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An estimated 23,277 people in McHenry County live in poverty – a 41 percent jump over five years earlier.

Half of the poor in the Chicago area are now suburban compared with a third in 1990.

8.3 percent hike passes on 3-2 vote

By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The Crystal Lake City Council approved an 8.3 percent tax levy increase Tuesday, asking taxpayers for roughly $1.2 million more than last year.

The increase – projected to boost property tax revenue from $14.7 million to about $16 million – will cover pensions, firefighter salaries and benefits, library services and crossing guard services. Unlike many municipalities, no property tax revenue goes toward the general fund.

The owner of an average $250,000 home will see a $60.13 increase in annual property tax payments to the city.

The council was split on the vote, 3-2, with councilmen Brett Hopkins and Cameron Hubbard absent from the meeting. Mayor Aaron Aaron Shepley made the Shepley strongest push for the Crystal Lake increase, noting Crystal mayor Lake had the lowest tax rate among municipalities in McHenry County and the city would still account for only one-tenth of a resident’s bill.

“The thing that people need to recognize is none of us sitting up here are the beneficiaries of tax increases period,” Shepley said. “In our mission as being fiscal stewards, I would like to think this team has done a pretty dang good job.”

Property tax increases had been small and even decreased one year since 2008. Since then, the city has increased the levy by roughly $300,000 annually and even decreased the levy from 2009 to 2010.

It is that prudence that made councilman Jeff Thorsen wonder why the council could not find another solution to the problem.

“I think you’re still looking at a very healthy and revenue rich municipality,” Thorsen said. “I’m not in any support of this.”

City staff, which recommended the 8.3 percent increase, proposed three other options for consideration. Options ranged from a 4.7 percent increase to no increase, with reserves in certain funds completely drying up as the percent decreased and the need for future increases

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Jim Kunatz gets ready for bed Dec. 11 at the PADS shelter at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Woodstock. Kunatz has been homeless since October.

COUNTY AGENCIES SEE GREATER NEED FOR PERMANENT HOMELESS SHELTER

ABOUT THIS SERIES This series seeks to examine the impact in McHenry County of poverty’s transition from a traditionally urban problem to a more common suburban issue.

By Stephen Di Benedetto • sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com THE SERIES DAY-BY-DAY pring often becomes tent season for the growing number of homeless in McHenry County.

Staffers and volunteers at McHenry County PADS perform an annual spring ritual where they give the homeless population donated sleeping bags and tents and wish them on their way, not knowing whether they will come back to receive the services designed to lift them from their transient life.

The farewells have become routine in a county that has never had a permanent homeless shelter.

PADS, a division of Pioneer Center for Human Services, does partner with 10 area churches to provide temporary, overnight shelter during the colder months of October through April.

The lack of a year-round shelter and a central-

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ized location not only forces the homeless to find cover during warmer months, but also interrupts the work of case managers and specialists to deliver services and conduct assessments of the county’s neediest, said PADS coordinator Meghan Powell-Filler.

“Having a permanent shelter would make it easier to have everything there at their disposal, so they can work on resumes and not be sleep deprived and not worry about having people steal their stuff at night,” Powell-Filler said. “It provides stability.”

Questions over the ability to fund and financially sustain a permanent housing shelter have so far thwarted plans to build one.

See SHELTER, page A7

INSIDE: Many area schools have programs designed to help children in poverty. Page A8 ONLINE: For more information, and to read other installments in the series, visit NWHerald.com.

SUNDAY Living on minimum wage

MONDAY The struggle with finding affordable housing and transportation

TUESDAY The steady increase in the use of food stamps and the number of school children on a free/ reduced lunch program

WEDNESDAY A look at how overburdened local social service agencies have become

See COUNCIL, page A8

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MENTAL HEALTH BOARD TAPS LEADER The McHenry County Mental Health Board has picked a former County Board member to temporarily head the agency while a search for a permanent leader starts anew. The Mental Health Board announced Tuesday that it has selected Lyn Orphal as interim executive director, effective Jan. 2, until it can hire a permanent replacement. PAGE B1

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By SHARON COHEN The Associated Press It’s the ultimate fantasy: Walk into a store, plunk down a dollar, and with nothing but luck – really extraordinary luck – you win a giant lottery.

Suddenly, you’re rich as a sultan with enough money to buy an NBA team or your own island.

The odds of that happening, of course, are astronomical. But tell that to the optimists and dreamers across the country who lined up at gas stations, mini-marts and drug stores Monday for the last-minute buying frenzy in the Mega Millions jackpot.

The prize soared to $636 million – the second-largest in U.S. history – in advance of Tuesday night’s drawing.

So what drives people to

play, and what makes them think their $1 investment – among the many, many millions – will bring staggering wealth?

“It’s the same question as to why do people gamble,” said Stephen Goldbart, author of “Affluence Intelligence” and co-director of the Money, Meaning & Choices Institute in California. “It’s a desire to improve your life in a way that’s driven by fantasy. ...

The bigger the fantasy, the tastier it gets.”

In a piece called “Lottery-itis!,” Goldbart and co-author Joan DiFuria wrote on their blog last year on the Psychology Today website that in times of economic stress, playing the lottery is a way of coping with financial anxieties and uncertainty.

“We may seek a magic pill

to make us feel better,” they wrote. “Ah yes, buy a lottery ticket. Feel again like you did when you were a child, having hope that a better day will come, that some big thing will happen that will make everything right, set the course on track.”

The Mega Millions jackpot is just $20 million short of the $656 million U.S. record set in a March 2012 drawing.

The new huge prize stems from a major game revamp in October that dramatically reduced the odds of winning.

If no one wins Tuesday night and the jackpot rolls over past the next drawing scheduled Friday, it will reach $1 billion, according to Paula Otto, executive director of the Virginia Lottery and Mega Millions’ lead director.

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of roughly 259 million possible number combinations will be in play when the numbers are drawn, Otto says. For the ticket-buying optimists, that’s no deterrent.

“Even though the odds are against you, it’s just the excitement of, ‘Hey, I might wake up one day and be a millionaire,’ ” says Chris Scales, a 31-year-old hot dog vendor in downtown Nashville, Tenn., who brings in about $35,000 a year “if I really hustle.” He usually reserves his lottery playing for jackpots of at least $40 million.

The incredibly remote odds don’t really sink in for people, says George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University who has researched the motives underlying lottery ticket purchases.

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Dial-a-Carol a holiday tradition at U of Illinois

By CARLA K. JOHNSON The Associated Press CHICAGO – The phones are jingling off the hook at Dial-a-Carol, a student-run project on the University of Illinois’ Champaign campus.

It’s a hotline of sorts for people who prefer hearing holiday music sung by a choir of amateurs who’ve been up all night studying.

The carols echoing in the lobby of Snyder Hall may be out of tune at times, but the voices ring around the clock with youthful energy.

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Dial-a-Carol isn’t raising money – and that’s part of its charm. It coincides with final exams, giving students needed stress relief between tests.

“It’s something fun to do when there’s nothing other than studying to do,” said 19-year-old Christian Dillon, a freshman architecture student from Chicago. He took carol requests for eight hours overnight Friday and was back Monday for more.

“You’re sleepy, just all laughing and drinking coffee to keep each other awake,” he said.

There are even Dial-a-Carol miracles.

Renee Nelson, 51, of Naperville, heard about it on the radio and decided to call.

“My niece Erin [Markovich] is a junior there. I called and she answered, but I did not know she would be there,” she said. Nelson requested “Jingle Bells.”

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Students received 3,450 total calls total through Tuesday afternoon, coming in from all 50 states and 17 countries, Ruby said.

The program was started in 1960 by a former hall secretary, Betty Gordon, and a group of dorm residents. Last year, the student volunteers took more than 4,000 calls from people all over the world requesting “Jingle Bells,” “White Christmas” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

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Boeing move to Illinois unlikely Analysts: State doesn’t have what company needs

By DAVID MERCER The Associated Press CHAMPAIGN – Illinois has joined more than 20 other states trying to lure Boeing’s production of the 777x airliner out of Washington state, but the company’s long list of requirements could prove expensive.

But beyond expense, aircraft industry analysts say Illinois – home to Boeing’s headquarters but very little of its production – doesn’t have what the company needs. Illinois is making its pitch amid an ongoing debate about when tax breaks and other perks for businesses make sense, another factor that could complicate the state’s case.

Boeing asked for proposals from interested states after union workers in Washington state rejected a new contract offer. At least 22 states responded, hoping to land a plant that would employ up to 8,500 people.

Illinois economic development officials sent the proposal last week. They declined to discuss details, including whether it includes tax breaks or other measures that would require legislative approval.

“We think it’s a pretty compelling proposal for a company

that has Illinois as its headquarters,” said David Roeder, a spokesman for the state Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the agency that provides most tax breaks and other incentives in Illinois.

But Richard Aboulafia, a longtime aircraft industry analyst, is among industry watchers who don’t believe Illinois has a chance.

“Zero, zilch, nada. Worst [possible location] I’ve heard yet, apologies to Illinois,” he said.

The state, he said, has almost no aerospace production or workforce with industry experience and has a heavy, strong union presence unlikely to appeal to Boeing as it goes through tense labor negotiations in Washington.

Illinois also is short on several requirements Boeing wants any new home to provide, aerospace industry consultant Scott Hamilton of Leeham Co. said.

“They’re asking for the moon,” Hamilton said.

Those requirements include a site adjacent to a “major international airport,” one with a runway at least 9,000 feet long, according to a copy of the company’s site selection criteria obtained by The Associated Press. There are only a handful of such runways in the state, among them O’Hare International Airport in Chicago and MidAmerica St. Louis in Mascoutah, Ill., a money-losing airport just east of St. Louis.

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Sheriff’s concealed-carry request denied

By DON BABWIN The Associated Press CHICAGO – The director of the Illinois State Police has turned down a request from the Cook County Sheriff’s office for help in vetting applicants for concealed-carry permits under the state’s new firearms law.

State Police Director Hiram Grau says he can’t legally share a statewide database with local law enforcement, even though Sheriff Tom Dart says he needs it to ensure gang members and people arrested for domestic violence or gun possession don’t obtain permits to carry concealed weapons.

In a letter to Dart dated Dec. 16, Grau said neither local law enforcement nor the state police is allowed to use the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS) as

part of the law’s process that allows local agencies to object to individual applications.

The reason, he said, is such a use constitutes a “non-criminal justice purpose.”

Dart has said he is concerned that the way the law is written his office has no way of knowing or investigating whether someone has a criminal record or gang ties in other counties.

“It is unfair to restrict the law enforcement’s ability in this way on such a critical public safety issue,” Dart wrote in a letter dated Dec. 12 to Grau. “More importantly, it is misleading to the public to let them believe we are able to conduct any serious review of applicants when we cannot.”

Dart has made no secret of his concerns about the bill that state lawmakers passed earlier this year that made Il-

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linois the last state in the United States to make it legal for residents to carry concealed weapons. He has been particularly worried about the provision in the bill that requires law enforcement agencies to object to a governor-appointed panel if they suspect applications are dangerous to themselves or others.

He said people who have been identified as potentially dangerous in other counties will almost certainly get concealed-carry permits in Cook County because Dart’s office did not have the information about their criminal history.

Also, he has said, in a county where there are about 360,000 licensed gun owners – easily the highest total of any county in the state – it will be impossible to do a thorough job of analyzing what will certainly be a flood of applications.

CHICAGO – State regulators allege a doctor misled potential patients by offering “pre-approval” for medical marijuana through a Chicago clinic, a claim clinic officials refuted Tuesday as “baseless.” The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation filed a complaint Monday against Dr. Brian Murray, who has an active medical license in Illinois, and Tammy Jacobi, the founder of Good Intentions. The facility opened in August, the same month Gov. Pat Quinn signed a medical marijuana bill into law. The law takes effect in January, but medical marijuana won’t be available for months as agencies work out rules and regulations.

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Q: My spouse and I are going to be divorced. In this economy the question is not how we will dispose of our assets, but how our debts should be allocated.

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By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The growing gap between the richest Americans and everyone else isn’t bad just for individuals.

It’s hurting the U.S. economy.

So says a majority of more than three dozen economists surveyed last week by The Associated Press. Their concerns tap into a debate that’s intensified as middle-class pay has stagnated while wealthier households have thrived.

A key source of the economists’ concern: Higher pay and outsize stock market gains are flowing mainly to affluent Americans. Yet these households spend less of their money than do low- and middle-income consumers who make up most of the population but whose pay is barely

rising.

“What you want is a broader spending base,” says Scott Brown, chief economist at Raymond James, a financial advisory firm. “You want more people spending money.”

Spending by wealthier Americans, given the weight of their dollars, does help drive the economy. But analysts say the economy would be better able to sustain its growth if the riches were more evenly dispersed. For one thing, a plunge in stock prices typically leads wealthier Americans to cut sharply back on their spending.

“The broader the improvement, the more likely it will be sustained,” said Michael Niemira, chief economist at the International Council of Shopping Centers.

A wide gap in pay limits the ability of poorer and middle-income Americans to im-

prove their living standards, the economists say. About 80 percent of stock market wealth is held by the richest 10 percent of Americans. That means the stock market’s outsize gains this year have mostly benefited the already affluent.

Those trends have fueled an escalating political debate.

In a speech this month, President Barack Obama called income inequality “the defining challenge of our time.”

Obama also called for an increase in the federal minimum wage, now $7.25. Republican leaders in the House oppose an increase, arguing that it would slow hiring.

Several states are acting on their own. California, Connecticut and Rhode Island raised their minimum wages this year. Last month, voters in New Jersey approved an increase in the minimum to $8.25 an hour from $7.25.

Budget heads to final passage

By DAVID ESPO The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Year-end legislation to ease Congress’ chronic budget brinkmanship and soften across-the-board spending cuts moved to the cusp of final passage Tuesday, a rare display of Senate bipartisanship that masked deep Republican misgivings about slicing military retirement benefits.

The measure is expected to clear the Senate and go to President Barack Obama for signing Wednesday, marking a modest accomplishment at the end of a year punctuated by a partial government shutdown, a near-default by the U.S Treasury and congressional grid-

lock on issues ranging from immigration to gun control.

“This bipartisan bill takes the first steps toward rebuilding our broken budget process.

And hopefully, toward rebuilding our broken Congress,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who negotiated the compromise with Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. The first major test of that is likely to come in February, when Congress faces a vote to raise the government’s debt limit.

Tuesday’s vote to send the measure toward final approval was 67-33. But even as it was advancing, Republicans vowed that the requirement for curtailing the growth in cost-ofliving benefits for military retirees under age 62 wouldn’t

long survive. The Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said the panel will review the change, estimated to trim some $6.3 billion in benefits, early next year.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the measure had been written hurriedly as the holidays approached and was on course to pass because “everybody’s hell-bent on getting out of town and not shutting down the government.” And yet, he added concerning the retirement provision: “How could we have done this?”

The provision related to military retirement was a relatively small part of legislation that itself was born of lessthan-lofty ambitions.

By LARA JAKES The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The small-time case of a Baltimore purse-snatcher who got nabbed after crank-calling his victim in 1976 laid the legal groundwork for today’s worldwide government surveillance of telephone records in the name of protecting the U.S. from terrorists.

The Supreme Court eventually heard the case of Michael Lee Smith, ruling that the government was allowed to collect his phone records to tie him to the purse-snatching. And since the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency has used that case to

justify the collection of “metadata” – the duration of calls and the phone numbers used to make and receive them – of hundreds of millions of Americans and foreigners.

But a federal judge and the prosecutor who pressed for the purse-snatcher’s conviction say the government has gone too far. Now, it may take a new Supreme Court ruling to settle whether the Baltimore case more than three decades ago can apply to global government surveillance.

“To say that a small-time robbery on the street is a precedent for what was then unforeseen and massive electronic surveillance is simply a stretch, to put it mildly,”

says former Maryland Attorney General Stephen H. Sachs, who defended the government’s use of phone records to arrest and convict Smith during an argument in front of the Supreme Court.

The court sided with him in a 5-3 ruling in 1979. One justice abstained from the case.

“For present purposes, you have to say that the trapping of information from one suspect is different, for God’s sake, than trapping the data of every American who uses a telephone or the Internet,” Sachs said in an interview.

“There’s a distinction of volume, of context. But that’s what the Supreme Court is going to have to decide.”

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By BRADLEY BROOKS The Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO – National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wrote in a lengthy “open letter to the people of Brazil” that he’s been inspired by the global debate ignited by his release of thousands of NSA documents and that the agency’s culture of indiscriminate global espionage “is collapsing.”

In the letter, Snowden commended the Brazilian government for its strong stand against U.S. spying.

He wrote that he’d be willing to help the South American nation investigate NSA spying on its soil, but could not fully

participate in doing so without being granted political asylum, because the U.S. “government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak.”

Revelations about the NSA’s spy programs were first published in the Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers in June, based on some of the thousands of documents Snowden handed over to Barton Gellman at the Post and to Brazil-based American journalist Glenn Greenwald and his reporting partner, Laura Poitras, a U.S. filmmaker.

The documents revealed Brazil is the top NSA target in Latin America, with spying that has included the monitoring of Brazilian President

Dilma Rousseff’s cellphone and hacking into the internal network of state-run oil company Petrobras. The revelations enraged Rousseff, who in October canceled an official visit to Washington that was to include a state dinner. She’s also pushing the United Nations to give citizens more protections against spying.

In his letter, Snowden dismissed U.S. explanations to the Brazilian government and others that the bulk of metadata gathered on billions of emails and calls was more “data collection” than surveillance.

“There is a huge difference between legal programs, legitimate spying ... and these programs of dragnet mass sur-

veillance that put entire populations under an all-seeing eye and save copies forever,” he wrote. “These programs were never about terrorism: they’re about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They’re about power.”

Brazilian senators have asked for Snowden’s help during hearings about the NSA’s targeting of Brazil, an important transit hub for trans-Atlantic fiber optic cables that are hacked. Both Greenwald and his domestic partner, David Miranda, spoke before the Senate, and Miranda has taken up the cause of persuading the Brazilian government to grant political asylum to Snowden.

Indian official: Diplomat’s arrest barbaric

By NIRMALA GEORGE The Associated Press NEW DELHI – The arrest and strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York City escalated into a major diplomatic furor Tuesday as India’s national security adviser called the woman’s treatment “despicable and barbaric.”

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Indian officials said she was arrested and handcuffed Thursday as she dropped off her daughter at school, and was kept in a cell with drug addicts before posting $250,000 bail.

In a statement, the U.S. Marshals Service confirmed that Khobragade was subjected to the same booking procedures as other prisoners, including being strip-searched

– viewed in India as the most disturbing part of the arrest – and locked up with other female defendants.

Khobragade “was placed in the available and appropriate cell,” the statement said.

Earlier Tuesday, her U.S. attorney said he didn’t know if she was strip-searched.

Federal authorities said they were looking into the arrest.

“We understand that this is a sensitive issue for many in India,” said Marie Harf,

State Department deputy spokeswoman. “Accordingly, we are looking into the intake procedures surrounding this arrest to ensure that all appropriate procedures were followed and every opportunity for courtesy was extended.”

Harf said that federal authorities would work on the issue with India “in the spirit of partnership and cooperation that marks our broad bilateral relationship.”

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By RYAN LUCAS The Associated Press BEIRUT – Hospitals in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo are overwhelmed with casualties, an international aid group warned Tuesday, as government warplanes blasted opposition areas of the city as part of a withering three-day air assault that has killed more than 100 people.

The intensified air campaign, which one activist group in the city called “unprecedented,” suggests President Bashar Assad’s government is trying to crush opposition in the contested city, Syria’s largest, ahead of an international peace conference scheduled for late January in Switzerland.

Aleppo has been a major front in Syria’s civil war since the rebels launched an offensive there in mid2012, and the city has since been carved into opposition- and government-held areas. On Tuesday, the main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Council, accused the international community of “failing to take any serious position that would guarantee a stop to the bloodbath” ahead of the peace talks.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said airstrikes Tuesday killed 15 people, including two children, in the rebel-held Shaar district.

An amateur video posted online showed the aftermath of one of the strikes: rescue workers in white hard hats pulling a man from the rubble of a shattered apartment building. A crowd of people in the street shouted “God is greatest!” as the rescuers rushed the man to a waiting ambulance.

Tuesday marked the third consecutive day that Aleppo has been hit by deadly government airstrikes.

On Sunday, at least 76 people, including 28 children, died in air raids, according to the Observatory. Other opposition groups reported higher death tolls. Another round of government airstrikes Monday killed at least 12.

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PADS has seen a 48 percent increase in service needs since 2009 • SHELTER Continued from page A1 Those questions are likely to persist, as numerous county social service agencies face increased demand with decreased resources.

There are 23,277 people living in poverty in McHenry County, a 2011 estimate that jumped 9.8 percent over the previous year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The statewide number climbed 8 percent to nearly 1.9 million in 2011.

Half of the poverty in the Chicago area was concentrated in the suburbs in 2011, up from about a third in 1990, according to a report earlier this year from Heartland Alliance’s Social Impact Research Center.

Since 2009, McHenry County PADS has seen a 48 percent increase in people needing its services. In 2012 alone, PADS served 343 individuals and saw a 20 percent increase in homeless families needing shelter.

Home of the Sparrow has seen the number of homeless women and children it serves nearly double in the past two years, as officials opened 13 new affordable housing units.

The 10 churches that

partner with PADS have been brimming at capacity for the past two years, according to annual counts by the McHenry County Continuum of Care to End Homelessness.

The lack of a permanent shelter underscores the issues facing the county’s social service agencies, said Hans Mach, Continuum of Care board chairman. A greater need exists now more than ever for a year-round place where agencies can serve a growing number of clients and provide coordinated assessments, he said.

“The lack of a permanent, year-round shelter really is a gaping hole in our community ... It’s tough to really identify all your community’s homeless individuals when the site changes every night,” Mach said.

the rest of the budget.

The declining government dollars has created a holding pattern. While demand increases each year, staff levels and programs remain stagnant, Powell-Filler said.

“It’s asking our staff to do more with less,” she said. “It’s a balancing act.”

Agencies throughout the region and state also are feeling constrained resources.

Human service nonprofits have felt the brunt of budget cuts at the state level, seeing appropriations cut by $1.64 billion from 2002 to 2012, a joint study from Social IMPACT and the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability found.

Meanwhile, the state’s financial woes have caused more than $475 million total in overdue and backlogged payments to human service groups. In the McHenry County area, agencies are owed nearly $6.72 million as of late 2012, according to data complied by Social IMPACT. “Since 2009, we have watched draconian cuts in the

The bottom line effect The mantra for PADS’ 12 full-time employees has become do more work with less, said Powell-Filler, who manages a $750,000 annual budget at PADS. Since 2011, the Pioneer Center division has seen an 8 percent cut in federal funds. PADS now operates with $200,000 annually from the federal government, with community donations filling

human service sector,” said Judith Gethner, executive director of Illinois Partners for Human Services, a statewide advocate for more than 800 human service nonprofits.

Illinois Partners found in an annual survey earlier this fall that 73 percent of members have been negatively affected by late state payments and budget cuts.

A large number of nonprofits are either not filling vacant positions (36 percent), tapping into reserves (34 percent) or serving fewer clients (29 percent) to make up for losses at the state level, the study found. Nearly 250 members from Illinois Partners responded.

The economic recession in the late 2000s that forced many working families to lose jobs and the lack of investment from the state in economic development and job creation have created a “perfect storm” for human service groups tasked with servicing more clients with less resources, Gethner said.

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Illinois Food Bank distributed the equivalent of 42 million meals in 2013 to the poor – the highest ever in the bank’s history, said spokeswoman Donna Lake.

The nonprofit provides food and supplies to food pantries in McHenry, Lake, Kane and 10 other counties in the Chicago area. More than 724,000 people in the food bank’s territory now live in poverty.

The group relies heavily on community donations for goods and services, accounting for 55 percent of its revenue in 2012.

“Our hungry neighbors need us, and we’re stepping up to be sure we are here in their time of need,” Lake said.

“We’re working to secure more food and funding partners, to look at new ways of distributing food and reaching our hungry neighbors.”

Countywide agencies overburdened with demand also are looking more toward the community for support.

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A third of the agency’s funding currently comes from government grants. The rest comes from private donations and the group’s five retail shops.

“It will support you for two or three years and then it goes away,” Jones said.

“Our percentage of revenue from government grants will continue to decrease, as we see increased grants from the private sector.”

Faced with continual cuts in public funding, officials at PADS see increased donations from the community as the only way forward to sustain services.

But like many issues surrounding PADS, uncertainty plays a role in securing donations, Powell-Filler said.

“Some years, people can be generous because they are in a good place, and then they might fall on hard times,” she said. “We might not get the same money from them next year.”

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8NATION BRIEF Gunman kills himself, 1 other at Reno hospital RENO, Nev. – A suicidal gunman opened fire at a Reno hospital campus Tuesday, killing one person, critically wounding two others and sending police on a door-to-door search within the facility amid the chaos.

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“We know that children who are not well fed, they don’t have access to a myriad of things. They will come to school in basically survival mode.”

Luz Baez, director of grant management and programs for School District 300 es them how to become more involved. And some schools offer English as a second language and GED classes for parents through Elgin Community College.

District 300 also has reading programs and preschools specifically designated for children of poverty.

“We make use of every grant we get,” Baez said.

As important as it is for children and their parents to have the resources they need to succeed at school, teachers also need the tools to better educate children from low-in-

Increase is needed to offset costs related to bargaining • COUNCIL Continued from page A1 rising to 14.4 percent for putting off action unless cuts to services or other revenue sources were enacted.

Councilwoman Cathy Ferguson urged council members to compromise and approve a 4.7 percent increase, but members held firm on both sides of the spectrum. Shepley and Ellen Brady Mueller supported the large increase while Thorsen and Ralph Dawson wanted a flat levy.

“If the vote is between zero and 8 percent, then I go eight,” Ferguson said. “But I would like to go more moderate.”

Of the funds receiving support, the largest bump

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The second biggest increase is seen in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, which is projected to grow from $1.4 million to $1.7 million.

The additional dollars are needed to stop the practice of using reserves to fully fund the pensions. Since May 2011, roughly $760,000 in reserves has gone to the pension fund.

come families. Eight years ago, District 200 schools in Woodstock hired a consulting group that issued poverty training to all teachers, and the training has continued since then with each new teacher hired.

The training focused on providing teachers better ways to work with poorer students and families, and to try and find the root cause for why a student might be struggling in school.

“If students aren’t returning homework or a long-term project, rather than punishing

the student, dig deeper and find out what’s happening with the family,” said George Oslovich, District 200 assistant superintendent. “It’s really a great strategy for any family.”

The poverty training also involved increased vocabulary work with children from low-income families. Teachers were encouraged to develop thinking strategies to help students draw connections from what they are reading and to expose them to words in context of what they read.

“In a general sense, the opportunities that are available to students with working, single parents aren’t the same [as more affluent students],” Oslovich said. “Those students might not have had the experience of going to the museum, zoo or movies … That’s where vocabulary gets built.

“[Poorer] families are making sure they have food on the table, and their kids have clothes and shelter. They don’t have time to do some of those things.”

Oslovich said the poverty training at District 200 – which has six Title I schools – has been an asset to the entire school, regardless of poverty level. Teachers are more interested in why students are underperforming, and they have the resources available to help them.

“The training taught us to really understand who the student is before you start designing interventions for the kid,” Oslovich said. “That goes beyond income level. Because of this training, we’ve gotten better at looking at who the children are and what are their needs, academically and beyond.”

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A study conducted this year by a psychologist at Stanford University found that affluent children hear 30 million more words by age 3 than children from low-income households.

Students below the poverty line are often less prepared for school than their wealthier counterparts, according to Luz Baez, director of grant management and programs for School District 300 in Carpentersville. But the bigger issue, Baez said, isn’t that students are coming to school without supplies or their homework; they’re coming to school without food.

“We know that children who are not well fed, they

don’t have access to a myriad of things,” she said. “They will come to school in basically survival mode.”

Schools in which children from low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment are eligible for Title I funding, a federal grant that assists schools with low-income students. There are six schools in District 300 that draw at least 75 percent of their students from low-income households. Some are as high as 90 percent.

Title I funding has allowed District 300 to invest in a number of programs aimed at assisting students in poverty, including an extended summer school program, an extended kindergarten program and parent involvement activities, which help keep parents connected to what’s happening in their child’s school and teach-

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John Rung President and Publisher

Dan McCaleb Group Editor

Jason Schaumburg Editor

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 • Page A9 • Northwest Herald • NWHerald.com 8OUR VIEW

8SKETCH VIEW

Struggling with poverty Economists tell us that the Great Recession ended in June 2009. Since then, the national economy has expanded, although at a modest rate.

However, the rate of students from lowincome families in McHenry County has not declined, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.

Rather, it has risen significantly.

In Alden-Hebron District 19, for example, the percentage of elementary school children eligible for free or reduced-price lunches has more than tripled since 2001, from 11.1 percent then to 39 percent now.

In Harvard District 50, the percentage jumped from 28 in 2001 to 66 today.

The same kind of increases can be found in most McHenry County school districts, a Northwest Herald investigation into local poverty found.

And the increases aren’t isolated to McHenry County. In the past four years, Illinois as a whole saw the low-income student rate rise from 43 percent to 50 percent.

The numbers point to the challenge faced by local educators to give a sound, 21st-century education to all students.

Studies show that boys and girls who live in low-income families are at a disadvantage because of economic stresses, even though some are able to perform well.

Still, research released earlier this year about rising poverty in Illinois, by the Social IMPACT Research Center in Chicago, pointed out a stark fact: Low-income students are less likely to graduate from high school.

Without high school diplomas, dropouts will learn the hard way that the doors of economic opportunity are much more likely to remain closed.

Local charities find the demand for their services going up as well. We’ve heard of several food banks that are serving more clients.

The national jobless rate has declined to 7 percent, but the Illinois jobless rate is higher, at 8.3 percent. McHenry County’s jobless rate actually fell to 6.8 percent in October.

But until more local people have betterpaying jobs, low-income families will continue to struggle, as will schools.

The situation points to the continued need to promote economic development while reacting to the changing global economy.

Santa Claus, if you’re reading this, what the region could really use this Christmas is a stronger economy.

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Wind energy tax credit In May, Gov. Terry Branstad and officials of MidAmerican Energy Co. announced plans for the largest economic development investment in Iowa history: A $1.9 billion wind energy project involving the addition of 656 new wind mills will generate as much as 1,050 megawatts of power in the state by 2015, create 48 permanent jobs and 460 construction jobs over two years.

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8IT’S YOUR WRITE Don’t be fooled To the Editor: Huntley Park District will be asking voters in March to approve a referendum giving them $18.75 million to build a new indoor turf facility. And they are saying, if passed, taxpayers will not see an increase on their current property tax bill. But what about future tax bills?

What are some other things we taxpayers have been told? What about the 66 percent income tax increase that is “only temporary.” Yeah, that’s a good one. If you remember, Illinois pulls this temporary stuff about every 10 to 15 years.

What about, “If you like your insurance policy, you’ll get to keep it.” Or, “If you like your doctors, no problem.”

I could go on and on, but I think you get the point. I think it was Abe Lincoln who said something about fooling people some of the time. Don’t be fooled. Remember, stupid is what stupid does. I’m voting “no” on this referendum.

Wally Gullang Huntley

Duplicative services To the Editor: The political clout of townships should not be underestimated. Of Illinois’ 7,000 tax-funded governments, the state’s 1,433 township governments have the closest ties to Springfield. Townships are

well-connected. Townships are so connected that many members of the General Assembly are both a township official as well as a state representative or senator, supporting legislation for the continuation of outdated townships.

Township political clout comes from their lobby organization, Township Officials of Illinois. Funding of TOI comes from the Township Officials of Illinois Political Action Committee. TOIPAC funds the election of pro-township representatives and senators. TOI has been in existence for more than 100 years, has a membership of more than 11,000 township officials, and delivers the “township message” through their magazine sent to 13,000 individuals, who are elected statewide officials.

Message from Bryan Smith, TOI executive director, to township officials: “Our presence in Springfield is now more important than ever ... with the General Assembly to preserve township government in Illinois.”

Message from Jeff Wallace, TOI president, to township officials: “TOI maintains a strong presence at our State Capitol in Springfield.

Our aggressive legislative agenda has enabled us, (TOI), to pass many laws to protect township government. We have also been successful in our opposition, (township referendums), to proposed laws that would be detrimental to township government.”

TOI’s message: “We are the

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people next door.” Really!

The fact is that townships have evolved into surplus government, provide duplicative services of city and county governments, and do not provide value to the everyday citizen. Abolish townships.

Bob Anderson Wonder Lake

Thanks for support To the Editor: It seems we don’t say thank you enough, but the Thanksgiving season reminds us of all the people and events we are thankful for. As members of the McHenry Lions Club, we are thankful to the many people who contributed to our Candy Day held in October.

Without your help, we would not have been able to provide eye exams and eyeglasses and hearing aides to needy people in the McHenry area. Lion President David Dicker, as Candy Day chairman, extends a big thank you to all those who helped make this event a big success.

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Lion Curtis Bremer is in charge of the canisters you see in many businesses throughout McHenry. These are ongoing; you will see them all year long. We thank the businesses that participate in this worthwhile endeavor.

We also would like to thank all of the people who contribute food and cash for our two yearly collections to benefit FISH, the food pantry. Some people remember when they were having a hard time and received help from the food pantry, and are happy to help now that they are on a firmer footing.

We are constantly seeking new members for the McHenry Lions Club, so if you are interested in being a member, you would be welcome at our meetings. We meet at 7 p.m. the second and fourth Monday of every month at the Village Squire in McHenry. Why don’t you stop in and see what we are all about? We’ll be looking for you! Anyone 18 and over is eligible.

Lion Judy Bierman Secretary, McHenry Lions Club

Removing protection at end of life inevitably threatens all life During the Christmas season when many celebrate a unique and miraculous birth, what the late Pope John Paul II called “a culture of death” continues its march.

Last week, the upper house of the Belgian Senate voted to extend a 2002 law legalizing euthanasia for adults so that it includes incurably ill children. The amended law will now have to be voted on by the Parliament’s lower house, a vote expected to take place before elections in May, but if passed, writes The New York Times, children afflicted with “constant and unbearable physical suffering” and “equipped with a capacity for discernment” could then be legally euthanized in Belgium.

Reports The Times, “Els Van Hoof, a Christian Democrat from Belgium’s Dutch-speaking community, argued that paying more attention to relieving the pain of patients instead of allowing doctors to legally kill them would ‘allow both old and young to die with dig-

nity.’ A 10-year-old, she said, is not in a position to make a life-or-death decision ‘in an autonomous manner’ and will invariably be vulnerable to pressure.”

If the bill becomes law, Belgium would be the first European nation to allow the euthanasia of terminally ill children. In The Netherlands, where euthanasia has been legal since 2002 when the “Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Act” took effect, a recent poll published in the Journal of Medical Ethics found that of 2,000 Dutch people polled, 21 percent believe euthanasia should be allowed for those who are suffering from no illnesses, but who are simply “tired of living.”

If everyone who has even momentarily felt tired of living were subject to euthanasia, Earth might soon resemble a ghost planet.

Europe, which has become more secular in recent years, could be a bellwether down the road for the United States if Obamacare survives its many dysfunctions and the Inde-

Editorial Board: John Rung, Don Bricker, Dan McCaleb, Jason Schaumburg, Kevin Lyons, Jon Styf, Kate Schott, Stacia Hahn

VIEWS Cal Thomas pendent Payment Advisory Board, charged with controlling health care costs. Based on this system, could the IPAB one day determine who gets treatment and who doesn’t based on actuarial tables and cost projections? Could there come a time when it could conceivably decide how much a human life is worth?

Absent a standard for life’s value, the state could get to decide based on its interests. In the extreme we get Stalin’s Russia with its forced famine, gulags and executions; Mao’s China and the cultural revolution; Germany’s Third Reich and its “Final Solution” and slavery in America with its Three-Fifths Compromise, which, for representation purposes, determined that slaves would be counted not as full human

8THE FIRST AMENDMENT

beings, but as “three-fifths of all other Persons.”

The Articles of Confederation were written a decade after Thomas Jefferson declared: “...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” It would be nearly a century later before the Civil War led to the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves, and another century before civil rights legislation recognized those “endowed” rights.

The distinction is important. The federal government did not grant rights to African Americans. It recognized rights endowed by their Creator. It is when nations depart from this noble creed that we get abortion on demand, infanticide for the “defective” and “unwanted,” and now euthanasia. Removing protection at one end of life inevitably threatens all life at every stage.

It is more than ironic that a group known as the Nonhuman Rights Project has made it their mis-

sion to “... change the common law status of at least some nonhuman animals from mere ‘things,’ which lack the capacity to possess any legal right, to ‘persons,’ who possess such fundamental rights as bodily integrity and bodily liberty...”

Bodily liberty? Based on what?

Three New York courts have so far rejected the NRP’s efforts, but give it time. Society may soon devolve even further than it has already.

This is the problem when humanity does not accept an authority higher than itself, an authority that holds life, all life, however inconvenient, however tiresome, infinitely valuable.

But if we consider ourselves nothing more than evolutionary accidents in an impersonal universe, then we are all potentially vulnerable, depending on the value assigned to us by the state.

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8COMMUNITY NEWS

FIRE LEAVES HOME UNINHABITABLE LAKEWOOD – A Lakewood family was displaced after a fire started in the kitchen of their two-story home on Tuesday.

Lakewood and Woodstock firefighters responded around 2 p.m. to a structure fire at 8930 Benoy Court in Lakewood. Firefighters arrived to see smoke billowing from the front door of the residence, said Woodstock Fire Rescue Capt. Brendan Parker.

Firefighters extinguished the fire within 10 minutes. It was contained to the kitchen, but heavy smoke left the home uninhabitable and caused an estimated $275,000 in property damage, Parker said.

A person inside the home escaped safely. No one was injured in the incident, Parker said.

Investigators determined that the fire was accidential, Parker said, adding that the kitchen was not being used for cooking before the fire started.

The two departments requested help after seeing dense smoke coming from the residence. Departments from Huntley, Crystal Lake, Cary, McHenry, Algonquin, Fox River Grove and Carpentersville responded.

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More discipline for Amati?

Woodstock council calls session to look at firing sergeant

By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The City Council will re-examine its options for further punishment to Sgt. Chip Amati, including his possible firing.

Council members started Tuesday night’s packed, emotional and often tense meeting by calling a special executive

session to follow planned agenda items wherein they would discuss further action “up to and including termination, if appropriate and feasible, and within our legal authority and procedure,” Mayor Brian Sager said.

The council widely was supportive of a public seeking more answers and further punishment. Sager was moved to

near tears as he spoke, stopping more than once to gather himself.

“Nobody feels as much disgust, outrage, betrayal and anger as the members of this City Council,” Sager said.

It’s unclear what council support ultimately means, and what steps are available to the council, but members said they’d seek further repercus-

sions for Amati during executive session.

“I have that same question,” Councilman Mike Turner told a woman inquiring about the next step. “What else? What other opportunities do we have?”

During an investigation of Amati that began in August,

See AMATI, page B8

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8LOCAL BEST BETS

YOGURT STORES HOSTING TOY DRIVE Yumz Gourmet Frozen Yogurt stores, including 5006 Northwest Highway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, and 277 Randall Road, Lake in the Hills, will accept donations for Toys for Tots through Friday.

Those who bring in a new, unwrapped toy will receive 20 percent off their frozen yogurt purchase.

For information, visit www. yumzfrozenyogurt.com.

NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR MUSIC AWARD McHenry County Music Center is accepting nominations for the fourth annual Marie Ann Vos Music Leadership Award, recognizing lifetime commitment, achievement and passion in promoting musical arts in McHenry County and beyond.

There is no formal application form. Nomination letters should include your name and contact information, the name and contact information for the nominee, along with their biography and reasons you feel your candidate should be recognized.

Nominations must be submitted by Dec. 31 to McHenry County Music Center, c/o Cathy Ames, MCMC executive director, 401 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake.

The winner will be announced at the Feb. 26 McHenry County Youth Orchestras Pops Concert at the Raue Center for the Performing Arts.

8LOCAL DEATHS George C. Cannell 91, Fox Lake Phyllis J. DePalma 70, Huntley Lillian French 97, Woodstock Patrick J. Sullivan 73, Fox Lake Robert D. Watkins 83, Woodstock Charles L. Wilkinson 65, Belvidere OBITUARIES on page B7

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Students enter the cafeteria, including fifth-grader Tommy Cooper (left), 10, Tuesday before lunch at Spring Grove Elementary School. The cast is on loan from the N.W. Harris Learning Collection at the Field Museum, which loans out objects to its members. Paul Kaup, a parent who has became very involved with the school through Southwest Airlines’ Adopt-A-Pilot program, paid the $200 fee to rent the skull and brought it to the school.

Tyrannosaurus rex skull travels to Spring Grove Elementary

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com

Holding his recently won prize of the Tyrannosaurus rex figurine, second-grader Dylan Radke, 7, listens while Paul Kaup gives a presentation Tuesday during lunch at Spring Grove Elementary School.

SPRING GROVE – When the life-size tyrannosaurus rex skull showed up in Spring Grove Elementary School’s cafeteria two weeks ago, the kids did double takes.

“It was kind of scary. It was like, ‘What’s this doing in our school?’ ” fifth-grader Halle Rosentreter said, adding she had never seen a T-Rex skull before.

The plaster cast was on loan from the Field Museum’s N.W. Harris Learning Collection, a library used mostly by educators that lends out scientific artifacts.

Paul Kaup, the father of three who got involved with District 2 through Southwest Airlines’ Adopt-A-Pilot program, heard about the library though an article in the Chicago Tribune and signed up for a membership.

“I saw the article and jumped online because I’m one of the crazy dads that would bring a T-Rex to

“It was kind of scary.

It was like, ‘What’s this doing in our school?’ ” Halle Rosentreter Fifth-grader at Spring Grove Elementary

the school,” Kaup said.

Getting the skull into the school turned out to be a much bigger challenge than he originally thought it would be, Spring Grove Elementary Principal Chris Pittman said.

An hour and four doors later, Pittman had to call a custodian to remove the center pole from the side entrance because none of the entrances were wide enough to get the skull through.

Pittman gets a new idea from Kaup about every two months, he said, and while some of them he has to scale back, others have turned into school favorites, including an annual near space balloon project.

During lunch hours Tuesday, the last day the skull spent at the elementary school, Kaup quizzed the elementary school kids on dinosaur facts, handing out prizes to students who filled out worksheets or answered his questions correctly.

He also showed them other bone casts, including an allosaurus claw and the lower jaw of a hadrosaur.

“When did dinosaurs go extinct?” Kaup asked the kids, many of them straining to raise their hands as high as possible.

Third-grader Nate Komar knew the answer (65 million years) and the follow-up of what caused their extinction. (While scientists don’t know for sure, the best guess is that an asteroid led to their extinction.)

Komar has been interested in dinosaurs since preschool, so he thought it was pretty cool to find the skull in his cafeteria and hopes that other dinosaur bones – maybe from a leg – find their way to Spring Grove.

D-46 superintendent to resign Mental Health Board

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com PRAIRIE GROVE – Superintendent Lynette Zimmer will leave District 46 at the end of the year, making her the fourth administrator to depart the district since the beginning of the year.

Zimmer, who is in her fourth year as superintendent, was hired by Lake Villa District 41 at its school board meeting Monday evening.

“Prairie Grove is a hard place to leave,” she said in

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a phone interview Tuesday, adding that District 41 is a bigger district where she’ll face more challenges.

District 46 has faced nearly unprecedented turnover this year, with now four of their six administrators resigning.

“This is a lot,” Zimmer

said.

While Zimmer didn’t point to anything within District 46 that led to her leaving, former business manager Andy Searle told the board in an exit interview this summer that the atmosphere at the district is “toxic.”

Searle pointed to a dispute that predated him and Zimmer, in which false information was given to teachers by administrators, as the reason behind the distrust.

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taps interim leader

By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The McHenry County Mental Health Board has picked a former County Board member to temporarily head the agency while a search for a permanent leader starts anew.

The Mental Health Board announced Tuesday that it has selected Lyn Orphal as interim executive director, effective Jan. 2, until

it can hire a permanent replacement. Board members unanimously approved her appointment Monday evening, but did not name Orphal until she Lyn received noOrphal tification and could give appropriate notice.

The board is giving Orphal

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WOODSTOCK: ALLEGED BATTERY

Additional charges filed after jail stabbing

By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – An inmate of the McHenry County Jail is facing new charges after he allegedly stabbed another inmate in the neck with a pencil.

Juan D. Lebron, 29, of Woodstock, has been jailed since July on aggravated criminal sexual abuse charges to which he pre- Juan D. viously pleaded LeBron guilty. He will be sentenced Jan. 8.

Lebron was charged again Monday with aggravated battery with great bodily harm stemming from a fight with Joshua R. Hachmeister, another inmate.

According to the latest criminal complaint, Lebron punched Hachmeister, 33, with a pencil, causing a piece of it to become embedded in his neck.

Hachmeister, of Wonder Lake, was taken to Centegra Hospital – Woodstock for injuries that were not life threatening.

The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office wouldn’t say whether he still was being treated at the hospital Tuesday, citing security reasons.

Lebron has been isolated from other inmates since the incident, the sheriff’s office said.

Hachmeister has been in custody since August.

He’s charged with aggravated driving under the influence after previously having been convicted of DUI four times.

Lebron’s next court date on the battery charge is Thursday.

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CARY: $2.5 MILLION LEVY

WOODSTOCK: COURT DATE JAN. 7

Cary opts to increase tax levy

Teen pleads not guilty to drug-induced homicide

By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com CARY – The Cary Village Board had a change of heart with its property tax levy.

Instead of freezing the levy, a decision it made two weeks ago, Village Board members Tuesday opted to increase the levy by 2.13 percent to $2.5 million.

The amount represents a $52,000 increase over the amount of property taxes the village took in this year.

On Dec. 4, the board approved a $2.45 million property tax levy, which is the same amount the village collected this year.

Under the state tax cap law, the village can either increase its levy by 5 percent over what it took in this year, or by the 1.7 percent rate of inflation, whichever is less.

Village officials expect new property to increase by 0.43 percent, according to village documents.

Two weeks ago, Trustee David Chapman advocated for freezing the levy and finding ways to save money in the

budget to avoid taking more money from residents. Chapman was not present at Tuesday’s meeting.

Trustees Jeffery Kraus and Bruce Kaplan voted against the levy increase.

Kraus said even though property values are decreasing, taxing bodies continue to collect more money.

Kaplan said the village has been running surpluses the past two years.

“We have created some surpluses. I don’t think we’re justified in increasing the tax levy this year,” Kaplan said.

Increasing the levy by $52,000 would allow the village to help cover costs of the village’s state-mandated police pension, village officials said.

Trustees Rick Dudek, Karen Lukasik and Robert Bragg and Village President Mark Kownick voted to increase the levy.

“We have services we have to provide to residents in town,” Dudek said. “Snow plowing, lights … we have [a certain] amount of dollars available to us to be able to do

that.”

Also Tuesday, the Village Board approved an economic development plan and economic development incentive policy. The plan has goals such as retaining, expanding and attracting commercial and industrial businesses, and increasing municipal revenue sources. Re-establishing a revolving loan fund program also was added as a goal of the economic plan.

Five sites in the village are listed in the plan that can provide immediate impact on the local economy: the Selcke property on Jandus Cutoff and Route 14; Jack’s Channel; the Damisch Farm property on Route 31; property along Three Oaks Road; and the former Maplewood School property.

Among the guidelines in place for incentives include providing a demonstrable return to the village, being part of a project consistent with the vision for the community and being necessary for the project to go forward. Incentives would be based on project costs.

By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A Round Lake Beach teenager pleaded not guilty to allegations that he gave a Johnsburg woman the heroin that killed her.

Justin T. Hurt, 17, has been in custody since being charged with drug-induced homicide, stemming from the Nov. 21 death of Stephanie Habhab.

He’s alleged to have provided Habhab the heroin that caused her overdose. She was 19 years old.

Hurt entered a not guilty

plea Tuesday before McHenry County Judge Gordon Graham.

He needs $20,000 to be released from McHenry County Jail.

Drug-induced homicide is a Class Justin T. X felony, punHurt ishable by between six and 30 years in prison. He also was charged with felony unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.

Hurt’s next court date is Jan. 7.

Expires 12-31-13.

McHENRY: CAPACITY INCREASE

Plum Garden restaurant plans to expand

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com McHENRY – Plum Garden is expanding, a move that will double the McHenry restaurant’s capacity and the number of employees.

The McHenry City Council unanimously approved Monday evening a loan of $33,605 through its revolving loan fund, which was set up to encourage economic development and job creation.

The loan is an “excellent way to use the revolving loan fund,” said Alderman Victor Santi, pointing to the business’s longevity and its role as an anchor on Main Street.

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Perry Moy, the owner of the restaurant at 3917 W. Main St., had originally requested $30,000 to buy equipment and $5,000 for working capital.

However, First National Bank of McHenry, which is underwriting the loan, recommended a higher amount to purchase equipment, furniture and fixtures but eliminated the amount for working capital, according to council documents.

The conditions of the loan are to be identical to the ones previously approved for Buddyz, Epic Cycle and most recently, Hidden Pearl Cafe.

Moy would be responsible for repaying the five-year

loan plus interest equal to the prime rate, which currently is 3.25 percent.

Moy is expanding his business into the neighboring lot, formerly McHenry Printing, the documents said. Construction costs were estimated at $78,000. The approval leaves about $18,000 available for lending in the fund, which was established in the late 1980s through a state grant.

Plum Garden was opened in 1965 with carryout only by Moy’s mother, Connie Moy, and expanded in 1970 to include seating, according to the business’s loan application.

Perry Moy took over the business in 1972.

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School board OKs property tax abatement

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com RICHMOND – In a marked contrast to a year ago, the School District 2 Board unanimously approved a property tax abatement in front of a nearly empty audience Tuesday evening.

Taxpayers won’t see all of the approved $500,000 abatement returned to them because the board also approved a 2.1 percent increase on its levy, a number based on the rate of inflation plus new development, Superintendent Dan Oest said.

The three members of the public who attended the meeting all spoke about the board’s discussion on how to address temperatures in classrooms, some of which hit 91 degrees.

Air conditioning was one of the improvements a crowd of parents requested last year when a $1.5 million abatement – a number based on how much the district expected its reserves to increase by – was considered and eventu-

ally approved.

Some of the other requests, including additional technology, exposure to the Spanish language and full-day kindergarten, were implemented this year.

Others like facility improvements are being investigated. The district completed a facilities audit a few months ago, and its building and grounds committee has been putting together a priority list.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Oest presented a list of options the district could pursue to address the heat issue, from window units to a full-blown central air conditioning system.

Several board members said they needed more information, in particular estimates on how much some of the options would cost and by how much they would bring the temperatures down.

The district needs to have something in place by next August to address the heat, even if it’s a temporary fix, board member Mindy Ross said, add-

ing the board has been talking about this for three years and needs to do something about it.

This year’s abatement will represent a portion of the expected surplus if the district’s fiscal situation remains the same, Oest said.

Because of last year’s abatement, property owners will see the portion of their bill going to District 2 increase.

The total the district had in the bank at the end of fiscal 2012-13 was $12.7 million, an increase of about $2.3 million over the previous year, according to board documents.

The school board is working on adopting a maximum fund balance policy and is in talks with another district that is also in the process of adopting one, school board President Bert Irslinger said.

District 157, the high school district that covers the same geographic area, is also considering an abatement, which it will discuss and possibly vote on at its meeting Wednesday.

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Riding with a winning team Horse, rider, owners team up for national championship

By AL LAGATTOLLA alagattolla@shawmedia.com CAMPTON TOWNSHIP – Five years ago, John McGuire set out to acquire a horse “that could do absolutely everything.”

McGuire, now 71 years old, said he “looked all over the country,” but couldn’t find the perfect fit, until he saw some footage of a mare named Saphira. He teamed the horse with local rider Heather McCarthy, and he said he knew he had his winning team.

Saphira is now 9 years old, and McGuire, his wife, Marilyn Johnson, and McCarthy know they have a winner. Saphira was honored as the United States Dressage Federation’s Dressage Horse of the Year at the fourth level.

The next goal? The 2015 Pan Am Games.

The horse resides with McGuire on his property in Campton Township, near Elburn.

McGuire, once an NFL draft pick, selected by the Baltimore Colts, likens his team to a football franchise.

“Heather is my Tom Brady,” he said. “I’m the coach, and my wife is the owner of the team.”

And there is Saphira, who McGuire called “spectacular.”

He praised the mare’s “cool and calculating demeanor” and said Saphira and McCarthy were a perfect team.

“She has a following around here, and Heather has a following,” he said. “Heather is very well-liked in the riding community. She’s likable. She’s respected. She has a very, very

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Heather McCarthy trains with Saphira, who won the United States Dressage Federation’s 2013 Fourth Level Horse of the Year award. good work ethic.”

McCarthy, 29, spends her days working with horses in western Kane County, and training out of Copper Ridge Farms in Maple Park. She is the head trainer at Copper Ridge.

“It’s been a wonderful opportunity for me,” she said.

She competed at the U.S. dressage nationals with two horses – McGuire’s Saphira and Sandro Paix, owned by Sandi Chohany. She’s been competing in championships for years, and the whole endeavor has been something she has been a part of for years. She said she has been working with horses for most of her life.

“I can’t remember my life before horses,” McCarthy said.

“I’ve been riding since I was a really little girl.”

McGuire said he had known her since she was 12, and “she never lets you down … she gives it her all.” He said he considers her to be part of his family. He said he chose to compare her

to NFL star Brady, a two-time Super Bowl MVP, because she delivers when it counts most.

“She knows when to go for the long bomb or the short pass,” McGuire said. “She rides to win. … I think you should always play to win.”

He said he has confidence that she could achieve that in any situation, and he said in Saphira, McCarthy “has got a NASCAR that is capable of beating everybody in the race.”

“Heather, at some point, is going to beat everybody in this country,” he said, adding that “she has the capability and the brains to reach the highest levels.”

McCarthy said the Pan Am Games would be “a realistic goal for me. … It’s something that is in my sight.” She said she would like to compete at the international level, and she said she would love to be in the Olympics someday.

“That’s every girl’s dream,” she said.

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Replace the missing words in this story about a shelter elter pet.

The Adventurous Justin ustin

by Kyra C.

It’s a sad fact that every year, millions of unwanted pets wind up in animal shelters. Why are there so many unwanted animals? What can you do to help? Find out on today’s Kid Scoop page.

Controlling the pet population in this country is a good place to start being truly kind to animals. Each year, animals year a thousands of dogs and cats are abandoned and then killed.

Sometimes people get a pet and find out, too late, that they can’t care for it. All too often, the pet is then abandoned or left at a shelter.

Justin is an adventurous, cute ute 4-week-old kitten. He is a brown tabby with a white _______. _. He has black stripes on his head, and nd his feet look like socks.

I chose to write about Justinn because he ________ my heart when I walked in.

He has a _________ meow, w, and he bounces when he eats his food. He crawls around his cage, __, “Let me out!” and it’s like he’s __________,

But wait, it gets worse. Some people do not spay or ne neuter their pets, which means the animals keep k producing unwanted young.

Sadly, not enough good homes exist for all the puppies and kittens born into this world.

So these unwanted pets also end up in shelters, where many of them must be put to death.

A good home for Justin would be a big house so he could __________ around. You will have fun if you get him. He will win over a bunch of people.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

One female cat that is not spayed can have eight to ten kittens a year. If each of her kittens has kittens, and all of those kittens have kittens, after five years, the one female cat you started with will have brought over 100,000 cats into the world. If you could get 100,000 cats in one line, it would be about 25 miles long!

1. Don’t get a pet unless you are really prepared to care for it. Read at the library about how to care for the pet you want, and then decide if you truly have the time it takes.

2. If you have a cat or dog, get it spayed or neutered so that it won’t breed and produce young.

Spaying is the operation that prevents female cats and dogs from breeding. Neutering is the operation that prevents male cats and dogs from breeding.

POPULATION SHELTER CLINIC SPAYED PUPPIES KITTENS KIND NEED NEUTER LOST COUNTRY CARE COOL CATS

Find the words in the puzzle. Then look for each word in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities.

S T A C S D E E N S N C B S B P R E H K E I A N E E A E D K T C B R T I L Y C I T T I U E T P O E N I O E N E A O P S D K N S R I L N I U T N O I T A L U P O P Y R T N U O C M A L Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

For more information, visit the Humane Society of the United States at: www.hsus.org

Five puppies and five kittens are identical. Can you find both sets of five?

Pet Seeks Owner

Standards Link: Visual discrimination: Observe similarities and differences in common objects.

Imagine that animals could seek owners by running ads in the classified section of the newspaper. Pretend you are an animal.

Write an ad for your ideal owner.

7+2+5 1+2+3

Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write expository descriptions; Write from a point of view.

Cats and dogs communicate with their tails.

What are these animals saying? To find out, add up the numbers next to each animal.

Match the answer with the tail’s message.

9 = “I’ve been a bad dog.”

14 = “Watch out, I might attack!”

9+3+5

6 = “I’m so happy to see you!”

17 = “I’m a good dog!”

13 = “I’m a cool cat.”

3+2+4

4+5+4

Standards Link: Spelling: Arrange words in alphabetical order.

Standards Link: Number Sense: Calculate sums.

Wanted: A New Home for a Pet Pretend you are a pet.

Write a Classified Ad as if you are looking for a new home.

Wanted:I am a Yorkie,housetrained, friendly,fluffy coat,good health with all shots, will have a micro-chip installed,good guard puppy,very active.Looking for a friendly, clean home,willing to take me to a doggy park, and walks, and cuddle with owner in your bed sometimes!

Rayne, 3rd grade If I were an animal, I would be a dog. I would live in a forest so that I could be with other animals.

Jose, 3rd grade

Look through today’s newspaper and find 10 names that would make good pet names.

Put them in alphabetical order.

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Wanted: The perfect home for a cat named Puffy. She needs her hair brushed three times every day, a bath two times every week, and a mouse every day. She needs a walk five times every week. You will have to build a club house, and an electric elevator. Puffy needs a mint after dinner.In return, you will have the best pet cat ever!

Josephine, 4th grade

If I built a little house, I would build it for a puppy. I chose a puppy because puppies are not rough.

Puppies are small and adorable. I would color the puppy’s house purple, red and brown. The inside is going to be soft with food and toys. That is the house I would build when I grow up and get a puppy.

Melissa, 5th grade

If I were a pet, I’d choose to be a dog. I would put a pool and a hot tub in his room and a big screen TV and a slide that would go into the pool. In the kitchen there would be his water and food. In his cage, he would have a lot of squeaky toys that he could play with.

Angel, 4th grade

Amazing home on one acre, with a warm, cozy bed, open space to run, a dream come true for any bunny.

Karyme, 4th grade

If I had a rabbit, I would build a burrow under the stairs so that only the rabbit could get in and out and it would feel safe.

Justin, 4th grade

A fabulous home in the city of New York with a big back yard with grass to roll in and snow in the winter and with a dog park nearby to complete my life with other dogs and my owner.One bone per week would be an added bonus Stephanie, 3rd grade

Please include your school and grade.

A good home for a pet would be a great atmosphere where the pet feels safe. It would be in a home where the owner takes good care of them and provides shelter and food. A soft bed to sleep on and a large yard to play in would be part of the package.Not only that but a pet also needs a best friend.

Gaby, 5th grade Thank you in advance for reading.I have never been to a home.I’m a cat and can be really playful.I promise to clean up after myself, eat when I’m told to and be bunches of fun.I like belly rubs and my favorite can of food is salmon fish.I’m a Siberian.I am a light and playful fur ball.Any time you’re looking for fun I’m right in front of you.But, if you’re not in the mood, I respect that so I just cuddle up with you.

Rachell, 6th grade

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Search for new head of Mental Health Board scheduled to begin at start of year • LEADER

Continued from page B1 a six-month contract with a 30day opt out while it begins its third search for a leader after a tumultuous year of managerial upheaval and budget cuts.

County Board member Paula Yensen, who holds the county’s voting seat on the nine-member Mental Health Board, said that search will begin with the new year.

OBITUARIES GEORGE C. CANNELL Born: May 9, 1922; Chicago Died: Dec. 16, 2013; Fox Lake, IL George C. Cannell, age 91, of Fox Lake, died Monday, December 16, 2013 at his home.

George was born May 9, 1922 in Chicago, to Diamond and Marie (Wondrash) Cannell. On June 15, 1951 he married Demetra Coutoumanos in Chicago. Formerly of Chicago and a 40 year resident of Arlington Heights, George moved to Leisure Village in Fox Lake in 2007.

He was an engineer for AT&T in Chicago for 39 years and a member of the Telephone Pioneers of American AT&T Organization for which he volunteered countless hours. He was a WWII veteran of the U.S. Army serving in the European Theatre. George was an avid fisherman, enjoyed the outdoors and walking as a great relaxing activity. He was well known at the Meijer Store where he frequently walked.

Survivors include four children, Daniel (Liz) Cannell of Algonquin, Anna Cannell of Johnsburg, Charles (Monika) Cannell of Johnsburg, Angela (Mike) Landon of Johnsburg; grandchildren, Nick and Melissa Cannell, Christine (Trevor Bupp) and Alex Cannell, Stephen, Stacia, Daniel Landon, and Joe (Lauren) Landon; and expecting the first two great grandchildren in 2014.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Demetra Cannell on March 9, 2012; and his parents.

Visitation will from 1:00 p.m. Until 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 22, 2013, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050.

The funeral blessing will be at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 22, at the funeral home, followed by military honors.

For those wishing to send an expression of condolence, his family suggests memorials to Alzheimers Assocation, 8430 W. Bryn Mawr, Suite 800, Chicago, Il 60631 or to a charity of the donors choice.

For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com, where friends may leave an online condolence message for his family.

Orphal, of Crystal Lake, will replace Information Systems Director Duane Lahti, who was given the interim reins in November after previous interim executive director Todd Schroll resigned. The board has not had a full-time executive director since Sandy Lewis resigned in November 2012 to take a teaching and management job at Virginia Commonwealth University. Lahti will return to his regular duties.

“Duane has done a yeo-

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man’s job, but he was wearing three hats, and he needs some relief as far as both responsibilities,” Yensen said.

The Mental Health Board is tasked with helping the county’s mentally ill and developmentally disabled, mainly through a property tax levy it disburses to qualifying social service agencies.

The board over the past year has experienced almost complete turnover. New members are grappling with

shrinking revenues that have forced cuts long sought by critics who have alleged that past members allowed the agency to become a top-heavy bureaucracy that spent too much on administration, overhead and a large headquarters it did not need.

Past critics of the Mental Health Board have since stated they are happy with the direction the new board members are taking the agency.

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ry (J ) Govea; one brother, Michael.

A Memorial service will be held at 11:30AM Saturday, December 21, 2013, at the Haase-Lockwood & Assoc. Funeral Home and Crematory, 620 Legion Dr., Twin Lakes, WI with Father Dennis Stafford officiating. Inurnment will be at a later date in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, IL. The Sullivan Family will receive friends from 10:30AM Saturday until the time of services at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, memorial remembrances may be made to the American Lung Association, 13100 W. Lisbon Ave., Brookfield, WI 53005.

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CHARLES L. WILKINSON Born: Jan. 20, 1948; in Harvard Died: Dec. 14, 2013; in Belvidere

Charles L. Wilkinson, 65, of Belvidere and formerly of Capron and Chemung, IL LILLIAN FRENCH passed away peacefully Saturday December 14, 2013 in Lillian French, of his home surrounded Woodstock, age 97, by his loving family. passed away He was born peacefully in January 20, 1948 in Milwaukee, Harvard, IL ,the son of William and surrounded by Ellen (Rutledge) Wilkinson. family, on Charles has 4 siblings, Edward December 14, 2013.

(Susie) Wilkinson, Richard (Diane) Lillian is survived by her daughter, ROBERT D. WATKINS Born: Sept. 24, 1930; Belvidere Wilkinson, Patricia Wilkinson and Norma (Hellstrom); six grandDaniel (Marie) Wilkinson. children, Rich, Patter, Nancy, Katie, Died: Dec. 14, 2013; Marengo He married Patricia Stennerson on Sue, and Tom; and many loving Robert Dale May 4, 1973, she preceded him in great-grandchildren. She is also Watkins, age 83, of death on December 18, 1982; he survived by the family of her niece, Woodstock, died then married Linda Brown on March Joyce Shook (Bob), their four Saturday, 2, 1992. children, Robin, Robbie, Raymond, December 14, 2013, Charles was blessed with a son, and Roxanne; and many loving great under the loving Michael (Jennifer) Wilkinson and nieces and nephews. care of Passages stepchildren; Pamela (John) Lillian was a long-term member of Hospice and the Stennerson Wrasse, Betsy (Ted) Grace Lutheran Church, where she wonderful staff Stennerson Morris, Roger “Chip” had many dear friends. She was an past and present at (Julie) Stennerson, Charles (Julie) exceptional cook, passionate Florence Nursing Brown, Laura Brown; 13 gardener, great card-player, loyal Home in Marengo. grandchildren, Michael Wilkinson, friend, and overall, a wonderful, He was born in Jr., Jamilyn Smolik, Austin Smolik, feisty lady.

Annika Brown, Elaina Brown, Angela After a long and rich life, we know Belvidere, on September 24, 1930, to Floyd and Florence Watkins. On (Stennerson) Smith, Patricia “Sissy” Lillian is with the Lord, the many April 14, 1956, he married Faith J. Stennerson, Ashley (Stennerson) friends and family members that Jensen, in Woodstock.

Malone, Matthew Morris, Adam preceded her in death, and Robert joined the United States Morris, Sarah (Morris) Pastor, Kyle especially her beloved sister, Helen.

Wrasse, Brian Wrasse; numerous Funeral service and visitation will Army in November of 1951, and be held in Milwaukee from 1:00pm served in the Korean War, where he great-grandchildren, nieces and was wounded in Battle and received nephews. to 3:00pm on December 22, 2013, the Purple Heart. After his Charles served our country in the at Heritage Funeral Home, 6615 West Oklahoma Ave, Milwaukee, WI discharge, he helped his dad on the US Army during Vietnam as a farm, and also worked at Arnold decoder in the Stratcom Division 53219. (414-321-7440).

Engineering in Marengo. From 1968 from Aug. 1967 until his honorable until 1998, he farmed and worked at Discharge in 1972.

PATRICK J. SULLIVAN Techalloy Inc. in Union. He was a He graduated from SIU with a Born: March 17, 1940; Chicago, IL, member of the American Legion degree in Mechanical/Electrical Died: Dec. 16, 2013; Libertyville, IL Post 192 in Marengo for 60 years.

Engineering. His career included He loved to go fishing with his working at Byron Nuclear Power Patrick J. Sullivan, age 73, of Fox son, Mark and his buddies in plant during its initial phase; Lake, Illinois, died Monday evening Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio.

Honeywell, Inc. and working as a December 16, 2013, at the Advocate His favorite thing in life was mail carrier for the US Post Office in Condell Medical Center in spending time with his family and Capron, IL. Libertyville, Illinois. friends. He also loved Polka music, Charles is a member of VietNow, Patrick John Sullivan was born on fish fries and the Cubs, and his Studebaker Club, Inc., American March 17, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois, favorite of all, strawberry Legion, Moose and Chemung United the son of the late Michael and shortcake.

Methodist Church. He was strong in Mary Flaherty Sullivan. On May 22, He is survived by his loving wife his faith and attended First United 1965, in St. Bonaventure Catholic of 57 years, Faith; three children, Methodist Church with his wife, Church in Chicago, he was united in Lori (Brad) Brown, Mark Watkins PHYLLIS J. DEPALMA Linda. marriage to Carolyn E. Gabe. They and Andy Watkins; six grandIn retirement, he enjoyed Born: June 17, 1943; Chicago lived in Twin Lakes before moving children, Jennifer (Kenneth) Knuth- spending time with his family, Died: Dec. 15, 2013; Huntley to Fox Lake, 15 years ago.

Wake, Rebecca Knuth and her watching all of his grandson Mikey's Patrick served in the United fiancé John Reiker, Melissa Watkins, baseball games, driving his 1941 Phyllis J. DePalma, age 70, of Sun States Air force from November 21, Sara (Andrew) Bourke, Heather Champion Studebaker, antiquing, City, Huntley, passed away 1958, until discharge from active Watkins and Daniel ( Betsy) participating in auctions and suddenly the morning of Sunday, duty October 12, 1962. He then Watkins; step grandson, Tyler staying active in VietNow. December 15, 2013. served in the Reserves until 1964.

Brown; nine great grandchildren, Charles is preceded in death by She was born June 17, 1943 in Patrick worked as a delivery Chance, Parker, Kael, Jacob, his parents; first wife Patricia; Chicago, to George and Nancy brother Danny; stepdaughter, (Labagnara) Urbanski. She grew up driver for the United Parcel Services Scarlett, Logan, Gregory, Addison in the Chicago area for 33 years. He and Derrick; step great grandson, Pamela and grandchildren Kyle and on the north side of Chicago, and was a member of the Loyal Order of Gavin Wake; several cousins, nieces Brian. attended St. Alphonsus Grade and nephews. Also his extended Funeral services will be held at School, and graduated from Old St. the Moose in Batavia, Illinois, and the American Legion. He was an family at Florence Nursing Home 10:00 a.m. Saturday December 21, Michael High School. She then 2013 in First United Methodist attended and graduated St. Mary of avid Green Bay Packer fan, and the especially all his “Girls”.

Chicago Blackhawks. He enjoyed He was preceded in death by his Church, 610 Bonus Ave., Belvidere, Nazareth Nursing School. fishing, hunting, bowling and going parents; and two infant sons, IL, with Rev. Amy Poust officiating.

In October of 1964, she was to the Casinos.

Michael Floyd, and Daniel Dwight.

Burial will be in Dunham-Chemung united in marriage to Arthur J. Patrick is survived by his wife, A memorial gathering will be held Cemetery. Military honors will be DePalma. They resided in Chicago bestowed by the Rockford Chapter until they moved to North Riverside, Carolyn; son, Joseph (Amy) Sullivan Saturday, January 4, 2014, from of Rosemount, Minnesota; two 10:00 am, until the time of the of VietNow. where she worked as a nurse at Visitation will be held from 4:00 Loyola Hospital. In 1989, the couple grandchildren, Ambrosia (Rosi) and memorial service at 11:00 am, at Bryce; sister, Eileen (Daniel) Busch Grace Lutheran Church, 1300 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Friday at the moved to Algonquin, where she of Johnsburg, Illinois; many nieces Kishwaukee Valley Road, in Church. worked as a day teacher at Tutor and nephews; great nieces and Woodstock .

In lieu of flowers the family Time day care. They moved to nephews; and great great nieces In lieu of flowers, donations in his prefers memorials to the Rockford Huntley in 2006, where she name to a charity of the donors Chapter of VietNow in his memory. continued as a caretaker and nanny. and nephews.

He was preceded in death by two choice would be appreciated.

To light a candle or to share a She cared for numerous children, sisters, Katherine (Arthur) Marmitt For information, call the memory please visit family members and family pets Schneider, Leucht, Merwin & www.buckwheelerhyland.com during her lifetime. She was also an and Maryann (Jesse) Govea; and active member of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

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for a full-time director came frustratingly close for the Mental Health Board. The first search ended in April when one of two finalists backed out, forcing a do-over. Board members in November interviewed three finalists and began negotiations with the top candidate, but that, too, fell through.

Orphal could not be reached for comment Tuesday. She served on the County Board from 2000 until 2010, and from 2007 to 2010 was executive di-

rector of Leadership Greater McHenry County. Orphal was development manager from 2011 through 2012 for Family Alliance, a Woodstock-based adult care agency that receives Mental Health Board funding.

Her online resume lists her career since August as a self-employed consultant, although she applied in October for the paid seat to represent McHenry County on the Regional Transportation Authority Board.

8FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Helen J. Budzinski: The visitation will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 18, at St. Benedict Catholic Church in Fontana, Wis. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. the same day. For information, call the funeral home at 262-275-2171.

George C. Cannell: The visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. The funeral blessing will be at 4 p.m. the same day, followed by military honors. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400.

Phyllis J. DePalma: A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee Road, Huntley. For information, call the funeral home at 847-5158772.

Lillian French: The funeral service and visitation will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, at Heritage Funeral Home, 6615 W. Oklahoma Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. For information, call the funeral home at 414-321-7440.

Victoria J. Hillstrom: A celebration of Torrey’s life will be at 6 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 20, at Seven Lakes High School, 9251 Fry Road, Katy, Texas.

Cheryl Lynn Jones: The visitation will be from 3 p.m. until the funeral service at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20, at Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock. All other services will be private.

For information, call the funeral home at 815-338-1710.

Daniel J. Klen: The visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18, at Strang Funeral Home of Antioch, 1055 Main St. (Route 83), Antioch. The funeral service and interment will be private. For information, call 847-395-4000.

Inez Evelyn Knaack: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Dec. 18, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 504 E. Diggins St., Harvard. The funeral services will immediately follow.

Interment will be in Mt. Aubrun Cemetery in Harvard. For information, call the funeral home at 815-943-5400.

James M. Lawrence Sr.: The memorial service will be at 1 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 21, at Heritage Woods of Belvidere, 4730 Squaw Prairie Road.

Lawrence W. Leeke Jr.: The visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 19, and resume from 8:30 a.m. until the 10 a.m. service Friday, Dec. 20, at K. K.

Hamsher Funeral Home, 12 N. Pistakee Lake Road, Fox Lake. Interment will be in Cole Cemetery, Spring Grove. For information, call 847-587-2100.

Diane Munson: A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, at Mausoleum of McHenry County Memorial Park, Route 14, Woodstock.

Michael Q. O’Brien: Family and friends will gather for an open house from 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, until the celebration of life ceremony at 6:30 p.m. at the McHenry Country Club, 820 N. John St., McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 224-770-2484.

Rekstad “Rex” B. Olson: The memorial visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18, at Colonial Funeral Home and Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry, with a service at 8 p.m. Interment will be private.

For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-0063.

Patrick J. Sullivan: A memorial service will be at 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 21, at Haase-Lockwood & Associates Funeral Home and Crematory, 620 Legion Dr., Twin Lakes, Wis. The inurnment will be at a later date in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood. For information, contact the funeral home at 262-8773013.

Robert D. Watkins: A memorial gathering will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, at Grace Lutheran Church, 1300 Kishwaukee Valley Road, Woodstock.

For information, call Schneider, Leucht, Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home at 815-338-1710.

Charles L. Wilkinson: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20, at First United Methodist Church, 610 Bonus Ave., Belvidere. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 21, at First United Methodist Church, 610 Bonus Ave., Belvidere. Burial will be in Dunham-Chemung Cemetery. For information, call Buck Wheeler Hyland Funeral Home at 815-5442616.

John M. Wozniak: The visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, at Haben Funeral Home & Crematory, 8057 Niles Center Road, Skokie. The funeral will be at 10:15 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20, at the funeral home, proceeding to St. Peter Catholic Church, Skokie, for a 10:30 a.m. Mass celebration. Interment will be in St. Peter Catholic Cemetery, Skokie. For information, call 847-673-6111.

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state police found he misused the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System – a felony under state law – and sent inappropriate texts to the 12-year-old daughter of his girlfriend at the time.

The 24-year veteran of the force was given the city’s maximum 30-day suspension without pay by the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, but wasn’t charged criminally and maintains his job.

City Attorney Richard Flood said the power to fire an officer is reserved for the state Legislature and the board which originally sanctioned Amati. “[The Board of Police and Fire Commissioners] have the ability to fire an officer if charges are brought against him,” Flood said. “Normally when this occurs an officer will hire a lawyer, and the proceedings can be extensive at times.”

An already tense crowd grew more anxious for a moment when, shortly after public comments closed, Woodstock resident Gus Philpott stood up at his seat to warn the council about an issue of safety. Just outside the door to the council chambers, a couple men in masks stood peering in.

After initial confusion, Sager asked Police Chief Robert Lowen to escort the men away from the door and request more police if necessary. He did so, but not before Tara Jenkins, who’d spoken to the council already, walked toward the door and then turned back toward the chambers.

“This is ridiculous,” she snapped. “These men are here to help us.”

The men were members of a small rally by the Chicago chapter of the International hacker group Anonymous.

The group, which had planned to arrive and march from the train station at 6:30 p.m., was unseen before the meeting.

Later, as eight of them stood in masks in City Hall’s entryway, several said their train was late. None offered their names.

About eight people – most Woodstock residents – spoke during the public comment portion of Tuesday’s meeting.

Conversations were generally amicable but impassioned, with a couple speakers ranging toward hostile.

Jenkins, a Woodstock resident, said she’d been uninterested in the city’s official workings until Amati’s suspension. As a mother, the news hit her hard, she said.

Jenkins delivered a prepared appeal of more than five minutes to the council.

“In no other profession could one count on a workplace suspension to take the place of a felony criminal

School board member Khushali Shah said she thinks dysfunction with the board is part of the problem and worries it will make finding a replacement a challenge.

Since the April election that brought in four new board members, the atmosphere at meetings has been tense, with arguments between board members and disputes over how agenda items and communication between board members, staff and the district attorney should be handled.

“I’m hoping that [the school board members] are going to reach out to one an-

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The Chicago chapter of the international hacker group Anonymous held a rally Tuesday during the Woodstock City Council meeting.

The group held the rally to demand that Sgt. Chip Amati be fired and charged with a crime. Amati, a 24-year veteran, was suspended without pay for the maximum 30 days after an investigation revealed he sent inappropriate text messages to a 12-year-old girl and misused the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System. charge,” she said.

Steven Larrick, who also lives in Woodstock, focused his remarks on abuse of the LEADS system, which Amati had been in charge of prior to the incident. Larrick called for a further investigation “to see if other people within the department also committed the

same acts.”

After the portion of the meeting concerning Amati ended, Larrick said he felt the council listened to those who spoke. But he felt the prospect of more consequences for Amati could hinge on the State’s Attorney’s Office re-examining criminal charges.

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“That’s a change,” Ponga said. “Anytime there’s a change in the way things are going ... change can be tough for some people.”

Board secretary John Bowman agreed that things are improving, adding the last meeting was one of the best they’ve had.

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ST. CHARLES NORTH 68, CRYSTAL LAKE SOUTH 60

AP COLLEGE FOOTBALL ALL-AMERICA TEAM

Gators fall to North Stars on the road Lynch named to first team

By KEVIN DRULEY

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ST. CHARLES – Pass more, play in transition more, then bring on the high-fives.

St. Charles North’s blueprint for success during Tuesday’s girls basketball game against Crystal Lake South sounded elementary enough even if the team hadn’t recognized youth players before tipoff.

As the North Stars followed through after a tight first half, their

Check out the video highlights of Tuesday night’s Jacobs vs. Prairie Ridge boys basketball game at McHenryCountySports.com.

grins and the path to a 68-60 victory only widened.

North (5-6) trailed, 31-30, at halftime, remaining close despite a Crystal Lake South rebounding edge keyed by senior forward Sara Mickow’s game-high 20 boards.

“When the ball comes off of the kid’s hand, she just reads it,” Gators coach Kyle McCaughn said.

“She understands if it’s long, short right away. She’s got that natural instinct to locate herself where that ball is most likely coming off. And she’s got quick hops. I mean, she’s quick off of her feet, so she really does a wonderful job on the boards for us.”

A 43-27 advantage on the glass allowed Crystal Lake South (8-5) to build an early lead. The Gators also

exploited North’s struggles to get back in transition. Chanel Fanter, who matched Mickow with a teamhigh 16 points, had 14 points before the break.

Attacking the basket and defending with more even aggressiveness after halftime allowed North to open the third quarter on a 9-0 run. Davidson, who finished with a game-high 21 points, scored seven points in that span.

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NIU teammate Ward named to AP’s third-team

HUNTLEY 58 CARY-GROVE 25

Raiders roll by Trojans

By SHAW MEDIA DEKALB – The honors keep coming for Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan Lynch.

After taking third place in the Heisman Trophy balloting Saturday in New York, Lynch on Tuesday was named to The Associated Press All-America first-team.

Lynch made the squad as an all-purpose player. Florida State’s Jameis Winston, the Heisman Trophy winner, was named first-team quarterback.

Lynch is the first Huskie to earn first-team Jordan Lynch honors since LeShon Johnson in 1993.

The senior from Chicago will cap off his Huskies career Dec. 26 in the Poinsettia Bowl on in San Diego. Lynch has 4,557 total yards on the season, and If he rushes for 119 yards against Utah State, he’ll reach the 2,000 plateau.

NIU safety Jimmie Ward earned a spot as a third-team safety. Ward is only the third Huskie, along with Garrett Wolfe (2006) and Todd Peat (1986), to make the third team.

Lynch (2012) and Michael Turner (2003) have been second-teamers.

Ward leads the Huskies with 89 tackles and six interceptions.

“It was a goal for me. I’ve been talking about it since last year,” Ward said after Tuesday’s practice at the

Egekeze scores 23 points, pulls down 14 boards

By JOE STEVENSON joestevenson@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – Huntley’s gymnasium is becoming a house of horrors for visitors.

The Red Raiders shut down Crystal Lake Central in a 49-point win last week and again displayed suffocating defense against Cary-Grove on Tuesday night.

Through three quarters, the Trojans had only a pair of field goals.

“That’s how we’ve been the past three years,” Huntley forward Amanze Egekeze said. “That’s one reason we’ve won three straight FVC Valley titles.

We’re trying to keep [the defense] up.”

The Raiders rolled to a 58-25 victory in their Fox Valley Conference Valley Division boys basketball opener, their 33rd victory in 35 division games since the 2011 season.

Egekeze dominated both ends with 23 points on 10-of-16 field-goal shooting, with 14 rebounds and four blocked shots. It was the fifth win in six games for Huntley (5-3, 1-0 FVC Valley).

“We were really amped for this game,” forward Riley Wicks said. “It’s our first conference game at home and we wanted to start off on a good note.

We play a lot different at home. It seems like we’re a lot more confident than on the road.”

Huntley took full advantage of Egekeze since C-G had no player taller than 6-foot-4 to match up with the 6-8 senior.

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See RAIDERS-TROJANS, page C3

Huntley’s Amanze Egekeze shoots during the third quarter of Tuesday’s game against Cary-Grove in Huntley. Huntley won, 58-25.

No. 23 NIU vs. Utah St., 8:30 p.m.

Dec. 26, in San Diego, ESPN

SOCHI OLYMPICS

Crystal Lake’s McElman to officiate hockey

By JEFF ARNOLD jarnold@shawmedia.com Andy McElman never allowed himself to get his hopes up, realizing that being selected as one of 13 NHL officials to work the Winter Olympics in Sochi was anything but a sure thing.

Even when the email hit his in-box, announcing the Chosen 13, McElman – a 20-year NHL veteran and 52-year-old Crystal Lake resident – couldn’t bring himself to believe his name actually was on the list.

But when the congratulatory phone calls and text messages

had his cellphone buzzing earlier this month, the reality that McElman was headed to Russia in early February finally set it.

McElman has worked his share of big games during his linesman career. But he admits sharing the ice with a star-studded collection of hockey talent in Sochi rises above anything he’s accomplished.

“It’s the best in the world playing and competing in a very short amount of time,” McElman said. “They bring it and they play hard and it’s going to be very exciting.

“I don’t know how else to say

it. It’s going to be a very memorable experience to work that level of hockey. A lot of these players carry a very strong feeling for their country and they will complete for that. That’s what makes it a great event to participate in.”

Like everyone who was chosen for the Olympic assignment, McElman submitted paperwork earlier this year, pitching his candidacy for one of the 13 spots. When he filled his paperwork with NHL Senior Vice President and Director of Officiating Stephen Walkom, McEhlman didn’t figure he had much of a chance.

As the season began, McElman kept the selection process in the back of his mind, hoping he would be chosen, but never allowing the waiting game to get in the way of his day-to-day hockey work life.

“In the grand scheme of things, you hope you get selected. But sometimes in this business, when it happens, it happens,” McElman said. “When you think you’re going to get AP file photo something, it doesn’t happen, and then there’s times when NHL linesman Andy McElman gets between the Calgary Flames’ you don’t think it’s going to get Jarome Iginla (left) and Dallas Stars left wing Niklas Hagman during a game March 15, 2007, in Dallas. McElman, a 20-year NHL it, it happens.

See MCELMAN, page C2

veteran and 52-year-old Crystal Lake resident, has been selected as one of 13 NHL officials to work the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

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NBA: Indiana at Miami, 6 p.m., ESPN Just more than a week after their first meeting of the season, the top teams in the Eastern Conference battle again.

But there’s a chance the game’s best player will be sitting it out. LeBron James is questionable with a sprained left ankle.

Major League Lacrosse’s New York Lizards signed goalkeeper Devon Wills after she was passed over in the league’s supplemental draft, giving her a shot to become the league’s first female player. Yes, there’s a professional lacrosse league. And yes, it held its 2014 supplemental draft in 2013.

A man was charged with felony eavesdropping after being accused of making prank calls to judge coaches’ interest in jobs. Those coaches included Tony Dungy and Jack Del Rio. If the prank caller were calling for Texas, here are some coaches he should call: 1. Jason Garrett (left) 2. Jon Gruden 3. Eric Taylor

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WHITE SOX

Davidson part of ‘new core’

By TONI GINNETTI tginnetti@suntimes.com

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Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews celebrates a goal scored by teammate Patrick Kane against Nashville Predators goalie Carter Hutton in the first period of Tuesday night’s game in Nashville, Tenn. The Hawks won, 3-1.

BLACKHAWKS 3, PREDATORS 1

Hawks close out grueling stretch atop the standings Victory over Predators caps 10-city tour with 13-5-1 mark

By MARK LAZERUS mlazerus@suntimes.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the past 34 days, the Blackhawks played 19 games, boarded 18 planes, visited 10 different cities, including two twice, lost two stars to significant injuries and suffered three humbling, lopsided losses.

Yet here they sit, the most grueling part of their schedule behind them, still atop the NHL standings, still on a roll – if anything, more confident than ever.

“It’s been a tough schedule, and we’re playing pretty well,” Brandon Saad said. “I think we’ve done a good job of facing adversity.”

Pretty good, yes. The Hawks closed out the brutal run of games Tuesday night with a 3-1 victory over Nashville – avenging arguably their worst loss of the season, a 7-2 defeat here in the second game of the stretch. So despite the weariness and blowouts

Next vs. Vancouver, 7 p.m. Friday, CSN, AM-720 and injuries, the Hawks finished the 34-day obstacle course with a sparkling 13-5-1 record.

It was a familiar formula for the Hawks, who scored a power-play goal for the 10th straight game (their best run in 22 years), got another goal from Patrick Kane (his 20th; he has a point in 10 straight games and 22 of 23), and got another goal and assist from Duncan Keith, who continues to bolster his candidacy for the Norris Trophy.

Antti Raanta, making his fifth straight start and his seventh straight appearance, improved to 7-1-1 with a 27save performance.

Now the Hawks can look forward to a much friendlier month. They had 12 road games in the past 34 days.

They have a mere four in

their next 35. And they have only two games – both at home – in the next nine days, thanks in part to the three-day NHL-mandated Christmas break.

“You look at our schedule, this was our biggest stretch, our busiest stretch,” Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said.

“We still end up being busy before you know it again. I don’t think you want to let your guard down.”

They didn’t Tuesday. After another relatively slow start – a common theme of late – in which the Predators largely controlled play and fired 17 shots on Raanta in the first 20 minutes, the Hawks still managed to take a 2-1 lead into the first intermission.

Keith wasted no time getting the Hawks on the board first, firing a shot from the high slot past former teammate Carter Hutton just 89 seconds into the game. Nashville responded on a booming one-timer from Shea Weber on a power play 1:34 later.

The Predators dominated play for the rest of the period, but Kane’s spectacular goal on a power-play rush at 16:14 – he roofed a backhander into the tiniest of targets – proved to

be the game-winner. He has 13 goals and 22 assists in his past 23 games.

Nick Leddy gave the Hawks a 3-1 on another power-play goal – with former Hawks forward Viktor Stalberg in the box for tripping Patrick Sharp – midway through the second period, putting in a Saad rebound. The Hawks, whose power play was bafflingly bad for much of last season, have scored 10 goals on 26 chances with the man-advantage over their past six games.

Hutton, who had allowed only four goals in his past three games, finished with 24 saves.

Quenneville said he would remind the Hawks of their disastrous performance at Bridgestone Arena on Nov. 16, the low point of both the recent tough stretch and the entire season. But the Hawks would prefer to look forward to a lighter load than look back on an exhausting run that took its toll on the roster, if not on the standings.

“It’s always nice to have a couple days off to regroup and recover,” Saad said. “We’re starting to get a little healthier now, so we’re looking to see what we can do.”

McElman one of six NHL linesmen to be selected • MCELMAN Continued from page C1 “Inside, I hoped I would get it, but at the same time, I had to stay collected and grounded and just wait for when the list (of officials) was announced.”

According to NHL.com, the 13 officials were chosen from a pool of 32 candidates by the International Ice Hockey Federation based on three criteria.

The IIHF committee was looking for officials who displayed good physical conditioning,

performance in (the officials) respective national championships and the ability to work as a team.

McElman was one of six NHL linesmen to be selected.

“All of these candidates are considered to be the top officials in their respective club leagues,” IIHF officiating manager Konstantin Komissarov said in a release when the officiating crew was announced.

There will be some adjustment. Olympic hockey is played under IIHF rules, which differ slightly from the NHL.

The game is played on an Olympic-sized sheet of ice, forcing players and officials alike to skate harder and longer. Both will force officials to approach their jobs just a little differently as there is more area to cover and different sight lines to track the game in front of them.

For McElman, the opportunity to not only work the Games, but to do so representing the United States holds a high honor – one that he knows he soon won’t forget. McElman will work the games after returning to the ice earlier this

year. McElman missed nearly a year after suffering multiple facial injuries that required surgery after he was hit in the face by a puck during a game in Florida in February 2012.

Almost two years after the injury, McElman feels fortunate not only to be back on the ice, but participating in an event he wasn’t ever sure he’d get a chance to work.

“It’s awesome to be selected,” he said. “I just can’t put it into words what it will be mean to go and work there. I just can’t tell you what it means.”

Blue Jackets Boll has ankle surgery

man who allegedly made prank calls about job vacancies to coaches in major league sports and universities, then posted them on social media sites, was charged Tuesday with eavesdropping.

Kenneth Edward Tarr, 32, is charged with a felony for allegedly recording more than a half-dozen calls without consent. He could face a potential three-year sentence if convicted, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office announced.

Tarr was arrested this month

Matt Davidson, a pitcher through high school, didn’t know anything about playing third base when the Arizona Diamondbacks chose to convert him.

“I had to learn everything,” the newest White Sox said Tuesday. “When I started, I was pretty bad – I won’t shy from that.

But I’ve gotten better ev- Matt Davidson ery year. It’s been hard, but I take pride in working on it.

“I feel confident with my defensive game, but you can always get better. Even Gold Glovers never stop working.”

It’s Davidson’s bat and ability to hit for power that most attracted the Sox, who acquired him Monday for closer Addison Reed.

“I have to keep my focus on line drives, and then the home runs come,” Davidson said in a conference call. “But knowing [U.S. Cellular Field] is a hitter’s park, you kind of relax and know if you hit it well, it will go.

“I’ve never been to Chicago,” the California native added. “The closest I’ve been was South Bend in the minor leagues. But I picked up a Sox hat last night, and I’ve been wearing it. Cool colors.

“I’m extremely glad and blessed to have the opportunity to be in a place like that.”

General manager Rick Hahn called Davidson part of “a new core” for a team that

struggled mightily on offense last summer in a 99-loss season.

Hahn didn’t commit to Davidson’s Opening Day status, but made clear Davidson is the organization’s choice long-term.

“Definitely, the goal is starting at third on Opening Day,” Davidson said. “But if it takes until May or June or later, if it’s starting in Class AAA, I trust whatever decision they make. I just know when I get there, I want to stick and not be up and down [in the minors].”

Davidson spent just more than a month in the majors last summer with the Diamondbacks in his first major-league stint, hitting .237 but with three home runs in an eight-day span in September. He also struck out 24 times in 76 at-bats, a statistic he wants to improve.

“I don’t want to be a guy who strikes out a lot,” he said. “I hate looking at that column. But if you look at my trends, I strike out in bunches. What I’ve found is it’s more my approach that needs to get more consistent. If I stick to my approach, I don’t strike out as much.”

Davidson will know at least one Sox player, ex-Diamondback Adam Eaton, who was acquired last week in a three-team deal. Davidson knows better the player he was traded for; he and Reed worked out at the same training facility in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

“It’s pretty unreal,” Davidson said. “It blows my mind that what if we had been working out at the same time and got the calls? But I didn’t see him Monday.”

CUBS

Veras signs deal worth $4 million

By TONI GINNETTI tginnetti@suntimes.com Closer Kevin Gregg ended his second tenure with the Cubs in September in a falling-out with management over plans to test Pedro Strop in the role.

But Strop might not be the closer after all.

Jose Veras, who closed games last season for the Houston Astros and Detroit Tigers, signed a one-year, $4 million contract with the Cubs. The deal, contingent on Veras, 33, passing a physical, includes incentives and a team option for 2015 at $5.5 million.

The Cubs had no immediate comment on the report.

Veras has pitched for seven teams in an eight-year career. He had 19 saves with the Astros before being traded July 29 to Detroit, where he had two saves for the Tigers and pitched in the postseason – although he gave up a grand slam to the Boston Red Sox’ Shane Victorino in the deciding game of the American League Championship Series.

Veras became a free agent after the Tigers declined to pick up a $3.25 million option after the season.

The Cubs acquired Strop,

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Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Jose Veras looks up after giving up a grand slam to Boston Red Sox right fielder Shane Victorino in the seventh inning during Game 6 of the ALCS on Oct. 19 in Boston. The Red Sox won, 5-2, to advance to the World Series.

28, on July 2 from the Baltimore Orioles along with pitcher Jake Arrieta in exchange for catcher Steve Clevenger and pitcher Scott Feldman.

Strop went 2-2 with a 2.83 ERA for the Cubs in 37 appearances, recording one save and 42 strikeouts in 35 innings.

8SPORTS SHORTS Obama picks gay athletes Russia has come under fierce criticism for passing national for Sochi delegation President Barack Obama sent Russia a clear message about its treatment of gays and lesbians with who he is – and isn’t – sending to represent the United States at the Sochi Olympics.

Billie Jean King will be one of two openly gay athletes in the U.S. delegation for the opening and closing ceremonies, Obama announced Tuesday. For the first time since 2000, however, the U.S. will not send a president, former president, first lady or vice president to the Games.

laws banning “gay propaganda.” Although the White House did not specifically address the Russian laws in making its announcement, spokesman Shin Inouye said the delegation “represents the diversity that is the United States” and that Obama “knows they will showcase to the world the best of America – diversity, determination and teamwork.”

The White House said Obama’s schedule will not permit him to attend the Games.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus right wing Jared Boll, who grew up in Crystal Lake and attended Prairie Ridge, will be out three to four months after surgery to repair a torn tendon in his ankle.

The club said the 27-year-old, longest-serving Blue Jacket had surgery Monday. He has 1,001 penalty minutes in 409 NHL games.

L.A. man charged in coach prank calls LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles

and released on bail. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had obtained a lawyer and a telephone listing for him couldn’t immediately be located.

Tarr called several coaches while claiming to be a representative from various other teams, prosecutors said.

The targets were with the NBA, the NFL, MLB and university football programs. Tarr “gauged their interest in managing other sports teams and, in at least one instance, offered the victim a coaching position,” the DA’s statement said.

Shooting victim’s family sues Aaron Hernandez HARTFORD, Conn. – Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been sued by the family of a man he’s accused of killing while police investigate the death of another person on the periphery of that case.

The wrongful-death lawsuit was filed Monday in Superior Court in New Bedford, Mass., according to The Herald-News.

Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder in the June 17 shooting death of Odin Lloyd.

– Wire reports

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ROUNDUP

C-G girls basketball wins in OT

8INSIDE GIRLS BASKETBALL Athlete of the Week

Conference crossover loss.

Kaylee Bischke was second on The Cary-Grove girls bas- the team with 10 points and ketball team outscored Buffalo Abigail Linhart added eight Grove, 11-4, in overtime to win points for Harvard. The HorTuesday night’s nonconfer- nets shot only 4 of 12 from the free-throw line in the loss. ence game, 52-45.

Barrington 67, Jacobs 56: Cary-Grove trailed by three heading into the fourth quar- At Algonquin, Alyssa Lach ter but managed to tie the scored nine points to lead the score and send it to overtime. Golden Eagles in a nonconferKatie Barker scored 22 points ence loss. The score was tied at to lead the way for the Trojans 30 at the half, but Barrington (9-4), adding five steals. Sarah used a 19-8 run in the third Kendeigh had 10 points, four quarter to pull away for the assists and three steals in the win. Carly Sidor scored eight points and Jessica Powell addwin.

C a n d a c e C u n n i n g h a m ed seven for Jacobs. scored six points and led the team with eight rebounds. BOYS BASKETBALL Hampshire 77, Crystal Lake The Trojans had 13 offensive rebounds in the game. Karisa Central 61: At Crystal Lake, Ryan Cork scored 27 points to Wilczynski scored five.

Winnebago 50, Harvard 46: lead the Whip-Purs to victory At Harvard, Makenna Powell in Fox Valley Conference Fox scored 20 points to lead the Division play. Cork converted Hornets in a Big Northern four 3-pointers for Hampshire.

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RACHEL RASMUSSEN Crystal Lake South, sr., guard Rasmussen averaged 16.7 points in three wins for the Gators, which included a Fox Valley Conference Valley Division win against Jacobs. The senior guard’s performance included a 22-point effort against Marengo on Saturday in the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic.

Noteworthy Playoff assignments announced: The IHSA released the regional assignments for the postseason.

Two teams will be hosting Class 4A regionals. Joining Jacobs at the Golden Eagles’ fiveteam regional is Dundee-Crown while Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South and Prairie Ridge are in the Cary-Grove Regional.

Huntley will be in the Rockford Jefferson Regional.

In Class 3A, Richmond-Burton will host a regional featuring Johnsburg, Marengo, Marian Central, Woodstock and Woodstock North. Hampshire will play in the Aurora Central Catholic Regional while Harvard was put in the Freeport Regional. Alden-Hebron, in Class 1A, will play in the Rockford Christian Life Regional. Faith Lutheran will be at Hinckley-Big Rock.

Girls basketball regional seeds will be announced about 4 p.m.

Jan. 30.

Detweiler approaching milestone: Grayslake North senior guard Kendall Detweiler is nearing 1,000 career points.

Entering the Knights’ game against Crystal Lake Central on Wednesday, Detweiler is less than 30 points away from the milestone. The senior guard, who is one of the area’s best 3-point shooters, is averaging 21 points a game this season.

This week’s top games Crystal Lake Central at Grayslake North, 7 p.m. Wednesday Both the Tigers and Knights have one loss in FVC Fox Division play and another loss could prove costly to the teams’ title hopes as they chase Grayslake Central, which is undefeated in the FVC Fox. Northern Illinois Holiday Classic, Friday and Saturday The winners of the four tournament pools face off Friday with the victors advancing to Saturday’s tournament title game. The losers will battle for third place.

– Meghan Montemurro, mmontemurro@shawmedia.com

Drew Doran scored 15 points and Matthew Bridges added 14 in the win.

Kenny Vesely led the way for the Tigers with 15 points, including three 3-pointers. Jason Price added 11 points in the loss.

Jacobs 56, Prairie Ridge 54 (OT): At Crystal Lake, Cory Boeckh hit a 3-pointer from the left corner with 1:21 remaining in overtime to give the Golden Eagles the lead for good. Reilly Peltier added a free throw in the final minute as Jacobs won its FVC Valley Division opener.

Chrishawn Orange led the Eagles (2-3 overall, 1-0 FVC Valley) with 14 points. Kenton Mack added 11.

Steven Ticknor led the Wolves (5-3, 0-1) with 18 points.

remained undefeated on the season with a FVC Valley Division victory. Austin Rogers led the team with 21 points, 10 rebounds and four assists in the game. Caleb Johnson went 5 for 5 from the field to finish with 14 points for Crystal Lake South. Collin Wagner added 11 points in the win.

Nick Munson scored 14 points to lead the way for the Chargers (2-5, 0-1). Munson converted four 3s in the game. Kiwaun Seals and Juwan Stewart each added nine points in the loss.

BOYS BOWLING McHenry 3,148, Marengo 2,929: At Glo Bowl in Marengo,

the Warriors (10-0) remained undefeated on the season with the victory. Geoff McClaughry Crystal Lake South 70, led the team with a 669 series.

Dundee-Crown 48: At Carpen- McClaughy bowled the hightersville, the Gators (8-0, 1-0) est single game of the meet as

well, with a 236 performance.

Steve Churchill was second on the team with a 612 series for McHenry.

Dustin Termini bowled a 630 series to lead the Indians.

Termini also bowled the high game of the match with a 267 performance. Jake Barton bowled a 619 series for Marengo in the loss.

GIRLS BOWLING Marengo 3,252, McHenry 2,888: At Glo Bowl in Marengo, Megan Hanelt of Marengo bowled a series high 626, including a game high of 275, in the win. Dom Bailey was second on the team with a 582 series for the Indians.

McHenry was led by Kalyn Geuzendam, who bowled a 530 series in the loss. Amy Goodman was second on the team with a 498 series for the Warriors.

Clark scores 12 in Gators’ losing effort “We went toe to toe with them for the better part of that Continued from page C1 first half, but, boy, they made a nice run there at the start of With the North Stars (25 the third quarter, and we just for 55, 45 percent) outshooting didn’t respond,” McCaughn the Gators (20 for 57, 35 per- said. cent), any quick burst proved The Gators again played even more crucial. without junior forward Carly

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Nolan, who missed the game to undergo physical therapy for an undisclosed injury.

McCaughn said “there is no word” on her return.

Kianna Clark added 12 points for the Gators, including a runner that dropped just before the final buzzer.

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Huntley’s Trevor Oslance (left) is guarded by Cary-Grove’s Devin McDonough during the fourth quarter of Tuesday’s game in Huntley. The Red Raiders won, 58-25.

C-G finds offense in 4th • RAIDERS-TROJANS Continued from page C1 “That was one of the first times this year where we were really able to exploit Amanze and take advantage of how good he is,” Raiders coach Marty Manning said. “There’s been a few games where we played and didn’t get him the ball as much as we should.

“And some of that’s Amanze’s fault, too. He’s a very deferring individual where he won’t be actually demanding the ball and a lot of times he’ll pass it. This was a game where Amanze could show the diverse offensive skills he has.”

The Trojans (3-5, 0-1) had trouble dealing with Egekeze on their offensive end, too. “[Egekeze] plays a lot of help [defense], kind of like a one-man zone,” C-G coach Ralph Schuetzle said. “We just couldn’t execute our offense.”

Huntley jumped out quickly with Wicks and Zach Gorney both hitting 3-pointers in

the first quarter. Wicks added another in the second, then Egekeze made his last four shots, including a third-quarter dunk.

“We have a pretty big team and knew we could get mismatches a lot,” Egekeze said.

“Coach told me I was posting up too much in the first half, so we moved the ball around more and it opened up helpside defense and I got a lot of looks in the second half.”

Wicks added 13 points and the Raiders outrebounded C-G, 36-12.

The Trojans finally found some offense in the fourth quarter, hitting 6 of 12 from the field. Schuetzle found something positive from that quarter.

“Just with our effort and our scramble defense,” he said. “They had to leave their starters in, they were still going to win the game, but we pressured with their starters still in. We just have to get better offensively. When the shot is there, you have to stick it.”

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Mosley, Sutton, Carey repeat honorees

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NEW YORK – A tackle-machine linebacker, a tackle-busting running back and one of the most disruptive defensive tackles in the country made return appearances on The Associated Press All-America team.

Alabama linebacker C.J. Mosley, Arizona running back Ka’Deem Carey and Arizona State defensive tackle Will Sutton were selected to the first team for the second straight season.

The All-America teams were released Tuesday and selected by a panel of AP college football poll voters.

Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston from Florida State added All-American to his résumé after a spectacular redshirt freshman season. Heisman finalists Andre Williams from Boston College and Northern Illinois’ Jordan Lynch also made the first team. Williams joins Carey in the backfield and Lynch, the dual-threat quarterback, was chosen as an all-purpose player.

Carey, a junior, is second in the nation in rushing after leading last year, but said he thinks he’s a better player now.

“I worked hard to improve my speed and strength in the offseason while keeping my speed,” Carey said. “I put on 10 pounds of weight and I think that’s helped my durability. I also wanted to be a better blocker away from the ball. Blocking for our quarterback and our receivers is key to our system and it’s important that I do my part even when I’m not carrying the ball.”

Carey and Williams are set to compete on the same field this bowl season when Arizona and Boston College meet in the Advocare V100 Bowl on Dec. 31 in Shreveport, La. It will mark the first time since the 1977 Rose Bowl that two players selected first-team AP All-America at running back then faced off in a bowl. That game featured Michigan’s Rob Lytle and Southern California’s Ricky Bell.

Mosley, a senior, was the leading tackler for a defense that ranked fifth in the country in yards allowed a game. Sutton, a senior, was named Pac-12 defensive player of the year for the season straight season.

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Three-point goals: Harvard 2 (Linhart, Powell). Total fouls: Harvard 20, Winnebago 14.

CARY-GROVE 52 BUFFALO GROVE 45 (OT) Cary-Grove 15 3 12 11 11 - 52 Buffalo Grove 11 11 11 8 4 - 45 C-G (52) Barker 10 0-2 22, Kendeigh 3 1-6 10, Cunningham 3 0-0 6, Wilczynski 2 1-3 5, Glaysher 1 2-2 4, Pilut 1 1-1 3, Sopchyk 1 0-1 2, Josefowicz 0 0-1 0. Totals: 21 5-15 52.

Three-point goals: Cary-Grove 5 (Kendeigh 3, Barker 2), Buffalo Grove 9 (Meyer 4, Welter 2, Koldus 2, Callahan).

Total fouls: Buffalo Grove 15, CaryGrove 13.

BARRINGTON 67, JACOBS 56 Jacobs Barrington

13 17 8 18 – 56 17 13 19 18 – 67

Jacobs (56) Williams 1 0-0 3, Surges 1 0-0 2, Sidor 2 4-6 8, Lach 2 5-6 9, Grady 1 0-0 2, Mangieri 0 4-5 4, Frighetto 2 0-0 5, Richman 1 0-2 2, Powell 1 2-4 7, Barnec 1 2-4 4, Hernandez 0 2-2 2, Cook 1 2-2 5. Totals: 15 20-31 56.

Three-point goals: Jacobs 4 (Williams, Frighetto, Richman, Cook), Barrington 3 (Kirchoff 2, Gunderson).

Total fouls: Barrington 20, Jacobs 17.

ST. CHARLES NORTH 68 CRYSTAL LAKE SOUTH 60 CL South 16 15 11 18 – 60 St. Charles North 13 17 19 19 – 68 CRYSTAL LAKE SOUTH (60) Clark 4 4-4 12, Fanter 5 6-6 16, Rasmussen 1 4-4 7, De Jesus 2 3-5 7, Mickow 7 2-10 16, Massie 1 0-0 2. Totals: 20 19-29 60.

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Arizona State’s Will Sutton shouts out during the second half of a game against Colorado on Oct. 12 in Tempe, Ariz. Sutton, Alabama linebacker C.J. Mosley and Arizona running back Ka’Deem Carey have been selected to The Associated Press All-America team for the second straight season.

Winston, a landslide Heisman winner last week, is joined on the first team by three Florida State teammates – center Bryan Stork, kicker Roberto Aguayo and cornerback Lamarcus Joyner – to give the top-ranked Seminoles more than any other school.

Florida State defensive tackle Timmy Jernigan made the second team, along with offensive tackle Cameron Erving. The Seminoles had six players on the three teams, the most of any school.

No. 2 Auburn, which plays Florida State on Jan. 6 in the BCS championship game in Pasadena, Calif., placed Heisman finalists Tre’ Mason on the second team at running back and offensive lineman Reese Dismukes and Gregory Robinson on the third team.

Texas A&M Heisman finalist Johnny Manziel, last year’s Heisman winner and All-American quarterback, made the second team. Alabama’s AJ McCarron, another Heisman finalist, is the thirdteam quarterback for the second consecutive season.

The first-team receivers are Oregon State’s Brandin Cooks, who leads the nation in yards receiving (139.2 per game), and Texas A&M’s Mike Evans, who is averaging 20.3 yards a catch.

Texas Tech’s Jace Amaro is the first-team tight end. The senior leads all tight ends in catches (98)

CRYSTAL LAKE SOUTH 70 DUNDEE-CROWN 48 CLS (70) Wagner 5 0-0 11, Thomas 2 0-1 5, Mahoney 2 0-0 4, Johnson 5 1-1 14, Baker 1 0-0 2, Bright 2 0-0 4, Rogers 9 3-4 21, Bartusch 1 1-2 3, Buckner 2 0-0 4, Schingel 1 0-0 2. Totals: 30 5-8 70.

D-C (48) Pochop 1 0-0 3, Dunner 2 0-0 4, Buckley 1 0-2 2, Seals 3 2-2 9, Terrell 0 1-2 1, Munson 5 0-0 15, Stewart 4 1-2 9, Barker 2 0-0 4, Cowan 0 2-2 2. Totals: 18 6-10 48.

Three-point goals: Dundee-Crown 6 (Stewart 4, Pochop, Seals), Crystal Lake South 5 (Johnson 3, Wagner, Thomas).

Total fouls: CLS 13, D-C 12.

JACOBS 56, PRAIRIE RIDGE 54 (OT) Jacobs Prairie Ridge

13 10 14 13 6 – 56 14 11 16 9 4 – 54

JACOBS (56) Mack 5 1-3 11, Castellano 1 0-0 2, Murray 2 4-4 9, Krutwig 2 0-0 4, Boeckh 2 0-0 6, Bindi 2 2 3-3 7, Peltier 0 1-2 1, Orange 4 6-7 14, Grant 1 0-0 2. Totals: 19 15-19 56.

PRAIRIE RIDGE (54) Bradshaw 2 2-2 6, Ticknor 7 3-3 18, Peterson 0 0-0 0, Otto 3 2-2 9, Perhats 3 3-6 9, Gilbert 1 2-2 5, Berg 2 1-2 5, Behning 1 0-0 2. Totals: 19 13-17 54.

Three-point goals: Jacobs 3 (Boeckh 2, Murray), Prairie Ridge 3 (Ticknor, Otto, Gilbert). Total fouls: Jacobs 20, Prairie Ridge 18. Fouled out: Murray, Berg.

HAMPSHIRE 77 CRYSTAL LAKE CENTRAL 61 13 22 16 26 - 77 20 15 13 13 - 61

Hampshire (77) Cork 9 5-5 27, Bridges 6 2-5 14, Spaeth 2 4-4 8, Oghale 2 1-2 5, Bennett 0 1-2 1, Woods 0 1-2 1, Doran 6 3-4 15, Schramm 2 2-2 6. Totals: 27 19-26 77.

Crystal Lake Central (61) Murphy 4 1-4 10, Vesely 6 0-0 15, Fritz 2 2-2 7, Olson 1 0-0 2, Price 5 0-0 11, Ortner 5 0-0 10, Ryberg 1 0-0 2, Koch 2 0-0 4. Totals: 26 3-6 61.

Three-point goals: St. Charles North 3 (Davern, Davidson, Helsel), Crystal Lake South 1 (Rasmussen).

Three-point goals: Crystal Lake Central 6 (Vesely 3, Price, Fritz, Murphy), Hampshire 4 (Cork 4). Total fouls: Crystal Lake Central 21, Hampshire 15.

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HUNTLEY 58, CARY-GROVE 25

MCHENRY 3,148, MARENGO 2,929

Cary-Grove Huntley

2 6 4 13 – 25 14 14 19 11 – 58

CARY-GROVE (25) Szydlo 1 2-5 4, Gregoire 3 2-2 8, McDonough 1 0-0 3, Johnson 1 0-0 2, Franz 1 0-0 3, Coleman 1 2-2 4, Krich 0 0-0 0, Barr 0 0-0 0, Sutherland 0 1-5 1, Blair 0 0-0 0, Perkins 00-0 0, Barlas 0 0-1 0, Unti 0 0-0 0, Bianchi 0 0-0 0, Meyer 0 0-0 0. Totals: 8 7-15 25.

HUNTLEY (58) Jacobs 1 2-3 4, Slonka 1 0-0 2, Egekeze 10 3-4 23, Gorney 2 2-2 7, Wicks 5 1-2 13, Bessey 1 0-0 3, C. Boesch 0 0-0 0, Oslance 0 2-2 2, Shields 0 0-0 0, Janus 2 0-0 4, Cruz 0 0-0 0, Dion 0 0-0 0, B. Boesch 0 0-0 0. Totals: 22 10-15 58.

Three-point goals: Huntley 4 (Wicks 2, Gorney, Bessey). Total fouls: Cary-

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McHenry: McClaughry 669, Churchill 612, Colomer 608, Lanway 449, Reinhart 395, Hudjera 415. Total: 3,148.

Marengo: Termini 630, Villarreal 581, Alt 562, Maney 357, Oakes 180, Barton 619. Total: 2,929.

GIRLS BOWLING MARENGO 3,252, MCHENRY 2,888 Marengo: Baumann 483, Krenzelok 510, Bailey 582, Nakoneczny 540, Anthony 511, Hanelt 626. Total: 3,252 McHenry: Watts 463, Goodman 498, Geuzendam 530, Beamann 446, Johnson 456, McClaughry 495. Total: 2,888.

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and yards (1,240).

SOCCER NBA BASKETBALL 1:30 p.m.: FIFA, Club World Cup, semiinal, team TBD vs.

6 p.m.: Indiana at Miami, ESPN Joining Stork on the offensive 8:30 p.m.: Bulls at Houston, WGN, ESPN, AM-1000 Atletico Mineiro, at Marrakech, Morocco, FS1 line are Texas A&M tackle Jake Matthews and Alabama tackle HOCKEY BETTING ODDS Cyrus Kouandjio, as well as Baylor guard Cyril Richardson and Stanat Old Dominion 4 Coll. of Charleston ford guard David Yankey. RichardNHL GLANTZ-CULVER at Drake 6½ W. Michigan at Loyola of Chicago 7½ N. Illinois son and Yankey were second-team WESTERN CONFERENCE NFL at Saint Louis 9 Indiana St. Central Division Sunday All-Americans last season. at St. John’s 11 San Francisco GP W L OT Pts GF GA FAVORITE TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Southern Miss.

2½ at W.Kentucky Bears Mosley and Sutton are on the Blackhawks 37 25 7 5 55 138102 at Philadelphia 3 (56) at UConn 8½ Stanford St. Louis 33 22 7 4 48 114 80 Miami 2½ (43) at Buffalo LSU 1½ at Texas Tech first-team defense with Pittsburgh Colorado 33 22 10 1 45 96 78 at Carolina 3 (46½) New Orleans at Oregon St. 9 Towson 36 20 11 5 45 84 83 Dallas 3 (53½) at Washington at San Jose St. 3½ UC Davis defensive tackle Aaron Donald, Minnesota Dallas 33 16 12 5 37 95 101 at St. Louis 5½ (42½) Tampa Bay James Madison 6½ atUNCGreensboro 34 16 15 3 35 78 95 at N.Y. Jets 2½ (40½) Cleveland who won the Nagurski and Bed- Nashville at UAB 22½ Chattanooga Winnipeg 36 15 16 5 35 95 106 at Kansas City 6½ (44) Indianapolis at San Diego St. 30½ S. Utah Pacific Division narik awards as the nation’s best at Cincinnati 7 (48½) Minnesota at DePaul 20½ Houston Baptist GP W L OT Pts GF GA Denver 10½ (52) at Houston at UNLV 17 Radford defensive player and the Outland Anaheim 36 24 7 5 53 116 91 Tennessee 5½ (44) at Jacksonville Jose 34 21 7 6 48 112 84 at Seattle 10½ (44) Arizona NBA and Lombardi as the country’s best San Los Angeles 34 22 8 4 48 94 68 at Detroit 9 (48½) N.Y. Giants FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG Vancouver 36 20 10 6 46 100 86 at San Diego 10 (50½) Oakland lineman. at Houston 6½ (198) Bulls Phoenix 33 18 10 5 41 105103 at Green Bay OFF (OFF) Pittsburgh at Miami 4 (191) Indiana 34 13 16 5 31 86 108 Missouri’s Michael Sam, the Calgary at Baltimore 2½ (45) New England at Orlando 5½ (196½) Utah Edmonton 35 11 21 3 25 93 120 Monday at Toronto 6 (192) Charlotte Southeastern Conference defensive EASTERN CONFERENCE at San Francisco12 (45) Atlanta at Atlanta 8 (207½) Sacramento Atlantic Division player of the year, and Jackson Jeffat Boston 1 (195) Detroit GP W L OT Pts GF GA Off Key at Brooklyn 4 (195½) Washington 34 23 9 2 48 94 70 coat, the Big 12 defensive player of Boston Green Bay QB questionable New York 1 (188½) at Milwaukee Montreal 36 21 12 3 45 91 76 at Minnesota 2 (212½) Portland the year, are the defensive ends. Tampa Bay 34 20 11 3 43 93 82 NCAA Basketball at Dallas 7½ (194) Memphis Detroit 36 15 12 9 39 91 99 FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG San Antonio 4 (203½) at Phoenix UCLA’s Anthony Barr and Ohio Toronto 36 17 16 3 37 99 105 at Akron 8 Detroit at L.A. Clippers 10 (208½) New Orleans 35 14 15 6 34 99 113 State’s Ryan Shazier round out the Ottawa at Ohio St. 18 Delaware Florida 35 13 17 5 31 81 110 at Saint Joseph’s 5 Drexel NHL Buffalo 34 8 23 3 19 59 98 linebackers. at North Carolina 10½ Texas FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Metropolitan Division at Tennessee 6½ NC State at New Jersey -120 Ottawa +100 GP W L OT Pts GF GA Michigan State’s Darqueze DenUMass 2½ at Ohio Pittsburgh -120 at N.Y. Rangers +100 Pittsburgh 35 24 10 1 49 108 75 16 La.-Monroe nard, one of the leaders of the na- Washington 34 18 13 3 39 107102 at Mississippi 34 14 13 7 35 79 94 tion’s top-ranked defense, is the Carolina Philadelphia 34 15 15 4 34 81 93 Rangers 34 16 17 1 33 76 91 other cornerback with Joyner. The N.Y. FOOTBALL New Jersey 34 13 15 6 32 78 85 safeties are Mississippi’s Cody Pre- Columbus 34 14 16 4 32 87 95 N.Y. Islanders 35 9 19 7 25 85 121 witt and Washington State’s Deone — Tie and Arizona tie, OR NFL — San Francisco loss and Arizona tie NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for Bucannon.

CAROLINA overtime loss.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE Clinches playoff spot with: Tom Hornsey of Memphis made North — Win, OR Tuesday’s Games W L T Pct PF PA the first team as the punter.

Blackhawks 3, Nashville 1 — Tie and Arizona loss, OR Bears 8 6 0 .571 406 391 Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, SO — Tie and San Francisco loss, OR Green Bay 7 6 1 .536 353 362 Florida State helped the Atlantic Minnesota 3, Vancouver 2, SO — Arizona loss and San Francisco loss Detroit 7 7 0 .500 362 339 Boston 2, Calgary 0 SAN FRANCISCO Coast Conference put six players Minnesota 4 9 1 .321 363 425 Buffalo 4, Winnipeg 2 Clinches playoff spot with: East Florida 3, Toronto 1 — Win, OR on the first team, to match the PacW L T Pct PF PA Montreal 3, Phoenix 1 — Arizona loss, OR Philadelphia 8 6 0 .571 364 349 12 and SEC for the most from any Anaheim 5, Detroit 2 — Tie and Arizona tie Dallas 7 7 0 .500 393 385 Philadelphia 5, Washington 2 PHILADELPHIA conference.

N.Y. Giants 5 9 0 .357 251 357 San Jose 4, St. Louis 2 Clinches NFC East with:

SI.com All-America team Tuesday.

Lynch was named as an honorable mention selection and junior receiver Tommylee Lewis was chosen as an honorable-mention pick in the all-purpose category.

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Harvard (46) Powell 9 1-4 20, Bischke 4 2-4 10, Mercado 2 0-1 4, Jacobs 1 0-0 2, Linhart 3 1-3 8. Totals: 18 4-12 46.

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• AP ALL-AMERICA The only other player from Continued from page C1 the Mid-American Conference on the squad was Buffalo linebacker Chessick Center. “Didn’t care if it was Khalil Mack, who made the second first team, I just wanted All-Ameri- team. Ward also was named to the

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BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Wednesday, Dec. 18 Girls Basketball: Crystal Lake Central at Grayslake North, 7 p.m.

Wrestling: Marian Central at Rockford Lutheran, 5:30 p.m.

Boys Bowling: McHenry at Huntley, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS BASKETBALL REGIONAL ASSIGNMENTS Here are the regional assignments for the local boys basketball teams recently released from the IHSA. Class 1A Elgin Harvest Christian Academy Regional Teams: Faith Lutheran (Crystal Lake), Bridgeview, Elgin Academy, Harvest Christian, Westminster Christian, Lombard College Prep, Villa Park Islamic Foundation.

Class 1A South Beloit Regional Teams: Alden-Hebron, Dakota, Duran, Orangeville, Rockford Christian Life, Keith Country Day, South Beloit.

Class 3A Woodstock Regional Teams: Hampshire, Harvard, Marengo, Marian Central, Woodstock and Woodstock North.

Class 3A Antioch Sectional Teams: Chicago CICS Northtown, Chicago Disney, Chicago Gordon Tech, Chicago Kelvyn Park, Chicago Noble Street Charter, Chicago North Grand, Chicago Northside, Chicago St. Patrick-*, Chicago Sullivan, Chicago Uplift, Elmwood Park, Grayslake Central-*, Johnsburg, Lakes, Mundelein Carmel, Ridgewood, North Chicago, Richmond-Burton-*, Vernon Hills and Wauconda. *-Hosts regional.

Class 4A Crystal Lake Central Regional Teams: Cary-Grove, Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South, Dundee-Crown, Jacobs and Prairie Ridge.

Class 4A Belvidere North Regional Teams: Belvidere North, DeKalb, Huntley, Rockford East, Rockford Jefferson.

Class 4A Sectional (host to be announced) Teams: Hersey-*, St. Viator, Barrington, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Grant, Grayslake North, Warren, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Lake Zurich, Libertyville-*, Stevenson, McHenry-*, Prospect, Mundelein, Palatine, Fremd, Rolling Meadows-*, Round Lake, Waukegan, Wheeling, Zion-Benton.

GIRLS BASKETBALL REGIONAL ASSIGNMENTS Class 1A Hinckley-Big Rock Regional Teams: Faith Lutheran, Elgin Academy, Elgin Harvest Christian Academy, Hinckley-Big Rock, Mooseheart.

Class 1A Christian Life Regional Teams: Alden-Hebron, Dakota, Durand, Kirkland Hiawatha, Rockford Christian Life, South Beloit.

Class 3A Aurora Central Catholic Regional Teams: Aurora Central Catholic, Illinois Math & Science Academy, Hampshire, Rosary, Burlington Central, St. Edward.

Class 3A Richmond-Burton Regional Teams: Johnsburg, Marengo, Richmond-Burton, Woodstock, Marian Central, Woodstock North.

Class 3A Freeport Regional Teams: Belvidere, Freeport, Genoa-Kingston, Harvard, Rockford Lutheran.

Class 4A Jacobs Regional Teams: Dundee-Crown, Elgin, Jacobs, Larkin, South Elgin, Streamwood.

Class 4A Cary-Grove Regional Teams: Cary-Grove, Crystal Lake Central, Grant, McHenry Class 4A Jefferson Regional Teams: Belvidere North, DeKalb, Huntley, Jefferson, Rockford East.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 12 14 .462 Toronto 9 13 .409 Brooklyn 9 15 .375 New York 7 17 .292 Philadelphia 7 19 .269 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 18 6 .750 Atlanta 13 12 .520 Charlotte 11 14 .440 Washington 10 13 .435 Orlando 8 17 .320 Central Division W L Pct Indiana 20 4 .833 Detroit 12 14 .462 Bulls 9 14 .391 Cleveland 9 15 .375 Milwaukee 5 19 .208 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 19 5 .792 Houston 16 9 .640 Dallas 14 10 .583 New Orleans 11 11 .500 Memphis 10 14 .417 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 22 4 .846 Oklahoma City 20 4 .833 Denver 14 10 .583 Minnesota 12 13 .480 Utah 6 21 .222 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 17 9 .654 Phoenix 14 9 .609 Golden State 13 12 .520 L.A. Lakers 12 13 .480 Sacramento 7 16 .304

GB — 1 2 4 5 GB — 5½ 7½ 7½ 10½ GB — 9 10½ 11 15 GB — 3½ 5 7 9 GB — 1 7 9½ 16½ GB — 1½ 3½ 4½ 8½

Tuesday’s Games Portland 119, Cleveland 116 Charlotte 95, Sacramento 87 L.A. Lakers 96, Memphis 92 Oklahoma City 105, Denver 93 New Orleans at Golden State, (n) Wednesday’s Games Bulls at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

Utah at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Miami, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Washington at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

New York at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Orlando 83, Bulls 82 Detroit 101, Indiana 96 Brooklyn 130, Philadelphia 94 Boston 101, Minnesota 97 Miami 117, Utah 94 Atlanta 114, L.A. Lakers 100 Washington 102, New York 101 L.A. Clippers 115, San Antonio 92

COLLEGE SCORES MIDWEST Creighton 88, Ark.-Pine Bluff 51 Green Bay 76, Tennessee Tech 49 Ill.-Chicago 88, Purdue-Calumet 61 Michigan St. 78, North Florida 48 Purdue 79, Md.-Eastern Shore 50 Youngstown St. 71, Bethune-Cookman 59 Murray St. 73, S. Illinois 65 EAST Cincinnati 44, Pittsburgh 43 Duquesne 78, St. Francis (Pa.) 71 Georgetown 85, Elon 76 Providence 76, Yale 74 VCU 72, Wofford 57 Wake Forest 77, St. Bonaventure 62

Dallas 3, Colorado 2 Edmonton at Los Angeles, (n) Wednesday’s Games Ottawa at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 3, Toronto 1 Winnipeg 3, Columbus 2 Ottawa 3, St. Louis 2, OT Colorado 6, Dallas 2

BLACKHAWKS 3, PREDATORS 1 Chicago Nashville

2 1

1 0 —3 0 0 —1

First Period-1, Chicago, Keith 3 (Hossa, Toews), 1:29. 2, Nashville, Weber 8 (Josi, Legwand), 3:03 (pp). 3, Chicago, Kane 20 (Sharp, Keith), 16:14 (pp).

Second Period-4, Chicago, Leddy 4 (Saad, Seabrook), 11:33 (pp).

Third Period-None.

Shots on Goal-Chicago 10-8-9-27.

Nashville 17-4-7-28.

Goalies-Chicago, Raanta. Nashville, Hutton. A-16,219 (17,113). T-2:27.

AHL Wednesday’s Games Hamilton at Wolves, 11 a.m.

Syracuse at Hershey, 6 p.m.

Abbotsford at Utica, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Rochester, 6:05 p.m.

Grand Rapids at Iowa, 7:05 p.m.

San Antonio at Texas, 7:30 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS PROS BASEBALL American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with RHP Matt Albers on a one-year contract.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with INF Steve Tolleson on a minor league contract.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NEW YORK KNICKS — Recalled G Chris Smith from Erie (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League BEARS — Waived S Sean Cattouse.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Placed P Kevin Huber on injured reserve. Signed P Shawn Powell.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed LB Justin Durant on injured reserve. Released RB George Winn from the practice squad. Re-signed LB Orie Lemon from the practice squad.

DENVER BRONCOS — Agreed to terms with DE Jeremy Mincey.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed LB Pat Angerer on injured reserve. Agreed to terms with RB Shaun Draughn. Signed G Zach Allen to the practice squad.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Placed WR Cecil Shorts and G Will Rackley on injured reserve. Signed C Patrick Lewis from Cleveland’s practice squad. Signed G Drew Nowak from the practice squad. Signed DE D’Aundre Reed to the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Released S D.J. Campbell Claimed DB Jalil Brown off waivers from Indianapolis.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Released RB Joe Banyard.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Placed LB LaMarr Woodley on injured reserve. Signed LB Jamaal Westerman.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Released QB John Skelton. Signed QB Tyler Wilson.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Assigned F Luke Adam and D Mark Pysyk and Brayden McNabb to Rochester (AHL). Recalled F Kevin Porter and D Chad Ruhwedel from Rochester.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Recalled F Jack Skille from Springfield (AHL). Sent G Jeremy Smith to Springfield.

DALLAS STARS — Placed F Vernon Fiddler on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 7. Recalled D Cameron Gaunce from Texas (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled G Magnus Hellberg from Milwaukee (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled C Casey Wellman from Hershey (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer PORTLAND TIMBERS — Acquired a 2014 fourth-round SuperDraft pick from Houston for the rights to D David Horst.

SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES — Traded D Justin Morrow to Toronto FC for allocation money.

SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC — Traded F Eddie Johnson to D.C. United for allocation money.

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x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Sunday, Dec. 22 Bears at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at St. Louis, noon Indianapolis at Kansas City, noon Denver at Houston, noon Miami at Buffalo, noon New Orleans at Carolina, noon Dallas at Washington, noon Cleveland at N.Y. Jets, noon Minnesota at Cincinnati, noon Tennessee at Jacksonville, noon Arizona at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Detroit, 3:05 p.m.

Oakland at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Green Bay, 3:25 p.m.

New England at Baltimore, 3:25 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 23 Atlanta at San Francisco, 7:40 p.m.

PLAYOFF SCENARIOS WEEK 16 AFC Denver — clinched playoff spot Indianapolis — clinched AFC South Kansas City — clinched playoff spot DENVER Clinches AFC West and first-round bye with: — Win and Kansas City loss Clinches home-field advantage throughout AFC playoffs with: — Win and Kansas City loss and New England loss or tie NEW ENGLAND Clinches AFC East with: — Win or tie, OR — Miami loss or tie Clinches first-round bye with: — Win and Cincinnati loss or tie and Indianapolis loss or tie, OR — Tie and Cincinnati loss and Indianapolis loss Clinches playoff spot with: — Cincinnati loss or tie CINCINNATI Clinches AFC North with: — Win and Baltimore loss or tie, OR — Tie and Baltimore loss Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and Miami loss or tie, OR — Tie and Miami loss BALTIMORE Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and Miami loss and San Diego loss or tie MIAMI Clinches playoff spot with: — Win and Baltimore loss and Cincinnati loss NFC Seattle — clinched playoff spot Bears Clinches NFC North with: — Win and Detroit loss or tie and Green Bay loss SEATTLE Clinches NFC West and home-field advantage throughout NFC playoffs with: — Win or tie, OR — San Francisco loss or tie NEW ORLEANS Clinches NFC South and first-round bye with: — Win Clinches playoff spot with: — Arizona loss, OR — Tie and San Francisco loss or tie, OR

— Win and Dallas loss or tie

COLLEGE AP All American FIRST TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback — Jameis Winston, redshirt freshman, 6-foot-4, 229 pounds, Florida State.

Running backs — Andre Williams, senior, 6-0, 227, Boston College; Ka’Deem Carey, junior, 5-10, 196, Arizona.

Tackles — Jake Matthews, senior, 6-5, 305, Texas A&M; Cyrus Kouandjio, junior, 6-6, 310, Alabama.

Guards — Cyril Richardson, senior, 6-5, 340, Baylor; David Yankey, senior, 6-5, 313, Stanford.

Center — Bryan Stork, senior, 6-4, 300, Florida State.

Wide receivers — Brandin Cooks, junior, 5-10, 186, Oregon State; Mike Evans, sophomore, 6-5, 225, Texas A&M. Tight end — Jace Amaro, junior, 6-5, 260, Texas Tech.

All-purpose player — Jordan Lynch, senior, 6-0, 216, Northern Illinois.

Kicker — Roberto Aguayo, redshirt freshman, 6-1, 203, Florida State.

DEFENSE Ends — Michael Sam, senior, 6-2, 255, Missouri; Jackson Jeffcoat, senior, 6-5, 250, Texas.

Tackles — Aaron Donald, senior, 6-0, 285, Pittsburgh; Will Sutton, senior, 6-1, 288, Arizona State.

Linebackers — Anthony Barr, senior, 6-4, 248, UCLA; C.J. Mosley, senior, 6-2, 238, Alabama; Ryan Shazier, junior, 6-2, 230, Ohio State.

Cornerbacks — Darqueze Dennard, senior, 5-11, 197, Michigan State; Lamarcus Joyner, senior, 5-8, 190, Florida State.

Safeties — Cody Prewitt, junior, 6-2, 220, Mississippi; Deone Bucannon, senior, 6-1, 198, Washington State.

Punter — Tom Hornsey, senior, 6-3, 210, Memphis.

SECOND TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback — Johnny Manziel, sophomore, Texas A&M. Running backs — Tre’ Mason, junior, Auburn; Bishop Sankey, junior, Washington.

Tackles — Cameron Erving, junior, Florida State; Taylor Lewan, senior, Michigan.

Guards — Gabe Jackson, senior, Mississippi State; Xavier Su’a-Filo, junior, UCLA. Center — Gabe Ikard, senior, Oklahoma.

Wide receivers — Sammy Watkins, junior, Clemson; Davante Adams, sophomore, Fresno State.

Tight end — Eric Ebron, junior, North Carolina.

All-purpose player — Ty Montgomery, junior, Stanford.

Kicker — Anthony Fera, senior, Texas.

DEFENSE Ends — Vic Beasley, junior, Clemson; Shilique Calhoun, sophomore, Michigan State.

Tackles — Timmy Jernigan, junior, Florida State; Kelcy Quarles, junior, South Carolina.

Linebackers — Trent Murphy, senior, Stanford; Khalil Mack, senior, Buffalo; Chris Borland, senior, Wisconsin.

Cornerbacks — Justin Gilbert, senior, Oklahoma State; Jason Verrett, senior, TCU. Safeties — Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, junior, Alabama; Ahmad Dixon, senior, Baylor.

Punter — Drew Kaser, sophomore, Texas A&M. THIRD TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback — A.J. McCarron, senior, Alabama.

Running backs — Carlos Hyde, senior, Ohio State; Ameer Abdullah, junior, Nebraska.

Tackles — Jack Mewhort, senior, Ohio State; Gregory Robinson, sophomore, Auburn.

Guards — John Urschel, senior, Penn State; Ryan Groy, senior, Wisconsin.

Center — Reese Dismukes, junior, Auburn.

Wide receivers — Allen Robinson, junior, Penn State; Jordan Matthews, senior, Vanderbilt.

Tight end — Austin Seferian-Jenkins, junior, Washington.

All-purpose player — Odell Beckham Jr., junior, LSU. Kicker — Jeff Budzien, senior, Northwestern.

DEFENSE Ends — Marcus Smith, senior, Louisville; Jeremiah Attaochu, senior, Georgia Tech.

Tackles — Ra’Shede Hageman, senior, Minnesota; Leonard Williams, sophomore, Southern California.

Linebackers —Shayne Skov, senior, Stanford; Max Bullough, senior, Michigan State; Denicos Allen, senior, Michigan State.

Cornerbacks — Ifo Ekpre-Olomu, junior, Oregon; Vernon Hargreaves III, freshman, Florida.

Safeties — Jimmie Ward, senior, Northern Illinois; Ty Zimmerman, senior, Kansas State.

Punter — Austin Rehkow, freshman, Idaho.

PRO FOOTBALL

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ANALYSIS

EAGLES

Free agents likely will not break Bears’ bank

Defense takes step backward

limited him to eight games.

Jennings, a Pro Bowl cornerback in 2012, is playing at a high level – he’s the only Bears general manager full-time starter on the Bears’ Phil Emery understood the risks of having more than half defense with a positive rating

by Pro Football Focus. But he the players on his roster in the final year of their contract still is playing in one of the lowest-ranked defenses in the in 2013, including Jay CutNFL and although he has two ler, Charles Tillman, Henry touchdowns this season, he Melton, Devin Hester, Tim only has three interceptions – Jennings and Robbie Gould. well below his league-leading If they all had a great season, Emery probably wouldn’t nine of 2012.

Hester still is a threat as a be able to keep each of them.

“That’s a problem I look for- kick returner – he has one punt return for a touchdown this ward to,” Emery said in July. season and had another one As it has turned out, that nullified by penalty. But, at 30, has not come to fruition. But he hasn’t had a breakout season with the Bears in control of their playoff destiny with two as a dedicated kick returner.

Defensive lineman Corey games to go in the 2013 season, Wootton, who had seven sacks Emery’s gambit is looking more and more like a winning last season, has only two this season. His impact has been move. The Bears still could mitigated by selflessly helping make the playoffs, without any impending free agent hav- fill the void at tackle this season. Regrettably for Wootton, ing a break-the-bank season. sacks have much more value Most of the Bears’ key contributors to their 8-6 season than being a team guy in the are signed for 2014 and beyond. NFL. Many of the Bears’ most Only one of their 40 offensive touchdowns has been scored by valuable free agents are unlikely to be cost-prohibitive. an upcoming free agent – Josh Robbie Gould is having anothMcCown leaped into the end zone for a seven-yard score Dec. er fine season (25-of-28 field goals, 116 points), but kicker is 9 against the Cowboys. Receiver Alshon Jeffery, the breakout the second-lowest paid position in football. Guard Matt Slaustar of the Bears’ offense, is in line for a big-money extension, son is the Bears’ highest rated but still has two seasons left on offensive lineman according to Pro Football Focus, but guard his rookie contract. is the fifth-lowest paid posiJeffery’s situation bears tion in football – behind only watching, but as far as the 2014 free agents are concerned, centers and tight ends among nonspecialists. Blake Costanzo Emery and Bears negotiator Cliff Stein are unlikely to have is their leading special teams to jump through too many tackler, but he plays almost hoops to keep everybody they exclusively on special teams. want this offseason.

Emery probably would Melton, a Pro Bowl defenrather have tougher decisions sive tackle in 2012, is coming to make. But he at least should off a knee injury that ended his have more room to manuever. season after three games. TillA year ago the Bears did not man, who may or may not want make the playoffs and still had to play for the Bears in 2014, to overpay Melton (an $8.5 milalso is coming off an injury that lion salary cap hit) after his

By MARK POTASH

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Pro Bowl season. The Bears are unlikely to be in that kind of pickle with any of their own free agents this offseason.

That includes the biggest of them all – Cutler. Although he has a career-high 88.9 passer rating in 2013, Cutler has missed five complete games and parts of two others with injuries.

Unlike 2011, when the Bears fell apart after Cutler was injured, they prospered in 2013, with McCown ranked third in the NFL in passer rating (109.8, with 13 touchdown passes and one interception in seven games).

Although Cutler was brought to Chicago to lift an offense on his shoulders, this season has made it clear that it is Marc Trestman’s offense and Emery’s supporting cast that have made Cutler as good as he ever has been. Even when you have a cannon for an arm, there’s a lot to be said for being at the right place at the right time.

If Cutler is intent on breaking the bank, with a strong finish he probably could get a better deal elsewhere, because Emery is not going to hamstring the Bears’ salary cap by signing a quarterback to a mega-millions deal. But after all he’s been through in Denver and Chicago, an older, wiser Cutler seems to understand that it would not be in his best interest to leave a comfort zone that won’t be easy for him to replicate – coaches he trusts and respects, an offensive line that can keep him clean and skill-position weapons he can depend on. And a best-friend-forever in Brandon Marshall. All in the same place.

Based on McCown’s success, you could argue that Cutler needs the Bears more than the Bears need Cutler.

That’s a 180-degree turn from July. Emery has a lot of work to do – especially on defense – but things seem to be slowly turning in his favor.

By ROB MAADDI The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA – All that progress the Philadelphia Eagles’ defense made over two months vanished in one day.

It doesn’t mean they’re back to the beginning.

Led by Matt Cassel and a third-string running back making his first career start, the Minnesota Vikings scored 48 points Sunday against Philadelphia.

Cassel exposed the secondary with deep throws, connecting with veteran Greg Jennings 11 times for 163 yards on his way to a 382-yard passing performance.

The Eagles (8-6) hadn’t allowed more than 21 points in the previous nine games since Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos scored 52 against them – 38 off the defense and 14

off special teams – in Week 4.

“I think it was a bad day, but I think you always have your strengths and weaknesses,” defensive coordinator Billy Davis said Tuesday. “We’ve said all along we’ve got so much more to do. This is Year One. We have had a lot of success that probably was unexpected.

“But the weaknesses, nothing has really changed. We just continue to try to get better and better as we go. We did walk into a bad game, a good Minnesota team. We have to learn from it and respond to it. I believe they will respond in the right way.”

The defense faced a team missing its best offensive player, reigning NFL MVP Adrian Peterson, and his backup, Toby Gerhart. But Matt Asiata ran for three touchdowns in their absence.

Cassel took advantage of a

depleted secondary with six pass plays of 20-plus yards, and several third-down conversions. Cornerbacks Cary Williams and Bradley Fletcher struggled along with safeties Patrick Chung and Nate Allen.

The Eagles sorely missed rookie safety Earl Wolff, who didn’t play because of a knee injury. Nickel cornerback Brandon Boykin suffered a concussion during the game.

“I have never coached in a game where we didn’t have multiple errors. I don’t think anybody has. It just doesn’t happen,” Davis said.

“There’s always the little things you have to tighten up and get better. When you lose, a lot of times the mistakes you make, they’re found. You always have to correct them.

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PARTY ESSENTIALS Appetizers, desserts and cocktails make holiday hosting easy

Italian Surf And Turf With Roasted Red Pepper Sauce AP photo

For impressive, easy party food, turn to surf and turf

Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake AP photo

By J.M. HIRSCH • The Associated Press The problem with holiday potlucks is the travel factor.

The season tends to inspire us to make fancy – or maybe just fanciful – foods. But what works at home doesn’t always transport well.

For that, I generally turn to a simple, yet sensational flourless chocolate cake. Basic to make, but the results are anything but.

And since this dense, squat cake has no fussy decorations, it’s a dream to transport.

For this recipe, I was aiming for a dense and fudgy cake. To get it, I used pureed pitted dates. And since chocolate and peanut butter play so nicely together, I added powdered peanut butter. But if you can’t find that, just leave it out; the recipe will still be delicious.

Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Start to finish: 50 minutes Servings: 10 1 cup heavy cream 12-ounce bag semi-sweet chocolate chips 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 8-ounce bag pitted dates 5 eggs 1/4 cup powdered peanut butter Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 9-inch springform pan with cooking spray.

In a small saucepan over medium-high, heat the cream until just simmering. Remove than pan from the heat and add the choco-

late chips. Stir until melted and smooth.

In a blender, combine the chocolate-cream mixture, vanilla and dates. Puree until smooth, about 2 to 3 minutes. Add the eggs and powdered peanut butter, then puree again until completely blended. Pour into the prepared pan. Tap the pan gently on the counter to level.

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until completely set at the center. Cool completely, then remove the sides of the pan.

Nutrition information per serving: 370 calories; 190 calories from fat (51 percent of total calories); 21 g fat (12 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 125 mg cholesterol; 42 g carbohydrate; 5 g fiber; 36 g sugar; 8 g protein; 65 mg sodium.

With the holidays getting into full swing, life for most of us is getting hectic.

Between all the big meals, the parties, the kids needing treats for their classes. ...

Who has time for it all?

Well, this dish – my Italian take on surf and turf – will come to your rescue. It is ridiculously easy to make (especially if you use jarred roasted red peppers) and involves just seven Find ingredients recipes for (not counta traditional ing salt and holiday meal pepper). on Page D2.

But I’ll confess that I stole the basic premise – the shrimp and sausage part – from my friend, and one of my favorite cookbook authors, Bruce Aidells.

Wrapping shrimp around a nugget of sausage was an idea he talked about in his book, “Bruce Aidells’ Complete Sausage Book.” I was amazed the first time I made his recipe. The two proteins meld wonderfully when baked. This is such an impressive trick and looks so clever, it makes the perfect appetizer or hors d’oeuvres for a holiday party.

Italian Surf And Turf With Roasted Red Pepper Sauce Start to finish: 30 minutes Makes 16 shrimp 16 peeled and deveined large raw shrimp (about 8 to 10 ounces) 6 ounces hot or sweet Italian turkey sausage meat (about 2 links) 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided 2 cloves garlic, minced, divided 1 tablespoon chopped fresh

EVERYDAY DINNERS Sara Moulton oregano Kosher salt and ground black pepper 1 cup roasted red peppers, drained and patted dry 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar Heat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with kitchen parchment.

Arrange the shrimp on the prepared baking sheet with all of the shrimp facing the same direction to form a series of C’s.

Remove the casings from the sausage, place a small mound of the sausage in the center of each shrimp and press down so that the shrimp and sausage filling make a solid round.

In a small bowl, combine 1 tablespoon of the olive oil with half the garlic and all of the oregano.

Sprinkle the shrimp lightly with salt and pepper, then brush the oil mixture over the shrimp and sausage. Bake the stuffed shrimp until they are cooked through, about 8 to 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a blender combine the red peppers, the remaining tablespoon of oil, the remaining garlic, the vinegar, and salt and pepper to taste. Blend until smooth. Transfer to a small saucepan and heat just until hot.

To serve, arrange the shrimp on a serving platter, then drizzle each with some of the sauce.

Nutrition information per shrimp: 170 calories; 50 calories from fat (29 percent of total calories); 5 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 130 mg cholesterol; 7 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 4 g sugar; 22 g protein; 710 mg sodium.

Pitcher-style margarita perfect for holidays

By ALISON LADMAN The Associated Press Want to take the fun out of hosting a holiday party?

Spend the whole evening playing bartender.

As festive as it is to offer a delicious cocktail at your party, picking the right mixed drink involves more than just deciding what tastes great and works with your menu.

You also want something that can be prepped ahead of time, then set out for guests to serve themselves. That way, your guests can enjoy a drink and you can enjoy your guests.

To keep it simple, we stuck with a pitcher-style cocktail.

We start by infusing tequila with cranberries and fresh mint. Then we pair that with a blend of citrus juices for a delicious DIY margarita.

Cranberry-Mint Infused Pitcher Margarita Start to finish: 15 minutes (plus infusing time) Servings: 12 12-ounce bag cranberries 1 cup fresh mint leaves, plus additional for garnish 750-milliliter bottle silver or blanco tequila 3/4 cup agave nectar 1 cup lime juice 1 cup orange juice 1/2 cup water

In a blender, combine the cranberries, mint leaves and tequila.

Blend until the berries and mint are well chopped. Cover, refrigerate and allow to steep overnight or for up to 3 days.

After the mixture has steeped, pour it through a mesh strainer to remove and discard the solids, pressing them to extract as much liquid as possible. Transfer the infused tequilas to a pitcher and refrigerate until ready to serve.

In a second pitcher, stir together the agave, lime juice, orange juice and water. Serve the pitchers side-by-side, along with mint sprigs to garnish. Instruct guests to pour equal parts of each mixture (roughly 2 ounces of each) into an ice-filled glass, then gently stir.

Nutrition information per serving: 210 calories; 0 calories from fat (0 percent of total calories); 0 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 21 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 17 g sugar; 0 g protein; 0 mg sodium.

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Fancy holiday meal requires no fancy skills

By SARA MOULTON The Associated Press Looking to dazzle your guests during the holidays?

I’ve got the perfect “fancy” dish for you. And I promise it requires no advanced culinary skills.

I’ve adapted this from a recipe that first appeared in Gourmet magazine. It boasts a secret ingredient, what the French call a “farce,” but we call it forcemeat. It’s what makes this chicken ridiculously moist and flavorful.

A forcemeat is a mixture of well-seasoned meat, poultry, fish or vegetables, that is finely chopped or ground, then cooked and served alone or used as a stuffing.

Some fat usually is added to ensure the forcemeat has a smooth texture. Forcemeat is the base of many charcuterie products, including pates, terrines and sausages.

But in this recipe, it doesn’t just add delicious flavor. It also insulates the chicken from the intensity of the heat in the oven, making it almost impossible for the meat to dry out.

For my forcemeat, I’ve used a mixture of chicken, spinach, low-fat sour cream (in place of the original recipe’s heavy cream), and Mediterranean flavorings, including lemon zest, nutmeg (often paired with spinach) and fennel seed.

I’d advise those of you who think you hate fennel (which tastes vaguely of licorice) to give this combo a chance. It’s a delicious blend of flavors, and you won’t even notice the fennel.

But before you get going, a few kitchen notes.

We’ll start with the tools.

Your best bet for grinding the fennel seeds is a spice or coffee grinder, but you also can crush them with the bottom of a heavy saucepan.

As for grating the lemon zest and nutmeg, get yourself a wand-style grater, which makes quick work of both.

If you’re using dry prewashed spinach, throw a little water into the skillet with it to help it wilt, then stir it often. Don’t be surprised when it cooks down to almost nothing. You’ll notice then the spinach has generated water of its own in excess. The best way to lose the water is to wrap batches of the spinach in a dish towel and squeeze hard.

You may wonder whether all the stuffing will fit under the chicken’s skin, or whether the excess will ooze out when you sauté the meat.

Don’t worry. Chicken skin is remarkably elastic. And the forcemeat firms right up during cooking and won’t slide out.

Wait a minute – doesn’t that skin contain a lot of fat?

It does. But I figure the holidays are one time of the year you can splurge a little.

And by the way, there’s no reason to confine the enjoyment of this dish to the holidays. You can customize the seasonings or flavorings

as you like as long as you keep the amounts of the core ingredients – chicken, sour cream and ice – untouched.

That said, this is indeed a perfect dish for entertaining because you can make it ahead and keep it in the refrigerator until about 40 minutes before you want to serve it.

Spinach-Stuffed Chicken Thighs

Holiday Pot Roast With Spiced Root Vegetables

Start to finish: 1 hour 55 minutes (30 minutes active) Servings: 6 5 ounces baby spinach 2 pounds skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs (8 thighs) 2 tablespoons crushed ice 1/3 cup low-fat sour cream Kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds, crushed 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg Ground black pepper 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil.

In a large skillet over medium heat, wilt the spinach until completely reduced. Let cool until easily handled, then squeeze any moisture from the spinach. Finely chop the spinach. You should have about 1/3 cup. Set aside.

Using a paring knife, remove the skin and bone from 2 of the chicken thighs. Place them in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Add the ice and process until absorbed. Add the sour cream and pulse again until well mixed. Add the spinach, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, fennel seeds, lemon zest, nutmeg and 1/8 teaspoon of black pepper. Pulse, scraping down the sides, until well mixed. Set aside.

Arrange the remaining thighs on a cutting board, skin side up. Carefully pull back the skin, leaving it attached on one end. Divide the ground chicken and spinach mixture evenly between the 6 thighs, spreading it evenly over the meat.

Stretch the skin back over the filling on each thigh. Arrange the stuffed thighs on a plate, cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour and up to overnight.

When ready to cook, heat the oven to 400 degrees F. In a large oven-safe skillet over medium-high, heat the oil. Season the chicken skin lightly with salt and pepper, then add the chicken to the skillet, skin side down. Cook until the skin is golden brown, then use tongs to turn the thighs skin side up. Place the skillet in the oven and roast for 25 minutes, or until the thighs reach 160 degrees F. Remove the skillet from the oven and cover with foil. Let rest for 5 minutes before transferring each thigh to a serving plate. Spoon any juices from the skillet over the thighs just before serving.

Nutrition information per serving: 310 calories; 200 calories from fat (65 percent of total calories); 23 g fat (7 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 110 mg cholesterol; 3 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 0 g sugar; 22 g protein; 370 mg sodium.

SpinachStuffed Chicken Thighs

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A roast to love on its merits

By ALISON LADMAN The Associated Press Admittedly, pot roast is not a particularly beautiful dish. But when done well, it is a delicious dish – flavorful, succulent, rich and comforting. In short, it’s everything you want for a holiday feast.

Another perk of pot roast – especially if you’re feeding a crowd – is that it is economical. You’re going to want to select a well-marbled, tougher cut of meat, both of which translate into cheap. And that means you’re going to get a lot of roast for your dollar.

This recipe is easy and designed to give maximum flavor with minimum labor. You brown some vegetables, add you meat and liquid, then walk away for a few hours. Toward the end of roasting, you chop some vegetables and toss those in the oven, too. The resulting roast is spectacular with the gravy made from the drippings and liquid in the pan.

Holiday Pot Roast With Spiced Root Vegetables Start to finish: 4 hours (30 minutes active) Servings: 12 For the roast: 2 medium red onions, quartered 2 medium carrots, cut into pieces 3 stalks celery, cut into pieces 2 leeks, trimmed and sliced 2 tablespoons olive oil 6- to 7-pound chuck roast Salt and ground black pepper

3 cups red wine 2 cups unsalted beef stock 1/4 cup tomato paste 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 3 bay leaves 3 sprigs fresh rosemary For the root vegetables: 6 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces 4 parsnips, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces 2 medium red onions, cut into wedges 2 small sunchokes, peeled and diced 2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a food processor, combine the red onions, carrots, celery and leeks. Pulse until finely chopped, but not so finely that a paste is formed.

In a large Dutch oven or heavy bottomed large pot over medium, heat the olive oil. Add the onion-carrot mixture and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes.

Spoon the mixture out into a bowl.

Trim the chuck roast of any very large pieces of fat. Season the meat liberally with salt and black pepper. Increase the heat under the Dutch oven to high and add the meat. Sear on all sides until well browned, 3 to 4 minutes per side.

Transfer the roast to a plate.

Add a bit of the red wine to the pot and scrape up any browned bits on the bottom. Return the browned vegetable mixture to the pot along with the rest of the red wine, beef stock, tomato paste, mustard, bay leaves, and rosemary. Stir well. Carefully return the roast to the pot, cover and place in the oven for 3 to 4 hours, or until very tender.

Meanwhile, prepare the roasted vegetables. In a large bowl, toss together the carrots, parsnips, onions, sunchokes and sweet potatoes. Drizzle with the olive oil and toss to coat.

In a small bowl, mix together the salt, black pepper, cumin, coriander and fennel seed.

Sprinkle over the vegetables and toss again.

Spread onto a rimmed baking sheet. After the chuck has been roasting for 2 1/2 hours, add the vegetables to the oven. Roast, stirring occasionally, for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until browned and tender.

When the chuck is finished cooking, remove the pot from the oven and transfer the roast to a plate. Cover with foil. Remove the rosemary and bay leaves from the pot and discard. Transfer the remaining contents to a blender and blend until smooth, making sure to use caution when blending the hot liquid. Return to the pot and bring to a boil. Simmer until reduced to about 5 cups, or gravy thickness. Serve with the roast and root vegetables.

Nutrition information per serving: 540 calories; 120 calories from fat (22 percent of total calories); 13 g fat (4 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 95 mg cholesterol; 43 g carbohydrate; 8 g fiber; 13 g sugar; 51 g protein; 580 mg sodium.

Lean roast doesn’t skimp on flavor

By SARA MOULTON The Associated Press My choice for an elegant holiday dinner? It’s hard to beat a roast, and more often than not, my pick is a lean and moist pork tenderloin.

But let’s face it, as much as we want to be healthy, there is such a thing as roast that is too lean. A lack of fat often means a lack of flavor. So how to make up this deficit? With plenty of high-flavor ingredients, such as prosciutto, fresh herbs, mushrooms and wine.

Prosciutto packs a ton of flavor, and the slight amount of fat it adds is well worth it. As for the herbs, I took a tip from the Italians, who often top off a grilled steak with fresh herbs and a drizzle of olive oil.

I tested out several herbs in this recipe, both alone and in combinations.

Although I was rooting for fresh sage – a classic match with prosciutto – my tasting panel (the family) overruled me in favor of rosemary and thyme.

Given the roast’s Italian inflections, I chose a mushroom Marsala sauce to go with it. If you don’t have Marsala at home, you can swap in Madeira, dry sherry, white vermouth, or even white or red wine. All pair up nicely with mushrooms. And, as ever, if you don’t want to use alcohol, leave it out.

One of the great things about this recipe is that you can prepare and roll the roast a day ahead. You also can make the mushroom sauce in advance, then warm it up in the sauté pan after you’ve browned the pork roast, which allows you to take advantage of any browned bits sticking to the bottom of the pan after the roast has left the premises.

This isn’t just smart time management, it’s good cooking; both the roast and the sauce will taste better if you prepare them a day ahead of time. And it’ll free you up to prepare the rest of your holiday meal on the big day itself.

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Double Pork Roast With Mushroom Marsala Sauce Start to finish: 1 hour Servings: 6 2 pork tenderloin roasts (3/4 to 1 pound each), trimmed of all fat 2 tablespoons packed fresh rosemary leaves, chopped 2 tablespoons packed fresh thyme leaves, chopped 4 ounces thinly sliced prosciutto 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided Kosher salt and ground black pepper 1/2 cup finely chopped shallots or onion 1/2 pound mushrooms (cremini, white button, shiitake, oyster or a mix), trimmed and sliced 1/2 cup dry Marsala wine 1 1/4 cups low-sodium chicken broth 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Cut down through each tenderloin lengthwise so that you can open it up like a book, but do not

cut all the way through. Sprinkle water on the cutting board under the tenderloin and sprinkle a little water on top of the tenderloin (this will help prevent the meat from tearing when you pound it).

Cover the tenderloin with plastic wrap and pound the meat using a meat mallet or rolling pin until it is about 1/2-inch thick.

Sprinkle half the rosemary and thyme leaves all over the inside of each butterflied and pounded pork tenderloin and spread the prosciutto evenly in one layer over the herbs. Beginning with the long end, roll up the tenderloin tightly, tucking in the ends (as you would a burrito). Use kitchen twine to tie the roll in a bundle, tying it every 2 inches.

In a large nonstick skillet over medium-high, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil. Season the pork lightly on all sides with salt and pepper, then add it to the skillet. Sear until golden brown on all sides.

Transfer the pork to a shallow baking pan, then roast on the oven’s middle shelf until the center reaches 145 degrees F., about 20 to 25 minutes.

Remove the pork from the oven and cover loosely with foil.

Meanwhile, make the sauce. Return the skillet to medium heat. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil and the shallots and cook, stirring, until the shallots are golden. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring often, until the mushrooms give off all their liquid and are lightly browned.

Add the Marsala and simmer until almost all of it is reduced. Add 1 cup of the chicken broth and bring back to a boil. In a small bowl whisk the remaining 1/4 cup of chicken broth with the flour.

Add the flour mixture to the skillet in a stream while whisking and simmer for 2 minutes. Add any juices that have accumulated from the resting pork to the sauce. Slice the pork crosswise into 1-inch-thick slices. Transfer several slices to each of 6 serving plates. Spoon some of the mushroom sauce over each serving.

Nutrition information per serving: 330 calories; 110 calories from fat (33 percent of total calories); 13 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 115 mg cholesterol; 9 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 3 g sugar; 39 g protein; 770 mg sodium.

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Christmas breakfast casserole can be made sweet or savory

Raspberry And Cream Cheese Stuffed Biscuits

By J.M. HIRSCH The Associated Press

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Bake while you celebrate

By ALISON LADMAN

Raspberry And Cream Cheese Stuffed Biscuits

The Associated Press With all those presents to open, nobody wants to spend Christmas morning in the kitchen. So to keep you where you belong on the big morning, we created this easy raspberry and cream cheese stuffed breakfast biscuit that is fast and easy to assemble. It also can be prepped a week or more in advance, then frozen.

Just bake it Christmas morning right from the freezer.

And if you don’t care for raspberry, use any jam you prefer. Strawberry, apricot or even fig would be delicious.

If you go with fig, consider adding some chopped ham at the same time as the jam.

This breakfast biscuit is simple enough to assemble Christmas morning, but also can be prepped in advance.

To do so, assemble as directed, then cover tightly with plastic wrap and freeze. When ready to serve, bake at 400 degrees F. for 25 to 30 minutes, or until golden brown and cooked through.

Start to finish: 40 minutes (20 minutes active) Servings: 16 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon kosher salt 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 1 cup buttermilk 1/3 cup heavy cream 2 eggs 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into small cubes 1 cup (8 ounces) raspberry jam 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature 2 tablespoons turbinado sugar If cooking immediately, heat the oven to 400 degrees F. Coat a 9-by-13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar. In another bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, cream and eggs.

Stir the butter cubes into the

flour, flattening them and breaking them up slightly. Gently stir the buttermilk mixture into the flour and butter. It should make a shaggy dough with clumps of butter clearly visible. Dollop half of the mixture into the prepared pan, patting it with slightly dampened hands to cover the bottom of the pan.

Spread the jam over the surface, coming to just a 1/2 inch from the edge. Dot small dollops of cream cheese over the jam. Dollop the remaining biscuit dough over the top, then sprinkle with turbinado sugar. Place the pan in the freezer for 10 minutes. (If not cooking immediately, cover tightly with plastic wrap and freeze.)

If cooking immediately, bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown and cooked through. Serve warm.

Nutrition information per serving: 260 calories; 120 calories from fat (46 percent of total calories); 14 g fat (9 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 60 mg cholesterol; 29 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 9 g sugar; 5 g protein; 350 mg sodium.

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What you want on Christmas morning – a house that effortlessly fills itself with joyous sounds and delicious aromas. What you usually get on Christmas morning – towers of wrapping paper, hermetically sealed toys that can be opened by no human, and a kitchen that demands way too much of your attention.

I can’t help you with the wrapping paper or packaging, but I can make your holiday breakfast a little easier. I’m a big believer that Christmas morning is meant to be spent under the tree, not at the stove. And yet I still want the house to fill itself with delicious aromas.

My solution? A do-ahead breakfast casserole that I can prep the night before, then just pop into the oven to bake unattended while gift insanity commences. So this year I created an indulgent dish that is equal parts casserole, hash browns, fruit crumble and French toast.

This recipe makes plenty so it’s easy to feed a crowd, particularly if you have guests joining the fun closer to brunch. The leftovers are easily reheated. I like it served with a drizzle of maple syrup. But if you’d rather take this in a savory direction, add chopped ham when combining the potatoes and cheese.

French Toast Hash Crumble Casserole AP photo

(15 minutes active) Servings: 12 9 eggs 2/3 cup half-and-half 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 8 slices sandwich bread 4 cups (about 1 pound) frozen shredded potatoes 3 large apples, peeled, cored and diced 8 ounces (2 cups) shredded cheese 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup rolled oats 1 cup packed brown sugar 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened 1 tablespoon cinnamon In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, half-and-half, thyme, salt and pepper. Set aside.

Coat a deep 9-by-13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.

Arrange 4 slices of the bread in an even layer over the bottom of the pan.

In a large bowl, toss together the potatoes, apples and cheese.

Spread the mixture evenly over

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the bread. Pour half of the egg mixture evenly over the potatoes and apples, pressing it with a fork to help it absorb evenly. Top the potato mixture with the remaining 4 slices of bread. Pour the remaining egg mixture over the bread and press gently with a fork to help it absorb.

In the same bowl used to mix the potatoes and apples, combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, butter and cinnamon. Use your hands to mix the ingredients together until evenly blended. Spread the crumble topping evenly over the bread. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate until morning.

When ready to bake, heat the oven to 375 degrees F. Uncover the baking dish and bake for 1 hour, or until lightly browned and crisp.

Nutrition information per serving: 530 calories; 250 calories from fat (47 percent of total calories); 28 g fat (15 g saturated; 0.5 g trans fats); 200 mg cholesterol; 57 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 26 g sugar; 15 g protein; 350 mg sodium.

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Husband on gender journey wants his wife to go along Dear Abby: A couple of years ago, my husband informed me that he likes to dress in women’s clothing. Since then, he has read books, is seeing a counselor, and the reality is, he is transgender. He now wears his hair long and has long fingernails.

I have tried to be understanding and have gone places with him when he is dressed as a woman. He has met other transgender people who have either made the full transition or are content without it. I allow my husband time with these new friends without me. I did feel weird he was clothes shopping and going to movies with his new friends.

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips I have reconciled with these activities, and I’m OK with them so far. But I have told him if he decides to change his gender to female, I will not be able to be married to him. He’s on hormones at the moment and has told me he plans to start testosterone blockers.

I love him, Abby, but NOT the woman side of him. Am I unreasonable to put a boundary on my marriage? He thinks if he slowly eases me into the idea it will be OK. He says I am his “world” and

I should love him no matter what gender he is. Am I being selfish? – Somewhere

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is growing up, and part of that process means becoming an individual. Right now she is trying to figure out who she is, apart from the family she loves – including you.

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It’s legacy time for KISS frontman and co-founder Paul Stanley.

Not only are Stanley and fellow band members being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he has a memoir scheduled to come out less than two weeks after the ceremony.

HarperOne announced Tuesday Stanley’s “Face the Music: A Life Exposed” is coming out April 22.

The publisher says the book will feature rare photographs and candid memories about his wild life.

Earlier Tuesday the Rock Hall announced Kiss, Linda Ronstadt and Peter Gabriel were among the performers voted in. The ceremony is scheduled for April 10.

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‘Frozen’ cast joins featured characters at Disney parks The characters Anna and Elsa from the popular new Disney movie “Frozen” have joined the ranks of character greeters at Walt Disney World in Florida.

The sisters began greeting guests at the Norway Pavilion at Epcot after the movie opened in November.

Other greeters include well-known Disney characters such as Snow White and Donald Duck.

“Frozen,” an animated movie, is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen” and has done well at the box-office.

Country singer Cagle arrested

Nirvana, KISS get rock hall nods Nirvana, KISS and Peter Gabriel will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year.

The Rock Hall announced Tuesday Hall and Oates, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens also will be inducted April 10 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Artists are eligible for induction 25 years after their first release. Nirvana received a nomination in its first year of eligibility, and next year the band will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its debut, “Bleach.” The induction comes 20 years after frontman Kurt Cobain committed suicide at age 27.

“For once ... I’m speechless. From the basements, to the dingy clubs, to the broken down vans, to ... the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, now the frontman for Foo Fighters, said in a statement Tuesday. “I’d like to thank the committee not only for this induction, but also for recognizing Nirvana for what we were: pure rock and roll.”

“Thank you most of all to Kurt Cobain,” bassist Krist Novoselic said in the statement issued on behalf of Nirvana. “And to everyone who’s kept rock music going strong for 60 years and counting.”

This year also marked first-time nominations for Hall and Oates, Gabriel and Ronstadt. Kiss and Stevens, who have been nominated in the past, made the cut after being absent from the list for several years.

More than 700 Rock Hall voters determined the 2014 class.

The 29th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be open to the public. Tickets go on sale next month.

Country singer Chris Cagle has been arrested in Texas on a driving while intoxicated charge.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says Cagle was arrested early Sunday near Greenville, 50 miles northeast of Dallas. The agency says the 45-year-old entertainer was pulled over after running a red light.

The Hunt County Sheriff’s Office says Cagle was released later Sunday on $3,000 bond. Sgt. Jeff Haines on Tuesday had no information on an attorney for Cagle.

The penalty for Class B misdemeanor DWI includes a fine of up to $2,000, up to six months in jail or both.

A message to a booking and management agency representing Cagle wasn’t immediately returned Tuesday.

‘X Factor’ to see changes Simon Cowell is plotting changes for “The X Factor,” including new judges and a new role for him.

Cowell is the show’s producer. He told a teleconference Monday he expects the singing contest to return next season on Fox. He says “X Factor” may be cut back to one night instead

of two, and format changes are under discussion to keep it fresh.

Cowell says the judging panel probably will be different.

Besides Cowell, the “X Factor” judges include Demi Lovato, Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio.

Cowell says he has recruits in mind, but he declined to identify them.

He says he envisions what he called a “different kind of role” for himself, but he wouldn’t be more specific.

The show’s ratings have dipped in season three. The winner will be announced on the finale Thursday.

Author hired to write sequel to ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ series The Swedish publisher of the best-selling “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” trilogy said Tuesday it has hired an author to write a sequel to the series by Stieg Larsson, who died in 2004.

Norstedts said it signed a contract with David Lagercrantz, the author of “I am Zlatan,” a biography of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the captain of Sweden’s soccer team, to write a new novel about journalist Mikael Blomqvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander that is scheduled to be published in August 2015.

Larsson’s trilogy about a darker side of Sweden, including murder mysteries, sex trafficking scandals and a secret government unit, has been a huge international success, with more than 75 million books sold in 50 countries.

The head of publishing at Norstedts, Eva Gedin, told The Associated Press the new book will be an original work that includes nothing from the fourth novel in the series that Larsson began writing but hadn’t finished when he died at age 50.

“Obviously it will build on the previous books,” she said.

“Blomqvist and Salander will be included and many of the other characters.”

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As people pay closer attention to what they eat, companies are learning that funny-sounding chemicals and other ingredients can be a bulls-eye for criticism from online petitions and food bloggers.

As labels get closer look, ingredients vanish

By CANDICE CHOI The Associated Press NEW YORK – Take another look at that food label. An ingredient or two may have vanished.

As Americans pay closer attention to what they eat, food and beverage companies are learning that unfamiliar ingredients can invite criticism from online petitions and bloggers.

The risk of damaging publicity has proven serious enough that some manufacturers have reformulated top-selling products to remove mysterious, unpronounceable components that could draw suspicion.

Earlier this year, for example, PepsiCo Inc. said it would stop using brominated vegetable oil in Gatorade and find a another way to evenly distribute color in the sports drink.

Last year, Starbucks said it would stop using a red dye made of crushed bugs based on comments it received “through a variety of means,” including an online petition, and switch to a tomato-based extract. Kraft Foods plans to replace artificial dyes with colors derived from natural spices in select varieties of its macaroni and cheese, a nod to the feedback it’s hearing from parents.

Ali Dibadj, a Bernstein analyst who covers the packaged food and beverage industry, said the changes reflect a shift from “democratization to activism” by consumers.

“It used to be that people would just decide not to buy the product.

Now they’re actually agitating for change,” Dibadj said. “There’s a bullhorn – which is the Internet – so you can get a lot of people involved very quickly.”

Companies stand by the safety of their old recipes. Although they don’t typically provide details on production decisions, their reasons for using certain ingredients can include cost and manufacturing efficiencies.

Still, food and beverage makers can be sensitive about broadcasting any changes. Chick-fil-A, for instance, has been removing artificial

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While companies stand by the safety of funny-sounding chemicals and other ingredients, some are nevertheless removing them to stave off bad publicity. dyes and high-fructose corn syrup from its dressings and sauces. The Atlanta-based chain also is testing a “clean ingredient bun” but has not alerted customers.

“The reason companies don’t publicize it is that they don’t want to bring attention to these ingredients.

They want to slowly start to remove them until they’re all gone,” said Vani Hari, who runs the site FoodBabe.com and has pressured companies to remove artificial dyes and other ingredients.

There are no numbers tracking how many companies are reformulating products in response to consumer demand. But even if recipe changes aren’t in direct response to petitions or blogs, executives understand that ingredients can become a liability once they fall out of favor with the public.

High-fructose corn syrup, for example, has gained a negative image

in recent years and has been blamed for fueling bad eating habits. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a health advocacy group, said the sweetener is no more harmful than ordinary sugar in large amounts. But Kroger Co. decided to remove it from store-brand cereals after surveys with consumers in 2011.

The supermarket chain isn’t alone.

Over the past decade, the use of highfructose corn syrup in packaged foods and drinks has fallen 18 percent to 6.1 million tons last year, according to market researcher Euromonitor International.

The latest moves to swap out ingredients underscore the growing sway consumers have through sites such as Change.org, which lets people post petitions.

In the past, a customer complaint about an ingredient may have been addressed with a boilerplate letter from corporate headquarters. But now people can go online to share their concerns with thousands of likeminded individuals.

John Boeheim, of New York’s Hudson Valley, said he avoids a number of ingredients, including the artificial sweetener aspartame and a red dye, in part because of what he’s read on blogs and social media.

“We’ve taught our kids to look at the labels, to look at the ingredients,” Boeheim said.

Companies are paying attention too. Chick-fil-A said it will continue to improve ingredients to keep up with changing tastes and even invited Hari to spend the day at its headquarters sharing her concerns.

Not all companies are making changes, at least not right away. The Mississippi teenager who called for the removal of brominated vegetable oil in Gatorade, for instance, is now taking aim at Coca-Cola’s Powerade, which also contains the ingredient in select varieties. As of Tuesday, Sarah Kavanagh’s petition had more than 57,000 supporters.

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Centegra Health System and Advocate Health Care facilities have garnered the highest distinction that hospitals can receive for nursing care.

Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington and Centegra hospitals in McHenry and Woodstock recently achieved Magnet designation as part of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program.

The designation makes the facilities, which includes Centegra’s speciality hospital in Woodstock, four of about 391 recognized out of the nearly 6,000 registered hospitals nationally.

“We achieved Magnet status because of Centegra’s patient-centered culture,” Neil Murphy, senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Centegra, said in a news release. “While we aim to bring the most advanced practices to the bedside, we never lose sight of the real reason we became nurses, which is to care for patients and families.”

To qualify for the status, hospitals had to meet criteria in 14 standards, including quality of nursing leadership, organization style, quality of care, nurses as teachers and professional development.

The two-year evaluation process included an extensive application, interviews and a three-day, on-site survey by ANCC appraisers.

“Clearly, high quality care requires great nurses as well as a high degree of collaboration between physicians and other caregivers,” Karen Lambert, president of Advocate Good Shepherd, said in a news release.

“Being recognized as a Magnet hospital is further validation of the excellent care being provided at [Advocate] Good Shepherd Hospital.”

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Consumer prices flat as gas costs keep falling WASHINGTON – U.S. consumer prices stayed flat in November, held down by falling gas prices.

Inflation remains low across the broader economy, giving the Federal Reserve latitude to continue its extraordinary stimulus program.

The consumer price index was unchanged last month, after dropping 0.1 percent in October, the Labor Department said Tuesday.

Gas prices declined 1.6 percent in November to keep overall prices down. Over the past 12 months, consumer prices have risen only 1.2 percent. That’s well below the Fed’s 2 percent inflation target.

Excluding volatile energy and food costs, core prices rose 0.2 percent in November from October and only 1.7 percent over the past 12 months.

– The Associated Press

Facebook testing video advertisements in feeds

By BREE FOWLER The Associated Press NEW YORK – Facebook said Tuesday it’s testing video advertisements that show up in its users’ news feeds, creating another potential source of advertising revenue for the social network.

Under the plan, the advertisements automatically start playing without sound when they appear. Users can click on a video to view it with sound, or scroll past it if they’re not interested.

Facebook said it’s been testing the silent autoplaying videos for video content shared between Facebook users since September, and has seen a 10 percent increase in the number of videos watched, liked, shared and commented on.

Investors appeared to give the plan a thumbsup, as they lifted Facebook’s shares to an all-time high of $55.18 on Tuesday morning. The stock closed Tuesday at $54.86.

Facebook said the new format will allow its advertisers to reach a large number of people in a short amount of time, while also improving the quality of advertisements its users see in their news feeds.

Facebook needs to proceed with caution. While people have grown accustomed to video ads online, Facebook is a place where users commune with friends and family and is often perceived as a more personal setting than other websites where video ads may not be seen as intrusive.

The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company emphasized that the idea is still in the testing phase and that it’s not currently selling video advertisements. The company wouldn’t disclose pricing, but said its goal is for the test feature to become a premium advertising product designed to reach a large audience at specific times.

Meanwhile, advertising spending continues to rise. According to research firm eMarketer,

spending on digital video advertising will more than triple from 2012 levels to $9.42 billion in 2017, though that pales in comparison to the TV advertising market which is expected to reach $75.25 billion by the same year.

Citi analyst Mark May backed his “Buy” rating for Facebook’s stock, noting that the video ad effort was expected and could add more than half a billion dollars to the company’s revenue next year and up to $1 billion by 2016.

As part of the test, Facebook said it’s partnering with Summit Entertainment to show a series of videos related to its upcoming film “Divergent” to a small number of Facebook users Thursday.

Facebook noted that for mobile users, the advertisements are preloaded only when the device is connected to wireless Internet and will not consume additional data.

No sound will play unless a user clicks or taps on the video.

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8IN BRIEF Homebuilder confidence surges in December U.S. homebuilders’ confidence bounced back strongly this month, a sign that construction and industry hiring may pick up in coming months.

The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released Tuesday climbed to 58. That was up from 54 in November and matched an eight-year high reached in August. Readings above 50 indicate that more builders view sales conditions as good than poor.

In addition, builders’ view of current sales conditions jumped this month to the highest level in eight years. And their outlook for sales heading into next year’s spring homeselling season also improved.

The index has stayed above 50 now for seven consecutive months after being below that level since May 2006. This month’s reading is 11 points higher than a year ago. It reflects a U.S. housing market fueled by steady job growth and still-low mortgage rates.

IRS vendor owed $525 million in back taxes WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service has been doing business with nearly 1,200 vendors that owe back taxes, including one unnamed contractor that owed $525 million, a new inspector general’s report said.

Altogether, 1,168 IRS vendors owed back taxes totaling $589 million as of July 2012, according to the report released Tuesday. Only 50 were in a payment plan to pay off their debt.

“When the IRS conducts business with vendors that do not comply with federal tax laws, it conveys a contradictory message in relation to its mission to ensure compliance with the tax laws,” said J. Russell George, Treasury inspector general for tax administration.

The IRS checks whether vendors owe back taxes when the agency awards contracts, the IRS said.

– The Associated Press

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Mining acres of diamonds all around you While pondering Christmas gifts for my husband, I looked through Neiman Marcus’ annual Christmas catalog.

For over a century, the upscale retailer has stayed true to its founder’s guiding principles of providing “distinctive merchandise and superior service.”

After deciding to postpone the Rolls Royce golf cart and the Ciclotte – an $11,000 exercise bike – gifts until another year, one of the adventures that caught my eye is a luxurious trip for two to Africa to mine our own 25-carat diamond. The off-the-charts gift extravaganza is a $1,850,000 investment, and I began to think, “What if we mined the diamonds in our backyard rather than taking the trip to Africa to search for valuable jewels?”

The diamonds you seek are right beneath your feet. The first step is to open your eyes and recognize that brilliant shining diamonds are all around you. These gems are in your

be on a search in our own acreage for the brilliant and spectacular. In order to see the real gems in the rough, we need to take an excursion into cleaning up our own diamond mine. Is your mine, or backyard, so cluttered that you can’t see anything of value? When was the last time that you took an inventory of your acreage to determine who and what are the real gems versus the rocks or stones that are taking up space?

Not all diamonds have the same 4Cs – cut, color, clarity and carat weight – so while they all look different, they are all precious and valuable, especially when polished and admired for their uniqueness and individual beauty. When you find a real diamond in the rough, are you taking the time to polish it or are you tossing it away because it may seem too small or it might take some work to make it more treasured?

To help your diamonds shine more brightly, you might consider inviting

SUCCESS Kathleen Caldwell workplace, home and community, and are waiting to be noticed and excavated by you.

In the business world, how can you mine the diamonds in your career, business, employees, co-workers, clients and emerging opportunities?

Personally, where are the gems in your health, home, local community and family relationships? They are all around you if you look for the sparkle and dazzle in your life.

We miss the opportunity of unearthing and examining the jewels of success because we think that the real gems are “over there” in someone else’s backyard and not in our own.

The myth that their backyard has more diamonds on it is so alluring that we must constantly and fearlessly

your most valuable employees and clients to the upcoming Crystal Lake Chamber Foundation’s inaugural GEMs (generous, enthusiastic, motivated) Leadership Appreciation Luncheon on Feb. 13. (Thank you from the chairwoman for your support of this brilliant event). You will be awestruck by the twinkle in your guest’s eyes before, during and after this inspiring event.

If you look for the diamonds of success, you just might find them within the acres of business opportunities in your backyard. If you can do that, you can make business success a reality in 2014 and beyond.

• Kathleen Caldwell is president of Caldwell Consulting Group and the founder of the WHEE Institute (Wealthy, Healthy, Energetic Edge) of Woodstock. She can be reached at www.caldwellconsulting.biz, Kathleen@caldwellconsulting.biz or 815206-4014.

Fed is likely to maintain bond-buying pace Online petition targets M&Ms

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Is this week when the Federal Reserve finally slows its aggressive stimulus for the economy? Or does it want to await more evidence of a consistently improving economy?

It’s a close call.

Yet most economists think the Fed will maintain the pace of its monthly bond purchases to keep long-term loan rates low to spur spending and growth.

The decision carries high stakes for individuals, businesses and global financial markets. A pullback in the Fed’s bond buying likely would send long-term rates up and stock and bond prices down.

Many analysts think the Fed will signal that it expects to slow the pace of its bond purchases from $85 billion a month, perhaps early next year, if the economy strengthens further.

The Fed will announce its decision after its latest policy meeting ends Wednesday, just before Chairman Ben Bernanke holds his final quarterly news conference. Bernanke will step down Jan. 31 after eight years as chairman.

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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks Monday at the Federal Reserve Building in Washington. sidering slowing its stimulus is testament to the economy’s improvement. Hiring has been robust for four consecutive months. Unemployment is at a five-year low of 7 percent. Factory output is up. Consumers are spending more at retailers. Auto sales haven’t been better since the recession ended 4½ years ago.

What’s more, the stock market is near all-time highs.

Inflation remains below the Fed’s target rate. And the House has passed a budget plan that seems likely to avert another government shutdown next year. The Senate is

expected to follow suit.

“It really feels like the economy has finally hit escape velocity,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, citing a term Bernanke has used for an economy strong enough to propel growth and shrink unemployment without the Fed’s extraordinary help.

Still, only one-fourth of more than three dozen economists surveyed last week by The Associated Press expect the Fed to scale back its bond purchases this week.

One complicating factor is the transition the Fed is un-

dergoing as Bernanke enters his final weeks as chairman.

Beginning in February, Bernanke will be succeeded

by Janet Yellen, now the vice chair. The Senate is expected to confirm Yellen’s nomination as chairwoman this week.

The economists surveyed by the AP think Yellen will be more “dovish” than Bernanke – that is, more likely to stress the need to reduce still-high unemployment than to worry about inflation that might arise from the Fed’s policies.

Investors have been on edge about a pullback in the Fed’s bond purchases since June, when Bernanke proposed a timetable for a slowdown.

Bernanke said the Fed could start reducing its bond purchases before 2013 ends and stop the purchases altogether by mid-2014.

His remarks threw markets into turmoil. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged. Interest rates spiked.

Stock markets have since recovered, though the rate on the benchmark 10-year Treasury remains well above its level in early May, before Bernanke hinted of a pullback in bond buying. The higher rate reflects investors’ anticipation of an eventual Fed slowdown.

• INGREDIENTS Continued from page E1 In a statement, CocaCola noted that all its ingredients comply with regulations. But the company also said it is “always looking for ways to evolve” its formulas.

Another petition that asks Mars Inc. to remove artificial colors from M&Ms had more than 141,000 signatures. In an emailed statement, the privately held company stressed the safety of its ingredients.

Although it has not announced any changes, the company noted that it continues to explore the use of naturally sourced colors and that it is “constantly evaluating” its ingredients based on a variety of factors, including consumer preference.

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By PHILLIP ALDER Newspaper Enterprise Association

There is an old saying that real bridge players don’t need Blackwood. Of course, before bidding a slam, Blackwood of one ilk or another is often used.

But on some deals it will not help, and the partnership needs to employ control-bidding (cue-bidding).

Look at this deal. South opens two clubs; North responds two diamonds, not being quite strong enough for a two-heart positive with that relatively weak suit; South rebids two spades; and North raises to three spades, promising a smattering of points. (Some players would make a fourclub splinter bid, showing the singleton, but I like four-card spade support for that action.)

Now if South uses Blackwood, he learns that his partner has one ace -but he does not know if it is the useless heart ace or the invaluable diamond ace.

Instead, he makes a fourclub control-bid, showing a irst-round club control (ace or void), expressing slam interest, and asking partner if he has a suitable hand.

North, with a terriic hand,

makes a four-diamond control-bid. Now South, wondering about the club situation, control-bids four hearts. And when North control-bids ive clubs to show his second-round control (king or singleton), South leaps majestically to seven spades.

South ruffs the heart lead, cashes his club ace, ruffs a club in the dummy, returns to his hand with a trump, ruffs the club queen, carefully ruffs a heart in his hand (does not play a diamond!), draws the last trump and claims.

Contact Phillip Alder at pdabridge@prodigy.net.

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Inspector / Packer Work while everyone sleeps!

6 pm to 6:30 am, Crystal lake Apply to Working World, 14 N. Walkup, Crystal Lake, 10-3 Monday thru Friday!

MAINTENANCE Banking

Join our Banking Team!

Fast growing community bank is seeking to immediately fill the following position. Detail oriented, friendly, flexible person with a positive attitude is desired for this opportunity in our fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

Competitive wages commensurate with experience - credit and background checks required.

Commercial Loan Documentation Specialist (minimum 5 years experience is required) To apply, please visit www.amcombank.com/ career_opportunities.htm

BUS DRIVERS WANTED ASAP DAILY TAKE HOME PAY! 30 drivers wanted ASAP. Training provided. $12.50/hour with benefits. Clean MVR/background required. Exciting opportunity with steady income. Apply at: MV Transportation 6230 W. Gross Point Rd, Niles, IL 60714

www.mvtransit.com

HVAC-R experience (EPA license) required with BAS background. Full time. Min. $22.29/hr plus excellent benefits. Apply at 227 West Judd St., Woodstock or call: 815-337-5144. EOE

MECHANIC Full time 2nd Shift Mechanic position opening at MDC Environmental Services, Marengo, IL. Experience in heavy truck and diesel engine repair Own tools including a complete set of master mechanic hand tools and impacts Class "B" CDL with air brake endorsement or permit High School Diploma or GED Working knowledge of the waste collection industry a plus.

Knowledge of DOT laws and regulations a plus Apply in person at MDC Environmental Services located at 1050 Greenlee Street, Marengo, IL 60152, Rock River Environmental Services located at 5450 Wansford Way, Suite 201, Rockford, IL 61109 or visit our website to obtain an application at: www.mdces.com. EOE. Don't See What You're Looking For Today?

Check Back Tomorrow!

Never The Same Paper Twice!

Northwest Classified 800-589-8237 www.nwherald.com

ILLINOIS CONCEALED CARRY CLASSES Professional firearm training will qualify you for for the new Illinois CC permit. Train on an 80 acre country setting 15 minutes north of McHenry. Instructor is NRA certified pistol, NRA range safety officer, Utah certified CC instructor, former law enforcement officer with 50 years of pistol experience.

More info: www.jonesandassociatesconcealedcarry.com

815-759-1900 / mjones@mc.net

Wonder Lake ~ 2 Bedroom

Sales

CARPET SALES POSITION Northwest Suburbs.

To be part of Carpets 4 U Team.

Carpet sales experience a must.

Must have complete knowledge of carpet & other flooring. Must have sales & measuring experience.

Will be in office showroom & out in the field to measure & quote.

No experience? Do not apply.

Fax resume: 847-487-1161 or email resume info@timadkins.com Phone 847-526-5550

SNOW PLOWER OWNER OPERATOR

SCHOOL SECRETARY Allendale Association, a Child Welfare, Mental Health and Special Education facility, is seeking a Secretary for our Educational Services Division. Responsibilities include answering telephones, visitor processing, clerical support, data entry and statistical reports.

Requirements include a high school diploma, two years secretarial experience, MS Office (Word, Excel, & Access) data entry proficiency, and keyboarding skills @ 55 wpm. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits and a generous education assistance program.

Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download application and send with a copy of your resume to:

CARPET INSTALLED Repaired and Re-Stretched 815-219-2823

CRYSTAL LAKE Large & Spacious 2BR

Anything to do with Wood We can Fix or Replace Doors and Windows Sr. Disc. 815-943-4765

First floor, $850/mo.

Heat, gas, water, D/W incl.

Pets extra. 847-707-3800

CRYSTAL LAKE ~ 2BR, 2BA Polish Lady Cleaning Large or Small, I can do it all 815-382-5614 FREE ESTIMATES

Great References. 224-858-4515

!!!Pro Plowing!!!

847-272-7180 ALWAYS INVESTIGATE BEFORE INVESTING ANY MONEY

STABLE HELP Part time experienced stable help for show horses. Spring Grove Il area. Must have references. 815-675-6676.

Contact the Better Business Bureau www.chicago.bbb.org - or Federal Trade Commission www.ftc.gov

Physical Therapist and Physicians Assistant FT positions needed for Algonquin internal medicine practice.

Experience required.

Fax resume to: 847-458-2079

Earn up to $1000 A Month!

Looking for Contractors to deliver newspapers early mornings 7 days per week.

Routes now available in McHenry County.

Please Call 815-526-4434

Allendale Association a Child Welfare, Mental Health and Special Education facility currently has full time rotating second shift positions for Youth Care Workers aka Mental Health Specialists at our Allendale-Daisy's North Chicago location and our Main Campus in Lake Villa to work actively with high end “at risk” children & adolescents ages 8 to 18 years of age within our Residential Units. Ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, or related Human Service field, or 5 years of related equivalent social service experience, Per DCFS regulations, must have valid driver's license w/ good driving record and be at least 21 years of age.

We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits and a generous education assistance program.

Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download application and send with a copy of your resume to:

ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION Attn: HR Dept, P.O. Box 1088, Lake Villa, IL 60046 Fax: 847-356-0290 AA/EEO www.allendale4kids.org Special Education

TEACHER AIDE The Allendale Association. a Child Welfare, Mental Health and Special Education facility has a full-time Teacher Aide position available within our high end Special Education School on our Lake Villa, IL campus.

Candidate will have a minimum of an Associates Degree in Education or Special Education and Paraprofessional Certificate, minimum of one year related experience, preferably in a special education environment, and valid driver's license w/good driving record. Per DCFS regulations must be at least 21 years of age.

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 in Education or related field, 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.

FT PT PT

11-7:30 7-3:30 3-11:30

We offer an excellent starting wage, benefits, advancement opportunities, and much more!

Call Samuel at 815-459-7791 or email / fax your resume in confidence to 815-459-7680 or CrystalPines@Tutera.com

Rehab and Health Care Center 335 North Illinois St Crystal Lake, IL

Harvard: Clean, newly remodeled 2BR vintage coach house. $700/mo. Garage avail. Near train 815-943-0504

Rents Starting at

$710 Studio, 1 & 2 Bedrooms FREE Pool & Fitness Center

815-338-2383 www.cunat.com

Woodstock WINTER SPECIAL 2BR APTS Starting @ $730

Woodstock 2 & 3BR, new paint, fenced yard, 2 car gar., $850 & UP Broker Owned 815-347-1712

HARVARD, Large Home, quiet/ friendly. Walk to Metra. $415/mo, utilities, cable/wifi & laundry incl. no smoke/no drink 815-916-9804

Crystal Lake CHEAP & CLEAN Office Suite. 300 SF.

Incl. all utils + High Speed DSL. $295/mo. 815-790-0240

Elevator Building 815-334-9380 www.cunat.com

❤Ceremonies of the Heart❤ Rev Anne 847-431-4014 Special on Weddings Before End of 2013

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

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

Island Lake Luxury Apt. Spacious 2BR, 2BA, D/W. W/D, C/A. Approx 1000 sq ft. $875/mo & up. 847-875-7985 Marengo Large 1 & 2 BR most utilities included $640 & UP Broker Owned 815-347-1712 Marengo: 610 E. Grant Hwy. & 1060 Briden Dr., 1BR $600-$645 or 2BR $700-$780 Roberto 773-317-3364 Sandra 815-568-6672 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

ALGONQUIN - 2 BEDROOM

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

Crystal Lake 1BR $760

McHenry -1 & 2BR some utilities included, balcony $700 & UP Broker Owned 815-347-1712

Wonder Lake - West Side Quiet & clean building w/ storage, laundry & parking. 1 mo free rent. $800/mo. 847-401-3242 Quiet building, hardwood floors, heat and water incl. No pets.

815-455-6964 McHenryCountySports.com is McHenry County Sports

McHenry 2BR, 2BA Deluxe Apt. Near town, clean, C/A, laundry, NO PETS. 815-690-1614 or 708-436-0035

Check out Working World's website for new job opportunities!

MCHENRY - ROUTE 31

SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER

IRISH PRAIRIE APTS

1 & 2 Bedrooms W/D and Fitness Center 815/363-0322

ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION Attn: HR Dept, P.O. Box 1088, Lake Villa, IL 60046 Fax: 847-356-0290 AA/EEO www.allendale4kids.org

LINE AD DEADLINE: Tues-Fri: 3pm day prior, Sat: 2pm Fri, Sun-Mon: 5pm Fri OFFICE HOURS: Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm PHONE: 815-455-4800

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

CARY 2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH W/D, D/W, garage, $975/mo+sec.

847-899-7587

Crystal Lake 4BR On Fox River 200 ft waterfront, boat, dock, deck.

1.5 ac, 2BA, C/A, new carpet, tile. $1395/mo.

708-296-4476 CRYSTAL LAKE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY HOME, 3 BEDROOMS, 1.5 BATHS, 2.5 CAR GARAGE, 1.5 ACRES, $1800/MO. 815-529-7885

JOHNSBURG / PISTAKEE BAY AREA Coach house on estate grounds includes four large rooms. One large bedroom, utility room with half bath with washer and dyrer, upstairs one large bedroom, office area, full bath and dressing area, eat in kitchen and living room. Very quiet and private. No pets except cats, lease required with security deposit and references. $900 per month.

Call 847-767-2500

Marengo 2 & 3BR, 2.5 BA, 2 car gar., $950-$1075/mo.

Broker Owned 815-347-1712

McCullom Lake Cute 2BR, 1BA MCHENRY QUIET BUILDING

1BR/$700 & 2BR/$800. Heat, water incl. NO PETS. Sec. Dep. Req. New Lndry 630-270-7373 leave VM

Renovated, $695/mo + sewer + sec. Managing Broker Owned.

Call Shawn 224-577-5521

MCHENRY 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH Tri-level in Fox Ridge. Fenced yard, sidewalks, $1250/mo + sec + util.

815-575-6919

MCHENRY 3-5BR, 2-3BA Newly remodeled, security and pet deposit req. $1350-$1500/mo.

815-219-1836

Attn: HR Dept, P.O. Box 1088, Lake Villa, IL 60046 Fax: 847-356-0290 AA/EEO www.allendale4kids.org

ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION

WOODSTOCK 3 BEDROOM 1.5 Bath, A/C, Stove, Refrigerator, Garage, No Pets. Broker Owned.

847-683-7944 HURRY!!

Lake in the Hills 3BR, 1BA, lr, dr, kitchen, gar. Newly remodled, all new appl, lrg fenced yrd, walking distance to school. 847-658-4951

ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION

SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST

Woodstock -1BR, Den, Utility Rm Close to Sq, living rm, kitchen, no pets/smoking. $725/mo + utilities.

Security + ref req. 815-338-1734

Huntley Northbridge Sub.

Education

Education

Woodstock 2 story TH, 2BR, 1.5BA, bsmnt, gar., no pets, sec. dep., lease $875+utilities 815-347-0349 Woodstock: 3BR, 1.5BA, TH, full bsmt, 2 car gar. w/opnr, concrete patio, yrd, full kitch. w/ all appl., no pets $1225/m 630-514-4956

3600 sf, cul-de-sac, 4BR, 2.5BA, htd 3 car, frplc, bsmt, patio/porch. $2400/mo. 847-648-9230

www.work-world.com

Allendale Association, a Child Welfare, Mental Health and Special Education facility is currently seeking to hire full time Special Education Teachers for the 2014 school year in our Educational Services Program. Positions are currently available at our LINC Program located in Woodstock, IL and at our main campus located in Lake Villa, IL. Candidate must have an LBS I or LBS II teaching certification. Responsibilities include coordinating, overseeing, and providing individual/group educational instruction to students within the treatment program. Also provides direction to Teacher Aides. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits and a generous education assistance program.

Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download application and send with a copy of your resume to:

Round Lake – Long Lake, 3 BR., Free Buildable Lot, 3 Car Garage, New Windows, Corian Countertops, Dead End Street, Very Private, Fairfield/Rollins. $129,000 Call: 847-875-6739

HEBRON 2BR CONDO'S

ISLAND LAKE 2 BEDROOM

Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download application and send with a copy of your resume to:

Attn: HR Dept, P.O. Box 1088, Lake Villa, IL 60046 Fax: 847-356-0290 AA/EEO www.allendale4kids.org

Wonder Lake ~ Lake Front House Beautifully Remodeled 2BR, 1BA Huge deck & pier, $1150 + utilities No dogs. Agent Owned.

815-814-3348 Wonder Lake: nice 2BR w/3 car gar., & lndry $890/mo Broker Owned 815-347-1712

CAT – FOUND

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

ALL HOME REPAIRS

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

Autumnwood Apt.

Found cat in McHenry County, long haired with gray / tortoise shell point markings.

Call 815-568-2921 between 9am-6pm to identify.

! RN / LPN !

Drywall Repairs, Doors/Hardware.

Bath, Kitchen, Basement, Tile.

All Jobs Big/Small 847-344-5713

WOODSTOCK

WILLOW BROOKE

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

All shifts. Pediatric exp. Wknds.

McHenry & Kane Co. 815-356-8400

Winter Break Daycare Avail.

815-347-5766

WOODSTOCK 2BR. Rogers Hall. $800-$825/mo. Move-in special: $300 off 1st mo. Offer good thru 12/31. NO PETS! 815-482-4909

1 bath, bonus room, pets OK with deposit, $650 + sec. Mgr Broker Owned. Shawn 224-577-5521

Woodstock: 2, 3 & 4BR, main floor & lndry, $710 & up, Broker Owned 815-347-1712

The Allendale Association, a multi-service child welfare agency seeks a part time (6 - 10 hours per week) Speech Therapist for our day education treatment program located in Woodstock, IL. Candidate will provide individual and group therapy to students with communicative disorders & consultation to classroom teachers and will also conduct speech and language screenings and evaluations. Master's Degree in Speech-Language Pathology required. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits & an education assistance plan.

Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download application and send with a copy of your resume to:

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefit package as well as a generous tuition assistance plan.

HARVARD AREA Huge 3BR, 2BA loft apt. Quiet. Frplc, W/D, C/A. Fish/Swim. Pets ok. $1025/mo.

815-648-2716

We are looking for experienced and dedicated professionals to assume these key positions on our nursing team.

RN RN/LPN RN/LPN

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/Ridgefield 1BR $645/mo, gas & electric included.

Parking, no pets/smoking.

815-338-7395 Fox Lake Remod 1BR $750 & Garden Unit, $695, util incl except elec, + laundry & storage, no dogs Agent Owned.

815-814-3348

RN / LPN

Social Service

YOUTH CARE WORKER aka MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST

No pets, no smoking. $900/mo + security. 608-474-1960 or 608-564-7960

NEWSPAPER DELIVERY

ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION Attn: HR Dept, P.O. Box 1088, Lake Villa, IL 60046 Fax: 847-356-0290 AA/EEO www.allendale4kids.org

CRYSTAL LAKE 2 BEDROOM Close to metra, water and gas incl.

Laundry in basement, no pets.

Call for details. 312-953-7987

HANDYMAN

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

Northbrook / Deerfield Top Pay! ~ Paid Gas! Quick Payouts!

Crystal Pines

Clerical

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McHenry 3BR Ranch Fenced back yard, 2 car garage. $1200/mo. Agent Owned.

RICHMOND 1BR FREE UTILITIES Victorian 1 BR. Private entrance, 2 porch decks, new bath, kitchen. INCLUDES FREE utilities, air, Direct TV DVR, HBO, high-speed internet. $850/mo. Bob 815-307-0544.

Wonder Lake Very Cute, Cozy 1BR With huge deck, updated kitchen.

All utilities included, parking space.

No dogs, $695. Agent Owned.

815-814-3348

WOODSTOCK

SILVERCREEK 1 & 2 Bedroom Rents Starting $735 ❍ ❍

Affordable Apts.

Garage Included

815-334-9380 www.cunat.com

WE'VE GOT IT! Northwest Classified 800-589-8237 www.NWHerald.com

K. D. Schaid Appraisal 815-363-2449

MCHENRY 3BR. 1.5BA Attached garage, pets welcome. $1200/mo. 815-759-8533 McHenry Patriot Estates & Prairie Lake Townhomes Ask About our 1BR Special 2BR Starting at $1250.00. .

2 Car Garage, Pet Friendly Free Health Club Membership.

815-363-5919 or 815-363-0322 McHenry/Ringwood, 2 BR, 1 BA, Fin. Bsmt. with Fplc., Possible 3rd Br., 1st & Last Mo. Sec. $1175/mo 847-812-1927 McHenry: 5102 Ashland, 4BR, 2BA, 2 car gar., fenced yrd., $1295/mo+sec., pets OK with additional dep. 815-245-2525

WONDER LAKE LARGE 2 STORY 3 bedroom, fenced in yard, 2 car garage, $1350/mo.

815-509-5679

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

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.KEITH E. YOURG, et al Defendants 10 CH 01552 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 8, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 10, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 5543 ALEXANDRIA DRIVE, LAKE IN THE HILLS, IL 60156 Property Index No. 18-26-151037. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-10-18564.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corpotion tjs fo 7 day

rporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-10-18564 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 10 CH 01552 TJSC#: 33-22896 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I576924 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, -v.KIMBERLY CHRISMAN, WILLIAM CHRISMAN, WONDERVIEW IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS-TENANTS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendant 12 CH 1582 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 13, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 10, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 8107 PINOAK DRIVE, Wonder Lake, IL 60097 Property Index No. 08-24-430004, 09-19-308-001, 08-24430-002, 08-24-430-003.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $244,321.26.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: KOZENY & McCUBBIN ILLINOIS, LLC, 105 WEST ADAMS STREET, SUITE 1850, Chicago, IL 60603, (312) 6053500. Please refer to file number 12-0395.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

KOZENY & McCUBBIN ILLINOIS, LLC 105 WEST ADAMS STREET, SUITE 1850 Chicago, IL 60603 (312) 605-3500 Attorney File No. 12-0395 Case Number: 12 CH 1582 TJSC#: 33-25925 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I577183 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.FRANCES MARIE KOSTECKI, et al Defendants 13 CH 01007 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of

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Page E4 • Wednesday, December 18, 2013 pu dgm Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 3, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 10, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 56 MOHAWK STREET, CARY, IL 60013 Property Index No. 19-14-127023. The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., NORTH FRONTAGE 15W030 ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-13-12403.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-12403 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 13 CH 01007 TJSC#: 33-20533 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I576926 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS SUBURBAN WELL DRILLING, INC. an Ill Corp. Plaintiff, vs.

WALTER BLANTON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

No. 13 CH 001497 NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to 12-115 and 151507(c) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, that pursuant to a Judgment heretofore entered by the said Court on November 26, 2013, in the above entitled cause, Keith Nygren, Sheriff of McHenry County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the 9th day of January, 2014, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at Room 262 of the McHenry County Court House, located at 2200 N. Seminary Ave. Woodstock, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest, and best bidder for cash all and singular, the following described premises and real estate in said judgment mentioned situated in the County of McHenry and State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, to wit:

phone 5463. Pursuant to Section 151507(c) (7) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, no information other than the information contained in this Notice will be provided. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

Suburban Well Drilling Inc, Judgment creditor & Plaintiff /s/ Robert S. Kramer By its Attorney 11/22/13 Robert S. Kramer Bazos, Freeman, Kramer, Schuster & Braithwaite, LLC 1250 Larkin Ave. St. 100 Elgin, IL 60123 847/742/8800x2040 atty#0 1523570 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013. #A2328)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.LAURA F. VOGT, et al Defendants 13 CH 00373 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 8, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 10, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 7915 OAKWOOD DRIVE, WONDER LAKE, IL 60097 Property Index No. 09-18-383006. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-12-35709.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-12-35709 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 13 CH 00373 TJSC#: 33-22899 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I576923 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013)

PIN #05-17-356-014 COMMON ADDRESS: 807 Wilmot Farms Rd. Spring Grove, IL 60081 Improved with a single family residence.

Sale Terms: This is an “AS IS” sale for cash. The successful bidder must deposit 10% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality of title and without recourse to Plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale and expiration of the redemption period of 6 months after the sale date.

The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

PREMISES WILL NOT BE OPEN FOR INSPECTION. For information regarding the real estate, contact Jack Jablonski; phone 847/464-

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.KEITH E. YOURG, et al Defendants 10 CH 01552 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 8, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 10, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 259 IN THE RE-SUBDIVISION OF LOT ''A'' IN THE SPRING

LAKE FARM SOUTH UNIT 1, BEING A RE-SUBDIVISION IN THE WEST 1/2 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MARCH 14, 1994 AS NUMBER DOCUMENT 94R017160, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 5543 ALEXANDRIA DRIVE, LAKE IN THE HILLS, IL 60156 Property Index No. 18-26-151037. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-10-18564.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-10-18564 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 10 CH 01552 TJSC#: 33-22896 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I576924 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, -v.KIMBERLY CHRISMAN, WILLIAM CHRISMAN, WONDERVIEW IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS-TENANTS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendant 12 CH 1582 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 13, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 10, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOTS 2, 3 AND 4 IN BLOCK 31 IN WONDERVIEW UNIT NO. 3, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AND PART OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED FEBRUARY 18, 1959 AS DOCUMENT NO.350031, IN BOOK 14 OF PLATS, PAGE 13, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 8107 PINOAK DRIVE, Wonder Lake, IL 60097 Property Index No. 08-24-430004, 09-19-308-001, 08-24430-002, 08-24-430-003.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $244,321.26.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ wi ansfe is due ithin

or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: KOZENY & McCUBBIN ILLINOIS, LLC, 105 WEST ADAMS STREET, SUITE 1850, Chicago, IL 60603, (312) 6053500. Please refer to file number 12-0395.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

KOZENY & McCUBBIN ILLINOIS, LLC 105 WEST ADAMS STREET, SUITE 1850 Chicago, IL 60603 (312) 605-3500 Attorney File No. 12-0395 Case Number: 12 CH 1582 TJSC#: 33-25925 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I577183 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013)

Commonly known as 56 MOHAWK STREET, CARY, IL 60013 Property Index No. 19-14-127023. The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please fe to fil be 14-13-12403.

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com (6 ) 7 refer to file number 14-13-12403.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-13-12403 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 13 CH 01007 TJSC#: 33-20533 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I576926 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS SUBURBAN WELL DRILLING, INC. an Ill Corp. Plaintiff, vs.

WALTER BLANTON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

No. 13 CH 001497 NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to 12-115 and 151507(c) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, that pursuant to a Judgment heretofore entered by the said Court on November 26, 2013, in the above entitled cause, Keith Nygren, Sheriff of McHenry County, Illinois, will on Thursday, the 9th day of January, 2014, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at Room 262 of the McHenry County Court House, located at 2200 N. Seminary Ave. Woodstock, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest, and best bidder for cash all and singular, the following described premises and real estate in said judgment mentioned situated in the County of McHenry and State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, to wit: LOT 124 IN WILMOT FARMS OF

SPRING GROVE PHASE 1, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST ¼ OF SECTION 17, AND PART OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SECTION 20, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 9 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JUNE 13, 1994 AS DOCUMENT NO. 94R36497, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN #05-17-356-014 COMMON ADDRESS: 807 Wilmot Farms Rd. Spring Grove, IL 60081 Improved with a single family residence.

Sale Terms: This is an “AS IS” sale for cash. The successful bidder must deposit 10% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality of title and without recourse to Plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale and expiration of the redemption period of 6 months after the sale date.

The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

PREMISES WILL NOT BE OPEN FOR INSPECTION. For information regarding the real estate, contact Jack Jablonski; phone 847/4645463. Pursuant to Section 151507(c) (7) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, no information other than the information contained in this Notice will be provided. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

Suburban Well Drilling Inc, Judgment creditor & Plaintiff /s/ Robert S. Kramer By its Attorney 11/22/13 Robert S. Kramer Bazos, Freeman, Kramer, Schuster & Braithwaite, LLC 1250 Larkin Ave. St. 100 Elgin, IL 60123

Elgin, 847/742/8800x2040 atty#0 1523570 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013. #A2328)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF MCHENRY, STATE OF ILLINOIS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-22, Plaintiffs, vs.

JEFF J. STAEBELL A/K/A JEFFREY STAEBELL, DEBORAH MAHLER AND MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., UNKNOWN TENANTS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants 13 CH 1762 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is JEFF J. hereby given to you: STAEBELL A/K/A JEFFREY STAEBELL, DEBORAH MAHLER, NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN TENANTS and UNKNOWN OWNERS, Defendants in the above entitled suit, that said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, Chancery Division, by the said Plaintiff, against you and other Defendants, praying for foreclosure of a certain Real Estate Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 12 IN BLOCK 14 IN LAKE IN THE HILLS ESTATES UNIT NO. 12, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED APRIL 29, 1953 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 264707 IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS, PAGE 77, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Tax Number: 19-28-333-006 commonly known as 10712 WILLY AVE, ALGONQUIN, IL 60102; and which said Real Estate Mortgage was made by JEFF J. STAEBELL A/K/A JEFFREY STAEBELL, and recorded in the Office of the McHenry County Recorder as Document Number 2007R0008656; that Summons was duly issued out of the said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said named Defendants, file your

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS

PUBLIC NOTICE

THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff, vs DOMENELLA FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP NO. 2, UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY

Case No. 13 ED 30 Parcel No. 1GF0001 PE, 1GF0001 TE 1, 1GF0001 TE 2 Job. No. R-91-003-07 JURY DEMAND

Robert G. Backer & Nancy L. Backer, Plaintiff vs.

John R. Lucarz, Defendant

NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

Case Number 13 AD 31 PUBLICATION NOTICE NOTICE IS GIVE YOU, John R. Lucarz defendants, that this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, asking That Robert G. Backer and Nancy L. Backer to adopt Lisa M. Glosson an adult. and for other relief.

UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the office of the McHenry County Clerk of Court, McHenry County Government Center, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Room C380, Woodstock, Illinois 60098, on or before January 13, 2014, A JUDGMENT OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT. Witness: December 4, 2013 /s/ Katherine M. Keefe (Clerk of the Circuit Court) Denise M. Kuzniewski Attorney for Lisa M. Glosson 4103 W. Crystal Lake Rd. Crystal Lake, IL 60014 815-363-6060 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 11, 18, 25, 2013. #A2366)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.FRANCES MARIE KOSTECKI, et al Defendants 13 CH 01007 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 3, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 10, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 450 IN GREENFIELD'S UNIT EIGHT, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PARTS OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER AND THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JULY 26, 1989 AS DOCUMENT NO. 89R24025, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MCHENRY IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Co 56 MO

PUBLIC NOTICE Village of Oakwood Hills 3020 North Park Drive, Oakwood Hills, IL 60013 First Thursday of the Month at 7:30 PM *January and July 2014 will be the 2nd Thursday at 7:30PM Oakwood Hills Village Hall Board Room Village Board Meeting Dates: January 9, 2014, February 6, 2014, March 6, 2014, April 3, 2014 May 1, 2014, June 5, 2014, July 10, 2014 August 7, 2014, September 4, 2014, October 2, 2014 November 6, 2014 December 4, 2014 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 18, 2013. #A2413)

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, UNKNOWN OWNERS, Defendant(s) in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Court of McHenry County, Illinois, by the Plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the acquisition of a permanent easement to real property designated as Parcel 1GF0001 PE as legally described in Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, together with the right to permit others to use or operate, install, maintain, alter, repair, replace, renew, improve and remove other facilities and structures including, but not limited to, underground communication lines, fiber optics, wire, or other means of electricity, voice data, video, digitized information, pipes and conduits, upon and beneath the surface of the said premises, and overhead wires, cables, and poles and other structures for the support of such facilities and structures, a temporary easement for construction purposes for a period not to exceed five (5) years from the date of vesting of title or until completion of construction operations, whicever occurs first, across and upon real property designated as Parcel 1GF0001 TE 1, which is legally described in Exhibit B, attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and a temporary easement for construction purposes for a period not to exceed five (5) years from the date of vesting of title or until completion of construction operations, whichever occurs first, across and upon real property designated as Parcel 1GF0001 TE 2, which is legally described on Exhibit C, attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

Route : US Route 14 Section : at Lawrence Creek County : McHenry Job No. : R-91-003-07 Parcel : 1GF0001PE Sta. 99+45 to 100+45 Owner : Domenella Family Limited Partnership No. 2 Index No. 01-13-100-004, 01-13-200-002, 01-13-200-004 A part of the South Half of the Northwest Quarter (lying east of the centerline of the highway) being in Section 13, Township 46 North, Range 5 East of the Third Principal Meridian, in McHenry County, Illinois, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the south line of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 13 and the centerline of US Route 14; thence northerly 505.95 feet along said centerline, being a curve, concave easterly, having a radius of 11,459.20 feet, and a chord bearing North 16 degrees 17 minutes 04 seconds East, 505.91 feet; thence North 17 degrees 32 minutes 58 seconds East, continuing along said centerline, 477.32 feet; thence South 72 degrees 27 minutes 02 seconds East, 30.00 feet to a point on the easterly right-of-way line of said US Route 14, said point also being the Point of Beginning; Thence North 17 degrees 32 minutes 58 seconds East, along said right-of-way line, 88.06 feet to a point of curvature; thence northerly, 12.10 feet along said apparent right-of-way, being a curve tangent to the last described course, concave westerly, having a radius of 2,322.00 feet, and a chord bearing North 17 degrees 24 minutes 01 seconds East, 12.10 feet; thence South 72 degrees 44 minutes 56 seconds East, 20.00 feet to a point on a non-tangent curve, said non-tangent curve being 50.00 feet easterly of and concentric with the centerline of said US Route 14; thence southerly, 12.20 feet, along said concentric and non-tangent curve, concave westerly, having a radius of 2,342.00 feet, and a chord bearing South 17 degrees 24 minutes 01 seconds West, 12.20 feet to a point on a line 50.00 feet easterly of and parallel with the centerline of said US Route 14; thence South 17 degrees 32 minutes 58 seconds West, along said parallel line, 88.06 feet; thence North 72 degrees 27 minutes 02 seconds West, 20.00 feet to the Point of Beginning.

Containing 2,004 square feet, (0.046 acres) more or less.

March 1, 2007 Route : US Route 14 Section : at Lawrence Creek County : McHenry Job No. : R-91-003-07 Parcel : 1GF0001TE1 Sta. 100+45 to 103+00 Owner : Domenella Family Limited Partnership No. 2 Index No. 01-13-100-004, 01-13-200-002, 01-13-200-004 A part of the South Half of the Northwest Quarter (lying east of the centerline of the highway) and a part of the South Half of the North Half of the Northeast Quarter all being in Section 13, Township 46 North, Range 5 East of the Third Principal Meridian, in McHenry County, Illinois, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the south line of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 13 and the centerline of US Route 14; thence northerly 505.95 feet along said centerline, being a curve, concave easterly, having a radius of 11,459.20 feet, and a chord bearing North 16 degrees 17 minutes 04 seconds East, 505.91 feet; thence North 17 degrees 32 minutes 58 seconds East, continuing along said centerline, 565.38 feet to a point of curvature; thence northerly, 11.95 feet, along said centerline, being a curve tangent to the last described course, concave westerly, having a radius of 2,292.00 feet, and a chord bearing North 17 degrees 24 minutes 00 seconds East, 11.95 feet; thence South 72 degrees 44 minutes 56 seconds East, 30.00 feet to a point on the easterly right-of-way line of said US Route 14, said point also being the Point of Beginning; Thence northerly, 258.34 feet along said right-of-way, being a curve, concave westerly, having a radius of 2,322.00 feet, and a chord bearing North 14 degrees 03 minutes 49 seconds East, 258.20 feet; thence South 79 degrees 07 minutes 25 seconds East, 20.00 feet to a point on a non-tangent curve, said non-tangent curve, being 50.00 feet easterly of and concentric with the centerline of said US Route 14; thence southerly, 260.56 feet, along said concentric and non-tangent curve, concave westerly, having a radius of 2,342.00 feet, and a chord bearing South 14 degrees 03 minutes 49 seconds West, 260.42 feet; thence North 72 degrees 44 minutes 56 seconds West, 20.00 feet to the Point of Beginning.

Containing 5,189 square feet, (0.119 acres) more or less.

March 1, 2007 Route : US Route 14 Section : at Lawrence Creek County : McHenry Job No. : R-91-003-07 Parcel : 1GF0001TE2 Sta. 97+00 to 99+45 Owner : Domenella Family Limited Partnership No. 2 Index No. 01-13-100-004, 01-13-200-002, 01-13-200-004 A part of the South Half of the Northwest Quarter (lying east of the centerline of the highway) being in Section 13, Township 46 North, Range 5 East of the Third Principal Meridian, situated in the County of McHenry and the state of Illinois, described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the south line of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 13 and the centerline of US Route 14; thence northerly 505.95 feet along said centerline, being a curve, concave easterly, having a radius of 11,459.20 feet, and a chord bearing North 16 degrees 17 minutes 04 seconds East, 505.91 feet; thence North 17 degrees 32 minutes 58 seconds East, continuing along said centerline, 232.32 feet; thence South 72 degrees 27 minutes 02 seconds East, 30.00 feet to a point on the easterly right-of-way line of said US Route 14, said point also being the Point of Beginning; Thence North 17 degrees 32 minutes 58 second East, along said right-of-way line, 245.00 feet; thence South 72 degrees 27 minutes 02 seconds East, 20.00 feet to a point on a line 50.00 feet easterly of and parellel with the centerline of said US Route 14; thence South 17 degrees 32 minutes 58 seconds West, along said parellel line, 245.00 feet; thence North 72 degrees 27 minutes 02 seconds West, 20.00 feet to the Point of Beginning.

Containing 4,900 square feet, (0.112 acres) more or less.

March 1, 2007 And for such other relief prayed; that summons was duly issued out of the said Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Court against the above-captioned defendants as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU, the said above Defendant(s), file or otherwise make your appearance herein, in the Office of the Clerk of Circuit Court, Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Court, McHenry County Courthouse, 2200 North Seminary, Woodstock, Illinois, on or before the 11th day of January, 2014, a trial may be held and a judgment taken against you for the relief asked in the Complaint.

Address: 9906 Route 14, Harvard, Illinois 60033 Dated: November 13, 2013 /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Court McHenry County, Illinois William R. Thomas, #6207872 Special Assistant Attorney General Ottosen Britz Kelly Cooper Gilbert & DiNolfo 303 North Main Street, Elburn, IL 60119, (630) 365-6441 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 11, 18, 25, 2013. #A2383)

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TODAY - If you can separate the personal from the professional this year, you stand to gain quite a bit. Your brain will be fertile, but you must not allow your ideas to make someone else rich. Look out for yourself and move forward with pride and integrity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Expand your horizons and mingle with people who can provide you with new information and general mental stimulation.

It’s time for you to shake things up and to challenge your own status quo.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Put in the extra time at work to make financial gains. Discuss your career plans with your partner or co-workers so that everyone knows what’s going on.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Expressing your thoughts and ideas will impress your friends. Be sure to eliminate any bad habits that have managed to creep into your life. Avoid getting involved in hurtful gossip.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Take care of any nagging health concerns in order to avoid being inconveniently out of commission in the future. Pay close attention to family matters and avoid falling behind with correspondence.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- A good friendship could develop into a serious romantic partnership.

Although this is a time to welcome change, stability is a possibility if you are careful about making plans.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Focus on making money as well as taking care of your responsibilities at home. Make an added effort to give your partner some extra TLC. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Personal changes will have a favorable effect on your appearance. Now is the time to entertain as well as to be entertained. This is the start of something good.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Be cautious while traveling. Stay in control of your emotions and don’t allow them to interfere with your work. Take time to relax and enjoy yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Your generosity will result in financial loss or family difficulties. Someone near to your heart may try to control you. It’s time to weigh the pros and cons of this connection.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- The opportunity is likely for romance through a work associate. Be sure to evaluate the situation carefully before you proceed. A poor decision may impact your reputation adversely.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Overindulgence will result in frustrating issues with your weight. Make plans that involve physical activity. Someone you love will feel neglected if you’ve been preoccupied or inattentive lately.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Focus on peripheral tasks. This is not the time for you to take center stage.

This is a good date to change your living arrangements or to investigate some real estate deals.

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LAW OFFICES OF IRA T. NEVEL, LLC 175 North Franklin St. Suite 201 Chicago, Illinois 60606 (312) 357-1125 Pleadings@nevellaw.com BB#11-08522 I573082 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.LAURA F. VOGT, et al Defendants 13 CH 00373 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 8, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 10, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 2 IN BLOCK 19 IN PLAT NO. 1, COUNTY CLERK'S PLAT OF BLOCKS 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23 AND 25 IN WOODED SHORES DIVISION OF FARM LANDS, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AUGUST 22, 1942 AS DOCUMENT NO. 164778, IN BOOK 9 OF PLATS, PAGE 101, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 7915 OAKWOOD DRIVE, WONDER LAKE, IL 60097 Property Index No. 09-18-383006. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or

pr quality quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., NORTH FRONTAGE 15W030 ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-12-35709.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

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I576923 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013)

by gi n y derand UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, defendants in the above entitled cause, that suit has been commenced against you and other defendants in the Circuit Court ot the 22nd Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, by said plaintiff praying for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 21 IN BLOCK 4 IN HIGHLAND SHORES WONDER LAKE, UNIT 4, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER AND THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED APRIL 2, 1952 AS DOCUMENT 252159, IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS, PAGE 47, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N.: 08-13-306-007 Said property is commonly known as: 8911 West Sunset Drive, Wonder Lake, Illinois 60097, and which said mortgage was made by Jennifer A. Schneider and and Jesse M. Schneider recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds as Document Number 2007R0078337 and for other relief; that Summons was duly issued out of the above Court against you as provided by law and that said suit is now pending.

NOW THEREFORE, unless you, the said above named defendants, file your answer to the complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Court at Mchenry County on or before January 6, 2014, a default may be taken against you at any time after that date and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said complaint.

Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Court 2200 North Seminary Woodstock, Illinois 60098 This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Steven C. Lindberg FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1771 W. Diehl Rd., Ste 150 Naperville, IL 60563-4947 630-453-6960 866-402-8661 630-428-4620 (fax) I576800 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTYWOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

Jennifer A. Schneider aka Jennifer Ann Schneider aka Jennifer Ann Kubiayk aka Jennifer Ann Hefter; Jesse M. Schneider; Highland Shores Property Owners, Inc.; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants Property Address: 8911 West Sunset Drive, Wonder Lake, Illinois 60097 13 CH 842 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Jesse M. Schnei-

STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY ASHLEY CASTRO-MORENO Plaintiff, and JOSE CASTRO-MORENO, Defendant.

y appe this cause in the office of the Circuit Clerk of McHenry County, Courthouse, Woodstock, Illinois, on or before the 15th day of January, 2013, at 9 AM, and other relief may be granted as prayed for by the Plaintiff. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe CIRCUIT CLERK (Published in the Northwest Herald December 11, 18, 25, 2013. #A2381)

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY-IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of ELIZABETH J WEIDE Deceased Case No. 13PR000313 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of: ELIZABETH J WEIDE of: MCHENRY, IL Letters of office were issued on: 11/15/2013 to: Representative: DAVID WEIDE 4038 SCHOONER DR GALENA, IL 61036-8401 SANDRA HOLTON 1902 MIRIA CT LONGVIEW, TX 75601-4212 whose attorney is: HAMMER SIMON & JENSEN 775 SINSINAWA AVE EAST DUBUQUE, IL 61025 Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois, 60098, or with the representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald December 11, 18, 25, 2013. #A2380)

No. 13 DV 707 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION Notice is given you, Jose CastroMoreno, Defendant, that this cause has been commenced against you in this Court asking for divorce and other relief.

Unless you file your response or otherwise file your appearance in

VERNA IRION Deceased Case No. 13PR000327 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of: VERNA IRION of: WOODSTOCK, IL Letters of office were issued on: 12/6/2013 to: Representative: LINDA BURDETT 2608 N LAKEVIEW AVE APT 5D CHICAGO, IL 60614 LAURA R STONER 811 GERRY ST WOODSTOCK, IL 60098 whose attorney is: HAMER SCHUH & CUDA 101 VAN BUREN STREET WOODSTOCK, IL 60098 Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois, 60098, or with the representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald December 11, 18, 25, 2013. #A2378)

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Intent to Dispose of Abandoned and/or Unclaimed Property The following amount must be received at Doc's River Road Storage, 2121 S. River Rd., McHenry, IL 60051 by January 6, 2014, or the contents of storage units will be sold: Lilly Stander, 2366 E. Meadow Land Dr., Santan Valley, AZ 85140; Storage unit #MLCU 242339 2, $565.00 Benjamin Fuhler, 35305 Hickory Ln. Round Lake, IL 60073; Storage unit #16, $436.80 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 18, 25, 2013. #A2415)

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by gi on NOVEMBER 27, 2013, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office address of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as A1 SUBURBAN LEASING located at 10403 N CHURCH ST, APT #15, HUNTLEY, IL 60142 Dated NOVEMBER 27, 2013 /s/ Katherine C. Schultz County Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald December 4, 11, 18, 2013. #A2346)

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on DECEMBER 12, 2013, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office address of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as ICLIENTZ MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT located at 4090 LARKSPUR LANE, LAKE IN THE HILLS, IL 60156 Dated DECEMBER 12, 2013 /s/ Katherine C. Schultz County Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald December 18, 25, 2013, January 1, 2014. #A2412)

Public Notice is hereby given that

STRAPPED WATCH COMPANY located at 7474 FARRELL DRIVE, LAKEWOOD, IL 60014 Dated DECEMBER 13, 2013 /s/ Katherine C. Schultz County Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald December 18, 25, 2013, January 1, 2014. #A2411)

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PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on DECEMBER 13, 2013, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office address of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as SMIT PHOTOGRAPHY located at 1209 HILLSIDE LN MCHENRY IL 60051 Dated DECEMBER 13, 2013 /s/ Katherine C. Schultz County Clerk

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Public Notice is hereby given that on DECEMBER 13, 2013, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office address of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as

PUBLIC NOTICE

(Published in the Northwest Herald December 18, 25, 2013, January 1, 2014. #A2414)

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY-IN PROBATE

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 • Page E7

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1995 F-150 P/U TRUCK 5.0, 132K miles, $1900.

Call for more info. 224-279-7245 GREAT DEAL! 1995 GMC C1500 Sierra 5.7L V8, clean, no rust, cloth seats, 67K mi., new starter, radiator, hoses, rear brakes, serp belt, $3600 815-289-9438

2000, Chevy S10 Ext. Cab, 4 Cyl, 5 spd., Runs Exc., A/C, $2,500. Woodstock.

815-276-8213

2002 Chevy S10 $1800/OBO 224-381-5675 2003 Ford Windstar LX

1 owner, super low miles.

61K only, fully loaded.

Free 3 month warranty, $4300.

815-344-9440

Hub Caps ~ Set of 4, 1964 Chevy Super Sport, $180 obo.

815-653-9070 8a-8p

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Upload your photos on My Photos – McHenry County’s community photo post!

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Tires (2) Leman

Size P22560R15, $65 for the pair.

Goodyear (2) Size P22570R16 $75 for the pair. 815-353-6249

NECKLACE

From Kay Jewelers, 14K white gold quarter carat open heart diamond necklace, 18-20” chain. Retails for $599, asking $350/obo. Great Christmas Gift! 815-260-8293

!! !! !!! !! !!

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs

Silver Fox Jacket Size 12, From Mink Barn – $395.

815-459-8811 aft. 4:30pm

Will beat anyone's price by $300.

Velvet Cloche Hats Vintage Inspired – Brand New w/ Tags, Black or Tan Colors - $15 815-455-6201 Wedding Dress – Size 20, Strapless Beaded Ivory/Champagne Bodice Tulle Long Skirt – Lined in Satin David's Bridal – Great Condition & Very Current Style - $20 815-455-6201 Western Leather Boots Ladies, Size 10, Tan, Embossed, 1-1/2” heel, Cute w/ Jeans or Skirts! Excellent Condition - $15 815-455-6201 Womans Full length cape. Size 14.

Ivory color heavy felt. Very little wear. Just dry cleaned.

Asking $80. 815-356-9844

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan

Womans Full Length Faux Lynx coat, Size 14, very little wear.

Asking $80 obo. 815-356-9844

1990 & Newer

815-814-1964 or

815-814-1224 !! !! !!! !! !!

A-1 AUTO

Will BUY UR USED CAR, TRUCK, SUV,

MOST CASH WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!! $400 - $2000 “don't wait.... call 2day”!! * 815-575-5153 *

Womans Full Length Suede coat w/ fur liner, cuffs & collar, Size 18.

Never worn - Asking $80 815-356-9844 WOMENS TRENCH COAT - w/lining, beautiful regal royal blue, Size 3/4, like new condition, $45. Please call 815 477-9023

WOOL COAT ~ MAN 'S

Beige, size medium, paid $225, asking $100. 815-385-3269

WANTED: OLD CARS & TRUCKS FOR

$CASH$ We pay and can Tow it away!

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

2006 ENCLOSED TRAILER Great Timber 5x8 with permanent license, $1600/obo.

815-308-5626

1990 Artic Cat EXT 530 El Tigre EXT, $300.00.

815-529-4105

Washing Machine – Apartment Size Haier Model HLP23E, 1.5 cu.ft.

Excellent Condition - $125 815-353-9732 after 4pm

Electric start, reverse, $1200.

1987 Yamaha Phazer Electric start, $600. Trailer avail.

815-578-8600 ~ 815-337-9400 2002 Polaris 500 Classic Touring, Excellent Cond., many extras $2100 847-639-2260

2005 Polaris 340 Classic Electric start and reverse.

1,878 miles, excellent condition. $1,850 815-307-8101

Snowmobile Helmets (2) Arctic Cat

Size medium, $70/ea. Leather large Arctic Cat snowmobile suit with a carrying bag, excellent condition, $120. 815-344-1153

Avon Christmas Plates

from 70's & 80's. $125/OBO. 815-385-4353

Pro-Form, good condition!

815-347-0133 Sony Trinitron 32" TV w/remote and stand. Works.

Pick up in Johnsburg. See photo online. 847-345-6674

Jewelry Armoire – Cherry Wood, Very Good Condition, 6 Drawers, 16”W x 39”H, 2 Side Doors, Top Opens for Rings w/Mirror - $75 815-271-5128 8a-8p

Leather Jacket/Woman's

Size 18-20. Black, excellent cond. $150/obo. 815-909-6735

Exercise Bike ~ Air

Precious Moments Train Sugar Town Musical 3 piece Train Set w/Tracks - $85 847-587-5017 Secretary/Bookcase Solid Oak w/ curved glass front & drop-front desk and three drawers. $250. 815-338-4049

STAMP COLLECTION-COMPLETE 2 Albums - 3 Catalogues.

Wonderful hobby, $400 815-455-2112

Star War Action Figurines Mint condition, never opened.

Dewback/Sandtrooper/Ronto/ Jawa/Luke/Tauntaun, $25/ea.

815-861-6119

STEEL WHEELS Matching pair, 48” off of IH horse drawn hay rake, $130.

815-701-2076

Sugar & Creamer Pickard Salt & Pepper, gold floral, $135.

815-459-3822 VANITY Beautiful antique pine vanity w/ attached mirror & center drawer.

Brought from England by the dealer, 37-1/4" W, 20" D & 29-1/2" to top of vanity. Mirror 22-3/8" W by 35-3/8" H. Center drawer has metal pull. Legs & side mirror supports have charming decorative sculptured detail. $450.

815-236-1747 Wicker Planter: White rectangular w/ hooped top. $100. 815-338-4049

24/15-30 lbs. 24/30-45 lbs. 10 diaper covers. Used 1 yr. $280 value. $100. 847-476-6771

CHAIR - Antique Child's Red Wooden Chair 24-1/2" high at back. $28. McHenry.

815-236-1747 Dairy Milk Can. 20”Tall x 13”Diameter. $50.

815-344-7993 Dickens Heritage Village Collection People & Accessories. $275 OBO. 815-385-4353 Gas Stove: Porcelain 1926, Mfg. By Crown Stove Works $125. 815-568-8036

Hall or Bedroom Bench

Unique and beautiful, cherry, 6 leg with lion claw feet, upholstered, 42”Lx18.5”Wx21”H, exc cond! $195 815-861-6119

Ham Operator, Morse Code

Machine w/original tapes, 1960's, excellent condition, $65.

815-578-0212 HIGH CHAIR - Antique Pine, Child's.

39" H x 17" W w/ removable metal tray. Tray arm lifts. $125. McHenry 815-236-1747 Older with tray in front, $85.

847-515-8012 JAR - Glass w/Metal Lid. Outside red w/ ridges in glass. Top opening 5" diameter. Jar is 7 1/2" diameter & 7" high. $25. McHenry.

815-236-1747 LADDERBACK CHAIRS 3 GC AND 5 NEED RUSHING. 5 STRIPPED 224-241-8070. $100

Metal Tripod Stand

Ornamental metal, 5'H, to display pictures, etc, $45.

847-515-8012 MIXING BOWLS - 3 matching: "Hall's Superior Quality Kitchenware - Eureka Homewood Pattern".

Lg 8 5/8", Med 7 3/8", Sm 6 1/8" $49. McHenry. 815-236-1747 NFL Authentic Jersey Number 34 Walter Payton size 50 Original Cost $300 ASKING $200 Brand new w/tags 815-385-2316

Topeka semi quarter hrs bars, 16”, $1050. Fabtron gated trail, wide tree, 16”, $225. 815-337-3216

$35 815-527-7440 Before 2pm or aft 6pm

Mini Ab Circle: Brand New in Box, $100 815-648-2226 Treadmill by Pro-Form Crosswalk 425 w/ Upper Body Arms, 4 yrs. old, Barely Used $240. 815-451-1530

Oak $120/FC, $330/C. Mixed $110/FC, $300/C.

Delivered/Stacked 815-568-7348

2 book shelves - $10 each.

Pick up in Johnsburg. Photo online.

847-345-6674 4 Piece Sectional Ideal for basement or teen room.

Photo online. Pick up in Johnsburg. $25. 847-345-6674

BAR STOOLS (3)

30H”, swivel heats, very sturdy.

Oak frame and arm rest with upholstered seats/back, casino print on wine colored tapestry, $150/all 815-308-5626 BAR STOOLS - Set of 3 durable hardwood with larger seating area than your regular bar stool, classic style, perfect for your kitchen island or breakfast bar. Excellent $95.

815 477-9023 Bed: Oak California King bed and all mirrored headboard and side shelves $399 815-679-6178 Blue couches $200 815-679-6178 Chair. Leather club chair.

Espresso color, rounded lines, excellent condition. Great chair.

Non-smoking house. Cash please. $175. 815-678-4337.

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

BIKE ~ HUFFY

Brand new, Girl's, 10” with training wheels, $35.

815-678-4234

BAY WINDOW

(New), white casement, 81x47.5 opening, paid $1670, sell for $600. 815-790-1896 Chrome, w/sprayer & ceramic cartridge, superior quality, new. $150 815-578-0212

GENERATOR

2013 Briggs & Stratton, (new).

9HP, 5000 watt, $400.

815-790-1896

Swivels, $35. 815-385-4353

CAKE PLATE AND COVER - Vintage Retro Polished Chrome Square Cake Carrier with locking lid, fantastic condition for its age. Top locks onto serving tray with two push tabs. $35. 815 477-9023 PartyLite Candle Houses 18 to choose from will sell individually for $7.50 - $15 each, or all 18 for $150. If interested Call 815-477-7383.

32” Sansui TV Flat Screen, Excellent Color & Picture - $100 OBO 815-568-8036

Italian Provincial, oval, solid wood with 1” thick Italian marble top.

50”Lx22”Wx16”H, $125.00.

Pics Available. 847-476-6771 Desk – Custom Made 34”Wx23”Dx29H Formica Top 2 formica book shelves on desk, includes padded chair on wheels $30. 847-639-1909 Dining Room breakfront $200 815-679-6178 Dining Room Buffet $200.00 815-679-6178 Dining Room Table $399.00 815-679-6178 Dresser - Solid walnut w/ hankie drawers & candle stands, attached mirror. $250. 815-338-4049 Dressers (2) in very good condition $150/both 815-679-6178 Open Cabinet (no door) 24”W x 36”H x 6”D. LIKE NEW! 4 shelves, can fit over 200 DVDs, $50.

847-659-1852

FREE COUCH Multi-colored (green, blue, yellow orange) rarely used, has some scratch marks from cat - very comfortable - non-smelling.

Pick up only. 815-477-1651

Non-Electronic Earplug Intercom for 2 - New. Bought at motorcycle show, never used. Paid $90, asking $25.

815-459-0260

Printer ~ Digital Photo Sony

DPP-EX50. Prints wonderful pictures, $45/obo.

847-829-4546 Set of ADS wall mount Speakers Model # L310AW, 100W, white in color, $65 for the set, mint condition - Call Bob at 815-321-3963 or 815-385-6501 Set of B&W wall mount speakers 100W, black in color, asking $75 for the set, mint condition, Call Bob at 815-321-3963 or 815-385-6501 Set of PARADIGM Wall Speakers 100W, black, mint condition $65 for the pair, Call Bob at 815-385-6501 or 815-321-3963 Sony TV w/ Remote, 20” - Great Working Condition - $35 815-347-4945 8am-10pm

King size bed $300.00, like new 815-679-6178

With radio, cassett, CD player, 2 large speakers, amplifier. $200/obo 815-861-3270

KITCHEN SET Table – White w/Formica top & Leaf, 47 x 35; Chairs – White Leather w/Brass Legs $395.

815-459-8811 aft. 4:30pm Lazy Boy Chaise Lounge great condition $200.00 815-679-6178 LOVESEAT Lazy Boy, Recliners on Both Ends, Blue, Excellent Condition $400 OBO. 815-648-2759 Pine Coffee Table Carved legs, Natural pine top, Super Cute! - $15.

815-455-6201 Roll Top Desk and Chair Dark walnut. $100 815-385-4353 Shelving Unit $30 815-679-6178 Trunks. Rattan. Can be used for coffee and end tables. 1 w/glass top. $75/all. 815-385-4353

TV STAND/PLANT STAND Oak, 37”Hx15”Wx12”D. Excellent condition, $85. 847-829-4546

WINE RACK

Metal with glass top. Holds 21 wine bottles, 36”x16”, $95.

847-829-4546

CANISTER SET - Mary Engelbreit Cherries Jubilee Collection ceramic hard to find, retired set. Very pretty in shades of deep apple green, golden yellow & bright cherry red, adorable. Excellent. $75.

815 477-9023 CHAIRS - 2 HAN OFFICE WAITING ROOM ARM CHAIRS. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. $4O EACH. 815-675-2155 Floor lamp - Same as Target Threshold Floor Shelf Lamp w/ Ivory Shade for $59.99 - Good Condition. Asking $25 815-338-6957 LG Washer & Gas Dryer - Top of the Line Units, White in color, Front Load washer & dryer, Excellent Condition, New Dryer Vent Kit & new gas line included, Units are less than 5yrs old - $400 Firm Call Bob 815-321-3963 or 815-385-6501 Mirror-Entry Hall gold plated Beveled 66”x 26”. $100.

815-385-4353

Vacuum Cleaner ~ Electrolux With carpet power attachment.

Works great, $200.

815-337-0726

Acoustic Guitar

Samick 6 String, Model LW 028G w/ plug in pick up & custom hard case, very nice. $150 firm.

815-728-0707 DEAN - Baby V Electric Guitar & AMP Package. Comes with Guitar, Case, strap, ALSO- Line 6 Spider IV AMP. All in excellent condition.

Great Christmas Gift for your guitar hero! $130. 815-354-2501 PIANO – Gulbransen, Good working condition, $50. Call Mary Alice or Jim 815-334-8944

Pianos Quality Pre-Owned Pianos Delivered & Warrantied 815-334-8611 PIONEER RECEIVER 6-channel audio/video Multi channel receiver Model-VSX-D812 - $80.

815-354-2501

Mugs Pfaltzgraff Winterwood Tall Mugs - Set of 9, $50 total.

815-382-2455

Popcorn Machine –Deluxe Pinto Pop, Model 2147 by Gold Medal, 38”H x 19”W x 19D - $300 815-356-7879 before 9pm TV - Sony Wega color television.

26" screen. No remote. Asking $35.

Call 815-477-7383.

35 gallon aquarium on cabinet, 3 pumps, heater, temp. & more, 5 yrs old. Paid $750 new.

Now $175 obo 847-899-7664 Aquarium: 100 gallon with all equipment and stand and fish $250.00 815-679-6178

BOXER AKC PUPS 2 FEMALES. 9 WKS OLD. $800 847-809-3576

Bench Glider Swing - 3 person wide, green metal frame w/ mesh bench complete w/ new full width cushion, $89. 815-236-1747 Old Cement Garden Lion Large & Heavy - $65 847-802-0225

Chain Saw Parts, 2 Saws, Bars, Chains – $75. 815-569-2277 Flooring/roofing roller 75# - $185 815-861-8155

Home Lite Chain Saw With 14” bar, $30.

224-523-1569

TABLE SAW ~ CRAFTSMAN

10”, like new, comes with table extensions, miter slide and blade.

Light weight, portable aluminum. $100 815-338-8327

Christmas Item for Cat Lovers Fringed throw & matching pillow, made of fleece fabric w/cats wearing Santa hats, NEW! Cash $15 847-639-8572 CHRISTMAS PUPPIES!!

Shots. Wormed. Med. size.

Males and females. $200.

920-205-9707 FISH - Baby Cichlid fish for sale. $3.00 each.

If interested call 815-477-7383.

Fish Tank 8 Gal. Aquarium w/ pine wood stand & many accessories - $75.

847-381-6684 Golden Retrievers. AKC. Cream & Golden. First shots. 8 weeks old. $750. Great Holiday Gift.

815-206-9229

KITTEN ~ FREE

Orange and white, female.

Very, very cute! 815-569-2277

Mossberg 20 Gauge Pump

26” barrell, 2-3/4 or 3” accuchoke, barely used, $200.

815-271-7314

Saddle ~ Western

Good condition, $175.

815-601-3656 Find !t here!

PlanitNorthwest.com

Santa Suit $20 815-459-0602 TOBAGGAN - Adirondack sled 8' of fun for the whole family or outdoor decor! Excellent. $225.

815 477-9023 TORO – Powerlite, 16” cut, 2-Cycle Newer unit w/new carb, paddles, primer & scraper bar. Looks & runs great, folds to fit in car - $235.

815-675-2155

CRAFTSMAN 5-22 ELECTRIC START 2 STAGE. 4 SPEED FOREWARD AND 2 REVERSE. NEW CARB AND SKIS ALL GONE OVER. $300.00 I MAY TAKE A TRADE-IN. 815-675-2155 TORO ccr-1000 SINGLE STAGE SNOWBLOWER LOOKS AND RUNS LIKE NEW ALL GONE OVER $290.00. I MAY TAKE YOUR OLD ONE IN TRADE. 815-675-2155 TORO – Model 3650-E- Like New, 2-Cycle, 20" Cut w/ Electric Start One of the most powerful single stage blowers out there - $395 May take trade-in. 815-675-2155 Yard Machine. 4.5HP. Single stage Electric start. $100/OBO 815-477-7702

2-TIP UPS-2 JIGGING POLES AND A 5 GALLON BUCKET to carry your stuff & use as a seat for ice fishing. all very good condition. $20 email me at: bpk31257@yahoo.com Air Hockey Game $150.00 815-679-6178 AIR HOCKEY TABLE $35.

815-245-2804 BAUER HOCKEY SKATES 50 IMPACT - Boys Size 5 $20. 815-354-2501 EASTON HOCKEY SKATES Synergy SYS2 - Boys Hockey Skates, Size 8, Used 1 season, Great condition - $40.

815-354-2501 Golf Clubs – Womens, Right Handed Set & Bag. 13 clubs/woods & ball retriever. Asking $30.

815-477-7383

Disposable Absorbent Pads

WALKER Good Condition! $25/obo.

815-385-6530 WHEELCHAIR. NEW. High Quality.

Adj footrest. Black/Chrome. Could Deliver. $100 815-578-0212

AMI Jukebox – 1954 Red & White, Does not work, needs re-wiring, looks good, 45 RPM Records - $300.

815-356-7879 before 9pm

Libby 3 year old female Shih Tzu I'm not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I'm vibrant, energized and ready to take a new path! www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

Bike Stand, heavy duty Minoura Stand, bike all winter long, $15 815-455-5903 lv mssg Fringed throw & matching pillow, made of fleece fabric w/cats wearing Santa hats, NEW! Cash $15 847-639-8572

Set of Fairwinds, The Friendship of Salem, brown, exc cond, $350.

847-807-9156 FRAMED BOARD WITH CUBBIES Great for Storage or Display Merchandise in a store. Corkboard measures 23 H x 15 W with 3 cubbies 5 W x 3.5 D and 4 antiqued hooks. Pottery Barn inspired, framed in satin black, like new condition. $35.

815 477-9023 Garment Bag by Andiamo – Model 644D, Retails $230, Asking $25. 815-568-8036

Parrot Cage 24”W x 24”D x 55”H Includes Playtop - $200.

815-338-8253

POODLE PUPS 2 females, red, 9 weeks, first shots. $350. 708-639-3025 Aft 7pm

MIRRORS - One pair of power heated mirrors for a Dodge truck, Will fit on Dodge Trucks years 2004 - 2009. They are brand new & still in the box. $95.

Call 815-477-7383.

Multi-Use Ladder – 21” ExtraHeavy, 300# Work Load. Has some paint on side, used 3 times $75. 815-861-6558 9a-9p

PORTABLE HEATER

SEWING MACHINE

Stephanie 8 month old female Orange Tabby DSH I'm not a lost cause. I'm just a kid. A stable loving family will help me succeed. If you agree, we need to meet. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

X-MAS PUPS AKC ROTWEILER

avail 12/21, male & female, shots, tails done, adoption fee applies 847-652-9991

Singer with all accessories plus storage stool, $60.

815-385-4353

Christmas Decorations

Stove: Wood Burning, includes blower $225 Ringwood 815-690-3330

CHRISTMAS TREE

TABLES, 4' X 8' PLYWOOD, REMOVABLE LEGS, STURDY, CUSTOM MADE. MANY USES. 224-241-8070 $25 EACH

Wooden Dollhouse - Imaginarium Modern Luxury, 12 x 32 x 47, 11pcs furn/access - $45.

847-669-0935 WOODEN TOY BOX - Cute, amble storage, well constructed, very nice. $30. 815 477-9023

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 WANTED TO BUY: Vintage or New, working or not.

Bicycles, Outboard motors, fishing gear, motorcycles or mopeds, chainsaws, tools etc. Cash on the spot. Cell: 815-322-6383

ECKEL'S MCHENRY FLEA MARKET

3705 WEST ELM NEW VENDOR'S WELCOME SAT & SUN 8-5 815-363-3532

Paintball Gun – Used Once Tippmann – 98 Custom Platinum Series, .68 Caliber w/Guerrila Air Tank, Head Mask, 5 PODS, Remote HPA Coil - $85 815-790-8213 Ping Pong Table - Standard Size, Green Top, On Wheels – Easy to Move, Excellent Condition, Great Gift Idea! $199 OBO 815-451-5532 Woodstock

American Girl Doll Kaya.

Her wolf Talon, book, sled, doll box, mini blanket & accessories Doll stand included. $100 OBO. Call 815-861-6457 American Girl Doll Outfits & Accessory packs. Assorted Styles available. Prices $10-$25 based on set. Pictures available Call or text 815-861-6457.

BITTY TWINS OUTFITS American Girl – matching boy/Girl Outfits & Book, Fall & Summer Set. New Condition/Complete – Retails $100 for 4 outfits, Asking $44 Great Christmas Gifts!

815-455-6201 DISNEY PRINCESS BIKE WITH 16" WHEELS. $35 224-241-8070

CRYSTAL LAKE

1778 Thomasville Ln December 19th December 20th December 21st

10 - 4 10 - 4 10 - 4

Everything Must Go! Ahriens Sno Thor, Pallet Rack, Furniture, Gas Edger and much more!

McHenry Indoor Moving Sale for 10 Days Call Debbie 815-679-6178 Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 815-455-4800

Send your Classified Advertising 24/7 to: Email: classified@ shawsuburban.com Fax: 815-477-8898 or online at: www.nwherald.com

DOLL HOUSE

Gingerbread trim, shingled roof, 4 rooms, 18x12”, newly built. $50.

847-854-7980

DOLL ~ CABBAGE PATCH

We are At Your Service!

Original doll, still in box, $50.

815-455-2688 Fisher-Price Power Wheels Yamaha Blue Raptor ATV 12 Volt Battery Powered Ride On. Great cond. $145. 847 669-0935

Large Print Books - Paperbacks mystery/romance/cowboy $1 or make a deal 815-675-2983 9a-9p LO PI WOOD BURNING FRPLC INSERT W/BLOWER, 300-500.

BRASS DRS, GOOD COND. $400 815-338-2951

Minnie Mouse Stuffed Animal

Very big, very good condition! $25.

815-382-3952 My Twinn Doll - 23" tall w/ 18 points of pose-ability, accessories included. Fair skin, blond, straight hair, blue eyes & dressed in soccer uniform. Comes with extra outfits & rolling backpack w/ doll holder $50 for all. 815-861-6457

PAINTBALL GUN New In Box – Aggressor made by Spyder, Googles, 200 Round Leader, 9oz.. CO2 Tank, Semi-Automatic - $50 815-790-8213

BIONICLES!

Lovie 4 year old male Long Haired Chihuahua I've learned by living with women, you can be happy or you can be right. If you want to win every argument, you're in trouble. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-44004

Lionel Train Set - Track Transformer Engines/Smoke/Whistler Cars – 2 Years Old - $175; G-9A AB NYC 4 Motors - $175 815-459-2346 after 5pm

Women's, with blade guards, size 6, excellent condition! $15 847-854-7980

10 lbs of assorted pieces from 13 + figures, booklets included. $50/cash. 815-477-3775

Christmas Item for Cat Lovers

Transformer, $165.

815-338-1519

ICE FISHING SHELTER

Snowboard, boots & bindings. Used 1 time! Like new, perfect for a gift.

Airwalk snowboard 121 millimeters, boots size 3. Sacrifice for $150.

815-578-1498

For beds, 30”x36”, 100 for $40.

815-578-0212

Lionel KW190 Watt Transformer $110. Lionel ZW 275 watt

Clam, 6 person, like new! $300 815-307-8101 ICE SKATES ~ LAKE PLACID

SNOWBOARD BOOTS Airwalk- Boys, size 7, Great Condition - $30. 815-354-2501

Natural Gas, Vertical Salimander Heater with hose, $50.

847-476-6771

TV TOSHIBA

20” DVD/VCR combo, excellent working condition! $100 847-829-4546 TV: 26” Sharp w/remote, works very well, excellent condition, rarely used $65 815-648-2226

Beautiful, dark, rich gold floral 54x78” $80. 815-459-3822

DINNERWARE - 46 PIECES

Stereo Receiver – Technics, AM/FM 4 Channel, Model SA6800X $75. 815-568-8036

STEREO SYSTEM ~ ZENITH

BEDSPREAD ~ NEW, FULL

Hurricane Lamps

Hand pearlized with medal gold foliage, 21”Hx10”, base 6”.

Hand light top or bottom, 60 watts $85/ea or $130/set.

815-861-6119 KIDS TABLE AND CHAIR SET - Just the right size for activities, play or learning, excellent condition, measures 28"L x 22"W x 19.5H. Excellent. $75. 815 477-9023

14MP, HD with charger, $50.

224-523-1569

With 4 hand set, answering machine, talking caller ID and speaker phone, $55.

847-829-4546

AREA RUG - Braided, Beige, 10 feet x 14 feet, Great Condition, great for family room, rec. room or kitchen. $50. Please call 847-658-4134

TRAIN BOOKENDS with Tracks Adorable kids train engine & caboose sliding bookends move forward & back on train track to make adding books fun.

Durable in great condition. $35.

815-477-9023

DVD Cabinet - Solid Oak DVD

CAMERA ~ NIKKON DIGITAL CORDLESS PANASONIC PHONE SYSTEM

TITANIC Deluxe Hobby Model Kit. New in box never opened 1/350 scale. $30. Call 815-245-1055

TOBAGGON

China Cabinet

Made by Jasper, 5 glass shelves, lighted mirror and center opening. $390 815-923-2296

Tent ~ 10 Person 3 dome $70. 224-523-1569

Full size with pad, excellent condition, $60. 815-455-2112

224-523-1569

COFFEE TABLE

Bicycle - 2013 Girls

Burger King Toys

High Chair - Oak

ELLIPTICAL TRAINER

Precious Moments Christmas Wreath, $100.

815-382-2455

Office Chair ~ Brown 3 Antique hard maple Windsor back chairs by Nichols & Stone, Mass. – matching, 2 w/arms, 34”H at back, seat 17” across, 7 spokes & wide flared neck pc., 2 braces - $75 for all 847-428-2511 ANTIQUE OAK CHAIR - 36" high at back & seat 16-1/2" wide. 2 curved accent braces. Chair is in excellent condition & very sturdy. $50.

815-236-1747

Star Wars, Toy Story, Simpsons, M&M,1997-99. Original package. $10/ea.

847-807-9156

1997 Yamaha VMAX 600 XT

Ab Lounge Exerciser $20

Kitchen Faucet

Washer- GE Profile Harmony All Digital Touch Screen, Working Great, Just Needs a New Home $125. 815-455-4352 evenings

Includes 5 games, $200/obo.

815-909-6735

6 Piece Thanksgiving Dinner. $150. 815-382-2455

Pre-Fold Cloth Diapers

Small Blue Recliner Excellent Condition - $40 firm 815-943-7757

Wii Game System

PRECIOUS MOMENTS

Newborn Baby Buggy – Blue & Silver w/many extras - $100 847-658-3809

10 cu.ft. Kenmore Chest Freezer.

Good condition, taken out of service 3 weeks ago. Dents in lid.

Almond. Model # 253.9139180 41"W x 23"D x 35"H $100. Huntley Pick Up Only 847-669-0017 Dishwasher: Maytag Excellent Shape, Used Moderately, Almond, Must See! $75 OBO 815-568-5391 ELECTRIC DRYER Kenmore – Approx. 4 yrs. old $150. 815-338-8253 days

Saddles - Circle Y, Brand New

Perfume Bottles (16)

Miniatures and Lay-Down bottles.

Brand names, not new and for collecting only. $10/all.

815-363-0124

Downsizing, your $200 buys my $1000. 847-804-2999

Green, 7.5 ft, pre-lit, works great! $29.00.

847-736-2838

CHRITMAS TREE ~ LIVE

44 ft, come and look. $150.

815-459-1015

Fisher-Price Precious Places Swan Palace Playset & Swan Carriage, good condition - all parts.

Great Christmas present! $35. 847 669-0935 Hammock for 18" doll - American Girl. All wood frame. Unique & a great Christmas gift. $30.

847-836-9543 HUFFY PRINCESS BIKE WITH 14" WHEELS IN E.C. $30.

224-241-8070

In Time for Christmas American Girl Doll, Furniture, Clothing & Accessories, $400.

847-515-8649 Kid's toy wooden kitchen $25 815-307-8149 Large Radio Flyer Bouncing Horse Ages 2 and up, Like new, Pickup only – Spring Grove $65. 815-675-5146

Lionel #455 Sunoco Oil Derrrick $115. Lionel 027 Gauge Freigh Train with steam locomotive with smoke & whistle, $175.

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