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By JOHN O’CONNOR and SOPHIA TAREEN The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Pat Quinn proposed severe spending restrictions Wednesday in what he called the “most difficult budget ever,” telling a joint session of the General Assembly that the state is virtually paralyzed until it fixes its public-employee pension crisis.

With a scolding tone, the Democrat facing re-election in 20 months used tough language to describe the pension hole that will suck nearly $7 billion of the state’s general revenue in the coming year. He challenged lawmakers to send him a legislative fix and answered critics by laying out specific provisions he wants to be part of the solution.

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Local lawmaker: Proposal ‘dead on arrival’

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kcraver@shawmedia.com “The most difficult budget Illinois has ever faced,” according to Gov. Pat Quinn, is likely “dead on arrival in the House,” according to a local state representative.

McHenry County’s representatives in the General Assembly, as in previous years, did not have a high opinion of the $35.6 billion budget

How would you grade Gov. Pat Quinn’s budget address? Vote online at NWHerald.com. proposal for 2014 that Quinn unveiled Wednesday afternoon.

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But the fatal flaw, according to state Rep. Mike Tryon, is that Quinn estimates he will have $500 million more in revenue to spend than the House does.

And the House, Tryon said, will not budge on spending more than its projection of $35.08 billion, which it set the day before Quinn’s speech.

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Lucas Urbanski of Immanuel Lutheran School in Crystal Lake spells into the microphone at the annual McHenry County Spelling Bee at McHenry County College.

Lucas overcame 12 competitors and 44 rounds Wednesday to become this year’s champion. He will move on to compete in the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.

Crystal Lake teen gets third straight win at regional bee

By LINDSAY WEBER editorial@nwherald.com CRYSTAL LAKE – P-a-r-a-b-l-e. It was a mere seven letters that catapulted Immanuel Lutheran seventh-grader

Lucas Urbanski to his third consecutive McHenry County Spelling Bee win.

The event took place Wednesday evening in the Conference Center of McHenry County College. Family and

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Lucas walked away with the title

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MAYOR LAUDS CITY’S ACHIEVEMENTS McHenry Mayor Sue Low reinforced the need for “partnerships, cooperation and collaboration” to face the economic challenges facing the city at the annual state of the city address Wednesday. The annual event was hosted by the McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the McHenry Country Club. For more, see page B1.

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WOODSTOCK – A Johnsburg man accused of killing his mother has been receiving treatment for more than a year but is unlikely to become mentally competent to stand trial, according to a psychiatrist’s report.

Raymond E. Davis, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of Carol Schritz, 58, in November 2011 at her home in the Pistakee Highlands area near Johnsburg.

Schritz suffered a single stab wound to her right upper chest.

On Wednesday, a hearing was held regarding Davis’ men- Raymond tal fitness, which E. Davis includes his ability to understand the charges against him and assist in his defense. Insanity is a separate issue dealing with whether defendants are able to tell the difference between right and wrong while committing a crime.

“The law says he must be made fit within a year,” said Davis’ attorney, Assistant Public Defender Kim Messer. “He’s already passed that year.”

McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather found that Davis remains unfit despite treatment. As a result, a discharge hearing has been scheduled for May 17, which is similar to a bench trial but with more relaxed evidence rules.

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Lincoln could have reformed pensions The first thing Pat Quinn should have done after another lame budget address was run to the grave of Abraham Lincoln and apologize for daring to quote him from the film “Lincoln.”

He should then apologize individually to Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg and everyone in the Illinois phone book whose last name is “Lincoln.”

Abraham Lincoln led our nation through the most difficult period in U.S. history. He unshackled the nation from slavery and presided over a Civil War that killed more than 600,000 Americans.

Pat Quinn is afraid of retired kindergarten teachers.

As usual, Quinn correctly diagnosed that pension reform is the biggest financial issue in Illinois, which is akin to diagnosing that what might be ailing a headless man is the lack of a head.

What we got Wednesday were more obvious points that anyone

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VIEWS Kevin Lyons paying attention already knows: 1.

The lack of pension reform is costing Illinois $17 million a day; 2. Within two years, Illinois will spend more paying people who don’t work than it pays for education; 3. The pension system has been grossly underfunded; 4. Automatic cost-of-living raises are unsustainable; and 5. Pension recipients must pay more into the system.

Those are fairly obvious points that few disagree with. Even reasonable pension recipients understand those, in Quinn’s words, “principles” of pension reform.

But based on his speech, from Quinn’s perspective all he needs to do is throw out a few principles and guidelines for the Legislature, which

As weird as this sounds in a state completely controlled by Democrats, the most sensible thing for Quinn to do is to sit down with Republican legislators who have less to lose and less fear of irking public employee unions to lead on pension reform.

It might have been a crazy enough idea for Abraham Lincoln, who once said, “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”

Ask Democrats what’s absolutely off the table for them and come up with a plan to present to the Legislature.

Be the governor of the state of Illinois instead of the No. 2 guy in your own Democratic Party in the No. 1 dysfunctional state in the union.

That’s what Abe would have wanted.

then should pass meaningful pension reform.

“It’s time for you to legislate,” Quinn said.

Presumably, Quinn will just wait patiently for that legislation to magically appear on his desk even though his own party – which now has a supermajority in the Legislature – continues fiddling while Springfield burns.

House Speaker Michael Madigan isn’t leading on pension reform for one reason: He doesn’t want to lead on pension reform. How many Democratic legislators owe their seats to the backing of Illinois public employee unions? They probably wouldn’t have a supermajority without them.

Waiting for Madigan hasn’t worked and isn’t going to work, which is what makes Quinn’s limp leadership so maddening. You’re the top executive officer in the state of Illinois and this is your state’s biggest issue. Why are you off the hook?

• Kevin Lyons is news editor of the Northwest Herald. Reach him at 815-526-4505 or email him at kelyons@ shawmedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @KevinLyonsNWH.

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Tearful supporters mourn Chavez’s death

By PAUL HAVEN The Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela – By the hundreds of thousands, Hugo Chavez’s tearful supporters carried their dead president through streets still plastered with his smiling image, an epic farewell to a larger-than-life leader remembered simply as “our commander.”

In a display of raw and at times unruly emotion, generations of Venezuelans, many dressed in the red of Chavez’s socialist party, filled Caracas’ streets Wednesday to remember the man who dominated their country for 14 years be-

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Chavez’s flag-draped coffin floated over hundreds of thousands of supporters as it made its way atop an open hearse on a seven-hour journey to a military academy in the capital, where it will lie in state.

Mourners, many of them weeping, lined the streets or walked with the casket, which followed the lead of a grim drum major dressed in Chavez’s trademark red.

Mourners shouted out “nuestro comandante” – “our commander” in English – as the coffin passed.

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“The fight goes on! Chavez lives!” the mourners shouted in unison, many through eyes red from crying late into the night.

Chavez’s bereaved mother, Elena Frias de Chavez, leaned against her son’s casket, while a priest read a prayer before the procession left the military hospital where Chavez died Tuesday at age 58. His funeral is scheduled for Friday.

“I feel so much pain. So much pain,” said Yamile Gil, a 38-year-old housewife. “We never wanted to see our president like this. We will always love him.”

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Vice President Nicolas Maduro, the late president’s hand-picked successor, and Bolivian President Evo Morales, one of his staunchest allies, mingled with the crowd, at one point falling to the ground in the jostle of bodies pushing in every direction. Military officers and Cabinet members ringed the president’s coffin, stone-faced with grief.

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Jeb Bush more open to a future White House bid

By KEN THOMAS The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Jeb Bush has long resisted pressure from supporters to run for president. Now the former Florida governor is signaling that he’s at least open to the idea, a shift that comes as he promotes a new book and Republicans struggle to rebound after President Barack Obama’s re-election.

“I’m not saying yes. I’m just not saying no,” Bush told NBC News earlier this week, one of a series of such comments he’s made as he talks about the book “Immigration Wars” in television interviews and forums.

Comments like those from Bush, 60, are in sharp contrast to past refusals to entertain the idea of following in the footsteps of his older brother, former President George W. Bush, and their father, former President George H.W. Bush.

Less than three years before the first Republican presidential primaries, Bush’s words offer a window into his evolving thinking on a future run. Republicans and ex-advisers said, if nothing else, he’s made clear to political operatives and donors that they shouldn’t count him out for 2016.

“He’s sent a very strong signal this week that he, for the first time, is going to seriously, seriously consider running,” said Cory Tilley, a former Bush aide in Florida.

“It’s the signal that a lot of people have been waiting to hear.”

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Former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush speaks Feb. 26 in Austin, Texas. influence education and immigration policy. His book, the latest step on that front, urges Congress to revamp a broken immigration system that he said is holding back the nation’s future and economic growth.

He caused a stir and irked some Republicans by writing that he did not support a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

Bush had expressed support for a pathway in the past, and later said he was open to a pathway to citizenship as long as it did not encourage illegal immigration.

That shift aside and even without the famous last name, Bush would have strong presidential candidate credentials. In the important swing-voting state of Florida, Bush racked up strong job performance ratings while revamping the state’s educational system, reorganizing government, cutting taxes and managing the state through several hurricanes.

His wife, Columba, is Mexican-American and Bush is fluent in Spanish. He won over a diverse electorate of Hispanics in Florida. That personal and political history could help him to connect with Latinos, significantly more of whom voted for Obama than Republican Mitt Romney last fall.

Obama reaches out to GOP

By JULIE PACE The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Shifting course in the face of political gridlock, President Barack Obama is making rare overtures to rank-and-file Republicans, inviting GOP senators to dinner Wednesday, planning visits to Capitol Hill and working the phones with lawmakers.

Obama’s efforts are aimed at jumpstarting budget talks and rallying support for his proposals on immigration and gun control.

The president’s new charm offensive underscores the limitations of his earlier attempts

to use public pressure, rather than direct engagement, to win Republican cooperation. That strategy proved futile in recent weeks, as the White House and Congress failed to prevent $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that both sides said they wanted to avoid.

As that “sequester” has started taking effect, Obama has begun quietly calling congressional Republicans to discuss the prospects for an elusive longer-term deficit reduction deal as well as his other second-term priorities. Aides say Obama is concentrating his outreach on lawmakers with a histo-

BLOOMINGTON – A 15-year-old central Illinois boy who pulled a gun in class and fired shots into the ceiling was sentenced to juvenile prison after he apologized to the students, parents and faculty he terrified that day.

A Normal Community High School teacher tackled and subdued the teen after he fired the shots in a packed classroom Sept. 7. The school’s more than 1,800 students were evacuated to a nearby church. No one was injured.

The boy, whose name is sealed in court records, pleaded guilty but mentally ill in December to weapons charges and unlawful restraint. Eight other counts were dismissed.

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storm marched into the Mid-Atlantic region Wednesday, dumping nearly two feet of snow in some places and knocking out power to about 250,000 homes and businesses. It largely spared the nation’s capital, which was expecting much worse and had all but shut down.

Washington officials didn’t want a repeat of 2011, when a rush-hour snowstorm stranded commuters for hours, so they told people to stay off the roads and gave workers the day off.

Dubbed the “snowquester,” the storm closed government offices, just as the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester were expected to do.

The storm pummeled the nation’s midsection Tuesday, killing at least four people in weather-related traffic accidents. It was forecast to head to the northeast on Thursday.

ry of bipartisan deal-making and those who have indicated some willingness to support increased tax revenue as part of a big deficit-cutting package.

In both his calls and dinner invitations, the president pointedly has skipped over Sen. Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner, the GOP leaders who insist that Obama will get no further tax hikes from Capitol Hill.

Republicans have had mixed reactions to the outreach from the president, who previously has shown little appetite for personal engagement with lawmakers, often preferring to assign those ef-

forts to his staff and Vice President Joe Biden.

“He’s never spent anytime reaching out,” said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who spoke with the president this week about gun legislation. “The question is, is it starting to change because there is bad poll numbers or is it because he really decided he’s going to lead and solve some of the problems of the country?”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a frequent critic of the White House on national security issues, said he was encouraged

by Obama’s efforts.

“This is how you solve hard problems,” the South Carolina Republican said.

FBI, state search NIU police station

By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com

and JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com DeKALB – State and federal law enforcement officials offered few details Wednesday about why they spent the day searching Northern Illinois University’s police station.

FBI agents, with officials from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector General and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector General, arrived about 8 a.m. and worked throughout the day. The inspectors general at federal agencies typically investigate alleged fraud in agency programs or waste of agency funds.

FBI Chicago Media Coordinator Joan Hyde declined to comment on the search or the underlying investigation.

Hyde said the FBI typically did not announce searches, but decided to issue a news release about this one around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday to avoid passers-by worrying about a large emergency.

“No arrests have been made nor charges filed with respect to the investigation,” the release said. “Due to the ongoing nature of the matter, no additional information is available at this time.”

The searches are another controversy to hit campus this year, some of which have involved the police department.

Robert NIU admin- Albanese istrators Robert Albanese and John Gordon reportedly were under investigation for appropriating university property for their personal use when they quit in July. An employee filed a grievance complaining of being assigned to clean Gordon’s home while working for the university.

Albanese was the former associate vice president of the Division of Finance, Facilities and Operations, and Gordon is the former director of the Convocation Center.

University police also led the investigation into the “cof-

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Feds look to ship Wash. radioactive waste to N.M. RICHLAND, Wash. – Federal officials are looking to ship some 3 million gallons of radioactive waste from Washington state to New Mexico, giving the government more flexibility to deal with leaking tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation, officials said Wednesday.

The Department of Energy said its preferred plan would ultimately dispose of the waste in a massive repository near Carlsbad, N.M, where radioactive materials are buried in rooms excavated in vast salt beds nearly a half-mile underground.

The federal proposal was quickly met with criticism from a New Mexico environmental group that said the state permit allowing the government to bury waste at the plant would not allow for Hanford shipments.

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Eight current NIU employees were indicted in connection to that investigation in December; six Donald have returned Grady to work and two remain on paid leave.

In February, longtime Police Chief Donald Grady was fired for the department’s mishandling of a rape case against one of his own officers.

Former NIU police officer Andrew Rifkin, 25, of Northbrook, is accused of raping a student off-campus while he was off duty in October 2011.

Lt. Kartik Ramakrishnan – who testified in court that he mistakenly placed two witness statements in Rifkin’s personnel file, rather than giving them to prosecutors – remains on paid leave.

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We sit here not knowing what was taken, but apparently quite a bit was taken.”

Grady had requested FBI assistance with financial aspects of the coffee fund, while NIU President John Peters asked state police to review NIU police procedures and investigations after a local judge ruled NIU police purposefully withheld evidence from prosecutors in the Rifkin matter.

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8WORLD BRIEFS UN report: Syrian refugees top 1 million BEIRUT – Syria’s accelerating humanitarian crisis hit a grim milestone Wednesday: The number of U.N.-registered refugees topped 1 million – half of them children – described by an aid worker as a “human river” of thousands spilling out of the war-ravaged country every day.

‘Important to stay focused’ • SPELLING BEE Continued from page A1 and an all-expenses paid trip to the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., at which he placed 51st in 2012.

Lucas was greeted by proud friends and family after the bee.

“Don’t start crying, dad,” said Lucas.

The 13-year-old Crystal Lake resident went 44 rounds facing off against his twin sister, Clare, who was among the final three contestants but was sent out on the word “hypocrisy.”

Lucas said his advice for his sister for future bees is simple: “Don’t lose.”

Lucas finally went head-tohead against Scarlett Costello, a Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School student, who spelled challenging words such as “glockenspiel,” a percussion instrument consisting of a series of graduated metal bars.

“She was some pretty tough competition,” Lucas said.

Lucas appeared relaxed on the stage even while in the final rounds of the competition.

“It’s important to stay focused and not zone off while you’re up there,” Lucas said.

“That is bad.”

Spelling bee judge Kim Goglin, a teacher at Marlowe Middle School in Lake in the Hills, said she often sees contestants say a letter that they know is wrong, but can’t take back.

“You can tell they didn’t mean to say it, but once it’s spoken, it cannot be retraced,” Goglin said. “Those are the rules, but I always feel bad because I want them all to do well.”

Lucas said he has been training for months to avoid such instances by using computer programs, reading word lists and having his mother quiz him on random words from the dictionary.

Lucas said he has been using these methods since his initial county bee win in 2011.

“My method doesn’t really change,” Lucas said. “It’s worked so far.”

The Scripps National Spelling Bee Preliminaries air live May 29 on ESPN3, with the Championship Finals airing May 30 on ESPN.

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In Italy, Cardinals impose media blackout VATICAN CITY – In the end, American-style transparency was no match for the Vatican’s obsession with secrecy. Cardinals attending closed-door discussions ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope imposed

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appears to be a microcosm of the likely battle lines heading into the election: American and German cardinals have indicated they want a pope who will impose some order on the Vatican’s inner workings, while the Vatican-based cardinals are defending their record and seeking to end the discussion.

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Some lawmakers don’t believe Quinn’s budget cut enough spending • REACTION Continued from page A1 “You have $35 billion in revenue. That’s all you get.

There is no more money. No matter what is proposed, the state is going backward because the tough decisions on spending, they won’t make,” Tryon said.

Reps. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, and David McSweeney, R-Barrington Hills, shared Tryon’s opinion.

The House for the previous two Quinn budgets also went with their more conservative revenue estimates. The state fiscal year starts July 1.

“I don’t think [Quinn’s] budget was taken seriously today. He gave us some ideas, but he talked about spending more money than we actually have,” Franks said. “People will listen to his opinion, but by no means will it be followed as he wished, because frankly, we can’t.”

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Gov. Pat Quinn delivers his State of the Budget address to a joint session of the General Assembly in the House chambers Wednesday at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.

Quinn’s budget yet again enacts cuts to education and other programs, which he squarely blamed in his budget address on lawmakers’ inability to reform the state’s ailing public pension systems. The state is grappling with $96 billion in unfunded pension liability, which grows by an estimated $17 million a day, and a stack of unpaid bills reaching $10 billion.

Budget proposes closing ‘loopholes’ to pay down bills • BUDGET Continued from page A1 “This is the most difficult budget Illinois has ever faced, and it is only a preview of the pain that is to come if this General Assembly does not act decisively on comprehensive pension reform,” Quinn said in a 30-minute address that focused almost entirely on the pension mess.

But his speech barely addressed the “pain” that Quinn aides hinted at the previous evening, not even mentioning, for example, the $400 million cut in public education necessary in large part because of the state’s required contribution to employee retirement accounts. After years of state underfunding, the five systems have a whopping $96.7 billion deficit in the amount necessary to pay benefits to everyone they cover.

Quinn proposed closing tax “loopholes” to produce money to pay down the state’s gaping backlog of $9 billion it owes to vendors. He would eliminate three tax breaks temporarily to produce an extra $445 million annually for a “Bill Payment Trust Fund.” The bulk of that would come from ending tax-free foreign dividends, which Quinn’s staff says could encourage multinational corporations to move operations to overseas subsidiaries.

“The more corporate loopholes we suspend, the faster we can pay down our bills,” Quinn said. “Why should we give costly, ineffective loopholes to some of the biggest and most profitable corporations on earth when we have bills to pay?”

He hinted he would be open to a heavily regulated expansion of legalized gambling, as long as the new revenue generated went to education.

Later Wednesday, the Senate Executive Committee endorsed yet another proposal to add five riverboat casinos in Illinois, including a land-based operation in Chicago, which would direct up to $1 billion

“This is the most dificult budget Illinois has ever faced, and it is only a preview of the pain that is to come if this General Assembly does not act decisively on comprehensive pension reform.”

Continued from page A1 At the hearing, Prather can acquit Davis of the crime, find him “not not guilty” and send him for additional treatment, or find him not guilty by reason of insanity.

The last option is the most likely outcome. In that case, Davis would be committed to a mental health facility for a time period similar to what he would serve in prison if convicted – 60 years.

Davis has a history of mental health issues, having been in and out of institutions for five years before the alleged murder, his family has said.

His brother, Greg, previously said that Davis was released after posing a threat

last week by House Speaker Mike Madigan only received a handful of Democratic votes – the Republicans called the whole thing political theater and refused to vote.

“We cannot continue down this path of unaffordable pensions while Democrats play political games with reform,” Rep. Barbara Wheeler, R-Crystal Lake, said in her response to Quinn’s budget.

“Our unfunded pension liability is growing every day, we have nearly $10 billion in unpaid bills, and the tax increase is about to expire. We need to take serious action on pensions before Illinois tumbles over its own fiscal cliff.”

In his budget address, Quinn proposed closing corporate tax loopholes – he cited three that he said could bring in $455 million – as a way to pay down the backlog of bills.

He started off his address by touting that state government under his watch has “reduced spending to historic

lows,” citing the closings of 54 state facilities and reductions in discretionary spending.

But state Sen. Pam Althoff, R-McHenry, said she was not impressed, given the state’s deep fiscal problems.

“We had a 67 percent [income] tax increase, we are receiving record amounts of new revenue, and our backlog of bills has increased by 20 percent. Where are all these savings that he was touting today? Where is it going?” Althoff said.

The record 2011 income tax increase passed by Democrats – 67 percent on individuals and 46 percent on businesses – was sold as a way to pay down the state’s overdue bills. However, almost all of the new tax revenue has been swallowed by the state’s pension obligations.

The tax increase is supposed to start phasing out in 2015. At least one bill before lawmakers seeks to make it permanent.

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Gov. Pat Quinn in his budget address in revenue from the slot machines annually to public schools. Quinn has vetoed two similar bills in just the past year. Quinn budget spokesman Abdon Pallasch stressed Quinn wants a pension fix first but said the governor remains open to talks on gambling.

But he did not talk about a plan his aides revealed Tuesday night to change state law and allow him to use some of the $2 billion set aside in funds that automatically dole out money to aid local governments, transportation and programs from violence prevention to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.

Quinn was pointed in his challenge to the lawmakers to act on the pension crisis. “So, members of the General Assembly,” he asked, “what are you waiting for?”

Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, said that he already was taking action, having planned a committee hearing next week on his combination legislation. It would offer employees a choice on whether they want retirement health care or annual cost-ofliving increases, combined with a House-authored backup plan that would reduce post-career benefits and increase employee contributions.

“He’s frustrated, and he wants us to do something, so we’re going to start next week,” Cullerton said after the speech, while noting the ongoing struggles that have prevented progress thus far.

History of mental health issues • DAVIS

Almost 20 percent of next year’s General Fund revenues will go toward paying pensions.

“Skyrocketing pension obligations leave our state with no choice but to continue reductions to our core priorities. There are significant reductions in this budget that I do not want to make, and that none of you will want to make, either. These reductions are

the direct result of the General Assembly’s lack of action on public pension reform,” Quinn said.

The state will pay $6 billion to meet its pension obligations, as well as $1 billion to pay back past borrowing to meet them.

McSweeney said he does not believe that Quinn went nearly far enough in cutting spending, but said he liked that Quinn put much more attention on the pension problem than he did in his State of the State address last month.

“I think the governor doesn’t focus enough on cutting spending, and I think his finances are too optimistic, but I applaud him for pushing pension reform. I wish, however, that he would show more leadership in pursuing it,” McSweeney said.

The House is scheduled today to take up more proposed amendments to a bill addressing the pension issue.

Four amendments proposed

to hospital staff and other patients before being transferred to a different facility, where doctors eventually said he was stabilized.

Davis then was released to a halfway house, but didn’t last long there and was sent to live with Schritz. He was back at her home for a week before the stabbing.

Schritz had taken out an order of protection against her son in 2008, saying that he suffered from bipolar disorder and schizo-affective disorder with paranoid features. She said that Davis had threatened her with a butcher knife.

The jail reported that when Davis initially was arrested, he pulled out all of his fingernails and toenails without appearing to experience any pain.

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Thursday, March 7, 2013 • Page A7 • Northwest Herald • NWHerald.com 8OUR VIEW

8SKETCH VIEW

Quinn again passes buck on pensions Gov. Pat Quinn’s budget address Wednesday is a textbook example of the pot calling the kettle black.

Quinn repeatedly blamed members of the General Assembly for failure to reform the state’s five pension systems, the For the record mismanagement of which has led During his budget address to a $96 billion un- Wednesday, Gov. Pat Quinn funded liability. attempted to lay blame on He implored them lawmakers for a lack of pension to act. reform. But he shares much of “What are you the responsibility. waiting for?” he asked.

Taxpayers have been asking that for years.

Inept leadership and an unwillingness to touch an issue that likely will cost some lawmakers their seats in the Legislature are the main reasons why reform hasn’t happened.

Quinn should own this issue. If he could issue an executive order to reform pensions, what would he do? The time for proposals is over: Lawmakers need to settle on which proposals already out there are acceptable and move forward.

He mentioned Wednesday two ideas we support: adjusting the annual cost of living hike so it isn’t a 3 percent compounding increase every year, and making sure the state pays its full share of the pension obligation each year.

Add in bumping up the retirement age, and having employees contribute more toward their pensions (and not simply “adjust” the amount, as Quinn suggested) and we’ve got some real reform that would save money.

Instead, Quinn has proved himself incapable of leading the state through the biggest issue facing the state in a generation. How many times has he set a “hard deadline” and demanded action, just to see it pass by with no consequences for failing (again) to reform systems that cost taxpayers $17 million a day?

That’s not to say the state’s representatives and senators are blameless. Far from it. One person cannot be blamed for the growing, unfunded pension liability in Illinois. Legislators have shown they care more about the next election than the ramifications of their inaction.

Quinn called his proposal the most difficult budget he’s ever had to submit. That will be true until next year when, if reform isn’t enacted, we’ll be in even worse shape.

The sad truth is, until reform is enacted, pensions will dictate everything else in our budgets. We can’t afford new initiatives — economic, educational or otherwise — until there’s a resolution.

Getting the state’s fiscal house in order is the only focus lawmakers should have this session. It’s going to be excruciatingly hard.

Tough decisions will have to be made.

But the majority of the pain those decisions will cause will not be borne by them. Think of the children in your life who will be on the receiving end of $400 million less in education funding if Quinn’s budget is approved — a truth he failed to share during his half-hour speech.

The only hurt lawmakers might feel is if they’re not elected the next time their name appears on a ballot. And given the pain they have and continue to inflict on the people of this state, they’re lucky if that’s the worst they suffer.

8IT’S YOUR WRITE Guns, guns To the Editor: I get it, I really do. Knowing it’s yours. The power it gives you. The feel of it in your hand. The beauty of the weapon.

You need not fear anyone. And if our state Legislature only would allow you to pack your favorite killing weapon, you know you would be safer from danger.

Of course, if the Legislature did give you permission to pack, there would be some problems. You couldn’t carry your weapon to a courthouse. There isn’t a judge in the U.S. who would permit you to carry a weapon in his court. Or the state (and federal legislatures, or a passenger airplane, or a school, or many others or’s. So you wouldn’t be able to venture into the world in complete safety.

One more thing. I have been told that about half of all gunshot victims in the U.S. are shot by people they know. If everybody packs, are we safe?

Bob Martin McHenry

Good choices To the Editor: When I think McHenry, I think Jeff Schaefer. Schaefer holds many titles: son, husband, father, uncle, but when I think of his title, it is friend. That’s why I endorse him for 3rd Ward alderman in McHenry.

Schaefer is personable and cares.

His involvement in his church, school and kids’ activities is second to none. You often will see Schaefer at a sporting, community or school event, or even just walking down the streets of McHenry talking to people or discussing their issues. His presence in the community is noticeable, and he cares.

Not only is he a McHenry native, but he has the experience and knowledge it takes to continue taking McHenry down its path to success.

Schaefer does his research on issues. He has taken the time during these tough economic times to watch spending and make good choices when it comes to being responsible for your tax dollars so that McHenry continues to thrive.

Jim Reuter Elgin

Intestinal fortitude To the Editor: I just read “Tide of history” (It’s Your Write, Feb. 28).

Don’t worry that you’ve been criticized for not following the trend. Any softy can float with the tide. It takes intestinal fortitude to stand against the flow and do the right thing. When did the majority automatically become right?

Perversion has sunk kingdoms throughout history, and history

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repeats itself. Are we next?

Just like Nikita Kruschev said: We will ruin your institutions!

Frank M. Garner Lake in the Hills

End collective bargaining To the Editor: Is anyone fooled by our Legislature’s humorous attempts at fixing the pension obligation shortfall in this ludicrous state of ours? Do any of you really believe that those who themselves are party to the problem, themselves guaranteed a pension that cannot be diminished, will vote in favor of lowering those of others? It would be akin to signing their own political death certificate.

They will continue to debate the issue; remedies will be found and then discarded due to constitutionality; and any legislation passed will be either meaningless or so watered down as to be nearly that.

And in the meantime, we will sink deeper into debt.

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The only solution is for the Constitution to be amended to rescind those unsustainable benefits that were written in it to get someone elected, to keep them in office, or perhaps to somehow gain monetarily from their access to this pool of funds.

Our governor is too busy skirting the issue with python cartoons and meaningless vows to solve the problem. What is needed, plain and simple, is to put an end to collective bargaining rights of taxpayerfunded entities, teachers and state and municipal workers included.

If they can be dissolved in the private sector, the same certainly holds true for those funded by the taxpayer.

If the price of an American good is too high due to unionization in the labor market, I can buy from a foreign competitor. We are not given that choice by taxpayerfunded unions.

Douglas Knight Huntley

A responsible retirement solution for taxpayers, public workers Mr. Reeder, I read your article today … I am a retired teacher of 35 years.

I was required to put 10 percent of my income into the TRS pension.

I did not have a choice. I did invest what little was left.

I get emails like this from retired teachers all across the state. They are heart-wrenching.

Dedicated educators who have spent their careers teaching our children now find themselves caught in a failing pension system.

Their message is clear: “I did not have a choice.”

These educated professionals have been relegated to victim status by the state of Illinois. The politicians who caused this problem won’t empower teachers and other government workers to take charge of their own retirements.

I’ve often written of the desirability of transitioning teachers and other government workers to defined contribution plans and routinely receive emails from them that say something like: Don’t blame us;

we didn’t choose to be a part of the pension system in the first place.

And they are quite right – they have been let down by the politicians who made promises of secure retirements.

But they haven’t been let down

by Illinois taxpayers.

Those are the folks who sacrificed an extra week of pay beginning in 2011 just to pay for government retiree benefits.

And the taxpayers of this great state have faithfully paid their taxes year after year.

And yet, some would further penalize these taxpayers because politicians didn’t spend money in the manner that they promised.

It’s time to get politicians out of the pension business. It also is time to empower teachers and others to choose their own investments.

After all, we trust teachers with our children; why can’t the politicians trust them to make wise retirement decisions for themselves?

But how do you do that in a manner that is fair to employees, retirees and taxpayers?

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

VIEWS Scott Reeder That is an especially difficult question when one considers that the state has an unfunded pension liability of $96 billion. And folks of all political stripes are talking openly about the future insolvency of the system.

That’s one of the reasons I’m impressed with a plan my colleagues at the Illinois Policy Institute have come up with.

Here are the key differences between the Institute’s proposal and other plans being circulated in Springfield: • It rules out extending the 2011 income-tax increase.

• It protects pension benefits already earned by employees but ties all future earned retirement benefits to a 401(k)-style of defined contribution plan.

• It pays off the unfunded pension liability on a level-dollar basis.

8THE FIRST AMENDMENT

• It reduces the fiscal 2014 unfunded pension liability by $46 billion.

• It reduces fiscal 2014 state contributions to $4.7 billion, a nearly 30 percent drop from $6.7 billion under current law.

But, also, it is quite generous to the employees themselves.

For example, a teacher who starts his or her career at age 25 at a salary of $35,000 and receives a 3 percent raise each year can retire at age 67 with $1 million in the bank, based on an average annual investment return of 4 percent. With that amount, a teacher could buy an annuity worth $54,000 annually.

So how does the plan accomplish these things?

It raises the retirement age to 67 for new and younger employees and it halts all future automatic retiree cost-of-living adjustments for retirees until the system is fully funded.

State Rep. Tom Morrison, RPalatine, has introduced legislation to implement the plan.

“This bill reforms pensions in a constitutional way,” he said last

week. “It protects the pension benefits workers have earned to date.

The pension formula will simply apply to their current service and their current salary. They will receive a basic pension as if they had left government employment today. But in order to fully protect those benefits, we have to change how future benefits are earned. And while we’re making those changes, let’s do it in a way that empowers workers with real control, rather than keeping the power in the hands of this legislative body.”

Sadly, through decades of mismanagement by governors of both political parties and by multiple generations of state legislators, we find ourselves in the midst of crisis.

Unless, tough decisions are made, core government services such as public safety, education and providing care for the most vulnerable in society will face unacceptable cuts.

• Scott Reeder is a veteran statehouse reporter and the journalist in residence at the Illinois Policy Institute. He can be reached at sreeder@ illinoispolicy.org.

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8COMMUNITY NEWS

CL PARK DISTRICT TEACHES BOATING CRYSTAL LAKE – The Crystal Lake Park District is urging boaters to plan ahead for a safe boating season by enrolling in the America’s Boating Course.

America’s Boating Course is for all boaters, including skippers of a family cruiser, sailing enthusiasts, personal watercraft operators, hunters or fishermen operating outboard utility boats and canoe and kayak paddlers.

The course also includes a CD containing Maptech’s Chart Navigator computer program, allowing students to learn about this new electronic technology.

The last four weeks will focus on charting.

The class, for those 12 and older, will run from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays, March 12 through April 30, at the Veteran Acres Warming House, Route 176 and Second Street, Crystal Lake.

The cost is $55 for Crystal Lake Park District residents and $65 for nonresidents.

To register, visit www. crystallakeparks.org and use program code #5700-0.

For information about this program, call Jenni Silka at 815-459-0680, ext. 219.

– Northwest Herald

IDENTITY THEFT SEMINAR PLANNED CRYSTAL LAKE – Faith in Action and Legal Shield will offer a seminar about identity theft from 2 to 3 p.m. March 14 at The Pointe Outreach Center (next to Target in Crystal Lake).

Attendees will receive helpful tips on how to protect themselves and their assets. There is no charge to attend this seminar.

Registration is required. For information and to register, call the Faith in Action office at 815-455-3120 or visit www. fiamchenrycounty.org.

– Northwest Herald

BOOK BENEFITS FOR BREAST CENTER WOODSTOCK – The Centegra Hospital – Woodstock Auxiliary will host a book fair to raise money for the Centegra Gavers Breast Center in Crystal Lake.

The book fair will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 13 and March 14 in the lower-level lobby at Centegra Hospital – Woodstock, 3701 Doty Road.

The book fair also will be offered from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

March 15 in the atrium at Centegra Specialty Hospital – Woodstock, 527 W. South St. The Centegra Hospital – Woodstock Auxiliary, established in 1946, is composed of volunteers who organize fundraising activities, manage resale and gift shops and provide creative support for Centegra programs.

Their efforts and goodwill have furnished major spaces, bought surgical and emergency equipment and refurbished several critical care areas.

Anyone interested in joining the auxiliary should refer to centegra.org for information or call the auxiliary office at 815334-3119.

– Northwest Herald

8LOCAL DEATHS Bonnie Bergstrom 57, Huntley Nancy A. Eckert 76, Huntley John “Jack” Feliccia of Huntley OBITUARIES on page B3-4

Photos by Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com

Firefighters spray water from the top of ladders while battling an industrial fire Wednesday at Fox Valley Systems in Cary. Three people were taken to the hospital after two explosions at the building.

3 hurt in Cary explosions Cause of incident at Fox Valley Systems unknown; probe starts today

By JIM DALLKE jdallke@shawmedia.com

and EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com CARY – Three people were taken to the hospital after two explosions at Fox Valley Systems, Cary’s police chief said.

About 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, several fire departments responded to reports of smoke and flames at Fox Valley Systems, a marking and striping company that does traffic and athletic field painting, at 640 Industrial Drive in Cary.

Firefighters called for hazmat units to come to the scene.

Cary Police Chief Steven Casstevens said there was a report of one explosion. When an officer arrived on scene, there was a second explosion.

The cause of the explosions was unknown, Casstevens said. The Cary Fire Department, State Fire Marshal’s Office and Occupational Safety and Health Administration will start their investigation today.

About a 60-foot section of brick wall at the front of the building and another “significant” chunk in the back were blown out by the explosions, Casstevens said.

Three employees were taken to the Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital and then taken to another unknown hospital, Casstevens said.

Their condition and injuries were unknown Wednesday evening.

All of the surrounding buildings – including Cary Gymnastics at 600 Industrial Drive and about 20 to 25 others– were evacuated,

See FIRE, page B4

Several fire departments were called to 640 Industrial Drive in Cary to help with an industrial fire Wednesday at Fox Valley Systems in Cary.

LITH running hangar McHenry mayor incentive program again lauds city’s staff

By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com LAKE IN THE HILLS – With hopes of attracting more people to store their airplanes at the village’s airport, Lake in the Hills officials brought back the T-hangar incentive program.

Under the incentive plan, any current airport tenant would receive a $294.80 lease credit for referring a new tenant who enters into a one-year lease.

The new tenant also would have the first three

months of the lease rentfree and a 10-cents-a-gallon reduction on fuel bought at the airport for 12 months.

The program began Friday and runs through Aug. 31.

Filling one hangar space would result in a $1,665 gain for the village, according to a memo from Director of Public Works Fred Mullard to the Village Board.

“If we can bring more people in, even if it means one additional aircraft, it brings in additional revenue for us,” Mullard said.

When the village ran the

incentive program last year, it had interest from four possible tenants. Three accepted a one-year lease, but one person backed out. Meanwhile, two other tenants left the hangars.

Eight of the 10 hangar spots in the east hangar now are rented.

Village officials last year opened the hangars for non-aeronautical storage, such as RVs, boats, motorcycles, automobiles, snowmobiles, appliances and furniture.

See HANGAR, page B4

Operation Click adds Huntley chapter to inform teen drivers

By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – A Crystal Lake nonprofit devoted to keeping teens safe behind the wheel has added a Huntley chapter of five area high schools as the group looks for future expansion to combat distracted driving.

Seth McGrath, a Crystal Lake police officer, founded Operation Click in 1998 in

hopes of increasing seat-belt compliance among the many teenage drivers at Crystal Lake District 155’s four high schools.

Now, Operation Click has expanded to 39 high schools in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin and has broadened its mission to make teens aware of emerging distractions, such as texting while driving.

“There’s a need to keep

our kids safe,” said McGrath, president of Operation Click. “Texting and driving has become a very serious issue. It’s almost as dangerous as intoxicated driving.”

The new Huntley chapter is a testament to the group, which relies heavily on incentives to reward teens for good driving habits,

See SAFETY, page B3

Address focuses on community, accomplishments

By JANE HUH jhuh@shawmedia.com McHENRY – The city’s progress depends on “partnerships, cooperation and collaboration” to face the economic challenges that lie ahead, McHenry Mayor Sue Low said in her annual state of the city address.

Low lauded McHenry’s administrative staff and outlined several communitywide accomplishments and projects of 2012. She spoke at Wednesday’s McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon, held at the McHenry Country Club, 820 N. John St. “When people ask me what makes McHenry a great community and how we manage to grow yet maintain that small-town feeling, I tell them it is our people,” she said. “People like each one of you. We are here to serve you, but we also rely on you. Together we will accomplish our goals; of that I am confident.”

The annual Chamber luncheon gave Low a campaign-

Sue Low McHenry’s mayor since 2003. She was appointed by predecessor Pam Althoff. ing opportunity as she faces a challenger in the mayoral race for the first time in a decade. Steven Cuda, a former McHenry mayor, is seeking to replace Low in the April 9 election.

Low has served as McHenry mayor since she was appointed in 2003 by her predecessor, Pam Althoff, now a state senator. Cuda, an attorney in Woodstock, served two terms as McHenry mayor, from 1993 through 2001.

Early in her address, Low noted that 2012 was the “third consecutive year the City Council has frozen the tax levy, realizing the strain homeowners are already placed under, despite the fact this is lost revenue for the city.”

Among the developments highlighted in the address: the police department’s partnership with schools on safety, a dog park set to open this summer, commercial growth activity and a major road construction project.

See STATE OF CITY, page B3

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SPRING GROVE: FIRE BOARD

Some renovations to district delayed

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com SPRING GROVE – Some improvements at the Spring Grove Fire Protection District will have to wait until the next fiscal year, its board of trustees decided.

The fire department will go ahead with upgrading its exterior pole lights, making repairs and switching to low-energy bulbs, Fire Chief Rich Tobiasz said.

The repairs will cost the district $14,700, so the board decided to upgrade the lights at the same time for an additional $1,100.

The department will apply for a grant to reimburse its costs when the work is done, something it has been successful with in the past, Tobiasz said.

Since the 2005 expansion of the department, the lighting has been upgraded to make it more energy efficient. The expansion included adding three bays to the apparatus bay area in 2005 so it could house more trucks; a temporary sleeping area; additional offices; and a bigger

classroom.

The changes have resulted in $200 worth of savings a month, Tobiasz said.

The staff also will make some minor improvements, including painting one of the corridors in the old section of the building.

Renovations to the dayroom bunk room will have to wait, though, because the department also is looking to replace a 26-year-old firetruck, Tobiasz said. The board also is talking about upgrading the overhead radio system so it can be turned off in the sleeping area.

The plan is to add two bunk spaces so paramedic students who assist the regular firefighters while training have a place to sleep.

Currently they’re sleeping on air mattresses or reclining chairs, Tobiasz said.

Original estimates put the cost at $60,000.

“Do you need to have it or is the firetruck more important?” Tobiasz said of the sleeping area improvements.

“A firetruck is probably more important to somebody whose house is on fire.”

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Finding Frosty Tuesday’s snowstorm gave McHenry County residents a chance to get creative.

Here are a few snowmen our photographers found in the area.

WOODSTOCK: TURNING POINT

Shelter to host teen dating violence series NORTHWEST HERALD WOODSTOCK – Turning Point, McHenry County’s only comprehensive domestic violence agency and shelter, will launch a series of informational evenings starting today with “You Need to Know ... About Teen Dating Violence.”

The event will be at 7 p.m. at McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake.

Turning Point children’s counselor Molly Horton will speak about the issue of domestic violence among teenagers, including dating violence and a parent’s role in spotting and stopping abusive teen relationships, and then take questions from the

audience.

Horton also will discuss the “Choose Respect” program, which brings together representatives from Grace Lutheran Church, Woodstock School District 200 and Turning Point to promote healthy relationships among teens.

Teachers, students, parents and interested members of the community are invited to attend this free informational evening.

Future “You Need to Know ...” sessions will address issues such as supporting victims of domestic violence, elder abuse, cyberstalking and online harassment.

For information, call Joe at Turning Point at 815-3388081.

8LOCAL BRIEFS D-200 accepting senior awards nominations WOODSTOCK – Members of the public have until March 18 to nominate outstanding District 200 seniors for the district’s end-of-the-year PRIDE awards.

The awards are given in seven categories to seniors of Woodstock High School and Woodstock North High School.

Winners are announced at the schools’ respective senior awards ceremonies in May. Award recipients are selected by committees composed of board members, staff representatives and community members.

The full board approves the committee’s selections.

Awards will be handed out in seven categories at each school: scholarship, personal achievement, vocational excellence, fine arts, athletics, school service and community service.

Nomination forms are available online or at the District 200 Administrative Services Center, 227 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Visit www. woodstockschools.org/ school-board/pride-awards to download a form. To receive a form by mail, fax or email, call 815-337-5147.

– Shawn Shinneman

St. Paddy’s Day Bash planned in Crystal Lake CRYSTAL LAKE – There is still time to register for the St. Paddy’s Day Bash, which will

be from 6 to 11 p.m. March 16 at Park Place, 406 W. Woodstock St. This family-friendly Crystal Lake Park District event features a traditional Irish buffet dinner, entertainment by the McNulty Irish Dancers, a DJ playing Irish music for dancing and entertainment plus a cash bar featuring Harp and Guinness beer.

Tickets are $20 per adult and $10 per child (under age 12).

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Register in advance at www. crystallakeparks.org (program code 5801-0) or in person at the Crystal Lake Park District Administrative Office, 1 E. Crystal Lake Ave. On-site registration will not be accepted.

For information, call 815477-5871.

Destination Safe Haven to host open house MARENGO – Destination Safe Haven Horse Rescue and Retirement will host an open house from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

March 16 at the farm, 1404 Busse Road, Marengo.

At the event, attendees can meet the horses, founders and volunteers who make up the Destination Safe Haven family.

They also can grab a Blarney stone or horseshoe to bring luck and meet the farm’s little leprechaun, Dalilah.

For information, call 815388-2594.

– Northwest Herald

Photos by Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com and Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com

Various snowmen in Crystal Lake and McHenry were made after Tuesday’s snowstorm dumped 7 to 10 inches of snow in parts of the county.

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8OBITUARIES ROBERT G. ACKMANN Born: July 8, 1930; in Chicago Died: March 3, 2013; in Marengo MARENGO – Robert G. Ackmann, 82, of Marengo, passed away Sunday, March 3, 2013, in his home, surrounded by his family.

He was born July 8, 1930, in Chicago, the son of the late Henry and Pearl (nee Jasstrowski) Ackmann.

On Oct. 17, 1964, in Algonquin, he married Sandra S. Bahr.

Robert was a Korean War U.S. Air Force veteran.

He retired from the United States Post Office after 31 years of service in Chicago.

Survivors include his wife, Sandra, of 48 years; one daughter, Shawn Marie (Shawn David) McAuliffe of Marengo; one son, Thomas “TR” (Jennifer) Ackmann of Fort Wayne, Ind.; four grandchildren, Troy and Haleigh McAuliffe and Baylee and Reganne Ackmann; and one brother, Kenneth Ackmann of Marengo.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Henry; and two sisters, Shirley Ackmann and Geraldine Kaste.

The visitation will be from 10 a.m.

Saturday, March 9, until the memorial service at 11 a.m. in St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1601 N. Garfield Road, Harvard. The Rev. Steven Sward will officiate. Interment will be private.

Memorials may be made in his name to St. Paul Lutheran Church.

Arrangements by Fredrick Funeral Home, Hampshire. For information, call the funeral home at 847-6832711.

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BONNIE BERGSTROM Born: April 6, 1955; in Chicago Died: March 4, 2013; in Elgin HUNTLEY – Bonnie Bergstrom, 57, of Huntley, passed away Monday, March 4, 2013, at Sherman Hospital in Elgin.

She was born April 6, 1955, in Chicago.

Survivors include her husband, Scott; her children, Heather (Anthony) LaCoco and Kristen Koehnke; her grandchildren, Sarah and Dominic LaCoco and Emily and Scotty Koehnke; her father, Bud Bowers; brother, William (Patty) Bowers; sisters, Donna Salmer and Kimberly (Thomas) Johnstone; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Doris Ann Bowers.

The visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 8, at Willow Funeral Home and Cremation Care, 1415 W. Algonquin Road, Algonquin.

The funeral will be at 7 p.m. Friday,

March 8, at the funeral home. Burial will be private.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to National MS Society, Greater Illinois Chapter, 525 S. Monroe St., Suite 900, Chicago, IL 60661; please state “In loving memory of Bonnie Bergstrom” on your donation.

For information, call the funeral home at 847-458-1700 or visit www.willowfh.com.

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ROBERT O. ‘BOB’ COVEY Born: Jan. 21, 1921; in Oshkosh, Wis. Died: March 5, 2013; in Crystal Lake CRYSTAL LAKE – Robert O. “Bob” Covey, 92, of Crystal Lake, passed away Tuesday, March 5, 2013, in Crystal Lake.

Born Jan. 21, 1921, in Oshkosh, Wis., he was the son of the late David L. and Bessie Viola (nee Otis) Covey. On June 3, 1943, in Madison, Wis., he was united in marriage to Mary Elizabeth Karlen.

Robert received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a JD (Juris Doctor) from Northwestern University.

A proud member of the U.S. Navy, he served in the Pacific during World War II, attaining the rank of Lieutenant JG and served aboard the USS President Adams (part of the Unholy Four).

Mr. Covey was a partner in the law firm Covey, McKinney & Powers; partner in the law firm of Covey & Covey; president and chairman of the Board of First Federal Savings & Loan of Crystal Lake; vice president of First Federal of Chicago; and vice president of Citibank.

He also served as president of the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce in 1951 and was a Chamber member for 63 years. He was an Ambassador’s Club member, and the Business of the Year Award was established in Robert O. Covey’s name in 2003.

In 1993, he received the Citizen of the Year Award and, in 2009, the Carl E. Wehde Award.

Robert was founding director and president of the Crystal Lake United Way; director and president of McHenry County United Way; and founding director and president of Crime Stoppers – 1983. A member of the McHenry County Board from 1985 to 1994, he served as vice chairman of the board and chairman of building project.

He was co-chairman and president of the Crystal Lake All American City Campaign. A 63year member of the Crystal Lake

Lions Club, he served as president from 1964 to 1965, and received the Melvin Jones Fellow Award, Distinguished Service Award and Member of the Year Award 2003 to 2004.

Robert was the school board president of School District 47 from 1951 to 1961; was Northern Division Committee chairman of Junior Achievement of Chicago from 1980 to 1981; member of the McHenry County Bar Association; member of the Crystal Lake Jaycees and recipient of the Distinguished Service Award; Nunda Masonic Lodge; 32 Degree Mason and Shriners 50year Member Award; member of Napkin Ring for 40 years; and was honored as the grand marshal of Gala Fourth of July Parade in 2009.

Mr. Covey was a member of First Congregational Church of Crystal Lake where he served as chairman of the Board of Directors, chairman of the Governing Board and Sunday school teacher.

Robert is survived by his children, Karlen R. (Susie) Covey, Kathleen M. (John) Euler, Carol A. (Miles) Beard and Christopher G. Covey; grandchildren, Kelly (Eric) Breihan, Heather (Sam) Sorensen, Donald J. Donner, Regan (Jeremy) Bruski, John P. (Jennifer) Euler, Michael (Michele) Euler, Celeste Sollenberger, Dwight J. (Lauren) Beard and Clayton Beard; and 21 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 61 years, Mary Elizabeth Covey; his parents, David L. and Bessie V. Covey; and brother, Paul Covey.

Bob was a real gentleman and loved his family, his community, his church, his friends, traveling with Mary, playing Bridge and loved the Wisconsin Badgers (he was a 50-year season ticket-holder). He loved to laugh, had an infectious smile and never could remember the punch line of a joke.

Robert’s family would like to extend a special thanks to the nurses and staff at Fair Oaks Health Care Center in Crystal Lake for all the special care and kindness given to their father.

The visitation for Robert will be from 3 to 9 p.m. with a service at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at Davenport Family Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave. (Route 176), Crystal Lake. The Rev. Dr. Arn Schaper will officiate. Interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Lions Foundation of Crystal Lake, P.O. Box 48, Crystal Lake, IL 60039.

Online condolences may be sent to his family at www.davenportfamily.com. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-3411.

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Mayor outlines plans for school safety, major road construction • STATE OF CITY Continued from page B1 In December, the police department and the McHenry Township Fire Protection District teamed up with area school districts to form a safety committee to improve school security with ongoing training, meetings and increased awareness.

After more than six years of searching and planning, the Parks and Recreation Department, led by director Pete Merkel, secured a 4-acre

The visitation will continue from 9 a.m. until the funeral service at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 7, at St. John Chrysostomos Greek Orthodox Church, 4600 93rd St., Pleasant Prairie, Wis. Interment will be in St. John Chrysostomos Cemetery in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-0063.

Mark Falasz: The visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 7, at Muzyka & Son Funeral Home, 5776 W. Lawrence Ave., Chicago.

The funeral service will be at 10:15

site as the city’s first dog park.

“The park will include a dedicated area for small dogs, large dog exercise area, a shelter and tables, and water fountain,” Low said.

In the economic development front, the city issued three new commercial building permits and 64 permits for commercial and industrial additions and alterations, an increase of 14 percent from 2011, Low said.

Also last year, 17 new businesses opened and five either relocated or expanded

their operations.

The city anticipates a $7 million state road construction project to further commercial development and ease traffic congestion. An improvement project for the West Elm Street and North Richmond Road intersection, also known as West Route 120 and North Route 31, is funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Construction on the project, which will widen Richmond Road near Panera Bread and Applebee’s, is expected to begin this summer.

Students who uphold safety contract eligible to win new car • SAFETY Continued from page B1 McGrath said. The Huntley chapter includes Huntley High School in District 158; Dundee-Crown, Jacobs and Hampshire high schools in District 300; and Marengo High School in District 154.

Operation Click’s most coveted prize is a new car for students who uphold a signed contract with the group that stipulates seatbelt use at all times, a commitment not to drink and drive, and a promise to avoid traffic convictions.

Each student within Click’s six chapters can be eligible to win a new car at the end of the school year.

Material incentives often can motivate teens more effectively to become better drivers, McGrath has found.

Operation Click also partners with AAA Chicago to provide resources and mate-

“We want to make them aware that wearing a seat belt is important and that safety while driving is important.”

Don Hantson HHS’s dean of students

rials for schools to increase driving awareness. Schools can run students through a distracted driving course, using Operation Click’s two golf carts.

Students navigate the course wearing goggles that simulate alcohol impairment, while texting on a phone and listening to blaring music.

The course aims to give students a taste of the increasingly common distractions that cause unsafe driving, McGrath said.

A study last spring from

AT&T found that 61 percent of teens say their friends text while driving. The findings back up a separate study two years ago from the Pew Research Center that cited 58 percent of teens being in a car while a driver texted.

With the increased distractions, Huntley High School looked to Operation Click to help make teen driving a prominent issue at school, said Don Hantson, the high school’s dean of students.

Since August, the school has had 250 students sign Click’s contract. The school also conducts weekly raffles for students who display good driving, and officials do quarterly seat-belt compliance checks, the results of which are sent to Operation Click.

“We want to make them aware that wearing a seat belt is important and that safety while driving is important,” Hantson said.

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8FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Marilyn J. Becker: A visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 7, at Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock.

The visitation will continue from 10 a.m. until the funeral service at 11 a.m. Friday, March 8, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 401 St. John’s Road, Woodstock. Burial will be in McHenry County Memorial Park Cemetery in Woodstock. For information, call the funeral home at 815-338-1710.

Anastasios “Tom” P. Douvikas:

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a.m. Friday, March 8, proceeding from the funeral home to St. Ferdinand Church for an 11 a.m. Mass celebration. Interment will be in Maryhill Cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 773-5453800.

Marilyn K. Harfst: A memorial visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, March 7, at Davenport Family Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave. (Route 176), Crystal Lake. Inurnment will be private. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-3411.

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RICHARD E. DANA Born: Sept. 27, 1933 Died: Feb. 28, 2013 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Richard Eugene Dana, 79, of Corpus Christie, passed away at Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013.

He was born in Woodstock, the son of Arthur and Emma Dana.

He lived in Woodstock and Marengo until he retired from his construction career and moved to Corpus Christie.

Survivors include his grandson, William Messinger; sons, Wiliam Dean and Jacob; brother, Arthur D.; half-sister, Bonnie Dana; and friend, Stephen McMackin.

He was preceded in death by his daughter, Cynthia Dana; wife, Jeanette; parents and a sister; Dona.

Burial of his cremains will be in late spring at Sacred Heart Cemetery, Marengo.

NANCY A. ECKERT Born: Oct. 7, 1936; in Oak Park Died: March 5, 2013; in Huntley HUNTLEY – Nancy A. Eckert, 76, of Sun City, Huntley, and formerly of Rolling Meadows, passed away Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at her home surrounded by her family.

She was born Oct. 7, 1936, in Oak Park, the daughter of Frank and Margaret (Swords) Hopkins.

Nancy took great pride in the fact that she single-handedly raised her five children.

She loved flowers, gardening and music. She was an avid walker at the Lodge in Sun City.

Her greatest treasure was spending time with her family and friends. She will be deeply missed.

She is survived by her loving children, Donna Hofmann of Schaumburg, Frank (Barb) Eckert of Mesa, Ariz., John (Carolyn) Eckert of Aurora, Nancy (Joe) Nischbach of Geneva and Sue (Dave) Richards of Lake Zurich; her daughter-in-law Rosalinda Eckert of Chandler, Ariz.; 11 grandchildren, Katie (Dan) Dickinson, Jake, Keith, Lindsay, Ethan, Tara, Nicole, Alison, Zachary, Sarah and Joey; her great-grandson Jacob; and her dear brother, Gerald Hopkins.

The family wishes to extend a special thank-you to the staff at Northeastern Illinois Hospice and Palliative care, as well as Griswold Home Care.

She was preceded in death by her parents; Donald Eckert; two granddaughters, Heather and Jennifer; and a brother, Frank Hopkins.

The memorial visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 8, at

James A. O’Connor Funeral Home, 11603 E. Main St., Huntley. The memorial Mass celebration will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee/Huntley Road, Huntley.

There will be a visitation at church Saturday from 1 p.m. until the Mass.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in her name may be directed to the American Heart Association.

For information, call the funeral home at 847-669-5111 or visit www.jamesaoconnorfuneralhome. com.

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JOHN ‘JACK’ FELICCIA Died: March 5, 2013; in Huntley HUNTLEY – John “Jack” Feliccia, of Sun City, Huntley, died peacefully Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at his home.

A funeral Mass will be offered at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 9, at St. Mary Catholic Church, Huntley, with visitation at the church one hour prior.

A complete obituary notice will follow.

For information, call DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral Home at 847-5158772. Online condolences may be directed to www.defiorejorgensen. com.

GORDON J. HARRIS Born: Oct. 10, 1936; in Capron Died: March 5, 2013; in Pickett, Wis. PICKETT, Wis. – Gordon J. Harris, 76, of Pickett, fought a long, hard battle with cancer and died with his family by his side Tuesday, March 5, 2013.

Gordon was born Oct. 10, 1936, the firstborn son of Lloyd and Effie (Larson) Harris in Capron.

When he was growing up he became the man of the house for his family and started his love of farming. He later met Donna L. Kyle and they married June 11, 1966, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Harvard. At that time, he worked as a driver for Pete Freight Lines of Woodstock. With his love of farming, he convinced Donna that they should purchase a farm, which they named, “Udder Hillside Dairy” in Pickett. They operated it from 1973 to 1985. He then was a mechanic for the local canning factory until he retired in 2002. In his retirement, Gordon restored his faithful friend the John Deere Tractor. He ended up collecting and restoring multiple tractors and equipment. His blood truly

bled green. He also was involved with and a former board member of the Pickett Community Center, a former member of the Pickett Jaycees and the Pickett Lions Club, Capron, Illinois Fire Department and Utica Fire Department, the Pickett Steam Club and the Fox Valley Two Cylinder Club.

He was especially proud of his co-pilot chocolate lab, Ty, whom he rescued.

He is survived by his wife, Donna, of 46 years; his daughters, Barbara Sager of Capron, Kimberly (Robert) Dearman of Onalaska, Wis., Shelly (Jack) Fruehbrodt of Rush Lake, Wis.; son, John (Vickie Kolb) Harris of Pickett; grandchildren, Scott, Sherri, Seth Sager and Bayle Dearman; and his sisters, Carol Robertson, Janice Carlson, Kay (Robert) Marinic, LaVerne (Kay) Harris, all of Illinois. He was Pa Harris to many.

Gordon was preceded in death by his parents, Lloyd and Marjorie Harris, Effie Harris; his in-laws, Donald and Velma (Carney) Kyle; brothers-in-law, Walter Kyle and Bernard Robertson; and nephew Thomas Robertson.

The visitation for Gordon Harris will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at Butzin-Marchant Funeral Home, 515 Mayparty Drive, Ripon, Wis. Funeral service for Gordon Harris will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at Butzin-Marchant Funeral Home in Ripon. Pastor Dan Gibson will officiate.

Inurnment will be held at a later date at Liberty Prairie Cemetery in the Town of Utica, Wis. A memorial is being established.

The family would like to thank the Aurora Hospice and the Aurora Lombardi Cancer Clinic in Oshkosh, Wis. Please visit www.butzinmarchant.com to send online condolences. For information, call 920-7482623.

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Bank Insurance dealing in Credit Life Insurance for banks. He helped establish Neis Insurance Company in Crystal Lake.

He is survived by his daughter, Elizabeth Mary (Richard) Phannenstill; his son, Thomas (Marilyn) Neis; three grandchildren, Elizabeth Neis, Melissa (Chris) Wittenborn and R.J. Phannenstill; four nieces, Annie Smith, Barb Wuchiski, Cindy Barich and Debbie Herber; and longtime companion, Pat Hawkins.

He was preceded in death by his sister, Betty Barich Newses.

There will be a graveside service at 11:30 a.m. Friday, March 8, at the Crystal Lake Memorial Park in Crystal Lake.

Memorials may be made to Navy-Marine Corps Relief Services, 875 Randolph, Suite 225, Arlington, VA 22203.

For funeral information, call 815-455-2233 or visit skajafuneralhomes.com.

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SYLVIA M. VACHOUT (NEE HOLIK) Died: March 5, 2013 LISLE – Sylvia M. Vachout, nee Holik, 99, passed away Tuesday, March 5, 2013.

She was the beloved wife of the late Joseph J. Vachout; and loving sister to the late Ann Siewiec, Vlasta Zeschke and Frank Holik.

She was the caring aunt and greataunt to many.

The visitation will be at 10 a.m.

Friday, March 8, at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, 5015 Lincoln Ave., Lisle, with the service at noon.

Interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to your local Humane Society shelter.

For information, call the funeral home at 630-964-9392 or visit www.Blake-Lambfuneralhome. com.

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Fox Valley Systems had fire incident in ’95 • FIRE Continued from page B1 but around 7 p.m. the street was reopened and people could return to the area. No residences were affected.

Jim Hursh, who works at Whitey’s Towing, said he heard two explosions and saw people lying outside the building, with one person holding a chunk of ice to his face.

Fire engines lined Industrial Drive and Cary-Algonquin Road as black smoke came out of the building.

Firefighters on scene sprayed water from the top of ladders and police directed traffic away from the scene.

The fire was near the Me-

tra tracks, and service had been slowed as crews worked at the scene of the explosion.

OSHA found seven serious violations at Fox Valley Systems when it investigated a 1995 accident in which two employees were hospitalized and a third was exposed to carbon monoxide, according to the OSHA report.

The accident occurred when two employees were cleaning a spray paint can and a splashing solvent generated a spark that ignited the solvent vapors, the report said.

Two other OSHA investigations, one in 2004 and the other in 2009, each found two serious violations, according to the report.

Airport must make aircraft main priority • HANGAR Continued from page B1 All of the 10-foot-by-30 spaces in the west T-hangar are filled, and some of the 5-foot-by-10-foot and 10-by-10 spaces are occupied.

The Illinois Department of Transportation, however, requires requests to store aeronautical equipment receive priority in the hangars. If necessary, the village can give a 30-day notice to terminate a lease for nonaeronautical storage to accommodate aircraft.

“Because we receive federal money for our improvement program, our priority needs to be ... aviation-relat-

ed purposes,” Mullard said.

Mullard added that offering the incentive program helps the village stay competitive with other airports.

“Not everyone owns an aircraft, [and] people who used to own aircraft found they no longer could afford to own an aircraft,” Mullard said. “There’s not as many customers as there used to be.”

If more people decide to store airplanes at the airport and see what it has to offer, they may decide to stay long term, Mullard said.

“Our whole objective here is to ensure the airport stays busy in terms of its viability,” Mullard said.

Born: Oct. 4, 1926; in Amboy Died: March 4, 2013; in Rockford MARENGO – John T. Neis, 86, of Marengo, died Monday, March 4, 2013, at Swedish American Hospital in Rockford. He was born in Amboy to Adelbert and Bertilla (Dyer) Neis on Oct. 4, 1926.

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Kennedy brothers will reunite Cameron commits to Michigan, where Jimmy coaches club team

By JEFF ARNOLD jarnold@shawmedia.com Living in his older brother’s shadow almost caused Cameron Kennedy to walk away from his wrestling career before it began.

The temptation was understandable.

Jimmy Kennedy won two state championships at Grant, where he won 187 of his 190 matches before graduating in 2006. That success preceded four years at the Univer-

sity of Illinois, where he finished in the top five at the NCAA championships three times, earning AllAmerica honors for each.

From afar, Jimmy worried about his youngCameron er brother’s attempts Kennedy to keep pace. What he didn’t know, though, was that Cameron, who won this year’s Class 2A 126-pound state championship

for Richmond-Burton, was secretly using Jimmy’s wrestling achievements to help define his own.

First to a state wrestling championship and then to a college career in the Big Ten. “As jealous as you could get, he’s more of an idol to me,” said Cameron, who committed to wrestle at Michigan on MonMonica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com day night. “Just to go to the places he’s Richmond-Burton’s Cameron Kennedy (left) wrestles Grayslake North’s

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Joel Armeta on Dec. 1 in Richmond. Kennedy committed this week to wrestle at Michigan.

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Streaks miss their shot Rockford Lutheran eliminates Woodstock

Hawks’ start is bananas CHICAGO – Talk about a glass that is half-full.

Half of the NHL’s 48-game regular season is history, and the Blackhawks keep making it.

At 21-0-3, the record-setting Hawks have earned at least a point in every single game.

Think about that for a moment.

Every. Single. Game.

It would be sort of like the Cubs playing their first 81 games without a nine-inning loss.

The Hawks keep collecting points despite regular doses of adversity.

In Wednesday’s 3-2 comeback win against the Colorado Avalanche, the Hawks overcame the absences of four injured forwards: Marian Hossa and Michael Frolik before the game, and Andrew Shaw and Patrick Sharp during the game.

Of those, Sharp’s injury could be the most serious. He was crunched against the boards in the third period, and he hunched over in pain before going to the locker room.

“He may miss some time,” Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said.

It’s a hurdle, yes, but the Hawks have leaped over hurdles throughout the season.

Hawks captain Jonathan Toews marveled at his team’s determination to win. He celebrated with his teammates after Daniel Carcillo scored with 49.3 seconds remaining in regulation time to lift the Hawks to a win.

“A lot of people might think we’re pulling that game out of you-knowwhere, but really, we’re working for it,” Toews said. “There’s no special equation or whatever. There’s no magic going on. It’s just work ethic.”

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By JOE STEVENSON joestevenson@shawmedia.com FREEPORT – Woodstock looked at its first sectional game in 13 years as an opportunity that slipped away.

The Blue Streaks, beset by foul trouble, fought from behind against Rockford Lutheran and pushed the favored Crusaders to the end.

When Lutheran held on for a 57-46 victory Wednesday at the Class 3A Freeport Sectional, the Streaks celebrated a landmark season, while lamenting what might have been if they had hit a few more shots.

“We got close a couple times, we just kicked ourselves,” senior guard Jordan Turner said. “We had our opportunities and chances and just couldn’t execute. In the first half, we just weren’t hitting anything.”

The Crusaders (25-4) were not that much better, although junior guard Thomas Kopelman scored a gamehigh 21 points, with 14 in the first half. Lutheran advances to Friday’s 7:30 p.m. championship game against the winner of today’s semifinal between Sycamore and St. Francis.

“I couldn’t be prouder of the way we fought, we gave them all we had,” said Woodstock coach Alex Baker, whose team finished 19-11 after winning the school’s first regional since 2000. “We

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Scoreboard Wednesday’s semifinal Rockford Lutheran 57, Woodstock 46 Today’s semifinal Sycamore vs. St. Francis, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s championship Rockford Lutheran vs. Sycamore/St. Francis winner, 7:30 p.m.

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Online Watch highlights of the WoodRandy Stukenberg – For the Northwest Herald stock vs. Rockford Lutheran boys Woodstock senior Jordan Turner puts up a shot over Rockford Lutheran’s James Robinson during the Class 3A Freeport Sectional basketball game at McHenry semifinals Wednesday in Freeport. Woodstock lost, 57-46.

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Blackhawks left wing Daniel Carcillo (bottom center) is mobbed by teammates Wednesday as they celebrate Carcillo’s winning goal in the third period against the Colorado Avalanche at the United Center. The Hawks won, 3-2.

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Men’s college basketball: Wisconsin at Michigan State, 8 p.m., ESPN The winner between No. 10 Michigan State (22-7 overall, 11-5 Big Ten) and No. 22 Wisconsin (20-9, 11-5) will have a shot to earn a share of the Big Ten title.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Michigan survives at Purdue and Pat Young added 14 as Florida beat Vanderbilt and clinched the Southeastern Conference regular-season championship.

Florida won its fourth outright league title and third under longtime coach Billy Donovan (24-5, 14-3 SEC). Kendren Johnson had 15 points for the Commodores (13-16, 7-10), including 13 straight at one point.

The ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Trey Burke had 26 points and five rebounds Wednesday to lead No. 7 Michigan to a come-from-behind 80-75 victory over Purdue.

Terone Johnson scored a career-high 35 points and Rapheal Davis added 15 for Purdue (14-16 overall, 7-10 Big Ten), which has lost five of seven.

Nik Stauskas had 17 points and Tim Hardaway, Jr. had 16 points and five rebounds for the Wolverines (25-5, 125), who have won four of their last five and remain in the race for a share of the Big Ten title.

Hardaway’s 3-pointer with 3:46 left gave Michigan a 6664 lead. Stauskas made free throws and a 3-pointer to extend the lead and Burke added two free throws with 20 seconds left to make it 77-73.

Nebraska 53, Minnesota 51: At Lincoln, Neb., Brandon Ubel scored Nebraska’s last 10 points and finished with 15, and the Cornhuskers defeated Minnesota in the final college basketball game at Bob Devaney Sports Center.

The Cornhuskers (14-16, 5-12 Big Ten) never trailed, and Nebraska students stormed the court to celebrate the victory over the team that upset then-No. 1 Indiana just last week.

The Huskers won despite shooting only 36 percent. The

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Michigan’s Tim Hardaway Jr. reacts Wednesday to a teammate being fouled late in the second half against Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind. Michigan won, 80-75.

Gophers (20-10, 8-9) shot 38 percent but made only 10 of 20 free throws while dropping to 1-7 in Big Ten road games.

Villanova 67, No. 5 Georgetown 57: At Philadelphia, Jay Vaughn Pinkston scored 20 points to help Villanova beat a top-five team for the third time this season, this time Georgetown (23-5, 13-4 Big East).

The Wildcats (19-12, 10-8) also beat then-No. 5 Louisville and then-No. 3 Syracuse and have put themselves in solid shape for at least an NCAA tournament at-large bid.

No. 11 Florida 66, Vanderbilt 40: At Gainesville, Fla., Kenny Boynton scored 15 points,

Will Clyburn scored 20 points, and Iowa State (20-10, 10-7 Big 12) bolstered its NCAA tournament hopes with a victory over Oklahoma State (22-7, 12-5).

Pilot Scott Ivany prepares to take off with a load of dogs that have been dropped from the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Wednesday in his Cessna 185 at Nikolai Airport in Nikolai, Alaska.

No. 17 Syracuse 78, DePaul 57: At Syracuse, N.Y., Bran-

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don Triche and James Southerland combined for 37 points in the final home game of their careers, and Syracuse (23-7, 11-6 Big East) snapped a three-game losing streak with a victory over DePaul (11-19, 2-15).

Cleveland Melvin had 15 points and eight rebounds for DePaul, which lost its fifth straight and moved into a tie for last in the conference with South Florida.

No. 21 VCU 93, Richmond 82: At Richmond, Va., Treveon Graham scored 15 of his 21 points in the second half, including the go-ahead basket with 2:58 to play, for VCU (24-6, 12-3 Atlantic 10) in a victory over Richmond (17-13, 7-8).

Turner’s career totals 1,447 points • WOODSTOCK Continued from page C1 missed some shots, especially in the first half, that could have made it more advantageous for us.”

Woodstock fell behind, 19-8, in the second quarter, but the Crusaders went cold, too. The Streaks came back to make it 21-15 at halftime, then opened the third quarter with Andy Buhrow’s 3-pointer.

Buhrow hit another 3 on the next possession that would have tied the score, but he was called for traveling. Lutheran pushed the lead to 10, but the Streaks cut it to 32-28 late in the third quarter. The Crusaders kept the lead at eight to 10 points for most of the fourth quarter.

“We were doing really well, but we just couldn’t make any shots in the first half,” Buhrow said. “It was a good feeling [hitting the 3], we were getting back in it, but after that they took control.”

Turner finished with 16 points and No. 2 behind Dan Hill on the Steaks’ all-time scoring list with 1,447 points.

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Woodstock’s Andy Buhrow shoots in the first quarter of a Class 3A Freeport Sectional semifinal game Wednesday.

Sophomore Mason Sutter scored 12 points and junior center Damian Stoneking added 10.

Baker thought Lutheran’s pressure defense had something to do with Woodstock’s

shooting percentage.

“They pressured us bigtime and by the time you get some open looks, you’ve run around screens and things,” Baker said. “They ran double teams at Jordan all night.

Their pressure took away from what we wanted to do.”

Woodstock attacked better in the fourth quarter when Stoneking dished four assists for Sutter underneath. But the Crusaders’ lead was too large.

“It was our defense tonight,” Crusaders coach Tom Guse said. “We had 16 turnovers and shot 9 for 22 from the [freethrow] line. Everything starts with our defensive effort. They do a really good job with their 2-3 zone and we didn’t attack that very well. We played just good enough to win.”

Sophomore center Nate Wieting added 13 points and eight rebounds for the Crusaders.

“The season was spectacular,” said Buhrow, who started on Woodstock’s 5-23 team last season. “It was more than anything I could ever dream of.

Winning the sectional would be nice, but you can’t have everything.”

R-B senior went 44-1 to win state • KENNEDY Continued from page C1 gone would be kind of nice and just do big things like he has.”

Cameron always took note of how Jimmy took care of his wrestling business, watching the moves he used to dominate his opponents in high school.

When Jimmy would lose a match at Illinois, Cameron noticed how his older brother would learn from his mistakes, helping shape his own high school career.

From afar, Jimmy was careful to not over-step his bounds.

He wanted to assist Cameron as much as he could, but he also wanted his younger brother to be able to create his own identity. That wouldn’t be easy if he would have stayed at Grant, where he would have constantly been held up to his brother’s standard.

Following that path caused Cameron to contemplate his future – one he considered without wrestling.

“He didn’t feel comfortable wrestling at Grant and wrestling behind me,” Jimmy said Wednesday night. “He put so much pressure on himself that it was almost stopping him from succeeding.”

Rather than quitting, Cameron decided to move in with relatives in Richmond, where

he could carve out his own path. His brother’s success could serve as a guide without getting in the way of Cameron becoming his own wrestler.

Even though Cameron was at a different school, he still managed to carry on the family tradition.

“He’s always been known as Jimmy Kennedy’s little brother,” R-B wrestling coach Bret Wojcik said. “With some of that, I’m sure you get sick of it a little bit and you’re always trying to get out of Jimmy’s shadow, but at the same time, it’s great for Cam to learn from somebody who had so much success.”

Cameron improved throughout his career, leading to this year, when he went 44-1. He captured the 2A state championship when he scored a last-second reversal against Montini’s Jordan Laster to pull out a 3-2 victory. In Ann Arbor, Jimmy watched a webcast of the match and broke down when Cameron won a title in his final match at R-B. The brotherly support system will continue at Michigan, where Jimmy works as an assistant coach with the university’s Cliff Keen club wrestling program. Having his brother there, Cameron said, was a major factor in choosing to go away to Ann Arbor for school.

Cameron said he had interest from Indiana, Penn State and Northwestern as well as from smaller programs at Northern Michigan and Eastern Michigan.

Competing in the Big Ten has always been a goal for Kennedy, again using Jimmy’s time in the league as a roadmap. Throughout the recruiting process, Jimmy offered support, making it clear that Cameron had to go where he felt was best. At Michigan, Cameron found a successful wrestling program and a school where he could receive a quality education. Having his brother there for support was an added bonus.

Cameron’s college choice not only provides a bright future for wrestling, but reunites him with a brother who has been gone for the past eight years. Reuniting at Michigan will give Cameron the chance to learn from his older brother first-hand while also allowing the two siblings to rebuild a relationship that time and miles has put restrictions on since Jimmy left for college.

“Now that I’m going to be able to spend so much time with him and watch over him when he needs it, I think it’s a kind of redemption almost,” Jimmy said. “It’s definitely different, but it’s awesome.”

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Mushers race for love of sport, not money

By RACHEL D’ORO The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska – No one who races sled dogs is going to get filthy rich any time soon, even if they win Alaska’s 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

The prize for winning the sport’s premier race is only $50,400 and a new 2013 Dodge Ram pickup truck. That doesn’t even cover the annual dog food bill for many competitive mushers, who keep dozens of dogs in professional kennels geared to breed the sturdiest, fastest runners.

Many mushers rely on sponsors, part-time work and prizes from smaller races.

Others work in seasonal jobs in tourism, construction and commercial fishing. They skimp on luxuries – one couple even hunts moose to keep food on the table.

It’s all to maintain a passion that is being played out this week in the Iditarod, which kicked off with a ceremonial start Saturday in Anchorage.

The competitive portion of the race started Sunday in Willow 50 miles to the north.

“I’ve got a hundred sled dogs. Each dog eats well over $1,000 worth of food every year,” said defending champion Dallas Seavey, of Willow, who was in 11th place Wednesday. “The $50,000 cash prize covers half my food bill for the year, and that’s when you win the biggest race in the sport.”

Mushers can pick up a little cash along the way to the finish line in the frontier town of Nome on Alaska’s windscoured western coast.

They are rewarded for be-

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Four-time Iditarod champion Lance Mackey said the race hasn’t exactly made him rich. ing the first to reach certain villages dotting the trail – including $3,000 in gold nuggets for being the first to arrive at the halfway checkpoint at the ghost town of Iditarod. Earlier in the race, a $500 air travel credit goes to the first musher to arrive at McGrath. That honor went to veteran musher Aaron Burmeister, who pulled into McGrath at 6:29 p.m. and left three minutes later.

Burmeister, of Nome, was in sixth place Wednesday as he took his mandatory 24-hour rest at the next checkpoint in the village of Takotna. In the lead was four-time champion Lance Mackey, who blew out of Ophir 23 miles past Takotna at 5:45 a.m. Wednesday to begin the 80-mile run to the next checkpoint at the ghost town of Iditarod. Mackey has not yet taken his 24-hour layover.

Before the race, Mackey said he has two major sponsors, one for dog food and another for clothing. The Fairbanks musher gets kibble and

clothing from them. But he has to scrape by for the money he needs to maintain his 80-dog kennel and pay his dog handlers.

To do it right takes him at least $5,000 a month, he said.

He hasn’t won the Iditarod since 2010 and has seen the number of sponsors drop. His dogs used to command high prices when he sold them.

Now he can’t give them away, he said.

Mackey, who also has won the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race four times, is doing what he loves, but doesn’t expect to ever acquire great wealth from it. No one does.

“There’s people like myself that try to make a living off of racing dogs,” Mackey said.

“I’ve been as successful as anybody, and I’m still as broke as ever.”

Veteran musher Aliy Zirkle, who was second in the Iditarod last year, shares adult racing dogs with her husband, Allen Moore, who won the Yukon Quest in February. Both are running in the Iditarod.

Zirkle, who was in seventh place Wednesday, chose the top 16 dogs for her team while Moore is running a second team.

Their dogs get robust support from corporate and individual sponsors. Zirkle and Moore also strive to live debt-free. They built their own home in the interior Alaska community of Two Rivers. To keep food on the table, they hunt for moose each fall and have a garden in the summer.

“We are not broke,” Zirkle said. “But we don’t live high on the hog.”

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Elk foundation’s local chapter to host banquet There are a number of people I regret not having had the opportunity to talk to while they were still on this planet. Northern Illinois industrialist, sportsman and philanthropist Bob Torstenson is one of them.

Torstenson, from Pecatonica and a member of the Illinois Conservation Foundation’s Illinois Outdoor Hall of Fame, developed a 750-acre farm in Winnebago County into a model of forest, wetland and upland prairie land management.

When he died, he donated the property to the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, which in turn gave it to the ICF. It is now the Youth Conservation Education Center, a 750-acre playground for kids to learn about the outdoors.

Children often go to the site to hunt turkeys, ducks and pheasants as well as practice archery.

Torstenson and his wife Leslie also donated a staggering 135,000 acres of New Mexico land to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, along with a $4 million endowment in 2002. It was the largest gift of land ever provided to a wildlife conservation organization. When the land was recently sold, the RMEF received a $30 million endowment from the Torstenson family.

Speaking of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, which is one of my favorite causes, the Des Plaines River chapter’s annual banquet is near. Veterans Terrace, 589 Milwaukee Ave. in Burlington, Wis., will be the location for the bash from 5 to 10 p.m.

March 16.

What does the RMEF do with the money it raises?

From their website, “The RMEF permanently protects crucial elk winter and summer ranges, migration corridors, calving grounds and other vital areas. Our land conservation tools include: acquisitions, conservation easements, land and real estate donations, land exchanges and associated acres. Healthy habitat is essential for healthy elk and other wildlife, the RMEF helps fund and conduct a variety of projects to improve essential forage, water, cover and space components of wildlife habitat, and supports research and management efforts to help maintain productive elk herds and habitat. The RMEF works to re-establish elk herds in historic ranges where the habitat and human cultur-

OUTDOORS Steve Sarley al tolerance create a high potential for self-sustaining herds.”

The cost for attending the banquet is $75 a person or $115 a couple. An excellent dinner will be served and a cash bar is available. There will be raffles and auctions too numerous and deep to be adequately described here.

It is an impressive list, I must say. I’ll be the emcee, and I hope some of you can join the crowd of about 250 we usually draw. Women, men, children and families are invited and are always in attendance. It is always a good time for all.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit rmef.org.

You can also contact chapter president David Smith by email at david@smith-printing.com or by phone at 1-847244-6486, ext. 107.

••• Reader James Krause sent a letter inquiring about the Illinois Department of Natural Resources’ continued practice of sharpshooting whitetail deer to control chronic wasting disease. I forwarded his missive to the state, and it was answered in last week’s column by Paul Shelton, manager of the Forest Wildlife Program.

Krause sent a few lines concerning the response, including, “Let’s first start with the high harvest numbers. There was a new season that included hunting with crossbows. Also, I think there was more total time to be spent in the field, due to good weather, and the crops were taken out early.”

“That said, since 2002, 30 deer have tested positive. Paul said they shot 69 deer in 2012 while hunters shot 989. So with that, it’s possible that the county’s sharpshooters have shot around 700 deer since 2002. That ends up to around 4.3% of the deer testing positive. I believe we could still harvest that many deer through more permits and still do the testing. One more thing Steve, look at the cost of using sharpshooters as opposed to just selling permits.

My feeling is that everyone has good points and that we can only hope that the IDNR soon sees better numbers.”

True, James, there are good points made by all, especially when facts are relied on more so than emotion and

rhetoric.

My questions right now are why the sharpshooting program is happening at all.

Didn’t the IDNR announce last year that the program was being suspended for budgetary considerations? I am pretty darned sure that they did. Also, didn’t the IDNR also announce at about the same time that they were going to stage a series of new meetings to determine the future of the sharpshooting program? Hmm. My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail.

••• I’ll bet you haven’t heard enough about sequestration lately. Not to worry. I am here to fill that void in your lives. What, if anything, does sequestration have to do with the world of the outdoors?

The bottom line seems to be that millions of dollars are going to be withheld from the states that would be used for managing fish and wildlife.

State fisheries programs are being impacted because apportionments from the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program are being withheld. The funds already have been collected from excise taxes on hunting, fishing gear and motorboat fuel and have been pledged to the states for fish and wildlife management. A total of $46.2 million dollars, 5.1 percent of the funds, are going to be held back.

Additionally, sequestration’s cut to the rate of growth for environmental programs might result in a loss of more than $100 million to the states, in grants and other assistance for protecting water and air from hazardous wastes, pesticides and other pollutants.

“I’m very sad that this is happening, and I’m disappointed that leaders in our government can’t work together to fix this,” said Noreen Clough, national conservation director for B.A.S.S. and former Southeast Region director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “It is going to hurt resource management by limiting what the state and federal agencies can do.”

• Northwest Herald outdoors columnist Steve Sarley’s radio show, “The Outdoors Experience,” airs live at 5 a.m. Sundays on AM-560. Sarley also runs a website for outdoors enthusiasts, OExperience.com. He can be reached by email at sarfishing@yahoo.com.

OUTDOORS NOTES Fishing report Northern Illinois: Dave Kranz of Dave’s Bait, Tackle and Taxidermy in Crystal Lake reports: “Ice fisherman need to remember that Wisconsin lakes are now closed for game fish. You can only fish for panfish and in rivers before the May 4 season opens. Illinois has no closed game fish season. Ice conditions will change every day with wind, rain and rising water working on the quality of the ice.

Last ice can be a great time for panfish that hang just under the ice and wigglers are the bait of choice if you can get them. Pike start to spawn and can be caught on large golden roaches or 5-inch suckers. Warm afternoons could be a good time to fish one of the Fox River dams for an early walleye bite.”

Call 815-455-2040 for updated reports.

For up-to-the-minute water conditions on the Fox Chain and Fox River, visit foxwaterway.state. il.us/ or call 847-587-8540.

Wisconsin: Call Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan Fishing Hotline at 414-382-7920 to hear the latest fishing information for LakeMichigan and its tributaries.

Fishermen’s purchases Southwick Associates, through their Fishing survey.com website, has announced the brands fishermen bought most frequently in 2012. The top brands included: rods – Shakespeare; reels – Shimano; fishing line - Berkley

Trilene tied with PowerPro; hard bait – Rapala; Soft bait – Berkley Gulp tied with Zoom; spinner bait – Strike King; jig – Strike King; hook – Gamakatsu; bobber – Thill; leader – Seaguar; fish finder – Lowrance tied with Humminbird; tackle box – Plano; net – Frabill; fishing knife – Rapala

Coyote stories sought Second request, please.

I have heard a lot of stories about encounters between Northern Illinois residents and those dastardly critters, the coyotes.

I’d like to read your stories about your ’yote encounters for a future column. If you, your family or your pets have had close calls, please send me the tales at sarfishing@ yahoo.com.

Fishing license year Anglers are reminded that Illinois’ new fishing license year begins April 1. Illinois fishing,hunting and sportsman’s combination licenses for 2013 are available from DNR Direct license and permit vendors, online through the IDNR website www.dnr.illinois.gov/online/ Pages/default.aspx or by calling 1-888-6PERMIT(1-888-673-7648).

The 2013 licenses will be valid through March 31, 2014, unless otherwise noted. When buying your 2013 Illinois hunting, fishing, or sportsman’s license, please consider adding a donation to the Illinois Conservation Foundation to support youth hunting and fishing programs. Your additional

$5 donation to the ICF will help recruit the next generation of outdoor enthusiasts. Since 2008, those buying their hunting, fishing,and sportsman’s licenses have donated more than $435,000 to support youth hunting and fishing programs by adding a donation to the ICF. Please join them. The ICF is an IRS-registered 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit corporation and all funds are held in private accounts.

Ultimate fishing towns TV’s World Fishing Network is presenting the 2013 version of its contest to fine the North America’s Ultimate Fishing Towns. This is an opportunity for one town in both the United States and Canada to win a $25,000 community donation to be used toward fishing-related causes along with an awareness and tourism boost with a special feature produced by and aired on WFN. In the United States and Canada, 766 towns were nominated in 2012, with at least one in every Canadianprovince and U.S. state.

The nomination process runs through April 15. People can nominate their town or favorite fishing destination at www.

UltimateFishingTown.com. If a town has already been nominated, participants are encouraged to add additional comments, photos and videos to the town’s wall.

Fox Lake? Antioch? Waukegan?

Come on, folks! Let’s get out the vote.

– Steve Sarley

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Team USA’s Giancarlo Stanton takes batting practice before an exhibition game against the White Sox on Tuesday in Glendale, Ariz. The U.S. team is preparing for the World Baseball Classic.

World Baseball Classic flawed I’ll admit that watching baseball late at night from Taiwan interested me, if only for an inning or so. Not so much for the product on the field, which was minor league at best, but for the fans banging their thunder sticks together in synchronized precision.

At least the home team had fans. First-round World Baseball Classic games that didn’t feature the host country in both Taiwan and Japan drew a few hundred people at best, and even they didn’t seem terribly interested in the action.

That may change this weekend, with the tournament now moving to the United States and Puerto Rico.

At the last WBC in 2009, Japan and Korea played before a packed house in the final at Dodger Stadium, and everyone agreed it was a fine night for baseball.

But despite all of commissioner Bud Selig’s best intentions, the WBC isn’t any better in its third incarnation than it was in the first two. The timing is terrible, the pitch count limits are a joke unless you play for the Washington Nationals, and the schedule is manipulated to give the best chance possible to the United States.

And – at least when it comes to the U.S. squad – a lot of the best players aren’t playing.

No Clayton Kershaw, no Bryce Harper. Mike Trout and Josh Hamilton are busy elsewhere. Justin Verlander had other plans.

Blame the players for some of it. The WBC doesn’t mean enough to them to change their spring training routine – not when there are millions of dollars in potential contracts on the line.

Blame major league teams, too. They may not be discouraging stars from playing, but there’s an inferred message that loyalty to the team that pays you outweighs any loyal-

VIEWS Tim Dahlberg ty to country in the WBC. There are still plenty of good players on the U.S. team, of course. Ryan Braun is one, and if anyone needs a feel good story about leading his country to victory, it’s the Milwaukee slugger who tested positive for testosterone in 2011 (his suspension was later overturned) and was linked this year to a Miami clinic that allegedly supplied performance enhancing drugs to athletes.

David Wright of the Mets is also playing, along with 15 pitchers, a number necessitated by pitch counts that begin at 65 for starters in openinground games. Protecting arms is paramount in the WBC, even if it means some starters may never get past the third inning.

The U.S. opens play Friday in Arizona against Mexico, followed by weekend games against Italy and Canada. If all goes according to plan, the squad will head to Miami and then to San Francisco for the semifinals and finals.

Before he strained a wrist Tuesday and was taken off the roster, Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira called the competition an exhibition, and that’s how most U.S. players trying to get ready for the season seem to regard it.

“It doesn’t mean we don’t want to win it,” Teixeira quickly added.

Selig himself was frustrated by the lackadaisical approach the U.S. team took in 2009, saying after it was eliminated that players had to “push up the intensity.” The U.S. has finished no better than fourth in the two tournaments.

They take it more seriously in other countries like Cuba and Japan, which won both

previous World Baseball Classics. Not hard to figure out why because, with baseball kicked out of the Olympics, it’s their only real chance on the world stage.

For the WBC to be meaningful in the country where baseball grew up, some changes are in order. The first would be to move the games out of spring training and into a time slot better suited for players and fans.

It won’t happen in the middle of the season, because baseball owners would never stand for losing revenue. But it could be played at warm weather sites in November just after the World Series ends, and the finals could be played somewhere other than the United States.

Judging from the lukewarm response by most U.S. players, baseball also needs to find an incentive to make them play. As it stands now, they have more reasons to demur than to sign up for the red, white and blue.

Finally, the best games should be played on something other than the MLB Network. Make them easier for the casual viewer to find, and there might be more interest.

Ultimately, though, the WBC is a flawed concept, no matter how well intentioned Selig and the other founders of the tournament were. It doesn’t have the cachet of the Olympics, and doesn’t get the respect of many of the players.

There’s no real good time to hold it, and even die-hard fans greet it with little more than a yawn.

Maybe the best thing to do is scrap it and use the time and energy to lobby for world baseball to return where it belongs – in the Olympics.

• Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg@ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg.

RANGERS 3, CUBS 2

Cubs’ Takahashi hit hard in loss The ASSOCIATED PRESS SURPRISE, Ariz. – Cubs starter Hisanori Takahashi struggled in his three-inning stint Wednesday, allowing three runs on five hits and two walks in a 3-2 spring training loss to the Texas Rangers.

Takahashi, who signed a

minor league contract with the Cubs in hopes of a spot in the bullpen, struck out four.

Lance Berkman hit his first home run of the spring for the Rangers.

Mitch Moreland had a run-scoring single and Ian Kinsler drove in the other run with a sacrifice fly for the Rangers, who have won

three of four.

Texas starter Robbie Ross, a candidate for the fifth spot in the rotation, allowed one run on four hits with a walk and a strikeout. Alexi Ogando, the Rangers’ projected fourth starter, went three innings and gave up a run on two hits and two walks. He struck out six.

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WGC: CADILLAC CHAMPIONSHIP

Thursday, March 7, 2013 • Page C5

FIVE-DAY PLANNER

Attention follows McIlroy

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By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press DORAL, Fla. – As if quitting in the middle of a golf tournament didn’t bring Rory McIlroy enough attention, it might not let up on the golf course.

McIlroy has been going through damage control the last five days after his abrupt departure when he was 7-over par through eight holes and decided to call it quits at the Honda Classic. After an apology to Sports Illustrated, he faced the news media Wednesday and took all the blame.

“I actually think in the long run, Friday will be a blessing in disguise,” he said, referring to the day he withdrew last week. “It was like it just sort of released a valve, and all that pressure that I’ve been putting on myself just went away. And I was like, ‘Just go out and have fun. It’s not life or death out there. It’s only a game.’

“I had sort of forgotten that this year.”

The world’s No. 1 player won’t be able to escape the spotlight when the Cadillac Championship gets under way today at Doral.

This World Golf Championship tends to group the top players in the world ranking, meaning McIlroy gets to spend the opening two rounds with Tiger Woods and Luke Donald. And while McIlroy’s behavior was questioned last week, it’s his game that has been the most curious.

He played with Woods when both made their 2013 debut in Abu Dhabi, and the 23-year-old from Northern Ireland had rounds of 75-75 to miss the cut. Woods also missed the cut that week because of a two-shot penalty, though he flew halfway around the world the following week and won at Torrey Pines for his 75th career win.

McIlroy had a sloppy performance on Dove Mountain and lost in the first round of the Match Play Championship, and then made it

SPRING TRAINING AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Kansas City 11 0 Seattle 10 2 Baltimore 7 2 Tampa Bay 8 4 Cleveland 9 5 White Sox 5 3 Minnesota 6 5 Boston 6 6 Detroit 6 6 Houston 5 5 Oakland 5 6 Toronto 5 6 Texas 4 7 New York 3 8 Los Angeles 2 8 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Washington 5 4 Colorado 6 5 Philadelphia 6 5 San Diego 7 6 Atlanta 6 6 Miami 4 4 St. Louis 5 5 Arizona 5 6 Milwaukee 5 6 San Francisco 4 5 Los Angeles 4 6 Cubs 5 8 Pittsburgh 4 7 New York 2 5 Cincinnati 2 11

Pct 1.000 .833 .778 .667 .643 .625 .545 .500 .500 .500 .455 .455 .364 .273 .200 Pct .556 .545 .545 .538 .500 .500 .500 .455 .455 .444 .400 .385 .364 .286 .154

NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct d-Miami 45 14 .763 d-New York 37 21 .638 d-Indiana 38 23 .623 Brooklyn 35 26 .574 Atlanta 34 26 .567 Bulls 34 27 .557 Boston 33 27 .550 Milwaukee 30 28 .517 Toronto 24 38 .387 Philadelphia 23 37 .383 Detroit 23 40 .365 Cleveland 21 40 .344 Washington 19 40 .322 Orlando 17 45 .274 Charlotte 13 48 .213 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct d-San Antonio 48 14 .774 d-Oklahoma City 44 16 .733 d-L.A. Clippers 43 19 .694 Memphis 40 19 .678 Denver 40 22 .645 Golden State 34 27 .557 Houston 33 29 .532 Utah 32 29 .525 L.A. Lakers 31 31 .500 Portland 28 32 .467 Dallas 27 33 .450 Minnesota 21 37 .362 Phoenix 21 40 .344 New Orleans 21 41 .339 Sacramento 21 41 .339

GB — 7½ 8 11 11½ 12 12½ 14½ 22½ 22½ 24 25 26 29½ 33 GB — 3 5 6½ 8 13½ 15 15½ 17 19 20 25 26½ 27 27

d-division leader Wednesday’s Games San Antonio 101, Bulls 83 Cleveland 104, Utah 101 Brooklyn 99, Charlotte 78 Boston 83, Indiana 81 Atlanta 107, Philadelphia 96 New York 87, Detroit 77 Miami 97, Orlando 96 Memphis 91, Portland 85 Minnesota 87, Washington 82 L.A. Lakers 108, New Orleans 102 Dallas 112, Houston 108 Toronto 98, Phoenix 71 Sacramento at Golden State, (n) Milwaukee at L.A. Clippers, (n) Today’s Games Oklahoma City at New York, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Denver, 9:30 p.m.

SPURS 101, BULLS 83 CHICAGO (83) Deng 8-17 2-2 19, Boozer 5-14 0-0 10, Noah 4-13 0-0 8, Robinson 3-13 0-0 7, Belinelli 8-16 2-2 21, Butler 1-4 2-2 5, Teague 4-8 0-0 11, Cook 0-3 0-0 0, Mohammed 0-1 2-2 2, Amundson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 33-90 8-8 83.

SAN ANTONIO (101) Leonard 6-11 2-2 14, Duncan 7-13 4-6 18, Splitter 5-8 3-6 13, Joseph 2-5 0-0 4, Green 3-5 0-0 7, Bonner 0-2 0-0 0, Ginobili 7-14 1-1 18, Mills 5-6 0-0 13, Jackson 2-5 2-2 7, Blair 0-1 0-0 0, Diaw 2-3 1-1 5, De Colo 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 40-74 13-18 101.

Chicago San Antonio

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CLEVELAND* 2:05 p.m.

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SAN DIEGO* 2:05 p.m.

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CINCINNATI* 6:05 p.m.

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MILWAUKEE 7 p.m.

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Rory McIlroy stretches Wednesday before teeing off on the seventh hole during practice for the Cadillac Championship in Doral, Fla. through only 26 holes at PGA National. He lost track of the hours he put in at The Bear’s Club over the weekend, hopeful that he can sort out the problems in his swing.

His expectations for the week?

“Just work on my swing,” he said as he walked out the door after his news conference. “Try to get my swing back.”

Woods is coming off a mediocre performance in the Honda Classic, failing to break par in any of the four rounds on his way to a tie for 37th.

He is a three-time winner at Doral and had never finished out of the top 10 until he withdrew after 11 holes last year with tightness in his left Achilles tendon.

Woods can appreciate the scrutiny McIlroy faces. He also had some sound advice.

Keep going.

“We play week after week,” Woods said after nine holes of practice on the Blue Monster. “Once one week ends, you have to move on the next one. And we’re on a different venue and different golf course.

For me over the years, I’ve just put it aside and moved on, whether it was good or bad, whether I won the tournament or missed the cut, whatever it may be. You move on and get ready for the next event.”

With each week, the Masters gets closer.

Only a dozen players in the 65man field at Doral are not yet in the Masters, so it’s an important week for the likes of Geoff Ogilvy, Fredrik Jacobson, Richard Sterne and Charles Howell III, all of whom are trying to establish themselves in the top 50 when the final cutoff arrives at the end of the month.

PREPS

Tuesday’s Games Colorado 6, Cubs 3 Tampa Bay 8, Minnesota 5 Toronto 6, Baltimore 6, tie, 10 innings Washington 7, Houston 1 San Diego 7, L.A. Dodgers 3 Cleveland 4, San Francisco 3 Kansas City 8, Oakland 2 L.A. Angels 6, Cincinnati 4 Atlanta 2, N.Y. Yankees 0 Wednesday’s Games Texas 3, Cubs 2 Detroit 4, Toronto 1 St. Louis 7, Miami 2 Philadelphia 6, Washington 3 Pittsburgh 9, Boston 3 Milwaukee 7, Seattle 6 Cleveland 4, L.A. Dodgers 0 Kansas City 8, Arizona 1 Today’s Games White Sox vs. Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Boston vs. Minnesota (ss) at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Toronto vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Washington vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Minnesota (ss) vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Miami vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 12:10 p.m.

Arizona vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 2:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Seattle (ss) vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Texas vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale,

Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Seattle (ss) vs. Oakland at Phoenix, 2:05 p.m.

Detroit vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 5:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games San Diego vs. White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Cincinnati (ss) at Goodyear, Ariz., 8:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Atlanta (ss) vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Toronto vs. Atlanta (ss) at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

St. Louis vs. Washington at Viera, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Arizona vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Kansas City (ss) at Surprise, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (ss) vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Texas vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 2:05 p.m.

Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 6:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (ss) vs. L.A. Dodgers (ss) at Glendale, Ariz., 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City (ss) vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 8:10 p.m.

3-Point Goals–Chicago 9-20 (Teague 3-4, Belinelli 3-6, Butler 1-2, Deng 1-3, Robinson 1-5), San Antonio 8-14 (Mills 3-3, Ginobili 3-5, Jackson 1-2, Green 1-3, Leonard 0-1). Fouled Out–None.

Rebounds–Chicago 43 (Noah 13), San Antonio 53 (Duncan, Splitter 10). Assists–Chicago 23 (Belinelli 7), San Antonio 22 (Ginobili 9). Total Fouls–Chicago 15, San Antonio 9. A–18,581 (18,797).

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BIG TEN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT At Sears Centre Arena Hoffman Estates First Round Thursday Iowa vs. Northwestern, 11:30 a.m.

Illinois vs. Wisconsin, 1:55 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Ohio State, 6 p.m.

Michigan vs. Indiana, 8:25 p.m.

Quarterfinals Friday Nebraska vs. Iowa-Northwestern winner, 11:30 a.m.

Purdue vs. Illinois-Wisconsin winner, 1:55 p.m.

Penn State vs. Minnesota-Ohio State winner, 6 p.m.

Michigan State vs. Michigan-Indiana winner, 8:25 p.m.

BIG EAST CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT At The XL Center Hartford, Conn.

First Round Friday Seton Hall vs. Cincinnati, 3 p.m.

Marquette vs. Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Georgetown vs. Providence, 7 p.m.

Second Round Saturday St. John’s vs. Seton Hall-Cincinnati winner, 11 a.m.

South Florida vs. Rutgers, 1 p.m.

DePaul vs. Marquette-Pittsburgh winner, 5 p.m.

Villanova vs. Georgetown-Providence winner, 7 p.m.

MEN’S COLLEGE AP TOP 25 FARED Wednesday 1. Gonzaga (29-2) did not play. Next: WCC semifinals, Saturday.

2. Indiana (25-5) did not play. Next: at No. 7 Michigan, Sunday.

3. Duke (26-4) did not play. Next: at North Carolina, Saturday.

4. Kansas (26-4) did not play. Next: at Baylor, Saturday.

5. Georgetown (23-5) lost to Villanova 67-57. Next: vs. No. 17 Syracuse, Saturday.

6. Miami (23-6) lost to Georgia Tech 71-69. Next: vs. Clemson, Saturday.

7. Michigan (25-5) beat Purdue 80-75.

Next: vs. No. 2 Indiana, Sunday.

BOYS BASKETBALL CLASS 4A DEKALB SECTIONAL Wednesday Game 1: Jefferson 71, Larkin 63 Today Game 2: Boylan vs. CL Central, 7:30 p.m.

Friday Game 3: Jefferson vs. Winner Game 2, championship, 7:30 p.m.

CLASS 3A FREEPORT SECTIONAL Wednesday Game 1: Rockford Lutheran 57, Woodstock 46 Today Game 2: Sycamore vs. St. Francis, 7:30 p.m.

Friday Game 3: Rockford Lutheran vs. Winner Game 2, championship, 7:30 p.m.

ROCKFORD LUTHERAN 57 WOODSTOCK 46 ROCKFORD LUTHERAN (57) Lawson 3 0-0 6, Roby 0 3-4 3, Kopelman 9 0-1 21, Robinson 2 0-3 4, Wieting 5 3-5 13, Kellen 2 3-5 8, Zanello 0 0-4 0, Dolan 0 0-0 0. Totals: 21 9-22 57.

WOODSTOCK (46) Benjamin 0 1-2 1, Turner 7 2-2 16, Buhrow 3 0-0 7, Sutter 5 2-2 12, Stoneking 5 0-3 10, Kaufmann 0 0-0 0, Kohley 0 0-0 0, McCoy 0 0-0 0, Kubiak 0 0-0 0. Totals: 19 5-9 46.

Lutheran Woodstock

12 9 6 9

13 23 – 57 13 18 – 46

3-point goals: Lutheran 4 (Kopelman 3, Kellen), Woodstock 1 (Buhrow). Total fouls: Lutheran 15, Woodstock 21. Fouled out: Stoneking.

BASKETBALL NBA

SUNDAY

NEW ENGLAND 6:30 p.m.

NBCSN

BASEBALL MLB

SATURDAY

8. Louisville (25-5) did not play. Next: vs. No. 24 Notre Dame, Saturday.

9. Kansas State (25-5) did not play.

Next: at No. 13 Oklahoma State, Saturday.

10. Michigan State (22-7) did not play.

Next: vs. No. 22 Wisconsin, Thursday.

11. Florida (24-5) beat Vanderbilt 6640. Next: at Kentucky, Saturday.

12. New Mexico (25-4) at Nevada.

Next: at Air Force, Saturday.

13. Oklahoma State (22-7) lost to Iowa State 87-76. Next: vs. No. 9 Kansas State, Saturday.

14. Ohio State (22-7) did not play.

Next: vs. Illinois, Sunday.

15. Marquette (22-7) did not play.

Next: at St. John’s, Saturday.

16. Saint Louis (23-6) lost to Xavier 7766, OT. Next: vs. La Salle, Saturday.

17. Syracuse (23-7) beat DePaul 78-57.

Next: at No. 5 Georgetown, Saturday.

18. Arizona (23-6) did not play. Next: vs. Arizona State, Saturday.

19. Oregon (23-6) did not play. Next: at Colorado, Thursday.

20. Pittsburgh (23-7) did not play. Next: at DePaul, Saturday.

21. VCU (24-6) beat Richmond 93-82.

Next: at Temple, Sunday.

22. Wisconsin (20-9) did not play. Next: at No. 10 Michigan State, Thursday.

23. UCLA (22-8) lost to Washington State 73-61. Next: at Washington, Saturday.

24. Notre Dame (23-7) did not play.

Next: at No. 8 Louisville, Saturday.

25. Memphis (26-4) did not play. Next: vs. UAB, Saturday.

WEDNESDAY’S SCORES MIDWEST Dayton 75, St. Bonaventure 63 Iowa St. 87, Oklahoma St. 76 Michigan 80, Purdue 75 Nebraska 53, Minnesota 51 Xavier 77, Saint Louis 66, OT TOURNAMENT Atlantic Sun Conference First Round Florida Gulf Coast 73, North Florida 63 Mercer 82, Lipscomb 48 Northeast Conference First Round LIU Brooklyn 91, Quinnipiac 83 Mount St. Mary’s 75, Bryant 69 Robert Morris 75, St. Francis (NY) 57 Wagner 72, CCSU 50 Ohio Valley Conference First Round Morehead St. 73, UT-Martin 66 SE Missouri 78, E. Illinois 68 Patriot League First Round Army 65, American U. 44 Bucknell 58, Navy 42 Lafayette 77, Holy Cross 54 Lehigh 71, Colgate 64 West Coast Conference First Round Loyola Marymount 65, Portland 54

CLASS 2A PLAYOFFS DeKalb Supersectional Winnebago 74, Monmouth-Roseville 53 Joliet Supersectional Seton Academy 46, Chicago (Providence-St. Mel) 45 Springfield Supersectional St. Joseph-Ogden 59, Riverton 47

CLASS 1A PLAYOFFS DeKalb Supersectional Eastland 51, Newark 41 Normal Supersectional Illini Central 50, Cissna Park 39

COMMUNITY FOOTBALL & CHEER WOODSTOCK THUNDER REGISTRATION Woodstock Youth Football and Cheer will hold early registration for tackle and flag football as well as cheerleading for the 2013 season on March 17 at the Woodstock Recreation Center (820 Lake Ave.) from noon to 3 p.m.

Registration is open to boys ages 7-14 by Sept. 1 for tackle football and girls ages 7-14 by Sept. 1 for cheer. Flag football registration is open to boys and girls ages 5-7 by Sept. 1. Parents that are new to the program should bring a couple of their child’s birth certificate.

Registration for tackle football is $195 and includes a game jersey with the player’s name on it. All players are guaranteed to play, and and multiple children discounts are available at a rate of $170 per additional child. Visa and Mastercard will be accepted, and payment plans are available. Participants must be present for equipment fitting.

Registration for flag football costs $65, and registration for cheer costs $100 and $75 per additional child. A $250 equipment deposit for football, and a $100 equipment deposit for cheer will be necessary and will be collected at equipment handout in June.

For additional information visit www. woodstockyouthfootball.com.

SOFTBALL CARY CRUSH SEEKS PLAYERS Cary Crush Fastpitch Softball has openings for 14U pitchers, catchers, infielders, and outfielders.

More information can be found at www.CaryCrush.org or by contacting Jim Rathe at 847-800-5739 or jrathe03@ gmail.com.

7 p.m.: Oklahoma City at New York, TNT 9:30 p.m.: L.A. Clippers at Denver, TNT

6 p.m.: Kentucky at Georgia, ESPN 6 p.m.: Virginia at Florida State, ESPN2 6 p.m.: Butler at UMass, NBCSN 6 p.m.: MVC Tournament, first round, Bradley vs. Drake, CSN 6 p.m.: Penn State at Northwestern, ESPNU, AM-720 8 p.m.: Wisconsin at Michigan State, ESPN 8 p.m.: Oregon at Colorado, ESPN2 8 p.m.: Oregon State at Utah, ESPNU 8:30 p.m.: MVC Tournament, irst round, Missouri State vs. Southern Illinois, CSN 10 p.m.: Long Beach St. at UC Davis, ESPN2

BASEBALL 2 p.m.: MLB, spring training, White Sox at Cubs, AM-670 2 p.m.: World Baseball Classic, irst round, Italy vs.

Mexico, MLBN 5:30 p.m.: World Baseball Classic, irst round, Venezuela vs. Dominican Republic, MLBN 9 p.m.: World Baseball Classic, second round, Japan vs.

Taiwan, MLBN

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

GOLF

11:30 a.m.: Big Ten Tournament, irst round, Iowa vs.

Northwestern, BTN 2 p.m.: Big Ten Tournament, irst round, Illinois vs.

Wisconsin, BTN 6 p.m.: Big Ten Tournament, irst round, Minnesota vs.

Ohio State, BTN 8:30 p.m.: Big Ten Tournament, irst round, Indiana vs.

Michigan, BTN

1 p.m.: PGA Tour-WGC, Cadillac Championship, irst round, TGC 5:30 p.m.: PGA Tour, Puerto Rico Open, first round, TGC (same-day tape)

CYCLING 3:30 p.m.: Paris-Nice, stage 4, NBCSN (same-day tape)

HOCKEY BLACKHAWKS 3, AVALANCHE 2

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Blackhawks 24 21 0 3 45 78 Detroit 23 11 8 4 26 63 St. Louis 22 11 9 2 24 64 Nashville 23 9 9 5 23 47 Columbus 23 7 12 4 18 53 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF Vancouver 22 11 6 5 27 63 Minnesota 22 11 9 2 24 52 Edmonton 22 8 9 5 21 54 Calgary 21 9 8 4 22 61 Colorado 22 8 10 4 20 53 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF Anaheim 21 15 3 3 33 75 Los Angeles 21 12 7 2 26 60 San Jose 22 11 7 4 26 51 Phoenix 22 11 8 3 25 67 Dallas 22 11 9 2 24 61 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 23 15 8 0 30 81 New Jersey 23 10 8 5 25 56 N.Y. Rangers 21 11 8 2 24 55 Philadelphia 24 11 12 1 23 68 N.Y. Islanders 23 10 11 2 22 70 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 23 14 5 4 32 71 Boston 20 14 3 3 31 60 Toronto 24 15 9 0 30 73 Ottawa 24 12 8 4 28 56 Buffalo 24 9 13 2 20 63 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Carolina 22 13 8 1 27 67 Tampa Bay 23 10 12 1 21 81 Winnipeg 22 10 11 1 21 56 Florida 23 7 11 5 19 59 Washington 21 9 11 1 19 59

Colorado Chicago GA 46 60 67 59 69 GA 61 56 62 69 65 GA 60 52 50 63 63 GA 67 65 53 72 78 GA 59 46 61 49 77 GA 62 73 68 83 62

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Games Blackhawks 3, Colorado 2 Toronto 5, Ottawa 4 Calgary 4, San Jose 1 Phoenix at Anaheim, (n) Today’s Games Toronto at Boston, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

1 1

1 0

0 — 2 2 — 3

First Period–1, Chicago, Shaw 6 (Seabrook, Saad), 9:51 (pp). 2, Colorado, Mitchell 7 (Kobasew, O’Reilly), 18:20.

Penalties–McLeod, Col (roughing), 8:43.

Second Period–3, Colorado, Duchene 8 (Parenteau), 13:17. Penalties–Kobasew, Col (hooking), 4:02; Mitchell, Col (hooking), 9:46; Rozsival, Chi (roughing), 15:15.

Third Period–4, Chicago, Toews 10 (Bolland, Oduya), 2:19 (sh). 5, Chicago, Carcillo 1 (Stalberg, Kruger), 19:10. Penalties–Rozsival, Chi (hooking), 1:25.

Shots on Goal–Colorado 8-7-7–22.

Chicago 12-9-11–32.

Power-play opportunities–Colorado 0 of 2; Chicago 1 of 3.

Goalies–Colorado, Varlamov 6-9-3 (32 shots-29 saves). Chicago, Emery 10-0-0 (22-20).

A–21,531 (19,717). T–2:18.

BLACKHAWKS SCHEDULE 8 10 14 16 18 20 25 26 29 31 1 4 6 7 9

March at Colorado 8 p.m.

EDMONTON 6 p.m. at Columbus 6 p.m. at Dallas 7 p.m. at Colorado 8 p.m. at Anaheim 9 p.m.

LOS ANGELES 7 p.m.

CALGARY 7:30 p.m.

ANAHEIM 7:30 p.m. at Detroit 11:30 a.m.

April NASHVILLE 7:30 p.m.

St. Louis 7:30 p.m. at Nashville 2 p.m.

NASHVILLE 6 p.m. at Minnesota 7 p.m.

NHL SCORING LEADERS Through Tuesday GP G 23 11 23 17 23 6 21 12 22 12 23 12 23 14 23 12 24 10 23 11 21 8 21 8 23 6

Sidney Crosby, Pit Steven Stamkos, TB Martin St. Louis, TB Thomas Vanek, Buf Eric Staal, Car Chris Kunitz, Pit John Tavares, NYI P. Kane, Blackhawks Jakub Voracek, Phi Matt Moulson, NYI Ryan Getzlaf, Anh Mike Ribeiro, Was Henrik Zetterberg, Det

A 25 17 24 16 16 16 13 15 17 14 17 17 19

PTS 36 34 30 28 28 28 27 27 27 25 25 25 25

AHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Grand Rapids 55 32 19 2 2 68 183 Wolves 53 28 18 4 3 63 145 Rockford 56 28 26 1 1 58 171 Milwaukee 56 26 24 3 3 58 140 Peoria 56 24 25 4 3 55 139 North Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Toronto 55 30 19 2 4 66 174 Lake Erie 59 27 23 2 7 63 168 Abbotsford 59 27 24 3 5 62 127 Rochester 54 29 22 2 1 61 175 Hamilton 56 23 27 1 5 52 121 South Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Texas 58 33 16 4 5 75 169 Charlotte 58 34 19 2 3 73 179 Houston 57 29 21 4 3 65 154 Okla. City 55 27 21 2 5 61 173 San Antonio 55 25 25 1 4 55 142 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Providence 56 33 18 0 5 71 159 Portland 56 33 20 1 2 69 164 Manchester 57 27 24 3 3 60 166 Worcester 55 26 23 1 5 58 135 St. John’s 58 23 31 1 3 50 140 East Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Syracuse 58 34 17 3 4 75 198 Binghamton 56 33 17 1 5 72 168 Hershey 57 28 21 3 5 64 151 W.B./Scrntn 57 30 24 2 1 63 132 Norfolk 56 25 26 4 1 55 135 Northeast Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Springfield 55 34 14 4 3 75 178 Connecticut 58 27 23 5 3 62 168 Albany 54 24 19 1 10 59 145 Bridgeport 56 23 24 5 4 55 166 Adirondack 55 21 30 2 2 46 130

GA 154 138 166 165 168 GA 148 173 141 157 165 GA 147 149 149 180 157 GA 145 165 155 153 181 GA 158 142 141 129 157 GA 130 176 153 190 163

NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Wednesday’s Games Toronto 6, Syracuse 3 Manchester 3, Bridgeport 2, OT Charlotte 3, Norfolk 2, OT Today’s Game Peoria at Lake Erie, 6 p.m.

Friday’s Games Wolves at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Syracuse at St. John’s, 5 p.m.

Hamilton at Grand Rapids, 6 p.m.

Bridgeport at Albany, 6 p.m.

Springfield at Adirondack, 6 p.m.

Manchester at Portland, 6 p.m.

Abbotsford at Rochester, 6:05 p.m.

Connecticut at Binghamton, 6:05 p.m.

W.B./Scranton at Providence, 6:05 p.m.

Hershey at Norfolk, 6:30 p.m.

Rockford at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

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

TRANSACTIONS

BETTING ODDS

NASCAR SPRINT CUP

PROS

GLANTZ-CULVER LINE

KOBALT TOOLS 400

BASEBALL National League ST. LOUIS CARDINALS–Named Willie McGee special assistant to the general manager.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS–Agreed to terms with OF Corey Brown, RHP Erik Davis, INF Danny Espinosa, RHP Christian Garcia, RHP Nathan Karns, RHP Cole Kimball, C Sandy Leon, INF Steve Lombardozzi, 1B Chris Marrero, RHP Ryan Mattheus, 1B/OF Tyler Moore, OF Eury Perez, RHP Ryan Perry, C Wilson Ramos, INF Carlos Rivero, RHP Henry Rodriguez, C Jhonatan Solano and RHP Stephen Strasburg on one-year contracts.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS–Tendered an offer to TE Dorin Dickerson.

GREEN BAY PACKERS–Named Alonzo Dotson college scout.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS–Released K David Akers.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS–Signed TE Darren Fells.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS–Hired A.J. Smith as a senior executive.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BLACKHAWKS–Assigned F Brandon Bollig to Rockford (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS–Assigned C Nick Drazenovic to Springfield (AHL).

DALLAS STARS–Recalled F Francis Wathier from Texas (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS–Recalled D Victor Bartley from Milwaukee (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS–Claimed RW Tom Kostopoulos off waivers from Pittsburgh. Assigned RW Cam Janssen and G Keith Kinkaid to Albany (AHL). Recalled G Jeff Frazee from Albany (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS–Claimed D Roman Hamrlik off waivers from Washington.

PHOENIX COYOTES–Signed D Mathieu Brisebois to a three-year entry-level contract.

ST. LOUIS BLUES–Recalled G Jake Allen from Peoria (AHL). Signed D Joel Edmundson and F Yannick Veilleux to three-year entry level contracts.

American Hockey League AHL–Suspended Oklahoma C Tanner House two games for an illegal check to the head of an opponent in a March 2 game at Texas.

NORFOLK ADMIRALS–Reassigned F Jack MacLellan to Cincinnati (ECHL).

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS–Recalled G Paul Dainton from Evansville (ECHL).

SOCCER National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC–Signed D Caitlin Foord.

NCAA Basketball FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at Northwestern 4½ Penn St. Virginia 3½ at Florida St. Kentucky 3½ at Georgia at UMass Pk Butler Oregon 3½ at Colorado at New Mexico St. 2½ Louisiana Tech at Utah St. 14 Texas St. at Denver 11 Texas-Arlington at Michigan St. 5 Wisconsin at Pacific 5 UC Irvine at UC Davis Pk Long Beach St. at Cal Poly 15 UC Riverside at UC Santa Barbara 1½ Cal St.-Fullerton at San Jose St. 1 UTSA at CS Northridge 3 Hawaii Oregon St. 1 at Utah at N. Colorado 7½ S. Utah at Montana 9½ Sacramento St. at Weber St. 16 Portland St. at Idaho St. 2 E. Washington at Montana St. 4 N. Arizona Missouri Valley Conference At St. Louis First Round Bradley Pk Drake S. Illinois 2½ Missouri St. West Coast Conference At Las Vegas Second Round San Francisco 5 Loyola Marymount OR San Francisco 5½ Portland San Diego 4 Pepperdine Ohio Valley Conference At Nashville, Tenn.

Quarterfinals Tennessee St. 12½ UT-Martin OR Tennessee St. 1½ Morehead St. E. Kentucky 10½ E. Illinois OR E. Kentucky 6 SE Missouri Big South Conference At Conway, S.C. Quarterfinals Charleston Southern 8 Winthrop VMI 9 Longwood Gardner-Webb 8 Campbell High Point 3½ Liberty Atlantic Sun Conference At Macon, Ga. Quarterfinals Stetson 6 ETSU SC-Upstate 1 Jacksonville

AUTO RACING

Site: Las Vegas.

Schedule: Friday, practice (Speed, 2-3:30 p.m.; qualifying (Speed, 5:30-7 p.m.); Saturday, practice (Speed, 11 a.m.noon, 1:30-2:30 p.m.); Sunday, race, 2 p.m.

(FOX, 1:30-5 p.m.).

Track: Las Vegas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles).

Race distance: 400.5 miles, 267 laps.

Last year: Tony Stewart raced to the first of his three 2012 victories, making a three-wide pass on a late restart and holding off Jimmie Johnson.

Last week: Carl Edwards snapped a 70-race winless streak with a victory at Phoenix. Daytona 500 winner Johnson was second.

Fast facts: Two-time Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon was killed in an accident at the track in the 2011 IndyCar finale. ...

Johnson has a record four victories in Las Vegas. ... Kyle Busch won the 2009 race on his home track. ... The race is the final event that will use 2012 owner points to determine the six provisional spots in the field.

Next race: Food City 500, March 17, Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn.

NASCAR NATIONWIDE SAM’S TOWN 300 Site: Las Vegas.

Schedule: Friday, practice (Speed, noon-2 p.m., 3:30-5:30 p.m.); Saturday, qualifying (Speed, noon-1:30 p.m.), race, 3:15 p.m. (ESPN2, 3-6 p.m.).

Track: Las Vegas Motor Speedway (oval, 1.5 miles).

Race distance: 300 miles, 200 laps.

Last year: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. raced to the first of his six 2012 victories en route to his second straight series title. Mark Martin was second.

Last week: Kyle Busch ended a 24-race Nationwide victory drought, winning at Phoenix. He pushed his series-record victory total to 52.

Fast facts: Busch is entered along with fellow Cup drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Brad Keselowski. ... Reed Sorenson is filling in for the injured Michael Annett in Richard Petty Motorsports’ No. 43 Ford.

Annett had surgery last week to repair a fractured and dislocated sternum. He was injured in a last-lap crash at Daytona.

Next race: Jeff Foxworthy’s Grit Chips 300, March 16, Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn.

NHRA DRAG RACING Next event: NHRA Gatornationals, March 14-17, Auto Plus Raceway, Gainesville, Fla. Last week: Tony Schumacher won the NHRA Arizona Nationals on Feb. 24 for his 70th career victory, beating Morgan Lucas in the tire-smoking Top Fuel final.

COLLEGE EAST CAROLINA–Named Jeff Compher athletic director.

INDIANA–Named William Inge codefensive coordinator and linebackers coach.

FAVORITE Oklahoma City at Denver

NBA LINE 7 3½

UNDERDOG at New York L.A. Clippers

NHL FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG Vancouver -180 at Columbus at Washington -160 Florida at Carolina -125 Montreal at New Jersey -130 Buffalo N.Y. Rangers -120 at N.Y. Islanders Pittsburgh -115 at Philadelphia at Boston -200 Toronto at Tampa Bay -150 Winnipeg at Detroit -165 Edmonton St. Louis -125 at Phoenix at Los Angeles -170 Dallas

LINE +160 +140 +105 +110 +100 -105 +170 +130 +145 +105 +150

ADVICE

Page C6 • Thursday, March 7, 2013

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

Thought of going to the dentist Check out playground equipment before letting your children play wipes smile off woman’s face Dear Abby: I am writing to you because I can share this anonymously. I am close to 60 years old, and I’m terrified of the dentist. Every time I pick up the phone to make an appointment, I get so anxious I feel like I’m going to die.

Do you think I will be able to find a caring, compassionate and nonjudgmental dentist? Are they out there?

Sometimes I wish I could die instead of going to the dentist.

Am I crazy? – Mrs. Anxiety In

The U.S.A. Dear Mrs. Anxiety: Let me put it this way – if you’re crazy, you have a lot of company.

Many people fear going to the dentist. However, there have been improvements in the field since you were a child – including sedation for people who choose “not to be there” while their dental problems are being attended to.

Good dental health is very important to our overall health, so please don’t put off any further making an appointment. Tell the person who is booking the appointment what your needs are, and if that dentist can’t accommodate you, ask for a referral to one who can.

Dear Abby: I have been a nanny for four families over the past 10 years. I am now working for a family of five. I don’t make a lot of money, but

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips I enjoy what I do.

My problem is all the gift-buying I feel required to do – such as on the children’s birthdays, Christmas and the mom’s birth of more babies.

My employer is expecting yet another baby this summer, and her 3-year-old has another birthday coming up.

I’m tired of the gift-buying and really can’t afford to do it anymore. When the new baby is born, I am tempted to just say “Congratulations!” Any suggestions? – Gifted Out Dear Gifted Out: Yes. When the newest addition to the family arrives, give your employer a nice card. You should not be expected to come up with a gift. You are already giving these children loving and responsible care, and that is gift enough.

Dear Abby: During the first year of our marriage, my husband cheated on me with women from his past as well as new encounters. When I confronted him, he promised to stop. He would then call and email these women to tell them I was checking up on him and that he’d contact them later.

This has gone on for years.

He swears he’s no longer cheating, and we have sought counseling, which I stopped because the counselor and I agreed my husband didn’t think he had a problem.

When I confront him with my suspicions, he insists I am “driving him away” by accusing him.

He is very arrogant, and people who don’t know him believe he’s a great guy and I am the problem. I have considered revenge cheating, but it goes against my morals.

I think about divorcing him, but then I think – what if I am wrong? What if he really is being faithful? What should I do? I love him. – Unsure In

Texas Dear Unsure: I agree that “revenge” cheating is not the solution to your problem.

Hire a private detective and get to the bottom of this.

If you’re wrong, you need counseling to resolve your insecurities.

However, if he’s cheating, you will know you haven’t been imagining things and can decide rationally if it’s in your best interests to continue being married to a womanizer.

• Write Dear Abby at www. dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Dear Dr. K: Two of my child’s friends have hurt themselves playing on the playground recently. What can I do to keep my child safe?

Dear Reader: Kids get exercise, burn off energy and develop their motor skills by running, jumping and climbing on swing sets, monkey bars and other playground equipment.

But each year more than 200,000 children in the United States visit emergency rooms for playground injuries. The most common are broken bones, bruises, scrapes and deeper cuts.

More serious injuries also happen.

Here’s the advice my pediatrician colleagues give parents to keep their kids as safe as possible: • Supervise your child. Children of all ages should be under constant supervision when playing on the playground. Injuries can happen when kids use the equipment in unsafe ways.

• Guide children to age-appropriate equipment. Most playground equipment is designed with a specific age range in mind. Very young children should not be left unattended in a swing, for example.

My colleagues also advise parents to carefully check

ASK DR. K Dr. Anthony Komaroff out the playground where they’d like their kids to play.

The specific things parents should focus on are:

• Check for cushioning beneath equipment. Playground equipment should not be over hard surfaces such as grass, packed dirt, rocks, asphalt or blacktop. Acceptable surfaces include thick layers of hardwood fiber/mulch, pea gravel and sand. Other options include rubber tiles or mats. Cushioned surfaces should be provided under all equipment and should extend at least 6 feet in all directions from the edge of the equipment.

• Inspect individual equipment. Playground equipment is supposed to be inspected and maintained, but that doesn’t always happen.

Ladders, platforms and steps: Steps should be in good condition, and handrails should have appropriate grip sizes for children. Platforms should be surrounded by a guardrail or protective barrier.

Swings: They should be at least 24 inches apart and 30 inches from any supports.

The cushioning surface

should extend for at least twice the height of the swing, in front and back of the swing seat, and at least 6 feet to each side of the structure.

Slides: They should be well anchored, have firm handrails and have steps with good traction. There should be no spaces between the slide platform and the slide itself.

Seesaws: The handles should be secure and easy to grip. There should be a soft bumper under the bottom of the seat, and all pivot points should be covered to prevent pinched fingers.

If you find the cushioning beneath the equipment, or the equipment itself, does not meet these standards in the playground where you’d like your child to play, organize some other parents.

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Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern on television’s “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spinoff, “Rhoda,” has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

People magazine reported on its website Wednesday the 73-year-old actress received the news Jan. 15. Tests revealed she has leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare condition that occurs when cancer cells spread into the fluid-filled membrane surrounding the brain. The report says Harper’s doctors have said she has as little as three months to live.

“I don’t think of dying,” Harper told the magazine in a cover interview. “I think of being here now.”

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Vintage shop to stars gets TV series When Adele wants to make a vintage fashion statement, stylist Gaelle Paul has a go-to source: the cleverly named The Way We Wore shop.

Now TV viewers can peek inside Los Angeles store owner Doris Raymond’s 19th- and 20th-century collection that’s lured shoppers Anne Hathaway, Katie Holmes and Angelina Jolie, as well as top designers searching for inspiration from the past.

“L.A. Frock Stars,” a Smithsonian Channel series debuting 7 p.m. today, is both a fashionista’s delight and a chance to see passion at work with Raymond, who’s made finding and selling great old duds a quest for more than 30 years.

“The show is about spreading the gospel of vintage,” said Raymond – which translates, for example, to a 1940s jacket with tailoring and fabric that would cost $1,500 to replicate today but can be had for less than $200.

Rayond’s tidy but chockful shop also has racks of impressive labels including Chanel, Versace, Halston and Gucci, and the stuff of fashion history like the first version of the Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dress that launched the designer’s career.

“It’s not like going to a thrift shop. This is a high-end, fully curated vintage clothing store. It’s really picky,” said Raymond, who sees her stylish inventory as both art and a link to social history.

The far-from-ordinary garments are what draw stylist Paul and her client Adele, who came in recently on a scouting expedition.

Never say never again? Sam Mendes says he won’t be directing the next James Bond film – but may work on the series again in the future.

Mendes has been praised for his work on “Skyfall,” the first Bond film to rake in more than $1 billion in revenue.

Sam Mendes But Mendes says he has made the “very difficult decision” to focus on other projects “that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.” They include upcoming London stage productions of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “King Lear.”

Hannigan wins restraining order A judge has ordered a New Hampshire man to refrain from posting anything online about Alyson Hannigan or to try to meet the actress.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson issued a three-year restraining order against John Hobbs after a brief hearing Wednesday.

Hannigan stated in court filings last month that Hobbs had posted a barrage of threatening messages about her and her family online. The filings state the 43-year-old acknowledged to police that he wanted to meet the 38-year-old star of “How I Met Your Mother” and “American Pie.”

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Star Wars movies won’t stop at 9 Star Wars fans have more than just Episodes 7, 8 and 9 to look forward to.

Disney CEO Bob Iger said at the annual shareholders meeting in Phoenix on Wednesday that the company was developing “some standalone movies” featuring Star Wars characters. The news is likely to set off a new round of speculation about what’s in store for the Lucasfilm franchise.

Lucas proposes museum for collection “Star Wars” creator George Lucas wants to build a museum dedicated to visual storytelling in San Francisco’s Presidio that would house an art collection he amassed over more than four decades.

The filmmaker said he long has sought to showcase his collection of 150 years of populist art. Lucas, 69, said he doesn’t have enough wall space at his 6,000-acre Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, so he wants to invest up to $300 million of his own money to build the museum.

Acts announced for ACM Awards Already busy co-hosts Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan also will perform during this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards.

The country cut-ups are among the first round of performers announced Wednesday for the annual awards show in Las Vegas. They’ll be joined by Shelton’s wife, Miranda Lambert, George Strait, Hunter Hayes, The Band Perry and Kelly Clarkson.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS TV personality Willard Scott is 79. Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 73.

Bassist Chris White of The Zombies is 70. Singer Peter Wolf of The J. Geils Band is 67. Actor John Heard is 67. Keyboardist Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum is 67. Guitarist Ernie Isley of the Isley Brothers is 61. Actor Bryan Cranston is 57. Singer Taylor Dayne

is 51. Actor Bill Brochtrup (“NYPD Blue”) is 50. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 49. Drummer Randy Guss of Toad the Wet Sprocket is 46.

Actress Rachel Weisz is 42. Singer Sebastien Izambard of Il Divo is 40. Singer Hugo Ferreira of Tantric is 39. Actress Jenna Fisher is 39. Actor TJ Thyne is 38. Actress Laura Prepon is 33.

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Lenny May works in his shop at 7711 Blivin St. in Spring Grove. May Repair opened at its new location last October.

Bad weather good for business Changes outside keep things busy at May Repair

By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com SPRING GROVE – The snow is piled up about eight inches outside, so here’s Lenny May with a shop full of work, tinkering on this or that like he always has.

Today, right now, it’s a snowmobile – a black-and-yellow Polaris with a banged up left ski. Later it will be a snowblower or an ATV. “It goes from nothing to swamped in a matter of a couple of days,” said May, looking up momentarily from work on the snowmobile, whose owner collided with a fellow rider a few days ago.

The weather has gone bad. Business is good.

This is how it goes for the owner of May Repair, 7711 Blivin St., Spring Grove, the 12-year-old repair shop May moved from his own garage to a shop last fall. Best anyone knows, the building May Repair now occupies was built a little more than a century ago, used as an auto repair shop for most of its life. Its brick facade replaced a blacksmith shop formerly at that spot, which burned down in the early 1900s.

May grew up on a farm working on motors. He spent time as an auto mechanic until developing back problems bending over the cars all day. So he left that job 12 years ago for this.

“It’s been an ongoing transition over the years,” May said. “I’ve always been turning wrenches of some sort.”

Now it’s snowmobiles and snowblowers and ATVs. Last week, when the first major snow of the season fell across the

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Lenny May works on a snowmobile in his Spring Grove shop.

May Repair What: A small engine parts and service shop offering repairs on snowmobiles, snowblowers, ATVs, lawnmowers and garden tractors, among others.

Where: 7711 Blivin St., Spring Grove Information: Call 815-581-3128 or visit www.mayrepair.com

county, May took in 17 snowblowers in three days. Today, a cold Thursday two days after snowfall number two, there are another 10 snowblowers in the corner of May’s shop, awaiting re-

pair. In the spring, when the weather improves, the lawnmowers and garden tractors and rototillers pour in.

“Any time there’s a big weather change, it really helps my business,” May said.

It took some time for May’s business to get to this point. He’s built a level of loyalty among the Spring Grove market through the years.

People recognize his truck, which he offers up for pick up and delivery.

When he started looking for a place last year, he wanted to stay local.

See REPAIR, page D2

HUNTLEY – The Huntley Post Office will offer a “Grow Your Business Day” event from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday at the Huntley Area Public Library, 11000 Ruth Road, Huntley.

Huntley Postmaster Derek Strissel will introduce Every Door Direct Mail, a new way for businesses to have their messages reach local markets quickly and cost-effectively.

The Every Door Direct Mail retail option allows businesses to mail small volumes at the postal retail window using cash, check, debit card or fullpay meter indicia.

For more information, call 847-669-5423, or visit www. usps.com

Downpayment Plus workshops in McHenry McHENRY – McHenry Savings Bank will host two workshops about Downpayment Plus, a statewide affordable housing program.

Workshops will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, and 7 p.m.

March 13 in the community room of the bank, 353 Bank Drive, McHenry. Sue Miller, president of the Heartland Realtor Organization, will be participating in the workshops.

Jim Lukas, vice presidentmortgage lending at McHenry Savings Bank, said Downpayment Plus expands the home ownership opportunities of low-income homebuyers.

Space is limited. For reservations, call 815-331-6431.

Cary Grove chamber seeks Cruise sponsors The Cary Grove Area Chamber of Comerce is seeking sponsors for the 2013 Summer Cary Cruise Night.

The Cruise NIght takes place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. every Wednesday, June 5 through Aug. 28. The event attracts several hundred residents and car enthusiasts to downtown Cary each week. Sponsorship packages begin at $250.

For more information, call Suzanne Corr, chamber executive director, at 847-639-2800.

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Workforce Network lists career workshops for March WOODSTOCK – Career workshops and services are offered by the McHenry County Workforce Network, 500 Russel Court, Woodstock.

The seminars and workshops are available to all jobseekers and are free of charge. Seminars are not considered “training” by IDES. To reserve your space in a seminar or workshop, call 815-338-7100, ext. 203.

• Getting started with MS Word 2007, noon to 3 p.m., March 11: Become familiar with the tool bar and learn how to use font, paragraph, page setup, and proofing to create résumé and thank-you letters. Reservations for this seminar are highly recommended.

• So you think you’ve got talent?, 10 a.m. to noon, March 12: You have much more talent than you may realize. Join this workshop on how to highlight valuable transferable skills in your ré-

sumés and interviews to impress future employers.

• Beginning Excel seminar, 10 a.m. to noon, March 14: Learn how to get started with Excel 2007, enter data/formulas, create and customize a spreadsheet and organize data using columns/ rows/cells. Reservations are advised for one of only eight computer stations.

• Résumé/portfolio/interview seminar, 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. March 19: Learn what information belongs in your résumé. Topics include the difference between a chronological and functional résumé, cover letter writing, and how to email a résumé.

Learn how to develop a portfolio and showcase it in an interview, and learn the fundamentals of interview preparation. Discover how to research companies, dress for the interview, manage body

language, and handle tough questions plus negotiate salary and do effective follow up.

• Basic computer skills seminar, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., March 20: A hands-on workshop for people with little experience in using a computer. Learn how to handle a mouse, create documents, set up an email account, and access the Internet. Reserve a seat for one of only eight computer stations.

• Career planning workshop, 10 a.m. to noon, March 21: Effective career planning basics will give you “direction” for your future and help you make the most of changes in the workplace.

Learn about online resources such as Illinois workNet to discover occupations related to your skills, interests and values using career assessments. Get familiar with research tools such as U.S. Labor Market information.

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The ranks of ‘sandwich generation’ likely to grow At a time when your career is reaching a peak and you are looking ahead to your own retirement, you may find yourself in the position of having to help your children with college expenses or the financial challenges of young adulthood while at the same time looking after the needs of your aging parents. Squeezed in the middle, you’re in the “sandwich generation” – a group loosely defined as people in their 40s to 60s who are “sandwiched” between caring for children and aging parents.

The fact is women are the ones who most often step into the caregiving role based on a 2012 study

by The National Clearinghouse for Long Term Care Information. As more women have children later in life and more parents live longer lives, the ranks of the sandwich generation are likely to grow in the years ahead. If you find yourself sandwiched between caregiving demands, here are some strategies to navigate this life phase.

First, set priorities. The day-to-

day demands of caring for both an aging parent and children can put a tremendous strain – both emotional and financial – on the primary caregiver. This is especially true when adult siblings or family members don’t agree on the best course of action for elder care, don’t pitch in to do their share, or don’t contribute enough financially to the cost of that care. The first thing to do is get yourself in the proper mindset.

This life phase could last one or two years, or it could last many more. In any case, try to treat this stage as a marathon and pace yourself.

Encourage open communication with your family to figure out ways to share the financial, emotional, and time burdens. Women are often conditioned to believe they have to “do it all,” but there is no reason why adult siblings (if you have any) can’t share at least some of the workload. It’s important for caregivers to get their own financial house in order. Ironically, at the very time you need to do this, the demands of

FINANCE Paula Dorion-Gray caregiving may cause you to lose income because you have to step back at work – through reduced hours, unpaid time off, or turning down a promotion.

Second, talk to your parents about their financial resources. Do they have retirement income? Longterm care insurance? Do they own their home? Learn the whereabouts of all their documents and accounts, as well as the financial professionals and friends they rely on for advice and support. Much depends on whether your parent is living with you or out of town. If your parent lives a distance away, you’ll have to monitor his or her welfare from afar – a challenging task. According to the National Institute on Aging, about 7 million Americans are long-distance caregivers. Though caregiving can be a major stress

on anyone, distance can magnify it – daily phone calls or video chats might not be enough, and traveling to your parent’s home can be expensive and difficult to manage with your work and family responsibilities. If your parent’s needs are great enough, you may want to consider hiring a geriatric care manager, who can help oversee your parent’s care and direct you to the right community resources, and/or a home health aide, who can check in on your parent during the week.

Third, pay attention to the needs of your children. They may be feeling the effect of your situation more than you think especially if they are teenagers. At a time when they still need your patience and attention, you may be preoccupied with your parent’s care, meeting your work deadlines, and juggling your financial obligations. Involve them in the process so they better understand what is going on and what will be expected of them or what they should expect to happen as you carry

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• Paula Dorion-Gray is a certified financial planner. Send any financial questions you wish to have answered in this column to Dorion-Gray Retirement Planning Inc., 2602 Route 176, Crystal Lake, IL 60014. You may also fax them to 815.455.4989 or email paula@doriongray.com.

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There seems to be great debate as to who can truly provide the best opinion of value when considering the assessment of one’s property.

Recently, a township assessor in McHenry County has been touting that appraisers are the best source for opinion of value – better and more reliable than real estate agents.

Appraisers and agents both access the local multiple listing service and use the same data set. Agents actually visit homes, verify data, take photos and enter it into the system. Often agents have been inside the homes they are providing as comparables to the taxpayers and have detailed knowledge of the differences between properties. Appraisers do not as often have such familiarity and it is not uncommon for an appraiser to call an agent to get better insight into a particular property.

Contrarily, assessors rely heavily on the recorder’s office for data. Assessors can see from the “green sheet” what a home recently sold for, but cannot see into the home and may be totally unaware of many salient details. Agents, on the other hand, know not only what it sold for but how long it was on the market as well as the original list price. Both will likely know if the property was a conventional “arm’s length” sale, a short sale, or a foreclosure (bank owned).

That may or may not impact the price depending on the property’s condition.

So when it comes to who can provide a better estimate of fair market value, it would seem that agents and appraisers clearly have the advantage over the assessor, and that the data set used by both appraisers and agents is substantially identical, but with the agent often having more intimate knowledge of the respective properties. Assessors, who mostly do not have access to the MLS, have the least amount of information, one could argue.

So with that being said, why is it that there is an uprising of discontent amongst assessors and the state’s appraiser association to not allow real estate agents to be present as an expert witness during property assessment appeal hearings? Real estate agents testify to value in court proceedings. Furthermore, as pointed out, one can effectively argue that agents know more about the market. Is the data an agent obtains from the MLS less acceptable than the very same data typed into an appraiser’s work product? Obviously not. It might even be said that the data in the MLS is more current and, therefore, likely more accurate.

Perhaps from the appraiser’s perspective it is a fee-based argument. Appraisers may charge anywhere from a couple hundred to even thousands of dollars to do a certified (fee) appraisal for a client. Perhaps from the assessor’s perspective, discouraging taxpayers from obtaining an opinion from an agent, possibly for free, makes the taxpayer less likely to appeal their assessment; after all, taxpayers may not be able to afford a fee appraisal.

Additionally, it would seem allowing real estate agents to assist taxpayers as an expert witness of value at the hearing is a prudent thing to do and yet some are fighting to make it illegal for real estate agents to serve in that capacity.

Regardless of the reason, taxpayers should be encouraged – not discouraged – from reviewing the accuracy of their assessment and providing the most comprehensive and factual data available. After all, shouldn’t the goal of the assessor be to have the most accurate information possible? And don’t even get me started on the Illinois Bar Association trying to enact a rule that says only the taxpayer or an attorney may represent the taxpayer during an appeal. For example, why can’t a trusted agent or an adult child of a taxpayer utilize a power of attorney to assist their client? Bureaucracy is getting out of hand. We certainly don’t need to make this simple process more difficult or costly.

a greater burden of caring for all.

Fourth, pay attention to your needs. This stage of your life could last many years, or just a few. Try to pace yourself so you can make it for the long haul. As much as you can, try to get adequate sleep, eat nutritiously, and exercise – all things that will increase your ability to cope. Don’t feel guilty about taking time for yourself when you need it, whether it’s a couple of hours holed up with a book or out to the movies, or a longer weekend getaway.

When you put your own needs first occasionally and look after yourself, you’ll be in a better position to care for those around you.

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Snowblowers are lined up at May Repair in Spring Grove.

• REPAIR Continued from page D1 But that doesn’t mean May’s eyes aren’t set on a wider share of the market. He competes mainly, he said, with larger companies – retailers of the types of machines he only fixes.

He said he doesn’t know of many other one- or two-man operations quite like his own.

“I’m sort of the last of a dying breed it seems, but we’ve been doing well the last couple years,” he said.

May’s wife, Sue, helps out now

8CALENDAR Today, March 7 • 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.: “HR for Business in 3 Easy Steps” (step 2) Breakfast N’ Learn, McHenry chamber office, 1257 N. Green St. Free breakfast at 7:a.m. Call 815-3854300 or www.mchenrychamber. com.

• 7:45 a.m.: Power Partners of Cary Grove, Century 21/Sketchbook 20 Northwest Hwy., Cary. Information: Ryan Fain, 815-353-8600.

• 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.: McHenry Chamber “Shop In” at Harmony Skate Shop, 1259 N. Green St., McHenry.

• 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.: Young Professionals Meeting, Firewood Grille, 2314 W. Route 120, McHenry. Call 815-385-4300 or www.mchenrychamber.com.

Friday, March 8 • 9 a.m.: Algonquin/Lake in the Hills chamber hosts ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. for Player’s Choice Academy, 2806 Corporate Pkwy., Algonquin.

Saturday, March 9 • 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Barrington Community Expo, Barrington Park District, 235 Lions Drive, Barrington.

Tuesday, March 12 • 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake Business Network, Algonquin Bank & Trust, 4049 W. Algonquin Road, Algonquin. Information: Laura Sinnaeve, 847-204-4899.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake chamber’s Referral Exchange Network, Exemplar Financial Network, 413 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake.

Information: Kevin Bruning, 815455-3000.

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with the paperwork and the behindthe-scenes work. She brings to the table 20 years of banking experience.

“She’s the decorator, the bookkeeper, kind of the one to keep all the behind the scenes stuff,” May said.

In the future, the two want to sell some of the machines they repair.

The new shop has a display window out front, and May pictures it filled with new snow blowers and snowmobiles in the future.

Right now, old ones fill the window. Because once again the snow is falling, the weather is bad, and so business is good.

WASHINGTON – Strong auto sales, hiring gains and a continued housing recovery helped the U.S. economy grow throughout the country in January and February, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve.

The Fed says 10 of its 12 banking districts reported moderate or modest growth, while Boston and Chicago districts reported slow growth.

Consumer spending increased in most regions, although growth slowed in many districts and much of the increases were driven by auto sales. Many districts said that consumers pulled back slightly on spending outside of autos after seeing taxes rise and gas prices increase. Some also expressed concerns about federal spending cuts that started on March 1.

Housing markets showed more strength in nearly all parts of the country, while manufacturing showed modest improvements in most regions. And most districts reported some improvement in individual jobs markets.

The report, called the Beige Book, provides anecdotal in-

8AREA CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE • Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Chamber of Commerce, 2114 W. Algonquin Road, Lake in the Hills. 847-658-5300; www. algonquin-lith-chamber.com.

• Cary-Grove Area Chamber of Commerce, 445 Park Ave., Cary. 847-639-2800; www.carygrovehamber.com.

• Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce, 427 W. Virginia St., Crystal Lake.: 815-459-1300; www.clchamber.com.

• Hampshire Area Chamber of Commerce, 153 South State St. Hampshire. 847683-1122; www.hampshirechamber.org.

• Harvard Chamber of Commerce & Industry, 62 N. Ayer St., Suite B, Harvard.

815-943-4404; www.harvcc.net.

• Huntley Area Chamber of Com-

merce, 11704 Coral St., Huntley. 847- 6690166; www.huntleychamber.org.

• Marengo-Union Chamber of Commerce, 116 S. State St., Marengo. 815-5686680; www.marengo-union.com.

• McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce, 1257 N. Green St., McHenry. 815385-4300; www.mchenrychamber.com.

• Richmond/Spring Grove Chamber of Commerce, 10906 Main St., Richmond.

815-678-7742; www.rsgchamber.com.

• Wonder Lake Chamber of Commerce, 7602 Hancock Drive, Wonder Lake.

815-728-0682; www.wonderlake.org.

• Woodstock Chamber of Commerce, 136 Cass St., Woodstock. 815-338-2436; www.woodstockilchamber.com.

ber’s Business 2 Business Network, Benedict’s La Strata, 40 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake. Information: Mike Daniele, 815-356-2126.

• 5 to 7 p.m.: Multi-Chamber Mixer at United Way of McHenry County, 4508 Prime Pkwy., McHenry.

• 5 to 7 p.m.: Huntley Area Chamber of Commerce mixer and ribbon-cutting ceremony at Century 21 New Heritage, 11023 Woodstock St. (on the Square) in Huntley.

Information: 847-669-6642.

• 8 a.m.: Cary Grove Referral Network, Cary Bank & Trust, 60 E. Main St., Cary. Information: Shirley Rochford, 847-341-4104.

• 8 a.m.: Lighthouse Business Networking, St. Barnabas Lutheran Church, 8901 Cary-Algonquin Road, Cary. Information: Richard Sansone, 847-516-0433; Steve Randahl, 847769-6285.

• 11:30 to 1:15 p.m.: WINGs “Woman of Accomplishment” Luncheon, 31 North Banquet & Conference Center, 217 N. Route 31, McHenry; $28 chamber members, $33 nonmembers. Information: 815385-4300 or www.mchenrychamber.com.

• 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.:Algonquin/ Lake in the Hills Chamber of Commerce hosts Business over Lunch at Cheeseburger In Paradise. Cost: $15 for members, $20 nonmembers.

RSVP: 847-658-5300.

• Noon to 1 p.m.: Algonquin Lake in the Hills Association of Professionals (a non-compete networking group) meets at chamber office, 2114 W. Algonquin Road, Lake in the Hills.

Wednesday, March 13 • 7 to 8:30 a.m.: Woodstock LeTip, Vaughan’s Restaurant, 790 S. Eastwood Drive, Woodstock.

Information: Richard Toepper, 815338-9900.

• 7 a.m.: McHenry County LeTip, Brunch Café, 414 S. Rt. 31, McHenry.

Information: matthew.wruck@ countryfinancial.com.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake Referral Network, Colonial Café, 5689 Northwest Hwy., Crystal Lake.

Information: Holly Emrich, 815-3821899.

formation on economic conditions through February 22.

The information will be used as the basis for the Fed’s policy discussion at the March 1920 meeting. Many economists believe Fed officials will take no new steps when they meet.

In January, the Fed stood behind aggressive steps it launched in December to try to reduce unemployment. It repeated that it would keep its key short-term interest rate at a record low at least until unemployment falls below 6.5 percent. And the Fed said it would keep buying Treasurys and mortgage bonds to help lower borrowing costs and encourage spending.

The unemployment rate was 7.9 percent in January when the Fed last met.

The economy has shown improvement since then, even as Americans paid higher taxes and automatic government spending cuts loomed. On Jan. 1, nearly all Americans who draw a paycheck began paying higher Social Security taxes and income taxes rose for the highest earning workers.

The tax increases and broader budget debate in Washington haven’t slowed financial markets.

• 5 to 6:15 p.m.: Discover the McHenry Area Chamber Orientation, McHenry Area Chamber Office, 1257 N. Green St. Information: 815-385-4300.

Thursday, March 14 • 7:45 a.m.: Power Partners of Cary Grove, Century 21/Sketchbook 20 Northwest Hwy., Cary. Information: Ryan Fain, 815-353-8600.

• 8 a.m.: Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors meets at the chamber office, 2114 W. Algonquin Road, Lake in the Hills. Anyone wishing to address the board or attend the meeting should call the chamber at 847-658-5300.

Friday, March 15 • 8 tp 9 a.m.: “Leverage Social Media for Better Business” Breakfast N’ Learn, Shah Center, 4100 W. Shamrock Lane, McHenry; $5 per person. Information: 815-385-4300.

Saturday, March 16 • 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Johnsburg Area Business Association 2013 Business and Craft Expo at Johnsburg High School, 2002 Ringwood Road, Johnsburg. Will feature more than 80 local vendors. Free admission.

Tuesday, March 19 • 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake Business Network, Algonquin Bank & Trust, 4049 West Algonquin Road, Algonquin. Information: Laura Sinnaeve, 847-204-4899.

• 7:30 a.m.: Crystal Lake chamber’s Referral Exchange Network, Exemplar Financial Network, 413 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake.

Information: Kevin Bruning, 815455-3000.

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Seven signs you’re getting bad financial advice During the height of the financial crisis, a study complied by Prince & Associates showed that 81 percent of investors with $1 million or more planned to take money away from their adviser.

The study illustrated that the enormous loss of wealth during the Great Recession gave investors a peek into the poor quality of advice they had been getting and thus, sophisticated investors were taking their money elsewhere to put in more capable hands. Almost four years later, investors may still be wondering if they are getting good wealth-building advice or simply being sold products.

I want to arm you with the top seven warning signs that you could be getting bad advice: • Never asked to see your tax return. Tax rates are set to skyrocket in a matter of months, so when’s the last time your adviser asked to review your tax return? If you want to take advantage of the tax laws for the informed, then your

adviser should be monitoring your tax return every year. Maybe you’re missing out on valuable Roth conversion, missing deductions, or just simply paying too much in taxes.

Your tax return is the heartbeat of your financial life. If it’s not being reviewed regularly, that’s a giant red flag.

• Portfolio contains only one type of investment. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all investment, so your portfolio shouldn’t be made up of just one type of investment (mutual funds as an example).

Nothing screams “product salesman” as loudly as a single-product portfolio.

• No distribution strategy for your IRAs. For years, you’ve had a plan for putting money into IRAs and 401(k)s, but what’s your plan for when all that taxable money comes out? Anyone can come up with an investment plan for your pre-tax accounts, but it takes a real pro to make sure a distribution strategy is in place to limit the government’s

FINANCE Lisa Bussenger take.

• Working with generalist. Does your adviser work with people of all ages and backgrounds? No one can be all things to all people and be really good at his/her job. Cardiologists, for example, get paid more than a family physician because they specialize. The same goes for wealth advisers. A specialist may cost more than a generalist, but you pay for what you get – specialized advice.

• Same old advice. Still hearing the same thing you heard back in 2008? “Hang in there, it will come back.” “It’s only a paper loss.” You won’t hear these excuses from a good, proactive adviser. If your adviser is paid only when your money is invested in the market, what else would you expect from him/ her? Isn’t it time for a fresh take on

wealth management?

• Hope as an income plan. Want to make sure you don’t run out of money in retirement? Then don’t trust the Wall Street way of taking 3-4 percent out each year in retirement. Advisers love to show you Monte Carlo simulations to prove that you shouldn’t run out of money in retirement.

The key word here is “shouldn’t”.

Shouldn’t implies hope, and hope is not a plan. Your income and lifestyle shouldn’t depend on the market; they should depend on math.

Work with a specialist who builds an income plan using quantifiable mathematics.

• Weak inflation protection.

With interest rates at historically low levels, combined with massive amounts of debt, inflation is on the horizon. If you’re near or in retirement, you will be negatively impacted the most. If your adviser hasn’t proactively met with you to discuss how to protect your wealth from inflation, that’s a warning

sign.

These seven signs should be a used as a gauge to critique your current adviser or to utilize when interviewing a new adviser. Like most processes, we can become too comfortable with them over time, but as you approach your retirement years you most likely will need to do some re-adjusting.

The current economic conditions that affect savings and retirement planning are very volatile; people need to make sure that they partner with a qualified adviser who ultimately has their best interest in mind.

• Lisa Bussenger, a licensed insurance representative and an investment adviser representative, is president and founder of Bussenger Insurance and Financial Services in Cary. She can be reached by calling 847-516-8062 or emailing lisa@ bussengerinsurance.com. Visit her website at www.bussengerinsurance.com.

Private survey shows steady job gains The Associated Press WASHINGTON – A private survey shows U.S. businesses added a solid number of jobs in February, indicating higher taxes and looming government spending cuts have yet to slow hiring.

Employers added 198,000 jobs in February, according to data released Wednesday by payroll processor ADP. And the survey revised January’s hiring figures to show companies added 215,000 jobs that month, 23,000 more than what had initially been reported.

The figure suggests that the govern-

ment’s February jobs report, to be issued Friday, may come in above economists’ forecasts. Analysts expect it will show the economy added 152,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dipped to 7.8 percent from 7.9 percent in January.

Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank, boosted his forecast to 180,000 jobs, up from 125,000, in response to the ADP report.

Still, other economists remained cautious. Many think huge snowstorm that shut down several northeastern states last month may drag on overall job

gains.

The ADP report is derived from actual payroll data and tracks total nonfarm private employment each month. It doesn’t include government jobs, which have steadily declined for the past three years. In the past four months, ADP’s data has diverged from the government’s estimate of private sector jobs by about 30,000.

Still, February’s ADP report shows private employers kept adding jobs in Februray, even after taxes increased and the government moved closer to across-the-board spending cuts.

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Customers walk to a Staples office supply store in Miami. The office products company announced its fourth-quarter net income was down 72 percent.

Staples 4Q hit by charges, forecast misses Street view The Associated Press NEW YORK – Costs related to Staples turnaround plan helped drive down the office supplier’s fourth-quarter net income by 72 percent. Its quarterly revenue and financial outlook for the year missed Wall Street’s expectations.

Staples, which has 1,547 stores in the U.S. and 339 stores in Canada, is the largest office supply retailer, a sector hit hard by the recession and slow to recover.

Its earnings report comes two weeks after Office Depot Inc. and OfficeMax said they would combine to better compete against their larger rival as well as Internet retailers like Amazon.com and discounters such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Last year Staples launched a strategic plan that includes investing more in its online and mobile efforts, adding more products beyond office supplies, and beefing up its services business.

One example of expanding beyond office supplies — CEO Ron Sargent said the chain will now carry accessories for Apple products like the iPhone and iPad. “We are gaining momentum in each of these areas and at the same time, we are taking action to reshape our business to fund the future while building on our core strengths to better serve our customers,” Sargent said in a call with investors.

Citi Investment Research analyst Kate McShane, who upgraded the stock after Office Depot and OfficeMax announced their intent to combine on the belief that the merger would lead to store closings that would benefit Staples’ stores, reiterated her “Neutral” rating on the stock.

The analyst said the office supply industry as a whole faces major challenges like declines in paper products, the trend toward lower-margin technology products, a weak economy in Europe, and intensifying competition from online retailers.

For the period ended Feb. 2, Staples earned $78.1 million, or 12 cents per share, down from $283.6 million, or 41 cents per share, a year earlier.

Excluding charges tied to stores closings and other items, earnings from continuing operations came to 46 cents per share. That was a penny above analysts’ average expectations, according to a FactSet survey.

Revenue rose 3 percent to $6.57 billion from $6.37 billion, but that missed analyst expectations of $6.71 billion, despite an extra week in the quarter compared with last year.

Sales for the North American stores and online segment — which includes retail stores and its online businesses in the U.S. and Canada — rose 3 percent mostly because of the extra week of sales. Better sales of tablets, e-readers, facilities and break-room supplies and copy and print services was somewhat offset by lower sales of computers, digital cameras and software.

Revenue at stores open at least a year fell 5 percent due to weaker traffic and a flat average order size. The results do not include online sales.

For the North American commercial unit, sales rose 7 percent primarily because of the extra week but also because of increased sales of facilities and break-room supplies.

The division includes contract operations in the U.S. and Canada and Staples Quill. com business.

International sales dropped 4 percent because of softness in Australia and Europe.

Staples lost $210.7 million, or 31 cents per share, for the full year. In the prior year it reported net income of $984.7 million, or $1.40 per share.

Annual revenue edged down 1 percent to $24.38 billion from $24.66 billion.

The Framingham, Mass., company anticipates 2013 earnings between $1.30 and $1.35 per share. Revenue is expected to rise by a low single-digit percentage rate compared with 2012’s consolidated sales of $23.92 billion. Analysts expect $1.44 per share on $24.33 billion in revenue.

Staples also said Wednesday that it is increasing its quarterly dividend by 9 percent.to 12 cents per share from 11 cents per share. The dividend will be paid on April 18 to shareholders of record on March 29.

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Tide turns toward telecommuting More employees work from home

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK – Yahoo’s leaked edict under CEO Marissa Mayer that calls remote workers back to the office lit the Twitterverse on fire, angering advocates of telecommuting and other programs intended to balance work and home life.

A new study from the nonprofit Families and Work Institute shows a tide moving the other way, with more workers now telecommuting – and men significantly more likely than women to be granted the freedom to work at least partially at home.

Left mostly unanswered is the question Mayer appears to be dealing with: Is that a good thing? Or has the rise in telecommuting led to a drop in productivity or creativity?

Chances are, one telework supporter said, the tech giant just wasn’t doing it right.

“If you don’t know where your people are and what they’re doing, then you haven’t implemented properly, so she’s got her hands full,” said Kate Lister in San Diego, Calif., co-founder of Global Workplace Analytics, which collects data on the subject for its Telework Research Network.

Slogging through decades of research on the value of telecommuting is complicated. Small studies have been done by employer membership organizations, companies looking at their own ranks, consulting firms and government agencies, along with academics. Some use small samples, others rely on a wild array of statistics from the U.S. Census, the Small Business Administration or the Bureau of Labor Statis-

tics. The verdicts are mixed and the research often so focused on a work force or issue related to flex options that it’s difficult to make conclusions.

The new Families and Work Institute study, on the other hand, deals solely with employers in the U.S., delving into a broad range of family friendly programs, policies and benefits. The institute found that 63 percent of employers surveyed allow at least some employees to work partially at home on an occasional basis. That’s up from 34 percent in a comparable study done for the institute in 2005.

More of the workers were higher-wage earners. Overall, the number of employees who work entirely from home was 3 percent, compared to 64 percent who sometimes do, said Ellen Galinsky, the institute’s president and co-founder.

Men were significantly more likely than women to work partially at home — 67 percent compared to 59 percent of women, partially a reflection of more men in jobs where the option is possible.

Men also were more likely to work mainly from home.

Neither Lister nor Galinsky has the inside scoop on what’s happening at Yahoo, but Galinsky was steadfast about one thing.

“To take away all flexibility for everyone all the time is an overreaction,” she said. “If you know that people will be more innovative and collaborative by being together, that is a positive. But sometimes people need time alone. Why do the best ideas occur in the shower, or when we’re walking the dog?”

Galinsky and others who study work-life balance don’t anticipate a backlash among other employers due to Ya-

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As Marissa Mayer goes about her CEO business of saving Yahoo, which now involves a ban on working from home, a new study shows a significant jump in the number of U.S. employers offering flex and other quality-of-life perks. hoo. And the company itself followed up an internal memo leaked to the tech blog All things D with a curt statement indicating the prohibition might not be forever.

Meantime, Lister said about 2.5 percent of the U.S. civilian population, or about 3 million people, work at home at least half the time, according to U.S. Census data. The rate of growth was slowed by the recession, with some researchers suggesting it’s flat at the moment.

Why isn’t the number even higher? “The biggest reason is that managers don’t trust their employees,” Lister said.

“They’re still managing the 21st-century work force with 20th-century styles of commands and controls, back to the days of sweatshops and typing pools. They like to be able to see the backs of their heads.”

The perceived benefits for workers are clear. While 37 percent of the companies in Galinsky’s report cite retention of employees as the main reason for developing workplace flexibility and other pro-

grams, Lister said 90 percent of teleworkers “feel being able to work flexibly improves their quality of life.”

But what about for employers?

The leaked Yahoo memo, written by Jackie Reses, the company’s human resources director, said in part: “Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people and impromptu team meeting. Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.”

Researchers in the field note a dearth in credible studies that confirm a boost in creative flow or innovation from face time.

And telecommuting may actually boost productivity, at least where it stands in the number of hours worked, said researchers Mary C. Noonan and Jennifer L. Glass in a study of telecommuting published last June in the Monthly Labor Review, a publication of the U.S. Bureau of

Labor Statistics.

The two studied employees who work regularly but not exclusively from home and found that for them, telecommuting was not a substitute for working onsite during an agreed upon work week but rather was in addition to a full week, at least half the time.

“People have only looked at the benefits without seeing that maybe some of these policies can come back to bite you,” said Noonan, a sociologist who teaches classes on the American family and statistics at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Parents, Glass said, are no more likely to telecommute than non-parents; women no more likely than men.

The report from the Families and Work Institute said gains have been made in other flex options as well as working from home over the sevenyear period covered. The offer of flex time, for instance, increased to 77 percent from 66 percent. Daily time off when important needs arise went from 77 percent to 87 percent.

The institute’s survey, conducted by Harris Interactive by phone and questionnaire, included 1,126 U.S. employers with 50 or more workers.

Galinsky had expected the recession would squeeze workplace flexibility, and attributes much of the gains to companies looking to cut real estate costs and other expenses. Of companies with at least eight family-friendly policies, she said, 9 percent cited increased productivity as the reason. Five percent cited increasing employee commitment or engagement.

One percent cited recruiting and retaining women.

Only 10 percent of the employers in the study cited a potential loss of productivity and difficulty supervising

staff as reasons for not adopting more family-friendly policies. Twenty five percent cited cost, 12 percent cited job requirements and workloads, and 7 percent potential abuse.

Some have decried the Yahoo ban as something that would hurt women — an especially heated argument because Mayer had become a potent feminist symbol when she was hired last July while pregnant.

But Galinsky said most companies offer flexibility because of benefits to the bottom line rather than a commitment to work-family balance.

After the revelation, Yahoo urged the world not to read too much into the ban beyond the walls of Yahoo itself. The company has declined further comment.

Glass, a professor of sociology and population research at the University of Texas at Austin, suspects little to no reliable research supports the notion that hallway meetings are anything more than gossip sessions or recaps of baseball scores from the night before. Does proximity, in this age of videoconferencing, social networks and other tools, still matter?

“Certainly there is nothing out there that you can easily find that suggests innovation is linked to face time,” she said.

Some former Yahoos, as company employees are called, have been quoted anonymously in news and blog reports as saying dead wood is hiding at home and the ban isn’t such a bad idea.

“If you’ve got a performance issue with people, deal with that as a performance issue,” Galinsky said. “If people are slacking off and not working, then deal with it that way. This was a blunt instrument.”

Study: No quick savings from workplace wellness

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON – Your bosses want you to eat your broccoli, hit the treadmill and pledge you’ll never puff on a cigarette. But a new study raises doubts that workplace wellness programs save the company money.

In what’s being called the most rigorous look yet inside the wellness trend, independent researchers tracked the program at a major St. Louis hospital system for two years.

Hospitalizations for employees and family members dropped dramatically, by 41 percent overall for six major conditions. But increased outpatient costs erased those savings.

The study in the journal Health Affairs has implications for a debate now taking place at companies around the country: how much pressure can you put on workers to quit smoking, lose weight, and get exercise before it turns into unwelcome meddling, or worse, a slippery slope toward a new kind of health discrimination?

Wellness programs started out of-

fering gym memberships and modest cash rewards for participating in a health assessment focused on changing bad habits. But employers have been upping the ante, linking the programs to insurance discounts or penalties that can add up to hundreds of dollars.

Most major companies now have wellness programs, and smaller firms are signing up. President Barack Obama’s health overhaul law allows employers to expand rewards and penalties, provided workers are also given a path to address lifestyle issues that could undermine their health.

“The immediate payback in terms of cost is probably not going to be there,” said economist Gautam Gowrisankaran of the University of Arizona at Tucson, lead author of the study. But he noted there could be other benefits not directly measured in the study, such as reduced absenteeism and higher productivity.

And there’s also a risk. “It’s definitely true that there is a downside,” Gowrisankaran said. “You are going to be charging people different rates based on their wellness behavior,

and that could limit their ability to buy health insurance.”

Obama’s law forbids insurers from charging more if you get sick.

But wellness incentives could mean you’d be penalized for the questionable choices that might get you sick.

Some previous studies have shown savings from wellness programs, while others found little change or even higher spending.

Steven Noeldner, an expert with the Mercer benefits consulting firm says well-designed programs generally show a positive return of about 2 percent by the third year.

Gary Claxton of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which produces a widely-cited annual survey of workplace health plans, says the financial impact is difficult to measure. “A lot of employers think it’s the right thing to do and they’re not so much interested in measuring,” said Claxton.

The new study provides an indepth look at the experience of BJC HealthCare, a hospital system that in 2005 started a comprehensive program linked to insurance discounts.

BJC currently employs 28,000 peo-

ple and provides health insurance for about 40,000, including family members. The overwhelming majority participated in the wellness program.

The program focused on six lifestyle-influenced conditions: high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, chronic lung problems, serious respiratory infections, and stroke.

Employees had to join the program in order to get the hospital’s most generous level of health insurance, called the Gold Plan. For family coverage, for example, the hospital paid nearly $1,650 more of costs in the Gold Plan.

Employees in the wellness program had to complete a health risk assessment that included height, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and other measurements. They also signed a pledge to maintain a healthy diet and exercise regularly. Smokers had to get help to quit. Spouses were also required to sign the health pledge and, if they smoked, get help.

The study tallied up BJC’s medical costs before the wellness program and for two years after. It also

compared those costs with expenses of two other big local employers that did not have wellness programs.

That was done to control for the possible impact of new drugs or medical innovations.

The results were counter-intuitive: A surprisingly large drop in hospitalizations for the six conditions targeted by the wellness program, but increased costs for medications and outpatient visits. When those were added to the cost of the wellness initiative itself, “it is unlikely that the program saved money,” the study concluded.

BJC President Steven Lipstein said he doesn’t dispute the conclusion, but he remains committed to the wellness program and would invite the researchers to take another look now.

Is the program saving money? “I do not know that,” said Lipstein. “I can tell you that our health benefit expenses go up every year.”

Lipstein said encouraging employees to make healthy lifestyle decisions and rewarding those who do reflects corporate values, not just the bottom line.

U.S. factory orders surged in January The Associated Press WASHINGTON – U.S. orders for machinery and other factory goods that signal business investment surged in January, indicating confidence in the economy.

The Commerce Department said Wednesday that orders for so-called core capital goods, which also include equipment and computers, rose 7.2 percent from December. It was the biggest gain in more than a year and higher than the initial 6.3 percent increase estimated by the government last week.

Total factory orders fell 2 percent in January from December. But the decline was mostly due to a steep drop in volatile aircraft and defense orders that was also reported last week.

Commercial aircraft orders plummeted 34 percent in January, while demand for

military aircraft plunged 63.8 percent. Excluding the weakness in transportation, total orders would have risen 1.3 percent in January.

Demand for durable goods, items expected to last at least three years, dropped 4.9 percent. Demand for nondurable goods, such as chemicals and paper, rose 0.6 percent.

Economists pay close attention to core capital goods because they are a good measure of business investment plans. The category excludes aircraft and military orders, which can fluctuate sharply from month to month.

Peter Newland, an economist at Barclays, said the gains in core capital goods, as well as stronger restocking by manufacturers in January, prompted Barclays’ economists to boost their economic growth estimate for the January-March quarter Newland said they now

expect growth at an annual rate of 1.8 percent. That’s up from their initial forecast of 1.4 percent and much higher than the 0.1 percent growth rate reported for the OctoberDecember quarter.

Companies kept expanding their production capacities in January, even as taxes rose and automatic government spending cuts loomed. Nearly all Americans who draw a paycheck began paying higher Social Security taxes on Jan. 1, while income taxes rose for the highest earning workers.

Across-the-board spending cuts started to take effect on March 1.

A separate report last week showed manufacturing grew in February at the fastest pace since June 2011. The report from the Institute for Supply Management said growth was bolstered by gains in new orders and production.

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Sales steady at Woodstock’s Maples at the Sonatas Jerry Kuyper WOODSTOCK – A landmark of sorts has been reached at the Maples at the Sonatas community in the city’s north side.

Sales passed the halfway point more than a month ago.

Designed by the developer for 125 single-family or villa-type housing, sales number 63.

Reaching the 50th percentile can be credited to 21 units being sold in 2012. Potential buyers were able to walk through two decorated villa

ranches and three decorated single-family ranches.

In 2006, Jamie Wilcox, the developer with Epcon Communities, opened the Maples as a maintenance- and stairway-free subdivision within the larger Sonatas subdivision. The target market was empty-nesters, retirees and others who were too busy with professional careers to attend to property upkeep.

After the economy collapsed in 2008, and the housing market with it, he lowered prices and expectations. Prices today are in the $180,000s to the $233,000s.

In 2006, Wilcox planned to build 126 condominiums

11501 Ballard Rd, Huntley List price $260,000

priced from the low to the high $200,000s at Maples at the Sonatas. He expected the 24-acre community to be sold out in three years.

Maples owners can use the community’s private clubhouse and heated swimming pool. The clubhouse has a furnished social room including a fireplace and flat-screen television, kitchen, space for a pool table, fitness center and restrooms. “Since a lot of our buyers downsize, the clubhouse is a great place for family gatherings, such as birthday parties, wedding showers and holiday dinners,” Wilcox said.

See BUILDER, page F2

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The Palazzo is one of five models open for viewing by the public at the Maples of the Sonatas community in Woodstock.

$75,000, 3205 E Bend Dr, Algonquin 60102-9664, 19-23-428-006, Deutsche Bank Natl Trt Co Ttee To Thr Property Illinois Lp, January 22 $110,000, 515 Somerset Ct, Algonquin 60102-1941, 19-33-103-002, Wells Fargo Bank To Tiffany Barbaccia, January 24 $129,000, 3025 Talaga Dr, Algonquin 60102-6853, 19-30-327-052, Hsbc Bank Usa Trustee To Eva Nemmers, January 18 $137,500, 311 Katrina Ln, Algonquin 60102-6809, 19-30-403-109, Robert J Farrell To Holly Peterson, January 24 $165,000, 605 La Fox River Dr, Algonquin 60102-2711, 19-34-157-004, Albert F Apuzzo To Andy Bobrow, January 22 $262,500, 4190 Bunker Hill Dr, Algonquin 60102-6282, 18-25-351060, Brian D Ciccone To Cartus Corp, January 23 $265,000, 4190 Bunker Hill Dr, Algonquin 60102-6282, 18-25-351-060, Cartus Corp To Christopher J Wrobel & Sharon A Wrobel, January 23 $269,500, 220 Lake Gillilan Way, Algonquin 60102-5015, 19-35-376-009, Scott M Pierce To David Kevin Miller & Denise Lynn Miller, January 17 $350,000, 431 Brookside Ave, Algonquin 60102-6804, 19-30-329-

007, Chadwick S Mackey To Miguel A Aguirre Jr, January 18

CARY $67,000, 220 Borden St, Cary 60013-2729, 19-13-201-007, Citimortgage Inc To Ken Cam Group Llc, January 17 $250,000, 442 Wentworth Cir, Cary 60013-2321, 20-06-427-022, Kevin Christensen To Christopher C Naatz & Joanna A Naatz, January 22 $276,000, 476 Newcastle Dr, Cary 60013-1703, 20-06-477-014, Olga Sharuba To Jason Brent Erpelding & Ann Michelle Erpelding, January 22 $295,000, 7200 Nighthawk Way, Cary 60013-6052, 20-07-254-001, Jonathan J Lakso To Jerry Lankford & Linda Lankford, January 23

CRYSTAL LAKE $67,000, 400 Westwood Ct A, Crystal Lake 60014-2822, 19-07-281-001, Susan N Ryczek To Jean Luc Moreau & Rita Moreau, January 24 $90,000, 554 W Terra Cotta Ave, Crystal Lake 60014-3429, 14-31-253042, Debra A Jozwick To Joseph C Marvel, January 24 $110,000, 672 Pointe Dr 672, Crystal Lake 60014-8021, 19-10-106-014, Dmitry Dvorkin To Shayne Kosyla, January 17 $110,000, 736 Pointe Dr, Crystal

Lake 60014-8023, 19-10-106-026, Wolschlager Llc To Vista Homes Llc, January 18 $138,500, 899 Nottingham Ln, Crystal Lake 60014-7664, 19-08-376-006, Harkins Trust To Zachary Spooner & Marie Spooner, January 24 $152,500, 3407 Barreville Rd, Crystal Lake 60012-1557, 14-23-200-006, Schlake Trust To Brian L Turskey & Joan M Turskey, January 17 $225,000, 186 Regal Dr, Crystal Lake 60014-6232, 19-04-280-010, Cartus Corp To Daniel A Porzezinski & Ewelina M Porzezinski, January 23 $235,000, 186 Regal Dr, Crystal Lake 60014-6232, 19-04-280-010, Timothy Martin To Cartus Corp, January 23 $263,000, 998 Plantain Ct, Crystal Lake 60014-6973, 18-12-226-011, Matthew I Samuelson To Ronald J Zegarski & Dorothy A Zegarski, January 22 $290,000, 284 Memorial Ct C, Crystal Lake 60014-6231, 19-04-306-007, Niles Holdings Llc To Heaton Holdings Llc, January 17 $322,500, 4903 Mcmillan Ln, Crystal Lake 60012-1341, 14-22-103-003, Hsbc Mortgage Services Inc To John Felbinger & Lindsay Felbinger, January 17 $405,000, 6001 Hawthorne Ln, Crystal Lake 60014-3910, 13-35-352003, Bank Of New York Mellon Ttee To Don Devine & Deborah Devine, January 23

FOX RIVER GROVE $135,000, 9804 Wolf Rd, Fox River Grove 60021-1649, 20-19-301-006, Smith Trust To Crowley Crowley & Evelyn Crowley, January 24 $210,000, 453 Hunters Way, Fox River Grove 60021-1851, 20-20-308-018, Federal National Mortgage Assn To Megan Santoyo, January 24

HARVARD $165,000, 1209 Lilac Ln, Harvard 60033-3716, 01-27-276-005, Margrit Jackson To Fernando A Guadarrama Jr & Laura Guadarrama, January 18

HUNTLEY $220,000, 9523 Baumgartner St, Huntley 60142-6020, 18-21-156-002, David J Brown To Jason E Jaske & Meghan E Jaske, January 18

ISLAND LAKE $125,000, 4101 Newport Dr, Island Lake 60042-8207, 15-29-101-009, Eric Marcus To Vidal Carrillo & Olivia Carrillo, January 18

JOHNSBURG $141,000, 1709 Sunnyside Beach Dr, Johnsburg 60051-8274, 10-18-176-005, Kathleen Rae Erickson To William B Palm & Tricia Annette Palm, January 18 Continued on page F2

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• BUILDER Continued from page F1 The villas and single-family ranches are clustered around the community’s pool and clubhouse.

Buyers have five ranch plans to choose from, all of which have volume ceilings and two to two-andone-half-car attached garages.

“Homes are ranches on a single level and maintenance-free at the Maples community in the Sonatas subdivision. Those features attract different types of buyers, but certainly the handicapped individuals will be interested as, for example, our homes have wide doorways and switches at accessible heights,” Wilcox recently noted.

There are no front or rear steps to climb or descend and, for the most part, interior stairs have been eliminated.

“The front floor is completely flat to the rise at the threshold. The garage does have a six-inch step, or gas ledge, so that an inadvertent spill does not leak into the house. But we can install a ramp at that six-inch step for better access to the garage.

“The community is not age-restricted, but it is a great living arrangement for older active adults, who are our biggest category of buyer. Even so, Maples will have appeal to everybody, including younger buyers.”

Villas are clustered as four ranches to a building,. They offer 1,718 to 1,816 square feet of living space. The exterior of each building is designed to look like a single-family house. Materials used on the exterior siding minimize future maintenance.

Villas have two or three bedrooms, two bathrooms, great room, formal dining room, eat-in kitchen, master bedroom suite and guestroom. Master baths include a glass shower, double-bowl vanity and linen closet. Homes feature a vaulted ceiling in the great room and transom windows with rounded tops. An enclosed sunroom can be used for 12 months of the year.

The second style of housing offered is the Courtyard Series, representing stand-alone ranches.

These ranches allow an owner to live the maintenance-free lifestyle typically found in condominium or townhouse communities, but

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Standalone living units at Maples of the Sonatas community in Woodstock includes a landscaped courtyard. with the benefit of not sharing a wall, floor or ceiling with anyone else. Three designs are offered. The 1,516-square foot Palazzo is priced at $207,990 and features two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a two-and-a-half car garage. A private courtyard is part of the package.

The Portico, which is priced at $222,990, is a 1,754 to 2,461 square-foot, two- bedroom, twobath single-family home with a den and two-and-one-half car attached garage. Buyers can use the den as a study, an office or a third bedroom.

The Promenade, priced at $232,990, has 1,994 to 2,873 square feet of living space, which includes two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a den, an open dining and living area, kitchen and a 485 square-foot private courtyard.

All villas and single-family ranches feature central air conditioning, an energy-efficiency package including low-e windows, a 92-percent-efficient furnace and insulation that meets or is better than city code. Ceramic tile is standard in the entry foyer and is a common

choice for bathrooms and the laundry room. Hardwood flooring is an option for the living room, dining room and kitchen. Other options are stainless steel appliances, cherry hardwood cabinetry and granite countertops.

A home owner’s association provides for snow removal from sidewalks and driveways, spreading salt in winter, plus grass cutting, landscaping, mulching, and exterior building maintenance. The monthly association fee is $150 on villas and $155 on detached ranches.

A sales center and decorated are open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m.

Sunday.

Take Route 47 to Ware Road, east on Ware a half mile, then turn left onto Vivaldi, and turn left again on Schumann Road. For information call 815-334-0340 or www.EpconCommunities.com.

Epcon Communities also has communities in Plainfield and Valparaiso, Ind. The company built more than 26,000 ranches in the United States.

Gerstad introduces new model to Wisconsin NORTHWEST HERALD As Epcon adds more sales at the Maples community, Gerstad Builders of McHenry pursues sales success at the Bailey Estates subdivision in Williams Bay, Wis. Company president Roger Gerstad hopes potential buyers will be interested in a new ranch floor plan at Bailey Estates. "It has never been offered before," he said.

Construction on the new 1,740-square-foot, $214,900 Bay View ranch should be completed by the end of this month.

The price includes a full look-out basement, central air conditioning, hardwood floors and GE stainless steel appliances (gas range, microwave range hood and dishwasher).

The three-bedroom Bay View model is on a half-acre site, and represents the sixth ranch plan available at Bailey Estates. The floor plan eliminates the need to climb stairs.

The dinette at the front of the ranch is adjacent to the kitchen.

Reflecting traditional exterior architecture, the ranch has an attached side-load two-car garage, steeply raked rooflines and decorative brick.

A feeling of open space is emphasized with a cathedral ceiling in the great room, eightfoot ceilings otherwise and the elimination of a wall between the kitchen and great room.

A master suite completely occupies one side of the ranch and is finished with a ceramic tiled shower stall, oversized soaking tub with ceramic tile deck, dual clothes closets and dual bath vanities.

Bailey Estates offers a variety of ranch and two-story designs that feature vaulted ceilings, 9-foot first floor ceilings, three to five bedrooms, two to three bathrooms, living, dining and family rooms,kitchens with 42-inch upper cabinets, breakfast area, basement and an attached two-car garage.

These designs provide 1,740 to 3,177 square feet of living space priced from $214,990 to $284,990.

Continued from page F1 $328,000, 2201 Fairview Ave, Johnsburg 600512537, 09-13-477-046, Kim M Markovich To Barbara J Frantz, January 24

LAKE IN THE HILLS $145,000, 930 Provence Pl, Lake In The Hills 60156-5637, 18-23-331-001, Nimse M Gomez To Ah4r Il Llc, January 22 $163,000, 5373 Danbury Cir, Lake In The Hills 60156-6364, 18-15-451-002, Lawrence R O Connor To Michael Joyce, January 18 $209,000, 3981 Willow View Dr, Lake In The Hills 60156-4673, 18-24-453-032, Mulvihill Trust To Robert S Cowan & Jeanie D Cowan, January 17 $216,000, 429 Prides Run, Lake In The Hills 60156-4865, 19-19-326-008, Robert Frey To James

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Construction on a BayView ranch design at the Bailey Estates community in Williams Bay, Wis., is almost completed. The subdivision is one of four currently being developed by Gerstad Builders of McHenry.

Options include skylights, three-car garages, wood-burning fireplaces, additional volume ceilings, custom millwork, imported ceramic tile, Corian or granite counter tops, hardwood flooring, and look-out or walk=out basements.

Gerstad lets buyers modify any available floor plan. Because each home is

stick-built, customizing is possible. Designs can be expanded, additional volume ceilings can be incorporated, and interior and exterior walls can be relocated.

Sales center off Bailey Road near Route 67 is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekends and by appointment weekdays. For information, call 262-245-9750 or 262-903-5555 or visit www.

gerstadbuilders.com.

Gerstad Builders, which has closer to 40 years of experience in the new-house building industry, has built and sold more than 1,500 single- and multi-family homes.

Besides Williams Bay, current subdivisions are in Richmond, McHenry and Poplar Grove.

E Wojdyla Jr & James E Wojdyla, January 22 $232,500, 7 Crossview Ct, Lake In The Hills 60156-5841, 18-26-378-007, William Gourley To Christopher D Flores & Maureen Flores, January 24 $448,000, 401 Ridge Ln, Lake In The Hills 601564430, 18-25-203-003, Peter T Geisert To Kevin Kozak & Laura Kozak, January 24

$80,000, 1237 N Green St, Mchenry 60050-4330, 09-26-454-010, American Ashland Llc To Kriti Sukniyom & Siriphote Kaewnopparat, January 22 $149,000, 318 Whitmore Trl, Mchenry 600505932, 09-33-379-012, Raymond P Galioto To American Homes Rent Lp, January 22 $164,000, 3425 Pearl St, Mchenry 60050-4446, 09-26-451-001, Patrick Mcvady To Curtis Ames, January 24 $260,000, 1811 N Woodlawn Park Ave, Mchenry 60051-3648, 09-25-126-031, Daniel G Wray To Darick Chlopek & Malgorzata Chlopek, January 23 $430,000, 1820 Mason Corte Dr, Mchenry 600513782, 10-30-154-002, Zofia Drwila To Carl Madsen & Laurie Madsen, January 22

8457, 09-18-252-009, Kevin W Sweet To Thomas Klimek, January 17

McCULLOM LAKE $135,000, 5096 Maplehill Dr, Mccullom Lake 60050-2369, 09-22-103-022, Mchenry Savings Bank To Thr Property Illinois Lp, January 17

McHENRY $80,000, 408 Waters Edge Dr D, Mchenry 60050-5063, 09-33-279-080, Ed Gerstad To Jessica A Wick, January 17

WONDER LAKE $172,500, 3611 Fawn Grv, Wonder Lake 60097-

WOODSTOCK $82,500, 725 Washington St, Woodstock 600982264, 13-06-253-011, Anton G Novy Estate To Edward J Fiala, January 18 $103,000, 239 Terry Ct, Woodstock 60098-2428, 08-32-154-004, Tyson A Bauman To Thr Property Illinois Lp, January 24 $143,000, 201 Verbena Ln, Woodstock 600984187, 13-08-353-004, Fannie Mae To Jason R Novak & Rachel L Novak, January 17 $660,000, 129 E Van Buren St, Woodstock 60098-3249, 13-05-378-001, Chicago Title Land Trt Co Ttee To Catalyst Properties Llc, January 18

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Rick Bellairs

$179,900 NOT A DRIVE-BY! This home has been almost completely rebuilt & is in like-new condition! All the charm of an older 4 Square but modern & up-to-date! Kitchen with cherry cabinets, granite & SS appliances. Loft, 3 season room & so much more. MLS#08166338 Harding Real Estate

$199,900 PRAIRIE RIDGE RANCH Impeccable home offering vaulted ceilings, hardwood flrs, large eat-in kitchen & family room with fireplace. Finished lower level with rec room & custom built bar area. There are endless possibilities in the lower level.

MLS#08279937 Harding Real Estate

Woodstock

$239,900 ONE LEVEL LIVING This wonderful ranch home located in a prestigious area is close to town & park. Bay window in the eat-in area overlooks a mature yard & deck. Brick FP, skylights & wood beams accent the LR. Partially fin. LL. 3 car garage.

MLS#08080251 Harding Real Estate

Woodstock

$279,900 FULFILL YOUR DREAMS! Lovely home in a great neighborhood offering open floor plan, loft, family room with fireplace, dining room open to living room, MBR with luxury bath & kitchen with sliders to huge deck that overlooks a great backyard.

MLS#08260777 Harding Real Estate

Beatrice Knaack

Andrew Harding

Kim McCallister

Beatrice Knaack

815-338-3850

Woodstock

Woodstock

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Woodstock

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Woodstock

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Woodstock

$399,900 2 WOODED ACRES Beautifully designed brick & cedar upscale home in lovely subdivision. Highlights include gourmet kitchen, cherry hdwd flrs, MBR w/fireplace & incredible bath, first floor office, loft, guest suite, screen porch & much more!

MLS#08262254 Harding Real Estate

$660,000 A HOME FOR ALL SEASONS This custom home is positioned privately on a wooded cul-de-sac in an eleven lot subdivision in Bull Valley. Custom woodwork, windows galore to soak up the sun & the perfect screened porch. Fin. basement, pool & pool house.

MLS#07943871 Harding Real Estate

Beatrice Knaack

Kim McCallister

815-338-3850

Woodstock

Woodstock

815-338-3850

$1,125,000 12+ ACRES This brick and stone ranch is all new from top to bottom. Set on 12 partially wooded acres with 3 ponds & adjacent to Conservation District. New 20x25 family room featuring windows on 3 sides overlooking the woods and water. MLS#07777358 Harding Real Estate

$1,975,000 BULL VALLEY ESTATE A private drive winds through the forest & leads to this all brick home on 10 acres adjacent to Conservation District & riding trails. First flr master, 2-story great rm, fin. walkout bsmnt, 6 fireplaces, heated 5 car garage.

MLS#07891207 Harding Real Estate

Rick Bellairs

Rick Bellairs

815-338-3850

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Marengo

$99,500 Lot 6 Olbrich Road Looking to build your dream home? Build on this beautiful 5 acre lot. No subdivision building restrictions. Enjoy the benefits of living in the country while having easy access to I-90. Horses and Outbuildings allowed.

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Laura Heinberg

815-568-9000

CRYSTAL LAKE 2BR

Hebron: newly decorated 2BR, upper apt., w/attached garage., $750/month plus security, Call Frank 815-482-9635

No smoking/pets, $800 + sec.

815-893-0059 ~ Lv Msg

MCHENRY 2 BEDROOM TH ~ Beautifully Updated Ranch ~ 2BA, full basement, 2 car garage. $119,750. 815-363-7639

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

2 Bedroom. First floor, $825/mo.

Heat, gas, water, D/W included.

Pets extra. 847-707-3800

Email: classified@ shawsuburban.com Fax: 815-477-8898 or online at: www.nwherald.com

ALGONQUIN - 2 BEDROOM Quiet and clean building with storage, laundry and parking. $800/mo. 847-401-3242

Algonquin – STUDIO 400 SQ. FT. Balcony w/ large windows, modern, steps to Main St. & river, $750/mo. 847-387-0245 Get the job you want at NWHerald.com/jobs

Laundry on-site, no pets, Sect 8 OK, $690/mo + sec.

847-812-9830

RECRUIT LOCAL! Target your recruitment message to McHenry County or reach our entire area.

For more information, call 800-589-8237 or email: helpwanted@ shawsuburban.com

HARVARD Autumn Glen Spacious 2 bdrm Apts avail Free extra storage Free heat!!

Pets welcome!

Rents from: $733* 1st month free ~or~ Free 55” flat screen TV CALL TODAY! 815-943-6700 www.gallinacos.com M-F: 10am-6pm Sat: By Appt (*includes special) Harvard. Large upper 2BR. Downtown. A/C, stove, fridge. $650/mo+sec. No smoking or pets. 815-403-0709

Island Lake Luxury Apt. Spacious 2BR, 2BA, D/W, W/D, C/A. Approx 1000 sq ft.

REDUCED RATE! $850/MO. 847-526-9228 Marengo Large 1 & 2 BR most utilities included Broker Owner $650 & UP 815-347-1712 Marengo Newly Remodeled 3BR Large eat-in-kitchen, $780/mo + garage and utilities. No dogs.

Agent Owned. 815-814-3348

Crystal Lake Large & Spacious

FOX LAKE 1 BR,

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

McHenry in town 2BR garden apt., $595+utils., $975 dep., NO dogs, Broker Owned 815-344-1167

McHenry -Large studio/1BR some utilities included, balcony $650 and up Broker Owned 815-347-1712

MCHENRY QUIET BUILDING

ISLAND LAKE 2 BEDROOM Quiet building, no pets. $825 + security. 847-526-4435 More people read the Northwest Herald each day than all other papers combined in McHenry County!

MARENGO RURAL SETTING

McHenry - Route 31 IRISH PRAIRIE APTS

1 & 2 BEDROOM

Small 1BR Cottage includes storage area in barn, $535/mo.

Pet with deposit. 815-291-9456

With W/D & Fitness Center.

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Marengo Upper 1 & 2BR

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Quiet bldg, heat incl, W/D on site.

No dogs, no smkg. $550-$675.

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1 bedroom, heat and water incl. $675/mo, security deposit req.

NO PETS. 815-382-6418

OPEN HOUSES Watch for the Northwest Classified Open House Directory every Friday, Saturday & Sunday.

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Wonder Lake. 3BR, 2BA, 2 car garage, hrdwd flrs, bsmnt.

Giant deck. Near beach, lake access. No pets. $1000/mo.

815-382-5614 or 815-236-9764

WOODSTOCK

WONDER LAKE: 3BR, 1.5BA, new paint & carpet, garage, D/W, W/D, w softener, $950/mo.

Credit check 815-260-5259 Wonder Lake: spacious 2 BR, new paint & carpet, 1 car gar., fenced yard, deck, $900/month Broker Owned 815-347-1712

WOODSTOCK 3 BEDROOM

Autumnwood Apt. 1 Bedroom Starting at $695 Elevator Building 815-334-9380 www.cunat.com Woodstock Square Studios & 1BR Quiet, clean, bright. Laundry, DW. free heat. No smoking, no pets. $550 - $825. 815-276-7535

Woodstock Upstairs 2BR All appls furnished + W/D. 1 car garage, NO PETS. $850/mo.

815-385-9435

WOODSTOCK WILLOW BROOKE APTS Studio, 1 & 2 Bedrooms Rents Include: Water & Sewer Garbage Removal FREE: Pool & Fitness Center

815-338-2383 www.cunat.com

Grayslake: 2BR, 2BA, TH, $1200 / mo., Carillon North, 55 & over community, 2 car gar., front & back patio, W/D, 847-736-2838

HEBRON 2BR CONDO All appl, patio, private entrance. $900 - $750, garage available.

815-455-8310

McHenry 2-3BR, 2-3BA Almost New! 2 car, appls. Rent To Own, $1150-$1250/mo. Pets OK. Available now. 815-385-5525 MCHENRY newer 2BR, 2B end unit in Morgan Hill. Spacious, bright, clean, attached garage. Private balcony overlooks open area. $1200.

815-363-1653

Crystal Lake: spacious 1 & 2BR, w/garage, $790-$890/month Broker Owned 815-347-1712 Harvard. 2BR, 2BA. Close to town & schools. Sec dep req. $850/mo+utils. Immediate occupancy. 815-790-0517

MARENGO 2BR DUPLEX

1.5BA, 1st Flr Laundry Room, Full Bsmnt. 2 Car Garage. $1050 + sec. 815-568-6311 Woodstock 2BR, near square laundry, $790/month Broker Owned 815-347-1712

WOODSTOCK 3 BEDROOM 1.5 Bath, A/C, Stove, Refrigerator, Garage, No Pets. Broker Owned.

847-683-7944 HURRY!!

Crystal Lake 3BR Ranch

1.5 bath, basement, appl, W/D, 1.5 car garage, $1250/mo + sec.

815-354-4575

Crystal Lake 4BR On Fox River 200 ft of Waterfront + boat, dock and deck on 1.5 acres. 2BA, C/A. $1395/mo. 708-296-4476 Crystal Lake Charming Vintage Coach House - Can be Artist Quarters. Large 2 Story Space!

1 bedroom with den, great yard. $825 + all utilities. No dogs.

Agent Owned 815-814-3348 Crystal Lake, 3 Br. Home, 1.5 Ba, Full bsmt., Appliances - W/D, 1 Car Garage, $1250/mo + security.

815-236-9940 Crystal Lake. Small 3BR. Garage. No pets. $1000/mo+sec.

815-459-1543 Johnsburg. Ranch on a fenced double lot with 3BR, 1BA on crawl space w/1.5 car attchd gar & shed. $1045/mo.

Land Management Properties 815-678-4771 Lake in the Hills. 2BR, 2BA, 2 car gar, privacy backyard. $1200/mo. Beautiful landscaping.

Pergola. 847-650-5517 Marengo 3BR, Large Bath.

W/D hook-up. Fridge, Stove, DW. Bsnmt. Garage. $800/mo+dep 815-568-1989

McHenry 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath Country Home. Sunroom, appls. $850/mo + security. Add'l rental space in out bldgs may be avail.

Call Nancy 847-204-6192

McHenry, 2 Br, 1 Ba, 2 Car. Att. Gar., Hardwood Flrs., W/D. Includes Appl., Back Patio, $1100/m + sec. dep. 815-219-1836 McHenry: 3BR, 2BA, DR, big FR, 2 car heated gar., big office rm, all appl., C/A, patio, big deck, $1600+sec dep 815-385-3269 McHenry: Whispering Oaks 3BR, 2 full bath, 2 car gar., huge sun room, $1300 Call 815-690-8186 Wauconda. Newly decorated.

Adult community. No pets. Units from $645-$795/mo+sec.

847-526-5000 Leave Message.

Wonder Lake 2 Bedroom 1 bath, fenced yard, garage avail, no pets. $900 w/garage. $850 w/o garage + 1 month security.

815-728-8000

1.5 bath, living, dining, bonus room. 1 car detach garage, W/D. $1200/mo + util + background check required. 815-338-4140

McHenry: large studio-like room, house on 1 acre, males preferred., no smoking, $550/mo. Cable, Wi-Fi, utils incl. 815-344-9442

Woodstock Single male W/2 dogs looking to rent room in farmhouse.

Full house privileges, $500/mo.

815-814-7308 Call aft 3:30pm

MCHENRY/RINGWOOD Office & Warehouse w/14'OH Doors.1800sf $750/mo. 3600sf $1650/mo Zoned I-1/B-3. 815-482-7084

Crystal Lake Hurry Last One Left Clean Office Suite. 400 SF. Incl. all utils + High Speed DSL. $525/mo. 815-790-0240

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.SALVADOR SALINAS, NORMA SALINAS, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., BURTON BRIDGE BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION, AQUA FINANCE, INC., UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 10 CH 3703 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 9, 2013, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on April 10, 2013, 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 3806 TULIP STREET, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Property Index No. 15-19-379007. The real estate is improved with a two story single family residence. The judgment amount was $176,933.77. 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 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: The sales clerk, FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 498-9990 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. only. Please refer to file number 10-046498. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301

DEKALB

Immaculate 4,280 sq ft Office / Warehouse.

Air conditioned office area and bathrooms Great location near airport & tollway in DeKalb.

815-754-5831

Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 498-9990 Attorney File No. 10046498 Case Number: 10 CH 3703 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.

I512563 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 28, March 7 & 14, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE UNDER POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 2005 MASTR ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES TRUST 2005-FRE1 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-FRE1 Plaintiff, -v.ROLANDO DURAN, et al Defendants 11 CV 50333 JUDGE FREDERICK J. KAPALA NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 27, 2012, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, Special Commissioner appointed herein,will at 1:00 PM on March 18, 2013, 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 1382 N. TEAKWOOD LANE, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Property Index No. 13-36-356023. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $179,043.55. Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. 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 ill NOT be fo in

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 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP, 9191 BROADWAY, Merrillville, IN 46410, (219) 769-1313 FAX #: 219-769-6806. Please refer to file number 14374.7233. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP 9191 BROADWAY Merrillville, IN 46410 (219) 769-1313 Attorney File No. 14374.7233 Case Number: 3 : 11 CV 50333 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.

I508880 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 14, 21, 28 & March 7, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 2006 SECURITIZED ASSET BACKED RECEIVABLES LLC TRUST 2006-FR4 Plaintiff, -vAMADOR GONZALEZ, et al Defendants 11 CV 50353 JUDGE FREDERICK J. KAPALA NO CE OF SPEC COMMIS

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NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 30, 2012, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, Special Commissioner appointed herein,will at 1:00 PM on March 18, 2013, 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 311 RATZLAFF STREET, Harvard, IL 60033 Property Index No. 01-35-302010. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $128,485.68. Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. 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 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP, 9191 BROADWAY, Merrillville, IN 46410, (219) 769-1313 FAX #: 219-769-6806. Please refer to file number 14374.7103. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312)

Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP 9191 BROADWAY Merrillville, IN 46410 (219) 769-1313 Attorney File No. 14374.7103 Case Number: 3 : 11 CV 50353 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.

I509026 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 14, 21, 28 & March 7, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS GMAC Mortgage, LLC Plaintiff, Vs. Karen M. Niziolek; et. al.

Defendants, 12 CH 2201 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on JANUARY 8, 2013 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on APRIL 15, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: The common address of said real estate is: 537 Norman Drive, Cary, IL 60013 PIN:19-13-126-013 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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 shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which

will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney."

If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527 File Number: 14-12-19038 I513221 (Published in the Northwest Herald, March 7, 14 & 21, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR SOUNDVIEW HOME LOAN TRUST 2007-1 ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-1 Plaintiff, -v.CARL A. HANSEN, et al Defendants 3 : 11 CV 50391 JUDGE FREDERICK J. KAPALA NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 8, 2012, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, Special Commissioner appointed herein,will at 1:00 PM on March 18, 2013, 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 4711 ALTHOFF DRIVE, McHenry, IL 60050 Property Index No. 10-08-151011. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $177,714.85. Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; ds/o

The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. 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 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP, 9191 BROADWAY, Merrillville, IN 46410, (219) 769-1313 FAX #: 219-769-6806. Please refer to file number 14374.7595. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP 9191 BROADWAY Merrillville, IN 46410 (219) 769-1313 Attorney File No. 14374.7595 Case Number: 3 : 11 CV 50391 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.

I508985 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 14, 21, 28 & March 7, 2013.)

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.SALVADOR SALINAS, NORMA SALINAS, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., BURTON BRIDGE BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION, AQUA FINANCE, INC., UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 10 CH 3703 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 9, 2013, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on April 10, 2013, 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 1 IN BLOCK 11 IN FRANK E. MERRILL & CO.'S FIRST ADDITION TO BURTON BRIDGE BEACH SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE LOT 1 OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER, AND PART OF THE WEST FRACTION OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 9 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, WEST OF THE FOX RIVER, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 4, 1925 AS DOCUMENT NO. 69768, IN BOOK 5 OF PLATS, PAGE 47, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 3806 TULIP STREET, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Property Index No. 15-19-379007. The real estate is improved with a two story single family residence. The judgment amount was $176,933.77. 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 ACCOR-

DANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: The sales clerk, FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 498-9990 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. only. Please refer to file number 10-046498. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 498-9990 Attorney File No. 10046498 Case Number: 10 CH 3703 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.

I512563 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 28, March 7 & 14, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE UNDER POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 2005 MASTR ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES TRUST 2005-FRE1 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-FRE1 Plaintiff, -v.ROLANDO DURAN, et al Defendants 11 CV 50333 JUDGE FREDERICK J. KAPALA NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 27, 2012, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, Special Commissioner appointed herein,will at 1:00 PM on March 18, 2013, 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 23 IN BLOCK 1 IN THE SUBDIVISION OF BLOCK 9 OF R.A. CEPEK'S CRYSTAL VISTA, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AND OF PART OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AUGUST 25, 1952 AS DOCUMENT 256557, IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS, PAGE 60, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS Commonly known as 1382 N. TEAKWOOD LANE, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Property Index No. 13-36-356023. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $179,043.55. Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. 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 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP, 9191 BROADWAY, Merrillville, IN 46410, (219) 769-1313 FAX #: 219-769-6806. Please refer to file number 14374.7233. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP 9191 BROADWAY Merrillville, IN 46410 (219) 769-1313 Attorney File No. 14374.7233 Case Number: 3 : 11 CV 50333 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.

I508880 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 14, 21, 28 & March 7, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 1,

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

2006 SECURITIZED ASSET BACKED RECEIVABLES LLC TRUST 2006-FR4 Plaintiff, -vAMADOR GONZALEZ, et al Defendants 11 CV 50353 JUDGE FREDERICK J. KAPALA NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 30, 2012, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, Special Commissioner appointed herein,will at 1:00 PM on March 18, 2013, 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 13 IN BLOCK 8 IN E.E. AYER'S ADDITION TO HARVARD, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 5, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED DECEMBER 17, 1875 IN BOOK 59 OF DEEDS PAGE 304, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 311 RATZLAFF STREET, Harvard, IL 60033 Property Index No. 01-35-302010. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $128,485.68. Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. 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 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP, 9191 BROADWAY, Merrillville, IN 46410, (219) 769-1313 FAX #: 219-769-6806. Please refer to file number 14374.7103. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP 9191 BROADWAY Merrillville, IN 46410 (219) 769-1313 Attorney File No. 14374.7103 Case Number: 3 : 11 CV 50353 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.

I509026 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 14, 21, 28 & March 7, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS GMAC Mortgage, LLC Plaintiff, Vs. Karen M. Niziolek; et. al.

Defendants, 12 CH 2201 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on JANUARY 8, 2013 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on APRIL 15, 2013, at the hour of 10:30 A.M., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 16 IN BLOCK 2 IN FRANKE'S WEST SIDE SUBDIVISION UNIT NO.4, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 12, AND PART OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 30, 1977 AS DOCUMENT NO. 716263, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. The common address of said real estate is: 537 Norman Drive, Cary, IL 60013 PIN:19-13-126-013 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. 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 shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney."

If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527 File Number: 14-12-19038 I513221 (Published in the Northwest Herald, March 7, 14 & 21, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE CONDEMNATION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF McHENRY, ss. - In the Circuit Court of the 22nd Judicial District McHenry County, Illinois, County Department, Law Division.

The Department of Transportation of the State of Illinois for and on behalf of the People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff, vs.

NORTH STAR TRUST COMPANY, as successor to the State Bank of Woodstock, as Trustee, u/t/a dated March 25, 1991 and known as Trust No. 4845; Marvin Marquardt; "UNKNOWN OWNERS" and "NONRECORD CLAIMANTS", Generally, Defendants.

12 ED 64 The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, "Unknown Owners" and "Non-Record Claimants", Defendants in the above-entitled suit, that the abovenamed Plaintiff has filed its Complaint in said Court for condemnation pursuant to the eminent domain laws of the State of Illinois, of the lands and premises in the Complaint situated in McHenry County, State of Illinois, to wit: PARCEL NO. 1CV1025, 1CV1025TE-A & 1CV1025TE-B JOB NO. R-91-015-98 PARCEL NO. 1CV1025 THAT PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHP 44 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCPAL MERIDIAN, MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 46 MINUTES 54 SECONDS EAST (BEARING AS REFERENCED TO PLAT OF CENTER LINE RECORDED NOVEMBER 5, 1999 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 1999R0076695, MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS), ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26, 925.67 FEET, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING NORTH 89 DEGREES 46 MINUTES 54 SECONDS EAST, ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26, 78.07 FEET TO THE CENTERLINE OF U.S. ROUTE 14 PER DOCUMENT NUMBER 1999R0076695 RECORDED NOVEMBER 5, 1999, MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS; THENCE SOUTH 33 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 48 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID CENTERLINE, 848.99 FEET, TO THE CENTERLINE OF RIDGEFIELD ROAD AS MOMUMENTED PER DOCUMENT NUMBER 1999R0076695 RECORDED NOVEMBER 5, 1999, MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS EXTENDED WEST; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 12 MINUTES 35 SECONDS WEST, ALONG THE CENTERLINE OF RIDGEFIELD ROAD EXTENDED WEST, 89.55 FEET; THENCE NORTH 33 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 16 SECONDS WEST, 645.15 FEET; THENCE NORTH 56 DEGREES 58 MINUTES 44 SECONDS EAST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 10.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 33 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 16 SECONDS WEST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 198.37 FEET, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. SAID PARCEL CONTAINING 1,430 ACRES MORE OR LESS OF WHICH 0.585 ACRES HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY USED. PARCEL NO.1CV1025TE-A THAT PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 46 MINUTES 54 SECONDS EAST (BEARING AS REFERENCED TO PLAT OF CENTER LINE RECORDED NOVEMBER 5, 1999 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 1999R0076695, MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS), ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26, 925.67 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 33 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 16 SECONDS EAST, 198.37 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 56 DEGREES 58 MINUTES 44 SECONDS WEST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 10.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 33 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 16 SECONDS EAST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 195.57 FEET, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING SOUTH 33 DEGREES 01 MINUTES

16 SECONDS EAST, 28.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 56 DEGREES 58 MINUTES 44 SECONDS WEST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 10.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 33 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 16 SECONDS WEST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 28.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 56 DEGREES 58 MINUTES 44 SECONDS EAST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 10.00 FEET, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL NO. 1CV1025TE-B THAT PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN,MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 46 MINUTES 54 SECONDS EAST (BEARING AS REFERENCED TO PLAT OF CENTER LINE RECORDED NOVEMBER 5, 1999 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 1999R0076695, MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS), ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 26, 925.67 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 33 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 16 SECONDS EAST, 198.37 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 56 DEGREES 58 MINUTES 44 SECONDS WEST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 10.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 33 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 16 SECONDS EAST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 368.40 FEET, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING SOUTH 33 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 16 SECONDS EAST, 40.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 56 DEGREES 58 MINUTES 44 SECONDS WEST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 10.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 33 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 16 SECONDS WEST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 40.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 56 DEGREES 58 MINUTES 44 SECONDS EAST, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED LINE, 10.00 FEET, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. SAID PARCEL CONTAINING 0.009 ACRES (400 SQUARE FEET) MORE OR LESS. Now, therefore, unless you, the said above-named Defendants, file your Appearance in the said suit, in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of McHenry County, McHenry County Courthouse, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois on or before April 1, 2013, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint, dated, June 28, 2012.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Francis J. Bongiovanni, Special Assistant Attorney General (6199122), Attorney for Plaintiff, 108 Bokelman Street, Roselle, Illinois, 60172.

I511244 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 28, March 7 & 14, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE CONDEMNATION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF McHENRY, ss. - In the Circuit Court of the 22nd Judicial District McHenry County, Illinois, County Department, Law Division.

The Department of Transportation of the State of Illinois for and on behalf of the People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff, vs.

THE CHICAGO TRUST COMPANY, as successor to Wayne Hummer Trust Co. N.A. f/k/a Wintrust Asset Management, N.A. as Trustee u/t/a dated February 16, 1999 and known as Trust No. BBT-5501; THOMAS NEIS; EIS INSURANCE; CREMATION SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS; CRYSTAL LAKE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY; "UNKNOWN OWNERS" and "NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS", Generally, Defendants.

12 ED 66 The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, "Unknown Owners" and "Non-Record Claimants", Defendants in the above-entitled suit, that the abovenamed Plaintiff has filed its Complaint in said Court for condemnation pursuant to the eminent domain laws of the State of Illinois, of the lands and premises in the Complaint situated in McHenry County, State of Illinois, to wit: PARCEL NO. 1CV0226 & 1CV0226TE JOB NO. R-91-015-98 PARCEL NO. 1CV0226 THAT PART OF LOT A IN HARTWIG'S SUBDIVISION IN PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF LOT 1 IN ROCKENBACH'S SUBDIVISION ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OF SAID ROCKENBACH'S SUBDIVISION RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 274913, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, SAID HARTWIG SUBDIVISION ALSO BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PARTS OF LOTS 6 AND 7 IN BLOCK 1 IN CHITTENDEN'S ADDITION TO CRYSTAL LAKE ACCORDING TO THE PLAT RECORDED SEPTEMBER 8, 1976, IN BOOK 62 OF DEEDS, PAGE 3 ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OF SAID HARTWIG SUBDIVISION RECORDED SEPTEMBER 12, 1988 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 88R028807, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT A; THENCE ON AN ASSUMED BEARING OF NORTH 88 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 49 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT A, A DISTANCE OF 16.43 FEET; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY 131.58 FEET ALONG A CURVE TO THE RIGHT HAVING A RADIUS OF 2930.91 FEET, THE CHORD OF SAID CURVE BEARS SOUTH 14 DEGREES 52 MINUTES 36 SECONDS EAST, 131.57 FEET TO THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT A; THENCE SOUTH 74 DEGREES 16 MINUTES 22 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT A, A DISTANCE OF 15.36

FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT A; THENCE NORTHWESTERLY 135.52 FEET (135.42 FEET, RECORDED) ALONG THE WESTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT A ON A CURVE TO THE LEFT HAVING A RADIUS OF 3029.48 FEET, THE CHORD OF SAID CURVE BEARS NORTH 15 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 03 SECONDS WEST, 135.51 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. SAID PARCEL CONTAINING 0.048 ACRE, MORE OR LESS. PARCEL NO.1CV0226TE THAT PART OF LOT A IN HARTWIG'S SUBDIVISION IN PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF LOT 1 IN ROCKENBACH'S SUBDIVISION ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OF SAID ROCKENBACH'S SUBDIVISION RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 274913, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, SAID HARTWIG SUBDIVISION ALSO BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PARTS OF LOTS 6 AND 7 IN BLOCK 1 IN CHITTENDEN'S ADDITION TO CRYSTAL LAKE ACCORDING TO THE PLAT RECORDED SEPTEMBER 8, 1976, IN BOOK 62 OF DEEDS, PAGE 3 ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OF SAID HARTWIG SUBDIVISION RECORDED SEPTEMBER 12, 1988 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 88R028807, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT A; THENCE ON AN ASSUMED BEARING OF NORTH 88 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 49 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT A, A DISTANCE OF 16.43 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY 18.33 FEET ALONG A CURVE TO THE RIGHT HAVING A RADIUS OF 2930.91 FEET, THE CHORD OF SAID CURVE BEARS SOUTH 15 DEGREES 59 MINUTES 01 SECOND EAST, 18.33 FEET; THENCE NORTH 73 DEGREES 49 MINUTES 47 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 8.00 FEET; THENCE NORTHWESTERLY 16.29 FEET ALONG A CURVE TO THE LEFT HAVING A RADIUS OF 2938.91 FEET, THE CHORD OF SAID CURVE BEARS NORTH 15 DEGREES 57 MINUTES 51 SECONDS WEST, 16.29 FEET TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT A; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 49 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT A, A DISTANCE OF 8.26 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. SAID TEMPORARY EASEMENT CONTAINING 0.003 ACRE, MORE OR LESS, 138 SQUARE FEET, MORE OR LESS. SAID TEMPORARY EASEMENT TO BE USED FOR DRIVEWAY CONSTRUCTION PURPOSES. Now, therefore, unless you, the said above-named Defendants, file your Appearance in the said suit, in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of McHenry County, McHenry County Courthouse, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois on or before April 1, 2013, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint, dated, June 28, 2012.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Francis J. Bongiovanni, Special AsGeneral sistant Attorney (6199122), Attorney for Plaintiff, 108 Bokelman Street, Roselle, Illinois, 60172.

I511353 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 28, March 7 & 14, 2013.)

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association PLAINTIFF Vs. Erik Beaman a/k/a Erik C. Beaman; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants DEFENDANTS 13 CH 00120 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Erik Beaman a/k/a Erik C. Beaman, Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit: LOT 206 IN GREENFIELDS UNIT NUMBER 5, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 920 W. Main Street, Cary, IL 60013 and which said Mortgage was made by: Erik Beaman a/k/a Erik C. Beaman, the Mortgagor(s), to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Nominee for Woodfield Planning Corporation, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of McHenry County, Illinois, as Document No. 2003R0085302 rerecorded 2003R0158279; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending.

NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court 2200 N. Seminary Woodstock, IL 60098 on or before April 1, 2013, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-12-27125

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I511923 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 28, March 7 & 14, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. PLAINTIFF Vs. Mark Martinez; Laura Martinez; JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA; Capital One Bank (USA), N.A.; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants DEFENDANTS 13 CH 00253 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Mark Martinez, Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, towit: LOT 158 IN BIG SKY UNIT TWO B, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 19, PART OF LOT 1 OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 19 AND PART OF LOT 1 OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 30, ALL BEING IN TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 16, 1993 AS DOCUMENT NO. 93R070699 IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1103 Heavens Gate, Lake in the Hills, IL 60156 and which said Mortgage was made by: Mark Martinez, Laura Martinez, the Mortgagor(s), to Bank One N.A., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of McHenry County, Illinois, as Document No. 2003R0112836; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending.

NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court 2200 N. Seminary Woodstock, IL 60098 on or before April 1, 2013, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-13-02449 NOTE: This law firm is deemed to be a debt collector.

I511290 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 28, March 7 & 14, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: ROBERTO GALLINAR, Plaintiff, vs ELISABETH NONATO, Defendant.

Case No. 13 DV 65 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite Affidavit for Publication having been filed, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN YOU, ELISABETH NONATO, Defendant, in the aboveentitled action, that a suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 22nd Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, Illinois, by Plaintiff, ROBERTO GALLINAR, against you praying for a dissolution of marriage and for other relief.

NOW THEREFORE, you are further notified that unless you, ELISABETH NONATO, the said Defendant, file your Answer to the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage in said suit, or otherwise make your Appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois, on or before March 28, 2013, a default may be entered against you at any time after that date and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at my office in Woodstock, Illinois, this 14th day of February, 2013. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court 22nd Judicial Circuit McHenry County, Illinois (SEAL) Prepared by: CHARLES R. McKENNEY #6270251 Attorney for Petitioner 800 McHenry Avenue-C Crystal Lake, IL 60014 (Published in the Northwest Herald February 21, 28, and March 7, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTYIN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of MARK A. PETERSON, Deceased Case No. 13 PR 0051 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of MARK A. PETERSON of HARVARD, IL Letters of office were issued on 2/15/2013 to Representative AVEREY BEETSTRA PETERSON, 65 E. SCOTT ST, APT 3K, CHICAGO, IL 60610-5268 whose attorney is CAMPION CURRAN LAMB & CUNABAUGH, 16 N. AYER STREET, HARVARD, IL 60033.

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 Cen-

y y ter, 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 March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTYIN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of SHAWN G. BITZER, Deceased Case No. 13 PR 061 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of SHAWN G. BITZER of Lake in the Hills, IL Letters of office were issued on 2/20/2013 to Representative JEFFREY G. BITZER, 1585 FREEMAN RD., HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL 60192-1675 whose attorney is ZUKOWSKI ROGERS FLOOD & McARDLE, 50 VIRGINIA STREET, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014.

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 March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Crystal Lake School District 47 Crystal Lake, Illinois BID NOTICE The Board of Education of School District 47 is requesting bids for P.E. Uniforms for the 2013-2014 School Year. Specifications are available at the School District Administration Office at 300 Commerce Drive, Crystal Lake, IL 60014. Bids must be received by Monday, March 18, 2013 by 3 p.m. The Board of Education reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids.

Kevin T. Werner Chief Financial Officer (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Crystal Lake School District 47 Crystal Lake, Illinois

Book 14 of Plats, page 40, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Commonly known as 4711 ALTHOFF DRIVE, McHenry, IL 60050 Property Index No. 10-08-151011. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $177,714.85. Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twentyfour (24) hours. 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 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP, 9191 BROADWAY, Merrillville, IN 46410, (219) 769-1313 FAX #: 219-769-6806. Please refer to file number 14374.7595. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. BURKE COSTANZA & CARBERRY LLP 9191 BROADWAY Merrillville, IN 46410 (219) 769-1313 Attorney File No. 14374.7595 Case Number: 3 : 11 CV 50391 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.

I508985 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 14, 21, 28 & March 7, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE "Johnsburg Community Unit School District #12 is inviting independent architectural firms to submit architectural proposals to provide architectural services to the district. Proposals are to be submitted no later than April 5th, 2013.

Requests for proposals may be requested by email only from Dan Johnson at djohnson@johnsburg12.org. Any inquiries regarding the district or this invitation should be directed to Dan Johnson, Superintendent, Johnsburg Community Unit School District #12, 2222 West Church Street, Johnsburg, IL 60051. The District reserves the right to accept, reject or waive any or all proposals."

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID Crystal Lake School District 47 will receive sealed proposals for the: Paving Maintenance Bid at Multiple Schools ATTN: David Schuh, Director of Operations Deadline for receipt of proposals and public opening is Monday, April 1, 2013 at 11:00 AM CDT. PRICING SHOULD NOT BE ENTERED AT THIS TIME AS PRICING WILL BE TAKEN EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE. A MANDATORY Pre-Bid Conference is scheduled on March 20, 2013 at 11:00 AM CDT to review the scope of work under consideration for this project. Failure to attend the Pre-Bid meeting on time and in its entirety shall disqualify anyone from bidding the project.

The exact location of the pre-bid conference is included in the plans.

Cut-off date for picking-up plans is March 18, 2013 at 3:00 PM CDT. The response deadline is April 1, 2013 at 11:00 AM CDT Obtain Bidding Documents after 8:00 AM CDT on March 8, 2013 at: Crystal Lake School District C.O.R.E Center, 300 Commerce Drive, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 No plan deposit required. One copy limit per bidder. Or by contacting Jerry Siegel, Project Manager, eBridge LLC at: jerry.siegel@ebridgeglobal.com (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS WESTERN DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR SOUNDVIEW HOME LOAN TRUST 2007-1 ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-1 Plaintiff, -v.CARL A. HANSEN, et al Defendants 3 : 11 CV 50391 JUDGE FREDERICK J. KAPALA NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 8, 2012, an agent of The Judicial Sales Corporation, Special Commissioner appointed herein,will at 1:00 PM on March 18, 2013, 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 Four Hundred Forty Nine (449), Pistakee Hills Unit #3, being a subdivision of part of the Northeast Quarter of Section 7 and Part of the Northwest Quarter of Section 8, Township 45 North, Range 9, East of the Third Principal Meridian according to the Plat thereof recorded October 29, 1959 as Document No. 361805, in

(Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE The City of Crystal Lake will be accepting sealed bids in accordance with specifications for Three Oaks Recreation Area Improvements. A Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 12, 2103 at 10:00 a.m. at the Three Oaks Recreation Area, located at 5517 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake, IL 60014. Prospective bidders that are not able to attend the Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting have the option to schedule a pre-bid meeting by appointment by contacting Deputy City Manager Eric Helm at 815356-3663. Appointments can be made from the time of issuance of the bid through the end of the day on Monday, March 18, 2013. Bid specifications and required bid forms are available at the Municipal Complex, 100 W. Woodstock Street, Crystal Lake, IL 60014, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. All bids must be submitted to the City of Crystal Lake in a sealed envelope marked “Three Oaks Recreation Area Improvements Bid – Scuba and Beach Pier (2013) - Attn: Bradley S. Mitchell, Assistant to the City Manager”, by 10:00 a.m. on Friday, March 22, 2013 at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

(Published in the Northwest Herald on March 7, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR BIDS/PROPOSALS McHenry County will accept sealed proposals for RFP #13-15 COMPLETE OVERHAUL FOR TWO SHERIFF'S BOATS due March 21, 2013 at 2:00 PM (CST), in the office of Donald A. Gray, Director of Purchasing, McHenry County Administrative Building- Room 200, 2200 N. Seminary Ave. Woodstock, IL 60098. Prospective bidders may obtain bidding documentation at www.co.mchenry.il.us or http://www.co.mchenry.il.us/departments/purchasing/Pages/index.aspx or by contacting the purchasing department at 815-3344818. All contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12).

(Published in the Northwest Herald on March 7, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE INVITATION TO BID The City of Crystal Lake will be accepting sealed bids in accordance with specifications for a one-year contract for the purchase and delivery of unleaded gasoline and diesel fuels to the City of Crys-

ty ys tal Lake Municipal Complex. Bid specifications and required bid forms are available at the Municipal Complex, 100 W. Woodstock Street, Crystal Lake, IL 60014, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. All bids must be submitted to the City of Crystal Lake in a sealed envelope marked “Unleaded Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Bid (2013) - Attn: Bradley S. Mitchell, Assistant to the City Manager”, by 2:30 p.m. on Friday, March 22, 2013 at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

(Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Invitation to Bid for Grant Township Highway Department, Grant Township 2013 Road Program, Ingleside Shore Road, Lincoln Court, Hickory Lane and Stanton Point Road Community Development Block Grant - Year '12 1. TIME AND PLACE FOR OPENING BIDS: Sealed bids for the improvements described below will be received at the offices of: Grant Township Highway Department 26535 Molidor Road Ingleside, Illinois 60041 until 10:00 a.m. Central Time, March 26,, 2013. All bids will be publicly opened at that time and read aloud.

2. AVAILABILITY OF CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: Specifications, Bid Forms and other Contract Documents may be obtained from BHFX at 847-816-6022, beginning after 10:00 a.m., February 28, 2013. A non-refundable fee is required for each set of documents, made payable to BHFX for the printing cost. A request form is available from BHFX for drawings to be shipped.

3. PRE-QUALIFICATION OF BIDDERS: All bidders will submit, separate from the sealed bid, a resume of similar projects performed, enumerated, as to location, type of work, approximate completion date, and project engineering firms.

Additionally, all bidders will submit a list of equipment owned by, or available to them, for the efficient pursuance of the project.

4. PREBID MEETING: All bidders shall attend a MANDITORY prebid meeting on Thursday March 14, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. The meeting will be held at the Grant Township Highway Department, at the same address as the bid openings listed above.

5. WAGES OF EMPLOYEES: Not less than the prevailing rate of wages as found by the Federal Department of Labor or determined by a court on review shall be paid to all laborers, workers and mechanics performing work under this contract.

6. REJECTION OF BIDS: The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids and bidders and to waive technicalities.

7. LOCATION OF THE WORK: The work is located on Ingleside Shore Road, Lincoln Court, Hickory Lane and Stanton Point, in Grant Township, Illinois, east of Wilson Road north off of Grand Avenue.

8. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Road reconstruction of the townships roads, there are approximately 1,400 tons of Hot Mix Asphalt, roughly 3,800 feet of Concrete M3.12 Curb and Gutter, and 1,900 linear feet of Storm Sewer with associated appurtenances.

9. BID SECURITY: Bid security in the form of a Bid Bond, Bank Cashier's Check or Certified Check for ten percent (10%) of the total bid made payable to the Grant Township Highway Department shall accompany the bid.

10. CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Project may be awarded on April 1, 2013, with construction work anticipated to start April 22, 2013 substantially completed by June 14, 2013 with a final completion date of July 3, 2013.

(Published in the Northwest Herald, February 28 & March 7, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE CITATION File No. 2012-454/A SURROGATE'S COURT, SARATOGA COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Laura Arolino, 1451 Mackinnon Avenue, Cardiff By the Sea, California 92007, Graham Scott McGill, Whereabouts unknown, Attorney General, Daryl Cutler, Esq., Guardian Ad Litem for Graham Scott McGill A petition having been duly filed

by Sherrill L. McGill who is/are domiciled at 403 Stage Road, Charlton, New York 12019, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate's Court, Saratoga County, at 30 McMaster Street, Ballston Spa, New York, on April 9, 2013 at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Graham L. McGill lately domiciled at 403 Stage Road, Charlton, New York 12019, United States admitting to probate a Will dated September 10, 2006 (and Codicil(s), if any, dated), a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Graham L. McGill deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: Letter Testamentary issue to Sherrill L. McGill Further relief sought (if any); without bond Dated, Attested and Sealed, February 13, 2013 SEAL HON. Richard A. Kupferman Surrogate /s/ Catharine J. Ruggles Chief Clerk Andrea J. DiDomenico Attorney Law Office of Andrea J. DiDomenico One Vosburgh, Mechanicville, New York 12118 (518) 664- 7338 NOTE: This citation is served upon as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

(Published in the Northwest Herald, February 21, 28, March 7 & 14, 2013.)

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PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010053 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; HIGHLAND SHORES PROPERTY OWNERS INC.; JESSICA I. APPLEBERG LIVING TRUST DATED AUGUST 1, 2007; OCCUPANT; JESSICA I. APPLEBERG; WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: THE WEST HALF OF LOT 10 IN BLOCK 14 IN HIGHLAND SHORES WONDER LAKE UNIT NO. 5, 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 NO. 252160, IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS, PAGE 48, IN McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Parcel Index Number 08-13-151013 now part of 08-13-151-016 On July 18, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert # 2009-00385 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010068 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; ORMEL J. PRUST, TRUSTEE FOR FIRST MIDWEST BANK, AS SUCCESSOR TO MCHENRY STATE BANK; MCHENRY SHORES WATER COMPANY; THOMAS P. MATHEWS; FIRST MIDWEST BANK, AS SUCCESSOR TO MCHENRY STATE BANK; THOMAS F. BOLGER, TRUSTEE FOR FIRST MIDWEST BANK, AS SUCCESSOR TO MCHENRY STATE BANK; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lot Thirteen (13) in Block Twenty-Two (22) of the Plat of Survey of Unit No. 3 of McHenry Shores Subdivision, according to the Plat thereof recorded April 17, 1956 as Document No. 306463, in Book 12 of Plats, page 68, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 14-02-455020 On July 17, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert. # 2009-01583 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010050 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; TONY WYNN; LORENA C. DUMKE; OCCUPANT; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: All that part of Lot 2 according to the School Plat of Section 16, Township 46 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian, described as follows: Commencing at a point in the center of the railway track of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company, (said point being equally distant between the two rails of said track as now laid) where the same is intersected by the North line of said Section 16; thence West along the said North line of said Section, 171 feet; thence South 33 feet to a point for a place of beginning; thence West along the South line of a certain right of way of road as now used, 180 feet; thence South 155 feet; thence East 180 feet; thence North 155 feet to the place of beginning, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 04-16-127-012 On July 18, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert # 2009-00177 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010051 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; DISCOVER BANK; FG SIKARAS LIVING TRUST DATED JUNE 1, 2005; FRANK SIKARAS, AS TRUSTEE OF THE FG SIKARAS LIVING TRUST DATED JUNE 1, 2005; OCCUPANT; GEORGE SIKARAS; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA, AS SUCCESSOR TO WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK,

FA; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lots 4 and 5 in Block 4 in Fox Lake Vista Unit No. 4, a Subdivision of part of the North half of the Southeast quarter and the Southwest quarter of the Southeast quarter of Section 29, and the Northwest quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section 32, Township 46 North, Range 9, East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the plat thereof recorded November 3, 1927 as Document 80677 in Book 6 of Plats, Pages 8 and 9, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 05-29-427037 On July 18, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert # 2009-00254 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010052 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; BENEFICIAL ILLINOIS INC. D/B/A BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE CO. OF ILLINOIS; ROBERT W. NEEL; TERESA A. NEEL; OCCUPANT; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lot 11 in Block 4 in Boone Valley Plat No. 2, being a Subdivision of part of the South Half of Section 27, Township 45 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded March 13, 1967 as Document No. 470115, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 09-27-452019 On July 18, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert # 2009-00899 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010054 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; WONDER WOODS ASSOCIATION INC.; PAUL FALLAW; OCCUPANT; ANDREW WEISS; JANET WEISS; WILLIAM (BILLY) WEISS; HOME STATE BANK, N.A.; MUTUAL FIDELITY; SABRINA INVESTMENTS; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lot 22 and Lot 23 in Block 1 in Wonder Woods, a Subdivision of part of Section 6, Township 45 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded April 30, 1930 as Document No. 92561, in Book 8 of Plats, pages 14 and 15, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 09-06-130022 and 09-06-130-023 n/k/a 09-06-130-033 On July 18, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert # 2009-00512 and 200900513 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010055 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; INDIAN RIDGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC.; PAUL FALLAW; OCCUPANT; TERRY AVERY; HOME STATE BANK, N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lots 22 and 23 in Block 14 in Indian Ridge Unit No. 1, a subdivision of part of Section 7, Township 45 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded June 27, 1939 as Document No. 139953, in Book 9 of Plats, page 34, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 09-07-285-029 On July 18, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire

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Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert # 2009-00607 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010057 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; DISCOVER BANK; MARGARET A. OLSZEWSKI, AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE MARGARET A. OLSZEWSKI DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 6-2597; OCCUPANT; MELISSA DICK A/K/A MELISSA HENSON; LAWRENCE PALMER; CYNTHIA WILLIAMS; REALTAX DEVELOPERS LTD.; CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: The Northerly half of Lot 2 (except the Southwesterly 6 feet thereof) in Woodlawn Park, being Nicholas Snyder's Subdivision of part of the North half of Fractional Section 25, Township 45 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded September 27, 1892, as Document No. 8337, in Book 1 of Plats,

page 34; the said Northerly half having a frontage of 47.54 feet on Fox River and a frontage of 26.09 feet on the Driveway and a longitudinal dimension, or depth of 208.72 feet from said Driveway to said River, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 09-25-126058 On July 18, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert # 2009-00834 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010058 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; DOROTHY MAE FLEMING; PAMELA M. WELTY; OCCUPANT; FIRST MIDWEST BANK F/K/A FIRST MIDWEST BANK/DEERFIELD, NA; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010056 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; REMINGTON HOMES LLC; REMINGTON GROVE LLC; Z FINANCIAL LLC; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: All that part of the following falling within parcel index #09-14-300035, described as follows: Parcel 1: The Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 14, Township 45 North, Range 8 East of the 3rd Principal Meridian more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 14; thence North 02 Degrees, 22 Minutes, 35 Seconds East, along the West line of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 14, a distance of 1310.91 feet to the Northwest corner of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 14; thence South 89 Degrees, 30 Minutes, 31 Seconds East, along the North line of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 14, a distance of 1317.26 feet to the Northeast corner of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 14; thence South 02 Degrees, 14 Minutes, 33 Seconds West, along the East line of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 14; a distance 1306.43 feet to the Southeast corner of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 14; thence North 89 Degrees, 41 Minutes, 57 Seconds West, along the South line of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 14, a distance of 1320.46 feet, to the point of beginning, all in McHenry County, Illinois. Also, Parcel 2: The East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 15, Township 45 North, Range 8 East of the 3rd Principal Meridian more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of the East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of said Section 15; thence North 02 Degrees, 12 Minutes, 08 Seconds East, (Bearing Assumed), along the West line of the East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of said Section 15, a distance of 2624.54 feet, to the Northwest corner of the East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of said Section 15; thence South 88 Degrees, 47 Minutes, 13 Seconds East , along the North line of the East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of said Section 15, a distance of 1311.21 feet, to the Northeast corner of the East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of said Section 15; thence South 02 Degrees, 22 Minutes, 35 Seconds West, along the East line of the East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of said Section 15, a distance of 2621.82 feet, to the Southeast corner of the East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of said Section 15; thence North 88 Degrees, 52 Minutes, 48 Seconds West, along the South line of the East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of said Section 15, a distance of 1303.29 feet, to the point of beginning in McHenry County, Illinois. Also, Parcel 3: That part of the East 1/2 and West 1/2 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 14, Township 45 North, Range 8 East of the 3rd Principal Meridian, described as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 14; thence West on the North line of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 aforesaid, 49.5 feet; thence Northeasterly, 118.4 feet to a point in the West line of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4, 105.93 feet North of the Southwest corner thereof; thence East parallel with the South line of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4, 735.65 feet to the center line of the highway; thence Southerly along said center line 24.75 feet; thence West parallel with the South line of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 aforesaid, 686.10 feet to a point; thence Southwesterly 96.52 feet to the place of beginning, in McHenry County, Illinois. Also, Parcel 4: That part of the East 1/2 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 14, Township 45 North, Range 8 East of the 3rd Principal Meridian, designated as Lot 7 on the County Clerk's Plat, according to the plat thereof recorded May 6,1902, as Document Number 14080 in Book 2 of Plats, page 33, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of the Southeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 14; thence North on the West line of the East 1/2 of the Southwest 1/4, 1306.82 feet to the Northwest corner of said Southeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4; thence Northeasterly 96.52 feet to a point 49.5 feet East of the West line of the East 1/2 of the Southwest 1/4 aforesaid; thence East parallel with the South line of the Northeast 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 686.10 feet to the center line of the highway; thence Southerly 1385.13 feet to a point in the South line of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 14, 732.07 feet East from the point of beginning; thence West 732.07 feet to the place of beginning, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Excepting from the above described parcels of land: that part of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 14, Township 45 North, Range 8 East of the 3rd Principal Meridian, described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of a line that is 60.00 feet West of, measured normal thereto, and parallel with the center line of State Route 31 per Illinois Department of Transportation Plat of Highway Job No. R91-005-84 and a line that is 350.00 feet North of, measured at right angles thereto, and parallel with the South line of said Southwest 1/4 of Section 14; thence South 88 Degrees 10 Minutes 58 Seconds West, parallel with the South line of said Section 14, a distance of 896.18 feet; thence Northerly along a curve concave to the East having a Radius of 4703.87 feet an Arc distance of 506.26 feet to a point of tangency, the Chord of said Arc having a length 506.02 feet and a Bearing of North 01 Degree 22 Minutes 54 Seconds West; thence North 01 Degree 42 Minutes 06 Seconds East, 362.88 feet; thence South 87 Degrees 18 Minutes 30 Seconds East, 138.92 feet to a point of curvature; thence Easterly along a curve concave to the North having a Radius of 550.00 feet an Arc distance of 296.61 feet to a point of reverse curvature, the Chord of said Arc having a length of 293.03 feet and a bearing of North 77 Degrees 14 Minutes 32 Seconds East; thence Easterly along a curve concave to the South having a Radius of 450.00 feet an Arc distance of 208.93 feet to a point of tangency, the Chord of said Arc having a length of 207.06 feet and a bearing of North 75 Degrees 05 Minutes 37 Seconds East : thence North 88 Degrees 23 Minutes 41 Seconds East, 274.38 feet to a line that is 60.00 feet West of, measured normal thereto, and parallel with the aforesaid center line of State Route No. 31 per Illinois Department of Transportation Plat of Highways Job No. R-91-005-84; thence South 01 Degree 42 Minutes 06 Seconds West along said parallel line, 508.66 feet to a point of curvature; thence Southerly along said parallel line, being along a curve concave to the East having a Radius of 3808.87 feet an Arc distance of 451.33 feet to the point of beginning, the Chord of said Arc having a length of 451.07 feet and a bearing of South 01 Degree 41 Minutes 35 Seconds East, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 09-14-300-035 On July 18, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert # 2009-00672 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

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BRIDGE Edited by Will Shortz

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James C. Dobson, an evangelical author, psychologist and founder of Focus on the Family, said, “Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.”

That is no doubt true.

At the bridge table, though, don’t make the play you think is right; make the play after which either your contract cannot fail or the opponent’s contract cannot make.

In this deal, East is defending against ive diamonds. West leads the heart queen, and South calls for dummy’s ive. How might East hope to defeat the contract?

After South opened one diamond, West made a twoheart weak jump overcall, showing a good six-card suit and 6 to 10 high-card points. East raised to four hearts, a contract that would have made when both major-suit inesses worked. However, South rebid ive clubs, and North converted to ive diamonds.

Since neither side was sure who could make what, this was passed out.

The defenders need

three tricks to defeat ive diamonds. East can see one in hearts. His side cannot take a second heart, because West’s overcall guaranteed a six-card suit.

Any minor-suit tricks would come in the fullness of time. That left spades to be considered. Who should be attacking that suit, West or East? Clearly East. His leading spades through South rated to be more proitable than West’s leading around to South.

So East should win the irst trick with his heart ace and shift to the spade queen. Here, that works beautifully, netting the irst three tricks for the defense.

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Page F8• Thursday, March 7, 2013 ng Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lot 9 in Colemar, a Subdivision of part of the Northeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 46 North, Range 9, East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the plat thereof, recorded May 13, 1927, as Document Number 78143, in Book 5 of Plats, page 96, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 05-30-276-009 On July 18, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert # 2009-00274 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010059 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; Bank of America NA, as successor by merger to LaSalle Bank NA, trustee for Washington Mutual Mortgage pass-through certificates WMALT Series 2005-4 Trust; Michael S. Hasemann; Holly Hasemann; Occupant; Shane Hasemann; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: A tract of land of part of the West Half of the East Half of the Northwest Quarter and the East Half of the West Half of the Northwest Quarter of Section Seventeen (17) in Township Forty-three (43) North, of Range Six (6) East of the Third Principal Meridian, the tract further described as follows: Beginning at a point on the South line of the Northwest Quarter aforesaid 1290.00 feet East of Southwest corner of said Northwest Quarter; thence North at right angles to said South line for 1165.00 feet; thence East parallel with the said South line for 330.00 feet; thence South at right angles to said South line for 1165.00 feet to the South line of the Northwest Quarter; thence West along the said South line 330.00 feet to the point of beginning, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 17-17-100010 On July 19, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

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Cert # 2009-02202 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010060 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE, INC.; MAGGIE MCLAUGHLIN; OCCUPANT; BMO HARRIS BANK NA, AS SUCCESSOR TO HARRIS BANK BARRINGTON, N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lot 13 in Block 4, (excepting and reserving therefrom a strip of land 6 feet in width off from the entire Northwesterly side thereof), in Pomeroy's Addition to the Village (now city) of Crystal Lake, as shown on the plat of said addition recorded in the Recorder's Office of McHenry County, Illinois, in Book 55 of Deeds, at Page 612 and in Book 2 of Plats, at Page 26; Said lot being located in and being a part of the North half of Section 5, Township 43 North, Range 8, East of the Third Principal Meridian, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 19-05-130026 On July 19, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert # 2009-02684 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010061 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; BRIGHT OAKS ASSOCIATION INC.; PAUL HRUBY; MARIANNE LARSON HRUBY; OCCUPANT; JAN LARSON; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Parcel 1: Lot 1 (except the Easterly 1.8 feet of Lot 1) in Block 5 in Bright Oaks Unit No. 1, being a part of the West Half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 12, Town-

ship 43 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded September 25, 1972 as Document No. 577079, in McHenry County, Illinois, ALSO Parcel 2: Easement for ingress and egress appurtenant to and for the benefit of Parcel 1, set forth in Bright Oaks Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions recorded January 31, 1973 as Document No. 585949, and supplement recorded January 31, 1974 as Document No. 610468, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 19-12-154113 On July 19, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert # 2009-02803 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010062 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; Bentwood Estates Homeowners Association; Marta A. Sanchez; Yanira L. Rivera; Henry Sanchez; Occupant; Jose F. Rodriquez; Jason Golub; Brigida Golub; Daniel Leiva; Edwin Rivera; Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF8, Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2006-FF8; PNC Bank NA, as successor to First Franklin a division of Nat. City Bank of IN; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lot 32 in Bentwood Estates, being a subdivision of part of the Northeast Quarter of Section 18, Township 43 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian according to the plat thereof recorded October 20, 1989 as Document No. 89R35570 in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 19-18-253021 On July 18, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586

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Cert # 2009-02852 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010063 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; INDIAN RIDGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION; PAUL FALLAW; OCCUPANT; KANDICE KENNEBECK; HOME STATE BANK N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lot 25 in Block 14 in Indian Ridge Unit No. 1, a subdivision of part of Section 7, Township 45 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded June 27, 1939 as Document No. 139953, in Book 9 of Plats, page 34, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 09-07-285016 On July 17, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert. # 2009-00604 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-01-0064 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC F/K/A CONSECO FINANCE SERVICING CORP. F/K/A GREEN TREE FINANCIAL SERVICING CORPORATION; JOHN D. SHERWOOD; ELIZABETH M. SHERWOOD; OCCUPANT; KATHLEEN SHERWOOD; MAGGIE SHERWOOD; ANNIE SHERWOOD; JACK SHERWOOD; BENEFICIAL ILLINOIS INC. D/B/A BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE CO. OF ILLINOIS; ASSET ACCEPTANCE, LLC, AS ASSIGNEE OF HOUSEHOLD ARBOR; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: LOT 26 IN BLOCK 28 IN LILYMOOR, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTH WEST 1/4 OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED APRIL

10, 1928 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 82908, IN BOOK 6 OF PLATS, PAGES 46 AND 47, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Parcel Index Number 10-32-354016 On July 17, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert. # 2009-01180 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010065 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; OCCUPANT; TIMOTHY HEUSER; LORI HEUSER; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: ALL THAT PART OF BLOCK 9 OF SPENCER'S FIRST ADDITION TO THE VILLAGE (NOW CITY) OF MARENGO, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE OF MCHENRY COUNTY, IN BOOK 5 OF DEEDS ON PAGE 119, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, TO-WIT: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID BLOCK 9 AND RUNNING THENCE SOUTH 72 DEGREES 30 MINUTES EAST ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF WASHINGTON STREET, 148 FEET 6 INCHES, MORE OR LESS, TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF A PIECE OF LAND CONVEYED BY CALVIN SPENCER TO "THE INDEPENDENT CHURCH OF CHRIST", BY QUIT CLAIM DEED DATED APRIL 20, 1882, AND RECORDED IN SAID RECORDER'S OFFICE IN BOOK 67 OF DEEDS, ON PAGE 239; THENCE SOUTH 17 DEGREES 30 MINUTES WEST ALONG THE WESTERLY LINE OF SAID CHURCH LOT, AND BEING AT RIGHT ANGLES WITH THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF WASHINGTON STREET, 130 FEET AND 10 INCHES; THENCE NORTH 72 DEGREES 30 MINUTES WEST PARALLEL WITH THE SAID SOUTHERLY LINE OF WASHINGTON STREET, 148 FEET AND 6 INCHES, MORE OR LESS, THE EASTERLY LINE OF PAGE STREET, THENCE NORTH 17 DEGREES 30 MINUTES EAST ALONG SAID EASTERLY LINE OF PAGE STREET, 130 FEET AND 10 INCHES, MORE OR LESS, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, (EXCEPTING AND RESERVING THEREFROM THE EAST 66 FEET THEREOF AS CONVEYED BY CHARLES C. HIGBEE AND ZUA W. HIGBEE, EACH IN HIS AND HER OWN RIGHT, AND AS HUSBAND AND WIFE, TO LEO F. LANGE AND DORA I. LANGE, NOT AS TENANTS IN COMMON, BUT AS JOINT TEN-

ANTS, BY WARRANTY DEED DATED THE 17TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1941 AND RECORDED IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE OF THE COUNTY OF MCHENRY, IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, IN BOOK 252 OF DEEDS, PAGE 299) SAID BLOCK NUMBER 9 BEING LOCATED IN AND BEING PART OF THE WEST HALF OF THE WEST HALF OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 5, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN. Parcel Index Number 11-36-163001 On July 17, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert. # 2009-01287 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010069 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; OCCUPANT; MARILYN T. KUCIA; LEO J. KUCIA; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF LEO J. KUCIA; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lots 1, 2 and 9 (Excepting the East 58 feet of Lot 9) in Block 33 in Sampson, Sex and Co.'s Lilly Lake Subdivision, being a Subdivision of part of the Southeast Quarter of Section 32, Township 45 North, Range 9 East of the Third Principal Meridian, and part of the Northeast Quarter of Section 5, Township 44 North, Range 9 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded July 28, 1926 as Document No. 74254, in Book 5 of Plats, Page 81, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 15-05-233041 On July 17, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert. # 2009-01909 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

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PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010070 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; KIMBERLY LEWIS; FOUR COLONIES PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION; LARRY G. LERETTE; JUDITH L. LERETTE; OCCUPANT; TAMI LERETTE; SECRETARY OF HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC.; U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL-NORTHERN DISTRICT; WILLIAM LERETTEKAUFFMAN; TAMARA STRYCZEK; JEFFERY LERETTE; SCOTT LERETTE; U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL; CITY OF CRYSTAL LAKE; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF LARRY G. LERETTE AND JUDITH L. LERETTE; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: Lot 67, in Unit Nine of Four Colonies, being a Subdivision of part of the Southeast Quarter of Section 12, Township 43 North, Range 7 East of the Third Principal Meridian and Part of the South Half of Government Lot 2 of the Southwest Quarter of Section 7, Township 43 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded March 13, 1986 as Document No. 932997, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Parcel Index Number 18-12-480009 On July 17, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586

PARCEL 2: NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS AS SET FORTH IN WESTWOOD PARK CONDOMINIUMS OF CRYSTAL LAKE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM OWNERSHIP RECORDED APRIL 27, 1995 AS DOCUMENT NO. 95R-015431, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PARCEL 3: EXCLUSIVE USE OF GARAGE 470C-G AS SHOWN ON EXHIBIT "C" AND AS SET FORTH IN FOURTH SUPPLEMENT TO DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM OWNERSHIP RECORDED AUGUST 27, 1997 AS DOCUMENT NO. 97R-041192, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Parcel Index Number 19-07-285003 On July 17, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert. # 2009-02736 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

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Cert. # 2009-02324 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010071 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; WESTWOOD PARK CONDOMINIUMS OF CRYSTAL LAKE ASSOCIATION; WILLIAM M. EKLUND; OCCUPANT; AMERICAN COMMUNITY BANK & TRUST; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: PARCEL 1: UNIT 470C IN WESTWOOD PARK CONDOMINIUMS OF CRYSTAL LAKE, AS DELINEATED ON PLAT OF SURVEY OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE:

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PART OF LOT 6 IN WESTWOOD PARK, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST HALF OF SECTION 7, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 10, 1991 AS DOCUMENT NO. 91R 039054, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, WHICH SURVEY IS ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT "C" TO THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM OWNERSHIP RECORDED APRIL 27, 1995 AS DOCUMENT NO. 95R-015431, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, TOGETHER WITH ITS UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS.

TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010072 FILED March 5, 2013 TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-2; SATYARRAT MUTTREJA; OCCUPANT; ELLEN PIERSOL A/K/A ELLEN HENDERSON; JAMES PIERSOL; STATE FARM BANK; HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORPORATION III; RANDALL VILLAGE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: PARCEL 1: UNIT A AT 1673 CARLEMONT, IN RANDALL VILLAGE CONDOMINIUM, AS DELINEATED

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Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert. # 2009-02892 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on FEBRUARY 26, 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 PAM FALBO PHOTOGRAPHY located at 413 KELLY LANE, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL (815) 5058300.

Dated FEBRUARY 26, 2013. /s/ Katherine C. Schultz County Clerk

TAKE NOTICE TO: KATHERINE SCHULTZ, MCHENRY COUNTY CLERK; Tanis Group Realty; Wahoo Investments, LLC; Occupant; Foxford Hills Homeowners Association; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED; AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS. This is NOTICE of the filing of the Petition for Tax Deed on the following described property: LOT 155 IN FOXFORD HILLS SUBDIVISION UNIT 1, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTH 1/2 OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THAT PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JUNE 1, 2001 AS DOCUMENT NO. 2001R36720 IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Parcel Index Number 20-06-301004 On July 19, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 357 the Petitioner intends to make application for an order on the petition that a Tax Deed be issued. The real estate was sold on October 18, 2010 for general taxes of the year 2009. The period of redemption will expire July 10, 2013.

Kathleen A. Kyndberg, Attorney for Petitioner (618) 457-4586 Cert. # 2009-03221 (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE The following amount must be received in EXACT cash or money order in the office of ALL SAFE SELF STORAGE, 5816 W. Elm St, McHenry, IL, 60050 by the end of the business day Friday, March 8, 2013. $2,125.00 for Storage Barn; Russell Carlson, 7413 Parkwood Dr., Wonder Lake, IL 60097 If stated debt is not paid before 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 8, 2013 the contents consisting of personal and miscellaneous household goods and tools will be considered abandoned and disposed of accordingly. A silent bid auction will be held on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 2009 Ringwood Rd. McHenry, IL 60050 10 10a.m. sharp.

/s/ Katherine C. Schultz County Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

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The weight limit is not to exceed 8,000 pounds per axle. Effective this day of posting until all signs are completely removed by the road district.

Bart D. Schnulle, Alden Township Highway Commissioner Donald Staver, Chemung Township Highway Commissioner David Nolan, Dunham Township Highway Commissioner Michael Murray, Hartland Township Highway Commissioner Don Goad, Greenwood Township Highway Commissioner (Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on FEBRUARY 28, 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 COMPUTER MULTIMEDIA NETWORK SPECIALIST

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2000 Ford Windstar SE. 1 Owner.

Remote start, back up sensors.

3 mo warranty. Great family van. $2900. 815-344-9440

'70's to '90's. Mint collectibles.

5 for $25. 815-459-7485 Tire for truck/trailer: 8.0x16.5LT load range D, very good cond. $15 815-363-9636 Tires & Wheel (4) for Ford Explorer 22570R 15” w/90% tread, flotted aluminum, $325 815-315-3047

Junk or Gems – Top Dollar $500 - $5000 414-254-1142

National 1st Prize $10,000 Local Prize $500.00

FISHING BOAT

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14 ft, aluminum with trailer. Good condition! $400 815-245-6251

Motorcycle Swap Meet

SUN MAR. 24, 8 - 3 KANE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS in St. Charles

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Our 10th Year $7 Admission, $50 Booth 630-985-2097

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs 1990 & Newer Will beat anyone's price by $300.

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan

1987 INDY 400 SNOWMOBILE Good condition with back rest $400 847-845-9063 1988 Yamaha Phazer Electric start. Excellent condition. $600 OBO 815-260-4395

1990 Artic Cat EXT 530, El Tigre EXT, $350 815-529-4105

1990 POLARIS INDY 500

2700 miles, reverse, liquid cooled.

Excellent condition! $800.

847-639-3687

1994 V-MAX LE 500 Electric start, mint condition! $1200/obo. 815-759-1507 1999 Polaris 700 Long Track Bent tunnel. Runs great! $800 OBO 815-260-4395

2002 Arctic Cat ZR 600

815-814-1964

mint condition, $2600 firm 815-382-4009

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STOVE ~ G. E. Excellent condition, $150.

Art of Democracy Scholarship !! Contest !!

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1920 Porcelain Gas Stove

!!!!!!!!!

Have to live in or go to McHenry County High School

Cedar Chest: Vintage Lane, darker finish, brass hardware, some light scratches, good cond. No key $350 847-962-8786

Student Age 14 - 18 Deadline April 2, 2013

CHAIR - Antique Child's Red Wooden Chair - 24-1/2" high at back. $28.

McHenry. 815-236-1747

Qualifications for Entry into Contest

Sponsored by McHenry Ladies Auxiliary VFW Post # 4600

CUBS MEMORABILIA – First Day Cover Stamp. Wrigley Field CubsPadres 1984. Framed. $35.

847-515-8012 Huntley area DUNNINGERS COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA BOOK OF MAGIC At least 100 years old.

288 pages. $30.

847-515-8012 Huntley area

Contact 815-344-8965 www.ladiesauxvfw.org

TV ~ Hitachi

Hand Mirrors

60” color, sharp picture, you pick up. 815-578-0853 McHenry

2 brass, 1 plastic very old and nice 3/$40. 815-459-7485

CUFFLINKS, MENS BLACK AND SILVER, NEW IN BOX $15 JOHNSBURG AREA 708-602-8353 Men's Leather Coat – Black – Size 40 – Very Good Condition $25. 815-363-9636 MENS LEATHER JACKET - Bomber jacket, brown with lining, size L, Excellent $40. 815-477-9023 SATCHEL PURSE - Lg Vinyl Brown / Khaki W Cargo Pant Pockets. 18" W x 14" H. Black lining w/ pockets of same material. $35. McHenry 815-236-1747 Vest: men's leather, size 42, light brown, very good condition, $20 815-363-9636

WAHL APPLIANCE Reconditioned Appliances Lakemoor 815-385-1872 Dryer. Maytag. Gas. White.

Great condition. $299.

630-973-3528

MIXING BOWLS - 3 matching: "Hall's Superior Quality Kitchenware - Eureka Homewood Pattern". Lg 8 5/8", Med 7 3/8", Sm 6 1/8". $65. McHenry. 815-236-1747 Oil Paintings: Hargrove (7) $15$50/each 815-568-8036 Painting, antique, reverse on glass.

Japanese style landscape with mother of pearl house by river. 26” by 17”. Wood frame. Slight damage in one spot. $99. Island Lake. turquoisesilver@hotmail

Poloroid Land Camera

Swinger Model 20. Mint with case and papers, $35. 815-459-7485

Porcelain Doll

22” with chair, Jan McLean, $50.

224-523-1569 Refrigerator: Amana, 18 cu ft., and D/W both white good cond $100 each or both for $150 847-516-3959 SLED - antique wooden child's 32" x 18" with wooden pull handle. rounded back support. McHenry $125. 815-236-1747 Snowbaby: It's Snowing. Issued 1996, now retired. In original box, Dept. 56 $15 815-338-0328

FREEZER CHEST

GE. 6.5 cu ft. Works good. $75.

815-245-4775 FREEZER, UPRIGHT - 19.3 cubic ft Montgomery Ward model 49269, works great. $50. 815-337-9250 Hotpoint Gas Range: white & black/self cleaning, 3 yrs new, nice condition $125 815-459-5424 MAYTAG WASHER & DRYER PERFORMA Large capacity tub & drum. Washer has 5 water levels, 5 washing cycles, with extra rinse cycle, Dryer has 5 drying cycles, 3 timer signals & presscare. All manual's & installation instructions along with all water & gas connections included. Excellent condition. Selling as a pair only. Cash & carry. $375.

For more information & pictures call 847-854-4406 available 24/7 at NWHerald.com

Kids ladybug lamp - Colorful french blue with lime green spotted appearance. Adorable and like new condition. $20. 815-477-9023

MFG Crown Stove, works. $275/obo. 815-568-8036

BUTTER CHURN - Antique Wooden Butter Churn 18" high, the barrel is constructed with oak wood slats & 4 brass bands & 10" diameter at the bottom tapered to 8-1/2" at the top.

The dasher stick is 42" long. It is in excellent used condition and is very clean. This is a fun piece for country decoration and can be used for storage. $175. 815-236-1747

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DIAPERS ~ 100% COTTON New in package, flat 27”x27”. $8/dozen, pre-fold, 14”x20”. $9/dozen. 630-721-0068

BIKE - Girls 20 in. Schwinn Stardust, hot pink with streamers and basket, no rust, ready to ride, excellent shape. $85, 815 477-9023.

GIRLS BIKE - 20" Pink Magna Bike $30/obo. 847-515-8083 Piano: Spin It Gulbransen, walnut, very good condition $400 815-578-1140

WINE LABEL HOLDER - SLOTTED WOODEN, used during the manufacturing of wine - Napa Valley 24 w x 18.5 h x 3 d, very unique piece, excellent condition. $40.

815-477-9023 Yachting Magazines. 1990-2010 Total 250. Excellent condition $10 obo 815-344-9665

COMPUTER - New still in box Gateway desktop computer with free keyboard, model # sx2855. Windows 7 home premium, 1.8ghz Intel Celeron, 2GB memory, 250GB storage, Intel graphics 2000-220whdmi. $200 815-900-6215 Joe

COMPUTER DESK

Oak Armoire with 3 drawers and lots of storage, $325.

815-356-0883

COPIER/SCANNER/FAX

Lexmark, like new! $40.

224-650-1564 Dell Optiplex 755 Ultra Thin Desktop w/17" monitor. $150 OBO. 815-575-0504

Ceiling tiles: 2x4 new, never used, in box 23 pcs. $20 815-363-9636

Chairs: (6) wood, breakfast, kitchen chairs $48 815-943-6937 Crown Molding: oak, new, never used, 5” 200' total $200 $15 815-363-9636

Forced Air Heater. 80K BTU. Free Standing Rudd, natural gas. Great for home, garage or shop. Works great! $325 847-902-5945 Garage wall cabinets (5): vinyl covered wood, walnut color, $25/OBO 815-385-0020 Granite Table Top 27x66x1 11/4 very good cond. $75 815-363-9636

DVD CASES, used empty 14 mm.

Some white, black, single & double. $0.25ea, 5-$0.75 or 10-$1.00 815-900-6215 Joe Loud Speaker -12 Volt, I got this off the fire chief's command truck I bought. Heavy alum. Made by CPI. $20. 815-363-9636 NETBOOK - Refurbished SYLVANIA SYNET07526-R-Z, VIA 8505, 128MB 7" NETBOOK RED. Windows CE 6.0. $100. Joe 815-900-6215

Printer ~ Digital Photo Sony

DPP-EX50. Prints wonderful pictures, $55/obo.

847-829-4546 Scanner, Bearcat 250, Realistic Programable AM/FM Scanner, Books & Misc Items. $50 OBO. 815-728-1506 leave msg.

Insulating Blankets (80) For covering concrete, 6'x25' $20/ea. 847-514-4989 Kitchen Sink: stainless steel, new, never installed, 2 basin v. good.

Cond. $50 815-363-9636 Light Fixture Beautiful, contemporary for kitchen or dining room, exc cond. $30. 847-829-4546 Pipe Insulators: 2 5/8x 3” 15 pcs 2 1/8 x 3' 9 pcs owens corning $25 815-363-9636

Plywood: 3/8”x4'x8' sheets, cabinet grade $16.00 815-943-6937

SMARTBOOK - NEW SYLVANIA SYNET07526 7" WIRELESS SMARTBOOK, 1GHz Arm 11 Processor, 128 MB Internal Memory, 2GB Flash Internal Storage 7" TFT Display. WiFi 802 $125/obo. Joe 815-900-6215 Sony Speakers, Sub, Technics Receiver Everything is great shape and works well. Willing to trade, sell or barter. $250/obo. 815-546-5018

Stereo Technic Amplifier

SHOWER DOORS

2 Tall Glass, 30”x68” w/Frame, $95. 815-575-6096

Desk with corner computer table $90.

815-301-7168

& Yamaha Tuner, both $100.

815-701-1172

SURROUND SOUND RECEIVER

Sony, model STR-D911, $95.

815-578-0212 TARGUS NETBOOK CARRYING BAG; $15; 708/602-6353

With chair, white and black.

Includes lamp and attached storage tray, MINT COND! Asking $125. 224-321-9680

Turntable: Technic's Panasonic, SL1200 Direct Drive Turntable $125 815-568-8036 TV - SHARP LCD, 15" Aquos Model 15S5U. Great for kitchen or office. $30. Call 847-516-2003

CARY WINDRIDGE MEMORIAL PARK

Exercise board, 2 controllers, charger and more, $275.

815-356-0883

DRAWING TABLE

TOOL BOX - Antique Refinished Pine 28-1/2" x 13" x 8-3/4" w/ 7 sectioned drawer & brass latch dowel carrying handle. $145. McHenry.

815-236-1747 VANITY - Beautiful pine vanity with attached mirror & center drawer. This beautiful antique piece was brought from England by the dealer we got it from. 37-1/4" wide, 20" deep & 29-1/2" to top of vanity. Mirror 223/8" wide by 35-3/8” high. Center drawer has metal pull & 14" wide.

Legs & side mirror supports have charming decorative sculptured detail. $475. 815-236-1747

Japanese Decorative Fan - High end, vibrant colors, very large, bamboo sides 24 in. long, 40 in. wide, hand painted depicting a village scene, like new condition. $40. 815-477-9023.

Wall Clock: does not run, circa 1970's, made in Germany 12”x10”x4”has pendulum, chains, and weights. For hobbyist or parts $100 815-477-0972

John Wayne 1st ed. collector's plate

by Endre Szabo, 1976. Two John Wayne DVD sets, sealed. Two large, John Wayne, unused postcards. $35. turquoisesilver@hotmail

WWII EGW Knife w/ Leather Sheath – 7 ¼” Blade – 12” Overall $100 262-728-6732 Daytime

All NIU Sports... All The Time

Wii With 8 Games

(2) Full Size Crypts, Level D. 815-459-784

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Bo-Flex. $175.

815-301-7168 Skiis: Cross Country, 2 sets of skiis, one set of poles (no charge for ski boots—women's size 8-men's size 8 or 9) $45 847-639-8656

MIXED FIREWOOD Oak - Maple - Cherry $85/FC or 2FC $165. Free Delivery and Stacking. 815-528-0586 Find !t here!

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Description:_________________________________________ 1991 Cadillac Sedan DeVille 110K miles, excellent condition!

New tires, electric start with all the bells and whistles! New roof. $3500/obo. 224-569-3816 1995 Ford Explorer XLT, 4 wheel drive, 1 owner, clean car fax, 71K miles only, loaded, leather, 3 mo. Warranty incl. $3500/OBO 815-344-9440

1999 Ford Taurus LX 137k $1500 Call 847-910-5398

1999 Mercury Grand Marquis Black, great condition! All available options, many new parts, fully maintained, 130K miles, $3,500.

847-462-5896 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier. 1 Owner.

2 door. Sporty. Gas saver.

3 mo warranty. $3600.

815-344-9440

2005 Chevy Cobalt Silver, low miles, excellent condition! $5995 847-658-1781

2005 Saturn Ion3

__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Asking Price (required):________________________________ Best Time To Call:____________________________________ Phone:_____________________________________________ NAME:_____________________________________________ ADDRESS:__________________________________________

4 door. $7600. 67,600 mi 815-354-6843

CITY__________________________STATE_____ZIP________

2007 Pontiac Grand Prix

DAYTIME PHONE:____________________________________

Orig owner, 98K miles, silver, black interior. Excellent condition! Cruise, remote start, On-Star. $6,900.

847-639-4480 2011 KIA SORENTO LOADED AND ONLY 30K MILES! Silver, low miles and loaded, $19,900. 815-477-4626

1998 Chevrolet Tahoe LT 1 Owner. 4X4. Looks & runs great.

3 mo warranty. $3800 815-344-9440

Dated FEBRUARY 28, 2013.

(Published in the Northwest Herald March 7, 14, 21, 2013)

REFRIGERATOR

Like new, 36x72, ice maker and water on door, MINT COND! Asking $400. 224-321-9680

Baby Afgans, Beautiful, Unique, unusual. Circular 48" diameter, Lacy, many colors to chose from. Make great gift $48 Pictures on website.

815-3569844 Crib: very good condition, oak finish, head & footboard have a curve to them $65/OBO 815-455-2379

Headline:___________________________________________

located at 7205 COWLIN ST, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014.

/s/ Katherine C. Schultz County Clerk

OLD CARS & TRUCKS FOR

or use this handy form.

(Published in the Northwest Herald February 27, March 7, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE

2002 Honda CR-V LX

113,000 mi. Runs & Looks Great! $7500. 262-949-8211

GMs Owner's Manuals

Dated FEBRUARY 26, 2013.

WANTED: $CASH$

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE TAX DEED NO. 10-TX-010073 FILED March 5, 2013

White, 8 ft bed, 2WD, gooseneck towing, 93K miles, always garaged, strict maintenance.

Mechanical/body good condition, gently driven by elderly couple. $4000. 815-355-0362

Chevy Truck Manual Haynes 1998-2000 $15 815-363-9636

Public Notice is hereby given that on FEBRUARY 26, 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 PJF PHOTOGRAPHY located at 413 KELLY LANE, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL (815) 5058300.

Pair of white pedestal bases for LG front loading washer & dryer. They are 14 inches high and have a drawer for storage. Asking 375.00/pair. Call if interested 847-533-9837

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2011 Jeep Liberty with factory warranty, 6cyl silver/ black, rwd, power window/ mirror, like new $15,495.

224-643-7744

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ANTIQUE DRY SINK - Charming shabby chic painted wood antique dry sink with attached adjustable mirror and white enamel metal bowl. 25-3/4" wide, 21-1/2" deep & 29" high. 2 attached wood towel racks on each side for a total width of 33". White enamel bowl 15" diameter, 6" deep. Bottom shelf 6" from floor. Top section with mirror is 20-1/2" high & 25-3/4" wide & has 2 drawers, each 6" wide & 2-3/4" high. $435. 815-236-1747 ANTIQUE OAK CHAIR - 36" high at back & seat 16-1/2" wide. 2 curved accent braces as shown. Chair is in excellent condition and is very sturdy. $52. 815-236-1747

ARMOIRE

With matching dresser, light wood.

Great conditon! Asking $150.

224-321-9680 BAR STOOLS - Quality set of 3 durable hardwood with larger seating area than your regular bar stool, classic style and casual comfort, perfect for your kitchen island or breakfast bar. Excellent. $95.

815-477-9023 Bedroom Set. King, Oak, 2 night stands, dresser w/mirror. $250.

815-301-7168 Bedroom Set. Queen. Incl pier unit headboard, 6 drawer chest & mattress set. Pics avail. $400.

815-459-9333 Buffet, solid wood, all hand done. $395. 1930's solid walnut china cabinet, $175. Oil Painting with gilded gold frame from the 30's, $65. MUST SELL! 815-356-1504 CERAMIC TILE FRUIT SIDE TABLE Makes an artistic statement with vibrant, detailed hand painted tile to bring that splash of color to your backyard or sunroom. Measures 13.5 square by 18 inches high. Attractive Verdi green patina finish.

Excellent strong original condition, $45. 815 477-9023.

Chairs: ladder back, cane seats med oak finish excellent cond. $30/each 815-459-3013

Couch ~ Brown & Beige

8 ft, Like new condition! $325.00.

Pictures avail. 815-790-3083 Couch. Beige. $75 815-301-7168 Curio 5 shelving unit 17w x 63h x 13d, pine, great as a store display, plant stand, books, cds, photo frames. Excellent condition, $55.

815-477-9023.

Desk & book case: oak, desk is 73” H 5'W 23”D w/ light & chair, bookcase is 3'x6' $75 815-363-9636

DESK ~ WALNUT

Very good condition, $40.

Can email pictures.

815-455-6627 Desk: contemporary w/swivel chair & 2DR File Cabinet $100 815-568-8036 Desk: Roll top, oak, great condition $100 815-382-1530 Dining Room Chairs (6). Contemporary. Damask upholstered.

White. $250/all. 815-219-9332

ENTERTAINMENT CENTER 2 pcs / hutch in distressed cherry. $250 OBO. 847-515-8083

WING BACK CHAIR - Seafoam Green, good condition. $50. Call between 11a & 7p: 815-943-2331

ENTERTAINMENT CENTER Corner unit. Oak. $250 815-653-2884

Wood bunk bed set with desk, quality set! $200 815-301-7168

ENTERTAINMENT CENTER

Oak with 27 TV. Great for family or kids room, $250. 815-356-0883 Floor Lamp:, metal, 57” VGC $25 815-363-9636 Grand Father Clock: 6 ft model series 111 w/original book has chimes and in like new condition $330 815-477-0308 HIGH CHAIR - Antique Pine Child's.

39" high 17" wide with removable metal tray. Tray arm lifts. McHenry $125. 815-236-1747 Kitchen Table: round w/4 padded chairs good condition, maple wood $75 815-522-6607 Living Room Set. MUST SELL. Ashley Furniture. Dark brown couch, love seat, pillows, blanket.

2 glass end tables, matching coffee table. $700/all. 815-404-0035 Pool Table Light. $50 815-301-7168 Receiver, 5 speaker surround, Phillips, sound works great, w/ subwoffer $80 815-701-1832 ROCKER, OAK WITH BLUE CUSHIONS, JOHNSBURG AREA $25.00; 708-602-8353 Round oak coffee table and (1) round end table, $80/both.

815-301-7168 Santa Cruz High Dining Table & 1 Barstool Set. $50. 815-900-6215

TABLE LAMP - BRASS & GLASS $10/obo . 815-900-6215 TABLE LAMPS - TWO FRENCH PROVINCIAL $25; JOHNSBURG AREA; 708-602-8353 Table: Marble Top, green top/ walnut color legs, ideal for hallway, back of sofa, etc.

14”Wx35”Lx25”H excellent condition $75 847-746-1541 TEAK HUTCH: 2 piece, 80 wide by 60 high. Bottom: sliding teak doors, 4 sections with shelves and 4 silverware drawers. Top: 4 sections with shelves and sliding glass doors. $195. 815-678-9991 TV STAND ~ PLANT STAND Oak wood, 37”Hx15”Wx12”D. Excellent condition, $85.

847-829-4546 TV: 19” Toshiba, table model w/ remote, sharp picture, $25 847-516-2909 Day TWIN BED with two bookshelves headboard, and three base drawers for sale. Good condition. $75. You haul. 224-558-7518

WINE RACK

Metal with glass top. Holds 21 wine bottles, 36”x16”, $95.

847-829-4546

35TH ANNUAL CONSIGNMENT AUCTION

Saturday, March 23RD , 20 3 9:30 A.M. Sharp LUNCH ON THE GROUNDS LOCATION: To be held at the Boone County Fairgrounds, 1 mile north of Belvidere.

8791 IL. ROUTE 76, BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS We will be running 4 rings!

MACHINERY CONSIGNMENT SALE Call now to list your items to be advertised!

Fay Ellwanger 815-547-6168, John Henninger 815-509-9227 , Lyle Lee 815-988-0249 or Al Henninger 815-544-4522. Need list of items to be advertised no later than March 10th, 2013

PRAIRIE GRANGE, SPONSOR AUCTIONEERS: A.R. Henninger, John Edwards, Lyle Lee, John Henninger, Bob Goad, Kris Bryan, Roger Mackeben & Brian Goad SALE MANAGER: John Henninger 815-509-9227 NOTE: Check in time- Thursday, March 21st

9-6 and Friday, March 22 9-4. All consigners must be registered & checked in by 4 P.M. Friday, March 22nd. nd

PUBLIC AUCTION SATURDAY, MARCH 9TH, 20 3 RUNNING TWO RINGS-BOTH STARTING AT 9:00 ONE WITH COINS Comfort Station Available

LOCATION: BOONE CO. FAIRGROUNDS, 879 RT. 76, MI. NORTH OF BELVIDERE. LOCATED IN THE GOAT BARN NEAR SOUTH END. PLENTY OF PARKING. DRESS ACCORDINGLY!

COINS, ANTIQUES, COLLECTIBLES, HOUSEHOLD, YARD, TOOL, SNOWPLOWS & VEHICLES See website for complete listing!!

OWNERS: C. WILKENSON, M. KURTENBACH, C. AGUILAR, K. KOWAL, R. CASE, K. FREEMAN, M. WIMMER, M. RODEN, J. KULLENS & THE ESTATE OF J. MARINELLI Terms: Cash or checks w/proper I.D. Visa & Mastercard accepted. 9% Buyers Premium w/ 4% discount for cash or check. No property to be removed until settled for. All items sold “AS IS”. Number system will be used. Must have driver’s license for registration. Not responsible for accidents or items after purchase. Announcements day of sale prevail over written material.

Belvidere, IL 6 008 8 5 544-48 or 8 5-988-0249 cell AUCTIONEER: LYLE LEE State License #040.000200 & Roger Mackeben # 44 .000 360 CLERKS & CASHIERS: LEE AUCTION SERVICE Visit our web site at www.leeauctionservice.com

Vase-Czech Republic. Clear crystal, "Regent" flair style, 14 inches high.

Pair clear crystal candlestick holders. Austria, 3 1/2" inches high.

Both items new/old. $60. Island Lake. turquoisesilver@hotmail.com WATER DISPENSER – GE Cold & Hot. $50. 815-385-1732

Comforter Set. Queen. Plum, Gray, Ivory. Like new! Pics avail. $35 815-459-9333 Dinnerware – Noratake - Stoneware 67 Pc. Set for 10 – Wild Grasses On Lt. Grey Background – Ex. Cond. $350obo 815-338-9466

DVD MEDIA CABINETS – holds over 200 DVDs. 45" h x 33" w x 7" d.

Pecan finish, have 3 of them! $15 each or $30 takes all.

815-900-6215 Joe 224-420-1414 Mac

FLOOR LAMPS - 2 used matching 6ft floor lamps. Brass & hunter green. $15 each or $20 for both!

815-900-6215 Joe, 224-420-1414 Mac

GLASS TUMBERS (8)

Libby Hostess Set, 1960's.

Clear with gold leaf "sports" design.

Heavier glass, 5 1/2" tall. New/old stock, still in box, $20. turquoisesilver@hotmail.com ICE CRUSHER Portable Electric Use on counter for drinks or fancy food. Works good, $20.

815-455-3555 Lamp Shade-cloth, eggshell color, new in wrapping. Size L12” W8” D5.5”. $10. 815-344-9665 MUG RACK, WOOD - Hand painted in a pretty red, quite charming!

Simple, attractive tabletop mug tree; 16.5 H x 9 W, durable wood construction. Looks beautiful on your kitchen countertops. Holds up to 6 mugs for easy reach, super cute!

New. $15. 815-477-9023 Pictures: Japanese, set of 4, Geisha Girl, red, gold, and black background, bamboo frame $50 815-344-9665

SEWING MACHINE - Working Kenmore Zig Zag model #1431, with instruction manual & free sewing kit. $25 firm. 815-900-6215 Joe 224-420-1414 Mac SHELVING UNIT - WHITE WASHED WOODEN - Great for store display merchandise, cottage, french country appeal, 48w x 64h x 18d, heavy duty, excellent condition, $95. 815-477-9023

RECRUIT LOCAL! Target your recruitment message to McHenry County or reach our entire area.

For more information, call 800-589-8237 or email: helpwanted@ shawsuburban.com

Steel Cabinet

21X36x27, 2 doors, lexan top.

Very nice, $60. 815-459-7485 Tanning Bed/Canopy: Santana Sunmate SB-9 $135 OBO 815-568-8036 Water Cooler: Hot & Cool, $20 815-404-9765

Crate: XT15R 15 watt guitar amp rarely used $50 815-388-5061 Luggage: Samsonite, Hardside, Piggyback ($15), Pollman ($10) Amer. Tourist Attache Case ($3) 815-678-4185 Organ: Hammond M3, plays well, $175 815-756-8365

Beginners Sewing Machine. In cabinet Sears Kenmore 1484. Instr book incl. Cleaned and oiled,ready to go. $40/Firm. 847-857-8260

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PRAIRIE GRANGE

Lunch by: Relish the Dog

BED SKIRT, KING SIZE - Creamed colored cotton with beautiful hand crocheted trim, very pretty, exc. cond., $45, call 815-477-9023.

Sleep Number FlexFit Plus Adjustable Base, Split King to adjust ea side separately, less than 2 mos old, $2500/OBO 847-845-9608

CLIP & SAVE

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Shot Gun Shells – 1 & 2 Times Shot – 12 Gage Federal – Remington & Winchester AA Shells For Reloading – 2000 Shells - $20 815-334-9038 7:30am-6:30pm

TABLE & CHAIRS – 40" dia light oak table & 2 chairs. Great for starters or small apartment. Asking $25 firm.

815-900-6215 Joe 224-420-1414 Mac

Luggage Set Top Brand and cond.

American Tourister. Not canvas sides, 2 pieces 7x24”, 7x20”, $40.

815-455-3555 Outboard Motor: 1990 4.8. HP, low hours, like new, $350 815-382-1292

HUNTERS COAT – Mens medium size camo hunters coat. New, never worn. $50 firm. 224-420-1414 Mac, 815-900-6215 Joe

Peavey Microphone and Acoustic amplifier system - Microphone PVM 535i, On Stage Mic Stand AMP KB/A 50. All manuals included. $150, cash only, must pick up.

Call 847-516-2003

DEER FOUNTAIN-WITH BUCK STATUE; CONCRETE; APPROXIMATELY 5 FEET TALL; JOHNSBURG AREA; $250 FIRM; 708-602-8353

Jansen, maple, needs some tuning. $200. 815-385-1616 or 815-814-4012

WICKER CHAIRS - Vintage garden appeal, hand painted lime green, sturdy construction, durable, classic, very cute cottage chic! $195.

815- 477-9023

HAY ~ ROUND BALES Canary grass/cattails, $45 or clean grass, $110, lrg sq $100, sml sq alfalfa $9. & wheat straw $4 262-2752251

JOHNSBURG SNOWBLOWER – LIKE NEW. Only used 3 times this year. Paid $327 new – asking $175 obo. 815-9006215 Joe, 224-420-1414 Mac Toro CCR 2450. 20” cut. Easy pull start. Cuts through heavy snow. $175. 815-245-4775 TORO CCR-2000-E 20" SINGLE STAGE WITH ELECTRIC START ALL GONE OVER W/ OEM PARTS LOOK AND RUNS LIKE NEW. Reduced to $300. 815-675-2155 TORO POWERLITE-E 16" SINGLE STAGE SNOW BLOWER W/ ELECTRIC START. ALL GONE OVER W/ OEM PARTS LOOKS AND RUNS LIKE NEW. Reduced to $225.

815-675-2155

Aquarium, 10 gallon, w/filter, pump, top, light, and heater $10 815-648-2501 DOG NAIL TRIMMER / GRINDER, NEW IN BOX & AS SEEN ON TV $15 JOHNSBURG AREA 708-602-8353

'80 BassTracker 16', 9.8hp Merc., Trlr. w/spare tire, 2 Eagle D. Finders, Bilge/Aerator Pumps.

Garage kept, travel cover. $3,500/obo 815-344-5203

AIR HOCKEY TABLE

Full size, good condition! $25/obo.

847-712-0303 after 4pm Marengo Area

BRIDGESTONE MOTOCROSS TIRES M604 1200-90 57M AND 110/90 19 BOTH IN GOOD COND $20; JOHNSBURG AREA; 708-602-8353

Battery Motorized Wheel Chair.

Jazzy. Red. Hardly used, like new! $400. Dundee. Lv msg for Frank.

847-428-2511

Rolling Walker - Nova Hand brakes and padded seat.

Like new! $60 815-276-2368

Bow: Hoyt Intensity Bow, Youth or women 30-40lbs $85/OBO 815-283-5165 Camera – Digital – G E G1 7MP – Used Once – Complete w/Manual, All Connections, Battery, Charger, 5D Memory Card, Shoots Video, In Orig. Box (Org.$235) Asking $75 815-353-3345 Until 9PM Camera Kit: Canon AE-1 35mm, flash unit, power winder, data back, tele convertor, wide angle & lens bag, tripod & manuals $150 815-568-8036 Chicken Soup Books 22 assorted $11 224-577-6338

LOW COST PET VACCINATIONS Monday 3/25/2013 at the Tractor Supply Store located at 1201 S Division Street, Harvard, IL from 10-1pm. No appt necessary. Call SPAY ILLINOIS for more info 877-475-7729

10TH ANNUAL STATE LINE AUCTION TO BE HELD AT A.A. ANDERSON INC. MACHINERY LOT 815-943-5454 Located 2 ½ mi. N. of Harvard, IL or 3 ½ mi. S. of Walworth, WI on Hwy. 14

SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2013 – 10:00 A.M. NOTE: This is a partial list as there is much more arriving daily. Last year’s auction had 481 registered buyers! We may sell in 2 rings, so come prepared. TRACTORS & EXCAVATOR: .D. 4850 w/duals; Case/I.H. 5130; I.H. 1586; I.H. 1566; ’52 J.D. G (restored); ’53 I.H. Super H (SN16507); I.H. Super M (SN11580); I.H. Super C; J.D. 25 excavator w/steel tracks & dozer blade. PLANTING & TILLAGE: J.D. 7000-12R frt. fold corn planter; Glencoe SS7400-7 shank soil saver; DMI Tiger II 3 pt. 3 shank deep ripper; Brillion 27’ cultimulcher; J.D. 960-30’ field cult.; Kewanee 1010-18’ disc (new 22” blades); Kewanee 1020-20’ disc; J.D. 235-28’ double fold disc; J.D. 220-21’ disc; I.H. 14’ wheel disc; I.H. 453-4 row cult. HAY, FORAGE, & GRAIN EQUIPMENT: J.D. 328 baler; N.H. 315 baler w/kicker & elec. controls; N.H. 489 Haybine; N.I. hay rake; N.I. 9’-5 bar rake; Kewanee 50’ elevator; bale wagons; I.H. 110 forage wagon; hay ride wagon; flat rack wagons w/gears; E-Z Trail 510 grain cart; J&M 500 bu. grain cart; gravity boxes w/ gears; N.I. 324-2R picker; N.H. 717-1R chopper; N.H. 782-2R chopper MISC. FARM: Demco, Farmrite, & Top Air 500 gal. sprayers w/45’ booms; Sudenga 6”x61’ auger w/7.5 H.P. elec. motor; 10”x56” PTO auger; feeder wagon; new 250 gal. chem. tank; 3-1,000 gal. steel tanks; Sweepster 3 pt. broom; N.H. 512 & Oliver manure spreaders; Yetter 15’ coulter assembly for J.D. 750 drill; 10’ skid steer bucket; Winpower 12KW generator, 540 PTO; Hi Pro Series 9400 sprayer pump w/540 PTO; fuel tank for pickup; 3 pt. winch w/3 ph. motor; pile of gates/coral panels; DMI cushion hitch. TRUCKS & TRAILERS: ’00 Chev. Silverado 1500LS-4WD pickup; ’73 Chev. C-65 grain truck (33,000 mi.); Chev. service truck; 3,000 gal. tanker truck w/pump; ‘93-16’ gooseneck stock trailer; ’85 – 24’ gooseneck flat bed trailer; 2 axle trailer. LAWN & GARDEN & TOOLS: J.D. GT235 garden tractor; Dixon Kodiak zero-turn mower; Cub Cadet GT3100 garden tractor; Land Pride finish mower; J.D. 110 mower; 3 pt. wood chipper; J.W. port. air comp., 140 CFM; some shop tools. This is a consignment auction.

Auction Co. & A.A. Anderson’s are not responsible for items that do not appear. Whatever you’re looking for, it’s probably here! JUST COME! TERMS: Cash or check. NO BUYER’S FEE! www.stadeauction.com. Illinois Licensed Auctioneers: Bill Stade #041000774 608-585-2431 Mike Stade #0410001194 920-6994580 Clerk: Ron Lipinsky Cashier: Tom Stade Clerk: Ron Lipinsky Cashier: Tom Stade

MOTOCROSS HELMETS; NO FEAR SIZE LARGE; HAVE 2; $35 EACH 708-602-8353 PIRELLI MOTOCROSS TIRE MT 450 SCORPION GROSS 100/90 19" GOOD CONDITION $15 JOHNSBURG AREA 708-602-8353

Snowboard Shoes for Women white, size 8, BRAND NEW $25 815-459-2640 YAMAHA MOTOCROSS STOCK MUFFLERS; HAVE 2; $40 EACH; JOHNSBURG AREA 708-602-8353

CHILDRENS BOOKS - Assorted hard cover, in English and Spanish, $1-5 each, lots of titles, 815-679-7368 With 2 chairs, $25 815-356-0883 DOLL BED - All wood doll bed for 18" dolls, complete with pillow, sheet, blanket and mattress pad.

Various combinations available. $45. 847-836-9543

PACO 1 1/2 year old male Chihuahua I plan to play the hand I've been dealt as courageously as I can. I know the best is yet to come for me and you too. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

PET TAXI CARRIER – Paid $32 new!

Asking $15. Will hold small to med size pet up to 20lbs.

815-900-6215 Joe 224-420-1414 Mac Saddle: English Hunter/Jumper Saddle, blue leather, medium tree, 17 inch seat, good cond $55 815-276-1479 Crystal Lake Saddle: quality Equi-Bette 17.5” dressage, adult size, minimal wear, solid leather $225/OBO 815-651-1050

DOLL HOUSE Newly built wrap around porch, 6 rooms, $100. 847-854-7980 PIRATE CAPTAIN DRESS UP - Your little pirate will love this super cool costume to navigate the high seas.

Size 3-4T, wonderfully crafted costume. Lots of cute details, the works, includes all the gear. New with tags, never worn. $35.

815-477-9023 Rocking Horse for toddler, excellent shape, wool on head and tail, white & tan, $20 815-459-2640

Lionel & American Flyer Trains

WANTED TO BUY

MTD 3-21 SNOWBLOWER RUNS BUT NEEDS CARB WORK NICE CONDITION $50. 815-675-2155 MTD SNOW BLOWER 21" CUT ELECTRIC START NEW PADDLES AND CABLE. WORKS WELL. REDUCED $140. 815-675-2155 SNOW BLOWER 2 stage snowblower w/ Tecumeth 4 cycle engine, starts runs & works great. Call Frank 815-527-2822 Fox Lake area $75.

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HUGE HARDWARE SALE

50% OFF EVERYTHING MUST GO! Sale located @

MARCH 8 & 9 8AM - 4PM

8709 Pyott Rd.

421 LINCOLN AVE.

Prairie Grove

MON-FRI 8AM-4PM

RUMMAGE SALE

Lots of Antiques - Eastlake table, corner pine cupboard, pine buffet, planter box, wicker fern stand, commode, 3 cane seat chairs, oak desk & chair, pine tool boxes, oak rocker, old highchair, newer Crate & Barrel sofa, lamps, Lenox china birds, Lonagerber baskets, cut and pressed crystal, wine glasses, dishes, silverware, small kitchen appliances, linens, old books, picture frames, retired Cowson-Parade and Beanie Babies, old bikes, camping equipment, exercise equipment, toys and games.....and for the men lots of tools in the garage and basement!

Faith Community United Church of Christ

2023 Rt.176 1 mile W. of Island Lake, 3 miles E of Rt. 31 off Bayview Beach Rd.

March 7 9AM-4PM March 8 9AM-1PM ! March 8 is Bag Day $2/Paper Bag, $5/Garbage Bag

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Clothes, Housewares, Books, Furniture, Perfume, Jewelry & Collectibles

CRAFTERS WANTED

Share your photos with McHenry County!

SAT, MAR 23, 9AM-4PM Call Laurie @ 815-385-6956 ECKEL'S MCHENRY FLEA MARKET

3705 W. ELM SAT & SUN 8-5 Spaces Start As Low As $12 815-363-FLEA (3532)

Carpentersville

One box or some of 38 shorts for police revolver.

CALL BOB: 815-455-2083 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

www.HuskieWire.com All NIU Sports... All The Time Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up? Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!

NWHerald.com /myphotos

HARLEYS SELF STORAGE

250 Williams St. Auction Saturday March 9th at 12noon

Upload photos of your family and friends with our online photo album.

Antiques, cabinets, furniture, 6 panel doors $20/each, sub zero refrigerator/freezer, AND MUCH MORE.

Share your sports team, birthday party, big catch, pets, or vacation!

We are At Your Service!

CARY RUMMAGE SALE THURSDAY, MAR 7 1PM - 7PM FRIDAY, MAR 8 9AM - 4PM SATURDAY, MAR 9 9AM - 12PM

Saturday 1/2 Price Sale ! $3.00/Bag Cary United Methodist Church

500 First St. The Northwest Herald reaches 137,000 adult readers in print every week, and 259,000 unique visitors on NWHerald.com every month.

Sponsored by UMW Proceeds benefit Local & Global Missions

Antique and Modern Guns

DIGITAL CAMERA - NEW Still in Package PALMCLIX 300 digital camera & webcam with free carry case.$50/obo. 815-900-6215 Joe

WINDMILL

LAKE IN THE HILLS

Furniture, knick-knacks, drum set, pictures & MORE!

Old Lever Actions, Winchesters, Marlins, Savages, etc. Old Pistols and Revolvers. Cash for Collection.

FFL License 815-338-4731

815-353-7668

Rustic wood look with 2 planter boxes below, 4'H, $45.

815-578-0212

East of Chapel Hill Rd & North of Bay

Foosball Table

Sports Craft, like new! $45.

Air Hockey Table, like new1 $40.

224-650-1564 KOHO HOCKEY PANTS; SIZE LARGE (28-30) AND SHIN 7 ELBOW PADS AND 2 PUCKS FOR $25; JOHNSBURG AREA; 708-602-8353

Disney Princess Table

GLOVES ~ LATEX

With Aloe Organic, case of 1000. $55 815-578-0212 HEART GRAPEVINE WREATH Simplistic and lovely. $15.

815-477-9023 Hot Dog Cooker/steamer/keeper: Echols commercial stainless steel hot dog cooker w/bun steamer unit $395 847-902-5945

CONCEALED CARRY CLASS Country Inn, Crystal Lake $80 ea.

March 24 or April 20 9am-1pm.

Info/Register@608-577-1917

POCKET KNIVES, HAVE THREE, INCLUDING 1 LARGE AND 1 SHARPER IMAGE; $10 EA; 708-602-8353; JOHNSBURG AREA

NINA 2 year old female Calico DMH Instead of dreaming about who I want to be, I enjoy who I am.

It's taken me time, but now I've finally become myself. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

3206 RAMSGATE LANE

Something for Everyone ...

Chain Saw ~ Electric

JORDY Jordy 6 month old male Lab mix. Sometimes, where you think you're going isn't where you end up. This is a world still worth exploring and I want to see it all. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

Off of Hilltop Tools, furniture, stereo, ladders and walk-boards, household items & MORE!

Great Lakes Electrical Supply

Book set (2): “Coaching Girls Softball” and “Softball Skills & Drills” exc. cond. $18 815-459-2225

Wards, 14”, work good, $25.

815-459-7485 Saw Blades: Diamond, 15” diameter, 2 3/8 hole, used, 4 blades $50 815-363-9636 Yamaha Generator EC4000DV Industrial Runs and Works well. Asking $250/obo. Call 815-546-5018 Open to trades of equal value.

414 CEDAR ST.

WOODSTOCK

4 Piece Tool Shop

18 volt, $60. 815-701-1172

FRI & SAT 8-4 SUN 9-2

FRI, SAT, SUN MARCH 8, 9, 10 9AM - 4:30PM

MOTHER LODE

PIANO ~ SPINET

Piano: beautiful Horace Waters Console Piano, Louis XV style w/bench, you move $250 815-455-7813 UPRIGHT BASS, 3/4. Carlo Robelli model 6702. with zippered gig bag $400, 847-915-1294

LAKE IN THE HILLS

Call to advertise in the At Your Service directory.

HARVARD - INDOOR/OUTDOOR SPOTS AVAILABLE Participants Needed to sell their household & misc items at the Community Indoor/outdoor garage sale on April 6th during Business Expo Outside $15 inside $25 Over 1000 attendees expected. Spaces limited. For more information: 815-943-4404

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815-675-1007

DOWNTOWN

CRYSTAL LAKE

Get Around Guide

Hare Ye! Hare Ye! Tickets are now on sale for

Lunch with the Bunny Saturday, March 30th at 11AM Tickets available online and at: Dalzell Jewelers 41 N. Williams

815.479.0835 www.downtowncl.org

Visit www.DowntownCL.org for additional information

Win a $100 Shopping Spree Congratulations to CATHY MCCONNELL OF CRYSTAL LAKE!

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Featured Business

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Wickham Interiors Downtown Crystal Lake

Passion for Design; Legendary Service with Affordable Value Among fashionable home boutiques, Wickham Interiors is a rare and beautiful find. As the only store in Historic Downtown Crystal Lake with two shopping floors, customers find everything beautiful for home at an affordable value. “When selecting for our store, we try to find the best quality products at affordable prices.

People who know us well, know we have stylish accessories and furnishings that are surprisingly reasonable,” owner and designer Lynne Wickham explains.

Wickham came from humble beginnings and understands that the need for affordable prices doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice good design or quality.

As the daughter of a factory worker and secretary, Wickham studied fashion styles to design her own clothes in high school.

For practical reasons, she choose nursing school (although her hearts desire was interior design). On her first day, at a hospital tour, she wondered, “How can anyone get well in here?” Eventually, she taught psychiatric nursing, but gave it up to raise a family.

Later, she began professionally sewing pillows,window treatments,and bed coverings for a local designer. continued on back

67 N. Williams St. • Crystal Lake, IL 60014

815-455-6202 WickhamInteriors.com

Entry Form

Win a $100 Shopping Spree YES! YOU READ THAT RIGHT! This is your opportunity to win a $100 Shopping Spree in Downtown Crystal Lake! Please complete the form and drop it off in the Entry Box at one of the participating merchants listed. You will be entered in a drawing to win $100 in gift certificates ($25 from each of the four participating merchants). While you’re there, we invite you to look around and see all that these generous merchants have to offer.

Contest details: No purchase necessary.

Contest ends on March 29, 2013.

Winner will be notified. One entry per household.

Watch for our next ad on April 4, 2013 -we’ll have a whole new set of merchant gift certificates to offer!

Name Address City

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Optional

Expiration date March 29, 2013 Complete the entry form and deposit it in the box at one of four businesses.

Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams Benedicts La Strata, 40 N. Williams Wickham Interiors, 67 N. Williams The Clothes Gallery, 51 N. Williams As her role increased, the designer saw Wickham’s talent, so he urged her to start a window treatment workroom, but she remembered her design school dream. Finally, she had found her true passion - interior design. In professional design school she enjoyed furniture history, rendering design layouts, and absorbing classes. Her straight A’s reflected her gifted eye for great design.

After graduation, the local designer moved away, giving his clients to her.

In 1982, she began her design business. Word of her talent spread.

Soon she had residential clients and also work at Crystal Lake Country Club, model home developments, and other businesses. In 1989, she opened the store/design studio in Brink Street Market. Wickham’s fervent desire was to offer designer accessories and furnishings that weren’t available in local markets. To this day, Wickham Interiors goal is to offer unusual, refined, affordable, home products and gifts, with excellent personal service for a customer’s better lifestyle.

“I believe great interior design is always essentially directed at peoples lives and how they live daily. It is the analysis of what is attractive, comfortable, important, and relevant in the living environment, not always what the passing trend is, unless that is what you happen to like,” commented Wickham.

Due to success, the firm relocated to 67 N. Williams Street. Their interior design business has a reputation for attention to detail, excellent design, and legendary service. The shop is known for beautiful, affordable, accessories for every room, exceptional gifts and individual caring service to make shopping easier.

Wickham Interiors has received many awards for best interior design firm, furniture store, baby boutique, gift store, stationary, and overall business quality. The firm looks forward to new design styles and sharing their knowledge with those that appreciate attractive environments.

--Featured Business article by Jennifer Jost

67 N. Williams St. • Crystal Lake, IL 60014

815-455-6202 WickhamInteriors.com

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MUSIC4 MARTIN MUSICAL EVENT HONORS LEGACY OF DR. KING

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TOWNSQUARE PLAYERS STAGE ‘25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE’

Cherry comes home

Woodstock native to perform for Music in Our Schools Month

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March 8-10, 15-17, & 22-24 Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. • Sundays at 3 p.m.

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To Order Tickets, Call: (815) 338-5300 Come 45 minutes early to volunteer to spell with our cast!

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ON STAGE

TownSquare Players will stage “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” this weekend.

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MOVIES

Is “Oz the Great and Powerful” a worthy prequel? Read Jeffrey Westhoff’s review.

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ON THE COVER

Nashville artist Jenae Cherry returns home to Woodstock for a beneit concert.

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SOUNDS

Music4Martin concert honors memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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ON THE COVER Nashville artist and Woodstock native Jenae Cherry performs this weekend in Woodstock.

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CHEF DEBI With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, I have put together a great Irish recipe that also is affordable and easy to make. Coddle is a traditional Irish dish usually associated with Dublin – it also is known as Dublin Coddle. It is comfort food of the highest degree; a hearty, nutritious, stew-like dish made from salty bacon, pork sausages and potatoes. Get a recipe for Dublin Coddle at PlanitNorthwest.com/chefdebi.

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FASHION You know the whole thing about a woman’s prerogative to change her mind? Venus Williams can’t do it – at least not when it comes to her tennis wardrobe. She already knows that come August at the U.S. Open, she’ll be wearing a black floral tennis dress, and for tournaments earlier in the summer, it’ll be pink python prints. Williams wears almost exclusively her own line called EleVen, which she has helmed since 2007. Both looks are part of the fall collection, of which Williams offered a preview this week at a Manhattan photo studio. Read more at PlanitNorthwest.com/lifestyle.

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Audience can take part in ‘Spelling’

By JAMI KUNZER jkunzer@shawmedia.com

G

o see “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” and you could wind up in it.

Either way, you’re going to be laughing, say those behind the Tony awardwinning musical comedy set to begin March 8 at the Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St. Presented by the TownSquare Players, the show tells the story of six quirky competitors and three oddball adults running the bee. It is the first time it has been performed at the Opera House.

“It’s a great show because you can laugh at these characters, but gradually get to love these characters and root for them,” said Paul Lockwood, TownSquare Players president and co-producer of the show with Roger Zawacki.

The musical has a twist in that 10 local celebrities will actually take part in the bee with one or two a night asked to spell words on stage.

Among the celebrities are Dan McCaleb, group editor of Shaw Media’s suburban group and publications; McHenry County Board Chairman Tina Hill; Stew Cohen, Star 105.5 and Y-103.9 news director, and others.

“THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE” WHEN: 8 p.m. Fridays; 8 p.m. Saturdays; 3 p.m. Sundays; March 8-10, 15-17 and 22-24 WHERE: Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock COST & INFO: Presented by TownSquare Players. Tickets cost $23 for adults and $20 for students and seniors. For tickets or information, visit www.woodstockoperahouse.com or call 815-338-5300.

Lockwood, who has fond memories of taking a trip to Washington, D.C., 40 years ago to compete in a national spelling bee, thought the local celebrities could use the challenge. And he said the audience might enjoy seeing them on stage.

“We put them to some degree on a bit of a pedestal and think that they know how to use words more expertly than the average person,” he said. “That’s not always the case when it comes to spelling. Spell check has kind of detonated the need in some people’s minds to be good spellers.”

As a bonus, audience members will have the chance to take part.

Those interested can seek out Lockwood about 45 minutes before the show near the main entrance, fill out a form with basic information and potentially end up on stage.

“We’re going to try to get a good variety of people up on stage to be guest spellers,” Lockwood said.

They’ll join a cast of characters with all sorts of oddities, such as a contestant who makes his own clothes and another who uses his foot to spell out words visually in his mind before he spells at the microphone.

Playing the character Chip Tolentino, Joel Bennett of McHenry, who recently starred in “Crazy for You” at the Opera House, must become a 13-year-old going through puberty. Chip won last year’s championship.

“He has an awkward moment during the show where things unravel for him rather quickly,” he said. “Not only is that fun, it’s also a lot of fun to work with the cast members in the show. This has got to be one, or if not, the most talented cast I’ve worked with. Everybody is on top of their game, and they’re all bringing such wonderful dynamics and acting ability to the show.”

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WHEN: through March 9 WHERE: Prairie Ridge High School Auditorium, 6000 Dvorak Drive, Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Come see Belle, Gaston, Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, the Beast and all your favorite characters from Disney’s hit musical presented by Prairie Ridge High School.

Schedule: 7 p.m. March 8; 1 & 7 p.m. March 9. Brunch with Belle will be 9 & 10:30 a.m.

March 9 at a cost of $20 per child. Tickets: $10 adults, $5 seniors, students and children. Tickets and information: 815-893-5888 or visit www.showtix4u.com.

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WHEN: 7 p.m. March 9 WHERE: Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake COST & INFO: 11th annual magic show returning to Raue Center. This special performance features the Midwest’s finest magicians and entertainers. Children and adults alike will be mystified, dazzled and bamboozled by tricks, illusions and more. Proceeds benefit the Raue Center. Tickets: $17, $20, $23.

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WHEN: 3:30 p.m. March 10 WHERE: Grace Lutheran Church, 1300 Kishwaukee Valley Road, Woodstock COST & INFO: Featuring a series of songs reflecting the messages of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoken word expressions and a music video. Free. Information: 815-354-3483 or www.facebook.com/ music4martin.

BUDDY MONDLOCK WHEN: 2 p.m. March 10 WHERE: Unity Spiritual Center of Woodstock, 225 W. Calhoun St., Woodstock COST & INFO: Intimate solo-acoustic show presented

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McHENRY COUNTY ONGOING “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST,” through March 9, Prairie Ridge High School Auditorium, 6000 Dvorak Drive, Crystal Lake. Come see Belle, Gaston, Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, the Beast and all your favorite characters from Disney’s hit musical presented by Prairie Ridge High School. Schedule: 7 p.m. March 8; 1 & 7 p.m. March 9.

Brunch with Belle will be 9 & 10:30 a.m. March 9 at a cost of $20 a child. Tickets: $10 adults, $5 seniors, students and children. Tickets and information: 815-893-5888 or visit www:ShowTix4u.com.

JAZZ ON THE SQUARE, 7 to 11 p.m. irst and third fridays, Stage Left Café, 125 Van Buren St., Woodstock.

Featuring jazz jams irst and third Fridays. Join us for a great night of live music. All levels of musicians invited to play. A $5 donation requested at the door. Information: 847-340-8319 or www.jazzonthesquare.com.

McHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE ART EXHIBIT, through March 31, Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock. McHenry County College Continuing Education art instructor Diane T. Wlezien and her MCC adult students will be exhibiting their work in the Community Room featuring selected oils, watercolors and acrylics the artists created on the theme of Home Sweet Home. Viewing hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m.

Saturday. Information: 847-516-8302 or DianeW@OpulentArt.com.

SECOND SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES, McHenry County College Luecht Conference Center, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Schedule: 3 p.m. March 10, Winds Off the Lake woodwind quintet; 7 p.m. March 13, St. Patrick’s Day concert with Pat Gaughan and L.J. Slavin; 3 p.m. April 14, Sessions Jazz Quartet; 7 p.m. April 24, MCC Jazz Concert; 3 p.m. April 28, MCC Concert Band and Chorus; 6 p.m. May 5, MCC Student Recital. Free.

Information: 815-479-7814.

SPRING BOOK FAIR, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through March 8, Centegra Hospital - McHenry, second loor Reception Area, 4202 Medical Center Drive, McHenry. Offering a large selection of books and gift items suitable for all ages. Sponsored by the Auxiliary to Centegra Hospital – McHenry to raise funds for diagnostic equipment. Information: 815-759-4311.

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“OUR TOWN,” March 7-23, McHenry County College Black Box Theatre, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. American

FESTIVAL OF THE SUGAR MAPLES WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 9-10 WHERE: Coral Woods Conservation Area, 7400 Somerset Drive, Marengo COST & INFO: Learn how maple syrup was discovered. Learn how maple trees produce sap and how sap is collected from trees. See how sap is turned into maple syrup at the evaporator house. Tours leave every 15 minutes and last about an hour. All ages welcome. Free. Information: 815-338-6223 or www.mccdistrict.org. classic by Thornton Wilder presented

by McHenry County College. The story follows the small town of Grover’s Corners through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage” and “Death and Eternity.” Schedule: 7:30 p.m. March 7-9, 14-16, and 21-23. Tickets: $15 general public, $10 MCC students, faculty/ staff, seniors and alumni. Tickets and information: 815-455-8746 or jgeller@ mchenry.edu.

MARCH 8 “THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE,” March 8-24, Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock. Tony Award-winning story of six quirky competitors and three oddball adults in search of spelling bee glory. The musical production is presented by TownSquare Players. Schedule: 8 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets: $23 adults, $20 seniors and students at 815-338-5300 or www. woodstockoperahouse.com.

“FIDDLER ON THE ROOF,” March 8-16, Cary-Grove High School, 2208 Three Oaks Road, Cary. Tony Awardwinning musical presented by the Cary-Grove High School Music Department. Story of Tevye, Golde and their ive daughters as he tries to uphold Jewish traditions in an ever-changing political and social landscape. Schedule: 7:30 p.m. March 8-9; 2 p.m. March 10; 7 p.m. March 14; 7:30 p.m. March 15-16. Tickets: $10 adults, $5 seniors and students. Tickets available in the front lobby between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Information: 847-639-3825.

“JOURNEY TO THE WORLD’S EDGE,” 7 p.m. March 8-9 and 2 p.m.

March 10, Faith Lutheran High School, 174 McHenry Ave., Crystal Lake. A

folk tale in the Irish tradition by Harry Michael Bagdasian and Ernest Joselovitz. Mystical sea creatures, a huge terrifying giant, a deadly bog serpent and other interesting characters come to life in this production. Presented

by Faith Lutheran High School drama students. Suitable for all ages. Tickets: $7 adults, $5 seniors and students, free for children 5 and younger. Tickets and information: 815-479-9305.

“KISS ME KATE,” March 8-16, McHenry West High School, 4724 W. Crystal Lake Road, McHenry. Spring musical presented by the McHenry High School Theatre Department. The play takes place during a very hot Baltimore summer in the 1940s where a theatrical troupe is preparing to open a musical production of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” as an outof-town Broadway tryout. Schedule: 7 p.m. March 8-9, 15-16; and 2 p.m.

March 10. Tickets: $8 adults, $6 seniors and students available at the door. Tickets and information: 815-3857077 or KellsAngie@dist156.org.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY FESTIVAL, third annual, 7 p.m. March 8, Springbrook Community Church, 10115 Algonquin Road, Huntley. Presented by the Rebecca McCarthy School of Dance along wit The McDance Company featuring live music, traditional Irish dance, rafle baskets, authentic Irish vendors and more. Tickets: $7 in advance, $8 at the door. Information: 847-658-4595 or www.rmsd-dance. com.

MARCH 9 FESTIVAL OF THE SUGAR MAPLES, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 9-10, Coral Woods Conservation Area, 7400 Somerset Drive, Marengo. Learn how

maple syrup was discovered. Learn how maple trees produce sap and how sap is collected from trees. See how sap is turned into maple syrup at the evaporator house. Tours leave every 15 minutes and last about an hour. All ages welcome. Free. Information: 815338-6223 or www.mccdistrict.org.

HEALTH, HOME & BUSINESS EXPO, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 9, Nippersink Middle School, 10006 N. Main St., Richmond. Presented by the Richmond-Spring Grove Chamber of Commerce. Free. Information: 815-6787742 or www.rsgchamber.com.

HIGH SCHOOL REUNION – BACK TO THE ’80s, 6 to 11 p.m.

March 9, Marian Central Catholic High School, 1001 McHenry Ave., Woodstock. Marian Central’s annual dinner auction to beneit school programs.

Featuring a buffet dinner, silent and live auctions, entertainment by Personalities, games and cash bar. Casual or ‘80s attire. Must be age 21 or older to attend. Tickets: $30 general seating, $40 reserved seating. Rafle tickets are $20. Tickets and information: 815-3384220, ext. 125, or www.marian.com.

HUNTLEY ROTARY CLUB ANNUAL BAGS TOURNAMENT, ifth annual, noon March 9, Tee 2 Green Indoor Golf & Gallery Sports Lounge, 11173 Dundee Road, Huntley.

Tournament-style competition will be the best of three games with winners advancing to the next round.

Proceeds beneit the Grafton Food Pantry and other local charities. Cash prizes. Check in starts at 11 a.m. Cost: $35 a person that includes a lunch buffet or $70 a team. Registration and information: 224-629-0546 or www. huntleyrotary.org.

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MARCH 10 BUDDY MONDLOCK, 2 p.m.

March 10, Unity Spiritual Center of Woodstock, 225 W. Calhoun St., Woodstock. Intimate solo-acoustic show presented by Woodstock Folk Festival. Opening will be David Hawkins. Admission: $10 suggested donation. Reservations and information: 815-455-4848 or www. woodstockfolkfestival.org.

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, 5 p.m. March 10, Loyola University Retreat and Ecology Campus, 2710 S. Country Club Road, Woodstock. Environmental Defenders of McHenry County 43rd anniversary celebration of working to protect and preserve the environment in the county. Social time, rafle, silent auction, dinner, award and speaker program. Tickets: $50 for nonmembers and includes a oneyear family membership. Program alone is free with advanced reservations. Reservations and information:

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“KISS ME KATE” WHEN: March 8-16 WHERE: McHenry West High School, 4724 W. Crystal Lake Road, McHenry COST & INFO: Spring musical presented by the McHenry High School Theatre Department. The play takes place during a very hot Baltimore summer in the 1940s when a theatrical troupe is preparing to open a musical production of Sharkespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” as an out-of-town Broadway tryout. Schedule: 7 p.m. March 8-9, 15-16; and 2 p.m. March 10. Tickets: $8 adults, $6 seniors and students available at the door. Tickets and information: 815-385-7077 or kellsangie@dist156.org.

JOHNSBURG AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION BUSINESS & CRAFT EXPO, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

March 16, Johnsburg High School, 2002 Ringwood Road, Johnsburg.

More than 80 local vendors will be represented. Free admission. Information: 815-759-9459.

ST. PADDY’S DAY BASH, 6 to 11 p.m. March 16, Park Place, 406 W. Woodstock St., Crystal Lake. Hosted by the Crystal Lake Park District.

Featuring Irish music played by a disc jockey, traditional Irish buffet, and traditional Irish Step dance performances by the McNulty Irish Dancers. Cost: $20 adults, $10 children. Registration and information: 815-459-0680 or www.crystallakeparks.org.

ST. PATRICK’S CELEBRATION, 5 to 8 p.m. March 16, Country Cafe & Bar, 11419 S. Grant Highway, Marengo.

Traditional Irish live music. No cover.

Corned beef and cabbage available for purchase. Information: 708-497-5787.

MARCH 17 815-338-0393 or www.mcdef.org.

MUSIC4MARTIN 2013, 11th annual, 3:30 p.m. March 10, Grace Lutheran Church, 1300 Kishwaukee Valley Road, Woodstock. Featuring a series of songs relecting the messages of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoken word expressions and a music video. Free. Information: 815354-3483 or www.facebook.com/ music4martin.

“ONCE UPON A PARABLE,” 9 and 10:45 a.m. March 10, First Congregational Church, 461 Pierson St., Crystal Lake. Presented by 40 children, grades 4-8, during both worship services to capture parables found in the New Testament. Public invited to attend. Information: 815459-6010 or www.fcccrystallake.org.

SECOND SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES, 3 p.m. March 10, McHenry County College Luecht Conference Center, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake.

Winds Off the Lake woodwind quintet. There will be a 2:30 p.m. preconcert lecture with Russ Henning.

Free. Information: 815-479-7814.

MARCH 12 SAMPLER LECTURE SERIES PROGRAM, 7 p.m. March 12, McHenry County Historical Society Museum, 6422 Main St., Union. “The Next Year that Almost Was: Chicago, Baseball and 1977” will be presented

by Tim Draper, a history professor at Waubonsee College. Cost: $10 donation. Registration and information: 815-923-2267.

MARCH 13 EMPOWERING WOMEN EXPO, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 13, McHenry

County College Atrium, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Topics and exhibitors will provide resources and highlight accomplishments in health and wellness, science and technology and money management. Tax preparation assistance available.

Prize booth drawings. Free admission. Information: 815-455-8735 or www.mchenry.edu/women.

MARCH 14 “ANNIE,” March 14-16, Marengo Community High School Auditorium, 110 Franks Road, Marengo. Spring musical production of the Broadway classic presented by Marengo Community High School Theatre Department. Cast includes more than 40 high school and elementary school students. Schedule: 7 p.m. March 14-15; 2 & 7 p.m. March 16. Tickets: $8 adults, $6 seniors and students.

Come Friday for a reception including a silent auction, rafle items, food and more. Tickets and information: 815-568-6511, Ext. 1301.

“LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL,” 7 p.m. March 14-17, Crystal Lake Central High School, 45 W. Franklin Ave., Crystal Lake. Presented

by Crystal Lake Central High School.

Elle Woods’ life is turned upsidedown when her boyfriend dumps her so he can start getting serious about his life and attend Harvard Law. To get him back, she uses her charm to get into Harvard Law. At school, she struggles but quickly realizes her potential and sets out to prove herself to the world. Rated PG for infrequent coarse language and some suggestive dialogue. Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors and students available online at www.d155.org/clc.

MARCH 15 “ANNIE JR.,” 7 p.m. March 15; 3 and 7 p.m. March 16, Performing Arts Center at Huntley High School, 13719 Harmony Road, Huntley. Broadway classic presented by Marlowe Middle School. The story of a little orphan named Annie who, unlike the other children at Miss Hannigan’s orphanage, believes that her parents still are alive and one day will return to claim her. Tickets: $5 available at the door.

Information: 847-659-6158 or www. district158.org.

THE HIP HOP EXPLOSION, 7 to 9 p.m. March 15, Lakeside Legacy Arts Park (Dole Mansion), 401 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake. A fun event for tweens aged 10-14 to “Ignite the Night and Have Some Fun” in a safe and fun atmosphere. Presented by Lakeside Legacy, Harper College Pom and Dance Team, Berkshire Ballet Theatre, Fast Forward Marketing and From Me 2 You Photography. Cost: $6. Registration and information: 847-401-5017 or 815-477-0033.

McHENRY B&B SQUARE DANCE CLUB, 8 p.m. March 15, McHenry Township building, 3703 N. Richmond Road, Johnsburg. Wally Smulson will do the rounds at 8 p.m. and squares at 8:30 p.m. Mainstream - St. Pat’s. Students welcome. Cost: $5 members, $6 visitors. All dancers welcome. Information: 815-353-5346.

SPRING FASHION SHOW & LUNCHEON, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

March 15, Community Center, 255 Briargate Road, Cary. An afternoon of ladies spring fashions provided

by Dress Barn of Crystal Lake and luncheon. Hosted by the Cary Park District. Cost: $10 a person. Registration and information: 847-639-6100 or

ST. PATRICK’S DAY CONCERT, 2:30 p.m. March 17, Johnsburg Public Library, 3000 N. Johnsburg Road, Johnsburg. Featuring the music of Banna Irish Duo, Mary Barrett and Paul Wood. Free. Registration and information: 815-344-0077 or www. johnsburglibrary.org.

MARCH 19 SPRING FLORAL DESIGN SHOW, 7:30 p.m. March 19, Richmond-Burton High School, 8311 Route 31, Richmond. Richmond Garden Club fundraiser for college scholarships for Richmond-Burton High School. Talented local loral designers will create spring and holiday-inspired centerpieces on stage. All creations will be rafled at the end of the show.

Admission: $10. Information: 815-6787929 or www.richmondgardenclub. info.

REGIONAL ONGOING “THE ART OF MURDER,” through March 17, Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. Fox Valley Repertory production of Joe DiPietro’s award-winning comedy. When successful artist, Jack, learns he has been wronged by his lamboyant art dealer Vincent, he plots a devious plan to kill him. Schedule: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, and select Thursdays at 8 p.m. Tickets: $32-$42 at 630-584-6342, all Ticketmaster outlets or www.ticketmaster.com.

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JENAE CHERRY BAND, 6 to 8:30 p.m. March 9, Woodstock High School Auditorium, 501 W. South St., Woodstock. Jenae, a WHS alumni currently living in Nashville, to perform a concert to celebrate Music in Our Schools Month presented by District 200 Boosters. Admission: $3 at the door. For information, visit: www. d200musicboosters.org.

“NOTHIN’ UP MY SLEEVE,” 11th annual, 7 p.m. March 9, Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake. An annual magic show returning to Raue Center. This special performance features the Midwest’s inest magicians and entertainers. Children and adults alike will be mystiied, dazzled and bamboozled by tricks, illuillu sions and more. Proceeds beneit the Raue Center. Tickets: $17, $20, $23.

Tickets and information: 815-356-9212 or www.rauecenter.org.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY DINNER, 4 to 7:30 p.m. March 9, McHenry Moose Lodge, 3535 N. Richmond Road, McHenry. Annual traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner hosted by McHenry Moose Legion and Women of the Moose. Featuring the McNulty Irish Dancers at 5 p.m. during dinner and entertainment show at 6 p.m. by David Mahner. Tickets: $12 available at the bar. Information: 815-385-9770.

THINK SPRING GALA DINNER & SILENT AUCTION, 5:30 to 9 p.m. March 9, Crystal Lake Country Club, 721 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake. Annual fundraiser hosted by Faith in Action of McHenry County.

Featuring a cash bar, entertainment and exciting silent auction items.

Proceeds will be used to assist area seniors in need. Tickets: $45. Tickets and information: 815-455-3120 or www.iamchenrycounty.org.

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Continued from page 9 “BECKY’S NEW CAR,” through March 17, Steel Beam Theatre, 111 W. Main St., St. Charles. By Steven Dietz. Have you ever been tempted to flee your own life? That’s what happens to Becky Foster, who is caught in middle age, middle management and a middling marriage until a grief-stricken millionaire stumbles into the car dealership where she works and offers her nothing short of a new life. Schedule: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets: $25 adults, $23 seniors and students at 630-587-8521 or www. steelbeamtheatre.com.

“JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH,” through March 10, Steel Beam Theatre, 111 W. Main St., St. Charles. Roald Dahl’s story of a young boy who escapes an abusive home in a magical peach. Presented

by Steel Beam Children’s Theatre.

Schedule: 10:30 a.m. March 9; 1 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday. Tickets: $15 adults, $10 children. Tickets and information: 630-587-8521 or www. steelbeamtheatre.com.

WATERCOLOR 2013, through April 13, Norris Gallery, Norris Cultural Arts Center, 1040 Dunham Road, St. Charles. Annual exhibition of traditional and contemporary water-based media on different surfaces. Featuring a 2 to 4 p.m. March 17 artist reception. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Information: 630-584-7200 or www.norrisculturalarts.com.

MARCH 7 STAND-UP COMEDY, March 7-17, Chicago Improv, 5 Woodfield Road, Schaumburg. Schedule: March 7-10, Ian Bagg from “Comedy Central,” “Conan O’Brian,” and “Jay Leno” (tickets $17, $19); March 14-17, Charlie Murphy from “Chappelle’s Show” (tickets $32). Show times: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 & 10:15 p.m.

Friday, 7 & 9:15 p.m. Saturday, 7 p.m.

Sunday. Tickets and information: 847-240-2001 or www.improv.com/ comedyclub/chicago.

MARCH 8 KLEHM FAMILY DAYS, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 9, Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 2715 S. Main St., Rockford. The day’s theme will be “The Early Signs of Spring.” Families will find fun ways to learn about nature outdoors and find signs of spring. Also featuring a spring-inspired dance by the Rockford Dance Company, Junior Company from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission: $10 nonmember families, free for member families. Information: 815-965-8146 or www.klehm.org.

“KSO GOES TO THE MOVIES!”, 7:30 p.m. March 8, Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building at Northern Illinois Uni-

versity, 400 Lucinda Ave., DeKalb.

Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra gala benefit concert featuring music from movie favorites. Movie clips, silent auction, prizes and raffle.

Tickets: $15 at the door. Information: 815-756-3728 or www.kishorchestra. org.

LEGO STAR WARS DAYS, March 8-10, LEGOLAND Discovery Center Chicago, at the Streets of Woodfield, 601 N. Martingale Road, Schaumburg. LEGO Star Wars Days return for three days of intergalactic fun.

Doors open 10 a.m. Friday and 8 a.m.

Saturday and Sunday. Center closes at 7 p.m. Admission: $20, free for children 2 and younger. Information: 847-592-9700 or www.legolanddiscoverycenter.com.

“ON GOLDEN POND,” March 8 through April 13, Riverfront Playhouse, 11 S. Water St., Aurora.

By Ernest Thompson. The story of Norman and Ethel Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond, Maine, for the 48th year. They soon are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter, Chelsea, and her dentist fiancé, Bill, who then go off to Europe leaving Bill’s 13-year-old son behind for the summer. Schedule: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 3 p.m. April 7 & 14.

Tickets: $17 adults, $15 seniors and students. Tickets and information: 630-897-9496 or www.riverfrontplayhouse.com.

“STARS ON ICE,” 7:30 p.m. March 8, Allstate Arena, 6920 Mannheim Road, Rosemont. “Now & Then” Tour featuring Olympic champion Dorothy Hamill to honor figure skating legend Kurt Browning. Tickets start at $25. Information: www.starsonice. com. Tickets: 800-745-3000, all Ticketmaster locations or www. ticketmaster.com.

MARCH 9 ANTIQUE AMERICAN GLASS & POTTERY SHOW & SALE, 41st annual, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 9 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 10, Concord Plaza Midwest Conference Center, 401 W. Lake St., Northlake.

Sponsored by the 20-30-40 Glass Society of Illinois. Show will feature 25 dealers from around the country offering American-made items.

There will be a glass identification table and crystal repair service. Door prizes and raffle. Admission: $8 a person. Information: 630-851-4504 or www.20-30-40society.org.

“SCOOBY–DO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES,” noon and 3 p.m.

March 9, Genesee Theatre, 203 N. Genesee St., Waukegan. All-new family musical presented by Warner Bros. featuring everyone’s favorite characters from one of television’s longest-running animated series.

Tickets: $20-$65. Tickets and information: 800-745-3000, all Ticketmaster locations or www. ticketmaster.com.

SPRING FOX VALLEY ANTIQUES SHOW, 56th annual, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m March 9 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 10, Kane County Fairgrounds, 525 S. Randall Road, St. Charles. There will be 55 dealers from 14 states offering authentic antiques. Produced by Chicago Suburban Antiques Dealers Association to benefit Garfield Farm Museum and Northern Illinois Food Bank.

Admission: $8. Information: 815838-0606 or www.csada.com.

MARCH 10 ELGIN CHILDREN’S CHORUS, 3 p.m. March 10, Elgin Community College Arts Center, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin. “Symphony of Song” presentation with a special appearance by the Boys Ensemble and guest alumni artist Erik Malmquist.

Tickets: $15 adults, $12 seniors and students at 847-622-0300 or www. elgin.edu/arts.

SUPER STORM SANDY BENEFIT, noon to 2:30 p.m. March 10, Salem United Methodist Church, 115 W. Lincoln Ave., Barrington. Barbecue pork feast (carry-outs available) with Chief Ralph Webster of the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District as keynote speaker. Live music by Peter Haas, Dawn Taylor and the group Better With Bacon will be featured.

Cost: $7 minimum donation. Information: 847-381-0524.

MARCH 16 BUBBLE FESTIVAL, March 16, Discovery Center Museum, 711 N. Main St., Rockford. A one-day Bubble Festival featuring Geoff Akins, who fancies himself both a magician and bubbleologist. He will demonstrate his skills during six live performances at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., noon, 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Tickets $4 public in advance, $3 members through March 15; $5 public at the door. Tickets and information: 815-963-6769 or www. discoverycentermuseum.org.

“THE IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY,” 7:30 p.m. March 16, Elgin Community College Arts Center, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin. Based on a suggestion from the audience, The Improvised Shakespeare Company creates a fully improvised and hilarious theatrical masterpiece right before their eyes for an evening of off-the-cuff comedy. Tickets: $29, $33. Tickets and information: 847-622-0300 or www.elgin.edu/arts.

MARCH 17 SKIPS FIESTA DRIVE-IN SWAP MEET & CAR SHOW, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 17, Lake County Fairgrounds, 1060 E. Peterson Road, Grayslake. Car and truck parts swap meet and car sales. Admission: $8 adults, $2 children ages 6-11, fre

for children younger than 6. Food available for purchase. Information: 630-340-4744 or www.skipsusa.com.

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admission: $15 for adults; $12 seniors and students with ID; $10 children ages 3-11. Gold Pass and Platinum Pass ticket options available.

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“I LOVE LUCY” Live on Stage, through March 17, Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut St., Chicago. Broadway in Chicago musical stage show adapted from the longest-running and most beloved television program starring Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel. Schedule: 2 & 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.

Thursdays and Fridays, 2 & 8 p.m.

Saturdays, 2 & 6:30 p.m. Sundays.

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CHICAGO FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW, 20th annual, March 9-17, Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago.

This year’s theme is “The Art of Gardening.” More than 100 vendors of gardening, landscape and horticulture products and services will showcase their green and eco-friendly wares. Top horticulture experts and professionals will share insights at free seminars held daily. Schedule: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $15 weekdays purchased online, $17 at the door; $17 weekends purchased online, $19 at the door; $5 children ages 4-12.Information: 312-595-5400 or www.chicagoflower.com.

MARCH 7 “CREATURES OF LIGHT: NATURE’S BIOLUMINESCENCE” EXHIBITION, March 7 through Sept. 8, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. Explore the world of the extraordinary, lightproducing organisms that populate our planet. From the woodlands in North America, to the caves of New Zealand, to deep beneath the ocean’s surface, visitors will discover re-created environments to learn more about how different organisms use light to attract mates, lure prey or defend against predators. General

MARCH 10 NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE WORLD, third annual, noon to 5 p.m. March 10, Navy Pier’s Crystal Gardens, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago.

Celebrate Lithuanian Independence with the Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania with authentic live music, dance performances, cuisine and folk art. Free admission.

Information: 312-595-7437 or www. navypier.com.

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NEW FAMILIES Thursday, March 14: Registration will be held for families who are new to St. Thomas School.

CURRENT FAMILIES Thursday, March 7: We will be registering current St. Thomas School families.

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isney has made major waves in the last few years buying up family friendly media properties, such as the Muppets, Marvel Comics and “Star Wars.” But the practice is not new.

Walt Disney himself procured an especially rich property in the MORE 1950s when he scooped ONLINE up the film rights to most Watch Jeff’s of L. Frank Baum’s Oz video review of novels. So it is something “Oz the Great of a surprise that “Oz the and Powerful” Great and Powerful,” diat PlanitNorthrected by Sam Raimi and west.com starring James Franco in the title role, is only the studio’s second attempt in 60 years to capitalize on those rights (third if you count the made-for-TV “The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz”).

Any attempt to make an Oz movie automatically falls into the shadow of “The Wizard of Oz,” the 1939 musical starring Judy Garland that is one of the few mov-

STARRING: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz PLOT: A tornado drops a two-bit carnival magician (Franco) into an enchanted land where he is mistaken for a wizard and thrust into a power struggle among three witches (Williams, Kunis, Weisz).

RATED: PG for brief mild language and sequences of action and scary images RUNNING TIME: 2 hours, 10 minutes ies nearly everyone has seen. Collective memories of that beloved classic obliterated Disney’s first attempt to revisit the magic land, 1985’s “Return to Oz,” released a full 30 years after Disney acquired the Oz rights. Audiences expected a merry sequel, but no one was singing about rainbows in the bleak fantasy far more faithful to Baum’s work than the MGM film.

This time, Disney isn’t taking chances with a risky reinterpretation (don’t look for the bold political take of “Wicked,” the book and musical that covers much of the same Oz history). “Oz the Great and Powerful” has been mounted as a reverent prequel to the 1939 film.

It follows the same pattern, opening with a black and white sequence set in Kansas and changing to color when the wizard arrives in Oz. A few actors introduced in Kansas reemerge as enchanted creatures in Oz.

Raimi goes all in for film nostalgia during the opening. Not only do we see Kansas in monochrome, Raimi frames it within the square Academy ratio that was the standard screen size in 1939 (“The Artist” also was filmed in Academy ratio). The screen expands once the wizard is blown out of Kansas, so Oz is both more colorful than our world and wider.

Franco’s character, a two-bit magician in a three-bit traveling carnival, presciently bills himself as Oz the Great and Powerful even before he visits the magical land. His stage name is a shortening of his real name, Oscar. Vain and frustrated with his career, Oscar says, “I don’t want to be a good man, I want to be a great one.” So now we know the moral lesson he must learn.

Oscar is also a Casanova who doesn’t hide his indiscretions well. When a jealous husband comes after him, Oscar escapes in the carnival’s hot air balloon, not noticing the tornado forming in the distance.

Quicker than you can say, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” Oscar is in Oz. Almost immediately, he learns of a prophecy that a great wizard who shares the kingdom’s name will be crowned king once he vanquishes the wicked witch. Oscar loves the idea of being king, especially when he sees Emerald City’s vast treasure room, but he’s not thrilled about fighting a witch. The fake wizard knows a handful of flash powder is no match for real magic.

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Country girl Nashville artist Jenae Cherry’s country roads lead home to Woodstock for benefit concert

By JAMI KUNZER • jkunzer@shawmedia.com

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enae Cherry has performed all over Nashville in front of all sorts of audiences.

But her favorite fans are back home, especially all of the students her mother, Marla Cherry, teaches at Greenwood Elementary School in Woodstock.

“The little girls at Greenwood are unbelievable,” said the 23-year-old Cherry, who grew up in Wonder Lake. “They called me on my birthday, 26 of them got on the phone to wish me a happy birthday. They can make you feel so good.

“It’s for them that you want to keep playing.”

Cherry, as part of the Jenae Cherry Band, will perform at 6 p.m. March 9 in the auditorium at her alma mater, Woodstock High School. Her appearance is part of a celebration of Music in Our Schools Month at the school.

Cherry gladly accepted the invitation and the chance to visit her hometown. She moved to Nashville about three and a half years ago to pursue her music and has been playing guitar and writing songs since age 17.

She now performs fulltime, playing five to seven shows a week with her band.

Describing her music as pop and country combined, Cherry plays covers and her original music, including “Pretty Little Love Notes,” a song she wrote about her mother.

She’s a fan of an array of artists, including Miranda Lambert, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Carrie Underwood, Sara Bareilles and Keith Urban.

THE JENAE CHERRY BAND Through a campaign at Kickstarter.com, she hopes to raise $7,000 to make her first album, “Around We Go.” With about a week WHEN: 6 to 8:30 p.m. March 9 (Doors open at 5 p.m.)

WHERE: Woodstock High School Auditorium, left, the campaign had raised about $5,000.

501 W. South St., Woodstock “Were hoping to take the album to record labels to see if I can nail INFORMATION: www.d200musicboosters.org. anything down here,” she said. “Ultimately, I just want to play for a For information on Jenae Cherry’s Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the creation of her “Around We Go” album, living for whoever and just enjoy it.”

She said she thought about trying out for various reality shows, visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/jenaecherry/aroundsuch as “American Idol” and “The Voice,” but has decided against it. we-go.

She’d rather continue to work hard in Nashville.

“There are so many talented people in Nashville,” she said. “I’ve seen a lot of them audition and fail. I see a lot of people that aren’t that serious about it make it. ... Down the strip, there’s so much talent. I love watching people down here busting their butts instead.”

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Continued from page 11 Oscar encounters three witches, Theodora the winsome (Mila Kunis), Evanora the scheming (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda the good (Michelle Williams). The script, credited to Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire, plays guessing games as to which witch is the wicked witch, but the studio’s publicity department has done a lousy job of keeping the secret.

Reversing Dorothy’s route, the would-be wizard follows the Yellow Brick Road from the Emerald City to Munchkinland. He acquires two companions along the way, a flying monkey named Finley (voiced by Zach Braff) and a doll-like China Girl (voiced by Joey King).

Both are CGI characters, and they are of Gollum quality, believably sharing the same physical space as Franco and conveying emotion better than some of their human co-stars. China Girl is an uncanny creation who looks and moves exactly like a china doll brought to life.

The first half of “Oz the Great and Powerful” is filled with sweetness and wonder.

Knowing winks to the 1939 film are plentiful. A cowardly lion, perhaps the cowardly lion, appears. When Oscar first sees the Emerald City, he says, “It’s a good thing green is my favorite color.”

He wonders why a flying monkey would be dressed like a bellhop.

Finley and China Girl contribute considerable enchantment to the film’s first half.

They are engaging characters, the feisty doll and the timid monkey, with amusing dialogue. They play well against Franco’s greed and opportunism.

Once the group arrives in Munchkinland, the story shifts to the war of the witches.

A wave of new, less interesting supporting characters is introduced, leaving China Girl and Finley less to do and say. Their voices are missed.

Like so many films dependent on CGI, “Oz” becomes

The following movies are scheduled to open Friday in theaters nationwide. Read reviews to these movies and more in Friday’s Screen and at PlanitNorthwest. com.

“Dead Man Down” STARRING: Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper and Terrence Howard PLOT: In New York City, a crime lord’s right-hand man is seduced by one of his boss’s victims, a woman seeking retribution.

all about action, spectacle and special effects. Given Raimi’s bravura visual dynamism, the spectacle and effects are dazzling, and “Oz” joins the handful of live-action movies worth seeing in 3-D. But, except for the conspicuously underdeveloped Theodora, characters make the first half of “Oz” fun, just as the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion made the original film indelible. Once Raimi

“Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey” STARRING: Arnel Pineda, Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain PLOT: A documentary on Arnel Pineda, who was plucked from YouTube to become the new singer for the rock ’n’ roll band Journey.

pushes character into the background, his movie loses heart (and maybe some courage and brains).

Also, because the two evil witches need to survive this movie so Dorothy can kill them later, the stakes for the climax are low. The stage must be set for the next tornado to bring the next visitor from Kansas, so we know which characters will be scattered to various points of the compass and who will wind up behind the

“The Silence” STARRING: Ulrich Thomsen, Claudia Michelsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring PLOT: 13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The present circumstances forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

curtain.

Raimi’s prequel is a beautiful diversion, a colorful and clever homage to perhaps the most loved film of all time.

But for all the technical wizardry that goes into it, “Oz the Great and Powerful” does not live up to its adjectives.

• Jeffrey Westhoff writes movie reviews for Planit Pl@y. Email him at planitnwhnews@shawmedia.com.

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hose behind an 11th annual musical celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hope to energize today’s youth to live like King.

Through performances and artwork, Music4Martin celebrates the Civil Rights advocate and passes on his philosophies to younger generations, said Ken West, who has organized the event since the beginning.

The celebration takes place at 3:30 p.m. March 10, at Grace Lutheran Church, 1300 Kishwaukee Valley Road, Woodstock. Though admission is free, those who attend are encouraged to donate, with this year’s donations going to Pioneer Center for Human Services, based in McHenry.

It includes nine or 10 songs, each representing a different King philosophy, such as the power of love, anti-violence, embracing diversity or working together, West said.

Each song includes a spoken word introduction, which gives children who are not musicians the chance to be involved in the program as well, he said.

The goal is to encourage everyone to positively interact with others, he said.

“It’s to energize people, to remind them of his [King’s] teachings, to get them to think about what’s going on in the world that’s still not right,” he said.

West, who first began organizing the celebration with his then-teenage sons, now 29 and 32, has been a fan of King since his youth. West was 16 when King was assassinated.

From then on, he studied the icon.

“A lot of my beliefs are structured on the philosophies of King,” he said.

As part of this year’s celebration, a “Let’s Paint the World” music video featuring the music of local singer and songwriter, Cassandra Vohs-Demann and created in honor of Pioneer Center, will be shown.

The celebration also will include a “Live” painting, created by local artist Gabe Karagianis, during the show. He begins with a blank canvas and, inspired by what unfolds, completes the artwork by the end of the program.

Along with honoring King, the event provides a place for youth to show off their talents, West said. Having attended the event for several years, 8-year-old Fania and 10-year-old Estelle Villarreal will perform for the first time this year, playing their violins in two songs. The two will accompany a guitarist for a performance of “Lean on Me,” and play “One Day,” with the full Music4Martin band. They enjoy both performing and the message, said their mother, Carolyn.

“It’s about peace and freedom for the civil rights,” Estelle said. “Martin Luther King Jr. did a speech about freedom. ... because everybody’s the same and so everybody could be together and could be friends.”

Many involved come back year after year, with one of

MUSIC4MARTIN WHEN: 3:30 p.m. March 10 WHERE: Grace Lutheran Church, 1300 Kishwaukee Valley Road, Woodstock COST & INFO: 11th annual musical and artistic expressions by local artists in remembrance and honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For information, visit www.facebook.com/music4martin.

West’s sons still consulting with him on the program’s script, even though both sons have since moved to Chicago. The group taking part has grown along with the event.

“The community gets larger and more supportive as people have experienced it year after year,” said George Muligano of Island Lake, who’s been involved for seven years and the musical director for the past five years.

Muligano also sings and plays guitar during the celebration, proud to be a part of it. “Because we’re working with young people, they’re getting exposed to something they probably would not have been exposed to before,” he said. “Those of us that grew up in the ’60s and knew Dr. King. ... Those of us that have this awareness, we’re getting older, and there’s still significance to this.

“Peace, love and understanding is what we’re trying to get out there.”

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CATALANO, rock/metal, Rogue Records recording artists with inluences from bands such as Queensryche, Nightwish, Edguy and Metallica to Journey, The Who, The Beatles and others. Members: Dean Pressley, vocals; Pat Catalano, lead guitar/keys; Mike Myzyri, bass; John Catalano, lead guitar/guitar. Bookings: 708-4028540; www.facebook.com/catalanoband or www.catalanoband.com.

CENTERFOLD, a mainstay of Chicagoland rock and roll, cranking out the greatest hits of the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and today. Featuring Cindy Safran, vocals; Mark Wedow, guitar/ vocals; Eric Wedow, drums/vocals; Chuck Federowicz, bass/vocals; Tom Kranz (formerly of Trilogy), guitar/ keyboard/vocals. Bookings and information: 708-284-2902; bookings@centerfoldband.com; www. facebook.com/centerfoldband or www.centerfoldband.com. Schedule: 9:30 p.m. March 23, All Sports Bar & Grill, McCullom Lake; 9 p.m. April 27, JJ’s Prime Time Sports Pub, Aurora; 7 p.m. July 2, Park Fest, Northbrook; 7 p.m. July 3, Summer Concert Series, Lemont; 7 p.m. July 4, Fourth of July celebration, Warrenville; 6 p.m. July 14, Blufinia Summer Concert Series, Lake Bluff; 7 p.m. July 15, Concert in the Park, Wheaton; 7 p.m. July 18, Summer Concert Series, Hoffman Estates; 7 p.m. July 19, Summer Concert Series, West Dundee; July 21, Rock and Roll Half Marathon, Chicago; 7 p.m. Aug. 9, Lakemoor Fest, Lakemoor.

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BLUSH, a female-fronted cover band featuring Dina DeMonte, vocals; David Brian, guitar; Walter Delaney, guitar; Dave Wurzbach, bass; and John Falcus, drums. Bookings: David, 847-4458004; www.facebook.com/blushrocks or www.blush4music.com.

BONY KNEES, classic rock and alternative music from the ’60s to today. Featuring Jeff Fowler, vocals; Larry Groves, guitar; Tom Harrison, drums/vocals; Jeff Jayko, bass/vocals; Tom Oefling, guitar/vocals. Bookings: fowlerjeff33@yahoo.com.

BOTTOMZ UP, music from the ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and today. Featuring Laure Walydyn, vocals; Glenn Biron, guitar/ backup vocals; Jim Davidge, bass/vocals; Pete “Skills” Bartolomei, drums; Larry Chase, guitar. Information: www. facebook.com/BottomzupBand BOUNTY HUNTER FIVE, classic rock and Southern rock. Featuring Carol Pilger, lead vocals/vocals; John Noel, lead vocals/vocals; Mike Weatherford, guitar/vocals; Roger Jarva, drums; Don Paulson, bass/vocals; Lou Paulson, keyboards, harp, lead vocals/vocals; Marty Howe, sound/ steadycam interviews. Bookings: 847854-0438; www.bountyhunterive. com or search bountyhunterive.com on Facebook.

BRACE FOR IMPACT, ’70s/’80s hard rock and heavy metal covers.

Featuring Mike Basil, lead vocalist; Frank Lucas, keyboards/backing vocals; Jeff Senger, guitar/backing vocals; Mike Pasquale, bass guitar/ backing vocals; and Ken Wentling, drums. Bookings: www.myspace.

CHANGE IS GOOD, current, classic & original rock featuring John Grewe, guitars/vocals/harmonica; Jed Piquette, vocals/percussion; Jerry Bruns, vocals/bass. Bookings: 815-653-3402.

CHARISSA MROWKA, of Johnsburg, and her country band, Charissa & Auburn Sky Band. Information: 815-388-3091 or www.charissaonline. com.

CHASE THIS CITY, blend of alternative, pop-punk and heavy rock.

Featuring Zach Keenum, vocals/guitar; Joey Miranda, guitar/vocals; Wil Lentz, guitar/vocals; Chris Vargas, bass; and Jeff DiPuma, drums. Bookings: 815540-5416 or chasethiscity@gmail. com. Information: www.facebook. com/thisisctc.

COMMON GROUND, playing funky groove/dance music. Featuring Paul Ciszek, drums/vocals; Steve Mirabile, guitar/vocals; Rob Farina, bass guitar/ vocals; Mike Vettore, percussion; Dave Juhre, keyboards/vocals; Danielle Juhre, vocals; Jody Fields, vocals; and Christine Gilmer, saxophone. Information: Paul Ciszek, 815-262-9989 or www.commongroundjam.com.

Schedule: 9 p.m. March 16, Big Al’s (Giovanni’s), Rockford; 8 p.m. March 23, Best Dam Bar, Davis; 8 p.m. March 30, Franchesco’s Ristorante, Rockford.

COUNTERFEIT i, experimental music with focus on composition.

Featuring Derek, vocals/guitars/keys; Ryan, bass/keys/vocals; and Tyler, drums/stick twirls. Bookings: counterfeiti@hotmail.com. Information: www. counterfeiti.com, Facebook or Twitter.

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FAMILY JEWELS, father and sons group from Harvard that sounds like Neil Diamond and performs a tribute to his music. Featuring Denny, vocals/ guitar/synth; Lucas, vocals/guitar/ synth; and Spenser, vocals/bass/ drums. Information: 815-893-9202; denny@dennydiamond.com or www. dennydiamond.com.

DNA, songs from the ’50s and later.

Featuring Don Etten, guitar/harmonica/vocals; and Al Etten, bass guitar/vocals accompanied by a digital drum machine. Information: 815-385-6057; 815-385-8580 or www.musicbydna.com.

DON “DOC” BROWN, playing his “Music We Know” program of favorites from the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s and beyond in a variety of styles in jazz, rock, blues, country and pop. Bookings: 815-356-5865 or steeltune@ sbcglobal.net.

DR. RHYTHM & THE ROCKERS. Featuring Jack Slaughter, guitar/vocals; Al Etten, bass/vocals; Duwayne Fair, drums/vocals; and Don Etten, guitar/harmonica/vocals.

Bookings: 815-385-8580 or 815-3856057.

DUNCAN FISH SPEAKERS, experimental hard rock band from the Woodstock area playing high-energy original compositions and covers from Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and more. Featuring Judson Brown on guitar, vocals; David Reilly on bass; Daniel Villarreal Carrillo on drums. Information: www.myspace.com/theduncanish speakers.

DUO DEL SOL, instrumental music on classical instruments inspired by the relevant music of today.

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E ECHO’S OF TIME, jukebox oldies from the 1950s through the 1970s dance music. Featuring Dave Lapaglia, rhythm guitar/vocals; Glenn Kolota, drums/vocals; Scott Jensen, lead guitar/vocals; Brian Farrar, keyboards/ vocals; and Bob Aldape, bass guitar/ vocals. Bookings: 815-354-5421 or 773-490-3960 or on Facebook.com.

ELDER KAOS, music from the ’60s through today. Featuring Tim Michaels, lead vocals; Ron McCannon, guitar/vocals; Dave Barnes, guitar; Gary Mlekush, bass guitar/vocals; Gary Brandt, drums/vocals. Bookings: Tim, 847-826-8677; elderkaos@yahoo. com or www.elderkaos.com.

THE ELEVATE PROJECT, eclectic music, Latin-inluenced, funk, soul, Christian. Members include Tyler Ommen, drums; Nathan Staley, percussion; Kelvin Levels, bass; Aaron Netsell, guitar/vocals; John Tuck, trumpet; Christine Tuck, saxophone; Brian Warszona, trumpet; J, vocals/ keyboards. Information: www. elevateproject.net or Faceook. Email: theelevateproject@comcast.net.

ERICH KRAEMER GROUP (EKG), all-original indie jam band.

Featuring Erich, rhythm guitar/lead vocals; Nathan, bass guitar/vocals; Greg, lead guitar/vocals; and Jamie, drums.

Bookings and information: 815-2771105; erichkraemergruop@gmail.com; www.ekgfan.com or facebook.com.

EVEN FIVE, classic, current and rock ’n’ roll. Featuring Mike Christenson, vocals/guitar; Tony Clavesilla, lead

F FAST TIMES, ’80s music and lifestyle. Featuring Paul Jones, guitar; Cory Case, guitar; Michael Burgess, lead vocals; Steve Alvarez, drums; J. Michael Ritta, bass. Bookings: Joey Demarco, 630-279-7625; info@ livechicagomusic.com or www.fasttimestheband.com.

FAULT BY DESIGN, alternative blues-rock style, mostly original compositions including some classic rock, blues and Dave Matthews.

Featuring Christian Moore, lead vocals/guitar; Robert Kelley, lead guitar/vocals; Jimmy Pinkl, drums; and Vince Galasso, bass. Playing 24/7 on Facebook. Bookings: Robert, 847-8286854; faultbydesign@gmail.com or Facebook.

FELIX AND FINGERS, a dueling piano and instrumentation act from Crystal Lake featuring Dave Radford, vocals/piano/guitar/drums/trumpet; and Mike Potts, vocals/piano/bass/ sax/accordion/drums. Information: info@felixandingers.com; www. felixandingers.com; www.facebook. com/felixandingers.

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FOX VALLEY MEN OF HARMONY, barbershop quartet. Group meets 7:15 p.m. Mondays, First United Methodist Church, 216 E. Highland Ave., Elgin. Information: www.foxvalleymenofharmony.com.

FREEWILL, inspired by the desire to have the name relect an uplifting and playful Christian spirit. Featuring Steve Ramirez, vocals/electric and acoustic guitar; Bob Linning, vocals/electric and acoustic guitar; Nancy Graham, vocals; Joy Irwin, vocals/keyboards; Pam Becker, vocals/electric bass; and Jerry Knobloch, vocals/drums. Contact: Bob Linning at blinning@gmail. com. For information, visit Facebook using the words “FreeWill contemporary Worship Music.”

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H HAIRDAZE, ’80s music. Curt Anderson, guitar/vocals; Tom McTague, vocals; Mike Bianco, drums; Dan Parilli, bass guitar/ vocals; Jim Workman, guitar/vocals.

Bookings: 847-515-7908; facebook. com/hairdazerocksthe80s or www. reverbnation.com/hairdaze.

HANS AND THE HORMONES, pop, dance, rock from the ’60s to present. Hans Mast, vocals/ guitar; Vic Champney, guitar; Glenn Crandall, bass; and Darren Marino, drums; Tony Wruke, keyboards.

Bookings: Glen, 815-338-7253; marino5@att.net; hansmast@ comcast.net or facebook.com/ hansandthehormones. Schedule: 9:30 p.m. March 23, Halftime, Johnsburg; 9:30 p.m. March 30, Thirsty Whale, Algonquin; 8 p.m. April 6, Woodstock Moose Lodge benefit; 9:30 p.m. April 27, The Gambler, McHenry; 9 p.m. May 4, Trio Grille, Marengo; 9:30 p.m. May 11, Danny’s Pizza, Elgin; 7 p.m. May 18, Starline Factory, Harvard; 9:30 p.m. May 25, Raymond’s Bowl, Johnsburg; 9:30 p.m. June 1, Docks Bar, Wauconda; 9 p.m. July 13, Gavers Cancer Benefit, Woodstock; 9 p.m. July 20, Gavers Cancer Benefit at Woodstock Park; 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. July 21, Kief’s Reef at Burton’s Bridge/Crystal Lake; 7 p.m. July 27, Moose Benefit.

HEART OF THE FOX (H.O.T. Fox), acoustic funk folk group from McHenry. Featuring Michael Heidemann, guitar/Vox and Rachel Woodall, Vox/ukulele. Information: www.heartofthefox.com. Bookings: heartofthefox@gmail.com. Chicago dates on the website.

HOT ROCKS, Rolling Stones tribute band named after their Hot Rocks album. Featuring Ed Bloom as “Mick,” lead vocals/harmonica; Chris Minardi as “Keith,” guitar/vocals; Bobby Koll as “Brian/Ronnie,” guitar; Carmie Zac as “Bill,” bass guitar/vocals; Paul Mally as “Stu,” keyboard/vocals; Joe Wejman as “Charlie,” drums. Information: 773384-2460; hotrocksband@hotmail. com; facebook.com/hotrocksband; myspace.com/hotrocksrollingstones; twitter.com/hotrocksband; or www.hotrocksband.com.

HUDSON-McCOY THE BAND, classic rock, R&B, and originals.

Featuring Michael McCoy, rhythm guitar/vocals; Jim Hudson, lead guitar/vocals; Joe LaSalla, bass/vocals; Chris “Kiffer” Allen, keyboards/vocals; and Chris Starke, percussion.

I INCOMING GROOVE, blues band trio. Featuring John Oliver, vocals/ guitar; Mark Alteri, drums; Ed Kazmierzak, bass. Bookings: Debbie, 815-404-0470. Website: www. incominggroove.com.

INSTANT REWIND, classic rock of the ’60s and ’70s. Featuring Eric Gulbransen, lead guitar/vocals; Jeff Gulbransen, rhythm guitar/vocals; Vince Guerrero, drums/vocals; Mark Vogel, keyboards/vocals; and Ben Vogel, bass/vocals. Bookings: Eric, 224-545-7362 or guitarman23@ sbcglobal.net.

J JAZZ ENTERPRISE, blues and jazz. Featuring Al Skaronea, keyboard; Christine Gilmer, saxophone; Daniel Villarreal, drums; Dave Reilly, bass; and Robert Kelley, guitar. Information: Robert, 847-828-6854 or jazzenterprise.combo@gmail.com.

JELLY BONES, local band from Algonquin that categorize themselves as psychedelic/alternative. Members are Frank Lintzeris, vocals/guitar; Henry Brennan, guitar/vocals; Ryan Ayers, bass; Geon Tillinghast, drums/vocals; and Eric Donati, guitar. Information: jellybonesmusic@ gmail.com; www.facebook.com/ jellybonesmusic.

JIGGLE THE HANDLE, classic

rock with a mix of blues. Featuring Wayne Ewing, Hammond Organ and a real 122 Leslie/vocals; Joel Tarpinian, lead guitar/vocals; Kip Christensen, lead guitar/vocals; Mac Rietz, bass/vocals; and Ted Rowling, drums/vocals. Bookings: Variety Entertainment, 847-526-9111 or varietyentertainment@att.net.

JOHNNY BEE & THE STINGERS, R&B. Featuring Johnny Bee, lead guitar/vocals; Shawn Reske, drums/vocals; and Greg Van Nostrand, bass/vocals. Bookings: 847-561-5266 or www.johnnybeeandthestingers.com.

JOSH SCHOLL, alternative/rock mixed with R&B. Featuring Josh Scholl, lead vocals; Kyle Weinder, rhythm guitarist; Lauren Luks, drummer; Mike Show, lead guitarist/pianist; and Levi Naab, bass guitar. Bookings: 630-849-1033 or daren@goodfeelingent.com.

JUST DUET, Sandie Kindschy and Suzy Schwartz, guitar and vocal duet playing music from the ’50s through today. Information: 815790-9081, www.justduetmusic.com or chickpick63@charter.net.

J.W. RICE BAND, a blend of musicians and musical styles. Featuring J.W. Rice, guitar/vocals; Carrie Biel, vocals/percussion; Danik Kooistra, keyboards; Geary Smith, harmonica/vocals; Van Vogel, bass/vocals; and John Weber, drums/commentary. Bookings and information: 815-653-5631.

K KEVIN PURCELL & THE NIGHTBURNERS, featuring Kevin Purcell, vocals/harmonica; Tony Root, bass; Dave Stefen, guitar; Andy Ohlrich, fiddle; and Peter Bauschke, drums. Bookings: 847-526-0573 or www.nightburners.com.

L LAKES AREA SWING BAND, an 18-piece band performing throughout Lake, Cook and McHenry counties and southern Wisconsin. Music from the past 60-plus years. Swing to the ’30s and ’40s and jive to the ’50s. Information and bookings: 847-845-0040; www.lakesareaswingband.com or holnmik98@ sbcglobal.net.

LAST TRAIN OUT, blues, rock and soul. Featuring Greg Conrad, lead vocals and lead guitar; Jordan Smith, bass guitar; and Kevin Koreman, drums. Information: lasttrainoutmusic@gmail.com or visit www.lasttrainoutband.com or Facebook.

LIBERTY’S TEETH, rock, pop, country and more. Featuring brother/sister vocals of Jeremy and Melissa Roe; guitars/vocals, Paul Bracke and Matt Nicholas; bass guitar/bagpipes, Marc “Flippy” Weihofen; drums, Joe Stob. Bookings: 847-971-7159; www.libertysteeth. com or on Facebook.

LOOKING FOR TREBLE, pop and rock ‘n’ roll. Members: Mark Sturm, guitar/vocals; Dave Ricotta, piano/harmonica/vocals; Chris Manos, bass guitar/vocals; and Kirk Leonard, drums/vocals. Information: 815-509-5947; 815-505-5433 or www.lookingfortreble.com.

LUNATIC 8, hip-hop artist from Crystal Lake. Information: www. lunatic8.com or lunatic8music@ yahoo.com.

M MAGANAFIGHT, metal. Featuring Dan Kvidera, guitars; Ron

Riggs, guitars; JoHan, vocals; Mike Motto, bass; and Drew Kristoff, drums. Information: stepmonsterhubby@yahoo.com. Bookings: dethmetl1@sbcglobal.net.

MAIDEN CHICAGO, tribute to Iron Maiden’s style. Featuring Bill Swanson, lead vocals; Eric Babcock, guitar; Ralph Circelli, guitar; Gary Ingram, bass guitar; Dan Driskill, drums. Bookings and information: 708-774-4177 or booking@ maidenchicago.com; www.maidenchicago.com; or www.facebook. com/maidenchicago.

THE MARY J. HARRIS TRIO. Jazz and Bossa standards. Featuring jazz vocalist Mary J. Harris and guitarist Bob Balance, along with a variety of hired bass players. Bookings and information: 224-577-8130 or www.maryjharris. com.

MCC JAZZ COMBO, directed

by Dr. Takayama, arrangements of the great jazz standards. Featuring Phil Ciancio, saxophone; Chris Angelos, guitar; Daniel Villarreal, drums; Dave Reilly, bass; Tom Panuce, saxophone; with optional guest vocalists. Information: Robert, 847-828-6854 or geneticstrings@sbcglobal.net.

MIMES ON ROLLERCOASTERS, mimes represent our existence in this life and roller coaster represents the ups and downs of life. Featuring Mark Ruester, acoustic guitar/vocals, keyboards, electric bass, flute; Chessie Ruester, flute penny whistle, piccolo; and Greg Teresi, electric lead guitar. Bookings: Management@MimesOnRollercoasters.com. Information: MimesOnRollercoasters.com or Facebook.

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GRINGO SOUL, a one-man project featuring Brandon Giannasi. All original music known as hip hop folk-rock. Information: 847-3858447; brokenstring21@aol.com or www.gringosoul.com.

Bookings and information: 815-2221080 or www.hudson-mccoy.com.

HUEY LONG, pop punk band from McHenry. Featuring RJ Hucker, guitar/lead vocals; Billy Penuel, bass/vocals; and Rocco Zaccagnini, drummer/vocals. Information: 815861-8062 or hueylongtheband@ yahoo.com.

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music featuring Tom Wilson, lead vocals; Larry DeMumbrum, drums; Mike Streicher, bass guitar/vocals; Joe Guevara, lead/rhythm guitars/ vocals; and Todd Scow, lead/ rhythm guitars/vocals. Bookings and information: 815-739-1106; nemesistheorylive@yahoo.com; www.nemesistheory.com or www. myspace.com/nemesis_theory.

NEW ODYSSEY, trio of full-time musicians playing 20th century music on 30 instruments. Featuring Michael Jay, Gary Todd and Gary Polkow. Information: 815-3444200; odysseyguys@aol.com or www.3guys30instruments.com.

NITROUS ROCKSIDE, current heavy and hard rock music. Featuring Steve Crandall, vocals; Bob Cashin, guitar; Kai-allen Reinhard, bass/vocals; George Houston, guitar/vocals; Mark Cox, drums.

Bookings: George, 847-854-3765; www.reverbnation.com/nitrousrocksideband; www.facebook.com/ nitrousrockside; or www.myspace. com/nitrousrocksideband.

NO CLEAR WAY, modern to alternative rock. Featuring Brent Baseggio, lead vocals/acoustic guitar; Ryan Gilger, backup vocals/lead guitar; Michael Koch, bass; Doug Conroy, drums. Bookings: 312-7725652; manager@noclearway.com; www.myspace.com/noclearway.

NORTH STREET, swing, jazz, blues and pop retro group featuring tunes from the 1920s to present day. Featuring Kathy Bruhnke, Janet Burns, Katie Freese, Judy Stettner, Dora Tippens, Barbara Klein (keyboard), Louis Dolmon (bass) and Frank Novak (drums). Bookings: 815-3422425 or northstreet123@gmail.com.

MODERN DAY ROMEOS. Featuring Jim Wojdyla, vocals; Justin Wojdyla, acoustic guitar/vocals/ cowbell; Steve Gill, electric guitar; Chris Perfect, bass guitar/vocals; and Mike Zaitz, drums. Bookings: 630-620-1154 or www.moderndayromeos.com.

MISS BEHAVIN, four-piece band that covers hits from the ’60s to the present. Fronted by Denise Ebler with Rob Wawryzniak, lead guitar; Craig Hunter, bass; and Jim Nonneman, drums. Bookings: 847-4181879; info@missbehavinrocks.com or www.missbehavinrocks.com.

MR. P, ’60s folk-rock picker/grinner Mike Penkava on acoustic guitar, rambling with the likes of Simon & Garfunkel, Lightfoot & Taylor, Neil & the Cat, Prine & Goodman, and meandering into the present with some new stuff too. Information: mikepenkava@netzero.net. Check with The Village Squire, Crystal Lake, at 815-455-4130 for regular gigs.

MR. PC JAZZ TRIO, featuring Phil Ciancio, Russ Panzarella and Tony Barbaro. Bookings: 815-263-1901 or philciancio@yahoo.com.

MYSTRISS, classic and current rock ’n’ roll. Featuring Angela Powell and Cristine Salazar, vocals; Kevin Powell, bass/vocals; Dan Robinson, guitar; and John Faruzzi, drums.

Bookings: 815-307-5225 or on Facebook.

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OCEAN BLU BIG BAND, 18-piece big band, playing classic, themed and contemporary jazz/big band/ Latin tunes. Members are professional musicians who are music educators/ teachers, band directors. Bookings: Richard Brabeck, 847-340-5100; rick@ foxvalleyschoolofmusic.com or www. oceanblubigband.com.

OLD’S COOL, classic rock, blues and R&B. Featuring TR Kerth, guitar, harmonica/vocals; Rich Wolter, guitar/ vocals; Hans Stucki, keyboards/guitar/ vocals; Gary Ross, drums/vocals; and Bob Noble, bass/guitar. Bookings: TR Kerth: 847-331-1758 or trkerth@yahoo. com or www.reverbnation.com/oldscoolhuntley#.

ON A DIME, founded in 2003 around a blues-rock-opera written by the band founder Aaron Netsell. Members include Aaron Netsell, guitars/keyboards/vocals; Rob Godek, lead guitar/ backup vocals; Sandee Christiansen, keyboards/vocals; Steve Sawyer, bass guitar/vocals; and Ken Grutza, drums.

Information: 815-814-1806; onadime@ aaronnetsell.com or www.oadonline. com.

P PARTY DOCTORS BAND, ’80s pop/rock to modern hits. Members are David Burdick, vocals/keys; Dan Zemanek, guitar; Steffan Zarakas, bass; Jim Baer, drums. Bookings: Dan, 815-762-9424. Contact: Facebook.com/ thepartydoctors.

PARTY FREAK, party rock, classics and all-time favorites. Featuring Scott Lewis, vocals; Rodney Yee, bass; Kurt Larson, guitars; Mike Vermeland, keys/ guitars; and Tony Stephan, drums.

Bookings and information: Scott, 847-608-0631; partyfreakmusic@ yahoo.com; www.facebook.com/ partyfreakrocks.

PATIO DADDY-O, ’60s to today. Classic rock, blues. Featuring Tony Giglio, lead vocals/drums; Tony Clavesilla, lead guitar/vocals; Danny Dally, bass guitar/vocals. We do private parties.

Bookings: 224-622-0472. Schedule: 9 p.m. March 16, The Gambler, McHenry; 9 p.m. March 30, Twisted Moose, McHenry; 9 p.m. April 6, J’s Sports Bar, Ingleside; 9 p.m. April 13, Raymond’s Bowl, Johnsburg; 8:30 p.m. April 20, Trio Grille at Glo Bowl, Marengo.

PETE BERWICK, singer/songwriter.

Information: Shotgun Records, 815759-0042 or www.peteberwick.net.

PETER & THE VERSATILES, Motown, blues, classic rock. Featuring Peter, lead vocals; Missy, background/ lead vocals; Kim, background vocals; Tom, lead guitar; Bob, rhythm guitar; Tom, bass guitar; Dwayne, drums; and Mike, saxophone. Information: www. myspace.com/petertheversatiles.

R THE RESERVE, rock ‘n’ roll with a splash of ’90s grunge. Featuring Jon Babin, vocals/guitar; Kyle Biba, drums; Jon Birchield, guitar; and Steve Somogyi, bass. Contact: thereserve11@ yahoo.com; Facebook or Reverbnation.

ROADHOUSE PROPHETS, rockin’ country covers. Bookings: Chris Blevins, 847-902-0780 or www. myspace.com/redneckrevival.

ROBERT KELLEY, acoustic, blues, jazz, rock or even a one-man band. Performing with various groups, expanding through several genres. Regular performer at Liquid Blues and Jazz on the Square. Information: 847-828-6854 or geneticstrings@gmail.com.

ROCKCOVERY, classic rock and grunge. Featuring Rock LaCoco, lead vocals; Chris Farina, guitar/vocals; Mike O’Connor, guitar; Rob Farina, bass; and Andy Garay, drums. Bookings: 847815-2392. Information: www.myspace. com/rockcovery.

ROCK-DOCS (aka AXE GRINDER), an mix of rock classics from the

’70s through today. Featuring Mike, guitars/vocals; Willie, guitars/vocals; Kenny, bass/vocals; Jeff, drums/vocals.

Bookings: Rockdocs@rocketmail.com.

RURAL ROUTE ONE, country.

Featuring Manzy Z, vocals/guitar/percussion; Bob Lindsley, vocals/drums; Patrick “Hutch” Hutchins, vocals/ guitar; Bart Alonzo, vocals/guitar; and Jim Roxworthy, bass. Bookings: 708516-6053, MandyZ517@aol.com or reverbnation.com/mandyzoficial.

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SELECTIVE RECALL, New Wave ’80s. Featuring Kris Valentine, lead vocals; Eli Bennett, bass/vocals; Rudy Lobo, guitar/vocals; and Scott Toth, drums/vocals. Bookings: 847-5339991; kris@entertainment1.com or www.entertainment1.com. Information: www.selectiverecall.com; www. facebook.com/selectiverecallrocks; or www.twitter.com/selectiverecall.

SEVEN POUND FURY, original rock.

Featuring Lynette Louise Varvil, vocals/ string guitars/harmonica/melodica; Erick Olsen, lead guitar; Scott Nickels, drums/percussion; Ginni Hauck, bass. Bookings: www.facebook.com/ sevenpoundfury. Information: www. myspace.com/lynette7poundfury or www.myspace.com/sevenpoundfury.

SHINDIG, a tribute to the ‘60s. Band’s name comes from the ‘60s TV show of the same name. Members are Sharman Strode, vocals/keyboard; Tom Rychter, vocals/rhythm guitar; Tom Benson, vocals/lead guitar; John Lega, vocals/bass guitar; and Mark Lega, vocals/drums. Bookings: 815-546-2042.

Information: www.shindigband.com or Facebook. Schedule: Feb. 8, London Pub and Grill, Crystal Lake.

SINFUL SAINTS DIXIELAND BAND, traditional New Orleans jazz.

Directed and managed by Tom McDermott. Multiple bands featuring Tom McDermott, Mike Epifano, Ryan Miller, Bob Skallerup, Brian Tipps, trombones; Kurt Schulenburg, Dick Robertson, Mike Knauf, Teddy Holtz, Gary Parker, clarinet/sax; Dave Mitchell, Frank Katzback, Kevin Huff, Judy Bridges, Don Rhodes, “Spats” Studebaker, trumpets; Rob Curtis, Al Johnson, James Dossa, Tom Landeros, Mike Woitowicz, Jack Kuncl, Ernie Michaels, Jack Meilahn, banjo; Steve Marcus, Brian Borcherding, Tom Stasiak, Kurt Smith, John Harshey, tuba; and Mike Lerner, Ken Voelker, Kenny Holtz, Brian Sugrue, Bob Blazier, Sammy Geati, Chuck Schwartz, Bill Voda, drums; Vance Nelson, Ed Lescher, keyboard. Bookings: 815-4046769; tom@sinfulsaintsband.com or www.sinfulsaintsband.com.

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PHIDGET, classic ’80s rock band.

Featuring Patty Malten, vocals; Garry Hane, drums; Mario Massi, guitar; Chris Erbach, bass; Rick Ippolito, keys/vocals.

Information: www.phidgetband.com.

PIRATE RADIO, a four-piece cover band. Featuring Moe Rivera, guitar/ vocals; Tony Falco, vocals/percussion/ guitar; Matt Schreier, drums; John Rock, bass. Bookings: 630-279-7625 or www.facebook.com/pirateradiorocks.

PIRATES OVER 40, Buffett tunes and more. Featuring Ron Combs, vocals/guitar; Don Devereaux, drums; Bruce Waters, guitar/vocals; Jim Nelson, bass; Bobby Swigart, guitar; Mitch Martin and Joe Ornelas, percussion. Bookings: 815-344-6410 or www. piratesover40.com.

POTTS & PANS, a steelband playing a variety of music from classical to Calypso, pop to jazz and more. Featuring Matt Potts, Anthony Houston, David Brachmann, Christina Guerrero, Mike Schwebke and Paige Moore. Bookings: 815-245-3624 or matt@pottsandpans. org. Information: www.pottsandpans. org, Facebook or Twitter.

PRACTICE IN PUBLIC, blues and rock from Stevie Ray Vaughan to the Stones. Featuring John Paradise, lead vocals/rhythm guitar; Karl, bass; Lew Postnell, harmonica; Rich Feldhaus, lead guitar; Tracy Doetsch, drums; Billy Schwank, guitar. Contact: 619-8617353; tracyguns@hotmail.com; www. facebook.com/practiceinpublicland or www.reverbnation.com/practiceinpublic.

PSYCHAS, original hard rock, blended with modernized cover tunes. Featuring Eric Babcock, guitar/vocals; Marty Blake, drums; Joaquin Luebanos, bass guitar; David Houck, guitar. Bookings and information: 815-529-3271 or webmaster@psychas.com; www. psychas.com; or www.facebook.com/ psychasband.

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SING WITH THE BAND, live band interactive karaoke with more than 500 songs. Everything from ABBA to Zappa. Lyrics provided.

You are part of the band and star of the show! Featuring Joe Rocha, vocals/bass; Jay Rocha, bass/vocals; Scott Azzarello, guitar/vocals; and Dave Nishi, drums. Bookings: Joe Rocha, 630-939-5013 or www. singwiththeband.com.

SIX STRINGS DOWN, classic rock, ’80s retro tunes, blues featuring female guitarist Dani Lampi, lead guitar/vocals; David Witt, vocals; George Lemperis, lead guitar/ vocals; Frank Laumbinger, drums; and Charles Beadle, bass/vocals.

Bookings: 815-385-4680; danil@ hotmail.com or www.sixstringsdown.cjb.net.

SKY BURIAL, featuring Kevin Tuegel, guitar; Sean Kenney, vocals; Mark Servantes, bass; and Jason Pare, drums. Bookings: Warp Skatepark, 847-458-4066 or Kevin Pare, 847-915-2655.

SNAFU BAND, blues, classic rock, Southern rock and country covers.

Featuring Ross Benson, guitar/ harmonica/vocals; Melissa Rolley, vocals; Jeff Haberer, guitar/backing vocals; Todd Thorez, bass; Jesse Caruthers, drums. Bookings: 847975-6030; snafuband@live.com or www.snafu-band.com.

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE, a country/southern rock band featuring Dave Freeman, lead vocals/guitar; Pete Walker, rhythm guitar; Judsen Brown, lead guitar/keyboards/ vocals; Rich Dibona, percussion; and Jeremy Montoto, bass/vocals.

Bookings: Dave, 815-970-4345; Pete, 815-693-0299 or www. myspace.com/southernexposure2.

SOUTHERN PIKE, innovative harmonies and acoustic arrangements of classic covers. A smattering of light rock, blues, country, doo-wop, folk, Motown oldies. Featuring Thomas Takayama, guitar/vocals; Mark Kuhlman, guitar/fiddle/vocals; and Bob Herrmann, guitar/harmonica/vocals. Listen at YouTube.com/ user/SouthernPikeBan. Bookings: 847-987-0914 or SouthernPikeBand@gmail.com.

STATELINE, contemporary and classic country, along with classic and southern rock. Featuring Robert Jess, keyboards/vocals; D.J. Myers, bass guitar/vocals; Tom Powers, drums/vocals; and Randy Burs, guitar/vocals. Information: 541-782-8354; www.statelinecountry.com; www.facebook.com/statelinecountry or statelinecountry@ gmail.com.

STAY TUNED, playing classic and modern rock. Members: Curt Klausen, drums; Paul Shively, guitar/ vocals; Curtis Voel-Pel, bass and vocals. Bookings: Joey DeMarco at United Talent, 630-279-7625 or joey@unitedtalentco.com; or Curtis

Voel-Pel, 630-453-1443 or voelpel@ msn.com. Information: www. staytunedband.net.

STREET CORNER BLUE, sixpiece ensemble has been performing traditional R&B for 25 years.

Members include Tom Kleeman, saxophone; Dave Mitchell, trumpet; Bill Howard, trombone; Mike Lerner, drums; Dave Czech, guitar; and Dave Ladner, bass guitar. Bookings: 708-476-5757; www.streetcornerblue.com or moosemiles@owc.net.

SUNFACTORY, dance and party rock. Featuring Steve Parisek, lead vocals/guitar; Jamie Ryan, lead guitar; Eric Jaspen, bass/vocals; and Frank Bagot, drums/vocals.

Bookings and information: 815861-4833 or www.myspace.com/ sunfactory.

SWITCHPLAY, a four-piece band featuring multi-instrument players rotating front-line offering diverse solo performances featuring Paul Zanello, Marty Howe, Brian Bankord and Aaron Netsell. Three different tribute sets are British invasion, funky R&B and classic rock. Bookings: 815-236-9893/9894.

T T-BOS, ’70s rock. Featuring: Silky Kessler, guitar/lead vocals; Thunderboogie, bass guitar/vocals; Buck Lee, guitar/vocals; Izzy Wylde, drums; Ripper Mansion, security/ sound/lights. Bookings: Mike, 847-921-0033. Information: www. facebook.com/T-bos-70s-rock or www.myspace.com/tbosband.

THUNDER BOX, THE KNOCKERS, rock music from the ‘80s until today. Featuring Tommy Hanus, bass/Vox; John Gracek, lead/Vox; Bill Rios, drums; Joey Domanico, guitar/Vox. Bookings: 847-344-0222.

TIME MACHINE, group from McHenry offering danceable rock from the ’50s to today. Featuring John Gaceck, lead vocals; Dan Stromstedt, guitars/vocals; John Furuzzi, drums/vocals; Buddy Rezendes, bass guitar; and Wayne Maxson, guitar. Bookings: Dan, 815-378-0498 or timemachinemchenry@hotmail.com. Information: www.facebook.com/timemachine. liveband.

TOGETHER AGAIN, jazz-rock/ smooth jazz/pop/rock/Latin and more. Members: Marti Bonne, keyboards/vocals; Jim Seidel, bass; Geoff DeMuth, guitar/vocals; Robin Knapik, drums. Bookings: 815-3561141; together_again@comcast.net; www.togetheragainband.com.

TRASHCAN SYMPHONY, hard rock, rock and pop cover songs from the ’70s through today.

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TRAVELING COWBOYS, country, rock ’n’ roll, Elvis and more. Featuring Jeff Beebe, guitars/ vocals; Bill Fennell, guitar, harp/ vocals; Chris, drums; and Sam, bass guitar. Bookings: 815-236-0155.

TRIADD, danceable classic rock to current with emphasis on pro-vocal harmonies. Duo/trio acoustic and full band. Featuring Rick Jacobs, guitar/bass/lead vocals; Tim McGovern, guitar/lead vocals; Mac Rietz, bass guitar; Steve Moss, drums/vocals; Boomer, drummer.

Bookings: 847-516-4631; 847-6390418; Facebook or www.triaddband.com. Playing first Fridays of each month at McGonigal’s in Barrington. Schedule: 8 to 11 p.m.

March 8, Porter’s Pub (acoustic duo), Elgin; 8 to 11 p.m. March 15, Pablo’s Mexican Restaurant (acoustic duo), Crystal Lake; 1 to 4 p.m. March 16, McGonigal’s Pub (acoustic trio with Mac), Barrington; 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. March 22, Winberie’s Restaurant (acoustic duo), Buffalo Grove; 8 to 11:30 p.m.

March 23, Lovell’s of Lake Forest (acoustic duo), Lake Forest.

TRU BLU, country/bluegrass.

Originals and covers including Sam Bush, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Old Crow Medicine Show, Zac Brown and many more. Featuring Adam Kaczmarec, mandolin/guitar/ lead vocals; Ron Yankowitz, bass guitar/vocals; Chris Yankowitz, banjo/guitar/vocals; Aaron Lembke, guitar/vocals. Bookings: 815-2452539. Playing every Sunday evening at Labemi’s in downtown Crystal Lake. Other musicians invited to come and join in.

TRUMAN’S RIDGE, traditional bluegrass. Featuring Steve Sarver, guitar/lead vocals; Mark Fowler, mandolin/fiddle/harmony vocals; Evan Fowler, standup bass/banjo/ harmony vocals; Bruce Wallace, banjo/bass/guitar/harmonica/ fiddle/harmony vocals. Bookings: 815-603-1441; 815-501-6608 or www.trumansridge.com.

U THE UNIVERSITY, alternative, Indie and rock playing originals and large selection of covers from the 1970s through today. Featuring Cale Singleton, vocals/bass; Ryan Lammers, vocals/guitars; John Benedeck, vocals/keyboards; Dean Sinclair, drums/percussion. Bookings: universityband@gmail.com.

Information: www.facebook.com/ university band or www.youtube. com/theuniversityband.

THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS, party rock, both classic and current. Featuring Elmo Arcari, lead vocals/guitar; Kevin Hewitt, lead guitar/vocals; Ernie Jummati, bass/lead vocals; Mike Trippi, drums/More cowbell. Bookings

and information: 847-669-8848; 847-409-7073; info@thesuspectsrock.com; www.facebook.com/ thesuspectsrock; twitter.com/ thesuspectsrock.

V VOYAGE, classic rock band featuring Joel Strombres, lead vocals/ guitars; Mike Rehak, guitar; Larry Mann, bass; Mike Larsen, keyboard/ vocals; and Gordon Siewart, drums. Bookings: 630-284-9112.

Information: www.myspace.com/ voyagerocks or www.voyagerocks. com.

VVX, hard rock and metal from the ’80s and ’90s and plenty of extras to keep it mixed up. Members are Tom Wilson, vocals; Dan Volpe, guitar; Todd Scow, guitar; Guy Bazilewich, bass; and Dennis Frankowski, drums. Bookings: United Talent Co. at www.vvxlive.com.

W WATERFRONT DOGS, classic and blues plus Southern rock.

Featuring Art Warshawsky, lead vocals/keyboard/guitar; Michal “Muppet” Laurance, lead guitar/vocals; Jean Laurance, guitar/vocals; Larry Surleta, drums/vocals; Kirk Hitschel, bass/vocals. Bookings: Art, 815-388-3287. Information: www.waterfrontdogs.com or on Facebook at waterfrontdogs.com.

WAY OFF TOPIC, classic rock, rock and hard rock. Members are Eliot Levy, guitar/vocals; Ron Lincicum, guitar/vocals; Brian Johnson, bass; and Shawn Wojcik, drums/ vocals. Bookings: wayofftopic@att. net. Information: www.facebook. com/wayofftopic or www.youtube. com/userwayofftop.

THE WHITE SADDLE BAND, country rock, old and new country, classic rock and pop. Featuring Rich Nelson, bass/lead vocals; Mike O’Cull, lead guitar; Derek Crawford, drums/percussion/vocals; and Les Urban, guitars/vocals. Bookings: 847-826-2834 or www.thewhitesaddleband.com.

WISEGUYS, R&B. Featuring John Deardorff, lead guitar/vocals; Scott Deardorff, keyboards/vocals; Bill Hughes, drums; and Greg Van Nostrand, bass/vocals. Bookings: Greg Van Nostrand, 847-561-5266.

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By DERRIK J. LANG The Associated Press t’s been four years – almost a generation in video game years – since Lara Croft embarked on a “Tomb Raider” expedition.

The unenviable task of rebooting the well-known and well-worn series seemed impossible, but with a gritty and focused approach, it’s one developer Crystal Dynamics got almost completely right with Croft’s latest advenMORE ture.

ONLINE “Tomb Raider” (for Watch a video of PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 “Tomb Raider” and PC, $59.99) finds an at PlanitNorthinexperienced young west.com/ Croft shipwrecked and separated from her crew gaming on a mysterious island in Japan’s brutal Devil’s Triangle.

This isn’t the savvy, sexy and sassy Croft that hunted down relics in the previous eight games and two films starring Angelina Jolie.

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“Tomb Raider” is mostly a story about survival, so Croft begins with almost nothing, eventually accumulating some firearms, as well as climbing tools like an ax and rope. It’s the first weapon Croft finds, a silent but deadly bow and arrow, that’s the most satisfying to employ. This “Tomb Raider” does for the bow what “GoldenEye” did for the sniper rifle.

The game’s winding trails, claustrophobic caves and perilous cliffside formations created by lead level designer Jason Botta and his team are some of the most imaginative and thrilling platforming elements crafted in recent years. Some tombs that Croft comes across are optional excursions, but they’re all so well done, it shouldn’t be a choice to skip ’em.

“Tomb Raider” also sounds as good as it feels. Jason Graves’ powerfully tense score and Camilla Luddington’s performance as Croft hit the right tone, and the conversations Croft over-

hears between many of the island’s all-male goons are so enlightening and humorous, players will want to let the reticle linger a bit longer to eavesdrop on all the chatter.

“Tomb Raider” isn’t perfect though.

Sometimes it’s sloppy. Croft falls – off cliffs, through roofs, into the ocean – more than those dwarfs in “The Hobbit,” and that’s not even including the moments when the X button isn’t mashed quickly enough. Surely there must be more creative ways for Croft to go from Point A to Point B on the mythical Yamatai island.

The weakest link is Croft’s laughably underdeveloped shipmates.

Each is a cliche: bespectacled geek, gentle giant, angry black woman, wise old man. It’s difficult to sympathize with Croft for putting herself through hell to save them, or understand why the writers couldn’t create multidimensional supporting characters like in the “Uncharted” games.

Speaking of that epic treasure-hunting franchise, while the developers have clearly borrowed some of Nathan Drake’s moves, they’ve created more than an “Uncharted” clone.

The tone is darker, and the levels are less linear. This is not just “Uncharted” or “Assassin’s Creed” with Lara Croft, it’s “Tomb Raider” for a new era.