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If you go n What: Crystal Lake open house meeting to discuss city planning and public transportation n When: 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday n Where: City Hall, 100 W. Woodstock St.
By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Crystal Lake residents will have a chance to help shape the future of the city’s transportation infrastructure and offerings during an open house Wednesday at City Hall. Crystal Lake officials and representatives from the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning will gather public feedback for ways to improve roads, sidewalks, bike trails and public transportation as part of the city’s 2030 Comprehensive Plan and CMAP’s Local Technical Assistance program. CMAP has already started 137 projects with local governments to address issues including transportation, land use, and housing as part of the regional body’s GO TO 2040 plan focused on improving livability in communities throughout a seven-county region. “We want to understand what the main transportation problems are and where they are,” said Ricardo Lopez, a spokesman for CMAP. “We will have different posters showing
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Obama requests aid from U.S. governors Immigrant children topic of meet between HHS official, state leaders By ALICIA A. CALDWELL and STEVE PEOPLES The Associated Press
President Barack Obama seeks aid from governors for possible solutions to the more than 57,000 children who have crossed into U.S. alone since Oct. 1.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell met privately with dozens of governors Sunday as the Obama administration tried to get support from the leaders of states that will host thousands of the Central American children who have crossed the Mexican border on their own since Oct. 1. Governors of both parties expressed concerns about the cost to states, including providing public education for the children, according to
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Will Grant rides with Thomas Teresi of Huntley and Tim Taylor of Crystal Lake during a tournament at the Crystal Lake Country Club. Grant recently received the Fritz Franz scholarship, which, started by the Crystal Lake Country Club, will be awarded in honor of the late local legend.
CADDIES STRIVE FOR FULL RIDE Fritz Franz scholarship offers students college opportunity By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – When Will Grant starting caddying, there were more clubs on his back than years on his life. Seven summers later, all those days toweling irons and walking off yardage are paying off. The Crystal Lake South High School graduate is one year into his full-ride at Miami (Ohio) University. Grant was the first recipient of the Fritz Franz/Crystal Lake Country Club Endowed Named Scholarship, an award under the umbrella of the Western Golf Association’s Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship. About 200 Evans Scholars are chosen each year for fullride scholarships, which include four years of room and board at the organization’s on-campus houses. Several have come from McHenry County. “It opened a tremendous door for me,” Grant said. “Miami was my dream school, but it was just way too expensive for me to afford by myself.” Evans Scholars qualify
Connor Dobbins talks with other caddies before a tournament at the Crystal Lake Country Club.
"There are some kids who really want to make money for a few summers until they turn 16 and can get another job. And then there's kids like me ... who, [the Fritz Franz Scholarship] was the only reason I was out here. Because I knew I wasn't going to be able to pay for school at Purdue otherwise." Grant Gassensmith Crystal Lake South graduate on receiving the scholarship
for the award in each of four ways: they have a strong caddie record of at least two years, at least a B average in school, demonstrated financial need, and outstanding character, according to the Western Golf Association’s website. At Crystal Lake Country Club, the caddying program now encompasses about 90 kids, growth coming at least in part because of interest in the scholarship, said Casey Brozek, the club’s head PGA professional. In 14 years engaged with the Evans Scholarship program, the club has produced 14 Evans Scholars – although they haven’t been evenly distributed by year. This fall,
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Crystal Lake South graduate Grant Gassensmith and Marian Central High School graduate Connor Dobbins are headed to Purdue University and Marquette University, respectively, on the four-year scholarships. Both have older brothers who also earned the full-rides. “There are some kids who really want to make money for a few summers until they turn 16 and can get another job,” said Gassensmith, 18. “And then there’s kids like me ... who, that was the only reason I was out here. Because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to pay for school at Purdue otherwise.” Gassensmith said he’s cad-
dying three or four times a week this summer but pumped that up to five or six times a week a year ago to boost his chances for the scholarship. And, while Gassensmith played golf for his high school team and Grant plays recreationally, not all Evans Scholars are particularly interested in playing the sport. Dobbins said that while he enjoys caddying, he’s never been interested in playing. But he knows the course as well as the other two – all three started at age 12. “I walk around and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I need a change of scenery!’ ” Grant said, laughing. “You know?” Most of what the 19-yearold says comes out accompanied by a good-humored grin, a trait not lost on Karen Franz, the widow of Fritz Franz. Karen Franz co-chairs the committee that puts on the annual Fritz Franz Memorial Golf Day – an event that benefits the Evans Scholarship Foundation, among other things, and that now contributes to the Fritz Franz scholarship fund.
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