors who bought securities created from bundles of mortgages. Those securities were sold by JPMorgan and other big Wall Street banks. New York-based JPMorgan has said that most of its mortgage-backed securities came from investment bank Bear Stearns and savings and loan Washington Mutual, troubled companies that JPMorgan acquired in 2008.

– From wire reports consult your tax adviser.” These are just a few simple tips to navigate end of year reporting requirements. As always, please consult your tax adviser for additional guidance.

• Nancy Gonsiorek is a certified public accountant providing audit, tax and consulting services to nonprofit organizations. Her firm, Nancy L. Gonsiorek, CPA, LLC is based in Crystal Lake. She can be reached at 815-455-9462 or nancygonsiorek@comcast. net.

8WALL STREET WEEK IN REVIEW Stock Abbott AbbVie AGL Resources Allstate Apple AptarGroup AT&T Bank of Montreal Baxter Berry Plastics Boeing Caterpillar CME Group Coca-Cola Comcast Covidien Dean Foods Dow Chem. Exelon Exxon Facebook Ford General Motors Google Hillshire IBM JPMorganChase Kohl’s Kraft Foods Live Nation McDonald’s Microsoft Modine Motorola Ofice Depot Pepsi Pulte Homes Safeway Sears Holdings Snap-On Southwest Air. Supervalu Target Twitter United Contint. Wal-Mart Walgreen Waste Mgmt. Wintrust Fincl.

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Dear Dave,

work to do. You’ve got three percent of your own money already tied up for retirement, so then you could look at a Roth IRA. If the Roth plus what you invested previously to get the match doesn’t equal 15 percent, you could then look at a 403(b) or go back to your 401(k) to hit the 15 percent mark. Whatever your company matches, whatever its pension may be or even military retirement does not enter into the equation. I want your money in your name. If your company goes broke and you have a company pension, you get nothing. But if you have a 401(k) and your company dies, it’s in your name and you don’t lose it. You put it there, you own it. And that includes the match.

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What are some good ways to teach a 13-year-old kid about giving versus getting during the holiday season?

– Phillip

Dear Phillip, One of the best things you can do is simply talk about it – a lot. Kids are bombarded with messages about how important they are and how they should always have what they want. It’s okay to have some stuff, but advertising and other marketing messages in today’s culture can make them think it’s all about them. It can lead kids to believe the axis of the world runs through the tops of their little heads. Think about this. In 1971, the average person saw 564 advertising

impressions a day. Now, that number is about 4,000. The purpose of advertising is to disturb and influence you to the point that you’ll buy something. Advertisers want you to believe that you’re not complete without their product, or that you’ll be a happier, cooler, better person with their product. And in most cases, advertising and marketing people are more aggressive in their teaching than parents are in theirs. My suggestion is to find some giving exercises in which you can all participate. You could adopt a single mom at your church. Make it a family outing, and go buy groceries, gifts for her kids or even a Christmas tree. Make sure your kids are involved physically, mentally and emotionally in the entire giving process. Let them experience the grateful, and sometimes ungrateful, responses that go along with giving. And make sure you do some things that don’t involve money. You could take the

entire family to help cook and serve dinner at a homeless shelter. One of the best things we ever did as parents with our teenagers was to send them on mission trips. It truly changed their lives. When you see real poverty close up, when you live and walk and sleep in it day after day – I’m talking about death-and-disease poverty, not the American version – it changes your heart. And when you’re 13, it will change your life forever.

– Dave • Dave Ramsey is America’s trusted voice on money and business. He’s written four New York Times best-selling books: “Financial Peace,” “More Than Enough,” “The Total Money Makeover” and “EntreLeadership.” “The Dave Ramsey Show” is heard by more than 6 million listeners each week on more than 500 radio stations. Follow Dave on Twitter at @DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramsey.com.

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Two Woodstock financial advisers get awards WOODSTOCK – Five Star Professional recently announced Charles E. Boe and John R. Hanlin were named Chicago area recipients of the 2013 Five Star Wealth Manager award. Boe has been a financial adviser for 33 years and has achieved this award for the fourth year in a row. Hanlin has been a financial adviser for 13 years and has achieved this award for the second year in a row. The award winners appear in a special section of the November issue of Chicago magazine, according to a news release. Boe and Hanlin are financial advisers in their practice’s Woodstock location. They formed Boe, Hanlin & Emery Group LLC in 2005. The 2013 survey conducted by Five Star Professional, an independent third-party research firm, who evaluated the nominees based on 10 objective criteria including client retention rates, client assets administered, firm review and favorable regulatory and complaint history, according to the release. The award winners were named 2013 Five Star Wealth Managers, which represents fewer than 3 percent of the total wealth managers in the area. The Five Star award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance.

Adams Auto Body hires chief mechanic McHENRY – A new chief mechanic has joined the team at Adams Auto Body and Service Center in McHenry. Bob Miller is a 37-year veteran ASE-certified mechanic and former manager-partner of the Shawnee Service Center in Wilmette. In October, he

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Village of Wilmette’s Public Works Center expansion and renovation project.

Legat Architects lauded for Wilmette project NORTHWEST HERALD CRYSTAL LAKE – Crystal Lake-based Legat Architects work on the Village of Wilmette’s Public Works Center expansion and renovation received a Distinguished Building Award from the American Institute of Architects’ Chicago chapter. The award recognizes achievements in the planning, design and execution of recent building projects. The village and partners Legat Architects and Epstein Metter Studio accepted the award at the recent AIA Chicago “Designight” ceremony at Navy Pier. The Wilmette project was one of four out of a hundred submissions selected for an Honor Award, the highest form of recognition

joined the staff at Adams, 1811 W. Route 120, according to a news release. A collision repair business since 1958, Adams added a full mechanical repair and maintenance division in late 2012. “We are thrilled to have Bob join us,” said Jay Adams, president of Adams Auto Body and Service Center. “Not only

in the Distinguished Building category. Jurors included prominent architects from across the country, according to a news release. Chicago Architect magazine applauded the expansion’s “delicate response to its neighbors” and quoted a juror, “This design elevates public service.” Before the expansion, cramped and outdated work spaces reduced the Wilmette Public Works department’s effectiveness, according to the news release. “The department set out to not only improve productivity, but also to reduce energy and water consumption,” said Legat Architects’ Marc Rohde, who served as project manager. The resulting expansion and renovation enhanced efficiencies, trimmed op-

is he an extremely knowledgeable guy with an excellent reputation in his field, he’s also a genuinely nice guy – just a pleasure to be around.” Miller, who lives in McHenry, said he will miss many of his former customers, but he is enjoying his new position. “I fully enjoy all of the people I work with and I’m glad to be

erational costs and created a healthier workplace. The project included a new 5,000-square-foot administrative office building, various remodeling, and site reconfigurations. The project also set a sustainable standard: it became one of the nation’s first public works facilities to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification from the US Green Building Council. The credential recognizes design strategies that promote operational efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and respect occupant health. The public works campus, set back in a quiet residential community, included buildings dating from a 1950s garage to a mid-1990s addition.

part of a well-established, local business,” Miller said. “Adams’ motto is ‘Customer satisfaction is always first,’ and that’s the way I have always operated.” Fifty-seven-year-old Miller is a father of four and grandfather of five. He plans a June wedding with his fiancée, Sandi Wohlert, also of McHenry.

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Overseas workers are pillar of economy • ABROAD Continued from page D1 For Filipinos abroad, the price of earning a living for family back home has always been separation, and for many, that has never been felt so keenly over the past week as they watched helplessly from afar as the typhoon ripped apart entire communities. “If only I had magic, in one click I would be there,” said 30-year-old Jeff Ilagan, an assistant pastor at the Filipino Disciples Christian Church in Los Angeles, California, who is from Leyte and whose wife and three young children are still in their village. As the storm hit, he endured a sleepless night worrying after receiving a text message from his wife saying, “Pray for us.” Ilagan’s family survived and he is desperate to see them but he can’t leave the U.S. for a full year or he will invalidate his religious work-

er visa. Instead, the young pastor is throwing himself into fundraising efforts at his adopted U.S. church, organizing special offerings and weekly rummage sales for typhoon relief. “What I can do here to help them is to pray for them and participate in any efforts to help,” he said In Kuwait City, 27-year old pharmacist Dindin Ponferrada has tried dozens of time to reach her family in Barugo, about 20 kilometers west of the worst-hit city of Tacloban, but all lines are cut. “Every time I check Facebook, I see people posting pictures of the devastation and asking for help and aid,” she said. In a display of unity in Bahrain, local Shiite Muslims joined the Filipino workers’ community in a candlelight vigil Tuesday. A 48-year-old domestic worker, Maria Lisa Bartolome, one of about 50,000 Filipino workers in the Gulf state, said she joined anoth-

Some area hospitals fared better on safety, quality tests • HOSPITALS Continued from page D1 Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin, which recently was acquired by Advocate Health Care, also received an “A” rating, along with Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville. “We have been highly focused over the past few years on improving processes to make our health care delivery model more efficient and effective,” said Rick Floyd, president at Advocate Sherman Hospital. “These process improvements are leading to better outcomes and improved health care value for patients.” Results varied for area health care providers in the “American Hospital Quality Outcomes 2014: Report to the Nation,” which was released by Denver-based Healthgrades Inc. and analyzed about 40 million Medicare patient records from 2010 to 2012 for nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide. Healthgrades assigned hospitals a rating – five stars (better than expected), three stars (as expected) and one star being the worst – based on how they handled 31 of the most common inpatient procedures and conditions, such as heart attacks, pneumonia and diabetic emergencies. Amid the surge of new patients expected to gain health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the report urges consumers to better understand the measures and research used to evaluate hospitals, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. Advocate Good Shepherd, Advocate Sherman, Advocate Condell, Centegra-McHenry, Centegra-Woodstock, Presence Saint Joseph and Mercy-Harvard hospitals received a rating in at least one of the conditions evaluated. Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital received 14 five-star ratings for in-hospital care of the analyzed conditions or procedures as well 30 days after admission. That included five-star ratings for heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia, strokes, bowel obstructions, diabetic emergencies and sepsis, among others. There were no one-star ratings, and in the remaining categories the hospital received

ratings, it earned three stars for each. Centegra-McHenry received five-star ratings in five categories, including heart attacks (in-hospital and within 30 days of care), heart failure, and pneumonia (in hospital and within 30 days of care). The facility earned a one-star rating for total knee replacement, but three-star ratings in the remaining categories. Centegra–Woodstock hospital received five-star ratings for both in-hospital and within 30 days of care for a stroke, and three-star ratings for the other conditions or procedures that could be evaluated based on the data they provided. “If you base it on stars, it doesn’t look good, but for us it is older data that we have already improved upon,” Nathan said. “We have made some difficult decisions and have improved our outcomes tremendously, and there are more changes coming.” As a smaller health system, Centegra can also make improvements quicker. “We can make changes much quickly and effectively to get the outcomes we want,” Nathan said. “Those won’t come up in ratings for a few years, but when they do, you will see that things are even better.” Advocate Sherman Hospital received six five-star ratings in coronary artery bypass graft surgery, pneumonia, small intestine surgeries (in hospital and within 30 days of care) and colorectal surgeries (in hospital and within 30 days of care). It received one-star ratings for inpatient total knee replacement, spinal fusion, abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, and carotid surgery, as well as within 30 days of care diabetic emergencies. Not all hospitals excel on every condition and procedure, according to Healthgrades. Some hospitals may have several five-star ratings as well as three-star and onestar ratings for other conditions and procedures. This expresses the importance of making hospital-to-hospial comparisons by condition and procedure only and not on an overall score. View the data at www. heathgrades.com and www. leapfroggroup.org.

er vigil at the main Catholic church in the capital Manama. Bartolome’s family lives in Manila and rode out the typhoon, but she has not heard from relatives in Cebu. “We are praying not to have another typhoon,” she said. The Philippines has long been known as a nation that exports its people, starting with the political strife that began in the 1970s under dictator Ferdinand Marcos and continuing through the decades as the country’s economy faltered even as other Southeast Asian nations prospered. The country in recent years has made an impressive economic comeback, but overseas workers still remain one of the pillars of the economy. Over the decades, the trend has created a far-flung and yet close-knit diaspora. That unity and its resulting network of churches and community groups has swung into action across the world in the past week.

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Four questions to consider about insurance extensions By TOM MURPHY The Associated Press President Barack Obama is trying to make it possible for Americans to keep their health insurance coverage if they like it. But his now infamous promise may not be realistic. Obama said Thursday that insurers should be allowed to continue selling individual coverage plans that would be deemed substandard under the health care overhaul to existing customers. The decision came after millions of people received cancellation notices alerting them that their plans would not have complied with overhaul coverage requirements set to begin next year. A day later, the House of Representatives voted to let insurers sell those existing plans to new as well as existing customers. That bill now goes to an uncertain fate in the Senate. Insurance experts say there are a number of obstacles that could keep insurers from letting customers renew old policies that the companies had planned to scrap for 2014. Here’s what you need to know if you have received a cancellation notice:

What will my insurer do? Your insurer likely doesn’t know yet. Several companies said shortly after Obama’s announcement that they still were trying to understand the implications behind it. Obama planned to meet with health insurance CEOs on Friday. Aetna Inc., the nation’s third largest health insurer, plans to extend some of its cancelled policies, but it hasn’t elaborated on that. The Hartford, Conn., insurer covers more than 22 million people, but only a small slice of that is individual insurance. Robert Laszewski, a health

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President Barack Obama makes a statement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington Friday. care industry consultant, said he expects other insurers to make a decision over the next couple days on whether to let customers renew policies that they had decided to scrap.

Can’t insurers just continue the coverage they had in place? The decision is far more complex. For starters, insurers would need to figure out how much to charge since they haven’t set premiums, or the price of coverage, for plans they expected to scrap. They have to consider how the coverage will be used and how prices have risen before settling on what they need to collect to cover future claims. They also have to send letters to customers with cancelled policies, telling them that the coverage can now be renewed. They also have to inform customers who want to keep canceled plans about any protections that are now required by the overhaul but that are not included under the old plans. Insurers then have to wait for customers to decide whether to keep the coverage and respond. Then they must finalize their rates, change their billing for the different rates and reissue the policies. All this adds up several months of work. But insurers would have to do all this in about 30 days in order to have coverage ready to start

on Jan. 1.

Are there other reasons an insurer can’t keep my plan? Yes. State insurance regulators have to decide whether to allow insurers to do this. Many haven’t made that call yet. Washington regulators have already said they will not allow insurers to extend their policies. Aetna spokeswoman Susan Millerick said the company needs help from state regulators “to remove barriers that would make it difficult to make this change in such a short period of time.”

What can I do if I don’t get to renew my coverage? Customers still have until Dec. 15 to use the overhaul’s insurance exchanges to sign up for health insurance coverage that starts in January. The premiums they find may be higher because the law requires more extensive coverage than what some plans currently offer. But customers also may be eligible for income-based tax credits to help them foot the bill. Many insurers also are letting policyholders renew their coverage early, which would let them keep their plans through most of 2014. Customers who do not qualify for a subsidy also should look beyond the overhaul’s exchanges.

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Home State Bank NA, a prestigious Financial Institution serving the McHenry County area is in need of the following positions:

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TEACHER AIDE The Allendale Association has a full-time Teacher Aide position available with our LINC Educational Program in Woodstock, IL. Candidate must have a minimum of an Associates Degree; minimum of one year experience as a Teacher Aide preferably in a special education environment; Paraprofessional Certificate and valid driver's license w/ good driving record. Per DCFS regulations must be at least 21 years of age. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits and generous education assistance program. Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download application and send with a copy of your resume to:

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McHenry County's #1 Dealership has an opening for a full time accounting clerk. If you have previous automotive experience, ADP knowledge and strong computer skills, this may be the job for you. We offer a comprehensive benefits package and a pleasant work environment. Apply in person at: Gary Lang Auto Group in McHenry or e-mail your resume to: lpipala@garylangauto.com

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GREETERS Are You A People-Person Looking for A Part Time Job? Gary Lang Auto Group is looking for part-time greeters to work on Saturdays and two weeknights per week. No experience is necessary. We'll teach you about the vehicles. Just bring your warm and friendly personality. Must be 18 and a licensed driver. Apply in person at: 1121 S. IL Route 31, McHenry, Illinois and ask for Jon Trotman.

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Harvard: Clean, newly remodeled 2BR vintage coach house. $795/mo. Garage avail. Near train 815-943-0504

1BR/$700 & 2BR/$750. Heat, water incl. NO PETS. Security deposit req. 815-382-6418

MCHENRY ~ 2BR, 2BA

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Lake In The Hills 1 & 2BR

Blue, NIKE, found Sun, Nov 10 Emmerich Park in Buffulo Grove. 815-444-9005

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McHenry Riverfront Apt. 3.5 rooms furnished, $675/mo. Utilities incl. No smoking or pets. 815-344-4433 Woodstock Studio $585/mo+sec. Efficiency $550/mo + sec.1-BR $650/mo + sec, all 3 furn'd w/all utils incl. No Pets. 815-509-5876

ALGONQUIN - 2 BEDROOM

Quiet & clean building w/ storage, laundry & parking. 1 mo free rent. $800/mo. 847-401-3242

MUSICIANS WANTED For open mic on Nov 23 & 24, between 10am-5pm. 815-678-4015

Algonquin: 1st flr, 2BR, 2BA, some utilities incl., $930/mo., Broker Owned 815-347-1712

Quiet building, hardwood floors, heat and water incl. No pets. 815-455-6964

SALES & INSTALLATION 815-653-7095 ~ 815-341-7822 www.mailboxpostman.com Experienced nanny/caregiver is looking for a job within 25 miles of CL, grt ref. available upon request., 773-814-4209

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POLISH LADY will clean your Home/Office. FREE ESTIMATES.

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1.5BA, 1st floor laundry room. basement, 2 car garage. $1050 + sec. 815-568-6311

Woodstock -1BR, Den, Utility Rm Close to Sq, living rm, kit, no pets/ smoking. $725/mo + utilities, sec + ref required. 815-338-1734

2 bath, finished basement, large fenced yard, 1 car garage, no pets. $1400/mo. 815-236-7191

Crystal Lake Cute 3BR, 1BA Fenced yard, Prairie Grove schools, nr Fox River, new deck and garage. $1250/mo. 847-833-5104

Crystal Lake-Nice 4BD ranch home w/full fin bsmt. 1 flr lndry,lrge deck. Prairie Ridge HS. $1500/mo. 6 mo lease ok. B&W 815-347-7452

WOODSTOCK

Woodstock: 2BR apt. $800/mo.+sec. dep Roberto 773-317-3364

1 & 2 Bedroom Rents Starting $735 ❍ ❍

Affordable Apts. Garage Included

815-334-9380 www.cunat.com WOODSTOCK 1 BEDROM All utilities incl, $815/mo, no pets. ALSO 1 Room Furnished Apt, $525 Call Bill 815-260-5259 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

CRYSTAL LAKE~GREAT LOCATION 2BR, 1BA, W/D, fin bsmt,.HUGE fenced yard, 1 car garage, pets OK. $1495/mo 815-508-0566

HARVARD 3 BEDROOM Large yard, $950/mo + util & sec. Call Larry Prudential First R. E. 815-353-8043

SILVERCREEK

Harvard Country Living 2BR Farmhouse – Secluded. $980/mo + utilities & security, available now. 773-206-6221 CRYSTAL LAKE CONDO 3 BR 2.5BA. Garage. Minutes from Pingree train sta. $1375/mo. 815-404-9076 Crystal Lake, Ranch condo, 2BD, 2BA, Hdwd. flrs, fplce, gar, $1150. Sue Rohn, Coldwell Banker Honig - Bell (847) 651-5691

HEBRON 2BR CONDO'S

Harvard: country home, 4BR, 2BA, appl., A/C, gar., $975/mo.+utils. & sec., 815-943-2235

HUNTLEY 3 BEDROOM On 2.5 acres, garage not incl. $1300/mo+utils. 847-417-6056

Huntley Northbridge Sub.

Appls, W/D, patio/deck, private ent, $745-$875. 815-482-8163

3600 sf, cul-de-sac, 4BR, 2.5BA, htd 3 car, frplc, bsmt, patio/porch. $2500/mo. 847-648-9230

Lake In The Hills Beautiful 2BR Condo ~ 2 bath, D/W, A/C, W/D

JOHNSBURG 3BR

in unit, garage, tennis, basketball. $1000/mo. 224-633-5049

815-814-6004

MARENGO RURAL SETTING 1 acre, 3BR, 1.5BA, dinette. Large 2 car garage, pet with dep. $1050/mo. 815-291-9456

WONDER LAKE 4 bedroom 1 bathroom Large fenced in yard w/ XL heated garage. $1250 plus deposit 815-482-6765

Marengo: 3BR, 3BA, brick ranch, 2 car att gar., fireplace, full bsmnt., 1.5 acre wooded lot, no smoking $1600/mo.+sec. 815-568-6099

Wonder Lake ~ East Side 2-3 bedroom, detached garage. Fenced in back yard, lake rights. All appliances, W/D, $980/mo. 815-344-1839

1 bath, 1 car garage. $900/mo. 815-814-1731

$795/mo + sewer,1 & sec dep. Managing Broker Owned. Call Shawn 224-577-5521 MCHENRY - RENT TO OWN 4 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath, 3 car garage with screen room. Available midNovember $1650 + security. 815-344-2044

WONDER LAKE ~ EAST SIDE 3 bedroom, $1090/mo. 2 story, large deck, W/D hook-up, pets OK. 773-510-3643 ~ 773-510-3117

Wonder Lake ~ West Side 2BR, 1BA raised ranch, 1 car gar. No smoking, $875/mo + sec. 815-385-8180 Wonder Lake: nice 2BR w/3 car gar., & lndry $890/mo Broker Owned 815-347-1712

McHenry 1BR, w/1 car gar , deck, fireplace, $790/mo. Broker owned 815-347-1712

McHenry 3BR Ranch Fenced back yard, 2 car garage. $1250/mo. Agent Owned.

K. D. Schaid Appraisal 815-363-2449 McHenry Lrg ranch 3BR, 1.5 BA on crawl space. Living rm, family rm, eat in kitchen counter, 2.5 car att garage, covered deck, shed, fenced yard. Long term lease. The Shores, 807 Pearl Ave. $1295 mo. Land Management Properties 815-678-4771

WONDER LAKE: WEST SIDE clean remodeled 2BR, w/gar., C/A, no pets $950+sec., 815-569-1126 Wonder Lake~Lake Front House Beautifully Remodeled 2BR, 1BA Huge deck and pier, $1150 + utilities, no dogs. 815-814-3348 Woodstock 2 & 3BR, new paint, fenced yard, 2 car gar., $850-$975/mo. Broker Owned 815-347-1712

WOODSTOCK

4BR, 2BA, W/D, all appl, Htd garage, $1250/mo., agent owned. 815-334-0199

McHenry Patriot Estates & Prairie Lake Townhomes Ask About our 1BR Special 2BR Starting at $1250.00. .

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Cary. Female roommate. Near train, pool, forest preserve, includes professional cleaning in common areas. $110 per week, $220 deposit. Call 815-236-5090 McHenry – Xlrg Rm. Partially Furnished, Kitchen Privileges, Shared Bathroom, $550/mo. Cable, WiFi, Utils Inc. No Smoking/Pets. Leave Message. (847) 459 8182 WONDER LAKE ~ EAST SIDE Furnished Room, House privileges. Utilities and cable incl, $460/mo. 815-349-5291

McHenry. 3BR, 1BA. Newly remodeled. Quiet neighborhood. All appls, W/D. Avail now. No pets. $1000/mo. 704-239-3994 McHenry. 3BR, 2BA, tri level in Fox Ridge, fenced yrd, sidewalks, $1275/mo.+sec+utilities. 815-575-6919

Union I-One Zoning Large OH doors. Approx 2000 6000 ft, starting @ $900/mo. 815-621-5655 ~ 815-404-6725

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Richmond. 1BR. 3 Rm Upper. No smoking or pets. $550/mo incl utils. 815-678-4031

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CRYSTAL LAKE 1BR, 2nd FLOOR Small building, $800/mo. No pets/ smoking, heat incl, near metra. Garage available. 815-344-5797

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Caregiver, Exp Polish Nurse with green card, exc ref, speaks English. Will work 24/7. Call Zofia 224-276-9686 or 815-263-0943

Marengo: 610 E. Grant Hwy. & 1060 Briden Dr., 1BR $600-$645 or 2BR $700-$780 Roberto 773-317-3364 Sandra 815-568-6672

McHenry $199 Move-In Special Large 1BR, from $699. 2BR, 1.5BA from $799. Appl, carpet and laundry. 815-385-2181

Medical Assistant / Biller Experienced - FT/PT for Gen. Pract. Office in Marengo/Crystal Lake.

$525/mo incl water & garbage. 815-651-6445

Marengo: Lg 2 bdrm unit avail Immed. $750. All appl W/D, Dishwasher & micro furnished. Cent Air. No pets/no smoking. Sec dep, lease req. Tenant pays electric, cable. 224-858-7377

MEDICAL ASSISTANT - PART TIME Medical Assistant needed for 2 doctor family practice in Lake Zurich. Experience a must!! Flexible Hours. Email: advmedcare@comcast.net

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Spacious 2BR, 2BA, D/W. W/D, C/A. Approx 1000 sq ft. $875/mo & up. 847-875-7985

MARENGO 1 BEDROOM Health Care - Ambulatory Surgery Center looking for Certified OR Tech Sterile Processing Tech Experience req. No Weekends or Holidays. Benefits: 401k, Insurance, Education. Fax resume: 847-458-1509

Elevator Building 815-334-9380

Quiet building, no pets. $825 + sec. 847-526-4435

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Woodstock: 3BR, 1.5BA, TH, full bsmt, 2 car gar. w/opnr, concrete patio, yrd, full kitch. w/ all appl., no pets $1200/m 630-514-4956

Antioch Long Term Lease. Large 3BR, 2BA tri-level. 2.5 car attchd garage, fenced yard, deck, shed. Hardwood floors and all kitchen/ laundry appls. $1395.00 mo. Land Management Properties 815-678-4771

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WOODSTOCK, 3BD, 2.5BA, 2 car gar, loft, applncs incl, W/D,avail now. $1300/mo.224-232-9657

1.5 Bath, A/C, Stove, Refrigerator, Garage, No Pets. Broker Owned. 847-683-7944 HURRY!!

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Crystal Lake CHEAP & CLEAN Office Suite. 300 SF.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, ILLINOIS McHENRY COUNTY, JUVENILE DIVISION IN THE INTEREST OF SAMANTHA BAUCOM SARAH BAUCOM DUSTIN BAUCOM

1 block from Sq and metra. Utilities incl, handicapped access, parking. $995/mo. 815-338-5040

MARENGO FOR SALE BY OWNER 3 Bedroom, 2 Full Bath, everything new in 2011, hardwood and ceramic floors, huge kitchen, unfinished basement, central air, large two car garage, three season room $140,000. 815-245-2401 WOODSTOCK, 4 BR, 3 BA, Big Gar., Big Kitchen w/dining room, Nice interior. On Park St., Great Price. $110,000. 815-648-2247

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Lakewood estate lot 1.7 acres, no restrictions, previously sold for $130,000 now only $38,500 Broker Owned 815-347-1712

Chris Baucom, and any unknown Fathers and to All Whom It May Concern: Take notice that on August 27, 2013, abuse and neglect petitions were filed under the Juvenile Court Act by ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY E. Julia Almeida, in the circuit court of McHenry county entitled 'In the interest of SAMANTHA BAUCOM, a minor', 'In the interest of SARAH BAUCOM, a minor', 'In the interest of DUSTIN BAUCOM, a minor', and that in the courtroom of Judge MAUREEN P. MCINTYRE, or any judge sitting in her stead in Room 101 of the McHenry County Government Center, Woodstock, Illinois, December 19, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as this cause may be heard, an adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the petition to have the child declared to be a ward of the court under that Act. THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS PROCEEDING TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINORS, TO TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILDREN. IF THE PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND THE APPOINTMENT OF A GUARDIAN WITH

CRYSTAL LAKE OPEN HOUSE TO RENT OR TO BUY

(Published in the Northwest Herald November 17, 2013. #A2243)

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Sat & Sun, November 16 & 17, 10am - 4pm 575 Lochwood Ave Lovely 4 BD, 2BA, split-level w/deck, Family Room & nice neighborhood. All new: Furnace, Refrigerator, Washer/Dryer & Living Room carpet. Great Buy! $1300/mo. to rent, $153,500 to Buy. OBO!

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2006 Chrysler Sebring Conv. Beautiful red car, 85K miles. Only $5,995.00. Ormsby Motors 815-459-4566

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1980 Chevy Truck Grille $20. 815-219-3882

2008 Pontiac S6 1998 Ford Crown Victoria 140K mi. Great condition! $2500 OBO 815-245-3926

4 door, like new, only “26K miles” Only $11,995.00. Ormsby Motors 815-459-4566

2012 Nissan Sentra 4 door, fulll power, gas saver, 27K miles. Only $12,995.00. Ormsby Motors 815-459-4566

Great Cars Available 2000 Buick Regal LS Sedan – 179,000 Mi, w/ Grand Touring Suspension, 3.8L V6. Silver Exterior, Interior Medium Gray. Leather Seats, CD Player – Monsoon 8 Speaker Stereo System. Hwy 29 MPG, City 30 MPG. One Owner, All Records, NonSmoker, New ABS Brakes, Nearly New Tires – Aluminum Wheels, Title In Hand, Very Clean Interior, No Rust or Dents. Excellent Condition. $2,795 OBO. 815-444-8805

2001 Ford Taurus 4 door, 1 owner, only 71K miles. Only $5200.00. Ormsby Motors 815-459-4566

All Under $2500 Midtown ~ 2016 S. Route 31 815-378-9309

1998 Dodge Durango. 4WD. Runs good. All power, A/C. 8 cyl. $1700 OBO 815-307-8107

2013 Chevy Captiva LS 2 too choose - low miles. Only $19,995.00. Ormsby Motors 815-459-4566

Car Cover – Evolution 4 fits Jeep Wrangler or similar sized vehicle, Includes storage bag, like new - $50 OBO. 815-245-0407 leave message

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2002 Ford Taurus Wagon, 127K mi. Very Good Cond., V6, 24 Valve, 3rd seat, $3,499. 815-675-6499

2005 Chevy Colorado 4x4 Extended Cab, 1 owner. VERY CLEAN! Only $9,500.00. Ormsby Motors 815-459-4566

2003 TOYOTA AVALON

1995 Chevrolet G30

2004 Chevy Impala

2004 Mercury - Grand Marquis, 23K mi., Exc. Cond, Loaded. 10,900. 815-675-6499

2005 Dodge Neon SE

4 door, auto, 1 owner, well maintained, great on gas. Free 3 month warranty, $3600. 815-344-9440 2005 Volvo T5 V50 Wagon, All wheel drive. Luggage Rack, Heated seats, skylight, 71 K miles. Single owner. $9,200. 815-715-3855 2006 Chevrolet Aveo – 53000 Mi, Good MPG, Runs Great, Stick Shift. $3500 Firm. 815-334-1878

2006 Chevy Malibu 4 door, 1 owner, 62K miles. Only $7,995.00. Ormsby Motors 815-459-4566

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1 Ton Extended Van 53K miles, new battery, extra tires. Roof rack, trailer hitch, $4000/obo. 815-385-5145 1998 Ford Super Club Wagon – V10, 165,800mi. Anti-lock brakes, Heavy Duty towing package+trailer brakes. $3,800 OBO. 815-568-6482 1998 Ford Windstar 3.8l, towing, 4 buckets. $1800. 815-728-1901

2002 Mercury Mountaineer

1 owner, 7 passenger, 4x4, loaded. Heated seats, well maintained. FREE 3 month warranty, $4800. 815-344-9440

2002 Mercury Villager 145K miles, looks sharp! Runs great! 18MPG local, 25MPG hwy. $3,950. 847-658-1371

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1992 Ford Aerostar 106K miles, new battery, reliable, $980 815-459-6561

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2003 MERCURY SABLE excellent condition well maintained with 157,000 miles moon roof satelite radio, remote start system 815-575-0521 $2999.00 or best offer Loaded, 113K miles, heated seats, leather. Well maintained, $7,900. 847-669-0659

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November 14, 2013 /s/ Katherine M. Keefe (Clerk of the Circuit Court)

No. 13 JA 35 13 JA 34 13 JA 33 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

CRYSTAL LAKE, Nice remodeled 4BD tri-level, 2BA w/fenced yd, deck, lrge strge shed, close to shls, $1400/mo. 847-815-6023

POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILDREN. UNLESS YOU APPEAR, you will not be entitled to further written notices or publication notices of the proceedings in this case, including the filing of an amended petition or a motion to terminate parental rights. Now, unless you appear at the hearing and show cause against the petition, the allegations of the petition may stand admitted as against you and each of you, and an order of judgment entered.

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CROSSWORD No. 1110 BYE-LINES By Alan Olschwang / Edited by Will Shortz

1 Former Belgian national airline 7 Just says no 14 Cremona craftwork 20 Origami staples 21 1993 5x platinum Nirvana album 2 2 Wi s e g u y

53 Opportunities, metaphorically

102 Dry: Prefix

14 Defames

5 5 Tr i g r a t i o

104 Animal house

59 Old camera settings, for short

105 2004 Chevy debut

16 Do some banking, say

61 Add (up)

1 0 7 “ _ _ _ c a n ’t ”

108 Beefeaters, e.g.

54 Hands (out)

6 2 F r a n ç o i s Tr u ff a u t ’s field

23 The Lone Ranger

63 Sweet-talk

25 Phillip, e.g., in D i s n e y ’s “ S l e e p i n g Beauty”

64 Porky Pig

26 Carrier inits.

69 Fixes up, as a rundown house 7 0 C a t o ’s m a n

27 Kemo ___ (the Lone Ranger) 28 Move a muscle? 29 No longer in enemy hands 30 Kind of appeal 32 Base, e.g. 34 Infusing with a soda maker 35 Hospital supply 3 7 _ _ _ F á i l , I r e l a n d ’s coronation stone 38 Strike callers 39 Massachusetts motto starter 40 Dietary claim 44 Deeply rooted 4 6 To o t h p a s t e t y p e 47 Roger Ebert 5 2 8 4 - D o w n w r i t e r ’s monogram

For any three answers, call from a touch-tone phone: 1-900-285-5656, $1.49 each minute; or, with a credit card, 1-800814-5554.

71 When doubled, one o f t h e Te l e t u b b i e s 72 “Now!”

1 0 3 H o m e o f B a n ff National Park

11 2 R e c o r d o f t h e Ye a r Grammy nominee f o r “ L o s e Yo u r s e l f ”

11 3 P r i m a r y p i g m e n t for printers

11 6 A u t o s t e e r i n g system components

74 “S.N.L.” alum Cheri

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76 Mimicry 78 July third? 7 9 G e o rg e B u r n s 83 Genus of small rodents 86 Items sometimes s n i ff e d a t a supermarket 87 Highlights 88 Mille ___ (part of Québec with a rhyming name) 90 Fill 91 Other side 9 2 Vo l l e y b a l l v e n u e 96 Hair extensions? 98 Something you want to come down from quickly

29 Mag proofs

31 Shallot, e.g.

5 Costner role

6 Like the origin of the food in many fusion restaurants 7 Pulled apart

8 C o m p a s s d i r.

3 6 “ B e o w u l f ” q u a ff

11 C l i n c h e d , w i t h “ u p ”

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68 Church group

58 Company that owns Gerber

75 Sweetie

62 Groups of strings, maybe

80 Possible answer to “Is that you?”

57 Base

1 0 B o l o g n a ’s p l a c e

38 Jesse and Leo of TV sitcoms

6 6 M r. R i g h t

67 Dominant

51 Judo gyms

9 Nickname for Huntington Beach, Calif.

44 Sees through

4 2005 Drama Pulitzer f i n a l i s t Wi l l

43 Onward

3 B e a r s ’ h o m e i n Te x a s

42 Order to go?

2 Massenet opera based on Greek myth

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24 CNBC news item

34 Mosey along

11 5 L u n a ’s c o u n t e r p a r t

11 7 P o t e n t i a l sweethearts

19 First Mets manager

33 Keyes and King

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73 “August: ___ County” (2008 Pulitzer winner for Drama)

18 Holy smoke

17 Going down in the rankings, say

109 Red Skelton

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do during a hearing

89 “A Sentimental

Journey” author

81 Apple product

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9 1 T h o m a s J e ff e r s o n o r J i m m y C a r t e r, once

83 Sights not to be

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94 Bit of field sport equipment 95 Lifts

97 Where to find “books in the running brooks,” per Shakespeare 9 8 S t a r, m a y b e

99 Indian melodies

100 Nobelist writer Andric 101 Go by bike 104 Beginning of some temple names 106 Preceder of “di” or “da” in a Beatles song 109 Invoice fig. 11 0 S i n c e 1 / 1 111 “ _ _ _ S y l p h i d e s ” (ballet)

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TODAY - Stake your claim and pursue your dreams in the coming months. Your destination is not as important as the journey. Take time to learn as you go and to update your skills as required. Much can be accomplished if you learn from the past and live each moment to the fullest. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Make it your business to coordinate events and set plans. Please the people you love most by showing how much you care. You can improve your love life by expressing your feelings. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Get your priorities straight and keep your

promises. Do whatever it takes to avoid an encounter with someone in an authoritative position. A domestic change looks promising. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Make plans with the older or younger people in your life. Activities that include the whole family will improve relationships and bring you all closer together. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Keep a smile on your face and a positive attitude. Don’t worry about what others do or say. A decision and a new beginning will help you get back on track. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Find a

way to make changes to the way you handle your cash, deal with your creditors or handle the debt owed to you. A joint venture will turn into a proﬁt. ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Spice things up and change them around. Update your look or make a vow to achieve your dreams. Set your mind on your destination and don’t look back. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Put your attention on what matters the most to you. A relationship will get a pick-me-up if you are affectionate and attentive. What you put out, you will get in return.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Don’t rely on someone else to take care of your chores. Disappointment will surface and complaints will be made if you shirk your duties. Once the work is done, you’ll be free to do as you please. CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Travel to a place that promises to be entertaining. Enjoying time with friends and relatives or meeting new people will brighten your day and help you make an important personal decision. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Take control of your life and change whatever is necessary to build conﬁdence and obtain greater security.

Don’t wait for someone else to make choices for you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Put your mind at rest and your heart on the line. Discuss your likes, dislikes and plans for the future. Concentrate on personal gains and forming a close bond with someone special. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Keep an open mind when offered suggestions. Taking an overall view of a situation and using a variety of ideas will bring you closer to a workable solution.

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WANTED: OLD CARS & TRUCKS FOR

$CASH$ We pay and can Tow it away!

Call us today: 815-338-2800 ROUTE 14 AUTO PARTS

BIRD CAGE - Victorian style. 30”square x 19” h with top peak at 7” h. 2 entrance ways in front. $45. 847-515-8012 Burger King Toys Star Wars, Toy Story, Simpsons, M&M. 1997-99. Orig pkg. $10/ea. 847-807-9156 Cookie Shack Vending Machine Circa 1950, made by Monroe Co. Louisiana, 61”H x 13”W x 16”D $150. 815-382-4743

Crystal, Fostoria American

12 goblets, 12 sherberts,12 juice, S & P, butterdish, sugar & creamer with tray, $350. 815-459-5204

Dept 56 North Pole Series

Fishing Boat ~ 12' Aluminum + trailer, no leaks. 2 seats with oars, new trolling motor and battery. $700. 815-701-4302

Various pieces, as low as $10. 815-508-1114

Desk/Writing Table

Antique, oak finish, spindle legs. 30”Hx28”Wx20”D. $100. 847-309-3698 Dickens Heritage Village Collection People & Accessories. $300 OBO. 815-385-4353

Electric Train - Thomas Kinkade

1980 Artic Cat, 440 Lynx II. Electric start, 597 miles. Single owner, needs tuneup & battery, $600/OBO, 815-385-1827

1987 Artic Cat, Kitty Cat, single owner, includes original cover, $550/OBO 815-385-1827

1997 Yamah VMAX 600 XT Elec start, reverse, $1,350. 1987 Yamah Fazer Elec start, $650 Trailer available. 815-578-8600 or 815-337-9400 96 Polaris XCR 600 Triple - many extras on this great sled. $1,100 815-900-1183

Homer Laughlin dishware; Angelus gold flowered border & center; 6 dinner plates, 6 salad plates; 1 large platter, tureen with cover, sugar and creamer. Asking $100 for all - perfect condition. 815-444-9820

HUMMEL FIGURINES

From a collection of 30: HUM386 – On Secret Path TMK5 $180 Excellent Condition, Call 847-669-1643

HUMMEL FIGURINES

From a collection of 30: HUM56/A – Culprits TMK2 $350 Excellent Condition, Call 847-669-1643

HUMMEL FIGURINES

From a collection of 30: HUM6/0 – Sensitive Hunter TMK2 $400 Excellent Condition, Call 847-669-1643

HUMMEL FIGURINES

From a collection of 30: HUM387 Valentine Gift TMK5 $320 Excellent Condition, Call 847-669-1643

COAT - Black Faux Persian Lamb, Women's size L/XL. $50 or best. 815-455-7680.

COAT ~ LEATHER

Full length, only wore 3 times. Excellent condition! $25 815-385-7440

FASHION JEWELRY:

8-10 Necklaces, 4 Rings 2 Arm Cuffs

EASILY WORTH $100 Cleaning out jewelry collection Getting rid of things I don't wear Photos on nwherald.com $20/FIRM will NOT separate 815-690-0527 lv mssg/text Ladies Coat – 3/4 Length, New, Red w/ Removable Hood & Toggle Buttons , Size 10-12 - $50. 815-271-5128 Sterling silver necklace w/big medallion, new, never used $100 815-385-3269

Automatic Dishwasher – Whirlpool White, Under Counter, Works $50 847-658-8414 Dishwasher by Maytag, Stainless Steel, Good Condition $90. 815-575-0197 DOING A REMODEL? I have 2 Brand New GE Profile appliances one is a 30" Convection in wall Double oven and the other is a 36" cooktop both in stainless steel and never installed. Asking: $2,000 for both. Call: 815-236-7241 Washer. Apartment Size. Haier. $100 815-701-1260

Antique Secretary, Very Old, Good Condition, Dark Wood w/ Glass Doors, Lockable - $399. 815-236-1355

Avon Christmas Plates

from 70's & 80's. $150 OBO. 815-385-4353 Baseball Cards. Stars, Sets,Rookies. Price range $1-$40. Call: 815-338-4829 A great holiday gift! Basketball Cards Stars, Sets, Lots of Rookies. Price range $1-$50. Call: 815-338-4829 A great holiday gift! BEANIE BABIES - 200 plus some rare Beanie Babies, McDonalds Beanie Babies in original packages, some misprinted tags on Beanie Babies all tags have plastic protectors and all are in MINT Condition asking $275. Call 815-385-6501 or 815-321-3963

BEANIE BABIES 230 + brand new with tags. Only used in display case, $375/obo. 224-623-1126 ~ 847-516-2805

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Wood, Old and Antique. From Farm Building - $100. 815-943-6937

CEMENT BRICKS – Approx 300. 7.5” long by 2.25” high. Light Gray. $50. Best time to call 9am-6pm. 815-653-6042

Doors/3 Six Panel

With frames & hardware, or 2 sets of bi fold doors, white, $25/each. 815-355-3171

FURNACE ~ TAPPAN Insulating Blankets

MINERALS - FOSSILS Meteorites, Dinosaur Teeth, Gemstones, Amethyst, Roman Coins, Birthstones, Quartz, Amber + more. $2 on up. 1,000+ specimens! East State Antique Mall: 5411 East State St., Rockford. 10am-7pm 7 days/week. AND 500+ pieces at the Volo Antique Mall III 7 days a week 10am-5pm Non-Sports Cards. '94 Marvel Masterpiece & Lots of Others. Sets at $25. Call: 815-338-4829 Great holiday gift!

ORNAMENTS (150)

Disney Storybook, $175/all. 847-515-3986

PRECIOUS MOMENTS

6 Piece Thanksgiving Dinner. $150. 815-382-2455 Precious Moments Age 11 Figurine: Birthday train Age 11, New in box, never displayed; Two turtles with Age 11 box & bow, $10 224-587-5076 Precious Moments – Assorted, In boxes w/ tags, Like New, Makes Great Christmas Gifts - $10 and under. 847-639-3154

Precious Moments Christmas Wreath, $100. 815-382-2455

Sugar & Creamer Pickard Salt & Pepper, gold floral, $135. 815-459-3822

Tablecloth ~ Irish Linen Eyelet

and 10 Napkins, white, 110Lx80W, $80. 815-459-3822 Wringer Washer. Works well. Incl manual. $100. 815-701-1260

CAR SET – GRACO Converts to booster with removable back. Child size 38-57" Excellent condition. $20. 847-302-4511 Cosco Car Seat – Like New, Hardly Used- New $75, Asking $25. 815-455-1322 Pre-Fold Cloth Diapers. 24/15-30 lbs. 24/30-45 lbs. 10 diaper covers. Used 1 yr. $280 value. Asking $100. 847-476-6771 Vintage Baby Carriage Converts to a stoller, cradle, travel bed, bassinet, rocker & play chair. Comes with many extras & original owners manual. Must see! $100 847-658-3809 Vintage Baby Carriage that converts to stroller, cradle, travel bed, bassinet, rocker, & play chair. Comes with many extras & the original owners manual. Must see! Asking $100. Call 847-658-3809 anytime.

BICYCLE – 2013 Girls Specialized Hotrock 20” Coaster Bike, Purple. Used only 1 summer. $120 815-382-2455

Dresser

DVD CABINET – Solid Oak DVD Cabinet – 24”w x 36”h x 6”d. Excellent Condition. 4 shelves, can fit over 200 DVDs. $60. 847-659-1852

Misc. Building Supplies – Double 4 vinyl siding, 30 pieces, colonial gray - $70; 25 3/4” J-channel, 9 under sill - $50; 50' roll of 20” alum. Flashing -$10; 54' of drip edge - $8; 168' of metal starter strip - $20; siding, J-channel & under sill all in colonial gray. Will separate or take all for $150 815-323-8636 9a-5p New 3/4” Non-Freeze Water Hydrant - $40. 815-943-6937

PLYWOOD

One sheet 5'x9'x3/4” thick, good for building a train layout, etc, $25 815-338-1519

Shower Doors by Pass Sterling Kohler Co. 70-5/16” high x 42-5/8” min., Tempered glass, heavy aluminum frame, For single shower stall, Ideal w/bench seat. New in box – $50 Call before 8:30am or aft. 8:00pm 815-788-7278

Sink White Pedestal $20 815-355-3171 Underlayment for laminate & wood floors - sound solution premium acoustical. Approx. 80 sq.ft. $20. 815-338-2981

Resale Furniture & Tailor

SCANNER: Canon CanoScan D646U, works with Windows 2000, $20. 815-459-5663

TV ~ SAMSUNG

19” LED, like new! $100 847-658-4913 TV: Toshiba, 36” Color - Works Great $20. 847-409-1838

Elliptical Pro-form 5.0, Adjustable stride, built in workouts, coolaire workout fan, music port for ipod- $125 815-363-7669 evenings

Incumbent Bike -Weslo Great Cond. $50. 815-943-6144 Weight Bench (Keys FID-2 model). Interchangeable upper and lower body pieces. Good condition. 10#, 35#, and assorted other weights included. 815-356-1392

FIREPLACE Cherrywood. Still in box. Paid $350 Asking $150. 815-701-1260

MIXED FIREWOOD Oak - Maple - Cherry, $85/FC. Free stacking and delivery. 815-334-7914 Oak $120/FC, $330C, Mixed $110/FC $300C, delivered stacked 815-568-7348

Bar Stools (4) Rattan w/tan seats $200/all 815-385-4353

Bedroom Furniture for Girl

White set $100, Brown set $100. Lamps, pictures, frames, under $25 for girls BR set, shabby chic & English Country. 608-358-2636

BENCH

Zebra, 60” black and white, like new! $140. 815-404-8173 Chair. Leather club chair. Espresso color, rounded lines, excellent condition. Great chair. Non-smoking house. Cash please. $175. 815-678-4337. Child's Changing Table/Dresser Combo - light honey finish. Great condition. $100. 815-356-1392

Check out McHenryCountySports.com for local prep sports and video.

SNOWPLOW

Myers, 7.5' plow and A frame. $325. 847-302-7009 Telescope – Tasco, 525 Power, Brand New - $65 815-344-5770 evenings

similar Frank Lloyd Wright, Oriental Style, 6ft, $250. 815-578-0212

Tool Rack - Plano corner long-handle $8. 815-338-2981

ORTIZ LANDSCAPING

WINDOWS

SNOW REMOVAL & CLEAN UP Mulch, brick patios, tree removal, maint work. Insured. 815-355-2121 2 piece glider, patio table with 4 chairs, $150/ALL. 847-802-2281

McHenry, IL 60050 * * * ** * * * * * * *

Fragrance cans: room fragrance, cinnamon $1.25/each 815-479-1000

Consignment Shop:

GENERATOR ~ COLEMAN

Accepting Victorian & Edwardian Style Furniture on a 50%/50% Basis.

Entertainment Center

TV Included,3 pieces - $159/obo. 815-943-2331

Headboard/Footboard

King size, hand carved, solid oak. $150 815-322-3948 Home Furnishings: Couch, large entertainment center, 1 wood dressers w/mirrors, desk, lounge chair & misc items, $50/each OBO 815-385-5014 HUTCH - 2 piece light oak with glass doors and light in display top. Great condition like new. $200. 224-330-8172

King Size Bed Frame 4 Poster. $75.00 815-355-3215 Kitchen Nook with One Table And 3 Benches, $100. 815-568-7133

Lazy Boy Wall Hugger Recliner

5000 Watt, $400/OBO 815-385-5145 Lv Msg

Older with frames, triple track storms and screens. Starting at $25. 847-421-5751

MIRROR

Mirrors (2) Teakwood $50 a piece or best offer. 815-701-1260

Modern Curio cabinet, Light Wood. $50 OBO. 815-355-3215 Recliner Chair. Very Clean w/arm covers. Non smoking. Light Blue & Grey color. $40 847-515-8012 Rocker/Recliner – Medium Blue No Tears or Rips. Good Condition $25. 847-409-1838 ROCKING CHAIR Solid maple. $60 815-385-4353 Roll Top Desk and Chair Dark walnut. $100 815-385-4353

Sofa Designer Custom Beautiful, blue, green & cream with extra firm cushions, $185/obo. 847-639-1112 SWIVEL ROCKERS (2) – Matching Patterned fabric. Excellent Condition. $125 OBO for the pair. Sold as set. 847-659-1852 Trunks. Rattan. Can be used for coffee and end tables. 1 w/glass top. $75/all. 815-385-4353

TWIN BED ~ IKEA ODDA Has 3 storage drawers under bed. White, $135/obo. 847-659-1464

Power Trowel Marshaltown 30” combo blades & floor grinding attach. great running machine, $300. 815-385-5145

Horse Blanket Tough-1, 69” Snuggit Turnout, Purple, Waterproof, Excellent Condition – Only used one season, 1200D (Heavy), New $90, Asking $50. 815-382-7209

Tow In Bar & Scribe For Semi Trucks & Cars - $50; Larkin Motorcycle Jack, New, Sells for $90, Asking $40. Will separate or take both. 815-323-8636

Crutches

Used once, high quality. $25. 847-754-7153

FRAMED SERIGRAPH TITLED REGAL LADIES ARTIST SUZANNE MARIE Certificate of Authenticity signed and numbered asking $75 OBO MINT CONDITION 815-321-3963 or 815-385-6501 HOLIDAY DINNERWARE SET – Royal Seasons Snowman Dinnerware Set. 71 piece. $50. Call anytime, 815-861-9864.

Humidifier/Bionaire

Hospital Bed Trapeze Triangle grips aides in lifting oneself when confined to bed, Trapeze attaches to headboard - $200 OBO 815-675-6363 evenings Simmons adjustable twin size bed, w/ wireless remote, mattress, gently used, very clean, call or text $250 815-814-7422 Stair Chair Lift and Remote. $360 OBO. 815-236-6647 Vibrating Foot Massager Sit comfortably while this massager does the work, Relieve aches & pains w/ this vibrating feet massager, Uses D cell batteries, included - $25 847-659-9537

Walker

Has Wheels, used once, $25. 847-754-7153 WHEELCHAIR Black and chrome, new in box, lightweight, elevating foot & leg rest, 250lb capacity. $100 815-578-0212

Yard Machine Snowblower MTD 179cc engine, 24” wide, electric start, 2 years old - $375 815-388-5061 Yard Machine. 4.5HP. Single stage Electric start. $100. 815-477-7702

SAT 10-6 SUN 10-4 7N063 Plymouth Court SILVER GLEN ESTATES

Cross country skis: Men's Alpina skis w/ poles & ski boots, size 10; Women's skis & poles w/ ski boots, white w/ burgundy trim, size 6. $50 for each set; perfect condition, like new. 815-444-9820

Scuba Equipment

TAYLORMADE MENS DRIVER R7 TaylorMade Golf R7 CGB MAX 9.5* Driver The TaylorMade r7 CGB MAX driver features a 460cc titanium head Right Handed. TaylorMade's Movable Weight Technology (MWT) incorporates three weights, which allows for up to 35 yards side-toside change for more accuracy Tool Included. Great Condition, great for a Christmas Gift. $80. 847-516-3572

ELEGANTHIGH END-DESIGNER Furniture, sterling silver, china (service for 12), art glass, jewelry, clothing, handbags, tools, and appliances.

By Kathy's Estate Sales 847-363-4814

WONDER LAKE

SAT & SUN 10-5 High School Musical Twister game, New, Never Opened, $10. 815455-2689

~ CASH ONLY ~

9018 ORIOLE TRAIL

KITCHEN ~ STEP 2

White, comes with food and all accessories, battery operated, one owner, excllent condition! $99. Zhu Zhu Pets, full collection of whole set, $75. 815-477-8485 BLAZE 8 1/2 year old male Cocker Spaniel. Someday I'm going to just pick a spot, turn off the phones and just listen to the waves, the wind and the world. Hope someday is soon. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

Black white, litter trained. FREE TO GOOD HOME. 815-276-3827

DOG CRATES (2)

Large Petco, excellent condition for medium size dog, $50/each. 815-477-8485

FREE to good home, grey & white 3 yr old, male cat, neutered & declawed, 815-578-0853

Lionel #364 Lumber Loader

With #3461 automatic lumber car. In original boxes, $110.00. 815-338-1519

Lionel Diesel fFeight Train Set Includes track and transformer. $150 815-338-1519

Minnie Mouse Stuffed Animal Very big, $25. 815-382-3952

4.80-12 Trailer Tire & Wheel, 4 Lug. Need for a spare. 815-653-8017 5-8pm

Antique and Modern Guns Old Lever Actions, Winchesters, Marlins, Savages, etc. Old Pistols and Revolvers. Cash for Collection. FFL License 815-338-4731

Lionel & American Flyer Trains 815-353-7668

ALGONQUIN IRIS 5 month old female Calico DSH Leaving the house in the morning can be a major production. With so much to do in so little time, sometimes it's a wonder how I ever go out. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

OUMA 3 month old female Tabby DSH. When I'm acting like a kid, it isn't an act, it's a fact. I'll know when I'm grown up the day I have my first real laugh at myself. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

ECKEL'S MCHENRY FLEA MARKET

3705 WEST ELM FRI 11-7 & SAT & SUN 8-5 815-363-3532

Picture Perfect Photo Shoot and Holiday Gift Shop Sat, Nov 23rd 10a-2p at MIXIN MINGLE

124 Cass Street, Woodstock Get your holiday photos taken by BlueCopper Photograpy and shop great gifts from local vendors. Book your holiday photo appointment and get 5 digital photos for $25 in time for the holidays! Complimentary coffee, tea, hot chocolate and snacks will be served. FOR MORE INFORMATION Contact Michelle Rentschler at michellerentschler@aol.com

FRI, SAT, SUN NOV 15, 16, 17 10AM - 3PM

104 WOOD DR.

WALKER

Good Condition! $25/obo. 815-385-6530

St. Charles

Snowblowers Craftsman, 2Hp, 18” Cut, New Tune Up - $125; Toro – Electric Start, 3Hp, 20” Cut, New Tune Up - $175. 815-479-0492

BOARD GAME

Electric, mattress, lifting bar + all beddng, $175. 815-455-3569

Furniture, household items, Bose Sound, tools, snowblower, lawn tractor & MUCH MORE! See pics @

sandylanesales.com

Winter Estate Sale Services 773-406-3402

(We are also looking for 10 more vendors/crafters) Walk ins welcomed but reservations are highly recommended. To reserve your photo time, please go to

www.mixinmingle.com and register.

Advertise here for a successful garage sale! Call 815-455-4800

HUNTLEY

AIR HEATER

Bathroom Vanity Top - ONLY 60” white and carmel swirl, brand new! $75 815-322-3948

Christmas Tree 5 ft, lights, ornaments and misc decorations, $25/obo. 847-515-3986

Christmas Tree

BEDSPREAD ~ NEW, FULL

Green, 7.5 ft, $55.00. 847-736-2838

Bumber Pool/Card Table. Round Table. $20. 815-943-6144

Christmas Tree. BEAUTIFUL. Pre-lit. 9 ft. $150. 815-245-3589 CHRISTMAS TREE. Live! 40' tree+2 shorter trees. You cut down & haul away. Best offer. 815-459-1015

54x78”, rich, dark gold floral, $90. 815-459-3822

Card Table/Folding DINNERWARE - 46 PIECES Set of Fairwinds, The Friendship of Salem, brown, exc cond, $350. 847-807-9156

Ford/Mercury (Full Size)

Frame Valley Trailer Hitch 1.25 " receptacle, $45, Ball Necks $10. 815-459-5204 Hard truck bed cover from Ford F-150. Mounting hardware included. Tan color in good condition - $50. 815-678-4531

LAXTEX GLOVES

Disposable, case of 1000, very strong, $55. 815-578-0212 LUGGAGE 3 Pc Samsonite Set w/wheels. Never Used. $50 OBO. Call anytime, 815-861-9864.

Mattress ~ Twin

No box spring, $10. 815-355-3215 Moving boxes, wrapping paper, and TV boxes for sale, $200 847-845-2144

LITHOGRAPH - Framed - Titled: Dia Sereno - Artist: Adam, Signed & Numbered Certificate of Authenicity included Asking $65/obo - Mint Condition 815-321-3963 or 815-385-6501

Portable, Natural Gas, Salimander Heater w/ hose. $60. 847-476-6771

Microwave Cart Solid Oak, Great Condition, Storage Space Underneath $165. 815-814-6111 aft. 4pm

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Pair of potters create in Woodstock I once asked Boomer Bob Blue, a Woodstock potter and artist, if he played with dirt as a child. He laughed and said, “No, not with dirt, but I did play with fire.” He still is playing with fire. Bob and his wife, Susan Galloway, who also is a potter and an artist, have twin kilns in their workshop – one for him and one for her. Both are big enough that you could easily fit inside. When I visited their studio, Bob was at the potter’s wheel making a tall cup to drink out of. No matter how many times I have seen a potter working at a wheel, I still find it an amazing process to watch. First, there is an amorphous blob of clay. Gradually, it begins to take the shape of the finished product so you can see it will be a vase or teapot, perhaps. Then, the most fascinating part to watch, the artist works with that basic shape, drawing the sides of the vessel taller and thinner. It is almost as though he or she is creating something out of nothing. Robert Blue was born in 1948 in Chicago. Art has been a lifelong passion. As a child, drawing captured his imagination. When he was only 10 years old, he convinced his parents to let him take a correspondence course from the Minneapolis Art Institute. When he was 15 years old, he took his drawings to a local art fair and sold three of his works. The hook was planted, and there has been no turning back. As a student at Northern Illinois University, Bob majored in art with the plan to work in advertising design. In his sophomore year, however, his roommate challenged him to take a pottery class, and it has been his main form of expression ever since. His commitment was so strong and skill so great he helped put himself through college by selling his pottery. Susan Galloway was a student in the art department at DePauw University, where she studied with renowned potter Richard Peeler. Her hard work and talent led to a Masters of Fine Arts, and she

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Bob Blue and Susan Galloway are potters and artists at Blue Eagle Pottery Studio in Woodstock. was rewarded with a job teaching art at McHenry County College. It was there she met Bob. Susan said one of her professors told her potters often marry other potters. So she did not get upset when Bob broke a date with her early in their relationship when his kiln was taking longer than he expected to bake some recent creations. Who but another potter would be so understanding? I guess you could say it takes a potter to understand a potter. Together, Bob and Susan create at Blue Eagle Pottery Studio, which Bob founded in 1968 and moved to Woodstock in 1982. Bob has won 50 different awards for his work and has had more than two dozen one-man exhibitions. His work is included in the collection at the Chicago Art Institute. Susan is a founding member of the Clay Workers’ Guild of Illinois. For many years, Bob spent a lot of time on the road taking his work to art

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shows around the country. Now, however, life is less hectic. The great majority of his work is sold wholesale to dealers. Galleries that sell his work span from Maine to Hawaii and from Alaska to Florida. Susan and Bob, with their faithful dog, enjoy visiting the various outlets where their work is sold. If you would like to see their work, visit Material Things Artisan Market on the Woodstock Square or the Clay Worker Guild in the Old Court House in Woodstock. They also have a beautiful display at their studio, 16105 Garden Valley Road in Woodstock. Call ahead for an appointment so someone will be there to help you when you arrive. Visit www. blueeaglepottery.com to see their work.

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Kebabs are healthy, easy in any season By STEPHANIE WITT SEDGWICK The Washington Post

Apple Cider Glazed Turkey Kebabs

Here are a few reasons to cook kebabs: Small chunks of lean meat can be marinated with a variety of seasonings. Skewers can be customized for individual portions, and grilled or broiled in the oven. They cook in minutes. Best of all, they are a crowd-pleaser. This recipe uses turkey breast, marinated in a quickly assembled mixture of spices and herbs. The glaze is a finishing touch that lends a hint of sweetness and gives the kebabs a lovely mahogany finish. You’ll need to soak 6 medium-length bamboo skewers for 30 minutes before beginning.

For the kebabs: Whisk together the oil, vinegar, brown sugar, salt, pepper, nutmeg, ginger and herbs in a medium bowl. Add the turkey pieces and stir to coat. Cover with plastic wrap; marinate for 30 minutes at room temperature or for at least 2 hours in the refrigerator. For the glaze: Combine the apple cider, broth, brown sugar and a pinch of salt in a small skillet or saute pan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes, adjusting the heat as needed to maintain a steady boil, until the liquid has reduced just to the consistency of light syrup. Watch closely to avoid over-reducing. Remove

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from the heat. Prepare the grill for direct heat. If using a gas grill, preheat to medium-high (450 degrees F.). If using a charcoal grill, light the charcoal; when the coals are ready, distribute them evenly over the cooking area. For a medium-hot fire, you should be able to hold your hand about 6 inches above the coals for 4 or 5 seconds. Grease the grill grate with cooking oil spray and place it on the grill. Have ready a spray water bottle for taming any flames. Thread the turkey onto the soaked skewers. If desired, place two pieces of heavy-duty aluminum foil on the grill to keep the ends of the skewers from burning. Transfer to the grill; close the lid and cook for about 4 minutes, until the kebabs have grill marks. Use tongs to turn over the skewers. Brush the cooked side of kebabs with half of the glaze. Close the grill lid and cook for 4 minutes. Uncover and turn the skewers again, brushing the second side of the kebabs with the remaining glaze and moving the kebabs to a cool section of the grill if they are browning too fast. Close the lid and cook for 2 minutes. The turkey is done when an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the turkey registers 165 degrees F.

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8CRAFT FAIRS To have an event listed in this calendar, fill out the form at PlanitNorthwest.com/forms, email calendars@nwherald.com or mail the information along with a contact name and phone number to Calendar Listing, the Northwest Herald, P.O. Box 250, Crystal Lake, IL 60039-0250.

Ongoing CRAFTERS NEEDED, for the 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 23 annual craft fair hosted by the Leggee PTA in Huntley. Information or to request registration forms: Janet Westberg, jlwestberg@gmail.com.

and bake sale and raffles. Admission: $1. Information: 815-455-1233.

Nov. 29 through Dec. 1 KRIS KRINGLE DAYS, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 29-30 and Dec. 1, Ridgefield Antique Shops, on Ridgefield Road off Route 14, between Crystal Lake and Woodstock. A quaint village of shops filled with quality affordable antiques, vintage, architectural, primitives, florals, custom framing and fine arts. Information: 815-459-4220; 815-477-4601 or ww.theshopsofridgefield.com.

Dec. 6 Nov. 17 AFFAIR OF THE ARTS, fifth annual, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 17, Shores of Turtle Creek, 7908 Winn Road, Spring Grove. More than 30 local artists will display and sell their work at this annual show. Stroll the indoor barn and enjoy appetizers while looking at a wide variety of media. Free. Information: 815-675-1087 or www.affairofthearts.org. GLOBAL GIFT SHOP, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 17, RidgefieldCrystal Lake Presbyterian Church, 8505 Church St., Crystal Lake. Featuring fair-grade goods including clothing, accessories, chocolates, coffee, olive oil and gift items. Information: 815-459-1132.

Nov. 23 ANNUAL HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR & BAKE SALE, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 23, Leggee Elementary School, 13723 Harmony Road, Huntley. There will be almost 100 crafters and direct sale vendors along with the popular bake sale hosted by Leggee Elementary Parent Teacher Association. All proceeds benefit Leggee Elementary and its school programs. Free admission. Information: 847-659-6200 or www. leggeepta.org. CHRISTMAS IN THE COUNTRY CRAFT SHOW, 34th annual, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 23, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 1023 McHenry Ave., Crystal Lake. More than 60 juried craftsmen will offer a variety of baskets, sewn and wood items, jewelry, wall decorations and more. Event includes a food court, candy

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HOLIDAY ARTS & CRAFTS & VINTAGE MARKET, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays Dec. 6 through Dec. 29 with a preview from 5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 6 and an artist’s reception 5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 7, at Swell Gallery, 123½ W. Main St., West Dundee. A broad range of work will be featured at gift-friendly prices. Information: www.swellgallery. com or www.facebook.com/swellgallery.IL.

Dec. 7 CRAFT FAIR, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 7, Richmond Community Church, 5714 Broadway, Richmond. Featuring a soup luncheon, cookies by the pound, sweet breads, and local crafters will be selling their wares along with other local vendors. Sponsored by the Women’s Fellowship of the church. Information: 815-678-6521.

Dec. 8 HOLIDAY BAZAAR, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 8, Off Broadway Coffee, 10321 Main St., Richmond. Bazaar is part of the Christmas of Yesteryear celebration. Free admission. Information: 815-678-4124 or www.obcoffee.com.

Dec. 14 CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 14, St. John’s Lutheran Church of Woodstock, 401 St. John’s Road, Woodstock. Fair includes the annual cookie walk and candy sale. Stop by the luncheon café for a snack or lunch. Information: 815-482-4686 or www.stjohnswoodstock.com.

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Glassybaby makes votives that comfort 5 Business owner to speak at Opera House By JAMI KUNZER jkunzer@shawmedia.com The names of the candle votives sold through glassybaby are as unique as the story behind the company. Wet dog, hope, joy, grin, frog hunting, devil dog, Jane’s caramel, warm gravy, wise. Coming in more than 400 colors, the votives, described as “calm tokens of peace in a busy world,” are each handmade, with not all turning out exactly the same. This is one of the many reasons glassybaby has grown from a business in Lee Rhodes’ garage to being featured in 2005 on Martha Stewart’s television show. The company is now an $8 million-a-year business with customers all over the world. Rhodes will tell her story at 10 a.m. Nov. 21 at the Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., as the featured speaker for the Woodstock Fine Arts Association’s Creative Living Series. Battling a third round of lung cancer in 1995 at age 32 and the mother of three, Rhodes would light candles as a comforting ritual. Made with a glass blower in the garage, the tiny votives, or “baby glasses,” were strewn all over the home. “Dropping a candle into that votive, I just thought it kind of immediately made me feel calm,” she said. She started giving them as gifts, desiring from the beginning to help others cope and heal. As the demand for the votives grew, she went from selling them out of her garage to opening a studio in Seattle to opening retail shops in Seattle and New York City. All this from an impulse and someone with no background in business, Rhodes said. “People should know every little idea you have in the shower you can take it as far as you want,” she said.

Creative Living Series with Lee Rhodes WHEN: 10 a.m. Nov. 21 WHERE: Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock TICKETS: $24. INFORMATION: Visit www.woodstockoperahouse.com or call 815-338-5300. For information on the Creative Living Series hosted by the Woodstock Fine Arts Association, visit www.woodstockfineartsassociation.org. For more on glassybaby, visit glassybaby.com. She always has donated 10 percent of the proceeds of her sales to charity. The company has donated more than $1.3 million to charities dedicated to healing and helping cancer patients with the costs during chemotherapy. “The only reason I allowed it to grow is to give more money away,” Rhodes said. The unique color of each glassybaby comes from the dropping and rolling of the glass, with three layers of glass creating a palette of colors. Each small vessel requires three layers of molten glass and 2,000 degrees of heat. All of the votives are created by a team of more than 70 artists. “They create colors you don’t naturally find,” Rhodes said. It’s a combination of the colors and the votives themselves that appealed to Rhodes and others. Just the basic act of lighting a candle for someone brings comfort, along with beauty, she said. “You can’t help but feel something,” she said. “I’m not trying to sell you a million different things or ways to use them. I’m not trying to encourage you to do anything but find the simple beauty in the glassybaby the way I did.”

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Cellist and singer Helen Gillet (left) and Clint Maedgen, a member of the venerable Preservation Hall Jazz Band, perform in a living room show in Brooklyn.

Living room shows made new again By COLLEEN NEWVINE The Associated Press Greg Ching met his wife, Deborah, listening to musicians play in a San Francisco living room. They bought their home near Nederland, Colo., with an eye toward hosting live musical performances. Since then, Ching has become so committed to his 14-year-old series, Aspen Meadows House Concerts, that he welcomed one performer in September even as Colorado’s flooding knocked out his phone and sent 8 inches of water into his basement. Years before, he held another “living room show” while a wildfire burned nearby. And he spent about two years and $20,000 in legal fees defending his right to organize private concerts; in 2008, Boulder County commissioners regulated home gatherings, limiting attendance, frequency and hours in response to concerns about running a business or creating noise. “These living room shows are a way of bringing people together,” Ching said, explaining why he didn’t give up in the face of fire, flooding or government regulation. “It’s something about the human spirit. It’s very healing.” Enjoying live music at home is nothing new. For some, it harks back to the humble notion of friends singing and playing instruments

Want to host one? Find our tips for hosts and performers to get you started at PlanitNorthwest.com/lifestyle. together before the days of recorded music and radio. For others, it calls to mind Europe’s legendary salons, filled with writers, artists and musicians. Today, the living room show lives on, and for many musicians, it’s become an important way to connect with fans and supplement income. Hosts don’t charge admission as a business would, but can suggest that guests make a donation of perhaps $10 or $15 to pay the musicians. Living room show hosts typically give all proceeds to the performers. I got hooked on living room shows when my husband threw me a surprise 40th birthday party with a three-piece jazz band in our Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment. Since then, we’ve hosted or cohosted a variety of performers, including Helen Gillet, a cellist and singer who describes house concerts as having an intimacy almost like family. “There’s something very gratifying and beautiful about that,” she said. “The fans you make in a living room setting might go that extra mile for you, because you really connect.”

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WHAT TYPES OF FURNACES ARE THERE? We live in an area where most people have natural gas for their source of energy. Some of the more rural areas will have oil, electric, or propane. For our customers, natural gas is the norm. With that in mind, the following are the most popular furnaces: - 80% Efficiency – These furnaces vent via a standard chimney and are the most affordable to install. They do not qualify for any rebates or tax credits. They are typically installed in condos, rental properties, and by people who are planning to move. - 90% Efficiency – These furnaces have been available for over 25 years. They qualify for gas company rebates, manufacturer’s rebates, and tax credits. They are the quietest and most “comfort-giving” furnaces available. The average savings that these furnaces deliver is between 25-40%. The most distinguishing feature of these units is that they are vented with PVC pipes instead of a metal pipe. If you are considering upgrading your furnace, please call us for a free estimate or to answer any questions you may have. Please contact me at adam@officialhvac. com or on my cell: 815-404-4634.

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RISKS Health groups spread awareness during American Diabetes Month By JAMI KUNZER jkunzer@shawmedia.com Right now, nearly 80 million people don’t know they’re prediabetic. And that’s the reason why the disease is becoming an epidemic, said Sarah Ferguson, a clinical nurse specialist in diabetes for Centegra Health System. She cited statistics offered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Diabetes Association, which works to raise awareness of the disease. As part of that, this month is American Diabetes Month. And last Thursday, free screenings were hosted in McHenry County and elsewhere as part of World Diabetes Day. “World Diabetes Day is to shed a spotlight on diabetes and maybe urge people who hadn’t thought about it to see their doctors,” Ferguson said. “I have a lot of patients who come, and they’re so fearful that they’re going to lose a leg or have blindness or kidney disease,” she said. “Nowadays, that doesn’t happen because we know how to control the blood sugars. ... It’s so easy.” Centegra paired with state Rep. Mike Tryon to host a recent screening in Huntley. Tryon has type 2 diabetes, the most common form occurring when blood glucose levels in the body rise higher than normal and the body does not use insulin properly. Type 1 diabetes, previously known as juvenile diabetes, is usually diagnosed in children and young adults when the body does not produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar,

starches and other food into energy for daily life. Those at risk for type 2 diabetes include anyone older than 45, overweight, with a family history of diabetes or high blood pressure and low HDL, or good cholesterol, Ferguson said. It’s estimated that 7 million Americans have the disease and don’t know, according to the American Diabetes Association. “Usually if people are being followed by their doctors, their doctors are going to screen them if they feel they’re at risk,” she said. A screening entails a finger stick that allows a look at blood glucose levels. People also can do risk assessments through the American Diabetes Association’s website at www. diabetes.org. Those identified as prediabetic early enough can prevent the disease or reduce their risk, Ferguson said. Typically, people have elevated blood sugar levels for a year before they’re diagnosed, she said. One way to prevent is to stay fit and active and live a healthier lifestyle, she said. At least 30 minutes of moderate activity a day is ideal, she said. “Even just losing 5 to 7 percent of your weight can actually work toward prevention,” she said. “Once you’re diagnosed, it’s actually the same strategy, lose that weight, the fat around the middle, and stay active. Those are still the two kind of pillars.” If not diagnosed or treated over time, diabetes can be more difficult to manage. “The main reason to get diagnosed and treated early is to prevent long-term complications,” she said.

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Kyle Glash of Harvard has his blood glucose level tested during a diabetes screening hosted by state Rep. Mike Tryon and Centegra Health System at Image Industries in Huntley. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25.8 million people in the United States have diabetes, with 7 million of those cases undiagnosed. Area health care groups hosted screenings throughout the county during November, which is American Diabetes Month.

Know the signs The American Diabetes Association offers a “Risk Test” and diabetes information at www.diabetes.org. Some with type 2 diabetes have symptoms so mild that they go unnoticed, but there are warning signs to be aware of as well as risk factors to take into account.

A blood glucose level tester screens for diabetes.

Symptoms of diabetes: • Urinating often • Feeling very thirsty • Feeling very hungry - even though you are eating • Extreme fatigue • Blurry vision • Cuts/bruises that are slow to heal • Weight loss even though you are eating more (type 1) • Tingling, pain or numbness in the hands/feet (type 2)

Risk factors for type 2 diabetes: • Having prediabetes, which may be called impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and/or impaired fasting glucose (IFG) • Being 45 or older

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• Having a family history of diabetes • Being overweight • Not exercising regularly • Having high blood pressure • Having low HDL, also know as “good” cholesterol and/or high levels of triglycerides • Certain racial and ethnic groups (Non-Hispanic Blacks, Hispanic/Latino Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and American Indians and Alaska Natives) • Women who had gestational diabetes, or who have had a baby weighing 9 pounds or more at birth

Source: American Diabetes Association

Screenings in McHenry County • For information on the diabetes services offered by Centegra Health System, visit centegra.org. • Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, based in Barrington, offers regular community-based screenings. For information, visit www.advocatehealth.com or call 1-800-3ADVOCATE. • Mercy Health System offers diabetes services at its various medical centers in Harvard, McHenry, Woodstock and Lake Geneva, Wis. For information, visit www.mercyhealthsystem.org.

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he guitar was always there for Scott Neumann growing up. Now he’s making sure it’s there for others, even if they can’t afford it. The Wonder Lake man created Free Guitars for Future Stars to offer lessons and guitars to children from low-income families throughout McHenry County. Once the students, ages 10 to 17, complete the 8-month program, they take home the guitars. And perhaps, like Neumann, music always will be a part of their lives.

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Caleb Vargas, 13, of Island Lake, warms up with guitar teacher Scott Neumann before a performance by Free Guitars for Future Stars at the Dole Mansion in Crystal Lake. Free Guitars for Future Stars is a program founded by Neumann that offers free guitars and lessons to McHenry County children ages 10 to 17 who are members of lowincome families.

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“There’s something about this moment when you see them pick up a guitar and they play something they never thought they could play,” said Neumann, who began playing guitar at age 8 and played in various bands for years. He quietly walked around the room as a group of about 10 students worked on “Jingle Bells.” “OK, good,” he encouraged. “Let’s try it once more. You with me on this? One, two, three ...” A retired U.S. post office employee, 56-year-old Neumann was inspired to start the nonprofit organization while offering private guitar lessons to students. He’d see students with $1,500 guitars left in the middle of the basement floor. “I started thinking, ‘Do these kids really want or need this?’ “ he said. He read “Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World” by Bill Clinton and decided to find a way to reach children who needed music in their lives but couldn’t afford the lessons or the guitars. “I wanted to do something that makes a difference in kids’ lives and helps out the community,” he said. “You don’t need a big group of people to make a difference. It wasn’t really much of an effort to come up with the idea.” He asked a couple of friends to help, raised funds, bought about 10 guitars at wholesale prices and officially started the organization in 2009. The McHenry County Community Foundation since has helped fund it through grants. Beginning with 10 students in a pilot program, the organization had about 80 students apply this year. With Neumann teaching, along with two others, the organization tries to accommodate as many students as possible. Five classes are active right now, the students meet in groups of 10 to 15 at various spots in the county for weekly lessons. At a recent McHenry class, Kristi Kunish of McHenry smiled as her 12-year-old son, Nick, strummed

“This is my one day off a week from work because I want to do this with him. On the car ride home, we sing every song on the radio. This is our time. He loves this.” Kristi Kunish of McHenry, whose son, Nick, 12, participates in Free Guitars for Future Stars “Yankee Doodle Dandy” along with the others. “This is my one day off a week from work because I want to do this with him,” she said quietly. “On the car ride home, we sing every song on the radio. This is our time. He loves this.” Nick had tried sports and other activities, but they weren’t for him. He’s always enjoyed music, his mother said, and often sings and goofs off around the house. He now practices his guitar all the time, she said, and is teaching other family members to play. “He’ll play anything and everything,” she said. “He makes up horrible songs.” Samantha Hoeck’s three children, 16-year-old Josh, 14-year-old

Hannah and 10-year-old Leah, graduated from the program and recently performed as part of a concert at the Dole Mansion in Crystal Lake. The Lakeside Legacy Foundation invited Free Guitars for Future Stars to perform as part of its First Friday art show. Josh Hoeck has moved on to writing his own songs and playing with his father, Brian. The Woodstock family commended the program, as well as Neumann. “He has awesome patience with the kids,” Samantha Hoeck said. “My kids really enjoyed the program. I hope it sticks around a long time. ... To be able to get a reward like a guitar at the end is awesome.”

START PLAYING: For information or to apply for the Free Guitars for Future Stars program, visit www.fg4fs.org.

Leah Hoeck, 10, and Marissa Wells, 10, both of Woodstock, talk before a performance at the Dole Mansion in Crystal Lake. Hoeck’s mother, Samantha, whose two other children, Josh and Hannah, also participate in the program, praised teacher Scott Neumann for starting Free Guitars for Future Stars. “My kids really enjoyed the program. I hope it sticks around a long time,” she said.

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Daughter pleads for patience at nursing homes Dear Abby: My elderly mother was recently placed in a nursing/rehabilitation facility. After several months of observation, I would like to offer an open letter to those who work in such places. “Dear Caretaker, “It is true I have grown older. My body won’t do what it used to do. My eyes aren’t as bright, and sometimes I have trouble finding the right words. But I do have a name, and it’s not ‘Honey’ or ‘Sweetie.’ I have experienced much, and I have learned much. Your history books are my personal history. There is a lot I could teach you. “You don’t have to shout; I will tell you if I can’t hear you. I have known great love and great tragedy in the years I have spent on this earth. I have spent decades learning to take care of myself, and it’s hard having to rely on others. “I need your help, but please don’t

talk to me as if I were a 2-year-old or a puppy. I’m too polite to say so, but I see when you roll your eyes or heave a sigh that says you’d rather be anywhere else but with me. These are my final years, and I’ve worked a lifetime to get here. Give me the dignity I deserve. All too soon, you will want the same.” – Daughter In Anderson, Ind. Dear Daughter: Your letter carries an important message. But please remember the staff in nursing homes work long hours, often for minimum wage, and they all may not have been properly trained in caring for elderly and dementia patients. The work is hard, and the facility also may be understaffed. It takes a special kind of person to do this work, and many of them deserve medals. However, if you feel your mother’s care is not up to par and that her dignity is not being respected, you should discuss it with the director of the facility.

Dear Abby: For the past 10 years, a family of four has come to our home for every Christmas and Easter meal. It started when my wife invited a coworker. They had no family in town and nowhere else to go. My wife’s relationship with the woman has cooled, but the family assumes they are automatically invited and show up without being asked. They spend more time talking to our other family members than they do to us. How do I politely let them know we no longer wish for them to come to our family meals? – Family Only In Mississippi Dear Family Only: Your wife should tell her co-worker that your plans for the holidays have changed, that the two of you are scaling back the festivities to include ONLY FAMILY MEMBERS. She should be sure to convey this news in PLENTY of time for her

co-worker to make other arrangements – whether it will be preparing something herself or getting together with another family. NOW would be a perfect time to do it. Dear Abby: I would like to be fluent in another foreign language, but I don’t have enough time to practice the language. What could I possibly do? –

Rafaela In Brazil Dear Rafaela: Regardless of what language you want to learn, it won’t be possible unless you are willing (and able) to put in the time to practice. If I were in your situation, I’d take a basic grammar class in the language, then try to find exchange students who speak it and spend time with them. And if you’re not married and find an attractive man among them, that will give you even more incentive.

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Finding compassion for others takes focus off self “Dan” had a long relationship with alcohol and cocaine, which caught up to him physically, emotionally and spiritually. He was a wreck, and with no place left to turn, at his brother’s suggestion, he went to rehab. After rehab, he dabbled with AA, then left it behind. For the next year, “Dan” didn’t drink or use drugs, but his attitude in particular and his life in general looked like the devastation after a storm. “Dan” really didn’t think AA would help. After all, he had been to at least six meetings, and that hadn’t done

it. But he figured, “Maybe these people know something I don’t.” Supplied with all the misery and willingness that he needed, “Dan” relaunched his recovery career. He decided to play along and do what some of the more experienced members suggested. He got what they called a “sponsor.” The first thing “Dan’s” AA sponsor did was take him to a treatment center, where they met weekly to talk to the people who were in treatment about AA and life afterward. “Dan” couldn’t wrap his head around this. He told his

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sponsor he felt like he had just left treatment and was back in a treatment center talking to people in worse shape than him. “Exactly,” his sponsor said. “You suffer from a gratitude deficiency of epic proportion, and you think way too much about ‘DAN.’ ” “Dan” was offended. He needed to think about himself more right now because of all the problems he faced. He thought his sponsor was highly insensitive. After all, his credit cards were about to implode, he was living in a basement with his cats, his daughter’s boyfriend had

just moved in upstairs, and his sole income (his wife’s job) was about to be eliminated. “Dan” felt like he had been downsized enough. He was about to find out his many years of drinking and drugging and associated attitudinal deficiencies had caused the problems in the first place, and his sponsor was trying to help “Dan” get the horse back in front of the cart. He was helping “Dan” adjust his attitude, from his alcoholic view of life as a big arena that owed “Dan” a pain-free life to an attitude of love and compassion for

his fellows. He was helping “Dan” to rejoin the human race, accept his difficulties with grace, trust that if he did the footwork, things would work out, and take responsibility for cleaning up his own messes. “Dan” finally got it and has been sober for more than a few years now. One of the first things he does with new guys is take them to a treatment center and tell them how grateful he is for his sponsor’s methods.

• Rick Atwater is a licensed clinical professional counselor.

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Cornwell writes 21st Scarpetta mystery By HILLEL ITALIE The Associated Press

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Sycamore Row” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 2. “Mirage” by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul (Putnam Adult) 3. “Winners” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) 4. “The All Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion” by Fannie Flagg (Random House) 5. “Doctor Sleep” by Stephen King (Scribner) 6. “The Longest Ride” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 7. “The Valley of Amazement” by Amy Tan (Ecco) 8. “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown) 9. “The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon” by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon) 10. “We Are Water” by Wally Lamb (Harper)

NEW YORK – Patricia Cornwell never runs out of ideas for her intrepid forensic investigator, Kay Scarpetta. “Cybercrime is now a really big deal, and so Scarpetta is inevitably going to get involved in crimes that have to do with the Internet, or the high technology with communications,” the best-selling author said during a recent interview at the Manhattan offices of The Associated Press. “I also have to look at the types of weapons that are available now, because those

might be used in one of her cases, whether an extremely high-tech firearm or it could be a very bizarre knife of some kind an assassin might use, or poison.” Cornwell talked about invented crime, Patricia true crime and Cornwell the facts and fiction behind her 21st Scarpetta novel, “Dust,” which has just been published. The novel is a characteristically tangled mystery that begins with the discovery of a young woman’s body at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. On her body is a mysterious residue, dust that becomes colorfully visible under ultraviolet light and leads Scarpetta on a frightening hunt for the truth. Cornwell describes Scarpetta as one of those obsessively curious souls who never relents on a case. Scarpetta shares Cornwell’s “very analytical mind,” the author explains. She likes to investigate the most well-traveled territory as if never seen before “because you might be startled by something that’s in plain view that people have missed for 125 years.”

8BOOK EVENTS BOOK SIGNING, 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 23, Java Planet Coffee & Internet Cafe, 2400 Lake Shore Drive, Woodstock. Huntley resident Betty Sidon Casey will sign copies of her book, “A Christmas Tail.” Information: 888361-9473. BOOK SIGNING, 1 to 3 p.m. Dec. 7, Read Between The Lynes, 129 Van Buren St., Woodstock. Authors Dan Campana and Rob Carroll will sign copies of their book “Wrigley Field: 100 Stories for 100 Years.” Information: 843-577-5971 ext. 227.

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “Killing Jesus” by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard (Henry Holt) 2. “Things That Matter” by Charles Krauthammer (Crown Forum) 3. “The Pioneer Woman Cooks” by Ree Drummond (William Morrow) 4. “Double Down: Game Change 2012” by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann (Penguin Books) 5. “The Bully Pulpit” by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster) 6. “David and Goliath” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown) 7. “Giada’s Feel Good Food” by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter) 8. “Guinness World Records 2014” by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records) 9. “I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai (Little, Brown) 10. “Si-Cology 1” by Si Robertson (Howard Books)

MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS 1. “The Gift of Christmas” by Debbie Macomber (Harlequin) 2. “Touch & Go” by Lisa Gardner (Signet) 3. “A Dance with Dragons” by George R.R. Martin (Bantam) 4. “Poseidon’s Arrow” by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler (Berkley) 5. “Private: Number 1 Suspect” by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Vision) 6. “Wyoming Bold” by Diana Palmer (Harlequin) 7. “An Outlaw’s Christmas” by Linda Lael Miller (Harlequin) 8. “Angels at the Table” by Debbie Macomber (Ballantine) 9. “Not Without You” by Nora Roberts (Silhouette) 10. “A Virgin River Christmas” Robyn Carr (Mira)

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14 Announcements Schultz Clark ORLAND PARK – Announcement has been made of the engagement of Laurel Schultz of Orland Park and Andrew Clark of Crystal Lake. She is the daughter of John and Gloria Schultz of Orland Park. He is the son of Joseph and Joan Clark of Crystal Lake. The bride-to-be is a 2007 graduate of Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park and a 2011 graduate of Illinois State University in Normal with a Bachelor of Science in physical education. She is employed at Kelvin Grove Middle School in Lockport. Her fiancé is a 2006 gradu-

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Gem Talk Laurel Schultz Andrew Clark ate of Crystal Lake South High School and a 2012 graduate of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb with a Bachelor of Science in business. He works for EZ-Links Golf in Chicago. They will be married May 24, 2014.

By Suzanne Cannon If you are a girl... you should plan on attending our 31st annual Ladies Day which is this Friday, November 22nd. This is our biggest and most well attended event because it’s ﬁlled with fantastic food, gifts and cupcakes with diamonds in them! BUT having fun isn’t the real reason why you should attend. Filling out your wish card is the most important part, and here’s why…. For over 35 years I have been watching men go through the painful process of trying to “guess” what you will like. Buying jewelry is like a woman trying to navigate an auto parts store. They are about to lay out their hard earned cash for a product that is typically small, has no functional purpose to make anything “run” and are clueless of your taste. And it gets even worse when they have to come back to my store to return the jewelry because “she didn’t like it”, “already has one” or never wears “dangles”. The look on his face is totally forlorn. And then you know what happens??? They give up!!! That’s when you start getting bad sweaters and gift cards!

Kevin Hess Abby Parisek ate of Addison Trail High School. Their wedding will be Aug. 16, 2014.

Now here is where the magic of a wish card comes in. Guy comes in to shop, he knows you LOVE jewelry. He also knows you have a wish card filled out. This is going to be a breeze as he glides into our store smiling!!! He reviews the card with the Steffan’s girl that helped her fill it out and they discuss the details and purpose of the items. Because there are usually multiple items on each card, the choice is still HIS and SHE is still surprised! And don’t worry, once a wish card is filled out we keep them on file all year long. The ultimate reason that this makes sense when buying/receiving jewelry is that you can build a collection of beautiful jewelry that will be worn and enjoyed for generations. Having anything just “sit” in a jewelry box is just a gift gone wrong. Please help your guy learn to love to shop for the jewelry that you really want.

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“The Best Man Holiday” STARRING: Monica Calhoun, Morris Chestnut, Melissa De Sousa and Taye Diggs PLOT: When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they will discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be ignited. RATED: R for language, sexual content and brief nudity RUNNING TIME: 2 hours, 2 minutes VERDICT: It seems quite apt that “The Best Man Holiday,” a film about a reunion of old friends, feels just like going to an actual reunion. In ways both bad and good. A reunion, you see, is only fun if you went to the school and recognize your friends. It’s certainly not fun if you didn’t, but were dragged along anyway. In that case, you’ll likely end up drinking white wine in a paper cup alone by a wall, watching everyone else get silly. Likewise, “The Best Man Holiday,” Malcom D. Lee’s sequel to his (much better) 1999 “The Best Man,” will probably be fun and pleasant for those who saw the first film. Those who didn’t may feel like they’ve been dragged to someone else’s reunion. And that’s too bad, because the cast, reunited here, is largely excellent, led by the evercharismatic Taye Diggs as Harper, an author with a fatal flaw: he can’t seem to stop writing about his friends and lovers. It’s not the fault of the cast that these characters seem less fully formed the second time around. It’s the fault of a script (also by Lee) that takes shortcuts, goes for sentimental overload, gets a little too swept up in holiday trappings, and telegraphs plot developments in often groan-worthy ways. (A character inadvertently leaves an iPad containing secret material sitting on a counter. Do we really then need an ominous close-up of that iPad lying there? Give us a little credit!) Those who saw the charming and refreshing “The Best Man” will remember the plot centered on a wedding. This time, it’s Christmas that brings everyone together. If you like Christmas soundtracks, you’re in luck: there are at least 15 Christmas songs here. If you don’t like your Christmas music so early in the season, that’s another matter. The setting is the suburban mansion of Lance and Mia, who married in the first movie. Lance (Morris Chestnut) is a star with the New York Giants playing his last season and chasing an NFL record for rushing, with time running out. Mia (Monica

LOCAL SHOWTIMES Calhoun) is still sweet and thoughtful and decides to hold a Christmas reunion. That includes Harper (Diggs) and Robyn (the lovely Sanaa Lathan), married and expecting their first child. Then there’s Jordan (an appealing Nia Long), the single and ambitious TV producer who carried a torch for Harper. She’s now dating a white man, Brian (Eddie Cibrian), a relationship that her friends comment on, but is not explored much in the movie. Julian (Harold Perrinau), who had freed himself from the vampy and manipulative Shelby (Melissa de Sousa) by the end of the first film, is now married to the sweet-hearted former stripper Candace (Regina Hall). And happily, Terrence Howard is back to reprise his role of the rascally but somehow wise Quentin. And the hijinks begin. There are, of course, old scores to settle. There’s also a tragic twist that becomes a major plot point. You will very likely cry at certain moments. But again, it’s like a reunion. If you already know these characters, you’re good. If you don’t, you’ll be standing against that wall, alone, with that wine in a paper cup. – The Associated Press

“Thor: The Dark World” STARRING: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston PLOT: Thor, faced with an enemy even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all. RATED: PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence and some suggestive content TIME: 1 hour, 51 minutes VERDICT: Comic book movies are increasingly, like Sandra Bullock in “Gravity,” lost in space. Following the summer’s glumly bombastic “Man of Steel,” which added a heavy dose of Krypton politics to Superman’s once pleasantly silly story, comes “Thor: The Dark World,” in which Thor’s Asgard, a celestial home of gods floating somewhere in the universe, is the primary setting. Earth is an afterthought – just one of the “nine realms,” albeit the one with Natalie Portman. Gone are the earthbound pleasures of a superhero amid us mortals. Such was the joy of the “Spider-Man” movies and the first “Thor,” when Chris Hemsworth’s lofty, hammer-wielding Norse warrior, exiled to Earth, so happily encountered a cup of coffee for the first time. As Marvel’s latest 3-D

behemoth, “Thor: The Dark World” isn’t so much a sequel as the latest plug-and-play into the comic book company’s blockbuster algorithm. It’s a reliably bankable formula of worldsaving action sequences, new villain introductions and clever quips from women on the side, (and they, most assuredly, are always off to the side). Thor has spent the last two years since “The Avengers” restoring order to the nine realms of the cosmos, but just as peace settles, a previously locked-away dark energy called the Aether seeps out. It leaks into Portman’s astrophysicist, Jane Foster, awakening a previously vanquished species of Dark Elves, led by Malekith (Christopher Eccleston). They would like to see the universe returned to complete darkness. Not a day person, this Malekith. This occurs as the nine realms are lining up in a rare convergence that makes them particularly susceptible to Aether-spread ruin. There’s not a lick of character to Malekith and his motives: He just wants to end all life. To save Life As We Know It, Thor seeks help from his duplicitous adoptive brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who has been imprisoned for killing thousands of humans at “New York.” Hiddleston’s sneering Loki remains one of the finest Marvel antagonists, and – now with a starring role in three films – the franchise seems to value him (as it should) as much as his more heroic brother. When “The Dark World” touches down on Earth, away from the “Clash of the Titans”-style realms of gods, it’s considerably better. Along with Portman, returning is the sarcasm sidekick Kat Dennings (as Jane’s intern) and Stellan Skarsgard as discredited scientist Erik Selvig. Chris O’Dowd makes a welcome cameo as a blind date for a very reluctant Jane. The tone is far more amiable on Earth (London, to be specific, the site of the final showdown) than in Asgard, where Anthony Hopkins, Renee Russo and Idris Elba remain locked in golden-hued majesty. Hemsworth, a seemingly perfectly rendered movie star equipped with brawn and baritone, also suffers from the stiffness. He had much more fun in “Rush” earlier this year. Ardent fans (who should stay through the credits) will likely be satiated by the pleasing enough “Thor: The Dark World.” But perhaps at this point, even die-hards may wish for something more from a Marvel equation that often subtracts humanity. – The Associated Press

“ABOUT TIME”

“GRAVITY”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:40 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:40 p.m. Regal Cinemas – 12:40, 3:50, 7:15, 10:25 p.m.

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 5:15, 10:15 p.m.; 3D: 10:10 a.m., 12:25, 2:45, 7:25 p.m. Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 6:50, 9:00 p.m. Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 2D: 12:30, 2:35, 7:10 p.m. Regal Cinemas – 2D: 1:50 p.m.; 3D: 11:15 a.m., 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 p.m.

“THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY” AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:05 a.m., 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 p.m. Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 p.m. Regal Cinemas – 11:40 a.m., 2:40, 7:20, 10:20 p.m.

“JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:00 a.m., 2:00, 5:05, 8:05 p.m. Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 p.m. Regal Cinemas – 11:50 a.m., 3:30, 7:05, 10:15 p.m.

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:25 a.m., 1:50, 4:10, 6:40, 10:00 p.m. Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 p.m. Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 1:00, 3:05, 5:10, 7:20 p.m. Regal Cinemas – 11:30 a.m., 12:20, 2:05, 3:05, 4:40, 5:40, 7:30, 8:10, 10:00, 10:50 p.m.

“CARRIE”

“LAST VEGAS”

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 7:25, 9:45 p.m. Regal Cinemas – 11:35 a.m., 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:55 p.m.

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:50 a.m., 1:25, 3:55, 6:25, 9:00 p.m. Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 p.m. Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00 p.m. Regal Cinemas – 11:25 a.m., 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:45 p.m.

“CAPTAIN PHILLIPS”

“CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2” Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 6:40 p.m. Regal Cinemas – 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 p.m.

“ENDER’S GAME” AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:25 a.m., 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 p.m. Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 p.m. Regal Cinemas – 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 p.m.

“FREE BIRDS” AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 10:15 a.m., 12:45, 3:00, 7:30 p.m.; 3D: 5:10, 9:40 p.m. Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:00, 1:00, 2:10, 3:10, 4:20, 5:20, 6:30, 8:40 p.m. Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 12:00, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30 p.m. McHenry Downtown Theatre – 1:15, 3:30, 6:00 p.m. Regal Cinemas – 2D: 11:00 a.m., 1:30, 4:10, 6:50 p.m.; 3D: 9:20 p.m.

“THOR: THE DARK WORLD” AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 10:45, 11:30 a.m., 1:30, 3:15, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:45, 10:45 p.m.; 3D: 10:00 a.m., 12:30, 2:15, 4:15, 7:45, 9:45 p.m. Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 2D: 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 p.m.; 3D: 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 p.m. Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 2D: 12:00, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30 p.m.; 3D: 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 p.m. McHenry Downtown Theatre – 1:15, 4:00, 6:45 p.m. Regal Cinemas – 2D: 11:20 a.m., 1:00, 2:10, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 7:50, 10:40 p.m.; 3D: 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 8:50, 9:50 p.m.

“TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE” AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:30 a.m., 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 9:20 p.m. Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 p.m.

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8HOME & GARDEN EVENTS

HOLIDAY FLORAL CENTERPIECE WORKSHOPS, McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Hands-on classes offered by McHenry County College’s Continuing Education Department. Schedule: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 26, Thanksgiving Centerpiece Workshop ($39, Course ID: NCFS16011); 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 3, Holiday Festive Centerpiece Workshop ($39, Course ID: NCFS41012). Registration and information: 815455-8588. McHENRY FLEA MARKET, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, 3705 W. Elm St. (formerly Sullivan Foods), McHenry. Indoor flea market featuring more than 85 vendors. Open all year long. Admission: $1 or free with one paid admission and a nonperishable item for the FISH food pantry. Information: 815-3633532 or www.mchenryfleamarket. net.

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Home decor comes with built-in tech By KIM COOK The Associated Press It’s one thing to have a beautiful, comfy bed. But what if it also included a TV screen, game console and dimmable, colorchanging lights? Or say you’ve got just enough room in your apartment for a credenza or speakers, but not both. How about one piece that includes both – and a whole media system? The integration of technology into home décor has come a long way since clunky TV screens peered out of armoires and media cabinets; today’s super-thin screens can come embedded in the bathroom mirror or attached to the wall like pieces of art. The “wallpaper” mode on Sharp’s new,

high-definition Aquos TV lets you display photos, paintings or other images as wall art when you aren’t watching television. You can set a clock for display times, and the light level is reduced to get rid of glare. (www.sharpusa.com ) Samsung’s four-door fridge has a Wi-Fi enabled screen that you can load with photos, news, calendar, notepad and recipes. (www.samsung.com ) Want to stay on top of the morning news? Seura’s TV screens embed in the bathroom vanity mirror. Robern’s embed in the medicine cabinet. (www.seura.com; www.robern.com) TV manufacturers are moving into organic light emitting diode technology, which can be linked to computers and other tech devices. It’s thin as a pencil and able to be curved. (www.lg.com)

As for sound systems, Symbol Audio of Nyack, N.Y., has a New Audio Desk that incorporates high-quality speakers into a slim writing desk crafted from maple, walnut, oak or cherry. Baby boomers may remember the family’s old hi-fi system. While iPhones and iPads can now hold the equivalent of hundreds of Mitch Miller albums, there still are those among us who like the mid-century chic of a retro-styled system. Symbol Audio pays homage to the hi-fi with the Modern Record Console, a walnut cabinet outfitted with a hand-built turntable, amplifier and built-in wireless router. (www.symbolaudio.com) “There is an undeniable charm to vinyl that’s more than just a fascination with the past,” said Blake Tovin, Symbol’s founder.

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Regional GRAYSLAKE ANTIQUE MARKET, second Saturdays and Sundays, Lake County Fairgrounds, Peterson & Midlothian roads, Grayslake. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $7 adults (good for both days), free for children younger than 12. Information: 715-526-9769 or www. zurkopromotions.com. HOLIDAY MINIATURE GARDENING, 6 p.m. Nov. 21, Kinsch Village Florist & Garden Center, 301 W. Johnson St., Palatine. Create the perfect winter village using miniature plants, winter greens and accents. Workshop includes a high-quality village set. Cost: $105 a person. Registration and information: 847-359-1182 or www. kinschflorist.com. KANE COUNTY FLEA MARKET, first weekends, Kane County Fairgrounds, Route 64 and Randall Road, St. Charles. Hours: Noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. Featuring hundreds of dealers. Food served all day. Admission: $5 adults each day, free for children younger than 12. Free parking. Information: 630-377-2252 or www.kanecountyfleamarket.com.

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