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HEROIN USE SURGING IN SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES

‘Everybody wants to think it’s not my child’

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17-year-old Stephanie Chiakas died of a heroin-related overdose in 2013.

Gov. Quinn set to sign Tryon measure into law

By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com A bill to make updates to the state government transparency website happen faster is on its way to Gov. Pat Quinn.

House Bill 1040, sponsored

by Rep. Mike Tryon, R-Crystal Lake, moves responsibility for posting data to the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal to the governor’s office itself, and mandates all state departments to develop a plan to more quickly get data posted and updated. The portal, created five years ago through another Tryon bill, includes information such as state employees’ pay, state agency expenses and contracts, and local governments’ annual financial reports.

Tryon said he envisioned

State Rep. Mike Tryon R-Crystal Lake

On the Net You can read the text of House Bill 1040 at www. ilga.gov.

The Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal can be found at accountability.illinois. gov.

See BILL, page A10

Sandy Bressner – sbressner@shawmedia.com

Ken Chiakas lost his 17-year-old daughter, Stephanie (pictured above), to a heroin-related overdose one year ago. He’s turned into an fierce advocate for heroin awareness.

McHenry County had 15 heroin-related deaths in ’13

By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com Like a video that’s been played on repeat, Ken Chiakas can recall vividly the details surrounding the day his 17-year-old daughter was found dead of a drug overdose.

The late-night phone call: Stephanie was missing. The early-morning phone call: She was found unresponsive inside a Crystal Lake home. Police lights. Yellow crime scene

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tape. No ambulance.

“I knew she was dead. I could just feel it,” Ken Chiakas said. “There was no ambulance, that’s when I knew.

When they didn’t send an ambulance, I knew.”

Stephanie Chiakas was a junior at Crystal Lake South High School when she died March 10, 2013. Multiple drugs were found in her system, including heroin.

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On the Net: For a look at overdose deaths via heroin in McHenry County over the past five years, visit NWHerald.com.

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OVERDOSE DEATHS IN McHENRY COUNTY Heroin-related overdose deaths

4 passengers’ IDs investigated in search for plane KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysia intelligence agencies are investigating how up to four passengers with suspect identities were able to board the missing Boeing 777 jet, the government said, as planes and ships from across Asia resumed the hunt Sunday for the plane.

There was still no confirmed sighting of wreckage from the Boeing 777 in the seas between Malaysia and Vietnam where it vanished from screens early Saturday morning en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. The weather was fine, the plane was already cruising and the pilots

Inside Aviation experts chime in about what they think led to the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines jet.

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8NEWS SHOWS ABC’s “This Week” – Sens.

Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Joaquin Castro, D-Texas.

NBC’s “Meet the Press” – Tony Blinken, deputy national security adviser; New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan.

CBS’ “Face the Nation” – Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; former Vice President Dick Cheney; former Secretary of State James Baker.

CNN’s “State of the Union” – Blinken; former Fla. Gov. Charlie Crist; Zygimantas Pavilionis, Lithuania’s ambassador to the United States; Marina Kaljurand, Estonia’s ambassador to the U.S. “Fox News Sunday” – Paul; ex-Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

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It’s an election, not a holy war Two more weeks until the calendar says it’s spring – as practically useful as the odometer on your 2001 Dodge after the engine blew.

March is a good time to stop sniveling about winter no matter how bad it’s been. Spring is coming. This isn’t “Game of Thrones.” Winter is ending – at some point between Memorial Day and July 4.

Book it.

Even better, in less than two weeks it’s the end of the primary election season. For the most part, it wasn’t too painful. Only the Illinois GOP governor’s race and the McHenry County sheriff’s contest have been nasty at times.

When spring arrives and the primary is behind us, what we should really hope for along with that first sunny, 70-degree day is that the Battle of Good vs. Evil is behind us. The Battle of Good vs. Evil is mostly framed by henchman on either side who believe their side is Good and the other is Evil.

Locally, not everyone falls neatly into these camps, but there are enough hardcore henchmen who have carried on the Battle of Good vs. Evil for several years now.

If you are one of McHenry County State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi’s truth warriors, you believe you are in the Good camp battling the Evil forces of McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren.

If you are one of Nygren’s freedom fighters, the reverse is true.

Not sure whether living in such a black-and-white world is comforting or just a paranoid alternate reality. As an occasional consumer of dangling Internet comments over the years, my guess is the latter.

If one chooses to listen to it, there is a particular narrative floating around that Lou Bianchi is running against Keith Nygren for McHenry County sheriff on March 18.

Nevermind that neither Bianchi nor Nygren is running. Nevermind that both Undersheriff Andrew Zinke and retired Des Plaines police commander

VIEWS Kevin Lyons Bill Prim, grown men and experienced law enforcement professionals, are the actual candidates.

This is about Good vs. Evil. Nygren vs. Bianchi or Bianchi vs. Nygren. Evil vs. Good. Bunk. Balderdash. Hokum.

Twaddle. Horsefeathers, and other things that come from horses.

Nygren and Bianchi once liked each other. For several years now, they haven’t. So what does that mean for the rest of us who aren’t named Nygren or Bianchi? Bupkis. Nada. Zilch. Zip. Doodley squat.

Most selling the race in those terms are doing so because they believe they personally have something to lose or gain, politically or in their career, or sometimes failed career. People who get this worked up have much more than some Biblical notion of good government or their literary image of heroes and villains at stake.

We don’t really have two legitimate political parties of significance in McHenry County so infighting among Republicans is the best we’ve got.

Expect weird alliances and kooky theories or any other tactics to be employed as individuals grab for power, jobs or political payback. No one’s battling for the Soul of McHenry County. Anyone who says he is also will likely sell you some holy water.

Much of the air left the balloon and some tinfoil hats should have been knocked askew when Bianchi’s federal civil rights lawsuit was tossed again last month. In it, Bianchi alleged a vast political conspiracy afoot in the failed corruption prosecutions against him.

The unsaid implication was that somehow, the sheriff and his minions were the puppet masters in Bianchi’s prosecution.

Even John Grisham would have blushed at the narrative of the lawsuit, which read like “50 Shades of Grey” for local political conspiracy theorists, but U.S. District Judge Robert M. Dow Jr. (unless he’s one of THEM?) was unmoved.

“Plaintiff’s first amended complaint, the Court said, allege[d] that Bianchi’s Republican opponents wanted to unseat him, but it [did] not say why [special prosecutor Thomas] McQueen – appointed by Judge [Gordon] Graham – should be counted among those political opponents.

“In fact, the complaint [was] devoid of any allegation that [special prosecutor Henry] Tonigan or McQueen (or any other Defendant) even knew of the Plaintiffs prior to their appointments by Judge Graham, much less had any political axe to grind or animus towards them.”

Rest assured, some axes are still being sharpened anyway. But frankly, they don’t matter much, and they shouldn’t to voters. We should be as fascinated in the tribulations of these relationships as we should about a buddy complaining about his ex-wife.

The egos of guys not running for sheriff shouldn’t matter, either, and in the grand scheme of local government, they don’t.

So if you haven’t voted already, check out nwherald.com/election and read the candidates questionnaires. Even better, watch the video of Bill Prim and Andrew Zinke’s debate here: http://shawurl. com/11i1.

Look at the candidate’s websites or speak with them in person if possible, but whatever you do, don’t concern yourself with the Battle of Good vs. Evil or other people’s petty personal politics.

Make up your own mind.

• Kevin Lyons is news editor of the Northwest Herald. Reach him at 815-5264505 or email him at kelyons@shawmedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @ KevinLyonsNWH.

8TODAY’S TALKER

Why Malaysia Airlines jet might have vanished

By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ The Associated Press NEW YORK – The most dangerous parts of a flight are takeoff and landing. Rarely do incidents happen when a plane is cruising seven miles above the earth.

So the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet well into its flight Saturday morning over the South China Sea has led aviation experts to assume that whatever happened was quick and left the pilots no time to place a distress call.

It could take investigators months, if not years, to determine what happened to the Boeing 777 flying from Malaysia’s capital city of Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

“At this early stage, we’re focusing on the facts that we don’t know,” said Todd Curtis, a former safety engineer with Boeing who worked on its 777 jumbo jets and is now director of the Airsafe.com Foundation.

If there was a minor mechanical failure – or even something more serious like the shutdown of both of the plane’s engines – the pilots likely would have had time to radio for help. The lack of a call “suggests something very sudden and very violent happened,” said William Waldock, who teaches accident

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It initially appears that there was either an abrupt breakup of the plane or something that led it into a quick, steep dive. Some experts even suggested an act of terrorism or a pilot purposely crashing the jet.

“Either you had a catastrophic event that tore the airplane apart, or you had a criminal act,” said Scott Hamilton, managing director of aviation consultancy Leeham Co. “It was so quick and they didn’t radio.”

No matter how unlikely a

scenario, it’s too early to rule out any possibilities, experts warn. The best clues will come with the recovery of the flight data and voice recorders and an examination of the wreckage.

Airplane crashes typically occur during takeoff and the climb away from an airport, or while coming in for a landing, as in last year’s fatal crash of an Asiana Airlines jet in San Francisco. Just 9 percent of fatal accidents happen when a plane is at cruising altitude, according to a statistical summary of commercial jet airplane accidents done by Boeing.

Capt. John M. Cox, who

spent 25 years flying for US Airways and is now CEO of Safety Operating Systems, said that whatever happened to the Malaysia Airlines jet, it occurred quickly. The problem had to be big enough, he said, to stop the plane’s transponder from broadcasting its location, although the transponder can be purposely shut off from the cockpit.

One of the first indicators of what happened will be the size of the debris field. If it is large and spread out over tens of miles, then the plane likely broke apart at a high elevation. That could signal a bomb or a massive airframe failure.

If it is a smaller field, the plane probably fell from 35,000 feet intact, breaking up upon contact with the water.

“We know the airplane is down. Beyond that, we don’t know a whole lot,” Cox said.

The Boeing 777 has one of the best safety records in aviation history. It first carried passengers in June 1995 and went 18 years without a fatal accident. That streak came to an end with the July 2013 Asiana crash. Three of the 307 people aboard that flight died.

Saturday’s Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 passengers and crew would only be the second fatal incident for the aircraft type.

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Lawmakers: DCFS faces ‘horrendous’ challenges

By KERRY LESTER The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Two Democratic lawmakers involved in overseeing the troubled Illinois Department of Children and Family Services say the agency faces “horrendous” challenges in the year ahead as officials deal with yet another search for a new child-welfare chief, anticipated budget cuts and election year politics.

Officials fear that efforts to help the agency could suffer if Arthur a replacement Bishop is not quickly Former Dept. found for re- of Children cently resigned and Family Arthur Bishop, Services chief the fourth chief to head the agency in less than a year’s time, or if a change in governor after November’s election means yet another leadership shift.

State Sen. Julie Morrison, a Deerfield Democrat who chaired a series of hearings last fall in response to a rash of problems at the agency, says the leadership void puts any fu-

ture reforms on hold.

“It’s hard to get traction when you don’t have anybody that’s really leading this,” Morrison said. She said she is calling on Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn to “find someone as soon as humanly possible.”

Bishop resigned last month after reports surfaced about previous legal problems. The 61-year-old was accused of stealing more than $9,000 from clients at a Chicago social-services agency who thought Bishop was helping them get their driver’s licenses back after drunken-driving convictions.

He later said he was wrongly accused and made the “agonizing” decision to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge to end the strain on his family.

He said he stepped down to avoid becoming a distraction for Quinn, who is running for re-election.

The governor’s office says it has launched a nationwide search for a replacement. But Morrison fears the search, and any replacement’s longevity, could be complicated by the election. Four Republicans – state Sens. Bill Brady and Kirk Dillard, Winnetka businessman Bruce Rauner, and state

Treasurer Dan Rutherford – are vying in the March 18 primary to be the party’s nominee to unseat Quinn.

Meanwhile, Greg Harris, chairman of the House appropriations committee for human resources, told The Associated Press he expects DCFS to see a roughly 15 percent funding cut if the state’s temporary income tax increase expires as planned, beginning next January. The rollback is expected to lead to an overall $1.5 billion drop in annual state revenue.

Some Democrats are building the case for the hike to be extended while many Republicans are calling for it to expire.

The leadership and funding challenges come at a particularly bad time for DCFS, following reports of a spike in child deaths and a recent state audit that found that the agency was failing to initiate investigations within a timely manner, among other problems.

“There’s a horrendous challenge that looms over the agency, that the new director is going to be faced with,” said Harris, a Chicago Democrat.

“Regardless of what reforms we want to have, they’re going to be nearly impossible.”

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Plastics bag ban gaining support in Chicago The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – The sponsor of a measure to ban Chicago retailers from putting merchandise in plastic bags says he has the votes to get it approved by the City Council and “it’s time to move.”

The Chicago Sun-Times reported Alderman “Proco” Joe Moreno introduced a new version of the ban at Wednesday’s council meeting.

Moreno pushed a similar environmental measure last year that would have prohib-

ited Chicago retailers larger than 5,000 square feet from putting merchandise in plastic bags, but that proposal faltered amid opposition from Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Moreno’s latest version extends the ban to smaller retailers. He said aldermen who have only small businesses in their wards asked him to include those stores, saying their districts otherwise wouldn’t see an improvement.

Moreno said he is “very confident” he has the votes.

“We’ve been kicking this

around for years. I’m not a very patient guy, but I’ve been patient on this,” he said. “It’s time to move.”

Emanuel’s office hasn’t taken a position on the latest proposal. In an emailed statement, his office said it shares Moreno’s commitment to “ensuring a cleaner Chicago” and looks forward to seeing a final ordinance.

But the Illinois Retail Merchants Association says the ban is essentially a “hidden tax” because paper bags cost three times more than plastic.

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Rand Paul wins CPAC presidential straw poll

By STEVE PEOPLES The Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. – She was not on the speaking program, but Hillary Rodham Clinton had presence at the nation’s largest annual gathering of conservative activists on Saturday, as high-profile Republicans launched a dual effort to attack the prospective Democratic presidential candidate and improve the GOP’s longstanding struggle with women voters.

It was the closing act of a

Republican summit that highlighted acute challenges for a party that hasn’t won a presidential election in a decade.

The GOP’s 2008 vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, offered a message to all women, a group that has backed Democrats in every presidential election since 1988: “Women, don’t let them use you – unless you choose to be their political pawn, just their piece of accessory on their arm.”

The Republican firebrand was among just a handful of women featured on the main

stage during the Conservative Political Action Conference, which offers an early audition for GOP officials weighing a 2016 presidential run and a platform for leading conservatives to put their stamp on the evolving R e p u b l i c a n Sarah Palin Party. Thousands of conservative activists, opinion leaders and Republican officials flocked to a hotel just across the Potomac

River near Washington.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul won the conference’s presidential preference straw poll, a symbolic victory that reflects his popularity among conservatives who typically hold outsized influence in the Rand Paul GOP’s presidential selection process.

Clinton has yet to announce her 2016 intentions, but she is considered the overwhelming

favorite to win her party’s nomination should she run.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich charged that Clinton would be “a prison guard for the past” should she become president. Gingrich, a 2012 presidential hopeful, said that Republicans would recapture the White House if the next election is framed as a fight between the past and the future and predicted that the GOP would then “govern for two generations.”

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., declared that the for-

8NATION BRIEFS

At 50, ’64 libel case still resonates

Weeks later, marathon spelling bee ends in Mo.

By JESSICA GRESKO The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Singer Courtney Love hadn’t been born and tweeting was reserved for birds when The New York Times won a landmark libel case at the Supreme Court in 1964.

But when a California jury decided recently that Love shouldn’t have to pay $8 million over a troublesome tweet about her former lawyer, she became just the latest person to lean on New York Times v. Sullivan, a case decided 50 years ago Sunday, and the cases that followed and expanded it.

The Sullivan case, as it is known Courtney among lawyers, Love stemmed from Alabama officials’ efforts to hamper the newspaper’s coverage of civil rights protests in the South. The decision made it hard for public officials to win lawsuits and hefty money awards over published false statements that damaged their reputations.

In the decades since, the justices have extended the decision, making it tough for celebrities, politicians and other public figures to win libel suits.

Newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations were the primary means of publishing when the Sullivan case was decided. Today, the case applies equally to new media such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs. Because of the ease of publishing online, more people may claim the protections granted by the decision and others that followed.

“It seems reasonably clear that the protections afforded

by Sullivan and the cases that came after it apply to both media and non-media speakers,” said Lee Levine, a First Amendment lawyer who cowrote a recent book on the case.

“Technology has afforded everyone – and not just people who can afford to buy a printing press or own a broadcast station – the ability to disseminate information to the world. That has increased the opportunities for those people to publish defamatory statements to a very broad audience,” Levine said.

Levine said it’s unclear if that opportunity will lead to more libel suits, cases brought over the publication of false information that injures someone’s reputation. More ways to communicate could mean more suits, or there could be fewer because people may discount what they read online, and it may not be worth suing individuals who don’t have corporations’ wealth.

Or there may be other explanations.

“Today one of the reasons I think we don’t have as many libel cases is not just because the Sullivan rule is so widely accepted by everyone, but in a digital world there’s so much greater opportunity for response,” said Bruce W. Sanford, a Washington-based First Amendment lawyer.

mer secretary of state “has a lot to explain” should she run for president, raising pointed questions about Clinton’s work in Russia and Libya. And she challenged the Republican Party’s struggle with women.

“Don’t forget, we are the party, the only party, that had a woman on the presidential ticket this century,” Bachmann, a 2012 presidential candidate, said of Palin.

Men dominated the speaking program for the first two days of the three-day event until the final day.

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Sows at Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, Ind., are kept in large group pens with computer-controlled feeding systems. Animal rights activists have been pushing hog farmers to move pregnant pigs into group pens from individual gestation stalls often too narrow for the animals to turn around.

Farmers facing pig pen challenge Bigger spaces for pregnant sows neither cheap nor easy

By M.L. JOHNSON The Associated Press FAIR OAKS, Ind. – Pigs cluster around a food stall like Black Friday shoppers waiting for the store to open. One pushes impatiently against the locked door with her snout, waiting for the sow inside to finish eating so she can take her turn.

After about 10 minutes, the sated sow sidles out the front gate and rejoins about 80 other pregnant pigs in a large pen surrounding the food stall.

The hungry pig enters the stall through the now-open back door, and food flows in from a computer-controlled dispenser.

The big pens and electronic feeding systems at Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana could be the future of the pork industry as consumers pressure farmers to move pregnant pigs out of individual stalls too narrow for the animals to turn around.

The switch from gestation stalls is not as simple as many consumers believe, however.

It’s expensive, there are debates over pen designs and it

takes time to train pigs to use feeders and other equipment.

In short, farmers are spending millions of dollars with no certainty yet that the changes are best for the animals.

Most bacon, ham and chops come from hogs that never spend time in the narrow breeding stalls, although the hogs’ mothers almost certainly did – if only a few days for insemination. More than four out of five sows in the U.S. remain in the stalls after they become pregnant, according to a 2012 study done for the National Pork Producers Council.

But a growing number are being moved into group pens as industry giants like Smithfield Foods and Cargill try to protect their brands from criticism by animal rights activists. Other major pork processors who have not required farms to convert are seeing some do so because image-conscious buyers, such as McDonald’s, Oscar Mayer and Safeway, have called for an end to gestation crates.

Americans pig out on pork, eating an average of 45 pounds per person each year. Sales

were worth more than $97 billion in 2011, according to industry groups.

Most of the hogs bought

by Indiana Packers Corp., a major meatpacker, come from open-pen gestation and have for several years, President Gary Jacobson said. The switch has been hastened by laws in Michigan and Ohio requiring farmers to phase out gestation stalls by certain dates, but Jacobson said it also makes business sense.

“Given the controversy with the gestation crates, we would encourage people to look at the alternatives for that,” he said.

The alternatives aren’t cheap. Malcolm DeKryger, a partner in Fair Oaks’ hog farm, said a 2,400-pig barn with gestation stalls typically costs about $1.8 million. The feeding system, other equipment and extra space required for group pens can push the cost to $2.5 million. He and his partner spent even more because their farm, about 1.5 hours south of Chicago, has observation areas for tourists.

DeKryger isn’t entirely

sold on group pens, which remind him of the farms where he worked as a teenager.

“We would throw feed over the gate, and the sows would all go crazy ... one sow would eat three times as much, and others would get gypped or didn’t eat enough. And that system is happily gone,” he said.

Gestation stalls became standard in the 1980s and enabled farmers to feed each sow individually. The stalls also prevented pecking-order fights and injuries caused by sows mounting each other.

Better technology addresses some of those problems in group pens. The sows at Fair Oaks go through a monthlong boot camp at about 6 months old to learn to use electronic feeders that ensure each one eats the right amount.

A scanner reads the sow’s ear tag when she enters the stall, and computer-controlled equipment dispenses the recommended portion, usually about 5 pounds. When the sow leaves, the door can open either to the right for veterinary care or left to the group pen.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A marathon spelling bee between two Kansas City-area students who exhausted the initial word list last month ended after 29 more rounds Saturday when the eventual runner-up stumbled over the word “stifling.”

For more than an hour, seventh-grader Kush Sharma and fifth-grader Sophia Hoffman went toe-to-toe in the continuation of Kush Sharma the Jackson County Spelling Bee, which began two weeks ago but was extended after the two breezed through the word list provided by the Scripps National Spelling Bee, then 20 more words picked out of the dictionary.

On Saturday, the seventh-grader was declared the winner after his opponent stumbled on “stifling” in the 28th round.

Kush Sharma, who attends a Kansas City charter school, moves on to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May. Lee’s Summit Sophia Hoffman took second place.

Counties undermine Calif. prison efforts SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California counties are confounding the state’s court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of second-strikers.

The surge in offenders requiring state prison sentences is undermining Gov. Jerry Brown’s 3-yearold realignment law that restructured California’s criminal justice system to keep lower-level felons out of state prison cells as a solution to the state’s prison crowding problem.

The law initially lowered the state prison population, but the number of inmates is on the rise again – led by a record increase in the number of second felony convictions for those who already had a prior conviction for a serious crime.

– Wire reports

For Obama, one last stab at improving ties with Hill

By JULIE PACE The Associated Press WASHINGTON – In late December, President Barack Obama’s new legislative affairs team sent him more than a dozen recommendations for ways to improve his strained relations with Capitol Hill.

The president responded with a few ideas of his own, including a request for more social events with lawmakers at the White House.

It was a surprising suggestion from a president who has done little socializing with lawmakers of either party and has dismissed the notion that sharing a cocktail or a meal with members of Congress is a prescription for easing Wash-

ington gridlock.

But within weeks, there Obama was, mingling over martinis and appetizers with Democratic lawmakers at two White House receptions.

For some members of the president’s own party, it was one of the first times they had interacted with him without the U.S. Rep. weight of a cri- Peter Welch sis or a crucial vote hanging over them, said Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. “It was a very a good use of the president’s time,” Welch added. “The call that you make at the moment the vote has to be cast is much more effec-

tive if a relationship has been established before the vote is needed.”

White House officials say Obama’s cocktail gatherings are part of a broader overhaul of his congressional outreach operation following the dismal start to his second term.

Under the Katie Beirne d i r e c t i o n o f new legislative Fallon affairs director and longtime Senate operative Katie Beirne Fallon, Obama’s weekly schedule now includes time for phone calls to lawmakers. Members are getting more invitations to fly on Air Force One and attend Obama’s

events around the country. An important post on the legislative affairs team that was vacant for more than two years has been filled by a Capitol Hill veteran who now represents the congressional perspective in White House meetings on health care, climate change and minimum wage.

More than two months into the year, the moves are being cheered by Democrats and winning tepid praise from Republican leaders, who say they’re now in more regular contact with the White House.

Among them is Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who said Fallon is the first White House legislative director to stop by his office since Obama became president.

Yet it appears unlikely that the White House’s attempt to warm relations with Congress will help Obama advance his legislative agenda. Republicans have little incentive to improve ties with Obama at this point in his second term, particularly given his sagging approval ratings. Both parties are making clear they have little appetite for tackling big bills in an election year.

“We certainly appreciate the outreach, but each day closer to November, it becomes increasingly clear that Senate Democrats have no interest in actually accomplishing anything other than TV ads,” said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

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• HEROIN Continued from page A1 The walls around Ken’s world came crashing down in an instant. His body tensed.

His heart pounded. From that moment on, its beats would be a heavy reminder of all he’s lost.

“I never felt such pain in my entire life. I felt like they ripped my gut out and threw it in the street,” Chiakas said.

The next time he saw Stephanie, he was picking out her casket.

“I hugged her, and kissed her, and she was ice cold.”

Now, Ken looks for signs of Stephanie among the living.

Orbs in pictures. Animals that come too close. He’s desperate to see her in dreams. It’s all the grieving father has to cling to.

“I wish I could dream about her; feel her, talk to her,” Chiakas said.

“The hardest part is she’s not coming back. No matter what I do, or how much I speak out, she’s not coming back,” he said.

Stephanie’s death was one of 15 heroin-related overdose deaths in McHenry County last year.

But she was more than just a number. She was a daughter.

A sister. A girlfriend. A friend.

A pretty, smiling blonde girl, who loved to help dad in the kitchen.

An everyday teenager with a secret.

Four months before her death, Stephanie was arrested on drug charges for possessing less than 15 grams of heroin.

For Ken, the news of her arrest sent a shock to his system.

It was beyond comprehension.

Heroin? No way.

Stephanie was put in detox, given at-home drug tests, and her parents believed she was attending support groups.

“I had no idea that heroin was around, and that this much heroin was around,” Ken said.

Studies have shown that heroin use in Chicago’s suburban collar counties is surging. The former notions about what a heroin user looks like are no longer true. It’s becoming a drug of choice for white, upper- to middle-class suburban young people.

“These kids look like everybody else in [McHenry County],” substance abuse counselor Rick Atwater said. “They look normal. They look like what everybody else thinks is OK. … You just can’t judge a book by its cover.

“They could be the guy that’s selling you your car.

They could be the guy that’s doing your taxes. They could be your best friend’s mom, or they could be the kid sitting next to you on the bench on the basketball team.”

According to the Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy at Roosevelt University, from 1998 to 2007, hospital discharges for heroin use among Chicagoans dropped 67 percent among 20- to 24-year-olds.

During the same time, that figure increased by more than 200 percent in the collar counties.

Local law enforcement have said they’re targeting dealers who might see McHenry County as an ideal market with its proximity to Rockford and Chicago and accessibility to commuter train lines.

The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office said its heroin cases jumped from 30 in 2012 to 95 last year.

But for families such as the Chiakases, the efforts come too late.

Five years before Stephanie Chiakas died, Steve Staley of Woodstock was on the road to sobriety.

It was February 2008, and Staley’s best friend had just died. Heroin overdose, the coroner said.

Staley, 28, missed his friend’s call to get high by 15 minutes. It could have been him.

“I looked around the room, and it looked like my funeral,” Staley said.

Standing over his friend’s casket that day, he vowed that he would stop using heroin for good.

He didn’t.

A few weeks later, Staley watched another friend overdose and turn blue. Before

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Ken Chiakas lost his 17-year-old daughter, Stephanie, to a heroin-related overdose one year ago.

He’s turned into a fierce advocate for heroin awareness. this friend was carted off in an ambulance, Staley cleared the man’s pockets of drugs and money. Drugs that he would ingest. Money that he would spend on more drugs.

“I wish I could say I was looking out for him, but I wasn’t,” Staley admitted.

But it wasn’t long before Staley, on a whim, decided to go to a support group with other users. It was a decision that changed his life.

“For whatever reason, I raised my hand and I said, ‘I’m going to die. I need help.’ ” He had tried getting off heroin before, but nothing worked. For whatever reason, this time was different.

Staley last used heroin March 9, 2008. Today, he’s got a girlfriend, new car and apartment, and is starting his own contracting business.

Today, he celebrates six years of sobriety.

Staley remembers early on getting into fights at school. He was insecure. He was angry.

At 9 years old, he tried marijuana. It was the beginning of a long road of addiction. Drugs made it feel as though his “skin fit.”

He was drinking by middle school. Started dealing pot in high school. Tried pills soon after. Psychedelics, too.

He eventually dropped out of Crystal Lake South High School in his senior year.

Staley always wanted more, more and more.

“My brain was craving booze and drugs the same way it craves water,” he said.

He has been arrested what he estimates to be 30 times.

A couple DUIs, a few misdemeanor charges, ordinance violations, eventually leading to felony charges for retail theft.

Ironically enough, Staley never wanted to try cocaine or heroin, although it was definitely around, he said.

“Those drugs scared me,” he said. “I never wanted to become a junkie.”

The debate about whether addiction is an illness or a choice has been discussed for years. Atwater and Staley fall in the same camp, though others might disagree.

“I think people don’t understand that [addiction] is a disease,” Atwater said. “It’s not something people do to themselves on purpose. They don’t choose to have an addiction any more than a person chooses to have diabetes and cancer.”

Staley started doing heroin by accident, he said. Someone told him he was snorting Oxycontin, a pill that offers a similar high.

One day he woke up with the flu. His dealer talked him into coming over for more Oxycontin. Suddenly after he snorted it, his flu-like symptoms went away.

It wasn’t a miracle. Staley was showing signs of heroin withdrawal.

Soon, he was snorting up to 20 bags each day – about a $200-a-day habit.

Then he started doing all the things he said he never would do: stealing money and heirlooms from family and friends. He racked up debt with his drug dealer.

He started his downward spiral into heavy drugs afraid of needles. That didn’t last long.

“I shot it and my whole world changed,” he said. “I said, ‘I’m doomed.’ I just knew it was going to get bad. It was everything I’ve ever looked for. For me it made me whole.”

And that’s precisely what

makes heroin so dangerous, Atwater said. Heroin has one of the highest dependency profiles of any illicit drug. Only nicotine ranks higher. Heroin is cheap, it’s available and it’s dangerously unpredictable.

“That’s what is scary about it,” Atwater said. “It’s plentiful. It’s easily made. It’s stronger than it was 20 years ago.

It’s easily distributed. ... That makes it very dangerous because it’s available.”

Ken Chiakas and Staley – the grieving father and the recovering addict – both have taken leadership roles in curbing the heroin epidemic. Staley is called upon for speaking engagements and offers support to those early in their recovery.

Chiakas joined McHenry County’s Heroin Task Force to continue to raise awareness in his daughter’s memory. He’s also started attending support groups for other parents who lost children to drugs.

“Everybody wants to think it’s not my child,” Chiakas said. “People need to wake up.

This is in your neighborhood.

I want parents to be aware, to talk to their kids, and not take the approach that this is not my kid.”

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine – Two weeks ago, Sergey Aksyonov was a small-time Crimean politician, the leader of a tiny pro-Russia political party that could barely summon 4 percent of the votes in the last regional election. He was a little-known businessman with a murky past and a nickname – “Goblin” – left over from the days when criminal gangs flourished here after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Times have changed.

Today, Aksyonov is the prime minister of Crimea’s regional parliament and the public face of Russia’s seizure of the Black Sea peninsula. He is, by all appearances, a man placed in power by Moscow who is now working hard to make Crimea a part of Russia.

He also leads a brand-new army, 30 men carrying AK-47s who are still learning to march in formation. “Commander!” they greeted him Saturday, when they were sworn into service in a Simferopol park.

Speaking at the ceremony, the former semi-professional boxer said that while Crimea’s March 16 referendum would make the peninsula a part of Russia, he holds no grudge

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Crimean Premier Sergey Aksyonov (right) attends the swearing in ceremony Saturday for the first unit of a pro-Russian armed force, dubbed the “military forces of the autonomous republic of Crimea” in Simferopol, Ukraine. against Ukraine.

“We are not enemies with those soldiers who pledged loyalty to the Ukrainian state,” he said, referring to the soldiers now barricaded into bases across Crimea, unsure what will happen to them.

They will be allowed to leave for Ukraine if they wish, he said.

He is, he insisted, a peacemaker.

But the people of Simferopol remember Aksyonov by his 1990s name, “Goblin.”

“He wasn’t a criminal big shot,” said Andriy Senchenko, now a member of Ukraine’s Batkivshchyna party, which was at the fore-

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While Senchenko is not unbiased – his party opposes Aksyonov’s push for Crimea to become part of Russia – the editor of the region’s main pro-Russian newspaper, Crimean Truth, also accused Aksyonov of being in a criminal gang. Mikhail Bakharev made the allegations five years ago, when Aksyonov first emerged on Crimea’s political scene.

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Accountability portal one of many transparency initiatives in wake of Blago scandal • BILL Continued from page A1 the website having almost instantaneous updates, but said it has fallen far short – in some cases, up to five months behind.

His bill moves responsibility for the portal out of the Department of Central Management

Services, which is in charge of state government’s IT needs.

“My original version was, when you write a check, it’s put online. When there’s a contract that’s executed, it’s put online.

Not in five months, but as soon as possible. I think what’s happening is there has not been consistent posting requirements,” Tryon said.

The governor will appoint a chief information officer from among his existing staff to oversee the changes, and to handle requests from citizens who cannot find the information they are looking for online. The original version authorized the governor to create the position, but the Senate amended it to ensure that the

officer is an existing employee.

House Bill 1040 passed both houses unanimously. State Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, was chief co-sponsor in the House, and Sen. Pam Althoff, R-McHenry, was its chief sponsor in the Senate.

The accountability portal is one of several pro-transparency initiatives, such as

much-improved Illinois Freedom of Information Act, that came following the arrest and impeachment of former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Tryon, one of several lawmakers looking to reform Chicago mass-transit agencies in the wake of corruption scandals, filed a bill last month requiring them to create an ac-

countability portal of their own.

If approved, the portal would list salaries, expenses, contracts and other information for the Regional Transportation Authority, Metra, Pace and the Chicago Transit Authority.

That bill, House Bill 5842, is in the House Mass Transit Committee, where Tryon is the highest-ranking Republican.

Search area widening • JETLINER Continued from page A1 had no time to send a distress signal – unusual circumstance for a modern jetliner to crash.

On Saturday, the foreign ministries in Italy and Austria said the names of two citizens listed on the flight’s manifest matched the names on two passports reported stolen in Thailand.

This, and the sudden disappearance of the plane that experts say is consistent with a possible onboard explosion, strengthened existing concerns about terrorism as a possible cause for the disappearance. Al-Qaida militants have used similar tactics to try and disguise their identities.

On Sunday, Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said that authorities were now looking at four possible cases of suspect identities. He said Malaysian intelligence agencies were in contact with their international counterparts, including the FBI. “All the four names are with me and have been given to our intelligence agencies,” he said. “We do not want to target only the four; we are investigating the whole passenger manifest. We are looking at all possibilities.”

Li Jiaxiang, administrator of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said some debris had been spotted, but it was unclear whether it came from the plane. Vietnamese authorities said they had seen nothing close to two large oil slicks they saw Saturday and said might be from the missing plane.

Two-thirds of the jet’s passengers were from China. The rest were from elsewhere in Asia, North America and Europe.

Malaysia’s civil aviation chief Azaharuddin Abdul Rahman said his country had expanded its area of operation to the west coast of peninsular Malaysia, on the other side of the country from where the plane disappeared.

“We are looking at the possibility of an aircraft air turn back, in which case different locations will have to be identified,” Hishammuddin said.

Finding traces of an aircraft that disappears over sea can take days or longer, even with a sustained search effort.

Depending on the circumstances of the crash, wreckage can be scattered over many square miles. If the plane enters the water before breaking up, there can be relatively little debris.

A team of American experts was en route to Asia to be ready to assist in the investigation into the crash. The team includes accident investigators from National Transportation Safety Board, as well as technical experts from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing, the safety board said in a statement.

Malaysia Airlines has a good safety record, as does the 777, which had not had a fatal crash in its 19-year history until an Asiana Airlines plane crashed last July in San Francisco, killing three passengers, all teenagers from China.

Investigators will need access to the flight data recorders to determine what happened.

Aviation and terrorism experts said revelations about stolen passports would strengthen speculation of foul play. They also acknowledged other scenarios, including some catastrophic failure of the engines or structure of the plane, extreme turbulence or pilot error or even suicide, were also possible.

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Support for zoning bill We support legislation filed by state Sen. Pam Althoff that seeks to clear up any ambiguity in state law by giving municipalities zoning authority over school districts within their borders.

Althoff, R-McHenry, filed the bill in response to a legal dispute between the city of Crystal Lake and School District 155 over new bleachers erected last summer at Crystal Lake South High School.

As part of the project, the high school moved the home bleachers from the east side of the football stadium to the west side, which backs into the Amberwood Drive neighborhood. The new bleachers now tower over several homes.

Homeowners filed suit against the district, claiming it did not get proper variances for the new bleachers from the city.

Crystal Lake city officials say the bleachers violate three zoning codes: they sit only 41 feet from homeowner’s property when it should be 50 feet or more; they are greater than 600 square feet, which requires a zoning variance; the press box and the top of the bleachers are too tall, which requires a height variance.

The school district claimed it did not need city approval. Its stance has been that it needs the approval only of the Regional Office of Education, which it received.

But in December, McHenry County Judge Michael Chmiel sided with homeowners and the city, and told the school district to go through the city’s zoning process. The district has since appealed.

Althoff said the Crystal Lake legal battle is just one of many that have popped up throughout the state in recent years. She said current state law regarding such matters was written decades ago and is not completely clear.

“It was written intentionally to be a little gray so communities could have flexibility on how they wanted to work with school districts, but that’s when life was simpler,” Althoff told the Northwest Herald for a story published last week.

“Now some schools want to build wind turbines to reduce energy costs. We never anticipated that when school code was written and revised.”

Althoff’s bill is not vague. It states that “a school district is subject to and its school board must comply with any valid local government zoning ordinance or resolution that applies where the pertinent part of the school district is located.”

We urge lawmakers to pass it.

8ENDORSEMENT

School District 12 referendum: Yes A referendum on the March 18 primary ballot asks residents of Johnsburg School District 12 to allow the district to borrow up to $41 million in bonds to finance building improvements and maintenance needs.

All four of the districts schools need significant repairs – to roofs, windows, HVAC units, piping and more. Some of the issues are leading to significant foundational problems to the schools. If the referendum passes, the district also plans to modernize the schools.

The district last issued buildings bonds in 2000, and those are set to expire in about two years. If approved, taxpayers would not see an increase on their property tax bills. However, they would not see a decrease in their bills that the expiring bonds would trigger.

If the referendum does not pass, the district will have some tough decisions to make about its facilities.

We recommend District 12 voters approve the referendum.

8IT’S YOUR WRITE A great choice To the Editor: Nancy Gonsiorek has been a great leader in our community for years. She has put in endless hours, not just sitting on the District 47 School Board, but going above and beyond to use her influence for the good of the community. We need leaders who can talk with other public bodies to find the best solution for citizens. Nancy has been a collaborative leader who is quick to pick up the phone and express her opinion.

Anytime a watershed issue is on the Crystal Lake City Council agenda, I receive a timely phone call from her. She truly cares about the protection of our groundwater quality and supply. I trust she will continue to work with and influence all levels of government and look out for our best interests.

Nancy knows the issues and would be a great choice to be a representative on the McHenry County Board.

Cameron Hubbard Crystal Lake

Established tradition To the Editor: I agree with the Northwest Herald’s endorsement of Mary McClellan for McHenry County clerk.

As an assistant state’s attorney, I handled legal issues for Kathy Schultz for the first 25 years that she was the clerk. I also worked with McClellan when she was with the McHenry County State’s Attorney Office. When Schultz became clerk, she had been with the office for 20 years. During her tenure as clerk, she became a seasoned

legal scholar as to the functions and duties of her office, and was a respected legal expert on Illinois election laws.

McClellan has the legal education (law degree), training and personal character to quickly take over the leadership of this very legally oriented position and carry on in Schultz’s established tradition.

I urge you to vote for Mary McClellan.

David Stone McHenry

Most qualified To the Editor: We feel that Jeff Thorsen is the most qualified candidate in the election for treasurer of McHenry County. We have known him since his boyhood. Jeff has excellent experience in the banking industry, but he also has a community commitment. He has exhibited this as a member of the Crystal Lake City Council and membership on the Board of Directors of organizations such as The Salvation Army and Horizons for the Blind.

Please review his credentials. He is not a “more-of-the-same-oldthing” candidate.

Rosemary and Bob Blazier Crystal Lake

D-26 plans To the Editor: It was with great dismay I read the recent publication of School District 26’s plans. Our taxes are like a snowball rolling downhill gathering more and more snow – in this case our tax dollars.

Although we are the highest-taxed

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district in the county, the elected school board continues to spend even more of our hard-earned money.

First of all, regarding the recalled jobs, programs and added expenses just voted on. Now a survey for a full-day kindergarten that the taxpayers will be stuck with?

A proposal to reopen another building that a preceding school board closed? With declining enrollment, why are we doing this? With no more land to build new homes on, are we doing this to keep the beast fed? Who elects these people to the school board anyway?

When we moved here, our school district was growing. We don’t have a growing population anymore. But we have to continue to perpetuate more and more tax revenue.

Please, District 26, put our money into making this the best district with what you have already been given. If you have an abundance of cash, please give some back to taxpayers, we can really use it.

If you want more money again, put these proposals on a referendum. Put it to a vote. See what the majority of the taxpayers want, not just a handful of parents with

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Be fair.

Lauralee Mora Cary

Experienced decision-maker To the Editor: As a candidate for McHenry County Board District 6, I would like to clarify some information that was recently published in the Northwest Herald. Yes, I am a farm owner/manager and licensed real estate broker, but I am also on the board of directors of an insurance company and was a self-employed business owner in McHenry County for more than 30 years.

I am an experienced decisionmaker who will bring a fresh perspective to the County Board.

I am an independent-thinking Republican who will be free of the bipartisan politics that have hindered good government in the past.

If you would like to learn more about me and my candidacy, please visit my website at www.

Vote-Smith.com. I am asking for your support and vote March 18.

Larry W. Smith Harvard

Graduated income tax would drive more jobs out of state In a recent appearance on “Chicago Tonight,” I had the opportunity to talk about attempts in Illinois to get a graduated income tax Constitutional Amendment on the November ballot.

Rest assured, liberal activists across the state are gearing up for a major legislative fight this spring.

Proponents of a graduated income tax know that it would hit working families the hardest and would unfairly punish middle-class families trying to improve their quality of life.

Proponents of a graduated income tax tout “fairness” as the reason to change Illinois’ tax structure.

Fairness? Just what exactly is unfair about a flat tax that expects taxpayers to pay the same percentage of their income in taxes?

When it comes to taxes, everyone should pay their fair share and, in Illinois, taxpayers of all income brackets pay a flat tax of 5 percent

(this tax rate was unfortunately raised by 67 percent in 2011). The tax rate is scheduled to decrease to 3.75 percent in 2015. The more income a person earns, the more money that individual pays to the state. The fair tax is the flat tax.

If proponents of a graduated income tax really want a “fair” tax, then they would be advocating to keep Illinois fair by making sure Illinois’ income tax remains flat.

The point of a graduated income tax is not to create fairness, because how can an imbalanced tax burden be fair? The end game with the graduated income tax is to create more revenue for the state by raising taxes.

Liberal politicians know that Illinois taxpayers will not stomach another tax increase battle like the one that occurred in 2011 when a lame duck Legislature approved a socalled “temporary” income tax hike in the wee hours of the morning. So

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

GUEST VIEW Rep. David McSweeney instead of taking action to make the income tax permanent, liberals are actively working to back door a tax increase by implementing a graduated income tax in Illinois.

Another alarming aspect about the graduated income tax is that proponents have not provided any specifics as to what the new income tax rates would be. The best indication about what the proponents of the graduated income tax want comes from the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. Their proposal is a marginal tax rate ranging from 5 percent to 11 percent.

Anyone earning between $5,000 and $100,000 annually would pay a 5 percent marginal tax rate; a family earning $100,000 to $150,000 would

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pay 7.5 percent, and the rates would continue to go up until individuals earning more than $1 million would have to pay an 11 percent tax rate.

Considering the fact that the current 5 percent tax rate is set to be scaled down to 3.75 percent in 2015, the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability’s suggested marginal tax rates would essentially be a tax increase on everyone making $5,000 or more per year. Under the guise of “fairness,” the proponents of a graduated income tax are attempting to implement an even larger income tax increase than the one lawmakers approved in 2011. The last thing Illinois needs right now is higher taxes.

According to a recent study from the Tax Foundation, Illinois has the second-highest property taxes in the country. The combination of high taxes and over-regulation are driving jobs and opportunities out of Illinois. As a result, Illinois has

the fourth-highest unemployment rate in the nation. The Pew Charitable Trusts’ forecast for job growth for 2014 ranks Illinois 50th out of 50 states.

Raising taxes would only serve to drive more jobs and opportunities out of Illinois. We cannot afford to make the state’s economy worse than it already is.

What Illinois needs is to create an environment conducive for job growth and job creation. Raising taxes on people making as little as $5,000 per year is as unfair as it is unwise.

Please join the fight to oppose a graduated income tax and help keep Illinois flat by going to http:// davidmcsweeney.com/ and signing the petition.

• Rep. David McSweeney represents Illinois’ 52nd House District, which includes southeastern McHenry County.

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8COMMUNITY NEWS

TEACHER RECEIVES CLASSROOM GRANT ALGONQUIN – A third-grade teacher at Neubert Elementary recently received a $125 classroom grant to help publish her students’ creative-writing stories.

Teacher Katie Avery will use the grant to fund the Author’s Tea writing project that allows students to turn their stories into hardcover books. The Kappa Delta Pi Educational Foundation in Indianapolis awarded the $125 grant.

Students in Avery’s class have been developing and editing their creative stories throughout the year.

Students will showcase their writing with their families at 1 p.m. March 21 inside the multipurpose room at Neubert, 1100 Huntington Drive, Algonquin.

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D-200 may trim some jobs Citing enrollment, school board sets vote on 17 layoffs

By SHAWN SHINNEMAN shinneman@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – District 200 will consider whether to reduce their force of teachers by 17, reductions Superintendent Ellyn Wrzeski said are largely tied to enrollment.

School board members will vote on the measure at Tuesday night’s meeting.

The cuts would be spread out among the pre-K, elementary, middle school and high school levels.

Teacher reductions must be made 45 days before the school year ends.

“We hate to see any of them go,” Wrzeski said. “It’s not budgetary. It’s all based on enrollment.”

Wrzeski said that based on

registration numbers, some positions could be added back.

“We’re just watching some numbers,” she said.

District 200 has so far seen a significant decrease in the number of kindergarten registrations for next school year.

The number generally fluctuates between 430 and 480 students, reaching as high as 493 in recent years, Wrzeski said.

“Last year when it was this lower number, it’s hard to say – is it a trend?” she said.

Wrzeski said the district is about 80 students below its average kindergarten enrollment for next school year, which prompted the reduction in staff by five elementary teachers.

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– Stephen Di Benedetto

2 STORES CITED FOR TOBACCO SALES CRYSTAL LAKE – Two Crystal Lake businesses were cited for selling tobacco to minors during a compliance check this week by Crystal Lake police.

The 7-11 convenience store at 60 W. Terra Cotta Ave. and the Oak Street Food and Liquor at 256 N. Oak St. both sold tobacco products to a minor during the check Thursday, according to a Crystal Lake police news release.

Police inspected all of the city’s 36 businesses that have tobacco licenses.

– Stephen Di Benedetto

8LOCAL BEST BET

SPRING BREAK CAMP AVAILABLE FOR KIDS The McHenry Parks & Recreation Department will offer five days of spring break camp for children in first through fifth grades starting March 24 at McHenry Municipal Center, 333 S. Green St. Children will participate in a variety of activities, including arts and crafts, sports, games and a daily field trip. Camp meets from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Before- and after-camp times also are available, but additional fees apply. Children also can sign up for one or multiple days.

The cost each day is $30 for residents, $38 for nonresidents.

For information, call 815-3632160 or visit www.ci.mchenry. il.us.

Photos by Kyle Grillot – kgrillot@shawmedia.com

Western Plains Fife and Drum Corps members John Bringe (from left), Thomas Bringe and Peter Bringe of Elizabeth, Colo., march off stage after playing a song during the Liberty Day conference Saturday in Harvard.

Harvard’s Liberty Day celebrates United States’ earliest history

By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com

8LOCAL DEATHS Kathleen Ahern 70, McHenry Frances B. Anderson 90, Cary James W. Ayers 72, Spring Grove Joan B. Basile 87, formerly of Woodstock Thomas D. George 57 Joan C. Jagodzinski 80, formerly of Harvard Robert H. Mather 95, Woodstock Stephen F. Meagher 61, Richmond Lillian A. Rickert Jacqueline “Jackie” G. Schau 93, Wonder Lake Donald P. Vincent Sr. 87 OBITUARIES on page B4-5

Zach Lautenshalager of Windsor, Colo., writes an article for the National Association for Gun Rights newsletter during the Liberty Day conference Saturday in Harvard.

HARVARD – Hundreds channeled their revolutionary spirit Saturday and transformed the Starline Factory in Harvard into a 1770s delegation hall to honor the Founding Fathers.

People throughout the area donned outfits styled off the American Revolution period, danced like it was 1775 and witnessed a reenactment of the second Virginia Convention, where Patrick Henry famously declared “give me liberty, or give me death” nearly twoand-a-half centuries ago.

“If we have to move forward, we need to know where we came from,” organizer Roger Erber told the crowd after the re-enactment.

“That’s the point of today.”

Christ’s Church of Capron hosted the two-day “Liberty Day” event.

It was meant to unite Christians from area suburbs and allow attendees to reflect on the sacrifices Henry and others throughout American history made in the name of liberty.

The event kicked off Friday night with a concert from Celtic singer Charlie Zahm and fiddler Tad Marks.

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Cary plans to examine McHenry Public Library water service line rules set to install solar panels Village service ordinance last updated in 1989

By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com CARY – A winter that has left a deep frost in the ground and frozen water service lines is leading Cary to examine its policy on fixing those lines.

With the frost line five to six feet into the ground this winter, 10 village water customers have had their water lines frozen, causing people to scramble to figure out how to restore service.

At a recent village committee meeting, Village Administrator Chris Clark reiterated that village code says all repairs to water service lines have to be made and paid for by

the owners of the buildings. The village can repair a line in an emergency, but will bill the property owner.

That ordinance was last updated in 1989.

Village staff said they would do a report on the associated issues to see whether Village Board members want to modify the ordinance.

Clark said he didn’t expect any changes to be made before the end of this winter.

Trustee Karen Lukasik recommended the village re-examine the ordinance, calling it vague. She said she didn’t think the village has told Cary residents it wasn’t going

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$50K project being done during roof replacement

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com McHENRY – The McHenry Public Library plans on installing solar panels this spring, its executive director said.

The move would make it the first library and the second public building in the area to do so, Executive Director Jim Scholtz said.

The project is estimated to cost about $50,000 total, with $20,000 spent on solar panels, and is being handled by Aerotecture International Incorporated of Park Forest.

The library has applied for sev-

eral state and federal grants to offset the cost, but even without the grants, Scholtz expects the project to pay for itself in five to seven years, depending on energy prices.

“I think it’s important because we could be paying zero to a dollar in energy costs,” Scholtz said.

“We could substantially lower our energy costs, and I think it’s something everyone should be thinking about.”

The board had considered making some “green” updates during the last round of improvements but ultimately decided to do them piecemeal, Scholtz said, adding that the cost of solar panels has dropped substantially, which is why he wanted to do the project now.

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The fight against heroin

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Local officials and lawmakers attend a Community Leadership Forum on Heroin Prevention on Friday at the Kane County Government Center in Geneva.

Drug prevention forum draws local and state officials

By BRENDA SCHORY bschory@shawmedia.com GENEVA – U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Winfield, acknowledged Friday that heroin addiction is in epic proportions and requires a coordinated effort to create a framework for effective prevention, treatment and continuing evaluation.

Speaking to a room of more than 60 officials from Kane, McHenry, DeKalb, DuPage and Lake counties Friday at a Community Leadership Forum on Heroin Prevention at the Kane County Government Center in Geneva, Hultgren said it was time for an action plan.

“Heroin is truly dangerous.

It’s a very complex problem” Hultgren said. “Today is not a regular get-together. ... We need to identify new collaborations and share resources among each other [and] find out what is working.”

The keynote speaker was Capt. Jeffrey Coady, the regional administrator for the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, and moderator was Kathie Kane-Willis, director of the Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy at Roosevelt University.

“When we look at heroin use throughout our region, we need best practices, not only to inform people in this district, but throughout the region and the state,” Coady said.

Kane-Willis said research was showing a larger connection between prescription drug use and heroin use.

“Many [heroin users] – 80 percent – are transitioning from opiates” that are prescribed, Kane-Willis said. “We need to promote a strategic and goal-oriented solution to the heroin-opioid crisis. Prevention is primary, treatment is secondary and overdose prevention is tertiary.”

Kane-Willis said more pro-

Kane County Coroner Rob Russell (left) listens in on the forum Friday.

“It’s taken me three years to be able to get to a point where I feel I can give back in whatever capacity they might need. To talk to kids or other parents. ... In whatever way I can, I would like to help.”

Chris Hadley Retired nurse, mother of heroin overdose victim

fessions need to be represented in the framework of those working together, such as pharmacists and professional associations.

“Everyone has a role to play here,” she said.

Among the ideas each group came up with after brainstorming included more awareness, more treatment options and more beds available for treatment.

“Drug companies should provide support for this because they are providing the drugs to the patients,” said Barb Jeffers, the Kane County Health Department executive director. “They should have a role in prevention.”

Allison Johnsen, a behavioral health specialist with Cadence Health, said money is a barrier to treatment.

“Insurance companies are running how we provide care,” Johnsen said, clarifying that she was speaking for herself and not as a representative of Cadence. “And when

you have good insurance, what you get for treatment is not enough to help effectively, according to models for recovery.”

Jeff Hunt, interim executive director of the Robert Crown Center, said people should be looking at social media and leveraging it to get information out there to youth, changing the language from “addiction” to “disease” to reduce the stigma.

Overdose treatment is another critical component, Hunt said, adding that every police and fire responder should have Narcan, a drug that reverses the effects of an opiate overdose.

DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin said funding for treatment is a big barrier.

“When you’re talking about heroin, it’s the most difficult drug there is and it takes years and years for recovery,” Berlin said. “Most treatment facilities are 21 or

30 days, and then they kick you out the door. That’s nowhere even close to treating a heroin addiction.”

Addicts who go to prison or jail have said it was their first step to getting clean, Berlin said.

“Obviously, there is a tremendous cost to that, and as prosecutors, we don’t want to be putting drug addicts in jail,” Berlin said.

Hultgren said his office would keep in touch with the participants to keep building on what they started in the forum.

Chris Hadley of Geneva, a retired nurse, said she came to the forum as the mother of a son who died of a heroin overdose in 2010.

“It’s taken me three years to be able to get to a point where I feel I can give back in whatever capacity they might need,” Hadley said. “To talk to kids or other parents. ... In whatever way I can, I would like to help.”

Cathy Villwock of Geneva said she came to the forum as the mother of a heroin-addicted son.

“They’re using the ‘h-word’ so I hope this is the start of many more of these meetings to come,” she said. “Looking around the room, I am very impressed with the representation.”

One aspect that was not discussed was how the Affordable Care Act was now providing coverage for addiction – previously an uninsurable disease, causing parents to use up their savings and retirement money to pay for treatment.

“I don’t think many people realize that component of the Affordable Care Act for folks that struggle with the disease of addiction is going to save an awful lot of lives,” Villwock said. “It’s going to provide them with much-needed resources and help.”

8LOCAL BRIEFS tion and a camp T-shirt.

Registration open for D-300 summer band camp Interested parents can

The event starts at 11 a.m. inside the library, 200 S. State St., Marengo. Registration is required.

For more information, contact the library at 815-568-8236.

6 to 12 will cost $10. Children younger than 5 are admitted complete an online or printed free.

CARPENTERSVILLE – Middle registration form available at The invitational starts at schoolers have until April 11 www.d300.org.

6:30 a.m. June 1, at Donley’s to register for CarpentersWild West Town, 8512 S. Union ville-based District 300’s first Marengo-Union Library Road, Union. The race offers middle school summer band to host Rockwell event Registration begins 32-, 50-, 62-, 75-, and 100-mile camp.

MARENGO – Residents can for bicycle invitational courses.

The camp will run on weeklearn about the career of UNION – Cyclists can save Registration covers a pasta days, from June 2 through renowned American painter money now and register early dinner after the invitational, June 12, at Westfield ComNorman Rockwell during a for the McHenry County Bicycle free Starbucks coffee in the munity School in Algonquin.

Marengo-Union Library event Club’s 32nd annual Udder morning and free admission The band camp is open to all on March 15.

Century Bicycle Invitational on into Donley’s Wild West Town. incoming sixth-, seventh- and Jeff Mishur from RiverJune 1.

The club is currently aceighth-graders in District 300. side-based Art Excursions will Registration costs $24 until cepting mailed and online The summertime program lead a presentation that covers May 24 and then increases to registration forms. For more culminates with an evening $29 until May 29. information, visit www.mchenconcert on June 12 at Carpenter Rockwell’s early years at the Registration on the day of the rybicycleclub.org or email the Park in Carpentersville. Tuition Saturday Evening Post to his years spent illustrating for Look invitational will cost $35, while club at udder@charter.net. for the camp is $100 and covers two hours of daily instrucand Life magazines. registration for children ages – Stephen Di Benedetto

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Local volunteers had major impact in 2013 Recently, 84 local nonprofit organizations completed a survey for the Volunteer Center. The survey showed these organizations engaged over 41,600 volunteers last year.

These same volunteers completed just over one million hours of service. The impact of a million volunteer hours is more than $23 million! Volunteers do make a difference. Kudos to those that help. Forty-one percent of the surveyed organizations said they need more volunteers. Can you help?

These are a few opportunities posted on www.volunteercentermchenrycounty. org.

Home of the Sparrow is looking for event volunteers to help with their “Phantom of the Opera” themed annual gala fundraiser. The event includes house tours of the Sanfilippo Estate, dinner, a silent auction, organ concert, and a magical ride on the estate’s famous carousel. Volunteers will assist with guest check-in, coat check, silent auction, checkout and other various tasks throughout the evening.

JourneyCare is looking for volunteers to get involved at their Woodstock site.

Become part of their team – greet visitors, answer phones and help with general light office duties.

Parent’s Day Out is looking for bilingual volunteers to teach basic Spanish to children.

Volunteer Center McHenry County is looking for a volunteer team of five or six volunteers to run the food area at the Human Race on April 27.

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April 1 at the Volunteer Center is a Volunteer Recognition workshop. Participants will discover some creative ideas at minimal cost to show their volunteers that they are appreciated, and noticed.

To register, visit volunteercentermchenrycounty.org.

The fourth annual McHenry County Human Race is April 27. This is a 5K walk/run supporting more than 55 charities serving McHenry County. Each race participant designates which charity will receive the proceeds of their race fee.

More information at mchumanrace.org.

If you or someone you know is looking to get involved in a McHenry County nonprofit organization or are an organization looking for support, visit www.volunteercentermchenrycounty. org or call 815-344-GIVE (4483).

For more information about nonprofit workshops, volunteer needs and the McHenry County Human Race, visit www.volunteercentermchenrycounty.org or call 815-344-GIVE (4483).

• Rebecca Stiemke is the executive director of Volunteer Center McHenry County. She can be reached by emailing rstiemke@volunteermchenrycounty.org or calling 815-344-4483.

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On March 18, the organization will have a free screening of “Food for Change” at the McHenry County College Luecht Conference Center at 8900 Route 14 in Crystal Lake. The event, scheduled to go from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., will include a discussion featuring regional co-op experts along with representatives from McHenry County Food Cooperative.

Members from the organization will talk about plans for a member-owned grocery store that will feature locally grown

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Doug Close, a board member for McHenry County Food Cooperative, said the organization recently incorporated under the Illinois Cooperative Act and is getting closer to the goal of opening a grocery store in May 2015.

He said the group still wants to commission a feasibility study to see where the best location for a store would be, but believed it would be located somewhere in the Crystal Lake, Woodstock, McHenry triangle.

“In our initial outreach we have found there definitely seems to be various niches that are not being covered by corporate grocery stores,” Close said. “Co-ops help the local economy and provide services in a way corporate grocery stores just can’t do.”

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Close said the organization plans to show the film in libraries and at any community organization that would be interested to continue spreading the message.

“It’s a very uplifting film that really focuses on the resurgence of food co-ops in America,” he said. “People really want to have an understanding of where their food is coming from.”

For information on the McHenry County Food Cooperative, visit www.mchenrycountyfoodcoop.com.

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He always made time for friends, OBITUARIES family, neighbors, and complete How to submit strangers - even when he didn't KATHLEEN AHERN have it for himself. Those who knew Born: June 9, 1943; Chicago, IL Send information to obits@ Tom best remember him for his Died: March 6, 2014; McHenry, IL nwherald.com or call 815-526-4438. passionate dedication to church and Notices are accepted until 3pm for leadership in local youth activities.

Kathleen Ahern, age 70, of the next day’s paper.

Tom is survived by his loving wife McHenry, died at her home on of 35 years, Linda; sons: David Wednesday, March 6, 2014.

Obituaries also appear online at (Morgan), Brett (Janessa), Wade, Kathleen was born on June 9, 1943 nwherald.com/obits where you may and Ryan; grandchildren: Carter, in Chicago to Menceslause Hernacki sign the guestbook, send flowers or Jackson, Eliza, Jakson, and Evie; and & Irene (Wisniewski) Hernacki. On seven siblings. make a memorial donation.

March 6, 1970 she married Michael He was preceded in death by his Ahern. parents William and Dorothy Kathleen dedicated her time to George, and his brother Bob. her family. She loved spending time , , to the lat Visitation will be 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. with her husband, children, and Lowell and Katherine Ayers. While JOAN B. BASILE Monday, March 10, at Davenport grandchildren. She loved being in at Waterloo East High School, Jim Born: Oct. 8, 1926; In Chicago, IL Family Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra the sunshine and was most known worked as a writer at the Waterloo Died: March 6, 2014; In Cary, IL Cotta Ave, Crystal Lake. Burial will for her compassionate heart.

Courier and later at the Fort Dodge be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 11 at She is survived by her husband, Messenger and Rochester Post Joan B. Basile, age 87, formerly of Crystal Lake Memorial Park, 8012 Michael; her children David Ahern, Bulletin. In the late 1960's, Jim Woodstock, passed away March 6, Ridgefield Road, Crystal Lake, Lisa (Rusty) Thielsen, and Katie worked in Public Affairs with the 2014 at the Three Oaks Assisted followed by a memorial service at (Phil) Daughton, all of McHenry; her Minnesota Republican Party, Living facility in Cary.

11:00 a.m. at the Church of Jesus stepchildren Mike Ahern, Mary Jo moving back to Rochester as an She was born October 8, 1926, in Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5209 (Dave) Harper, Carrie (Aaron) Editorial Writer at the Post Bulletin. Chicago, the daughter of Harold and Walkup Road, Crystal Lake.

Hogan and DJ (Jennifer) Greco; In 1976, Jim married Margaret Rowena Brown.

She married Henry In lieu of flowers, memorial grandchildren Sarah, Shannon, (Maggie) Bellingham. They lived in Basile September 3, 1947 in donations may be made to Maegan and Samantha Ahern, Rochester for 18 years with their Wilmette.

Alzheimer's Association (alz.org) Olivia, RJ and Andrew Thielsen, two sons, Nathan and Brandon, and She is survived by her children, Direct link to donations: Kelsey and Preston Harper, Jack moved to Johnsburg, Illinois where Christie Lickfield, Robert (Lynne) http://www.alz.org/join_the_cause Ahern, and Duke and Jake Greco; Jim was an independent insurance Basile; grandchidren, Stacie _donate.asp siblings Carol (Pete) Fender Albright agent. Jim was a member of All Lickfield-Birt, A. J. Basile, Danny Condolences may be sent to of Lockport and Jerry Hernacki of Saints Lutheran Church and the Basile and Emily Basile; greatwww.davenportfamily.com.

Call Chicago.

Johnsburg OldTimers Baseball Club. grandchildren, Leighanna Birt, 815-459-3411 for information.

Kathleen was preceded in death Jim's love of sports was Henry Birt and Sydney Birt; nieces, by her parents, Menceslause expressed via his officiating Barbara Slater and Kathy Parker. ("Micky") and Irene Hernacki, a recreational, youth, high school and She was preceded in death by her sister, Michaeline ("Mikki") Sones college baseball, softball, parents and husband.

O'Donnell and a grandchild, basketball, football and volleyball, She was a 60 year member of the Christopher Ahern. which continued up until the time of SNETRAM Bridge Club and was an The visitation will be held on his death. Jim enjoyed attending Monday, March 10, 2014 at Colonial local sporting events as well as the avid gardener. She was affectionately known as “Grammy” Funeral Home & Crematory, 591 University of Minnesota Golden to her family.

Ridgeview Dr., McHenry IL. Prayers Gopher games with Nate and JOAN C. JAGODZINSKI Visitation will be Sunday, March will be said at 9:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Brandon. He was a willing traveler, Born: Nov. 15, 1933; In Aniwa, 16, 2014 from 2:00 until 4:00 PM March 11, 2014 before proceeding joining Maggie and his in-laws Shawano County, WI with a memorial at 4:00 PM at the to St. John the Baptist Church, 2302 Nancy and Brian Houdek to out-ofDied: Feb. 16, 2014; In Tucson, AZ Kahle - Moore Funeral Home, 403 W. Church St., Johnsburg, IL for a the way locations around the world. Silver Lake Road, Cary, IL. 10:00 a.m. Mass. Interment will be Jim had a very unique sense of Joan Claire (Meidl) In lieu of flowers, memorials private. humor and did not hesitate to add a Jagodzinski, born would be appreciated to Memorials may be made to joke or pun to most conversations, JourneyCare, 405 Lake Zurich Road, November 15, 1933, Journey Care Foundation, 405 Lake especially while playing board and in Aniwa, Shawano Barrington, IL 60010.

Zurich Rd., Barrington, IL 60010. card games with the family. He County, Wisconsin, For information: 847-639-3817 or Information: 815-385-0063 or loved watching the birds and wild- online condolences at to Ernest and Annie colonialmchenry@att.net. life from the back deck, and shared kahlemoore.com (Hanne) Meidl, squirrel feeding techniques with passed away FRANCES B. ANDERSON Brian. Jim was a very special February 16, 2014 in Tucson, Died: March 7, 2014; Woodstock, IL husband, father, relative and friend; THOMAS D. GEORGE Arizona. he will be remembered for his easy- Born: Aug. 3, 1956; in Evanston, Wyo. She had one sister, Gladys going and caring nature. Each day Frances B. Anderson, age 90, of Died: March 7, 2014 (Donald).

Cary passed away March 7, 2014 at Jim would strike up a conversation Joan moved to Harvard, Illinois in with neighbors, friends and JourneyCare in Woodstock.

Thomas D. George, born August 3, 1951 and was employed by the Arrangements pending at the Kahle- strangers; he remembered each and 1956, in Evanston, Wyoming, passed Illinois Bell Telephone Company as every person when their paths Moore Funeral Home. 847-639away March 7, 2014. an operator. There, she met and crossed at a later date.

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Tom loved baseball. He played married the love of her life, Norbert Jim is survived by his wife, his throughout his childhood, and he (Tony) Jagodzinski, April 11, 1953.

JAMES W. AYERS sons Nathan and Brandon (Giana), acted as a manager for all four of She was the mother of two sons, Born: Dec. 31, 1941; Waterloo, IA his siblings Josephine (Phil), David his sons' youth teams.

Denis and Steve.

Died: March 5, 2014; McHenry, IL (Bev), John (Cathie) and Joan (Diane), his father and mother-inJames William law Bill and Carmen Bellingham, inAyers of Spring laws, and many nieces, nephews Grove, Illinois, and extended family and referee formerly of colleagues.

Rochester, A celebration of Jim's life will be Minnesota and held at All Saints Lutheran Church in Waterloo, Iowa, died Fox Lake, Illinois on Sunday March peacefully on March 9, 2014 at 2 PM. Jim's family will 5, 2014 in McHenry, Illinois. Upon greet friends at the church one hour his death, Jim was surrounded by before the service. his family and supported by many Memorials in Jim's name can be family members and friends. made to the American Heart Jim was born in Waterloo, Iowa, Association, Greater Midwest Affiliate, Memorials and Tributes on December 31, 1941, to the late

Joan retired from the McHenry County, Illinois, Assessor's Office after 22 years of service and moved with her husband to Tucson, Arizona in 1991.

Joan loved to give her time to many worthy causes, doing volunteer work with various theaters, St. Mary's Hospital, Tucson, the Salvation Army, Tucson, PGA and LPGA tournaments, the Jerry Lewis Telethon, and the Tucson Estates paper. Joan was also active with the Pima County Board of Elections as a Judge. She was a member of Red Hat Society, Illinois and Wisconsin Clubs of Tucson Estates; and she also was an avid world traveler.

She is survived by her two sons, Denis (Jill) Jagodzinski and Steve (Deborah) Jagodzinski; three grandchildren, Joe (Marzy) Viverette, Jessica and David Jagodzinski; and one greatgrandchild, Madeline Elizabeth; sister-in-law, Patricia (Bill) Gibson; sister-in-law, Delores (Patrick) Slowey; and many nieces and nephews.

Joan was preceded in death by her parents; sister; husband; sisterin-law, Virginia Gehrke; three brothers-in-law, Larry Jagodzinski, David Jagodzinski, Arnold Gehrke; and one nephew.

A memorial service was held on February 19, 2014 at Tucson Estates, Arizona. Locally, friends and family may call at a memorial service to be held on March 14, 2014 at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 West Sumner Street, Harvard, IL 60033 from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. A Mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. on March 15, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 206 E. Front Street, Harvard, IL 60033, followed by a graveside internment of both Joan and Norbert (Tony) Jagodzinski at St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Joan's name to: University of Arizona, UMC Foundation, P.O. Box 245018, Tucson, AZ, 85724.

Family and friends may sign the online guest book at saundersmcfarlin.net

ROBERT H. MATHER Robert Henry Mather, age 95, of Woodstock, died Tuesday, February 25, 26, 2014 at Centegra Memorial Medical Center in Woodstock.

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STEPHEN F. MEAGHER Bo&n: Aug. 27, 1952; In Chicago Died: March 2, 2014; In Woodstock Stephen “Steve” F. Meagher, age 61, of Richmond, passed away March 2, 2014 at Journey Care Hospice in Woodstock.

He was born August 27, 1952 in Chicago to Richard and Margaret Ann (Lowry) Meagher.

On August 16, 1975, he married Anne Williams in Mount Prospect.

Survivors include his wife; two brothers, Richard and Michael Meagher both of Portland, Oregon; a brother in law, Michael (Frances Donovan) Williams of Tallahassee, Florida; a sister in law, Chloe; and dear friends, Dale and Sherry Breakiron, Todd and Donna Landis and Fred and Cyndi Waters.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, David.

Services will be private.

Arrangements by Colonial Funeral Home in McHenry. 815-385-0063.

LILLIAN A. RICKERT Lillian A. Rickert (Nee Runge).

Beloved wife of the late Albert.

Loving mother of Diane (Tom) Kearney and the late Marilyn (John) Rodriguez. Proud grandmother of Barbara (Dan) Susong, Linda (Dan) Marshall, Janis (Bob) Jurack and Mary (Nick) Shoemaker. Great grandmother of Kayla, Jordan, Michael, Danielle, Matthew, Drew, Haley and Kaden, Lillian is survived by 1 brother and was preceeded in death by 5 brothers and 5 sisters.

A graveside service will be held Monday, March 10, 2014, at 1:00 P.M. at Chapel Hill Gardens West Cemetery, 17W 201 Roosevelt Rd., Oakbrook Terrace, IL. 60181.

Memorials to American Heart Association, 3816 Paysphere Circle, Chicago, IL. 60674-0001 or the Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation 17N State St., suite 1550, Chicago, IL. 60602, would be appreciated.

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Kathleen Ahern: The visitation March 10, at the funeral home. at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 11, in Crystal Lake Memorial Park, will be Monday, March 10, Interment will be in Richmond 8012 Ridgefield Road, Crystal at Colonial Funeral Home & Cemetery.

Lake. An 11 a.m. memorial service Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Drive, Joan B. Basile: The visitation will follow at the Church of Jesus McHenry. Prayers will be said will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5209 at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, March 11, March 16, at Kahle-Moore FunerWalkup Road, Crystal Lake. For before proceeding to St. John the al Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, information, call the funeral Baptist Church, 2302 W. Church Cary. A memorial will immediatehome at 815-459-3411.

St., Johnsburg, for a 10 a.m. ly follow. For information, call the Joan C. Jagodzinski: A memorial celebration of Mass. Interment funeral home at 847-639-3817. service will be held from 5 to 8 will be private. For information, Charles A. Burger: The visitation p.m. Friday, March 14, at Sauncall the funeral home at 815-385will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, ders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 0063.

March 9, at Colonial Funeral 107 W. Sumner St., Harvard.

James W. Ayers: A celebration Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, Mass will be celebrated at 11 of life will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, McHenry. A funeral Mass will be a.m. Saturday, March 15, at St. March 9, at All Saints Lutheran at 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 10, Joseph’s Catholic Church, 206 E. Church in Fox Lake. at St. Patrick Church, 3500 W. Front St., Harvard. Interment will Walter ‘Bud’ Barber: The visiWashington St., McHenry. be in St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemtation will be from 2 to 6 p.m.

Thomas D. George: The visitation etery. For information, call the Sunday, March 9, at Ehorn-Adwill be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, funeral home at 815-943-5400. ams Funeral Home, 1011 Main March 10, at Davenport Family St., Richmond. The funeral Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra Cotta • Continued on page B5 service will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Ave., Crystal Lake. Burial will be

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He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, and in the USN Reserve Seabees from 1967 to 1977.

Donald was a longtime member of the Knights of Columbus in Wheeling and Monroe, WI. On July 25, 1947, he married Helen S. Rayson. After Helen passed away in 1998, he married Susan M. Christiansen in 2000.

Don loved reading mysteries and was an avid computer gamer. He was a passionate fan of NASCAR, the Chicago Blackhawks, and FOX News.

In addition to his wife, Susan, who resides in Austin, TX, he is survived by his children, Barbara (Carmen) Colella of McHenry, William (Kathleen) Vincent of Sherburn in Elmet, UK, Russell Vincent of Crofton, MD, Micki (Bob) Amsler of Center Hill, FL, Matthew (Sheryl) Vincent of Monroe, WI, and Chris (Mary Ellen) Vincent of Tucson, AZ; 16 grandchildren, John (Christy) Vincent, Rebekah Vincent, Donald Vincent III, Kate Larson, Kevin Larson, Spencer Vincent, Shawn Vincent, Lorna (Paul) Craven, Michelle Bowers, Gwendolyn Hurt, Sarah Vincent, Dara (Jesse) Keyes, Krystine Vincent, David Hankley, Brea Hankley, Taylor (Courtney) Vincent; 17 great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Shirley Zaideman, Kathleen Hills, and Madelene Collins.

In addition to his first wife, Helen, he was preceded in death by a son, Donald P. Vincent Jr. and a daughter, Frances Kaye Vincent.

Inurnment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Monroe, WI. A graveside service with military honors is being planned to take place in early summer.

Arrangements were entrusted to Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com, where friends may leave an on-line condolence message for his family.

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Raised in Chicago, Jackie Visitation will be from 4 p.m. until summered in Wonder Lake with her 8 p.m.

Monday, March 10, 2014, at family. As a young woman, she Justen's Wonder Lake Funeral worked as a buyer for Chas. A. Home, 7611 W. Hancock Drive, Stevens, a position she held during Wonder Lake, IL 60097. and following WWII. During the war, Visitation will resume from 9 a.m. she often traveled to New York on until closing prayers at 10 a.m. buying trips. She also acted as an Tuesday, March 11, at the funeral Air Raid Warden during wartime. home, then proceeding in She married in 1956, and she and procession to the 10:30 a.m. funeral her husband moved to Wonder Lake Mass at Christ the King Catholic as year round residents. She Church in Wonder Lake. Interment eventually left her buyer position to will be in Ringwood Cemetery. raise a family. After her children For those wishing to honor her were older, she returned to work in memory, her family suggests the Housekeeping Department of McHenry Hospital and later worked Masses or memorials directed to at Morton Chemical in the office for the family for a charity to be chosen by her family.

15 years, retiring at the age of 66.

For information, please call the Jackie loved to sing, and studied funeral home at 815-728-0233, or voice while she was younger. She visit www.justenfh.com, where aspired to be an opera singer. For friends may leave an online many years, she was a member of condolence message for her family. the Echo Chorus of Chicago, and later the McHenry Choral Club for several years. A member of Christ the King Church, she also sang in the church choir. Jackie was very DONALD P. VINCENT, SR. active with the Senior Centers in Wonder Lake and McHenry, and the Born: March 25, 1926; Gary, IN Died: March 5, 2014; McHenry Keenagers, often holding offices in the organizations. She enjoyed sewing and knitting, and loved Donald P. Vincent donating items to the Home of the Sr., age 87, died Sparrow. Always smiling and happy, Wednesday, March Jackie's trademark phrase when 5, 2014, at the home greeting someone was that she was of his daughter in “crabby as ever,” said with a broad McHenry. smile on her face.

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Strong box reveals details of Civil War life Contents provide in-depth look into state senator, attorney’s experiences as paymaster

By BRENDA SCHORY

“We had to go pick it up – it weighs 200 pounds. This is a pretty awesome donation, a real coup for us.”

bschory@shawmedia.com GENEVA – The Geneva History Museum will host a presentation of the letters of Col. Joseph H. Mayborne, Civil War paymaster, an attorney and state senator, from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the museum, at 113 S. Third St., Geneva.

Mayborne’s letters and other documents were found in a strong box in his former homestead in the 200 block of North Second Street, museum executive director Terry Emma said.

Emma said Jack Burgess, who owns the house now, found the box behind a closet while remodeling and called the museum to donate it.

“We had to go pick it up –

Terry Emma Geneva History Museum executive director it weighs 200 pounds,” Emma said. “This is a pretty awesome donation, a real coup for us.”

Curator Jessica Strube said the box contained “a ton of documents” both from the Civil War and Mayborne’s letters to his wife, Etta, as well as lawsuits and filings from his court cases.

“It’s a genealogy goldmine,” Strube said.

The presentation will focus on Mayborne’s letters home to Etta and his background and his family’s back-

ground in Geneva.

“His letters were from all over, some noting significant places, and a lot of battles such as the Battles of Corinth, Miss.,” Strube said.

Mayborne served as a member of the board of supervisors – now called the county board – and was a state senator from 1876-80. He also helped to organize the Republican Party in Kane County, Strube said.

“The research showed how prominent he was in Geneva,” she said.

Mayborne originally came from the East Coast in the Jamestown area and first went to Chicago, and then to Geneva in 1848. He built his house on Second Street in 1855. He married Teresa Johnson and had four daughters but no grandchildren.

Strube said his lineage died when his last daughter died in 1936.

Admission is $5 each or $3 for museum members. Registrations may be made at www.genevahistorycenter. org or by calling 630-232-4951.

The program is part of the museum’s Brown Bag Lunch Series, so attendees are encouraged to bring a sandwich. Soup is provided

by Inglenook Pantry, and the museum offers cookies, water and coffee.

8FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS • Continued from page B5 Jack Keller: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 15, at Hack’s Funeral Home, 753 Hodges St., Beecher. The memorial service will be at 2 p.m. with a gathering immediately after the service at Beecher Amvets’ Hall, 532 Gould St., Beecher. Interment will be at 10:45 a.m. Monday, March 17, in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, 20953 W. Hoff Road, Elwood.

Robert H. Mather: Friends and family will gather from 2 to 5 p.m. March 15, at 615 Dean St., Woodstock. For information, call Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home at 815-3381710.

Lillian A. Rickert: A graveside service will be at 1 p.m. Monday, March 10, in Chapel Hill Gardens West Cemetery, 17W 201 Roosevelt Road, Oakbrook Terrace. For information, call 630-766-3232.

Jaqueline G. “Jackie” Schau: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m.

Monday, March 10, at Justen’s Wonder Lake Funeral Home, 7611 W. Hancock Drive, Wonder Lake.

The visitation will resume from 9 a.m. until closing prayers at 10 a.m.

Tuesday, March 11, at the funeral home. A 10:30 a.m. celebration of Mass will follow at Christ the King Catholic Church, Wonder Lake.

Interment will be in Ringwood Cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 815-728-0233.

Leroy L. Schreiber: The visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. with a 6 p.m. prayer service Monday, March 10, at Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock.

Nancy Lou Wade: The funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 9, at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 932 McHenry Ave., Crystal Lake, where there will be a second visitation held one hour before the service. For information, call Davenport Family Funeral Home at 815-459-3411.

Arlene Wineman: The visitation will be from noon until the 2 p.m. funeral service Sunday, March 9, at Windridge Funeral Home, 104 High Road, Cary.

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Event originated in family’s living room, opened to public in 2004 • LIBERTY Continued from page B1 On Saturday afternoon, Paul Jehle, founder of Heritage Institute Ministries, spoke at the Liberty Day conference and discussed United States foreign policy. Later in the evening, roughly 400 attendees celebrated the American Revolution period with a historical fashion show, period dancing and historical re-enactments.

The Liberty Day event this year built on past success, Erber said. The event started more than a decade ago inside the Erber family living room, where Erber, his wife and eight children recited speeches and songs to celebrate Henry.

The head of Christ’s Church of Capron and his family opened the event to the public around 2004, bringing in formal speakers. Liberty Day has an educational focus, Erber said.

But it also can stir emotions.

Erber held back tears when addressing the crowd – something he’s been known to do

“There are so many things that we see in our country right now that are out-of-kilter. Nobody seems to know what’s the right thing to do. If you look back to what the Founding Fathers told us, we can get some guidance.”

Roger Erber Liberty Day organizer when talking about Henry and the Founding Fathers, he said.

“There are so many things that we see in our country right now that are out-of-kilter. No-

body seems to know what’s the right thing to do,” Erber said.

“If you look back to what the Founding Fathers told us, we can get some guidance.”

Photos by Kyle Grillot – kgrillot@shawmedia.com

ABOVE: Solomon Hirst, 12, of Capron takes a break to eat an apple during the Liberty Day conference Saturday at the Starline Factory in Harvard. The event is a celebration of the Founding Fathers. Hundreds of people from many states come to the three-day conference. LEFT: William Hunt of Roscoe marches with a toy rifle Saturday in Harvard.

Customers were advised Teachers categorized based on subjects, levels they teach LAYOFFS to let water faucets trickle •Continued from page B1 • RULES Continued from page B1 to help them, but she didn’t want them feeling like “we’re leaving them high and dry.”

“We should at least readdress it to see if there is something more we can put it into it,” Lukasik said.

Other municipalities, such as Crystal Lake and Lake in the Hills, take responsibility of service lines from the water main to a homeowner’s buffalo box, where the valve is located to turn water service off and on.

“These other communities that have these different policies, some have literally been 24/7 operations, trying to keep these things thawed,” Clark said. “I don’t know if it’s a condition communities didn’t anticipate.”

Under Cary’s ordinances, the buffalo box has to be “between the house and main between the curb line and sidewalk line, so they are easily accessible and protected from frost.” Cary officials said the village repairs and replaces broken or damaged buffalo boxes.

“We need to get access to that line to turn water on and off for lack of payment or change in ownership,” Clark said.

Clark did say having the village be responsible for the main

to the buffalo box could bring about extra costs.

“There’s a lot of public cost and responsibility that comes with that; you may choose to own that piece and be comfortable with that,” he told Village Board members.

If there is a water service line break and the water was leaking, the village would typically fix it as a standard practice, Clark added. Of the 10 water customers who have had frozen lines, four have run hoses to a neighbor’s house to get water service, and two have had service restored by a plumber. Two of the customers are little-used businesses and have lines that are still frozen, according to village documents. One location is a vacant townhome, and village officials do not know the status of the last customer, according to village documents.

Because some areas in town had a history of water service lines freezing, Cary officials put notices on people’s doors advising them to let their water trickle from faucets. It’s been seven or eight years since it’s been cold enough for lines to freeze, said Assistant Public Works Director Mike Walsh.

“When things first began to get cold, we tried to be proactive and contact the people we knew historically have had problems,” he said.

Library may consider installing panels on side if roof doesn’t hold • PANELS Continued from page B1 The installation is being done in conjunction with a roof replacement. Because the building dates to the early 1970s, the library’s structural engineer Looking for a Business Partner You Can T r ust?

isn’t sure if the roof can handle the weight of the panels, but if that avenue doesn’t work, the library is also considering installing them on the side of the building or on a specially constructed awning, Scholtz said.

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The district made reductions of five preschool teachers, including one in the district’s tuition-based program.

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• 1 p.m. – Crystal Lake Historical Society Centennial Speaker Series, “The American Terra Cotta & Ceramic Co.,” Crystal Lake City Hall, 100 W. Woodstock St. Free.

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• 5:30 p.m. – Free Sunday community dinner, First United Methodist Church, 3717 W. Main St., McHenry. Church will be serving a meatloaf dinner. No reservations required. Information: 815-385-0931.

8COMMUNITY CALENDAR March 9 • 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Ladies auxiliary brunch, Polish Legion of American Veterans Post 188, 1304 Park St., McHenry. All-you-can-eat.

Cost: $7 adults, $3 children younger than 10. Proceeds benefit hospitalized military veterans. Information: 815-385-9789.

• 10:30 a.m. – Adult & Child Therapy Services Champions Brunch, Woodstock Country Club, 10310 Country Club Road, Bull Valley. Cost: $50. Proceeds benefit the ACTS Birth to Three program.

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• 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Environmental Defenders of McHenry County 44th anniversary brunch, Loyola University Retreat and Ecology Campus, 2710 S. Country Club Road, Woodstock. “Climate Change is Happening Now and It’s Affecting Severe Weather” will be presented by Nobel Prize winner Don Wuebbles. Tickets: $25 members, $50 nonmembers. Tickets and information: 815-338-0393 or www. mcdef.org.

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8PUBLIC ACCESS MONDAY, MARCH 10 Algonquin Planning and Zoning Commission When: 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 10 Where: Ganek Municipal Center, 2200 Harnish Drive District 26 Curriculum Committee When: 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 10 Where: Cary Junior High, 2109 Crystal Lake Road

Burton Township Board of Trustees When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 Where: State Bank of the Lakes, 1906 Holian Drive, Spring Grove District 15 School Board When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 Where: Chauncey H. Duker School, 3711 W. Kane Ave., McHenry District 46 School Board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 Where: Prairie Grove Junior High School library, 3225 Route 176, Crystal Lake

District 26 Finance Committee When: 7 p.m. Monday, March 10 Where: Cary Junior High, 2109 Crystal Lake Road District 300 Legislative Committee When: 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 10 Where: Westfield Community School, 2100 Sleepy Hollow Road, Algonquin

District 200 School Board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 Where: Clay Professional Development Center, 112 Grove St., Woodstock

Resources Committee When: 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, March 11 Where: Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock Volo Village Board When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 Where: Volo Village Board, 500 S. Fish Lake Road

Algonquin Historic Commission When: 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 12 Where: Historic Village Hall, 2 S. Main St.

Johnsburg High School, 2002 W. Ringwood Road

Fox Lake Zoning Board of Appeals When: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 12 Where: Fox Lake Village Hall, 66 Thillen Drive

District 300 School Board When: 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 10 Where: Westfield Community School, 2100 Sleepy Hollow Road, Algonquin

Johnsburg Community Affairs Committee When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 Where: Johnsburg Village Hall, 1515 Channel Beach Ave.

Huntley Library Policy Committee When: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 12 Where: Huntley Area Public Library, 11000 Ruth Road, Huntley

Huntley Plan Commission When: 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 10 Where: Huntley Municipal Complex, 10987 Main St.

Lake in the Hills Committee of the Whole When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 Where: Village Hall, 600 Harvest Gate

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Marengo City Council When: 7 p.m. Monday, March 10 Where: Marengo City Hall, 132 E. Prairie St.

McCullom Lake Village Board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 Where: McCullom Lake Village Hall, 4811 W. Orchard Drive

Algonquin Committee of the Whole When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 Where: Ganek Municipal Center, 2200 Harnish Drive

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8LOCAL BRIEFS Marlowe students to perform ‘Into the Woods’ LAKE IN THE HILLS – Students from Marlowe Middle School will perform “Into the Woods,” a play that intertwines several fairytales, starting on Friday.

The play is an adaptation of one of Stephen Sondheim’s most popular works and combines plot lines from the stories of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, and Rapunzel.

The students will have four performances, with the first one starting at 7 p.m. Friday in the performing arts center at Huntley High School, 13719 Harmony Road, Huntley. Performances continue throughout the weekend on Saturday and Sunday.

Tickets are $5 for general admission and are available at the door.

For more information, contact District 158’s community relations department at 847659-6107.

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Huntley sophomore forward Ali Andrews – the Northwest Herald Girls Basketball Player of the Year – averaged 18.6 points, 7.6 rebounds, 2.5 blocks and 2.0 assists a game this season on her way to earning AP Class 4A all-state honorable mention honors. She also helped lead the Red Raiders to a school-record 27 wins, an undefeated record in the Fox Valley Conference Valley Division for their program’s first conference title and a sixth regional title in eight years.

Huntley sophomore Ali Andrews 1st underclassman to earn honor since 1996

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one-day break from basketball is all Huntley sophomore forward Ali Andrews could handle.

Andrews took the day off after the Red Raiders’ season ended in a sectional final against Boylan, but on Saturday, March 1, she was right back at it. Anyone looking for Andrews that day could find her at Healthbridge in Huntley with her sister, Sam, as they worked on their shots and basketball skills.

There is little time off for Ali Andrews after the high school season, but she is completely fine with that. The AAU season begins this

week for Andrews, who competes with Midwest Elite. It’s that level of dedication that has contributed to Andrews becoming one of the top players in Illinois – and she’s only a sophomore.

Andrews, who was named to The Associated Press’ Class 4A all-state honorable mention team, averaged 18.6 points, 7.6 rebounds, 2.5 blocks and 2.0 assists a game this season. She led the Red Raiders to a school-record 27 wins, an undefeated record in the Fox Valley Conference Valley Division for their program’s first conference title and a sixth regional title in eight years.

For a dominating performance this season, Ali Andrews is the

All-Area first team Ali Andrews Huntley, so., forward Sam Andrews Huntley, sr., forward Katie Barker Cary-Grove, jr., guard Sarah Le Beau Prairie Ridge, sr., guard Sara Mickow Crystal Lake South, sr., forward • First-team player capsules and second team and honorable mention selections on Page C4.

Northwest Herald Girls Basketball Player of the Year, as chosen by the sports staff with input from local

coaches. Ali Andrews is the first underclassman to earn the honor since Lake Zurich’s Alicia Ratay as a freshman in 1996.

“I think I always have something to prove to people,” Andrews said.

“You just have to play hard every game and surprise them every game.

“I knew I needed to step up and be more of a leader vocally,” she added. “I’ve been working on my ball handling a lot so I could be a more versatile player.”

No matter how opposing coaches tried to shut her down, Andrews still gave teams nightmares. She scored in double figures in 28 of Huntley’s 31 games and scored at least 20 points in 15 games.

VIEWS Tom Musick drew dozens of NFL scouts to his recent pro day in Evanston, where San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and Houston Texans coach Bill O’Brien also traveled thousands of miles to watch him zip passes across the field.

But you don’t need a scout’s clipboard to tell Anthony and Jane Garoppolo that their grandson has a special gift. The Garoppolos, who moved to Huntley in 2009, beam with pride when they discuss any of their seven grandchildren.

Here, meet them all.

The four brothers go like this: Tony, Mike, Jimmy and Billy.

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See ANDREWS, page C4

Do athletes make good leaders, or do leaders make good athletes?

Family bond unites Garoppolos HUNTLEY – If you traveled past the tranquil neighborhood streets of Sun City last spring, you could have witnessed quite a sight.

Four brothers, ranging in age from 18 to 26, played football in front of their grandparents’ house in the retirement community.

They were joined by their 5-yearold cousin, Kyle, an aspiring garbage man and the game’s No. 1 star.

“We should have taken videos,” Jane Garoppolo, the boys’ grandmother, said with a laugh.

“It was really funny.”

More smiles and laughter are in store for the Garoppolo family.

Do you recognize the last name? If not, you will soon.

After a stellar college career at Eastern Illinois, Jimmy Garoppolo has emerged as one of the most coveted quarterbacks in this year’s NFL draft class. Garoppolo

The work Andrews puts in during the offseason is nonstop and isn’t limited to the basketball court.

During a typical week, Andrews trains at Davis Speed Center in Crystal Lake, works out at Healthbridge, works with a trainer in Buffalo Grove in group and individual basketball workouts and soon she will be adding AAU practices and tournaments to her schedule.

“I’ve worked really hard to get to this point,” Andrews said. “I think I’ve grown a lot. Last year I thought I was more mentally weak on the court because I’d get really frustrated. I overcame that just by working on my skills.”

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Former Eastern Illinois quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo smiles on the sideline during a game against Tennessee Tech on Nov. 2 at O’Brien Field in Charleston.

He is one of the most coveted QBs in this year’s NFL draft class. Garoppolo’s grandparents, Anthony and Jane Garoppolo, live in Huntley’s Sun City.

Vitali Klitschko’s awesome nickname as a boxer, “Dr. Ironfist,” wouldn’t seem to be a handle you’d want if you were a possible presidential candidate. Certainly not in Ukraine, which has lived under the heavy hand of an unyielding government for years.

But the nickname fits perfect- Vitali Klitschko ly as the opposition leader and his countrymen dig in against Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is trying to grab Crimea from Ukraine.

As anti-government protesters stood their ground in January in Independence Square in Kiev, Klitschko spoke to them more like Mel Gibson in “Braveheart” than “Dr. Ironfist.”

VIEWS Rick Morrissey “Tomorrow we will go forward together,” he said. “And if it’s a bullet in the forehead, then it’s a bullet in the forehead.”

Do Ukrainians follow Klitschko because the former heavyweight champion never was knocked down in 47 pro fights?

Do they find strength in his strength? Those questions raise broader ones for those of us who enjoy sports: Do athletes make better leaders than nonathletes do? Is there a connection between sports and leadership? Or are we simply

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NHL: Blackhawks at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m., NBCSN The Hawks, who are trying to catch the Blues and hold off the Avalanche in the Central Division, are looking to avoid a third consecutive road loss.

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan apologized Saturday to Ian Poulter and other two players behind him for damaging the 13th green at Doral with his putter in the second round and walking off the green without repairing it.

Poulter brought the matter to light with a series of tweets in which he called Matsuyama an “idiot.”

Harvard and Eastern Kentucky men’s basketball teams already have locked up NCAA tourney bids. Here are three teams we’d like to see run the table in their conference tournaments.

1. Illinois: Why not? Knocked off No. 24 Iowa on Saturday on the road.

2. Northern Illinois: The Huskies will host a Mid-American Conference tournament game for the first time since 2003.

3. Notre Dame: The Irish have beaten Top-25 Duke.

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FACE OFF Kenton Mack School: Jacobs Year: Junior Sport: Basketball

1. Who’s your favorite NBA player?

Kobe Bryant, with Russell Westbrook a close second, because the way Kobe competes and thinks he’s the best and always wants to win.

2. What are three great basketball movies?

“Glory Road,” “Coach Carter” and my favorite movie of all time, “Space Jam.”

3. Would you make a good coach?

I would, because I think I would be good at motivating kids to give their all and know the game pretty well.

What team is your early favorite to win the NCAA tournament?

4.

I would pick Duke because they’re my favorite team.

5.

What was the most memorable game for you this season?

The second game of the season against Quincy, losing on a buzzer-beater. That was a crazy atmosphere and brought us together the most.

Mike Kaska School: Richmond-Burton Year: Senior Sport: Basketball, baseball

1. Who’s your favorite NBA player?

Steph Curry, because we have similar playing styles.

2. What are three great basketball movies?

“Coach Carter,” “Like Mike” and “Space Jam”

3. Would you make a good coach?

I think I could. Once you get up on a team, you need to play your other guys. I like the other guys to get a chance to shine too.

What team is your early favorite to win the NCAA tournament?

4.

Wisconsin

5.

What was the most memorable game for you this season?

Our game against Burlington Central last Friday when we clinched the Big Northern Conference East Division title for ourselves. It was a good all-around win for everybody, we were all doing well, playing our best basketball.

Riley Wicks School: Huntley Year: Senior Sport: Basketball, golf

1.

Who’s your favorite NBA player?

Kevin Durant, because he can score from all over the floor.

2. What are three great basketball movies?

“Glory Road,” “Hoosiers” and “Coach Carter”

3. Would you make a good coach?

I think so. I’ve learned a lot of stuff through my dad (Bill).

What team is your early favorite to win the NCAA Tournament?

4.

I’ll stick with Wichita State because Fred VanVleet is from pretty close to here.

5.

What was the most memorable game for you this season?

The game against Jacobs at their place, clinching the Fox Valley Conference Valley Division championship.

It was crazy, I’ve never played in front of that many people before.

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he NFL begins free agency Tuesday and many teams, including the Bears, have plenty of changes ahead. Columnist Tom Musick and sports editor Jon Styf discuss:

Styf: Although it ultimately might have the least difference on the Bears’ 2014 season, Josh McCown’s future has been much discussed. As with anyone, there are rumors. Some are certain he’ll sign with Tampa Bay, others think the Vikings will make a move and some think he’ll stay in Chicago at a “fair” price. I bet he’s gone, and the Buccaneers make a lot of sense.

Musick: Selfishly, I want McCown to re-sign with the Bears because he’s one of the nicest and most insightful professional athletes I’ve ever covered. But if I had to guess, I’d say he heads elsewhere. Too many teams need help at quarterback, and those teams are likely to offer significantly more money than the Bears can afford. If I’m McCown, I go where I have an opportunity to start and where I can secure my family’s future for the long term.

Styf: Another interesting negotiation will be Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett. The Bears are an obvious factor because he’s Martellus’ brother and they have a definite need at the position.

The Seahawks made him an offer and Michael Michael decided to Bennett wait and see what free agency had to offer. That’s a good sign for the Bears and for you getting odd quotes, if Michael’s anything like his brother. I know Michael’s the quiet one, but he has to have some of that in him.

Musick: Yes, even if he is 1 percent as eccentric as Martellus, he still will be more interesting than about 45 other guys on the team. I think it’s fair to guess that the Bears would have to cut Julius Peppers in order to afford Michael Bennett, but at this point in Peppers’ career, that represents an upgrade at defensive end. How about the secondary? Are you bringing back Peanut Tillman or letting him walk? Have you ever seen a Peanut walk?

Styf: Let Lovie Smith have Devin Hester and Peanut and Champ Bailey. They all can go to the Florida Gulf Coast to age like ... you know ... people do. The Bears need to start over and get young on defense. They don’t need to be giving aging guys new, fat deals.

Musick: Brian Urlacher is not going to like that. Cue his “no loyalty” comments in 3, 2, 1...

Styf: He just doesn’t have his facts straight. This isn’t about loyalty. They offered him $2 million.

That’s not a slap in the face, that’s reality in the NFL. Careers are short. The risks are high. Get paid while you can and then get out.

Obviously, the Bears had a good grasp of the market for Urlacher because it doesn’t look like anyone else offered to pay him more.

Musick: The Bears won’t be the only team letting go of popular veterans. One name that emerged this week is Darren Sproles, whose days with the New Orleans Saints could be finished. I could see Sproles fitting in well alongside Matt Forte with the Bears. To make room, they could cut Michael Bush. Maybe Bush could go join Team Lovie, too.

Gregg Wikierak spent 22 years as the baseball coach at Marian Central before retiring in 2011. After two years away from coaching – but not baseball – Wikierak, who spent 32 years working in high school baseball, is in his first year as an assistant coach at McHenry County College for one of his former Marian players, Jared Wacker.

If retiring was for good, then so be it. But I knew I wanted to get away for a couple of years – not from Marian necessarily, but just from coaching. The two years I was retired, I made a point of going back and watching a couple of Marian Central games. The other thing I attempted to do was to go watch some of my players who had graduated from Marian who were in college playing and my son is one of the varsity coaches at St. Charles North. So I was getting my fix of baseball through those different avenues. Even though I was separated from it, I was still there. And being there, there’s certain things you miss. It’s not just being on the field and it’s not just being around the kids. But there’s a variety of things you miss as a coach.

You miss the interactions and the teaching and the camaraderie. Those are the things you miss not being on the field.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I think all coaches would love to coach in a position with great opportunity. I think in the years that Jared has been at McHenry County (College), he’s done some really good things with the program.

Being a high school coach for over 30 years, college is one of the next steps. So with the opportunity and being that (MCC) it is close to home, it fit in with my schedule, everything really fell into place. It seemed like everything was funneling me to the position. When [Wacker] asked me, I wanted to say ‘yes’ as soon as he asked me.

But I wanted some perspective from other people in my life. I sat down with all my kids and talked to my wife and just threw [the opportunity] out in front of them. I wanted to know if they thought it would be good or bad and what their perspective was of me while I was coaching and when I was retired. Everything was really positive.

A lot of friends of mine said, ‘You’ve been a head coach too long’ and ‘There’s no way you could be someone’s assistant.’ They all know my personality and a lot of people told me (because) I’m a real competitor, they thought it would be hard for me to sit back and be the second fiddle or the third fiddle. But being a coach, you always want to be at the highest level and you want to be able to get the most out of what you do. But for me, it’s a very easy transition to work with someone else.

Hopefully, I have something to offer the team and if I can do that, obviously, that’s what coaching is all about. If you can make the kids better not only in baseball, but in all things, that’s what you want. There’s so many things that happen in athletics that pertain to life in general – the positives and the negatives and the ups and the downs. [Coaching] is something that has always been very special to me and with an opportunity to get back into it, the fact that it has been in my life and the fact it fit into my schedule with my family and my life, it seemed like it was the right opportunity at the right time.

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8SPORTS SHORTS NBA suspends Mayo 1-game for punch NEW YORK – Milwaukee Bucks guard O.J. Mayo was suspended Saturday night for

punching New Orleans Pelicans center Greg Stiemsma in the throat Friday.

The incident occurred with 1:52 remaining in the first quar-

ter of Milwaukee’s 112-104 loss Friday to the Pelicans. Mayo got tied up with Stiemsma as Mayo tried to get around a screen set by the big man.

Card, Carpenter agree to $52M, 6-year deal JUPITER, Fla. – Matt Carpenter called agreeing to a new $52 million, six-year deal with St.

Louis a no-brainer. The Cardinals are hoping their third baseman sticks even longer than that.

The deal includes a team option for a seventh year in

2020 at $18.5 million. Should the St. Louis decline the option, they would pay Carpenter a $2 million buyout.

– Wire reports

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By GREG BEACHAM The Associated Press LAS VEGAS – NASCAR is about to start finding out whether its offseason changes will pay off on tracks such as Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

NASCAR worked tirelessly behind the scenes last year to improve its on-track product, particularly at 1.5-mile speedways that had turned into glorified parades. After the drivers opened the season on Daytona’s superspeedway followed by Phoenix’s quirky mile oval, it’s time for the first of 11 races on 1.5-mile tracks.

While fans watch defending champion Matt Kenseth and early points leader Dale Earnhardt Jr., everybody on the north end of The Strip is eager to see if passing is any easier and if the racing is any better Sunday in Vegas.

Gene Stefanyshyn, NASCAR’s vice president of innovation and racing development, warned that one show won’t be a true barometer of the changes made to the rules package.

“We can’t jump too quickly and say that this is the answer,” Stefanyshyn said. “Some teams will take some time to figure it out. I think the aero piece of it, it’s pretty much set. It’s just a matter of getting the driver to find the limit and feeling comfortable with the aero.

“But the chassis, the engineers will play around with it for a while until that settles down. Then the driver will begin to find the sweet spot and get comfortable. We won’t have a good feeling where all this lands until we get about three under our belt, and that would be the Texas race.”

NASCAR’s new package also will be scrutinized March 23 at Fontana and April 6 at Texas.

Those three races last year

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Danica Patrick walks down pit row Friday after qualifying for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in Las Vegas. had a combined 57 lead changes.

In comparison, this year’s Daytona 500 had 42 lead changes.

NASCAR won’t get Daytona-like passing at speedways, at least not anytime soon. And Stefanyshyn wants to give this rules package some time before tinkering again.

“There’s a learning curve here,” he said. “I think you can’t be too premature on this.

There’s a lot of cars. There’s a lot of different engineers, a lot of different thoughts on getting down the learning curve.

So we’ll wait and see and see how it all plays out.”

Here are two things to watch in NASCAR’s third race of the season: Junior’s jump: Dale Earnhardt Jr. never has won at Las Vegas, and he frequently struggled in Sin City early in his career. But his outstanding start to the season suggests he might be accomplishing a whole lot of firsts this year. The Daytona 500 champion had top-three finishes at the final two 1.5-mile tracks of last season, and his Vegas confidence is strong after a testing session. Vegas bookmakers always depress Earnhardt’s odds because of his pop-

ularity, but he truly is among the favorites for a big finish.

Kenseth’s labor: Defending champion Matt Kenseth clearly is comfortable in Las Vegas after three wins on this track, but he still is wondering how NASCAR’s changes will translate in competition on 1.5-mile ovals. “It’s really hard to compare anything from the past,” he said. Kenseth also said the Vegas track has aged, becoming slower and slicker. He expects the drivers to run wide, which could make for exciting, unpredictable racing.

NATIONWIDE SERIES Keselowski holds on for win: At Las Vegas, Brad Keselowski once blew a tire while leading the final lap of this same Nationwide Series race, so he knew he couldn’t get excited about a victory in Vegas until he actually crossed the line.

He finally got there Saturday after overcoming electrical problems, traffic and Kyle Busch for an uncommonly satisfying victory.

Keselowski held off Busch in the final laps to win the Nationwide race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the first time.

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NORTHWEST HERALD GIRLS BASKETBALL ALL-AREA TEAMS FIRST TEAM

SECOND TEAM EVELYN YOUEL Crystal Lake Central, sr., guard CHANEL FANTER Crystal Lake South, so., guard MADDIE DRAIN Prairie Ridge, sr., forward CODY BRAND Woodstock, sr., forward HALEY AHR Woodstock North, so., forward

Ali Andrews

Sam Andrews

Katie Barker

Sarah Le Beau

Sara Mickow

Huntley, so., forward

Huntley, sr., forward

Cary-Grove, jr., guard

Prairie Ridge, sr., guard

Crystal Lake South, sr., forward

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ndrews, the Northwest Herald Player of the Year, became the fastest player in Huntley history to eclipse 1,000 career points, doing it in less than two seasons. She averaged 18.6 points, 7.6 rebounds, 2.5 blocks, 2.0 assists and 1.7 steals a game to help lead the Red Raiders to their first division title.

Andrews, who was named to The Associated Press’ Class 4A all-state honorable mention team, scored in double figures in 28 of 31 games and had 15 games of at least 20 points. Her 576 points scored this season are a school record.

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ndrews’ illustrious career ended with another great season in which she scored 16.5 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists a game to help lead Huntley to a record year.

She shot an area-best 84 percent at the free-throw line and set a school record for career free-throw percentage (82 percent). Andrews also made 46 3-pointers and is second all-time with 123 career 3-pointers for Huntley. She finishes with 1,465 career points, good for second most in program history.

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arker proved capable of scoring from everywhere on the court and led all area players with 18.7 points a game. The junior guard also grabbed 6.2 rebounds with 1.7 steals a game. Barker set a school record with 77 3-pointers, which were second most in the area, and scored 20-plus points in 14 games.

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e Beau was a game-changer on both ends of the floor for the Wolves. She averaged a teambest 13.9 points while tallying 3.9 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.5 steals a game. The senior guard made 83 3-pointers to lead all area players.

Le Beau also had the assignment of guarding their opponent’s best player each game and was one of the best perimeter defenders.

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ickow was one of the best all-around players. Mickow averaged 13.9 points and an area-best 16.1 rebounds, the third straight year she averaged a double-double. The senior forward had 10 games this season with at least 20 rebounds. She finishes her career having amassed more than 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds – 452 of which came this year – in three varsity seasons.

HONORABLE MENTION BROOKLYN HILTON Alden-Hebron, sr., guard KELSEY SCHMITT Crystal Lake Central, sr., guard RACHEL RASMUSSEN Crystal Lake South, sr., guard EMILY MICHALSKI Dundee-Crown, sr., forward EMMA BENOIT Hampshire, so., forward KAYLA TOUSSAINT Johnsburg, sr., guard SARAH BENIGNI Marian Central, jr., guard SAWYER LAY McHenry, sr., guard HANNAH KOENIG Richmond-Burton, sr., forward ABBY STRAIGHT Richmond-Burton, sr., forward

BIG TEN CONFERENCE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

Huntley’s Raethz steers Dixon, Iowa advance to final Red Raiders to success The ASSOCIATED PRESS

By MEGHAN MONTEMURRO mmontemurro@shawmedia.com The Huntley girls basketball team’s success this season can be traced back to summer.

When the Red Raiders’ summer league and camps kicked off, coach Steve Raethz made clear the preparation and pursuit of the program’s first conference title began at that moment.

The Red Raiders bought in.

Despite losing key contributors from last year’s Class 4A fourth-place team, Raethz had his team ready for opponents’ best efforts on a nightly basis. That focus and preparation resulted in a schoolbest 27 wins and a program first: a Fox Valley Conference Valley Division title. The Red Raiders went undefeated in division play and continued their stellar play en route to a sixth regional title in eight seasons and a sectional final appearance.

For leading the Red Raiders to a standout season featuring plenty of program firsts, Huntley’s Raethz is the Northwest Herald’s Girls Basketball Coach of the Year, as chosen by the sports staff with input from local coaches.

“I think he did an outstanding job,” senior forward Sam Andrews said of Raethz.

“He puts all his effort into what he does and he enjoys doing it. He cares so much about the players and what’s best for us and the team.”

Raethz, in his 15th season at Huntley, wanted to make sure the Red Raiders used last season’s success as a building block for this year and the future of the program.

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Huntley’s Steve Raethz – the Northwest Herald Girls Basketball Coach of the Year – guided the Red Raiders to a school-best 27 wins and the program’s first Fox Valley Conference Valley Division title.

“As a team, we needed to take a step back and hit the reset button and create a whole new dynamic and set of goals for this year,” Raethz said.

Although Raethz had a nice perk of having both Sam Andrews and Ali Andrews back this season, with them combining to score an average of 32 points a game, that didn’t mean he was able to sit back and relax on the sideline. The Red Raiders took on a tough schedule, which included facing three teams that made the state finals this year, and had to be mentally prepared for every team looking to knock them off.

“Steve has always understood how to get kids to play hard,” Cary-Grove coach Rod Saffert said. “He understood that first and foremost. He knows how to get the most out of his players.”

After finishing second in the FVC Valley or Fox Division a combined four times in the previous seven seasons, winning the division

outright for their first title was a special moment for the Red Raiders and Raethz.

“Raethz told us we had to take it day by day,” Sam Andrews said of pursuing the FVC Valley title. “He has it minute by minute what to do. It’s very structured. He gave us a lot of encouragement.”

As teams searched for ways to slow down Huntley, especially the Andrews sisters, Raethz faced the challenge of finding ways to put his team in position to succeed even when facing unique defenses, such as the triangle-and-2 or box-and-1.

Raethz said this season keeps Huntley on the track toward success.

“As a coach, I love going to practice every day with the kids, going through the grind and the preparation of what we needed to put ourselves in position to be successful,” Raethz said. “It was great to see those things come to fruition with all the hard work of our players this year.”

Sam’s presences makes journey even better • ANDREWS Continued from page C1 The past two years have been made more special having her sister Sam, a senior who is headed to Truman State to play basketball, by her side during workouts and on the court representing the Red Raiders.

“It’s something that we’ll never do again, so I’m glad we really got to experience it,” Sam Andrews said of her sister. “She’s a huge part of the person I am today.”

Huntley coach Steve Raethz has been impressed by the strides Ali Andrews made this season and the way she battled, especially whenever she found herself double- or triple-teamed, which was often.

“She still has such a high ceiling for growth and development, and it’s great because she’s always looking

to improve,” Raethz said.

“She’s an intense competitor.

What’s most impressive is even with all the individual accolades she’s garnered over the last two years, she’s always about the team and what she can do to help our team be successful.”

While on the sidelines during games, Raethz doesn’t hesitate to correct any miscues. It doesn’t bother her.

Andrews described Raethz as another father-like figure and appreciates his guidance and willingness to demand the best of her.

“Raethz pushes me as hard as he can because he knows I can get so much better and be a more well-rounded player,” Andrews said. “I just take it as good criticism that you can learn from.”

Andrews is preparing for college recruitment to pick up in the coming months.

Right now coaches can only contact her through a third

party, such as Raethz, or she can reach out to them.

She plans to visit colleges during the summer and has drawn interest from Indiana, Wisconsin and Northwestern. Andrews wants to play at a Division I school and has her sights set on the playing in the Big Ten or Big East.

Raethz said it certainly is an attainable goal.

Andrews’ development both on and off the court has impressed her sister. Sam said Ali has matured a lot and stepped up as a leader for the Red Raiders. With her work ethic and competitiveness, Sam expects her sister to reach her full potential.

“She did the best she could every game,” Sam Andrews said. “She wanted to win.

She’s really competitive.

She did an outstanding job with all the defenses she had thrown at her. She overcame them and took them as a challenge.”

INDIANAPOLIS – Theairra Taylor scored 21 points and made a go-ahead layup with 1:32 left as Iowa held on to beat Ohio State, 77-33, Saturday in the semifinals of the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament.

After Taylor’s go-ahead layup gave No. 23 Iowa (26-7) a 75-73 lead, Ameryst Alston missed a layup on Ohio State’s ensuing possession. Martina Ellerbe then missed a potential game-winning 3-pointer for Ohio State (17-18) with 10 seconds left and Melissa Dixon, a Johnsburg alumna, sunk two free throws for Iowa with a second remaining as the Hawkeyes advanced to the Big Ten title game for the first time since 2010.

Bethany Doolittle and Ally Disterhoft each added 18 points and Dixon scored 16 for Iowa, which never trailed.

Alston led Ohio State with 20 points while Ellerbe and Darryce Moore each added 15 for the Buckeyes.

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Iowa guard Melissa Dixon, a Johnsburg alumna, shoots between Ohio State center Ashley Adams (33) and Ohio State forward Martina Ellerbe in the first half of Big Ten Conference tournament semifinal Saturday in Indianapolis. Dixon scored 16 points in the Hawkeyes’ 77-73 victory.

Rachel Theriot added 18 as Nebraska used a 50-point first half to cruise past Michigan State in Saturday’s other Big Ten semifinal.

The Cornhuskers (24-6) advance to the tournament championship game against No. 23 Iowa, the fifth-seeded, on Sunday.

Nebraska was on top 24-17 No. 16 Nebraska 86, No. 19 in the first half before LaudMichigan St. 58: Tear’a Lau- ermill’s 3-pointer that capped dermill scored 20 points and a 9-0 Cornhuskers run and

stretched the lead to 33-17 over Michigan State (22-9). Over the next 6 minutes, Nebraska upped that margin to 23 points and led the Spartans 50-27 at the break.

The Cornhuskers scored first in the second period, opening a 26-point lead, and coasted the remainder of the half, while shooting 52 percent from the floor.

Branndais Agee led Spartan scorers with 18 points.

CLASS 4A GIRLS BASKETBALL STATE FINALS

Whitney Young back on top The ASSOCIATED PRESS NORMAL – Kiara Lewis wasn’t about to let Whitney Young lose focus during Saturday’s Class 4A girls basketball state championship game after coasting to an impressive 40-point victory in Friday’s semifinals.

It showed.

Lewis poured in 20 points to lead Whitney Young (32-3) past Rolling Meadows, 60-44, Saturday. Madinah Muhammad added 16 points and Khaalia Hillsman grabbed 13 rebounds for the Dolphins, which finished third in the state last year, and first two years ago.

But it was the possibility of a letdown after the Dolphins’ 60-20 shellacking of Marian Catholic on Friday that had Lewis and Whitney Young coach Corry Irvin concerned.

“I just came out real intense and I wanted a state championship after what happened last year and not being able to play,” said Lewis, who sat out last year’s tournament because of injury. “I came out strong. The whole weekend we came out fast and strong.”

Irvin said that although her team didn’t play quite as well as it could have, she was happy nonetheless.

“I don’t know if there was a letdown, but we didn’t do some of the things that got us here, at least early in the game. But I was so proud of our girls, especially our seniors, for stepping up and getting it done when it counted.”

Hillsman added 10 points for the Dolphins.

Jenny Vliet scored 21 points and 10 rebounds for the Mustangs (29-5), while Alexis Glasgow added 10.

Marian Catholic 45, Geneva 34: Ashton Millender scored 16 points to lead Marian Catholic past Geneva to take third place in the girls Class 4A state tournament.

Marian Catholic (28-5) took the lead on the first possession of the game and never relinquished it. Gabrielle Cooper added 10 points for the Spartans, while Millender grabbed seven rebounds.

The Vikings were led by Abby Novak’s 13 points, while 6-foot-2 freshman center Grace Loberg grabbed a game-high 12 rebounds.

Marian Catholic, the defending Class 4A state champion, was crushed, 60-40, by Whitney Young in a Friday semifinal rematch of last year’s championship game.

Geneva lost in Friday’s semifinals to Rolling Meadows, 5143.

CLASS 3A GIRLS BASKETBALL STATE FINALS

Montini tops Joliet Catholic for title lead at 51-37 with 3:02 left in the game.

Lombard shot 50 percent NORMAL – Kelly Karlis scored 16 points Saturday to from the field, making 17 of 34 lead Montini past Joliet Cath- shots. Joliet was 16 of 44 for 36 olic Academy, 57-44, for its percent.

Quincy Notre Dame 64, Burlfourth girls basketball Class 3A championship in five years. ington Central 40: Kristen GenLea Kerstein added 13 genbacher scored 20 points and points and Kateri Stone scored Mary Beth Hugenberg added 19 to lead Quincy Notre Dame 12 for the Broncos (34-2).

Nicole Eckhomu led Joliet past Burlington Central in the (28-3) with 14 points, while Jas- Class 3A third-place game.

The Raiders (30-4), Class mine Lumpkin added 12.

Lombard led 28-23 at the 3A state champs the previous half and recorded its largest three years, grabbed the lead

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on the first possession and never trailed.

A young Central team was led by sophomores Sam Pryor, with 10 points, and Kayla Ross with nine points.

Notre Dame played smothering defense, forcing 27 Central turnovers – including 19 in the first half. Notre Dame was 25-56 from the field while Central was 13-31.

Notre Dame was defeated

by Joliet Catholic Academy, 7059, and Central lost to Montini, 34-26, in Friday’s semifinals.

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ILLINOIS 66, NO. 24 IOWA 63

Ekey’s 3 lifts Illini in regular season finale

By JASON BRUMMOND The Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa – Jon Ekey hit a 3-pointer in the final second to lift Illinois to a 66-63 victory over No. 24 Iowa on Saturday night.

Rayvonte Rice scored 15 points to lead the Illini (18-13, 7-11 Big Ten), who picked up consecutive road wins against ranked opponents for the first time since 2005.

Iowa’s Roy Devyn Marble – the Big Ten’s leading scorer – was held to eight points on 3-of-11 shooting. The Hawkeyes (20-11, 9-9) have lost five of their past six games.

Ekey’s 30-foot game-winner left only a half-second on the game clock. A foul on Iowa’s Mike Gesell with 13.8 seconds remaining reset the shot clock and gave Illinois the final shot.

Ekey, who finished with 12 points, hit another big 3-pointer with 3:03 left to give the Illini a 63-59 lead.

The Hawkeyes misfired on their next few trips. Gesell missed a 3-pointer, Adam Woodbury threw away the ball and Aaron White mishandled a pass.

Then Marble’s slash to the hoop cut Illinois’ lead to 63-61 with 1:09 left and Gabe Olaseni’s putback with 41 seconds left tied the score at 63.

Illinois split the season series with Iowa despite 13 turnovers that led to 23 points for the Hawkeyes.

Iowa is 15-4 this season when making at least five 3-pointers.

Marble – the only player in the Big Ten to score in double figures in every game before Saturday – had scored at least 20 points in each of the past

MIDWEST ROUNDUP

Florida makes SEC history Becomes 1st to go 18-0 in league play The ASSOCIATED PRESS GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Patric Young scored 18 points in his final home game and No. 1 Florida routed 25th-ranked Kentucky, 84-65, Saturday, becoming the first team in Southeastern Conference history to go 18-0 in league play.

The Gators (29-2, 18-0), who have won 23 straight this season and 32 in a row at home.

Julius Randle led the Wildcats (22-9, 12-6) with 16 points and 10 rebounds.

West Virginia 92, No. 8 Kansas 86: At Morgantown, W. Va., Eron Harris scored 28 points, Juwan Staten added 24 and West Virginia (17-14, 9-9 Big 12) withstood 41 points

by Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins.

Perry Ellis added 14 points for Kansas (23-8, 14-4).

No. 2 Wichita St. 67, Missouri St. 42: At St. Louis, Cleanthony Early scored 20 points with three 3-pointers and a pair of dunks, and Wichita State improved to 33-0 with a win in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament semifinals.

Tekele Cotton also made three 3-pointers for the top-seeded Shockers (33-0).

Oregon 64, No. 3 Arizona 57: At Eugene, Ore., Jason Calliste made the go-ahead jumper and free throw with 4:22 left and finished with 18 points as Oregon (22-8, 10-8 Pac-10) won its seventh straight.

Aaron Gordon had 21 points for the Wildcats (28-3, 15-3).

No. 4 Duke 93, No. 14 North Carolina 81: At Durham, N.C., freshman Jabari Parker had a season-high 30 points and 11 rebounds to lead Duke (24-7, 13-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) past North Carolina.

Marcus Paige finished with 24 points for the Tar Heels (238, 13-5).

No. 6 Villanova 77, Georgetown 59: At Philadelphia, Darrun Hilliard scored 19 points to lead Villanova (28-3, 16-2 Big East) to a dominating victory.

Markel Starks scored 20 points for the Hoyas (17-13, 8-10).

No. 11 Louisville 81, No. 19 Connecticut 48: At Louisville, Ky., Montrezl Harrell scored 20 points, and Louisville claimed a share of the American Athletic Conference championship.

The Cardinals (26-5, 15-3) finish tied with No. 15 Cincinnati atop the upstart league.

Louisville’s defense frustrated the Huskies (24-7, 12-6) into season-worst 29.4 percent shooting in completing the sweep.

No. 12 Michigan 84, Indiana 80: At Ann Arbor, Mich., Glenn Robinson III scored 20 points, including a tie-breaking 3-pointer with 1:10 to play to help Michigan (23-7 15-3 Big Ten) to a victory over Indiana.

Will Sheehey led Indiana (17-14, 7-11) with 17 points.

No. 13 Creighton 88, Prov-

idence 73: At Omaha, Neb., Doug McDermott scored a career-high 45 points and became the eighth player in Division I history to go over 3,000 for a career in helping Creighton (24-6, 14-4 Big East) roll past Providence (20-11, 108).

No. 15 Cincinnati 70, Rutgers 66: At Piscataway, N.J., Sean Kilpatrick scored 24 points for Cincinnati (26-5, 15-3 AAC).

Kilpatrick converted a three-point play and drove the lane for a layup in the final 68 seconds as the Bearcats rallied from a late deficit against the Scarlet Knights (11-20, 5-13).

No. 16 Iowa St. 85, Oklahoma St. 81 (OT): At Ames, Iowa, Naz Long forced overtime with a 30-foot 3-pointer at the buzzer, and Iowa State 23-7, 11-7 Big 12) overcame a 16-point deficit.

Markel Brown missed two free throws with 3 seconds left for Oklahoma State (20-11, 8-10).

No. 20 Memphis 67, No. 18 Southern Methodist 58: At Memphis, Tenn., Joe Jackson scored 15 of his 18 points in the second half to lead Memphis (23-8, 12-6 AAC).

Nic Moore led the Mustangs (23-8, 12-6) with 16 points.

No. 23 Oklahoma 97, Texas Christian 67: At Fort Worth, Texas, Buddy Hield scored 24 points and Oklahoma clinched the No. 2 seed in the Big 12 tournament.

Isaiah Cousins had 18 points for the Sooners (23-8, 12-6). Jarvis Ray had 18 points for injury-plagued TCU (9-21, 0-18).

STATE Northern Illinois 70, Ball St. 56: At DeKalb, Darrell Bowie scored 17 points and NIU (1416, 8-10 Mid-American Conference) had a 37-13 advantage in bench scoring to pull away from Ball State.

Frank House had 19 points for the Cardinals (5-24, 2-16).

Chicago St. 67, Seattle 53: At Chicago, Nate Duhon scored 18 points to lead Chicago State (13-18, 8-8 Western Athletic Conference) to a win over Seattle.

Jarell Flora had 22 points for Seattle (13-16, 5-11).

Indiana St. 62, Southern Illinois 59: At St. Louis, Khristian Smith tipped in a missed Justin Gant jumper with 14 seconds remaining to give No. 2 seed Indiana State (23-9) a win over sixth-seeded SIU in the semifinals of the MVC tournament.

Anthony Beane had 16 points for SIU (14-19).

MIDWEST Eastern Kentucky 79, Belmont 73: At Nashville, Tenn., Corey Walden scored 22 of his career-high 29 points in the second half to help Eastern Kentucky (24-9) upset top-seeded Belmont (24-9) for the Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship and an NCAA tournament berth.

five games.

Illinois trailed most of the second half before Joseph Bertrand’s jumper gave the Illini a 55-54 lead with 8:37 left.

The Hawkeyes tied it up twice after that, but never regained the lead.

Illinois’ Nnanna Egwu had 14 points and six rebounds.

White led Iowa with 12 points and eight rebounds, and Woodbury added 11 points.

Iowa dug out of an early deficit with a 17-1 run in the first half.

Illinois opened the game with a 20-6 lead after scoring on eight of its first 10 possessions against the Hawkeyes’ zone. Then Iowa coach Fran McCaffery shifted to a smaller, quicker lineup and the Hawkeyes turned up the defensive intensity with tight man-to-man pressure.

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BULLS

Wade returns to Chicago area on roll for Heat

BY MARK POTASH mpotash@suntimes.com Disappointed Bulls fans still miffed that Dwyane Wade teased them in free agency in 2010 keep waiting for him to hobble to the finish of his glorious career. But the former Richards High School star still is going strong.

And get this: He’s getting stronger.

The Miami Heat enters Sunday’s game against the Bulls at the United Center

with Wade, 32, on a roll. In seven games since the AllStar break, Wade is averaging 22.4 points and six assists and is shooting 58.3 percent from the field.

Wade reveled in being the second-oldest player at the All-Star Game last month in New Orleans. It was his 10th consecutive All-Star appearance – not bad for a player who has shown the wear and tear of 11 years in the NBA. “To be [an All-Star] 10 years in a row and still be a

Next Miami at Bulls, noon, Sunday, ABC, AM1000 star, it’s cool,” Wade said.

“I’m enjoying it.”

Give the oft-injured Wade credit for modifying his game to fit the realities of a bruising career. He’s kind of like the

Brian Urlacher of the NBA, using his 11 years of experience to continue to play at an elite level after his elite-level skills have eroded.

Wade no longer is a 3-point threat. The same player who tried an average of 242 3-pointers from 2008 to 2011 has tried 25 this season (and made nine). He has to pick his spots for spectacular plays he used to make with regularity, and he can’t be Dwyane Wade every night. ‘‘If I feel good, I play good,”

Wade said. “If I don’t feel good, I play so-so. If I feel bad, I don’t play.”

Therein lies the secret to his success: Wade doesn’t play every night. He has played in 42 of the Heat’s 59 games and is playing a career-low 33 minutes a game. That’s a concession to the bumps and bruises.

“It has to be managed,” Wade said. “You’ve got to look at it and understand what you’ve been given. And you’ve got to play the hand you’re given and play as smart as

you can with that hand.

“My coach (Erik Spoelstra), we’re on the same page. Everybody in our organization is – with not only me, but other players. We’ve been playing into late June for multiple years now. Everybody’s got a lot of wear and tear on their body and their mind. They’ve been very open to taking a different approach this year.”

Although Wade no longer lives in the Chicago area, he said he still considers himself a Chicagoan.

CUBS SPRING TRAINING

Schierholtz’s homer powers Cubs in win

By GARY SCHATZ The Associated Press GOODYEAR, Ariz. – Nate Schierholtz hit a two-run homer and made a diving catch for the Cubs in their 9-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday.

Schierholtz’s drive off Alfredo Simon followed a walk to Donnie Murphy in the first inning. Schierholtz also singled and scored in the third.

Ryan Kalish singled and

scored twice for the Cubs.

Billy Hamilton walked leading off the game against Jason Hammel, who was making his first Cactus League start for the Cubs.

The speedster stole second and third to give him six steals this spring.

Joey Votto doubled twice and walked in three trips for the Reds. Schierholtz turned in a diving grab in right field to rob Kristopher Negron of a hit.

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New York Rangers center Brian Boyle (left) defends Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews during the third period Feb. 27 at Madison Square Garden in New York. The Rangers defeated the Hawks, 2-1.

BLACKHAWKS

CONSTANTLY WINNING Toews’ conidence, desire Hawks’ secret weapons

BY MARK POTASH

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mpotash@suntimes.com onathan Toews doesn’t win everything.

“That was a long time ago,” Blackhawks teammate Ben Smith said, almost apologetically, when asked about the 2007 NCAA Frozen Four semifinal, when Smith and Boston College beat Toews and North Dakota, 6-4, in St. Louis.

“It was a good matchup.

They had that line with T.J. Oshie, Ryan Duncan and Toews. We had Nathan Gerbe and Brian Boyle, and Corey Schneider was our goalie.

I don’t know what it was.

College is a bit different. You might not have the depth the pro level has. It was definitely exciting for us, getting to the championship game (they lost to Michigan State) and doing it against players like Jonny and Oshie.”

Smith was a freshman who scored a tiebreaking goal and had an assist in Boston College’s victory. Toews was an 18-year-old sophomore who scored a goal but came up short in a rare loss with a chance to play for a title on

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Hawks at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, NBCSN, AM-720 the line. ‘‘We knew that line was incredible and [Toews], especially,’’ Smith said. ‘‘He was leading the charge on that line, for sure. He’s a special player. We knew we had a tough matchup. We had a checking line against him that I wasn’t on. I don’t know how well they shut him down, but that was a good game.’’

Toews already had won gold medals in three world championship events by then and won a fourth less than a month later as the only amateur on Canada’s team at the world championships in Moscow.

It was his performance in that championship event – he had two goals and five assists – that convinced Toews to turn professional. And the rest is history. Toews has won two Olympic gold medals and two

Stanley Cup championships.

He’ll turn 26 on April 29. ‘‘I guess it’s kind of hard to believe,’’ Toews said. ‘‘It seems to be adding up a little bit. But every time you’re there, you don’t feel surprised to have a chance to win and be a part of a team like that.’’

At this point, Toews’ unyielding resolve to win can’t be overstated or underestimated. He’s an ultimate competitor who loves the game but knows how to pace himself.

During the lockout last year, he resisted the temptation to play overseas while an agreement was being negotiated. He returned from the Sochi Olympics in time for practice Feb. 26 but was content to watch his teammates work out. He never overdoes it.

So it’s no surprise that after an eventful month that included a six-game road trip and the Olympics, Toews is leading the way as the Hawks make the turn for home in preparation for a run at a third Stanley Cup. He has scored five goals in his past three games.

“I feel like I’m getting chances, and I feel confident when I get the puck,” said

Toews, who has 24 goals and 61 points and is a plus-24 in 64 games. “And whether I’m scoring or not, I feel like I’m generating a lot of chances – finding ways to stay patient with the puck and keep my feet moving and eventually things open up. Just getting a lot of help from my linemates. We’ve got to keep it going.”

As we know by now, Toews’ confidence is a driving force in the Hawks’ locker room. And in a tight race for favorable playoff berths, the Hawks will need every bit of leadership from Toews and the rest of the team’s Cup-winning core to be in position to win it again.

“It’s his presence in the room that really makes a difference for guys like me and [Andrew Shaw] and (Nick) Leddy and (Brandon) Saad – guys who are playing our first couple of years in the league,” Smith said. “For us to have a guy like that leading us, even though he’s pretty much around our age, his résumé and what he brings to the rink every day is something exciting for us to learn from and to strive and work toward.”

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White Sox pitcher Jose Quintana (left) was hit in the shin by Arizona’s Gerardo Parra hit in the first inning and leaves the field with manager Robin Ventura Saturday during an exhibition game in Glendale, Ariz.

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White Sox’s Quintana hit in shin by line drive The ASSOCIATED PRESS GLENDALE, Ariz. – White Sox pitcher Jose Quintana was hit in the shin by a line drive Saturday and removed from the Sox’s 6-4 loss to an Arizona Diamondbacks split squad after only two batters.

The left-hander gave up a leadoff single to A.J. Pollock, then Gerardo Parra lined one off Quintana’s left leg. The Sox said Quintana was di-

agnosed with a bruised shin and is day to day.

Quintana, who walked off the field, said he does not expect to miss a spring start.

Pollock later homered and Brandon McCarthy went five innings for the Diamondbacks, giving up two runs and six hits.

Tuffy Gosewisch’s tworun double in the ninth off Deunte Heath broke a 4-all tie.

Sports can teach lessons that last a lifetime, but aren’t always necessary • MORRISSEY Continued from page C1 idealizing sports and the lessons they teach?

Coaches forever are trying to create leaders, and we in the media forever are trying to help. Can Player X be a leader? What can Player Z do to become more of a leader?

Who is captain material?

The bottom line is that sports don’t make leaders; sports make leaders obvious.

That’s true of many of the athletes who have gone on to elected office: Bill Bradley, Ralph Metcalfe, Gerald Ford, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Kevin Johnson and Dave Bing, among many others. Born

leaders, all of them.

It’s true of Bulls center Joakim Noah. You can’t teach his infectiousness.

Noah cares about his team; you can’t fake that. Other athletes know a fraud in about two seconds. Noah is real, which is why his teammates follow him.

Competitiveness, resilience and confidence are traits that can carry over into an athlete’s post-retirement career. But are they exclusive to athletes? Our sports-crazy culture certainly wants us to think so, but they are not.

In the context of this discussion, one thing stands out about Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand’s book about

Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who survived deprivation and degradation after his plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean during World War II: She never overtly tries to make a connection between Zamperini’s sports background and his ability to stay alive. Perhaps that’s because there were hundreds of other Americans who survived prisoner-of-war camps who hadn’t played sports. How to explain their strength?

Yet there’s no doubt Zamperini was a leader. He was the one who got everyone organized when it was clear their airplane was going to crash. He was the one who came up with ways to catch

fish and repair the raft as he and two other men drifted for days in the Pacific.

Zamperini took part in distance running, an individual sport – just like boxing was for Klitschko. Can sports teach you about leadership if you don’t play a team sport?

Who is there to lead?

In this corner of the world, we sports journalists often write admiringly about athletes who have experienced the death of a loved one or who have survived a disease. The message is clear: These people hurt more nobly than we non-elite athletes do, and they survive more bravely than the rest of us. One problem with the message: It’s just not true.

We all have pain in our lives, and we all try to muddle through. It’s called being human.

For every Joe Delaney, the Chiefs running back who died while heroically trying to save three children from drowning in 1983, there’s a bus driver who rescues special-needs children from a burning bus, as happened Thursday in Minnesota. Was the bus driver a former athlete, or did his bravery come from somewhere else?

Although sports can teach lessons that last a lifetime, there are many successful public leaders who didn’t play sports. Do sports help?

Absolutely, but they’re not

the answer to every success story. They teach discipline, but so does mastering a musical instrument.

According to Putin’s website, judo helped make him into the man he is today.

“Vladimir Putin firmly believes that martial arts teach such knowledge, abilities and skills that every politician needs,” the website says. “Putin believes that judo trains both your body and your mind.”

Do we thank sports for Klitschko and blame them for Putin? I’m confused.

• Rick Morrissey is a Chicago Sun-Tmes columnist.

Write to him a rmorrissey@suntimes.com.

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BEARS

Reed builds 2-shot lead at Doral; Tiger in the mix

Reed turned his game around in four holes Saturday at the Cadillac Championship and DORAL, Fla. – In only his wound up with a 3-under-par second year on the PGA Tour, 69 in much tamer conditions at Patrick Reed already is used to playing in the final group on Doral. It gave him a two-shot lead going into a final round Sunday – and winning.

But not against a field of stars that will prominently feature at a World Golf Championship. defending champion Tiger Woods for the first time this And not looking at a familiar year. figure in a red shirt playing in Woods, who only a day earlier the group ahead of him.

Defensive preview?

Lane could be what teams wants

By ADAM L. JAHNS ajahns@suntimes.com Being from a small Wisconsin town, where gold and green dominant the casual attire, the text messages and calls were inevitable. New Bears defensive end Austen Lane was going to hear it from the Packers fans back home.

“I would say 95 percent of them were: ‘We’re happy for you, but we’re not going to be cheering for you,” Lane said.

“But I think Chicago is going to be a great fit.”

Lane, who signed a one-year contract last month, has a chance to make a Bears defense that’s undergoing a makeover after a historically inept 2013 Austen Lane season. He’ll have an opportunity to prove he can fit, but so will many others. He’s just the start of all the new things to come.

“I’m looking forward to competing,” Lane said.

It will take free agency (the negotiating window opened Saturday) and the draft in May to remake the Bears defense, which coach Marc Trestman said will have a scheme built around the players.

But early additions of Lane and veteran defensive end Trevor Scott (one-year deal) might be indicators of what’s to come for the defensive front-seven.

Emery was asked at the NFL Combine what he learned from the ups and downs of his first first-round pick, Shea McClellin, who is moving to linebacker.

“It taught me to keep picking guys that have versatility, because none of us are going to be perfect,” Emery said. “If you swing and miss on a player, you

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“In terms of pure defensive ends, [it’s] probably make sure they’re a little bit longer and a little bit heavier.”

Lane (6-foot-6, 265 pounds) and Scott (6-5, 260 pounds) join the Bears with bigger builds than McClellin but also come with the versatility Emery often mentions.

In 2012, New England coach Bill Belichick extolled the multiple abilities of Scott, who spent last season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after the Patriots (2012) and Oakland Raiders (2008-11). Belichick noted Scott’s work at defensive end, outside linebacker and in pass-rush packages.

Coming out of Murray State in 2010, Lane said teams were looking at him as a 3-4 outside linebacker. In Kansas City for training camp last year, he bulked up to 280 pounds and worked at defensive end in a 3-4 scheme. Appearing in two games for the Detroit Lions last season, he was asked to drop into coverage.

“Obviously, I’m built like a 4-3 defensive end,” Lane said, “but I can also play a three-technique if they need me to and if they need be to drop back in coverage, I’m used to doing that.”

looked to be on the verge of shooting himself out of the tournament, delivered the low round of the week and his best round of a short season. He made eight birdies for a 66 and was only three shots behind.

Reed was at 4-under 212, the highest 54-hole score to lead at Doral since a three-way tie at 212 in 1985.

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Lane also knows what it’s like to play for defensive coordinator Mel Tucker. They were together for three seasons in Jacksonville before Tucker left for the Bears and later Lane was released.

“If you look back at 2011, we were ranked No. 6 in the NFL that season in total defense,” Lane said. “I can guarantee that 95 percent of the people in this country couldn’t name five starters on that team in Jacksonville.”

Lane expects Tucker to install a similar scheme, praising its simplicity but also mentioning the use of stunts, blitzing linebackers and defensive ends who occasionally line up in the wide-nine technique (outside a tight end or far outside the offensive tackle).

Of course, it’s a defense that will develop as more players are added. “[Tucker’s] just fun to play for,” Lane said. “And you want have guys on defense that are having fun.”

Lane, who actually was born in Evanston and lived in the Chicago area for a couple years before moving to Iola, Wis., can’t wait for another run with Tucker.

“I think I bring a lot of intensity on the field,” Lane said.

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EIU quarterback supported by family And when the NFL’s bright spotlight arrives, his tight-knit Continued from page C1 family will provide the foundation for him to weather any Tony (age 26) is an archistorms, big or small. tect, Mike (25) is a teacher, After his pro day workout, Jimmy (22) is a football player Jimmy Garoppolo flashed a and Billy (18) is a high school big smile as he discussed his senior at Rolling Meadows. close relationship with his A big age gap follows, and grandparents. He has spent then comes daughter Kathy’s most of the winter working out family, which includes Kyle (5) in southern California, which and his twin siblings, 4-month- made this week’s brief return old brother Kaden and sister home extra special.

Katelyn. Kyle is the proud “My Nana – we call her leader of his family’s recycling Nana, actually, it’s Italian efforts, while babies Kaden – was texting me right before and Katelyn have platinum this wishing me luck,” Jimblonde hair and big blue eyes. my Garoppolo said. “It’s my “We’re really close, and we mom’s birthday coming up, really care about one anothso we’re going to get together er,” said Jane Garoppolo, a as a family. It’s a rare thing first-generation American that we get everyone togethwhose parents grew up in er, so when we get the opporItaly. “It’s a small family.” tunity, it’s awesome.”

It’s a small family with big Even when Jimmy is half dreams. a country away, his grandAnthony Garoppolo is so parents cheer him on from impressed by his grandson’s home. Jane Garoppolo orpoise during interviews that dered the NFL Network this he jokingly wonders whether winter so she could watch someone is holding up cards in Jimmy take part in the Eastthe background, filled with all West Shrine Game as well as of the right things to say. And the Senior Bowl. although Jimmy Garoppolo’s “I called Comcast and I record-breaking statistics at said, ‘This has to be put on by Eastern Illinois were increditomorrow, my grandson’s goble, other moments stand out ing to be in a football game,’ more to Anthony from his ” Jane Garoppolo said. “And frequent trips to Charleston to the girl on the line says, ‘Is watch his grandson play. his name Jimmy?’

Never did Jimmy turn “And I said, ‘Yes!’ ” she down a wide-eyed kid asking said with a laugh. for an autograph, Anthony The NFL draft is coming said. Never did Jimmy turn soon, and with it a family down a devoted fan asking to decision. Will the Garappolos take a picture. gather in New York City, the “I can remember a time site of the draft, or will they when he won a game at Eastwatch at home? ern, and he was going back to “I just asked my son that his house,” Anthony Garoppo- question,” Anthony Garappolo said. “We pull into the drive- lo said. way, Jimmy gets out of the “It’s up to Jimmy,” Jane car, and all of the neighbors Garappolo said. “Wherever start applauding him. Then Jimmy goes, we’re going. they came over one at a time to Any place it is, we’ll be take a picture with him.” there.”

Fast fame comes with risks.

And no matter what comes It has the capacity to change next, Jimmy Garoppolo will people. have his family’s full support.

But even the world’s Who knows? biggest cynic would have to One of these days, maybe appreciate Jimmy Garopyou’ll see him tossing passes polo’s hard-earned success. in Sun City again.

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“I’m so happy for him,” Jane Garoppolo said. “That goes for any grandchild in my family. To see our grandchild reach his dream, what more could a grandparent ask for?”

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Sunday, March 9, 2014 • Page C11

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SUNDAY

By ROB HARRIS

Miroslav Haraus (right) of Slovakia and his guide Maros Hudik race to take second place in the men’s downhill, visually impaired event at the 2014 Winter Paralympic in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.

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HOCKEY

Wichita St. 67, Missouri St. 42 Northeast Conference Semifinals Mount St. Mary’s 77, Wagner 72 Robert Morris 60, St. Francis (Pa.) 57 Ohio Valley Conference Championship E. Kentucky 79, Belmont 73 Patriot League Semifinals American U. 57, Holy Cross 46 Boston U. 91, Army 70 Southern Conference Quarterfinals Davidson 77, Samford 54 Georgia Southern 62, Chattanooga 55 W. Carolina 66, Elon 64 Wofford 68, The Citadel 51 Summit League First Round IPFW 85, IUPUI 47 West Coast Conference Quarterfinals BYU 85, Loyola Marymount 74 San Francisco 69, San Diego 60

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Detroit 24 38 .387 New York 24 40 .375 Cleveland 24 40 .375 Boston 21 41 .339 Orlando 19 45 .297 Philadelphia 15 47 .242 Milwaukee 12 50 .194 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct d-Oklahoma City 46 16 .742 d-San Antonio 46 16 .742 Houston 43 19 .694 d-L.A. Clippers 43 20 .683 Portland 42 20 .677 Golden State 39 24 .619 Phoenix 36 25 .590 Dallas 37 26 .587

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d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot Saturday’s Results Utah 104, Philadelphia 92 New York 107, Cleveland 97 Memphis 111, Charlotte 89 San Antonio 121, Orlando 112 Washington 114, Milwaukee 107 Atlanta at L.A. Clippers (n) Sunday’s Games Miami at Bulls, noon Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 2:30 p.m.

Denver at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Boston, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Portland at Houston, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Golden State, 8 p.m.

Friday’s Results Memphis 85, Bulls 77 Toronto 99, Sacramento 87 Charlotte 101, Cleveland 92 Boston 91, Brooklyn 84 New York 108, Utah 81 Minnesota 114, Detroit 101 New Orleans 112, Milwaukee 104 Dallas 103, Portland 98 Denver 134, L.A. Lakers 126 Houston 112, Indiana 86 Golden State 111, Atlanta 97

MEN’S COLLEGE Scores MIDWEST Baylor 76, Kansas St. 74 Butler 71, Seton Hall 54 Chicago St. 67, Seattle 53 Creighton 88, Providence 73 Dayton 60, Richmond 48 Iowa St. 85, Oklahoma St. 81, OT Illinois 66, Iowa 63 Michigan 84, Indiana 80 N. Illinois 70, Ball St. 56 Ohio 82, Miami (Ohio) 76, OT St. John’s 91, Marquette 90, 2OT TOURNAMENT America East Conference First Round Albany (NY) 86, UMBC 56 Hartford 69, Binghamton 42 Stony Brook 80, Maine 54 Vermont 77, New Hampshire 60 Big South Conference Semifinals Coastal Carolina 66, VMI 62 Winthrop 80, UNC Asheville 79 Colonial Athletic Association Quarterfinals Delaware 87, Hofstra 76 Northeastern 90, Drexel 81 Towson 80, James Madison 71 Horizon League Semifinals Wright St. 68, Cleveland St. 63 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Quarterfinals Canisius 71, Siena 65 Iona 94, Rider 71 Manhattan 72, St. Peter’s 58 Missouri Valley Conference Semifinals Indiana St. 62, S. Illinois 59

TOP 25 FARED Saturday 1. Florida (29-2) beat No. 25 Kentucky 84-65. Next: SEC tournament.

2. Wichita State (33-0) beat Missouri State 67-42. Next: vs. Indiana State, Sunday.

3. Arizona (28-3) lost to Oregon 64-57.

Next: Pac-12 tournament.

4. Duke (23-7) beat No. 14 North Carolina 93-81. Next: ACC tournament.

5. Virginia (25-5) did not play. Next: at Maryland, Sunday.

6. Villanova (28-3) beat Georgetown 7759. Next: Big East tournament.

7. Syracuse (26-4) at Florida State. Next: ACC tournament.

8. Kansas (23-8) lost to West Virginia 92-86. Next: vs. Oklahoma State or Texas Tech, Thursday.

9. Wisconsin (25-5) did not play. Next: at Nebraska, Sunday.

10. San Diego State (26-3) beat No. 21 New Mexico, 51-48. Next: MWC tournament.

11. Louisville (26-5) beat No. 19 UConn 81-48. Next: AAC tournament.

12. Michigan (23-7) beat Indiana 84-80.

Next: Big Ten tournament.

13. Creighton (24-6) beat Providence 88-73. Next: Big East tournament.

14. North Carolina (23-7) lost to No. 4 Duke 93.81. Next: ACC tournament.

15. Cincinnati (26-5) beat Rutgers 70-66.

Next: vs. Temple or UCF, Thursday.

16. Iowa State (23-7) beat Oklahoma State 85-81, OT. Next: vs. Kansas State, Thursday.

17. Saint Louis (25-5) did not play. Next: at UMass, Sunday.

18. SMU (23-8) lost to No. 20 Memphis 67-58. Next: vs. Houston, Thursday.

19. UConn (24-7) lost to No. 11 Louisville 81-48. Next: vs. No. 20 Memphis, Thursday.

20. Memphis (23-8) beat No. 18 SMU 6758. Next: vs. No. 19 UConn, Thursday.

21. New Mexico (24-5) lost to No. 10 San Diego State 51-48. Next: MWC tournament.

22. Michigan State (23-7) did not play.

Next: at Ohio State, Sunday.

23. Oklahoma (23-8) beat TCU 97-67.

Next: vs. Baylor or TCU Thursday.

24. Iowa (20-11) lost to Illinois 66-63. Next: Big Ten tournament.

25. Kentucky (22-9) lost to No. 1 Florida 84-65. Next: SEC tournament.

NCAA TOURNAMENT AUTOMATIC BIDS Harvard (Ivy League) Eastern Kentucky (Ohio Valley)

WOMEN’S COLLEGE Scores MIDWEST Ball St. 69, Toledo 56 Bowling Green 77, Akron 76 Bradley 86, S. Illinois 68 Drake 67, Illinois St. 66 E. Michigan 99, Cent. Michigan 84, OT Evansville 77, Loyola of Chicago 63 Green Bay 72, Detroit 52 Indiana St. 85, N. Iowa 72 Miami (Ohio) 68, Ohio 63 N. Illinois 59, W. Michigan 51 Oakland 79, Milwaukee 66 Wright St. 101, Valparaiso 80 Youngstown St. 94, Cleveland St. 81 TOURNAMENT Atlantic Coast Conference Semifinals Duke 66, North Carolina 61 Notre Dame 83, NC State 48 Big Ten Conference Semifinals Iowa 77, Ohio St. 73 Nebraska 86, Michigan St. 58

GOLF Harris English Hyung-Sung Kim Francesco Molinari Justin Rose Peter Uihlein Louis Oosthuizen Gary Woodland Kevin Streelman

WGC CADILLAC CHAMPIONSHIP At Trump National Doral (Blue Monster) Doral, Fla. Yardage: 7,481; Par: 72 Third Round Leaders Patrick Reed Jason Dufner Hunter Mahan Tiger Woods Jamie Donaldson Miguel A. Jimenez Zach Johnson Dustin Johnson Jimmy Walker Richard Sterne Bubba Watson Graeme McDowell Matt Kuchar Phil Mickelson Branden Grace Bill Haas Ryan Moore Nick Watney Joost Luiten Rory McIlroy Graham DeLaet Stephen Gallacher Hideki Matsuyama Adam Scott

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timent it chanted during Thursday’s welcoming ceremony in the Alpine Village.

“The situation is very difficult and very sad,” Yarovyi said through an interpreter. “But at the moment I’m trying to relax and concentrate on my sports and trying not to think about things in a negative way.”

Yarovyi was beaten to gold by Roman Petushkov – a Russian sporting rival but not a foe.

“This is sport. This is not about politics,” Yarovyi said. “I really appreciate and really support all sportsmen no matter what their nationality is.

“The past week was difficult for me because it was changing all the time whether we participate or not.”

PUERTO RICO OPEN Saturday At Trump International Golf ClubPuerto Rico Rio Grande, Puerto Rico Yardage: 7,506; Par: 72 Third Round Chesson Hadley Danny Lee Jason Gore Jonathan Byrd Carl Pettersson Jerry Kelly David Toms George McNeill Rafael Cabrera Bello Andrew Loupe Richard H. Lee Ricky Barnes Ben Martin Wes Roach

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BASEBALL

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF St. Louis 63 43 14 6 92 208 Blackhawks 64 37 13 14 88 221 Colorado 64 41 18 5 87 196 Minnesota 63 34 22 7 75 156 Dallas 64 31 23 10 72 185 Winnipeg 65 30 28 7 67 180 Nashville 64 26 28 10 62 152 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF Anaheim 64 43 14 7 93 207 San Jose 64 40 17 7 87 195 Los Angeles 64 36 22 6 78 155 Phoenix 64 29 24 11 69 177 Vancouver 65 28 27 10 66 151 Calgary 63 25 31 7 57 149 Edmonton 64 22 34 8 52 160 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Boston 63 41 17 5 87 199 Montreal 65 35 23 7 77 166 Toronto 65 34 23 8 76 193 Tampa Bay 64 34 24 6 74 183 Detroit 63 29 21 13 71 171 Ottawa 64 28 25 11 67 182 Florida 63 24 32 7 55 154 Buffalo 63 19 36 8 46 127 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 63 42 17 4 88 201 Philadelphia 64 33 24 7 73 183 N.Y. Rangers 64 34 26 4 72 168 Columbus 64 33 26 5 71 186 Washington 65 30 25 10 70 191 New Jersey 65 28 24 13 69 161 Carolina 64 27 28 9 63 160 N.Y. Islanders 66 24 33 9 57 181

GA 157 157 135 185 173 189 208 GA 141 162 198 167 176 209 201 186 GA 157 188 162 178 197 167 184 224

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

Saturday’s Results Boston 4, Tampa Bay 3, SO Ottawa 5, Winnipeg 3 St. Louis 2, Colorado 1 Toronto 4, Philadelphia 3, OT New Jersey 5, Carolina 4 Washington 3, Phoenix 2 Columbus 1, Nashville 0 Dallas 4, Minnesota 3 Calgary at Vancouver (n) Montreal at San Jose (n) Sunday’s Games Blackhawks at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at N.Y. Rangers, 11:30 a.m.

Boston at Florida, 4 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

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

Columbus at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at Calgary, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Toronto at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Friday’s Results N.Y. Rangers 4, Carolina 2 Detroit 7, New Jersey 4 Florida 2, Buffalo 0 Calgary 4, N.Y. Islanders 3 Pittsburgh 3, Anaheim 2, SO

AHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Grand Rapids 60 37 18 2 3 79 194 Wolves 57 33 18 4 2 72 168 Rockford 62 30 24 5 3 68 192 Milwaukee 58 27 19 6 6 66 160 Iowa 58 23 25 6 4 56 137 North Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Toronto 57 34 19 2 2 72 167 Rochester 58 30 20 4 4 68 170 Utica 59 26 26 3 4 59 143 Hamilton 57 25 27 1 4 55 138 Lake Erie 57 24 27 0 6 54 143 West Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Texas 60 36 16 3 5 80 213 Abbotsford 59 33 19 5 2 73 181 OklahomaCity 59 27 24 1 7 62 183 Charlotte 58 28 27 1 2 59 174 San Antonio 57 24 24 3 6 57 160 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OL SLPts GF Manchester 62 38 16 2 6 84 194 St. John’s 59 36 19 1 3 76 194 Providence 60 31 21 1 7 70 188 Worcester 57 26 27 3 1 56 139 Portland 58 21 27 2 8 52 171 East Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Norfolk 59 32 19 1 7 72 156 Binghamton 57 33 19 1 4 71 210 W-B/Scranton 59 31 20 3 5 70 165 Hershey 59 30 22 3 4 67 177 Syracuse 57 22 26 4 5 53 147 Northeast Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF Springfield 59 35 18 1 5 76 179 Albany 58 30 19 3 6 69 171 Bridgeport 59 26 27 2 4 58 159 Hartford 58 25 27 0 6 56 157 Adirondack 57 24 29 1 3 52 136

GA 146 144 206 158 174 GA 145 163 171 164 176 GA 166 167 203 187 171 GA 159 157 173 175 203 GA 146 177 154 172 172 GA 163 154 179 183 158

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

Saturday’s Results Wolves at Abbotsford (n) Toronto 4, Lake Erie 1 Manchester 4, Providence 2 St. John’s 3, Bridgeport 2, OT Worcester 3, Portland 2 Hartford 4, Albany 3 Iowa 3, Grand Rapids 1 Springfield 5, Adirondack 3 Rochester 5, Syracuse 3 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 4, Hamilton 2 Utica 6, Binghamton 5, SO Norfolk 3, Hershey 1 Texas 3, Charlotte 0 Milwaukee 6, Rockford 2 Sunday’s Games Wolves at Abbotsford, 6 p.m.

Albany at Worcester, 2 p.m.

Binghamton at Syracuse, 2 p.m.

W-B/Scranton at Toronto, 2 p.m.

Hartford at Manchester, 2 p.m.

Lake Erie at Hamilton, 2 p.m.

Springfield at Portland, 3 p.m.

Adirondack at Providence, 3:05 p.m.

Charlotte at San Antonio, 4 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Rochester, 4:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Cleveland 8 1 Baltimore 7 2 Seattle 8 3 Tampa Bay 5 2 New York 7 4 Oakland 6 4 Kansas City 5 4 Minnesota 5 4 Detroit 5 5 Toronto 5 5 White Sox 3 5 Houston 3 6 Los Angeles 3 6 Texas 2 6 Boston 2 7 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pittsburgh 7 2 Miami 6 2 Washington 6 3 San Francisco 6 4 Milwaukee 6 5 Arizona 7 6 Los Angeles 4 4 Colorado 5 6 Cubs 4 6 New York 3 5 Cincinnati 4 8 San Diego 3 6 St. Louis 2 4 Atlanta 2 8 Philadelphia 2 8

Pct .889 .778 .727 .714 .636 .600 .556 .556 .500 .500 .375 .333 .333 .250 .222 Pct .778 .750 .667 .600 .545 .538 .500 .455 .400 .375 .333 .333 .333 .200 .200

Saturday’s Games Cubs 9, Cincinnati 0 Arizona (ss) 6, White Sox 4 N.Y. Yankees 9, Houston (ss) 6 N.Y. Mets 3, Detroit 2 Pittsburgh 10, Tampa Bay 5 Washington (ss) 8, Atlanta (ss) 2 Philadelphia 11, Houston (ss) 3 Toronto 4, Minnesota 3 Atlanta (ss) 6, Miami 6, tie Baltimore (ss) 7, Boston (ss) 3 St. Louis 4, Washington (ss) 4, tie, 10 innings San Diego 4, Cleveland 4, tie, 10 innings Arizona (ss) 5, L.A. Angels 2 Texas 5, L.A. Dodgers (ss) 5, tie Seattle (ss) 18, San Francisco 3 Milwaukee 7, Kansas City 6 Colorado 5, Oakland 4 Baltimore 7, Boston 3 Seattle (ss) vs. L.A. Dodgers (ss) at Glendale, Ariz. (n) Sunday’s Games White Sox vs. Oakland at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (ss) vs. Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

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

Boston vs. Pittsburgh (ss) at Bradenton, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (ss) vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Detroit vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

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

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

Milwaukee (ss) vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Texas vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Cleveland 7, Cubs (ss) 2 White Sox 4, Cincinnati (ss) 3 Cubs (ss) 3, L.A. Angels (ss) 2 Boston 4, Atlanta 1 Washington 8, Houston 5 Tampa Bay 6, Toronto 3 Baltimore 15, Philadelphia 4 Miami 7, St. Louis (ss) 3 Minnesota 6, Pittsburgh 5 N.Y. Mets 5, St. Louis (ss) 5, tie L.A. Dodgers 2, Texas 1 San Diego 6, Milwaukee 2 Oakland 2, Arizona 0 San Francisco 5, Kansas City 0 Cincinnati (ss) 10, Seattle 9 Colorado 7, L.A. Angels (ss) 2 N.Y. Yankees 3, Detroit 2

DIAMONDBACKS 6, WHITE SOX 4 At Glendale, Ariz.

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McCarthy, Putz (6), Thatcher (7), W.Harris (8), Mateo (9) and H.Blanco, Gosewisch; Quintana, Rienzo (1), N.Jones (4), S.Downs (5), Boggs (6), Veal (7), F.De Los Santos (8), Heath (9) and Flowers, A.Nieto. W–W.Harris. L–Heath. Sv–Mateo.

HRs–Arizona, Pollock (1).

CUBS 9, REDS 0 Chicago (N) Cincinnati

at San Francisco* 3:05 p.m.

COLORADO* 3:05 p.m.

at Seattle 9:05 p.m.

MLBN

at Oakland* 3:05 p.m.

at Milwaukee* 3:05 p.m.

MLBN

TEXAS* 3:05 p.m.

at San Francisco 3:05 p.m.

at Los Angeles* 3:05 p.m.

at Chivas USA 2 p.m.

*Preseason

ON TAP SUNDAY MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

TV/Radio WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 10 a.m.: Atlantic Ten Championship Dayton vs. Fordham, ESPNU Noon: American Athletic tournament semiinal, Connecticut vs. Rutgers ESPNU Noon: Big Ten Conference, championship, Iowa vs.

Nebraska, at Indianapolis, ESPN 2 p.m.: Big 12 Conference, semiinal, Oklahoma State vs.

Baylor, at Oklahoma City, FS1 2 p.m.: American Athletic tournament semiinal Louisville vs. South Florida, ESPNU 2:30 p.m.: Southeastern Conference, championship, Kentucky vs. Tennessee, at Duluth, Ga., ESPN 4:30 p.m.: Big 12 Conference, semiinal, West Virginiavs. Texas-Oklahoma winner, at Oklahoma City, FS1 6 p.m.: Atlantic Coast Conference, championship, Notre Dame vs. Duke, at Greensboro, N.C., ESPN 8 p.m.: Paciic-12 Conference, championship, StanfordSouthern Cal winner vs. Washington State-Oregon State winner, at Seattle, ESPN

11 a.m.: Northwestern at Purdue, BTN 11 a.m.: Virginia at Maryland, CBS 11 a.m.: Big South Conference, championship, Winthrop vs. Coastal Carolina, at Myrtle Beach, S.C., ESPN2 1 p.m.: Missouri Valley Conference, championship, Wichita State vs. Indiana State, at St. Louis, CBS 1 p.m.: Atlantic Sun Conference, championship, Mercer at Florida Gulf Coast, ESPN2 1:30 p.m.: Colonial Athletic Association, doubleheader, semiinals, Delaware vs. Northeastern, at Baltimore, NBCSN 3:30 p.m.: Michigan St. at Ohio St., CBS 4 p.m.: Penn State at Minnesota, BTN 5 p.m.: Boston College at NC State, ESPNU 6:30 p.m.: Wisconsin at Nebraska, BTN

AUTO RACING 2 p.m.: NASCAR, Sprint Cup, KOBALT 400, at Las Vegas, Fox

GOLF

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

Arizona (ss) Chicago (A)

HOUSTON 6 p.m.

CSN AM-1000

MILWAUKEE* 3:05 p.m.

NHL

MLB GA 143 171 170 154 179 189 191

SAN ANTONIO 7 p.m.

WGN AM-1000

at Abbotsford 6 p.m.

AP photo

“Every time I race, it will be for Ukrainian independence and peace in my country,” Iurkovska said.

Focusing on sports is not easy for some Ukrainians against the backdrop of the strife unfolding about 300 miles west of Sochi on the Black Sea coast.

But as well as two further bronze medals in the biathlon, Maksym Yarovyi claimed silver in the men’s 7.5-kilometer sitting event, and Vitaliy Lukyanenko took gold in the visually impaired class ahead of a Russian.

“The most important thing in sport is not to beat a competitor, but to beat yourself,” Lukyaneko said.

And what the team hopes for most is peace in Ukraine – a sen-

THURSDAY

WEDNESDAY at Colorado 8:30 p.m.

CSN AM-720

MIAMI Noon ABC AM-1000

BASKETBALL NBA

TUESDAY

at Buffalo 6:30 p.m.

NBCSN AM-720

The Associated Press SOCHI, Russia – In the fading light in the mountains above Sochi, the athletes and flags from Russia and Ukraine appeared side by side Saturday, united by success on the opening day of action at the Paralympics as the discord between their nations deepens.

The collection of gold, silver and bronze medals amassed by Ukraine justified – in sporting terms – the decision before Friday’s opening ceremony not to boycott the Winter Games in protest at Russia’s military occupation of the nearby Crimean peninsula.

The confrontation, which escalated in the days after the Olympics ended here, has taken the shine off Sochi in the two-week lead in to the Paralympics as Russian President Vladimir Putin challenged the sovereignty of part of his neighbor’s territory.

And from Ukraine’s first Paralympic medalist in Sochi, there was a clear message sent back to her troubled homeland.

“I devote my first medal in Sochi to an independent Ukraine,” said Olena Iurkovska, who won bronze in the women’s 6 kilometer sitting biathlon.

The four-time Paralympian appeared at the medal ceremony alongside Svetlana Konovalova of Russia, who beat her to silver.

MONDAY

At Goodyear, Ariz.

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Hammel, M.Hatley (4), E.Jokisch (5), C.Pimentel (8), N.Ramirez (9) and Castillo, L.Flores; Simon, C.Rogers (5), M.Parra (7), Ondrusek (8), Bell (8), Christiani (9) and C.Miller, Mesoraco. W–Hammel. L–Simon.

HRs–Chicago (N), Schierholtz (1).

11 a.m.: Detroit at N.Y. Rangers, NBC 6:30 p.m.: Blackhawks at Buffalo, NBCSN, AM-720

NBA Noon: Miami at Bulls, ABC, AM-1000 2:30 p.m.: Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, ABC

COLLEGE WRESTLING 1 p.m.: Big Ten Championships, BTN

5 a.m.: Ladies European PGA Tour, Mission Hills World Championship, inal round, at Haikou, China (same-day tape), TGC Noon.: PGA Tour-WGC, Cadillac Championship, inal round, at Doral, Fla., TGC 2 p.m.: PGA Tour-WGC, Cadillac Championship, inal round, at Doral, Fla., NBC 6:30 p.m.: PGA Tour, Puerto Rico Open, inal round, at Rio Grande, Puerto Rico (same-day tape), TGC

WINTER PARALYMPICS

COLLEGE SOFTBALL

10 p.m.: Events TBA, NBCSN 1 a.m.: Alpine Skiing Super-G (LIVE), NBCSN

11 a.m.: UAB at East Carolina, FSN

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Men’s College Basketball FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG Virginia 3 at Maryland at Ohio St. 2½ Michigan St. Syracuse 1 at Florida St. at UMass 4 Saint Louis at Saint Joseph’s 9 La Salle at NC State 8 Boston College Wisconsin 3½ at Nebraska at Minnesota 8 Penn St. at Purdue 9 Northwestern Missouri Valley Conference At St. Louis Championship Wichita St. 11½ Indiana St. Colonial Athletic Association At Baltimore Semifinals Delaware 6 Northeastern Towson 2½ William & Mary Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference At Springfield, Mass.

Semifinals Iona 2½ Canisius Manhattan 5½ Quinnipiac Southern Conference At Asheville, N.C. Semifinals Davidson 9 W. Carolina Wofford 6 Georgia Southern Summit League At Sioux Falls, S.D. Quarterfinals Denver 5 South Dakota S. Dakota St. 8 W. Illinois Big South Conference Championship at Coastal Carolina 4 Winthrop Atlantic Sun Conference Championship at Fla. Gulf Coast Pk Mercer America East Conference At Albany, N.Y. Semifinals Vermont 6½ at Albany (NY) Stony Brook 7 Hartford

BASEBALL National League ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with INF Matt Carpenter on a six-year contract through the 2019 season.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Milwaukee G O.J. Mayo one game for forcibly striking New Orleans C Greg Stiemsma in the throat during a March 7 game.

MIAMI HEAT — Signed G DeAndre Liggins to a second 10-day contract.

SACRAMENTO KINGS — Signed G Orlando Johnson to a second 10-day contract.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Signed F Drew Gooden to a second 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Agreed to terms with DT Red Bryant on a four-year contract.

NEW YORK JETS — Agreed to terms with TE Jeff Cumberland.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Agreed to terms with S Darrell Stuckey on a four-year contract.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Released G Davin Joseph.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled G Petr Mrazek from Grand Rapids (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled C Casey Wellman from Hershey (AHL). Agreed to terms with F Evgeny Kuznetsov on an entry-level contract.

SOCCER Major League Soccer COLORADO RAPIDS — Named Pablo Mastroeni coach.

Class 3A

HAMPSHIRE SECTIONAL Semifinals Tuesday, March 11 Kaneland vs. Rockford Lutheran, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 12 Marian Central vs. Sycamore, 7 p.m.

Friday, March 14 Sectional Championship, 7 p.m.

Class 4A

ELGIN SECTIONAL Semifinals Tuesday, March 11 Huntley vs. Rockford Auburn, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 12 Jacobs vs. South Elgin, 7 p.m.

Friday, March 14 Sectional Championship, 7 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Class 3A Third place Quincy (Notre Dame) 64, Burlington Central 40 Championship Lombard (Montini) 57, Joliet (Catholic Academy) 44 Class 4A Third place Chicago Heights (Marian) 45, Geneva 34 Championship Chicago (Whitney Young) 60, Rolling Meadows 44

AUTO RACING NATIONWIDE SERIES BOYD GAMING 300 RESULTS Saturday At Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 200 laps, 150 rating, 0 points, $92,995.

2. (7) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200, 122.7, 0, $63,450.

3. (4) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 200, 106.5, 0, $51,550.

4. (3) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 200, 118.4, 0, $33,700.

5. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 200, 110.3, 39, $35,775.

6. (6) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 200, 115.6, 0, $25,775.

7. (5) Brian Scott, Chevrolet, 200, 104.6, 37, $32,325.

8. (17) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 200, 96.8, 36, $29,050.

9. (12) Chris Buescher, Ford, 200, 86.8, 35, $27,960.

10. (10) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 199, 90.4, 34, $29,650.

11. (1) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 198, 96.9, 34, $30,250.

12. (11) Matt Crafton, Chevrolet, 198, 87.8, 0, $26,300.

13. (13) Elliott Sadler, Toyota, 198, 88.3, 31, $25,750.

14. (20) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 198, 78.4, 30, $25,240.

15. (15) Ryan Reed, Ford, 197, 72.6, 29, $25,830.

16. (16) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 197, 72.3, 28, $24,770.

17. (19) David Ragan, Ford, 197, 73.2, 0, $18,585.

18. (14) James Buescher, Toyota, 197, 75.4, 26, $24,450.

19. (24) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 196, 63.7, 25, $24,340.

20. (18) Blake Koch, Toyota, 195, 67.1, 24, $24,930.

21. (25) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, 195, 62.7, 0, $18,120.

22. (22) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 195, 69.2, 0, $23,980.

23. (21) Dakoda Armstrong, Ford, 194, 54.6, 21, $23,845.

24. (8) Dylan Kwasniewski, Chevrolet, 193, 73.2, 20, $23,735.

25. (27) Tanner Berryhill, Dodge, 193, 55.4, 19, $24,085.

26. (28) Mike Wallace, Dodge, 192, 52.3, 18, $17,440.

27. (30) Eric McClure, Toyota, 192, 43, 17, $23,305.

28. (38) Ryan Ellis, Toyota, 191, 44, 0, $23,160.

29. (26) Jamie Dick, Chevrolet, 190, 37.7, 15, $23,010.

30. (37) Daryl Harr, Chevrolet, 190, 44.1, 14, $23,175.

31. (39) Robert Richardson Jr., Chevrolet, 190, 38, 13, $22,745.

32. (29) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 190, 48.1, 12, $22,635.

33. (31) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, 189, 35.9, 11, $22,520.

34. (33) Kevin Lepage, Dodge, 188, 35.7, 10, $22,409.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner:

131.995 mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 16 minutes, 26 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 0.352 seconds.

Lead Changes: 11 among 5 drivers.

Lap Leaders: T.Dillon 1-6; B.Keselowski 7; T.Dillon 8; B.Keselowski 9-68; M.Kenseth 69-74; B.Keselowski 75-119; K.Busch 120-121; K.Larson 122-130; K.Busch 131-157; M.Kenseth 158; K.Busch 159-162; B.Keselowski 163-200.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): B.Keselowski, 4 times for 144 laps; K.Busch, 3 times for 33 laps; K.Larson, 1 time for 9 laps; M.Kenseth, 2 times for 7 laps; T.Dillon, 2 times for 7 laps.

Top 10 in Points: 1. R.Smith, 117; 2.

T.Bayne, 114; 3. E.Sadler, 108; 4. T.Dillon, 105; 5. C.Elliott, 103; 6. B.Scott, 97; 7.

B.Gaughan, 94; 8. D.Kwasniewski, 87; 9.

J.Buescher, 86; 10. M.Bliss, 81.

NBA FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG Miami 2½ (185) at Bulls Oklahoma City 11½ (226) at L.A. Lakers at New Orleans 3 (212½) Denver at Brooklyn 7 (205) Sacramento at Boston 2 (206) Detroit at Minnesota 4½ (210) Toronto at Houston 5½ (216) Portland at Dallas 1 (201) Indiana at Golden State 6½ (217) Phoenix

SPRINT CUP

SOCCER

KOBALT 400 LINEUP At Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Car number in parentheses) 1. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 193.278 mph.

2. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 193.099.

3. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 192.713.

4. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 192.678.

5. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 192.596.

6. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 192.596.

7. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 192.397.

8. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 192.335.

9. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 192.26.

10. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 191.939.

11. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 191.591.

12. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 191.51.

13. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 191.659.

14. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 191.618.

15. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 191.618.

16. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 191.598.

17. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 191.496.

18. (47) A J Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 191.489.

19. (66) Jeff Burton, Toyota, 191.435.

20. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 191.381.

21. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 190.934.

22. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 190.543.

23. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 190.503.

24. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 189.514.

25. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 190.396.

26. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 189.893.

27. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 189.767.

28. (26) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 189.647.

29. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 189.328.

30. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 189.261.

31. (98) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 188.851.

32. (30) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 188.838.

33. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 188.686.

34. (21) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 188.429.

35. (95) Michael McDowell, Ford, 188.271.

36. (23) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 188.166.

37. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

38. (7) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

39. (83) Ryan Truex, Toyota, Owner Points.

40. (36) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

41. (33) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, Owner Points.

42. (32) Travis Kvapil, Ford, Owner Points.

43. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, Owner Points.

NHL FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG Blackhawks -220 at Buffalo Boston -160 at Florida at N.Y. Rangers -165 Detroit St. Louis -115 at Minnesota Los Angeles -145 at Edmonton

LINE +180 +140 +145 -105 +125

MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Houston 1 0 0 3 4 0 Columbus 1 0 0 3 3 0 Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 0 Toronto FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 Montreal 0 1 0 0 2 3 Kansas City 0 1 0 0 0 1 New York 0 1 0 0 1 4 D.C. 0 1 0 0 0 3 New England 0 1 0 0 0 4 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Vancouver 1 0 0 3 4 1 FC Dallas 1 0 0 3 3 2 Seattle 1 0 0 3 1 0 Chivas USA 0 0 0 0 0 0 Colorado 0 0 0 0 0 0 Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 0 Portland 0 0 0 0 0 0 Real Salt Lake 0 0 0 0 0 0 San Jose 0 0 0 0 0 0 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday’s Results Seattle FC 1, Sporting Kansas City 0 Columbus 3, D.C. United 0 Vancouver 4, New York 1 Houston 4, New England 0 FC Dallas 3, Montreal 2 Real Salt Lake at Los Angeles (n) Philadelphia at Portland (n) Sunday’s Games Fire at Chivas USA, 3 p.m.

Saturday, March 15 New England at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Colorado at New York, 4 p.m.

Toronto FC at Seattle FC, 4:30 p.m.

FC Dallas at Sporting Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.

Montreal at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 16 Fire at Portland, 3 p.m.

Vancouver at Chivas USA, 7 p.m.

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EVERY WEEK IN THE BUSINESS SECTION

Dave Ramsey

Business

Throwing your money away isn’t entertainment. Page D2

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Breaking news @ www.NWHerald.com

Business Journal editor: Brett Rowland • browland@shawmedia.com

Who’s the real creator of bitcoin?

Community: ‘who cares?’

BUSINESS LAW Ryan Farrell

Employers should consider BOYD policies The familiar refrain is that smartphones and other devices that allow us to “stay connected” are both a blessing and curse.

Yes, the technology allows for flexibility, but it also has the effect of making us almost never completely separated from work.

While many employers provide phones and tablets to employees and prohibit the personal use of those devices, it has become common for employees to use their personal devices for work purposes. This saves the employer the cost of providing the device (or at least some of the cost, if the employee is permitted to expense a portion of the bill), and many employees prefer it over needing to have two devices that perform essentially the same functions.

Eighty-one percent of Americans use their own personal devices for work, and the numbers are growing; companies are reporting that twice as many personal devices connect to their corporate networks as compared with two years ago. What is often overlooked, however, are the dangers these devices pose for employers.

An employee using his or her personal smart devices for work and having the ability to connect to the corporate network raises many issues, such as data and information security issues, employee privacy issues, wage and hour ramifications and litigation implications.

Despite all of these risks, many employers have not yet implemented policies and training to deal with the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) world. Sixty-six percent of employees said their employer or organization does not have a BYOD policy in place. While many newer model phones come with the autolock feature required or at least the default setting, 37 percent of employees still do not have the auto-lock activated on their phones or tablets.

Some of the possible repercussions of a lack of a policy (including mandatory auto-lock) are obvious, some less so.

One obvious problem is a data breach. When someone is carrying around his or her own personal device, as opposed to an employerowned device, the employee is naturally less inclined to be as careful.

A recent story detailed a physician who lost a phone that was neither password protected nor encrypted.

Therefore, an untold number of patients’ names and medical records were at risk. This could result in liability for both identity theft as well as possible HIPAA violations.

In that situation, the employer was able to “wipe” the data from the phone remotely, but that did not occur until five days after the incident.

A less obvious problem involves privacy rights of the employee. If the employee is using the device for work-related purposes, the employer may have legitimate reasons to access it.

See FARRELL, page D4

By BREE FOWLER and RYAN NAKASHIMA The Associated Press

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The city of McHenry is looking to fill some of its empty storefronts, in particular the former Walmart site along the city’s Route 31 corridor, Deputy City Administrator Doug Martin said. “Not to downgrade all the other vacant spaces that we have, but those are by far the largest,” he said. “They do create this physical hole along that corridor. They’re very noticeable. Those are obviously priorities, but those are also the hardest to fill.”

Big, empty boxes Towns struggling to fill largest retail vacancies

By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com Doug Martin is eagerly awaiting that phone call from an interested developer ready and willing to fill a vacant big-box store along Route 31 in McHenry nearly two years after Sears Holding Corp. closed shop.

The deputy city administrator tasked with developing McHenry’s economy has a running list of real estate brokers and prospective retailers he contacts daily about the benefits McHenry can offer a large retailer and the desire officials have to fill vacant big boxes.

But Martin has found developers remain hesitant in a lethargic economy to fill those large commercial spaces that have left shopping centers in cities and suburbs without anchors.

“In any case, good or bad economy, it is a challenge,” Martin said. “The bigger the building is, the harder it is to fill.”

Size, ownership, the changing retail market and economy explain why big box retailers throughout McHenry County in recent years have closed their doors, local officials and real estate agents said.

Grappling with continued earning losses, Sears made the decision in early 2012 to close the Sears Grand Store in McHenry, along with nearly 120 similar stores across the country.

McHenry officials saw the Walmart along Route 31 close two years earlier.

Walmart closed its McHenry location and opened a larger store in Johnsburg.

In Crystal Lake, the former Walmart tucked inside the Crystal Court shopping

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Crystal Lake has struggled to fill some large, vacant commercial spaces such as this one in the Crystal Court Shopping Center, 5561 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake. center on Route 14 has sat vacant for more than five years. Dominick’s decision last fall to close all of its Chicago-area locations leaves Jewel as the only big-box grocer in Crystal Lake along that route.

The competition between big-box retailers along the Route 14 corridor and other suburban commercial strips is why retailers don’t want to take on additional developments, said Jack Minero, a commercial broker for Prudential First in Crystal Lake.

An oversaturated market in the suburbs where grocers, supermarkets and restaurants stretch for blocks causes trepidation for retailers in an economy struggling to recover, he said.

“Consumers in this economy are price conscious, and it boils down to how many of the big box stores can penetrate McHenry County until its oversaturated,” Minero said. “I think they are really conscientious now in this economy of oversaturation.”

Consumers also have shifted to the Internet for

their shopping needs, but that doesn’t mean the bigbox store is an outdated concept in today’s market.

It may just need a makeover, said Tim Billimack, owner of Blue Chip Commercial Real Estate in Lakewood.

Big-box retailers lately have begun downsizing their brick-and-mortar needs.

“There is less need for big-box space in today’s market,” Billimack said.

“What you are going to see is these available big boxes subdivided rather than have one large retailer anchor one large space.”

Whether its dividing a large building for multiple tenants or finding another big-box retailer, redevelopment has its unique challenges.

Crystal Lake has worked to revitalize the Crystal Court center since Walmart vacated it and J.C. Penny abandoned plans to locate there at the height of the economic recession in the late 2000s.

Officials hired architects in 2009 to craft redevelopment concepts that the city’s economic development staff use to pitch

retailers across the country.

But based on existing tenant agreements, current owners at the center need to agree on how it is redeveloped before construction can start, said James Richter, the city’s assistant economic development director.

“Developers would love to come in and work with one piece of dirt and be done with it,” Richter said.

“Fragmented ownership just adds another layer of challenges to it.”

In McHenry, Walmart placed limitations on what types of future buyers could occupy its store along Route 31 before the retailer left, Martin said.

Multiple entities own the McHenry Commons shopping center that housed Sears, and they, too, have shared control on redevelopment decisions, he said.

But the ownership hurdles haven’t deterred city officials from finding new ways to entice retailers.

Officials are developing a new program between the taxing bodies in McHenry that would abate some portion of a business’ property taxes over a certain time if the business redeveloped a property or occupied a vacant site.

The proposed program still needs City Council approval, Martin said. It would add another business incentive city officials could use to fill vacant spaces. “ E c o n o m i c d e v e l o pment is something you need to actively work, in good times and bad,” Martin said. “Today, it’s more challenging than ever, but it just makes us more creative in finding new, innovative ways to entice businesses to locate here.”

LOS ANGELES – Who is bitcoin’s real creator? The bitcoin community is reacting to that burning question with a collective ho-hum.

Developers and bitcoin enthusiasts from Finland to Texas are downplaying the media frenzy that occurred Thursday after Newsweek identified the digital currency’s creator as a Japanese American living in Southern California, only to have the man vehemently deny it to The Associated Press.

The furor, they say, means little to bitcoin’s future and whether it becomes officially recognized by the governments and the financial community as a viable form of money.

The written computer code that underpins bitcoin has changed dramatically since its inception in 2009, spawning a generation of entrepreneurs seeking to ride its growing popularity to newfound wealth.

And while most bitcoin users and investors maintain a healthy interest in learning the true identity of the person behind the cryptocurrency, they say the financial platform’s maintenance and growth depends on the many creators who are working on it now.

“From an engineering perspective, Satoshi gave up control on Jan. 5, 2009, when he birthed the first bitcoin transaction,” said Jeff Garzik, a member of the seven member Bitcoin Core Development Team that controls what happens to the currency’s central code today. “He created an organism, and he gave it life and he released it into the wild for it to do as it does.”

Garzik doesn’t believe Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto – the man who denied the Newsweek story – is the same “Satoshi Nakamoto” who posted the original written bitcoin proposal in 2008 and followed it up with code the following year.

Gregory Maxwell, another bitcoin core developer based in Mountain View, Calif., said he has “immense respect” for the bitcoin creator but doesn’t care who it is or what the person’s motivation was.

The genius of bitcoin is it doesn’t require trusting anyone at all.

“If the creator of bitcoin mattered to our ability to

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Throwing your money away isn’t entertainment Dear Dave, How do you feel about gambling at a casino, as long as you limit your spending and don’t expect to win big money?

DAVE SAYS Dave Ramsey

– Brian

Dear Brian, I don’t really have a moral problem with it, but I don’t understand the concept. Call me crazy, but I do not get a thrill from losing money I’ve worked hard to earn. That’s not my idea of entertainment.

When someone tells me they gamble for fun or recreation, my first thought is they’re delusional enough to believe that they’ll actually win – that they think they’re the exception to the rule.

Otherwise, there would be no thrill.

You may see a news story once in

a while about someone winning big money in a casino, but that rarely happens. Think, too, about how much money those people had flushed down the toilet previously while gambling. There’s a really good chance they didn’t really “win” anything. In most cases, they probably just recouped a small portion of their previous, substantial losses.

My advice is don’t waste your time and money on that stuff. One way or another, the house always wins. That’s how they’re able to build those giant, billion dollar

places called casinos. Did you know some of those companies are so big and expansive that they’re publiclytraded entities? And guess what?

The profits they make off people who are foolish enough to gamble their money away inside their fancy halls – and call that entertainment – drives their stock prices.

Think about it, Brian. Why do all the folks sitting at slot machines and card tables look like they can’t afford to lose money?

Most of them look like sad, broken, lonely people. Maybe they change when they sit down. Maybe they were winners in life and with money before they walked through the doors, and their slumped body language and the look of stress and hopelessness they carry is just a coincidence or the indoor lighting.

But I don’t think so.

– Dave

Dear Dave, What happens to the money in an ESA if the child gets a scholarship and no longer needs the money?

– Jonathan

Dear Jonathan, In an Educational Savings Account (ESA), and in a 529 Plan, you are allowed to pull out money tax free in the amount of the scholarship. But very rarely do you find someone going to college completely free and clear. Often tuition is covered, and even tuition and a dorm room in some cases, but zero-cost college is almost unheard of. There are always living expenses, books and other miscellaneous items, and

you can use the money in an ESA for any education-related expenses.

The chances of your money getting trapped and you as parents winding up in a situation where you’ve actually saved too much and a child has leftover money just doesn’t happen. This is a bunch of drama found only in the nightmares of nerds. Real human beings don’t have this problem, Jonathan, because nobody ever saves enough.

– Dave • Dave Ramsey has written four New York Times best-selling books: “Financial Peace,” “More Than Enough,” “The Total Money Makeover” and “EntreLeadership.” Follow Dave on Twitter at @daveramsey and on the web at daveramsey.com.

8FACES & PLACES

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Family Health Partnership Clinic recently opened a new office, 401 E. Congress Parkway, Crystal Lake. Suzanne Hoban (center) and her team were joined by the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld and a Macau casino operator announced plans this week for the Chanel designer to create his first hotel.

Karl Lagerfeld to design 270-room Macau hotel The ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony for Superior Felt & Filtration, 1150 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry. Pictured (from left) are Kay Rial Bates, McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce; Frank Hosticka, LegalShield; Linda Showens, Artistic Embroidery Creations; Tom Leineberg, chief financial officer; Frank Porto, director of sales; Joseph Leineberg, director of production; Heather Moscinski, Juice Plus+; Wayne Seely, Visual Horizons Internet Marketing and Kurt Rice, A Better Water Treatment Co.

BEIJING – Karl Lagerfeld and a Macau casino operator announced plans this week for the Chanel designer to create his first hotel.

The 270-room Karl Lagerfeld Hotel will open in 2017 in a 20-story tower in the gambling enclave in southern China, according to Lagerfeld and the Sociedade de Jogos de Macau.

“An entire hotel designed by me. It’s the first time for me! I think the idea is great!” said Lagerfeld in a statement.

The announcement comes after Lagerfeld startled visitors to Chanel’s fashion show in Paris this week by holding the event in a full-scale recreation of a supermarket with Chanel-branded groceries.

The Lisboa Palace complex also is to include a Versace-

themed hotel designed by the Italian fashion label and announced by SJM in September.

The announcement gave no financial details.

SJM was founded by tycoon Stanley Ho, who held a monopoly on gambling in Macau until 2004. Ho transferred most of his 32 percent stake in SJM’s parent company, Sociedade de Turismo e Divercoes de Macau, to his relatives in 2011.

Macau, the only place in China where gambling is legal, received about $38 billion in gambling revenue in 2012, about six times the revenues of the Las Vegas Strip.

Competition has intensified as rivals including Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts International opened casinos.

The Macau hotel is being developed under his own brand, Karl Lagerfeld Greater China.

8WALL STREET WEEK IN REVIEW

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Texas Roadhouse, 835 Cog Circle, Crystal Lake, recently opened in Crystal Lake. Mike Krull and his team, along with Crystal Lake Chamber Board members, celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Rich’s Foxwillow Pines to display at garden show WOODSTOCK – Rich’s Foxwillow Pines Nursery Inc. is responsible for one of the exhibit gardens for the Chicago Flower and Garden Show at Navy Pier.

Rich’s Foxwillow Pines Nursery Inc. has been affiliated with the Chicago Flower & Garden Show for more than 20 years.

The show is March 15-23. For information, visit www.chicagoflower.com.

This year’s display garden, called “50 Shades of Green: A Passion for Conifers,” showcases conifers, Japanese maples and beeches. On display will be three separate conifer gardens, one featuring plants for shade, another with dwarf conifers and a third with unusual plants for a sunny garden. A winding path culminates under an ornate wrought-iron pergola with a raised central area. A large antique stone finial sits as the centerpiece of the pergola surrounded by a splash of color.

This garden shows how dwarf conifers are perfect for smaller

urban gardens, enhancing the plant palette with unique forms, textures and coning attributes.

Twenty-six years ago, Rich Eyre turned his passion for conifers into a unique business with the help of his wife, Susan Eyre, and his mother, Margaret Eyre. Rich Eyre will share his enthusiasm for conifers during a seminar, called “Techniques of Gardening with Conifers,” at the show at 12:30 p.m.

March 19, according to a news release.

For information, visit www. richsfoxwillowpines.com.

Metalmaster Roofmaster sees near-record sales McHENRY – Metalmaster Roofmaster Inc. recently announced that in 2013 it had the second largest year of gross sales revenue in its 36 years in business.

The McHenry company invested in several areas of its operation this past year, including trucks, roofing and sheet metal fabrication equipment and estimating software and large-screen LED monitors.

It also added several employees throughout the year. The company continues to look for qualified employees to add to its workforce, Metalmaster Roofmaster said in a news release.

“Even during a depressed economy, our family has remained steadfast in our Christian faith and beliefs,” third-generation family member and Vice President of Marketing Rock Smeja said in a statement. “It is through the Lord that we are able to continue to employ and hire additional employees and expand our business into new businesses.”

Metalmaster Roofmaster is a commercial roofing and sheet metal contractor serving Illinois, and parts of Indiana and Wisconsin. Metalmaster Roofmaster is the annual recipient of Firestone’s President’s Club Award, Master Contractor Award, Platinum Council Award and the Inner Circle of Quality Award, which is awarded to less than 32 contractors throughout the country, according to the release.

For information, call 815-4596415 or visit www.metalmaster-roofmaster.com.

Kathryn’s Bridal earns WeddingWire award McHENRY – Kathryn’s Bridal, 3807 W. Elm St., McHenry, was recently named a winner of the WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards.

Based on feedback from couples, the WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards recognizes the top 5 percent of local wedding professionals from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism.

Winners of the WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards are determined by recent reviews and surveys from more than a million WeddingWire newlyweds, according to a news release.

Kathryn’s Bridal offers wedding gowns with a wide range of sizes with many different styles and collections.

For information, call 815-3857330 or visit www.kathrynsbridal.com.

Friday close Stock Abbott 39.57 AbbVie 51.46 AGL Resources 47.04 Allstate 55.71 American Airlines 39.02 Apple 530.44 AptarGroup 65.73 AT&T 32.54 Bank of Montreal 65.35 Baxter 67.50 Berry Plastics 24.43 Boeing 128.54 Caterpillar 97.05 CME Group 76.97 Coca-Cola 38.55 Comcast 51.62 Covidien 71.35 Dean Foods 14.84 Dow Chem.

49.51 Exelon 29.82 Exxon 94.99 Facebook 69.80 Ford 15.62 General Motors 37.69 Google 1214.79 Hillshire 37.56 IBM 187.68 JPMorganChase 59.40 Kohl’s 55.45 Kraft Foods 55.65 Live Nation 23.07 McDonald’s 95.50 Microsoft 37.90 Modine 15.47 Motorola 66.64 OfficeDepot 4.61 Pepsi 81.56 Pulte Homes 20.31 Safeway 38.60 Sears Holdings 45.25 Snap-On 114.18 Southwest Air. 23.10 60.75 Target 246.21 Tesla Motors 53.53 Twitter United Contint. 47.75 74.58 Wal-Mart 67.21 Walgreen 41.38 Waste Mgmt.

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36.81 48.41 46.25 52.46 25.14 520.8 63.39 34.1 66.2 68.24 21.91 126.74 87.82 76.12 39 48.6 65.61 17.63 41.77 28.84 92.44 52.62 16.4 37.23 1,036.07 33.27 182.62 55.03 53.55 53.47 19.33 95.86 35.75 13.5 63 4.99 81.71 18.16 32.39 49.74 103.49 17.9 62.38 168.46 54.7 37.47 76.03 57.93 42.69 43.78

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First marijuana business license issued in Washington

By GENE JOHNSON The Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. – His company’s name celebrates being too stoned to get off the couch, and he hopes to bring an ultra-potent “super joint” to market.

Meet Sean Green, chief executive of Kouchlock Productions and the proud owner of Washington state’s first legalmarijuana business license.

This week, state Liquor Control Board issued Green the license at its meeting in Olympia, launching a new phase in the state’s ambitious effort to regulate a market that has been illegal for more than 75 years.

Green, who has operated medical marijuana dispensaries in Spokane and the Seattle suburb of Shoreline, proclaimed the document “beautiful.” The license will allow him to grow 21,000 square feet of cannabis at his Spokane facility – the first pot that will be grown for sale under the highly taxed system approved by voters in 2012. The possession of marijuana became legal for adults older than 21 soon after the vote, but it’s still illegal to grow or sell it for recreational use until pot shops open in the state later this year.

Green plans to start by raising marijuana starter plants to sell to other growers, and later expand to growing

buds for retail pot shops.

“Cannabis prohibition is over,” Green declared to applause from a room packed with his supporters. “I’m coming home with jobs, Spokane.”

Sales began Jan. 1 in Colorado, the only other state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. But Colorado already had a regulated medical marijuana system and simply began by allowing medical dispensaries to sell recreational pot. Washington had no regulated medical system.

The Liquor Control Board said Green got the first license because he was the first applicant to complete the process.

The board also received more than 2,200 retail applications, and is expected to hold lotteries in at least some areas before allowing 334 pot shops statewide. Washington’s first pot stores are expected to open in June or July.

Seattle attorney Alison Holcomb, who led the state’s legalization campaign, called it exciting.

“It’s easy to talk about what marijuana legalization might look like,” she said.

“It’s a much different thing to see it roll out.”

The board’s three members credited the hard work Green did to meet the requirements to obtain a license, including passing criminal and financial background checks, developing a board-approved

business plan and finding a location that wasn’t too close to schools or day cares.

“We’re proud of you,” board chairwoman Sharon Foster said. “We now know there are folks out there who follow the rules and are willing to be participants of this brave new venture in Washington state.”

Not everyone was so enthused. Derek Franklin, president of the Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention, said he found it troubling that Green was getting the first license, with the message sent by the “Kouchlock” name as well as the idea of the “super joint,” which Green described as a marijuana cigarette that includes potent cannabis oil as well as flowers.

“There doesn’t seem to be much attention being paid to public health and public safety,” Franklin said.

The issuance of the first license underscored the hurdles the industry continues to face. Pot remains illegal under federal law, and despite recent guidance from the U.S. Treasury and Justice departments, banks continue to be wary of working with marijuana businesses.

Green said he has lost bank accounts six times because of his connection to the pot industry, most recently last week.

Bitcoin technology matters more than creator • BITCOIN Continued from page D1 use it, then bitcoin has failed in its technological goals,” he said.

Some bitcoin supporters are upset by the quest to identify the currency’s creator because they say the sleuthing and stalking represents a blatant invasion into the privacy of a person or group that clearly wants to remain anonymous.

“Whoever created bitcoin sent it out into the wild and dropped off the face of the earth,” said Will Yager, 18, a bitcoin developer who attends the University of Texas in Austin. “They always intended bitcoin to be something that transcended them.

Bitcoin’s function as a system

does not depend on its creator’s function as a person.”

Another bit bitcoin developer, Thomas Grainger of London, said he is curious about who really created the currency, although he concedes that knowledge won’t affect how the system works.

“It won’t help remove some of the mythology, though,” Grainger, 23, said.

The publicity surrounding whether the Nakamoto living in southern California created the currency also is likely to help raise awareness about bitcoin and prod more people to take the time to learn how the it works, Grainger said.

“It’s nice that a mathematical curiosity makes international news,” he said.

Yager also sees some potential advantages in the media’s fascination with bitcoin,

though he worries things are starting to spiral out of control.

“It’s a good thing that people are learning about bitcoin, but I don’t want bitcoin to become known for the zany actions surrounding it,” Yager said.

The technology that makes bitcoin work matters more than the people who created it, said Stefan Thomas of San Francisco, another bitcoin enthusiast.

“It’s understandable that a lot of people want to put a face to the name that has inspired a fundamental shift in our understanding of how financial systems should be organized,” Thomas wrote in an email interview. “However, beyond that, I don’t think it would change much [about how bitcoin works].”

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Photo from the McHenry County Historical Society archives

Although heavy snow still covers the ground, coming political elections and spring training make the local barbershop the perfect place to indulge in “hot stove” baseball discussions and local political and social gossip. In every community across the county, barbershops have played an important role.

This 1928 photograph of the Heniken Barbershop, once at 235 N. Benton St., Woodstock, is a classic example. The building now houses a smoke shop facing the train tracks. Ray Heniken came to Woodstock as a barber after being seriously wounded at Soissons, Germany, during World War I. He began his career in Woodstock working in Jack Rowe’s shop on Main Street. Within two years, he opened a threechair shop and continued its ownership for 25 years. Gregarious and friendly, he widened his interest to real estate and insurance sales. He was also the McHenry County assessor between 1964 and 1966.

He retired to Hollywood, Fla., and died there in November 1996.

– The McHenry County Historical Society

Workplace BOYD policy needed to protect businesses and employees • FARRELL Continued from page D1 The employer may need to ensure that proper virus protection exists, or it may need to save the contents due to a litigation hold, or the data may have to be wiped if a security breach occurs. The list goes on.

Yet if the employer is able to access the phone, it may become privy to private information, such as access to the employee’s medical information. If the employer later terminates that employee, the employee may

contend the termination was actually because of the employer’s knowledge of the medical issue rather than the employee’s performance.

Other less serious issues could simply involve embarrassment on the part of the employee from pictures that may be stored on the device or frustration after having the data (music, pictures) deleted.

To protect against some of these issues, a solid BYOD policy is recommended. The policy should address the issues raised in this article, such as data security protection, privacy expectations,

and procedures for lost and stolen devices. Employees who cannot conform to this type of policy should have limited or no access to the corporate network.

Aside from just the written policy, employers should ensure employees are trained on data security and should consider apps that offer additional protections.

Contact an attorney for more information concerning your specific situation and any legal questions you may have.

• Ryan Farrell is an attorney with Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle.

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China takes aim at pollution

By LOUISE WATT The Associated Press

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Adel Abd ElSadk, owner of the pharmaceutical packaging company Trustpack (second right) talks with an employee manning one of the machines at his factory, which has been financed in part by loans from the Social Development Fund, located just outside Cairo, Egypt.

Entrepreneurship grows in Egypt’s flailing economy

By MAGGIE HYDE The Associated Press CAIRO – In Egypt’s newest reality television show, contestants sold fruit juice from push carts in Cairo’s busiest market and later organized a desert safari for tourists, hustling to make sales in the capital’s crowded streets.

The program, called “The Project” in Arabic, highlights entrepreneurship and small business acumen – something experts say is more crucial than ever as Egypt tries to claw its way out of tough economic times.

With youth unemployment upward of 30 percent and its economy only now back to levels seen before its 2011 uprising, Egypt’s salvation may lie in the small, informal businesses run by those scraping out a living in the Arab world’s most populous country.

“There is not even a word for entrepreneurship in Arabic,” said Anna Elliot, executive producer of “The Project” and founder of Bamyan Media. “But there is this hunger for it.”

Egypt’s economic landscape is largely controlled by its government, the country’s No. 1 employer. However, the government is grappling with large budget deficit and has had to seek billions of dollars in financial bailout cash from Gulf nations since a July 3 military overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

But outside of government-owned companies and large multinational corporations, there are thousands of small, largely informal businesses, from street vendors to small shops. Most of those don’t pay taxes and operate in small towns and informal areas outside the capital.

Experts believe that gray economy truly powers Egypt.

Ghada Fathi Waly, managing director of Egypt’s Social Fund for Development, estimated that at least two-thirds of the country’s economy rides on the informal businesses.

Waly, who was last week also appointed a government minister, recommended allowing the businesses to run outside of government control to allow them to flourish, while registering and taxing only poten-

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Rashad Abdel Hameed, 26, known as Mido, an Egyptian entrepreneur who participated in a reality television show called “The Project,” speaks in an interview with The Associated Press in his storage room in Cairo, Egypt. Mido is starting a company that will sell Egyptian-made T-shirts in an effort to compete with foreign-made products that currently overrun the market. Hameed has been selling T-shirts on Cairo’s sidewalks since he was 15. tial exporters.

“I think we should definitely be very optimistic about small businesses in Egypt,” Waly said. “We have seen that this sector has shown resilience and has been able to change course.”

One company that received aid from the social fund is Trustpack, which makes the foil backing for sheets of pills.

Owner Adel Abd ElSadk, who ran the machines himself in lean times, said he now employs 84 people from his tworoom shop on the outskirts of Cairo.

“I thought it would be better than if I lived my whole life as an employee, with all of my efforts going toward benefiting others, and not myself,” ElSadk said.

Waly said it’s the kind of attitude she’s seen emerge since the country revolted against autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. She said many Egyptians say they want to break away from the model of a centralized government economy and the so-called “crony capitalism” of the Mubarak era.

“Young people are realizing that the government is not going to be hiring,” Waly said.

That push is highlighted on “The Project.” Bamyan, funded in part by the government-run U.S. Agency for International Development, produced a similar show on entrepreneurship in Afghanistan.

Elliot said her hope is that

the show will ultimately help job creation in Egypt, even if indirectly. All contestants voted off the show are told “you’ll realize your dream, just not with us,” and are given seed money to jump-start their own business. A recent conference hosted by the show in a village in southern Egypt attracted hundreds, she said.

Contestant Thari el-Din, a Nubian from southern Egypt who plans to open a handicraft workshop for people with special needs, said the show made him believe he could succeed.

“I used to think, you know, someday I will do this,” said el-Din, 23. “I used to think I needed a big space to start my business. Now, I’ve found that I’m able to start small, and it’s much better that way.”

Yet contestants remain far removed from the daily challenges of Egypt, living outside of Cairo, chauffeured in air-conditioned buses and using brand-new mobile phones.

Waly, the social fund’s director, said her work also has been affected by the constantly changing governments and bureaucracy accompanying Egypt’s tumultuous last few years.

Despite that, she said her work offers a front-row seat to the vibrant small business growth taking place across Egypt.

“We want people to know that while part of Egypt was demonstrating, part of Egypt was also working,” Waly said.

PINGSHAN COUNTY, China – Huge chunks of concrete and broken machinery are all that is left of a cement plant that once spewed clouds of pollution over China’s most polluted province, Hebei. Demolished in December, the factory was one of 35 closed or torn down in Pingshan county as part of the government’s drive to clear up China’s notoriously smoggy skies.

Combatting pollution has shot up the agenda of the ruling Communist Party, which for years pushed for rapid economic development with little concern about the environmental impact.

Under public pressure to reduce the air pollution that blankets Beijing and cities across China, the country’s leaders are rebalancing their priorities.

That was evident during this week’s ceremonial National People’s Congress.

Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday the government would “declare war” on pollution in the same way China had fought poverty. Smog, he said, was “nature’s red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.”

The drive to clean up China’s industry has added impetus to the government’s campaign over the past several years to reduce excess production capacity in the polluting steel and cement industries.

But shutting plants has taken a human and economic toll in lost jobs and income.

The demolition or closure of the 35 plants in Hebei’s Pingshan county, about a four-hour drive southwest of Beijing, resulted in layoffs of 3,780 workers, according to state media reports.

“I do want the government to do something to improve the air quality. If the air gets

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Chinese women wearing masks walk past a Chinese government propaganda billboard in Beijing, China. Combating pollution has shot up the agenda of the ruling Communist Party, which for years pushed for rapid economic development with little concern about the environmental impact. better, it is good for everyone,” said Guo Quanquan, 52, one of those laid off. “But my life has gotten worse after the closure.”

He hasn’t been able to find another job and now lives off the earnings of his two 20-something sons.

Another resident in Guo’s village, Jia Shufang, said that most of its 200 households had depended directly or indirectly on the cement industry, with workers earning an average monthly wage of 3,000 yuan ($490). Former employees could work in restaurants or on farms raising pigs, cattle and poultry, she said, although “now most of them are sitting at home doing nothing.”

For years, the central government has issued various environmental targets and pushed for industries to reduce excess capacity that had built up during China’s years of booming growth, but they were resisted by local officials whose performances were judged more on their region’s economic growth than the cleanliness of their skies.

Pressure has increased on local governments since September, when China’s Cabinet released an action plan to control and prevent air pollu-

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District Judge Beatrice Brickhouse said the bank’s conduct was shocking and so reprehensible that in addition to actual damages, attorney’s fees and court costs, she awarded James Dollens’ estate $2.7 million in punitive damages.

Jim Hines, a spokesman for San Francisco-based Wells Fargo, said the bank will appeal and it disagrees with several

parts of the ruling, including the award of punitive damages.

Katy Duhigg-Kennedy, a lawyer for Dollens’ estate, said Friday that the ruling “protected people over profits. We are confident that the appellate courts will do the same.”

Dollens had purchased an accidental death mortgage insurance policy for his Rio Rancho home that was marketed

by Wells Fargo and issued by Minnesota Life. When he died Aug. 18, 2010, in a workplace accident, he owed $125,000 on his mortgage. His death was reported immediately to Minnesota Life and to Wells Fargo to make a claim under the policy.

But instead of seeking funds from the insurance policy, Wells Fargo sent notices about the loan being in default

and referred the loan for foreclosure in December 2010. The foreclosure proceeded despite requests from representatives of the estate to hold off pending the insurance payout.

When the bank received a $133,559 check from the insurance company in May 2011, it collected delinquent payments, late fees and fees for lawyers and for 18 property inspections, leaving only $4,400 for Dollens’ estate “because of ... misapplication of the insurance proceeds,” the judge said.

Wells Fargo said the family should have continued making payments regardless of the insurance policy.

However, Brickhouse said Wells Fargo disregarded the terms of the insurance policy before moving to foreclose.

tion through 2017. Since then, more than half the country’s provinces have released their own plans, including new restrictions on coal and heavy industry. The Cabinet also announced a $1.6 billion fund last month to reward the prevention and control of air pollution in key areas.

And in December, the party required local governments to revise the criteria used to evaluate their officials away from economic growth to their “overall work,” including “ecological civilization.” The quality of the environment is now among the main criteria used to assess officials’ performances in Shijiazhuang city, which oversees Pingshan county, according to a report in the Hebei Daily in December.

“What’s very important when assessing how likely it is for local officials to implement these policies is what are their incentives,” said Brian Jackson, a China economist at IHS Economics.

“This shows that the issue is being taken much more seriously even at the provincial level and they are adjusting their incentives accordingly to make sure that there is follow-through this round.”

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Starting a new job can be exciting -- and a bit nerve-racking. In addition to having to master new tasks and understand new procedures, you’ll have to navigate an often complex social network that exists at the company.

Use these five dos and five don’ts to make your transition from new hire to trusted colleague.

3. Ask your new coworkers to recommend good places to grab a cup of coffee, buy breakfast, eat lunch and shop. This will help you gain common social ground with colleagues and may also spark an invitation to one of the venues.

4. Give colleagues time to warm up to you gradually.

5. Bring in a tasty treat from home to leave in the lunchroom for all to enjoy. Cupcakes, cookies or fresh fruit are always crowd-pleasers.

1. Don’t insinuate yourself into other people’s personal conversations. If you’re perceived as invasive, it will be hard to win your coworkers’ trust.

2. Don’t expect to immediately hear all the strange-but-true tales that involve your colleagues.

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2. Be inquisitive with your coworkers. Make small talk about popular television shows (“Did anyone watch ‘The Office’ last night?”) or sporting events to spark conversations that are cordial without being too personal.

4. Don’t start inviting people to come see your band play or watch your off-off-off-Broadway debut.

Wait for others to express an interest in your extracurricular pursuits before assuming they want to be in the audience.

5. Don’t immediately ask people to join your online network (BeKnown, Facebook, Plaxo). Your network should consist of people with whom you have a relationship rather than just someone who happens to have the same employer as you.

The Dos: 1. Act friendly at all times, even if you’re feeling frazzled from all the new information you’re trying to process.

3. Don’t constantly reference your former place of employment. (“At my last job, we did things this way.”) You’ll cause coworkers to wonder why you don’t go back to work there.

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We require Class A CDL, 12 months recent, verifiable tractor-trailer experience, Tank and Hazmat endorsements (or ability to obtain), and a safe driving record.

PT to FT Must have own vehicle and tools.

Fax: 815-759-8992 or email to: lizatlotus@comcast.net

800-871-4581 TheKAG.com

Limosine Service looking for..

Now offering premium pay to drivers with tank experience.

Class A CDL Tank & Hazmat endorsements (or ability to obtain), minimum 5 years recent, verifiable tank exp.

Call for more information!

PT Dispatcher and FT & PT Drivers Call: 815-344-4466

or email: mchenrylimo@sbcglobal.net

WANTED ASAP *30 DRIVERS WANTED ASAP* On the spot interviews. Daily take home pay. $12.50/hour with benefits. CDL req; training provided.

FT work.

Clean MVR/background req.

Apply at: MV Transportation 6230 W. Gross Point Rd, Niles, IL 60714

Send your Help Wanted Advertising 24/7 to: Email: helpwanted@shawsuburban.com Fax: 815-477-8898

SHIFT SUPERVISORS & COOKS - PT/FT Apply within: 5899 NW Hwy. Crystal Lake, IL 60014 or email: WingsEtcMOD@ WingsEtcStr10.comcastbiz.net

www.mvtransit.com

RECRUIT LOCAL! Target your recruitment message to McHenry County or reach our entire area.

For more information, call 877-264-CLAS (2527) or email: helpwanted@ shawsuburban.com

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EQUIPMENT SALESPERSON

KENNEL / TECH ASST

Sell new and used equipment to current & prospective customers.

We are looking for a highly motivated person who has a great personality and likes to sell. The compensation for this position is hourly plus commission & will vary based on performance. See www.aaanderson.com for details.

Please email resume to: bill@aaanderson.com For more information, feel free to call our General Manager, Bill Anderson at 815-943-5454

Busy animal hospital in Cary looking for experienced, parttime kennel/tech asst. Weekends, holidays & some evenings required. Must be flexible.

Please fax resume to 847-5168624, attn: Denise, or email denise.c@theanimaldoctor.net

EDUCATION Crystal Lake Head Start Teacher Assistant.

HS diploma or GED required.

Bilingual preferred.

To apply, email karla.hallam@gmail.com

McHenry County Orthopaedics Immediate openings for

FINANCIAL / COLLECTION REPRESENTATIVE Exemplary applicant to perform patient accounting functions including collections, charge / payment posting and patient / insurance inquires.

RECEPTIONIST Patient service oriented – collects patient account balances & co-pays, register patients, answering incoming calls, schedules appointments & facilitate referral requests.

MAILBOX & POST SALES & INSTALLATION 815-653-7095 ~ 815-341-7822 www.mailboxpostman.com

HANDYMAN Anything to do with Wood We can Fix or Replace Doors and Windows Sr. Disc. 815-943-4765

SHIPPING Local printing company is looking for a full time help in our shipping department. Must have Fed Ex & UPS experience. Hours are 8:30 am to 5 pm. Starting pay is $9.50 an hour. Email resume to: talia@adbag.com

Warehouse Assistant FT. Pick & receive orders, deliveries, cleanup. Plumbing knowledge a plus. Minimum Class C driver's license. Send resume to: 847 382-0793 or lstrom@ professionalplumbing.com

Please fax resume to: 815-356-5262

CERTIFIED NURSE ASSISTANT DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center has part & full time positions available for CNA's on the Day, Evening & Night shifts.

JOB FAIR! Sunrise Senior Living of Barrington 510 W. Northwest Hwy Wednesday March 12 8am-6pm Full time and Part time positions for Care Giver, Nurse, Housekeeper available. 847-382-8888

! RN / LPN !

All shifts. Pediatric exp. Wknds.

McHenry & Kane Co. 815-356-8400

Excellent benefits Uniform allowance Attendance incentive

Administrative Assistant

Apply at:

w/Hospitality experience. Looking for organized, self-starter administrative assistant. Groundup opportunity. Responsibilities include filing, presentation preparation, office management. Home office environment.

Flexible hrs, 3-5 hrs/wk starting with the potential of FT. Hospitality industry experience a plus.

Compensation negotiable.

Please email resume to: joeb@profit-success.net

DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center 2600 North Annie Glidden Rd DeKalb, Illinois 60115 EOE

Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up? Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!

Adult Caregiver Available Mon. thru Fri. days. 10 yrs exp.

Good ref. speak English, willing to drive, do housework & cooking , able to transfer. 815-814-1006 Care provider available for personal care and home help with Experience /Great references LITH Cynthia 847-409-9876

ALL HOME REPAIRS

Call 815-459-8118 or visit: www.nwherald.com Northwest Herald Classified 877-264-CLAS (2527) www.nwherald.com

ILLINOIS CONCEALED CARRY CLASSES Professional firearm training will qualify you for for the new Illinois CC permit. Train on an 80 acre country setting 15 minutes north of McHenry. Instructor is NRA certified pistol, NRA range safety officer, Utah certified CC instructor, former law enforcement officer with 50 years of pistol experience.

More info: www.jonesandassociatesconcealedcarry.com

Drywall Repairs, Doors/Hardware, Bath, Kitchen, Basement, Tile.

All Jobs Big/Small 847-344-5713

WE'VE GOT IT! Northwest Classified 877-264-CLAS (2527) www.NWHerald.com

Shepherd/Sheltie/Beagle Female, Med. Size Tan with Black Back, Missing from Newport Trail in McHenry, since 2/28 she is microchipped and is wearing a pink cheetah print collar, please call if you may have seen her 815-206-9741

Tiger Cat ~ Grey Male Lost near Riley Rd, West side Wonder Lake. Please call 478-293-2108

POLISH LADY will clean your Home/Office. FREE ESTIMATES. Great References. 224-858-4515

CLINICAL TECHNICIAN Prepares patients to see the physicians, facilitates lab tests, provides splinting, cast application and removal, applies and removes bandages, sutures and staples.

To subscribe to the Northwest Herald Restaurant Wings Etc. now hiring...

BUS DRIVERS

Animal Care

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LOST DOG – Thena

Health Care

Sales A. A. Anderson, Inc., Harvard

itcareer-advice.monster.com. For recruitment articles, visit hiring. monster.com/hr/hr-best-practic-

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Tax help needed for disabled veteran Please Call 815-739-0886

Found Pink and White Cosmetic Case in Spring Grove on Briar St, call to describe 815-687-6622

KEYS

Found Wed, March 5th in Sears parking lot in Crystal Lake. Please call to indentify. 815-477-9432

LAB ALWAYS INVESTIGATE BEFORE INVESTING ANY MONEY

Contact the Better Business Bureau www.chicago.bbb.org - or Federal Trade Commission www.ftc.gov

Found in Island Lake area.

847-381-4100

TOOL KIT Found near Randall and Algonquin Rds mid February.

Cell 480-861-0903

A PRAYER

NEWSPAPER DELIVERY Earn up to $1000 A Month!

Looking for Contractors to deliver newspapers early mornings 7 days per week.

Routes now available in McHenry County.

Please Call 815-526-4434

St. Jude's Novena May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us. St. Jude, worker of miracles, pray for us. St. Jude, helper of the helpless, pray for us.

Pizzeria Business for Sale Algonquin Established Carry-out Business . Reasonable business expenses - good sales. Turn-key. $42,500 Call Tony Bellino-Re/Max of Barrington. 847-343-2342

DIAMOND RING Lost last week in January, 2013 in Wauconda. Could have lost at: Jewel or Thorton's. Please call if found! Broken Hearted!

REWARD 815-322-6334 GIRLS WHITE & PINK SNOWBOARD It was lost on Rt 120 Sunday, March 2 at 5:00. The Snowboard is a SIMS brand. There is Old English writing on the bottom. Reward.

Call 815-861-8302

Say this prayer nine times a day, on the eighth day your prayers will be answered. It has never been known to fail.

Publication must be promised.

E. N.

❤Ceremonies of the Heart❤ Rev Anne 847-431-4014 Weddings, Blessings, Memorials, Christenings

CHILDREN’S LEARNING CENTER

815-759-1900 / mjones@mc.net

Preschool Open House

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

March 12, 2014 5 – 7 p.m.

MCHENRY COUNTY MAGAZINE

at the MCC Children’s Learning Center (located in Building C).

CRYSTAL LAKE

Social Services

YOUTH CARE WORKER aka MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST Allendale Association a Child Welfare, Mental Health and Special Education facility currently has full time rotating second shift positions for Youth Care Workers aka Mental Health Specialists at our Lake Villa IL, North Chicago IL, and Benet Lake WI, to work actively with high end “at risk” children & adolescents ages 7 to 21 years of age within our Residential Units. Ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, or related Human Service field, or 5 years of related equivalent social service experience, Per DCFS regulations, must have valid driver's license w/good driving record and be at least 21 years of age. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits and an education assistance program.

Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download application and send with a copy of your resume to:

ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION Attn: HR Dept, P.O. Box 1088, Lake Villa, IL 60046 Fax: 847-356-0290 AA/EEO

Shaw Media seeks a talented, professional and energetic person to be the lead sales associate for our monthly publication, McHenry County Magazine. If you are looking to build your career, this is a rare opportunity to join a wellestablished media company that continues to grow and thrive.

As a lead sales associate in our custom publishing division, your responsibilities will include interacting with a variety of local clients across all business segments in the marketplace.

You will introduce the exciting features and benefits of our local magazine in the market, and create advertising and marketing solutions designed to grow your clients' businesses.

To be considered for this position you should have a bachelor's degree in business or related field, have demonstrated sales success in your current position and past work history. Must have a valid drivers license, dependable transportation and proof of insurance. Shaw Media offers a competitive salary and commission structure.

3-Year-Old Program

5-Year-Old Program

Tuesdays and Thursdays 9 a.m. – Noon

Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 1 – 3:30 p.m.

4-Year-Old Programm Mondays, Wednesdays, Friday Fridays days 9 a.m. – Noon Options for extended hours are also so ava available. available ble.

Shaw Media offers a comprehensive benefit package.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to send resume and cover letter to: Recruitment@shawmedia.com Visit www.ShawSuburbanMedia.com/careers to view all our career opportunities and apply now!

Shaw Media is a Drug Free Employer.

Pre-employment background check and drug screen required. This posting may not include all duties of position. EOE.

The Children’s Learning Center at McHenry County College (815) 455-8555 | www.mchenry.edu/clc du/clc clc (815) 455-8555 www.mchenry.edu/clc

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WOODSTOCK

WILLOW BROOKE Rents Starting at

$710 Studio, 1 & 2 Bedrooms Woodstock Studio $585/mo+sec.

Efficiency $550/mo + sec.1BR $650/mo + sec, all 3 furn'd w/all utils incl. No Pets. 815-509-5876

FREE Pool & Fitness Center MCHENRY QUIET BUILDING

1BR $750/mo & 2BR/$800 /mo Heat/water incl. NO PETS. Security Deposit Required. New Laundry.

630-270-7373 leave message.

No pets, $700 + sec, water incl.

815-566-7315~815-765-2032

WOODSTOCK COMMONS Spacious 1, 2 & 3BR Apts

Autumnwood Apt.

ISLAND LAKE 2 BEDROOM

Starting As Low As $750

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

MOVE-IN SPECIAL

1st floor, laundry, parking, no pets/smkg. $700/mo + sec + ref.

847-669-3691

ALGONQUIN - 2 BEDROOM

CRYSTAL LAKE 2 BEDROOM

www.cunat.com

Woodstock WINTER SPECIAL 2BR APTS Starting @ $730

HUNTLEY 1 BEDROOM

Quiet & clean building w/storage, laundry and parking, $800/mo.

847-401-3242 Crystal Lake 1BR $780 w/Electric 2BR $850, 1st floor, heat, water, garbage included, laundry facility.

No dogs.

815-529-3782

815-338-2383

Must See!

HUNTLEY 2 BEDROOM

Located off Rt. 14 in Woodstock

CRYSTAL LAKE Large & Spacious 2BR First floor, $850/mo.

Heat, gas, water, D/W incl.

Pets extra. 847-707-3800

$600 OFF 1 MO RENT! Limited Time Only! *Income Restricted Community*

Call for Rates Office Hours M-F 9:00-5:30 Call for an Appointment to See Your New Home Today!

815-337-9600

MARENGO VERY LARGE 3BR Newly remodeled, large eat-in-kit, $750/mo + gar & util, no dogs, Agent Owned. 815-814-3348

CRYSTAL LAKE LOWER LEVEL 1BR No pets, no smoking, (1) parking space. $650/mo + security dep.

815-459-8317 Fox Lake LRG Remod 1BR $745 Dining area & utilities incl except elec + laundry & storage, no dogs.

Agent Owned. 815-814-3348 Fresh paint, $785/mo, across from metra. 224-622-1859 or 847-516-8437

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

HARVARD AREA Huge 3BR, 2BA loft apt. Quiet. Frplc, W/D, C/A. Fish/Swim. Pets ok. $1025/mo.

815-648-2716

McHenry -1BR some utilities included, $750 Broker Owned 815-347-1712

WOODSTOCK, 1BR Hardwood floors on second floor.

One mile North of the Square. Includes; appliances & and parking. $650/month plus security deposit Call for appointment 815-482-1560

Woodstock: 2, 3BR, main floor & lndry, $790 & up, Broker Owned 815-347-1712 Woodstock: 2, 3BR, main floor & lndry, $790 & up, Broker Owned 815-347-1712

Marengo: Lg 2 bdrm unit avail Immed. $750. All appl W/D, Dishwasher & micro furnished.

Cent Air. No pets/no smoking.

Sec dep, lease req. Tenant pays electric, cable. 224-858-7377

Fox River Grove Spacious 2BR

www.cunat.com

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Marengo Large 1 & 2 BR most utilities included $640 & UP Broker Owned 815-347-1712 Marengo Large 2 BR most utilities included $760 Broker Owned 815-347-1712

No pets/smoking, $810/mo + security. 815-893-0059

Elevator Building 815-334-9380

HEBRON 2 BEDROOM

Handicap convt, garages avail.

Appl, W/D, patio/deck, prvt ent. $745 - $875. 815-482-8163

WOODSTOCK

SILVERCREEK 1 & 2 Bedroom Rents Starting $735 % %

Affordable Apts.

Garage Included

815-334-9380 www.cunat.com

MARENGO 3BR DUPLEX

1.5BA, 1st floor laundry room, walk-out basement, 2 car garage. $1200/mo + sec. 815-568-6311 Streamwood Duplex, 3 bdrm, 2 bath, gas FP, cathedral ceiling, loft, 2 car attached gar. Avail 4-1 $1600/mo. 630-289-4721

WOODSTOCK 2BR, 1.5BA Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up?

MCHENRY - ROUTE 31

Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!

Woodstock 1BR $645, 2BR $745 All appliances, wall to wall carpet.

A/C, balcony On site laundry.

No pets. 847-382-2313 708-204-3823

IRISH PRAIRIE APTS

1 & 2 Bedrooms W/D and Fitness Center 815/363-0322

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WOODSTOCK 2 BEDROOM $675-$695, free water, sewer and garbage. No pets. Call Pete @ Prudential/Harding/Starck R.E. 815-334-2617

Woodstock 2 Bedroom

patio, heat, water, gas, garbage incl. Laundry avail. No pets. $780/mo + sec. 815-337-2803

1 car gaage, $850/mo + security and utilities.

815-276-6296

WOODSTOCK 3 BEDROOM

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Crystal Lake 2 bedroom, laundry, $925/month Broker Owned 815-347-1712

CRYSTAL LAKE 3BR RANCH 1 bath, appliances, W/D,1.5 car garage, $1095/mo + security dep.

Broker Lic. 815-354-4575 CRYSTAL LAKE, Brick Ranch 2BD, DR, 1BA, Full Bsmt., 2 car detached gar., Avail 4/1. $1,175/mo + sec. 815-459-9555 Crystal Lake. 4 bed, 2 bath 2 story home with large fenced yard, vaulted ceilings, 2.5 att garage.

Finally all the room you want!

AT: 90 New Castle. $1575 mo.

Land Management Properties 815-678-4771 Gurnee – Rolling Ridge Rent/Rent to own, available in May. Huge 4br, 2½ba, full basement, private fenced yard, dogs OK, granite counter tops, wood floors, Woodland Schools, WTHS Contact Kim 847-682-4699

Woodstock – 2 bedroom, 1 bath refinished hardwood floors, newly painted,basement,garage $875 per mo. + Utilities $875 Sec. Dep. 815-341-2109

Crystal Lake 1BR For Rent In Beautiful 4BR House, female only.

House privileges, all utilities paid.

Must see to appreciate, $450/ea.

815-404-3834

WONDER LAKE ~ EAST SIDE Furnished Rm, House privileges.

Utilities/cable incl, $460/mo.

815-349-5291

HARVARD 3BR, 2BA, new everything, 2 car gar., $1195/mo., pets/smoking OK, 815-236-8378

Woodstock - Furnished Rooms

JOHNSBURG 2 BEDROOM 1 BA. Lg. Kitchen & Living rm., Laundry Newly updated $1025/mo.

Avail. now 815-690-3327

Woodstock Furn Room for Male

Lake In The Hills 2BR, 1+ BA

All utilities included, $510 - $540.

No pets. Call Gina 618-504-0136

Includes TV, full house privileges, all utilities incl + laundry. No smkg, walk to Square, metra and bus. $160/wk + dep. 815-382-7667

W/D, walk-out bsmt, fenced in back yard, big deck, avail 5/1. $1050/mo+sec. 815-529-4888

Publisher's Notice: All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation of discrimination." Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD tollfree at 1-800-669-9777. The tollfree telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

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McHenry Brite, Clean 3BR 1 bath Duplex near metra, 1.5 car gar, W/D, $925/mo + security.

Available 4/1. 815-347-7464 McHenry Large Raised Ranch 3 bdr, 2 full ba.,family rm. office, all appliances, 2½ car gar. Yard fenced w/play set, patio w/deck. $1600/mo+sec. 815-385-3269

PUBLIC NOTICE INVITATION TO BID The City of Crystal Lake will be accepting sealed bids in accordance with specifications for the Downtown Sidewalk Replacement Bid. 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 “Downtown Sidewalk Replacement Bid” Attn: Bradley S. Mitchell, Assistant to the City Manager” by 10:30 a.m. on Friday, March 21, 2014 at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

(Published in the Northwest Herald March 9, 2014. #A2340)

Woodstock 2400 square feet high ceilings, overhead door, $1050/mo., Broker Owned 815-347-1712

Marengo 2 & 3BR, 2.5 BA, 2 car gar., $950-$1075/mo.

Broker Owned 815-347-1712

Crystal Lake 2, 3 or 4 Person

Office Suites Incl all utils + High Speed DSL. Starting at $295/mo.

815-790-0240

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Public Test of the automatic tabulating equipment, to be used at the March 18, 2014, General Primary Election, will be held at the McHenry County Administration Building,

McHenry Patriot Estates & Prairie Lake Townhomes .

2BR Starting @ $1250.00 2 Car Garage, Pet Friendly Free Health Club Membership.

815-363-5919 or 815-363-0322

McHenry – Winding Creek 2 BR, 1 BA (new), LR, Hrdwd Flrs., eat in Kit. Lg. Lndry Rm., A/C, 1 car-gar. Nice Yard. $1,250 815-344-9376

1.5 Bath, A/C, Stove, Refrigerator, Garage, No Pets. Broker Owned.

847-683-7944 HURRY!!

McHenry. 3BR, 2BA, tri level in Fox Ridge, fenced yrd, sidewalks, $1225/mo.+sec+utilities.

815-575-6919

COUNTRY HOUSE in Harvard 3BR w/Loft

McHenry. Stunning Ranch with fireplace across the street from pond/park on crawl. 3 bed, 2 bath, fenced yard 34' deck, 2/5 att garage. $1445 mo.

Long term lease.

Land Management Properties 815-678-4771

1 Bath, LR, large kit, deck, W/D hook-up, plenty of parkng. Avil 4-1 $1100/mo + sec. 815-482-6990

Spring Grove. Nottingham Woods 4BR, 3BA georgeous quad level with 2.5 att garage on 3/4 acre.

Fireplace, vaulted ceilings. $1895.00 Long term lease.

Land Management Properties 815-678-4771

Crystal Lake $329,000

699 Blackthorn Drive SUN 1 - 3 Sandy Etten Century 21, Roberts & Andrews 815-405-2194

To Advertise Your Open House Listing Call 815-526-4453 Mon.- Fri. 8:00am-5:00pm DEADLINE: Wednesday @ 2:00pm

PRE-OWNED BULL VALLEY FORD/ MERCURY

MOTOR WERKS INFINITI

MERCEDES-BENZ OF ST. CHARLES

ANDERSON BMW

LIBERTYVILLE CHEVROLET

360 N. Rte. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

888/682-4485

1001 S Milwaukee Ave Libertyville, IL

1460 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

www.andersoncars.com

847/362-1400

www.bullvalleyford.com

www.motorwerks.com

www.st-charles.mercedesdealer.com

BUSS FORD

INFINITI OF HOFFMAN ESTATES

KNAUZ CONTINENTAL AUTOS

1075 W. Golf Rd. Hoffman Estates, IL

409 Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

888/280-6844

www.Knauzcontinentalauto.com

BILL JACOBS BMW 1564 W. Ogden Ave. • Naperville, IL

800/731-5824 www.billjacobs.com

KNAUZ BMW

www.libertyvillechevrolet.com

MARTIN CHEVROLET 5220 W. Northwest Highway Crystal Lake, IL

815/459-4000 www.martin-chevy.com

407 Skokie Valley Hwy. • Lake Bluff, IL

847/604-5000 www.KnauzBMW.com

MOTOR WERKS BMW Barrington & Dundee Rds. Barrington, IL

800/935-5913 www.motorwerks.com

MOTOR WERKS CERTIFIED OUTLET Late Model Luxury PreOwned Vehicles 1001 W. Higgins Rd. (Rt. 71) or 1000 W. Golf Rd. (Rt. 58) • Hoffman Estates, IL

800/407-0223

111 S. Rte 31 • McHenry, IL

815/385-2000 www.bussford.com

SPRING HILL FORD 888/600-8053

39 N. Rte. 12 • Fox Lake, IL

www.springhillford.com

www.raychevrolet.com

RAYMOND CHEVROLET 118 Route 173 • Antioch, IL

847/395-3600 www.raymondchevrolet.com

800/935-5913

225 N. Randall Road • St. Charles, IL

877/226-5099

847/234-1700

www.infinitihoffman.com

13900 Auto Mall Dr. • Huntley, IL

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

888/800-6100

www.TomPeckFord.com

www.clcjd.com

ZIMMERMAN FORD

GURNEE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM

REICHERT CHEVROLET

630/584-1800

2145 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

www.zimmermanford.com

815/338-2780

7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

888/471-1219 www.gurneedodge.com

www.reichertautos.com

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE

1460 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

800/407-0223 www.bullvalleyford.com

BUSS FORD LINCOLN MERCURY

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

815/385-2100

www.garylangauto.com

815/385-2100 www.garylangauto.com

FENZEL MOTOR SALES

ARLINGTON KIA IN PALATINE

GURNEE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM 7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

888/471-1219

SUNNYSIDE COMPANY CHRYSLER DODGE

www.motorwerks.com

800/935-5913

PAULY SCION 1035 S. Rt. 31, One Mile South of Rt. 14 Crystal Lake, IL

815/459-7100 or 847/658-9050

224/603-8611

River Rd & Oakton, • Des Plaines, IL

www.raymondkia.com

888/538-4492

119 Route 173 • Antioch, IL

881 E. Chicago St. • Elgin, IL

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE 5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

GURNEE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM

847/888-8222 www.elginhyundai.com

KNAUZ HYUNDAI 775 Rockland Road Routes 41 & 176 in the Knauz Autopark • Lake Bluff, IL Experience the best…Since 1934

847/234-2800 www.knauzhyundai.com

7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

815/385-2100

888/471-1219

O’HARE HYUNDAI

www.gurneedodge.com

River Rd & Oakton, • Des Plaines, IL

www.garylangauto.com

AL PIEMONTE CHEVROLET

SUNNYSIDE COMPANY CHRYSLER DODGE

770 Dundee Ave. (Rt. 25) • Dundee, IL

Route 120 • McHenry, IL

409A Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

847/604-5050 www.Knauz-mini.com

www.garylangauto.com

RAY SUZUKI 23 N. Route 12 • Fox Lake

888/446-8743 847/587-3300 www.raysuzuki.com

GARY LANG MITSUBISHI Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

www.garylangauto.com

BILL JACOBS LAND ROVER HINSDALE

LIBERTYVILLE MITSUBISHI

300 East Ogden Ave. • Hinsdale, IL

1119 S. Milwaukee Ave.• Libertyville, IL

888/204-0042

847/816-6660

www.billjacobs.com

www.libertyvillemitsubishi.com

ELGIN TOYOTA 1200 E. Chicago St. Elgin, IL

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815-477-9023

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224-629-8615 or 224-858-4956

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17" Womens Trek Mountain Bike $150 obo. Crystal Lake 815-310-0245

Bicycle - 2013 Girls

Baseball Cards. Stars, Sets,Rookies.

Price range $1-$40.

Call: 815-338-4829 Add to your collection

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

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Raleigh Marathon 26”

1987 Mistletoe Edition, $200.

815-741-3667

Basketball Cards Stars, Sets, Lots of Rookies. Price range $1-$50.

Call: 815-338-4829 Add to your collection CHAIR - Antique Child's Red Wooden Chair 24-1/2" high at back. $28. McHenry.

815-236-1747 Football Cards.

Stars & Lots of Rookies. Price range $1-$40. Call: 815-338-4829 Add to your collection

H.O. TRAINS

New in original boxes.

32 passenger trains, 16 steam engines, 43 freight cars, priced @ $32 - $169.

Thor 815-455-3555 HIGH CHAIR - Antique Pine, Child's. 39" H x 17" W w/ removable metal tray.

Tray arm lifts. $115. McHenry 815-236-1747 JAR - Glass w/Metal Lid. Outside red w/ ridges in glass.

Top opening 5" diameter. Jar is 7 1/2" dia & 7" high. $25.

815-236-1747 McHenry.

Lamp - Shake Rock & Roll

Elvis Presley - (playing and singing figure) in box, $60.

815-459-1208 MIXING BOWLS - 3 matching: "Hall's Superior Quality Kitchenware - Eureka Homewood Pattern".

Lg 8 5/8", Med 7 3/8", Sm 6 1/8" $39. McHenry. 815-236-1747 Non-Sports Cards. '94 Marvel Masterpiece & Lots of Others. Sets at $25. Call: 815-338-4829 Add to your collection Porcelain Gas Stove Mfg. 1926 - Crown Stove Works $125. 815-568-8036

Steamer Trunk -1849 Oak and steel banded. Good condition, $60. 815-759-3865

Sugar & Creamer Pickard Salt & Pepper, gold floral, $135.

815-459-3822 VANITY Beautiful antique pine vanity w/ attached mirror & center drawer.

Brought from England by the dealer, 37-1/4"W, 20"D & 29-1/2" to top of vanity. Mirror 22-3/8"W by 35-3/8"H. Center drawer has metal pull. Legs & side mirror supports have charming decorative sculptured detail. $400.

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815-451-4744

Scott 26” $100/OBO 815-451-4744

DECK STAIN New, $4/gallon, several colors. 815-479-1000

RECORDS – Box Of 100 50's & 60's Rock – 45 have Sleeves Good Condition Call Mike 847-695-9561

Bowflex Conquest up to 250lbs., Like new, All info & instructions New $625, Asking $125 815-344-4250 6am-9pm

SOL ELLIPTICAL E55 Excellent condition, like new!

Paid $1400, asking $800.

815-675-2025

CORDLESS PANASONIC PHONE SYSTEM

Weider 8525 Weight Bench w/ Pull Up & Leg Lift - $100 224-558-3088 7am-7pm

With 4 hand set, answering machine, talking caller ID and speaker phone, $55.

847-829-4546 iMac computer Power PC G-4, 15" monitor, 1ghz, 768 ram, 80 gig hard drive, airport card, Apple speakers, keyboard & mouse. Great condition!! $200.

815-276-1668 after 4 pm

BEEF JERKY - $50 per case. Located at 201 Ratzlaff Street, Harvard.

Text or call Katy 815-409-9261

Printer ~ Digital Photo Sony DPP-EX50. Prints wonderful pictures, $45/obo.

847-829-4546

PS2 9 Games, 1 Controller 1 memory card, $80.

815-382-3952

Armoire/Hutch for Baby Wardrobe.

$20. Call: 815-219-9332

Stereo Receiver & Speakers

Office Furniture: Desks, Chairs, File Cabinets & Blueprint Cabinets.

Good shape and clean. For pick up or delivery. McHenry, call Mike @ IRC 815-276-5750

$60/all, $30/ea. KLH2400 AM/FM, 100watts/channel. Pair of insignia, 4”3-way, 40 watts.

815-337-0749

TV TOSHIBA

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(2) Plots, $1500/ea.

505-857-0728

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Best Offer. 815-444-0557

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815-477-9023

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847-401-4300

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Birch round table - 51" to 64" w/ folding leaf. 4 chairs need a little work -$200. 815-900-1183

Cabinet for Jewelry

Thomas, 35” Tall, Oak Finish, Divider Tray, 3 Drawers, 2 Doors for Necklaces, Nice! $25.

815-363-0124

20” DVD/VCR combo, excellent working condition! $100 847-829-4546

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4 Gas Logs for Fireplace - $40.

815-575-3529 after 4:30pm

CHINA BUFFET & HUTCH

Solid oak, width 42", height 73".

Closed glass doors on the top hutch, excellent condition, $250.00 815-900-1807 Coffee Table, cottage style by Ashley furniture, cream and oak finish 46” X 27” excellent condition 815-814-4996 $50 COTTAGE TABLE & CHAIRS Charming whimsical set of 3 colorful chairs with round table, very cute. Excellent condition. $195.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Money matters should take top priority. Seek out a financial adviser and find out all you can about budgeting and investing your hard-earned cash. It’s time to capitalize on your assets.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Don’t let your temper get the better of you. The less you interact with others, the easier it will be to get things done and avoid an unpleasant scene.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- You need

to step back and re-evaluate a situation that has the potential to go bad. Clinging to someone or something could lead to an awkward dilemma or an outright loss.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You have the ability to influence others in a positive way.

Use your talents to benefit causes that you care about. You will be held in high regard for your contributions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- You can accomplish a great deal if you focus on activities that you enjoy and sidestep petty squabbles that you can’t win. Don’t let ulterior motives cause a costly battle.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Your career concerns are overshadowing your personal life. Lighten up and enjoy your family and friends. A chance meeting at a community event will be eye-opening.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- A friend or relative will need your help. If you answer the call, you’ll learn something about your cultural background that will influence your future in a positive manner.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Do your best to encourage the people around you. Positive affirmation will help boost others’ confidence and ensure that you get help

when you need it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- To move in a new direction, you need to determine what’s required. Self-improvements should be made before tackling the professional challenges that you want to conquer.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- You are admired for your ability to be comfortable in unusual situations. Your adaptability has made a very positive impression, leading to interest and invitations that can improve your future.

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Elwes. Forest archer and pals thwart Sheriff of Rottingham. ’ (CC) Freeman. The legendary outlaw rallies villagers against tyranny. ’ (CC) poses as a knight for a shot at jousting glory. ’ (CC) Women’s College Basketball: ACC Tournament, Final: Teams TBA. Women’s College Basketball: Pac-12 Tournament, Final: Teams TBA. SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (CC) (ESPN) (4:30) SportsCenter (N) (CC) 2013 World Series of Poker 2013 World Series of Poker 2013 World Series of Poker 2013 World Series of Poker SportsCenter Featured ESPN FC (N) (ESPN2) CrossFit Games CrossFit Games 2013 World Series of Poker Joel Osteen Joyce Meyer Paid Program Paid Program (FAM) (4:00) Movie:“Monster-in-Law” Movie: ›› “Meet the Fockers” (2004) Robert De Niro. Future in-laws clash in Florida.

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Callen works a kidnapping case. murdered drug dealer. ’ unusual costume. ’ Single Ladies “Cat and Mouse” (VH1) Movie: ›› “All About the Benjamins” (2002, Action) Ice Cube. ’ Movie: ››› “Menace II Society” (1993, Drama) Tyrin Turner. ’ Fabulous Life Of... ’ Basketball Wives LA ’ “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” ’ (WTBS) Movie: ›› “The Change-Up” (2011) Ryan Reynolds. (DVS) Movie: › “Killers” (2010) Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl. (DVS) Movie: ››› “Knocked Up” (2007) Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd. (DVS) Movie: ›› “The Change-Up” (2011) (DVS) PREMIUM 5:00 5:30 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 True Detective “Form and Void” Hart Girls “Role-Play” Looking “Looking True Detective “Form and Void” Hart Girls “Role-Play” Looking “Looking True Detective “Form and Void” Hart (4:00) Movie ›› “Fantastic Four” Movie ›› “Snitch” (2013) Dwayne Johnson.

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DAYBED'S (2)

Fraser, white, no trundle, $150/ea or both for $250. 847-829-4087 or 847-894-4189

DINETTE SET ~ WROUGHT IRON Glass top table, 42", 4 wheeled chairs, Like new - $300.

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Kenmore deep freezer. $155.

Call 815-788-1384

Bench Glider Swing - 3 person wide, green metal frame w/ mesh bench complete w/ new full width cushion, $89. 815-236-1747

MEMORY FOAM PILLOW SET - 2 new, superior quality standard size contour dual support pillows w/protectors, never used. $25 for both.

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Vintage Lawnmower â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sears Craftman Allstate push mower, 4 Hp. Tecumseh, 18â&#x20AC;? cut, runs strong, cast aluminum deck, red & white color scheme -$50/OBO 815-527-2908 or 815-814-6706

Miller Genuine Draft, 52â&#x20AC;?x40â&#x20AC;?, excellent condition! $80.

815-728-1982

WINDMILL WIND SPINNER

7 feet tall with 2 rotating blades.

Never used, $85. 815-578-0212

Dining Room Set ~ Oak

Round, pedestal, 40â&#x20AC;?, (1)18â&#x20AC;? leaf, 4 chairs, excellent condition, $150. 847-669-1053 Dining room table with 6 chairs, cottage style by Ashley furn. Has one leaf, cream and oak finish 60X42 excellent condition 815-814-4996 $200 Dresser white 4 drawer 40â&#x20AC;? tall 18â&#x20AC;?deep 30â&#x20AC;? wide, nice cond. $50 can deliver. 815-459-7485 End table w/big drawer, Colonial style - $25. Goose down chair gold green color 2-3 yrs old OK cond.$60, wood display cabinet 4 shelves w/4 individual glass doors good cond. $35. antique oak chest 2 drawer good cond. $125. 815-337-0749 End table, cottage style by Ashley furniture, cream and oak finish 25â&#x20AC;? round excellent condition 815-814-4996 $35 Grady Chair â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Barely Used, Mauve Leather - $395/OBO 815-385-5618 after 4pm HUTCH Beautiful Light Oak Hutch, Excellent Condition, Only 2 Years Old, Paid $600 at Ashley Furniture, Asking $275 847-669-9915 or 708-522-4361 KIDS TABLE AND CHAIRS - Super cute vacation seaside blue table and matching chairs for kids activities, play or learning, excellent condition, measures 28 L x 22 W x 19.5 H. $75. 815-477-9023

LONG CHEST ~ LOW

Gold leaf color, 2 drawers, 2 doors, $75/obo.

815-444-0557

Luggage Garment Bag by Andiamo Like New - $25.

815-568-8036 McHenry High School Yearbooks 1968-1971, Good Condition $80. 815-245-0407

HAY FOR SALE Alfalfa - Orchard Grass.

Small Squares, No-Rain Straw, Small Squares. 815-979-0654

16â&#x20AC;? Aluminum Plank Werner 2516 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 20â&#x20AC;? Wide 500Lb. Cap. - $200 815-943-6937

BENCH GRINDER 6 inch Delta, $40. 708-363-2004

Chop Saw/Metal Cutting

12â&#x20AC;?, great shape, used very little. $85 708-363-2004

Extension Ladder

New,16' Keller $75.00 and Craftsman top toolbox, old style, 10 drawer, heavy guage matrlal, $100. 815-814-8434

Hydraulic Bottle Jack

20 ton, new $79, sell for $50.

708-363-2004 Moulding Cutter Knives Set of 5, Profiles, Delta, New in Box - $100/OBO 847-532-1401 Steel Tool Boxes Ridgid 2048 -0S & Knaack $300. 815-943-6937 WOOD LATHE - Craftsman router crafter wood lathe for making decorative table legs, balasters and dowels. Router not included. $75 obo.

815-678-4531 Wood Lathe â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 36â&#x20AC;? w/ 12â&#x20AC;? guide, 120 Vac, 1725 RPM motor, Has tools & several accessories - $250.

815-347-6700 9am-7pm

MIRROR ~ FRAMED

MIRRORS - One pair of power heated mirrors for a Dodge truck, Will fit on Dodge Trucks years 2004 - 2009. They are brand new & still in the box. $95.

Call 815-861-9620.

Old Mannequin Female. 5-1/2 ft., full body, Hindsgaul #8709 Great Condition - $350 815-382-4743 before 9pm Rainbow Vacuum Cleaner W/all Attachments, new $2,400 selling for $275 works great 815-477-7916 Recipe Book Collection - 17 Books, Good Assortment Including: Church Recipes, Appetizers, Dessert, Weight Watches, Holiday & Frugal Gourmet - $25.

815-385-8718 or 815-482-1634

SHOOTING BENCH

Portable, metal, 90 degree turning radius and swivel seat, $80.

708-363-2004

Striker Bird On a Branch

on 9x3.5â&#x20AC;?, orig $70, now $25.

815-459-3822 Sunbeam mixmaster, white, heritage series, 12 speeds, only used once, $95 815-385-4353

PIANO - Story & Clark console with matching bench, walnut, very good condition, just needs a tune, you move. $400 obo. 815-814-9034

AQUARIUM

55 gallon with stand filter plus all accessories, heater, plants, used for fish only, $100.

815-675-2025

Oak Lighted Entertainment Center 72"H x 56"W x 17"D Excellent Condition - $75 Text/Call for pics 847-212-5243

Scroll Vanity Bench

$10

630-624-8250

SOFA ~ RED LEATHER

Great condition, paid $1200 from Carson's, now $275.

(2) Zebra Lamps, 19â&#x20AC;?, $10/ea.

(2) Zebra Chairs, $25/both.

815-404-8173

Student Desk 2 drawers, $45.

815-444-0557

TABLE ~ PEDESTAL

Solid oak, lion heads feet, round table 54" with a 24" insert that extends table to oval 78" including 4 chairs. Excellent condition. $400.00 815-900-1807

TV STAND/PLANT STAND Oak, 37â&#x20AC;?Hx15â&#x20AC;?Wx12â&#x20AC;?D. Excellent condition, $85. 847-829-4546 Twin Bed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Brass Headboard, Footboard & Frame, In Great Shape, Mattress & Box Spring Included - $75. 815-459-8171

WICKER CHEST 23Wx16Dx16H, like new! $48 815-459-3822

WINE RACK

Metal with glass top. Holds 21 wine bottles, 36â&#x20AC;?x16â&#x20AC;?, $95.

847-829-4546

WING CHAIR ~ QUEEN ANNE Velour, terra cotta color. $80/obo. 815-444-0557

Disposable Absorbent Pads

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With her armful of potential prom dresses, Antionette Menge, 18, of Hebron, looks for her mother Sunday before heading to the fitting rooms at the My Sister’s Dress prom dress sales event at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake. Dresses, shoes and accessories were included in the donated items for sale.

Event benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters with prom dress sale

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editorial@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Lori Thier and her 17-year-old daughter stood alongside a rack of lacy, ruffled and beaded gowns.

“What do you think?” Mikyla Thier asked after her mother zipped a smooth, black satin dress over the teen’s tank top and pants. Mikyla twirled, and the full, black skirt floated outward.

“She says she has to have one that spins,” the Wonder Lake mom said, looking on as her daughter walked and occasionally spun round in the McHenry County College gym.

The Thiers were among dozens of mother-daughter pairs – and a few dad-daughter pairs – present for the seventh annual “My Sister’s Dress” event. The event places new and

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gently used gowns in the hands of young prom-goers for the bargain price of $25 each. The dresses, as well as purses, shoes and other accessories, were donated, and event proceeds benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of McHenry County.

At least 300 people were waiting for the doors to open at 10 a.m. Sunday, said Emily Smith, a Lake in the Hills resident who is co-chairwoman of My Sister’s Dress with her sister-in-law, Whitney Ruth of Huntley.

See FUNDRAISER, page A6

While shopping for a prom dress Sunday, Shelby Weidner, 18 (center), of Crystal Lake, gets a second opinion on one of her choices from her brother, Corey McCullary, and friend, Kieran Ruddy, 18, also of Crystal Lake.

PRAIRIE GROVE – Some Prairie Grove School District 46 parents are calling for the school board president’s resignation.

The move is the culmination of 10 months of infighting, tense school board meetings and outright accusations of defamation among board members and district staff.

“I’m concerned,” said Judy Butler, who has a fifth-grader and eighth-grader at District 46. “I feel like we’re becoming the laughingstock of the county, if not the state.”

Butler hasn’t been attending the board meetings, but she’s one of a number of parents planning to attend Tuesday’s meeting, the re- Margaret sult of an online and word- Ponga of-mouth campaign against school board President Mar- If you go garet Ponga.

“I’m disappointed it’s The District reached this point,” Ponga 46 school said. “I wish if people had board will a question or concern that meet at 7 they would all call board p.m. Tuesday members and talk about it.”

Ponga also noted that in the Prairie much of the information Grove Junior being circulated is cherry High School picked, contains false infor- library, 3225 mation and often is missing Route 176, Crystal Lake. much of the context.

An anonymous chain letter has been making the rounds, and a website based on the letter has been set up, accompanied by emails and other documents obtained from the district.

A group of about 20 parents has been meeting about every other week for the past couple of months since Superintendent Lynette Zimmer announced her resignation, said Rich Yelle, the parent of a fourth-grader and a fifth-grader.

“The concern was that we have a superintendent that is resigning, and we’re not going to be able to get a superintendent of any quality because they know they won’t

See RESIGNATION, page A6

More details emerge in missing jet case Officials: Searchers fail to find debris, two used stolen passports to board plane

By CHRIS BRUMMITT and EILEEN NG The Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Vietnamese searchers on ships worked throughout the night but could not find a rectangular object spotted Sunday afternoon that was thought to be one of the doors of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that went missing more than two days ago.

Doan Huu Gia, the chief of Vietnam’s search and rescue coordination center, said Monday that four planes and seven ships from Vietnam were searching for the object but nothing had been found.

The Boeing 777 went missing early Saturday morning on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

The plane lost contact with ground controllers somewhere

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between Malaysia and Vietnam, and searchers in a low-flying plane spotted an object that appeared to be one of the plane’s doors, the state-run Thanh Nien newspaper said, citing the deputy chief of staff of Vietnam’s army, Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan.

The jetliner apparently fell from the sky after reaching cruising altitude in fine weather, and the pilots were either unable or had no time to send a distress signal, adding to the

mystery of flight’s final minutes.

There are also questions about how two passengers managed to board the ill-fated aircraft using stolen passports.

Interpol confirmed it knew about the stolen passports but said no authorities checked its vast databases on stolen docuAP photo ments before the Boeing jetlinA relative of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane cries er departed Saturday.

See MISSING, page A6

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8WATER COOLER UMass latest to deal with St. Paddy’s parties AMHERST, Mass. – The chaos at the University of Massachusetts over the weekend during a pre-St. Patrick’s Day celebration brought new attention to an old problem affecting colleges across the country: How to deal with alcohol-fueled revelers during the March festivities.

Celebrations near the UMass campus in Amherst spiraled out of control Saturday as police dealt with thousands of drunken and unruly people during the annual “Blarney Blowout.” More than 70 were arrested and four officers suffered minor injuries.

Like other colleges and towns, UMass and Amherst officials took action to try to prevent problems. The university warned students last week that there would be an increased police presence Saturday, and Amherst police prepared for large-scale disturbances based on past problems.

At Penn State, the school paid licensed liquor establishments to stay closed this month during the unofficial drinking holiday known as State Patty’s Day for the second year in a row.

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Jerry Martin, dressed as an Anishinabe Native American, demonstrates how maple sap used to be collected Saturday with the help of Monique Addison of Aldon-Hebron, 10, during the annual Festival of the Sugar Maples at Coral Woods Conservation Area in Marengo.

The Associated Press A riot of color greeted Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme the first time he walked into Haitian Corner, an art gallery around the corner from his Manhattan apartment. Instantly transfixed, he left with a $250 painting by Haitian master Wilson Bigaud. The seed was planted.

Demme’s appreciation for work by self-taught Haitian painters like Bigaud and Hector Hyppolite flowered into an obsession that he fed with multiple trips to the cash poor but artistically rich island nation, where he learned Creole and shot two documentaries.

“If you’re falling in love with a country, falling in love with their art is a great lubricant and a great elixir,” Demme said. “Haitian art led me to Haiti for the first time, and I discovered a great country and a great people, and the art takes on a greater meaning for me now.”

Now 70 and having spent the better part of three decades amassing pieces from Haiti and other Caribbean countries as well as the United States, South America and Africa, the director of “The Silence of the Lambs” said he’s looking to “streamline and simplify” his life by selling 90 percent of his well-regarded collection of self-taught or “outsider” art.

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“He really has followed his eye and his heart in putting this collection together,” said George Jevremovic, Material Culture’s owner. “A lot of high-profile folks get advisers and they spend tons of money on works that may end up at Christie’s or Sotheby’s, million-dollar artwork.”

Demme, on the other hand, was drawn to self-taught art

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“on a personal level and that’s the way the best collections are created, where the eye and the intellect of the collector find their own ground,” Jevremovic said.

The director traces his love of artists who taught themselves how to paint and sculpt to a childhood spent watching his mother sketch landscapes.

“Anybody can go to college and learn to paint academically,” Demme said. “I certainly love fine art; I don’t reject it. I love to go to museums. But there’s something about that sincere work, trying to capture a feeling in an image, that just turns me on.”

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Demme, whose collection includes many pieces produced at the Centre d’Art, the landmark Port-au-Prince art cooperative destroyed in the 2010 earthquake, said he plans to donate a portion of the proceeds to the rebuilding effort. The auction is expected to bring in $1 million to $1.4 million.

Demme is OK with letting go of his treasures, comparing himself to a parent sending his kids to college.

“You’re going to miss having them around, but they are making the right journey.

This work is leaving storage and my walls and going out to find new homes.”

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Now 70 and having spent the better part of three decades amassing pieces from Haiti and other Caribbean countries as well as the United States, South America and Africa, director Jonathan Demme said he’s looking to “streamline and simplify” his life by selling 90 percent of his well-regarded collection of selftaught or “outsider” art, including Hector Hyppolite’s “Birds and Flowers,” pictured here.

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jdallke@shawmedia.com Chris Reed made national news last year when he opened The Other Side, a sober bar in Crystal Lake. A former drug addict himself, Reed wanted to give people a fun place to hang out that didn’t involve getting drunk or high.

With The Other Side coming up on its one year anniversary next month, Reed wants to expand services offered to those in the county struggling with addiction.

His nonprofit group recently received a license to start an adolescent outpatient treatment program, which he plans to open in April. The program will counsel 13- to 17-year-olds about the reality of addiction and hopefully steer them away from dependency on alcohol and drugs.

Reed recently sat down with Northwest Herald reporter Jim Dallke to talk about his battle with substance abuse, the details of the treatment program and his plan to eventually offer a wide range of addiction services to McHenry County residents.

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Reed: I started drinking and using drugs when I was like 15. I played hockey, and it was just one night of drinking

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FRANCES B. ANDERSON Born: Oct.30, 1923; in Evanston Died: March 7, 2014; in Woodstock Frances B. Anderson, age 90, of Cary passed away March 7, 2014, at JourneyCare of Woodstock.

She was born October 30, 1923, in Evanston. The daughter of Harold and Emma (Brosius) Ellison.

Fran moved to Cary at the age of 16 and worked as a waitress in Fox River Grove. She married Clifford ”Swede” Anderson May 25, 1946, in Cary. She had many occupations in her lifetime, but was most recognized as “Friendly Fran” while working as a cashier at National Foods and the A&P for 23 years. She was the kindest, most friendly person one could meet. She always had a smile on her face and a positive attitude.

Fran is survived by a son Paul (Cindy) Anderson.

Three grandchildren: Audra Jansen, Troy (Cathy) Anderson and Ashley (Jon) Howard. Four greatGrandchildren: Stephen Anderson,

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ph Sheradin Jansen, Tanner Jansen and Arden Howard. A brother Chuck Ellison, a brother-in-law Jack (Sue) Anderson a sister-in-law Geri Burhop and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her Husband Cliff, sisters Lucille Kvidera and Jesse Schlottman and brothers Harold Ellison and James Ellison.

Visitation will be Wednesday, March 12, 2014 from 4:00 until 8:00 PM at the Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Rd., Cary.

Funeral Service Thursday, March 13th at 10:30 AM at the funeral Home. Burial St. John Nepomucene Cemetery.

For info: 847-639-3817 or kahlemoore.com.

Kathleen Ahern: The visitation will Monday, March 10, at Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry.

Prayers will be said at 9:15 a.m.

Tuesday, March 11, before proceeding to St. John the Baptist Church, 2302 W. Church St., Johnsburg. for a 10 a.m. celebration of Mass. Interment will be private. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-0063.

Frances B. Anderson: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, at Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary. The funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 13, at the funeral home. Burial will be in St. John Nepomucene Cemetery, Algonquin. For information, call the funeral home at 847-639-3817.

Walter ‘Bud’ Barber: The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Monday, March 10, at Ehorn-Adams Funeral Home, 1011 Main St., Richmond. Interment will be in Richmond Cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 815-678-7311.

Joan B. Basile: The visitation ders & McFarlin Funeral Home, will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, 107 W. Sumner St., Harvard.

March 16, at Kahle-Moore Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, a.m. Saturday, March 15, at St. Cary. A memorial will immediateJoseph’s Catholic Church, 206 ly follow. For information, call the E. Front St., Harvard. Internment funeral home at 847-639-3817. will be in St. Joseph’s Catholic Charles A. Burger: The funeral Cemetery. For information, call Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. the funeral home at 815-943Monday, March 10, at St. Patrick 5400.

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Obama meets with Ukraine prime minister Wednesday

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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk across the South Lawn of the White House on Sunday from Marine One in Washington as they arrive from Florida.

The Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will meet this week with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the White House said Sunday, in a prominent show of U.S. support for Ukraine’s fledgling new government.

Vice President Joe Biden cut short his trip to Latin America, nixing a planned stop in the Dominican Republic so he can attend Wednesday’s meeting, an aide to Biden said. Biden had been the White House’s prime point of contact with Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovich, before he fled to Russia last month after violent clashes in Kiev.

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ment Russian President Vladimir Putin alleged took power by way of an unconstitutional coup, the U.S. is also sending a clear signal to Moscow that the U.S. considers Yatsenyuk to be Ukraine’s legitimate

leader – at least for the time being.

“What we’ve seen is the president mobilizing the international community in support of Ukraine to isolate Russia for its actions in

Ukraine, and to reassure our allies and partners,” said Tony Blinken, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, as he announced the meeting Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

The announcement came as the Kremlin was beefing up its military presence in Crimea ahead of a planned Sunday referendum on whether Crimea should break way from Ukraine and join Russia.

Putin defended the separatist drive as in keeping with international law, but Yatsenyuk vowed not to relinquish “a single centimeter” of his country’s territory.

Obama has warned that the vote would violate international law.

Biden, who was traveling Sunday to Chile to attend the swearing-in of the country’s new president, had been ex-

pected to travel later in the week to the Dominican Republican to meet with President Danilo Medina. But Biden has canceled that stop and will return to Washington on Tuesday, in time for Obama’s meeting with Yatsenyuk on Wednesday, the vice president’s office said. The White House said Biden planned to reschedule his trip to the Dominican Republic.

Vacationing with his family over the weekend in Key Largo, Fla., Obama on Saturday spoke individually with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and French President Francois Hollande, and collectively with the presidents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

• Associated Press writer Darlene Superville in Key Largo, Fla., contributed to this report.

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Flight manifest names match stolen passports • MISSING Continued from page A1 Warning “only a handful of countries” routinely make such checks, Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble chided authorities for “waiting for a tragedy to put prudent security measures in place at borders and boarding gates.”

On Saturday, foreign ministries in Italy and Austria said the names of two citizens listed on the flight’s manifest matched the names on two passports reported stolen in Thailand.

“I can confirm that we have the visuals of these two people on CCTV,” Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said at a news conference late Sunday, adding that the footage was being examined.

“We have intelligence agencies, both local and international, on board.”

The thefts of the two passports – one belonging to Austrian Christian Kozel and the other to Luigi Maraldi of Italy – were entered into Interpol’s database after they were stolen in Thailand in 2012 and last year, the police body said.

Electronic booking records show that one-way tickets with those names were issued Thursday from a travel agency in the beach resort of Pattaya in eastern Thailand. A person who answered the phone at the agency said she could not comment.

But no authorities in Malaysia or elsewhere checked the passports against the database of 40 million stolen or lost travel documents before the Malaysian Airlines plane took off.

Possible causes of the crash included some sort of explosion, a catastrophic failure of the plane’s engines, extreme turbulence, or pilot error or even suicide.

Parents also concerned about retirement incentive program • RESIGNATION Continued from page A1 be able to work with the school board,” he said.

Zimmer pointed to that as part of her reason for leaving in an email she sent to board members the night she was appointed the new superintendent of Lake Villa School District 41.

“A Superintendent must be confident that he or she has the authority to make daily decisions to operate the District effectively,” Zimmer wrote.

“Because of Prairie Grove’s new Board President, I no longer have that confidence.

Since taking office, Mrs. Ponga has created turmoil and controversy in what was once an award-winning district.”

In a response that is representative of a reoccurring pattern of hostile emails sent among several staff and board members, Ponga wrote the following: “We were an award winning district before your time as superintendent and we’ll continue to be once you’ve moved on to your next opportunity. Your email to the board confirms the suspicions of your behavior – you’ve accused me of slandering and defaming you while you’ve been slandering and defaming me. And now you’ve done it in writing.”

The accusations of slander – in particular a cease-and-desist letter sent by an Illinois Association of School Administrators attorney representing Zimmer to the district asking Ponga to refrain from making “any further untrue, derogatory, slanderous and defamatory statements” about Zimmer – date back to a meeting Ponga had with the interim legal counsel, both Ponga and board member Khushali Shah said.

Ponga, board Vice President Rick Salvo and the interim attorney, Bob Riley, met to discuss a dozen or so questions Ponga had, she said. One or two of the items had to do with Zimmer.

When other board members asked about the meeting, Ponga supplied her notes, which made them subject to the open records law, Shah and Ponga said.

The notes contained questions about a possible connection between Brain Breaks, a program Zimmer implemented at District 46, and Brain Gym, a nonprofit that advocates for movement-based learning, Shah said.

The cease-and-desist letter said Ponga accused Zimmer of making money off Brain Breaks, but Ponga said she doesn’t know what about the meeting Zimmer found slanderous and that she never intended her conversation with the attorney to come across that way.

“I’ve never defamed her in public,” Ponga said. “I’ve never slandered her.”

Ponga and Zimmer are not the only ones with a rocky

“The concern was that we have a superintendent that is resigning, and we’re not going to be able to get a superintendent of any quality because they know they won’t be able to work with the school board.”

Rich Yelle Parent of a fourth-grader and fifth-grader in District 46 working relationship.

Another email exchange between Ponga and board member Lori McConville highlights the ongoing problems the new members and the older members of the board have had in working together since the April election that shifted the balance of power on the board.

On Dec. 10, Ponga emailed McConville asking her to apologize for a comment McConville made during a discussion on a policy that would allow parents to visit their children during their lunch hours.

“I’d appreciate a public apology from you at tomorrow night’s board meeting for what you stated at the last board meeting about me being ok with registered sex offenders having access to our school,” Ponga wrote.

McConville responded: “Only if you agree to step down as president.”

“Your response to my request for an apology is shocking,” Ponga said in an email later that night. “It is extortion. It is proof you knew what you said about me was false when you said it.”

The board and staff relationships aren’t the only issues raised by the parents headed to Tuesday’s meeting. They also point to some policy decisions, including the retirement incentive program, the lunchtime visitor policy and Ponga’s appointment as the chairwoman of the finance committee.

Much of those critiques are missing the context and reasoning behind her decisions, Ponga said, adding that any proposal she makes needs at least four board members total to approve.

For example, her retirement incentive program was based on her research of other area districts and proposed a sliding scale based on the years of experience the teacher has, Ponga said.

Her appointment as the chairwoman of the finance committee followed a proposal by board Secretary John Bowman that Ponga and Shah cochair the committee, according to meeting minutes.

While Ponga agreed to the idea, Shah said no because she said she wasn’t comfortable co-chairing with Ponga, that a small committee doesn’t warrant two chairpeople and was advised not to by her attorney, Shah said.

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Event expected to raise about $6,500 • FUNDRAISER Continued from page A1 “We had on our racks this morning 1,015 dresses,” Smith said, noting that it was a record amount. “Last year, the event raised $6,000, and every year it’s grown by about $500, so we’ll probably raise about $6,500.”

A freshman at the College of Lake County, Sarah Guzior scored a lacy, strapless, pale-yellow gown with a rhinestone embellishment at the gathered bodice.

“It reminds me of Belle from ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ” said Guzior, who dates a Richmond-Burton High School senior and plans to wear the Zum Zum by Niki Livas dress to his prom.

Smith said that new gowns can spike the cost of attending prom by hundreds of dollars, so My Sister’s Dress puts attending within reach for many who might other-

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Kate Auld, 16 of McHenry, does a dance Sunday for her mother Mindy Auld (right), to further “test out” what may be her prom dress. wise forego it. Not only were the dresses only $25 each, but shoes, purses and other accessories were available for $5 an item or pair.

“It’s just a win-win all around,” Smith said.

Big Brothers Big Sisters pairs screened adult volun-

teers with children ages 6 through 18 for positive companionship and mentoring. Big Brothers Big Sisters of McHenry County has 516 children in its programs, with about 30 on a waiting list, said Josh Baker, executive director.

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Dress will help support match activities, as well as activities for those still waiting for a “big,” he added.

Smith said Star 105.5 of Crystal Lake and Taylor Stevens Salon & Spa of Algonquin are among the event’s greatest supporters. About four people from the spa “ambushed” a handful of lucky shoppers, who received coupons for free services, as well as all or a portion of their shopping items for free.

Judging by the smiles, My Sister’s Dress again was a big hit.

“I tried this one on first and a couple others after it, but I kept going back to this one,” said a beaming Tally Lalor, an Alden-Hebron High School freshman who exited MCC carrying a long gown of teals, fuschias and blues, with color-matched rhinestones and sequins around the middle.

“It’s brand new,” said her mom, Marnie Lalor. “You can’t beat the deal.”

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8ANOTHER VIEW

Declassify torture report More than a dozen years after the attacks of 9/11, it is time to treat government decisions made in the aftermath as history – to be debated and learned from.

This is especially true of the misguided program of interrogation and torture carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency. In the years after the attacks, so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” that did not measure up to American values nor international law were brought to bear on detainees. We need to know the full story of how that happened.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence initiated a full probe of the interrogations in 2009. The investigation was completed in December 2012 and approved by a 9-to-6 vote. The resulting report is about 6,300 pages long, with a 300-page executive summary. The CIA, which is the focus of much criticism in the report, submitted a 120-page response to the committee in June, explaining where the agency agreed with the findings and where it disagreed. A long period of discussion between the CIA and committee staff ensued, concluding last September. Since then, the report has been under revision to reflect the comments.

When complete, the full report will go back to the committee for approval and then, perhaps, to the executive branch for declassification. We hope this happens soon.

The committee chairwoman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has called for the release of a declassified executive summary and of the findings and conclusions. President Obama has endorsed making public a declassified version.

Clearly, this has been a painful process for the CIA. The report is expected to be highly critical of the agency’s actions. A key issue is whether methods such as waterboarding produced any useful intelligence, as members of the Bush administration and others have claimed. A debate without the facts is hollow.

We need to read the report of the Senate committee in order to squarely address it.

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8LEGISLATIVE DIRECTORY U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam R-6th District 2700 International Drive, Suite 304, West Chicago, IL 60185 630-232-0006 Fax: 630-893-9735 227 Cannon House Ofice Building Washington, DC 20515 202-225-4561 Web: roskam.house.gov U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren R-14th District 332 Cannon HOB Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 202-225-2976 Fax: 202-225-0697 Web: hultgren.house.gov Gov. Pat Quinn 207 Statehouse Springield, IL 62706 800-642-3112 governor@state.il.us www.illinois.gov State Sen. Pamela Althoff R-32nd District 5400 West Elm Street, Suite 103 McHenry, IL 60050 815-455-6330 309L State House Springield, IL 62706 217-782-8000 Fax: 217-782-7818 pamela@pamelaalthoff.net State Sen. Dan Duffy R-26th District 330 E. Main St. Suite 301 Barrington, IL 60010 847-277-7100 105D Capitol Building Springield, IL 62706 217-782-8010 State Sen. Karen McConnaughay R-33th District 81 S. McLean Blvd.

South Elgin, IL 60177 (847) 214-8245 303A Stratton Building Springield, IL 62706 (217) 782-1977 State Rep. Jack Franks D-63rd District 1193 S. Eastwood Drive Woodstock, IL 60098 815-334-0063 Fax: 815-334-9147 267 S. Stratton Building Springield, IL 62706 217-782-1717 Fax: 217-557-2118 jack@jackfranks.org State Rep. Michael Tryon R-66th District 1500 Carlemont Drive, Suite D 815-459-6453 Fax: 815-455-8284 244-W Stratton Building Springield, IL 62706 217-782-0432 Fax: 217-782-1275 mike@miketryon.com

State Rep. Barb Wheeler R-64th District 37 E. Grand Ave., Suite 101 Fox Lake, IL 60020 847-973-0064 214-N Stratton Ofice Building Springield, IL 62706 (217) 782-1664 repwheeler64@gmail.com State Rep. David McSweeney R-52nd District 105 E. Main St. Cary, IL 60013 847-516-0052 226-N Stratton Ofice Building Springield, IL 62706 ilhouse52@gmail.com State Rep. Timothy Schmitz R-65, Geneva 127 Hamilton St. Suite D Geneva, IL 60134 630-845-9590 224-N Stratton Ofice Building Springield, IL 62706 217-782-5457 timschmitz.org Tina Hill Chairman, McHenry County Board McHenry County Government Center 2200 N. Seminary Ave. Woodstock, IL 60098 Phone: 815-334-4221 Fax: 815-338-3991 TRHill@co.mchenry.il.us President Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20500 202-456-1414, Comment: 202-456-1111 www.whitehouse.gov U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin 230 S. Dearborn Kluczynski Federal Building Suite 3892 Chicago, IL 60604 312-353-4952 711 Hart Senate Ofice Building Washington, DC 20510 202-224-2152 www.durbin.senate.gov U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk 387 Russell Senate Ofice Building Washington DC, 20510 Phone: 202-224-2854 Fax: 202-228-4611 230 South Dearborn Suite 3900 Chicago, IL 60604 Phone: 312-886-3506

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8IT’S YOUR WRITE Prim has the experience To the Editor: Bill Prim believes that McHenry County is worth fighting for, and his No. 1 priority is serving the citizens of McHenry County.

Prim has served for almost three decades in law enforcement.

During his years as commander of a nearby suburban police department, he was recognized and repeatedly honored for his strong leadership and management skills.

Bill Prim earned the respect and allegiance of the men and women serving on his police force, treating them with fairness, not favoritism.

We want our community to be a safe and secure place to live and raise our families.

Serving as a gang-crime specialist and focusing investigations on large-scale drug dealers, Bill Prim has the knowledge and experience to fight the war on drugs and make gangs and their leaders unwelcome here.

Your vote can make a difference.

On March 18, vote for Bill Prim for sheriff.

Sue Serdar Spring Grove

Gonsiorek digs in To the Editor: As a member of the Crystal Lake School District 47 School Board, I have had the pleasure of working with Nancy Gonsiorek for the past six years and her commitment to keep District 47 financially and physically sound has been outstanding.

I have witnessed her dedication to the families and community of Crystal Lake. Nancy is an incredibly able individual who has great experience in finance and strong leadership skills. She is enthusiastic and has a pleasant way of connecting with individuals. She would make an excellent McHenry County Board member.

When it comes to taking on new initiatives, she rolls up her sleeves and digs in. Her insight and forward-looking thinking has been a gift to our community. Please join me in voting for Nancy Gonsiorek for McHenry County Board.

Ginny Visin Crystal Lake

‘Yes’ for county chair To the Editor: I am writing in support of a “yes” vote on the referendum to directly

elect the county board chairman.

By supporting this, state Rep. Jack Franks is putting what is good for McHenry County before what is politically advantageous. He should be applauded for that. With all of the political sniping between Democrats and Republicans in Washington and Springfield, a leader willing to stand up to a good-old-boy club is refreshing.

Given the power of the office to appoint committee chairs and set the board’s agenda, the officeholder must be accountable to all of the people of McHenry County.

Without this, our choices are limited to more of the same, which, looking at the tax burden and economic outlook in our community, is not an acceptable choice.

We should join Franks in putting aside petty partisanship for our common benefit.

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discriminated against? Not often, I’d think. Keep in mind that North Carolina high school student Kalei Wilson was allowed to form a chapter of Secular Student Alliance at her school only after the ACLU got involved. She recently gave up after getting death threats.

Dave Sippel Crystal Lake

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Prim will work for you

Lakewood

To the Editor: Bill Prim is the most qualified candidate running for sheriff.

Twenty-seven years ago, he began as a suburban police officer and worked his way up to commander. Along the way, he worked in a variety of positions, giving him a comprehensive résumé and understanding of law enforcement and crime. He has worked with and received numerous awards from local, state and federal agencies.

Prim cares about the citizens and taxpayers in McHenry. Just as he has done in the past, he will cut through the bureaucracy and red tape to obtain drug asset forfeiture funds.

Bill Prim will be accountable to the taxpayer, using these forfeited funds to relieve the burden on the taxpayer.

We need a sheriff that works cooperatively with other county officials, and Prim has a history of doing just that.

If you want a sheriff that works for you, vote for Bill Prim on March 18.

Response to ‘tolerance’ To the Editor: In response to Ray Cziczo’s letter (“Tolerant,” Feb. 27), I would say that politics is a game of hypocrisy, no matter which party is in power.

Are all liberals tolerant of conservatives? Of course not, but I have to roll my eyes when he writes “conservatives are content with allowing liberals to live the lives they choose in accordance with the law.”

I wonder what he thinks about the vetoed law in Arizona that allowed businesses to ban gays from shopping in their stores. What laws were those homosexuals breaking by doing their shopping? And don’t say “God’s law,” because that doesn’t count.

And, yes, liberals were being tolerant of Condoleeza Rice, Herman Cain and Allen West because we were criticizing their ideas because we disagreed with them, not because of the color of their skin. The same goes for Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell and Sharon Angle. We disagreed with their politics because we thought they were wrong, not because they were women.

Compare that to the idiocy of Ted Nugent and his “subhuman mongrel” comment about the president. I’d love to hear someone try to defend that as not racist.

Religious people love to think they are becoming marginalized.

How often are Christian groups

8THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Harriet Bardosy Richmond

Vote ‘no’ in Huntley To the Editor: Regarding, the Huntley Park District grab for $18.75 of your real estate taxes.

I have spoken with many people about the upcoming referendum by the Huntley Park District. Almost without exception they plan to

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vote against it. The one exception was a person whose grandchildren make use of the field house in Schaumburg.

In the polling booth, you may vote against it and be with the majority. Of course, you are entitled to vote for it if that is your decision.

I have only one request: Please do not pick a “yes” vote on the basis of the irrelevant fact that your taxes will not go up. They will go down substantially if this proposition is defeated.

Herm Faubl Huntley

Never buy pig in a poke To the Editor: In the good old days of selling in markets, some farmers used to offer animals in a sack or poke.

This was a sight-unseen sale.

Buyers were supposed to trust the farmers to put healthy animals into the sack. This applies to politicians too (“Senate blocks Dems’ bill boosting vets’ benefits,” Feb. 28).

But read very closely. One line of the entire article also states it includes spending issues and penalties against Iran. The block is not against vets but against a pig in a poke. How much goes to vets and how much to the other stuff?

It’s not clarified in this article nor by the media.

This is a common practice among all members of Congress (a wolf in sheep’s clothing). You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.

There are literally thousands of handouts and ulterior motives in legitimate bills, but they are totally hidden and never mentioned. It’s just how business is done in Congress.

The bigger the bill, the more that’s hidden.

Be sure to look into issues before you take a position.

As a friend of mine said, “Believe but verify.”

James Dirksen Crystal Lake

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THROW IT DEEP: QUARTERBACK AND RECEIVER TRAINING ACADEMY

VIEWS Rick Morrissey

BULLS 95, HEAT 88 (OT)

Noah the life of the party, ‘W’

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Jacobs senior quarterback Bret Mooney fends off a Conant tackler during the second quarter Nov. 1 in Algonquin. The 2013 Northwest Herald Football Player of the Year recently participated in the Throw It Deep training academy, which was started by former NFL quarterback Jeff Christensen.

Hut, hut, hard work

CHICAGO – Joakim Noah was born for this kind of game. Born to live and die with every possession.

Born to scream and rant and rage at the slightest provocation – a Heat player’s inhaling or exhaling, for example. Born to celebrate a flawless Bulls’ substitution.

You could see it in his face Sunday afternoon. Every trip up the floor was a crusade. Every call against him was an Next outrage, an injustice, a crime against vs. San Antonio, humanity. Every call 7 p.m. Tuesday, that went his way was WGN, AM-1000 good, right and quite possibly an affirmation of the American way of life.

Noah was magnificent against the team he loves to hate, getting 20 points, 12 rebounds, seven assists and five blocked shots. The Bulls’ 95-88 overtime victory over the Heat meant that the Bulls beat the Heat 95-88 in overtime, but just try telling Noah that there wasn’t more meaning to it than that.

“This is what you play basketball for,” he said. “I love it. I’m having a great time. I’m having a blast out there.

Beating Miami – I don’t care if it’s the regular season, it’s always special.”

See MORRISSEY, page B3

Former NFL QB’s academy filled will all kinds of valuable lessions RIVERSIDE – The question hung in the air like a pass floated across the middle of the field.

How much bigger was a 16inch pizza than an 8-inch pizza?

Three-dozen young football players exchanged looks, uncertain where their coach was going with this one. Certainly, Jeff Christensen knew about playing quarterback – after all, he spent eight seasons in the NFL – but what was up with the math quiz?

Among the mumbles emerged a guess: Two times bigger.

“Two times bigger?” Christensen said, his voice echoing through the gymnasium. “Who thinks a 16-inch pizza is two times bigger than an 8-inch pizza?”

Almost every hand went up.

Christensen spotted a player who did not raise his hand. He repeated the question. Finally, the quarterback coach got the

VIEWS Tom Musick answer he hoped to hear.

“It’s four times bigger!”

Christensen shouted, repeating the high school kid’s answer. “A 16-inch pizza is four times bigger than an 8-inch pizza!”

Next came the lesson’s application to football. It had something to do with footwork, about how the angles of your feet were less important the deeper your throw.

Forgive me if I was distracted.

I still was mulling over the geometry of pizza.

The truth is that Christensen’s sessions with the Throw It Deep training academy are filled all kinds of valuable lessons. Young players from across McHenry County and the rest of the Chi-

cago region gain insight from the 54-year-old who spent time with the Cincinnati Bengals, Los Angeles Rams, Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos and Philadelphia Eagles.

One of those players is Jacobs senior Bret Mooney, the 2013 Northwest Herald Football Player of the Year. Mooney will play on scholarship next season at Colgate.

While most of Mooney’s buddies slept in last weekend, the 6-foot-4, 210-pound teenager was up and going by 8:30 a.m. to head to Riverside-Brookfield High School for lessons on proper footwork and decision making in the pocket.

During one drill, wooden boxes lined the far side of the gymnasium. Each quarterback stood in front of a box and waited for the shout of a number.

“Forty-four!”

Mooney immediately leaped on to the box, then leaped off of it to his right, and then set his feet and fired a spiral across the gym.

“Eleven!”

Leap, forward, spiral.

“Thirty-two!”

Leap, reverse, shuffle, spiral.

Mooney said such drills could help him improve his footwork, which was his focus.

“My arm strength has always been there,” Mooney said. “My arm kind of compensates for my inability to move my feet as well.

I got a lot better from last year, working with Jeff, but I feel like my feet are not even halfway there yet.”

A few feet away, Huntley sophomore Anthony Binetti took part in the same drill. Binetti hopes to push for the Red Raiders’ starting quarterback job next season.

See MUSICK, page B4

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Bulls center Joakim Noah reacts after being fouled by the Miami Heat’s Greg Oden during the first half of Sunday afternoon’s game at the United Center. The Bulls won, 95-88, in overtime.

Hobby turns collector into an expert

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Michael Osacky has gone from being a casual baseball card collector to one of the hobby’s top appraisers of memorabilia.

Michael Osacky is far from being your average baseball card collector.

His story begins like many others – the recipient of a box of old cards presented to him by his grandfather as a birthday gift. But as the Buffalo Grove native started to sift through the box and discovered treasures such as a Robin Yount rookie and a vintage Ernie Banks card from the 1960s, a funny thing happened.

A hobby turned into an obsession, eventually turning the 33-year-old Chicago resident into one of the hobby’s top experts and appraisers.

Osacky founded baseballintheattic.com, a site dedicated

If you go What: Baseball in the Attic Appraisal Event When: 2 p.m. Saturday Where: Fox Lake Library (Event is free, but registration is required) Contact: Fox Lake Library, 847587- 0198

to all things baseball cards and memorabilia – a subject he will discuss during a 90-minute presentation Saturday at the Fox Lake Library.

The event begins at 2 p.m. and is free, but registration is required.

Osacky passes his knowledge on to anyone willing to listen, spending half of his library talks discussing the

history of card collecting and the other half appraising items people bring with them. Often, he admits, collectors – especially men – aren’t thrilled with the news Osacky delivers.

“It’s kind of like selling your house,” Osacky said.

“Everyone thinks what they have is worth a million dollars.”

Most times, it’s not.

“At the end of the day,” he said, “all I can do is give them my honest opinion.”

Since his collection took off, Osacky has amassed a large and valuable assortment that includes tens of thousands of cards and other memorabilia.

He considers the collection that is stored away in a safety deposit box as a means toward building for his future, provid-

ing some financial security long after working for a Chicago digital marketing agency ends.

But a big part of Osacky’s joy stemming from what has become almost a second job comes from interacting with other baseball memorabilia fanatics. Osacky quickly becomes intrigued by collections both big and small, always anxious to discover new finds he hasn’t seen before.

Still in his early 30s, Osacky is long past the stage of taking out classified ads in area newspapers searching for vintage cards, digging through people’s garages and attics while also traveling to every hotel ballroom card show he could get to.

See OSACKY, page B6

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Men’s basketball: Delaware vs.

William & Mary, 6 p.m., NBCSN Third-seeded William & Mary face off against top-seeded Delaware for the Colonial Athletic Association’s championship and an automatic NCAA tournament bid.

A youth hockey official in Cromwell, Conn., was arrested and charged with breach of peace and risk of injury to a minor for physically escorting a player off of the ice after issuing a penalty, according to a Deadspin report.

Stephen Levins was officiating a game of 13- and 14-year-olds Saturday when he called a penalty on a player. According to another player, the first player was angry and tried to hit Levins with the puck.

The three most expensive pieces of MLB memorabilia ever auctioned or sold: 1. Babe Ruth’s Jersey – $4.4 million 2. Mark McGwire’s 70th Home Run Ball – $3 million 3. Honus Wagner’s Baseball Card – $2.8 million

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Matthys excels at Ill. Senior Championships McHenry Marlin Aquatic Club swimmer Michaela Matthys won the 100-yard butterfly Friday at the Illinois Swimming Senior Championships at the University of Illinois-Chicago, but it was her time in the breaststroke that had her the most excited.

Matthys posted a personal-best 56.31 seconds in the butterfly preliminaries and came back to win the finals in 56.88. Matthys competed in the butterfly at the IHSA state finals and just missed qualifying for the consolation finals.

Her time Friday would have put her in the championship finals at IHSA state.

Matthys went out in the first 50 a little slower than she did during high school sectionals and state but was able to come back faster.

“I always worry about my second 50,” Matthys said. “I felt extremely smooth and had a lot of confidence.”

The answer simply was putting in a lot of work both in and out of the pool.

“I’ve been working on my endurance a lot in practice,” Matthys said. “My body was prepared to bring it back.”

Matthys placed 22nd in the 100 breaststroke finals but could not have been more

pleased with her performance Senior Championships, Kevin Braun was 13th (21.94) in the if she had won. She swam a 50 freestyle and Trey Schopen 1:06.41 to eclipse her personal was 22nd (1:57.97) in the 200 best by nearly three seconds. butterfly.

“I have no idea where that Alex Reinbrech, swimcame from,” Matthys said of ming for the Elgin Cyclones, her breaststroke time. led other area swimmers by The time would have put her more than 1.5 seconds fast- making it to the finals in four events. He placed fourth in er than the high school state the 500 freestyle (4:38.91), 13th qualifying standard. Matthys in the 400 individual medley did not swim breaststroke at (4:15.07), 17th in the 200 IM her IHSA sectional.

It’s even more remarkeable (1:57.47) and 20th in the 200 because Matthys has not been freestyle (1:44.53).

Melissa Rose, swimming competing or training much for the Mundelein Mustangs, in the breaststroke because placed 20th in the 100 breastit irritates her already sore knees. She did not even warm stroke (1:06.78). Bryan Haage up in breaststroke before com- placed 13th in the 800 freepeting and told Marlins coach style relay and 15th in the 400 medley relay with his Palatine Mike Lilleeng not to expect Park District teammates. much.

Note: Rhiannon Wozny, “I literally did nothing for from Crystal Lake, was left off [the breaststroke],” Matthys of the area qualifiers at the said. “[I said], ‘Coach Mike, Barringion Regional in last let’s be honest, it’s really just week’s column. She qualified a warmup for my fly.’ ” in the 200 breaststroke, 200 Lilleeng said it’s as much backstroke and 200 IM and a mental hurdle as physical. will swim with the other 14 He’s seen swimmers who are and under qualifiers at the very sick post great times Age Group State Meet on because expectations are Thursday to Sunday at UIC. lowered. “[Matthys] had a no-care attitude,” Lilleeng said. “She • Rob Smith is a sports didn’t put any pressure on writer for the Northwest herself in the breaststroke.”

Herald. Write to him at Also for the Marlins at the rsmith@shawmedia.com.

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Dixon, Iowa lose title to Nebraska The ASSOCAITED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS – When Rachel Theriot saw her teammates struggling Sunday, the sophomore point guard went into championship mode.

She took open shots, passed when warranted and willed No. 16 Nebraska (25-6) to victory.

Theriot opened the second

half by scoring the Cornhuskers’ first nine points and sealed it by accounting for six more in a decisive 8-3 run that helped the Melissa Dixon C o r n h u s k e r s outlast No. 23 Iowa, 72-65, for the Big Ten women’s basketball tournament title

– Nebraska’s first conference tourney championship.

Iowa (26-8) also should be NCAA bound even though it fell short of becoming the first Big Ten women’s team to win four times in four days in the tournament.

Johnsburg alumna Melissa Dixon scored 11 points on 4-of9 shooting from the floor for the Hawkeyes.

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BLACKHAWKS 2, SABRES 1

Kane ‘special’ in homecoming

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The Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. – First, Patrick Kane gave his family and friends something to cheer about by scoring a highlight-reel goal Sunday night in a rare trip home to Buffalo.

Then, Kane stuck around for an hour after the Blackhawks’ 2-1 victory over the Sabres, by posing for pictures and signing autographs in the stands.

As homecomings go, Kane’s was nearly complete except that his beloved grandfather, Donald Kane, was not around to see it after his death last month.

“No matter what, you’re going to miss him,” Kane said after only his fourth NHL game at Buffalo. “But life goes on, and I think more importantly, I have a lot of family here at the game that came and supported me.”

BLACKHAWKS NOTES

at Colorado, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, CSN, AM-720 Coach Joel Quenneville saw a jump during a performance in which Kane snapped a fivegame goal drought that began after his grandfather’s death.

“I thought Kane was special,” Quenneville said. “He was a threat and had the puck on his stick tonight: very dangerous and nice to see him play well here at home.”

Kane opened the scoring 3:12 in by capping a breath-taking rush. Bursting past defenseman Christian Ehrhoff, Kane snapped a shot through the legs of defenseman Chad Ruhwedel that beat goalie Jhonas Enroth over the left shoulder.

Kane nearly made it 2-1 with 8 minutes left in the second period, when he got in alone be-

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Blackhawks right winger Patrick Kane’s shot is blocked by Sabres goaltender Jhonas Enroth during the second period of Sunday’s game in Buffalo, N.Y. The Hawks won, 2-1. hind the Sabres’ defense only to have his backhander stopped

by Enroth. He also scored into an empty net, but a second after the final horn sounded.

Captain Jonathan Toews

secured the win by scoring the go-ahead goal 1:34 into the third period.

Corey Crawford stopped 20 shots, and the Hawks (38-13-14) snapped a two-game road skid.

BULLS NOTES

Rundblad Noah’s rise doesn’t surprise Heat just trying to fit in

By JOE COWLEY

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By MARK LAZERUS mlazerus@suntimes.com BUFFALO, N.Y. – David Rundblad tried not to look at his Blackhawks debut Sunday as an audition. But when there are only 18 games left until the playoffs, and you’re, at best, likely to play once every three games, it’s hard not to.

“You want to show yourself every day, every game you get to play,” Rundblad said. “And if you don’t play a lot, you might want to do too much and think too much, I guess.”

Rundblad, acquired from the Phoenix Coyotes last week, was paired with Nick Leddy.

Leddy usually is paired with the more defensive Michal Rozsival or Sheldon Brookbank, but got a taste of playing with a more offensive player in Michael Kostka.

Rundblad thought it was a good matchup.

“I think it’s going to work out,” he said. “He’s a really good player and easy to play with. He’s smart, too. So I think we’ll figure it out somehow.”

Coach Joel Quenneville said Rundblad’s been getting more comfortable in the Hawks’ system, which significantly is more uptempo than the Coyotes’ style. Rundblad doesn’t know what Quenneville has in mind for his role down the stretch, but is trying not to worry about it. He was just happy to be playing his first game since Jan. 22.

“It’s tough to not play as often as you want to, but there’s not much you can do about it,” he said. “Just keep working hard every practice, and try to keep the game habits during practice.”

Raising Kane: Patrick Kane entered Sunday’s game without a goal in five straight games – 11 straight, counting the Olympics. Kane hinted that fatigue was a factor as the Hawks enter the home stretch, but is confident he’ll be back on top of his game by the time the playoffs start in Mid-April.

“It’s been a lot of hockey lately,” he said. “You just try to stay as rested and focused as possible. We have a little time here before playoffs, so get your body ready for that and get your game to where it needs to be. It’s not like you can go into playoffs and flip a switch and turn it on, it just doesn’t happen like that. I’ll use these last 17 or 18 games to get myself ready for playoffs, and get back to the way I need to be playing.”

Raanta role: Backup goalie Antti Raanta hasn’t played since Jan. 28. With a busy March schedule, however, Quenneville said he’ll play this week at some point – presumably Friday against Nashville, then again during backto-back sets each of the next two weeks.

“We definitely want to get him some games,” Quenneville said.

CHICAGO – The Miami Heat didn’t need All-Star appearances and triple-doubles

by Joakim Noah to know that the Bulls center had reached elite status.

“He’s one of the best big men we have in our game, so it’s on the scouting report every game,” four-time MVP LeBron James said, when asked if Noah’s evolution this season was drawing more attention. “You know what he’s capable of doing both offensively and defensively. His ability to set plays, offensive rebound, defensive rebound, and defensively you know how creative and how his energy level is. We’re always attuned to his game.”

James would know.

Not only because he competed against Noah in the division, back when James was with the Cavaliers, but he’s faced him in the playoffs three times, as well as when he was on the court with

Noah last month when the Eastern Conference rallied in the fourth quarter to beat the West in the All-Star Game.

“They’re featuring him more as far as play-making in the high post, but he’s always had that skillset, so it’s not as if they haven’t done that before,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of Noah’s perceived emergence. “He’s really evolved, his game has improved. Elite players they do that, so you have to adjust.”

Noah didn’t disappoint in the Sunday win, scoring 20 points, grabbing 12 rebounds and blocking five shots.

Big picture: Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau isn’t much of a big-picture type guy, and it’s a good thing because if he thought back-to-back games against Memphis and Miami was a nasty combo to the body, well, it isn’t about to get any easier.

San Antonio, Houston, Oklahoma City, an away and home with Indiana and then Portland make up six of the next nine games for the Bulls.

“I like where we are,” Thibodeau said. “I think it brings out the best in you.

Anytime you start looking at a grouping of games, you’re not thinking about what’s really important, and that’s the game you’re looking at.”

Around the rim: James attended the jersey retirement of former teammate Zydrunas Ilgauskas in Cleveland on Saturday night, and although he still is hated by his former fan base, it’s not nearly as bad as it used to be post “decision.” “Nothing ever will compare to the first time I went back (in the 201011 season),” James said. “It was all right [Saturday]; it wasn’t bad.” ... Jimmer Fredette didn’t get any minutes for the third consecutive game.

Noah making push for MVP • MORRISSEY Continued from page B1

French Open winner Yannick Noah, who was fretting in the crowd. These two excitable guys might want to think about something to calm them down. Let’s start with aromatherapy and work our way up.

“I know he’s a nervous wreck during games and stuff,” Joakim Noah said. “I always tell him to just drink a brewski and chill.”

So this game didn’t mean anything? Tell Noah that.

“To be able to do that in front of your loved ones in Chicago, I’ll cherish this forever,” he said.

Let’s not turn this into Father and Son Day. This was Noah’s game, this is his season and these are his teammates, whom he will tell you about all day, if you let him.

He spent Sunday afternoon informing the defending NBA champions of all the different ways he was going to score and rebound on them.

“He was really telling them everything he was going to do,” Gibson said of Noah’s trash talking. “I could see in their faces he was frustrating them.”

It’s hard to picture another line of work that would accommodate Noah’s energy level. Spin-class instructor?

Human electrical transformer? Congressional filibusterer?

Enjoy this guy. There aren’t many like him. When Derrick Rose comes back – and how much of Rose comes back – then we can start discussing title aspirations.

Whether that will include Carmelo Anthony at a reduced price, who knows?

Until it all shakes out, savor Noah and, what the heck, dream along with him.

“We’re going for one thing, and that’s the championship one day,” he said. “One day, I want to party in Chicago.

I want to see what that feels like one day.”

There is a late MVP push for Noah, thanks in part to the three triple-doubles the 6-foot11 center has had the past month. With Kevin Durant averaging 31.8 points a game and LeBron James having another excellent season, it’s not going to happen, but understand the significance of Noah even being mentioned. He is not a big scorer, and he is not playing on one of the NBA’s best teams. Some of what he does can be found in the box score, but much of it can’t.

On Sunday, whenever Noah found himself guarding either James or Dwyane Wade via a switch, his defensive crouch became more pronounced. Bring it on, he seemed to be saying.

With less than six minutes left in the second quarter, Noah stopped James, hustled down court and eventually got fouled after an all-out effort on the boards. He stomped and screamed out of sheer joy. A sold-out United Center threatened to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.

Does it hurt the story that the Heat went on a 15-0 run after that? Probably, so let’s ignore it.

One keepsake: Noah blocking James’ shot in the fourth quarter, catching the ball and in one motion throwing a perfect bounce pass to Taj Gibson, whose thundering dunk gave the Bulls a two-point lead. How many big men can do what Noah did there? Yeah, get back to me on that.

The crowd was electric Sunday because Noah turned on his amp while James (8 of 23 from the floor) played an acoustic set, thanks to Jimmy Butler’s suffocating defense.

Noah got a technical in the third after the Heat’s Mario Chalmers refused to give him the ball after the whistle.

• Rick Morrissey is a That’s how Sunday was. Testy. Chicago Sun-Times Every now and then, Noah columnist. Wrtie to him at would point to his dad, former rmorrissey@suntimes.com.

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WHITE SOX SPRING TRAINING ANALYSIS

CUBS SPRING TRAINING

Garcia acquisition panning out for Sox

New Cubs look to new start

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN dvanschouwen@suntimes.com PHOENIX – White Sox coach Daryl Boston got an eyeful of Avisail Garcia when the budding star joined the team for 42 games last season, and like everyone else with 20/20 baseball vision, he loved what he saw.

Boston was really looking forward to seeing Garcia, though, in spring training.

“During the season we just let him play to see what we had,” said Boston, the first Next base coach who vs. Milwau- works closely with outfielders. kee, 3:05 “When you get p.m. Monhim here one on day, MLBN one, in drills, and see him really working hard on stuff, you get to see the potential he has.

We like the way he goes about his business.

“We need him to have a big year offensively, but some of the stuff he adds in the outfield – he’s constantly aware of positioning, where he is – you get an idea of what he’s about and what he can do.”

You get the idea general manager Rick Hahn highfived his staff when the Sox, whose season had blown up on them early last season, were able to unload Jake Peavy’s salary in a three-team deal at the trade deadline that reeled

QBs range from kids to NFL guys • MUSICK Continued from page B1 In gray shorts and a blue T-shirt with “BELIEVE THE HYPE” printed on the front, Binetti focused on achieving the perfect technique with his feet, knees and hips. Christensen emphasizes the same fundamentals with all of his quarterbacks, whether they are 10-year-old beginners or NFL players such as Matt Blanchard, Chandler Harnish and (soon) Jimmy Garoppolo.

“It’s cool to see them,” said Binetti, who has attended Throw It Deep for three years.

“Because they’re at the highest level, and they’ve been where we are now.”

Mooney first attended Throw It Deep in seventh and eighth grade and returned as a junior, which he said was a big reason for his strides forward last season. He has worked out with Blanchard 20 or 30 times and Garoppolo once.

“When you watch a perfect rep, it’s amazing,” Mooney said. “To try and copy their footwork and everything, you just know that you’ve got a long way to go and you can be a lot better than you already are.”

That’s the main lesson at Throw It Deep, beyond all of the talk about pizza and footwork and everything in between. However good you are, you still can be better.

At the end of the session, Christensen’s players grabbed seats on the gym floor as their coach offered some parting thoughts.

“Whenever you think you’ve arrived, you’re getting passed up,” Christensen barked at his players in typical tough-love fashion.

“It’s that simple. The second you think you’re getting good, you’re getting surpassed.

“It’s not a perfect world.

It’s not a perfect game. The only thing that’s perfect is if you get up and go to work.”

And so they do.

• Northwest Herald sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at tmusick@shawmedia.com and on Twitter @tcmusick.

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White Sox right fielder Avisail Garcia smiles during spring training Feb. 19 in Glendale, Ariz. in the 22-year-old right fielder from the Detroit Tigers. Here was a raw talent in a big body with a big future fitting perfectly in Hahn’s plan to build a young core aimed at sustainable success. The trade, which also brought a couple of pitching prospects, came together late, and it made all three teams happy. The Red Sox got Peavy for their pennant push and the Tigers got slick-fielding shortstop Jose Iglesias.

When first baseman Jose Abreu signed in the offseason, Hahn had two big rebuilding blocks in place. Although the jury will be out on Abreu, 27, until after he sees a steady diet of major league pitching for at least a half season, we’ve seen enough of Garcia to know that he has the goods.

“There isn’t a whole lot he can’t do on the baseball field, I can tell you that,” Boston

said. “He has plus power to all fields, he has above average speed for a big man, and an above-average throwing arm. It’s just a matter of him getting consistent at-bats.

Everybody in the organization believes he has a chance to be an All-Star for a long time.”

Abreu is big at 6-foot-3, 245 pounds, but Garcia, even standing alongside Abreu at 6-4, 240 strikes more “just look at that guy” reactions with an imposing baseball frame.

“He’s big and strong, but you don’t notice how fast he is just running the bases,” manager Robin Ventura said.

“He’s a big kid who could play center field. At-bat wise, he’s not just swinging as hard as he can. He can hit for average and there’s not that many people who are that big and can control that and still be able to have the kind of power he has.

He’s a unique individual.”

What’s more, Garcia doesn’t play like a prima donna. He runs hard on groundouts, even the routine ones.

“Yes, for a young kid, you like the energy he provides,” Boston said. “That’s one of the things we’re looking for. He plays the game hard. It remains to be seen what he can do till the games are played, but the potential there is tremendous.”

This year, Garcia has a greater comfort level in the clubhouse, which he says is now like a home, and in the city of Chicago.

“That’s very important for a baseball player,” he said.

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gwittenmyer@suntimes.com MESA, Ariz. – Chris Valaika was in New Orleans and healthy again, hitting as well as he had all year, when he got the spirit-crushing news that seems incomprehensible even six months later.

The Miami Marlins’ front office and field staff made the move to call him up from the minors to replace the injured Placido Polanco – only to have owner Jeffrey Loria veto the move over a grudge stemming from Loria-favorite Tino Martinez’s resignation as hitting coach a few weeks earlier.

“It was frustrating to hear that,” said Valaika, a versatile infielder trying to win a job with the Cubs this spring.

“I was in Triple-A, so I don’t know all the behind-thescenes things that go on with those decisions. … After a lot of things that went on, I wanted to go somewhere else.”

Consider it the modern-day Cubs’ version of No-Moneyball, where the Cubs are starting to exploit market inefficiencies one team at a time.

In this case, they’ll take advantage of what widely is considered the most dysfunctional ownership in baseball if they get decent value from Valaika or another guy caught up in the Martinez fiasco, Justin Ruggiano.

The Miami Herald reported that Loria overruled his baseball department on Valaika’s promotion because of the infielder’s role in the player-abuse complaints against Martinez that led to the resignation once the allegations were made public. Martinez, hired directly by Loria before the season, was involved in

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verbal and physical altercations with several players – including Ruggiano – according to Herald reports.

“It was unfortante,” said Valaika, who made the bigleague club out of spring training last season and stayed there until suffering a wrist injury in May. “I felt Chris Valaika like I played well, and there were a lot of great people over there. It was just tough at the end of the year.

“Once the Justin end of the year Ruggiano came, I made the decision I wanted to be elsewhere, too. So my agent and I put a plan together, and I was really lucky to land here.”

Valaika, 28, who was signed as a minor-league free agent, is a natural middle infielder who also played parts of two seasons with Cincinnati. He has played all four infield spots.

Ruggiano, 31, an outfielder acquired in a December trade for Brian Bogusevic, has impressed so far, going 7 for his past 10 at-bats, including 3 for 3 Sunday with his second homer of the spring.

“I have no idea about whether that situation (with Martinez) played into the fact that we’re over here now,” Ruggiano said, “but I dealt

with that situation last year, and the awkwardness that it creates for the clubhouse, it’s something that can put a strain amongst the guys.

That’s something I don’t really want to revisit.”

Ruggiano, who spoke to Miami media in defense of teammates, said he has since talked with Martinez and made peace.

“Tino and I, if we had our differences, we solved them,” Ruggiano said. “Tino and I, we’re fine, and I wish him nothing but the best.”

Maybe it’s no accident that Ruggiano has looked and felt unusually comfortable at the plate this spring, compared to past springs. Looking to “erase last year” and start fresh in Chicago, he said he hit more during the offseason than he has in 10 years.

And he’s found a strong rapport with new Cubs hitting coach Bill Mueller and assistant hitting coach Mike Brumley.

“There’s something about just me being on the same page with my hitting coach this year and establishing a good routine,” said Ruggiano, who hit .222 with 18 homers – and a 0-for-42 skid that fell three short of the major-league record. “[Mueller’s] very positive and energetic. So far he’s created a great work environment. As a hitter, that’s all you could ask for from a hitting coach.”

Nobody figures to get more out of a fresh start than Valaika, who just wants to know he has a chance to earn a place.

“It wasn’t meant to be there,” said Valaika, who expects “added fire” if he gets to face the Marlins. “Hopefully, it’s meant to be here.”

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GOLF ROUNDUP

FIVE-DAY PLANNER

Reed on a roll, wins at Doral The ASSOCIATED PRESS DORAL, Fla. – Patrick Reed felt he belongs among the best in the world. He beat them all Sunday in the Cadillac Championship.

Dressed in a red shirt that he always wears in the final round – with Tiger Woods in the group ahead of him – Reed made back-toback birdies early on the front nine to build a big lead and showed off a great short game when the pressure was building on the new Blue Monster at Doral.

Equipped with a two-shot lead, the 23-year-old Texan played the final hole conservatively. He two-putted for bogey and closed with an even-par 72 for a one-shot victory over Bubba Watson and Jamie Donaldson of Wales.

Reed became the youngest winner of a World Golf Championship, his third win in his past 14 tournaments.

Woods, only three shots behind going into the final round in his best chance this year to win a

AUTO RACING

Sunday At Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, Nev. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 267 laps, 134.6 rating, 48 points.

2. (14) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 267, 121.7, 43.

3. (21) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 267, 108.1, 42.

4. (1) Joey Logano, Ford, 267, 109.8, 41.

5. (11) Carl Edwards, Ford, 267, 88.2, 40.

6. (5) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 267, 124.8, 39.

7. (10) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 267, 94, 37.

8. (13) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 267, 91.2, 36.

9. (15) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 267, 102.7, 35.

10. (29) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 267, 92.6, 35.

11. (20) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 267, 108.1, 34.

12. (27) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 267, 83.1, 33.

13. (9) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 267, 83.1, 31.

14. (12) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 267, 96.6, 30.

15. (7) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 267, 76.4, 29.

16. (4) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 267, 82.4, 28.

17. (19) Jeff Burton, Toyota, 267, 71.1, 27.

18. (18) A J Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 267, 67.7, 26.

19. (17) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 266, 76.6, 25.

20. (34) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 266, 65.9, 0.

21. (22) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 266, 58, 23.

22. (25) Greg Biffle, Ford, 266, 52.5, 22.

23. (3) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 266, 84.4, 21.

24. (43) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 266, 56, 20.

25. (8) Aric Almirola, Ford, 264, 60.3, 19.

26. (23) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 264, 62.9, 18.

27. (6) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 264, 68.8, 17.

28. (30) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 264, 54.6, 16.

29. (38) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 264, 50.8, 15.

30. (33) David Gilliland, Ford, 264, 54.1, 14.

31. (37) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 264, 42.1, 13.

32. (26) David Ragan, Ford, 263, 45.2, 12.

33. (24) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 263, 40.3, 11.

34. (40) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 262, 41.7, 10.

35. (39) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 261, 33.5, 9.

36. (28) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 261, 41.5, 8.

37. (36) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 259, 33.1, 7.

38. (41) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, 258, 27.3, 6.

39. (42) Travis Kvapil, Ford, 253, 27.9, 5.

40. (32) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 240, 28.9, 4.

41. (16) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 237, 92.4, 4.

42. (31) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 212, 27.9, 2.

43. (35) Michael McDowell, Ford, engine, 141, 33.4, 1.

TRANSACTIONS PROS BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reassigned RHP Fabio Castillo, RHP Mike Wright, and INF Chris Marrero to their minor league camp.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned LHPs Logan Darnell, Edgar Ibarra and Brooks Raley and RHP Trevor May to Rochester (IL); 1B Kennys Vargas to New Britain (EL); INF Jorge Polanco and OF Max Kepler to Fort Myers (FSL). Reassigned RHPs Alex Meyer, Lester Oliveros and Yohan Pino; Cs Kyle Knudson, Matt Koch and Stuart Turner; OFs Byron Buxton and Chris Rahl and INF Miguel Sano to their minor league camp.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Jose Ramirez to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Reassigned LHP Francisco Rondon to their minor league camp.

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Named Chris Speier special assistant to the president of baseball operations and general manager.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Signed SS Aledmys Diaz.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Reassigned RHP Gabriel Alfaro, C Jeff Howell, LHP Tyler Robertson and 1B-3B Matt Skole to their minor-league camp.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS — Reassigned G Troy Daniels to Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).

MIAMI HEAT — Assigned G DeAndre Liggins to Sioux Falls (NBADL) for one game.

TORONTO RAPTORS — Recalled G Dwight Buycks from Bakersfield (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League BEARS — Agreed to terms with DT Nate Collins and QB Jordan Palmer on one-year contracts.

NEW YORK JETS — Released CB Antonio Cromartie.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Recalled G Cristopher Nilstorp from Texas (AHL).

PHOENIX COYOTES — Recalled F Andy Miele from Portland (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Agreed to terms with F Yanni Gourde.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned F Chris Brown and F Casey Wellman to Hershey (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Toronto LW Jamie Devane one game for his actions in a March 8 game against Lake Erie.

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Bakersfield’s Chris Collins pending a review and fined him and teammate Laurent Brossoit undisclosed amounts for their actions in a March 8 game at Alaska.

COLLEGES IUPUI — Fired men’s basketball coach Todd Howard.

career, and his 78 was his worst Sunday score ever.

Reed is expected to go to No. 20 in the world ranking. In his own ranking, he feels he belongs in the top five. He cited an amateur career that includes going 6-0 in matches to lead Augusta State to two NCAA titles, followed by three PGA Tour wins in seven months.

“I don’t see a lot of guys that have done that besides Tiger Woods and the legends of the game,” Reed said. “I believe in myself, especially with how hard I’ve worked. I’m one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I’ve proven myself.”

AP photo Puerto Rico Open: At Rio Grande, Patrick Reed poses with his wife Jus- Puerto Rico, Chesson Hadley won tine and The Gene Sarazen Cup after for his first PGA Tour victory, holdwinning the Cadillac Championship on ing off Danny Lee by two strokes in Sunday in Doral, Fla. wind gusting to 25 mph.

Chile Classic: At Santiago, Chile, tournament, said his back flared up Canada’s Adam Hadwin won his after an awkward shot out of the first Web.com Tour title, birdieing bunker on the sixth hole. He failed the final two holes for a one-stroke to make a birdie in the final round victory over Australia’s Alistair for the first time in his PGA Tour Presnell.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct x-Indiana 46 17 .730 d-Miami 43 17 .717 d-Toronto 35 26 .574 Bulls 35 28 .556 Washington 33 29 .532 Brooklyn 31 30 .508 Charlotte 29 34 .460 Atlanta 26 35 .426

GB — 1½ 10 11 12½ 14 17 19

Detroit 24 39 .381 New York 24 40 .375 Cleveland 24 40 .375 Boston 22 41 .349 Orlando 19 45 .297 Philadelphia 15 47 .242 Milwaukee 12 50 .194 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct d-San Antonio 46 16 .742 d-Oklahoma City 46 17 .730 Houston 44 19 .698 d-L.A. Clippers 44 20 .688 Portland 42 21 .667 Golden State 40 24 .625 Dallas 38 26 .594 Memphis 36 26 .581

22 22½ 22½ 24 27½ 30½ 33½

Phoenix Minnesota Denver New Orleans Utah Sacramento L.A. Lakers

10 15 19 20½ 24½ 24½ 25

36 31 27 26 22 22 22

26 31 35 37 41 41 42

.581 .500 .435 .413 .349 .349 .344

GB — ½ 2½ 3 4½ 7 9 10

d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot Sunday’s Games Bulls 95, Miami 88, OT L.A. Lakers 114, Oklahoma City 110 New Orleans 111, Denver 107, OT Brooklyn 104, Sacramento 89 Boston 118, Detroit 111 Toronto 111, Minnesota 104 Houston 118, Portland 113, OT Dallas 105, Indiana 94 Golden State 113, Phoenix 107 Monday’s Games Denver at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Washington at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Orlando at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Utah, 8 p.m.

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

Tuesday’s Games San Antonio at Bulls, 7 p.m.

Boston at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Houston at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Portland at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

BULLS 95, HEAT 88, OT MIAMI (88) James 8-23 0-0 17, Battier 0-2 0-0 0, Bosh 6-10 0-0 15, Chalmers 1-4 7-7 9, Wade 7-16 11-12 25, Andersen 1-2 0-0 2, Allen 2-5 1-1 7, Beasley 1-5 0-0 2, Cole 4-7 2-2 11, Oden 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-74 21-22 88.

CHICAGO (95) Dunleavy 4-8 0-0 8, Boozer 4-14 1-2 9, Noah 9-16 2-4 20, Hinrich 5-11 0-0 11, Butler 4-15 6-6 16, Snell 0-1 0-0 0, Gibson 3-11 1-3 7, Augustin 8-13 2-2 22, Mohammed 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 38-90 12-17 95.

Miami Chicago

19 24 24 19 2 - 88 21 16 22 27 9 - 95

3-Point Goals–Miami 7-20 (Bosh 3-5, Allen 2-3, Cole 1-2, James 1-3, Chalmers 0-1, Battier 0-2, Wade 0-2, Beasley 0-2), Chicago 7-19 (Augustin 4-6, Butler 2-6, Hinrich 1-3, Snell 0-1, Dunleavy 0-3).

Fouled Out–None. Rebounds–Miami 47 (Andersen 13), Chicago 55 (Noah 12).

Assists–Miami 20 (James 8), Chicago 25 (Noah 7). Total Fouls–Miami 21, Chicago 18. Technicals–James, Butler, Noah, Chicago defensive three second. A–22,028 (20,917).

HOCKEY

GOLF

NHL

WGC

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF St. Louis 64 44 14 6 94 211 Blackhawks 65 38 13 14 90 223 Colorado 64 41 18 5 87 196 Minnesota 64 34 22 8 76 158 Dallas 64 31 23 10 72 185 Winnipeg 65 30 28 7 67 180 Nashville 64 26 28 10 62 152 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF Anaheim 64 43 14 7 93 207 San Jose 65 41 17 7 89 199 Los Angeles 65 37 22 6 80 159 Phoenix 64 29 24 11 69 177 Vancouver 66 29 27 10 68 153 Calgary 64 25 32 7 57 150 Edmonton 65 22 35 8 52 162 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Boston 64 42 17 5 89 204 Montreal 66 35 24 7 77 166 Toronto 65 34 23 8 76 193 Tampa Bay 64 34 24 6 74 183 Detroit 64 29 22 13 71 171 Ottawa 64 28 25 11 67 182 Florida 64 24 33 7 55 156 Buffalo 64 19 37 8 46 128 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Pittsburgh 63 42 17 4 88 201 N.Y. Rangers 65 35 26 4 74 171 Philadelphia 64 33 24 7 73 183 Columbus 64 33 26 5 71 186 Washington 65 30 25 10 70 191 New Jersey 65 28 24 13 69 161 Carolina 64 27 28 9 63 160 N.Y. Islanders 66 24 33 9 57 181

CADILLAC CHAMPIONSHIP GA 145 172 170 157 179 189 191 GA 157 157 137 185 174 191 212 GA 143 166 198 167 179 209 206 188 GA 157 162 188 178 197 167 184 224

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

Sunday’s Games Blackhawks 2, Buffalo 1 St. Louis 3, Minnesota 2, SO N.Y. Rangers 3, Detroit 0 Boston 5, Florida 2 Los Angeles 4, Edmonton 2 Monday’s Games Pittsburgh at Washington, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

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

Columbus at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at Calgary, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Toronto at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Nashville at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

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

Detroit at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Washington at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Toronto at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

BLACKHAWKS 2, SABRES 1 Chicago Buffalo

1 1

0 0

1 — 2 0 — 1

First Period–1, Chicago, Kane 28 (Sharp, Oduya), 3:12. 2, Buffalo, Stafford 11 (Conacher, Ennis), 9:11. Penalties– Saad, Chi (tripping), 4:39; Ennis, Buf (hooking), 5:23; Oduya, Chi (tripping), 19:54.

Second Period–None. Penalties–Kruger, Chi (high-sticking), 3:35; D’Agostini, Buf (holding), 5:45; D’Agostini, Buf (interference), 14:12; Ruhwedel, Buf (hooking), 17:37.

Third Period–3, Chicago, Toews 25 (Saad, Shaw), 1:34. Penalties–Regin, Chi (tripping), 5:07; Ehrhoff, Buf (slashing), 8:51; Hjalmarsson, Chi (hooking), 14:28.

Shots on Goal–Chicago 11-13-7–31.

Buffalo 8-5-8–21.

Power-play opportunities–Chicago 0 of 5; Buffalo 0 of 5.

Goalies–Chicago, C.Crawford 25-11-10 (21 shots-20 saves). Buffalo, Enroth 4-14-5 (31-29).

A–19,070 (19,070). T–2:23.

Referees–Dean Morton, Mark Lemelin. Linesmen–Greg Devorski, Mark Shewchyk.

Sunday At Trump National Doral (Blue Monster) Doral, Fla. Purse: $9 million Yardage: 7,481; Par: 72 Final $1,530,000 Patrick Reed 68-75-69-72—284 -4 $753,000 Jamie Donaldson 74-70-71-70—285 -3 Bubba Watson 73-72-72-68—285 -3 $395,000 Dustin Johnson 69-74-73-72—288 E Richard Sterne 74-73-70-71—288 E $248,333 Thongchai Jaidee 73-74-74-68—289 +1 Stephen Gallacher 75-75-70-69—289 +1 Bill Haas 73-76-69-71—289 +1 $151,250 Jason Dufner 69-77-68-76—290 +2 Hunter Mahan 69-74-71-76—290 +2 Graeme McDowell 73-71-73-73—290 +2 Charl Schwartzel 70-76-76-68—290 +2 $110,000 Miguel A. Jimenez 70-77-69-75—291 +3 Matt Kuchar 69-74-74-74—291 +3 Joost Luiten 76-72-71-72—291 +3 $90,667 Jonas Blixt 79-72-75-66—292 +4 George Coetzee 74-74-73-71—292 +4 Sergio Garcia 74-76-73-69—292 +4 Scott Hend 72-76-73-71—292 +4 Henrik Stenson 73-76-74-69—292 +4 Gary Woodland 72-78-71-71—292 +4 Harris English 69-77-74-72—292 +4 Zach Johnson 70-75-71-76—292 +4 Phil Mickelson 74-75-69-74—292 +4 $76,000 Luke Donald 70-82-72-69—293 +5 Rory McIlroy 70-74-75-74—293 +5 Frncsco Mlinari 69-75-76-73—293 +5 Ryan Moore 70-79-69-75—293 +5 Adam Scott 75-73-72-73—293 +5 Kevin Streelman 75-74-72-72—293 +5 Peter Uihlein 73-77-71-72—293 +5 Jimmy Walker 73-77-67-76—293 +5 Tiger Woods 76-73-66-78—293 +5 $68,500 Graham DeLaet 78-72-70-74—294 +6 Hyung-Sung Kim 72-74-74-74—294 +6 Hideki Matsuyama 72-77-71-74—294 +6 Justin Rose 74-77-70-73—294 +6 Jordan Spieth 73-79-73-69—294 +6 Lee Westwood 75-79-70-70—294 +6 $63,500 Darren Fichardt 73-78-72-72—295 +7 Branden Grace 75-74-69-77—295 +7 Chris Kirk 75-71-76-73—295 +7 Louis Oosthuizen 72-78-71-74—295 +7 $60,500 Thomas Bjorn 75-75-73-73—296 +8 Rickie Fowler 76-75-74-71—296 +8 $59,000 Brandt Snedeker 73-73-75-76—297 +9 $57,000 Russell Henley 72-78-75-73—298 +10 Webb Simpson 80-78-70-70—298 +10 Kevin Stadler 77-76-72-73—298 +10 $54,500 Keegan Bradley 74-76-75-74—299 +11 Billy Horschel 77-78-71-73—299 +11 $52,500 Ernie Els 75-78-73-74—300 +12 Ian Poulter 71-78-73-78—300 +12 $51,000 Brendon de Jonge 76-79-74-72—301 +13 Gonzalo Fdez-Cstno 77-77-77-70—301+13 Boo Weekley 75-75-78-73—301 +13 $50,000 Steve Stricker 77-78-71-76—302 +14 $49,250 Roberto Castro 74-78-78-73—303 +15 Martin Kaymer 75-80-73-75—303 +15 $48,250 Jin Jeong 75-75-78-77—305 +17 Matteo Manassero 76-76-74-79—305 +17 $47,000 Victor Dubuisson 72-81-75-78—306 +18 Jim Furyk 78-77-75-76—306 +18 D.A. Points 82-76-74-74—306 +18 $46,000 Dawie van der Walt 81-83-71-75—310 +22 $45,500 Brett Rumford 83-79-77-74—313 +25 $45,000 Kiradech Aphbrnrt 74-82-79-79—314 +26

MONDAY

TEAM

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

FRIDAY

THURSDAY

at Colorado 8:30 p.m.

CSN AM-720 SAN ANTONIO 7 p.m.

WGN AM-1000

NASHVILLE 7 p.m.

CSN AM-720 HOUSTON 6 p.m.

CSN, TNT AM-1000

at San Francisco* 3:05 p.m.

COLORADO* 3:05 p.m.

at Seattle* 9:05 p.m.

MLBN

at Milwaukee* 3:05 p.m.

MLBN

TEXAS* 3:05 p.m.

at San Francisco 3:05 p.m.

LOS ANGELES* 3:05 p.m.

at Los Angeles* 3:05 p.m.

CLEVELAND* 3:05 p.m.

CSN

Next game: Saturday TEXAS 7 p.m.

Next game: Sunday at Portland 2 p.m. *Preseason

ON TAP MONDAY WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

TV/Radio MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 6 p.m.: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, championship, Iona vs. Manhattan, at Springield, Mass., ESPN2 6 p.m.: Colonial Athletic Association, championship, Delaware vs. William & Mary, at Baltimore, NBCSN 8 p.m.: West Coast Conference, semiinal, San Francisco vs. BYU, at Las Vegas, ESPN 8 p.m.: Southern Conference, championship, Western Carolina vs. Wofford, at Asheville, N.C., EPSN2 10:30 p.m.: West Coast Conference, semiinal, Gonzaga vs. Saint Mary’s, at Las Vegas, ESPN2

1 p.m.: Metro Atlantic Conference, championship game, Quinnipiac vs. Marist, ESPNU 3 p.m.: Big East Conference, semiinal, St. John’s vs.

Creighton, at Rosemont, FS1 3 p.m.: America East Conference, championship game, Stony Brook vs. Albany, ESPNU 5:30 p.m.: Big East Conference, semiinal, DePaul vs.

Marquette, at Rosemont, FS1 6 p.m.: American Athletic Conference, championship, UConn vs. Louisville, at Uncasville, Conn., ESPN 8 p.m.: Big 12 Conference, championship, Baylor vs.

West Virginia, at Oklahoma City, FS1

SOCCER 2:55 p.m.: Premier League, Sunderand at Liverpool, NBCSN

PREPS

WINTER PARALYMPICS 11 a.m.: Events TBA (same-day tape), NBCSN 1 a.m. (Tuesday): Biathlon, NBCSN

BETTING ODDS

BOYS BASKETBALL

GLANTZ-CULVER LINE

PLAYOFFS

Men’s College Basketball FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG Delaware 3 William & Mary West Coast Conference At Las Vegas Semifinals Gonzaga 5 Saint Mary’s (Cal) BYU 4½ San Francisco Mid-American Conference First Round at Ohio 13½ Ball St. at Miami (Ohio) 2 Kent St. at E. Michigan 12 Cent. Michigan at N. Illinois 3 Bowling Green Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference At Springfield, Mass.

Championship Iona 1 Manhattan Summit League At Sioux Falls, S.D. Semifinals N. Dakota St. 6 Denver S. Dakota St. 2½ IPFW Southern Conference At Asheville, N.C.

Class 3A

HAMPSHIRE SECTIONAL Semifinals Tuesday, March 11 Kaneland vs. Rockford Lutheran, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 12 Marian Central vs. Sycamore, 7 p.m.

Friday, March 14 Sectional Championship, 7 p.m.

Class 4A

ELGIN SECTIONAL Semifinals Tuesday, March 11 Huntley vs. Rockford Auburn, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 12 Jacobs vs. South Elgin, 7 p.m.

Friday, March 14 Sectional Championship, 7 p.m.

Championship Wofford 2 W. Carolina Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference At Norfolk, Va. First Round Norfolk St. 11 Md.-E. Shore Savannah St. 9 SC State NBA FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG at Charlotte 4½ (213) Denver at Miami 7 (204) Washington at New York 14½ (211) Philadelphia at Brooklyn 3 (194½) Toronto at Utah 1 (206½) Atlanta Orlando 2½ (206½) at Milwaukee at L.A. Clippers 9 (222½) Phoenix NHL FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Pittsburgh -130 at Washington +110 at Ottawa -140 Nashville +120 at Tampa Bay -150 Phoenix +130 at Dallas -130 Columbus +110 at Colorado -170 Winnipeg +150 Los Angeles -150 at Calgary +130 at Anaheim -200 Toronto +170 at Vancouver -180 N.Y. Islanders +160

SOCCER

BASEBALL MLB SPRING TRAINING AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Cleveland 9 1 Baltimore 8 2 Seattle 10 3 Tampa Bay 5 2 New York 7 4 Oakland 6 4 Minnesota 5 4 Detroit 6 5 Kansas City 5 5 Toronto 5 6 Houston 4 6 Los Angeles 4 6 White Sox 3 5 Boston 3 7 Texas 2 7 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Washington 7 3 Miami 6 3 Pittsburgh 7 4 San Francisco 7 4 Arizona 7 6 Colorado 6 6 Milwaukee 6 7 Cubs 5 6 New York 4 5 Los Angeles 4 6 San Diego 3 6 Cincinnati 4 9 St. Louis 2 5 Philadelphia 2 8 Atlanta 2 9

Pct .900 .800 .769 .714 .636 .600 .556 .545 .500 .455 .400 .400 .375 .300 .222 Pct .700 .667 .636 .636 .538 .500 .462 .455 .444 .400 .333 .308 .286 .200 .182

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

Sunday’s Games Oakland 2, White Sox 2, tie

Cubs 10, Milwaukee (ss) 8 Minnesota 1, Philadelphia 1, tie N.Y. Yankees 3, Tampa Bay 3, tie, 10 innings Washington 11, St. Louis 1 Baltimore 9, Pittsburgh (ss) 2 Detroit 3, Miami 1 Houston 4, Toronto 3 Boston 4, Pittsburgh (ss) 1 N.Y. Mets 8, Atlanta 2 L.A. Angels 3, Cincinnati 1 Seattle 9, Texas 8 Cleveland 4, Milwaukee (ss) 2 Colorado 10, Kansas City 1 San Francisco 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Arizona 2, San Diego 2, tie, 10 innings Monday’s Games Cubs vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

White Sox vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 3:05 p.m.

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

Atlanta vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Detroit vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

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

Cincinnati vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Seattle (ss) at Peoria, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Houston vs. Washington at Viera, Fla., 5:05 p.m.

Seattle (ss) vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 9:10 p.m.

MLS CHIVAS 3, FIRE 2 Chicago Chivas USA

0 0

2 3

— 2 — 3

First half–None.

Second half–1, Chivas USA, Torres 1 (penalty kick), 56th minute. 2, Chivas USA, McNamara 1 (Barrera, Rosales), 59th. 3, Chicago, Joya 1, 64th. 4, Chicago, Amarikwa 1, 70th. 5, Chivas USA, Burling 1 (Rosales), 88th.

Goalies–Chicago, Sean Johnson; Chivas USA, Dan Kennedy.

Yellow Cards–Burling, Chivas USA, 40th; Segares, Chicago, 55th; Duka, Chicago, 61st; Bocanegra, Chivas USA, 77th; Joya, Chicago, 78th.

Referee–William Anderson. Assistant Referees–Jairo Morales. Jose da Silva.

4th Official–Javier Santos.

A–8,320 (27,000) Sunday’s Games Chivas USA 3, Fire 2 Saturday, March 15 New England at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.

Colorado at New York, 3 p.m.

Toronto FC at Seattle FC, 3:30 p.m.

Montreal at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

FC Dallas at Sporting Kansas City, 7:30 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 16 Fire at Portland, 2 p.m.

Vancouver at Chivas USA, 6 p.m.

SPORTS

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NASCAR SPRINT CUP

Keselowski edges Junior

By GREG BEACHAM The Associated Press LAS VEGAS – Dale Earnhardt Jr. knew he probably didn’t have enough fuel to finish. Being in Vegas, he decided to gamble anyway.

And when Earnhardt’s tank went bust on the final lap, Brad Keselowski was right there to clean up.

Keselowski surged ahead when Earnhardt ran out of fuel, claiming a dramatic victory Sunday in the NASCAR race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Earnhardt’s Chevy sputtered and slowed out of the second turn, and Keselowski roared past him on the backstretch in his Penske Ford for the first weekend sweep in his career. Keselowski followed up Saturday’s Nationwide Series victory with his first Las Vegas Cup win, doing it in exhilarating fashion against the friend and mentor who gave him his first big break in racing.

“That’s what you live for as a driver, at least I do,” Keselowski said. “Those moments where you’re side by side, and you lay it all out on the race-

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Brad Keselowski holds up the Kobalt 400 trophy after winning Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in Las Vegas. Keselowski overtook Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the last lap when Earnhardt ran out of fuel. track and bring back the car with the tires smoking, engine smoking, and you’re worn out inside because you gave it all you had. It was one of those races there at the end.”

Keselowski knew all about the fuel shortage faced by Earnhardt and Carl Edwards, who both made their final pit stops about 10 laps before him.

So Keselowski decided to force the issue, getting around Edwards and pushing for the lead so Earnhardt would be forced to abandon his conservative, fuel-saving lines.

“I felt like we could run him down,” Keselowski said about the driver who put him in his first Nationwide ride. “He was going to have to burn fuel to

keep me behind him. At that point, it was just a matter of whether a yellow (flag) came out or not, because it was just a ticking time bomb. It worked in our favor today.”

Earnhardt finished second and didn’t regret it, secure in his overall position thanks to the new rules in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, which puts increased emphasis on wins. Still, Earnhardt and his Hendrick Motorsports ride were just a few ounces of fuel shy of earning their second victory in three races to start the season.

When Earnhardt sat down for his post-race news conference in front of two cans of his sponsor’s energy drink, he picked up one can wistfully: “That’s all we needed, just 16 ounces.”

The Daytona 500 champion was disappointed, but not discouraged after his spectacular start to the season. He finished second last week at Phoenix.

“We weren’t supposed to make it,” Earnhardt said. “We were trying to save as much as we can and make it work, but we knew we were short. We wouldn’t have finished second if we didn’t have that strategy.”

Grayslake Central AD Gertz moving to D-C Grayslake Central athletic director Steve Gertz will be switching schools, but is not leaving the Fox Valley Conference.

Gertz is on the agenda for District 300’s school board meeting Monday night to be hired as Dundee-Crown’s new AD. He will replace retiring Dick Storm.

Gertz and his family live in D-300 boundaries and has been Grayslake Central’s AD since 2012. The hiring will mean Gertz moves from the FVC Fox Divison to the FVC Valley.

Gertz did not want to comment on the hiring until after Monday’s board meeting.

Lions owner Ford dies DETROIT – William Clay Ford was born into a fortune and spent much of his life staying away from fame as he steered the family business and owned an NFL franchise. The man reverently referred to as Mr. Ford, the last surviving grandchild of automotive pioneer Henry Ford and owner of the Detroit Lions, died Sunday. He was 88.

– Staff, wire reports

Osacky: Curator of history • OSACKY Continued from page B1 At the shows, Osacky traveled from table to table, asking vendors to tell him about specific cards. He learned what made cards valuable and eventually how to self-appraise items – a talent that he has used to put monetary value on collections for the families of former pro athletes such as former NBA player and Bulls coach and color

commentator Johnny “Red” Kerr.

Long hours of careful study and research have turned Osacky into what he is today.

“That’s how I got my education,” Osacky said. “Now a big part of what I do is educate others. I love to hear the stories of where people got things. It’s kind of like I’m the curator of the history of whatever they have.

“It’s my job to carry on those stories.”

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High blood pressure can Retrain your taste buds to lead to kidney damage reduce sugar in your diet Dear Abby: I thought I was a healthy 40-year-old until I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. My doctor began treating it as a standalone condition, without considering high blood pressure is a major risk factor for kidney disease.

At first, I wasn’t tested for kidney disease. But eventually, he gave me a urine test, and it was discovered I had protein in my urine – one of the earliest signs of kidney damage. Apparently, my high blood pressure had damaged my kidneys.

Healthy kidneys filter out wastes and toxins, but my kidneys’ ability to do so began to decrease at an alarming rate. I continued to manage my blood pressure with medication and decided to make a few lifestyle changes, as well, that helped me avoid the progression of kidney disease to kidney failure.

I limited my salt intake, started eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, decreased the amount of meat I was eating and began swimming every day. I began to feel better, and when I went to the doctor, it turned out my kidney function had stabilized.

Please tell your readers if they have high blood pressure they should be proactive and ask their doctor to check their kidneys. Early detec-

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips tion and lifestyle change can make a major impact on your health, as I have learned. –

Duane Sunwold, Spokane, Wash.

Dear Duane: It is generous of you to share your medical history in an effort to warn my readers. The National Kidney Foundation urges everyone to learn about these vital organs, and whether they might be at risk.

The three major risk factors for kidney disease are: high blood pressure, diabetes and a family history of kidney failure. People who have these risk factors should ask their doctor to check their kidney function with simple blood and urine tests.

Readers, March is National Kidney Month, and March 13 is World Kidney Day. If you are at risk, schedule an appointment with your doctor. For anyone who needs more information, the National Kidney Foundation’s website is www.kidney.org.

Dear Abby: I’m a member of the clergy who enjoys studying for my ministry and doctoral work at a local coffee shop. Three men who go there every day have found out I’m a minister, and they each want to talk with

me while I’m there. Although all three are members of the same religion, none of them is affiliated with a church.

I have invited them to visit my worship services, as well as call the office and set up an appointment with me.

I also have tried to explain diplomatically I go to the coffee shop to study.

One of them ignores it, another appears hurt and the third one gets offended.

When they’re not around, I am productive. When they show up, they want me to be their chaplain.

Because of where I live, finding another coffee shop is not a viable option. How can I set a boundary with them and still do my studying there? Thank you. – Rev-

erend Ken In New York Dear Reverend: Do it the same way doctors or lawyers do with people who approach them for “free” advice outside the office. As soon as you are approached, say firmly, “I’m studying right now. If you want to talk, please call my office and I’ll schedule an appointment with you. Right now I’m busy.”

And then refuse to be intimidated by their reaction.

Unless you draw the line, they’ll suck you dry.

Dear Dr. K: I’d like to cut down on the amount of sugar in my diet. Any suggestions?

Dear Reader: Cutting back on sugar will be good for your health. Not only will it help you manage your weight, it also will help keep heart disease and diabetes at bay.

The easiest and quickest way to cut back is to identify the foods and drinks that contribute the most added sugar to your diet. Then limit or eliminate them altogether. (On my website, www.askdoctork.com, I’ve put a chart illustrating the top sources of added sugar in the typical American diet.)

Eliminating sweetened beverages is a good first step. That includes sugary sodas, fruit juices, iced teas and energy drinks.

Here are several more ideas: • Don’t go “cold turkey”; give your taste buds time to adapt. If you’re in the habit of having two teaspoons of sugar in your coffee or tea, for instance, start by going to one and a half for a week, then down to one. This can help rewire your brain not to crave it as much.

• Use artificial sweet-

ASK DR. K Dr. Anthony Komaroff eners if necessary, but be careful. Using artificial sweeteners in carbonated soft drinks or coffee has been one way many people have reduced their sugar load. There is a theoretical reason to use such sweeteners cautiously, however.

Artificial sweeteners can be thousands of times sweeter than natural sugar.

There is some evidence, at least in some people, using them can actually fuel cravings for sugary foods and beverages. I don’t think this evidence is very strong.

I advise my patients who are used to sugar in their morning coffee, for example, to first try to taper the sugar slowly. Some surprise themselves: They find they like the flavor of good coffee without sugar. If they feel they still need something sweet in the coffee, I ask them to experiment to find the smallest dose of sweetener.

• Alter your recipes. Use one-quarter less sugar than your recipe calls for, then one-third less, and so forth –

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right up until you notice the difference. Again, some of my patients surprise themselves: Cakes with half the sugar they used to use taste just as good to them.

• Fruit, not juice. Instead of drinking fruit juice, eat a piece of fresh fruit. Many processed, store-bought fruit juices contain lots of sugar.

• Read labels. Many processed and packaged foods contain added sugars.

They may appear on nutrition labels as sucrose (white or brown sugar), fructose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, brown rice syrup, molasses, agave and evaporated cane juice.

• Look for reduced-sugar options. When buying syrups, jellies, marinades and the like, look for product labels that say “reduced sugar” or “no added sugar.”

In short, the secret is to retrain your taste buds. Once you do that, it’ll be much easier to pass over the cookies, cakes and sodas for healthy, naturally sweetened treats such as a ripe peach or a juicy watermelon.

• Write to Dr. Komaroff at www.askdoctork.com or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.

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Ty Cobb went zero for three Ty Cobb played in three World Series. How many did his team win, and how many home runs did he hit? – C.V., El Dorado, Ark. The answer to both questions is zero.

His Detroit Tigers lost to the Chicago Cubs in 1907 and 1908, while the following year, they lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates. His batting average for those three series was 0.262.

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When President Ronald Reagan left office, he moved to a multi-million-dollar ranch. I recall a request was made to the post office for a new house number. Why? – R.J., Scottsbluff, Neb. The ranch was located at 666 St. Cloud Drive in the wealthy Bel-Air district of Los Angeles. Many believe 666 is the number of Satan, so Reagan had his friends send mail to 668 St. Cloud Drive.

I came across the following on the Internet: “Denver lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger. The trademark for the name ‘cheeseburger’ was awarded in 1935 to Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In. Ballast claimed to have come up with the idea while testing hamburger toppings.” My question is, is this true? – M.S., St. Marys, Ohio I called the Denver Tourist Board, and it’s true. There is a plaque commemorating the site of the first cheeseburger at 2776 Speer Blvd.

Suspenders have made a strange evolution from becoming practical to chic. How long have they been holding up the britches of men in the world? – W.J., Somerset, Ken. Suspenders have been around in some fashion for many years, but Albert Thurston manufactured the first modern versions in the 1820s in England – they were known there as “braces.” Author Samuel Clemens (you might know him as Mark Twain) received a patent for them in 1871.

The Great Pyramid of Cheops was the tallest man-made structure in the world for thousands of years. Which structure made it the second tallest building? – I.L., Refugio, Texas At 481 feet tall, the Great Pyramid of Giza – it is known by both names – was the world’s tallest structure for more than 3,800 years. Then, in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was completed, standing at 1,063 feet tall, making it the world’s tallest man-made structure at the time.

I was in an international grocery store and saw a package of Bombay duck. What is it? – Y.C., Prince Frederick, Md. Bombay duck is actually dried, salted fish. Indian cooks use it as flavoring. It’s

and later the Surveyor General in India during the early 19th century.

Everest was relentless in his pursuit of accuracy and often modified or created new equipment to help complete the surveying of the subcontinent. It was his methods that led his successor, Andrew Waugh, to determine the world’s highest peak, then called Peak XV. Waugh pushed to change the name to honor Everest, an honor Everest himself did not support.

Basketball great Walt Frazier was nicknamed “Clyde.” Why? – K.K., Middleboro, Mass.

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Do you have any idea what John Lennon’s middle name was? When and where was he born? – U.G., Waycross, Ga. John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool on Oct. 9, 1940. However, after his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. On Dec. 9, 1980, the former Beatle was assassinated by Mark Chapman outside The Dakota apartment building.

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also a snack food. How it got its name, no one knows.

When did Babe Ruth get his first major league home run? – R.T., Peoria On May 6, 1915, wearing a Boston Red Sox uniform, “The Sultan of Swat” knocked his first of 714 round-trippers out of the stadium. The opposing team? The New York Yankees, a team for which he’d play 14 seasons.

In the program of a play I attended recently, credit was given to a nameless character as the “harridan.” In the play, she was an elderly woman with a sharp tongue, always in a bad mood and always interfering in other people’s business. She was used as comic relief. What is a harridan? – S.J., Santa Rosa, Calif.

Your explanation was perfect. The word is believed to come from the French word “haridelle,” which describes an old horse or woman. The word harridan has been around since the 1700s.

Who is the Everest of Mount Everest? – T.D., Ephrata, Pa. Sir George Everest (1790-1866) was a British surveyor. He was the head of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India

He wore a wide-brim hat similar to one worn by Warren Beatty in the movie “Bonnie and Clyde.” Frazier played with the New York Knicks (1967-77) and the Cleveland Cavaliers (1977-80). He was inducted into basketball’s Hall of Fame in 1987.

Who was Jethro Tull of the band of the same name? – H.B., Montrose, Colo.

One of the co-founders of the band, Ian Anderson, explains that in the early days, their band was not very good. In order to get rebooked into clubs, they changed their name every week. Finally they were asked to return right after playing one gig; they happened to be Jethro Tull that week and had to stay with the name. The original Jethro Tull was an 18th century agriculturalist and inventor. It is said of the person Jethro Tull (1674-1741) that he helped the British Agricultural Revolution succeed.

In an English newspaper headline, there was a story about “twitchers.” What are twitchers? – E.B., Melbourne, Fla. The British version of dedicated birdwatchers. My dictionary says the word is not synonymous with bird watcher but a special breed dedicated to sightings of rare birds.

How did the term “to get fired” come about when you lose your job? – T.V., Payette, Idaho There are several explanations. The one I like best goes that when the villagers wanted to get rid of someone, as in evict them from their village, they would burn down their house. Presumably the nowhomeless person would get the hint that he was no longer wanted and would then move to another village.

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Teriyaki chicken keeps it simple

By J.M. HIRSCH The Associated Press I created a simple teriyaki chicken that is served in lettuce wraps. The recipe comes together quickly, but has wonderful savory, yet light, flavors that work perfectly with a cocktail.

Teriyaki Chicken Lettuce Wraps Start to finish: 20 minutes Servings: 8 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce 1/4 cup honey 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon hot sauce 1 teaspoon fish sauce 3 medium carrots, cut into chunks 1 small yellow onion, quartered 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs 2 tablespoons canola or vegetable oil 1 tablespoon cornstarch 2 tablespoons cool water 1 head Boston lettuce, separated into leaves (or similar broad, tender lettuce) In a small bowl or glass

measuring cup, whisk together the soy sauce, honey, ginger, garlic powder, hot sauce and fish sauce. Set aside.

In a food processor, combine the carrots and onion. Pulse until finely chopped. Add the chicken, then pulse several times to begin chopping the chicken. Add the sauce, then continue pulsing just until the chicken is well chopped, but not ground. The pieces should be about 1/4 to 1/2 inch.

In a large skillet over mediumhigh, heat the oil. Add the chicken and cook, stirring often and breaking up any clumps, until cooked through, about 8 minutes. In a small glass, stir together the cornstarch and water, then add to the skillet. Stir and cook for another 2 minutes.

Transfer the chicken to one side of a serving platter. Arrange the lettuce leaves on the other side. Diners help themselves by spooning the chicken into individual leaves, using the leaves as they would a sandwich wrap.

Nutrition information per serving: 190 calories; 60 calories from fat (32 percent of total calories); 7 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 70 mg cholesterol; 15 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 11 g sugar; 18 g protein; 460 mg sodium.

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McHenry County ASK THE MASTER GARDENERS, 7 to 8 p.m. March 20, Algonquin Area Public Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin. An expert panel from the University of Illinois Extension McHenry County Master Gardeners will answer questions about transplanting, pruning, spraying, lawn care, pests, diseases and vegetable/ flower gardening. Free. Registration and information: 847-458-6060 or www.aapld.org.

BUTTERFLY GARDENING, 7 to 8:30 p.m. March 19 at Lost Valley Visitor Center in Glacial Park, Route 31 and Harts Road, Ringwood. Learn how to attract butterflies to your backyard. In this indoor presentation, staff will cover identification of local butterflies and the native plants they rely on for food. Free for residents, $6 nonresidents. Registration required

by March 14 at www.mccdistrict.org, 815-479-5779, by mail and walk-in at Prairieview Education Center, 2112 Behan Road in Crystal Lake, or walk-in only at the Lost Valley Visitor Center.

MASTER GARDENERS’ CLINIC, 7 p.m. March 12, Fox River Grove Memorial Library, 407 Lincoln Ave., Fox River Grove. A session with master gardeners from the University of Illinois extension program. Learn what you can do to save money on your lawn and garden this spring.

Free. Registration and information: 847-639-2274 or www.frgml.lib.il.us.

McHENRY FLEA MARKET, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, 3705 W. Elm St. (formerly Sullivan Foods), McHenry. Indoor flea market featuring more than 85 vendors.

Open all year. Admission: $1 or free with one paid admission and a non-perishable item for the FISH food pantry. Information: 815-363-3532 or www.mchenryfleamarket.net.

NATIVE AND NATURAL LANDSCAPING, 7 to 8:30 p.m. March 13 at Prairieview Education Center, 2112 Behan Road, Crystal Lake. It’s time to start planning and ordering for this year’s garden. Find out how using native plants around your home is better for the environment and provides benefits for you, as well.

Members of the Wildflower Preservation and Propagation Committee will share information about their “Native Garden in Your Yard” program. Free for residents, $6 nonresidents. Information: www.mccdistrict.org NATIVE LANDSCAPING FOR THE HOME GARDENER, 10:30 a.m. to

noon March 20, McHenry County College Luecht Conference Center, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Seminar hosted by the MCC Sustainability Center and Lou Marchi Total Recycling Institute featuring Ed Collins and Laurie Ryan from the McHenry County Conservation District. All attendees will receive free native plant seeds. Free. Information: 815479-7765.

ORGANIC FARMING: IT’S IN OUR NATURE! 2 p.m. March 9, Cary Area Public Library, 1606 Three Oaks Road, Cary. Peter Grubbe from Middlebury Farms will share the ins and outs of organic farming. Free. Registration and information: 847-639-4210 or www.cary.lib.il.us.

TREE CARE & PRUNING CLASSES, McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Offered

by MCC’s Continuing Education Department. Schedule: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. March 18, Taking Good Care of Your Trees ($20 fee, Course ID: NPGS90003); 9 to 10:30 a.m. March 22, Proper Pruning ($29 fee, Course ID: NPGS43003). Registration and information: 815455-8588.

Regional GRAYSLAKE ANTIQUE MARKET, second Saturdays and Sundays, Lake County Fairgrounds, Peterson and Midlothian roads, Grayslake. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $7 adults (good both days), free for children 12 and younger. Information: 715-5269769 or www.zurkopromotions.com.

KANE COUNTY FLEA MARKET, first weekends, Kane County Fairgrounds, Route 64 and Randall Road, St. Charles. Hours: Noon to 5 p.m.

Saturdays, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays.

Featuring hundreds of dealers. Food served all day. Admission: $5 adults each day, free for children younger than 12. Free parking. Information: 630-377-2252 or www.kanecountyfleamarket.com.

Chicago CHICAGO FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW, March 15-23, Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago. The Midwest’s largest flower and garden show. Enjoy viewing a variety of garden and floral exhibits, educational workshops, cooking demonstrations, children’s activities and much more.

Schedule: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.

Tickets: $15 weekday online or $17 weekday onsite; $17 weekend online, $19 weekend onsite; $5 children ages 4-12. Tickets and information: 312-241-1250 or www.chicagoflower. com.

McHenry County CULINARY CLASSES, Lakeside Legacy Arts Park, 401 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake. Offered by the McHenry County College Continuing Education Department. Schedule: 1:30 to 4 p.m.

March 9, International Sampler (Course ID: NCUS54003); 6:30 to 9 p.m. March 11, Cupcake Wars (Course ID: NCUS48003);

1:30 to 4 p.m. March 16, Italian 101 - Manicotti (Course ID: NCUS34003). Cost: $65 a course. Registration and information: 815-455-8588.

EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS, 1 to 3 p.m. March 10, University of Illinois Extension Auditorium, 1102 McConnell Road, Woodstock. Learn how to create those tasty and beautiful centerpieces.

Presented by McHenry County Home Community Education.

Cost: free to HCE members (bring fruit to share), $3 nonmembers. Registration and information: 815-338-3737 or www. web.extension.illinois.edu.lm.

MAPLE BOIL – MAKING SYRUP & SUGAR CANDY, 7 to 9 p.m. March 20, Coral

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Registration and information: 815-479-5779 or www.mccdistrict.org.

WINTER FARMER’S MARKET, 9 a.m. to noon March 16, Algonquin Township Office, 3702 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Offering a variety of products from local farmers and vendors hosted by the Rotary Club of Cary-Grove.

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Sustainable parenting Authors look to next generation

By JOAN OLIVER editorial@nwherald.com WOODSTOCK – Parents often see their role as helping their children become contributing members of society.

For evolutionary human ecologist and Woodstock resident Donovan Wilkin, it’s even more important than that: It’s vital to the survival of humans as a species.

To help parents with their weighty responsibility, Wilkin, who has a doctorate in population and environmental biology from University of California – Irvine, and Cynthia Martin, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Parenting Matters Foundation, have written a book, “Sustainable Parenting: Unlocking Our Human Potential – Healing Our Plundered Planet.”

In it, Wilkin and Martin offer not only a look at the precarious position humans find themselves in, but also tips that parents can use to raise children who will make a difference in the future.

Wilkin, who is the book’s lead author, has spent his more than 40-year academic career looking at humans as a species, particularly how they are using the Earth’s resources.

“What are we doing to either be sustainable or unsustainable?” Wilkin said.

“Basically, we are abysmally unsustainable.”

Over the years, Wilkin, who is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Arizona School of Natural Resources, has become more pessimistic about the fate of human civilization.

“The reality of collapse or the potential for collapse is huge and growing greater by the day,” Wilkin said.

In examining how to address the crisis, Wilkin

Parenting tips Tips from “Sustainable Parenting: Unlocking Our Human Potential – Healing Our Plundered Planet” by Donovan C. Wilkin, Ph.D., and Cynthia D. Martin, Ph.D.

Conflict management Treat siblings fairly – You will limit disagreements if you treat your kids fairly, if not always equally. This doesn’t always mean identical gifts at identical times. It means being fair to both over time, not showing any consistent favoritism to one or the other and enforcing the rules in identical ways with both. This takes both determination and a good memory.

Self-control Setting and enforcing rules – Be careful what rules you set for your toddler, particularly “don’t touch” rules. It is extremely important that rules, once established, are consistently enforced.

If you establish a rule, you have to enforce it. No choice. Not because protecting any particular knick-knack is so important, but because he has to learn that rules are rules and when he chooses the wrong behavior, he chooses the consequence with a high degree of certainty. This begins to give him some control.

That, in time, translates into self-control and, if your appreciation of his self-control is sufficiently obvious, it becomes something he learns to feel good about.

Empathy Learning nonverbal cues – Nonverbal cues are important to learn. Take your child to a playground and sit off to the side and try to decide what other people are feeling based on how they are acting or their facial expressions. It doesn’t really matter if you are accurate or not. What is important is that you and your child are talking about the feelings of others and trying to figure out what might be causing them. Watching facial expressions and eye contact are important nonverbal cues that are often overlooked. Children can never learn too young the importance of eye contact in conveying trust, sincerity, friendliness, true remorse, interest, caring about others, and so many other messages.

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Available online “Sustainable Parenting: Unlocking Our Human Potential – Healing Our Plundered Planet” by Donovan C. Wilkin, Ph.D., and Cynthia D. Martin, Ph.D. (PublishAmerica, 252 pages, $27.95) is available at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble (BN.com). concluded that hope lay in building a foundation in the next generations.

“The human species will not be sustainable until we raise a generation of children with sustainable values,” he said.

Those values would be put to use in communities that work together in a “mutualistic” way, Wilkin said.

They also were ones Wilkin saw echoed in the work of the Parenting Matters Foundation and Martin, who has worked as a clinical psychologist and counselor and has a doctorate in human behavior from the United States International University.

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Don’t ask unanswerable questions – When you want to talk with your child about some behavior you are unhappy with, don’t ask him questions for which there is no answer. Questions like “Why can’t you be nicer to your sister?” or “What were you thinking?” or “Why do you fight so much?” will get you nowhere. He doesn’t know the answer.

Effective communication Don’t set your child up to lie – If you know he didn’t wash his hands after using the bathroom, don’t ask if he did. Simply tell him you want him to wash his hands before he goes out to play – ask him if he needs help.

Always practice thoughtful, gentle discipline that won’t create the fear of punishment that leads to lying.

• PARENTING Continued from page 6 Martin’s nonprofit foundation, which is based in Sequim, Wash., works to assist parents with the important responsibility they have.

“Their role from Day 1 is critical, and they’re teaching them from Day 1,” said Martin, who has raised 10 children, most of whom were adopted. “They need to be mindful of what they are teaching.”

That message resonated with Wilkin.

“It was pretty clear that a lot of the values that [the Parenting Matters Foundation] were espousing had to do with how do [children] become successful members of a community,” Wilkin said. “Working cooperatively and sharing and caring and being empathic.”

And so the seeds of “Sustainable Parenting” were sown and became Wilkin’s way to help the foundation, of which he is a board member, and to serve as a culmination of everything he’s

been studying during his career. A portion of proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the foundation.

“When I look at the childhood development research, what they’re talking about is a more mature human community,” Wilkin said.

“Most of the answers we’re looking for in terms of what would you do if you were trying to create a community with sustainable values, you would look at parenting literature.”

Each chapter looks at a different sustainable value and offers specific tips that parents can use to reinforce that value.

For instance, in chapter 8, “Teaching Cooperation and Sharing,” parents are encouraged to model behavior that demonstrates cooperation and sharing in front of their children.

Additional tips in the chapter include: • Be observant: A younger child is often “proto-sharing” when he tentatively holds a toy or a piece of food out to you. Even though he’s not ready to let go of it yet,

BEST SELLERS Week ending March 2 HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Chase” by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg (Bantam) 2. “Private L.A.” by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan (Little, Brown) 3. “Concealed in Death” by J.D. Robb (Putnam Adult) 4. “The Undead Pool” by Kim Harrison (Harper Voyager) 5. “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking Adult) 6. “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown) 7. “Killer” by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine) 8. “Still Life with Bread Crumbs” by Anna Quindlen (Random House) 9. “Sycamore Row” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 10. “One More Thing” by B.J. Novak (Knopf) HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet” by Mark Hyman (Little, Brown) 2. “The Virgin Diet Cookbook” by J.J. Virgin (Grand Central Publishing) 3. “A Short Guide to a Long Life” by David B. Agus (Simon & Schuster) 4. “Killing Jesus” by Bill O’Reilly, Martin

Dugard (Henry Holt) 5. “The Future of the Mind” by Michio Kaku (Doubleday) 6. “The Body Book” by Cameron Diaz (Harper Wave) 7. “Things That Matter” by Charles Krauthammer (Crown Forum) 8. “Super Shred” by Ian K. Smith (St. Martin’s Press) 9. “Grain Brain” by David Perlmutter (Little, Brown) 10. “Duty” by Robert M. Gates (Knopf) MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS 1. “The Chance” by Robyn Carr (Harlequin MIRA) 2. “The Hit” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) 3. “North to Alaska” by Debbie Macomber (Mira) 4. “Tell Me” by Lisa Jackson (Zebra) 5. “The Heist” by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg (Bantam) 6. “Alex Cross, Run” by James Patterson (Vision) 7. “Six Years” by Harlan Coben (Signet) 8. “The Witness” by Nora Roberts (Jove) 9. “One Heart to Win” by Johanna Lindsey (Pocket) 10. “Until the End of Time” by Danielle Steel (Dell)

Source: Publishers Weekly

Want to learn more?

• Woodstock resident and author Don Wilkin is available for discussion groups and presentations about sustainability. He can be reached at wilkin@olympus.net.

• The Parenting Matters Foundation publishes an eight-page newsletter, “First Teacher,” which comes out 11 times a year and offers brief articles on parenting issues. The cost is $20 a year, or $35 for two years. To subscribe, visit www.firstteacher.org.

praise him for his generosity and sharing. He’ll get the message that this is something good to do.

• Look around you: Keep your eyes open for ways to encourage your preschooler to be responsible. One simple way is to have her learn to turn out unnecessary lights for you. It doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it makes her feel important and teaches her the value of saving energy. Praise her when she does it and tell her how much it helps you when she does things for you.

Other chapters offer guidance on conflict management, teaching good manners and consistent discipline.

Four chapters look at the

“moral precursors” of social orientation, self-control, compliance with social standards and self-esteem.

“A positive but realistic sense of self is psychologically healthy,” Wilkin and Martin write in chapter 13.

“Children behave much more appropriately in social situations where they feel accepted and appreciated than where they don’t.”

Empathy, conscience, altruism and moral reason get their own chapters as “central moral attributes,” and chapter 18 focuses on the most powerful parental influences on their children’s morality.

Each chapter concludes with a list of keywords for parents to do additional

research online.

Martin hopes parents who read the book will be able to take away something that will help them.

“We’re not going to change parents overnight,” Martin said. “But they can make a difference in how their children turn out.”

For Wilkin, that difference has an even greater significance.

“So why teach all these values to parents? The answer is because somebody will come out the other end,” Wilkin said of what will happen after the collapse of civilization, something that some environmental analysts say will take place by the middle of this century.

“And they’re going to try to build a new civilization,” he continued. “The hope is, this time they will do it with a little different kind of value.

“It’s going to be a value that recognizes we are a community and we’re all in this together and that your wellbeing and my well-being is a function of the well-being of the community.”

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Pastels, vibrant colors vie for 2014 trends

By KIM COOK The Associated Press

The yin and yang of spring make it such an interesting season. After the brutal bite of winter, even a gloomy spring day can lift our spirits with warmer breezes and an emerging palette of delicate hues – those first tinges of new greens, a fuzzy gray bud, a brushstroke of crocus blue.

Then, as the season really plants its feet, fresh

bright color starts popping up all over.

As “The Secret Garden” author Frances Hodgson Burnett said of spring, “It is the sun shining on the rain, and the rain falling on the sunshine.”

We welcome both the quiet emergence of the season, and those saucy flaunts of azalea, rhododendron and forsythia that follow.

That’s the nature of spring 2014 decor, as well.

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Think ballet- and watercolor-inspired pastels; soft fabrics and sheer window treatments; and curvy furniture, often in traditional shapes but updated with modern fabrics and pattern.

Benjamin Moore’s color of the year, “Breath of Fresh Air,” is a whispery blue-gray with a pensive yet positive quality.

“We’ve detected a lighter touch – hints, tints of color,” said Ellen O’Neill, Benjamin Moore’s creative director. “They’re colors that can make a room happy.”

Accent hues include pale peach

and lavender.

Quiet colors, yes, but not insipid ones.

They’re versatile, working as well with dressed-up rooms as with slouchier, more relaxed spaces.

New York City-based designer Elaine Griffin sees “a new feminization in design – daintier details, urban materials interpreted in elegant, classical shapes. It’s an overall softening of decor.”

She also likes a color that had its heyday a couple of decades ago

but is poised for a design stage revival: “Beige is back! And it looks fresh again anchoring a room of subtler hues – gray, ivory, taupe, pink, aqua, a softened olive,” she said.

Watercolor songbirds and irises (left) are on artwork at West Elm, the latter painted on birch wood for an interesting effect. (www. westelm.com) Lauren Conrad’s Tea Berry bedding collection for Kohl’s is done in a dreamy mix of peach, mint and cream. (www.kohls.com)

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The yang • YANG Continued from page 8 At the other end of the spectrum, clean, clear bright colors add exuberant pops.

“Americans seem ready to infuse their surroundings with optimistic, bold, moodchanging color,” said Jackie Hirschhaut, vice president of the American Home Furnishings Alliance, in High Point, N.C. At last fall’s High Point Furniture Market, where designs for spring are introduced, the emphasis was on one hue in particular, she said: “Intense blues seemed to dominate.”

Think dramatic yet familiar shades such as cobalt, lapis and sapphire.

Wisteria offers a Louis XVI-style chair upholstered in royal blue linen and a blueglazed ceramic stool that could find a comfy spot indoors or out. Pottery Barn’s Cambria collection of Portuguese stoneware comes in a deep ocean blue, and there is coordinating indigo napery in polka dots or tile prints. (www. wisteria.com; www.potterybarn.com) Radiant Orchid and Exclusive Plum, two more colors of the year, are showing up on accessories and furniture such as All Modern’s Sunpan velvet bench with Lucite legs, and slipper chairs, side tables and trays at Homegoods. Pennsylvania-based custom cabinet-maker Plain & Fancy is even offering versions of the hue, suggesting it for accent pieces such as kitchen islands, media centers and armoires. (www.allmodern.com; www. homegoods.com; www.plainfancycabinets. com) Crisp apple red adds punch to neutrals – check out Target’s Threshold Windham collection of floor cabinets for practical storage in a fun, fresh color. The Candace upholstered armchair in a zippy, red-on-white oversize floral print would energize a room. (www. target.com) Griffin likes lemon yellow as an accent color. Fashion designers such as Marissa Webb and Derek Lam, and retailers such as H&M

Pantone’s Color of the Year, Radiant Orchid, enlivens the upholstery of a slipper chair or adds a pop of color in small doses such as to a side table, both found at HomeGoods.

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After the brutal bite of winter, even a gloomy spring day welcomes us with warmer breezes and an emerging palette of delicate hues, such as Pantone’s Color of the Year, Radiant Orchid, seen here on a tray at HomeGoods. and Joe Fresh embraced that hue this season, and decor is following suit. A throw pillow quilted to resemble subway tiles; octagonal and square dinnerware; and a galvanized trunk that could work as both storage and table are all at CB2 in taxicab yellow. (www. cb2.com) Muse and You turns a single bloom into modern art underfoot with the Rosa rug, while the Morocco employs hot pink, carnation and plum in a statement tile-print rug. (www. museandyou.com ) Portuguese artist Danny Ivan creates digital prints with a pop art aesthetic: His Colorful Mountains design, offered several ways including as a throw pillow, is a happy explosion of vivid, graphic, cubist shapes.

Three of the Possessed, an Australian design collective, renders geometric patterns and images of birds and animals in colorful prismatic designs. (www.society6.com) Sometimes, all you need to give a room a spring facelift is to change out a few elements.

New lampshades are an easy tweak. Seascape Lamps has punchy modern graphic designs for a wide range of fixtures, in on-trend plum and tangerine. A whimsical sketched garden on deep burgundy brings in a contemporary country vibe, and there are photo-printed lemons and cherries here as well. (www.seascapelamps.com)

HomeGoods.com’s pink-tinged picture frames in interesting textures and patterns add the spring color in an easy and interesting way.

Celebrate spring’s rosy glow with soft pink accents

By KIM COOK The Associated Press

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his spring, pinks are popping up all over home decor – the softer versions soothing and nurturing, the bright ones bouncy and vivacious.

Warm pink light can be flattering, so designers have long employed tricks like painting lampshade interiors in those hues or switching regular bulbs for soft pink ones.

“Pink’s such a fun color to play around with. I see it two ways – dusty, light and classic, or vibrant, ‘statement’ and sharp,” Boston-based designer Taniya Nayak said.

“The former adds subtle whispers of elegance, while the latter turns up the volume in a space.”

Eddie Ross, East Coast editor for Better Homes & Gardens, is another fan.

“Pink is back, and it’s all grown up. Paired with stronger hues like navy, chocolate or gray, pink looks sophisticated and surprising,” he said.

Ross suggests several ways to incorporate the color for different effects: “When you cover a sofa or chair in a light pink, it acts like a neutral. Swap out throw pillows for a completely different look. Light pink bedding looks great with just about any skin tone. Light pink linen mats in simple white frames with black and white photos look crisp.”

His favorite pink paint shades include Devine Color’s Devine Poodle – “great on dining room chairs in a lustrous high gloss”; Benjamin Moore’s subtle Affinity Proposal for walls; Farrow & Ball’s Blushes – “a strong pink that would be stunning on a ceiling paired with cream and gray.”

Valspar’s Rosario Ridge and Universe Quartz Pink are two others to consider. Sherwin-Williams’ Spun Sugar and Malted Milk are as tasty-looking as their names, as are Peach Parfait and Fruit Shake from Benjamin-Moore.

CB2’s Vapor chair is Lucite-tinged pink; acrylic’s a strong trend in furniture this season, so this piece gives extra style bang for the buck. And the retailer’s City Slicker table resembles a big chunk of neon pink bubblegum; a fun piece like this is a great way to play with the color.

Combine pink accessories with contemporary pieces, or add a hit of surprise in a roomful of rustic, traditional or industrial elements. Pink looks great next to reflective and textured materials such as mirrors, metallics and velvets, but also alongside linen, burlap, weathered pine, rattan.

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126. Facilitate 130. Rest 132. -- Orleans 134. Legume

11 CraftCorner For signature scents, concoct your own

By JENNIFER FORKER The Associated Press Think it would be nice to have your own signature fragrance? Try making it.

Perfume can be crafted at home. Yours may not smell exactly like the exotic whiffs from expensive brands, but there’s satisfaction in doing it yourself – and saving some cash.

It’s not difficult to concoct your own perfume. For some, the process is downright addictive.

“It’s so much fun,” said Sherri Griffin, of Orlando, Fla. “You make something and you’re like, ‘something is missing.’ You add one thing and you go, ‘Oh my God, this is me! This is perfect.’”

Griffin was hooked the first time she combined the fragrant essential oils orange, jasmine and vanilla in a bottle.

“I’m very girly,” she said.

“I definitely like my floral scents.”

She recommends sniffing out a few favorite scents. Do you like earthy? Think peppermint. Do you lean herbal?

Try rosemary. There also are citrus, floral and sweet scents.

The primary ingredients in fragrances are the essential oils; a carrier oil such as almond oil or jojoba; distilled water, and vodka, as a preservative.

A do-it-yourself perfume may need to rest for up to six weeks, shaken on occasion, to get those scents to merge, Griffin said.

“The alcohol scent will fade, and you won’t even smell it when it’s ready,” she promised.

Choosing the right combination of essential oils can be confusing, but experiment.

Perfume crafting’s guiding principle: Choose at least three essential oils: a top note, middle note and base note to create a full-bodied, longer-lasting scent. There are dozens of other essential oils in all three categories.

Visit Aroma Web for a comprehensive look at essential oils and how to blend them.

Remember fragrant essential oils change one another when combined – and enjoy that discovery.

Sherri’s #3 Clean glass bottle for mixing, preferably dark (or store it in a dark place while the perfume settles) Small glass bottle for storing, preferably dark to prolong the life of the perfume, but clear glass works too 2 tablespoons carrier oil, such as jojoba or almond oil 4 tablespoons vodka (higher proof means less alcohol smell) 2 tablespoons distilled water (not tap water) At least 3 essential oils, representing the top, middle and base notes Coffee filter Funnel 1. In the mixing bottle, place the essential oils in the ratios desired.

A general rule is 6 to 8 drops of base note, 15 to 20 drops of middle note and 9 to 12 drops of top note, depending on preference (mix, sniff, adjust). You will use about 30 to 40 total drops of essential oil.

2. Add the carrier oil and vodka; thoroughly shake. Set bottle aside for at least 48 hours and up to 6 weeks, preferably in a cool, dark place.

3. After this “resting” period, add distilled water and shake bottle.

4. Put the coffee filter into the funnel and transfer the perfume from the blending bottle to the storage bottle. This is a slow process; be patient.

5. The perfume is ready to use (shake before use).

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‘Which sandwich are you?’

Buzzfeed’s online quizzes go viral

By MEGHAN BARR The Associated Press NEW YORK – For a compulsive online quiz-taker like Chrissy Noh, the temptation was too great to resist: “Which sandwich are you?”

After answering a series of unscientific, seemingly unrelated questions, which included selecting her favorite doughnut from a lineup of frosted pastries, she had her answer (grilled cheese, for the record). And she’s not the only one who’s comparing herself to sandwiches lately. Go on, admit it: Chances are, you’ve been doing it, too.

A recent explosion of silly online personality quizzes, most of them created by the young social media mavens at Buzzfeed.com, has everybody talking about which state they really ought to be living in and which Harry Potter character they really are. Buzzfeed says the quizzes are smashing traffic records and generating more Facebook comment threads than any viral posts in the site’s history.

Experts say the phenomenon isn’t surprising given the age-old fascination with that central question – “Who AM I?” – and a desire to compare ourselves with others in a social media-obsessed society.

On a recent snowy day, the 37-yearold Noh, who lives in New York City, admitted she and several friends spent the afternoon taking quizzes and texting each other screen shots of the results.

“It turned into an all-day group text

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message fest, where it was just picture after picture of, oh, what rapper are you?” she said, laughing. “What career should you actually have? Which sandwich are you? Which member of One Direction should you marry?”

Personality quizzes have been around for decades, gracing the covers of women’s and teen magazines with questions designed to lure us in. Nor are they new to the Internet, where online quizzes can be found aplenty on sites like Zimbio.com, among others.

But the recent wave of quiz popularity can be traced directly to Buzzfeed’s New York City headquarters, where a team of about 100 content creators have been producing one to five quizzes every single day for the past two months.

The most popular quiz – “Which State Do You Actually Belong In?” – has generated about 41 million page views.

“For our most viral quizzes, the results have to be meaningful in some way,” said Summer Burton, BuzzFeed’s managing editorial director. “It’s not that they are scientific. It’s just that what they say means something to people as far as their own identity.”

John Egan, 50, who lives in Austin, Texas, said he gets sucked into the quizzes partly because he’s curious about himself – and because he wonders how his answers will stack up against his Facebook friends’. But the quizzes have little staying power in his brain.

“There was one recently about what state you should be living in. Honestly, I don’t remember what state I got,” he said. “Which says something about

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John Egan poses with his laptop in Austin, Texas. Egan, 50, said he takes online quizzes partly because he’s curious about himself and because he wonders how his answers will stack up against his friends’ answers on Facebook. these quizzes. That it’s kind of this momentary thrill, if you will, and then you move on. And it’s like a shiny object: ‘Oh – there’s another quiz!’ ” The quizzes are overwhelmingly upbeat and lighthearted in nature, a calculated decision by the people engineering them. After all, they’re designed to be an affirmation of how you see yourself, not an assessment of who you really are.

“Quizzes are an investment of someone’s time,” Burton said. “So it feels like it would almost be mean for someone to go through the process of taking the quiz and have it say, ‘You’re really cynical and negative and nobody

likes being around you.’ The ideal is that the qualities are specific enough that it feels personal, but they’re also a compliment.”

But will people eventually burn out on these things? Is there such a thing as one Beyoncé quiz too many?

“They don’t alienate anyone.

They’re a way to kill time. They’re fun,” said Laura Portwood-Stacer, who teaches media culture and communication at New York University. “Once the novelty of the interface and the results wear off, the trend might dip a bit. But I do think this kind of impulse won’t necessarily go away. It might just take a different form.”

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By Karly Bulinski

March Birthstone: Aquamarine Derived from the Latin words aqua meaning“water”and marine meaning“of the sea”, aquamarine is a beautiful greenish blue gemstone that captures all of the beauty of the sea. Cousin to emerald and morganite, aquamarine is a member of the beryl family. Its green blue color is a result of iron infiltrating its crystal structure. Almost all aquamarine is heat treated to remove the yellowish component that occurs naturally during formation to give it the slightly greenish blue color that we have all come to know and love. Due to the abundance of natural aquamarine, it is very rarely synthesized. There are however, a few imitations to be aware of. Glass, natural blue topaz and synthetic spinel are among the most prevalent imitators and can be easily identified by a trained gemologist.

Since 1811, Brazil has been the most important source for aquamarine. The largest crystal ever found was recorded in 1910 at the Minas Gerais mine in Brazil. It weighed in at 244 pounds and was 19 inches long. Aquamarines are mined all over the world including the U.S. Towering above any other mine in America, aquamarines can be found 14,000ft. above sea level at the top of Mount Antero in the Colorado Rockies making it the highest source for gemstones in the U.S. Aquamarine is known as the gemstone of the sea. It is believed that the aquamarine calms waves and keeps sailors safe while at sea. Sailors would keep this gemological beauty under their pillows to ensure they would have a goodnights sleep. They also wore aquamarine amulets engraved with Poseidon or Neptune, the gods of the sea, for daily protection. Some sailors even believed that mermaid tails were made completely out of aquamarine.

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Sarah Jessica Parker debuts shoe and handbag collection for Nordstrom

By JOCELYN NOVECK The Associated Press

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NEW YORK – Quick, what’s your favorite “Sex and the City” moment involving Carrie Bradshaw and her adored shoe collection?

Was it the time she got mugged, and the mugger specifically demanded her Manolo Blahniks? Or maybe the time Carrie realized she’d spent so much on shoes, she couldn’t afford a down payment on an apartment. “I will literally be the Old Woman Who Lived in Her Shoes,” she moaned.

Well, “Sex and the City” ended in 2004 (the TV show anyway, which everyone agrees was much better than the two movies), and Carrie – er, actress Sarah Jessica Parker – has a lot more shoes to live in. Parker launched her own shoe line, SJP, which also includes handbags, at Nordstrom last week. (Her business partner is George Malkemus, CEO of Manolo Blahnik, and the shoes are cheaper than Manolos – in the $300 range.)

The 48-year-old actress, who’s had previous forays into the fashion business but not a shoe line, sat down this week to not only talk about the new project, but also how she became so closely associated with fashion.

So how did this all get started?

Well, I was very kindly being offered a lot of opportunities in the shoe category, and I kept rejecting them. And I couldn’t figure out why. And more importantly my agents couldn’t figure out why. ... And I was sitting with some women friends of mine and they said to me, “What is it?” And I said, “Well, I know it’s not going to be the shoe that I want it to be.” And I said that really my dream partner is George Malkemus.

And they said, “Have you asked him?”

How did you choose which shoe in your new line to call “Carrie”?

There were other Carries. And it kept not feeling right. But this shoe (a T-strap heeled number in purple) is kind of a contradiction. Because there is something very feminine and ladylike about this shoe, but the purple is a little subversive. The purple is the person that chose not to wear the appropriate thing to work. And I feel that’s what Carrie was.

You have become so associated with fashion. How did that all happen?

You know, I think that I played a character for a very long time who had an enormous amount of affection for fashion. She had this kind of relation-

ship we’d never seen portrayed or depicted or illustrated on-screen – big or little screen, really. And also fashion was just starting to emerge at that time as a separate sort of character in New York. I think it was a confluence of playing that person, also loving (fashion) myself and watching luxury and vintage just start to rise.

You know when we first started shooting the show, and we hadn’t been on the air yet, nobody would loan us ANYTHING. We had a very meager budget ... we were pulling mostly from consignment, some rental houses, borrowing from friends, or from emerging designers that nobody knew about except for Pat (costume designer Patricia Field).

And the show went on the air, and someone was talking about fashion, and looking at fashion in a way that had never happened before. And the business was just starting to shift. Luxury – we weren’t talking about luxury before.

It had not been spoken of outside the industry itself. ... And nobody had dressed (like Carrie). Nobody was wearing an old raggedy beat-up fur coat that was 40 bucks with a Fendi baguette (a luxury bag that costs about $1,500). It was just a whole new way of thinking about fashion, and once again, that timing.

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Jeanne Phillips

High-energy 3-year-old is hard to handle Dear Abby: My son is almost 3.

He is the light of my life. I love him more than I can describe, but sometimes I can’t handle his energy. We carefully monitor how much sugar he eats, and we are sure his diet is not what’s causing the problem.

Mostly I think he is just a rowdy little boy.

The problem is, we can’t take him out without dreading that he will act up. His refusal to listen to our requests – or listen to us when we speak to him at all – has put a strain on our marriage, and we both feel like “failure” parents.

What are some things we can do to help our son channel his energy in a positive way, while getting some relief from his nonstop go-go attitude? – Needs Relief In Kansas Dear Needs Relief: This may be a phase your son is going through; however, it would be a good idea to discuss this with his pediatrician to make sure. While little children can be human “Energizer bunnies,” I am

concerned you say the boy doesn’t listen when you talk to him. Tell the doctor and ask if a hearing check is in order.

As to your son’s acting up when you take him out – he should be told the rules and the penalties for not following them before you leave the house. If he doesn’t obey the rules, it is important you follow through, whether that means he will be taken outside for a talk or taken home.

Remember, consistency is the key.

That’s the way children learn.

If you are older parents and not active, consider enrolling the boy in sports activities, such as swimming or kiddie gym. I am told there are even karate classes for children your son’s age.

I read a book recently that could be helpful to you and your spouse.

The title is “Raising Children That Other People Like to Be Around” by Richard Greenberg. It was written last year (2013) and published by New Generation Publishing. The

price is $14, and the advice the author offers is worth every penny.

Dear Abby: Twenty years ago, I fell in love, but never told the man how I felt. We spent a lot of time together back then, but I was always afraid to confess my feelings because we were both married to other people. Time went by and we went our separate ways, but I have thought about him many times. A month ago I looked him up on Facebook, and we have reconnected.

Should I tell him how I feel about him? I’m afraid he may not feel the same way. My question is, should you always tell people how you feel, even if it may hurt someone else – like his wife and my husband? – In A

Quandary In San Antonio Dear In A Quandary: My answer is NO. If this man is attracted to you or might like a fling, it could spark an affair in which two innocent people would be devastated. And if the feelings AREN’T mutual, you will look like a home-wrecking fool, so keep it

to yourself and back off.

Dear Abby: My husband thinks it is fine to use his cellphone while he is in the bathroom, no matter who is on the other end. The noises must be obvious to anyone he’s talking to because he makes no effort to be quiet about his “business,” including flushing the toilet.

He won’t listen to me about how unacceptable this is. When I mention anything about it, he accuses me of being “sensitive” and “uptight.” Maybe he’ll listen to you and any of your readers who care to respond. Any comments? – Cringing

In Dallas Dear Cringing: Clearly your husband enjoys what he’s doing. If the people he’s talking to don’t mind – and apparently they don’t or they’d say, “I’ll talk to ya later!” – you should butt out.

• Write Dear Abby at www. dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

StraightTalk Rick Atwater

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Hurricane ‘Hal’ hard for parents to handle When he was a little kid, “Hal” always had to do things himself, and he usually messed it up. When you’re young, this is OK. Children are designed to mess things up.

Hal was the center of attention at family gatherings.

His antics had everyone rolling in the aisles. His favorite toys were pots and pans and newspaper. His nickname became hurricane Hal. As he grew up, the toys changed, but the “look at me” attitude and the messes didn’t.

Hal’s teachers became concerned by third grade, and by middle school things had gotten out of hand. He was a

smart kid and grades weren’t a problem, but his need to seek attention and approval intensified. He was disruptive in a class clown sort of way, was disorganized and always in some sort of minor trouble.

His friends had shifted from his neighborhood pals to the more troubled group in school, and his mom and dad were worried. Eighth grade is where the pills started.

What were once manageable behavior problems moved ominously toward drugs.

It seemed where Hal went, there went trouble.

Hal’s parents had good reason to worry. Both his

mom’s parents were alcoholics, and his dad’s brother and sister had both had drug problems. Hal’s parents had heard the train coming down the tracks, but they had both hoped a good home and two loving parents would be enough to head off addiction.

They were wrong. They had love and enabling confused and had bailed Hal out of trouble since he was a little guy. Their intentions were good, but they were unprepared for what was coming their way.

The “Hurricane” hit full force sophomore year. Hal had been a good wrestler and had wrestled with the older

kids in his first year. Unfortunately, sports don’t equal immunity from drug problems, and pills actually became more available. Hal dropped out of sports after his first year, and his new sport became finding and using stolen anxiety medication, sleeping pills and opiate pain medication. He began supporting his use with sales and trades, stealing from his parents and later burglary.

After living on lockdown in the house for a year, hiding the valuables and sleeping with her purse under her pillow, Hal’s mom had enough and sought professional help. Hal, in the meantime,

had found help his own way through a rather direct court order. He had been arrested for possession with intent to sell and was suspected in a number of shoplifting and “smash and grab” burglaries.

Hurricane Hal is now in rehab, and both his parents are in a parent’s support group and also attend Al Anon. They are saddened by Hal’s behavior but relieved to understand what they (and he) are dealing with.

• Rick Atwater is a licensed clinical professional counselor.

He can reached by email at rickatwater@northwestcommunitycounseling.com.

MINI-REVIEWS & LOCAL SHOWTIMES OF CURRENT MOVIES ON SCREEN NOW

“300: Rise of an Empire” STARRING: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey

PLOT: Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortalturned-god Zerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian Navy.

RATED: R for strong sustained sequences of stylized bloody violence throughout, a sex scene, nudity and some language TIME: 1 hour, 42 minutes VERDICT: Naysayers always ask the same question: Why would they make a sequel to something like “300?” The answer is always the same: Because “300” took in a cache of cash – something like half a billion dollars worldwide. It’s even, according to the folks at IMAX, the film that turned a certain corner for that company, that brought fanboys aboard as IMAX viewers. Sure, it was in many respects a video game version of a big-screen movie, with violence and accompanying blood galore. But it was also very stylized, was endlessly fascinating to watch, and it featured contemporary themes of diplomacy versus war. The film’s makers have gone out of their way to get across points about both the glory and the futility of war. But they go about it by making sure they’ve put together the most violent movie of the year so far. Oddly, it’s also a whole lot of fun. – More Content Now

LOCAL SHOWTIMES disappointment. Despite an updated CGI animation style, the movie has all the superficial attributes of the 1959-64 series but none of the charm. Both revolve around a boy named Sherman; his canine master, Peabody; a time machine; and bad puns. Yet by visual standards alone, the characters, rendered in eye-popping 3-D, resemble nothing so much as Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade floats. This is especially odd, considering that writer Craig Wright and director Rob Minkoff go to great lengths to flesh out the characters’ back stories and devote inordinate attention and energy to what is presented in the film as the father-son relationship between talking beagle Peabody (voice of Ty Burrell) and Sherman (Max Charles), the human child he lives with. While it’s true that in the original series, Peabody legally “adopted” Sherman, anyone who has seen the old show can tell you that the relationship between the two was closer to pet ownership than paternal custody.

Portraying Sherman as Peabody’s legal dependent, instead of as his slightly dimwitted best friend, not only violates the spirit of the original series but also is just plain weird.

“Peabody’s Improbable History,” as the television segments were called, was an irreverent, even subversively educational romp through famous moments in history. The new film is a sappy comedy about the difficulties of contemporary parenting. –

The Washington Post

“Mr. Peabody & Sherman”

“3 DAYS TO KILL”

STARRING: Ty Burrell, Max Charles,

STARRING: Kevin Costner, Hailee

Stephen Colbert PLOT: The time-traveling adventures of an advanced canine and his adopted son, as they endeavor to fix a time rift they created.

RATED: PG for some mild action and brief rude humor TIME: 1 hour, 32 minutes VERDICT: It’s possible, I suppose, that some children may find things to like about “Mr. Peabody & Sherman.” The animated feature about a time-traveling dog with a genius IQ and his human companion has even more than the recommended daily allowance of scatological humor and B.O. jokes for the average 8-year-old.

Anyone much older than that – and certainly anyone who remembers the cartoons on which the film is based, which ran as segments accompanying Jay Ward’s Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons – is in for a big

Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen PLOT: A dying CIA agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment.

RATED: PG-13 for violence, obscenity and sensuality TIME: 1 hour, 53 minutes VERDICT: “3 Days to Kill” offers us a dilemma. Can ex-CIA operative Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner) repair his relationship with his estranged teenage daughter, Zoey (Hailee Steinfeld), while maintaining his commitment to his old employer, who has pulled him out of retirement for one last round of targeted killing, extraordinary rendition and enhanced interrogation? That narrative predicament is precisely echoed by the challenges faced by the film’s director, McG. Best

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his part, makes juggling his character’s twin obligations look easy.

“3 Days to Kill” feels like two very different movies, neither of which is particularly good. Most of the blame falls to Luc Besson, who cowrote the screenplay, from his own story idea, with Adi Hasak (“From Paris With Love”). As a writer, Besson is notoriously hit-or-miss, with hits like 1997’s “The Fifth Element”

sharing space on his resume with last year’s bomb “The Family.”

Comedy occurs sporadically, as when Ethan extracts a recipe for spaghetti sauce from a man (Bruno Ricci) whom he is in the middle of torturing, just so Zoey can cook dinner for her boyfriend, Hugh (Jonas Bloquet). When the laughs arise, they’re welcome. – The As-

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