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Arrests made in beating, robbery Second chance to swim Four charged in LEFT: Agnes Rapacz of Lake in the Hills is seen during swimming practice Monday in Algonquin. ABOVE: Rapacz has won 10 medals in her time as a swimmer.
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By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – Four people were arrested after what police are calling an arranged beating and armed robbery in Lakemoor. Two women – Amie N. Ogg, 31, of 4107 Seneca Road, Wonder Lake, and Mary Elmore, 31, of Kirkland – arranged to pick up the alleged victim and, later, two men, who authorities said are high-ranking members of the “City Knights” gang in McHenry. The women, along with Charles A. Campo II, 28, also of 4107 Seneca Road, and Robert F. Moore, 28, 7509 N. Oak St., Wonder Lake, were charged in connection with the May 20 incident. According to police, the group started beating the man – who was an ex-boyfriend of Ogg – in the vehicle. The car eventually pulled over
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Immigrant health sign-ups hurt by poorly designed system By CARLA K. JOHNSON The Associated Press CHICAGO – A poorly designed federal system prevented perhaps thousands of immigrants from enrolling in coverage under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, according to a preliminary report from an Illinois advocacy group. The Associated Press was given the report by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Inside Rights on Wednesday, a day before its planned release was n Poll: Many abruptly postponed. The restill struggle port says federal phone operato pay health tors were misinformed about premiums. immigrant eligibility, a credit PAGE B5 agency verifying identities couldn’t handle languages other than English and Spanish and some immigrants were incorrectly referred to Medicaid, causing their applications to be frozen. “These issues were the result of a poorly
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Agnes Rapacz of Lake in the Hills prepares for her swimming practice Monday in Algonquin. In 2002, she received a kidney transplant. After her transplant, she began participating in the Transplant Games as a swimmer. In July, she will participate in the Transplant Games of America in Houston, and later this summer in the European Transplant Games. By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com Inside of a roughly 25-yard-long pool at Lifetime Fitness in Algonquin, Agnes Rapacz wears a swimming cap and goggles as she does freestyle laps. Her coach, Nancy Leibforth, has a stopwatch to keep track of the time as Rapacz works on her endurance, strength and turns when she does laps. “You’re back to 40 [seconds],” Leibforth said. “It looks like you tuckered out the last half, but the flip turn was nice.” Rapacz, a 39-year-old Lake in the Hills resident, is practicing her freestyle and breaststroke because she plans to compete in July at the Transplant Games of America in Houston. Swimming on a regular basis again is something she decided to do after she received a “second chance at life.”
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plant list, her sister, Wanda Roguzinska, who lives in Poland, donated a kidney. The transplant gave me the “It’s nice to spread the word of organ donations and help give another chance to extra kick. ‘Hey, you have the someone else,” Rapacz said. second chance at life. Why When Rapacz grew up in Poland, she was an avid swimmer and worked as a lifedon’t you do something that guard. When she immigrated to the U.S., you like?’ ” however, she didn’t have time to swim. Going through the kidney failure and Agnes Rapacz the transplant changed the activity level of Rapacz, who runs TeaGscwendner, a tea Lake in the Hills resident company. Life after the transplant requires mediOne day in January 2002, Rapacz woke cations that can be bad on a person’s bones, up and had trouble breathing. She went to Rapacz said. Doctors encouraged her to exthe doctor, who did some tests. The next ercise regularly and be active. Rapacz’s annual checkups at the Mayo thing she knew she was told to get to the hospital. She had kidney failure and need- Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, show she is healthy and has the healthy bones of a ed a transplant. “It came out of nowhere,” Rapacz said. After waiting 11 months on the transSee SWIMMING, page A5
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