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Oculus Rift Virtual-reality headset begins shipping / A23

FOCUS ON THE FOX Pair of studies to help shape future along the river / A3 TODAY’S WEATHER

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It still will be chilly Tuesday, but the arctic high-pressure system responsible for the chill will move away as a storm approaches.

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Crystal Lake businesses could hit jackpot It’s not a done deal, but the city of Crystal Lake could end its video gaming holdout Tuesday night when it votes on a compromise proposal offered by local businesses that want the machines. The city is long overdue to allow video gambling. Other than Lakewood, Crystal Lake has been the last holdout in McHenry County. That has put Crystal Lake businesses at a disadvantage with businesses in surrounding communities that have allowed video gaming for a few years now.

I don’t buy the opposition to video gaming claiming it can lead to increased gambling addictions. I do buy, however, the fact that people are going to gamble regardless, and, for years now, Crystal Lake and its businesses have been losing revenue by standing on the sidelines and watching.

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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Jason Schaumburg Now if we could just get the city to come to its senses allowing liquor sales at its newly remodeled movie theater.

If you’re keeping track of your vices in Crystal Lake, it’s OK to buy liquor at Starbucks but not at the movies. After Tuesday night, it also might be OK to do a little gambling in town.

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McHenry County Board members will debate Tuesday whether to spend $2.6 million to build a roundabout at the intersection of Charles and Raffel roads just north of Woodstock North High School.

However, the project goes before the County Board without approval from its Transportation Committee. Story, page A4.

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Illinois lawmakers kicked off the final two months of the spring session with a flurry of activity Monday, advancing measures to punish gun traffickers and expedite criminal hearings in Cook County for low-level offenses. But they’re no closer to resolving an epic partisan standoff over a budget that should’ve taken effect last July.

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$2.7M The opening starting price for bids in an online auction planned for the former Motorola campus

ON THE COVER Algonquin Trustee Jim Steigert (left) and village senior planner Ben Mason discuss the future of the riverfront in Algonquin.

Algonquin and Carpentersville officials are finishing the process of making a plan for the Fox River.

See story page 3.

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A CLOSER LOOK

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McHenry County officials look for ways to improve Fox River

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A Bondy Studio artist’s rendering of a potential boardwalk overlook on the east side of the river, just south of the Algonquin dam.

By CAITLIN SWIECA

cswieca@shawmedia.com ALGONQUIN – When the village undertook a downtown planning study a few years ago, suggestions on how to boost the area’s economy led officials to take a closer look at the natural landmark on the eastern edge of the study zone: the Fox River.

The authors of that study, which was done in conjunction with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning and finished in 2013, saw the river as an asset that could bring foot traffic into downtown Algonquin while providing recreational opportunities for residents and visitors.

Today, Algonquin and several other municipal agencies are working with CMAP planners to refocus their efforts on improving the Fox River throughout McHenry County.

Through CMAP’s Local Technical Assistance Program, Algonquin and Carpentersville recently completed a joint Fox River Corridor Plan that provided suggestions to improve the 5-mile stretch of the river between those villages.

Inspired by that, the McHenry County Department of Planning and Development successfully applied to the LTA program with a proposal to extend that study north.

While planners are collaborating with leaders of government organizations and community groups to improve the river, CMAP Associate Planner Brian Daly said the more than 600 people participating in the first study showed McHenry County residents already are passionate about that goal.

“For this project, it was [clear] that people care deeply about their

H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com

Village Trustee Jim Steigert talks about the future of the riverfront in Algonquin. Algonquin and Carpentersville are reaching a conclusion in the process of making a plan for the Fox River.

News sent to your phone Sign up for Fox Waterway News Text Alerts for boating conditions, news and updates on the Fox River and Chain O’Lakes. river, and it has such a strong connection to the identity of their communities,” said Daly, who is a leader of both river studies. “Even people who aren’t using it recreationally think of it as such a big part of where they’re from.”

In the Algonquin-Carpentersville

plan, CMAP’s suggestions ranged from the simple, such as adding public boat slips near downtown and entry points for novice canoe and kayak users, to the unconventional, such as building an overlook to the east side of the river near Algonquin Road.

The key to the study, however, was connectivity, Algonquin Trustee Jim Steigert said. Several tracts of land in the planning zone are owned by the McHenry County Conservation District and the Forest Preserve District of Kane County.

“It was a perfect mixture of interested parties,” Steigert said. “This is not an isolated problem. If you’re

trying to promote connectivity, we need to bring these communities together.”

While the exact area for the McHenry County study has not been determined, it could include municipalities such as McHenry and Fox River Grove and areas owned by the Lake County Forest Preserves District and Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

“These communities have the river in common, and at least I’m not familiar with a common effort in the past to help plan for the river,”

See FOX RIVER, page A7

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RIVERFRONT COMING INTO FOCUS?

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A 26-year-old man was flown to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville with serious injuries after a crash at Route 120 and Crestwood Avenue, a McHenry fire official said. A portion of Route 120 was closed for nearly seven hours as officials investigated the crash, which happened about 11 a.m. A fire official said the man was ejected from the car he was driving when it crashed into the rear tires of a semitrailer. The driver of the semitrailer was uninjured. Visit NWHerald.com for video and a photo gallery from the scene.

Board to take up transportation votes

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County Board will vote Tuesday whether to approve the building of a roundabout north of Woodstock, and allocate funding for roadwork for homeowners along nondedicated roads.

Board members will decide whether to spend $2.6 million to build a roundabout at the intersection of Charles and Raffel roads just north of Woodstock North High School. Supporters of the project say a roundabout would improve safety at the intersection, which transportation officials say has a higher incidence of crashes than it should.

However, the project goes before the County Board without approval from its Transportation Committee, which voted against it, 3-2, with two members absent.

The project first was highlighted as a priority in the county’s 2009 highway improvement plan.

A roundabout is a circular intersec-

If you go The County Board meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the county Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock. tion that supporters say is a safer alternative to intersections. Because there is only one-way movement throughout the roundabout – cars travel counterclockwise until they find their turn – they all but eliminate the possibility of head-on and right-angle collisions. Because of its rural location near a school, it has been designed to accept flow of school buses, farm equipment and other large vehicles.

The first roundabout in McHenry County opened in 2014 in Johnsburg.

Of the three bids received by the county, Curran Contracting Co. of Crystal Lake had the lowest one at $2.23 million.

The $2.6 million total includes a 15 percent contingency fund to handle unforeseen circumstances. If the County Board

approves the project, work will begin this spring and end in August, weather permitting.

In a separate vote, the County Board is expected to allocate $180,100 in motor fuel taxes to help pay for improvements on nondedicated roads this year. Such roads, which date back to at least 1959 and some of which are at least 100 years old, are public roads that do not fall under any government’s responsibility to maintain them.

Homeowners along these roads, who because of the designation have seen no benefit to the property taxes they pay for road maintenance, have fought for about eight years to get what they call a fair deal. The county’s nondedicated roads can be found in Algonquin, Dorr, McHenry and Nunda townships.

Under the plan, the county will pay from its motor fuel tax funds in a 50 percent match to what the townships will pay. About $35,616 will go to nondedicated roads in Algonquin Township, $21,485 to Dorr, $61,353 to McHenry and $61,647 to Nunda.

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It will still be chilly in the area today, but it will not be as cold as Monday. The arctic high pressure system responsible for the recent chill will move away as a storm approaches the area from the west. Warmer air along with some rain will surge into the area tonight and tomorrow.

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Teen charged with burglarizing business 4 times

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By KATIE DAHLSTROM

kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A 15-year-old Woodstock boy has been charged with burglarizing Botts Welding and Truck Services four times over the span of a few days, police said Monday.

Police said last Thursday that they were looking for a subject after the owner of Botts called about 9 p.m.

Tuesday to report a burglary in progress at the business, 335 N. Eastwood Drive. Footage of the subject was captured on a security camera the owner had bought after an earlier break-in, police said.

The Woodstock Police Department received an anonymous tip Friday that the 15-year-old, whom police did not identify, was the person responsible for burglaries at the business, Chief Robert Lowen said. Police said the teen broke into the business through an unsecured window.

“He knew there was computer equipment in there and he took advantage of the situation,” Lowen said.

Woodstock detectives met with the teen and his guardian at their home Friday, and then interviewed him at the Woodstock Police Department, Lowen said.

A number of items that were stolen from Botts, including a desktop computer, laptop computer, a security camera and a router, were recovered from the teen’s residence, police said.

After conferring with the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office, the teen was charged with four counts of burglary, a Class 2 felony.

Police said the teen was released to his guardian.

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An SUV is towed from the scene of a crash Monday in the Harvest Glen subdivision near Cary after uprooting a mailbox and a tree.

Teens injured after crashing into tree

By KATIE DAHLSTROM

kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com CARY – Two teens were injured when a 16-year-old crashed an SUV into a mailbox and a tree in a subdivision near Cary on Monday, police said.

Lake County Sheriff’s Detective Christopher Covelli said police were dispatched just before 8 a.m. to the 2800 block of Harvest Glen Circle after a 16-year-old boy driving a 2005 Acura SUV northwest on the residential street had crashed.

“The driver indicated he was reaching for something in the backseat and lost control of the vehicle,”

Covelli said.

At the scene in the Harvest Glen subdivision, the SUV sat on the front lawn of a home with the tree lodged in its undercarriage. A mailbox from a home 180 feet down the block also laid in the yard. The SUV had heavy front-end damage, and at least one headlight and a license plate had fallen off during the collision.

The driver and a 14-year-old boy who was a passenger were taken to an area hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, Covelli said.

Covelli said excessive speed was not a factor in the crash. He said both teens were wearing seat belts.

The SUV was towed from the scene.

LOCAL BRIEFS One child on board in minor crash between car, school bus

CRYSTAL LAKE – No one was injured in a crash between a car and a school bus near the intersection of Routes 31 and 176 Monday afternoon, a fire official said.

Crystal Lake Fire Rescue District Battalion Chief William Whyte said there was one child on board during the collision around 3:20 p.m.

He said there was “barely a dent” in the bus, and the vehicles were easily able to pull into a parking lot after the crash.

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CRYSTAL LAKE – The fourth annual Masquerade Ball benefiting Make-A-Wish Illinois will be from 6 to 11 p.m. April 23 at the Holiday Inn, 800 S. Route 31, Crystal Lake. The evening will include a cocktail party, live entertainment, activities, silent auctions and a cash bar. Formal attire with masks is required. The cost is $50 in advance, $75 at the door. Proceeds help grant wishes for children with life-threatening medical conditions. For information, visit www.helpmakeawish. org/tickets.html.

CRYSTAL LAKE – The Color Dash 5K Fun Run/Walk will be April 17 at Crystal Lake South High School, 1200 McHenry Ave., Crystal Lake. Activities begin at 8 a.m. with packet pickup, on-site registration, vendors, a DJ dance party, drawings and contests. The family-friendly run is open to all. The cost is $40 a person, $25 for students. Fifty percent of the proceeds from registration fees and merchandise will benefit Crystal Lake South’s wellness department. To register, visit www.cd5k.com.

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son said officials will use the recently completed report as a guide when considering future improvements to the Fox River. Meanwhile, he said, village officials would be happy to draw on their experience to help planners of the upcoming McHenry County study.

Daly, Navota and CMAP planning associate Kate Evasic will begin to collaborate with local officials on the McHenry County river plan soon, and the project likely will kick into high gear later this year.

The northern part of the Fox River H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com has different characteristics from the A view of the Fox River is seen March 29 from Algonquin’s riverfront park. Algonquin and portion studied earlier, most notably a higher prevalence of boats. Planners Carpentersville are in the process of making a plan for the Fox River. will take that into account as they focan do when it comes to changing waIn this case, CMAP planners like- cus on a new portion of the river. ter quality all on their own,” Daly said, ly will encourage local officials to be “That’s all part of the process that “but there are existing coalitions and actively involved with the restoration we go through with local partners – to groups in place, and these studies can goals of the Fox River Study Group, he examine what the conditions are in the be a good opportunity to incorporate said. study area,” Navota said. “That’s all some of their goals.”

Algonquin Senior Planner Ben Ma- part of the fun.”

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McHenry County Planning and Development Deputy Director Darrell Moore said. “Each one sees the river just as it flows through their area, maybe not as part of a greater regional aspect.”

Daly said the renewed focus on the Fox River follows a regional trend of viewing bodies of water as both natural resources and attractions.

CMAP Local Planning Director Jason Navota said CMAP regularly works on planning for the broader Mississippi River watershed, but these projects allow an opportunity to zone in on more specific areas.

“It’s definitely helpful that there are adjoining projects or overlapping projects that can complement and strengthen what we’re trying to do,” Navota said.

One goal that will require collaboration is improving the water quality of the Fox River, which Steigert cited as a top goal from the study.

“There’s very little one local government or even a county government

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OBITUARIES LEO DONATI

College in 1957. In 1959, he received a Master’s of Science in Chemistry as well as a Doctorate degree from University of Iowa in 1961.

He worked for Phillips Petroleum ComSend obituary information to obits@ pany in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Morton Internwherald.com or call 815-526-4438.

Leo Donati, formerly of national in Woodstock and in Chicago until he Notices are accepted until 3 p.m. for Lake in the Hills, Illinois, retired in 1997. He then taught Chemistry at the next day’s edition. Obituaries also and later Hot Springs, McHenry County College for one year. appear online at NWHerald.com/obits, Arkansas, died peacefully He was a member in the McHenry County where you may sign the guest book, Thursday, March 31, 2016, Audubon Society for 32 years, American send flowers or make a memorial surrounded by loved ones.

Chemical Society, McHenry County Computer donation.

Leo was born in Chicago on Aug. 7, 1925, Club and Boy Scout Leader for Troop 359. to Renato and Guilia Donati. At a young age, He enjoyed camping, birding, gardening, and he moved to Italy where he was raised by his givers, staff and ownership at Sunset Haven mechanical jobs. grandparents. At 16 Leo returned to Chicago, in Elgin for the wonderful care given to our He is survived by his wife, Carol Frey; a son, attended and graduated from Lane Tech High father for the past three years.

Donald (Patti) Frey of Littleton, CO; daughter, School.

Visitation services will be held at Willow Fu- Sandra (Bob) Landrey of Wonder Lake; grandAfter enlisting in the Navy in 1943, Leo neral Home 1415 W Algonquin Rd, Algonquin, children, Neil, Shaine, Jerrid and Drew Frey, served as a ship diesel mechanic in the IL on Thursday, April 7th from 10:00 AM to Jessica, Rachel and Amanda Landrey; sister in Pacific during WWII. Leo returned home in 1:00 PM. Private interment to follow. law, Marilyn Michelini and Doris Inness; and 1945 and met Margaret (Chris) Doherty; they In lieu of flowers, please direct memorials many nieces and nephews. married in 1948. Together they had 3 chilto Cohen - Syndrome. Org 1980 Cloverdale He was preceded in death by his parents; dren, Terry Donati (Amy Miller) of Dundee, Lane, Algonquin IL 60102. also brother in law, Richard Michelini and Bob Illinois, Lane Donati (Deborah Bruski) of Lake Inness. in the Hills, Illinois, and Paula Coffin (Geoff) of The visitation will be Thursday, April 7, 2016 Carmel, Indiana. at the Schneider, Leucht, Merwin & Cooney JOHN E. DOWER Leo is survived by his three children, six Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave., Woodgrandchildren, Carrie, Laura, Eric, Nicole, John E. Dower, age 69, of Cary passed away stock, starting at 4:00 p.m. until the time of Cody and Cherie, and his 11 great-grandchilthe funeral service at 6:00 p.m. Graveside April 3, 2016, at Good Shepherd Hospital. dren. services will be at 11:00 a.m., Friday, April 8, Arrangements pending at the Kahle-Moore He was preceded in death by his wife of 2016 at Precinct Cemetery in Earlville. Friends Funeral and Cremation Service.

847-63949 years, Chris; his parents; and son-in-law, and relatives are invited to attend.

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In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made In life, Leo worked as Fleet Manager for to McHenry County Audubon www.mchenGonnella Baking Company for more than 30 ryaudubon.org, or American Cancer Society years, maintaining their many trucks. Later, DR. DAVID A. FREY www.cancer.org or Journey Care Hospice in 1978, Leo and his son, Lane opened Main Born: Nov. 26, 1935; in Mendota, IL www.journeycare.org .

Street Pub in Algonquin, Illinois, where Leo Died: April 3, 2016; in Woodstock, IL For information, call the funeral home at enjoyed using his impressive culinary skills.

815-338-1710 or see our website at www.

Upon retirement in 1986, Leo and Chris Dr. David A. Frey, 80, slmcfh.com. moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he passed away peacefully at continued to enjoy several hobbies: gardenhis home in Woodstock on ing, landscaping, boating, and of course, Sunday April 3, 2016.

DORIS M. KEANE Friday night dancing. One of Leo’s favorite David was born in memories was returning to his boyhood town Mendota on Nov. 26, 1935, Born: Oct. 10, 1926; in Manchester, NH Died: April 3, 2016; in Walworth, WI to Allen Louis and Mary after 50 years – Castelvecchio, Italy. Here Elizabeth (Larabee) Frey. he visited the home in which he was raised Doris M. Keane, 89, of Walworth, Wisconand reconnected with childhood friends. Leo He married Carol Boozel in 1957 they were married for 58 wonderful years. sin, formerly of Florida and Harvard, Illinois, loved life and his family; he will be greatly David grew up in Earlville. He received a passed away Sunday, April 3, 2016, at Golden missed.

Bachelor of Science degree from Monmouth Years Nursing Home in Walworth, Wisconsin.

The family would like to thank the careBorn: Aug. 7, 1925; in Chicago, IL Died: March 31, 2016; in Elgin, IL

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She was born on Oct. 10, 1926, in Manchester, New Hampshire, the daughter of the late Bertrand and Marie (Cantin) Lambert.

Doris worked as an RN at Woodstock Memorial Hospital for 22 years. On Aug. 18, 1951, she married Patrick M. Keane Jr., in Battle Creek, Michigan. They had nine children.

Doris will be remembered as being a devoted Catholic, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was kind and compassionate, charitable, strong, patient, and faithful. Doris enjoyed gardening, crocheting, sewing and word puzzles.

Survivors include her children, Deacon Michael (Deborah) Keane of Marengo, Colleen (Richard) Nelson of Woodstock; Dr. Kevin Keane of Cochranville, PA, Mary (Terry) Whiston of Arlington, Heights, Sheila (Larry) Hansen of Woodstock, Patricia (Carl) Nomm of Woodstock, Nancy (David) Thurow of Woodstock, and Alice (David) Henson of Harvard; 15 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Patrick Keane Jr.; infant son, Thomas Patrick; and sister, Theresa Dusten.

Visitation will be 4:00 to 7:00 pm Tuesday, April 5, 2016, at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner St. Harvard, IL 60033.

A Rosary will follow at 7:30 pm. Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:00 am Wednesday, April 6, 2016, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 206 E. Front St. Harvard, IL 60033; with Father Steven Clarke officiating. Inurnment will be at a later date in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery.

The family would like to thank the staff of Golden Years in Walworth and St. Croix Hospice for providing excellent care for Doris.

Memorials to the Northern Illinois Food Bank 273 Dearborn Ct. in Geneva, IL 60134 would be greatly appreciated.

Family and friends may sign the online guest book at saundersmcfarlin.net. For more information call 815-943-5400.

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FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Charlie Battaglia: The visitation will be from 4 p.m. until the 7 p.m. funeral service Tuesday, April 5, at Davenport Family Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave. (Route 176), Crystal Lake. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-3411.

Alvig Dagny Carlson: A celebration of life will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 30, at Presbyterian Church in Marengo. A luncheon for family and friends will follow.

Russell R. Crundwell: The visitation will be from 1 p.m. until the 3 p.m. funeral service Saturday, April 9, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road,

McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400.

Leo Donati: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 7, at Willow Funeral Home, 1415 W. Algonquin Road, Algonquin. Private interment to follow.

Jean Marie Fitzgerald: The visitation will be from 4 p.m. until the 8 p.m. funeral service Tuesday, April 5, at Friedrichs Funeral Home, 320 W. Central Road at Northwest Highway, Mt. Prospect. For information, call the funeral home at 847-255-7800.

Robin Franz Freeman: A memorial will be April 30. For information, call Jessi at 224-

829-2825. call Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home at Dr. David A. Frey: The visitation will be from 815-943-5400.

4 p.m. until the 7 p.m. funeral service Thurs- Doris M. Keane: The visitation will be from day, April 7, at Schneider-Leucht-Merwin 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, at Saunders & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner Ave., Woodstock. Graveside services will St., Harvard. A rosary will follow at 7:30 be at 11 a.m. Friday, April 8, at Precinct p.m. The Mass of Christian Burial will be at Cemetery in Earlville. For information, call 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 6, at St. Joseph the funeral home at 815-338-1710.

Catholic Church, 206 E. Front St., Harvard.

Adeline Joan Jackson: The visitation will Inurnment will be at a later date in St. be from 9 a.m. until the 11 a.m. Mass Joseph Catholic Cemetery. For information, celebration Saturday, April 9, at St. Joseph call the funeral home at 815-943-5400.

Catholic Church, 206 E. Front St., Harvard.

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BILLINGS, Mont. – Acclaimed American Indian historian Joseph Medicine Crow, the last surviving war chief for his Plains Indians tribe, has died. He was 102.

Funeral home director Terry Bullis said Medicine Crow died Sunday.

Medicine Crow grew up and lived most of his life on the Crow Reservation near Lodge Grass, Montana.

As a child he listened to stories about the Battle of Little Bighorn told by a relative who served as a scout for Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.

Medicine Crow later served as the tribe’s historian and continued to lecture into his 90s. Medicine Crow earned the title of war chief after stealing enemy horses and other exploits as a U.S. solider during World War II. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.

– Wire report

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS • Continued from page A8 Vette E. Kell: A celebration of life service will be held at a later date.

Ronald Hubert Paul: A celebration of life will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at the home of Geoffrey and Rebecca Paul, 41W105 Campton Trail Road, St. Charles.

Helena T. Rozner: The visitation will be from 2 p.m. until the 4 p.m. funeral service Saturday, April 9, at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral Home, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley.

Georgette A. Santella: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 7, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. The visitation will resume from 9 to 9:45 a.m. Friday, April 8, at the funeral home, followed by the funeral Mass celebration at 10:30 a.m. at Christ the King Catholic Church, 5006 E. Wonder Lake Road, Wonder Lake. Interment will be in the church cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400.

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RONALD HUBERT PAUL

by her loving family.

She was born Sept. 20, 1946, in Chicago, to Arthur and Alma (Potratz) Rossi. On VETTE E. KELL Sept. 7, 1968, she married Richard Santella Born: Oct. 17, 1915; in Marengo, IA Died: April 1, 2016; in Barrington, IL Ronald Hubert Paul, 77, of Kingsport, Ten- in Chicago. Georgette was born and raised in Chicago, but eventually found a place nessee, formerly of Streamwood, Hanover to call home in Wonder Lake with her Vette E. Kell, 100, of Park and Franklin Park, Illinois, passed husband. In her younger years, Georgette Barrington, was born away Friday, March 11, 2016, in Phoenix, worked in banks, and for Hallmark Stores in Oct. 17, 1915, in Marengo, Arizona.

Chicago and McHenry, although her main Iowa, to Eugene and FlorHe was born April 21, 1938, in Chicago. ence (nee Hatter) Kell. He The son of the late Edward John and Helen priority was caring for her family.

She treasured family time, especially passed away Friday, April (Lemberg) Paul. Ron loved to play the riding on their pontoon boat, “Quiet 1, 2016, in Barrington. saxophone, enjoyed skiing, cycling and Vette is survived by his playing golf. He enjoyed riding motorcycles George”, on Wonder Lake. She loved taking son, Michael (Margaret) and recently purchased a Polaris Slingshot vacations to Florida, Wisconsin, and to the Bahamas last year. Other enjoyments Kell; his grandchildren, tri-wheeled vehicle. include, painting, ceramics, stained glass, Michael (Kimberly) Kell, Ron is survived by his children, Lisa and most of all, playing Bingo and slot Grace (Jason) Dascoli, (Willy) Deal of Crystal Lake, Illinois, Michele machines at the casino. and Victoria (Andrew) Lowdon; and six (Raymond) Wehrs III of Sammamish, WashGeorgette is survived by her husband great grandchildren. ington, and Geoffrey (Rebecca) Paul of St. He is preceded in death by his wife, Alice Charles, Illinois; Grandchildren, Christopher of 48 years, Richard; two daughters, Gina (Rob) Moreno, Jennifer (Tom) Owens; (nee Eaton) Kell; and his parents.

(Jessica) Deal, Nicole and Ashley Wehrs, Interment was held privately at Oakland four grandsons, Benjamin Moreno, Caelan Anna and Kaytlyn Paul; Great-GrandchilCemetery in Woodstock. A celebration of Moreno, Zane Owens and Zander Owens; dren, Logan and Cody Deal, and Brother life service will be held at a later date. and her sister, Francine Rossi.

Edward John Paul formerly of Huntington In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions She is preceded in death by her parents.

Beach, California, currently residing in may be given to the Wounded Warrior Friends and neighbors can gather from Phoenix, Arizona.

Project, 230 W. Monroe St., Suite 200, 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Ron was preceded in death by his Chicago, IL 60606. www.woundedwarriorApril 7, 2016, at Justen Funeral Home & parents, his wife, Doreen; and former wife, project.org.

Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, Patricia Ferrero Paul (Stanton).

McHenry, IL 60050.

A celebration of Ron’s life will be held at Visitation will resume Friday, at 9:00 the home of Geoffrey and Rebecca Paul at a.m. until 9:45 a.m. at the funeral home.

41W105 Campton Trail Road in St. Charles, The funeral Mass will be 10:30 a.m. at on Saturday, April 9, from 1 to 5 p.m.

Christ the King Catholic Church, 5006 E. In lieu of flowers the family requests Wonder Lake Road, Wonder Lake, IL 60097. donations be made to the American Cancer Interment will be in Christ the King Catholic Society https://donate.cancer.org/index Cemetery.

For those wishing to send an expression of sympathy, her family suggests memoriCAROL A. LYNN GEORGETTE A. SANTELLA als to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memorials & Honors Program, 501 St. Jude Carol A. Lynn, 79, of Oakwood Hills passed Born: Sept. 20, 1946 Died: April 2, 2016 Place, Memphis, TN 38105. away April 3, 2016, at JourneyCare in For information, please call the funeral Barrington.

Georgette A. Santella, age 69, of Wonder home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.

Arrangements are pending at the Lake, passed away Saturday, April 2, 2016, justenfh.com, where friends may leave an Kahle-Moore Funeral Home and Cremation at Centegra Hospital-McHenry, surrounded on-line condolence message for her family.

Service. 847-639-3817.

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NEIGHBORS East Dundee

THINGS TO DO IN & AROUND McHENRY COUNTY

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WOODSTOCK PUBLIC LIBRARY MOVIE NIGHT: “CONCUSSION”

WHEN: 6:30 p.m. April 5 WHERE: Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock COST & INFO: Rated PG-13, “Concussion” features Will Smith (below) as Dr. Bennet Omalu. Dr. Omalu discovers a degenerative brain disease now known as CTE in the autopsies of several deceased pro-football players, but after presenting his research, he finds himself under fire from the NFL. Information: www. woodstockpubliclibrary.org.

NATIONAL TOURNAMENT – Immanuel Lutheran School’s varsity girls basketball team competed in the Lutheran Basketball Association of America National Tournament March 17-20 at Valparaiso University. The team competed in state and national tournaments for the first time in the school’s history. Pictured (back row, from left) are Jeff Leitner, Sophie Kovachavich, Grace McCool, Roslyn Leitner, Peyton Schmidt, Coach Cheryl Leitner and Coach Bridget Leahy; and (front row) Mikayla Park, Brooklyn Krahl, Jordan Miller and Mackenzie Leahy.

COMMUNITY

CALENDAR April 5

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“GROW YOUR OWN VEGETABLES”

WHEN: 7 to 8:30 p.m. April 5 WHERE: McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry COST & INFO: University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners will discuss how to start a vegetable garden.

Free. Information: 815-3850036 or www.mchenrylibrary.org.

• 9:30 a.m. – Elgin Genealogical Society meeting, Gail Borden Public Library, 270 N. Grove Ave., Elgin. Daniel Hubbard, Lake County Genealogical Society president, will present “Space-Time for Family Historians.” Free. Information: www. elginroots.com.

• 6 to 8 p.m. – HAPL Writers Group, Huntley Area Public Library, 11000 Ruth Road, Huntley. All writers – beginning through experienced – are invited to network and share their writing in a friendly setting. Open to ages 15 and older. Information: 847-669-5386 or www.huntleylibrary.org.

• 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. – Kindergarten registration, Harrison School, 6809 McCullom Lake Road, Wonder Lake. Any child age 5 on or before Sept.

1 is eligible. Three proofs of residence and child’s birth certificate required. Information: 815-6532311 or nkuretski@hsd36.org.

• 6:30 to 9 p.m. – Crystal Lake Camera Club

meeting, Home State Bank, 611 S. Main St., Crystal Lake. Featuring competition night. Free.

Information: rowham40@sbcglobal.net or www. crystallakecameraclub.org.

• 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. – “The Art of Polish Pottery,” Fox Lake District Library, 255 E. Grand Ave., Fox Lake. Rebecca Gengler of More Polish Pottery will discuss the history, artists and factories that produce Polish pottery. Free. Information: 847-5870198 or www.fllib.org.

• 7 to 8 p.m. – Lifetree Café, The Pointe, 5650 Route 14, Crystal Lake. The program, “Intimacy Anorexia: The Dark Secret That’s Killing Marriages,” features a filmed interview with psychologist Douglas Weiss. Free. Information: Bob Dorn at 815-575-4745 or rdorn@immanuelcl.org.

• 7:30 p.m. – “Catholics Returning Home” informal sessions, St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, 111 S. Hubbard St., Algonquin. A six-week program for non-practicing Catholics seeking a means of returning to the church. Free. Registration required. Information: 847-658-7625.

Have an event to share? Submit your information online at PlanitNorthwest.com.

Photos may be emailed to neighbors@nwherald.com.

Crystal Lake

Local employers sought for college’s spring job fair Local employers are invited to sign up for an exhibit booth at the McHenry County College job fair that will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

May 6 in the Multi-purpose Room in Building A, 8900 Route 14.

The fair will be open to MCC students and community residents and is expected to draw a wide range of job seekers, including students looking for seasonal employment through seasoned professionals looking for career opportunities.

The fee for exhibit space is $75. The registration deadline is April 29.

For information, call 815-455-8576 or email careers@mchenry.edu.

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By IVAN MORENO

The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers kicked off the final two months of the spring session with a flurry of activity Monday, advancing measures to punish gun traffickers and expedite criminal hearings in Cook County for low-level offenses.

Before a Friday deadline to move bills out of committee, there was a long list of bills still awaiting votes, including regulation of daily fantasy sports betting and easing access to police video under the Freedom of Information Act. But they’re no closer to resolving an epic partisan standoff over a budget that should’ve taken effect last July.

Illinois is now the only state in the U.S. AP file photo without a budget for the current fiscal The Illinois House of Representatives meets during a session Feb. 16 at the state Capitol year. in Springfield.

Here’s a summary of Monday’s legislative action. olence, gang violence,” particularly in would expand that requirement to othChicago, Durkin said. er low-level offenses, such as driving Gun violence The bill, which would impose pris- with a suspended license.

In an effort to combat gun violence on sentences of four to 20 years for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart testiin Chicago, lawmakers gave initial a first offense, now goes to the full fied in favor of the bill, telling lawmakapproval to a bill that would create a House. Subsequent convictions would ers that sometimes defendants end up new felony offense for buying guns in carry stiffer penalties. sitting in jail for months for minor ofother states to transport them for sale fenses. Sometimes the defendants are in Illinois. in jail for months because they can’t Republican Rep. Jim Durkin, the Speedy hearings afford bail, Dart said.

Last year, Illinois lawmakers passed GOP’s House leader and sponsor of the legislation to expedite low-level drug bill, said criminals are skirting Illinois’ background check requirements cases through the Cook County docket, Budget gridlock The House returned from a monthand mandate to have a license to pur- requiring resolution within 30 days inchase firearms by going to other states. stead of 120 days. A bill that moved out long break with GOP leaders urging “This is absolutely horrible gun vi- of committee and onto the House floor Democrats who control the Legislature

ILLINOIS ROUNDUP

News from across the state

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Illinois medical marijuana sales continue to grow

CHICAGO – Retail sales of medical marijuana in Illinois increased by about 30 percent in March compared with the previous month.

Program director Joseph Wright said the state’s registered dispensaries sold $1.9 million worth of marijuana in March to more than 4,700 patients. It was the best month yet in sales for the program.

Illinois now has 32 registered dispensaries where qualified patients can buy the drug. Three new dispensaries registered in March.

Wright said about 5,500 patients now qualify for the program.

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One killed, several hurt in Illinois car-train crash

SKOKIE – Police said one person was killed and several were injured when a train struck a car at a suburban Chicago railway crossing.

Skokie police released a statement Monday saying firefighters freed two people from the mangled car after the late-morning accident.

Chicago Transit Authority spokesman Jeff Tolman said investigators believe the vehicle drove through a grade crossing before the collision.

Police said one of the car’s occupants, a woman, was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Evanston St. Francis Hospital spokesman Jim O’Connell said a female passen-

ger in the car was in critical condition and four train passengers were treated for minor injuries.

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U of Illinois president: Keep chancellor finalists secret

URBANA – University of Illinois’ Urbana-Champaign President Timothy Killeen wants to keep candidates’ identities secret after he initially said the finalists for chancellor might sit through public interviews.

University spokesman Tom Hardy said Killeen has decided many potential candidates would not apply for the job if their identities were made public.

Last fall, Killeen said he would consider having finalists make public presentations in an effort to make it “a very open, transparent process,” The (Champaign) News-Gazette reported. Hardy said Killeen had since consulted with

to compromise on a budget with Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.

Neither side is budging.

Rauner is calling for what he describes as business-friendly reform, including curbing the power of unions, before agreeing for a tax increase that many believe is necessary to close a multibillion-dollar deficit.

Democrats say Rauner needs to move away from what they see as a union-busting agenda.

Christine Radogno, the Senate Republican leader, said getting a budget is more important now that public schools are deciding how many teachers they can afford to keep and students are choosing colleges.

The Senate, which has been on break since mid-March, returns to work Tuesday.

No warning labels for pot

Lawmakers in a House committee rejected a measure to require warning labels on medicinal marijuana about possible side effects. Legislators who opposed the bill said doctors already brief patients about what to expect when taking the drug before prescribing it.

The bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Dwight Kay, argued that people who are not medical marijuana users but may come in contact with it should be aware about possible side-effects such as dizziness, impaired thought or delirium.

potential candidates and reviewed past searches at the university.

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Groupon getting a $250M investment from Atairos

NEW YORK – Groupon is getting a $250 million investment from Atairos and is working with Comcast to find potential collaboration opportunities.

Atairos, a private company started earlier this year, is led by Michael Angelakis.

The former Comcast Corp. vice chairman and chief financial officer will become a Groupon board member.

Groupon, an online daily deal service, said that it will use proceeds for general corporate purposes, including stock buybacks. Its board has also approved adding $200 million to its existing share repurchase program and extending it through April 2018.

– Wire reports

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House at work, but no budget progress

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS $20B settlement from BP oil spill OK’d by judge

eryone, not just eligible voters, in drawing voting districts.

The decision rejected a NEW ORLEANS – A federal challenge from Texas voters judge in New Orleans granted that also could have diluted the final approval Monday to an estimated $20 billion settlement voting power of urban Democrats, to the benefit of rural over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, resolving years of Republicans.

The case offered a test of the litigation over the worst offshore principle of “one person, one spill in the nation’s history.

The settlement, first announced vote,” the requirement laid out in July, includes $5.5 billion in civ- by the Supreme Court in 1964 il Clean Water Act penalties and that political districts be about equal in population. The issue billions more to cover environmental damage and other claims here, however, was what population to consider: everyone or by the five Gulf states and local just eligible voters. governments. The money is to be paid out over about 16 years.

The U.S. Justice Department has Destruction left behind

by IS in Syria town estimated that the settlement QARYATAIN, Syria – Syriwill cost the oil giant as much as $20.8 billion, the largest environ- an troops fired their guns in mental settlement in U.S. history celebration amid smoldering buildings inside the town of Qaas well as the largest-ever civil ryatain on Monday, hours after settlement with a single entity.

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, recapturing it from retreating Islamic State militants who had who approved the settlement, had set the stage with an earlier abducted and terrorized dozens ruling that BP had been “grossly of its Christian residents.

An Associated Press crew was negligent” in the offshore rig explosion that killed 11 workers among the first journalists to and caused a 134 million-gallon enter the town and witnessed the destruction wrought on spill. the once-thriving Christian community and its fifth-century Court bolsters political monastery, which was bullinfluence of U.S. Latinos WASHINGTON – The Supreme dozed by the extremist group last summer. Once a cherished Court unanimously endorsed pilgrimage site, much of the election maps that bolster the St. Elian monastery had been growing political influence of reduced to a pile of stones.

America’s Latinos on Monday, – Wire reports ruling that states can count ev-

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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks April 4 at a news briefing in Madison, Wis.

Trump, Cruz making final pitches in Wis. The ASSOCIATED PRESS

MILWAUKEE – After Donald Trump’s toughest stretch of the campaign, he and Ted Cruz made spirited final pitches Monday to Wisconsin voters, who will cast ballots Tuesday in a Republican primary that both consider a key step in the race for president.

After Tuesday, there’s a two-week lull before the next important voting, in New York.

Trump is facing pressure on multiple fronts after a difficult week marked by his controversial comments, reversals and rare moments of contrition. While his past remarks on topics such as Mexican immigrants have drawn a backlash, even he appeared to recognize the damage caused by missteps in the lead-up to Wisconsin.

Those included retweeting an unflattering photo of Cruz’s wife and a series of contradictory comments on abortion that managed to draw condemnation from both abortion-rights activists and opponents.

While Trump is the only Republican with a realistic path to clinching the nomination ahead of the Republican convention, a big loss in Wisconsin would greatly reduce his chances of reaching the needed 1,237 delegates before then. A big win for Trump would give him more room for error down the stretch.

He’s facing a tough challenge in Cruz, whom polls show with a lead in Wisconsin. And he has been battered by negative ads. The state’s top Republican advertiser has been Our Principles PAC, which pumped almost $1.3 million into anti-Trump ads. The Club for Growth, which has endorsed Cruz, is spending $800,000 on ads that promote voting for Cruz – not John Kasich

– as the best way to ensure a Trump defeat.

Also, the state’s Republican establishment, including Gov. Scott Walker, and some of its most influential conservative talk radio hosts have lined up to support Cruz.

At the same time, Trump’s campaign has been outmaneuvered by Cruz in some early states where the campaigns are working to ensure that the delegates who attend the convention this summer are loyal to them.

In North Dakota, Cruz’s team, for instance, has been scooping up endorsements from delegates who were selected at the party’s state convention over the weekend.

All 28 delegates will go to the national convention as free agents. But in interviews, 10 said they were committed to vote for Cruz. A few others said they were leaning toward him.

None has endorsed Trump so far.

And while Trump won Tennessee’s March 1 primary, picking up 33 delegates, his supporters have complained that some Trump delegates selected by the state executive committee weren’t actually supporters. They’ll have to vote for Trump on the first two ballots at the convention, but they can vote as they wish on important procedural matters, including the party platform and the rules for the convention.

Our Principles, one of the outside groups devoted to keeping Trump from winning the GOP nomination, has been putting more and more money into the battle for like-minded delegates. The group logged $9,300 worth of calls to Colorado “voters” – in this case delegates – this month and spent at least $34,000 on North Dakota outreach, according to new filings with the Federal Election Commission.

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Kremlin responds

One of the most prominent subjects of the report is Russian President Vladimir Putin, although his name does not appear in the documents. ICIJ said on its website that the documents show how complex offshore financial deals channeled as much as $2 billion to a network of people linked to Putin.

One focus was Sergei Roldugin, a

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Russian cellist and House of Music Director Sergei Roldugin (left) escorts then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center) and President Dmitry Medvedev as they tour Nov. 21, 2009, a restored House of Music, a former palace of Great Prince Alexei Alexandrovich Pomanov, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Roldugin was named in a sweeping investigation into the offshore financial dealings that implicated a number of people who are believed to be Putin’s close friends. professional cellist and childhood friend of Putin. Roldugen was listed as the owner of companies that obtained payments from other companies worth tens of millions of dollars, and of a stake in Bank Rossiya, described by the U.S. Treasury as “designated for providing material support to government officials.”

“The evidence in the files suggests Roldugin is acting as a front man for a network of Putin loyalists – and perhaps for Putin himself,” the consortium said. Roldugin was unavailable for comment Monday. A receptionist at the St. Petersburg House of Music, where he is artistic director, said he was not in.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed Putin was the “main target” of the investigation, which he suggested was the result of “Putinophobia” and aimed at smearing Russia in a parliamentary election year.

He suggested the ICIJ had ties to the U.S. government. The ICIJ is part of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity, and neither takes U.S. government funding, said Peter Bale, CPI’s chief executive.

Peskov said he would not go into the details of allegations that Putin’s friends ran an offshore scheme, “mainly because there is nothing concrete and nothing new about Putin, and a lack of details.”

Peskov, who had warned last week of an upcoming “information attack” on Putin, said he expected more reports to follow.

In Russia, where the investigation

was published by the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the scandal initially faced an effective coverage ban. Following hours of silence, state-owned Channel One reported the story, leading with Peskov’s denial and mentioning dealings involving Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The TV report said the leak may have been a U.S.-orchestrated attempt to remove Panama as a tax haven since it is competing for tax revenue.

Global reaction

The U.S. Justice Department was reviewing the leak for evidence of possible criminal wrongdoing that might have a link to the United States or to its financial system but could not comment on specific documents, spokesman Peter Carr said. It’s not clear how many Americans have been identified in the documents, but thousands of Europeans have been named, local journalists said.

Australia’s Tax Office said Monday that it was investigating more than 800 wealthy people for possible tax evasion linked to their alleged dealings with Mossack Fonseca. The agency said it had linked more than 120 of those people to an offshore services provider in Hong Kong, but did not identify the company.

Anti-corruption advocates say legal standards on shell companies have improved in some countries but are not tough enough. The G-20 leaders adopted 14 principles in November 2014 at a summit in Brisbane, Australia. The essence was that companies should

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FRANKFURT, Germany – A leak of 11.5 million documents from a Panama-based law firm offers a glimpse into the shadowy world where the rich and powerful hide their money, raising sharp questions about the use of shell companies that obscure the identities of their true owners.

Leaders of the Group of 20 – representing about 80 percent of the global economy – have vowed to crack down on the practice, which is blamed for helping conceal money laundering, corruption and tax evasion.

By themselves, shell companies aren’t illegal. Countries have tightened rules on using them – but not enough to satisfy anti-corruption activists.

News organizations working with the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists have been processing the legal records from the Mossack Fonseca law firm that were first leaked to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper based in Munich, Germany.

In reports that began Sunday, they said the document dump they dubbed the “Panama Papers” shows the hidden offshore assets of politicians, businesses and celebrities, including 12 current or former heads of state.

Among the countries with past or present political figures named in the reports are Iceland, Ukraine, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Argentina.

The law firm said in a statement it observed all laws and international standards covering corporate registrations.

Ramon Fonseca, a co-founder of Mossack Fonseca – one of the world’s largest creators of shell companies – confirmed to Panama’s Channel 2 that documents investigated by the ICIJ were authentic and had been obtained illegally by hackers.

But he said most people identified in the reports were not his firm’s direct clients but were accounts set up by intermediaries.

be able to identify to authorities who their real owners are. Otherwise, that opens the way for money laundering – obscuring the origins of money made from illegal activity – and tax evasion.

Yet in a follow-up report in September, the anti-corruption group Transparency International said that actual implementation of the recommendations into national law had lagged.

Most member countries had at least adopted a clear definition of what real ownership means, but lagged on requiring law firms and banks servicing the rich to require – and independently confirm – the identity of the real owner.

Casey Kelso, advocacy director at anti-corruption organization Transparency International in Berlin, said the reports “should light a fire under governments to take action.”

“We hope that it will galvanize political leadership to actually walk the talk... You can now see the names of the people,” he said.

Development advocates say shell companies help drain tax and natural-resources revenue from poor countries that desperately need the money.

The ICIJ said the documents involve 214,488 companies and 14,153 clients of Mossack Fonseca. The nonprofit group said it would release the full list of companies and people linked to them next month.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung said it was offered the data more than a year ago through an encrypted channel by an anonymous source. The source sought unspecified security measures but no compensation, said Bastian Obermayer, a reporter for the paper.

The data were from 1977 through 2015, the paper said. The newspaper and its partners verified the data’s authenticity by comparing it to public registers, witness testimony and court rulings, Obermayer added.

“It allows a never-before-seen view inside the offshore world – providing a day-to-day, decade-by-decade look at how dark money flows through the global financial system, breeding crime and stripping national treasuries of tax revenues,” the ICIJ said.

Panama “is the last major holdout that continues to allow funds to be hidden offshore from tax and law enforcement authorities,” said Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an organization representing mostly rich countries. It has been working with the G-20 to restrict the use of shell companies.

Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela said his government had “zero tolerance” for illicit financial activities and would cooperate “vigorously” with any investigation.

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U.S. says Iran forces pulling back in Syria; others say no

By DEB RIECHMANN The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is making the case that Iran is drawing down its elite fighting force from Syria in an effort to allay fears that Tehran is using its powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria to strengthen its influence across the Middle East. Yet the Iranian government said Monday that it has dispatched commandos to the war and it is still taking high-ranking casualties.

Secretary of State John Kerry, who is deeply involved in trying to broker a political solution to end the fiveyear-old civil war between President Bashar Assad and rebels, told Congress in late February that Iran was recalling its IRGC forces from Syria.

“On Iran, let me just inform everybody here that the IRGC has actually pulled its troops back from Syria,” Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “pulled a significant number of troops out. Their presence is actually reduced in Syria.”

Other administration officials have backed Kerry’s assertion.

U.S. officials, who were not autho-

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Syrian troops and allied militiamen pressed on with an offensive against Islamic State militants in central Syria on Monday, clashing with the extremists around the town of Qaryatain (seen above) a day after it was captured by pro-government forces. rized to publicly discuss Iran’s role in Syria and spoke only on the condition of anonymity, said Tehran’s drawdown of IRGC forces will compel Assad to rely more on his own forces, which lack the training and intelligence capabilities of the IRGC. But experts say that even if the IRGC has trimmed forces, the pro-Ira-

nian Shiite militias Tehran helped create are still fighting. Iran stepped up its fighting in Syria in October 2015, sending mainly IRGC officers to direct Shiite foot soldiers from other nations, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“Iran has done so much to strengthen the Assad regime – stabilize the

Assad regime – through the creation of these militia groups,” said Scott Modell, a former CIA officer who has conducted operations throughout the Middle East.

“They don’t want to just build up their militia groups and leave. This is their way of creating a lasting footprint” across the region, he said.

“This isn’t Russia where they make sure to shore up Assad and then they downsize.”

A senior congressional staffer said what the U.S. is seeing from the Iranians is not different from what it is seeing from the Russians – a withdrawal of some number of forces and resources that does not significantly change the battlefield. The staffer spoke only on the condition of anonymity.

Russia began supporting Assad with airstrikes Sept. 30, helping his military reverse the tide of war and make some key advances. President Vladimir Putin recently ordered a pullout of some Russian warplanes from Syria, but said that strikes against the Islamic State group and the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front will continue. Those groups have been excluded from a Russian- and U.S.-brokered cease-fire that began Feb. 27 and has largely held.

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Discipline and elbow grease will help you achieve your goals. Don’t sit back when you should be moving full steam ahead.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Keep your mind on what you are doing and don’t let anyone disrupt your plans. You can bring about positive change if you stick to your own devices.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Your intuition will not let you down. An emotional situation will turn in your favor if you are willing to push a

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Bring about the changes that will help you secure a desired position or provide a chance to hone your skills and make them profitable.

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Jason Schaumburg Editor

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Be cautious near tractors this spring Farm-related deaths in Illinois reached 14 from July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015, according to the most recent Country Financial data. Since 2005, there have been 256 farm-related deaths, Spring planting season is about to kick into high gear. As tractors and other farm implements traverse roads in McHenry County’s farming areas during the next few weeks, we ask that you slow down to avoid beFor the record coming a statistic.

From July 1, As tractors and other farm 2014, to June 30, implements traverse roads in 2015, roadway colliMcHenry County’s farming arsions were the second-leading cause of eas during the next few weeks, farm-related deaths, we ask that you slow down to with five. Only maavoid becoming a statistic. chinery rollovers or runovers killed more people in Illinois, with seven.

Since 2005, 53 people have been killed in collisions involving farm equipment between, accounting for 21 percent of all farm-related deaths in that time period in Illinois.

The Illinois Department of Agriculture provides the following tips for motorists during spring planting season: • Pay attention and don’t drive distracted.

• When you see a slow-moving vehicle, slow down.

• If you have to pass, do so with extreme caution and only when you know it is safe.

• Be patient. A farmer can’t always move over to let motorists pass. If you can’t see the driver, the driver can’t see you. Farm machinery operators may not be able to see you because the large equipment or a load can block part of their rear view.

Farmers can play a role, too: • Avoid traveling on roads during peak traffic hours when moving farm equipment.

• When moving equipment, use escort vehicles that closely follow the farm equipment to afford the highest visibility and warning.

• Pull over to allow traffic to pass only when road and shoulder conditions are safe.

We can have a safe planting season on our roadways if everyone plays their part.

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NRA specializes in fairy tales

The National Rifle Association long has specialized in fairy tales.

Our favorites include “Obama is coming for our guns”; “Universal background checks will lead to a national gun registry”; and the classic “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”

Now, however, the NRA has taken this affinity for the fantastic to a whole new level. The New York Times reported the group is publishing online a series of reimagined fairy tales in which central characters “are now packing heat.” Indeed, the first two in the series – Little Red Riding Hood (Has a Gun) and Hansel and Gretel (Have Guns) – are available on the NRA Family website.

The Brothers Grimm (the originals, not the Kochs) have been rewritten by Amelia Hamilton, who is identified on the website as a conservative blogger and “a lifelong writer and patriot.” In its introduction to the page, the NRA

asks readers whether the fairy tales read to them as children ever made “them rest a little bit uneasy,” and whether they have ever wondered what those stories might sound like if the hapless victims had been armed.

We suspect for the vast majority of people, the answer to the first query is “yes,” and to the second, “certainly not.” Then again, the nightmares that trouble our sleep tend to be more complicated than specters of government agents seizing our firearms.

In any case, in the NRA version, the Big, Bad Wolf more than meets his match in Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, armed with a rifle and a shotgun respectively and equipped with knowledge of how to use them.

Not surprisingly, taking liberties with the Brothers Grimm has incensed some interested parties, and not on literary grounds. Dan Gross, president of

the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, denounced the stories as “a disgusting, morally depraved marketing campaign,” especially in light of the fact that 50 children and teenagers are shot each day in the United States. Presumably the NRA rebuttal to this would be fewer kids would get shot if more kids could shoot back, but Gross’ point is well taken.

But the NRA’s effort does inspire us to indulge in a fairy tale of our own imagining. In this one, the next mass slaughter of innocents by a deranged shooter is followed not by NRA lamentations it all could have been prevented had the victims only been armed and returned fire, but by a honest conversation about what sensible measures might rein in the reign of terror inflicted by indiscriminate gun violence in America.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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policies against powerful officials requires some confidence that when the issue reaches the president, he’ll back you up. If not, why bother?

In the George W. Bush administration, for example, I resisted for months the desire of one top general to visit Syria and speak with Bashar al-Assad about the war in Iraq.

Assad’s Syria was then the route of most of the jihadis entering Iraq to kill Americans, and I was sure the president would view pleas to Assad as a mistake suggesting real American weakness. Eventually, the general balked at having his plans stopped by a White House staffer and set a date for his trip. The only way to prevent his travel was to go to the president. I had gambled on knowing what the president would want, and I was right. When asked, he immediately said no: No four-star general of the United States would beseech that vicious dictator to be nice to us.

Even with clear presidential leadership, controlling the huge apparatus called the U.S. government is very difficult. The National Security Council’s size has ranged from about 50 members under George H.W. Bush to about 400 today. But it isn’t size that matters most: It’s having clear presidential guidance and knowing what the president wants, best of all by hearing it directly from him. That’s why a 400-person council may encounter diminishing

returns. The most effective thing a loyalist can say in an interagency meeting is “No, the president said yesterday that he wants X and not Y. I was there, and I talked to him about it.”

Policy details emerge from policy themes. The George W. Bush administration’s “freedom agenda” did not emerge from and was in fact resisted by the bureaucracy. It was up to loyalists in his administration to push it, year after year and day after day: in speeches, in instructions to ambassadors, in meetings, in cables and emails. But that happens only when the president demands it, shows where he wants to go and requires that the whole government follow.

Absent presidential leadership, the government will not collapse.

But the policies it follows will be the uncoordinated result of major bureaucratic institutions, each fighting for its privileges and its own favored outcomes.

The president makes foreign policy if he or she knows and cares enough to lead the struggle for control.

• Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as an assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration and a deputy national security adviser in the George W. Bush administration.

IT’S YOUR WRITE Thank your volunteers

To the Editor: Thank you, volunteers of McHenry County. You make our community a better place to live, work and play. Join Volunteer Center McHenry County in saying thank you to our community of volunteers. When you see a volunteer, tell them thank you. These individuals are sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry, taking care of our seniors, mentoring our children, looking after protected lands, providing health care and more.

Volunteers are inspiring and should be recognized for their role in our community. If you are not volunteering yet, give it a try. Visit www.volunteercentermchenrycounty.org or call 815-344-GIVE (4483). The center can help connect you to volunteer needs in your hometown. We can help match your skills, time and situation with a

nonprofit in need.

Rebecca Stiemke

Volunteer Center McHenry County

Oppose Fantasy Contest Act

To the Editor: Attorney General Lisa Madigan ruled in December that daily fantasy sports is illegal gambling in Illinois. DraftKings quickly filed a lawsuit to keep operating in the state, and its trade association is lobbying legislators to legalize online gambling on sports and contests before the lawsuit is heard.

The Fantasy Contest Act (HB 4323) would legalize betting on sports, video game competitions (eSports), social media games, real-time sports bets and contests of any kind on the Internet.

Anyone 18 years of age and older could bet 24 hours a day, seven days a week from a smart phone, computer or tablet.

HOW TO SOUND OFF We welcome original letters on public issues.

Letters must include the author’s full name, home address and day and evening telephone numbers.

We limit letters to 250 words and one published letter every 30 days. All letters are subject to editing for length

Underage gambling is a concern, as sports gambling apps target users as young as 13, according to marketwatch. com. A recent study found nearly 10 percent of teens in Canada had gambled online in the past three months.

Research has shown the earlier people begin to gamble, the more likely they are to become addicted.

HB 4323 is not about consumer protection for those who are engaged in

and clarity at the sole discretion of the editor.

Submit letters by: • Email: letters@nwherald.com • Mail: Northwest Herald “It’s Your Write” Box 250 Crystal Lake, IL 60039-0250

daily fantasy sports; it is about protecting companies that are operating illegal gambling. HB 4323 is a massive expansion of gambling into every home, dorm room and office.

Call your state legislators (217-7822000 capitol switchboard) to tell them to oppose the fantasy contest bill.

Anita Bedell

Executive director, Illinois Church Action on Alcohol & Addiction Problems

• Tuesday, April 5, 2016

One time in mid-2003, as I was exiting the White House Situation Room – a day after President George W. Bush had delivered a major speech on foreign policy – I remarked to a career guy at the State Department we needed more discussion on some issues but, at least on those the president had covered, we now knew what the policy would be. I distinctly remember his answer, which was the speech did not matter.

“Policy is made by the interagency process, not some speech!” he said.

My colleague was wrong: Presidents can and certainly should make policy, but they will get their way only if they lead and fight.

The federal bureaucracy is vast, especially when it comes to national security policy, which includes – as a start – nearly 34,000 State Department employees, more than 2 million people at the Defense Department and perhaps 20,000 more at the CIA. So how is policy made? Is it through the so-called interagency process – meaning the endless meetings, memos, arguments and agreements by which the many agencies and departments make decisions?

In truth, if the president is ignorant, uncommitted or simply relies

on assistants and the bureaucracy, his or her administration will get a hodgepodge of policy – a pudding with no theme.

The president’s loyalists, primarily at the National Security Council but also sprinkled throughout the bureaucracy, can enforce the president’s policies if they are clear and detailed, if the administration is willing to insist on them and if the staff believes in the president’s agenda.

Under Ronald Reagan, for example, Secretary of State George Shultz always was willing to listen to inhouse criticism of the president’s policies. But I recall him ending one meeting by saying, “You know, you may be right. And all you need to do is get yourself elected president, and we’ll do it your way. But since Ronald Reagan got himself elected president, we’re going to do it his way.”

Shultz deliberately selected assistant secretaries who were not career Foreign Service officers, but were instead political appointees loyal to the administration.

Such an approach can work only if there are clear policies to follow and if the president will enforce them.

In bureaucratic warfare, big fights get elevated, level by level, until they reach the Cabinet or, in critical cases, go right up to the president. Fighting for a president’s

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HARVARD – Local officials simply want any owner of the 1.52-millionsquare-foot former Motorola campus committed to bringing jobs to Harvard, expressing renewed opportunity as the site soon could change ownership for the first time in eight years.

Online auction house Ten-X.com recently announced Motorola’s former regional headquarters, which has sat vacant since 2003, will be up for auction during a sale set for April 18 to 20. The opening bid for the site, featuring four multistory buildings, two heliports and other amenities, starts at $2.7 million.

Harvard officials, who long have tried to find users for the former campus, simply want the buyer to have a plan that can spark economic activity in the city.

“Our organization and the city of Harvard have felt it would benefit the city to have a user who is going to fill the building and bring employment to Harvard,” said Charles Eldredge, executive director of the Harvard Economic Development Corp. “That will benefit Harvard substantially.”

Ten-X teamed up with Chicago-based real estate broker JLL to promote the three-day auction. JLL started marketing the site shortly after Miami-based Optima International bought the campus for $16.75 million in 2008.

Since then, Optima International has made a minimal investment in the property, even showing reluctance to make improvements that could help market the site, Eldredge said.

Around 2014, the company, through its limited liability company Optima Ventures, stopped heating, maintaining and paying property taxes on the vacant campus after years of doing so. A private equity group in Chicago eventually secured a tax lien on the property after Optima Ventures failed to pay more than $300,000 in property taxes in fall 2014.

Optima’s recent decision to auction the campus could present better redevelopment opportunities for a city looking to attract a major job creator after Motorola closed its regional headquarters, Eldredge said.

Local officials now have to wait and see what happens with the former campus.

Eldredge said his economic development group has informed people who previously expressed interest in the property about the upcoming auction. City officials also are watching to see how the

The former Motorola plant in Harvard is pictured.

To tour the site Real estate broker JLL is scheduling property tours for interested bidders from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday and again on April 15.

To make an appointment, call Mark Kolar at 312-228-3214 or email mark.kolar@am.jll. com. auction unfolds, as Harvard prepares to work with any new owner.

The Harvard Economic Development Corp. is aware of some potential buyers who are doing “considerable due diligence” to prepare for the bidding, a sign that indicates to Eldredge active interest in the former Motorola campus.

Built in 1997, Motorola’s expansive site at 2001 N. Division St. includes a two-story, 619,590-square-foot manufacturing building, a 355,515-square-foot distribution center, a five-story office building, a two-story services building and warehouse space, according to Ten-X. Aside from the heliports, amenities throughout the site include two day care facilities, a cafeteria that can fit 1,100 people, a fitness center and a 500-seat auditorium. Biking and walking trails that border ponds and undeveloped acreage also adorn the former campus.

“Midwest Corporate Campus is a state-

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of-the-art corporate office and logistics campus perfectly suited for the kinds of buyers who use the Ten-X Commercial platform,” Gordon Smith, general manager for Ten-X’s commercial real estate division, said in a statement. “This property could potentially bring hundreds of jobs to this area, servicing employees from central Midwest cities, such as Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison and St. Louis.”

Requests for comment with both Optima International and JLL were not returned Monday. Ten-X, formerly called Auction.com, has sold more than 200,000 residential and commercial properties since 2007 through its online real estate marketplace, according to its website.

Unsuccessful ideas in the past to fill the large Motorola campus have varied from attracting a major company to transforming it into a water park or a prison.

Recently, local officials have turned attention to trying to create a mixture of uses for the property.

City Administrator Dave Nelson said the city will be awaiting the outcome of the auction, as it will give the clearest indication to what could happen next to the former Motorola campus.

“We will be intently watching to see what happens,” Nelson said. “We would like to see something happen with the property. But what that means? We don’t know yet.”

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DETROIT – Worldwide orders for the new lower-priced Tesla electric car hit 276,000 over the weekend, surprising even the company’s CEO who says it may force Tesla to open another factory.

CEO Elon Musk posted the number Sunday on his Twitter feed and said if the trend continues, orders could hit 500,000 and would require another factory in Europe to meet demand.

Tesla’s new Model 3 starts at $35,000 and has a range of 215 miles per charge.

Customers must put down $1,000 to order the cars, which go on sale in late 2017. The Palo Alto, California, company started taking orders early Thursday, shortly before Musk unveiled the car in Los Angeles.

The number of orders is unprecedented when compared with electric car sales worldwide, especially for just a few days after opening. Nissan, which says its Leaf is the top-selling electric car in the world, has sold 211,000 of them since distribution began in late 2010. Tesla has sold a total of 110,000 electric cars since it started doing business in 2008.

Musk told people during weekend Twitter sessions that he expected one-quarter to one-half the number of orders. “No one at Tesla thought it would be this high before part two of the unveil,” which will take place closer to when production starts, he wrote.

At 276,000 orders, Musk’s company gets a cash infusion of $276 million from deposits and an order book valued at $11.6 billion based on Musk’s estimated average Model 3 cost of $42,000 with options.

The orders boosted Tesla shares even though broader stock markets were slightly lower on Monday. Shares of Tesla hit $252.12 Monday afternoon, their highest intraday price since early October. In the

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Tesla Motors unveils the new lower-priced Model 3 sedan Thursday at the Tesla Motors design studio in Hawthorne, Calif. It doesn’t go on sale until late 2017, but in the first 24 hours that order banks were open, Tesla said it had more than 115,000 reservations. Long lines at Tesla stores were reported from Hong Kong to Austin, Texas, to Washington, D.C. Buyers put down a $1,000 deposit to reserve the car. past year they have traded in a range from $141.05 to $286.65.

Musk, who hasn’t given out all details of the Model 3 yet, says the car will be rearwheel-drive with optional all-wheel-drive, and its steering controls will feel like a spaceship.

The large number of orders makes it likely that many won’t get a $7,500 U.S. electric car tax credit. The credit phases out when a manufacturer hits 200,000 in U.S. sales. Tesla won’t say how many of the orders came from the U.S., but Musk says in tweets that a production ramp-up should let large numbers of Model 3 cus-

tomers get the tax credit.

Tesla plans to have a presence in India before Model 3 production starts, and its high-speed charging system and service will cover all of Italy later this year, Musk said.

The Model 3 is less than half the cost of Tesla’s previous models, and its range is about double what drivers get from current competitors in its price range, such as the Nissan Leaf and BMW i3. It also faces competition from General Motors, which is set to start selling the Chevrolet Bolt electric car at the end of this year with a similar price tag and a 200-mile range.

Drone company to deliver blood in Rwanda The ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES – Drone delivery might be years away in the U.S., but it’s becoming a reality in Rwanda this summer. A San Francisco-based drone delivery company said it’ll start making its first deliveries of blood and medicine in Rwanda in July.

Zipline International Inc., backed by tech heavyweights such as Sequoia Capital and Google Ventures, demonstrated its technology for journalists last week in an open field in the San Francisco Bay area.

In a demonstration broadcast on Periscope on Friday, a staffer launched a fixedwing plane weighing just 22 pounds off a launcher that used compressed air.

Electric-powered propellers took it the rest of the way, on a flight that could extend to 75 miles round trip, using mili-

tary-grade GPS and software to navigate.

As it dipped low before the drop-off area, the bottom popped open, and a cardboard box with a parachute made of butcher paper and biodegradable tape burst out, plopping to the ground a few steps away from CEO Keller Rinaudo, who walked over to retrieve it.

“You have a database of people. You know their lives are in danger,” he said.

“Can you get them what they need fast enough? That’s been the mission from the start.”

Company executives said the cost of each flight was about the same as a motorcycle trip, but far more reliable.

And because deliveries of packages up to 3.5 pounds could be completed in 15 to 30 minutes, modest packaging eliminated the need for refrigeration along the way,

which saves on wasted supplies such as blood.

“We leapfrog broken refrigerators, we leapfrog the lack of roads,” said Keenan Wyrobek, Zipline’s head of product and engineering.

Two hubs contained in modified shipping containers with 10 to 15 planes each are all that’s required to serve all of Rwanda, the company says. The Rwandan government announced its deal with Zipline in February.

It plans to operate in other countries later this year if it proves it can operate successfully in Rwanda.

Rinaudo said the company for now is focused on medical supply delivery in emerging economies where there is less air traffic and regulations are easier to deal with than in the U.S. or Europe.

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NEW YORK – HBO’s John Oliver is selling premium Yankee tickets for 25 cents. But buyer beware: You must dress like you don’t belong there. His show has bought two high-priced seats behind home plate for this week’s opening three-game series at Yankee Stadium and will sell them for a quarter each with one provision – the fans must be poorly dressed.

After the Yankees announced that fans no longer could print tickets at home, chief operating officer Lonn Trost spoke on radio station WFAN in February. He was concerned

a fan buying a discounted ticket from a resale service “may be someone who has never sat in a premium location, so that’s a frustration to our existing fan base.”

On “Last Week Tonight John Oliver with John Oliver” the British comic Sunday called the team elitist and said those wanting the 25-cent tickets during the series against Houston should tweet a photo of themselves and their planned guest in clothing they intend to wear.

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New single by Phife Dawg to air on Beats 1 Radio

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Actor Daniel Craig walks the red carpet at the regional premiere Nov. 2 of the latest James Bond film, “Spectre,” in Mexico City.

Bond actor calls for more funding for anti-mine agency UNITED NATIONS – British actor Daniel Craig on Monday called for more funding for the U.N. agency that defuses mines and other unexploded ordnance, saying the work it does increases the chances of survival for people and aid workers in conflict zones around the world.

Craig, who has played agent 007 in four James Bond movies, including “Spectre” and “Casino Royale,” was appointed Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and Explosive Hazards last year by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Speaking at the U.N. as part of International Day for Mine Awareness, Craig said turmoil around the world created by fighting in countries, including Syria, Iraq, Libya and Somalia, underscores the need for nations and individuals to continue funding the work of the U.N. Mine Action Service.

“I am in awe of the people I work with at UNMAS,” he said. “The energy and courage of the men and women in this organization is astounding.”

According to UNMAS, which released its annual report Monday, nearly 3,680 people were killed or injured by mines, cluster munitions and other explosive devices including improvised explosive devices in 2014, the most recent year for which data was available, a 12 percent increase from 2013.

However, international funding for mine action in 2014 was about $417 million, a $23 million decrease from 2013, the agency reported.

UNMAS director Agnes Marcaillou said the agency not only defuses bombs but also trains people about unexploded ordnance to minimize the risk of injury, providing victims with prosthetics and counseling, and making it safe for farmers to grow food in former besieged areas.

NEW YORK – A new single by Phife Dawg, who died last month, is coming out Tuesday, with portions of the proceeds going to charity.

The late hip-hop artist’s wife, Deisha, and manager, Dion Liverpool, announced Monday that “Nutshell” will debut Tuesday on Beats 1 Radio and will be available on iTunes. A video for the song will be unveiled Tuesday night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. “Nutshell” is a track from the album, “Give Thanks,” that he had been working on at the time of his death.

The family is donating 50 percent of the proceeds to the American Diabetes Association and the National Kidney Foundation. Phife died last month at age 45 from complications of diabetes. His best known songs with A Tribe Called Quest included “Scenario” and “Bonita Applebum.”

All-star benefit planned for funk pioneer Bernie Worrell

NEW YORK – Bernie Worrell, funk’s “Wizard of Woo,” is amazed at the lineup of friends and admirers expected to turn out for his benefit concert: George Clinton and Nona Hendryx, Jonathan Demme and Bootsy Collins, Paul Shaffer and Living Colour.

Even Meryl Streep and Rick Springfield, with whom Worrell worked on last year’s movie “Ricki and the Flash,” are

scheduled to appear Monday night at Webster Hall for “All the Woo in the World,” a “funkraiser” to help pay for Worrell’s cancer treatment.

“I think it’s an outpouring of love,” the 71-year-old Worrell told The Associated Press during a recent telephone interview.

“I’m a humble type of person who just tries to make people happy. I didn’t know this event would be so big.”

Judge approves deal to get model’s DUI case dismissed

STAMFORD, Conn. – Supermodel Stephanie Seymour will get a drunken driving case in Connecticut dismissed if she completes alcohol abuse treatment, attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and meets with victims of drunken driving accidents.

A state judge in Stamford on Monday allowed the 47-year-old former Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated model to enter diversionary programs that could result in the dismissal of charges stemming from two accidents on the same day in January in her hometown of Greenwich. No one was injured.

Seymour is expected to attend a six-week outpatient program for alcohol abuse, go to AA meetings twice weekly and meet with victim-impact panels twice.

Seymour apologized and said she was ashamed during the court appearance.

The charges would be dismissed in April 2017 if she completes the programs.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Horror filmmaker Roger Corman is 90.

Country singer Tommy Cash is 76. Singer Allan Clarke of The Hollies is 74. Actor Max Gail (“Sons and Daughters,” ‘’Barney Miller”) is 73. Actress Jane Asher is 70. Singer Agnetha Faltskog of Abba is 66. Actor Mitch Pileggi (“The X Files”) is 64. Guitarist Mike McCready of Pearl Jam is 50. Country singer Troy

Gentry of Montgomery Gentry is 49. Singer Paula Cole is 48. Country singer Pat Green is 44. Rapper-producer Pharrell Williams is 43. Rapper Juicy J (Three 6 Mafia) is 41.

Singer-guitarist Mike Eli of The Eli Young Band is 35. Actress Hayley Atwell (“Marvel’s Agent Carter”) is 34. Actress Lily James (“Downton Abbey”) is 27.

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Members of The Rolling Stones, Charlie Watts (from left), Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, pose for photographers upon arrival Monday at the “Rolling Stones Exhibitionism” preview in London.

The result is a treasure trove for fans, who can ogle everything from a marabou-feather cape Mick Jagger wore to sing “Sympathy for the Devil” to a Maton guitar owned by Keith Richards whose neck fell off during the recording of “Gimme Shelter” (the song ends with a barely audible clunk).

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impressed by the exhibition’s attention to detail. It opens with a life-size re-creation of an apartment the band members shared in 1962-63 in Chelsea, a then-raffish, now-affluent London neighborhood.

“It was a hovel,” Richards says on a recording, and the re-creation captures the peeling wallpaper, mold-stained

LONDON – Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood says the band is planning to release a new album, possibly this year.

The British rockers last released a studio album in 2005, but Wood said Monday that they have been in the studio and recorded some new material and some blues covers.

The 68-year-old Wood said “we went in to cut some new songs, which we did.” He added that the band “cut 11 blues in two days.”

The Rolling Stones, which started as a blues band in 1962, just wrapped a tour of Latin America with a free show in Cuba on March 25. The band then headed to London for Monday’s opening of “Exhibitionism,” a vast exhibition of the group’s history at the Saatchi Gallery.

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walls and unmade beds, the dirty dishes, empty beer bottles, broken eggshells and overflowing ashtrays. It even smells.

Exhibition curator Ileen Gallagher said the band members were “pretty astonished” by the result. “Although Mick said it wasn’t quite that messy.’”

• Tuesday, April 5, 2016

LONDON – It’s only rock ’n’ roll – but it isn’t, is it?

The music business is about commerce as well as entertainment, and the Rolling Stones are one of its biggest multinational firms.

There’s plenty of both art and business in “Exhibitionism,” a vast exhibition that covers 20,000 square feet of London’s Saatchi Gallery with five decades of Stones history.

The more than 500 artifacts, borrowed from the band’s archive and private collectors, include musical instruments, lyrics, sketches, film clips, outfits, posters, album artwork and stage designs. There is even a fake donkey. From entertaining to excess, the Stones rarely do things on a small scale.

“In the end, we had over 25,000 things to choose from,” said Australian rock promoter Tony Cochrane, the show’s executive producer.

“I knew the Rolling Stones had a warehouse where they had kept a lot of their personal artifacts, memorabilia, famous instruments and the like,” he said Monday, a day before the show’s public opening. “But no one could have known how enriched the collection was.”

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By JULIA EVELSIZER

The (Bloomington) Pantagraph BLOOMINGTON – The days of chalkboards and textbooks may be fading, but educators say students are experiencing more than ever before.

Thanks to evolving technology, Sue Schwoerer’s third-grade students at Olympia North Elementary School in Danvers have spoken face-to-face with an oceanographer via Skype.

“When I began teaching in 1989, the biggest piece of technology in the classroom was a film strip projector,” she said.

Teachers said technology is nothing new to students, especially younger children who have grown up tapping and swiping on tablets and smartphones.

“The students show me how to do things. I had to get over my attitude that I knew everything, and adjust to the changes,” said Schwoerer, who is retiring this year.

Schwoerer’s classroom isn’t alone.

Many school districts in Central Illinois have embraced a one-to-one computing program. Students are able to use laptops provided by the district at school and at home for assignments.

“Knowing that all students have access to software and online resources enables teachers to incorporate a wider variety of learning activities than before,” said Jim Kurz, University High School tech coordinator. “Moreover, it ensures that every student has access to school software and computer access outside of the regular classroom.

Some McLean County Unit 5 students are able to bring personal laptops and tablets to class through a “bring your own device” program. Bloomington’s District 87 also installed wireless routers in some homes to provide free Internet access for students to complete assignments at home.

While it’s common for college classes to run exclusively online, 30 states including Illinois offer virtual K-12 classrooms alongside typical brick-andmortar schools. Some schools even are using the “flipped classroom” model, where students learn material at home online and come to the classroom to practice and apply the studied material.

A second-grade teacher at Olympia North, Tara Loyer, thinks technology will never replace human connection.

“Kids don’t come to school craving to use an iPad. They want to see their

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ABOVE: Olympia North Elementary School kindergarten teacher Laura Baner (left) watches the video board as she shows student work completed on their iPads during class in rural Stanford. LEFT: Baner puts Gavin Ballard’s work on the video board.

teachers and give us a hug. I hope as technology continues to develop, we don’t forget they’re just kids,” she said.

Loyer said her students can use online blogs to share work with parents, submit assignments, receive instant feedback through Google classrooms and use unique apps and programs to better understand material.

“I use counting beads, jumping and moving to teach math before we use

technology,” Olympia North kindergarten teacher Laura Baner said. “We don’t just say, ‘OK kids, we’re going to use technology now.’ We use it smoothly throughout the day.”

In January, the Regional Office of Education hosted a workshop at the McLean County Museum of History for Central Illinois teachers called “Teaching the 20th century in the 21st century.” More than 130 educators attended to learn how to successfully incorporate historical teachings while responding to the latest technology demands.

Richard Hughes, an associate professor of history at Illinois State University, was co-presenter and facilitator for the workshop.

“I don’t think teaching the 20th century is more difficult; there’s just a lot of important issues teachers have to discuss. They are learning more strategies to connect the past to the present,” Hughes said. “Good teachers are life-long learners.”

University High School teacher

Kate Pole presented a session with Kurz on using C3 Framework to foster discussion in the digital age. The C3 Framework is a way of teaching social studies that prepares students for the challenges of college, career and civic life.

“Technology can be a boon or a bane in how students learn and participate in productive discussions. We explained how kids learn from watching adults on the news, such as the presidential election,” said Pole, a social studies teacher. “Students can use technology to evaluate credibility to have a higher level of understanding.”

Pole has been teaching for 16 years and said the Internet has allowed her to take advantage of more teachable moments.

“We were discussing results from the primary in class and the fact that Rubio dropped out. I was able to instantly pull up his speech on YouTube, and it sparked discussion,” Pole said. “I cannot remember how I taught before technology.”

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followed by those who ordered one in January for $600, or at least $1,500 with a high-end personal computer included. Oculus, which began crowd-funding through Kickstarter in August 2012, was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion in 2014 and has shipped two developer versions so far.

Expectations for a consumer version have been high. There’s a backlog of orders, and if you order now, you can expect delivery in July. It’s not clear, though, how many units Oculus made for the first round – and whether

there ultimately will be much demand beyond gamers and hard-core technologists.

Early reviews by journalists have been mixed.

Steven Tweedie of Business Insider was glowingly positive in his review of the Rift, relishing the greater presence he felt in both games and narrative stories.

“Everything feels like it means more: there’s a heightened connection to characters, both in games and short films, and the action carries weight,”

he wrote.

But he noted its hefty price tag “is undoubtedly the biggest thing keeping more people from getting the chance to try virtual reality.”

Time’s Lisa Eadicicco called the Rift “expensive, complicated and totally wonderful.” She added, “It’s brilliant. It’s fascinating. It’s not perfect, but it’s only getting started.”

Several reviewers, including IGN’s Dan Stapleton, wrote because the Rift doesn’t come with controllers that allow for separate actions by each hand, the Rift will suffer compared with the HTC Vive, which will have such controllers included when it comes out this month. Oculus expects its “Touch” controllers to come out later this year.

Wired reviewer Peter Rubin similarly bemoaned the lack of games using Touch.

Nathan Olivarez-Giles of The Wall Street Journal wasn’t wowed by all the 30 games that were available at launch.

And he wrote that nausea, a consistent complaint among VR headset users, was real.

“When I pushed myself to play ‘Valkyrie’ for as long as 45 minutes nonstop, I took aspirin to fight off a headache.”

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LOS ANGELES – The first consumer-ready Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset was delivered to a real person last week, and reviewers got their first taste. The initial feedback: It’s a beautiful, wonderful device that immerses you, yet it still has a ways to go.

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivered the first Rift to software developer Ross Martin in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 26, kicking off a new era in virtual reality by putting the most powerful VR device yet into a consumer’s hands.

Martin, who never had tried VR before, spent a few hours on the Rift. He watched a short movie, played a game and explored a virtual environment that included an up-close encounter with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. “I couldn’t stop saying, ‘Wow,’ ” Martin, a 33-year-old Web developer, said in an interview. But he said he felt a touch of nausea at times and that the resolution could be better.

“If you’re a gamer, this is right up your alley,” he said. “You’re going to be able to forgive that.”

Oculus has said it’s sending the Rift to its first Kickstarter backers first,

Yining Hou uses the Oculus Rift VR headset at the Oculus booth at CES International in Las Vegas.

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Tools help those with arthritis Dear Dr. K: Age and arthritis have done a number on my hands. I’d like to continue cooking, eating and dressing independently, but it’s getting harder. Any advice?

Dear Reader: Many years ago, I had a patient who taught me the importance of what I’m about to tell you. She was in her late 70s, retired, widowed and lived alone.

She had been extremely independent all of her life. However, with age her dexterity and fine motor skills had diminished. In addition, the combination of arthritis and a small stroke had made cooking and grooming difficult.

One day she came into my office and sat down, in her usual regal way. I asked her how she was doing, and she suddenly burst into tears: “I’m useless, just useless.”

I referred her to a physical and occupational therapist, who told her (and me) about a variety of tools available to help perform everyday activities. Indeed, there are more such tools today than there were then. Most cost less than $50 or $100, and they are widely available in drugstores, medical supply stores and online.

I spoke to geriatrician Dr. Suzanne Salamon, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, about devices she recommends to her patients: • Eating tools. Weighted eating utensils – forks, knives and spoons – make it easier for people with hand tremors to get food to their mouths. The weight cuts down on the amount of hand shaking, which keeps food on the utensil. If your wrist or arm dexterity is diminished, try curved eating utensils, which are twisted to adjust to your grip.

• Skid-control plates and bowls have high sides and rubber rings or bottoms. These enable you to push food against the side of the bowl or plate to load your fork or spoon.

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ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff • Cooking tools. If your grip strength isn’t what it once was, a bottle or jar opener makes a big difference. One-handed tools also are helpful if a stroke or injury prevents two-handed cooking and food prep. For example, a one-handed vegetable brush with suction cups on the bottom allows you to rub vegetables against it to clean them.

• Household tools. One of the most helpful household tools is a grabber. This long-handled tool has pincers at the end to grab anything that’s out of reach. I used one of these when I was recovering from hip replacement surgery and could not bend down much. It really helped.

You also can buy large covers to fit over doorknobs or lamp switches, making them easier to turn. Or buy book holders that let you read hands-free.

• Personal grooming. If it’s difficult for you to reach down, behind or above your body, it can be difficult to groom yourself.

Look for long-handled and curved versions of hairbrushes and combs, toenail clippers and shoehorns. Substitute an electric toothbrush for your manual one. And look into the many tools that are available to help with dressing, such as zipper pulls and shirt buttoners.

Several of these tools restored my patient’s ability to be independent and her self-confidence. I’m sure they can help you.

• Write to Dr. Komaroff is at www.askdoctork.com or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.

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Last week, one of my associates asked me out for drinks. I know he’s interested because he has been texting me about unrelated work things and always is flirting.

I am very much in love with my husband, but my co-worker is very tempting. I’m worried about hurting my husband, but at the same time I’m excited about what this new man can offer me. Did I mention he’s the top lawyer of the firm? – Tempted In South Carolina Dear Tempted: Let’s pretend for a moment the situation was reversed and this letter came from the husband you “love very much.” How would you feel if he acted on his temptation?

When people marry, they promise each other certain things, chief among them fidelity. That “Alpha Dog” may want to have a fling with you may be flattering, but it isn’t necessarily a compliment.

Take a step back and consider what could happen to your career at that firm and how you would feel if things don’t go the way you’d like.

(Example: An attractive woman is hired and you are dropped like a hot potato.) I’m guessing you are not the first woman this has happened to in that office.

Dear Abby: My oldest daughter feels we should be available to watch or pick up our grandkids whenever she calls. I suffer from chronic pain and have good days and bad. I never know when I’ll have a bad day.

My daughter asks me to watch or have overnights with her children a month in advance.

I don’t know how I will be doing then, but if I cancel because I’m not feeling well, she gets bent out of shape. We have had fights about this, and I need someone else’s advice.

I raised my kids and I love my grandkids, but sometimes I don’t feel well enough to baby-sit or have an overnight. Are grandparents obligated to watch their grandkids whenever their parents need them? – Feeling Used In Oregon Dear Feeling Used: If you’re feeling used, then you probably are. Your health concerns surely are no mystery to your daughter. Tell her you are glad to look after the grandchildren if you are up to it. But in case you aren’t, she should have an alternate ready to step in should the need arise, because it may. And don’t apologize for it.

Dear Abby: My daughter is being married soon, and we are getting ready to mail out the invitations. We have three couples who will not be married when the invitations are mailed, but will be by the wedding. Should we address their invitations using their single names or married names? – Charlotte In Akron, Ohio Dear Charlotte: Not all women these days change their names to their husband’s. Address the invitations using the names these couples are using now. At the wedding reception, the place cards can reflect any name changes that are necessary.

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We're GROWING and looking to add another Staffing Coordinator to add to our office family!

Job Estimator Wanted

Landscape / Tree Service Co ★ Woodstock, IL

for Landscape Co M-F and some Saturday's Must be outgoing, professional and friendly. Sales and landscape design experience a plus, will train the right person. Please send cover letter and job experience to:

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BUS DRIVERS WANTED

McHenry Elementary School District 15 Flexible Scheduling, paid training, “Child ride along” program. EOE

Apply: Transportation office 5805 W. Route 120 McHenry 815-385-6622 or D15.org

CAREGIVERS

3 Days On / 4 Days Off 24 hours (9am to 9am) caring for seniors. $150-$187 per shift includes sleep time.

Provide assistance with personal hygiene, companionship, and light housekeeping MUST have at least 1 year adult care-giving experience. C.N.A a plus. https://va175.ersp.biz/employment Visiting Angels of Crystal Lake / Barrington is an EEO employer

CDL DRIVER / MACHINE OPERATOR CDL A, Dump, Lowboy, Flat Machine operator inc tractors, loaders.

Shop work also. Send resume Dispatch@dahmco.com

Commercial Loan Processor

Seeking individual to handle all aspects of commercial loan processing duties. Full time position. Must have strong computer skills. Minimum 2 years' experience in commercial banking.

Bank Teller

Full-time or part- time position. Includes some Saturdays. Responsible for performing all teller functions. Experience required.

Submit resumes via email to rick@harvardsavingsbank.com or mail to Harvard Savings Bank, ATTN: HR, 58 N. Ayer, Harvard, IL 60033.

Education

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TEACHER QUALIFIED PERSON and a TEACHERS AID for afternoons and evenings. The hours will be 2:00pm to 8:00pm. Director qualified a plus.

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Hours are some days, evenings & various times on weekends.

Must be a dependable person who cares about dogs & has transportation. We will train the right person. Serious inquires only to: FOSTERS TRAINING CENTER, Antioch Phone: 847-838-0523

4 days from 9-5 in the office PLUS on-call weekday / weekend rotation. $31,500 plus incentive opportunity. MUST have 2 years office and ADULT caregiving experience. C.N.A a plus.

If you live in the Crystal Lake or Barrington area, we invite you to apply at https://va175.ersp.biz/employment.

Visiting Angels of Crystal Lake is an EEO employer.

Security Guards needed for night and weekends for special events in and around McHenry area. Must have Perc Card.

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MAILBOX & POST SALES & INSTALLATION

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HAIR SALON CLOSING – 3 HYDRAULIC CHAIRS. EXCELLENT COND. $125 each. Call: 815-385-7550 10am-5pm Mon. - Sat. Book - Titled “Legally Sane” 1972 First Edition

Good Condition, $250. 815-404-1587 NO texts 7a-7p

Stereo Equipment, Teac A2300 S Reel to Reel Tape Recorder w/misc tapes, $135.00. 815-337-0632 Stereo-aThe Wedge, 1970's, works great, $250/obo.

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Excellent Condition, $750. 815-276-3796

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CHICAGO CUBS lined jacket - Gently used, lightly quilted & padded. size adult medium. excellent condition $25; Cubs polo shirt, size large, new w/ tags - $20. Call or text 8l5-27l-2647

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY - CONTRACT SALESPERSON Selling aerial photography of farms on commission basis. $4,225.00 first month guarantee. $1,500-$3,000 weekly proven earnings. Travel required. More info msphotosd.com or 877/882-3566

ANTIQUE STEAMER TRUNK - EARLY 1900s. Eagle Lock Co. Wood, brass, leather, on original small casters. $75. 815-271-2647

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James Madison said, “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”

At the bridge table, negative doubles are made to counteract intervention, a most worthwhile ambition.

Look at the North hand. What would you do after South opens one diamond, and West overcalls one spade?

Decades ago, double was for penalty. Then, North would probably have bid three no-trump. But after a spade lead, the contract would have had no chance, going down two. Now, though, North can make a negative double to show four hearts (the unbid major) and some eightplus points (or six or seven if he really likes his hand). He might hold five or even six hearts and too few points to respond two hearts, but that is rare. South, over his partner’s double, shows his heart support, and four hearts should be reached.

After West leads the spade queen, how should the play proceed?

South should see four potential losers: one spade (on the third round), two hearts and one club.

But there are discards available on diamonds.

Declarer takes the first trick on the board and runs the heart 10.

West wins with the queen and perseveres with spades. Now South must change tack. He wins in the dummy, cashes the diamond ace, overtakes the diamond queen with his king, and plays the diamond jack, discarding the spade seven from the dummy.

Then declarer leads another trump.

Shortly thereafter, he will claim, having lost only two hearts and one club.

If something occurs to you, please do not email; tune in tomorrow.

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Brown Jordan Aegean Collection – Beige, oval table 48 x 72 w/ glass top, great condition with few scratches $150. 815-349-0206

BUFFET CART ~ THOMASVILLE, $30 847-669-2692

CABINETS - GLASS FRONT: Larger 42" H, 25" W, 16" D. Smaller 22" H, 28" W, 16" D. Each has 1 fixed & 2 movable shelves. $35 for set. 815-271-2647

Chairs, Armless, Upholstered, Stackable, Nice! $8 815-477-5301

Chaise - Brown Jordan Aegean Collection Chaise Lounge - Beige In great condition w/ few scratches, needs to have the slip replaced, $135 OBO. 815-349-0206

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Black & grey upholstered chairs, $400. 815-276-7635 Oak Corner TV Cabinet – Glass & Wood Doors, center opening 52”diagonal, 82”H x 58”W x 30”D Like New $85. 815-236-0463

Sofa Bed with Matching Love Seat, $150/obo.

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Works great!

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TV Cabinet Set – 3 piece, white, has glass doors at top & solid doors at bottom. Makes a great storage/display set for books, toys, games, etc. $50. 815-276-1479 Crystal Lake

VINTAGE FURNITURE, ALL IN GREAT CONDITION! Starting @ $15.

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WICKER CHAIRS - Very sturdy, large, high back antique, cushioned, 2 available, made in Sheboygan Wisc. $200/obo 630-835-5694 Wicker Desk & Matching Hanging Lamp - Wood desk has wicker overlay. includes glass top & 3 large drawers on one side, both painted purple, but easy to change color. $30 for the set. Crystal Lake (815) 276-1479 BAKERS' RACK - Ironwork is dark green and black speckle. Wood top is 19" x 31" rack 77" H x 21.5"D x 31"W $75. 815-271-2647 Cuisinart Custom Pro 11 Food Processor - Used, like new.

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32 CLASSIFIED • Tuesday, April 5, 2016 CANNONS Civil War & Pirate Type, Production Type, starting @ $195.00, Woodworking Available. Call Paul Locascio.

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photo issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-14-03590.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-14-03590 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 14 CH 00757 TJSC#: 36-2391 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN All units include Clubhouse Membership CERTIFICATES, PASS-THROUGH SERIES 2005-9 Plaintiff, -v.Crystal Lake - Randall Village, 2 BR, 2 BA, 2nd Floor, Frplc, W/D, TRACY LYNN WATSON, et al Exercise Room, Pool, $1,200/mo. Avail. June 1st 815-953-5434 Defendant 14 CH 00757 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 11, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Choose from 400 listed homes Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on May 13, 2016, at the NLT Title Flexible Credit Rules L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Gary Swift Commonly known as Berkshire Hathaway Starck Realty 60 CARMELLA DRIVE, MchenryCountyRentToOwnHomes.com CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60012 Property Index No. Richmond Lovely Home on Lake w/11 Beautiful Acres 14-32-128-003.

The real estate is improved with a 2BR, 3BA, full finished basement with additional single family residence. bedrooms, $2900/mo. Contact Joe 847-370-6666 Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the Woodstock – Farmette 4 bedroom, close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third Large Barn, 5 Acres, $1800. party checks will be accepted. The (Published in the Northwest Hometown Realty 815-347-1712 balance, including the Judicial sale Herald, March 29, 2016 April 5, fee for Abandoned Residential 12, 2016) Property Municipality Relief Fund, Crystal Lake - House to Share, Nice Size Room which is calculated on residential estate at the rate of $1 for each 3 windows w/slight view of the lake, $550/mo. real $1,000 or fraction thereof of the No smoking/ No pets.

815-459-0361 amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acCrystal Lake Approx 400 Sq FtWith Waiting Area. Clean, nice office quiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale suite incl all util + high speed DSL, $545/mo. 815-790-0240 or by any mortgagee, judgment CRYSTAL LAKE Office Space for rent, 3 rooms, can customize, approx creditor, or other lienor acquiring 600 sq/ft, $1100/mo 2 yr lease, available 4/1. 815-444-6724 the residential real estate whose If it rains on your sale, rights in and to the residential real we will run your ad again Lake In The Hills 1119 W. Algonquin & Pyott Rd. estate arose prior to the sale. The the next week for FREE! Street front location, great visability, approx 3100 sq ft. subject property is subject to gener$2000/mo gross + utilities, available now. 847-854-2670 al real estate taxes, special assessCall 877-264-2527 ments, or special taxes levied or email: McHenry Office/Multi Use, 4 Rms & Waiting Area against said real estate and is of- classified@shawsuburban.com fered for sale without any represenApprox 1100 Sq Ft, $900/mo. 815-861-8489 tation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g) (1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee The Northwest Herald shall pay the assessments required

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Bank of America, N.A. Plaintiff, Julie Fox, as Special Representative of the Estate of Richard S. Halcom, deceased; Richard Halcom, Jr.; Susan Keifer; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Richard S. Halcom, deceased 411 Santa Barbara, Lakemoor, IL 60051 Judge Suzanne C. Mangiamele Defendants.

Case No. 14 CH 297 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit(s) having been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS

y HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION, that said action has been commenced in said Court by the plaintiff(s), naming you as a defendant(s) therein and praying for a judgment of foreclosure and sale and other relief, that summons has been issued out of this Court against you as provided by law, and, that this action is still pending and undetermined in said Court.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you file your answer or otherwise make your appearance in said action in this Court, by filing the same in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on or before March ORDER OF 29,2016, AN DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on MAR 2 9 2016 /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court Shara A. Netterstrom (6294499) MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Phone: 312-651-6700

PUBLIC NOTICE BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF CRYSTAL LAKE, MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF Kenneth Rawson

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Notice is hereby given in compliance with the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) of the City of Crystal Lake, Illinois, that a public hearing will be held before the Planning and Zoning Commission upon the application of Kenneth Rawson on behalf of PBIL OREO LLC, 1st Midwest Bank Trust 6603, 1st Midwest Bank Trust 6602, Home State Bank Trust 6161, and Eugene A De St. Aubin Bros Inc. seeking Rezoning, a Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Preliminary Plat, Preliminary PUD and Variations for Kensington Subdivision, located at 11100 Route 176, Crystal Lake, Illinois. PINs 13-28-400-003, 13-33-200-003, 13-33-200-004, 13-33-200-005, 13-33-200-007, 13-33-200008, 13-33-200-014, 13-33-200-016, 13-33-200-017, 13-33200-020, 13-33-400-001, 13-33-400-010, 13-33-400-011, 1334-100-016, 13-34-100-019, 13-34-100-020, 13-34-300-005 & 13-34-300-006 This application is filed for the purpose of seeking Rezoning from RE PUD and O PUD to R-2 PUD, R-3B PUD and B-2 PUD pursuant to Article 9-200(B), Standards for Development Applications- Amendments; Comprehensive Plan Amendment to change the land use designation from Estate Residential and Office to Urban Residential, High Density Residential and Commerce pursuant to Article 9-200(B) Standards for Development Applications- Amendments; Preliminary PUD for a Single Family and Multi-Family Residential Development pursuant to Article 4500 Planned Unit Development Standards; Preliminary Plat of Subdivision for 300 Single Family Lots AND 203 Townhouse Lots pursuant to Article 5-200(G)(2) Subdivisions- Approval of Preliminary Plat; and Variations from Article 3-200(A)(6) Multi-Family Residential Dimensional Standards to allow a lot area less than the required 13,400 square feet to allow a minimum of 3,820.4 square, a lot width less than the required 80 feet to allow a minimum of 71.92 feet, a front yard setback of zero feet from the required 30 feet, a rear yard setback of zero feet from the required 20 feet, a side yard setback of zero feet from the minimum required 8 feet, a corner-side yard setback of less than 30 feet to allow a minimum of 3 feet, a yard abutting a residential district that is less than the required 50 feet to allow a minimum of 25 feet, a maximum building coverage of up to 80% that is greater than the maximum of 30%, a maximum impervious surface coverage of up to 85% that is greater than the maximum of 65%, and a maximum floor area ratio of up to 1.40 that is greater than the maximum of 0.60; Variation from Article 3-300(D) Locations of Buildings to allow townhomes that do not abut a public or private street; and a Variation from Article 5-300(G)(1) Open Space Requirements and Standards for Conservation Design to allow 20% open space instead of the required 40% for Kensington Subdivision located at 11100 Route 176 as well as any other variations as necessary to complete the project as proposed. Plans for this project can be viewed at the Crystal Lake Community Development Department at City Hall.

A public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission for this request will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday April 20, 2016, at the Crystal Lake City Hall, 100 West Woodstock Street, at which time and place any person determining to be heard may be present.

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other than a mortgagee, shall pay Fax: 614-220-5613 Email: MDKIllinoisFilings@manley- the assessments and the legal fees

by The Condominium required deas.com Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g) (1) and (g)(4). If this property is a /s/ Ellen C. Morris condominium unit which is part of One of the Plaintiff's Attorneys a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclo(Published in the Northwest Herald sure sale other than a mortgagee April 5, 12, 19, 2016) 1174116 shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT PUBLIC NOTICE TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION THE TWENTY- SECOND 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FORECLOSURE LAW. MORTGAGE MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL You will need a photo identification ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR issued by a government agency STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT (driver's license, passport, etc.) in TRUST, MORTGAGE order to gain entry into our building LOAN PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identifiSERIES 2005-9 cation for sales held at other county Plaintiff, venues where The Judicial Sales -v.conducts foreclosure Corporation TRACY LYNN WATSON, et al sales.

Defendant For information, examine the 14 CH 00757 court file or contact Plaintiff's NOTICE OF SALE attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE of Foreclosure and Sale entered in ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL the above cause on February 11, 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please 2016, an agent for The Judicial refer to file number 14-14-03590.

THE JUDICIAL SALES Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM CORPORATION on May 13, 2016, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, (312) 236-SALE sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the You can also visit The Judicial following described real estate: Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com LOT 22 IN WALKUP AT for a 7 day status report of pending THE PARK UNIT ONE, BEING A sales.

SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. NORTH HALF OF SECTION 32, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 8 ROAD, SUITE 100 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE (630) 794-5300 THEREOF RECORDED E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com PLAT NOVEMBER 1, 1999 AS Attorney File No. 14-14-03590 DOCUMENT NO. 1999R0075300, Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Case Number: 14 CH 00757 TJSC#: 36-2391 Commonly known as NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt 60 CARMELLA DRIVE, Collection Practices Act, you are CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60012 advised that Plaintiff's attorney is Property Index No. deemed to be a debt collector 14-32-128-003.

The real estate is improved with a attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the used for that purpose. highest bid by certified funds at the I688417 close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third (Published in the Northwest party checks will be accepted. The Herald, March 29, 2016 April 5, balance, including the Judicial sale 12, 2016) fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential PUBLIC NOTICE real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY funds/or wire transfer, is due within WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee ac- CIT Bank, N.A. quiring the residential real estate PLAINTIFF pursuant to its credit bid at the sale Vs. or by any mortgagee, judgment Dale A. Carlson; Unknown Heirs creditor, or other lienor acquiring and Legatees of Florence Iva the residential real estate whose Carlson; Craig L. Carlson; rights in and to the residential real Unknown Owners and Nonrecord estate arose prior to the sale. The Claimants; Richard Kuhn, as subject property is subject to gener- Special Representative for Florence al real estate taxes, special assess- Iva Carlson (deceased) ments, or special taxes levied DEFENDANTS 15 CH 01183 against said real estate and is ofNOTICE BY PUBLICATION fered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: title and without recourse to Plaintiff Unknown Heirs and Legatees of and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale Florence Iva Carlson is further subject to confirmation by Unknown Owners and Nonrecord the court. Upon payment in full of Claimants the amount bid, the purchaser will That this case has been receive a Certificate of Sale that will commenced in this Court against entitle the purchaser to a deed to you and other defendants, praying the real estate after confirmation of for the foreclosure of a certain the sale. The property will NOT be Mortgage conveying the premises open for inspection and plaintiff described as follows, to-wit: makes no representation as to the COMMONLY KNOWN AS: condition of the property. Prospec- 900 2nd Street tive bidders are admonished to Harvard, IL 60033 check the court file to verify all and which said Mortgage was information. If this property is a made by: condominium unit, the purchaser Leroy E. Carlson executed the of the unit at the foreclosure sale, mortgage, however this individual

gage is deceased and is not named as a defendant in this lawsuit Florence Iva Carlson executed the mortgage, however this individual is deceased and is not named as a defendant in this lawsuit the Mortgagor(s), to Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corporation, a subsidiary of IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of McHenry County, Illinois, Document No. as 2006R0037700; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending.

NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court 2200 N. Seminary Woodstock, IL 60098 on or before April 21, 2016, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-15-18400 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.

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SCRIBED POINT, FOR A DISTANCE OF 209 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH PARALLEL WITH THE WEST LINE OF SAID QUARTER, QUARTER SECTION FOR A DISTANCE OF 27.60 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY ON A LINE PARALLEL WITH LINE "A", AS PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, FOR A DISTANCE OF 5.0 FEET TO A POINT OF INTERSECTION OF SAID LINE AND THE EAST LINE OF A CERTAIN DEED RECORDED IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE OF MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN BOOK 496 OF DEEDS, ON PAGE 246, EXTENDED SOUTHERLY; THENCE NORTH ON THE EAST LINE OF SAID DEED, SO RECORDED, AND EXTENDED SOUTHERLY FOR A DISTANCE OF 51.44 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER THEREOF; THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY ON THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID DEED, AND SAID SOUTH LINE EXTENDED SOUTHWESTERLY FOR A DISTANCE OF 203.38 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WEST LINE OF SAID QUARTER, QUARTER SECTION; THENCE SOUTH 84.81 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N.: 03-09-354-004 Commonly known as 10102 Main Street, Hebron, Illinois 60034 NOW, THEREFORE, you are further notified to file your appearance in the Office of the Clerk of the Court above stated on or before May 10th 2016, and if you fail to do so or do not otherwise make (Published in the Northwest your appearance on or before said Herald March 22, 29, 2016 April date, this cause may be heard and judgment entered as prayed for 5, 2016) in said Complaint without further notice.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I PUBLIC NOTICE have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at my IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF office in Woodstock, Illinois, 29 THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT day of March, 2016.

McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS /s/ Katherine M. Keefe THE HARVARD STATE BANK, an Clerk of the Circuit Court Illinois Banking Corporation, McHenry County, Illinois vs.

Plaintiff, (Published in the Northwest Herald CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COM- April 5, 12, 19, 2016) 1173875 PANY, as assignee of AMCORE INVESTMENT GROUP, N.A., as Trustee under Trust No. 406; PUBLIC NOTICE MATTHEW J. STAHL; PATRICIA M. STAHL;VILLAGE OF HEBRON; UNIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF KNOWN TENANTS; UNKNOWN OWNERS; and NON-RECORD LIEN THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

IN RE: THE MARRIAGE OF No. 16 CH 264 NICOLE MARTINO-BURCHAM PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite Affidavit having Petitioner, been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS vs.

HEREIN GIVEN YOU, UNKNOWN CHUCK BURCHAM, OWNERS, UNKNOWN TENANTS Defendant.

No. 16 DV 224 NON-RECORD LIEN AND NOTICE OF SERVICE CLAIMANTS, Defendants in the above-entitled action, that an acBY PUBLICATION tion is now pending in this Court as NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, CHUCK shown above, wherein the Plaintiff BURCHAM. Defendant, that this seeks to foreclose a mortgage case has been commenced in this made to THE HARVARD STATE court against you, asking for a BANK, with respect to the following Judgment for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief. described real estate: PART OF THE SOUTHWEST UNLESS YOU file your appearQUARTER OF SECTION 9, TOWN- ance or otherwise file your response SHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST in this case in the office of the OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDI- Circuit Clerk, McHenry County, AN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BE- Illinois, 2200 North Seminary Ave., GINNING AT A POINT ON THE Woodstock, IL 60098 on or before WEST LINE OF SAID QUARTER, April 22, 2016, A JUDGMENT OR QUARTER SECTION, SAID POINT DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE BEING 11.80 FEET NORTH OF THE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE SOUTHWEST CORNER THEREOF; RELIEF ASKED IN THE PETITION. THENCE NORTHEASTERLY ON A LINE (SAID IN HEREINAFTER /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Court KNOWN AS LINE "A") FORMING AN ANGLE OF 82 DEGREES AND 44 PETER F. CARROLL, Esq. MINUTES, TO THE RIGHT WITH A Attorney No. 6185083 PROLONGATION OF THE LAST DE- Carroll & Carroll SCRIBED LINE, AT THE LAST DE- Attorneys for Plaintiff

eys 114 S. Jefferson St. Woodstock, IL 60098 (815) 337-4259

hlig ARDC No. 6255782 ARDC No. 6309698

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS HOME STATE BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, vs.

PETER J. KONOPKA, KATHLEEN KONOPKA, ENERGY M. EFFICIENT BUILDING SYSTEMS BY SOLARCRETE, INC., STAN'S SERVICES, INC., FINANCIAL CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., FOX, SWIBEL, LEVIN & CARROLL, LLP, an Illinois Limited Liability Partnership, and UNKNOWN OWNERS & NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants.

Case No. 16LA10 NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE (FOR PUBLICATION) NOTICE is given to Unknown Owners and Non-record Claimants, of the following- described real estate, that the above-entitled mortgage foreclosure action has ben commenced and is now pending, and the day on or after which a default may be entered against said Defendants is May 10th 2 016 , 2016.

1. The title of the court, the title of the case, the name of the first named plaintiff and the first named defendant, and the number of the case are identified above.

2. The name of the title holder of record is: Peter J. Konopka and Kathleen M. Konopka.

3. A legal description of the real estate sufficient to identify it with reasonable certainty is as follows: LOT 3 OF THE ASSESSOR'S PLAT OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 18; ALSO LOTS 7, 10 AND THE NORTH HALF OF LOT 9 OF THE ASSESSOR'S PLAT OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 18, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 6 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, SAID ASSESSOR'S PLAT FILED FOR RECORD OCTOBER 19, 1869 AND RECORDED IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE OF MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN BOOK 45 OF DEEDS, PAGE 24, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 4. The common address or location of mortgaged property is 30 Acres Collins Road, Marengo, IL 60152; Permanent Index Numbers are: 12-18-200-001 and 12-18-100-018.

5. An identification of the mortgage sought to be foreclosed is as follows: a) Name of mortgagee: Home State Bank, N.A. b) Name of Lien: Mortgage c) Date of mortgage: May 15, 2009 d) Name of mortgagor: Peter J. Konopka and Kathleen M. Konopka e) Date and place of recording: May 20, 2009 McHenry Office County Recorder's f) Identification of recordings: Document No. 2009R0025596 /s/ Katherine M Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court, 22nd Judicial Circuit McHenry County, Illinois Michael G. Cortina Amber L. Michlig SmithAmundsen, LLC Attorney for Home State Bank, N.A. 2460 Lake Shore Drive Woodstock, Illinois 60098 (815) 337-5034 Telephone (815) 337-5035 Facsimile mcortina@salawus.com amichlig@salawus.com

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS HOME STATE BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, vs.

PETER J. KONOPKA, KATHLEEN M. KONOPKA, ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING SYSTEMS BY SOLARCRETE, INC., HOME STATE BANK, N.A., as Trustee under the provisions of a Trust Agreement dated September 2, 1993, and known as Trust Num ber 4093, STAN'S FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., and UNKNOWN OWNERS & NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants.

Case No. 16 LA 9 NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE (FOR PUBLICATION) NOTICE is given to Unknown Owners and Non-record Claimants, of the following-described real estate, that the above-entitled mortgage foreclosure action has been commenced and is now pending, and the day on or after which a default may be entered against said Defendants is May 1Oth1 2 016.

1. The title of the court, the title of the case, the name of the first named plaintiff and the first named defendant, and the number of the case are identified above.

2. The name of the title holder of record is: Home State Bank, N.A., as Trustee under the provisions of a Trust Agreement dated September 2, 1993, and known as Trust Number 4093.

3. A legal description of the real estate sufficient to identify it with reasonable certainty is as follows: PART OF THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 4 TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 6 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE NORTH LINE OF THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 4, 342.7 FEET WEST OF THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF TIIE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 4; THENCE SOUTH 202.5 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE; THENCE WEST 138.8 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE IN THE NORTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF THE CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY; THENCE NORTHWESTERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY LINE, 606.7 FEET TO A POINT IN SAID NORTH LINE OF THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER; THENCE EAST ALONG THE LAST SAID NORTH LINE 714.3 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 4. The common address or location of mortgaged property is 17455 Jefferson St., Union, IL 60180; Permanent Index Numbers is: 17-04-400-001.

5. An identification of the mortgage sought to be foreclosed is as follows: a) Name of mortgagee: Home State Bank, N.A. b) Name of Lien: Mortgage c) Date of mortgage: September 1, 2015 d) Name of mortgagor: Home State Bank, N.A., as Trustee urider the provisions of a Trust Agreement dated September 2, 1993, and known as Trust Number 4093 e) Date and place of recording: September 17, 2015 McHenry County Recorder's Office f) Identification of recordings:

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f) gs Document No. 2015R0035056 /s/ Katherine M Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court, 22nd Judicial Circuit McHenry County, Illinois Michael G. Cortina Amber L. Michlig SmithAmundsen, LLC Attorney for Home State Bank, N.A. 2460 Lake Shore Drive Woodstock, Illinois 60098 (815) 337-5034 Telephone (815) 337-5035 Facsimile mcortina@salawus.com amichlig@salawus.com ARDC No. 6255782 ARDC No. 6309698 (Published in the Northwest Herald on April 5, 12, 19, 2016) 1174066

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on March 16, 2016, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and postoffice address of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as CHRISTIAN CAREGIVING CONSULTANTS located at: 8 KILDARE CT CARY, IL 60013 Dated March 16, 2016 /s/ Mary E. McClellan McHenry County Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald March 22, 29, 2016, April 5, 2016) 1169495

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Tweet from last night Jake Goebbert spending time with the team today during BP. – @WhipsBaseball Follow our writers on Twitter: Joe Stevenson – @NWH_JoePrepZone Mike DeFabo – @MikeDeFabo Jon Styf – @jonstyf

What to watch Bulls at Memphis, 7 p.m., WPWR The Bulls, who are two games behind the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with five games remaining in the regular season, visit the Grizzlies.

Local tie to championship Marian Central grad Tanja Speaker of Richmond is an assistant coach on the Thomas More College women’s basketball team that won its second consecutive Division III national Tanja Speaker championship Monday, beating Tufts, 63-51.

Another B1G offer After two months of evaluating, Penn State offered Huntley junior defensive end Olalere Oladipo a scholarship Monday.

It was Oladipo’s 16th offer, five from Big Ten schools and seven Olalere Oladipo from the Mid-American Conference. The list: Illinois, Illinois State, Central Michigan, Miami (Ohio), Western Michigan, Wyoming, Toledo, Indiana, Bowling Green, Northern Illinois, Buffalo, New Mexico, Minnesota, Syracuse, Purdue and Penn State.

BASEBALL: CARY-GROVE 12, MARIAN CENTRAL 5

Trojans strike late

C-G scores 10 in 6th to top ’Canes

By JOE STEVENSON

joestevenson@shawmedia.com CARY – Cary-Grove thrived on patience more than thunder for its biggest inning of the season.

The Trojans’ first three base runners of the sixth inning reached after working full counts and drawing walks. In scoring 10 runs, they had five walks and four hits.

“We just kind of scrapped it all together,” said third baseman Mark Smith, who started the rally with a walk and later added an RBI double.

Still, it was effective. C-G came into the bottom of the sixth trailing by three and ended it leading by seven. Trojans coach Don Sutherland called on Max Neilson to pitch the seventh as C-G closed out with a 12-5 victory over Marian Central in a nonconference baseball game Monday.

“Tyler (Pennington) really boosted us with his home run in the fifth inning,” Smith said. “So we wanted to build off of that. We were just seeing better pitches and changed our approach a little bit.”

C-G leadoff man Quinn Celske fell behind 0-2 in the count and fouled off two pitches before drawing a walk to load the bases. Dom Calamari followed with a two-run single. Thomas Neilson also had a two-run single in that inning.

“We really needed that,” Celske said. “We’ve been struggling lately, but we finally woke up. Their first guy (starter James Raffauf) worked us well.

Late in the game, we worked on seeing more pitches, trying to put the ball in play the best we could and get on any way we could. Pretty much changed our approach and it really saved us.”

C-G (4-4) had one unearned run off Raffauf until the fifth, when Pennington homered. The Hurricanes (3-4) still led, 5-2, heading into the sixth inning with Ricky Monbrod on the mound.

Trojans coach Don Sutherland was pleased with his team’s plate discipline in the sixth.

“You have to do that, you have to get the pitch count up,” he said. “Once we got to their bullpen, we had nice at-bats there.”

Marc Miguel relieved Monbrod in the inning, but the Trojans could not be slowed down. Three Marian errors

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Cary-Grove’s Ben Levicki (left) reaches second base as Marian Central’s Jack Schneider throws to first during the second inning Monday in Cary. C-G won, 12-5. also hurt as C-G grabbed the big lead.

Marian jumped on top early with Zach Teegen’s two-run home run in the first, and added a run in the second and two more in the fourth.

“I felt like we were in control of that game,” Hurricanes coach Tom Kruse said. “We left a lot of runs out there. It’s not taking advantage of situations that are given to us, giving them extra outs, walking the bottom of their lineup. The bottom line is we have to close.”

Kruse made it clear he was not just speaking about the pitching.

“I have to be able to put relievers in and trust the people that are on the field, to give people opportunities, and they either take advantage of them or they don’t,” Kruse said. “We have to play seven innings of baseball against good teams, and so far we haven’t been able to do that.”

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Calamari singled in the sixth inning, knocking in two of the Trojans’ 10 runs that inning.

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C-G leadoff man Quinn Celske had a seven-pitch at-bat in the second inning, all of which were strikes and ended with an infield RBI single.

Celske was down 0-2, fouled off four pitches, then beat out a ground ball to second base for the hit and the Trojans’ first run.

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in 10 years at the school. The Red Raiders are off to a 4-3 start, which is especially encouraging given that they have only five seniors on the roster.

There are several juniors who saw playing time last year, which has Jakubowski even more pleased.

“I really like this team,”Jakubowski said after the Red NORTHWEST HERALD Raiders’ 7-0 win Wednesday at POWER RANKINGS Crystal Lake Central. “Guys come 1. Jacobs (6-1): No wonder the in and compete and go hard each Golden Eagles have won five conand every day. They’re a good secutive games, they have allowed group and I’m excited about what only two runs in those games. this team has down the road.”

2. Crystal Lake South (6-0): The Jakubowski also likes the depth Gators went 3-0 for the week on the Raiders have with their pitchtheir trip to southern Illinois. The ing staff. highlight was a six-run rally in the “We’re 10 or 11 deep with arms,” bottom of the seventh, without he said. “We don’t miss a beat making an out, to beat Murphysfrom 1 through 10.” boro, 11-10.

3. McHenry (5-2): The Warriors THIS WEEK’S TOP GAMES had their game Saturday with Prairie Ridge at McHenry Carmel postponed and have not 4:30 p.m. Wednesday played since March 28. at Petersen Park 4. Prairie Ridge (4-3): Luke AnThe game was scheduled for nen picked up saves for the Wolves Thursday but was rained out, so against Wauconda and Lakes. these two will try again this week.

Prairie Ridge was leading Boylan, McHenry may set it up so ace 9-1, Saturday in the fourth inning Bobby Miller sees the Wolves since before the game was postponed this crossover game counts in the because of unfavorable weather. division standings.

5. Dundee-Crown (4-3): Lefties Richmond-Burton at CL South Danny Denz and Erik Hedmark 10 a.m. Saturday could make a strong duo atop the The Rockets might have one of Chargers’ rotation. their two NCAA Division I pitchers – Jake Rosing or Joe Dittmar – NOTEWORTHY ready to throw against the Gators, On the rebound: Huntley who entered the week unbeaten. finished 9-27 last season under – Joe Stevenson coach Andy Jakubowski, his worst joestevenson@shawmedia.com

Girls soccer roundup: Johnsburg blanks North Boone At Poplar Grove, Taylor Piggott finish with three unassisted goals and an assist for the Johnsburg girls soccer team Monday in a 7-0 victory Big Northern Conference East Division win over North Boone. Emily Crowe, Amber Humphries, Corin Cameron and Shae Giovanni also scored for Johnsburg (3-0-1, 2-0 BNC East), and Cortland Sommerfeldt and Humphries had assists. Mackenzie McKay made three saves.

Marian Central 1, Antioch 0: At Antioch, Laura Knapp scored the game’s only goal 13 minutes into the

second half to lift the Hurricanes (2-1) to victory. Marian keeper Kersten Green made six saves.

Prairie Ridge 2, Belvidere North 1: At Belvidere, Jena Berkland and Emily Perhats scored in the Wolves’ (2-1) win.

Burlington Central 9, Marengo 0: At Burlington, Maddie Hoey had 14 saves in the loss for the Indians.

Woodstock 11, N. Chicago 0: At the Round Lake Tournament, the Blue Streaks (4-2) opened tournament play with a shutout of North Chicago.

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On Tuesday, Dalton Wagner is in for a treat.

Most of his unofficial college visits this spring have involved long drives in his family’s Buick Enclave or Chevy Avalanche.

At 6-foot-9 and 300 pounds, you see, it’s hard to get comfortable in a vehicle.

“I recline the seat back to stretch out my legs,” the Richmond-Burton junior Dalton Wagner right tackle said.

But Tuesday, he’ll be flying with his father to Oklahoma, where they plan to arrive around 1 p.m. and leave by 4:30 on an unofficial visit with the Sooners, a national semifinalist from last season.

It’s a short visit, but Wagner is excited.

He’s done a lot of these, and he’s learning how to make the most of his time on a college campus, ask the right questions and figure out where he stands.

Wagner said his interest is based on three main criteria: the best education, the place that will push him to be the best on the football field and the place where he feels like he will fit in with the team.

The best way for him to find that is to see it first-hand, which has meant multiple unofficial visits to some schools, such as Indiana (three), Wisconsin (two games and another April 16) and Arkansas (one with another coming before spring football ends).

His offer list is at 15 – Western Michigan, Illinois, Miami (Ohio), Louisville, Buffalo, Missouri, Toledo, Illinois State, Indiana, Wyoming, Arkansas, Syracuse, Utah, Virginia and UCF – and will continue to grow as he heads into his senior season and starts to narrow things down.

He always wanted it, but a year ago, he wasn’t 100 percent certain he would get the chance to be a college football player.

But Wagner made a good impression in front of a lot of college coaches at Northwestern’s Chicagoland Showcase last summer and the interest grew from there. Northwestern was the first to send a direct message, at 12:06 a.m. Sept. 1 of last year, the first time coaches are allowed to contact prospects from his class.

“Dalton is a very motivated young man,” R-B coach Pat Elder said. “His objective has

been to play football, and he’s made that happen. He’s motivated, he’s coachable. He works hard in the weight room and he constantly strives to be better every day.

“When you have some of the gifts he has, sometimes you take it for granted. He doesn’t do that at all.”

As a freshman, Wagner stood 6-3 and was moved up to R-B’s sophomore team, something Elder said was highly uncommon.

As a sophomore, he began to shoot up and Elder knew he would become a centerpiece on the varsity team, where he played two seasons on the opposite side of the line from 6-6, 300-pound Robert Morris signee Fred Bush.

The school also boasts 6-10 basketball recruit Joey St. Pierre, making he and Wagner the twin towers of their second-period Algebra 2 class in a junior class that includes around 200 students.

“People ask me what’s in the water up here,” Elder said.

For the Wagner family, it’s more about what’s in the milk. The weekly shopping list used to include two gallons of milk. Now, it includes five with his parents, freshman sister Melanie and 6-year-old brother Wyatt living at home.

“And we finish it before it’s time to make the next grocery trip,” Wagner said.

Colleges are looking at Wagner’s huge frame, along with his agility, and seeing their ability to build him into even more of an intimidating presence. But, in high school football, Elder said, it’s almost more impressive the success he’s found. “[Bush and Wagner] both put themselves in positions that they were able to use their size,” Elder said. “They were big, but that can get in the way sometimes. Guys that are big are often unable to get off the ball. [Dalton] plays low and plays physical.”

That’s why schools keep calling, or direct messaging to be more precise. He’s even had short Twitter conversations with assistant coaches from such national powerhouses as Florida State, Oregon and LSU. And his family, including his brother and Southern Illinois sophomore lineman Bryce Wagner (listed at 6-8, 339 pounds), have helped him through it. Bryce helps Dalton on everything from following the right coaches on Twitter to saying the right things in conversations with college coaches. He’s even gone on visits with Dalton.

“I don’t think I could have handled this without him,” Dalton said.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK CAM GEISSER Crystal Lake South, sr., 3B Geisser drove in a run in each of the Gators’ three wins on their trip to downstate Marion, as they moved to 6-0 for the season.

Geisser tripled and drove in a run in South’s 6-4 win over Mount Vernon. He also had an RBI triple in the Gators’ 4-2 victory against Benton.

In South’s 11-10 come-from-behind victory over Murphysboro, Geisser singled in a run.

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Kaufmann commits to D-I Murray St. Libero’s teammate Giustino also bound for Kentucky school

“They were just one step away from getting to the NCAA tournament last year. That would just be awesome to compete at that level.”

By MIKE DeFABO

mdefabo@shawmedia.com Marian Central senior libero Alex Kaufmann has committed to play volleyball at Division I Murray State next season.

A three-year captain for Marian Central, Kaufmann played a key part in helping the Hurricanes to a 39-3 record and a Class 3A state championship last fall. She recorded 477 digs during the run to the state title and holds all of the school’s defensive records.

She’ll join Marian senior outside hitter Rachel Giustino, who previously committed to Murray State.

Kaufmann, who plays her club volleyball with Sky High, said she visited the Murray, Kentucky, school during spring break, and after talking over the decision with her family, she decided to commit Sunday night.

“Everything about the campus and the volleyball program and the team and the coach and Murray as a town was the perfect fit for me,” Kaufmann said. “I

Alex Kaufmann

Marian Central volleyball player Murray State finished last season with 27 wins, the most in program history. The Racers have won back-to-back Ohio Valley Conference regular season championships.

“I’m going to be heading into a very solid program already,” Kaufmann said.

“I hope to continue that tradition. They were just one step away from getting to the NCAA tournament last year. That would just be awesome to compete at that level.”

Kaufmann is the fifth member of the Shaw Media file photo Hurricanes’ state-championship team Marian Central libero Alex Kaufmann (right) celebrates with her teammates after they to commit to a Division-I university. In won the Class 3A state championship Nov. 14 at Illinois State University’s Redbird Arena addition to Kaufmann and Giustino, juin Normal. Kaufmann committed to Murray State. nior setter McKayla Wuensch (Nevada), junior outside hitter Sydney Nemtuda was just checking things off my list of son in school history, Kaufmann will (Florida Atlantic University) and junior join a Murray program that is coming middle blocker Lauren Hanlon (Housthings I could look for in a school.”

After leading Marian to its best sea- off its own historic season. ton-Baptist) have committed.

SOFTBALL: PRAIRIE RIDGE 5, BELVIDERE NORTH 4

Getzelman comes through for Wolves in 6th

By ALEX KANTECKI

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CRYSTAL LAKE – Prairie Ridge’s Maddie Schillinger Peyton Getzelman didn’t lose any confiPrairie Ridge, jr., 2B dence after striking out in her first twoSchillinger was 1 for 3 with a at bats against Belvidere North’s Bailey stolen base, but her biggest Neiber. plays came on defense. She Neiber struck out 10 Wolves on a cold made a stop and flip to first for and snowy day, but Getzelman came the final out in the fifth, and she was in on a 9-4through for her teammates and coach3 relay for the second out in the sixth. es in the sixth inning as Prairie Ridge q THE NUMBER mounted a comeback.

With two outs and the bases loaded, Belvidere North’s run differential the junior reached out and smacked a in three games before Monday’s double to drive in Kaitlin Leverenz and 5-4 loss to Prairie Ridge Alex Johnson, putting Prairie Ridge up for good in a 5-4 nonconference softball q AND ANOTHER THING ... victory Monday.

The scoreboard flashed innings from 00 to 99 “It was two outs, and my team was during the game, prompting Wolves pitcher filling the bases,” said Getzelman, who Hailey Baker to ask assistant coach Jan Brown has driven in four runs in two games. what inning it really was (it was the sixth).

“I can’t really let them down at that point. Honestly, with the support of my teammates and my coaches, I probably Getzelman said she made an adjustwouldn’t have hit it.” ment in her final at-bat after her first

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two ended without any contact. Wolves coach Mike Buck called it a “confidence boost” for Getzelman, who was hitting ninth and making her first start of the season.

“My coach kind of helped me out with the situation, telling me what I was doing wrong,” she said. “Before, I was just swinging to get a hit. I just wanted to crush the ball. ... But when I got up there the last time, I just took it (the pitch) and wanted a hit.”

Sam Anderson, who reached on an error that scored the tying run (Kylie Leverenz) in the sixth, was thrown out at home on the double by Getzelman after the umpire ruled she missed the plate.

The Wolves led, 5-3, heading into the seventh.

Belvidere North (3-1) scored a run in the seventh against junior Hailey Baker.

It was unearned.

She improved to 2-0 on the season, allowing four runs (three earned) on five hits, a walk and three strikeouts. Baker said she welcomes the colder conditions,

believing it gives her an edge.

“I’ve always been a strong believer in the colder team is the losing team,” said Baker, who committed to Illinois in November. “(Catcher) Alex Johnson played a great game. I wasn’t on my complete A-game today, but I’m lucky to have a great team behind me.”

The Wolves improved to 2-0 after having spring break off.

Their first game of the season against Antioch – a 10-4 win – was March 15.

Buck was pleased with the Wolves’ play and effort despite the long layoff.

“We didn’t practice for about 14 days, so I was a little worried,” Buck said.

“You’re always concerned. You don’t know how they’re going to come out. ...

[Baker] had good control for this cold weather, and we actually hit the ball.”

Kaitlin Leverenz finished 2 for 3 with two runs and one RBI, driving in the Wolves’ first run in the fourth. Kaleigh O’Brien went 2 for 3 with a run scored, and Maddie Schillinger added a hit and a stolen base.

BASEBALL: HUNTLEY 5, BOYLAN 1

By RYAN ALTMAN

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Prairie Ridge no-hit in defeat

By JOHN WILKINSON

jwilkinson@shawmedia.com SCHAUMBURG – It seemed like a positive start for Prairie Ridge when the Wolves managed to scratch out three runs in the top of the first inning without getting a hit off Schaumburg’s Andrew Ralston. As the game went on, however, Ralston dialed in on the mound and the Wolves never got any better at the plate.

Ralston pitched a no-hitter as the Saxons beat the Wolves, 4-3, in a nonconference game Monday at Schaumburg.

“I don’t know, because we hit the [heck] out of the ball Saturday,” Wolves coach Glen Pecoraro said. “So I don’t know why we went from one extreme to the next. And it was as cold and windier on Saturday.”

Prairie Ridge (4-4) went ahead, 3-0, in the top of the first on an error and five walks issued by Ralston. James Mikolajczewski started it by reaching on an error and scored after three consecutive walks to Jacob Carpentier, Jon Tieman and Nick Schmidt. A walk to Scott Stetz brought Carpentier home and another to Hunter Martin scored Tieman.

“We had good energy coming in,” Stetz said. “The cold didn’t bother us. We had a good game Saturday in the cold, so I thought we’d repeat that.”

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It was the Wolves’ second consecutive game with snow falling. A light to medium snow fell throughout Monday’s proceedings after the Wolves had their Saturday game against Boylan suspended in the fourth inning because of the conditions.

In the bottom half of the first, walks also bit Prairie Ridge starter Ryan Schmidt. The lefty got two quick outs but then issued three consecutive walks to load the bases. Jack Bellinger’s soft roller to third base scored one and then another walk cut the lead to 3-2.

The Wolves went down in order the next three innings as Ralston, a tall righty, settled into his groove.

strike on a 0-2 count, Konie drilled a two-run double deep to left-center field, extending the Red Raiders’ first-inning lead to 3-1. He finished 1 for 3 with two RBIs. “I know that on that at-bat, I had to shorten up my swing so I could put the ball in play,” Konie said.

The Red Raiders added to their lead in the second inning on two RBI singles from outfielder Tyler Koss and third baseman Jeffrey Heinrich.

The 5-1 advantage held up over the last five innings behind Morgan and junior Cameron Reed, who came on in the fifth. Reed threw two scoreless innings.

He struck out three of the six batters he faced, allowing only a single in the sixth.

“I thought we played some great defense,” Jakubowski said. “I was really happy to see how we bounced back down a run with three runs in the first and two in the second. Although, I thought we got a little complacent at the end. It was a tough day today.”

“In the beginning, [Ralston] struggled and then he just could get the corners he wanted and we just wouldn’t compete with that,” Stetz said.

Schaumburg (6-2) took the lead in the bottom of the fourth when it loaded the bases with three singles and Tyler Fredrickson came through with a two-RBI single of his own past a diving Tieman at third.

The closest the Prairie Ridge offense came to scoring again was in the top of the sixth. The visitors had runners at first and second with no outs but were left wanting after a pair of fielder’s choices and a strikeout.

The Wolves struck out 11 times against Ralston and stranded six runners.

Robbie Masini took the loss after relieving Ryan Schmidt (0 hits, 2 ER, 5K, 6BB) in the third inning. Masini went 12/3 innings, giving up two runs on four hits while striking out four and walking none. Joe Perhats and Tieman each threw a scoreless inning of relief.

“We’ve got some work to do,” Pecoraro said. “We’ll get some extra hitting in, some morning hitting in and see if we can find ourselves offensively. Our pitching and defense have been solid all year. It’s been the offensive part of the game where we’ve been up and down.

We’ve just got to get better.”

Sophie Schwegel homered and was 3 for 4 with two RBIs and three runs scored Monday as Richmond-Burton beat North Boone, 8-0, Monday in a Big Northern Conference East Division softball game in Richmond.

Pitcher Rachael Hayden struck out six and allowed six hits in seven shutout innings for the Rockets (3-3). Hayley Regnier was 2 for 3 with two RBIs, Hailey Hildebrandt was 2 for 3 with two runs and Katie Regnier was 1 for 2 with a runs scored for R-B. BOYS TENNIS Prairie Ridge 5, CL Central 2: At Crystal Lake, Prairie Ridge won two singles and three doubles matches in its Fox Valley Conference home win over the Tigers.

Hayden Dzurisin won 6-0, 6-1 at first singles and Ben Lingner won 6-1, 6-0 at No. 3 singles for the Wolves. The doubles teams of Daniel Lamar/Scott Cleven (7-6, 6-3), Marc English/David Behning (4-6, 6-4, 6-4) and Jared Reichart/Scott Hyland (6-3, 6-2) won for Prairie Ridge.

The first doubles team of Ethan St. John and Johnny Wallace won, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, while senior No. 2 singles player Jacob Marcus won, 6-4, 6-2, for the Tigers in the loss.

Boylan 3, Marian Central 2: At Woodstock, Marian Central’s Ian Brzeski and Mike Dowling won singles matches, but the Hurricanes lost to Boylan.

All three Marian doubles teams lost by the same 6-1, 6-1 score, while Brzeski beat Boylan’s Adam Pycior, 6-1, 6-3, and Dowling beat Boylan’s Ben Sipiora, 6-2, 6-0.

– Northwest Herald

• Tuesday, April 5, 2016

HUNTLEY – After striking out the Noah Konie Huntley, jr., 1B first batter of the game, Huntley pitcher Kyle Morgan knew that despite the cold With Huntley down 1-0 in and windy conditions, he could have the bottom of the first, Konie command of his full arsenal of pitches. hit a two-run double, the “I came out throwing three straight second of which became the for strikes, and so I just knew it would game-winning run. give me confidence right away to keep q THE NUMBER throwing them for strikes,” Morgan After allowing two of the first three batsaid. ters of the game to reach, Morgan retired The sophomore, making his second 11 straight Boylan hitters, finally ending varsity start, gave up a run on two hits with a leadoff single in the fifth inning. over five innings as he helped shut down Boylan in a 5-1 victory Monday at Huntq AND ANOTHER THING ... ley High School.

Of Morgan and Reed’s 10 combined strikeouts, “Kyle threw the ball very well in five of them were the result of Titans batters tough conditions,” Red Raiders coach caught looking.

Andy Jakubowski said of Morgan, who suffered a 1-0 loss last week to Prospect.

“He shut down a good hitting team and hitters.” changed speeds really well. His curveAn early error cost the Red Raiders ball was on today, and it baffled some (5-3) the first run of the game. After Ti-

tans infielder Max Maney reached on a double, an errant throw on a ground ball to second base went past first baseman Noah Konie, bringing in Maney from second.

After the error, Morgan went on to retire the next 11 Titans (3-3) hitters, including six strikeouts. He finished with seven punch outs and did not allow any walks.

Morgan credited his success to his ability to control a mix of fastballs, changeups and curveballs that often left Titans hitters guessing.

“I commanded the zone a little more,” Morgan (1-1) said. “My off-speed stuff was better than the first time [against Prospect]. Just throwing more strikes was key.”

In the bottom of the first, the first three Red Raiders batters reached safely and scored a run on a wild pitch.

Titans starting pitcher Sam Rinaldo almost limited the damage after consecutive strikeouts, but down to his final

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Passion big part of Sale’s success Sale pitches Sox past A’s in opener

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN

dvanschouwen@suntimes.com

OAKLAND, Calif. – Chris Sale has a short fuse. He knows it, and his White Sox bosses know it.

His fans know it, too, and for the most part, everyone is cool with Sale getting hot. It’s part of what makes the perennial Cy Young contending left-hander click.

“I get passionate about what I believe in and care about,” said Sale, who made his third Opening Day start in Monday’s late game against the Oakland Athletics.

“Things I care about and I believe are true, I’m going to get fired up about it.”

Winning is first. Team is huge. And perfecting his craft is right up there for the Sox’s 27-year old ace. When stuff interferes with those, look out.

Sale has blown up before, and he’ll more than likely fire away again, adding to this series of notable events: • In 2012, after experiencing forearm issues during his first go as a starter, the Sox decided to move Sale back to the bullpen. In an intense face-to-face with Sox general manager Ken Williams, the 23-year-old Sale talked himself back into the rotation. “He was adamant about it to the point to where he almost crossed the line,” Williams said then.

• In June 2014, after cruising through seven innings and then giving up a

OAKLAND, Calif. – Chris Sale struck out eight in the season opener to build off his franchise record last year, and the White Sox beat the Oakland Athletics, 4-3, Monday night.

Adam Eaton hit an RBI triple, and Jimmy Rollins drove in a run during a four-run third inning in his first game with the Sox playing at home in the East Bay.

– The Associated Press

AP photo

White Sox pitcher Chris Sale works against the Athletics in the first inning of the season opener Monday in Oakland, Calif. The Sox won, 4-3. grand slam to the Angels’ Mike Trout in Anaheim, Sale was seen on camera taking a bat to things in the walkway from the dugout to the visitors clubhouse.

• In September 2014, Sale caused a benches-clearing scene on the field when he accused Victor Martinez (16 for 34 against him in his career) of having stealing signs from the outfield stands.

The whole episode resulted in a heated

discussion and disagreement with manager Robin Ventura.

• After a benches-clearing brawl with the Kansas City Royals last April at U.S. Cellular Field, Sale, who had been ejected from the game, left the Sox’s clubhouse and went looking for Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura in the visitors’ clubhouse, only to be steered away by former teammate Alex Rios.

• And this spring, after Williams, now the team vice president, asked Adam LaRoche to scale back his son’s time in the clubhouse, Sale unloaded on Williams in front of teammates. The next day he spent 14 minutes talking to media, pulling no punches in blasting Williams.

Don’t mess with my teammates, Sale was saying.

“These guys are my teammates, my brothers, the guys who are fighting with me,” Sale said a few days ago. “It’s the respect we have for each other in here and the camaraderie that comes with it.”

Sale is well aware of his short fuse.

His father, a former college swimmer and race car driver who has similar competitive fires, often says to his son, ‘You’d probably have more friends if you were like your mom, but you wouldn’t have a job if you weren’t like me.’ ”

WHITE SOX NOTES

Signing of Gonzalez insurance for Latos

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN

dvanschouwen@suntimes.com

OAKLAND, Calif. – The White Sox know what they’re getting from the four left-handers in the rotation. From the righty? That’s where it gets dicey.

Mat Latos hasn’t made anyone feel certain just yet that he’s the answer, which is why general manager Rick Hahn probably went after Miguel Gonzalez with more urgency, signing the 31-year-old with a decent track record to a minor league deal Sunday.

“You need to have options available should something no go according to plan,” Hahn said before ace Chris Sale threw the first pitch of the season against the Oakland A’s.

Latos, coming off knee and arm problems last season, “still is building a little bit” and showed signs of progress in three starts in Arizona despite pitching to a 10.38 ERA, Hahn said.

“Hopefully those continue into his first several starts in Chicago.

“I don’t think we’ve seen the best from him yet. There’s still more there. He’s going to build endurance and crispness in his stuff.”

Latos, like Gonzalez, has been good in the past. But if he doesn’t pan out, the Sox will need Gonza- Mat Latos lez, Jacob Turner or Erik Johnson – who will pitch in the rotation at Triple-A Charlotte – to turn into a viable option.

Hahn said Gonzalez’s velocity was back to his norms later in camp.

“Everybody’s looking for pitching and he’s got a chance if he pitches well,” manager Robin Ventura said. “If something happens up here we’ll use him.”

Gray scratched with food poisoning: Athletics ace right-hander Sonny Gray

went to an emergency room with food poisoning Monday morning and was scratched in favor of former Cubs lefty Rich Hill.

The A’s said Gray could pitch Tuesday but said they would err on the side of caution, suggesting that might be a long shot.

“I was first wanting to make sure Chris (Sale) didn’t go eat lunch with him,” Ventura said.

Navarro gets the nod: With Gray being scratched, switch-hitter Dioner Navarro got the nod to catch Sale instead of left-handed hitting Alex Avila.

“It was a better matchup than having Avila in there,” Ventura said.

Navarro, new to the Sox this season, caught Sale in one Cactus League game and one minor league game during spring training.

Ventura said who gets the start in this veteran tandem will depend on matchups and often “how they’re do-

ing healthwise.”

Garcia at DH: Avisail Garcia was the Sox’s first designated hitter of 2016, but that spot figures to be fluid with outfielders Melky Cabrera and even Adam Eaton taking some at-bats there.

“Everybody’s going to go through periods where they’re going to DH,” Ventura said. “I think it’s going to be better for them physically if we can rotate that around.”

Garcia said he has no objection, even though he’s used to being on the field.

“Whatever is best for the team,” he said.

Opening Day J-Roll: Jimmy Rollins made his 16th consecutive Opening Day start, tying him with Albert Pujols for the longest active streak in baseball. Rollins, who took an 11-game O-day hitting streak into Monday’s game, was the oldest Sox Opening Day shortstop since Luke Appling, who was 42 in 1949.

CUBS

Cubs ace wants to be even better

Cubs rout Angels in opener

By GORDON WITTENMYER gwittenmyer@suntimes.com

ANAHEIM, Calif. – It’s no coincidence that when Jake Arrieta’s season took off last summer, so did the Cubs’.

By the time he started making history after the All-Star break, the Cubs were the best team in baseball and well on the way toward the World Series-favored status they took into his Opening Day start Monday against the Angels.

It’s ridiculous, of course, to expect him to repeat the best finish for a pitcher in major league history.

But what if he does the one thing he didn’t do so well last year: Pitch like a Cy Young winner early in the season?

Already the most important player on a team headed into its most anticipated season in decades, he’s poised to play a role like no pitcher has for this franchise.

“I intend to start quick, and fast, and not look back,” said Arrieta, whose Cy Young Award season was grinding along at 6-5 with a 3.40 ERA in the middle of June after a six-walk start against the Indians.

“That’s just the competitive nature,

AP photo

– The Associated Press

the desire to win and to be better than anybody else,” he said. “But with that being said, you still have to go out there and compete and perform.”

Arrieta was 3-4 with a 4.07 ERA over a nine-start stretch when his season suddenly turned on a Sunday afternoon in Minnesota with a four-hit shutout.

After that, he turned into a power-pitching, swaggering combination of Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez and

complete games easier than I thought just by having conviction with all my stuff and being down in the zone,” he said.

More aggressive in the zone early in the count. Expanding the zone later.

Not worrying about missing bats (considering contact against him wasn’t typically very good anyway).

As he faced the Angels in Anaheim in his second career Opening Day start

Cubs starter Jake Arrieta pitches during the second inning of the season opener Clint Eastwood.

Monday against the Angels in Anaheim, “It was the confidence and the trust Calif. The Cubs won, 9-0. factor with my stuff, knowing that I can

CUBS NOTES

Contract extension for Epstein expected ‘soon’

By GORDON WITTENMYER gwittenmyer@suntimes.com

ANAHEIM, Calif. – The first pitch of the new season came and went without the contract extensions for team president Theo Epstein and his top staff that were expected by now.

But after recent conversations on the subject between chairman Tom Ricketts and Epstein, both said Monday they expect a deal “soon.” Some insiders believe a deal will get done this month.

“I don’t feel a lot of super time pressure, but I think we’ll get to a conclusion here pretty soon,” said Ricketts, who six weeks ago suggested he plans to make Epstein the highest-paid baseball team executive in the game.

“I think he’s the best at what he does in the game, and I think from a compensation standpoint it should be reflected,” Ricketts said then.

A new deal for Epstein, who’s in the final year of a five-year, $18.5 million contract, has long been expected to be a formality. Multiple sources close to those involved have said since January they expect an extension of five years in the $40 million to $50 million range.

“We talked a little Theo Epstein bit toward the end of spring training, and I thought they were good, productive conversations,” said Epstein, who has overseen a complete restructuring of the Cubs’ baseball operations since taking control in the fall of 2011, including massive growth of the front office, and an on-field overhaul that produced a 97-win playoff team last year.

“Neither one of us had a ton of time

to focus on it. But no cause for concern.

It’s something we’re going to continue to talk about, and I think we both feel like it’s going to get done some point soon.”

Neither would discuss specifics about progress or potential parameters discussed.

But Epstein said consideration for his top staff is part of the talks.

“Obviously, this is not a one-man operation,” he said. “Everyone’s got different contract status, but our goal is to keep our group in the front office together for a long time.”

No-look pass for ’Nova’s Szczur: If any of the Cubs had a reason to be distracted Monday night, it might have been outfielder Matt Szczur, the former Villanova football star whose college hoops team was playing in the NCAA title game for the first time in 31 years.

“I’m excited for them. I just hope they win,” he said. “I’ll just have to follow it

after the game.”

Szczur, whose roster spot opened up when utility man Javy Baez (thumb) opened the season on the disabled list, insisted there would be no sneaking peeks at the score Monday night.

“I also have a job here, too,” he said.

Miles to go before they sleep: Despite a franchise-record $150 million payroll, Epstein said his office has kept enough of its payroll budget in reserve to position itself to be active at the trade deadline.

“We have a little bit of flexibility looking ahead to in-season moves,” said Epstein, who also has maintained enough reserves of young talent by passing on some would-be trades the past 18 months.

“I think we’re fairly well positioned, as are some other teams, for what may come to pass in the in-season trade market.”

• Tuesday, April 5, 2016

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Jake Arrieta yielded two hits over seven dominant innings, Miguel Montero homered and drove in three runs, and the Cubs opened a season of high expectations with a 9-0 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.

Anthony Rizzo and Jorge Soler drove in early runs, and Matt Szczur added a three-run double in the ninth for the Cubs, whose talent-laden roster is coming off a 97-win season and a trip to the National League Championship Series.

The Cubs’ anguished fans believe the team really might end its 108-year championship drought this season, and thousands chanted and cheered in Orange County to herald an auspicious start to the quest.

Monday, that’s what Arrieta brings back into this season. What he expects to pick up where he left off last season – even if his second-half numbers become impossible to replicate.

“It’s hard to pitch to numbers,” Arrieta said. “It’s more important for me to just prepare in the manner that creates success, and that’s where I feel I’m at right now.”

His 0.86 ERA over his final 20 starts: the first in history under 1.00 for such a season-ending stretch. His 0.75 ERA after the All-Star break also was a major-league record. His 0.41 ERA the final two months (11-0, four runs allowed, including a no-hitter mixed in) was another record.

“I think he has just taught himself to be a present-tense guy,” manager Joe Maddon said. “I think his preparation has a lot to do with that. His routine has a lot to do with that. … A self-awareness, an understanding of what he’s capable of doing on a daily basis.

“That’s where the edge has shown up. It’s between his ears.”

Arrieta didn’t lose a game the final two months of the season – leading a 42-18 team surge in that span.

“If you’re .500 the other four days, you have a .600 winning percentage,” Hoyer said. “That’s a really awesome thing to have. We had that from the AllStar break on.”

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NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: VILLANOVA 77, NORTH CAROLINA 74

Stunning victory for Villanova

Jenkins breaks tie with 3 at buzzer

By EDDIE PELLS

The Associated Press HOUSTON – One good shot deserved another.

Kris Jenkins of Villanova wasn’t about to be outdone.

Jenkins overcame the shock of watching North Carolina’s Marcus Paige hit a double-clutch 3 to tie it by spotting up behind the right side of the arc and draining a 3 of his own at the buzzer to lift Villanova to a 77-74 victory and the national championship Monday night.

The second-seeded Wildcats (35-5), had a six-point lead with 1:52 left, but watched it slowly trickle away. Then, it was gone, when Paige jumped – and with Ryan Arcidiacono running at him – double clutched and pumped one from beyond the arc to tie the score at 74 with 4.7 seconds left.

After a timeout, Arcidiacono took the inbound pass from Jenkins, worked the ball upcourt and got it back to the junior guard. He took two quick stutter steps and swished it from about two steps behind the 3-point line.

“Kris told him he was going to be open, Arch made the perfect pass,” Villanova coach Jay Wright explained. “Kris lives for that moment.”

Jenkins’ range is anywhere in the gym, as he showed earlier in the tournament by nonchalantly draining a shot AP photo from the edge of the midcourt logo.

When this one went up, he never had Villanova’s Kris Jenkins (right) watches his game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer a doubt. against North Carolina on Monday in the NCAA tournament final in Houston.

“I think every shot’s going in, and this one was no different,” he said.

He finished with 14 points – the last three as memorable as any that have been scored in the history of this tournament.

After being thrown to the floor by his teammates, he got up, leaped over press row, hugged his family in the stands and shouted, “They said we couldn’t, they said we couldn’t, they said we couldn’t.”

Oh yes, they could.

This adds to the other title Villanova won in 1985, when Rollie Massimino, who was on hand Monday night, coaxed a miracle out of his eighth-seeded underdogs for a victory over star-studded Georgetown.

Hard to top this one, however.

Jenkins, who was adopted by the family of North Carolina guard Nate Britt, now has a spot with Keith Smart, Lorenzo Charles, Christian Laettner and anyone else who ever made a late game-winner to win a big one.

Paige finished with 21 for the Heels (33-7), the only No. 1 seed to make the Final Four, who came one agonizing shot short of giving coach Roy Williams his third national title.

Not surprisingly, the tears flowed from a coach who, some speculate, could have worked his last game on the sideline; the entire sports program at Chapel Hill is under NCAA scrutiny and awaiting possible penalties for a long-running academic-fraud case.

NCAA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP GAME PREVIEW

UConn, seniors go for 4 in a row

By DOUG FEINBERG The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS – Breanna Stewart came to UConn with the lofty goal of winning four national championships, and the Huskies are one victory away from history.

They will play former Big East foe Syracuse on Tuesday night with a chance to become the first women’s team to win four straight Division I titles. Only UCLA, with seven in a row from 1967-73, has done it on the men’s side, and a UConn victory would give coach Geno Auriemma 11 national championships – one more than Bruins coach John Wooden for the most

On TV today NCAA women’s basketball tournament championship, UConn vs.

Syracuse, 7:30 p.m., ESPN in the history of college basketball.

Stewart didn’t guarantee four titles when she was a freshman, but she did promise a victory against Syracuse.

“I’m not going to go and say that we’re going to lose,” Stewart said after the Huskies beat Oregon State in the Final Four. “To end my college career, to end it with the other seniors, there is no other way that I want that to happen.”

Syracuse coach Quentin Hillsman wasn’t planning on using the comments as extra motivation.

“I don’t think she knew who she was playing yet,” he said, laughing. “So what is she supposed to say? I told our fans and our crowd that we’re going to win, too.”

Auriemma shrugged it off.

“Having said it and now being on the verge of being able to do it, those are amazing things that it’s like a storybook,” Auriemma said.

“You have to admire her. She’s got a lot of guts, Stewie does.”

Stewart and her fellow UConn seniors have won 74 straight games and have never lost in the NCAA tournament, going 23-0.

AP photo

Connecticut’s Breanna Stewart is greeted by coach Geno Auriemma as she is taken out of the national semifinal game against Oregon State on Sunday in Indianapolis. Connecticut won, 80-51.

FIVE-DAY PLANNER TEAM

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at Memphis 7 p.m.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Spanish authorities probe Messi over offshore accounts

MADRID – Spanish tax authorities said Monday they are investigating allegations of tax irregularities involving soccer player Lionel Messi after documents released by an international probe of offshore accounts.

Messi’s family released a statement denying wrongdoing and threatened to sue media outlets that released the information linking the Argentine player to accounts in Panama. Barcelona, Messi’s club team, said it was supporting Messi and his family.

The soccer star was among those named in reports by international media who received a vast trove of data and documents leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which specializes in creating offshore accounts that allegedly can be used to avoid tax.

Last year, Spanish authorities charged Messi and his father with three counts of tax fraud for allegedly defrauding Spain’s tax office of $4.6 million in unpaid taxes from 2007 to 2009. They will stand trial in late May and potentially face nearly two years in prison if found guilty.

Rockies’ Story sets record with 2 homers in Opening Day debut

PHOENIX – Monday night marked a storybook beginning for Trevor Story’s major league career.

The 23-year-old Colorado Rockies shortstop became the first player in major league history to hit multiple home runs in his big league debut on opening day.

Both came off Zack Greinke – a three-run shot in the third inning and a solo home run in the fourth.

Story is the first National League player to hit at least two homers in his first major league game. Four American League players have done it.

Olympic golf champions will receive exemptions to majors

AUGUSTA, Ga. – When golf returns to the Olympics in Rio, the winners will receive more than a gold medal.

They’ll also get a free pass to all the major championships.

The governing bodies for men’s and women’s golf announced the exemptions Monday at Augusta National, adding a little extra incentive for the Olympic champions.

– Wire reports

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

WESTERN CONFERENCE

NATIONAL LEAGUE

W 54 51 44 45 44 44 41 40

y-Cleveland y-Toronto x-Charlotte x-Atlanta Boston x-Miami Detroit Indiana Bulls Washington Milwaukee Orlando New York Brooklyn Philadelphia

38 37 32 32 31 21 9

L 22 25 31 32 32 32 36 36

38 39 44 44 46 55 68

Pct GB .711 — .671 3 .587 9½ .584 9½ .579 10 .579 10 .532 13½ .526 14

.500 16 .487 17 .421 22 .421 22 .403 23½ .276 33 .117 45½

WESTERN CONFERENCE y-Golden State y-San Antonio y-Oklahoma City x-L.A. Clippers Memphis Portland Dallas Utah

W 68 64 53 47 41 41 38 38

L 8 12 23 28 35 36 38 38

Pct GB .895 — .842 4 .697 15 .627 20½ .539 27 .532 27½ .500 30 .500 30

Houston 37 39 .487 31 Denver 32 46 .410 37 Sacramento 31 46 .403 37½ New Orleans 28 47 .373 39½ Minnesota 25 51 .329 43 Phoenix 20 56 .263 48 L.A. Lakers 16 59 .213 51½ x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Monday’s Results No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Bulls at Memphis, 7 p.m.

New Orleans at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Miami, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Denver, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Utah, 8 p.m.

Portland at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

Minnesota at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

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

Wednesday’s Games Cleveland at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Washington, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Charlotte at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Houston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Portland, 9 p.m.

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

Central Division GP W L OT Pts x-Dallas 80 48 23 9 105 x-St. Louis 80 48 23 9 105 x-Hawks 79 46 26 7 99 x-Nashville 79 39 26 14 92 Minnesota 80 38 31 11 87 Colorado 79 39 36 4 82 Winnipeg 79 32 39 8 72 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts x-Anaheim 78 44 24 10 98 x-Los Angeles 79 46 28 5 97 x-San Jose 79 44 29 6 94 Arizona 79 35 37 7 77 Vancouver 79 30 36 13 73 Calgary 79 33 40 6 72 Edmonton 80 30 43 7 67

GF GA 260 226 221 195 224 200 219 207 215 201 208 227 204 231 GF GA 209 185 215 186 233 205 205 235 182 227 218 251 194 239

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Florida 79 45 25 9 99 229 197 Tampa Bay 79 45 29 5 95 219 191 Detroit 79 40 28 11 91 204 216 Boston 79 41 30 8 90 233 220 Ottawa 79 36 34 9 81 224 240 Montreal 79 36 37 6 78 211 228 Buffalo 79 33 35 11 77 193 214 Toronto 79 28 40 11 67 192 233 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-Washington 78 55 17 6 116 241 182 x-Pittsburgh 79 46 25 8 100 235 194 x-N.Y. Rangers79 44 26 9 97 229 209 N.Y. Islanders 78 43 26 9 95 219 203 Philadelphia 78 39 26 13 91 203 208 Carolina 79 34 29 16 84 192 216 New Jersey 79 37 34 8 82 176 200 Columbus 79 31 40 8 70 205 246 x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference 2 points for a win, one point for OT loss Monday’s Results N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 2 N.Y. Rangers 4, Columbus 2 Florida 4, Toronto 3 St. Louis 5, Arizona 2 Vancouver 3, Los Angeles 2 Tuesday’s Games Arizona at Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m.

Carolina at Boston, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

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

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Rangers, 6:30 p.m.

Florida at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

Colorado at Nashville, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Columbus at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 7 p.m.

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NCAA TOURNAMENT

NCAA TOURNAMENT

FINAL FOUR At NRG Stadium Houston National Semifinals Saturday Villanova 95, Oklahoma 51 North Carolina 83, Syracuse 66 National Championship Monday Villanova 77, North Carolina 74

FINAL FOUR At Indianapolis National Semifinals Sunday UConn 80, Oregon State 51 Washington (26-10) vs. Syracuse (29-7), 7:30 p.m.

National Championship Tuesday UConn (37-0) vs. Syracuse (30-7), 7:30 p.m.

PREPS SCHEDULE Tuesday Baseball: Fremd at Prairie Ridge, Johnsburg at Richmond-Burton, McHenry at Crystal Lake Central, Cary-Grove at Woodstock, Crystal Lake South at Hampshire, Genoa-Kingston at Harvard, Huntley at Grayslake North, Jacobs at Woodstock North, Burlington Central at Marengo, 4:30 p.m.; Alden-Hebron at IMSA, 4:45 p.m.

Softball: Richmond-Burton at Woodstock North, Fremd at CaryGrove, Marian Central at Crystal Lake Central, Belvidere at Hampshire, Rockford Christian at Harvard, Huntley at Belvidere North, Marengo at Johnsburg, 4:30 p.m.; Alden-Hebron at IMSA, Palatine at Prairie Ridge, 4:45 p.m.; Crystal Lake South at Harlem, 5 p.m.

Girls Soccer: North Boone at Richmond-Burton, Grayslake Central at McHenry, Hampshire at Crystal Lake South, Woodstock North at

Dundee-Crown, Burlington Central at Johnsburg, Rockford Christian at Marengo, 4:30 p.m.; Crystal Lake Central at Huntley, Grayslake North at Jacobs, 6:30 p.m.

Boys Track and Field: Crystal Lake Central, Marengo, Dundee-Crown at Cary-Grove Quad, Marian Central, Harvard at Johnsburg, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Track and Field: Richmond-Burton, Marengo at Genoa-Kingston, 4:15 p.m.; Marian Central, Harvard at Johnsburg, 4:30 p.m.

Boys Lacrosse: Huntley at McHenry, Crystal Lake Central at Prairie Ridge, 6 p.m.; Cary-Grove at Hoffman Estates, 7 p.m.

Boys Tennis: McHenry at Crystal Lake South, Crystal Lake Central at Huntley, Prairie Ridge at DundeeCrown, Hampshire at Jacobs, Round Lake at Johnsburg, Woodstock North at Grayslake Central, 4 p.m.; Grayslake North at Woodstock, 4:30 p.m.

Badminton: St. Charles North at McHenry, 4:30 p.m.

Central Division W L Pct Cubs 1 0 1.000 Cincinnati 1 0 1.000 Pittsburgh 1 0 1.000 Milwaukee 0 1 .000 St. Louis 0 1 .000 East Division W L Pct Washington 1 0 1.000 Miami 0 0 .000 Atlanta 0 1 .000 New York 0 1 .000 Philadelphia 0 1 .000 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 1 0 1.000 San Francisco 1 0 1.000 Arizona 0 0 .000 Colorado 0 0 .000 San Diego 0 1 .000

9 GB — — — 1 1 GB — ½ 1 1 1 GB — — ½ ½ 1

Monday’s Results Cubs 9, L.A. Angels 0 San Francisco 12, Milwaukee 3 Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 2 Washington 4, Atlanta 3, 10 innings L.A. Dodgers 15, San Diego 0 Colorado at Arizona (n) Tuesday’s Games Cubs (Lester 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Heaney 0-0), 9:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 0-0) at Kansas City (Young 0-0), 3:15 p.m.

St. Louis (Wacha 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Niese 0-0), 6:05 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 0-0) at Miami (Chen 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Cueto 0-0) at Milwaukee (Nelson 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Colorado (Bettis 0-0) at Arizona (S.Miller 0-0), 8:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 0-0) at San Diego (Shields 0-0), 9:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games San Francisco at Milwaukee, 12:40 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 2:40 p.m.

Detroit at Miami, 3:55 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 6:10 p.m.

Washington at Atlanta, 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Results Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 1 Kansas City 4, N.Y. Mets 3

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Central Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 East Division W L Pct Toronto 2 0 1.000 Baltimore 1 0 1.000 Boston 0 0 .000 New York 0 0 .000 Tampa Bay 0 2 .000 West Division W L Pct Texas 1 0 1.000 Houston 0 0 .000 Los Angeles 0 1 .000 Oakland 0 1 .000 Seattle 0 1 .000

White Sox Kansas City Cleveland Detroit Minnesota

GB — — ½ ½ 1 GB — ½ 1 1 2 GB — ½ 1 1 1

Monday’s Results White Sox 4, Oakland 3 Cubs 9, L.A. Angels 0 Houston at New York, ppd., rain Baltimore 3, Minnesota 2 Texas 3, Seattle 2 Boston at Cleveland, ppd., cold weather Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 3 Tuesday’s Games Cubs (Lester 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Heaney 0-0), 9:05 p.m.

White Sox (Quintana 0-0) at Oakland (Bassitt 0-0), 9:05 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 0-0), 12:05 p.m.

Boston (Price 0-0) at Cleveland (Kluber 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 0-0) at Kansas City (Young 0-0), 3:15 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 0-0) at Miami (Chen 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Toronto (Sanchez 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 0-0) at Texas (M.Perez 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games White Sox at Oakland, 9:05 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 12:10 p.m.

Seattle at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

Detroit at Miami, 3:55 p.m.

Boston at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Results Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 3 Kansas City 4, N.Y. Mets 3

• Tuesday, April 5, 2016

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10 BLACKHAWKS

Struggles over for vaunted 2nd line Anisimov, Kane, Panarin break out over past 2 games

By MARK LAZERUS

mlazerus@suntimes.com The man on his left has been trying to crack the top 10 in scoring among forwards to trigger a seven-figure bonus.

The man on his right has been trying to reach 100 points for the first time and become the first American to win the scoring title.

But Artem Anisimov hasn’t been counting along with Artemi Panarin and Patrick Kane. He’s just worried about his own game, and the line as a whole. The individual stats will follow.

“I don’t actually think about that stuff,” Anisimov said. “I just think about our game, how we need to play. If we play the right way, they’re going to reach those milestones easily. They’re

so skilled, they can make all those plays.”

Anisimov said that Friday morning in Winnipeg, when things looked a lot bleaker for the Hawks’ vaunted second line. At that point, Panarin had no goals and two assists in nine games. Kane had one goal in his past 10. And Anisimov had virtually gone missing, with one goal and five assists in his previous 19 games Artem since a four-point night Anisimov Feb. 6 in Dallas. In his first 55 games, the big Russian center had 18 goals and 14 assists.

Then, just as Anisimov predicted, everything came together. In the past two games, both Hawks victories, the trio has combined for eight goals and 10 assists. Panarin has posted back-toback four-point games to get back in position for his bonus. Kane had a hat trick Sunday to reach the 100-point plateau. And Anisimov is back on track, clearing room for his linemates and cleaning up rebounds in the crease.

Good thing, too. Without that line scoring at will, the Hawks’ offense had looked anemic, scoring two goals or fewer in seven of 10 games.

“It’s always a good thing for us when they’re on the scoring sheet,” Niklas Hjalmarsson said. “That whole line was carrying us through pretty much three-quarters of the season. If it wasn’t for them, I don’t know where we’d be in the standings right now.”

Given the skill of the wingers and the sneaky strong play of Anisimov, it took a long time for the league to figure out how to slow down the trio. But the more they scored, the more attention they got from opponents’ top defenders.

“When the season started, in the beginning, nobody knew how to play against us,” Anisimov said. “By now, they’ve watched the tape and are prepared for our line. So it gets a little bit harder to score. We just need to find a way.”

Kane agreed.

“We realized teams were kind of defending us a little bit differently, so we had to adjust some things,” Kane said.

“It comes down to just working hard

and battling for the puck, because when we get that puck back, we feel we can make plays and create a lot of offense.”

With few exceptions, Joel Quenneville has stuck with that line all season, a rare constant for a coach with a notoriously itchy trigger finger. He shrugged off the second line’s recent funk as part of the regular ebbs and flows of a hockey season, and stood by Anisimov even as his numbers dropped off.

And if the past two games were any indication, the Hawks’ second line – their only line, really, for much of the season – is finding its groove again. And with the playoffs barely a week away, not a moment too soon.

“It’s been a little frustrating,” Anisimov said. “But we just need to get our minds ready for the playoffs. The excitement level builds and it’s a fun time of year. We want to be ready.”

Note: Marian Hossa, who left Sunday’s game with an apparent leg injury, is questionable for Tuesday’s game against Arizona. Quenneville expects him to return before the playoffs. Corey Crawford is on pace to play Saturday in Columbus.

BULLS ANALYSIS

By JOE COWLEY

jcowley@suntimes.com

games for us.

“I think we all remember what he said when coming into the season that he’s a point guard. Yeah, he’s done a good job. He’s such a versatile player.”

Here’s where things get interesting.

Rose is a free agent after next season.

The Bulls were going to draft a point guard last year, but plans changed when Bobby Portis fell to them. Point guard, however, is definitely a priority for them with this year’s draft.

If they do go that route, why not move Rose to more two-guard at times in games next year, free him up to concentrate on his strength – scoring first and foremost, and let Butler play the point while the new rookie learns the position in a back-up capacity?

That way in case the Rose camp and the Bulls can’t get on the same page for a new contract, there’s a point guard already mentored, and Butler as a legitimate option.

No hard feelings, no battle of egos.

What has been showcased the last week is Butler can definitely handle the role.

Just ask him.

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It hasn’t been a bad tryout by any means.

Then again, “Jimmy Point Guard” has been waiting in the wings for quite some time.

It was just before the All-Star game last season in which Butler announced that all 6-foot-7, 220 pounds of him was entering the All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge. A contest that until that time had been reserved for point guards.

“Who said I can’t be a point guard?”

Butler joked then.

He even tried on the nickname “Jimmy Point Guard” and liked the way it fit.

But what started off as seemingly just more Butler bravado has turned into a way of life for the Bulls since last week. Maybe, just maybe, it’s also planted a seed in the organization moving forward.

When starting point guard Derrick Rose couldn’t answer the bell for the second half of the game in Houston last Thursday night, first-year coach Fred

beat the Rockets, 103-100.

All Butler did was finish with 21 points, eight rebounds and six assists.

“It’s really simple,” Butler would say afterward of playing NBA point guard.

“Dribble, shoot when you’re open, pass it when you’re not. … I really just got the easy job.”

Rose has missed the past two games with the elbow injury, which meant two more auditions for Butler playing point.

In the loss to Detroit on Saturday, he was a fantasy owner’s dream, scoring 28 points, grabbing 17 rebounds and handing out 12 assists.

The last time Rose had a 12-assist game? Go back to March 10, 2012, AP photo against Utah – or basically three knee Jimmy Butler (left) is fouled by Bucks for- surgeries ago.

Then Sunday in the win in Milwauward Giannis Antetokounmpo on Sunday in kee, Butler again showed off the point Milwaukee. guard skills, scoring 25 points, grabbing Hoiberg was a bit stuck. Back-up point five rebounds and handing out eight guard E’Twaun Moore was on a minmore assists. That’s 26 assists in a threeutes restriction, while Aaron Brooks game span, and two of them resulting was a bad matchup. in wins.

Hoiberg turned to Butler to play “We’re obviously very comfortable ball-handler and facilitator, as the Bulls with Jimmy with the ball in his hands,” overcame a fourth-quarter deficit to Hoiberg said. “He’s finished off a lot of

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12 NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME

Bulls owner Reinsdorf among 10 elected to hall

By JOE COWLEY

jcowley@suntimes.com Six NBA championships carry a lot of weight.

Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf found out just how much Monday, as it was announced the longtime owner was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Jerry Reinsdorf Hall of Fame.

Reinsdorf was part of the 2016 10-member class, which also included Allen Iverson, Tom Izzo, Shaquille O’Neil, Sheryl Swoopes, Darrel Garretson, John McLendon, Zelmo Beaty, Cumberland Posey and Yao Ming, as Reinsdorf was the only owner of an NBA franchise included in the group.

Izzo and McLendon made it as coaches, while Garretson as a longtime referee.

Born in Brooklyn, Reinsdorf came onto the Chicago sports scene back in 1981, buying the White Sox. Then in 1985,

Reinsdorf bought the Bulls, watching them turn into a national brand in the 1990s, thanks to six NBA titles headlined

by Michael Jordan.

Although Reinsdorf, 80, became a fixture in holding up the Larry O’Brien Trophy on a regular basis, it wasn’t a secret baseball was his first love. So when the Sox delivered him a World Series trophy in 2005, the owner didn’t hesitate to insist he had a new prized possession.

As far as his role with the Bulls, it has diminished somewhat, with his son, Michael, taking over the title of team president and COO. However, the older Reinsdorf still is the face of the organization when push comes to shove.

In 2014, he tried to attack a Sun-Times story that pointed out the problems between the organization and the Derrick Rose camp, and then last May in the wake of the Tom Thibodeau firing, Reinsdorf said in a statement, “When everyone is on the same page, trust develops and teams can grow and succeed together. Unfortunately, there has been a departure from this culture.”

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