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Health system ‘discussions’ have precedent Centegra Health System and Northwestern Memorial HealthCare announced Tuesday the two are exploring an affiliation.

According to a joint news release, “the organizations will enter into discussions to define the affiliation.”

If recent Northwestern Memorial history is any indication, these discussions will turn into negotiations that turn affiliation talks into merger – even acquisition – talks. That’s how it played out last year in DeKalb County between Northwestern Memorial and KishHealth System.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to partner with an organization that is known around the world as a first-class organization,” Centegra spokeswoman Michelle Green said. “We are in a position of strength. We were in a position to choose a partner, and we couldn’t choose better than Northwestern.”

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have to seek state approval. What’s in it for the two health groups? Northwestern Memorial would gain market share and a new structure for patient referrals to its specialists. Centegra and its patients would have better access to a broader network of advanced specialists.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT The family of a 26-year-old Lakemoor man who was injured when he crashed into an oncoming semitrailer Monday is seeking donations through a GoFundMe. com account.

Drew Stout’s income supports his fiancée and child, as well as his fiancée’s three children from a previous marriage. The couple also has a child on the way. Stout remained in critical condition Tuesday. Story, page A6.

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ELMONT, N.Y. – For the second time in as many years, a student at suburban New York’s Elmont Memorial High School has been accepted at all eight Ivy League universities.

Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna has until May 1 to decide whether she’ll attend one of the prestigious northeastern universities. She also can choose from Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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“Hope the young man heals inside and out. God speed to his recovery” Peggy Brink on the 26-year-old Lakemoor-area man severely injured in the Route 120 crash near McHenry

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ABOVE: Conley Elementary School fifth-grader Kennedy Ash checks the sound on her Chromebook before signing into the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers testing site Tuesday in Algonquin. District 158 students began testing Tuesday. BELOW: Conley Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Kim Reed helps Olivia Schramm sign in to the PARCC testing site. It’s testing season in McHenry County, with some schools having started in March and others still preparing to begin.

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agoodrich@shawmedia.com After grim yet somewhat unsurprising results from the first year of new rigorous state testing, McHenry County school officials are feeling a little better about the second go at PARCC, especially after a number of changes were made to the exam.

Testing for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers is in full swing for the second time with some local schools having started in early March and others still preparing to begin.

McHenry Community High School District 156 students will take the PARCC test in late April, and Director of Curriculum and In-

struction Carl Vallianatos has a much better outlook on it than last year.

Unlike last year, the district will be testing its freshmen rather than its juniors. Testing students who were simultaneously worrying about college entrance exams such as the ACT or SAT made it hard to motivate students, Vallianatos said, adding the change will allow the district to put an emphasis on college entrance tests with juniors and on PARCC with freshmen.

“We’re more excited about PARCC this year from a logistical standpoint, too,” Vallianatos said. “We’re not going to be doing 10 hours of testing over two different months.

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It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to partner with an organization that is known around the world as a first-class organization.

We are in a position of strength. We were in a position to choose a partner, and we couldn’t choose better than Northwestern.”

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Long term, it could potentially mean Centegra ... becomes a member of Northwestern Medicine. But we are still many months away and numerous negotiations away before we can even get to that point.”

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Centegra system, Northwestern Memorial to consider merging

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CRYSTAL LAKE – Centegra Health System on Tuesday announced plans to explore an affiliation with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, the parent corporation to a nationally top-ranked academic medical center hospital in Chicago.

What shape the affiliation will take remains uncertain, as both parties now begin several months of negotiations after recently agreeing to a letter of intent to discuss an affiliation.

Representatives with Centegra and Northwestern Memorial didn’t rule out the possibility of a merger or an acquisition that could make Centegra a Northwestern Medicine member.

Representatives also wouldn’t say whether corporate governance or staffing levels would change if an affiliation is approved. Both parties still need to work out the logistics that come with a potential partnership.

“This is the right time to join an organization that values the ways we provide advanced medical care in our community,” Centegra CEO Michael Eesley said in a news release. “Northwestern Medicine would help us give patients the perfect combination of academic medicine and community-based care.”

Centegra and Northwestern Memorial share similar values focused on delivering exceptional care to patients, spokespeople with both health care systems said. Both systems share similar structures and operate magnet hospitals, making the decision right to explore an affiliation, they said.

If the two parties agree to a partnership, Centegra patients would have greater access to health services provided by one of the best health care systems in the

country, Centegra spokeswoman Michelle Green said.

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare oversees Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a highly regarded academic medical center hospital within the industry and the primary teaching hospital to Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.

The health care system served more than 600,000 patients in 2014, according to its website, employing more than 4,000 medical staff and managing seven hospitals – Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital in Michael Lake Forest, Northwestern Eesley Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva, Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Community Hospital in DeKalb, Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital in Sandwich and Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton.

Under an affiliation, Centegra patients could access numerous clinical trials, skilled transplant teams and specialized doctors that Centegra’s current system doesn’t provide, Green said.

Centegra operates two hospitals in McHenry and Woodstock and plans to open its third hospital in Huntley in August. The top employer in McHenry County, Centegra employs more than 4,000 people.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to partner with an organization that is known around the world as a first-class organization,” Green said. “We are in a position of strength. We were in a position to choose a partner, and we couldn’t choose better than Northwestern.”

An affiliation also could expand Northwestern Memorial HealthCare’s footprint farther west throughout the Chicago area.

The system last May announced intentions to explore an affiliation with KishHealth System in DeKalb County, a move that would help fill a services gap and improve overall health care delivery in the county, both parties told the DeKalb Daily Chronicle at the time.

By August, KishHealth and Northwestern Memorial HealthCare agreed to a merger that made KishHealth a part of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare.

Christopher King, a spokesman with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, said the proposed affiliation with Centegra still is in its infancy, with negotiations just beginning.

Both parties, however, are looking forward to working out the details.

“Long term, it could potentially mean Centegra joins Northwestern Medicine and becomes a member of Northwestern Medicine,” King said. “But we are still many months away and numerous negotiations away before we can even get to that point.”

Green said cash will not be exchanged to make the affiliation happen. In business dealings, a merger or acquisition typically does involve a money exchange or a corporate governance change.

The negotiations between both parties will take “many, many months,” Green said.

Once agreed upon, an affiliation also would need approval from the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board, and the Federal Trade Commission before becoming official.

“We are taking two strong clinical programs and uniting them into one,” Green said. “We obviously are thrilled and look forward to the process.”

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Family seeking donations after man injured in Route 120 crash

By KATIE DAHLSTROM

kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com LAKEMOOR – The family of 26-yearold Drew Stout, the man injured when he crashed into an oncoming semitrailer, is asking for help as he remains in critical condition at the intensive care unit where he was flown after the crash.

Stout lost control of his vehicle and crossed a raised median about 11 a.m.

Monday, police said. He was moving items from Lakemoor to a home in McHenry when he crashed.

Stout and his fiancée, Ashli Sailor recently had rented the home and had just received the keys Sunday.

The couple are the parents of a 4-month-old daughter, and they are expecting another child. Stout and Sailor also are raising Sailor’s three daughters, all younger than 8, from a previous marriage.

“He’s everything to us,” Sailor said.

“He’s our rock. He was trying to do his best to get us what we needed.”

Stout is in a medically induced coma because doctors are concerned the swelling in his brain will worsen, Sailor said. He had surgery on one of his legs, which was broken in several places. A CT scan performed Tuesday

morning showed the swelling had not gotten worse, Sailor said.

Doctors told the family they expect Stout to be in the ICU until at least Thursday, Sailor said.

“We just want him to come home and get better,” Sailor said. “He’s strong. He wouldn’t leave that set of girls. He wouldn’t leave us. He loves us too much for him to give up.”

Stout’s income supports the family, meaning the crash and his looming recovery will create a financial hardship. A friend created a Drew Stout GoFundMe.com account to raise money for the family. The account had raised more than $1,800 by Tuesday.

The McHenry Moose Lodge 690, 3535 N. Richmond Road, Johnsburg, also is collecting donations, as well as household items and diapers.

Police continue to investigate what caused the crash, Lakemoor Police Chief David Godlewski said. The initial investigation by the Major Crash Assistance Team of Lake County shows Stout was driving a 1999 Plymouth Neon east on Route 120 near North Avenue when he drove onto the

raised median.

Stout overcorrected, ultimately going into a broad slide before colliding with the rear tandem axle on the driver’s side of the semitrailer, Godlewski said.

Stout was ejected through either the passenger’s side window or the windshield, and was found lying on the pavement in the westbound lane, Godlewski said.

“It was horrific,” Godlewski said.

“The car literally exploded. There was debris all over, in the eastbound lane, the westbound lane, the shoulder.”

The McHenry Township Fire Protection District cared for Stout before he was flown by Flight for Life to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville.

The 31-year-old Mundelein man driving the semi refused treatment, but was taken to Centegra Hospital – McHenry to test for drugs or alcohol because he holds a commercial driver’s license, Godlewski said.

Police do not suspect drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash. They also suspect Stout might not have been wearing his seat belt.

“It’s doubtful, but we don’t know for sure,” Godlewski said. “There was a lot of information to gather.”

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By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A McHenry County judge will allow two past instances of police contact with a McHenry-area man who stands accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend to be presented during his trial.

William J. Ross, 64, was arrested in November 2013 in a hotel in Las Vegas, where he was residing at that time.

Ross was first charged with concealing the death of 49-year-old Jacqueline Schaefer, and was later charged with her homicide.

Authorities allege that Schaefer was shot in September 2011, and her remains were discovered in a plastic bag inside a sealed bedroom in Ross’ vacant home two years later.

His attorney, Hank Sugden, filed a motion to exclude any prior contact

Ross had with police. He said in his motion that many of the past incidents did not result in arrest and do not have direct relevance to the case.

Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Combs, who also is chief of the criminal division, said he agreed with the exclusions with the exception of two dates in 2007 where Schaefer was involved.

He said in his motion that the two instancWilliam es establish motive J. Ross because it is the same victim and “it shows the defendant’s propensity to commit acts of domestic violence.

“Clearly, prior convictions against the same victim, whether for domestic battery or battery, should be admissible in a first-degree murder prosecu-

tion,” Combs said in his motion.

Ross was arrested Aug. 2, 2007, and Sept. 18, 2007, and charged with domestic battery. Schaefer was the alleged victim in both instances, Combs said.

He pleaded guilty to battery in November 2007, and in exchange for pleading guilty the charge from the first arrest was dismissed.

Judge Sharon Prather said Tuesday that she would allow both 2007 dates to be presented during trial, and would grant the defense’s motion to exclude all other police contact.

She also said that while the incidents occurred years before the alleged crime, the remoteness does not affect its admissibility.

“Just because the state amended the charge, it doesn’t change the facts of the case,” Prather said.

Sugden noted his objection. Ross will reappear in court May 18.

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“I’ve never heard of a roundabout that does not work,” Goad said.

Board member Mary McCann, R-Woodstock, said residents at a public hearing overwhelmingly supported improvements.

“There was absolute, total agreement that there is something that needs to be done at this intersection,” McCann said.

The County Board voted, 21-0, as part of its consent agenda 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, are not public roads that do not fall under any government’s responsibility to maintain them.

Homeowners along these roads have fought for years for a fair deal, arguing that they pay property taxes for road maintenance but get no benefit.

The $180,100 total is a 50 percent match for what their particular townships will pay.

The county’s nondedicated roads can be found in Algonquin, Dorr, McHenry and Nunda townships.

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WOODSTOCK – Replacing an intersection north of Woodstock with a roundabout will be delayed as a majority of the McHenry County Board decided to send it back to committee.

Board members voted Tuesday morning, 12-9, to send the $2.6 million project back to the Transportation Committee, despite comments from local officials supporting it.

The motion was made by member Michael Walkup, R-Crystal Lake, who said School District 200 should be asked to help pay for it, given that Woodstock North High School and the district transportation center account for much of the traffic.

“I think we should try to get more in the way of a buy-in from the entity that is primarily causing the need for these improvements,” Walkup said. “I’m not questioning the need for an improvement of some sort at the intersection, but I think that we shouldn’t have to go it alone.”

Improving the intersection has been on the county’s five-year highway im-

The intersection gets about 16,000 vehicles a day, according to traffic counts made in 2012, when the project started being prioritized.

A roundabout, a common sight on roads in Europe, is a circular intersection that supporters say is a safer alternative to intersections.

Because there only is 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, this particular proposal 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.

Woodstock Mayor Brian Sager and Greenwood Township Highway Commissioner Don Goad spoke in favor of moving the project forward prior to the County Board’s vote to send it back to committee.

Goad said the high speed limits, lack of turn lanes and limited visibility at the intersection result in “split-second decisions” by drivers that contrib-

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Officials: Be wary of Police investigating city water filtration scam employee impersonators Elderly resident nearly conned out of $4,000

By KATIE DAHLSTROM

kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com ISLAND LAKE – Village of Island Lake officials are warning residents to be wary of people claiming to offer water filtration systems after one resident nearly was scammed out of $4,000.

Water Superintendent Patrick Stewart said the village received a report in late March after a woman contacted an elderly resident regarding his need for a new system.

He said he’s concerned that more scammers will try to capitalize on people’s fears surrounding the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

“She made an unsolicited a phone call to the elderly resident,” Stewart said. “He did show us some samples that she claimed to have taken from his tap. It’s nothing we’ve ever seen in this

town.”

Water department employees never call to sell products or services, and will not request or accept money, Stewart said. Residents should know that village employees rarely knock on doors asking to get into a home without making an appointment. Village employees also would have ID and be in a labeled vehicle, he said.

Stewart urged any resident who received unsolicited phone calls or visits from someone making claims about dangerous drinking water to call the water department at 847-526-1954.

Officials from other McHenry County communities said they have not seen a similar scam.

Still, Woodstock Water Treatment Superintendent Will Smith said it could be a matter of time before the scam spreads. He encouraged residents to call the city if they hear from someone claiming to be from the city.

“I don’t see the city affiliating itself with anything door-to-door,” Smith said. “That’s something you don’t do.”

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WOODSTOCK – Police are investigating two recent incidents in which unknown men posing as employees of the city have solicited local businesses for donations for charitable sports endeavors.

In both instances, a man identifying himself as a city of Woodstock employee approached an employee of a local restaurant asking for a donation.

On Feb. 16, a man told a Woodstock restaurant owner he was raising money to fund an over-40 softball league and received a donation.

The man was described as a white male with blond hair in his early 40s, standing 6 feet tall and weighing 260 pounds.

On March 30, a man told the manager of a different restaurant that he was raising money for a charitable golf team and that the owner of the restaurant had approved a donation.

The manager gave him a check,

How to help Anyone with information can contact Woodstock police at 815-338-2131. but its payment was stopped after the owner said he had not approved a donation.

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Woodstock police are asking anyone with information on these incidents or any additional incidents to alert local law enforcement. Woodstock police can be reached at 815-3382131.

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Little did I realize the drama that would ensue hours later. And this, on the morning that my previous column was due.

Had I only been smart enough to back everything up in those interim hours. But noooo ...

First I couldn’t find any of my documents. After a bit of hunting around, I found them.

I was able to find the column, tweak it and send it in. Somehow I also managed to print it out.

Then the computer wanted to be restarted again. Bad idea.

After that, everything I’d ever saved was gone, including the column. No amount of searching could locate them.

Every single column I had written.

Every story I had done as a freelance writer. All gone.

A small loss, for sure. My own fault, absolutely. But one that might take awhile to get over.

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LAKE IN THE HILLS – Upscale restaurants and more hotels are among the businesses residents most want to see come to the village, according to focus groups conducted by the village’s Community Development Department.

Economic development coordinator George Hahne presented the findings from the study groups, which were conducted in late February with 61 residents ranging in age from 23 to 80, at a Committee of the Whole meeting last month.

He said he would be able to cite the findings from the focus groups when talking to businesses about coming to Lake in the Hills.

“If I’m going to go out there and talk to people to come to our town, I need more bullets if I’m going to compete with Naperville and Northbrook and Schaumburg and even Crystal Lake,” Hahne said. “I’m going to have to bring a little extra to the table.”

Hahne said the clearest desire to

come out of the focus groups was a high-end restaurant.

“There’s a very strong feeling about having a white tablecloth, upscale restaurant in this community,” Hahne said. “People want a place where it can be quiet, where there’s atmosphere, where they can get a great meal.”

He said participants felt the nicer restaurants in the area are too loud, and some seniors said they would be willing to give up other things in their budget to dine at an upscale restaurant twice a month. Residents also expressed a desire for another hotel, saying they often had to put relatives in Elgin hotels during holidays when the area Holiday Inn properties were full.

Upscale automobile dealers and boutique type shops were the other major items on residents’ wish lists.

“Everybody here loves the Randall Road corridor, the discounts that are there and the variety that’s there, but there were a lot of people who said they would love to have some stores like we currently have in downtown Crystal Lake,” Hahne said.

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Dealing with life’s little losses should get easier over time, right?

I’ve always hoped that to be true, but after four decades on this planet, I have my doubts.

Some things we see coming, so we can mentally prepare. Other times, things just happen without warning.

For instance, my sorority house was burglarized during one spring break.

The place was ransacked, and a lot of us girls had items stolen.

Since I was a poor college student, there wasn’t much to take. Yet, among the pieces that were stolen was one that wasn’t of particular monetary value, but whose loss I still feel.

It was a pendant I received at my graduation from Parkland Junior High in the early 1980s.

My initials were engraved on the front and on the back it had the graduation date and recognition of my class rank. It would be meaningless to anyone but me.

A little loss, for sure, but one that took some time to get over.

Most of my little losses these days have to do with technology. As much as I’ve come to appreciate computers and the like, sometimes they still have the ability to let me down.

Or I should say, my own inabilities to deal with them sometimes lead to these little disappointments.

The latest came last week. I’d heard the horror stories of those who had upgraded to Windows 10 on their personal computers.

In fact, I recall a particular tale of woe related by my friend and fellow columnist Dick Peterson.

Yet, there it was. Another reminder to upgrade. Would I like to do it now? No, not now.

How about in eight hours? Sure,

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CRYSTAL LAKE – Middle schoolers through high school sophomores and their families can explore career options or learn about careers at the Community Career Exploration Showcase.

The event will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 13 at McHenry County College in the MCC gym/multipurpose Room and commons area in Building B. The college is at 8900 Route 14 in Crystal Lake.

The event is free and open to all ages.

Students can find out about what careers to pursue, learn about new career choices that interest them and the education options available.

Demonstrations by local businesses and MCC educational programs will highlight a variety of industries. The Kids and College program will host a College Readiness Zone and will also highlight summer programs for middle and high schoolers. A Career Cruising

Corner will help students connect their passions to a career.

MCC educational divisions will highlight such industries as manufacturing and engineering/robotics, culinary and hospitality, health professions, public services and business. Select tours of labs may be available.

In addition, students and families can learn about dual-credit programs for high school students, online reputation management, adult learner information sessions and financial aid planning. Students can enter a drawing for technology-related prizes.

The event is hosted by McHenry County College, in partnership with all McHenry County school districts, the McHenry County Economic Development Corp. and the Workforce Investment Board. For information, call Kellie Carper, manager of New-Student Transitions, at 815-455-8670 or email kcarper@mchenry.edu or visit www.mchenry.edu/explore.

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City to sell abandoned 1860s house in downtown district

By HANNAH PROKOP

hprokop@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The city is looking to sell an abandoned property it acquired at 315 W. Judd St. that has been a nuisance to neighbors for years, city officials said.

City Planner Nancy Baker said the 1,600-square-foot home is in the downtown historic district, and probably dates to the 1860s or ’70s. The home has stucco siding and debris that has fallen off in the yard, Baker said, which the city has received complaints about.

“The Historic Preservation Commission felt that it’s reflective of the time period and that we should make an effort to try to rehabilitate rather than just demolish it,” Baker said of the house.

A request for qualifications has been released by the city to help identify any individual, organization or business looking to acquire and quickly renovate the house to make it an asset to the neighborhood. Responses must be received by 4:30 p.m. Friday to the Woodstock Building and Zoning Department,

121 W. Calhoun St. The requirements for the request can be found on the city’s website, woodstockil.gov.

When a property in the city is abandoned and not being taken care of, the city will reach out to the registered property owners and ask them to bring it back to compliance, City Manager Roscoe Stelford said. The city will then take legal steps when it gets limited or no response from the owners.

The city acquired the Judd Street property last month, Stelford said, and the Woodstock City Council approved of the legal services to acquire the property in June.

According to minutes from the June 16 council meeting, the legal fees were expected to cost about $3,000. Stelford said they will not know the final cost until the bill comes in at the end of April.

“We didn’t want the house, but nobody else did either,” Baker said. “And it’s a real problem for the neighbors, of course.”

If no one buys the house, ultimately, the city would have to demolish it and sell the vacant property, Baker said.

Man taken to hospital after motorcycle crash in Harvard

HARVARD – One man was taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening after a motorcycle crash Tuesday night in Harvard, a fire official said.

Harvard Battalion Chief Dan Danczyk said the crash happened around 4:30 p.m. at the intersection of Airport Road and Country Brook Lane.

The man was taken to Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, he said. No one else was involved in the crash. Harvard police also responded to the scene.

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LAKEWOOD – Electricity was restored at Lakewood’s Village Hall late Tuesday afternoon after a power outage caused by faulty wiring in a nearby utility pole, Deputy Village Manager Shannon Andrews said.

Lakewood Village Administrator Catherine Peterson said Village Hall lost power sometime Monday evening.

Andrews said the building had power restored through a generator early Tuesday afternoon until ComEd crews finished repairing the nearby pole.

There was no interruption to police and public works services Tuesday, officials said.

Village Hall remained open all day with staff members working on-site, although the phone system was not working while power was out.

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LAKE IN THE HILLS – “Wheels & Deals,” a used bicycle, skateboard and stroller sale, will be from 9 a.m. to noon April 16 at Village Hall, 600 Harvest Gate, Lake in the Hills.

Sellers may drop off items from 7:30 to 9 a.m. on sale day. Sellers determine the sale price, and will receive 80 percent of the price on items sold. Unsold items must be picked up between noon and 1 p.m. on sale day.

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“We’re more excited about PARCC this year from a logistical standpoint, too. We’re not going to be doing 10 hours of testing over two different months. That was tough to stomach.”

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In McHenry County, only two school districts out of 19 had more than 50 percent of students meet or exceed standards, based on composite scores.

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RINGWOOD – “Lost Valley Nature Detectives,” a self-guided drop-in program for families, is available from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at the Lost Valley Visitor Center in Glacial Park, Route 31 and Harts Road, Ringwood. The program includes indoor displays and outdoor exploration. Each month features a different topic, including “Life in a Log” in April and “Frogs” in May. For information, call 815-479-5779.

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That was tough to stomach.”

Instead, this year there is one testing window from March 7 to June 10 – changes that were announced by the Illinois State Board of Education following feedback from school officials about PARCC. Districts selected their own 30-day testing period within that time frame.

“The single testing window reduces the amount of time necessary to administer the assessment and allows teachers and students to spend more time on classroom instruction,” according to ISBE, which announced the start of PARCC testing in a recent news release.

The time most students will be tested also will be reduced by 60 minutes for the math portion and 30 minutes for English language arts, a change Cary School District 26 Superintendent Brian Coleman said he welcomes.

“The state has made some significant changes from last year,” Coleman said. “There were concerns over the number of tests and the amount of instructional time being used. I think the state listened to us on that.”

Some local districts are feeling more optimistic about the execution of the test because of internal changes.

Crystal Lake Elementary School District 47, which started testing March 7, has a recently upgraded wireless infrastructure, which Assistant Superintendent of Technology Services Dave Jenkins said significantly improved the testing environment.

“Last year, we had fewer access points in our building so when you had a cluster of students taking the exam ... you could have students whose tests would just drop,” Jenkins recalled.

“Last year, we could encounter those for up to five to 10 students per testing period. This year, there were almost no experiences with that.”

Last year, only about 30 percent of students met or exceeded expectations on the new test across the state, and even fewer “approached” standards.

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• 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. April 20 – Centegra Hospital – Woodstock, 3701 Doty Road, Woodstock. Appointments and information: Carrie Futchko, 815-477-0086 or www.heartlandbc. org.

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 24 – Glo-Bowl, 101 Franks Road, Marengo. Appointments and information: Camille Piazza, 847-305-9998 or www.heartlandbc.org.

POLICE REPORTS

OBITUARIES

Information in police reports is obtained from the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office and municipal police departments. Individuals listed in police reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.

LEO DONATI

Drive, Huntley, was charged Sunday, March 13, with retail theft.

• A 17-year-old Algonquin boy was charged Wednesday, March 16, with retail theft.

• Jessica L. Wilson, 28, 302 E. Prairie St., Marengo, was charged Friday, March 18, Marengo with driving under the influence, speeding, no insurance and driving with a blood-alco• Aaron M. Williams, 28, 110 N. First St., hol content of more than 0.08 percent.

Unit A, Elburn, was charged Wednesday, • Two Carpentersville 17-year-olds were March 9, with possession of drug parapher- charged Friday, March 18, with retail theft. nalia, driving with a suspended license, • Claudia E. Schlicht, 49, 274755 N. Meadoperating an uninsured motor vehicle and owoods Lane, Libertyville, was charged passing on the left/prohibited.

Saturday, March 19, with driving under • Jorge Milton Robayo, 51, 9455 Wellstone the influence, driving with a blood-alcohol Drive, Land O’ Lakes, Florida, was charged content of more than 0.08 percent and Saturday, March 12, with driving under the improper lane use. influence of alcohol, driving with a blood-al• Gilberto Feliciano, 50, 532 Raymond St., cohol content of more than 0.08 percent Elgin, was charged Monday, March 21, with and illegal transportation of alcohol. retail theft and obstructing justice.

• Seth M. Cupp, 24, 323 Bailey Court, Unit • Keysha G. Cornette, 41, 166 Seneca St., 7, Marengo, was charged Saturday, March Elgin, was charged Monday, March 21, with 19, with driving under the influence of alco- possession of drug paraphernalia. hol, driving with a breath-alcohol content • Douglas K. Powell, 44, 729 Jefferson of more than 0.08 percent and squealing/ St., Elgin, was charged Monday, March 21, screeching tires. with retail theft and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Algonquin • A 15-year-old Algonquin boy was charged Monday, March 21, with retail • Edina Prijic, 6761 Slate Drive, Carpentheft. tersville, was charged Friday, March 11, • Sebastian Baran, 18, 341 Briarwood with endangering the life and health of a Lane, Algonquin, was charged Wedneschild. day, March 23, with possession of drug • Martha L. Sidor, 59, 10298 Central Park paraphernalia.

Blvd., Huntley, was charged Friday, March • Veronica R. Patti, 18, 407 Lincoln St., 11, with retail theft.

Algonquin, was charged Wednesday, March • Edward F. Faulkner, 28, 2042 Waverly 23, with two counts of possession of drug Lane, Algonquin, was charged Saturday, paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and March 12, with driving under the influence underage alcohol possession. and illegal lane usage.

• Sowouthica Phrathep, 28, 1445 Charles • Jacek Zaborski, 44, 1310 Big Sur ParkAve., Algonquin, was charged Friday, March way, Algonquin, was charged Saturday, 25, with two counts of domestic battery.

March 12, with two counts of domestic • Beth E. Morales, 38, 7402 Grandview battery.

Court, Carpentersville, was charged Satur• Giovany E. Cruz, 21, 407 S. Hubbard St., day, March 26, with retail theft.

Algonquin, was charged Saturday, March • Kevin J. Andersen, 18, 207 Hilltop Lane, 12, with driving under the influence.

Sleepy Hollow, was charged Sunday, March • Gloria M. Serano, 19, 10708 Potomac 27, with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Blood service organizations • American Red Cross of Greater Chicago – 800-448-3543 for general blood services; 312-729-6100 general questions.

• Heartland Blood Centers – 800-786-

4483; 630-264-7834 or www.heartlandbc.org.

Locations: 6296 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake, 815-356-0608; 1140 N. McLean Blvd., Elgin, 847-741-8282; 2000 W. State St., Unit 1E, Geneva, 630-208-8105; 1200 N. Highland Ave., Aurora, 630-892-7055.

• LifeSource Blood Center – Crystal Lake Community Donor Center, 5577 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake, 815-356-0672; 815-3565173 or www.lifesource.org. Hours: noon to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

• Rock River Valley Blood Center – 419 N. Sixth St., Rockford, 877-778-2299; 815-9658751 or www.rrvbc.org. Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Fridays; 7 to 11 a.m. second Saturdays.

givers, staff and ownership at Sunset Haven in Elgin for the wonderful care given to our father for the past three years.

Visitation services will be held at Willow Funeral Home, 1415 W. Algonquin Road, AlLeo Donati, formerly of Lake in the Hills, IL, and later gonquin, IL, on Thursday, April 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Private interment to follow.

Hot Springs, Arkansas, died In lieu of flowers, please direct memorials peacefully Thursday, March to Cohen - Syndrome. Org 1980 Cloverdale 31, 2016, surrounded by loved Lane, Algonquin, IL 60102. ones.

Leo was born in Chicago, on Aug. 7, 1925, to Renato and Guilia Donati. At a young age, he moved to Italy where he was raised by his JOHN E. DOWER grandparents. At 16, Leo returned to Chicago, Born: May 1, 1946 attended and graduated from Lane Tech High Died: April 3, 2016 School.

After enlisting in the Navy in 1943, Leo John E. Dower, age 69, of Cary, passed served as a ship diesel mechanic in the away April 3, 2016, at Good Shepherd Pacific during WWII. Leo returned home in Hospital.

1945 and met Margaret (Chris) Doherty; He was born May 1, 1946, in Chicago, the they married in 1948. Together they had son of John and Dorothy Dower. three children, Terry Donati (Amy Miller) of John is survived by a brother, Jay (Ann) Dundee IL, Lane Donati (Deborah Bruski) of Dower; his aunt, Bernie Griese; a niece, Erin; Lake in the Hills, IL, and Paula Coffin (Geoff) and nephews, Timothy and Christopher of Carmel, IN. Dower; his cousins, Tom Connelly, Gail Csapo, Leo is survived by his three children, six Barbara Stuart and Fred Griese; as well as his grandchildren, Carrie, Laura, Eric, Nicole, caregiver, Chris.

Cody and Cherie, and his 11 great-grandchilBesides his parents John is preceded in dren. death by his sister, Pat Dower.

He was preceded in death by his wife of Memorial Services will be held at Holy 49 years, Chris; his parents; and son-in-law, Cross Lutheran Church, 2107 Three Oaks Geoff.

Road, Cary, on Saturday, April 9, 2016, In life, Leo worked as Fleet Manager for beginning with visitation at 9:30 a.m. and Gonnella Baking Company for more than 30 concluding with a Memorial Service at 10:30 years, maintaining their many trucks. Later, a.m. in 1978, Leo and his son, Lane opened Main In lieu of flowers memorials would be Street Pub in Algonquin, IL where Leo enjoyed appreciated to Holy Cross Lutheran Church. using his impressive culinary skills. Upon For info: 847-639-3817 or kahlemoore.com. retirement in 1986, Leo and Chris moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he continued to enjoy several hobbies: gardening, landscaping, boating, and of course, Friday night dancing. One of Leo’s favorite memories was returning to his boyhood town after 50 years – Castelvecchio, Italy. Here he visited the home in which he was raised and reconnected with childhood friends. Leo loved life and his family; he will be greatly missed.

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Born: Aug. 7, 1925; in Chicago, IL Died: March 31, 2016; in Elgin, IL

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Carol A. Lynn, age 79, of Oakwood Hills, passed away April 3, 2016, at JourneyCare in Barrington.

She was born June 9, 1936, in Chicago, the daughter of John and Grace Thames.

Carol is survived by her children, Steven (Anita) Lynn and Kimberly Council; her grandchildren, Vanessa (Ted) DeHaan, Richard Lynn and Ben (Melissa) Council, a sister Linda (John) Svejcar; a brother-in-law, Robert Tatgenhorst; as well as many nieces and nephews.

Besides her parents she is preceded in death by four siblings, Charles Thames, Joan Kotlarz, James Thames and Susan Tatgenhorst.

Visitation will be held Thursday, April 7, 2016, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary.

Funeral Service will be held at 10:30 a.m.

April 8 at the funeral home.

Burial will follow in Windridge Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers memorials would be appreciated to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.

service Saturday, April 9, at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 2107 Three Oaks Road, Cary. For information, call Kahle-Moore Funeral Home at 847-639-3817.

Robin Franz Freeman: A memorial will be April 30. For information, call Jessi at 224-829-2825.

Laurence R. Hall: The visitation will be from 3:30 p.m. until the 6:30 p.m. funeral service Friday, April 8, at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral & Cremation Service, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley.

For information, call the funeral home at 847-515-8772.

Adeline Joan Jackson: The visitation will be from 9 a.m. until the 11 a.m. Mass

celebration Saturday, April 9, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 206 E. Front St., Harvard.

Interment will be private. For information, call Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home at 815-943-5400.

Carol A. Lynn: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 7, at Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary. The funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 8, at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Windridge Memorial Park. For information, call the funeral home at 847-639-3817.

Jeffrey L. Mitchell: The visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m., with a 7 p.m. chapel service, Thursday, April 7, at Grove Memorial

Born: May 13, 1930; in Beloit, WI Died: April 5, 2016; in Crystal Lake, IL

CAROL A. LYNN

Born: June 9, 1936; in Chicago, IL Died: April 3, 2016; in Barrington, IL

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS 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 will follow.

John E. Dower: The visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until the 10:30 a.m. memorial

Chapel, 1199 S. Arlington Heights Road, Elk Grove Village. For information, call the chapel at 847-640-0566.

Ronald Hubert Paul: The 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.

Richard Shermach: The celebration of his life will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at Nicolino’s Restaurant, 621 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry.

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Helen (Lemberg) Paul. Ron loved to play the saxophone, enjoyed skiing, cycling and playing golf. He enjoyed riding motorcycles and recently purchased a Polaris Slingshot tri-wheeled vehicle.

Ron is survived by his children, Lisa (Willy) Deal of Crystal Lake, IL, Michele (Raymond) Wehrs III of Sammamish, WA, and Geoffrey (Rebecca) Paul of St. Charles, IL; Grandchildren, Christopher (Jessica) Deal, Nicole and Ashley Wehrs, Anna and Kaytlyn Paul; Great-Grandchildren, Logan and Cody Deal, and Brother Edward John Paul formerly of Huntington Beach, CA currently residing in Phoenix, AZ. Ron was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Doreen; and former wife, Patricia Ferrero Paul (Stanton).

A celebration of Ron’s life will be held at the home of Geoffrey and Rebecca Paul at 41W105 Campton Trail Road, in St. Charles, IL 60175 on Saturday, April 9, 2016, from 1 to 5 p.m.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the American Cancer Society https://donate.cancer.org/index.

Jeffrey L. Mitchell, 59, of Algonquin for 28 years. Born in Muncie, IN, he passed away suddenly on April 2, at Sherman Hospital.

Jeffrey was employed by FCL Builders of Itasca and was a 1974 graduate of Elk Grove High School.

He was the beloved husband of Margaret M. “Maggie” (nee Smith) for 36 years; loving father of James R. “Jake” (Melissa) Mitchell; cherished grandfather of Emma Rose and Madison Renne; devoted son of Charles W. and Marjorie A. (nee Hall); dear brother of Rebecca J. (the late Stephen) Usilton; loving uncle of many nieces and nephews and friend RICHARD SHERMACH to many.

Visitation Thursday, April 7, from 3 to 9 p.m.

Richard Shermach, loved by at Grove Memorial Chapel, 1199 S. Arlington all who knew him, we mourn Heights Road, Elk Grove Village, with a chapel the loss. Dad and best friend service at 7 p.m. who passed away on Jan. 5, Contributions to the American Heart Asso2016. ciation appreciated.

Dick joins his wife, Barbara; and sister, For info: 847-640-0566 or grovememorial- Beverly and is survived by his son, Christochapel.com. pher; daughter-in-law, Kathleen (Badgley); granddaughters, Brittany and Taylor; brother, William; and sister-in-law, Joan.

A graduate of Weber High School, Dick RONALD HUBERT PAUL served in the Air Force and enjoyed a long Born: April 21, 1938 career with Xerox. After retiring, Dick enjoyed Died: March 11, 2016 his time as a local school bus driver before ultimately relocating to Osceola, WI to live Ronald Hubert Paul, 77, of Kingsport, TN, closer to his immediate family. formerly of Streamwood, Hanover Park, and We will gather to celebrate Dick’s life on Franklin Park, IL, passed away Friday, March Saturday, May 21, 2016, from 2 to 6 p.m. at 11, 2016, in Phoenix, AZ. Nicolino’s Restaurant, 621 Ridgeview Drive, He was born April 21, 1938, in Chicago, McHenry, IL 60050.

IL. The son of the late Edward John and

LAURENCE R. HALL

Laurence R. Hall, 85, of Huntley, passed away on Tuesday morning, April 5, 2016, at Autumn Leaves in Crystal Lake.

He was born May 13, 1930, in Beloit, Wisconsin, the son of Donald and Sylvia (Innis) Hall. He graduated from Niles Township High School in Skokie.

He was united in marriage to Ila Anne Carr on Jan. 17, 1952. The couple made their home in Rolling Meadows and later Arlington Heights.

Larry was an arborist by trade and worked for Archibald Enoch Price The Care of Trees from 1948 until he purchased the company in 1972. He merged the company with Hendricksen Tree Experts in 1985.

In 2003, the couple moved to Huntley and Larry then retired in 2006.

He was an outdoor person who enjoyed canoeing, camping, hiking and had a real love of nature.

He is survived by his wife, Anne of Huntley; his sons, Norm (Kathy) Hall of Wauconda and Craig Hall of Huntley; his daughter, Dianne Oborski of Woodstock; six grandchildren, Michelle, Nicholas, Jason, Bradley, Bobby & Kristen; eight great-grandchildren, Bianca, Marc, Ricardo Jr., Peyton, Devynn, Kayla, Jayce & Addison; and his sister, Dorothy Westgard of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

Visitation will be from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.

For info: 847-639-3817 or kahlemoore.com.

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with a 6:30 p.m. Funeral Service on Friday, April 8, at the DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral & Cremation Service, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, the Alzheimer’s Association or the charity of your choice.

For more information, please call 847-5158772 or online condolences can be directed to www.defiorejorgensen.com.

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Walgreens tops 2Q profit expectations

By TOM MURPHY

The Associated Press Walgreens beat Wall Street’s fiscal second quarter expectations as total sales jumped, but the nation’s biggest drugstore chain remained conservative with its outlook while it deals with several pressures on its business.

The Deerfield, Illinois, company said Tuesday that it would again raise only the low end of its fiscal 2016 forecast by 5 cents per share, as it did in January.

The drugstore chain has yet to bump up the top of that forecast range, which it announced in October.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. runs more than 13,000 drugstores in 11 countries. The chain has faced challenges such as government pressure in the United States and abroad on prescription drug pricing, which hurts the company’s profit margin on those drugs.

It has been dealing with sluggish sales from store areas outside its pharmacies.

Foreign exchange rates also have been a drag on overseas sales. In the United States, a mild cold, cough and flu

season compared with a strong one last year affected results.

Walgreens has countered these pressures by cutting costs and tightening its business. It also is in deal-making mode. The company said last month that it will spend nearly $1.2 billion to build its stake in AmerisourceBergen, the pharmaceutical wholesaler that supplies its drugstores, mail order and specialty pharmaceutical businesses. It also detailed a partnership with Optum, the pharmacy benefits manager run by the health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. In addition to those deals, Walgreens is buying rival drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp. for more than $9 billion, a deal the companies expect to close in the second half of this year. That combination could create a drugstore chain with more than 12,700 U.S. locations, or far more than CVS Health Corp. operates.

In its fiscal second quarter, Walgreens earnings fell 54 percent to $930 million due largely to an accounting change it booked in 2015 after completing the acquisition of European health and beauty retailer Alliance Boots.

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THINGS TO DO IN & AROUND McHENRY COUNTY

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TEEN SAFETY SERIES

WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

April 6 WHERE: Safety Education Center, 1109 Crystal Lake Road, Lake in the Hills COST & INFO: Continues 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 13 and 20.

Presented by the Lake in the Hills Police Department. Open to youth ages 12 to 16, the series will cover alcohol, drugs, social media safety, dating violence, sexual assault, bullying and peer pressure. The first session will include a parents’ meeting from 6 to 6:30 p.m.

Free. Registration required.

Information: 847-658-5676 or mfrake@lith.org.

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GARDENERS’ CLINIC

WHEN: 7 p.m. April 6 WHERE: Fox River Grove Memorial Library, 407 Lincoln Ave., Fox River Grove COST & INFO: University of Illinois Extension program on how to save money on lawns and gardens. Free. Registration required.

Information: 847-639-2274.

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GREEN DRINKS

WHEN: 5 to 7 p.m. April 6 WHERE: Duke’s Alehouse, 110 N. Main St., Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Sponsored by the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County featuring Ed Weskerna of the McHenry–Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District. Information: www.facebook.com/greendrinksmchenrycounty.

FIRE STATION TOUR – Girl Scout Daisy Troop 1807 toured the McHenry fire station Feb. 28. Among those pictured are firefighter Danny Torkleson, Natalie Aalto, Charlee Cape, Cora Barclay, Ella Barclay, Cali Stierle, Delaney Doyle, Sophia Vallianatos, Tayor Galarza, Mariella Cowles, Olivia Liebich, Caitlyn Hazelwood and Adalyn Bach.

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CALENDAR April 6

• 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. – Property assessments question and answer forum, McHenry Township Senior Center, 3703 N. Richmond Road, Johnsburg.

McHenry Township Assessor’s office staff members will answer questions. Information: 815-385-0175.

• 11:30 a.m. – McHenry Senior Citizens Club’s Lunch Bunch, Brunch Café, Route 31 and Bull Valley Road, McHenry. Visitors welcome. Reservations required. Information: 815-578-1224.

• 1 p.m. – Breast cancer support group meeting, Solarium in Prairie Lodge at Sun City, 12880 Del Webb Blvd., Huntley. Re Kielar from Visiting Angels will discuss home health care. Free. Information: 847-669-3598 or 847-669-7076.

• 4:30 to 6 p.m. – Super Smash Brothers Wii U competition, Algonquin Area Public Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin. First prize in each bracket gets a $10 gift card to GameStop. Open to library cardholders ages 8 to 13. Free. Registration required. Information: 847-458-3139 or www. aapld.org/do.

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

Photos may be emailed to neighbors@nwherald.com.

VALOR QUILT AWARD – The Gazebo Valor Quilters were honored with an award from Veterans Network Committee for their work on the 2015 Honor Flight. In August, 54 military veterans of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan were awarded Valor Quilts after a visit to Washington, D.C., on the VNC Honor Flight. The Gazebo Valor Quilters, organized in 2011, have presented more than 900 Valor Quilts to veterans. The group of 40 women meets monthly at the American Community Bank in Huntley. Pictured with the award are Valor Quilt co-chairmen Janet Meyer (left) and Sue Bruss.

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STATE

Lawmakers oppose contraception plan The ASSOCIATED PRESS SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers showed little support for a plan that would allow pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraceptive patch and oral contraception to thousands of women although the proposal might be revived later.

Schaumburg Democratic Rep. Michelle Mussman wants to expand who can prescribe contraception beyond doctors to pharmacists saying the plan would give low-income women who can’t afford to go to a doctor greater access to contraception. Similar legislation has been approved in California and Oregon.

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“There are a lot of people involved in women gaining access to contraception in some way, so how do we get all the pieces to work out?”

State Rep. Michelle Mussman D-Schaumburg

Committee overwhelmingly opposed Mussman’s plan on Tuesday after hearing testimony from a pharmacist, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois Medical Society.

The committee agreed to hear the plan again after Mussman and oppo-

nents have agreed on amendments.

The plan would require pharmacists to undergo special training, administer a self-screening risk assessment questionnaire, and recommend a woman see a primary care physician.

The measure also would prevent pharmacists from prescribing and giving contraception to women who have not seen a doctor within the last three years of the initial prescription and who have severe health risks, such as a heart condition or hyper thyroids.

There are about 130,000 unintended pregnancies a year statewide according to Nirav Shah, director of the state’s Public Health agency and supporter of Mussman’s plan. Shah said by allowing pharmacists to prescribe

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that money went,” Cutrone said. “There was a degree of frustration because we weren’t able to use our normal processes.”

Quinn first launched the program in 2010 as a way to address causes of violence with job training, among other things, but a scathing audit in 2014 outlined “pervasive deficiencies” in its implementation and questionable expenditures by service providers. Federal and Cook County authorities have since launched investigations.

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News from across the state

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45-ton beam falls on Illinois construction crew, killing 1

DES PLAINES – Federal officials are investigating two companies after a construction worker was killed and three others were injured in Des Plaines.

The accident happened about 3 a.m.

Tuesday when a 40-ton steel bridge beam fell on the workers as they tried to remove it at Interstate 90. Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials said the beam rolled from a pier support while workers cut steel bracing it.

OSHA officials said it has opened an investigation into the deceased worker’s employer, Omega Demolition Corp. of Elgin, and the general contractor, Judlau Contracting Inc. of New York. Neither company immediately responded to calls and emails seeking comment.

Des Plaines fire officials said three workers were treated and released from hospitals. The fourth was pronounced dead at a hospital.

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Rauner creates task force to root out health care fraud

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Bruce Rauner has created a task force to root out waste, fraud and abuse in taxpayer-funded health care programs.

contraception, the state could decrease the number of unintended pregnancies by nearly 25 percent. He said lawmakers shouldn’t withhold access to contraception to force women to see a doctor.

However, Jacksonville Republican Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer said the plan could decrease the likelihood a woman would regularly see her physician if she could simply go to a pharmacist instead.

Mussman said she wasn’t surprised by the opposition from lawmakers.

“There are a lot of people involved in women gaining access to contraception in some way,” Mussman said after the hearing, “so how do we get all the pieces to work out?”

WGN-TV via AP

This frame from video by WGN-TV shows the aftermath of a deadly construction accident Tuesday in Des Plaines. Workers were in lifts trying to remove the beam under Interstate 90 when it collapsed on them around 3 a.m.

The Republican signed an executive order to implement that group, which also will seek ways to prevent waste in state- and federally funded Medicaid and employee health insurance programs.

Rauner said the cost of state-run health care programs increases when no one watches to stop abuse and fraud.

The state spends more than $19 billion a year on Medicaid and the state employee group health insurance plan.

The executive inspector general, Maggie Hickey, will head the task force. It will have 11 members, including a deputy governor, chief compliance officer and representatives of executive departments on aging, health care and family services, state police, insurance and other agencies.

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Audit: Problems persisted with anti-violence program

CHICAGO – The former head of an Illinois agency that oversaw an anti-violence grant program said ex-Gov. Pat Quinn’s staff decided how money was doled out even after the Democrat made reforms to the program already plagued by mismanagement, according to a newspaper report published Tuesday.

Former Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Executive Director Jack Cutrone said that instead of following agency rules to use competitive applications, Quinn aides were closely involved with how money was dispersed through the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, according to the Chicago Tribune.

“We were absolutely directed where

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Pharmacists to dispense heroin overdose antidote

SPRINGFIELD – Trained pharmacists in Illinois soon will be able to dispense the overdose reversal drug naloxone without a prescription.

Regulators announced Monday that a short web-based training program is available to pharmacists who want to help reduce deaths from heroin and painkillers. The change results from a state law passed last year. The legislation allows pharmacists to dispense naloxone kits to people at risk of overdose, their family members and friends, first responders and school nurses.

Naloxone also is known by the brand name Narcan. It can be given by injection or as a nasal spray and does not create a high or have major side effects.

It can reverse potentially fatal overdoses from opioid painkillers and heroin. In 2014, Illinois experienced more than 1,700 deaths from such overdoses.

– Wire reports

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Iceland’s leader is victim of offshore holdings leak

varying levels of success after last year’s Supreme Court ruling LONDON – The leak of millions that effectively legalized gay of records on offshore accounts marriage nationwide.

Saying he was protecting claimed its first high-profile religious freedom, Republican political casualty Tuesday as Iceland’s prime minister stepped Gov. Phil Bryant signed the bill without hesitation or fanfare aside amid outrage over revelations he had used such a shell just hours after it cleared company to shelter large sums its final legislative obstacle while Iceland’s economy was in Monday, and before opponents could try to talk him out of it. crisis.

In addition to opposition from Icelandic leader Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is the first gay-rights activists, two leading state business associations and major figure brought down by a number of large corporations the publication of the names in recent days had come out of rich and powerful people against the bill. linked to the leaks, dubbed the Panama Papers.

China and Russia, meanwhile, Pope Francis might visit Greek island next week took the opposite approach, VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis suppressing the news and rejecting any allegations of impro- and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of priety by government officials named in the leak of more than the world’s Orthodox Christians, will visit the Greek island of 11 million financial documents Lesbos next week to highlight from a Panamanian law firm.

Officials in Ukraine, Argentina the plight of refugees, the Greek government said, as refugees and other countries also are facing questions about possibly and other migrants are being dubious offshore tax-avoidance deported back to Turkey under the European Union’s controverschemes. sial program to ease Europe’s migrant problem. Under the EU’s Mississippi law allows deal with Turkey reached last service denial to gays JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi’s month, those arriving on Greek governor signed a law Tuesday islands from March 20 onward who do not apply for asylum in allowing religious groups and Greece or whose application is private businesses to deny services to gay and transgender rejected or deemed inadmissible will be deported back to Turkey. people – echoing attempts made in other states with – Wire reports

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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, raises hands Tuesday with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (left) and his wife, Heidi (right), during a primary night campaign event in Milwaukee.

Cruz, Sanders emerge victorious in Wisconsin The ASSOCIATED PRESS

MILWAUKEE – Republican Ted Cruz stormed to a commanding victory in Wisconsin on Tuesday, denting front-runner Donald Trump’s chances of capturing the GOP nomination before the party’s convention. Democrat Bernie Sanders triumphed over Hillary Clinton but still faces a mathematically difficult path to the White House.

Trump’s defeat capped one of the worst periods of his campaign, a brutal stretch that highlighted his weaknesses with women and raised questions about his policy depth.

While the billionaire businessman still leads the Republican field, Cruz and an array of anti-Trump forces hope Wisconsin signals the start of his decline.

“Tonight is a turning point,” Cruz told cheering supporters at a victory rally. “It is a call from the hardworking people of Wisconsin to America. We have a choice. A real choice.”

Cruz, a Texas senator with a complicated relationship with Republican leaders, also cast his victory as a moment for unity in a party that has been roiled by a contentious primary campaign.

But Trump was unbowed. His campaign put out a biting statement: “Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet – he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. Trump.”

Sanders’s sweeping win in virtually every county in Wisconsin, except Milwaukee,

gives him greater incentive to keep competing against Clinton. But he still trails her in the pledged delegate count and has so far been unable to persuade superdelegates – the party officials who can back any candidate – to drop their allegiance to the former secretary of state and back his campaign.

At a raucous rally in Wyoming, Sanders cast his victory as a sign of mounting momentum for his campaign.

“With our victory tonight is Wisconsin, we have now won 7 out of 8 of the last caucuses and primaries,” he declared.

The results in Wisconsin make it likely both parties’ primaries will continue deep into the spring, draping front-runners Trump and Clinton in uncertainty and preventing both from fully setting their sights on the general election.

With an overwhelming white electorate and liberal pockets of voters, Wisconsin was favorable territory for Sanders. In a sign of Clinton’s low expectations in the Midwestern state, she spent Tuesday night at a fundraiser with top donors in New York City.

Clinton congratulated Sanders on Twitter and thanked her supporters in Wisconsin.

“To all the voters and volunteers who poured your hearts into this campaign: Forward!” she wrote.

Sanders’ win will net him a handful of additional delegates, but he’ll still lag Clinton significantly. With 86 delegates at stake in Wisconsin, Sanders will pick up at least 45 and Clinton will gain at least 31.

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How spy probe became child-porn prosecution

By ERIC TUCKER

The Associated Press WASHINGTON – FBI agents investigating a potential data leak at Boeing obtained a secret warrant to search the home computers of a company manager in California for evidence they hoped would connect him to Chinese economic espionage.

Instead, they said, they found something else entirely: graphic child pornography. With that discovery two years ago, an investigation that began with sensational but ultimately unproven allegations of espionage veered into an unrelated child pornography prosecution that won Keith Gartenlaub’s conviction in December.

Now the Los Angeles case is testing a defendant’s ability to access information about himself presented to the nation’s secretive intelligence court, which issued the warrant that let agents scour his computers. At issue is how the government uses evidence derived through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and under what circumstances

that information should be seen by defendants, particularly when it’s repurposed for a routine criminal prosecution that has nothing to do with national security.

Gartenlaub said he has a right to know the government’s arguments that were used to obtain the warrant, and fight them.

“You can’t base a search on lies,” the 47-year-old said in an interview with The Associated Press.

He’s seeking a new trial as he awaits his April 18 sentencing, saying Keith there’s no evidence he Gartenlaub was aware of the child pornography or had ever accessed the images. If that’s denied, he’s likely to appeal on grounds that the warrant to inspect his computers was based on mistaken assumptions and allegations of a crime – espionage – for which he’s never been charged.

It won’t be easy. His request to suppress pornography evidence he said was improperly obtained was denied before

the trial. He’s tried to review the sealed FISA court records in hopes of attacking the FBI search, but the government refused and a judge said he wasn’t entitled to it.

“I don’t want the FISA warrant for my own personal edification. I need to know whether they provided probable cause to a judge to search a man’s computers and home,” said his attorney, Mark Werksman.

The FISA court, created in 1978 to hear government surveillance requests in foreign intelligence matters, remains shrouded in secrecy. Judges can theoretically order prosecutors to share FISA information with defendants if they deem it necessary for challenging a search’s legality, but in practice, courts have consistently agreed with the government that disclosing the material could expose sensitive intelligence secrets. In Gartenlaub’s case, then-Attorney General Eric Holder advised against disclosure.

A rare exception came in 2014, when a judge in Chicago ordered the disclosure of FISA materials in a bomb-plot

case. A federal appeals court overturned the decision, and the Supreme Court declined to review it.

“For defendants, access to this information is a matter of fundamental fairness, because without it they cannot meaningfully challenge whether the government’s secret searches were lawful in the first place,” American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Patrick Toomey said in an email. “For the public, this information is crucial because it is the only way to know whether the law’s basic protections for Americans have been watered down in practice, behind closed doors.”

The Justice Department noted that the judge, Christina Snyder, already ruled that the FISA warrant was lawfully issued and that the evidence was gathered properly.

“When law enforcement lawfully obtains evidence of a serious crime, in this case a crime against children, we will pursue further investigation of that crime,” said the statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.

Official: No access to U.S. financial system for Iran

By RICHARD LARDNER The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Iran will not be given access to the U.S. financial system as part of the sanctions relief granted under the landmark nuclear deal, said a senior Obama administration official who disputed reports that Tehran will be able to deal directly with U.S. banks.

Testifying Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Thomas Shannon, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, sought to tamp down speculation that the administration may relax the prohibition that prevents U.S. dollars from being used in transactions with Iran.

Angry lawmakers, who contend the U.S. was taken advantage of in the deal, have countered that Tehran would be getting more than it deserves from the international nuclear pact reached last year.

“The rumors and news that has appeared in the press that the U.S. (is) preparing to ... allow Iran access to the U.S. financial system are not true,” Shannon told the committee.

The Associated Press reported last week that the Treasury Department has prepared a general license that would permit offshore financial institutions to conduct foreign currency trades in dollars in support of legitimate business with Iran.

No final decision has been made

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State Department Undersecretary for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon Jr. testifies Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on recent Iranian actions and implementation of the nuclear deal. on the license and several restrictions would apply. The license would not give Iran access to the U.S. financial system and it would not allow Iran itself to conduct business in American dollars.

But the change could prove significant for Iran’s sanctions-battered economy. It also would be highly contentious in the United States, where Republican and even a few Democratic lawmakers say the administration promised to maintain a strict ban on dollars along

with other non-nuclear penalties on Iran after last July’s seven-nation agreement that is designed to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

The nuclear pact provided Iran with billions of dollars in sanctions relief for curtailing programs that could lead to nuclear weapons. But the Iranians say they haven’t benefited to the extent envisioned under the deal because of other U.S. measures linked to human rights, terrorism and missile development con-

cerns.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the committee’s chairman, said he’s received conflicting reports over Iran’s potential access. He said he spoke Monday evening with the Treasury Department’s sanctions chief, Adam Szubin, who Corker said was “very reassuring that we are doing nothing to accommodate dollar transactions.”

But Corker said remarks Tuesday morning on MSNBC by Secretary of State John Kerry seemed to indicate otherwise.

During his appearance on MSNBC, Kerry said Iran is entitled to the full range of sanctions relief under the nuclear accord. “It’s fair for Iran to get what it deserves because it kept its part of the bargain to date, with respect to the nuclear agreement,” he said.

Shannon said the point Kerry was making is that as Iran attempts to access money being made available through sanctions relief, the U.S. may need to clarify regulations outlining the proper procedures for those assets to be transferred to them.

“We have found that as Iran seeks those funds, there are banks that unclear about the nature of the regulatory structure and what sanctions have been lifted and what have not,” Shannon said.

“And the secretary believes that it is in our national interest to ensure that the commitments we made are being followed through on.”

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WASHINGTON – A Republican senator said Tuesday that she is “more convinced than ever” that there should be hearings on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee after meeting with Judge Merrick Garland. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made clear he is not budging, telling reporters, “I think it’s safe to say there will not be hearings or votes.”

Maine Sen. Susan Collins sat down with Garland on Capitol Hill for more than an hour. She is one of two GOP senators who called for hearings on Garland’s nomination.

“He has a humility about him,” Collins said immediately after the meeting.

“He has clearly thought very deeply about the issues confronting the courts, there was not any question he could not handle and he has a long record of accomplishment.”

Collins acknowledged that she is unlikely to change anyone’s mind on the issue. McConnell and Senate Judiciary

we don’t need either a hearing or a vote in committee,” McConnell said.

Conservative activists immediately targeted Collins. One group, FreedomWorks, said Collins was caving to the White House and wasn’t to be trusted.

The group said its grassroots supporters sent 1.44 million messages to Senate Republicans Tuesday, including almost 50,000 to Collins.

Democratic senators took turns Tuesday railing against the GOP stance, accusing Republicans of failing to complete their constitutional duties because of pressure from conservative groups and the billionaire donor Koch brothers. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid suggested Democrats might attempt procedural maneuvers to try to force a vote on the nominee, a strategy that would be AP photo unlikely to succeed.

Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s choice to replace the late Justice An“Certainly we’ve got that in our artonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, meets with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on Tuesday row quiver to do that and other things if on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. we choose,” Reid said.

Another member of the Senate DemoCommittee Chairman Charles Grassley attempts to pressure Republicans on the of Iowa have held firm that they will issue during the Senate’s just-completed cratic leadership, Patty Murray of Washington, acknowledged the success of the block Garland and let the next presi- spring recess had failed. dent decide, a move that conservative “The situation when we broke for conservative activists: “Sadly so far it activists have cheered. Those two GOP the recess two weeks ago was that there seems to be working. Republicans who leaders have the backing of 50 other GOP were 52 Republican senators who didn’t started to listen to their constituents are senators this election year. think we needed either a hearing or a backing away and other Republicans Not long after Collins made her com- vote in committee. And today two weeks are seeing what happens to anyone who ments, McConnell said that Democrats’ later we have 52 Republicans who think even talks about doing their job.”

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OPINIONS

Dan McCaleb Editorial Director

Jason Schaumburg Editor

OUR VIEW

Good choice by library board Libraries, like many other entities, are having to adapt with changing technology and consumer expectations.

Once the place to go spend some quiet time and check out books, libraries are becoming places for meetings and activities. The printed word is being replaced by digital books. Microfilm is being replaced by computers and Internet For the record searches.

That brings us to We applaud library trustees the Algonquin Area for slowing down the expanPublic Library and its sion process and considering expansion plans. all options.

Trustees have been considering an expansion proposal that would add more than 8,000 square feet to the library’s main branch and cost more than $7 million. The proposed changes are geared toward adding space for “state-of-the-art services” patrons have requested, such as more meeting spaces, computer classrooms, a teenager area, maker spaces and interactive play areas for children, Executive Director Stephen Bero said. Projections put the overall plan, which includes about $50,000 of improvements to the East Gate Branch, between $7.2 million and $7.9 million of taxpayer money.

That plan, however, was smartly put on hold after library trustees decided they were not comfortable moving forward without exploring all options.

Is this large a scale expansion needed? How does the library board bridge the gap between money saved for expansion and total cost of the project?

The Algonquin Public Library District had an estimated 344 days of cash on hand at the end of its last budget year, which wrapped up June 30, according to its annual financial report. It also had just shy of $1 million in its capital projects fund.

Bero said the financial scenario he presented included a $3.4 million dollar loan, which he called an upper limit estimate. He said the library’s normal revenue stream could handle the debt service costs over 10 or 11 years without a negative effect on the normal operational costs. Bero said some trustees wanted to look into borrowing less or not borrowing at all, and he would analyze and present those options.

We applaud trustees for slowing down the expansion process and considering all options. Any expansion plan moving forward must not create a burden on taxpayers, including an unwanted property tax increase.

Library trustees have done the responsible thing by hitting the pause button to examine all options.

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Border wall’s reality is destruction Almost as infuriating as Donald Trump’s macho blathering about building a gigantic wall along our border with Mexico is the mindless assent the other two Republican presidential aspirants give to the notion. “Of course, we have to have a border wall,” Ohio Gov. John Kasich said during a recent debate, as if the magnificent U.S.-Mexico borderlands were a flat, featureless tabletop, and dividing the interconnected borderlands would be no more trouble, expense or environmental disruption than setting up a net across a Ping Pong table.

Apparently neither Kasich nor his fellow candidate – a Texan who should know better – has any notion of the spectacular landscape along both sides of the border or the seamless flow of nature back and forth across the banks of the Rio Grande or the vast desert ecosystem along the border through New Mexi-

co, Arizona and California. The border-wall enthusiasm of the would-be presidents suggests ignorance of the vast region and contempt for all that lives there – plants, animals and people.

Certainly, nations have a right to protect their borders, but a seamless wall stretching from the Gulf to the Pacific, nearly 2,000 miles, would destroy much more than it would protect.

Portions of the border wall built in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most bio-diverse regions in North America, already are having a negative environmental impact. They’re fragmenting endangered species, including bobcats, jaguarundi, the 50 or so ocelots remaining in the U.S. and the pygmy owl, as well as white-tailed deer and javelina.

Existing portions of the wall have dammed washes and have caused floods, severe erosion and habitat loss in Arizona.

A wall along the Rio Grande

as it snakes through the rugged Big Bend region would be just as devastating, if not more so. A multibillion-dollar wall through Big Bend on this side of the river and the equally wild and spectacular Maderas del Carmen desert mountain region on the other side, even if it could be built, would devastate one of the world’s last unspoiled regions.

Ecosystems and endangered species aren’t the only ones paying a price for such an extravagant boondoggle. So is the American taxpayer (at a time, by the way, when net immigration from Mexico is zero). The New York Times has estimated the cost of building Trump’s “big, beautiful wall” as $16 million a mile for a total of about $20 billion. That may be chump change for a big spender such as Trump, but it better fits the definition of his latest catch phrase: “waste, fraud and abuse.”

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Rauner’s tragic reign

To the Editor: It is interesting what Gov. Bruce Rauner considers “tragic.”

The governor’s reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court upholding a ruling that those receiving union services should pay a fair share fee is embarrassing, given the state budget crisis.

The governor is holding the state budget hostage, trying to force lawmakers to pass his Turnaround Agenda, which would depress wages for workers throughout Illinois.

Without a budget, agencies that help the poor, the sick, the elderly and children are being forced to reduce services or shut down. State colleges, universities and community colleges are being forced to cut programs and staff.

The governor also vetoed funding for the MAP grant program, causing thousands of students who rely on the grants

to complete their schooling to either borrow money or drop out.

It is the governor’s constitutional responsibility to propose a balanced state budget; yet, he refuses to do so.

He seems oblivious to the misery he’s inflicting.

That’s truly tragic.

Cinda Klickna

President, Illinois Education Association

Slavery and socialism

To the Editor: Someone please tell me the difference between slavery and socialism.

In slavery, you have the owners telling the slave what to do and when and turn over all the proceeds to me. No court needed.

In socialism, you have the government deciding who goes to college (per Bernie), who has medical care (how

Automobile companies are producing more fuel-efficient cars. Appliance companies are selling products that are far more energy-efficient. Important energy companies have moved away from coal and toward natural gas.

The private sector often wants government to eliminate regulatory requirements, but most companies also like certainty and predictability.

When they have made major economic investments in direct response to those requirements, some of them will not welcome, and might even abhor, a dramatic change in course. For any new administration, that matters, because it’s not exactly easy to explain to the public why it is determined to repeal regulations consumers, environmentalists and important segments of the regulated sector all want to remain on the books.

Then there are the federal courts, which will strike down any actions they deem inconsistent with law.

Courts already have upheld the endangerment finding, and it probably would be impossible for a new administration to reverse it, because the science so clearly supports it. If the EPA is eliminating greenhouse-gas regulations for new cars, it will not be allowed to deny man-made climate change is a serious problem. (Climate change denialism would be unlikely to stand up in court.) Nor would the EPA be permitted to deny greenhouse gases are “pollutants” within the meaning of the Clean Air Act. (The Supreme

Court resolved that one back in 2007.)

The upshot? If a Republican president wants to repeal fuel-economy and energy-efficiency regulations, it would be exceptionally challenging (as well as time-consuming) to produce a legally sufficient justification – and there’s no certainty of ultimate success. Is that really the right way to spend the first two years of a new administration?

Climate change regulations are just one example. Trump and Cruz have indicated that they want to repeal many executive actions, but the same points hold for them as well – including regulations involving food safety, disability discrimination, highway safety, worker safety and even health care. Sure, a new president could act swiftly if he could persuade Congress to repeal those regulations. But for high-profile issues, he would need a filibuster-proof majority in both houses. That’s not likely.

It’s true a new administration might delay effective dates or exercise prosecutorial discretion to soften the effects of mandates from the Obama administration. But in many cases, private sector compliance already is well underway, and there’s not much to be done about it. Any Republican president would find it very frustrating.

• Cass Sunstein, a Bloomberg View columnist, is director of the Harvard Law School’s program on behavioral economics and public policy.

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much they pay), who gets welfare (rent assistance), how much tax you pay – the rate of inflation (grossly understated), what the fine is (for DUI, other offenses), the list goes on and on.

You don’t need a court system; the government decides.

Slaves never built a factory. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and others worked hard in a free society, and we got our standard of living. Let’s not ruin it.

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Remember, all great ideas are based on someone paying for them, and I hope tax avoidance won’t become the most popular game in town.

Also remember if you pay a company, you have more of a voice in the service they provide than if you pay a tax and the government decides.

Walter J. Steffens Johnsburg

• Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Predicting the experience of his successor General Dwight Eisenhower, President Harry Truman said: “He’ll sit here, and he’ll say, ‘Do this!

Do that!’ And nothing will happen.

Poor Ike – it won’t be a bit like the Army. He’ll find it very frustrating.”

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have promised to get rid of a whole host of executive actions from the Barack Obama administration. (If the Republican convention produces a different nominee, expect similar promises.)

But there’s good reason to doubt how much would happen if one of them wins. The principal reason is simple: the law.

Take climate change. Just last week, Trump and Cruz made it clear they would want to reverse the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” which establishes greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The endangerment finding is the legal precondition for many of the Obama administration’s regulations designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which Republicans argue are hurting the economy.

Starting with that finding, Cruz and Trump suggest they want to scale back numerous regulatory requirements imposed by the Obama administration over the past seven years.

But that’s a lot harder than you might think.

Climate change regulations include greenhouse-gas standards for cars and trucks; energy-efficiency standards for dozens of appliances, including refrigerators, clothes washers, clothes driers and small motors; and restrictions on emissions from new and existing power plants. A new president can’t just sign a piece of paper and make all these go away.

What he can do is to direct the heads of cabinet-level agencies to initiate a process to repeal them. The law establishes the parameters of that process: Under the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, agencies would have to begin by making a formal proposal to the public. Producing such a proposal often takes at least three months, and sometimes a year or more. The law then requires an extended period for public comments, usually two months or more. And after receiving comments, agencies usually take a while to finalize their proposals (three months would be fast).

If the executive branch operates at great speed, it might be able to get through the process of eliminating a single regulation in about a year. If the new administration operates in a more regular fashion, and actually wants to get rid of a host of regulations, two years – half of a presidential term – would be pretty speedy.

But this stylized picture massively understates the problem. A lot of companies have adjusted their behavior to the endangerment finding and to the recent climate change regulations.

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The former Wisted’s Supermarket at 330 N. Eastwood Drive in Woodstock has been closed permanently for less than two months, but ShopFresh grocery store plans to update the store, bring in fresh produce six days a week and offer homemade stuffed meats, according to a letter from the owners to the city.

ShopFresh grocery store to take over Wisted’s Supermarket

By HANNAH PROKOP

hprokop@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A new grocery store is coming to Woodstock in the former Piggly Wiggly-owned Wisted’s Supermarket, which had been closed for less than two months.

ShopFresh plans to update the store, bring in fresh produce six days a week and offer homemade stuffed meats, according to a letter from the owners to the city.

The new owner, Julia Muell, started leasing the property at 330 N. Eastwood Drive on Friday, Woodstock Economic Development Director Garrett Anderson said, and hopes to own the building within a few years.

Muell, whose brother is Johnsburg res-

“The city sees it as an opportunity to refill the store right away.”

Garrett Anderson

Woodstock economic development director ident Mario Casciaro, and her family have been in the grocery business for 25 years, according to Anderson, and operate Val’s Fresh Market in Fox Lake.

Anderson said they hope to open the store the first week of May. “The city sees it as an opportunity to refill the store right away,” Anderson said.

If a store stays empty for a long time, people’s shopping habits might change, and the building could end up being un-

used for years, he said.

The Woodstock City Council is considering a tax incentive agreement with ShopFresh to help the business with about $500,000 in improvements it would need to reopen the store.

The agreement would be a two-year reimbursement of 100 percent of the city’s portion of the sales tax generated by the business, according to city documents, and could not exceed $200,000.

ShopFresh owners expect to spend another $500,000 in the first year of opening to hire staff, which they hope will be as many of the former Wisted’s employees as possible, Anderson said.

ShopFresh also expects to receive about $4,000 after applying for benefits from the Harvard-Woodstock Enterprise Zone, Anderson said.

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A chamber president wears several different hats during the course of a day.

In the nine years I have served as the chamber president for the Northern Kane County Chamber of Commerce, I have offered advice, mentorship, support and advocacy for business leaders. I also do my fair share of cheerleading for the businesses and communities we represent.

With the summer months upon us, I am digging out the pompons to spread good cheer for our northern Kane County area.

Last year, the chamber celebrated its 35-year anniversary. I wanted to create something meaningful and memorable for this momentous milestone.

While driving through downtown Carpentersville on a bright Saturday morning, an idea for the anniversary came to me – the Fest on the Fox – to celebrate all the wonderful businesses, restaurants, musicians and artists our

In the end, one individual from each age group was recognized with a firstplace award.

In the end, the Fox on the Fest not only highlighted the best of our community, but it also brought together businesses, residents and villages of Carpentersville, East Dundee, Gilberts, community offers.

Sleepy Hollow and West Dundee.

With the Fox River Trail and Fox There is a spirit in northern Kane River running right through the heart County that is unparalleled in other of northern Kane County, I felt this was areas I visit. a perfect location to spend a beautiful The area has a hometown friendliness Saturday. coupled with thoughtful action toward The day of Fest on the Fox came growth and redevelopment. together just as I had hoped with famYou should plan on joining us July 16 ily-friendly activities, a baggo tournament, lots of local restaurants and bands. for the second annual Fest on the Fox to see it for yourself.

We also highlighted local talent with the Village Voice Competition. Three • Melissa Hernandez is president of contestants from different age groups were judged by none other than Andrew the Northern Kane County Chamber of Commerce. Reach her at 847-426-8565 or Grams, the conductor of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra. email melissa@nkcchamber.com.

CHAMBER NEWS Melissa Hernandez

Ford to build small-car factory in Mexico

By TOM KRISHER

The Associated Press DETROIT – Ford Motor Co. plans to build a new $1.6 billion auto assembly plant in Mexico, creating about 2,800 jobs and shifting small-car production from the U.S. at a time when moving jobs south of the border has become a major issue in the U.S. presidential campaign.

The company announced the plant in the San Luis Potosi state Tuesday without saying specifically what cars it will build there.

But the United Auto Workers union has said Ford plans to shift production of the Focus compact and C-Max small gas-electric hybrid from suburban Detroit to Mexico, where the cars can be made at lower cost and more profitably.

The UAW’s new four-year contract with Ford, signed last year, guarantees new vehicles for the Wayne, Michigan, assembly plant and a $700 million investment that preserves the plant’s 3,924 jobs.

Union members have said they expect the factory to get a new version of the Ranger small pickup and a new small SUV called the Bronco.

The announcement came on the day of the key Wisconsin primary and drew a strong response from Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who called Ford’s move “an absolute disgrace.”

Trump has railed about corporate America moving jobs to Mexico to take advantage of what he calls a lopsided trade deal and has vowed to rewrite the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, tax imports and punish U.S. com-

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The Ford logo shines on the front grille of a 2014 Ford F-150, on display Jan. 5, 2015, at a local dealership in Hialeah, Fla. Ford will build a new $1.6 billion factory in Mexico, creating about 2,800 jobs and shifting small-car production from the U.S. The Tuesday announcement comes at a time when moving jobs to the south has become a major issue in the U.S. presidential campaign. panies including Ford.

Trump said in a statement that transactions like Ford’s will not happen when he is president.

“Cheap goods are not cheap when you consider the cost of lower wages and higher unemployment,” he said, adding that he would enforce trade rules and reduce the incentive for companies to send business elsewhere.

In response, Ford highlighted its investments in the U.S., saying that the company spends more than 80 percent of its capital in the U.S. and has committed to spending an additional $8 billion to $9 billion in the next four years.

“Since 2011 we’ve invested over $10 billion in our facilities. We’ve hired over

25,000 people” in the U.S., CEO Mark Fields said last month at the New York auto show.

Auto and other manufacturing jobs having been moving south for years. Mexican auto production more than doubled in the past decade, and the consulting firm IHS Automotive expects it to rise an additional 50 percent to just under 5 million vehicles by 2022. U.S. production is expected to increase only 3 percent, to 12.2 million vehicles, in the next seven years.

Joe Hinrichs, Ford’s president of the Americas, said Ford is a global company that builds cars where it makes the most financial sense.

He confirmed new plant would build small cars starting in 2018. “We’ve talked about improving our small-car profitability and this is an important part of that,” he said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press.

Under the new UAW contract, Ford factory workers get about $60 per hour in wages and benefits, while auto workers in Mexico average about $8 per hour, according to the Center for Automotive Research, a Michigan industry think tank.

Trump began criticizing Ford last summer after the company said it planned to invest $2.5 billion in engine and transmission plants in Mexico. Hinrichs said the timing of Tuesday’s announcement had nothing to do with the presidential race.

Trump hasn’t only targeted Ford.

He has, for example, pledged to give up Oreos after Nabisco’s parent, Mondelez International, said it would shift production from Chicago to Mexico.

• Wednesday, April 6, 2016

ALGONQUIN – A physical therapy practice in Algonquin will host a grand reopening Thursday after undergoing a name change. Employees at the newly named 1st Choice FYZICAL Therapy and Balance Centers, 1447 Merchant Drive, Algonquin, will do therapy demonstrations and free giveaways during the event from 5 to 7 p.m. Food and drinks also will be provided.

The business formerly was called 1st Choice Physical Therapy. For information, call 847-658-1117.

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NEW YORK – A story about how the Statue of Liberty ended up raising her torch in New York Harbor is the subject of a musical that will open off-Broadway this summer at an appropriate date – July 4.

Producer Theresa Wozunk said the 80-minute “Liberty: A Monumental New Musical,” starring 15-year-old Abigail Shapiro, will play the 42West theater beginning June 6 and open on Independence Day. “It’s such a simple but complex and big story, so it hits people in all different ways. It’s got smart dialogue, history and fun all wrapped up into one,” Wozunk said. “Everybody can relate to it. Everyone has an immigrant story in their family.”

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Tina Fey attends the premiere of Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” Season 2 on March 30 in New York. Fey’s book “Bossypants” has sold 3.75 million copies, according to Little, Brown and Company.

Tina Fey talks ‘Bossypants’ and other books, zings Talese NEW YORK – Even for someone as loved as Tina Fey, a reported $6 million advance seemed like a lot of money for a book of essays.

But five years after its publication, “Bossypants” has sold 3.75 million copies, according to Little, Brown and Co. And it confirmed a market for smart, funny nonfiction such as Amy Poehler’s “Yes Please” and Mindy Kaling’s “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?” In an email interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, Fey discussed “Bossypants” and some books she has enjoyed recently. She also had a few words for author-journalist Gay Talese, who said last weekend that he could think of no women journalists who inspired him when he was young.

Q: When the book was first published, what were your expectations?

A: My goal was just to avoid humiliation. After years of writing character-based comedy in a group process with other writers, a book “about me written by me alone” made me feel panicky and vulnerable. I kept telling my husband, “This is going to ruin me.”

Q: Why do you think it has done so well, beyond, of course, your fame and the quality of the writing?

A: It’s also edible. Well, I guess all books are if you’re hungry enough.

Q: Any books you’d like to recommend that you’ve read lately?

A: I enjoyed Diane Von Furstenberg’s autobiography. I loved “Americanah”

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I’m currently reading “Dinosaurs in the Attic” – nonfiction about the American Museum of Natural History. Nothing

by Gay Talese has moved me.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Drake released two new songs to iTunes on Tuesday, including one that features both Jay Z and Kanye West called “Pop Style.”

Jay Z and West are credited on the song as “The Throne,” a likely reference to their 2011 collaboration, “Watch the Throne.”

The new music from the Toronto rapper-actor – a hint at more music to come – also includes “One Dance,” featuring Wizkid and Kyla.

Drake’s last album, “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last year.

Judge: Porsche not at fault in crash that killed Walker

LOS ANGELES – The widow of a man driving the Porsche that crashed and killed actor Paul Walker cannot prove the carmaker is responsible for the accident, a federal judge said.

There was not enough evidence in Kristine Rodas’ claims that her husband died because the Porsche Carrera GT he was driving lacked several key safety features, U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez ruled Monday.

He said there was no evidence the Porsche’s suspension failed before the crash, as Rodas’ lawsuit claimed. She also had alleged the rare sports car lacked a crash cage and fuel cell.

“Plaintiff has provided no competent evidence that Rodas’ death occurred as a result of any wrongdoing on the part of defendant,” Gutierrez wrote.

Walker was riding in the Carrera GT driven by his friend Roger Rodas when the car spun out of control, struck three trees and burst into flames on a street in Santa Clarita in November 2013. Walker was on a break from filming the seventh installment of the “Fast & Furious” franchise when he died.

The ruling has no bearing on two other cases against Porsche filed by Walker’s daughter and father, which are both pending in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Meadow Walker’s attorney said in a statement that while Rodas was killed instantly in the crash, Walker was still alive when the car caught fire.

“Meadow will continue the fight to hold Porsche accountable for selling a defective product that kills,” attorney Jeff Milam wrote.

Porsche has denied wrongdoing in the design, manufacture or marketing of the Carrera GT. The company also contended in the lawsuit by Walker’s daughter that the car had been altered and improperly maintained and that those factors contributed to the crash.

An email to Porsche seeking comment was not immediately returned Tuesday.

An investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and California Highway Patrol concluded that unsafe speed, not mechanical problems, caused the crash. Investigators said the Porsche was going up to 94 mph when it crashed.

Engineers from Porsche, who evaluated the wreckage of the rare car, helped in the investigation.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Country singer Merle Haggard is 79. Actor Billy Dee Williams is 79. Actor John Ratzenberger (“Cheers”) is 69. Actress Marilu Henner is 64. Singer-guitarist Frank Black of The Pixies is 51. Actor Paul Rudd is 47.

Actor Jason Hervey (“The Wonder Years”) is

44. Bassist Markku Lappalainen (Hoobastank) is 43. Actor Zach Braff is 41. Actor Joel Garland (“Orange is the New Black”) is 41.

Actress Candace Cameron Bure is 40. Musician Robert Glasper is 38. Actor Charlie McDermott (“The Middle”) is 26.

By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY The Associated Press

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• Wednesday, April 6, 2016

NEW YORK – When Tyler Perry began creating shows for the then-struggling OWN Network four years ago, he’d send the scripts he’d written to Oprah Winfrey for approval – and she’d wince.

“I would say, ‘I think that’s too much!

It’s over the top! Oh my God, I can’t believe this is happening!’” Winfrey recounts about Perry’s first OWN show, “The Haves and Have Nots,” a primetime drama fueled by connivers, sex and blackmail, now in its fourth season.

Others might have acquiesced to Winfrey. But not Perry.

“He would say to me, ‘I know this audience better than you do, I know what the audience wants,’” she said.

“And he’d say, ‘I’m telling you it’s gonna work.’ And every time he’s been right.”

Knowing the audience and what they want has been the key to Perry’s success, going back to when he was putting on plays in the chitlin circuit with a loudmouth, irascible gun-toting character that would become known as Madea.

Perry describes his fans as the people working in service jobs, the women in the church pews, the family with a crazy relative like Madea who can laugh about it. And like Perry, who was abandoned by his father, grew up in poverty and

the thing I love about him, too, is that was a steep learning curve. he’s targeting an audience that is under“The first time I do anything is the served.” first time I’ve done it, period. ... So I needed an opportunity to learn. This is what Perry’s empire I love about my audience, they always It’s those people who have helped his give me the grace to learn. ... Even when 15 self-produced films gross more than I was doing live stage shows, it was al$740 million at the box office worldwide, ways about, ‘This is nice baby, but we build his own 200,000-square-foot Ty- gonna stay with you till you get it right,’” ler Perry Studios in Atlanta and boost he says, in that Madea-like voice.

OWN: He’s got four shows on the netHe also points to his own growth as work – dramas “The Have and Have an actor: Where he once confined himNots” and “If Loving You Is Wrong,” and self to the Madea character because he the comedies “Love Thy Neighbor” and didn’t think he had the skills to do more, “For Better or Worse,” which started a he shed the costume in his own films and in others; his portrayal of the slick lawnew season on OWN this month.

“You get some laughter, you get some yer in “Gone Girl” drew high praise, and education, you get some therapy and you he’s due to appear in the adaption of the get some joy and some happiness, and at best-selling novel “Brain on Fire” this the end of it, you realize you’ve learned year, along with “Teenage Mutant Ninja something,” Perry said in a recent inter- Turtles 2.” view when describing his vision.

Of course, to his many critics – and Perry has been OWN’s savior in they are vocal, ranging from film critics many ways: The network was foun- to Hollywood types – he hasn’t gotten it dering when he first came to Winfrey right a lot. His slapstick comedies have and proposed producing shows (he also been lambasted as too basic, his dramas writes, casts and directs all of them). too melodramatic, his messaging too “The Have and the Have Nots” delivered preachy, his writing too simplistic – the record-setting ratings for OWN, with list goes on. last season’s finale scoring more than 3.7 But Perry, 47, pushes back against million viewers. He allows that he hasn’t those who look down on his work, such always gotten it right. For example, he as Madea, who will return this fall in had never written a TV drama before “Boo! A Madea Halloween,” which Perry “The Have and Have Nots,” and there calls his funniest work to date.

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Michele Rouse holds a salad she made in her kitchen in Edgewood, Md. Rouse said she has lost 7 pounds since she started on Weight Watchers a month ago and already seen a drop in her elevated blood pressure.

Study: Top 2 diets also most effective

By LINDSEY TANNER The Associated Press

CHICAGO – Trying to slim down? Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig scored the best marks for effectiveness in a review of research on commercial diet programs, but many other plans just haven’t been studied enough to evaluate longterm results.

The two plans are among the most popular and had the best evidence dieters could lose meaningful amounts of weight and keep it off for at least a year, the review authors said.

Pooling results from several studies, the researchers found Weight Watchers dieters lost an average of at least 8 pounds and kept it off for at least 12 months versus about 15 pounds for those using the Jenny Craig plan.

Most participants remained overweight, with weight loss of

between 3 percent and 5 percent of their initial weight – but that’s a range doctors typically recommend to achieve healthful benefits including lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

“It’s a really important first step to reach,” even if it doesn’t meet patients’ expectations, said study author Dr. Kimberly Gudzune, an internist and researcher at Johns Hopkins University’s medical school.

The study was published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The research review included 39 rigorous studies involving 11 popular diet programs that include support or counseling services and involve fees for products or services. Most studies compared the programs with standard diet information or behavioral counseling patients get from health care providers; long-term results for Weight Watchers and Jenny

Craig were mostly better than the comparisons.

The researchers didn’t attempt to make head-to-head comparisons of different diet plans. They note the Affordable Care Act makes obesity screening and counseling more accessible to many Americans, and that with two-thirds of U.S. adults overweight or obese, it’s important for doctors to know which diet plans work.

Diet companies had no role in the research, Gudzune said.

Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig include behavioral counseling, coaching or social support – important for long-term weight-loss success, according to an Annals editorial.

Weight Watchers costs about $43 monthly, which includes costs for attending online or in-person support groups or coaching sessions. Participants can buy the company’s low-calorie products or

buy their own food, but each item is assigned points and dieters aim not to exceed a daily point limit.

Jenny Craig provides pre-made meals and costs about $600 monthly.

Michele Rouse, an administrative coordinator at Johns Hopkins’ medical school who used to work for Gudzune, said she has lost 7 pounds since starting on Weight Watchers a month ago and already has seen a drop in her elevated blood pressure. Rouse said she didn’t know much about the new study and picked Weight Watchers because she’d had success with it years ago.

It’s too soon to tell if the program will help her reach her 70-pound weight loss goal, but Rouse said it’s a sensible plan that’s more like a lifestyle change than a harsh diet.

“You’re not starving yourself,” said Rouse, 49.

By RICARDO ALONSO–ZALDIVAR The Associated Press

Joshua Seidman, of the consulting firm Avalere Health, which has been working with hospitals on Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement President Barack Obama’s health care law to align traditional Medicare with changes pushing the U.S. health care system toward greater accountability.

Initially, patients and families may not notice much beyond additional forms to sign from participating providers. Patients still can choose their doctors and hospitals. If the concept works, patients will see smoother coordination as they leave the hospital and take on the challenges of recovery and rehab, with measurably better results overall.

“There’s likely to be greater emphasis on communication and support to ensure that patients, once discharged, aren’t left to fend for themselves,” said Joshua Seidman of the consulting firm Avalere Health, which has been working with hospitals.

Hospitals are supportive, but surgeons have raised concerns.

Over time, surgeons fear, there will

be indirect pressure to discourage joint replacement for patients seen as having less chance of a smooth recovery. Picture an obese, lifelong smoker hobbling around on a painfully deteriorated knee, for example.

“The overall goal is a good one – they want to see where you can cut the waste out,” said Dr. Alexandra Page, a San Diego clinician representing the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons. But “one of the unintended consequences is going to be cherry-picking ... hospitals are only going to want to have the patients who are going to do well.”

Medicare says that’s unlikely because the experiment was designed so hospitals can keep treating a wide range of patients. Nonetheless, consumer groups say they’ll be watching.

“While we are generally supportive because we think it can increase quality and decrease costs, we really think

that monitoring providers is going to be important,” said Joe Baker, president of the Medicare Rights Center, an advocacy group based in New York.

Medicare paid for more than 400,000 hip and knee replacements in 2014, at a cost of $7 billion to taxpayers for the hospitalizations alone. For some patients, recovery may be arduous, but surgery can relieve pain and add years of mobility.

Although such procedures are the most common inpatient surgery for Medicare recipients, officials say quality still can vary greatly. The average expense for surgery, hospitalization and recovery ranges from $16,500 to $33,000 across geographic areas.

Research indicates a patient generally fares better if he has his operation with a surgeon who does a high number of such procedures at a hospital that also handles a high volume. But it’s often difficult to get information on particular doctors and facilities.

Medicare’s experiment might encourage hospitals to publicize their results to compete for patients.

The experiment is called “Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement.”

It is projected to save Medicare $343 million over its five years, and could be expanded nationwide.

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• Wednesday, April 6, 2016

WASHINGTON – From Akron to Tampa Bay, from New York City to San Francisco, Medicare on Friday launched an ambitious experiment changing how it pays for hip and knee replacements in an effort to raise quality and lower costs.

The idea is to follow patients more closely to smooth their recovery and head off unwanted complications that increase costs.

Hip and knee replacements are the most common inpatient surgery for beneficiaries, and Medicare will be using financial rewards and penalties to foster coordination among hospitals, doctors and rehab centers. Improved care also should reduce costs, the government says.

Hospitals are on board, but orthopedic surgeons have some qualms.

Consumer groups will be watching closely.

The new system goes into place in 67 metro areas across the country that are home to millions of beneficiaries and about 800 hospitals. Similar experiments may be in store for other procedures, such as heart bypass surgery. It’s part of a broader effort under

“There’s likely to be greater emphasis on communication and support to ensure that patients, once discharged, aren’t left to fend for themselves.”

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It takes energy to move something. In early days, people used their own human energy to move things. It was tough!

Eventually, carts and wagons were hitched to horses and oxen. Animal energy was great!

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Emotions are best dealt with before they have a chance to fester.

Harness your energy and reap the rewards of a positive attitude and a desire to have fun.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Make positive changes to your living quarters. A difference of opinion will give you a chance to see a situation from a unique perspective. Discussion will lead to solutions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Someone will have questionable motives. You can outsmart anyone trying to make you look bad by offering

friendship and maintaining a stellar reputation.

Be honest and abide by the rules.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – You’ll face opposition if you try to bring about changes that will affect others. You are best off getting approval first if you want the support required to reach your goal.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Get back to the hobbies and physical activities you enjoy doing most. Time spent with a loved one will bring you closer together. A new look will enhance your appeal.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Take the time to explore your options in order to get a better sense of what you want to achieve. Rely on resources that have been dependable in the past.

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Simple acts prevent blood clots Dear Dr. K: A friend of mine recently developed a blood clot in his leg after a long flight. I travel a lot for work, so this has me worried. Is there any way to prevent this type of thing?

Dear Reader: A blood clot that forms deep inside a leg vein, known as deepvein thrombosis (DVT), can cause pain, swelling and redness in the affected limb.

But the real threat happens if the clot breaks off and travels to the lungs.

Known as a pulmonary embolism, this can lead to sudden death. (I’ve put an illustration of this process on my website, www.askdoctork.com.)

Clots tend to form in blood when the blood is not moving much. They form in still ponds, but not in babbling brooks.

Ordinarily, as you walk around, your leg muscles squeeze your veins and keep blood in the leg veins flowing back to the heart. If you are inactive for many hours, blood flow in the veins of your legs may slow so much clots form.

If you have to sit for several hours at a time on a plane or train, the following tips may help prevent DVT: • Get up and walk around every hour.

I do this religiously every time I fly or travel by train. I always get an aisle seat so I don’t disturb my seatmates.

• While sitting, flex and extend your ankles and knees every once in a while.

• Avoid crossing your legs. That pinches off even more of the flow of blood in your leg veins.

• Change positions often while seated.

• Stay well hydrated by drinking plenty of water.

Learn to recognize the signs of DVT. The affected area may be tender or

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ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff painful, swollen, red and warm to the touch. If these symptoms linger for more than a few hours, call your doctor for advice.

It’s very unusual for a person to develop DVT in both legs at the same time. So the signs of DVT are particularly important to bring to your doctor’s attention when they’re just in one leg.

Treating a DVT typically includes injections of an anti-clotting drug such as heparin, followed by additional anti-clotting drugs taken by mouth. People with less serious cases might need only anti-clotting pills. More serious cases might require powerful clot-dissolving medications given intravenously in a hospital.

If you ever have had a blood clot before, you may well be at increased risk for getting another one. So all of the advice I’ve given above goes double for you.

Very early in my medical training, I saw several patients die from blood clots in the legs that traveled to the lungs. One of them had been on a long airplane ride the day before. I don’t know if he had taken any precautions – he couldn’t tell me.

It made me decide if there were any simple things I could do to protect myself from a similar fate, I would do them. I have, and you should too.

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

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I am a single father of teenage boys. I always have played an active role in my children’s lives, physically, emotionally and financially. My older son lives with me; my younger sons live with their mother.

I am bisexual and always have been attracted to both men and women. It took me a long time to admit it to myself. I suffered from depression for many years as I struggled with my sexual identity. Unfortunately, I was diagnosed with HIV. Since then, I have been on medication and live a very healthy lifestyle.

None of my children knows about my sexuality or my diagnosis. I have wanted to tell them for a while now, but I never can bring myself to do it. I’m afraid if I tell them, they’ll be ashamed of me and it will add unnecessary stress in their lives. On the other hand, I’m tired of keeping secrets. Furthermore, I worry about the possibility they could find out from someone else.

All four of us will be together for an event in a couple of months. I feel this could be a good opportunity to tell them. Or should I tell them on their own, individually? Am I selfish for wanting to tell my children? Or am I foolish for not telling them? – Keeping Secrets Dear Keeping Secrets: If your children ask you about your health or your sexual orientation, do not lie to them. However, I see no reason for you to make a blanket announcement about this now because I sincerely believe most young people do not care to know.

If you wind up partnering with another man, they will at some point begin to draw their own conclusions. If your health takes a turn for the worse, they will need to know your status. Until then, my advice is to keep mum.

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It’s not going to affect my parents whatsoever. It’s my body. I think they should let me do reasonable things to it, like get my belly button pierced. I just don’t get it. – Unpierced In

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GIRLS SOCCER: HUNTLEY 4, CRYSTAL LAKE CENTRAL 0

Raiders in control early

By JOHN WILKINSON

jwilkinson@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – It took less than 90 seconds Tuesday for Huntley to open a lead on Crystal Lake Central. Over the next 78 minutes and change, the Red Raiders never relinquished control.

Huntley beat Crystal Lake Central, 4-0, Tuesday night in a Fox Valley Conference crossover game. Alyssa Kaufman, Braidy Ceh, Brianna Wilder and Taryn Jakubowski scored for the Red Raiders (4-1-1), who now have won four consecutive matches.

“I feel like we’ve finally settled down and learned how to play as a team,” said senior Victoria Padal, who had two assists. “Also, we’ve been taking the ball across our body and finding through balls, so that helped us a lot to find opportunities to score.”

The opening, and eventual game-winning, goal came 1:28 into the game when Padal sent a low cross in from the left side and Kaufman beat her marker in the box and redirected it into the net.

“That’s what she does, she’s got such quick feet,” Huntley coach Kris Grabner said. “We moved her up top over the weekend and she really brings a nice touch to the game. We’re still working on the spacing a little bit; it was rough at the beginning, but it really got better later on.”

Padal said the early goal “helped a lot, it helped us get some energy and show the other team what we’re made of.”

Huntley maintained its 1-0 lead throughout the rest of the first half, hardly letting Crystal Lake Cental get a taste of possession outside its own half.

After the break, Ceh, one of two freshmen on the Huntley roster, made it 2-0 in the 55th minute. Padal played a cross from the right wing that went over everyone else and found Ceh unmarked at the far post. The ball took a big hop up but she got her body in front of it and bundled it in with her stomach.

“It doesn’t matter how it goes in,” Grabner joked with Ceh as she came off the field.

The Red Raiders’ final two goals came in a span of two minutes and Jakubowski was involved in both.

With 12 minutes left she split the defense, sending a ball out right for Wilder who drove it high into the net. Two minutes later, Jakubowski scored her own with an impressive solo effort to make it 4-0.

Crystal Lake Central coach Jay Schwarzrock said it was an important lesson for the relatively inexperienced

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Crystal Lake Central’s Mikayla Bertalon (left) and Huntley’s Brenna Keegan stop the ball during the first half of Tuesday’s game in Huntley. The Red Raiders won the Fox Valley Conference crossover game, 4-0.

Tigers (1-2).

“We’ve got to learn to be a little more aggressive, play with kids like this, because this is a good team but we’re going to see other teams like this,” Schwarzrock said. “Tonight was a learning experience for us. We learned that there’s faster girls out there. But I don’t think it’s a negative, I think it’s a positive early in the season like this to get experience so you know what the rest of the season is going to entail. It would be a shame if we had a good season and then came into a team like this [in postseason] because you weren’t prepared.”

A bright spot for Crystal Lake Central was goalkeeper Erica Milan’s success. Despite giving up the four goals, she made six saves and came out to collect a number of dangerous through balls into her box.

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Victoria Padal Huntley, sr., F

Padal provided assists on the Red Raiders’ first two goals of the night.

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Huntley goalkeeper Paige Renkosik wasn’t called to action much Tuesday, not needing to register an official save in the shutout. She wore a hooded sweatshirt under her jersey to combat the cold, but after the referee told her to tuck in the hood during the first half, she played the second half wearing a knit cap.

GIRLS SOCCER: BURLINGTON CENTRAL 3, JOHNSBURG 0

Communication issues, lack of possession time costly for J’burg

By RYAN ALTMAN

sports@nwherald.com

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Madelyn Peterson

Johnsburg, jr., D

In the first half, after an initial Burlington Central shot got past goalkeeper McKenzie McKay, Peterson laid out and blocked a potential goal with her left foot, keeping the early deficit at 1-0.

Johnsburg was only able to muster five JOHNSBURG – After beginning shots on goal. their season with three convincing q AND ANOTHER THING ... wins out of four tries, the Johnsburg Skyhawks coach Rob Eastland on Burlington girls soccer team hadn’t had much of Central and their rematch with the Rockets in a chance to discover any weaknesses a few weeks: “They’re a great team. They’re in its game. always a strong team. The nice thing is that But on Tuesday night, Burlington we get another shot at them and we’ll be a lot Central provided that first opportunimore ready.” ty.

Breakdowns in communication paired with a lack of possession time ern Conference victory. for the Skyhawks limited their chances “I think we could have talked way offensively, as the Rockets left Johnsburg High School with a 3-0 Big North- more,” Skyhawks striker Taylor Pig-

happened to be their best opportunity of the night.

Piggott’s initial shot trickled through Rockets goalkeeper Abbi Ciganek at the top of the box, but Ciganek was able to dive back on top of the loose ball before the Skyhawks could attack.

Skyhawks coach Rob Eastland wants his team’s leaders to put more of an emphasis on playing smart with the ball.

“Our players that need to step up right now need to take more responsibility on the ball, because keeping possession, offensively, is something we need to do a lot better,” Eastland said.

The Rockets tacked on two more goals in the 48- and 49-minute marks of the second half, which proved to be the back-breakers for the Skyhawks.

“They went up 1-0, but I think we got in a groove early,” Eastland said.

“I think it became a pretty even game after that. Both teams had a couple chances. I think right after halftime is when we kind of let it drop a little bit and they exploited a few gaps.”

Baker took a chance and decommitted from Division I Florida Gulf Coast University in September, no longer feeling comfortable with the distance and wanting to stay closer to home.

It didn’t take long for the junior pitcher to find a new school to call home.

After sending out an email blast with about 200 recipients, Baker caught the eye of the University of Illinois in a tournament at O’Fallon with her travel team, the Illinois Chill.

Baker, a Northwest Herald All-Area firstteam selection last year, got a call on her way home and, “I kind of fell out my chair,” she said. “Like, who? Wait … University of What?’ ” Baker said she wasn’t expecting to get noticed because of her age. Soon after getting the call, she visited the school and committed in November.

“I sent [emails] out to pretty much any school I can think of within seven hours,” Baker said. “Pretty much every Division I school, just trying to get another opportunity for myself and for my family, and I got lucky, really.”

Baker called it “the right place, the right time,” fulfilling a lifelong dream. As a sophomore, she went 22-6 with a 2.36 ERA and 175 strikeouts in 1631/3 innings.

“I always wanted to go D-I, but my big dream was the Big Ten,” she said. “Out of nowhere, a dream came true.”

Inside Softball ATHLETE OF THE WEEK AMAYA SALDANA Woodstock North, so., P-INF Saldana struck out 17 and allowed one hit in seven innings in a 4-2 nonconference win against Alden-Hebron on March 29. She carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning and only walked one in the complete-game victory. Both runs charged against Saldana were unearned.

At the plate, she went 2 for 3 with a double, RBI and run scored. Saldana is second on the Thunder (5-6) with a .400 batting average. In the circle, she has 24 strikeouts in 19 innings.

NORTHWEST HERALD POWER RANKINGS 1. Crystal Lake Central (3-1): Amy Walsh and Savanah Frank form one of the area’s best pitching duos.

2. Prairie Ridge (3-0): The Wolves scored three runs in the sixth inning Monday to come back and beat previously undefeated Belvidere North, 5-4, after a long layoff coach Mike Buck estimated was 14 days (because of inclement weather and spring break) with no practice.

Proud Sponsor of Athlete of the Week 3. Hampshire (4-1): The Whip-Purs jump into the rankings after another lopsided victory against Elgin, 25-2. The Whips have outscored their opponents, 67-9, in four games (all wins by mercy rule). Joslyn Nelson earned the victory against Elgin, going 4 for 5 with a home run, three runs and four RBIs. 4. McHenry (3-2): Senior shortstop Alex Martens, who committed to NCAA Division I Kentucky as a sophomore, is off to a fast start with two home runs, two doubles and six RBIs. 5. Marengo (4-4): All four of Marengo’s losses have come against 2015 regional champions, but the Indians need to start winning again as Big Northern Conference East Division play starts up. Marengo has won 36 straight BNC East games.

NOTEWORTHY A dream come true: Prairie Ridge’s Hailey

THIS WEEK’S TOP GAMES Marengo at Richmond-Burton, 4:30 p.m. Thursday Defending Class 3A state runner-up Marengo swept the Rockets last season en route to a BNC East title. R-B (3-3) started BNC East play Monday with an 8-0 win over North Boone.

Crystal Lake Central at Huntley 4:30 p.m. Friday Both teams finished second in their respective FVC divisions last season. The Raiders (0-3) let a late lead against DeKalb slip away – losing 4-3 after DeKalb scored twice in the seventh – in a contest that didn’t end until well after 11 p.m. Friday at Chicago Bandits Stadium in Rosemont.

Prairie Ridge at Crystal Lake South, 4:30 p.m. Friday The Gators will be hungry for a win against their Crystal Lake rivals after the Rockford East Tournament was canceled over the weekend, also cutting out the team’s trip to Beef-A-Roo. – Alex Kantecki, akantecki@shawmedia.com

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gott said. “I think that I didn’t really have enough people with me (on offense) at times. We just need to talk and pass more on the sides.”

Both teams did well to maintain a steady offensive pace early on, but it was the Rockets (4-0) who struck after miscommunication on the Skyhawks’ defense.

Three minutes in, Rockets forward Megan Majewski put one past Skyhawks goalkeeper McKenzie McKay after Majewski was left wide-open in the middle of the box.

McKay made six saves for the Skyhawks, including a diving stop late in the second half.

“We need to communicate more and organize better, but we need settle down and relax,” Skyhawks central back Madelyn Peterson said. “We were panicking too much.”

The Skyhawks (3-1-1, 2-1 BNC East) had several chances at their opponent’s end of the field, with Piggott, a junior, firing off three of the team’s four first-half shots. They finished with only one in the second half, but

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Warriors break out in 4th inning Tigers miss early chances, unravel with ‘1 bad inning’

By TIM SIECK

sports@nwherald.com CRYSTAL LAKE – When Bobby Miller takes the mound, McHenry likes its chances. The 6-foot-5 Louisville recruit took the ball in Tuesday’s game against Crystal Lake Central and looked to improve to 3-0 on the season.

“Whenever Bobby is pitching, we figure if we can get three or four runs, we will be in really good shape,” McHenry coach Brian Rockweiler said. “We really expect him to throw well anytime he takes the ball, and he did that again today.”

Miller pitched out of a few early jams, and McHenry took advantage of some Central mistakes to blow open what had been a pitchers duel the first

“We’ve had eight days off and really worked on our offense over that time, and it was nice to get some hits today. We were able to put the ball in play and take advantage of some of their mistakes. We’ve struggled at times doing that this season.”

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Owen Patzin McHenry, so., SS

Patzin drove in the first run of the game, finished with three hits and also executed a perfect sacrifice bunt.

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Brian Rockweiler

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McHenry left fielder Matt Spooner made the defensive play of the game in the third inning, laying out and making a diving catch on a line drive headed for extra bases by Central’s Logan Mensching.

Tigers had runners on first and third in the first inning with one out, and Miller was able to pitch out of it and keep the game scoreless.

In the second, Central had a runner three innings, as the Warriors defeated Central 9-2 in a Fox Valley Conference on second with one out and couldn’t crossover game at Crystal Lake Cen- get the runner in from there. After the second inning, Miller really settled in tral High School.

Central (4-5,0-2 FVC Fox) had its and was able to get the victory on his chances early, but struggled to get 17th birthday.

“I really just wanted to throw strikes runners in from scoring position. The

and let my defense do the work,” Miller said. “I was pretty happy with how I pitched today, and my defense really helped out when I needed them most.”

The game was cruising along until the fourth inning, when McHenry was able to take advantage of several Central mistakes. The Warriors (4-2,1-0 FVC Valley) sent 12 batters to the plate and scored seven runs on five hits and three Tigers errors to increase the lead to 8-0.

“We’ve had eight days off and really worked on our offense over that time, and it was nice to get some hits today,” Rockweiler said. “We were able to put the ball in play and take advantage of some of their mistakes. We’ve struggled at times doing that this season.”

Fred Birr was the tough-luck losing pitcher for Central, giving up eight runs, but only two were earned.

“Today really came down to one bad inning,” Central coach Tom Mueller said. “We didn’t make the plays that inning and that really hurt us. We had our chances early on, but just couldn’t execute.”

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BASEBALL: RICHMOND-BURTON 9, JOHNSBURG 1

Rupnick, Moeller combine for 4 RBIs in Rockets’ victory

By JOE STEVENSON

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Mike Wojcik

Richmond-Burton, jr., C

Wojcik got the Rockets on the board in the first inning when he shot a two-out, two-RBI single to right field, his opposite field. R-B’s offense rolled after that with nine runs.

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Perfect innings pitched by R-B starter Jake Rosing, who threw six innings total, allowing one hit and no runs.

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Rosing did not really come close to walking a Johnsburg batter. He faced 20 Skyhawks and did not reach three balls on any of them.

were to the opposite field, including both of left-handed-hitting Rupnik’s shots to the left-center field gap. R-B finished with 10 hits and a 9-1 victory behind six sparkling innings from Rosing.

“We’re getting better. We’ve been

working on it, but we’re making adjustments in the batter’s box,” said Giese, whose team is 3-3 overall, 1-0 in the BNC East. “We’re sitting back more, taking pitchers the other way.

We’re learning what a quality at-bat is, sometimes it’s not hitting a home run.”

Although in Moeller’s case, his first hit was of highest quality. He ripped the first pitch of the fourth inning, a Ryan Kordik fastball, over the fence in left-center.

“Coach had been telling me to get a hit,” said Moeller, who had a sacrifice fly in his first at-bat and added two more hits later. “Bottom of the order, the No. 9 hitter, why waste a curveball?

Get a fastball and get a quick out, I used that to my advantage. I’ll probably move up in the lineup a little bit.”

Moeller had no hits before and was a triple short of a cycle Tuesday.

Rupnik got that in the second inning, then doubled to almost the same spot in the third.

“When we were hitting for this game, I was working toward the opposite side and mainly going that way the whole time,” Rupnik said. “We came

up swinging. We were on top of the ball and did well.”

Rosing lost the perfect game on an error, then the no-hitter on Chris Krennrich’s single, both in the fourth. No other Skyhawks reached base as he threw 72 pitches in six innings, striking out six.

“I was working on situational pitches, when I’m behind, throwing offspeed pitches,” Rosing said. “I’m trying to work my curveball down in the dirt more instead of keeping them up too much.”

Johnsburg (3-5, 0-1) averted the shutout in the seventh when Krennrich singled, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on Kaeden Quinn’s double off Moeller.

“The bottom of their order is what hurt us today,” Skyhawks coach Sam Lesniak said. “Their No. 9 hitter was 3 for 3 with a home run and a double.

I talked with Ryan [Kordik] about if you get behind hitters and they’re sitting on a fastball, they’re going to be able to square you up and hit the ball pretty hard. You have to work ahead of hitters.”

BASEBALL: CRYSTAL LAKE SOUTH 7, HAMPSHIRE 7 (SUSP. AFTER 7 INN.)

End to back-and-forth game put on hold Gators draw 5 walks in big 6-run 6th inning

By MIKE DeFABO

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Jake Manning

Hampshire, sr., P-3B

Manning helped Hampshire get out of a sloppy, six-run sixth inning. With the bases loaded, he fielded a high chopper, stepped on third base and fired across the diamond for two.

HAMPSHIRE – Tuesday had all of q THE NUMBER the makings of a classic high school Hampshire and Crystal Lake South baseball game – a 10-strikeout outing have played 18 innings against each from Hampshire right-hander Jake other in their past two meetings (an Manning, a six-run Crystal Lake 11-inning game last season and seven innings South rally in the sixth inning to Tuesday) ... and counting. capture the lead, intermittent hail q AND ANOTHER THING ... and rainstorms, at least three plays With a Hampshire runner on third with two outs at the plate and a clutch two-strike in the sixth inning, Crystal Lake South catcher hit from Hampshire’s Michael Kruse Michael Swiatly partially blocked a wild pitch to tie the score in the bottom of the and relayed it home to cut down the runner and seventh. send the Gators to the seventh inning with a The only thing missing? The endone-run lead. ing.

With the score tied at 7 after seven innings, the umpires suspended Whip-Purs and Gators will resume the the game with darkness looming. The game at a later date to be determined

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with the score tied in the top of the eighth inning.

“Oddly enough, the same thing happened last year,” Crystal Lake South coach Brian Bogda said, referencing a game that was suspended after nine innings.

For the time being, Crystal Lake South (6-0) remains unbeaten. Although, through five innings, that perfect record appeared in jeopardy.

Manning was in control through five innings. He struck out 10, allowed five hits and one earned run. However, when he was lifted before the sixth inning with a 6-1 lead, things started to come undone for the Whip-Purs.

In the six-run sixth, Crystal Lake South batted around – or, more accurately, walked around. Five Gators drew walks in the inning, including four in a row, and two were hit by pitches. The only two balls to leave the infield were junior third baseman Griffin Bright’s two-RBI single and senior second baseman Michael Humphrey’s single.

Each walk inspired more cheering from the Gators’ bench, which started

screaming for the bullpen and commenting on the pitchers’ stirrups, among other jeers.

After the hollering from the Gators’ bench finally halted, they had sent 11 batters to the plate, burned through three Hampshire pitchers and taken a 7-6 lead.

“The pitchers weren’t throwing too many strikes,” said Humphrey, who went 4 for 4. “We did a really good job of waiting back and looking for fastballs. We were able to get four walks without a single strike being thrown.

That was absolutely crucial.”

Hampshire (4-4) responded in the bottom of the seventh. Manning drew a walk and stole second to get into scoring position. Then Kruse won an eight-pitch at-bat with an RBI single to right-center field to plate Manning and tie the score.

“I wasn’t trying to do too much. ...,” said Kruse, who went 2 for 3 with a double. “I just battled up there, and when my pitch came, I took it to the opposite field and got the job done.”

The job was done. The game? To be continued.

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RICHMOND – When Richmond-Burton sophomore Jake Rosing takes the hill, it’s easy to get caught up in his pitching mastery.

Tuesday’s Big Northern Conference East Division opener against Johnsburg was no different as Rosing breezed through the Skyhawks’ lineup the first time without allowing anyone to reach base.

But what Rockets coach Mike Giese really liked was the offensive support Rosing received. In his first two atbats, No. 7 hitter Bryan Rupnik had a triple and double and two RBIs, while No. 9 man Jake Moeller had a sacrifice fly and a solo home run, his first hit of the season.

Four of the Rockets’ first six hits

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Trojans’ Schmidt pitches a perfect game NORTHWEST HERALD

Danny Schmidt tossed a perfect game for the Cary-Grove baseball team in a 5-0 Fox Valley Conference crossover win over Woodstock on Tuesday in Woodstock.

Schmidt threw 80 pitches, including 57 for strikes, and struck out 10 Blue Streaks in a complete-game victory, getting 10 groundouts and one flyout for the Trojans (5-4, 1-0 FVC Valley).

The 6-foot-3, 181-pound senior threw a first-pitch strike to 14 of 21 batters.

Matt McCumber drove in two runs for C-G, while Quinn Celske had a pair of hits in the win. Jake Kuhl and Mark Smith each had one RBI. For Woodstock, Nick Thompson got the start and allowed one run on two hits in five innings with a pair of strikeouts and two walks.

Prairie Ridge 6, Fremd 2: At Crystal Lake, Joey Hanley picked up a win for the Wolves (6-4), striking out 10 in six scoreless innings and allowing three hits and one walk. Prairie Ridge scored four runs in the first, while catcher Connor Harrell drove in two with a double.

Jacobs 20, Woodstock North 2: At Woodstock, the Golden Eagles scored 14 runs in the seventh to pull away for an FVC crossover win. Dan Salomon had a pair of doubles and a grand slam, finishing 4 for 6 with seven RBIs for Jacobs (7-1). Brad Demkovich earned the win, allowing two runs (one earned) on three hits with nine strikeouts in five innings.

Zach Johnson had a hit and an RBI for the Thunder (4-3), also pitching two innings with two strikeouts.

Dundee-Crown 3, Conant 2: At Hoffman Estates, Matt Wiechmann allowed two runs on five hits in 62/3 innings, striking out five and walking three.

Erik Hedmark came in for the one-out save and recorded a strikeout. Hedmark added a double and run scored, while Sean Jay also had a double.

Wiechmann and Andrew Zimmer each added a run for D-C (5-3).

Burlington Central 10, Marengo 0 (5 inn.):

At Marengo, the Indians were no-hit by pitcher Craig Schuring, who struck out four and walked one in five innings.

Josh Sheahan was the losing pitcher for Marengo and allowed five earned runs in 32/3 innings with five strikeouts.

Genoa-Kingston 6, Harvard 3: At Harvard, the Hornets let a 3-0 lead after the first inning slip away in a Big Northern Conference East Division loss. Hunter Freres had a three-run triple for Harvard (2-2, 0-1 BNC East), while Johnny Peterson, Logan Streit and Adan Rodriguez each scored a run.

Grayslake North 10, Huntley 9: At Grayslake, the Raiders scored five runs in the top of the seventh but allowed four in the bottom half in an FVC crossover loss. Joe Rizzo had three hits and drove in three

for the Raiders (5-4), and Joe Boland and nier and Ashley Turner each had two hits in the loss for R-B. Brad Model each scored two runs.

Fremd 14, Cary-Grove 0 (5 inn.): At Cary, the Trojans were shutout and SOFTBALL Marengo 11, Johnsburg 2: At Johns- outhit, 15-2, in a nonconference loss. burg, the Indians extended their win- Brianne Prank had a double and Alysning streak in the BNC East to 37 games. sa Gurgone added a single.

Anna Walsweer finished 4 for 5 with Belvidere 6, Hampshire 5: At Hamptwo runs scored and one RBI for the In- shire, the Whips suffered their first dians (4-4, 1-0 BNC East), while Mariah loss of the year in nonconference acDionne was 3 for 4 with a double and two tion. Lauren Egger and Morgan HaeRBIs. Dionne also earned the win, giving fling each scored two runs in the loss, up two runs on four hits with nine strike- while Aly Snider and Ellie Lapi each had one hit and drove in one. outs and two walks in seven innings.

Allison Jasinski, Rachael Jasinski and Amber Proberts each had three GIRLS SOCCER Richmond-Burton 6, North Boone 0: At hits for Marengo, which had 22 hits.

Morgan Post took the loss for Johns- Richmond, Halley Havlicek had an unburg, while Hannah Roy drove in two assisted goal and scored on a penalty kick to lead the the Rockets to their first runs.

Marian Central 11, CL Central 0 (5 inn.): win of the season in a BNC East match.

Meghan Vasseur scored the final At Crystal Lake, Maggie Finnegan jump started the Hurricanes’ offense two goals for R-B (1-2, 1-1 BNC East), by going 4 for 4 in the leadoff spot with while Gabby Ross tallied a goal and an four runs scored, two doubles and a tri- assist. Liz Wertz opened up the scoring, ple, and Emily Miller had three runs while Lindsy Restis had three saves in the shutout. and three RBIs for Marian (2-1).

Jackie Chmiel and Ellen Sharp each Crystal Lake South 6, Hampshire 0: At added two RBIs in the win. Meredith Crystal Lake, Daisy Ochoa and Emily Bryan held the previously undefeated Warren both had two goals to lead the Tigers (3-1) to three hits in five innings, Gators (4-1) to the FVC crossover win. striking out 11 and walking one.

Jess Schoenfeldt tallied three assists, Prairie Ridge 9, Palatine 0 (6 inn.): At and Brandie Minogue and Katherine Crystal Lake, Kaleigh O’Brien went Siavelis added a goal.

2 for 2 with two home runs and four Rockford Christian 5, Marengo 0: At RBIs to lead the Wolves to their third Marengo, Maddie Hoey had 22 saves straight win. Kaitlin Leverenz also had for the Indians in the BNC East loss. a home run for Prairie Ridge (3-0), and Dundee-Crown 6, Woodstock North 1: Hailey Baker improved to 3-0 in the cir- At Carpentersville, Annie Velasco had cle with six scoreless innings while al- the lone goal for the Thunder (0-4) in lowing three hits with four strikeouts an FVC crossover loss. Kristin Lemke made 12 saves in the loss. and one walk.

Grayslake Central 1, McHenry 0: At Harvard 7, Rockford Christian 0: At Harvard, Makayla Stephens struck out eight McHenry, the Warriors fell to 0-3 on to lead the Hornets to their first win of the the season with an FVC crossover loss. season in a BNC East game. Arely Renteria Pena had a double and two RBIs, and BOYS TRACK AND FIELD Cary-Grove quad: At Cary, Crystal Magen Greaux added a hit in the victory.

Huntley 6, Belvidere North 1: At Belvi- Lake Central got two wins each from dere, Jessica Shields was 2 for 2 with Michael Chen, Brandon Dahl and Dartwo walks, two runs and six stolen bas- ian Singh to win the meet with 107 es to lead the Raiders (1-3) to their first points. C-G was second with 90.

Chen won the 110-meter high hurwin. Hayley O’Mara went 2 for 4 with a home run and two RBIs, while Autumn dles (15.0) and the long jump (19 feet, 63/4 Kasal and Rylie Porretto each drove in inches, Dahl won the pole vault (13-6) one. Tiffany Giese earned the win, al- and discus (133-1), and Singh won the lowing one unearned run on three hits triple jump (37-0) and high jump (5-11).

Ryan Magel led C-G with wins in the with five walks and four strikeouts in 100 (11.4) and 200 (24.5). seven innings.

Meyer, 6-4, 6-4, and Matt Kolarczyk and Nick Baietto won at No. 2 doubles.

Prairie Ridge 7, Dundee Crown 0: At Carpentersville, the Wolves swept the Chargers in FVC crossover play. Hayden Dzurisin won at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-1, for PR, while Patrick Nasta and Scott Cleven earned the win at No. 1 doubles.

Grayslake North 7, Woodstock 0: At Woodstock, the Knights won all seven matches in an FVC Fox win. Tim Larson and Austin Ellegood had the only three-set match for the Blue Streaks at No. 1 doubles, falling, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Round Lake 4, Johnsburg 2: At Johnsburg, Niko DeStephano and Luke Wolter won at No. 1 doubles, 6-4, 6-3, for the Skyhawks, while Alex Anderson and Brian Anderson took the third doubles, 6-2, 7-6. The No. 3 singles match was suspended by rain.

Jacobs 7, Hampshire 0: At Algonquin, Kailash Panchapakesan won, 6-0, 6-0, at No. 1 singles in a sweep for the Golden Eagles (1-0) in an FVC crossover. Riley Rowan (No. 2) and Patrick Murphy (No. 3) also won at singles, and Kendrick Chong and Kerwin Chong won at No. 1 doubles, 6-0, 6-1.

Jacobs 4, Belvidere North 1: At Algonquin, Panchapakesan lost to Anderson Park, 6-2, 6-3, in a rematch of last year’s sectional championship match, but the Eagles won the remaining four.

Matt Kastritis and Kyle Burton won at No. 2 doubles, and Jacob Moser and Brandon Jones won at No. 3 doubles for Jacobs (2-0).

a two-run triple for the Thunder (6-6) and reached base four times with two runs and two RBIs. Ellie Thurow picked up the win, allowing four runs on eight hits with 11 strikeouts and three walks in seven innings. Sophie Schwegel, Haylie Reg-

field, Kevin Braun scored nine goals to lead the Warriors.

Josh Frost had five goals for the Warriors, Jackson Smith added four and Mike Matusek and Riley Hedberg each had three in the victory. McHenry led, 15-7, at halftime.

Woodstock North 7, Grayslake Central 0: At Grayslake, Brandon Langreck (No. 1), Pablo Sotelo (No. 2) and Wesley Ford (No. 3) all won at singles for the Thunder in the FVC Fox sweep. Andrew Dort and Alec Molve added a 6-0, 6-4 win at No. 1 doubles.

BOYS LACROSSE Prairie Ridge 16, CL Central 1: At Crys-

tal Lake, the Wolves conceded the first goal against the Tigers in the opening minute, but scored the next 16 en route to a 16-1 FVC victory.

Parker Tomlin and Zack Starks each had four goals to lead the Wolves (4-0, 3-0 FVC). Cole Naumovski added three goals, and Nolan Yager and Cory Zordan each had two.

Jack Collins made three saves and did not allow a goal for Prairie Ridge, and Jacob Sperling had four assists.

Woodstock North 7, Richmond-Burton 4: At Woodstock, the Thunder came out BOYS TENNIS Crystal Lake South 7, McHenry 0: At BOYS WATER POLO on top in a nonconference game that McHenry 27, Deerfield 10: At Deerhad five lead changes. Caitlin Senn had Crystal Lake, the Gators swept the Warriors to open the season with an FVC Valley victory.

Nick Thome, Will Sudbrook and Alex Freeman all won at singles for the Gators (1-0, 1-0 FVC Valley). South’s No. 1 doubles team of Alex Sardjev and Kyle Furtek defeated McHenry’s JP Dudley and Brett

JACOBS FOOTBALL

By JON STYF

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make 20 to 30 throws. Bowling Green visited Jacobs twice in January.

Katrenick has been speaking with Bowling Green coach Mike Jinks, quarterbacks coach/co-offensive coordinator Andy Padron and Chicago-area recruiter Benny Morrison, the Falcons’ linebacker coach who played for Jacobs coach Bill Mitz in high school at Stevenson.

His Cincinnati contact has been mainly with offensive coordinator/ quarterbacks coach Zac Taylor and Chicago-around recruiter Ty Linder.

Katrenick holds six offers – from Virginia, Miami (Ohio), Buffalo, Bowling Green, North Dakota State and To-

ledo – but some of those become less likely as other quarterbacks from his Class of 2017 commit. Many schools sign only one quarterback each class.

The Virginia offer came from the previous coaching staff and Katrenick said they no longer are in consideration, but said he also has been speaking with Wake Forest, West Virginia and Indiana along with Ball State, NIU, Bowling Green, Toledo and Miami (Ohio).

“It definitely gets tiring, but I’m real blessed to be in this position that I’m in,” Katrenick said of the offers, recruiting visits and conversations that are part of the recruiting process.

BLACKHAWKS 6, COYOTES 2

Crawford on the comeback trail Hawks win

Hawks’ best hopes for repeating lie in veteran goaltender

By MARK POTASH

mpotash@suntimes.com CHICAGO – Joel Quenneville was certain of Corey Crawford’s availability for the Blackhawks’ playoff opener.

“Absolutely,” the Blackhawks coach said after the morning skate before Tuesday night’s game against the Phoenix Coyotes at the United Center.

But Crawford, who has not played since March 14 – a 5-0 loss to the Los Angeles Kings at the United Center – took a more careful approach. “I’d love to (start Game 1 of the first round series), but there’s no rush. It’s literally day by day.”

Although Crawford’s return appears imminent – he’s hoping to play in the regular-season finale at Columbus – the two-time Stanley Cup-winning goalie’s participation in practice for the first time since his upper-body injury was announced March 17 was more like one small step on the road to recovery than a declaration that “I’m back.”

“Right now I feel pretty good,” he said Tuesday, as if Wednesday might be different. “I was seeing pucks well. I was moving well. Moving pretty quick and everything and that perspective has been fine so far. So I’m just going to keep progressing every day.

“This has been good the last few

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Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford leaves the ice after the third period against the Stars on March 11 in Dallas. days. The workouts have been really good. Practice felt good today – that was a long one, too, so (I’m a) little tired from that. I’m itchin’ to get back in there.”

Crawford, who has been day-to-day for 20 days and counting, was loathe to discuss details of his latest injury.

“How did it happen? I’m not going to talk about that,” he said. “Right now, I want to be positive and think about what’s been going good for me right now and getting better.”

But it appears that it’s been an arduous recovery. Teammate Jonathan Toews seemed to indicate as much when asked how good it was to see Crawford back on the ice.

“Absolutely (it was good to see Crawford back),” Toews said. “It shows progress. I think sometimes it

can get frustrating if you feel you’re seeing some recovery and then all of the sudden you digress on other days.

But it’s good to have Crow back out there with the boys and know that he’s on the right path.”

Toews reiterated his faith in backups Scott Darling and Michael Leighton. But he’s got to know deep down the reality that the Hawks’ best chance of repeating as Stanley Cup champions – or even getting past the first round – lie with Crawford, whose value to the team is at an all-time high.

He’s expected to be a Vezina Trophy finalist, with a 35-18-4 record, 2.32 goals-against average and .926 save percentage.

But the recognition that means most to Hawks fans is the Hawks are unlikely to win without him. Darling is 5-3-1, with a 2.75 goals-against average and .912 goals-against average in nine consecutive starts in place of Crawford going into Tuesday night’s game. But his victories have come against the Jets, Flames, Canucks, Jets and struggling Bruins.

The Hawks’ most recent impressive victories against playoff-caliber teams all have come with Crawford in goal – the Red Wings (4-1 and 5-2), Capitals (3-2), Rangers (5-3), Stars (51), Blues (2-0) and Predators (4-1). In Crawford’s 57 starts, the Hawks have won 16 games while scoring three goals or fewer (28.1 percent). In Darling’s 22 starts, they have won two (9.1 percent).

As Darling proved last season, he can steal a huge game or two in the playoffs, but for the long haul, it’s Crawford or bust for the Hawks.

in a rout

By MARK POTASH

mpotash@suntimes.com The Blackhawks still are a long shot to wrest home-ice advantage from the Blues and/or Stars in the Central Division, but they’re taking care of business to keep their hopes alive.

Jonathan Toews had a short-handed goal and two assists, Artemi Panarin added three assists and Patrick Kane had a goal and assist as the Hawks scored early and often for a 6-2 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday night before 21,884 at the United Center.

Richard Panik, Trevor van Riemsdyk, Andrew Ladd and Andrew Desjardins also scored goals for the Hawks, who have won five of their past six games.

The Hawks (47-26-7, 101 points) are four points behind the first-place Stars (48-23-9, 105 points) and second-place Blues (48-23-9, 105 points) with two games remaining.

The Hawks, who play the Blues on Thursday night at the United Center and the Blue Jackets on Saturday in Columbus, have to win their final two games, while the Blues and/or Stars lose twice to move up. Otherwise, they will finish in third place and face the second-place team without home-ice advantage in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The victory might have come at a cost.

Forward Artem Anisimov suffered an injury when he was boarded by former Hawk Antoine Vermette in the second period. Anisimov was down for a few moments but got up under his own power and went directly to the dressing room.

• Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Chris Katrenick isn’t ready to commit to a college yet.

But, before June 1, he’s confident he will be. That’s when Jacobs starts its summer workouts and the 6-foot-2, 205-pound junior wants to be done with recruiting and ready to concentrate on having a successful senior year.

At this point, Katrenick is looking strongest at Bowling Green and Cincinnati, which hasn’t yet extended an offer but he plans to visit there for a second time this weekend as he heads to the Rivals QB Challenge in Columbus, Ohio.

The Bearcats first visited Katrenick in Janurary at Jacobs and he went to their junior day, making this his second unofficial visit there. They also plan to come to Jacobs in the April-May evaluation period to see him throw.

“That’s a really cool campus and school with a great football Chris team,” Katrenick said.

Katrenick Bowling Green and Northern Illinois also plan to watch him throw during that stretch, when Katrenick said he will go out to the field with three or four receivers and

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8 WHITE SOX 5, ATHLETICS 4

Sox emphasize getting out of blocks

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN dvanschouwen@suntimes.com

OAKLAND, Calif. – You can debate all you want the importance of a good start in a marathon 162-game baseball season, but in the case of the 2016 White Sox, getting off on the right foot seems to be an especially big deal.

For one thing, the American League Central appears full of contenders, namely four (defending World Series champion Kansas City Royals, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, White Sox) with enough on paper to consider themselves as such. Good luck having to climb over two or three teams down the stretch of the season to make the postseason, so it’s imperative to be at or near the top by the All-Star break.

For another thing, the Sox – who were aiming for a 2-0 start in their late game against the Oakland Athletics Tuesday night – have a recent history of struggling early, including the 8-14 dud last season that killed a near-euphoric vibe that had been humming since offseason. The Sox cobbled together one winning month in 2015, July, which only created misguided hope right before the trade deadline.

Every team wants to get out of the gate quickly, but the Sox made spring training, even to the extent of trying to win meaningless games to set a tone, a point of emphasis. The idea was to let it carry over into now.

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The White Sox’s Jimmy Rollins (center) celebrates after hitting a home run off Athletics pitcher Sean Doolittle in the ninth inning Tuesday night in Oakland, Calif. The Sox won, 5-4, but the game ended too late for a story to appear in this edition.

“It is important not just for us but every team,’’ veteran outfielder Melky Cabrera said, “but we need to start in a good way and keep the momentum through the whole season and close the season hard.’’

With only 10 games at home in April, the Sox will have to get it started on the road, where they were 95-148 over the last three seasons under manager Robin Ventura. But for a team

with five new players in the starting lineup alone, some bonding time might be good. And for one that, after being one of the weakest hitting teams in baseball last season but hit more homers than anyone in the warm, spring Arizona air, sidestepping chilly Chicago might be a good thing.

“I’m OK with that,’’ outfielder Adam Eaton said. “[Avoid] cold weather. We’re in Tampa and we’re

in Oakland [in April]. As much as I enjoy playing at home it’s nice to play in some southern and western places where it’s a little warmer. Hopefully it can keep our bats in tune with how we’ve been hitting with in Arizona.’’

The Sox won their opener Monday in Oakland, a 4-3 “not pretty but we’ll take it” victory, as Ventura put it. With ace Chris Sale starting against 36-year-old Rich Hill, pressed into service because A’s ace Sonny Gray was down with food poisoning (Gray will pitch Wednesdayagainst Sox lefty Carlos Rodon instead), it had the feel of a near must-win game for a team stressing a good start.

Crazy as that would sound with 161 games to go, the Sox are built to win now and need to get past that scar from a poor spring, poor start and poor season in 2015 when expectations were maybe even higher.

They did come out of spring training feeling pretty good about themselves, so there’s a start.

“We’re already in that flow,’’ new third baseman Todd Frazier said. “In spring training Robin set up a good plan for everybody to get your innings, get your at-bats.

“Everybody wants a good start. It’s not going to kill us if we don’t but at the same time let’s get some wins on the road and show them we’re going to do just as good on the road as at home.’’

WHITE SOX NOTES

Abreu aims to be perfect in the field

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN dvanschouwen@suntimes.com

OAKLAND, Calif. – Jose Abreu could continue to cash checks from the biggest contract in White Sox history without lifting a finger to improve his defense, which pales in comparison to his bat. So give the slugging first baseman credit for wanting to be a more complete player. And for putting in the time to work at being better with the glove.

“I put a lot of effort in spring training to improve my defense,” Abreu said through translator Billy Russo on Tuesday. “I’m not that kind of first baseman that can make too much mistakes or errors like I did last year. I wasn’t happy with that.”

Coaches Joe McEwing and Rick Renteria worked with Abreu on his hand action moving to his right. Manager Robin Ventura, a former third and first baseman, wants to see Abreu slow things down a

bit.

“He’s gotten a little lower,” Ventura said. “He had a lot of glove action, and I think that’s just the way he learned to catch a groundball. It’s just gotten better.

You don’t have to be quite as fast as he was trying to be before. The calmer he gets, the better he is. It’s easier to catch, easier to pick the balls.”

Abreu has made clear his disdain for designated hitter duty, in part because he wants to contribute on the field. He says it’s a pride thing, and he doesn’t want to settle for being ordinary or less.

“I want to be perfect,” he said. “I know that nobody is going to be perfect, but I want to have that mindset that I can be perfect. That’s part of my mentality and preparation with my defense at first base.”

The Nate Jones factor: If right-hander Nate Jones continues to be the guy who stranded the tying run on second in the

eighth inning Monday, the Sox bullpen will have key component in place.

“To have him come in and do that is really important for us,” Ventura said.

Ventura, who used Jake Petricka and Zach Duke before Jones in the eighth, isn’t opposed to giving Jones clean innings.

“I see Nate being able to do a ninth inning if we need to,” Ventura said. “He has that kind of stuff if you need to give Robby (closer David Robertson) a day. Nate can do that.”

Jones, the hardest thrower in the Sox bullpen, came back from Tommy John surgery late last season and struck out 27 in 19 innings. He didn’t allow a run in spring training.

This and that: Ventura said Tyler Saladino will start at shortstop Wednesday or Thursday and that he wanted to get his other bench guys – Jerry Sands and J.B. Shuck – in a game before the team opens at home Friday.

BOX SCORE WHITE SOX 5, ATHLETICS 4 Chicago Eaton rf Rollins ss Abreu 1b Frazier 3b MeCarr lf AvGarc dh Lawrie 2b Avila c AJcksn cf Totals Chicago Oakland

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DP–Oakland 1. LOB–Chicago 8, Oakland 8. 2B– Crisp (1), K.Davis (1), Phegley (1). HR–Rollins (1), Frazier (1).

Chicago Quintana Albers H,1 Duke N.Jones W,1-0 BS,1-1 Robertson S,2-2 Oakland Bassitt Rzepczynski Hendriks Doolittle L,0-1 Dull

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Rzepczynski pitched to 1 batter in the 6th.

Duke pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.

HBP–by N.Jones (K.Davis, Vogt). W–Quintana.

Umpires–Home, Phil Cuzzi; First, Dan Bellino; Second, Gabe Morales; Third, Tom Hallion.

T–3:28. A–10,478 (35,067).

CUBS 6, ANGELS 1

By GORDON WITTENMYER gwittenmyer@suntimes.com

CUBS 6, ANGELS 1

Fowler cf Heywrd rf Bryant 3b Rizzo 1b Zobrist 2b Soler dh ARussll ss Szczur lf D.Ross c

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their needs and means.

“Surprise.”

That was Cubs president Theo Epstein’s first word to the media the day Fowler shocked teammates by showing up a week into camp on a new one-year deal, two days after reports surfaced that he had agreed to a three-year deal with the Orioles.

“These guys are my boys,” Fowler said. “This is my family.”

And Fowler?

“He’s the catalyst, there’s no question about that,” said Maddon, who until Fowler’s return was faced with

using corner-outfield comb-overs and mix-and-match leadoff assignments to cover his departure until somebody such as Albert Almora was ready to break in from the minors. “Imagine the lineup without him [Monday].”

Fowler, who struggled in the first half of last season before taking off in the second half, opened this season by igniting the Cubs’ offense in a 9-0 rout, and coming back strong again Tuesday.

Before ace Jake Arrieta threw the staff’s first pitch of the year, Fowler had crossed the plate. He led off the game with a double and scored on a single by

WS champs or ’16 failures? Cubs ‘don’t buy that’

BOX SCORE Chicago

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Cubs third base coach Gary Jones (left) low-fives to congratulate Dexter Fowler, who hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning against the Angels on Tuesday night in Anaheim, Calif. The Cubs won, 6-1.

By GORDON WITTENMYER

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E–Bryant (1). LOB–Chicago 3, Los Angeles 4. 2B–D.Ross (1), Y.Escobar (1). HR–Fowler (1), Rizzo (1), Szczur (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Lester W,1-0 7 4 1 1 0 4 Cahill 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 T.Wood 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 Strop 1 0 0 0 0 1 Los Angeles Heaney L,0-1 6 7 4 4 0 7 Morin 1/3 2 2 2 0 0 J.Alvarez 1 0 0 0 0 2 J.Smith 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 Street 1 0 0 0 0 0 Umpires–Home, Angel Hernandez; First, Lance Barksdale; Second, Will Little; Third, Ted Barrett.

T–2:34. A–37,042 (45,493).

gwittenmyer@suntimes.com

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Just before the season opened this week for the Cubs, center fielder Dexter Fowler gave manager Joe Maddon two specially designed bottles of scotch, on behalf of all the players, for the purpose of commemorating what is expected to be a long, successful season.

On the label of one was engraved Maddon’s “Embrace the Target” motto for the season. On the other: a blank label to be filled out sometime next fall.

“It’s going to get engraved when we win the World Series, hopefully, at the end of the year,” Fowler said. “Hopefully, we put ‘World champs’ on there.”

Maddon, who called the gesture “very cool,” said he’ll keep the unmarked bottle in his office, “and I’m going to open it at the appropriate time.”

When the Cubs steamrolled the Angels in the season opener Monday night, the celebrations already were flowing across

social media platforms and, presumably, in most late-night establishments within an Uber call from Clark and Addison.

“Appropriate time” has long been a challenge for most things Cubs when it comes to visions of baseball in October.

And World Series or Bust – championship or failed season – seems to be a growing sentiment building from the outside of a team that came within four wins of a pennant last fall, then added $290 million worth of talent over the winter.

“I don’t buy that the season was a failure if you don’t win the World Series,” said Cy Young winner Jake Arrieta, who carved up the Angels lineup for seven innings in Monday’s victory. “Obviously, the feeling overall would be that you came up short.

“Big picture, yes, we want to win a World Series. But right here right now we’re just trying to win today.”

Team president Theo Epstein, whose baseball department has spent 4½ years rebuilding the Cubs to this brink of ex-

treme expectations, is not falling for the Steinbrenner-esque mantra of anything short of a championship is a failure.

“The expectations thing, I know it can kind of create this subtext that hangs over the club with every two-game losing streak or every game that goes wrong, or every injury, and people try to put it in the context of the ultimate goal, the World Series,” he said. “But the reality is that’s now how we feel internally.

“I feel like everyone’s on board that we have this special opportunity and that you want to make the most of it,” he added.

“Nothing’s promised in this game or in life.

Windows slam shut. People get run over by buses crossing the street. You can’t control everything, so you want to make the most of every day and you want to make the most of every opportunity. If you don’t get there, you want to make sure it wasn’t because you didn’t work hard enough, you weren’t aggressive enough, you weren’t committed enough. I don’t think these players have that problem whatsoever.”

• Wednesday, April 6, 2016

ANAHEIM, Calif. – A few moments before the first pitch of the Cubs’ season was thrown Monday, manager Joe Maddon smiled and told his leadoff man what he had told him four or five times a day last summer: “You go, we go.”

“He still says it,” center fielder Dexter Fowler said. “Every at-bat he says it.”

If Maddon feels just a little more privileged to be saying it these days, it’s understandable, considering how unlikely it seemed after the final pitch of last season.

And considering the impact Fowler already has had in a two-game sweep of the Angels to open the season, including an infield hit and a home run in Tuesday’s 6-1 victory.

That’s a 15-1, two-day mugging of the Angels. Jake Arrieta on Monday and Jon Lester on Tuesday set the pitching tone for the season with seven innings each.

But the tone-setting from the top of the order – which looked long gone when last season ended – might be just as significant going forward for what the Cubs are trying to get done.

No way was Fowler coming back as a free agent, not with the Cubs targeting Jason Heyward and Ben Zobrist and with the market for Fowler expected to extend at least two years beyond

Anthony Rizzo two batters later.

“Obviously, he got us going,” Arrieta said of Fowler, who’s 5 for 8 with a walk and four runs scored.

“Beautiful thing,” Maddon said. “As he goes, we go.”

Fowler knows it. And if it looks like he’s on a mission this time around, it’s because he is.

“I’m always on a personal mission,” said Fowler, whose return was spurred in large part by the Orioles’ refusal to offer him an opt-out clause after telling him they expected him to absorb the cost of the compensatory draft pick they were giving up to sign him.

It also was spurred by the nagging sense of unfinished business he and the rest of the Cubs felt after being eliminated by the Mets in the National League Championship Series.

“Coming back here, we’ve got something to prove,” he said.

Maddon said he thinks Fowler is playing with a chip on his shoulder this season, partly because of the way the qualifying offer/draft-pick compensation system left him – and others – twisting in the wind all winter.

Whatever it is, Fowler at least seems to appreciate the window of opportunity he intends to seize with this team of friends.

“I’ve always been the underdog,” Fowler said. “Coming in, I always play with a chip on my shoulder. I’m going to go out and have fun and try to embrace the time I have with my teammates.”

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at Oakland 9:05 p.m.

CSN, ESPN2 AM-890

NBA THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

vs. St. Louis 7:30 p.m.

CSN AM-720

at Columbus 6 p.m.

WGN AM-720

at Miami 7 p.m.

WGN AM-1000

at Cleveland 7:30 p.m.

ABC AM-1000

SUNDAY

at Arizona 8:40 p.m.

CSN+ AM-670

at Arizona 8:40 p.m.

WGN AM-670

at Arizona 7:10 p.m.

CSN AM-670

at Arizona 3:10 p.m.

WGN AM-670

at Oakland 2:35 p.m.

CSN AM-890

vs. Cleveland 3:10 p.m.

CSN AM-890

vs. Cleveland 1:10 p.m.

WGN AM-890

vs. Cleveland 1:10 p.m.

CSN AM-890

WHAT TO WATCH

Pro baseball San Francisco at Milwaukee, 12:30 p.m., or Seattle at Texas, 1 p.m., MLB Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 6 p.m., ESPN2 White Sox at Oakland, 9 p.m., CSN, ESPN2 Pro basketball Cleveland at Indiana, 6 p.m., ESPN Houston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m, ESPN Pro hockey

SPORTS BRIEFS

NYC trial opens for Marshall, who is accused of punching woman

NEW YORK – A California woman sobbed Tuesday as she told a jury she still suffers from injuries incurred when she was punched in the face outside a Manhattan nightclub four years ago by NFL receiver Brandon Marshall.

Christin Myles said Marshall left her with still unhealed eye injuries, along with neck and back pain that still torment.

Attorney Harvey Steinberg, representing Marshall, a six-time Pro Bowler who plays for the New York Jets, told jurors in an opening statement that his client never punched Myles. He suggested the Manhattan federal court trial was a money grab.

“I have a feeling if he wasn’t a professional athlete we wouldn’t be in this courtroom,” Steinberg said.

Myles is seeking unspecified damages in the lawsuit she filed after the March 11, 2012, encounter outside Marquee nightclub, where she was celebrating her 24th birthday.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 7 p.m., NBCSN Golf The Masters, Par-3 Contest, 2 p.m., ESPN Soccer UEFA Champions League, Manchester City at Paris Saint-Germain, 1:30 p.m., FS1 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid at VfL Wolfsburg, 1:30 p.m., FS2 Women, International friendly, United States vs. Colombia, 6:30 p.m., FS1

Wambach, who won a World Cup with the U.S. national team last summer, was arraigned Tuesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court. She was not present, but her attorney entered a plea of not guilty on her behalf. The documents said Wambach has no prior arrest record. In the documents, officers wrote that she first used marijuana at age 24 and her last use was at 25. It also states: “The defendant tried cocaine at age 25.”

NCAA title game TV viewership down big from last year

HOUSTON – The NCAA championship posted a record-low TV rating.

Villanova’s last-second win over North Carolina on Monday night averaged a 10.6 rating across TBS, TNT and truTV in the first title game to air on cable. The 17.8 million viewers were down 37 percent from the 28.3 million for last season’s Duke-Wisconsin matchup on CBS, which drew the largest audience in 18 years.

Viewership was down 16 percent from the 21.3 million for UConn-Kentucky in 2014.

The previous low was a 10.8 rating for North Carolina-Michigan State in 2009.

Document: Wambach admitted Viewership was down throughout the trying cocaine, marijuana in past PORTLAND, Ore. – Retired soccer star Abby tournament, which was lacking the star Wambach admitted to once trying cocaine power of the 2015 edition, not to mention and smoking marijuana some 10 years ago, the allure of Kentucky’s pursuit of an undeaccording to court documents connected feated season. The two routs in Saturday’s to her arrest on a misdemeanor charge of semifinals also didn’t help. driving under the influence of intoxicants.

– Wire reports

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE y-Cleveland y-Toronto x-Atlanta x-Boston x-Miami x-Charlotte Indiana Detroit

W 56 52 46 45 45 44 41 41

L 22 25 32 32 32 33 36 37

Pct .718 .675 .590 .584 .584 .571 .532 .526

Bulls Washington Orlando Milwaukee New York Brooklyn Philadelphia

39 37 33 32 31 21 10

39 40 44 46 47 56 68

.500 17 .481 18½ .429 22½ .410 24 .397 25 .273 34½ .128 46

WESTERN CONFERENCE y-Golden State y-San Antonio y-Oklahoma City x-L.A. Clippers Memphis Portland Dallas Utah

W 69 65 54 49 42 42 39 39

L 8 12 24 28 36 37 38 39

Pct .896 .844 .692 .636 .538 .532 .506 .500

GB — 3½ 10 10½ 10½ 11½ 14½ 15

GB — 4 15½ 20 27½ 28 30 30½

Houston 38 39 .494 31 Denver 32 47 .405 38 Sacramento 31 47 .397 38½ New Orleans 29 48 .377 40 Minnesota 25 52 .325 44 Phoenix 20 58 .256 49½ L.A. Lakers 16 61 .208 53 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Tuesday’s Results Memphis 108, Bulls 92 Philadelphia 107, New Orleans 93 Toronto 96, Charlotte 90 Cleveland 109, Milwaukee 80 Miami 107, Detroit 89 Atlanta 103, Phoenix 90 Oklahoma City 124, Denver 102 San Antonio 88, Utah 86 Portland 115, Sacramento 107 L.A. Clippers 103, L.A. Lakers 81 Minnesota at Golden State (n) 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.

Thursday’s Games Bulls at Miami, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Houston, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

San Antonio at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

SCORING LEADERS

Through Monday G PTS 74 2227 77 2208 69 1938 63 1703 71 1794 73 1836 61 1481 77 1828 74 1751 77 1797 75 1679 77 1717

Curry, GOL Harden, HOU Durant, OKC Cousins, SAC Lillard, POR James, CLE Davis, NOR Westbrook, OKC DeRozan, TOR George, IND Thompson, GOL Thomas, BOS

AVG 30.1 28.7 28.1 27.0 25.3 25.2 24.3 23.7 23.7 23.3 22.4 22.3

MLB

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division GP W L OT Pts x-Dallas 80 48 23 9 105 x-St. Louis 80 48 23 9 105 x-Hawks 80 47 26 7 101 x-Nashville 80 40 26 14 94 x-Minnesota 81 38 32 11 87 Colorado 80 39 37 4 82 Winnipeg 80 33 39 8 74 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts x-Anaheim 79 44 24 11 99 x-Los Angeles 80 47 28 5 99 x-San Jose 80 45 29 6 96 Arizona 80 35 38 7 77 Vancouver 79 30 36 13 73 Calgary 80 33 40 7 73 Edmonton 80 30 43 7 67

NATIONAL LEAGUE

GF GA 260 226 221 195 230 202 223 210 215 204 211 231 206 232 GF GA 210 187 220 190 236 205 207 241 182 227 222 256 194 239

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA y-Florida 80 46 25 9 101 233 198 x-Tampa Bay 80 45 30 5 95 221 194 Detroit 79 40 28 11 91 204 216 Boston 80 41 30 9 91 234 222 Ottawa 80 36 35 9 81 227 245 Buffalo 80 34 35 11 79 196 215 Montreal 80 36 38 6 78 212 232 Toronto 79 28 40 11 67 192 233 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-Washington 79 55 17 7 117 244 186 x-Pittsburgh 80 47 25 8 102 240 197 x-N.Y. Rangers80 45 26 9 99 232 211 x-N.Y. Islanders79 44 26 9 97 223 206 Philadelphia 78 39 26 13 91 203 208 Carolina 80 35 29 16 86 194 217 New Jersey 80 37 35 8 82 177 203 Columbus 79 31 40 8 70 205 246 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference 2 points for a win, one point for OT loss Tuesday’s Results Blackhawks 6, Arizona 2 Carolina 2, Boston 1 (SO) Buffalo 3, New Jersey 1 N.Y. Islanders 4, Washington 3 (OT) N.Y. Rangers 3, Tampa Bay 2 Florida 4, Montreal 1 Pittsburgh 5, Ottawa 3 Nashville 4, Colorado 3 San Jose 3, Minnesota 0 Los Angeles 5, Calgary 4 (OT) Winnipeg 2, Anaheim 1 (OT) Wednesday’s Games Columbus at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 7 p.m.

SCORING LEADERS

Through Monday GP G Patrick Kane, Hawks 79 43 Jamie Benn, Dal 80 41 Sidney Crosby, Pit 78 33 Erik Karlsson, Ott 79 15 Joe Thornton, SJ 79 18 Joe Pavelski, SJ 79 36 Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy 76 30 Evgeny Kuznetsov, Was 78 20 Brent Burns, SJ 79 27 Tyler Seguin, Dal 72 33 Blake Wheeler, Wpg 79 23 Artemi Panarin, Hawks 77 28 V. Tarasenko, StL 78 37 Anze Kopitar, LA 78 25 Two tied with 67 points

A 57 47 49 64 60 40 45 55 47 40 50 44 34 45

PTS 100 88 82 79 78 76 75 75 74 73 73 72 71 70

LOCAL SCHEDULE Wednesday Baseball: Prairie Ridge at McHenry, Boylan at Richmond-Burton, Carmel at Crystal Lake Central, Hoffman Estates at Dundee-Crown, Hampshire at Sycamore, Huntley at Barrington, Grayslake Central at Johnsburg, Woodstock North at Christian Liberty, 4:30 p.m.; Crystal Lake South at Harlem, 5 p.m.

Softball: Boylan at Richmond-Burton, Wauconda at Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South at Belvidere, Sycamore at Hampshire, Huntley at Wheaton North, Jacobs at Fremd, Grayslake Central at Johnsburg, Woodstock at Genoa-Kingston, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Crystal Lake South vs.

Marian Central at Canlan Sportsplex in Lake Barrington, 4:30 p.m.; Prairie Ridge at Cary-Grove, Harvard at Burlington Central, 6 p.m.; Woodstock at Round Lake Tournament, TBA Boys Lacrosse: Hoffman Estates at Huntley, 7 p.m.

Boys Tennis: Belvidere North at Huntley, Antioch at Johnsburg, Round Lake at Woodstock, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday Baseball: Richmond-Burton at Johnsburg, Barrington at Cary-Grove, Harvard at Genoa-Kingston, Marengo

at Burlington Central, Woodstock at Belvidere North, IMSA at Alden-Hebron, 4:30 p.m.

Softball: Marengo at Richmond-Burton, Cary-Grove at Palatine, Crystal Lake Central at Belvidere North, Huntley at Fremd, Jacobs at Marian Central, Johnsburg at North Boone, 4:30 p.m.; IMSA at Alden-Hebron, 4:45 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Marengo at Richmond-Burton, McHenry at Prairie Ridge, Cary-Grove at Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South at Woodstock North, Huntley at Hampshire, Jacobs at Woodstock, Johnsburg at Rockford Christian, 4:30 p.m.; Dundee-Crown at Grayslake North, 6:30 p.m.

Boys Track and Field: Hampshire at Huntley Invite, 4:30 p.m.

Boys Lacrosse: McHenry at Lake Forest, 5 p.m.; Crystal Lake South at Prairie Ridge, 6 p.m.; Crystal Lake Central at Vernon Hills, 7 p.m.

Boys Tennis: Cary-Grove at McHenry, Woodstock North at Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South at Jacobs, Hampshire at Dundee-Crown, Grayslake North at Johnsburg, 4 p.m.; Huntley at Prairie Ridge, St. Edward at Marengo, Woodstock at Grayslake Central, 4:30 p.m.

Central Division W L Pct Cubs 2 0 1.000 Pittsburgh 2 0 1.000 Cincinnati 1 0 1.000 Milwaukee 0 2 .000 St. Louis 0 2 .000 East Division W L Pct Washington 1 0 1.000 New York 1 1 .500 Atlanta 0 1 .000 Miami 0 1 .000 Philadelphia 0 1 .000 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 2 0 1.000 San Francisco 2 0 1.000 Arizona 1 1 .500 Colorado 1 1 .500 San Diego 0 2 .000

GB — — ½ 2 2 GB — ½ 1 1 1 GB — — 1 1 2

Tuesday’s Results Cubs 6, L.A. Angels 1 N.Y. Mets 2, Kansas City 0 Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 5 (11 inn.)

Detroit 8, Miami 7 (11 inn.)

San Francisco 2, Milwaukee 1 Arizona 11, Colorado 6 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Diego 0 Wednesday’s Games San Francisco (Samardzija 0-0) at Milwaukee (Jungmann 0-0), 12:40 p.m.

Colorado (Chatwood 0-0) at Arizona (Corbin 0-0), 2:40 p.m.

Detroit (Sanchez 0-0) at Miami (Fernandez 0-0), 3:55 p.m.

St. Louis (Leake 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Nicasio 0-0), 6:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Nola 0-0) at Cincinnati (Finnegan 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 0-0) at Atlanta (B.Norris 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 0-0) at San Diego (Cashner 0-0), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Cubs at Arizona, 8:40 p.m.

Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 11:35 a.m.

Miami at Washington, 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 3:35 p.m.

Monday’s Results Cubs at L.A. Angels (n) 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)

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Central Division W L Pct 2 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 1 1 .500 0 1 .000 0 1 .000 East Division W L Pct Baltimore 1 0 1.000 Boston 1 0 1.000 Toronto 2 1 .667 Tampa Bay 1 2 .333 New York 0 1 .000 West Division W L Pct Houston 1 0 1.000 Seattle 1 1 .500 Texas 1 1 .500 Oakland 0 2 .000 Los Angeles 0 2 .000

White Sox Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Minnesota

GB — ½ 1 1½ 1½ GB — — — 1 1 GB — ½ ½ 1½ 1½

Tuesday’s Results Cubs 6, L.A. Angels 1 White Sox 5, Oakland 4 Houston 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 Boston 6, Cleveland 2 N.Y. Mets 2, Kansas City 0 Detroit 8, Miami 7, 11 innings Tampa Bay 3, Toronto 2 Seattle 10, Texas 2 Wednesday’s Games White Sox (Rodon 0-0) at Oakland (Gray 0-0), 9:05 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Moore 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

Seattle (Miley 0-0) at Texas (Lewis 0-0), 1:05 p.m.

Detroit (Sanchez 0-0) at Miami (Fernandez 0-0), 3:55 p.m.

Boston (Buchholz 0-0) at Cleveland (Carrasco 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Houston (McHugh 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 0-0), 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 0-0) at Baltimore (Gallardo 0-0), 6:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games White Sox at Oakland, 2:35 p.m.

Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 3:05 p.m.

Boston at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

Monday’s Results Cubs 9, L.A. Angels 0 White Sox 4, Oakland 3 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

GRIZZLIES 108, BULLS 92

By JOE COWLEY

jcowley@suntimes.com

AP photo

Bulls guard Derrick Rose looks to pass under the basket between Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph, (left) and guard Tony Allen during the first half Tuesday in Memphis, Tenn. swered questions that have lingered throughout the season. “[Memphis] was the absolute aggressors in that game,” coach Fred Hoiberg said. “It’s very disappointing … very disappointing. To throw away an opportunity like this, especially with Detroit losing tonight. I told the guys, ‘I’ve never quit in my life, I ain’t quitting on you now.’ We’re going to keep going out and fighting, try and get these guys right [Wednesday], and go with a good effort in Miami.”

An effort that has to be better

than Tuesday’s.

On top of allowing the Grizzlies (42-36) to win the battle of the boards through the first three quarters, 20 turnovers that led to 38 points all but doomed the Bulls on the evening.

“We talked about a couple things that were huge keys in this game,” Hoiberg said. “It was offensive rebounds and turnovers. And that’s exactly what they got us on. They scored 38 points on our 20 turnovers, and they beat us up on the boards.”

Sure, there was the usual run in

BULLS NOTES

Felicio earns shot at making next season’s roster

By JOE COWLEY

jcowley@suntimes.com MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Fred Hoiberg has learned a lot about Cristiano Felicio over the past few weeks.

That wasn’t supposed to be the plan.

But then again, very little has gone as expected when it comes to these Bulls this season, and that isn’t about to change.

With Joakim Noah lost for the season, and now Taj Gibson missing his fourth consecutive game with a rib fracture Tuesday, the 6-foot-10, 275-pound Felicio again was back in the rotation as a key reserve against Memphis.

Gibson’s injury is still a day-by-day concern, so the Felicio experiment might be on display over the final four regular-season games. Bigger picture?

The rookie might also have given himself the chance to be a rotation player beyond this season.

“Yeah, I think that’s absolutely the case,” Hoiberg said of that scenario.

“Again, we saw the potential in our minicamp when we were going to Las Vegas for our Summer League. And invited him to training camp, and again saw what he could do, the Cristiano way he moved for a perFelicio son that size, and someone that young. That’s when we talked to him about making the team. I remember for a non-guaranteed guy how exciting that is to hear, to hear that you’re on an NBA roster, and he’s taken advantage of all the opportunities

we’ve had with our frontline being in and out of the lineup, especially late in the year when Pau (Gaso)] went down, and he’s given us really good minutes.

“I think a big part of it with what he’s done defensively, but I think the feel that he has on the offensive end is something that was a little surprising to everyone. But he’s been terrific for us, and he’s going to have to play key minutes for us down the stretch.”

Felicio was all in on that idea.

“I picked up that confidence and just want to keep showing them the work I’ve done all year,” Felicio said.

“Now that I have my chance, I’m trying to make my most of it.”

The Bulls were scheduled to practice Wednesday in Miami, and Hoiberg was hoping to have a better idea on Gibson.

“When he goes up to shoot or he extends his arms over his head, it grabs on him,” Hoiberg said of the veteran big man. “It’s too much pain to fight through right now, especially with as much impact as Taj takes, getting hit in that area. It’s better. It’s better than it was a couple of days ago, but he’s still not quite ready.”

Bull shots: E’Twaun Moore’s hamstring issues again showed up late in the Milwaukee game, forcing the combo guard to miss the game against Memphis. Hoiberg said Moore was day-to-day. … Veteran Mike Dunleavy had a late night, flying to Houston to watch his brother, Baker, who is an assistant coach with Villanova, beat North Carolina in the NCAA national championship game, and then jumping a plan back to Memphis after the game.

• Wednesday, April 6, 2016

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Mathematically, there was still life to this Bulls team.

That’s about all they had going after Tuesday, however. Days on a schedule that told them they were still in a race for an eighth consecutive season in which they made the playoffs.

Heart, fight, will? Those all remained concepts that have escaped this roster throughout the second half of the season, and there was no mathematical formula that could mask that.

In what was a must-win game against a depleted Memphis Grizzlies team, the Bulls spent the second and third quarters looking mostly disinterested, eventually losing, 108-92.

The aftermath of the loss was huge, not only dropping them to 39-39 on the season, but keeping them two games behind Detroit – who lost to Miami – for the eighth and final spot in the Eastern Conference.

The problem with four games left to play was that the Pistons hold the tie-breaker over the Bulls.

Indiana was idle, so that kept the No. 7 spot locked down, but the Bulls still have two very tough games on the schedule, traveling to Miami on Thursday and hosting Cleveland on Saturday.

They do so with a lot of unan-

the fourth quarter, as the second unit helped cut a 22-point deficit to just 11 points.

But Jimmy Butler was all but a no-show, scoring just five points on 2-for-8 shooting, while Derrick Rose was 5 for 15 after missing the last two games with a sore left elbow.

It was Butler that was the head-scratcher, insisting after the game that he just has to be better.

Hoiberg didn’t have an answer for the two-time All-Star, either.

“He’s fine physically,” Hoiberg said of Butler. “We came out and played in the fourth, cut that thing down to 11. We missed a couple free throws, had an opportunity, but it was too late. You dig yourself that big hole, were down 20, finally come out and play in the fourth quarter, but again we dug ourselves a hole. It’s kind of been the story for our team this season.

“But that’s a good question.”

Not the only question surrounding this team.

The Bulls have to basically win out in order to make the postseason now, and Rose didn’t sound too confident in that happening.

“Yeah, [Memphis] just played like they want to get into the playoffs,” Rose said. “I think they lost [six] games in a row. We can’t come out with the approach we had.

“I think everyone was surprised.

Still can’t believe it. It’s gonna be a long night, for sure.”

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Wildcats revel over title

By DAN GELSTON

The Associated Press VILLANOVA, Pa. – Once Villanova’s band stopped playing its fight song, Jay Wright took over as pep rally conductor.

“Just for the [heck] of it, let’s do it,” he exhorted to nearly 2,000 fans.

“When I say, Nova, you say, ‘Nation!’ ” “Nova!”

“Nation!” they screamed back at the coach.

The Wildcats gave their fans plenty of reason to go wild through March Madness – and more fun is ahead.

The national champions were welcomed back Tuesday at the airport with a police escort that swept rush hour cars off the interstate and dispatched them to Villanova’s football stadium for a rally.

This was just a celebratory appetizer.

There’s a bigger bash ahead.

Villanova will get a championship parade Friday.

The parade in Philadelphia will cover five blocks of Market Street and

end outside City Hall, skipping the city’s traditional athletic celebration route down Broad Street. The Phillies were the last major championship team to have a parade, in 2008.

Kris Jenkins’ 3-pointer in the final seconds gave Villanova its second national title, after the stunner against Georgetown in 1985.

“I watched it quite a few times and every time it’s just like, wow, I can’t believe I was that open,” Jenkins said of his shot at the rally. “Then I can’t believe I made the shot. It’s crazy.”

Villanova had lost three times in the first weekend as a No. 1 or 2 seed since a Final Four run in 2009. Even the die-hards had little faith the Big East champions could pull off a run all the way to the first weekend in April.

ESPN said Villanova was picked to win it all in only 2.56 percent of its NCAA brackets and that more users selected No. 16 Hampton to advance out of the first round than selected Villanova to win it all.

Now, this surprise champion has infused a dose of joy into the city sports scene.

NCAA WOMEN’S HOOPS FINAL: UCONN 82, SYRACUSE 51

Huskies 4-peat The ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Villanova’s Daniel Ochefu celebrates with fans on the school’s campus Tuesday in Villanova, Pa. The Wildcats defeated North Carolina, 77-74, to win the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament Monday night in Houston.

INDIANAPOLIS – Breanna Stewart and UConn stand alone. Geno Auriemma, too, after another flawless season by the dominating Huskies.

UConn won an unprecedented fourth straight national championship Tuesday, capping another perfect season by routing Syracuse, 8251. Until now, only the UCLA men’s team had won four in a row in Division I, rolling to seven consecutive titles under John Wooden from 1967 to ’73. Auriemma passed the Wizard of Westwood with his 11th national title.

“What those 11 championships mean to me is how many great players I’ve had the opportunity to coach,” Auriemma said. “How many great people have come through the program? It doesn’t matter whose name is above, or whose name I’m under. As long as I have those players in my memory, I’m good.”

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CUT THE CREAM Avocado subs in for a healthier pasta dish

DIET-FRIENDLY DESSERTS

Maple Budino, Bitters and Berries define decadence

Perfect foil Flawless fish every time, in the oven or on the grill

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According to my grandmother, fruit is God’s candy, making it the perfect ending to a meal. I agree with Grandma – fruit is a lovely, healthy way to end a meal. But I’ll also confess the dessert lover in me sometimes craves something a smidge fancier. And by fancier, I mean with chocolate.

Berries are the perfect dessert fruit because their flavor is concentrated and bold, and they are both sweet and just a tiny bit tangy. Berries are gorgeous and elegant, which is important when it comes to pulling off fruit as a true dessert and not some sort of healthy consolation prize (try serving sliced apples at your next dinner party and you’ll see what I mean).

Plus, berries are rich in antioxidants, high in fiber and low in calories. Raspberries, for instance, have just about 60 calories a cup. And despite their sweet taste, they pack only about 5 grams of sugar, but a whopping 8 grams of fiber.

All of which means this dessert isn’t just tasty, it’s filling, too.

Perhaps the best benefit to making berries the star of dessert is there’s a little wiggle room to add a few bells and whistles. One of my favorite fruit dessert strategies is to whip up a simple syrup (just water and sugar heated until they come together in a thin syrup) with cool flavors. Think about adding interesting spices, such as cardamom with vanilla bean and black pepper, or herbs, such as mint or basil and lemon zest. Then just

Bitters and Berries AP photo

drizzle your way to dessert magic.

Add a tablespoon of liqueur or wine to the syrup – think orange liqueur or Marsala – and the flavors really pop.

A few drops of almond extract or even cocktail bitters also are great. Only a tiny bit of a flavorful syrup is needed, but be aware you are adding a bit of (worthwhile) sugar. Just before serving, use a vegetable peeler to shave off a few shards of deep, almost bitter chocolate, and you’ve just turned simple fruit into a weekend-worthy dessert.

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Start to finish: 20 minutes, plus steeping Servings: 6 1/3 cup raw coconut sugar 1/3 cup water 1½ tablespoons angostura bitters

1/2 vanilla pod, sliced open lengthwise, seeds scraped out 1 teaspoon finely grated orange zest 2 tablespoons orange juice 4 cups mixed fresh berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and/or blackberries) Very dark chocolate bar, to shave In a small saucepan over medium, heat the sugar and water, stirring occasionally, until the sugar dissolves, about 5 minutes. Stir in the bitters, vanilla pod and seeds, orange zest and juice, then cook for another 1 to 2 minutes, or until fragrant. Remove from the heat and allow to steep at room temperature for at least 30 minutes, or up to 2 hours. Discard the vanilla pod. Refrigerate if not using right away.

Divide the berries among 6 dessert cups.

Spoon about 2 tablespoons of the syrup over each berry bowl. Top with shavings of dark chocolate.

New technique, new ingredient add flavor to stovetop roasted broccoli

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Of all the trendy/healthy/unusual ingredients I use regularly in my cooking, the one I get questions about most is nutritional yeast (which tastes way better than it sounds).

Nutritional yeast – not the same as baking yeast – is a golden, flaky powder typically sold in natural foods stores (usually in the bulk section). It doesn’t look like much, but boy does it pack some flavor.

I love nutritional yeast because it has a cheesy, nutty, savory flavor and can be sprinkled liberally on just about any vegetable or savory/salty snack I make. Freshly popped popcorn or homemade baked kale chips with a bunch of this yeasty, cheesy goodness all over is, quite frankly, snacking perfection.

Nutritional yeast also is my

weeknight dinner go-to seasoning for roasted vegetables or veggie purées (mashed potatoes are super tasty).

And in the mornings, it gets sprinkled on just about every egg white I cook. Plus it’s vegan, so if you are cooking for a crowd, it’s a safe bet everyone can enjoy it.

Did I mention it’s incredibly healthy, too? Every 2 tablespoons of this stuff adds 9 grams of protein and 4 grams of fiber to whatever you’re making, and only 1 gram of fat and 60 calories. Most nutritional yeasts are fortified with B vitamins, making it even better. Plus, nutritional yeast is a naturally good source of iron and selenium.

Please ignore the unfortunate name and try nutritional yeast next time you roast some veggies. And just for fun, in today’s recipe I’m sharing a quick stovetop method for making one of my all-time favorites – roasted broccoli. I love roasted broc-

coli, but sometimes I need dinner on the table in minutes. This recipe makes that happen. So enjoy this double-duty recipe – a new ingredient, and a new technique.

Stovetop-Roasted Broccoli with Nutritional Yeast Start to finish: 10 minutes Servings: 4

3/4 pound broccoli florets 2 teaspoons olive oil 1 clove garlic, minced or pressed Pinch red pepper flakes 1/4 cup low-sodium chicken or vegetable stock or broth (or water) 1/4 cup nutritional yeast 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt Heat a large, heavy sauté pan or Dutch oven over high until very hot.

While the pan heats, in a medium bowl,

toss the broccoli with the olive oil until well coated. Place the florets in the hot pan, in a single layer, lightly pressing with a spatula to maximize contact with the hot surface (you should hear sizzling). Cover and cook for 1½ minutes, or until the bottoms of the broccoli have some browning and char.

Uncover and flip the broccoli with the spatula, then press gently again. Cover and cook for another 1½ minutes. Uncover and stir in the garlic and red pepper flakes.

Once fragrant (about 1 minute), add the stock and cover, allowing the broccoli to steam for 1 minute. Uncover and sprinkle on the nutritional yeast and vinegar, then stir. Let cook until all the liquid evaporates.

Season with salt.

Nutrition information per serving: 80 calories; 25 calories from fat (31 percent of total calories); 3 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 160 mg sodium; 10 g carbohydrate; 4 g fiber; 3 g sugar; 7 g protein.

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Avocado is far more than just guacamole, club sandwiches and California omelets. This creamy, fatty, filling fruit (technically, it’s a berry), also is a great source of healthy fat, making it an excellent replacement for other fats.

Why have fat at all? Because research is clear our bodies need fat to absorb other nutrients. Not to mention they taste good and leave us satisfied. When I eat healthy fats with my meals, I am far less likely to dive into a sugary-carby treat later on. It’s that simple. When I find myself craving a sweet in the afternoon, it’s almost always a sure sign I didn’t eat enough healthy fat at lunch.

Avocado is nutrient-dense, which means the per-calorie nutritional game is solid. Avocados are packed with vitamins and minerals. And they are incredibly fiber-rich. Know that nutrient-dense also means caloriedense. So downing a large bowl of guacamole at happy hour probably is not wise. I aim for an ounce or two a day, which is about a quarter or a third of a medium avocado.

What do I do with avocado? I use it when I want to swap out cheese, such as adding decadence and creaminess to morning egg whites. Or I use it as a healthy boost for my kids’ morning smoothies, adding vitamins and filling fiber and fat to jumpstart their day. Avocado also is a great substitute for heavy cream; I blend it up to make salad dressings, silky-rich sauces, even puddings and baked goods.

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Speedy No-Cook Avocado Pasta Sauce Start to finish: 20 minutes Servings: 6

12 ounces whole-grain pasta 1 large avocado, peeled, pitted and roughly cubed 1/4 cup lemon juice 1 teaspoon lemon zest 2 cloves garlic, minced or pressed 1 scallion, chopped 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Pinch red pepper flakes 1/4 cup cilantro leaves and soft stems Kosher salt and ground black pepper Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Cook the pasta according to package directions, then reserve 1/2 cup of the cooking water, and drain.

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Toss to coat the pasta, adding a bit of the reserved cooking water, if needed, to thin the sauce.

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Stir-fry goes Italian for a new take on healthy Asian classic

By MELISSA D’ARABIAN

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Somewhere in the repertoire of every healthy-minded cook is a stirfry. You chop up a bunch of veggies, cook them quickly at high heat, add meat or tofu, maybe a flavorful sauce or a sprinkle of chopped cashews or peanuts. Easy, healthy and versatile.

And usually Asian in flavor profile.

But one day, I got to wondering: Why not try an unexpected flavor slant, such as Italian, southern French, Greek or Mexican? The plugand-play skeleton of a typical stir-fry is just begging to be mixed up a bit. I love a cooking blueprint that grants me not just one dinner, but plenty of possibilities. With stir-fries being so healthy – due to their reliance on oodles of veggies – it’s a perfect model to expand beyond the tasty Asian box we have it in.

So let’s start with a few stir-fry tips. First, always prep all your ingredients in advance and have everything right there at the stovetop before you begin. Nowhere is mise en place more important than with a stir-fry.

Second, use high heat. You want to sear the ingredients, and that requires lots of heat. If you are using firmer vegetables such as broccoli and cauliflower, and you prefer them softer than a quick roll in the wok will make them, either blanch them briefly as part of your prep, or use a quick sauté-steam method (as used in the recipe here).

Third, don’t crowd your wok (or frying pan), which will lower the temperature and result in a steamed stir-fry (not a good thing). If you don’t have a sufficiently large wok, cook the protein in a separate frying pan (I explain how below) to get a nice sear, then add to the vegetable skillet at the last minute, along with the sauce. Finally, top the entire thing with something crunchy, such as a

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Italian Stir-Fry

Start to finish: 15 minutes Servings: 4 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into thin strips Kosher salt and ground black pepper 1/2 pound small broccoli florets 2½-pound head cauliflower, trimmed, cored and cut into small florets (about 1½ pounds florets) 1 tablespoon grapeseed or other neutral oil, divided 1/2 medium yellow onion, chopped 1/4 cup low-sodium chicken broth or stock (or water) 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes

1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 cup marinara sauce, warmed 2 tablespoons toasted pine nuts (optional) Season the chicken strips with salt and pepper, then set aside.

In a food processor, pulse the broccoli until finely chopped. Transfer to a large bowl.

Working in batches, repeat this step with the cauliflower, adding the chopped bits to the broccoli. Have all remaining ingredients prepped.

In a medium nonstick skillet over medium, heat 1 teaspoon of the oil. At the same time, in a large wok over high, heat the remaining oil.

In the skillet, brown the chicken on all sides until golden, 6 to 8 minutes, depending on how thick the strips are.

Meanwhile, add the broccoli, cauliflower

and onion to the wok. Cook, stirring constantly and spreading the vegetables up the sides of the wok, until the vegetables start to brown, about 5 minutes. Add the broth, then cover and let steam for 2 to 3 minutes.

Remove the cover and let the remaining broth evaporate. Add the garlic, red pepper flakes and a pinch of salt. Continue to cook another minute, stirring.

Add the cooked chicken and Parmesan cheese, stir, then remove from heat. Serve with pine nuts sprinkled on top, if desired, and the marinara either drizzled over the top or served on the side.

Nutrition information per serving: 290 calories; 80 calories from fat (28 percent of total calories); 9 g fat (2 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 90 mg cholesterol; 610 mg sodium; 19 g carbohydrate; 7 g fiber; 7 g sugar; 33 g protein.

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Use foil for foolproof baked salmon

By MELISSA D’ARABIAN The Associated Press

We all know eating fish several times a week is a healthy goal. But a lot of otherwise accomplished home cooks still find cooking fish a bit intimidating. The biggest worry?

Drying it out.

I’d love to say this fear is unfounded, but truth is it’s easy to overcook fish. This is why I always pull the fish out a minute or two before I think it’s done. Usually, that will ensure perfectly moist and tender results.

Another trick: en papillote, or packet method of cooking. Cooking fish en papillote is a super-easy way to increase the margin of error, that window when the fish is cooked, but not overcooked. That’s because cooking the fish in a tightly sealed packet creates a dome of steam that gently cooks the fish (and any other ingredients in the packet), keeping all those tasty juices right inside.

That cooking time forgiveness

is pure culinary gold. En papillote traditionally is done using kitchen parchment, but foil packets are handy and can get tossed on the grill in summer. Just be aware foil can react with acid, so if you are using a lot of lemon juice for an en papillote recipe, it’s better to go with parchment (but not for the grill).

For each packet, spray a heavyduty piece of foil with cooking spray. Then set a serving of fish on top, followed by any other ingredients you like. I like to include a sauce or paste for flavor (maybe pesto or a little white wine), an aromatic (such as minced onion) and some finely chopped veggies.

If the veggies are heartier (such as sweet potatoes), parcook them first (a quick microwave steam is fine).

Fish foil packets are versatile and weeknight-friendly. You can assemble them in advance and just toss them in the oven when you get home from work. You’ll find it much easier to hit that fish allotment each week.

Salmon Packets With Curry and Green Beans Start to finish: 30 minutes Servings: 6

Six 5-ounce salmon fillets Kosher salt and ground black pepper 2 tablespoons red curry paste 2 teaspoons fish sauce 1/4 cup chopped pineapple (canned is fine) 1 teaspoon Asian chili sauce (optional) 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon chopped Thai basil (or regular basil if not available) 1 teaspoon lime zest 1/2 cup light canned coconut milk 3 shallots, thinly sliced 1/2 red bell pepper, sliced into matchsticks 1/2 pound thin green beans (haricots verts), trimmed Heat the oven to 375 degrees F. Coat 6 large rectangles of heavy foil with cooking spray.

Season the salmon with salt and pepper, then set aside.

In a small bowl, mix the curry paste and fish sauce. Add the pineapple, chili sauce, garlic, basil, lime zest and coconut milk. Mix well.

Divide the shallots evenly among the prepared sheets of foil, spreading them evenly in the center of each rectangle. Set a salmon fillet over the shallots on each sheet, then spoon some of the sauce over the salmon, dividing it evenly between the servings. Top each with red pepper slices and green beans, then fold up the sides of the foil to create loose packets. Be sure to crimp the packets well so they contain any steam.

Place the packets on a baking sheet and bake until the salmon is cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes. Be careful when opening; the packets will release hot steam.

Nutrition information per serving: 310 calories; 140 calories from fat (45 percent of total calories); 16 g fat (5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 70 mg cholesterol; 660 mg sodium; 11 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 5 g sugar; 30 g protein.

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For healthy decadence, try maple budino

By MELISSA D’ARABIAN The Associated Press

Years ago, a friend took me to one of his favorite restaurants in New York City. Dinner was fantastic, but what stayed with me most was dessert: maple budino. One bite and I was smitten.

The pudding was luxuriously fatty and creamy, and the flavor was incredibly clean: maple and maybe a little floral vanilla. Budino is simply Italian for pudding, but this was unlike any pudding I’d ever eaten. For the record, I am a pudding fan. I grew up having “pudding parties” with my sister, the two of us making pudding out of the box, lightly scorching every saucepan in the house over the years.

Later, I learned how easy it is to make a quick stovetop pudding from scratch. Simply follow this formula (which is easily scaled up): 1 cup milk plus 1 tablespoon cornstarch plus 1 to 2 tablespoons sugar plus flavorings (vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon, etc.). The trick to a smooth stovetop pudding is to whisk the cornstarch and sugar first in the cold saucepan to break up lumps, then whisk in the milk. Heat over medium and allow to boil gently for 2 to 3 minutes, constantly whisking. Pour into ramekins and chill.

Making your own puddings means you control the ingredients. Since milk already is a little sweet, you

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don’t need a ton of extra sugar. And you can slowly reduce the amount of sugar over time, so your family grows accustomed to a healthier dessert.

Fat, too, is under your control. You can use whole milk for restaurantcreamy results or skim milk if you don’t mind a less-lush texture in exchange for a skinny calorie count.

I also love baked custard puddings.

They require more effort, but they are more likely to feel at home at a dinner party. This maple budino is a baked custard, but feel free to make a stovetop version using my formula above.

Maple Budino

Start to finish: 1 hour (15 minutes active), plus cooling Servings: 6 1 cup 2 percent milk 3/4 cup whole milk 1/2 vanilla bean pod, scraped 2 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar 1/4 cup maple syrup, plus extra 1/4 teaspoon table salt 2 eggs Flaked sea salt Heat the oven to 325 degrees F.

In a medium saucepan over medium, combine both milks. Heat until they just come to a simmer. Add the vanilla bean, brown sugar, maple syrup and salt, whisking until uniform.

In a large bowl, beat the eggs until smooth and pale yellow. Drizzle about 1/4 cup of the hot milk mixture into the eggs, whisking all the time. Once mixed, add another 1/4 cup of milk, again whisking.

Add the remaining milk mixture, and mix gently just until well combined. Remove and discard the vanilla bean. Pour into six 4-ounce ramekins.

Carefully set the ramekins into a large baking dish with sides higher than the ramekins. Pour boiling water gently into the baking dish, adding enough to fill halfway up the sides of the ramekins. Be careful not to splash water into the ramekins. Carefully place the baking dish in the oven and bake until the budinos are set (the centers will still be jiggly), 30 to 40 minutes.

Once the budinos are cooked, immediately remove the ramekins from the hot water bath. Let them cool a few minutes, then refrigerate to finish setting, at least 1 hour.

Serve with a drizzle of maple syrup and a few flecks of salt, if desired.

Nutrition information per serving: 130 calories; 30 calories from fat (23 percent of total calories); 3.5 g fat (1.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 80 mg cholesterol; 160 mg sodium; 22 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 20 g sugar; 4 g protein.

Muffin in a mug is just the treat you need

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I’m not sure how it happened, but the microwave mug muffin suddenly is an Internet sensation. I’m a believer in making muffins in large batches and freezing, so I admit I’ve only recently taken interest in the individually made microwave version.

My kids love to eat anything from a cup (ever since my mother-in-law gifted our entire family personalized photo mugs), so I decided to give it a go. Turns out, mug muffins are a perfect warming treat for our family’s “fun Friday” breakfast. Try my coconut-cinnamon roll muffin this week. And by the way, if you mix 1/4 cup of unsweetened dark cocoa powder into the batter and leave out the cinnamon, the results will be dessertworthy.

I make the batter in a small bowl, then pour into a mug coated with cooking spray, which means you miss out on that cool viral-video moment

of mixing everything up in the actual mug before it heads off to cook. But those videos are really sped up, and actually there are a lot of ingredients that have to get poured into a cup to make just one muffin. (And what about making more than one?). So, a bowl it is.

My recipe is for two muffins, but it will scale up no problem for a gaggle of kiddos. And here’s a bonus: You can save time by making the batter in advance and leaving it overnight in the refrigerator. Just add a couple of tablespoons of extra milk and about 15 seconds extra cooking time.

Coconut-Cinnamon Roll Microwave Mug Muffin Start to finish: 5 minutes Servings: 2

2 tablespoons almond flour (meal) 1 tablespoon coconut flour 2 tablespoons quinoa flour (or other gluten-free substitute or all-purpose flour)

2 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar, plus 1 teaspoon 3/4 teaspoon baking powder Pinch kosher salt 1 egg 1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted (or neutral oil) 1/4 cup plain low-fat Greek yogurt 1/4 cup milk 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 teaspoons low-fat cream cheese Cinnamon, to garnish In a medium bowl, whisk together the almond flour, coconut flour, quinoa flour, 2 tablespoons of brown sugar, baking powder and salt. Add the egg, oil, yogurt, milk and vanilla, then whisk until well mixed.

Coat two 8-ounce mugs with cooking spray. Spoon a heaping tablespoon of batter into each mug. Top each with 1 teaspoon of the cream cheese and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Divide the remaining batter among the 2 mugs. Sprinkle with cinnamon and the remaining teaspoon of brown sugar. One at a time, microwave on high for about 1 minute

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15 seconds, or until the muffin is dry on top (timing will vary by microwave). Let cool a few minutes before eating.

Nutrition information per serving: 290 calories; 150 calories from fat (52 percent of total calories); 17 g fat (9 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 120 mg cholesterol; 410 mg sodium; 27 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 19 g sugar; 9 g protein.

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8 CLASSIFIED • Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Real Estate & Personal Property Auction - Saturday April 9th 10 AM 42393 N 70 East Rd, Rankin, IL 5+/- Acres Farm Homestead Including 3 BR Home, Vehicles, Tractors, Tools & More!

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Candidate will ensure the protection and security of residents, staff, and Agency property, facilities, and equipment, while maintaining a current knowledge of Agency security and safety policies and procedures. Ideal candidate will have a High School diploma or equivalent experience, with prior experience as a security guard. Per DCFS regulations, must have a valid driver’s license with a good driving record and be at least 21 years of age. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefit package as well as a tuition assistance plan.

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Piano, dining room, living room, bedroom furniture, antiques, antique books, glassware, household items and more, file cabinets & steel case desks, costume jewelry and more + 1937 Ford Coup

WOODSTOCK ESTATE SALE FRI & SAT 9-4, SUN 9-2 17422 US ROUTE 14 Lots of Vintage - Erector & Gilbert Chemistry Set Parts, Lionel Train, vinyl records, children's organ, children's table & chair, Games - Atari, Pong, dolls, kitchen items, furniture, school desk, lift recliner, motorized scooter, new wheelchair, oak dining table & chairs, Living room furniture, bedroom set, corner hutch, TV's, electronics, tools, Cessna 182 sports scale model set & MUCH MORE!

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JOBS ANNOUNCEMENTS STUFF VEHICLES REAL ESTATE SERVICES LEGALS

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BRIDGE by Phillip Alder

Crystal Lake

WOODSTOCK

First Congregational Church

4218 Billingsgate Lane (Crestview Estates)

NEW HOURS

Lots of Furniture, Kitchen items and Household items.

Lots of Lawn and Barn items.

Rummage Sale

Opens Thurs, Apr 7 Fri, Apr 8 Sat, Apr 9

5pm - 7pm 9am - 5pm 9am - 1pm

Moving Sale

Use Side Entrance

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HARVARD GARAGE SALE THURS, FRI, SAT, APR 7, 8, 9 8-2

1210 Willow Lane Margery Allingham, an English author of detective fiction whose best-known character was Albert Campion, said, “Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.”

Expert bridge players can do remarkable things with cards. They can weave them into a rope to hang an opponent -- as in this deal.

How should West try to defeat four hearts by South? West leads the spade queen. Declarer wins with dummy’s king and runs the heart 10.

What happens after that?

North produces a negative double, which shows four hearts (the unbid major) and some eight-plus points (or six or seven if he really likes his hand). He might hold five or even six hearts and only 6-9 points, too few to respond two hearts; but that is rare.

South has four potential losers: one spade (on the third round), two hearts and one club. But there are discards available on diamonds.

Yesterday, when declarer ran the heart 10, West won with his queen and persevered with spades. South won in the dummy and took three rounds of diamonds to shed dummy’s last spade. Then the contract made.

West missed a great opportunity to offer declarer a noose. He should have won the first heart trick with his ace! Then, when he led a second spade, South might have thought it couldn’t hurt to draw trumps with another finesse through East’s apparent queen. But West would have produced that queen out of his back pocket and cashed the spade 10 and club ace to defeat the contract.

Child's Dresser, Misc Household & More!

JOHNSBURG GARAGE SALE SAT ONLY, APRIL 9 9-3 3910 North Pitzen Rd. Everything Must Go! Tables, chairs, dining room & kitchen tables, hutches, tools, piano, dryer, stove, fridge, dishes, dressers, Christmas decorations LEMAX Christmas houses, American Girl doll items & MUCH, MUCH MORE!

Lake In The Hills HUGE Tool Sale

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(2) Sun 7 speed Bicycles, model Ruskin, for Adults.

Garage kept, in good condition. These were $349 new each, selling for $150 each. Call 815-690-0235 26 in. Woman's Diamondback - 21 speed, purple/white, great condition $125. 630-835-5694

FRI & SAT. 9AM-5PM

Kawasaki MXL-250 bicycle - 21 speed Mountain Suspension with 24 X 1.95 tires. Good condition. $50. 815-477-7429. Crystal Lake

Woodstock

HAIR SALON CLOSING – 3 HYDRAULIC CHAIRS. EXCELLENT COND. $125 each. Call: 815-385-7550 10am-5pm Mon. - Sat.

First United Methodist Church

★ Sat is Bargain Day, ½ Price or $5/Bag

461 Pierson St.

CLASSIFIED 9

Book - Titled “Legally Sane” 1972 First Edition

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

Thurs, April 7 3pm - 7pm Fri, April 8 8am - 4pm Sat, April 9 8am-NOON Saturday $3/Bag Day

201 W. South St. Clothing & Many Household Items Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 877-264-2527

Stereo -The Wedge, 1970's, works great, $240/obo.

847-602-1230 Stereo Equipment, Teac A2300 S Reel to Reel Tape Recorder w/misc tapes, $135.00. 815-337-0632 K-Cups for Keurig Coffee Maker - Assorted Flavors Regular & decaf,60 cups - $25 - 815-459-5204 K-CUPS for Keurig Coffee Maker - assorted flavors, regular & decaf, 60 cups for $25 - 815-459-5204

FREE! ENTERTAINMENT UNIT – Solid oak, Exc. Cond. Heavy. 60” w x 76” h x 16” d.

Algonquin. Call: 847-658-3638

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

FREE: WOOD PIER PIECES 847-401-7613 OR 815-728-8507 Parakeet (2) and Cage 815-725-3800

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

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

WAHL APPLIANCE

Reconditioned Appliances Sales and Service Lakemoor 815-385-1872

CRAFTER OR OTHER STORAGE UNIT - Beautiful solid wood with many storage cubbies & pull out flat drawers.

Unit is 42"T, 43"W & 16"D. $50. Call 815-271-2647

Glass Table, marble base and glass top w/6 Chairs

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 Recliner Sofa & Chair – Leather, full size, 3 seat sofa w/ recliners at each end, Includes matching Leather Reclining Rocking Chair. $250 OBO. 815-349-0206

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

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

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

Bama, James Riding The High Country signed, framed,COA #959/1250 - $250. 815-363-8974

WICKER CHAIRS - Very sturdy, large, high back antique, cushioned, 2 available, made in Sheboygan Wisc. $200/obo 630-835-5694

Bev Doolittle "Sacred Ground" signed #1464/69996 matted & framed - $300. 815-363-8974

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

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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

CANNONS Civil War & Pirate Type, Production Type, starting @ $195.00, Woodworking Available. Call Paul Locascio.

708-363-2004

Chipper/Shredder, 5HP Engine + Extras, $400.

815-535-2279

Cub Cadet Riding Mower - 16 hp, 2 stage snow blower, tire chains, weights, and lawn sweeper $350. Crystal Lake (815) 276-7110

Lawn Mower, Snapper 22" Variable speed, self-propelled Briggs & Stratton engine. Bought new in July '13 for $325, minimal use. $200/firm.

815.482.0521

Lawn Tractor - Cub Cadet, 46” Cutting Width Kohler 22HP, Dozer blade, lawn aerator, cart, 29 actual hours, $1200. 815-401-6903

3500 HONDA GENERATOR, $900 815-790-1896

Air Compressor/Bostich Gas, Dual Tank, 8HP, $300/obo 815-861-3699

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2002 Chrysler Sebring LXI Convertble, 1 Owner Brownie Leather, loaded, looks and runs great!

2 year old female Free 6 mo warranty, $3500.

MPR Auto Sales 815-344-9440 Brittany mix 2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser GT Turbo,1 Owner Every once in a loaded, 78K, black, custom wheels, free while, life presents 6 moFully warranty, $4900. MPR Sales 815-344-9440 an uncanny 2005 Dodge Neon SXT, 4 Door, 77K Only coincidence that Looks and runs great! $3500, free 6 mo warranty.

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ALUMINUM BRAKE, $1000 815-790-1896

DIAMOND GRINDING WHEELS - Mounted on hubs for a surface grinder, call for details. $75 obo 630-835-5694 HEIGHT GAUGE - Brown and Sharp height gauge, very good shape & accurate, 0 to 9". Indicator stand & wooden case included. $250/obo. 630-835-5694 PORTER CABLE framing nailer kit w nailer, case, wrench, manual & almost full new box of collated 30 deg nails. $140 for all, 815-444-0504 Sears/Craftsman Industrial Electric Screwdriver – Variable Speed, Reversible, Mainly used for drywall - $9. 847-658-3436

Table Saw, With All Attachments, Good Condition $75.00. 815-385-4295

Powered Wheelchair, Invacare-Promto 31 Brand New, $1100/obo. 815-759-9361

Donovan 1 year old male Golden mix My earliest happy memory is taking a family photo when I was 2 months old.

I was laughing with my mother and siblings. What a joyful day. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400 Parrot Cage ~ 32"W x 23"D x 53"H

On wheels w/playtop, exc cond, $125/obo. 815-568-7730

Chain Link Fence, Black, Heavy Duty, 5' + assorted poles, caps, etc, $1.50 per foot. 815-385-5145

PUTTER - Taylor Made Ghost Spider SI Putter Excellent Condition - $75. 847-322-9588

Advanced Placement Study Aids: Boxed Card sets for A/P Biology & Chemistry, $10/each. Excellent condition.

Boxed sets of dog & cat anatomy cards. $9/each. Saunders Veterinary Anatomy Cards - $30. 815 276-1479

Putter - Tour Edge Backdraft GT-Pro with Superstroke Fatso 5.0 Grip. Excellent Condition $15. 847-322-9588

Home Wine Making Equipment – Wine press, crusher, 3 & 5 gal. carboys, corker plus miscellaneous equipment $100 for all. Call 815-385-7686

ALL COLLECTIONS, AUTOGRAPHS, ESTATES

Screen House - Square with 2 zipper entries & flaps for awnings on all four sides. Good condition, $25. 847-542-3984.

KAWAI UPRIGHT PIANO - From Japan 1970's. Good condition.

Includes matching bench. Piano has traveled the world. Perfect for child who wants to learn, $350- you move. 815-276-1479. Text for photos.

Barbara 3 month old female Gray DSH My best nickname is Munchkin.

It's what my sisters call me.

Music & Military CASH 815-354-6169

Antique and Modern Guns

Old Lever Actions, Winchesters, Marlins, Savages, etc. Old Pistols and Revolvers. Cash for Collection. FFL License. 815-338-4731

HUMMELS, LLADROS, PRECIOUS MOMENTS, STEIFF ETC!

CALL STEVE 847-542-5713

Lionel & American Flyer Trains 815-353-7668

WANTED TO BUY: Vintage or New, working or not.

Bicycles, Outboard motors, fishing gear, motorcycles or mopeds, chainsaws, tools etc. Cash on the spot. Cell: 815-322-6383

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2004 Mercury Monterey, 1 Owner, 72K

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2006 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT

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1999 Terry Travel Trailer, 33' Slide-Out

Sleeps 8-10, VGC! $5000 815-893-0210 2004 JAYCO JAY FEATHER 23B, EXC COND!

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MOTORCYCLES WANTED ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

CLASSICS WANTED

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Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Wednesday, April 6, 2016 • McHenry Huge 3BR House, In Town, No Smoking, No Dogs $920/mo + utilities, Broker.

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The Villas

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Sat & Sun, April 16 & 17 10am - 4pm 829 Ross Lane, McHenry 1 Month Free At $1299.00 Limited Time Only!

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Rents starting at $805 per month

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y 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 Crystal Lake Approx 400 Sq FtWith Waiting Area. Clean, nice office refer to file number 14-13-25459. suite incl all util + high speed DSL, $545/mo. 815-790-0240 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION CRYSTAL LAKE Office Space for rent, 3 rooms, can customize, approx One South Wacker Drive, 24th 600 sq/ft, $1100/mo 2 yr lease, available 4/1. 815-444-6724 Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 Lake In The Hills 1119 W. Algonquin & Pyott Rd. (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Street front location, great visability, approx 3100 sq ft.

Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com $2000/mo gross + utilities, available now. 847-854-2670 for a 7 day status report of pending McHenry Office/Multi Use, 4 Rms & Waiting Area sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Approx 1100 Sq Ft, $900/mo. 815-861-8489 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-13-25459 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 14 CH 00158 TJSC#: 36-3410 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 Publisher's Notice: All real estate advertising in this any information obtained will be newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which used for that purpose. makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation I688432 or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an (Published in the Northwest intention, to make any such preference, limitation of Herald, March 23, 30, 2016 discrimination." Familial status includes children under April 6, 2016) the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal PUBLIC NOTICE opportunity basis.

To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275 THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS pursuant to its credit bid at the sale DITECH FINANCIAL LLC or by any mortgagee, judgment Plaintiff, creditor, or other lienor acquiring -v.the residential real estate whose MARSHA FULLER, et al PUBLIC NOTICE rights in and to the residential real Defendant 14 CH 00973 estate arose prior to the sale. The IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR NOTICE OF SALE subject property is subject to generTHE TWENTY- SECOND al real estate taxes, special assess- PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY JUDICIAL CIRCUIT ments, or special taxes levied GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS against said real estate and is of- of Foreclosure and Sale entered in DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST fered for sale without any represen- the above cause on February 11, COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR tation as to quality or quantity of 2016, an agent for The Judicial ARGENT SECURITIES INC., title and without recourse to Plaintiff Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale on May 13, 2016, at the NLT Title CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-W5 is further subject to confirmation by L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Plaintiff, the court. Upon payment in full of Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, -v.the amount bid, the purchaser will sell at public auction to the highest JASON J. ROMANYK, et al receive a Certificate of Sale that will bidder, as set forth below, the Defendant entitle the purchaser to a deed to following described real estate: 14 CH 00158 the real estate after confirmation of Commonly known as NOTICE OF SALE the sale. The property will NOT be 5014 MEADOWLARK COURT, PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY open for inspection and plaintiff CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60012 GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment makes no representation as to the Property Index No. of Foreclosure and Sale entered in condition of the property. Prospec- 14-29-453-023. the above cause on July 15, tive bidders are admonished to The real estate is improved with a 2014, an agent for The Judicial check the court file to verify all single family residence.

Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM information. If this property is a Sale terms: 25% down of the on April 19, 2016, at the NLT Title condominium unit, the purchaser highest bid by certified funds at the L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, of the unit at the foreclosure sale, close of the sale payable to The Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, other than a mortgagee, shall pay Judicial Sales Corporation. No third sell at public auction to the highest the assessments and the legal fees party checks will be accepted. The bidder, as set forth below, the required by The Condominium balance, including the Judicial sale following described real estate: Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g) fee for Abandoned Residential Commonly known as (1) and (g)(4). If this property is a Property Municipality Relief Fund, 440 BRANDY DRIVE UNIT B, condominium unit which is part of which is calculated on residential CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014 a common interest community, the real estate at the rate of $1 for each Property Index No. purchaser of the unit at the foreclo- $1,000 or fraction thereof of the 19-07-233-020. sure sale other than a mortgagee amount paid by the purchaser not The real estate is improved with a shall pay the assessments required to exceed $300, in certified condo/townhouse.

by The Condominium Property Act, funds/or wire transfer, is due within Sale terms: 25% down of the 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU twenty-four (24) hours. No fee highest bid by certified funds at the ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME- shall be paid by the mortgagee acclose of the sale payable to The OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT quiring the residential real estate Judicial Sales Corporation. No third TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR pursuant to its credit bid at the sale party checks will be accepted. The 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN or by any mortgagee, judgment balance, including the Judicial sale ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN creditor, or other lienor acquiring fee for Abandoned Residential ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION the residential real estate whose Property Municipality Relief Fund, 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS rights in and to the residential real which is calculated on residential MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. estate arose prior to the sale. The real estate at the rate of $1 for each You will need a photo identification subject property is subject to gener$1,000 or fraction thereof of the issued by a government agency al real estate taxes, special assessamount paid by the purchaser not (driver's license, passport, etc.) in ments, or special taxes levied to exceed $300, in certified order to gain entry into our building against said real estate and is funds/or wire transfer, is due within and the foreclosure sale room in offered for sale without any repretwenty-four (24) hours. No fee Cook County and the same identifi- sentation as to quality or quantity shall be paid by the mortgagee ac- cation for sales held at other county of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. quiring the residential real estate

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The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification 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 14-14-17167.

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

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pay qui by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Sales Clerk at Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 357-1125.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 (Published in the Northwest I689009 Herald, March 30, 2016 April 6, (Published in the Northwest 13, 2016) Herald, March 30, 2016 April 6, 13, 2016)

ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-14-17167 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 14 CH 00973 TJSC#: 36-2389 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.

I688918

PUBLIC NOTICE

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Ref. No. 15-02142 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS TRUSTEE FOR CIT MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-1; Plaintiff, vs.

JOSE BENITO DURAN; Defendants, 15 CH 903 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on December 29, 2015 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the conference room, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 09-34-277-008.

Commonly known as 4219 PONCA ST., MCHENRY, IL 60050.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR ARGENT SECURITIES INC., ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-W5 Plaintiff, -v.JASON J. ROMANYK, et al Defendant 14 CH 00158 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 15, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on April 19, 2016, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: UNIT 440-B TOGETHER WITH ITS UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS IN BRANDYWINE CONDOMINIUM, AS DELINEATED AND DEFINED IN THE DECLARATION RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 760980, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, IN THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 7 AND THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 440 BRANDY DRIVE UNIT B, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014 Property Index No. 19-07-233-020.

The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser it at th fo cl le of th

purc of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g) (1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification 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 14-13-25459.

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. 14-13-25459 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 14 CH 00158 TJSC#: 36-3410 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.

I688432 (Published in the Northwest Herald, March 23, 30, 2016 April 6, 2016)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS DITECH FINANCIAL LLC Plaintiff, -v.MARSHA FULLER, et al Defendant 14 CH 00973 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 Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on May 13, 2016, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 8 IN BLOCK 3 IN WALKUP HIGHLANDS, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JANUARY 16, 1961 AS DOCUMENT NO. 380190

• Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

IN BOOK 14 OF PLATS, PAGE 67, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 5014 MEADOWLARK COURT, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60012 Property Index No. 14-29-453-023.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition.

The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification 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 14-14-17167.

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 Attorn File No 14-14-17167

gal pleadings@ Attorney File No. 14-14-17167 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 14 CH 00973 PUBLIC NOTICE TJSC#: 36-2389 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are Ref. No. 15-02142 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, attempting to collect a debt and WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS any information obtained will be THE BANK OF NEW YORK used for that purpose.

MELLON, AS TRUSTEE FOR CIT I688918 MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-1; (Published in the Northwest Plaintiff, Herald, March 30, 2016 April 6, vs.

JOSE BENITO DURAN; 13, 2016) Defendants, 15 CH 903 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF of Foreclosure and Sale entered in THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT the above entitled cause on MC HENRY COUNTY December 29, 2015 Intercounty WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Judicial Sales Corporation will on Federal Home Loan Mortgage Thursday, May 5, 2016 at the hour Corporation of 10:30 a.m. in the conference PLAINTIFF room, 970 McHenry Avenue, Vs. Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell at Donna Keller; BMO Harris Bank public auction to the highest bidder National Association f/k/a Harris for cash, as set forth below, the National Association successor by following described mortgaged real merger to Harris Bank Woodstock; estate: Sunrise Ridge Association, Inc.; LOT 11 IN COONEY HEIGHTS Unknown Heirs and Legatees of THIRD ADDITION TO MCHENRY, A Vincent P. Keller; Unknown Owners SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE and Nonrecord Claimants; Richard NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 34, Kuhn, as Special Representative for TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8, Vincent P. Keller (deceased) EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL DEFENDANTS MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE 15 CH 01094 PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY NOTICE BY PUBLICATION 10, 1955, AS DOCUMENT NO. NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: 292379, IN BOOK 12 OF PLATS, Donna Keller PAGE 23, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, Unknown Heirs and Legatees of ILLINOIS. Vincent P. Keller P.I.N. 09-34-277-008.

Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Commonly known as Claimants 4219 PONCA ST., That this case has been MCHENRY, IL 60050. commenced in this Court against The mortgaged real estate is you and other defendants, praying improved with a single family for the foreclosure of a certain residence. If the subject mortgaged Mortgage conveying the premises real estate is a unit of a common described as follows, to-wit: interest community, the purchaser COMMONLY KNOWN AS: of the unit other than a mortgagee 8704 Acorn Path shall pay the assessments required Wonder Lake, IL 60097 by subsection (g-1) of Section and which said Mortgage was 18.5 of the Condominium Property made by: Act. Sale terms: 10% down by Vincent P. Keller executed the certified funds, balance, by certified mortgage, however this individual funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. is deceased and is not named as a The property will NOT be open for defendant in this lawsuit inspection. Prospective bidders are the Mortgagor(s), to Harris Trust admonished to check the court file and Savings Bank, as Mortgagee, to verify all information. and recorded in the Office of the For information call Sales Clerk Recorder of Deeds of McHenry at Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 County, Illinois, as Document No. North Franklin Street, Chicago, 2005R0025319; and for other Illinois 60606. (312) 357-1125. relief; that summons was duly INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES issued out of said Court against CORPORATION you as provided by law and that Selling Officer, the said suit is now pending.

(312) 444-1122 NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU I689009 file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the (Published in the Northwest Office of the Clerk of this Court, Herald, March 30, 2016 April 6, Katherine M. Keefe 13, 2016) Clerk of the Circuit Court 2200 N. Seminary Woodstock, IL 60098 on or before April 22, 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. 14-15-16974 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.

I688380

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, ILLINOIS McHENRY COUNTY IN THE INTEREST OF JACOB GRIGGS, a minor.

No. 14 JA 31 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

ry y Woodstock, Illinois, in room 101 in the courtroom of Judge MAUREEN P. MCINTYRE, an adjudicatory hearing was conducted and found the minor neglected. On March 18, 2016, a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights was filed with the Court of the 22nd Circuit of McHenry County, and is now pending. This cause shall be heard on May 26, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS PROCEEDING TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, AND TO TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS, A GUARDIAN WAS APPOINTED WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND THE APPOI NTMENT OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD. UNLESS YOU APPEAR, you will not be entitled to further written notices or publication notices of the proceedings in this case, including the filing of a petition to terminate parental rights.

Now, unless you appear at the hearing and show cause against the petition, the allegations of the petition may stand admitted as against you and each of you, and an order of judgment entered.

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS

IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Common address: 203 N. Jefferson Street, Harvard, Illinois, 60033 P.I.N.: 01-35-436-0002 The Mortgages sought to be foreclosed: Mortgage dated September 5, 2012, and recorded on September 24, 2012, in the McHenry County Recorder's Office, McHenry County, Illinois, as Document No. 20l2R0044185.

The mortgagor is PHILIP J. SZPICKI and JILL M. SZPICKI. The mortgagee is AMERICAN COMMUNITY BANK & TRUST. YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN FURTHER NOTICE that unless you file your Answer in said action or otherwise make your Appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of McHenry County, Illinois, on or before the May 11, 2016 default judgment may be entered against you at any time thereafter and a judgment entered in accordance with the relief requested in the Plaintiff's Complaint.

Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court McHenry County, Illinois Jennifer L. Johnson (Atty. No. 6285184) ZANCK, COEN, WRIGHT & SALADIN, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 40 Brink Street Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014 P: 815.459.8800 F: 815.459.8429 jjohnson@zcwlaw.com

CitiFinancial Servicing LLC Plaintiff, vs.

Adam Pieroni; CitiBank, N.A.; Target National Bank; Discover Bank; Eastwood Manor Property Owners Association; Ben Fredrick; Amy Bentz, Andrew Bentz; Asset Acceptance, LLC; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Ernest A. Pieroni; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; Richard Kuhn, as Special Representative for Ernest A. Pieroni (deceased) Defendants.

Case No. 16 CH 00104 Notice to Heirs and Legatees.

Notice is hereby given to you, the Unknown Heirs and Unknown Legatees of the decedent, Ernest A. Pieroni, that on March 15, 2016, an order was entered by the Court, naming Richard W. Kuhn, 552 S. Washington Street, Suite 100, Naperville, Illinois 60540, Tel. No. 630-420-8228, as the Special Representative of the above named decedent under 735 ILCS 13-1209 (Death of a Party). The cause of action for the Foreclosure of a certain Mortgage upon the premises commonly known as: March 28, 2016 1305 Hillside Lane, McHenry, IL (Published in the Northwest Herald /s/ Katherine M. Keefe 60051.

April 6, 13, 20, 2016) 1175029 (Clerk of the Circuit Court)

(Published in the Northwest Herald (Published in the Northwest Herald on April 6, 13, 20, 2016) April 6, 2016) 1175042 1174856

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS PROBATE DIVISION ESTATE OF JOHN N. GARIS, DECEASED, NO. 15PR000129 Notice is given to Creditors of the death of the above named decedent who died on February 27, 2015. Letters of office were issued on May 5, 2015, to Kathari ne A. Garis, 1034 Butler Drive, Crystal Lake, IL 60014, as Independent Executor, whose attorneys of record are Harry P. Stinespring & Associates, 269 North Bay Court, Lake Barrington, IL 60010.

The estate will be administered without court supervision, unless under Section 5.28-4 of the Probate Act (Ill. Compiled Statutes 1992, Ch. 755, par. 5/28-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the clerk.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the clerk, McHenry County Courthouse, Woodstock, IL, or with the representative, or both, on or before September 30, 2016, or if mailing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by section 5/18-3 of the Probate Act, the date stated in that notice. Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

RYAN KIERNEY, and any unknown Fathers and to All Whom It May Concern: Take notice that on May 19, 2014, an abuse and neglect petition was filed under the Juvenile (Published in the Northwest Court Act by ASSISTANT STATE'S (Published in the Northwest Herald Herald March 23, 30, 2016 April ATTORNEY E. JULIA ALMEIDA, in on March 30, 2016, April 6, 13, 6, 2016) the circuit court of McHenry County 2016) 1172362 entitled 'In the Interest of Jacob Find. Buy. Sell.

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS FIRST BANK FINANCIAL CENTRE, Plaintiff, vs.

PHILIP J. SZPICKI; JILL M. SZPICKI; HALF MOON ACQUISITIONS, INC., a Foreign Corporation; U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION; MICHAEL D. DEFRANCISCO; MEGAVEST CORP.; TOWNSTONE FINANCIAL, INC., an Illinois Corporation; UNKNOWN OWNERS; and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

No. 16LA000099 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Notice is hereby given to you, UNKNOWN OWNERS and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, pursuant to Section 15-1502(c)(2) of the Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law (735 ILCS 5/15-1502(c)(2)), that the above entitled mortgage foreclosure action was filed by the Plaintiff, FIRST BANK FINANCIAL CENTRE, in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, Illinois, on March 22, 2019 and is now pending in said Court as Case Number 16LA000099 The names of the title holders of record are: PHILIP J. SZPICKI and JILL M. SZPICKI. The legal description and location of the mortgaged real estate is: LOT 6 IN BLOCK 14 IN HART'S SECOND ADDITION TO HARVARD, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST HALF OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 5 EAST OF THE THIRD PRJNCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JUNE 4, 1866 IN BOOK 17 OF DEEDS, PAGE 630,

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF Darrell D. Levi Jr. a Minor

by Robin E. Liesmann Parent or Guardian Case Number 16 MR 166 Public notice is hereby given that on May 5th, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. in courtroom 201, of the McHenry County Government Center there will be a hearing on my Petition praying for the change of my minor's name from Darrell Dwayne Levi Jr. to that of Devin Charles Liesmann pursuant to the Illinois Compiled Statutes on Change of Names.

Dated at Woodstock, Illinois, March 24th, 2016. /s/ Robin E. Liesmann Petitioner (Published in the Northwest Herald March 30, 2016 April 6, 13, 2016) 1172207

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY NOTICE OF FILING A REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (ADULT)

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Wednesday, April 6, 2016 • Request of MADALYN NICOLE NOWAK Case Number 16 MR 175 Public notice is hereby given that I have filed a Petition for Change of Name and scheduled a hearing on my Petition on April 29, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., Room 204, in the Circuit Court of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, Illinois, praying for the change of my name from MADALYN NICOLE NOWAK to that of MILO EINAR NOWAK pursuant to the Illinois Compiled Statutes on Change of Names. /s/ Madalyn Nowak (Published in the Northwest Herald March 23, 30, 2016, April 6, 2016) 1170468

PUBLIC NOTICE BID NOTICE Bids will be received by the Board of Education, Harvard Community Unit School District 50, for Food Service Management. The bids will be received no later than 11:00 a.m., on Monday, May 9, 2016 at the District 50 Administration Center, 401 N. Division Street, Harvard, Illinois 60033, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and the contents announced.

A mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. in the Board Room, 401 N. Division Street, Harvard, Illinois 60033. A tour of two facilities will be conducted at that time. A limit of 2 representatives per company will be allowed on the tour. All information relating to this bid must be received from the bid document or the mandatory pre-bid meeting.

Copies of the bid document may be obtained from Mary Taylor, Business Manager, 815-9434022.

The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive minor informalities in any bid, and to make awards in the best interest of the Board.

Dr. Richard Crosby, Secretary Board of Education Harvard Community Unit School District 50 401 N. Division Street Harvard, Illinois 60033

ry McHenry County Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald March 23, 30, 2016, April 6, 2016) 1170627

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF IS HEREBY given by the Board of Education of Cary Community Consolidated School District 26, in the Counties of McHenry and Lake, State of Illinois, that amended budget for said School District for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015 ending June 30, 2016 will be on file and conveniently available to public inspection at: Cary Community Consolidated School District #26 Administration Center 2115 Crystal Lake Road Cary, Illinois 60013 in this school district from and after 8:00 o'clock a.m. on the 5th day of April, 2016.

NOTICE IS FURTHER HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing on said budget will be held at 7:00 p.m. on the 23rd day of May, 2016 at Cary Junior High School, 2109 Crystal lake Road, Cary, Illinois in this School District Number 26.

Board of Education of Cary Community Consolidated School District 26 McHenry and Lake Counties State of Illinois Date: April 4, 2016 (Published in the Northwest Herald April 6, 2016) 1174700

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