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Trustee won’t seek 2nd term Cary Village Board member Lukasik voices frustration By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com
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Volunteer Center McHenry County is celebrating its five-year anniversary in November. Volunteer Bev Zurchauer of Woodstock takes a measurement Nov. 1 for the annual Human Race 5K at McHenry County College.
Center works to meet volunteer needs in county By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com
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ev Zurchauer rolls a yellow wheel around McHenry County College as she measures a route that will total 3.1 miles. The Woodstock resident is looking to mark a path for the spring’s McHenry County Human Race 5K, an event run by Volunteer Center McHenry County to benefit local charities. Even though the race is scheduled for the spring, the volunteer center has to begin planning now as the location is changing to MCC. Organizers need to map out the route for permits and to include in race information for runners. Zurchauer has been volunteering for Volunteer Center McHenry County for three years and helps with setting up the logistics of handling 1,300 people, where to have them park, what roads to block and when to block them off.
Voice your opinion How many hours a year do you volunteer? Vote online at NWHerald.com. Helping people volunteer their time is just one of the things done by the center, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary Sunday of being an independent organization. Volunteer Center McHenry County has 225 member organizations and promotes the 71,000 volunteer needs in the county. “Every day we have 135 active agencies, either looking for volunteers, or attending trainings,” said Rebecca Stiemke, executive director of the volunteer center. The center previously had been part of the United Way and was passed around to other parent organizations, Stiemke said. “We couldn’t expand and grow
and meet the needs of the county,” Stiemke said. When the volunteer center became its own entity, it went from just a place that provided information with a referral program by matching volunteers with agencies to a place that provides workshops for nonprofits on how to raise money, apply for grants and development for organization boards. There also are volunteer management certification programs, which discuss the best practices for managing volunteers. The workshops help agencies look toward the future, Stiemke said. “Nonprofits need to have their capacity built just like any organization,” Stiemke said. Previously, any time a group wanted some sort of nonprofit training, group members had to go to Chicago, Stiemke said.
See VOLUNTEER, page A4
CARY – A vocal, and at times fiery and passionate, trustee will not run for re-election. Trustee Karen Lukasik said she does not plan to seek a second term on Cary’s Village Board in the upcoming April election. “It’s time for other people to step in and take my seat,” Lukasik said. “A lot of people have asked me to run,” Lukasik added. “I do think I could do it, but it’s taken time away from my family.” She was elected in 2011 in a campaign that included a call for more transparency in the village’s administration. Lukasik at times has been passionate and not afraid to voice her frustration and objections during Village Board meetings. Most recently, she was one of the vocal opponents to the planned Pedcor Investments 60-unit apartment complex at First and Pearl streets. She said the board is inconsistent, citing how the village is choosing to have a workshop on backyard residential chickens with a panel of experts, but chose not
to have a similar workshop when it came to the Pedcor decision. She said she believed the system broke down, and she disagrees with the Pedcor development being built at this time. Lukasik added the only information provided was from Pedcor, and it wasn’t enough to make a decision. She also was disappointed the decision was made to allow the project to go forward despite the large amount of opposition. “I think the process may have been handled differently, [if] we made the decision with information on both sides of the coin, rather than one side,” Lukasik said. She said the Pedcor decision was the “final straw.” “I’ve had a great experience with the village. ... I feel like I contributed, [but] I’m at a point that I’m frustrated,” Lukasik said. Village President Mark Kownick said he believes he made an informed decision on Pedcor, after the village had a Committee of the Whole discussion, two zoning hearings and a Village Board meeting. He added he did research
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Cary Village Board Trustee Karen Lukasik (left) talks with Village Administrator Chris Clark during a July 15 Cary Village Board meeting. Lukasik says she will not be running for re-election.
Immigration dispute erupts over White House lunch Republican leaders warn president not to act alone on deportation rules Republicans over immigration reform Friday, with GOP leaders warning President Barack The Associated Press Obama to his face not to take WASHINGTON – A White unilateral action. The presiHouse lunch aiming for coop- dent stood unflinchingly by eration boiled into a fresh dis- his plan to act. pute with newly empowered Republicans attending the
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postelection lunch at Obama’s invitation said they asked him for more time to work on legislation, but the president said his patience was running out. He underscored his intent to act on his own by the end of the year if they don’t approve legislation to ease deportations before then and send it to him to sign. The Republicans’ approach, three days after they resound-
ingly won control of the Senate in midterm elections, “seemed to fall on deaf ears,” Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said in a telephone interview. “The president instead of being contrite or saying in effect to America, ‘I hear you,’ as a result of the referendum on his policies that drove this last election, he seems unmoved and even defiant.” “I don’t know why he would
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