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Honoring Dwight Maness
Early intervention providers to get paid amid impasse By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com It has been about four months since providers of early intervention services, such as Jennifer Crick of Cary, have gotten paid. That is expected to change after an announcement Wednesday from Illinois Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger. In a news release, Munger announced the state will “immediately begin making payments to early intervention providers as soon as it receives vouchers from the Department of Human Services.” Munger learned from her Nonprofit Advisory Council last week that early intervention services were “slipping through the cracks” of consent decrees requiring payments during the budget impasse, the release said. “After looking more closely at several active consent decrees, DHS and the comptroller agreed that early intervention services were covered, and they immediately began setting up the processes for making payments to providers,” it added. This comes at long last for Crick and other providers in the McHenry County area, many of whom, despite the halted paychecks, have continued going to area homes to work with young children delayed on certain developmental levels. Early intervention programs provide in-home therapy sessions, tools and other resources and are designed to identify children from birth to 3 years old who are not meeting developmental milestones. Crick said therapists like herself work with the children, and coach families on how to encourage their kids to play, walk, talk and just be part of the family. When Crick found out the state would begin making payments – she said she is owed between $12,000 to $14,000 at this point – relief flooded in. “It was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t have to stop working,’ ” she said, explaining providers in the area recently have submitted 30-day notices to clients. As the agency that coordinates McHenry County early intervention programming,
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The casket of McHenry County Sheriff Deputy Dwight Maness is carried Saturday into Woodstock North High School, where Maness’ funeral was held.
Mourners remember fallen county deputy at funeral By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A line of nearly 100 McHenry County sheriff’s squad cars drove into McHenry County Memorial Park on Saturday in silence with their lights flashing. Beneath blue skies, they followed a procession route that stretched more than 30 miles to honor McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Maness, who died unexpectedly Monday while recovering from injuries he sustained when he was shot while on duty last year. Maness’ squad car was followed
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by the hearse carrying his body. The fallen deputy’s wife, Sue Maness, followed close behind on her Harley Davidson motorcycle. “The department has worked tirelessly to honor him,” McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Aimee Knop said. “He deserves this.
He has served our country in the Army. He has served our country in law enforcement. This is what he deserves. This is all for him.” Officers came from across Illinois and southern Wisconsin for Maness, a 47-year-old former U.S. Army Ranger who had worked for the McHenry County Sheriff’s Department for 7 years and 11 months before he died from a blood clot in his lungs. Maness, of McHenry, was recuperating from injuries he sustained less than a year ago in a shooting in Holiday Hills. He and his partner, Deputy Khalia Satkiewicz, re-
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LEFT: Sue Maness, widow of McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Maness, rides behind the hearse during the funeral procession Saturday in Woodstock. ABOVE: Joe Alger of Crystal Lake holds an American flag while waiting for the funeral procession to pass him on its 31-mile route.
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sponded Oct. 16, 2014, to a reported domestic situation. Shooter Scott B. Peters fired more than a dozen rounds through the front door. After a jury trial, Peters, 53, was sentenced to 135 years in prison. Maness was shot in the back and leg and remained dependent on a wheelchair or walker. He was committed to walking again, returning to work and riding a motorcycle again. Satkiewicz also survived, and both deputies received the county’s first and only Purple Hearts from the sheriff’s office.
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