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Could be a winner, but not losing in the meantime The light brown, official-looking letter arrived in the mail Saturday, and it had my name on it.

Anxiously, I opened it. It had all the markings of something special. I could be a winner.

Under a green bar, with the words “Dated Material” in boldface, were the following instructions: “Enclosed correspondence is personal and contains dated, time-sensitive material to be opened by the addressee only.”

It had to be legitimate: “time-sensitive” was hyphenated correctly. Someone who knew their grammar was behind this. That’s a good sign.

“Official documents enclosed for:” followed by my name and address in the envelope window. My status was “pending.” Payments were 52 at $10,576.92 a week. The deadline was March 24, 2016.

“This letter requires your immediate attention,” according to E. Wright of National Magazine Exchange for the Strike It Rich IX Sweepstakes. “No purchase or payment necessary to enter or win. A purchase will not improve your chances of winning.”

So, what was there to lose? To play the state lottery, you have to plunk down a dollar.

This was free, although the prize was not in the multimillions of dollars. In fact, $10,576.92 a week for 52 weeks works out to a paltry $550,000 lump sum payment, but the odds of winning are not so bad: one in 10 million, which are a lot better than with the Powerball at one in 292 million. I stand a real chance.

This is nothing like the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes for $7,000 a week for life, which my good wife has been experimenting with. She has been utterly besieged with mail for what seems to be months. But she’s going to see this through to the end. The odds of winning are one in 1.7 billion. Yow. I read all the fine print on the back of the prize eligibility letter I received Saturday before I did anything. I wanted to make sure I wasn’t being scammed.

I learned that the sweepstakes started two years ago, almost to the day. Who is going to play a game that takes two years to win a prize? Be that as it may, my entry came just before the May 20 drawing.

You could choose the grand prize of $1.1 million in 30 annual installments of $36,666.67 or one lump sum of $550,000. And, I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust anyone to be around for 30 years to make a payment, so I’m going to choose the smaller lump-sum

VIEWS Dick Peterson payment. Winning $36,666.67 a year isn’t going to change your life. You’re still going to have to work.

But to enter the contest, I had to call the sweepstakes office and read them my ID number. I hesitated a little at this. Was I going to get the hard sell for timeshares in a condo in Florida? No, this was the National Magazine Exchange, and undoubtedly, they would try to sell me magazines. I promised myself I would say no, no matter how good the offer.

The woman who answered the phone was pleasant. What would I do if I won the grand prize, she asked. Pay some bills, I said guardedly. What one thing would I like to do with all that money? Travel, I guessed. Where to? Uh, the Grand Canyon. Oh, I heard it’s beautiful out there, she said.

Then she read off five or six magazines, and said I could order any two for something like $1.49, an offer too good to be true. I said, “No, I’m not interested. I have trouble reading.” I was thinking this would dissuade her from asking again: Poor man, he can’t read. But she was undeterred. She tried three more times, and each time I gave the same answer, “No, I’m not interested. I have trouble reading.”

Which isn’t a lie. I have trouble reading that many magazines. The last time I said yes to a question like that – $2 each for a year’s subscription to four magazines – I couldn’t keep up with the reading.

Then she asked if I was interested in identity-theft security, and I said no, but she transferred me to another operator. She talked about the threat of identity theft and how I could protect my identity for as little as a month for a fee. I said no. Why? “I feel secure,” I said. And she hung up on me.

But I survived the gauntlet. I didn’t buy anything, and I was entered into the sweepstakes. Now, I just test my one-in-10 million chances of winning, the same odds as me being elected president.

• Dick Peterson, who lives in Woodstock, is a mental health advocate. He is a freelance writer and a former Northwest Herald Opinion Page editor. He can be reached at dickpeterson76@gmail.com.

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Terry Kappel (center) of Woodstock gathers Friday on the corner of Route 14 and Virginia Street in Crystal Lake to show support for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

LOOKING TO TUESDAY’S VOTE Trump is favorite in Illinois; Sanders has grassroots support locally

By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com Illinois voters who complain that March 15 is too late to matter in the presidential race, Democrat and Republican alike, have gotten their wish of relevancy granted.

The outcome of the Illinois primary – one of five primary contests Tuesday – could help seal the deal for GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, or keep Ted Cruz in position as a viable challenger. Depending on how Tuesday’s primaries in Ohio and Florida go – the home states of John Kasich and Marco Rubio – Republican voters in the Land of Lincoln could help keep their candidacies on life support or bring them to an end.

Democratic voters likewise have a

choice between front-runner and Illinois native Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, whose upset win in Michigan and whose ability to close the gap with Clinton before elections promises to stretch out the party’s contest.

Republican volunteers and precinct committeemen who have been knocking on McHenry County’s doors are saying that Trump is clearly the favorite, echoing polls of statewide GOP voters.

But Rubio, who needs a win Tuesday to survive, is popular among county GOP voters, as well, said McHenry County Republican Party Chairwoman Sandra Fay Salgado.

“There’s still a lot of excitement about Trump, and I don’t particularly understand what that excitement is about, but people are rallying around him. The people who are studying

More online Visit NWHerald.com/election-central to learn about the candidates and issues in the 2016 election. the issues seem to be backing Rubio.

You’ve got your Kasich and your Cruz people, but a lot of people support Rubio. They see him as the next generation of Republicans,” Salgado said.

Polls show Trump is leading in Florida, although Rubio appears to be closing the gap. Should Rubio lose his home state, he almost certainly will face intense pressure from anti-Trump Republicans to drop out. The same goes for Kasich should he lose Ohio, and

polls show Trump with a narrow lead over the Ohio governor.

While Ohio and Florida are “winner take all” states, 54 of the 69 GOP delegates up for grabs in Illinois are awarded proportionally – voters in each congressional district elect a presidential nominee as well as three delegates.

The remaining 15 delegates – a dozen at-large delegates and three state party leaders – are bound to whomever wins the most votes statewide. But this setup means that while Trump may win the most votes of Illinois Republicans, his haul of delegates may not be as large.

Illinois has 182 delegates for Democratic presidential hopefuls. While Clinton, who was born in Chicago and raised in Park Ridge, holds a big

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Ned Zeman (left) of Crystal Lake is handed a towel by Operation Click President Sean McGrath during the organization’s inaugural Leprechaun Plunge on Saturday at Three Oaks Recreation Area in Crystal Lake. Participants in the event received plates of corned beef, cabbage and boiled potatoes.

Crystal Lake man kicks off Operation Click’s first Leprechaun Plunge

By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – For Ned Zeman, the quick dip in a 38-degree lake at the Three Oaks Recreation Area was lonely, but very invigorating.

The 67-year-old Crystal Lake man was the first participant of the inaugural Leprechaun Plunge, an event sponsored by Operation Click, the teenage safe driving organization. Zeman also is a seasoned plunger, having done a number in Lake Michigan throughout the years.

“When you hit the water, it feels really pretty good,” Zeman said, moments after walking proudly into the lake wearing a seasonally appropriate green bathing suit. He walked to the lake with the song “Wings” played by a bagpiper from the Northern Illinois Pipes and Drums.

“I like to do this because it’s a good cause, and it’s just kind of fun,” he said.

“Next year, I’m expecting a much bigger turnout.”

Nick Pyan Operation Click vice president “It’s invigorating. It’s good to get your heart pumping.”

Organized to raise money for Operation Click, the event initially brought only Zeman, but a larger group of 17 plungers later arrived, said the organization’s vice president, Nick Pyan.

“All the money that we raise is going to benefit our banquets, and it will help us give away the cars to our student winners,” he said.

At the end of every school year, Operation Click in McHenry County gives away two cars to students from a pool of students who have good driving records.

More online Visit this article at NWHerald.com to view a video of the inaugural Leprechaun Plunge sponsored by Operation Click.

Pyan said the Leprechaun Plunge went well considering it was the first year. He estimated the event garnered about $2,000.

“Next year, I’m expecting a much bigger turnout,” he said.

Some of the sponsors of the event included Buffalo Wild Wings, Richard Walkers and BCU Bank. The city of Crystal Lake also allowed Operation Click to host the event there and divers from the Crystal Lake Fire Rescue Department donated their time for the event.

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McHenry County residents prepare to go bald for St. Baldrick’s

By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com McHENRY – When 6-year-old Makenna McGowan learned last year that children could get cancer just like her mom did, she decided it wasn’t that big of a sacrifice to shave her head.

Her 8-year-old sister Mallory will join her this year as they get rid of their hair to raise money for pediatric cancer research during the McHenry Community Shave at McHenry High School West Campus. Their mom, Michell Rendo, a breast cancer survivor, said they’ve raised nearly $1,100.

“I’m so proud of them,” Rendo said.

“They’re so little, and they know too much and they want to save the world.”

They will join hundreds of people in McHenry County who are shaving their heads for St. Baldrick’s Foundation during events happening throughout the month of March.

Send us your St. Baldrick’s event photos, videos from McHenry County area As of Friday, more than 360 people had signed up to have their heads shaved in McHenry, volunteer event organizer and Assistant Principal Amber Bowgren said. They had raised $73,000 of their $180,000 goal by Friday. The projected turnout is down from their record-breaking participation a couple years ago, but Bowgren said she expects

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Mallory (left), 8, and Makenna McGowan, 6, will shave their heads Wednesday during the McHenry Community Shave for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. to see a rush in the last few days leading up to the event.

McHenry fundraisers also are trying to sell $10 T-shirts to benefit local children with cancer, she said. Five families have submitted applications to benefit from the fundraiser.

McHenry’s community shave will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the main gym, 4724 W. Crystal Lake Road, McHenry.

“If you just stop and kind of take it all in and really think about what this

all means, it’s really an amazing experience,” Bowgren said.

Crystal Lake’s Texas Roadhouse, 835 Cog Circle, will host a shave-a-thon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday. Two days before the event, more than $10,000 of their $15,000 goal had been donated in the days leading up to the event.

St. Baldrick’s events in Huntley will span two days. The first will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Huntley High School, 13719 Harmony Road. The second will be from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday at Parkside Pub, 11721 E. Main St. Fundraisers have garnered $39,352 in donations by Friday, only about $5,000 shy of their $45,000 goal.

Woodstock North High School co-adviser Patti Baltes said 20 people have signed up to lose their hair for charity at their event. Among them is choral director Megan Kim, who vowed to shave her head if students raised $1,000. Another $1,000 and her husband, teacher Michael Kim, also will shave his hair, Baltes said.

Woodstock North High School’s shave will happen from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. March 24 at Woodstock North, 3000 Raffel Road. Organizers had raised $2,783 of their $5,000 goal as of Friday.

Bernotas Middle School, 170 N. Oak St., Crystal Lake, will host an event from 1 to 2 p.m. March 24. Fundraisers had nearly doubled their $2,000 goal two weeks out from the event.

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Algonquin man injured in Pyott Road crash in Lake in the Hills

LAKE IN THE HILLS – A crash that shut down a portion of Pyott Road for almost 10 hours sent an Algonquin man to the hospital with injuries police said were not life-threatening.

Lake in the Hills police sent out a Nixle alert at 4 a.m. Saturday advising drivers to avoid Pyott Road in that stretch because of a crash. Police dispatchers said the crash occurred about 2 a.m.

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If you cannot learn from your mistakes, then you cannot acknowledge you have made them. If you do not learn from your mistakes, then you are destined to repeat them. That is a recipe for disaster. Not only has Patrick Kenneally not admitted his past mistakes, but he tries to justify them. What we have is a man who takes a hammer and pounds the square peg into the circle hole and because no one has ever corrected him, he continues to believe that is the right way.

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The aftermath of a crash Saturday at Silver Linings Equestrian on Pyott Road in Lake in the Hills.

HEBRON – One woman suffered a broken foot and a man was issued several citations after a crash in Hebron involving two motorcycles, police said.

The Hebron Police Department was dispatched about 12:50 p.m. for reports of a motorcycle crash on Route 173 at Route 47.

Two motorcycles were traveling together and, after stopping at an intersection, one turned while another went to turn and they collided, Sgt. Rich

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swerved and hit a utility pole in front of Silver Linings Equestrian, 1109 Pyott Road, according to his account to police, Sgt. Don Fowler said. A fence in the area also was damaged in the crash.

“He was transported to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries,” Fowler said, adding Starzyk went to Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin. “And he was wearing his seat belt.”

Pyott Road reopened just before noon after ComEd workers finished work on the poles.

Police still are investigating Saturday’s crash.

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CARY – The affordable senior housing project will move to the Village Board with a positive recommendation after the reconfigured Board of Zoning, Planning and Appeals unanimously recommended a text amendment and conditional use for the facility Thursday.

The vote was a departure from the board’s decision when it first reviewed the project in December. At that meeting, two of the three requested variances were rejected, meaning a supermajority of positive votes from the Village Board would have been required to approve the project.

The project was before the zoning board for a second time because the Village Board sent the project back after trustees could not agree to bring the project to a vote at a January meeting.

At that meeting, PIRHL Principal David Burg also questioned the way the zoning board handled its initial review, saying the board did not spend enough time discussing the two rejected variances.

Earlier this month, former zoning board Chairman Joe Tournier was demoted to a regular voting member by Village President Mark Kownick and subsequently resigned from the board.

New Chairman Patrick Khoury led Thursday’s meeting.

The text amendment proposed by PIRHL would modify six sections of Cary’s village code, adding senior housing as a land use category and defining its requirements. The conditional use, which is contingent on the text amendment being approved, would allow this specific project to be built.

In response to concerns from previous meetings, PIRHL reduced the unit count of the building from 68 to 62, modified its presentation, and added a pedestrian path and additional landscaping.

Despite concerns raised regarding the efficiency of the pedestrian path and the height of the building, all five members in attendance voted in favor of the requests. Board member Frank O’Laughlin was absent.

The development will tentatively appear before the Village Board again on April 5.

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“There really is a lot of grassroots support for Bernie Sanders out here. That’s pretty impressive. I don’t know how that’s going to translate to votes on Tuesday, but there’s a lot of effort going into it.

Honestly, I couldn’t even guess what the results of McHenry County are going to be. It’s a very impressive ground game for Sanders.”

Continued from page A3 advantage in the polls over Sanders, Democratic Party of McHenry County Chairman Michael Bissett said Sanders seems to have a lot of support in the county. Of the 156 pledged delegates, 102 of them will be doled out proportionally based on results by congressional district.

“There really is a lot of grassroots support for Bernie Sanders out here.

That’s pretty impressive. I don’t know how that’s going to translate to votes on Tuesday, but there’s a lot of effort going into it. Honestly, I couldn’t even guess what the results of McHenry County are going to be.

It’s a very impressive ground game for Sanders,” Bissett said.

Both Salgado and Bissett said they anticipate good turnout, but one of the more significant factors is Trump, both enthusiasm for him, or people terrified of him winning the nomination or the presidency.

Salgado said there is a lot of concern in McHenry County, like elsewhere, that Trump’s actions and rhetoric will damage the GOP brand, although she downplays the idea that it will be felt at the local level or hamstring the aspirations of local Republicans running for office.

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“He says what a lot of people are thinking, how far this country has gone to the left. He’s not a conservative, but people are willing to put him in there and go with that risk,” Salgado said.

Bissett anticipates that fear of Trump will result in a bipartisan increase in local turnout.

“I think there are a lot of people who are terrified of what they see, especially since he appears to be on the fast track to winning the nomination,” Bissett said.

Voters also will go to the polls Tuesday in Missouri and North Carolina. A total of 358 Republican and 792 Democratic delegates are up for

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At 459, Trump had 37 percent of the 1,237 GOP delegates needed to secure the nomination as of Friday, while Cruz is second with 360. At 1,223 delegates, Clinton is halfway to the needed 2,382 delegates, although more than a third of them are “superdelegates,” or unelected delegates free to support the candidate they want.

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ALGONQUIN – The Community Unit School District 300 Board recently gave administrators permission to intervene in another property tax appeals case brought by Sears Holding Corporation in Hoffman Estates.

The unanimous approval came just months after the district settled a large property tax appeals case with the corporation, covering tax years 2004 through 2012.

District 300 Chief Operating Officer Susan Harkin said the authorization to intervene simply gives the district permission to get involved in the recent case in order to try to protect the district’s revenues. The resolution was unanimously approved during the most recent board meeting.

Taxpayers are well within their right to appeal to the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board about an assessed value, in this case from the Cook County Assessor’s Office. Harkin said it’s fairly routine to have entities do so, but appeals from Sears, 3333 Beverly Road, are noteworthy because of the district’s history with the corporation and a longtime economic development area associated with it.

The EDA was established in 1989 by the state Legislature to incentivize Sears with tax breaks to stay in the area and retain jobs. It was supposed to expire after 23 years, but instead was extended another 15 years, prolonging the period during which District 300 and other taxing bodies would lose out on tax revenue.

“Right now, we’re getting almost $7 million [in property taxes from Sears],” Harkin said. “If this [EDA] were to have not continued, I believe about $19 million is what the district would be getting.”

On top of the EDA’s effects on District 300 revenue, Sears has routinely filed an assessment appeal for each taxing year since 2004, said Kory Atkinson, District 300’s Bloomingdale-based attorney.

Atkinson added the discrepancies between the county’s assessment and the corporation’s have consistently been quite wide.

“The assessor has the corporate complex valued between $200 million and $220 million,” Atkinson said. “Sears has been requesting values ranging, on the low end, from $80 million and as high as $146 million.”

A recent settlement reached toward the end of 2015 landed on a value of about $180 million and generated a refund to the corporation of about $22.5 million from the affected taxing bodies. Atkinson said in order to pay the refund the village of Hoffman Estates issued notes, a promise to pay from the 55 percent of EDA funds to which Sears is entitled.

“The school district was not directly affected by the reduction,” Atkinson said, adding what the settlement could mean, however, is an extension of the EDA past it’s already 15-year extension.

“It’s continuing to deprive the school district of money that would otherwise be going to the district.”

As far as fighting the most recent round of appeals, covering tax years 2013 and 2014 – Atkinson suspects one for 2015 will arise soon, too – Harkin acknowledged the assessor’s value might be too high, but Sears’ assessment seems too low.

“We’re getting just over $7 million, but we’d love to get that [almost] $20 million,” she said. “This impacts our school district, so what we’re doing is just trying to protect those dollars we are getting.”

Sears Holdings declined a Northwest Herald request for comment.

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LOCAL BRIEFS CARY – The Cary Park District will be hosting a dog egg hunt March 23 at the dog park in Hoffman Park.

The egg hunt for small dogs begins at 6:30 p.m. and the hunt for large/medium dogs begins at 7 p.m. All dogs must be on a leash and with an adult during the hunt.

Advance registration at the Community Center, 255 Briargate Road, Cary, is required. The fee is $2 a dog.

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CRYSTAL LAKE – Four McHenry County College students had their artwork selected for this year’s Skyway Juried Art Competition.

Hosted by Elgin Community College through April 4, the competition includes 34 student artists from eight area community colleges, including College of Lake County, Elgin Community College, McHenry County College, Moraine Valley Community College, Morton College, Prairie State College, Oakton Community College and Waubonsee Community College, according to a recent MCC news release.

Mackenzie Warren of Crystal Lake won an award of excellence for her ceramics piece, “The Boot.” Mary Jean Deja of McHenry also was selected for her ceramics piece, “The Bird House,” as was Omar Juarez of Woodstock for his archival inkjet print, “Laundry,” and Jonna Kivisto of Crystal Lake for her ceramics piece, “Furiously Happy.”

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CRYSTAL LAKE – The upcoming Second Sunday Concert at McHenry County College will feature the woodwind quintet Winds Off the Lake.

Hosted at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Luecht Conference Center, the concert is free and open to the public, according to an MCC news release. A reception will follow.

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McConnell, chairman of the historic preservation commission, said the owner of the home, barn and outbuildings at 7704 Route 14, Harvard, has plans to auction the property in April and wanted the commission to postpone the decision, saying the home qualified to be a landmark.

If the property, built in 1855, does get designated a local historic landmark, it would limit the owner’s ability to demolish it, said Sean Foley, staff liaison for the McHenry County Historic Preservation Commission.

The owner would have to get a certificate of appropriateness from the county before the city of Harvard could give permission to demolish the landmarked home, Foley said.

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The show goes in depth about what’s happening in the area, from politics to business to arts and education, and Ponce said he hopes to give people a sense of what it’s like behind the scenes of his show when he speaks Thursday at the Woodstock Opera House.

“I want to take them inside this world, because I think it’s a very fascinating world,” Ponce said.

Ponce will speak at 10 a.m. as part of the Woodstock Fine Arts Association’s Creative Living Series. Tickets cost

$24 and can be bought through the Woodstock Opera House box office at 815-338-5300 or at www.woodstockoperahouse.com.

The talk will start with Ponce giving some Phil Ponce insights into the art of interviewing, and showing the audience clips of interviews that went well, and some that didn’t go so well, he said.

Ponce also will comment on what he said is “contentious and fragmented” politics on the local, state and national levels.

He hopes that people will take away from his talk that there are more dimensions to political discussions than what one sees in the headlines and

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“It is nuanced. It is complicated.

And ... the personal is always a factor,” Ponce said.

Although the notion of personal alliances is nothing new in politics, it affects relationships from the Illinois

House speaker and the governor, to presidential candidates.

“Personal dynamics can play out in a way that is not evident, but in a way that is profound,” Ponce said.

This will be Ponce’s first time speaking in Woodstock, and the audience will have a chance to ask questions, he said.

Ponce has a degree in English from Indiana University and a law degree from the University of Michigan, according to WTTW’s website. He started with WTTW in 1992 as a correspondent and substitute host, and became the host in 1999.

He lives in Chicago with his wife, Ann, and has a grown daughter and two sons, who also are broadcast journalists in Chicago.

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HUNTLEY – Sun City Huntley is now one of the 15 regular locations for the Veterans Mobile Medical Unit, which will visit Huntley on the fourth Friday of even months.

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For information on the unit or to register, call 708-202-8838 or visit www.hines. va.gov/services/mmu.asp.

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POLICE REPORTS 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.

Woodstock • Brandon A. Hall, 32, transient, was charged Monday, Feb. 22, with two counts of domestic battery.

• Mark D. Travis, 43, transient, was charged Tuesday, Feb. 23, with two counts of battery and resisting a peace officer.

• Montez M. Moses, 21, 2023 Willow Brooke Drive, Unit 1A, Woodstock, was charged Saturday, Feb. 27, with two counts of domestic battery.

• Nicholas D. Pitej, 72, transient, was charged Sunday, Feb. 28, with battery.

Fox River Grove • Joseph C. De Neve, 62, 356 Kim Trail, Lake Zurich, was charged Saturday, Feb. 20, with improper lane usage and driving under the influence of alcohol.

• Mitchell R. Terry, 21, 8040 S. Mason Ave., Burbank, was charged Monday, Feb. 29, with reckless driving.

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• Elbert L. Taylor II, 38, 1020 9th St., Unit 3, Harvard, was charged Saturday, Feb. 20, with domestic battery.

• Arturo Bernal-Mondragon, 18, 313 Lincoln St., Harvard, was cited Sunday, Feb. 21, for underage drinking.

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• Matthew T. Clarke, 18, 306 Busse Road, Marengo, was charged Saturday, Feb. 27, with two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and delivery of marijuana.

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• A 17-year-old Woodstock boy was charged Monday, Feb. 15, with leaving the scene of an accident, driving with a revoked license and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.

• Laura A. Penkava, 62, 340 Alma Terrace, Cary, was charged Friday, Feb. 19, with theft.

• Andrew B. Bellenie, 45, 10488 Scott Drive, Huntley, was charged Friday, Feb. 19, with two counts of domestic battery and interfering with domestic violence reporting.

• A 13-year-old Lake in the Hills boy was charged Saturday, Feb. 20, with criminal damage to property.

• Nicholas A. Bach, 20, 900 N. Rohlwing

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with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving with a suspended license, improper traffic lane use, disregarding a stop sign, unlawful use of an electronic communication device and operating an uninsured motor vehicle.

Road, Unit 226, Addison, was charged Monday, Feb. 22, with two counts of possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving under the influence of drugs.

• Jessica M. Kirk, 39, 9435 Rainsford Drive, Huntley, was charged Thursday, Feb. 25, with two counts of domestic battery.

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CALENDAR March 13

March 14

• 1 p.m. – McHenry Senior Citizens Club meeting, McHenry Senior Citizens Center,

March 15

• 9 to 11 a.m. – “Nonprofit’s Role in Today’s Social Media Environment,” Volunteer Center McHenry County, 620 Dakota St., Crystal Lake. Matt Batt of Communications Pipeline Process will teach new ways to refresh or create in the competitive social media environment. Cost: $24. Registration required.

Information: 815-344-4483 or www.volunteercentermchenrycounty.org.

• 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. – Author event, McHenry County College, Room B166, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Huntley resident Peter J. Aterberg will read from his recently published thriller, “Dragon Heart.” Books will be available for purchase and signing.

• 4:30 to 7 p.m. – Harvard Rotary Club corned beef and cabbage dinner, Stratford Banquets, 21007 McGuire Road, Harvard. Cash bar. Tickets: $15 available at Harvard Chamber of Commerce, Castle Bank, Harvard State Bank or any Rotarian. Proceeds benefit the club’s Scholarship and Community and International Services Fund. Information: 815-378-2791.

• 6 p.m. – Coffee with the Chief, Crystal Lake Police Department, 100 W. Woodstock St., Crystal Lake. Chief James Black will discuss the organizational structure, police training and other services provided to the residents by the police department. Free. Registration required.

Information: Officer Eddie Pluviose at 815-3563731 or epluviose@crystallake.org.

• 6 p.m. – GriefShare support group, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 404 N. Green St., McHenry. For those suffering from loss of a loved one. Weekly program through June 7. Cost: $15 for materials. Information: 815385-4030 or www.shepherdofhills.org.

• 6 to 7 p.m. – Free legal seminar on senior issues, Paradise Park Assisted Living & Memory Care, 16 Lilac Ave., Fox Lake. Featuring information on elder law attorneys. Free.

Information: 847-513-3802 or pskweres@ paradiseparkalf.com.

• 6:30 p.m. – Movie Night, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock.

Featuring “In the Heart of the Sea,” rated PG-13.

Free. Information: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org.

• 7 to 8 p.m. – Lifetree Café, The Pointe, 5650 Route 14, Crystal Lake. The program, “How to Live to 100: Advice From Those Who’ve Done It,” features a short film. Free. Information: Bob Dorn at 815-575-4745 or rdorn@immanuelcl.org.

• 7 to 8:30 p.m. – Quilters Discussion Forum, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Open to any topic related to the

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Visit PlanitNorthwest.com and select Add Event. Your submission will appear weekly in the Northwest Herald and online. For information, call Barb Grant at 815-526-4523. art of quilting, including construction, design, tools, books and more. Information: www. woodstockpubliclibrary.org.

March 16

• 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Village Quilters meeting, Trinity Lutheran Church, 504 E. Diggins St., Harvard. Featuring a community service workshop. Information: 815-943-0922 or sml1935@mc.net.

• 10 a.m. – “Protecting Yourself from Scams,” Senior Services Associates Inc., 3519 N. Richmond Road, McHenry. Representatives of the McHenry County Sheriff’s office will discuss current scams and rip-offs that target seniors. Free. Registration required. Information: 815-344-3555.

• 5 to 8 p.m. – McHenry Community Shave to benefit St. Baldrick’s Foundation, McHenry High School West Campus, 4724 W. Crystal Lake Road, McHenry. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer-driven

charity that funds childhood cancer research.

Information: www.mchenrystbaldricks.org/ community-shave.

• 6:30 p.m. – “Reverse Mortgages: Having Your Equity Work for You,” Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock.

Learn eligibility requirements, payment options, cost factors and more. Free. Registration required. Information: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org.

• 6:30 p.m. – World Film Night, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock.

Featuring “A Screaming Man,” a movie from Chad that won a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Free. Registration required. Information: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org.

• 7 to 8 p.m. – “Playscapes in Your Backyard”, Lost Valley Visitor Center in Glacial Park, Route 31 and Harts Road, Ringwood. Learn about natural alternatives to traditional play equipment. Cost: free for county residents, $5 nonresidents. Registration deadline: March 12.

Information: www.mccdistrict.org.

• 7 to 8 p.m. – “Conquer Your Clutter and Get Organized,” Fox Lake District Library, 255 E. Grand Ave., Fox Lake. Professional organizer Beverly Shipshock will share tips and strategies for living in a more organized home. Free. Information: 847-587-0198 or www.fllib.org.

• 7 to 8:30 p.m. – ShutterBugs of Volo Bog nature photography club, Volo Bog State Natural Area, 28478 W. Brandenburg Road, Ingleside. Meetings feature guest speakers, programs and member competitions. Information: www.shutterbugsofvolobog.com.

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• Sunday, March 13, 2016

• 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Habitat restoration work day, Yonder Prairie, 14401 Trinity Court, Woodstock. The Land Conservancy of McHenry County seeks volunteers to help restore a natural area. Information: 815-337-9502 or www. conservemc.org.

• 11:30 a.m. – St. Patrick’s bowl fundraiser for Harvard Senior Center, J’s Lanes, 5507 Route 14, Harvard. Raffles and prizes. Cost: $15, which includes shoe rental, two Scotch Doubles games and one Crazy Bowl game.

Information: 815-943-2470 or www.harvardseniorcenter.org.

• 1 to 3 p.m. – McHenry Sunrise Rotary’s St. Patrick’s Parade, from McHenry High School West Campus, west on Waukegan Road, north on Green Street to Pearl Street, east on Pearl Street to Veterans Park. Information: 815382-6134 or www.stpatsparade.weebly.com.

• 1 to 3 p.m. – Huntley Historical Society’s movie afternoon, Cosman Center, 12015 Mill St., Huntley. The Ruth and Swanson families’ histories, taped in 2015, will be showcased.

Free. Information: 224-654-2070 or www. huntleyhistoricalsociety.org.

• 2 p.m. – Conservation@Home presentation, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Sarah Michehl of The Land Conservancy of McHenry County will discuss an education/recognition program for homeowners. Free. Registration required. Information: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org or 815-3380542.

• 2 to 3 p.m. – “Brownie Wise: The Original Tupperware Lady,” Wauconda Area Library, 801 N. Main St., Wauconda. The living history program will chart a single mother’s rise from selling cleaning supplies to vice president of Tupperware Home Parties. Free. Registration required. Information: 847-526-6225 or www. wauclib.org.

• 3 p.m. – “The Last Supper” performance, St. John’s Lutheran Church, 401 St. John’s Road, Woodstock. Free. Information: 815338-5159 or www.stjohnswoodstock.com.

• 3:30 p.m. – Lenten music and readings, Grace Lutheran Church, 1300 Kishwaukee Valley Road, Woodstock. A free-will offering will be taken to support the Woodstock Area Community Ministries. Information: 815-338-0554 or www.gracewoodstock.org.

• 5 to 6:30 p.m. – Sunday evening community dinner, First United Methodist Church, 236 W. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake. A free dinner for those in need. Information: 815-4590785 or foodministries@firstchurchcl.org.

• 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. – Free Sunday community dinner, First United Methodist Church, 3717 W. Main St., McHenry. Information: 815385-0931 or www.fumcmchenry.org.

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• 6 to 8 p.m. – College application workshop, Huntley Area Public Library, 11000 Ruth Road, Huntley. Crystal Ramirez from the Illinois Student Assistance Commission will discuss components of college applications, the timeline and logistics of the process, and writing personal statements and essays. For high school students and adults. Free. Registration required. Information: 847-669-5386, ext. 21.

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OBITUARIES BETTY BERNA Betty Berna, 88, of East Dundee, passed away on March 10, 2016.

Arrangements by Cremation Society of Illinois.

WAYNE ANTON HANSEN Born: July 18, 1934; in Palatine Died: March 7, 2016; in McHenry

Wayne Anton Hansen passed away at his home on March 7, 2016, in McHenry, at the age of 81.

Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Nancy L. Hansen; children, Steve (Debby) Hansen, Mark (Linda) Hansen and Mary Ann Hansen; grandchildren, Cori, David, Amanda, Brittany, Lawren and Merckx; along with two great-grandchildren; brother, Russell (Judy) Hansen; sister, Donna (Bob) Back; and his nieces and nephews.

He is preceded in death by his son, Lawrence (Lar) Hansen.

Wayne was born on July 18, 1934, in Palatine, to Anton and Phoebe (Coss) Hansen.

He married Nancy L. Franzen on Jan. 7, 1956.

Wayne served in the Armed Forces. He worked at Sherman Plumbing and Heating for many years before co-owning Ahrens and Condill in Barrington until his retirement. He loved fishing on his boat, golfing, camping at their trailer and spending time with his family.

A private memorial service is being planned.

CAROL MAE HARMAN

Born: May 11, 1926; in Blue Island Died: March 8, 2016; in Westmont Carol Mae Harman, longtime resident of Crystal Lake, currently of Westmont was born May 11, 1926, in Blue Island. She passed away peacefully on March 8, 2016, in Westmont.

Carol is the beloved wife of the late Floyd B. Harman. Loving mother of Brent (Sharon) Harman, Cheryl Stack and Reid (Pam) Harman. Beloved daughter of the late Charlotte (Brown) and Percy McMahan.

Fond grandmother of David (Erica) Harman, Taylor (Hans Alans Diaz Castro) Harman and Nathan R. Harman. Great grandmother of seven. Dear sister of Priscilla (the late William) Mehl. Fond aunt of many nieces and nephews.

Services to take place at a future date.

For more information please visit www. dupagecremations.com. Arrangements by DuPage Cremations, Ltd. (630)293-5200.

JERRY W. JACKSON Born: June 4, 1944 Died: March 11, 2016

Jerry W. Jackson, age 71, of McHenry, passed away on Friday, March 11, 2016, at Alexian Brothers in Hoffman Estates.

Jerry was born in Nashville, Tennessee on June 4, 1944.

On May 7, 1977, he married Pamela Walters in Elgin.

Jerry enjoyed fishing, driving cars and ATVs, going to White Sox games, watching old western movies and the History Channel. He was also an avid nature watcher and loved spending time with his grandchildren.

He is survived by his children, Jerry Jackson Jr., Karen Perez, Michael Jackson, Theresa (Freddie) Martinez, Annie Jackson, Dennis (Jenna) Jackson; and 22 grandchildren. Also survived by his siblings, Joe Jackson and Margie Joeick.

He was preceded in death by his parents and siblings, Ronda, Betty, Sonny, Mike and Robert “Bud.” Visitation will be held Wednesday, March 16, 2016, at Colonial Funeral Home 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry, IL 60050 from 4 to 8 p.m.

Interment will be private.

Arrangements were handled by Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory, McHenry IL. 815385-0063.

by his family, Mom, Dad, and Sister who adored him.

He was placed on Hospice care and passed away from complications of his lifetime struggle with his rare disorder called CHIMES Syndrome. He was born on June 25, 1987, at St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin. Marc attended the SEDOM Center School for special needs in Woodstock. Marc was able to live life fully despite his disabilities. He participated in Special Olympics earning a silver medal in horseback riding, lived in California for a time, visiting many beautiful national parks and historic sites. Marc loved camping and swimming with his family and listening to his dad’s terrible guitar playing. His spirit, grace and life touched many and he will be missed by all, especially his family.

Marc is survived by his immediate family, dad, Robert; mom, Denise; sister, Sarah (Eric) Gulgren; and brother, Jacob. He also is survived by his favorite nephew, Eli Gulgren; and favorite niece, Claire Gulgren.

He is survived also by many aunts, uncles and cousins who all loved him greatly and will be forever affected by knowing and loving him.

He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Eugene and June Tricker; and paternal grandfather, James Meschewski.

In Lieu of flowers please consider donating to the McHenry County Adult Program at P.O. Box 1823 so that Marc’s friends can continue to enjoy a safe, fun day program for these special young adults.

Internment will be private at Windridge Cemetery in Cary. A Celebration of Marc’s life will be planned in the near future for all to share in the happy and uplifting memories of Marc’s incredible life.

EDWARD MEYER Edward “Tom” Meyer, 64, of Lake in the Hills passed away March 10, 2016.

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Born: Feb. 10, 1928; in Chicago Died: March 10, 2016; in Johnsburg

John Alexander Szymkowski Jr., age 88, of Johnsburg, passed away on Thursday, March 10, 2016, at his home.

John was born in Chicago, on Feb. 10, 1928, the son of John Alexander Sr. and Mary (Rybka) Szymkowski.

On Nov. 4, 1950, he married Elaine Luczak in Chicago. John enjoyed fishing, boating, target

Cancer Society c/o Janet Smith 200 South Green St. McHenry, IL 60050 Arrangements were handled by Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory, McHenry IL. 815385-0063.

DIANE J. TREMBLAY Diane J. Tremblay, 81, formerly of Woodstock, passed away peacefully on March 10, 2016, surrounded by her loving Family.

She was born in Chicago, to the late Charles and Grace (Neuhaus) Ferrel. She owned Woodstock Confectionery on the Square and loved being a “Chocolatier” for over 20 years.

She is survived by her son, Mark (Kelly)

Morrissey III; her daughters, Kathy Launer and Jenny Tremblay; her son-in-Law, Ryan Dobberphul; and her grandchildren, Nick Morrissey, Mark Morrissey IV and Bryan (Emily) Launer.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Larry Tremblay; and her daughters, Laurie Dobberphul and Colleen Morrissey.

Services will be private with a Celebration of Her Life being planned at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Diane’s name to the American Heart Association at www.heart.org.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS John Joseph Larkin: The visitation will Geneva, Wisconsin. Inurment will be in information, call Querhammer & Flagg be from 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 13, Roselawn Memory Gardens Cemetery, Funeral Home at 815-459-1760. at Smith-Corcoran Funeral Home, 185 Delavan Township, Wisconsin.

Betty Van Pelt: The funeral service will be E. Northwest Highway, Palatine. The John A. Szymkowski Jr.: The visitation will at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 2, at Messinger visitation will resume from 9 to 10:15 a.m. be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 14, Fountain Hills Mortuary, 12065 N. Saguaro Monday, March 14, at Holy Family Catholic at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Blvd., Fountain Hills, Arizona.

Church, 2515 W. Palatine Road, Inverness.

Drive, McHenry, with a prayer service at Thomas E. Wesner: The visitation will be A funeral Mass celebration will follow at 7:30 p.m. from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 14, at 10:30 a.m. Interment will be private. For Hazel “Joyce” Tamburini: The memorial Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. information, call the funeral home at 847Mass celebration will be at 10:30 a.m.

Sumner St., Harvard. Services and burial 359-8020.

Saturday, April 2, at St. Mary’s Catholic will be private. For information, call the Virginia C. Lundelius: The funeral blessing Church, 108 W. Adams St., Taylorville. For funeral home at 815-943-5400. will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 12, at d Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 ate cor e Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, before d ed Re proceeding to Windridge Memorial Park in Updaetwly ly N Cary for interment. For information, call the New funeral home at 815-385-2400.

Bernard E. Mayer: The visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a service at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, March 13, at Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry. Burial will be private. For information, call the funeral home at 815385-0063.

Michael Powers: The memorial service 12 N Pistakee Lake Rd • Fox Lake, IL 60020 will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 13, at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, 503 W. Jackson St., Woodstock. For information, call Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home at www.HamsherLakeside.com 815-459-1760.

Licensed in Illinois and Wisconsin Jeffrey Alan Rouhandeh: The memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at First Congregational Church, 461 Offering Complimentary: Pearson St., Crystal Lake. Interment will Photo DVD with Music be private. For information, call Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory at Wood Flag Case to Family of Veteran 815-459-3411.

Joyce E. Sutton: The visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, March 13, at Steinke Funeral Home and from 9:30 a.m. until the 11 a.m. memorial service Monday, March 14, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Lake

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Sheryl Bankel: A celebration of life will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 13, at the Moose Lodge in McHenry.

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.

Danny C. Foreman: The visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 13, at Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave. (Route 176), Crystal Lake, and will resume from 9 a.m. until the 10 a.m. funeral service Monday, March 14, at the funeral home. Interment will follow in Woodland Cemetery in McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-3411.

Norma R. Henson: A celebration of life service will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 26, at Abraham Lincoln Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 745 Woodside Road, Springfield.

Gerard “Jerry” F. Idstein: The visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, March 13, at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry. The visitation will continue from 9:30 a.m. until the 10:30 a.m. funeral Mass celebration Monday, March 14, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Johnsburg. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-0063.

Jerry W. Jackson: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry.

Peter E. Kiolbassa: A memorial gathering will be from 11 a.m. until the 2 p.m. service of remembrance Sunday, March 13, at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral & Cremation Service, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley. For information, call the funeral home at 847515-8772.

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JOHN A. SZYMKOWSKI JR.

shooting, Indian Motorcycles and watching Indy car racing. John was retired from United Airlines and a member of the U.S. Navel Coast Guard.

He is survived by his children, Dave (Pam) of Chicago and Cindy Rowan of Galesburg. Grandchildren, Michelle (Billy) May, April Wright, Alex and Elizabeth Szymkowski. Great-grandchild, Taryn Henry. Also survived by a brother, Donald (Dorothy) of Fountain Hills, AZ. He was preceded in death by his parents and wife, Elaine.

Visitation will be held Monday, March 14, 2016, at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Dr. McHenry, IL 60050 from 4 to 8 p.m. with a prayer service at 7:30 p.m. Interment will be private.

Memorials may be made to the American

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Illinois primary voting varies by place, gender

out is low, averaging 22 percent over the last four elections. The recent low was 17 percent in 2014 and the high was 32 percent in 2008.

The average turnout for general elections since 2008 is 54 percent.

The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – If past trends hold up, some Illinois voters will be more active than others in Tuesday’s primary election for U.S. president, U.S. Senate and other races.

Ahead of the contests, the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, a government watchdog group, teamed up with a Chicago information technology company to examine voter records and Census data over the last four elections, an analysis they say hasn’t been as easily accessible to the public before now. The campaign hopes it’ll contribute to more voter participation.

Here’s a snapshot of state’s electorate, according to their findings:

Partisan shift?

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An election worker (left) hands a voting receipt to a voter Feb. 27, 2012, at a polling station in Chicago.

Illinois voters head to the polls Tuesday to cast critical primary ballots for offices from U.S. president to county recorder. million people, about 26 percent of those eligible.

The data suggests some parts of Illinois have more engaged voting populations, although explanations other than geography could be a factor, such as outdated voter files.

More than 90 percent of eligible voters are registered and active in the state’s southernmost counties: Alexander, Pulaski and Massac. In central and northwestern Illinois, Dewitt, Piatt, Mercer and Carroll counties also fit that description.

By contrast, in western Illinois’ Brown County and the city of Aurora, fewer than 60 percent are registered. Chicago doesn’t fare much better, with less than 70 percent.

Voters are listed inactive if they haven’t voted in the past four years and don’t responded to election notices confirming their address.

arrested at the event, but the charges have not yet been released. CBS News said one of its reporters has been charged with resisting arrest.

News from across the state Reporter Sopan Deb was on the floor of the arena on the campus of the University of IlliChicago police: 2 officers injured after nois at Chicago and interviewed Trump cancels event Trump supporters and protestCHICAGO – Chicago police said ers. He also was taking video of the scene outside of the arena. two officers sustained injuries when supporters of Republican July trial set for man presidential candidate Donald accused in hatchet Trump clashed with protesters slaying of wife after he abruptly canceled a RACINE, Wis. – A July trial date campaign rally. has been set for an Arlington Police said the two officers Heights man accused of killing were taken to a hospital for his wife with a hatchet in Wistreatment and released. No consin in 2014. other details about their injuries A judge in Racine County on were available. Police said no other injuries were reported at Thursday set the trial of 39-yearthe event Friday night. old Cristian Loga-Negru to open Police said five people were July 11. The Arlington Heights

man is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mayhem and kidnapping.

Authorities said Loga-Negru killed his wife, 36-year-old Roxana Abrudan, after he tracked her down while she was hiding from him at the Mount Pleasant home of her boss.

The judge in June had set Loga-Negru’s trial for February. But his defense attorneys asked at a January hearing that he undergo a special health mental evaluation, thereby delaying the trial.

Loga-Negru is being held without bond in the Racine County Jail.

Who can vote

A little more than 10 million Illinois residents who are U.S. citizens of legal age qualify to vote. But only 7.5 million are registered and active, meaning, in part, that they’ve voted recently. That leaves out 2.6

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About 3 percent don’t list a gender.

Women make up about half of Illinois’ population. In Danville and Galesburg, 55 percent of active voters are women. The highest percentage for men is in Schuyler County, with about 52 percent. Older voters – age 65 and up – are 22 percent of the active electorate. After that, 55to 64-year-olds make up nearly 19 percent, while voters 18 to 24 Who actually votes More women cast ballots are about 7 percent. than men: Nearly 52 percent of active voters are female, com- Turnout pared with 45 percent male.

Still, overall primary turn-

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Firefighters rescue window washers outside high-rise

CHICAGO – Two window washers were rescued after they were left dangling briefly

outside a high-rise building in downtown Chicago when part of the scaffolding broke.

Chicago Fire Battalion Chief Patrick Mahoney told WMAQTV firefighters were called to the scene Saturday when one side of the scaffolding dropped.

He said the two men were in harnesses dangling from about the 15th floor.

Mahoney said firefighters opened part of a window and lowered a rope to the pair, who were pulled inside. He said the two men were shaken up, but not injured.

Mahoney said the scaffolding company was on the scene trying to determine what went wrong.

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Panel studies if University of Illinois ready for mascot

CHAMPAIGN – A student

Primary voter trends reveal a slow shift in partisan turnout, with more people casting GOP ballots over the last four cycles.

In 2008, when Chicago native Barack Obama sought the Democratic presidential nomination, 66 percent of the primary ballots in Illinois were Democratic, while 30 percent were Republican. Democratic ballots continued to drop in the next two elections, while GOP ballots increased.

By 2014, when Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner sought his first public office, the numbers were nearly reversed.

Only 36 percent of cast ballots were Democratic, while 61 percent were Republican.

Rauner was the first Republican elected Illinois governor in more than a decade in a race that shattered spending records.

committee at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is looking into whether the school is ready to move on nine years after Chief Illiniwek was retired.

The co-chairs of the Illinois Student Senate committee stress the effort isn’t to actually choose a mascot, but to see if people are ready for one.

The Champaign News-Gazette reported the students differentiate between Chief Illiniwek, which the school and backers say is a symbol, and a sports mascot like at other schools.

The effort started last fall.

School spokeswoman Robin Kaler said interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson is “very supportive,” but has made it clear that any concepts created must not contain Native American imagery.

– Wire reports

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Officials to release report Press in an interview Friday that doctors and Germanwings’ paron Germanwings crash MOENCHENGLADBACH, Germany – Families of the Germanwings crash victims said they still are waiting for an apology from those they believe failed to prevent the crash that claimed 150 lives almost one year ago.

French air accident investigators are releasing their final report on the crash Sunday.

A preliminary report published in May found the co-pilot of Flight 9525, Andreas Lubitz, practiced sending the jet into a deadly descent hours before the crash, suggesting his decision to crash the plane into a French mountainside was premeditated.

Juergen Fischenich, who lost his 33-year-old son Sven in the disaster, told The Associated

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1 dead, 2 missing after tugboat crash on Hudson

NEW YORK – A tugboat crashed into a barge on the Hudson River north of New York City early Saturday, killing one crew member and leaving two missing and presumed dead.

The 90-foot tugboat named Specialist hit a barge around 5:20 a.m. near where the new Tappan Zee Bridge, which connects two counties north of New York City, is being built, police said.

The tugboat sank, spilling about 5,000 gallons of fuel into the water, authorities said.

– Wire reports

Chaos in Chicago tests Trump promises of unity The ASSOCIATED PRESS

ORLANDO, Fla. – Donald Trump said he can unify the country. Now, he has to prove it.

The Republican presidential front-runner canceled a Friday night rally in Chicago rather than enter a tense cauldron of animosity between his supporters and protesters – some of whom then proceeded to face off in several violent altercations as the political gathering veered dangerously close to Donald a riot.

Trump It was an ugly incident unlike anything seen in presidential politics in decades. Yet Trump has denied any responsibility for the clash and showed little willingness to change his tone as he returned to the campaign trail on Saturday.

The latest dark chapter in an already unconventional 2016 White House campaign comes as the Republican front-runner insists he’s beloved by African-Americans and Hispanics and makes calls for unity a central part of his closing argument ahead of Tuesday’s slate of primary elections in five delegate-rich states.

The Chicago chaos presents the biggest leadership test yet for the Republican outsider, the deeply divided Republican Party and an even more sharply splintered nation that he seeks to lead.

And while extraordinary by any standards, perhaps the biggest surprise was it didn’t happen sooner.

Since casting Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals in his June announcement speech, Trump has encouraged supporters to embrace anger tinged with xenophobia.

In recent weeks, his rallies have featured several minor incidents of violence involving protesters, almost all of them minorities, with Trump repeatedly encouraging his supporters to fight back – and to do so with violence if necessary.

On Friday morning, Trump cheered a supporter who punched a black protester in the face earlier in the week. The aggressor was later charged with assault.

“The audience hit back,” Trump said, suggesting his supporter was provoked. “That’s what we need a little bit more of.”

At a Friday afternoon rally in St. Louis, before the canceled event in Chicago, he panned protesters as weak “troublemakers” and ordered them to “go home to mommy.”

“These are the people that are destroying our country,” Trump said.

Voting results n Wyoming

Ted Cruz won most of the delegates at stake in Saturday’s Republican county conventions in Wyoming. The Texas senator won nine of the 12 delegates that were up for grabs. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and billionaire businessman Donald Trump won one apiece. One delegate was uncommitted. The Associated Press is not declaring a winner in Wyoming on Saturday because another 14 of the state’s delegates will be awarded at the party’s state convention on April 16. n Washington, D.C.

Marco Rubio has won the Republican presidential caucuses in Washington D.C. It’s the third presidential contest victory for the Florida senator. Earlier this month, Rubio won the GOP caucuses in Minnesota and the party’s primary in Puerto Rico.

Rubio picked up 10 delegates with his Saturday caucus win in the nation’s capital. Runner-up John Kasich was just 50 votes behind Rubio, and the Ohio governor will get nine delegates.

None of the other candidates in the race won enough votes to earn any delegates. n Guam

Republicans in Guam have held a presidential convention but only one delegate has been awarded – to Ted Cruz. Guam has nine delegates to the Republican National Convention. Former party chairman Mike Benito said in an email that eight delegates are uncommitted. He said they will meet decide Tuesday. whether to back a candidate.

Dismissed by his critics as an entertainer woefully unprepared to lead a nation, Trump now has an opportunity to demonstrate leadership in a crisis. But so far, he’s shown little willingness to make good on his pledge to unify the country with any kind of contrition.

Instead, he drew another sharp division between his supporters and the protesters.

“My people aren’t violent,” he said during a rally Saturday. “It’s these people that come in. My people want to do one thing: make America great again. That’s what they want to do, one thing.”

Tensions were high at Trump’s events throughout the day, with U.S. Secret Service agents jumping to protect the businessman at one point after a man in the crowd jumped over a barrier and rushed the stage. Dozens of people were escorted out of a separate Trump rally in Cleveland.

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Even as political spending explodes, disclosure remains hazy The ASSOCIATED PRESS Politicians in Mississippi have used campaign money to pay for such things as a BMW, an RV and $800 cowboy boots.

In Wisconsin, a railroad executive was caught violating contribution limits after an ex-girlfriend he met on a “sugar daddy” dating website reported him for illegally funneling cash to Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign. Key to the investigation, election officials say, was a requirement that donors disclose their employers – but Republican lawmakers have since wiped out the rule.

Meanwhile, “dark money” spending by outside groups that aren’t required to disclose their donors is expected to explode during this presidential election year. States can take action to stem the tide at the local level, but few have.

Congress could require more disclosure about who is financing campaigns, but it has made no move to do so.

Disclosure may be the public’s best and often only remaining way of knowing who is supporting political candidates in the wake of recent court decisions.

“Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed,” the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once wrote in an opinion in favor of disclosing petition signatures.

The U.S. Supreme Court repeatedly has ruled in favor of public disclosure of campaign contributions, even in its earth-moving Citizens United decision.

The 2010 ruling found that political spending is protected under the First Amendment, and said that corporations and unions can spend unlimited amounts of money on political activities.

It effectively wiped out key campaign

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (second from left) and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch are greeted by the governor’s cabinet and staff June 6, 2012, at the state Capitol Madison, Wis., a day after Walker beat Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in a recall election.

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finance regulations that had been in effect for decades. But it also upheld disclosure requirements.

That and other Supreme Court decisions have resulted in unprecedented amounts of money pouring into elections. Because Congress has not acted to require further disclosure, the old limits are gone and new rules have not been passed to take their place, leaving citizens more in the dark than ever about whether elected officials are working for them or for special interests behind their campaigns.

Richard Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine, said that despite the highest court’s support for disclosure of campaign donors, the Federal Election Commission and Congress remain frozen when it comes to requiring greater transparency about who is funding political groups.

“Political operators often look for ways to shield their donors,” Hasen said. “The laws have to be constantly updated.”

Congress could quickly require more disclosure, “if there was the political will to do so,” said Hasen, author of the book “Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections.”

Groups that advocate for more transparency say the federal stalemate has driven reform efforts to the local level in some states, where they see greater opportunity to push for change.

Targeting states “seems like the only outlet for making change at this level,” said David Donnelly, CEO of Every Voice, an organization working to advance state ballot initiatives that would require more disclosure about money in politics.

Donnelly argues state-level efforts, if successful, could restore the faith of voters who perceive an uninhibited flow of money into politics. The changes also could generate interest that would “build the political power, around the country, to eventually press Congress” to require some reporting of donors in national elections, he said.

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“You don’t criminalize poverty,” said Hub Harrington, who, as an Alabama circuit judge, called one city’s private probation program a “judicially sanctioned extortion racket” when he shut it down in 2012. “If you turn the courthouse into a profit center, this is what you get.”

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MURFREESBORO, Tennessee – When Steven Gibbs couldn’t afford the fees demanded by the company supervising his probation, he wound up in jail. When Gibbs – who had been arrested for driving on a suspended license – failed a drug test the company charged him to take, he was jailed again.

“Half the time I’m scared to go outside the door,” said Gibbs, 61, a former construction worker who lives in a $200-a-week motel room because his disability pay and wife’s fast-food wages don’t leave enough for a deposit on an apartment.

“I don’t trust none of them anymore,” he said, in late January. The company continued charging Gibbs fees until last week, when a judge agreed to put him on a new plan, supervised instead by the court, to pay down fines he owes the county.

Here in Rutherford County and in more than 1,000 courts in about a dozen states, probation for misdemeanors is a profit-making – and increasingly contentious – venture. While those with cash to pay fines often avoid supervision, poor offenders can be snared in debt and punishment. The practice has sparked widening debate and numerous lawsuits demanding change.

“The unfortunate part of our judicial system is once you get caught up in it, it’s like a rat wheel you can never get out of because of some of the fines and the probation,” said the local sheriff, Robert Arnold.

A federal judge recently barred Rutherford County from jailing people solely for non-payment, citing a 1983 Supreme Court decision that courts must consider people’s indigence. The mayor has recommended the county take over the job.

For-profit probation is praised as a way to uphold justice and improve collection of fines while saving money for governments. Critics, however, call it unfair, saying probation funded entire-

court-ordered counseling, he says.

Privatized probation lets government focus resources on felons while saving taxpayers millions of dollars, said John Prescott, president of the Community Corrections Association of Georgia, an industry group, in a written response to questions.

Lawsuits have spotlighted tensions between companies and offenders.

One company, Judicial Correction Services, withdrew from Alabama last year after lawsuits, including one by the Southern Poverty Law Center accusing it of racketeering and extortion, saw dozens of towns cancel contracts.

JCS told the AP it “provides an important service to those municipal governments that do not possess the resources to enforce the terms of the court’s probation and fine rulings.”

A suit brought on behalf of Gibbs and six other Tennessee probationers, alleging racketeering and violation of due process, has cast scrutiny on Rutherford County and its probation company, PCC. In an interim ruling in December, U.S. District Judge Kevin H. Sharpe concluded people who violated probation terms often had their supervision extended, incurring more fees they couldn’t pay, trapping them “in a pernicious cycle for years on end.”

The county and company deny the lawsuit’s allegations. Both declined to comment.

In Georgia, where more than 30 companies supervise more than 140,000 probationers, a scathing state audit found the system was poorly run, lacked transparency and was abusive to some poor offenders.

State reforms that took effect last summer cap the amount for-profit companies can charge and ban jailing those who show they’re unable to pay.

Companies must disclose the number of offenders they supervise, and the fees and fines collected. The firms don’t have to make public their profits and losses.

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Dan McCaleb Editorial Director

Kate Weber Publisher

Jason Schaumburg Editor

OUR VIEW

Endorsement roundup Tuesday is Election Day. Today, we reprint a list of the Northwest Herald Editorial Board’s recommendations in some contested races McHenry County voters will see on the ballot.

To help make your own informed decisions, visit Northwest Herald’s Election Central page online, where you can read candidate responses to our questionnaires.

Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.

For a list of polling locations, visit the McHenry County Clerk’s website. Please remember to vote.

Here’s a recap of our primary election endorsements:

McHenry County Board chairman (GOP) up

Candidates: Joe Gottemoller and Michael WalkEndorsed: Gottemoller

McHenry County state’s attorney (GOP)

Candidates: Patrick Kenneally and Dan Regna Endorsed: Neither

McHenry County recorder (GOP)

Candidates: Tina Hill, Joni Smith and Joe Tirio Endorsed: Smith

Illinois House 63rd District (GOP)

Candidates: Jeff Lichte and Steven Reick Endorsed: Reick

Illinois House 66th District (GOP)

Candidates: Carolyn Schofield, Allen Skillicorn and Dan Wilbrandt Endorsed: Wilbrandt

Illinois Senate 26th District (GOP)

Candidates: Dan McConchie, Martin McLaughlin and Casey Urlacher Endorsed: McLaughlin

U.S. president (Democrat)

Candidates: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Endorsed: Clinton

U.S. president (GOP)

Candidates: Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump Endorsed: Rubio

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ANOTHER VIEW

Muzzling press more than troubling Turkey, a key U.S. ally and a member of NATO, continues to travel down a disturbingly authoritarian path. Last week, police in Istanbul stormed the offices of Zaman, the country’s most widely circulated newspaper, subjecting employees and supporters to tear gas and water cannons.

Earlier, a court had transferred control of the publication to a panel of trustees after a prosecutor accused the paper of spreading terrorist propaganda.

Zaman and its English-language sister publication are identified with the Cemaat movement led by the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, political rival and former ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This week, the Cihan news agency, also linked to Gulen, said that it, too, would be managed by court appointees.

The takeover of those outlets follows similar actions against other news organizations. In

October, authorities ordered the seizure of Koza Ipek Group, which operated several TV stations critical of the government. Meanwhile, prosecutors have pursued more than 1,800 cases of “insulting the president” since Erdogan, a former prime minister, was elected president in 2014. Such stifling of political opponents is impossible to reconcile with the preamble of the treaty establishing NATO, which invokes “the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law.”

The Obama administration called the action against Zaman “troubling.” But it also is mindful that Turkey is a NATO ally and a key player in both the fight against Islamic State and the negotiations to end the civil war in Syria. This isn’t the first time the commitment of the U.S. to human rights tugs it in one direction while strategic interests pull in another. After the Egyptian military overthrew democrati-

cally elected President Mohamed Morsi in 2013, the Obama administration suspended the delivery of some weapons. But it relented two years later, when Egypt was confronted with instability in neighboring Libya and threats from Islamic State-affiliated groups.

On Monday, State Department spokesman John Kirby deflected a reporter’s suggestion the U.S. might impose sanctions on Turkish officials similar to those Congress approved against Russians involved in human rights abuses, suggesting disagreements over press freedom needn’t “tear asunder an entire bilateral relationship.”

Perhaps not, but even if the U.S. feels constrained in the actions it can take, it should leave no doubt about what it thinks: that muzzling the press and political opponents is not just “troubling” but outrageous.

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

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IT’S YOUR WRITE

James G. Militello Woodstock

No altruistic candidates

To the Editor: Peggy Noonan’s article in the March 5 edition of the Wall Street Journal indicates that, like Humpty Dumpty, the Republican Party is broken. However, 40-plus years ago, I worked for City Colleges of Chicago, and my boss was a former Washington lobbyist for education, and he told me that in Washington, D.C., there were no Democrats or Republicans. They all were politicians, and one hand washed the other.

The latest political attack ad about Donald Trump liking the “uneducated” was most likely written/funded by the elites who propagate Washington, D.C., and Illinois politics.

Neither Trump nor Hillary Clinton are the reincarnations of the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, or the last true Democratic president, Harry Truman.

Unfortunately, in this 21st century, altruism is not the reason anyone runs for U.S. president or Congress; it’s power, prestige and money.

Robert Gebhardt Johnsburg

Gonsiorek will work for you

To the Editor: I encourage residents of County Board District 3 to vote for Nancy Gonsiorek.

Nancy is a 20-year resident of the district and a certified public account with

Pat Dieckhoff Crystal Lake

Cam is the man

To the Editor: I have worked with Cameron Hubbard on the Crystal Lake Foundation Board. He is a man who is very detailed. He covers all of the bases when making decisions.

He is a family man. He is dependable.

He is responsible. He will make a great choice for you when deciding whom to vote for in District 2 as a new County Board member.

Mike Splitt Crystal Lake

We can count on Franks

To the Editor: Jack Franks cares about all of us here in McHenry County. He always is fighting for us – lowering our taxes and any other issues we have.

You always can count on him.

Joanne Van Dever Woodstock

Support Gonsiorek

To the Editor: I am writing to express my support for Nancy Gonsiorek in the Republican primary for County Board District 3.

It has been my pleasure to work with Nancy as a member of the District 47 school board. Nancy is a hardworking person who always puts the needs of the community first. She has a very good grasp on financial issues and subjects, and always is endeavoring to reduce

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costs and improve the return on taxpayers’ dollars. I believe she is exactly the type of person we need to bring fiscal accountability and stability to the County Board.

If you are in District 3, please support Nancy with your vote in the Republican primary.

Jeff Mason Crystal Lake

Rely on Wilbeck

To the Editor: I am in favor of Tom Wilbeck for County Board because I believe he has the professionalism, proven business acumen and years of experience in county government positions to hit the ground running if he is elected. We will see an immediate positive effect with his presence on the county team.

Having known Tom for several years and observing his consistent position on reducing taxes, but also adding value to the services of the taxpayer of McHenry County, I can say with confidence he will do an outstanding job on the County Board. He is someone we can rely on to do the right thing for the taxpayer.

The taxpayer needs a champion, and that is Tom Wilbeck. The cronyism with this entire situation is a taxpayer’s nightmare.

Cynthia Allen Schenk Marengo

Consumers have right to know

To the Editor: If Monsanto and big food companies have their way, states will not have the right to require food labels to indicate whether they contain GMOs, or genetically modified organisms.

Genetically engineered foods typically are modified to withstand the application of pesticides and herbicides to increase crop yields. There is little debate these chemicals are absorbed into the plants that eventually are eaten.

The companies that produce GMO foods (and the herbicides and pesticides used

and clarity at the sole discretion of the editor.

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on them) argue they are perfectly safe.

If that’s the case, then why have they and the Grocery Manufacturers Association spent more than $80 million to fight states who try to initiate labeling standards?

If proposed legislation backed by Monsanto and the GMA passes, consumers will lose the right to know whether foods they and their children eat are made with GMOs because states will be prohibited from passing GMO labeling laws, even if their citizens want them.

The argument over whether genetically engineered foods are safe still is raging, but more than 60 countries in the world consider it important enough to require some form of labeling on GMO foods. Don’t we, as consumers, deserve the right to know what’s in our food, or are the interests of food companies more important to our elected politicians?

Call or email Sens. Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk today (www.durbin.senate. gov/contact; www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=contactand) and ask them to vote no on H.R. 1599/S.2609. Our right to know what’s in our food depends on it.

Anthony Greco Bartlett

Disappointed in dirty tactics

To the Editor: I am so very disappointed in the dirty campaign tactics I have seen in the race for McHenry County state’s attorney.

I was shocked to see a candidate’s signs sandwiched and covered up by the opponent. It makes me question the ethics of the campaign, as well as the candidate doing these outrageous tactics.

Citizens, take a drive all over the county and witness it for yourself.

Dan Regna has exhibited great character for not responding or stooping to the antics of his opponent. For the above reasons, I endorse Dan Regna for state’s attorney.

Nora Watson Marengo

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To the Editor: The functions of the state’s attorney are two-fold: Legal representation for McHenry County, plus civil law-related matters, and representing the people of the state of Illinois through his criminal prosecutors. The state’s attorney of McHenry County is supported by 32 assistant state’s attorneys and staff.

The skill set needed to effectively manage and guide many attorneys exceeds merely being a criminal prosecutor.

Dan Regna’s abilities, diversified experience and being a longtime resident of McHenry County gives him not only the capability of effectively overseeing all functions of the state’s attorney’s office, but to do so with compassion for the law-abiding residents of McHenry County.

As a 45-year resident and practicing attorney, I urge you to vote for Dan Regna for McHenry County state’s attorney.

25 years of experience.

Nancy has many years of public service – four years as a Nunda Township planning commissioner and co-author of the first Nunda Township Comprehensive Land Use Plan, plus eight years on the District 47 School Board, providing oversight of an $85 million budget.

Nancy knows the most impactful way the County Board can alleviate your tax burden is to promote economic growth.

This includes providing adequate transportation corridors to provide the free flow of enterprise.

Nancy is passionate about ensuring that McHenry County remains beautiful and protecting our precious groundwater. This is important because all of McHenry County’s water supply comes from the ground.

Please vote March 15 for Nancy Gonsiorek. She will work hard for you and your business.

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draws a regular after-work crowd and people visiting the state capital on business. Families show up on weekends.

There are seven TVs in the main bar and two in a back room, but Collins finds her customers are more interested in talking to each other than watching a game.

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG The Associated Press NEW YORK – Taps are running dry and doors are closing at neighborhood bars across the country. That has left the remaining ones to try to find ways to stay afloat.

One in six bars closed between 2004 and 2014, according to market research firm Nielsen. More than 600 close each month, with just 334 opening.

The neighborhood bar closures are happening as more people are getting their alcoholic drinks from restaurants, cavernous sports bars with scores of TV screens, brewpubs and at home. Besides the increasing competition, neighborhood bars also are contending with other challenges, including rising costs for expenses such as rent.

For instance, when the rent doubled seven years ago at Mumbles in New York City, running a neighborhood bar became more difficult for owner David Feldman. Online reservation and order-taking services took more bites out of his profits. At the end of January, after 22 years, Mumbles closed.

Changing habits

The number of neighborhood bars has declined as drinking habits have changed, said Lester Jones, chief economist with the National Beer Wholesalers Association, a trade group.

When consumers do go out, they have a rapidly growing number of choices.

Restaurants including national chains

Small bars fight to survive

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Tess Collins talks to patrons Feb. 4 at McGeary’s Irish Pub in Albany, N.Y. The number of neighborhood bars across the country is shrinking as more people do their drinking in restaurants and huge sports bars. have bars and advertise their beverages as much as their food.

Higher expenses Rising costs also have hurt neighborhood bars.

Rent increases, in particular, are typical of areas that are trendy or have high real estate taxes. Urban areas where residents have big incomes have seen the largest increases in rents for retail space, which includes bars, said Ryan McCullough, a senior economist with CoStar Group, a real estate information

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provider. Rents in those areas nationwide are up an average 9.4 percent since the high they reached before the recession.

But in areas where demand for real estate is particularly high, rent increases can be substantially higher. Rents on a trendy stretch of Broadway in Manhattan not far from Mumbles soared 42 percent between the fall of 2014 and this past fall, according to the Real Estate Board of New York, a trade group.

But Collins brightens as she talks about McGeary’s customers. The bar

Many owners have to pass on their higher costs to their customers, or look for lower-priced food options for their menus.

When his landlord raises the rent, bar owner Scott Drake has to pass along the costs to his customers.

Drake, who co-owns Moe’s & Joe’s, a nearly 70-year-old Atlanta bar, sees higher rents as a neighborhood bar’s biggest threat.

But he says smaller bars offer something more intimate than the bigger guys can serve – what he calls a neighborhood feel.

For that reason, Drake is less concerned about the competition, which includes a nearby Yard House, part of a 64-location chain, that has 130 taps and 20 TVs, compared with his bar’s 18 taps and seven TVs. “On any day, you can come in here, and there are tables with construction workers, maybe two prominent judges and a couple of people from the banking industry – all walks of life,” Drake says. “I want to have a conversation in a bar and talk with people and I think a lot of people [at the big establishments] are missing out on that.”

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PECO deal expands national reach for INTREN

By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com UNION – A utility services contractor in Union continues to expands its reach across the country after inking a five-year, multimillion dollar deal with a Philadelphia-based energy provider to replace aging natural gas lines.

With work underway throughout Pennsylvania, Union-based INTREN opened an office in Philadelphia and transplanted some staff from McHenry County to handle the new contract, as it plans to hire additional workers from the Philadelphia area.

The move permamently puts INTREN near the East Coast for the first time, positioning the company for more business in future years, said Executive Vice President Matthew Turk.

“This is a big milestone. It will stabilize us, and it will help us grow long term,” he said. “There is tremendous amount of infrastructure rebuild work on the East Coast. We needed to be there. It was a big win-win for us.”

INTREN previously operated locations in seven states, including an office in San Francisco on the West Coast, before signing the contract with PECO, an Exelon Corp. subsid-

iary formally known as Philadelphia Electric Company.

Under the PECO contract, INTREN will replace PECO’S rusting and degrading bare steel lines that carry natural gas into homes and businesses with plastic ones, Turk said. The company will be replacing these service lines to 7,000 homes a year in Pennsylvania over the next five years, he said.

The deal will expand INTREN’s natural gas division. But with the presence in Philadelphia, INTREN also will try to secure additional electrical work, as it attempts to expand other business areas, Turk said.

The expansion activity likely will

reverberate back to its home base in Union, as the company will have to add human resource professionals, IT workers and other support staff who work out of INTREN’s headquarters.

“We got our foot in the door with the gas contract,” Turk said. “Now that we are there, we really want to grow with gas and electrical.”

Founded in 1988 in unincorporated Crystal Lake as a trenching company, INTREN now employs more than 1,200 people from across the country. INTREN saw revenue increase nearly 66 percent from 2012 to 2015, going from $182.4 million to $303.4 million, according to company figures.

The young and the nestless: Helping millennials with housing

By SUSAN HAIGH The Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. – Chicago native Juan Hernandez fell in love with Hartford while attending Trinity College and decided to stay after graduation.

But like many members of the millennial generation, he’s learned that affording a place to live can be an expensive proposition.

Hernandez and his girlfriend pay $1,600 a month to rent a one-bedroom apartment. The grace period for his student loan payments expires this month.

An aide to a city council member, the 25-year-old Hernandez plans to attend law school eventually.

While he thinks it might make more financial sense to buy a home in Hartford, Hernandez is questioning whether he can qualify for a loan.

Realizing that millennials like Hernandez are burdened with debt, a difficult job market, weak wage growth and a less affordable housing market than their parents, some states are looking to keep educated young professionals within their borders for years to come by helping out with their housing costs.

Initiatives like mortgage down-payment assistance, rent subsidies, urban homesteading incentives, partial student loan reimbursement and even “millennial villages” are being considered across the country to help professionals put down roots in communities.

Some programs already in place are being embraced by members of what’s become a coveted population because of their sheer numbers, their education levels and their ability to spur urban revitalization and economic growth.

The first phase of Maryland’s “You’ve Earned It” program ran out of money in less than two months because of demand.

Now in its second phase, the program provides a discounted mortgage rate

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Juan Hernandez, an aide to a Hartford City Council member, poses outside Hartford City Hall Monday in Hartford, Conn. Hernandez, 25, is among millennials nationwide with student debt who are worried about being able to qualify for a loan and come up with a down payment for a home. Connecticut and some other states are considering proposals to keep educated, young professionals within their borders for years to come by helping them with their housing costs. and down payment assistance to college graduates with more than $25,000 in student debt and who buy a home in certain regions of the state.

“Kids are struggling because they spend all this money on their education and then when they come back out to the real world, the jobs they get only pay $30,000, $40,000,” said Hartford state Rep. Angel Arce, who would like to create a similar program in Connecticut.

“These kids get their education in the state of Connecticut. They’re from the state of Connecticut. Let’s find a way to keep their knowledge, keep them here in the state of Connecticut.”

A bill Connecticut lawmakers are considering would provide a financial incentive to recent college graduates to rent or buy their first home in certain urban areas.

To be eligible, the millennial must have at least $20,000 in student debt.

Those who meet the qualifications could deduct up to 10 percent of their annual rental or mortgage payments from their personal income liability, as long as the deduction doesn’t exceed $1,200 annually.

The median price of a home in Hartford is about $111,200; the statewide median is $246,000.

Mark Sargent, 22, a public relations specialist in Mansfield, Connecticut, who is shouldering about $65,000 in student debt and would like to buy a home, said he has seen many of his fellow University of Connecticut graduates leave the state for places where they believe there’s more opportunity.

A housing incentive program, he said, might persuade them to stay.

Some cities are using targeted marketing. Columbus, Ohio, bought ads in Washington, D.C., subway stations last year to attract young professionals, highlighting the lower cost of living.

A few years ago in Niagara Falls, New York, city officials began offering up to $7,000 in student loan reimbursement to encourage young professionals to move downtown.

Rhode Island’s new Ocean State Grad Grant program makes awards for mortgage down payments to recent college graduates.

Recipients can get 3.5 percent of their first home’s purchase price, up to $7,000.

Travis Escobar, 25, president and co-founder of the Millennial Professional Group of Rhode Island and a 2013 graduate of Rhode Island College, said the incentive will help encourage young professionals to stay in Rhode Island, where the average student carries about $30,000 in debt.

Homeownership seems impossible when you’re living on your own, often underemployed and making student loan payments, he said.

“Buying a house? You’re not thinking about that,” said Escobar, who lives in Providence.

A typical member of the class of 2013 graduated owing $27,300, according the College Board. That’s an increase of $5,000 in current dollars since 2000, or a 22 percent jump.

Meanwhile, those graduates who immediately pursue a master’s degree often owe a combined $70,000.

A survey released in November by the National Association of Realtors found many millennials are forced to put off homeownership.

A quarter of the first-time homebuyers surveyed said saving for a down payment was their biggest challenge, while a majority said school loans hurt their ability to set aside cash.

Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Andy’s Restaurant

FACES & PLACES Century 21 Affiliated – Algonquin recieves customer service award

ALGONQUIN – A Century 21 Affiliated in Algonquin recently received the company’s Quality Service Office award for providing quality service to clients, according to a new release.

The award goes to independent Century 21 offices across the country that receive more than a 90 percent on customer satisfaction surveys for property closings made between January and October last year.

Customers are emailed the survey following their home purchase or sale.

“Receiving this award is a great honor and a testament to the focus and attention we commit to our clients in ensuring that they understand each and every step of the home buying and selling process,” said Kathleen Ricketts, a broker and manager at the Algonquin office.

Local financial adviser receives new designation

CARY – A financial adviser in Cary recently received a new professional designation, according to a new release.

Terri Rau, who works for Midwest Professional PlanTerri Rau ners, received her registered paraplanner designation after completing coursework that covered the five disciplines of financial planning, general financing concepts, terminology and product categories, the release stated.

Working with Midwest Professional

Planners since 2013, Rau focuses on small business owners and individuals interested in long-term investment strategies.

She has more than 10 years of experience in the financial services industry.

Midwest Professional Planners is an investment advisory firm registered in Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Texas and Wisconsin.

Heartland graduates 28 from Jumpstart real estate program

CRYSTAL LAKE – The Heartland Realtor Organization recently graduated 28 real estate agents from its Jumpstart program, according to a news release.

The educational program is designed to teach area professionals about real estate safety, ethics, marketing, government advocacy, and changes in contracts and forms.

The most recent class of graduates include: Michelle Adrian, Arielle Arnold, Nathaniel Backhaus, Brad Broughton, Josh Buchenberger, Jean Doppke, Barbara Gasior, Megan Gilmore, Patricia Hannula, Anna Hanrahan, Craig Hedley, Trisha Hendricks, Dean Jewett, Bessie Karegianes, Megan Loker, Melissa Maxcy, Francine Maze, Allison McCain, Harper Neilson, Agata Nickowska, Samantha Oliver, Diane Passannante, Tracy Ramsey, Pamela Semro, Kathy Serafin, Christina Wagenknecht, Carolyn Whitehurst and Patrick Wirtanen.

Headquartered in Crystal Lake, Heartland is a trade organization representing more than 1,000 real estate professionals in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.

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Ron Alesi of Barrington chats with his wife Suzanne while eating breakfast Saturday during the 35th anniversary of the opening of Andy’s Restaurant in Crystal Lake. The couple began visiting the restaurant 10 years ago and said, “The energy is always great and the staff is always willing to make accommodations with meals.”

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Workout your chamber membership Chambers of commerce are much like health clubs for businesses.

And people’s opinions of chambers are much like people’s views of health clubs and gym memberships.

Statistics show that more than 50 million adults in the U.S. belong to a gym.

Interestingly, however, more than half of them do not go regularly to the gym, and health club owners count on that.

In one year, most people will have paid anywhere from $150 to $500 for their membership.

They, however, do not assume they are benefiting from their membership if they don’t use it.

That’s where chambers are much like health clubs.

Chambers present many opportunities to improve the health of your business and allow businesses to

CHAMBER NEWS Melissa Hernandez improve the health of communities.

But businesses may never see the benefits if members don’t show up.

Research confirms the benefits chambers provide are real and substantial.

According to a study by the Shapiro Group, chambers have a major effect on small businesses.

The study found that when a consumer learned a business was a chamber member, the business experienced a 73 percent increase in consumer awareness and a 68 percent increase in local reputation.

Consumers also were 80 percent more likely to patronize a business

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that belonged to the chamber.

Those statistics offer a compelling reason for local business owners to engage with their chamber.

But it doesn’t stop there.

When local business owners are successful, we all win.

Local businesses are more likely to patronize other local business, such as service providers, banks and retailers.

Also, when local owners spend money in their communities, a community keeps those dollars to help support fire, police, public works and other local services.

Economic development studies have determined that for every $100 a person spends on local businesses, $68 stays in the community.

If that isn’t enough to convince you to shop local, small businesses employ more than 77 million Amer-

icans.

At the beginning of 2016, the Northern Kane County Chamber of Commerce launched a “frequent shopping card” designed to increase business for chamber members. The intent was not just to create awareness, but also to encourage a “shop local” mindset.

It is more important than ever for local residents and businesses to work together in strengthening our community.

And unlike a gym membership, you will reap the benefits when you exercise your prerogative to invest in local businesses and local chambers regularly.

• Melissa Hernandez is president of the Northern Kane County Chamber of Commerce. Reach her at 847-426-8565 or email melissa@ nkcchamber.com.

Dear Dave,

Do I set aside six months’ worth of paychecks or the amount of my bills for six months when it’s time to save up my fully funded emergency fund?

– Steve

and plan to pay it off in five years?

Dear Steve,

– Dave

Should I ever consider a 5/1 adjustable loan if I’m buying a house

– Anonymous

Dear Anonymous,

No! The reason is you can never be assured you’re going to pay it off in five years.

If you go into it with that mindset, then you’re basically saying you can predict the future will be exactly how you want it to be. That’s pretty naïve.

Your future will never be what you think it will be. It’s either going to be better or worse, but your future will never turn out exactly the way you plan for it to be.

If you can’t buy a home with cash, you need the stability of a 15-year, fixed rate mortgage in your life.

We’re living in the lowest mortgage interest rate environment in about 50 years.

I saw a 3.02 percent 15-year fixed rate mortgage just the other day.

For those of you who have not refinanced, if you’re staying in your home or you’re sitting on an adjustable rate, this is a great time to change that.

Still, people are sitting around yawning like these kinds of rates are going to be around forever.

It’s gone on for a while now, but don’t let that fool you into thinking those kinds of rates are normal.

They’re not going to last forever. No, I would never under any circumstances take an adjustable rate mortgage.

Was that unclear? I hope not.

– Dave

• Dave Ramsey is the author of five New York Times best-selling books. Follow him on Twitter at @DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramsey.com.

• Sunday, March 13, 2016

In my plan, Baby Step Three is when I advise people to save up three to six months of expenses in a fully loaded emergency fund.

This is set aside and not touched for any reason other than a true emergency.

It’s not a Bahamas fund or a fund for new living room furniture.

It’s an emergency fund. It’s not an investment or fun money; it’s insurance.

Think of your emergency fund as a protective barrier that keeps you from going into debt or cashing out investments when life throws bad things your way.

How do you decide where to land in the three to six month range of expenses? That depends on how much risk your household has.

If there’s only one income in the equation, you have more risk. So, you should skew things toward six months.

Being self-employed or a commissioned salesperson also is a situation where this would be true.

If there are two incomes, and both come from steady, dependable sources, you could fall into the middle of that range or even more toward the threemonth side.

Make sure your emergency fund is easily accessible, too. A simple money market account with check-writing privileges works fine. You want to make sure you can get your money quickly when the need arises.

Dear Dave,

DAVE SAYS Dave Ramsey

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HOROSCOPE

By EUGENIA LAST Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – Don’t hesitate to reconnect with people you have lost touch with. Someone who had an impact on your life in the past will motivate you to get back to things you enjoy doing.

Trust in your abilities and move forward with confidence.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Evaluate your position, relationships and next move. Rely on your experience to help you make the best choice.

Love and romance should be a priority.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Work at being the best that you can be. Raising your self-awareness will help boost your confidence. Love is

more.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Gravitate toward unusual entertainment. If you contribute your thoughts and suggestions openly, people will offer the same in return. There is much to learn and gain if you participate.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Don’t give in when you should be doing your best to stand your ground. Concentrate on building your assets, not on squandering what you have.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Spend time with people who share your concerns. Collaboration will lead to a successful venture. Work in concert with someone you deem special. Love is highlighted.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Rethink your strategy and assess your situation before you respond to re-

cent events. You’ll do best working to improve yourself rather than trying to change everything and everyone around you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Embrace the future with optimism. Your determination and focus on quality control will bring good results. A challenge will allow you to show off. Love is in the stars.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Don’t procrastinate when you should dig in and get things done.

You’ll feel much better once you complete unfinished business. Set your goal, stick to your budget, and plan something enjoyable as a reward for the hard work you endured.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – You’ll be drawn to people and places that offer something different. A desire to experience the unusual

will be enlightening and will help you improve the way you live.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Accept change, but don’t be the instigator. Putting up a fight will be futile. You are best off doing what you can to fix up your home and improve your health and appearance.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – A good investment will come from an unusual source.

Attending a reunion or delving into something you used to enjoy doing will spark memories and spur a renewal of old friendships.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Someone will challenge you if you are secretive or unwilling to share. Do what’s necessary to keep the peace, and start a project that will keep you entertained and out of trouble.

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD Note: The answers to 23-, 31-, 45-, 62-, 69-, 90-, 103- and 115-Across are themselves clues to the names spelled by their circled letters.

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65. Didn’t move 66. Some newcomers’ study, in brief 69. With 16-Down, what “stet” means 70. Real-time messaging system 71. ____ piccata 72. Move, informally 73. Three-time All-Star Longoria for the Tampa Bay Rays 74. It’s good for the long haul 75. Lottery winner’s cry 76. Mel Blanc, notably 77. Daughter of Nereus 78. Director Lee 79. Sucked dry 85. City on the Brazos River 86. Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder: Abbr.

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Friends are stymied on how to help wife in bad marriage Dear Abby: How can I help a friend who needs to stand up for herself and file for divorce? Her husband is in a high-profile job that’s connected with hers. He has been having an affair with a co-worker for years, and he is verbally and sometimes physically abusive. She has called the police twice, but didn’t press charges.

Friends are running out of sympathy, but don’t know how to help her. Is it wrong to report his behavior to his employer even though he might get fired because of it? – Needs To Stand Up

Dear Needs To Stand Up: As your friend probably already may be aware, abuse doesn’t stay at the same level.

It can escalate from verbal abuse to pushing and slapping to serious physical harm and sometimes even death.

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help, but I would not advise contacting her husband’s employer.

Dear Abby: I’m a happily married gay man living in metro Atlanta. My 50th high school reunion is approaching, and I want to take my husband. should assure her they stand with her The reunion is being held in a small and try to convince her to contact the rural town in the Midwest. Of course, I National Domestic Violence Hotline haven’t lived there in 50 years, but I go (800-799-7233; www.thehotline.org) and there occasionally for family events. arrange a safe and effective escape I come from a large family, lots of plan. Trained advocates at the hot line brothers and sisters, nieces and nephhave told me not every caller will leave ews, and grandnieces and grandnephafter the first – or even the second – ep- ews, many of whom still live in my isode of violence, but at least she will hometown. I don’t know if all of them know what she needs to do. know about my situation and I’m not If she comes to you injured, get her that concerned, but I am concerned to an emergency room for treatment about small-town gossip that can be and so her wounds can be photomean-spirited. I wouldn’t want anyone graphed. If she shows up at work with to be hurt. bruises, it’s time to talk to human reI know my relatives interact prosources to see if you can get her some fessionally and personally with some

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We can’t control what someone might say behind our backs. But whatever is said is a reflection on the speaker – not us or our relatives. Because people live in small towns does not mean they are all small-minded.

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Joe Zelaya of Huntley arm wrestles a teammate during a training session Monday at the Chicago Chaos Arm-Wrestling Club’s training facility in Volo. The team of 21 men and women recently received a team sponsorship from Harley-Davidson of Woodstock.

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V 3-pointers Stony Brook’s men’s basketball team will be making its first appearance in the NCAA tournament. The school also has one of the better nicknames of those having earned automatic bids to date: 1. Stony Brook Seawolves (logo above) 2. Iona Gaels 3. Green Bay Phoenix

OLO – Only minutes after walking into Kent Damore’s training facility Monday night, we headed to a 3½-foot tall metal table.

On it were two black pegs and two red elbow cushions, symmetrically positioned across from one another.

Draped over it was a World Armwrestling League banner.

Standing opposite of me was Damore, a 6-foot-2, 310-pound man, who just happens to be a decorated arm-wrestling champion.

“Before we talk, I’m going to show you how to arm wrestle,” he chuckled as a big grin developed on his face.

evening of practice for the World Armwrestling League’s (WAL) No.1-ranked Super Heavyweight of the Midwest and his Chicago Chaos Arm-Wrestling Club.

Almost two dozen men and women, of all ages and experience levels, squeeze into Damore’s small workshop garage every Thursday night to lift weights, pull resistance bands and hit the tables in hopes of learning how Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com C.J. Frank of Crystal Lake has been a mem- to become a competitive arm wrestler or as the 27-year veteran of the sport ber of Chicago Chaos for two months. would call it, a “banger.”

The 47-year-old McHenry native One of these aspiring arm wrestlers continued to show me the proper foot, is 26-year-old C.J. Frank, who is relaarm and shoulder placement, and even tively new to the arm-wrestling scene. demonstrated a basic hand grip. It See CHAOS, page 3 was all new to me, but it’s just another

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McHenry’s Kent Damore of the Chicago Chaos Arm-Wrestling Club demonstrates how he trains for competitions at his facility in Volo.

• CHAOS Continued from page 2 The Crystal Lake native has been a member of Damore’s club for only two months. He grew up a weightlifter but was looking for something more team-oriented.

“I wanted to do something competitive,” said Frank, who discovered the club through Damore’s Facebook page. “I started out with bodybuilding but wanted more of a club activity, something with more camaraderie.”

During the first two months, he has come to understand how difficult the sport actually is to command.

Beyond his normal workout schedule, Frank spends six hours a week practicing with Damore. He plans on competing in his first amateur tournament next month. “[I’ve learned to] be patient,” Frank said. “It’s nothing you can jump into and be great at right away.”

“It’s almost like getting on an expressway,” added Craig Wirth, 55, a longtime friend and arm-wrestling

“I started out with bodybuilding but wanted more of a club activity, something with more camaraderie.”

C.J. Frank Chicago Chaos Arm-Wrestling Club member from Crystal Lake partner of Damore’s. “If you’re a slow car, you have a hard time getting up to speed. Same thing goes for arm wrestling. If you’ve been out a while or are new, you don’t want to get thrown out with that much power until you really know what you’re doing.”

••• A couple of years back, if you had asked Damore about the possibility of having his own club, he’d say it was just that, a possibility.

In 2014, he reconnected with Wirth at a tournament in Michigan. Damore took third, while Wirth didn’t place, but the results weren’t necessarily the most important part of this

tournament. It was the experience that reignited an interest in pursuing arm wrestling beyond an individual aspect.

Eager to revitalize a sport that had lost some of its luster in recent years, the pair promised each other this was going to be the beginning of something bigger.

“We both swore right there that we were going to start training again,” Damore said.

Without any form of professional help, Damore and Wirth relied on their own marketing abilities to attract newcomers. They handed out flyers and brochures and even reached out on social media, looking to generate any kind of interest.

Because of their persistence, what began as a small group of three or four that met weekly at a local bar has become a successful organization.

••• Move two years forward again to March 4, when Damore received some of the best news of his career.

Calling it a “historic” moment for his club, Harley-Davidson of Woodstock awarded the Chaos its largest

sponsorship to date. It will help cover a full-fledged, 21-event schedule, while allowing Damore to expand his training locations twice a month to several local Harley-Davidson dealerships.

“It’s really exciting,” Damore said.

The team’s first event of this new schedule is a WAL qualifier in downstate Taylorville this month, but Damore has his eyes set on May’s “hometown” WAL regional event in Woodstock. He’ll be looking for another shot at West Virginia’s Travis Bagent, the current left-handed Super Heavyweight titleholder.

After almost three decades of competing, Damore admits he still gets butterflies each time he steps up to the table. But it’s a feeling he wouldn’t trade for anything else.

“Arm wrestling is the fastest sport in the world,” Damore said. “To get out there, there’s just so many things going through your head. Making sure your elbow is in the right spot, you’ve got to make sure you’re countering his grip, and seeing where his feet are to know where he’s going to go. There are a million different things going on at the same time.”

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Trimble averaged almost 27 points a game on the season and scored 44 in the Spartans’ semifinal win Friday, but he scuffled early to get points in the final.

The team’s balanced scoring carried them. Garrett Grimsley scored nine first-half points and Pence added eight to Trimble’s seven.

Gentry Whiteman led the Rockets (28-5) with 19 and T.J. Martens added 11. Whiteman, however, was bothered in the final five minutes after twisting an ankle and Carson Frakes, who hit a 50-foot, buzzer-beating prayer to lead the Rockets past Hales Franciscan in the semifinal, scored only eight before fouling out late in the game.

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“He was open,” Chastain said. “I’d have been crazy not to give it to him.”

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Joe Moore is throwing the shot put this spring, as expected.

But the 6-foot-3, 275-pounder also is running the 100.

Yes, that 100.

“It’s not like I’m in the first heat or anything,” Moore said.

For football players, it’s the offseason. It won’t be until late summer when we’ll start bugging coaches for rosters and lists of starters, and it won’t be until Aug. 26 when we can actually watch a game.

But a big part of what will determine who wins in the fall is happening privately right now. Like Moore running the 100-yard dash to improve his speed.

Cary-Grove’s Tyler Pennington took a day off to rest and relax after his Trojans lost a state semifinal to Glenbard West. Then, he was back lifting and working at Elite 7 with trainer and former Cary-Grove star Alex Kube.

With the baseball season set to begin, Pennington took last week off. But starting next week, he plans to head to Elite 7 after it gets dark at night to make sure he gets his hour-long football training sessions in.

Prairie Ridge, thanks to funding from its booster club, has hired Dave Davis of Davis Speed Center to work with all of its athletes on everything from weights to speed and agility from 3 to 4:30 p.m. each weekday.

After that, many of the football players head out to do their track and field workouts. Others are competing on the school’s lacrosse team.

Wolves junior tight end Austen Ferbet works out at the school three days a week and goes to Davis Speed Center the other two days with the goal of getting faster and more explosive.

At Hampshire, quarterback Jake Vincent comes in before school to throw with receivers Jared Hornbeck, Nick Rummel. Erik Starrenberg and Cameron Fleury. And after school he’s part of the team’s 100 and 200 relay teams after trying out baseball but dropping it because the throwing motion was feeling weird.

Vincent’s goal is getting both bigger and faster, which seem contradictory, but ... he’s already gone from 155 pounds to 170 this offseason.

“I threw for a lot (2,665 yards and 31 touchdowns) last year,” Vincent said. “I want to show people that I can run and take shots, too.”

Moore’s Johnsburg teammate, running back Alex Peete, skipped wrestling this fall and said he already has gained 10 to 15 pounds while working on

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ABOVE: Cary-Grove fullback Tyler Pennington runs the ball against Jacobs last fall. Pennington, who also plays baseball for the Trojans, has been working out at Elite 7 with trainer and former C-G football star Alex Kube. BELOW: Johnsburg running back Alex Peete runs during a practice in July. Peete said he has been working on improving his strength and speed.

strength and speed.

“It’s definitely been more intense,” Peete said about coach Dan DeBoeuf’s workouts. “We’re pushing each other a lot harder than we have. The recruiting over the summer is coming up, so that’s a little more motivation.”

It’s not just football, of course.

The first thing Crystal Lake Central guard Adam Pump thought about when he was asked about finishing the basketball season 2-25 was the motivation it would give his team to work harder in the offseason.

All of the Tigers return, and all of them certainly hope to finish next sea-

son with a lot better record.

For Prairie Ridge football coach Chris Schremp, it isn’t just about individual gains.

Schremp and his staff met with players individually, came up with offseason goals and then relayed those to Davis, who is helping to make those improvements happen.

“We’ve got to set a work ethic in the offseason,” Schremp said. “It’s a mindset of working together, not only individually but as a team. We want guys to buy into the team aspect of it.”

Although you hear plenty about too many kids specializing in sports too early, every kid getting a participation medal and kids becoming lazier overall, it’s not all true.

Because, as I write this Friday afternoon, I know there are athletes all around McHenry County quietly working to make themselves better. There are no games on the schedule, so there are no scores to report, but that doesn’t mean what’s happening isn’t important.

• Northwest Herald sports editor Jon Styf can be reached at jstyf@shawmedia.com or on Twitter @JonStyf.

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Guard Tate accused of striking girlfriend Junior suspended from team after arrest The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHAMPAIGN – Illinois suspended point guard Jaylon Tate from the team Saturday after he was accused of striking his girlfriend in the face.

The junior from Chicago was being held Saturday in the Champaign County Jail on a domestic battery charge, and his bond hearing is scheduled for Sunday. Jail records did not indicate whether the 21-year-old has hired an attorney.

Tate is the third Illinois player to face charges since August, and his arrest comes a week after the school’s new athletic director issued a vote of confidence for coach John Groce but fired football coach Bill Cubit.

Sgt. Bruce Ramseyer told the (Champaign) News-Gazette police were called by a friend of Tate’s 19-year-old girlfriend to an apartment at 1:40 a.m. Saturday. She told officers Tate hit her in the face, Ramseyer said, but declined to provide further information, including when or where the alleged violence happened.

“The victim didn’t want to tell us anything,” he said, noting that the woman was bleeding from her mouth, had a swollen face and was taken to a hospital to be examined.

Ramseyer said Tate denied there was

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The arrest came hours after Illinois (15-19) lost to Purdue, 89-58, in the Big Ten Tournament on Friday, effectively ending their season.

Groce has come under fire from fans for the team’s three-year NCAA tournament drought – the longest since 1978-80 – and for his team’s off-court conduct.

Forward Leron Black pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault after allegedly threatening a bar bouncer with a knife last month, and Darius Paul was kicked off the team last summer after he was arrested in France on a team trip.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: BIG TEN TOURNAMENT

Spartans, Boilers in final The ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS – Denzel Valentine had 18 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds to lead No. 2 Michigan State past No. 18 Maryland, 64-61, in Saturday’s Big Ten tournament semifinal.

The league’s player of the year sealed it with two free throws with 0.8 seconds to go, and Melo Trimble’s desperation heave from 55 feet away didn’t get past midcourt.

Michigan State (28-5) has won 12 of 13 and will face No. 13 Purdue in Sunday’s title game.

Robert Carter Jr. had 18 points and eight rebounds to lead Maryland.

Trimble finished with 11 points.

Despite making only two baskets over the final 10½ minutes, the Terrapins still could have taken the lead

after Valentine missed the front end of a one-and-one.

Trimble drove in for a layup, but the shot appeared to be deflected and Valentine grabbed the rebound and was immediately fouled.

No. 13 Purdue 76, Michigan 59: A.J. Hammons had 27 points and 11 rebounds, and Purdue beat Michigan to advance to the Big Ten tournament championship.

Hammons made 11 of 17 shots, mostly from inside. Vince Edwards added 13 points, and Isaac Haas finished with 11.

Purdue (26-7) is seeking its first Big Ten tournament title since 2009.

Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman led Michigan with 15 points.

Eighth-seeded Michigan (22-12) was playing its third game in three days.

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Rink to bear name of longtime youth, prep hockey coach

“He does everything for hockey.

He asks nothing back.”

Jeff Bruns FireWagon Hockey vice president, on Casey Van Damme

By JOE STEVENSON joestevenson@shawmedia.com

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Casey Van Damme stands on the West Rink that will bear his name at the Crystal Ice House in Crystal Lake. Van Damme will be honored Sunday at the rink.

The first line of the song goes, “Casey would waltz with a strawberry blonde, and the band played on.” When his aunt saw him with the girls, she would sing that line, and the name stuck.

A few years after Casey’s college playing days, he and his brothers formed FireWagon Hockey, which would put on clinics and camps in various towns. The money raised from these events would go back to local associations and to a charity in that city.

Van Damme did that in Minnesota and Wisconsin for several years, then brought FireWagon with him when he moved to Crystal Lake around 2000.

While many clubs are money-makers, and club coaches often are paid, former FireWagon vice president Jeff Bruns said that did not happen with Van Damme.

“He does everything for hockey. He asks nothing back,” Bruns said. “He never made a dime off this. Everything is volunteer, volunteer, volunteer. There’s nothing about what he personally will get out of this. It’s about what the kids will get out of this. It’s about the organization and community.”

Former Ice House owner Rich Sexton was uncertain what would happen with the building in 2007. The Leafs Hockey

Club, the Ice House’s main tenant, built a rink in West Dundee and moved. Sexton called Van Damme and said, “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”

At that time, the Yellow Jackets were a spring and summer club that allowed players to then compete with other clubs the rest of the year. Van Damme and Bruns decided the Yellow Jackets, a name they picked from Van Damme’s college team, could become a year-round program and take up the ice time in the Leafs’ absence.

“I’m proud we were able to keep (youth) hockey here in Crystal Lake,” said Van Damme, who coached Prairie Ridge’s high school team for four seasons. “Instead of it going away and this being a storage facility, we’ve continued to keep the program going, the hockey growing.”

The Yellow Jackets started with about 125 players and now have about 500. FireWagon Hockey purchased the Ice House from Sexton in 2010. Van Damme thanked a long list of people, starting with Bruns and former FireWagon treasurer David Lichterman.

Van Damme retired from his job last year and stepped down as chief executive officer of FireWagon Hockey. The rest of the executive board also resigned, which was by design as it let the new board it had been grooming take over.

“With his careful planning and calculating, he took what would have been a disastrous situation for [the Ice House] and turned it into a win-win,” Boyd said.

“We have great hockey, the kids are learning a lot, it’s a great family place and we try to build community with a lot of volunteering. [Van Damme] has really made quite a facility that allows people to grow in many different ways.”

Van Damme will be joined by his wife, Beth, and their four children – Brandon, Catherine, Chris and Sean – for Sunday’s celebration. He is not sure what he will do with more free time, although he skates during some “rat hockey” sessions at the rink and still coaches the Yellow Jackets Bantam team.

“I don’t know yet. We bought a place in Naples, Florida,” he said. “I’ll still be involved in some form or fashion, I just won’t be head coach or running clinics or camps. We did a great job with it. We raised a lot of money over the years. We did it for the right reasons.”

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When Casey Van Damme discovered a rink at the Crystal Ice House would carry his name, he was humbled, yet felt it was unnecessary.

Others adamantly disagreed. They know Van Damme as a tireless volunteer, a supreme organizer and a man who basically saved the Ice House nine years ago.

“I would call him Father Hockey,” said Charlie Boyd, Van Damme’s successor as president of FireWagon Hockey Inc. and the Yellow Jackets Hockey Club. “The myth, the legend, the man.

It definitely needed to be done. This is someone who dedicated a lot of time. He has a consistent system of values and didn’t waver at all.”

Van Damme, 58, will be honored at noon Sunday when the Ice House’s West Rink will be named the “Coach Casey Van Damme West Rink.” It will be part of the Yellow Jackets’ annual spring skills competition, which starts at 10 a.m. with various relays and timed events at the facility in Crystal Lake.

The ceremony will take place during the lunch break after the 11 a.m. session.

“It’s great. It’s pretty neat,” Van Damme said. “It’s been a long time.

When I started this [FireWagon Hockey] in 1986, it didn’t seem like one of those things that would pick up momentum, but it has. It’s worked out extremely well here.”

Van Damme grew up in Superior, Wisconsin, playing high school and college hockey there. He is in the University of Superior’s Hall of Fame. After his college career, Van Damme went to work for Transamerica, a financial service company based out of San Francisco.

The volunteer genes were in his DNA because his father, Robert Van Damme, always was helping with hockey in Superior. Robert helped build a rink there that would help lengthen the season for the youth players a little further into the spring, after the ponds and lakes were thawing.

Van Damme’s real first name is Keith, but sometime around the age of 4, an aunt dubbed him Casey after the song “And the Band Played On.” There were twin girls with blond hair in the neighborhood, with whom young Keith was always hanging out.

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Red-hot Avisail Garcia seeing ball better

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN dvanschouwen@suntimes.com GLENDALE, Ariz. – Seeing is believing for Avisail Garcia and for those who’ve watched him hit the ball hard and deep in all directions at Cactus League ballparks through the first week and a half of spring-training games.

Granted, it’s only seven games for Garcia, and we’re far from regular-season intensity levels, so his early outburst – he’s 10 for 20 with a triple, three doubles, two tape-measure home runs to left, including one Saturday against the Cubs, and 10 RBI – is being processed with caution, especially by those who wrote him off after the 2015 season.

But here’s the thing to keep in mind about Garcia. Not only is he still a baseball babe at 24, he made significant changes to his batting stance, standing more upright with his bat flattened on a lower plane. Of more importance, however, is his head position, turned slightly toward the pitcher’s mound, which allows him to see the ball with both eyes.

“Part of it was his posture,’’ said hit-

ting coach Todd Steverson, who began working with Garcia on the changes in Miami during the offseason. “How to get ready and ready to be able to see, that’s huge.”

Garcia is getting great results, almost instantly, and not surprisingly is sold on them.

“Because I’m seeing the pitcher and watching Avisail the ball with two eyes Garcia now,’’ he said. “Last year, I was watching like this [with one]. It’s helping a lot.”

More than a lot.

“I mean, for sure,’’ Garcia said. ‘‘You guys can’t see it?”

Uh, yeah. With both eyes. After striking out 141 times last season, Garcia has struck out four times. Again, small sample size, but last year’s performance, when he batted .257 with 13 homers and 59 RBI over 601 plate appearances, sent analysts and fans alike, armed with metrics and their own personal eye tests, rushing to laptops to call for the

end of the Garcia era on the South Side.

Garcia was undaunted.

“That doesn’t bother me,” he said.

“I just have to keep doing it every day and be consistent. Consistency at the plate is everything. You have that, and you’re going to have the numbers.

Sometimes you’re going to chase a pitch – we’re human beings – but you have to cut down on that.”

Steverson said it’s pretty basic for Garcia. When he swings at strikes, he’s a beast. When he chases, he’s toast.

“We talk a lot,” Steverson said.

“He’s going through a process. He’s going through the first phase; he’s getting comfortable with the timing and the feel of it. You might not see it, but that’s irrelevant. It’s what’s going on with him. For my money right now, he’s doing everything he’s been asked.”

Manager Robin Ventura likes the way the ball is jumping off Garcia’s bat and his positioning when he takes a pitch.

“Some of those things are real subtle,” Ventura said. “It’s not like we’ve totally revamped and created a new kind of way to hit. There are ways to make adjustments, and he gets a better angle of his bat. It helps him cover the plate and get the ball in the air a little bit. He seems to be taking to the adjustments. It takes awhile sometimes, and he has to believe in it. The worst thing, you make adjustments with a guy, and he’s not all in. He’s starting to see that as well, and when a guy gets excited about it, you start seeing stuff like that.”

Some are more welcoming to coaching and advice than others. Steverson said Garcia has been very receptive.

“I will stay the course with him,” Steverson said. “I’m not going to abandon him if he doesn’t abandon himself.

I’m here for him, whatever he needs.

But he needs to make his at-bats mean something to him. He needs to take the information [and] put it in play. That’s the only way you grow as a hitter.”

CUBS SPRING TRAINING

Perez brings different kind of depth to Cubs outfield

By GORDON WITTENMYER gwittenmyer@suntimes.com MESA, Ariz. – It was the greatest night of Juan Perez’s career and the worst night of his baseball life.

“It was crazy,” he said.

The Cubs signed the nondescript, 5-11 outfielder with a .224 career average to a minor-league deal this winter and invited him to camp. And all anyone needs to know about what a team with such big plans would see in a guy like this happened in the span of two hours on the night of Oct. 26, 2014.

You could see it in the red, tearpuffed eyes and hear it in the halting emotion as Perez talked softly to continuous waves of reporters, long after playing a major role that night in helping the Giants win Game 5 of the World Series.

Oscar Taveras was dead.

The Cardinals’ top prospect and Perez’s close friend and Dominican winter-league teammate was killed in a car accident in the Dominican Republic that night. Perez, who wasn’t in the starting lineup, overheard two workers on the broadcast crew talking about Taveras’ death in the second inning. The news turned the middle in-

nings into blur.

He rushed upstairs to the Giants’ clubhouse to check his phone, which was “blowing up” with texts, including photos of the crash.

“When I saw him in the picture they sent me, that’s when my emotions went crazy in the clubhouse,” he said. Teammates Joaquin Arias and Gregor Blanco tried to help. “Some of the veteran guys said, ‘Take it easy, let it go right now. We have a game going on.’

“I let it out for a few innings inside, and then I went out [to the bench].”

“How do you process that?” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.

Not even Perez seems to know the answer.

But he came off the bench and made what might have been a run-saving catch down the left-field line in a 2-0 game. Then in the eighth, he drove a ball off the wall against Royals late-inning stud Wade Davis for two runs that put the game away.

“My mom always says I have a big heart,” said Perez, who was seen tearing up in the dugout even after returning from the clubhouse. “That I kind of go through a lot of tough moments and deal with it and still perform. I think that’s because of my dad. He’s kind of

a tough guy that deals with a lot of moments like that.”

His father (also Juan) moved the Perez family from the Dominican Republic to the Bronx to find a better opportunity for the family when Juan was 14. His father got a job with a plumbing company, where he still works.

Perez, who went on to become a national junior-college player of the year at Western Oklahoma State, credits his dad’s bold decision and hard work for making his baseball career possible.

Perez, 29, still is looking for his first full season in the majors, and it won’t be this year with this team, which sees him more as versatile insurance and depth.

“This guy’s got ability, and he’s got heart,” Maddon said. “He needs opportunity. Now I don’t know how much he’s going to be able to get that here or anyplace else. But I do believe he’s a major-league-caliber player. And he’s a great teammate. He’s the kind of guy that’s going to help you win.”

Any slim chance Perez had of making the roster disappeared with the additions of Dexter Fowler and Shane Victorino.

“It’s a long season,” Perez said.

“You’ve just got to be ready for any-

thing.”

If anyone has shown the ability to do that, it’s him.

Perez remains close to Taveras’ family and visits every time he returns to the Dominican Republic. He has known Taveras’ older brother Raul longer than he knew Oscar.

“They still live that moment,” he said.

“His mom’s face is still broken from that time.”

The family keeps a huge picture of Taveras in front of the house, Perez said, and inside it’s filled with photos and mementos, including his baseball shoes from that four-month big-league career.

“It’s kind of heartbreaking,” Perez said.

He thinks of his friend often. It’s hard not to when baseball was so much of what they shared.

Harder still is figuring out how he managed to do what he did that October night in 2014 against one of the most dominant relief pitchers in the game, with all that emotion coursing through his mind.

“He wasn’t on my mind at the moment I hit the ball,” he said that night. “But when I got to third, I took a peek to the sky, thinking, ‘That’s for you.’ ”

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A man suspected of intentionally driving a snowmobile into teams of two mushers near the front of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was arrested Saturday in a Yukon River village.

Arnold Demoski, 26, of Nulato was arrested on suspicion of assault, reckless endangerment, reckless driving and six counts of criminal mischief.

Demoski spoke to KTUU-TV, saying he was returning home from a night of drinking when he struck Aliy Zirkle and Jeff King’s teams early Saturday morning.

The crashes killed one of King’s dogs and injured at least two others.

One of Zirkle’s dogs also was injured.

Iditarod officials at first reported King had been injured. But the fourtime champion said later the snowmobile had missed both him and his sled.

Demoski said when he woke up Sat-

urday morning and heard what had happened to the mushers, he checked his snowmobile and realized he had done it. The snowmobile was missing a part and had rust-colored stains, he said.

Demoski said he doesn’t remember the collisions, which the Iditarod described as apparently intentional attacks.

“I just want to say I’m sorry,” he said.

The race leader early Saturday afternoon was Brent Sass, who left the village of Kaltag at 8:20 a.m. local time.

Zirkle rested four hours in Nulato and dropped one dog before heading back onto the Yukon River with 14 dogs in harness. She reached Kaltag at 10: 44 a.m., and after a nine-minute rest, left again in second place.

Current champion Dallas Seavey left Kaltag at 11: 24 a.m. in third place.

His father, former champion Mitch Seavey, was in fourth place.

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Struggling penalty kill is killing Blackhawks lately

By MARK LAZERUS mlazerus@suntimes.com During each of their three recent championship seasons, the Blackhawks’ penalty kill has been the one constant.

Star players went through scoring droughts, goalies had rough stretches, injuries wreaked havoc on the lineup, the power play ran hot and cold.

But the penalty kill was always good, often great. It was on a record pace for much of the 2014-15 season. It was the third-best in the league in 2013. It was fifth-best in 2009-10.

Right now? It’s awful. Twenty-fifth in the league, sputtering along at a dismal 78.3 percent success rate. And if anything’s going to prevent the Hawks – the deep, talented, experienced Hawks – from winning a fourth Stanley Cup in seven seasons, it’ll be that.

“It’s got to get better,” Joel Quenneville said. “We can’t think we’re going to go along at this percentage and this rate and win hockey games.”

The PK has been middling to bad all season, but has really struggled over the last month, when both Marian Hossa and Marcus Kruger were injured. In the eight games Hossa missed, the Hawks allowed 10 goals on 30 opposing power plays.

Hossa returned Friday in Dallas, but the result was the same – two goals on six power plays.

There’s hope and help on the horizon, as Kruger – one of the top penalty-killers in the game – nears his return from wrist surgery. But Kruger can’t fix this. Not on

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Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews is pressured by Dallas Stars defenseman Stephen Johns during the first period Friday in Dallas. his own. He’s just one-fourth of one PK unit, after all. The problem is systemic – which is odd, considering the Hawks haven’t changed their PK system in the slightest.

The Hawks simply aren’t executing it well. They’re a split-second late getting in front of shots. There’s a half-second hesitation before clearing attempts.

Their trademark aggressiveness is nowhere to be found, as point-men go unchallenged and killers stand flat-footed in the no-man’s land between the point and the slot.

“Just looking at the goals we’ve allowed, it’s goals that we really could have prevented,” Niklas Hjalmarsson said. “It’s just not being sharp, just not being in the shooting lanes, not getting to rebounds. We’re just sloppy.”

Quenneville has tried just about everybody to fill the skates of Kruger. Rookies Tanner Kero and Phil Danault both had their chances.

Ryan Garbutt saw his share of time.

Newcomers Andrew Ladd and Tomas Fleischmann are now in the rotation. Six defensemen have been regulars.

The inconsistent personnel certainly has contributed to the inconsistent performance.

At its peak, the Hawks PK features a consistent rotation, with Kruger and Andrew Desjardins or Artem Anisimov on the first unit, and Hossa and Jonathan Toews on the second.

Hjalmarsson tried to look on the bright side.

“It’s not ideal,” Hjalmarsson said.

“You always want to have a few guys that kind of rotate and know exactly what you’re doing, But at the same time, we’ve got to see pretty much all the guys and how they do on the PK, and if any of the guys [get hurt] again, at least they know how to play the system. So maybe that can be to our advantage in the long run.”

The Hawks don’t practice much. But it’s a safe bet they’ll be working on special teams Sunday morning at Johnny’s IceHouse West.

“We definitely have to focus on it more,” Toews said. “That’s what it comes down to. We know that when there’s something that’s really sticking out in our game, if we address it and put even more focus on it, work on it, there’s nothing we can’t rectify.”

The confidence is still there, even if the results aren’t.

“I feel like the system works, because we won a few Stanley Cups with that exact kill,” Hossa said. “But back then we were more on the same page. We were moving at the same time. We have to get the chemistry back, and get back together. We’ll be fine.”

BULLS

Deng still believes Bulls’ front office did Thibodeau wrong

By JOE COWLEY jcowley@suntimes.com The decision still baffles Luol Deng.

Like everyone, the former Bulls AllStar heard the rumors last season that his old front office and former coach Tom Thibodeau were on bad terms and headed for a breakup, but he never thought the front office would be naïve enough to actually do it.

“It’s stupid,” Deng said last season, when the rumors were starting to boil.

“He’s one of the best coaches in the league. I really think if you get rid of someone like that, it’s going to be a lot of rebuilding coming afterward.”

Over a year later, Deng stands behind everything he said, and then some.

“I’m still in awe that they went ahead and made that decision,” Deng said, following Miami’s 118-96 win at the United Center. “Coach Thibs is one of the best coaches I’ve ever played for, and when

you get a coach like that, his basketball IQ is very high. I think it’s smart to listen to him and have a relationship where you always understand where he’s coming from. I don’t know the details of what happened here, but that can’t get in the way of building a great basket- Luol Deng ball team.”

Deng did say that he felt Fred Hoiberg could be a very good coach, but what the versatile forward still couldn’t get over was the fact that the Bulls front office didn’t listen to Thibodeau more, knowing it was better for the organization in the long run.

“When you look at San Antonio and other great basketball teams, when you keep a core and a coach together it works,” Deng said. “When you change everything, well now everybody is at square one trying to learn everything.

“I thought they would realize to listen to him.”

And while Deng was no longer around when the decision was made last summer, what he didn’t like about the entire process was how the front office tried to build their case against Thibodeau by correlating injuries to minutes played.

Deng led the NBA in minutes played under Thibodeau, and insisted that players striving for greatness welcome the workload.

“What I always say is we had injuries before Tom came,” Deng said.

“It’s not something that all of a sudden happened. It’s not like Thibs came in and our injury chart went up. I never complained about playing heavy minutes here. I always loved it. It was my best basketball. It’s when Chicago got to really realize who I am, and I thank Thibs for giving me that.

“I think if you ask any good player,

if a player is complaining about too many minutes you have to be mature enough to go to the office and talk to the coach and tell him you want less minutes. If a player does that, as a coach I would listen and play him less minutes. But every player wants to play in this league. If they don’t then they need to question what they’re about.”

What Deng and the Heat are about right now is sitting in that No. 4 spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Meanwhile, the Bulls remained on the outside looking in at the No. 9 spot.

“I know there’s a lot of teams out there that can’t wait to get a guy like Coach Thibs,” Deng said. “He’s going to be great again. I’m not here anymore to see it, but it’s still a good team. Obviously injuries hit a lot of teams, but it’s how you adjust to it. I just wish them the best the rest of the season.”

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Mariani, Unrein will be back in ’16

By KEVIN FISHBAIN kfishbain@chicagofootball.com

• Sunday, March 13, 2016

Three days after adding Danny Trevathan, the Bears found another starting inside linebacker by signing Jerrell Freeman to a three-year contract.

According to multiple reports, Freeman’s contract is worth $12 million with $6 million guaranteed.

There is an extra $2 million available in incentives.

The atmosphere coach John Fox and general manager Ryan Pace have created at Halas Hall left a pos- Jerrell itive impression on Freeman Freeman, helping him decide to sign with the Bears.

“Them being genuine. Being 100 with the whole process, being matter-of-fact about things,” he said of what struck him during his visit. “I think Coach Fox is going to shoot you straight. He’s not going to blow smoke up your you-knowwhat, and I got that from everybody, from him all the way up to Ryan (Pace) and (defensive coordinator Vic) Fangio, talked to the linebacker coach, that’s just how everybody is there.”

Freeman referenced the Colts’ joint practices with the Bears last summer and observing how Fox was with his players and the Colts’ players.

“My biggest impression was coach Fox. His whole attitude, he was always upbeat. He’s a great coach,” Freeman said. “You can tell that his players love playing for him. Just a great atmosphere.

It’s a big family over there, just like in Indianapolis. It’s pretty similar with guys wanting to play for their coaches. Coach Fox is highly regarded. I kind of saw that in training camp, hew as laughing and joking with everyone, even us.”

Freeman has spent his four NFL seasons with the Colts, consistently as one of their leading tacklers. In 13 games (and 13 starts) last season, Freeman had 112 tackles, three sacks, two passes defensed and one interception, which he returned for a touchdown. A D-3 player at Mary Hardin-Baylor who then played in the CFL for three seasons, Freeman still has that small-school motivation.

“That chip on my shoulder is never

going to get knocked off,” he said. “It’s always going to be there. I carry it with me. It’s shaped the kind of player I am.

The aggressiveness, recklessness, just out there running around because I can really appreciate where I’ve come from.”

In his first NFL game in 2012, Freeman picked off a Jay Cutler pass and returned it for a touchdown. He started every game that season and had 145 tackles and two sacks.

Now, Freeman joins a Bears team he believes “has the pieces” to be successful.

“Even in training camp, there was an eye opener to how good the team is,” he said. “You can’t really do anything, can’t have a chance without a quarterback and Jay Cutler definitely has all the tools and everything to be a great quarterback. They’ve got a couple of good receivers coming back. Some good, young running backs. The defense is coming on and hopefully I can add another piece to that puzzle.”

Trevathan and Freeman slot in as the Bears’ starters at inside linebacker for 2016 after they went through five different starters in 2015 – Shea McClellin, Christian Jones, Jonathan Anderson, John Timu and LaRoy Reynolds. Jones, Anderson and Timu are still under contract.

Mariani returns: The Bears brought back another key contributor from their 2015 season Saturday when they resigned Marc Mariani to a one-year deal.

When the Bears lost receivers to injuries in the second half of the season, Mariani stepped up, setting career-highs with 22 catches for 300 yards, averaging 13.6 yards a catch.

In the Thanksgiving night win over the Packers, Mariani had three receptions for 35 yards – each catch went for a first down. Of his 22 catches, 19 of them moved the sticks.

Unrein re-signs: The Bears got a nice spark on defense and offense from Mitch Unrein last season and re-signed him to a two-year contract Saturday, the team announced.

Unrein, who turns 29 later this month, was cut by the Chargers after two games last season and then picked up by the Bears. He reunited with John Fox, who coached Unrein in Denver the previous four seasons.

In his 14 games and four starts with the Bears, Unrein had 18 tackles, one for a loss, one sack and three QB hits. He also served as the team’s goal-line fullback, leading to touchdowns on all his offensive snaps.

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NBA

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE

WESTERN CONFERENCE

d-Cleveland Toronto Boston Miami Charlotte Atlanta Indiana Detroit

W L Pct GB 46 18 .719 — 44 20 .688 2 39 27 .591 8 38 28 .576 9 37 28 .569 9½ 37 29 .561 10 35 30 .538 11½ 34 32 .515 13

Bulls 32 32 .500 14 Washington 30 35 .462 16½ Orlando 28 36 .438 18 Milwaukee 28 38 .424 19 New York 27 40 .403 20½ Brooklyn 18 47 .277 28½ Philadelphia 9 57 .136 38 WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB x-Golden State 58 6 .906 — x-San Antonio 56 10 .848 3 Oklahoma City 44 22 .667 15 L.A. Clippers 42 22 .656 16 Memphis 39 27 .591 20 Portland 34 32 .515 25 Houston 33 33 .500 26 Dallas 33 33 .500 26 Utah 30 35 .462 28½ Denver 28 38 .424 31 Sacramento 25 39 .391 33 New Orleans 24 41 .369 34½ Minnesota 21 45 .318 38 Phoenix 17 48 .262 41½ L.A. Lakers 14 52 .212 45 d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot Saturday’s Results Indiana 112, Dallas 105 Toronto 112, Miami 104, OT Detroit 125, Philadelphia 111 Charlotte 125, Houston 109 Milwaukee 103, New Orleans 92 Atlanta 95, Memphis 83 San Antonio 93, Oklahoma City 85 Denver 116, Washington 100 Phoenix at Golden State (n) Orlando at Portland (n) Sunday’s Games Cleveland at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 p.m.

Utah at Sacramento, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 7 p.m.

New York at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Bulls at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Denver at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 7 p.m.

Portland at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Utah, 9:30 p.m.

Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 70 41 20 9 91 227 203 St. Louis 70 41 20 9 91 183 172 Blackhawks 69 41 22 6 88 195 168 Nashville 69 34 22 13 81 189 177 Minnesota 69 32 27 10 74 182 172 Colorado 70 35 31 4 74 188 198 Winnipeg 68 28 35 5 61 176 203 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 66 40 22 4 84 179 152 Anaheim 67 37 21 9 83 167 159 San Jose 67 37 24 6 80 198 177 Vancouver 67 27 28 12 66 164 192 Arizona 68 29 32 7 65 181 211 Calgary 68 28 35 5 61 182 213 Edmonton 70 27 36 7 61 169 205

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 70 39 23 8 86 213 188 Florida 68 38 21 9 85 192 167 Tampa Bay 68 39 24 5 83 186 163 Detroit 68 34 23 11 79 173 181 Ottawa 70 32 30 8 72 202 218 Montreal 69 32 31 6 70 187 194 Buffalo 70 28 33 9 65 167 190 Toronto 67 22 34 11 55 159 201 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 67 49 13 5 103 217 155 N.Y. Rangers 68 39 22 7 85 194 176 N.Y. Islanders 66 37 21 8 82 190 166 Pittsburgh 67 35 24 8 78 183 170 Philadelphia 67 32 23 12 76 174 180 Carolina 69 31 26 12 74 170 186 New Jersey 68 32 29 7 71 151 170 Columbus 68 28 32 8 64 180 211 Two points for a win, one point for OT loss Saturday’s Results Florida 5, Philadelphia 4, SO Boston 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Buffalo 3, Carolina 2, OT Detroit 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, OT Minnesota 4, Montreal 1 Ottawa 4, Toronto 0 Winnipeg 3, Colorado 2 St. Louis 5, Dallas 4, OT Vancouver 4, Nashville 2 Arizona at Edmonton (n) New Jersey at Los Angeles (n) Washington at San Jose (n) Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 11:30 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Columbus, 2 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Los Angeles at Blackhawks, 7 p.m.

Florida at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

New Jersey at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

GOLF PGA TOUR VALSPAR CHAMPIONSHIP Saturday At Innisbrook Resort, Copperhead Course, Palm Harbor, Fla. Par 71 (36-35) Third Round Bill Haas 71-67-67—205 -8 Graham DeLaet 72-66-68—206 -7 Charley Hoffman 69-72-67—208 -5 Ryan Moore 70-69-69—208 -5 Patrick Reed 71-70-68—209 -4 Charles Howell III 67-72-70—209 -4 Steve Stricker 71-66-72—209 -4 Charl Schwartzel 71-70-69—210 -3 Lee McCoy 74-71-66—211 -2

Jordan Spieth 76-68-67—211 -2 Jason Gore 72-72-67—211 -2 John Huh 71-71-69—211 -2 Henrik Stenson 71-70-70—211 -2 Justin Thomas 72-67-72—211 -2 Retief Goosen 70-69-72—211 -2 Scott Brown 70-69-72—211 -2 Daniel Berger 70-68-73—211 -2 Will MacKenzie 70-67-74—211 -2 Danny Lee 70-72-70—212 -1 Louis Oosthuizen 72-70-70—212 -1 Sung Kang 72-68-72—212 -1 Jerry Kelly 70-69-73—212 -1 Sam Saunders 74-71-68—213 E Shawn Stefani 73-72-68—213 E Daniel Summerhays 71-73-69—213 E Danny Willett 70-72-71—213 E Jamie Lovemark 70-71-72—213 E K.J. Choi 74-67-72—213 E George McNeill 74-66-73—213 E

FIVE-DAY PLANNER

MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE

W L Toronto 9 2 Texas 8 2 Houston 8 3 Seattle 7 4 White Sox 6 4 Detroit 7 5 Oakland 5 5 Boston 5 6 Los Angeles 5 6 Minnesota 5 6 Tampa Bay 5 6 Cleveland 4 6 Kansas City 5 8 New York 3 7 Baltimore 1 10 NATIONAL LEAGUE

W L Arizona 9 3 Los Angeles 6 2 Philadelphia 9 3 Washington 8 3 St. Louis 7 4 Colorado 6 5 Miami 5 5 Milwaukee 5 5 New York 4 5 Cincinnati 5 7 San Francisco 5 8 Pittsburgh 3 8 San Diego 3 8 Atlanta 3 9 Cubs 3 9

TEAM

Pct .818 .800 .727 .636 .600 .583 .500 .455 .455 .455 .455 .400 .385 .300 .091 Pct .750 .750 .750 .727 .636 .545 .500 .500 .444 .417 .385 .273 .273 .250 .250

NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Saturday’s Games Cubs (ss) 9, White Sox 2 L.A. Dodgers (ss) 6, Cubs (ss) 5 St. Louis (ss) 4, Houston 3 Tampa Bay 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 Detroit 3, Pittsburgh 0 Baltimore 8, Minnesota 1 Miami 11, Boston 8 Philadelphia 8, Toronto 5 St. Louis (ss) 14, N.Y. Mets 9 Arizona (ss) 9, San Francisco (ss) 5 Texas 14, Oakland 5 Milwaukee 7, Colorado 6 Arizona (ss) 3, Kansas City 0 L.A. Angels 9, San Francisco (ss) 5 San Diego 6, Cleveland 3 Washington 11, Atlanta 1 Seattle (ss) 5, Cincinnati 2 L.A. Dodgers (ss) vs. Seattle (ss) at Peoria, Ariz. (n) Sunday’s Games Arizona vs. White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Oakland at Mesa, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Boston vs. Tampa Bay (ss) at Port Charlotte, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Detroit vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Baltimore vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Atlanta vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

St. Louis vs. Washington at Viera, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (ss) vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 12:07 p.m.

Cleveland (ss) vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Cleveland (ss) at Goodyear, Ariz., 3:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Texas vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 3:10 p.m.

San Diego vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 5:05 p.m.

PREPS BOYS BASKETBALL CLASS 2A STATE FINALS at Carver Arena, Peoria Saturday Third place: Breese Central 71, Chicago Hales Franciscan 58 Championship: St. Joseph-Ogden 61, Rockridge 43

CLASS 1A STATE FINALS at Carver Arena, Peoria Saturday Third place: Liberty 57, Woodlawn 51 (OT) Championship: LeRoy 38, Chicago

Leo 35

SCHEDULE Monday Baseball: Johnsburg at Lakes, Woodstock North at Alden-Hebron, 4:30 p.m.

Softball: Richmond-Burton at Crystal Lake Central, Woodstock North at Alden-Hebron, 4:30 p.m.; Marengo at Harlem, 5 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Woodstock at Wauconda, 6:15 p.m.; Crystal Lake South at Conant, 6:30 p.m.

Badminton: Barrington at McHenry, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday Baseball: Richmond-Burton at McHenry, Cary-Grove at Palatine, Hampshire at Belvidere North, Harvard

at Woodstock, Jacobs at Schaumburg, 4:30 p.m.

Softball: McHenry at Richmond-Burton, Antioch at Prairie Ridge, Wauconda at Woodstock, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Rockford Christian at Richmond-Burton, Grant at Crystal Lake Central, Streamwood at Dundee-Crown, Harvard at Rockford Lutheran, Jacobs at Prairie Ridge, Burlington Central at Marengo, Woodstock North at Round Lake, 4:30 p.m.

Boys Track and Field: FVC Indoor Meet at Huntley, 4:30 p.m.

Boys Lacrosse: Prairie Ridge at Dundee-Crown, 6 p.m.

Boys Tennis: Crystal Lake Central at Boylan, 4:30 p.m.

Badminton: McHenry at Waukegan, 4:30 p.m.

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

vs. Los Angeles 7 p.m.

CSN+ AM-720

vs. Philadelphia 7 p.m.

CSN+, NBCSN AM-720

at Toronto 6:30 p.m.

CSN AM-1000

at Washington 6 p.m.

WGN AM-1000

vs. Brooklyn 7 p.m.

CSN AM-1000 vs. Arizona* 6:05 p.m.

ESPN

at Oakland* 3:05 p.m.

AM-670

vs. San Diego* 3:05 p.m.

at San Diego* 3:10 p.m.

at Kansas City* 3:05 p.m.

CSN

vs. Arizona* 3:05 p.m.

AM-890

at Kansas City* 3:05 p.m.

vs. L.A. Dodgers* 3:05 p.m.

at Milwaukee* 3:05 p.m.

MLBN

* – Spring training exhibition

WHAT TO WATCH AUTO RACING IndyCar, Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, at St. Petersburg, Fla., 11:30 a.m., ABC NASCAR, Sprint Cup Series, Good Sam 500, at Avondale, Ariz., 2:30 p.m., FOX COLLEGE BASKETBALL Atlantic 10 Tournament, championship, Saint Joseph’s vs. VCU, at Brooklyn, N.Y., 11:30 a.m., CBS SEC Tournament, championship, Texas A&M vs.

Kentucky, at Nashville, Tenn., noon, ESPN Sun Belt Tournament, championship, UALR vs. Louisiana-Monroe, at New Orleans, noon, ESPN2 Big Ten Tournament, championship, Michigan St. vs.

Purdue, at Indianapolis, 2 p.m., CBS AAC Tournament, championship, UConn vs. Memphis, at Orlando, Fla., 2:15 p.m., ESPN NCAA Championship Selection Show, 4:30 p.m., CBS CYCLING Paris-Nice: Stage 7 (final), at Nice, France, 7:30 a.m., NBCSN GOLF European PGA Tour, True Thailand Classic, final round, at Hua Hin, Thailand (same-day tape), 5 a.m., GOLF PGA Tour, Valspar Championship, final round, at Palm Harbor, Fla., noon, GOLF PGA Tour, Valspar Championship, final round, at Palm Harbor, Fla., 2 p.m., NBC MLB BASEBALL Spring training, Toronto vs. Philadelphia, at Clearwater, Fla. (tape-delayed), 5 a.m., MLB Spring training, Colorado vs. Milwaukee, at Phoenix (tape-delayed), 8 a.m., MLB Spring training, St. Louis vs. Washington, at Viera, Fla., noon, MLB Spring training, Texas vs. L.A. Angels, at Tempe, Ariz., 3 p.m., MLB Spring training, N.Y. Mets vs. Miami, at Jupiter, Fla. (same-day tape), 7 p.m., MLB

Spring training, Cincinnati vs. Seattle, at Peoria, Ariz. (same-day tape), 11 p.m., MLB Spring training, L.A. Dodgers vs. Colorado, at Scottsdale, Ariz. (same-day tape), 2 a.m. (Monday), MLB NBA BASKETBALL Cleveland at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 p.m., ABC Indiana at Atlanta, 5 p.m., NBA NHL HOCKEY Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 11:30 a.m., NBC Toronto at Detroit, 6:30 p.m., NBCSN SOCCER FA Cup, quarterfinal, Watford vs. Arsenal, 8 a.m., FS1 Bundesliga, Hamburg at Bayer Leverkusen, 9:20 a.m., FS1 FA Cup, West Ham at Manchester United, 11 a.m., FS1 Premier League, Tottenham at Aston Villa, 11 a.m., NBCSN Bundesliga, FSV Mainz 05 at Borussia Dortmund, 11:30 a.m., FS2 Women, CONCACAF U-17 Championship, third place, Haiti vs. Canada, at St. George’s, Grenada, 2 p.m., FS2 MLS, Toronto at New York City, 4 p.m., ESPN2 Women, CONCACAF U-17 Championship, championship, Mexico vs. United States, at St. George’s, Grenada, 5 p.m., FS2 MLS, Portland at San Jose, 6 p.m., FS1 WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL SWAC Tournament, championship, Southern vs.

Alabama St., at Houston (tape-delayed), 8 a.m., ESPNU MEAC Tournament, championship, Coppin St. vs. NC A&T, at Norfolk, Va. (tape-delayed), 10 a.m., ESPNU Southland Tournament, championship, Central Arkansas vs. Sam Houston St., at Katy, Texas, 11:30 a.m. CBSSN Horizon League Tournament, championship, Green Bay vs. Milwaukee, at Green Bay, Wis., noon, ESPNU Northeast Tournament, championship, Robert Morris at Sacred Heart, 2 p.m., ESPNU

TRANSACTIONS PRO BASEBALL American League TEXAS RANGERS — Assigned RHP Miles Jaye, RHP Scott Williams, and C Kellin Deglan to their minor league camp.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Released RHP Kyle Kendrick and RHP Chris Volstad. Optioned RHPs Danny Burawa, Tyrell Jenkins and Casey Kelly and INF Daniel Castro to Gwinnett (IL), and RHP Mauricio Cabrera to Mississippi (SL).

Reassigned RHPs Chris Ellis and Madison Younginer, LHPs David Holmberg and Sean Newcomb, and INFs Chase d’Arnaud, Nate Frieman and Rio Ruiz to their minor league camp.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed G Ray McCallum and C Alex Stepheson to 10-day contracts.

FOOTBALL National Football League BEARS — Agreed to terms with LB Jerrell Freeman on a three-year contract, DL Mitch Unrein on a two-year contract and WR Marc Mariani on a one-year contract.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed S Rafael Bush.

WASHINGOTN REDSKINS — Signed P Tress Way to a five-year contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CALGARY FLAMES — Assigned D Tyler

Wotherspoon to Stockton (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Reassigned F Brendan Woods to Charlotte (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Providence C Ben Sexton one game for a boarding incident in a March 11 game against Hartford.

COLLEGE BIG TEN CONFERENCE — Announced that Wisconsin hockey player Jedd Soleway has been suspended for one game, under the conference’s supplemental discipline process.

TEXAS A&M — Agreed to terms with men’s basketball coach Billy Kennedy on a five-year contract.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS America East Conference Championship Saturday, March 12 Stony Brook 80, Vermont 74 American Athletic Conference At Amway Center Orlando, Fla. Semifinals Saturday, March 12 UConn 77, Temple 62 Memphis 74, Tulane 54 Championship Sunday, March 13 UConn vs. Memphis, 2:15 p.m.

Atlantic Coast Conference At The Verizon Center Washington Championship Saturday, March 12 North Carolina 61, Virginia 57 Atlantic Sun Conference Championship Sunday, March 6 Florida Gulf Coast 80, Stetson 78, OT

Big East Conference At Madison Square Garden New York Championship Saturday, March 12 Seton Hall 69, Villanova 67 Big Sky Conference At The Events Center Reno, Nev. Championship Saturday, March 12 Weber State 62, Montana 59 Big South Conference At Gore Arena Buies Creek, N.C. Championship Sunday, March 6 UNC Asheville 77, Winthrop 68 Big Ten Conference At Bankers Life Fieldhouse Indianapolis Semifinals Saturday, March 12 Purdue 76, Michigan 59 Michigan State 64, Maryland 61 Championship Sunday, March 13 Purdue vs. Michigan State, 2 p.m.

Big 12 Conference At The Sprint Center Kansas City, Mo. Championship Saturday, March 12 Kansas 81, West Virginia 71 Big West Conference At The Honda Center Anaheim, Calif.

Championship Saturday, March 12 Long Beach St. vs. Hawaii (n) Colonial Athletic Association At Royal Farms Arena Baltimore First Round Championship Monday, March 7 UNC Wilmington 80, Hofstra 73, OT Conference USA At Bartow Arena Birmingham, Ala. Championship Saturday, March 12 Middle Tennessee 55, Old Dominion 53 Horizon League At Joe Louis Arena Detroit Championship Tuesday, March 8 Green Bay 78 Wright State 69 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference At The Times Union Center Albany, N.Y. Championship Monday, March 7 Iona 79, Monmouth (N.J.) 76

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference At Norfolk Scope Norfolk, Va. Championship Saturday, March 12 Hampton 81, S.C. State 69 Missouri Valley Conference At Scottrade Center St. Louis Championship Sunday, March 6 Northern Iowa 56, Evansville 54 Mountain West Conference At The Thomas & Mack Center Las Vegas Championship Saturday, March 12 Fresno State 68, San Diego State 63 Northeast Conference At Higher-Seeded Team Championship Tuesday, March 8 Fairleigh Dickinson 87, Wagner 79 Ohio Valley Conference At Municipal Auditorium Nashville, Tenn.

Championship Saturday, March 5 Austin Peay 83, UT Martin 73 Pacific-12 Conference At MGM Grand Garden Arena Las Vegas Championship Saturday, March 12 Oregon 88, Utah 57 Patriot League At Higher-Seeded Team Championship Wednesday, March 9 Holy Cross 59, Lehigh 56 Southeastern Conference At Bridgestone Arena Nashville, Tenn.

First Round Semifinals Saturday, March 12 Texas A&M 71, LSU 38 Kentucky 93 Georgia 80 Championship Sunday, March 13 Texas A&M vs. Kentucky, 1 p.m.

Southern Conference At U.S. Cellular Center Asheville, N.C. Championship Monday, March 7 Chattanooga 73, ETSU 67 Southland Conference At The Leonard E. Merrell Center Katy, Texas Championship Saturday, March 12 Stephen F. Austin 82, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 60 Southwestern Athletic Conference At The Toyota Center Houston Championship Saturday, March 12 Southern 54, Jackson State 53 Summit League At Denny Sanford PREMIER Center Sioux Falls, S.D. Championship Tuesday, March 8 South Dakota State 67, North Dakota State 59 Sun Belt Conference At Lakefront Arena New Orleans Championship Sunday, March 13 UALR vs. Louisiana-Monroe, 1 p.m.

West Coast Conference At Orleans Arena Las Vegas Championship Tuesday, March 8 Gonzaga 85, Saint Mary’s 75 Western Athletic Conference At Orleans Arena Las Vegas Championship Saturday, March 12 New Mexico State vs. CS Bakersfield, (n)

NASCAR SPRINT CUP GOOD SAM 500 LINEUP After Friday qualifying; race Sunday At Phoenix International Raceway Avondale, Ariz.

Lap length: 1 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 138.387 mph.

2. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 137.515.

3. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 137.426.

4. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 137.394.

5. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 137.174.

6. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 137.174.

7. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 137.033.

8. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 136.934.

9. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 136.773.

10. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 136.752.

11. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 136.555.

12. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 136.307.

13. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 137.247.

14. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 137.216.

15. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 137.091.

16. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 137.028.

17. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 136.971.

18. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 136.893.

19. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 136.851.

20. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 136.576.

21. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 136.503.

22. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 136.488.

23. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 136.395.

24. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 137.19.

25. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 135.537.

26. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 135.527.

27. (38) Landon Cassill, Ford, 135.394.

28. (14) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 135.369.

29. (23) David Ragan, Toyota, 135.206.

30. (44) Brian Scott, Ford, 134.917.

31. (7) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 134.514.

32. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 134.429.

33. (95) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 134.068.

34. (98) Cole Whitt, Chevrolet, 133.67.

35. (15) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 133.072.

36. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 132.895.

37. (30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 132.797.

38. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 132.768.

39. (32) Joey Gase, Ford, 132.543.

NASCAR XFINITY AXALTA FASTER. TOUGHER. BRIGHTER. 200 RESULTS Top finishers Saturday At Phoenix International Raceway Avondale, Ariz.

Lap length: 1 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (3) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200 laps, 149.7 rating, 0 points.

2. (1) Erik Jones, Toyota, 200, 122.4, 40.

3. (2) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 200, 118.6, 38.

4. (10) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 200, 114, 37.

5. (5) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 200, 107.6, 0.

6. (4) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 200, 107.7, 36.

7. (6) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 200, 100.6, 0.

8. (16) Elliott Sadler, Chevrolet, 200, 93.4, 33.

9. (7) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 200, 101.6, 0.

10. (17) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 200, 86.8, 31.

11. (8) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, 200, 91.1, 30.

12. (9) Darrell Wallace Jr., Ford, 199, 91.5, 29.

13. (11) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 199, 85, 28.

14. (13) Ryan Reed, Ford, 199, 81, 27.

15. (14) Justin Marks, Chevrolet, 199, 78.8, 26.

16. (12) Blake Koch, Chevrolet, 199, 74.2, 25.

17. (15) Jeb Burton, Ford, 199, 75.2, 24.

18. (26) Dakoda Armstrong, Toyota, 198, 65.7, 23.

19. (28) Dylan Lupton, Chevrolet, 198, 65.2, 22.

20. (23) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 198, 66.5, 21.

21. (24) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 197, 58.3, 20.

22. (22) David Starr, Toyota, 197, 52.6, 19.

23. (18) Spencer Gallagher, Chevrolet, 196, 59.3, 0.

24. (19) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 196, 63.8, 17.

25. (25) Ray Black Jr., Chevrolet, 196, 52.3, 16.

26. (27) T.J. Bell, Toyota, 196, 52.3, 15.

McHenry boys water polo team loses 2 games at invitational

sweep for the second straight week.

16-1 shot Melatonin scores upset in $1M Santa Anita Handicap

The McHenry boys water polo team lost to Palatine on Saturday, 11-7, in the Palatine Invitational, which is taking place at Homewood-Flossmoor. Jackson Smith led McHenry with four goals, and Josh Frost added two.

In its second match of the day, McHenry lost to Oak Park, 15-4. Smith scored two goals, and Mike Matusek and Luke Rose scored the other two for the Warriors.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Joe Talamo left his house Saturday sensing he had a good chance of winning the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap with 16-1 shot Melatonin.

Still, the jockey had no idea it would be by 41/4 lengths while beating a less than stellar field in the Grade 1 race.

Melatonin ran 11/4 miles in 2:02.01 and paid $34.60, $13.80 and $6 for the Kyle Busch takes Phoenix for 3rd crowd of 27,259.

Talamo convinced trainer David straight Xfinity Series win AVONDALE, Ariz. – Kyle Busch made it Hofmans to enter Melatonin after the 3 for 3 in the Xfinity Series this season, horse won by 33/4 lengths in his last cruising to another victory Saturday at start at the track last month.

Hard Aces returned $19.20 and $7.20, Phoenix International Raceway.

A week after leading all but one lap at while 7-5 favorite Effinex was another Las Vegas, Busch led 175 of 200 laps on half-length back in third and paid $2.80 the mile oval to win for the record 79th to show. time in the second-tier series.

Busch also posted a dominating win at Hass leads DeLaet by 1 shot Atlanta. He didn’t race in the opener at entering Valspar’s final round PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Bill Haas shot his Daytona.

In the past three weeks, Busch has led second straight 4-under 67 on Saturday to build a one-shot lead over Graham 493 of 563 laps.

DeLaet of Canada going into the final Busch’s biggest obstacle was lapped traffic and the lone competition his Joe round of the Valspar Championship.

Jordan Spieth was still in the hunt, but Gibbs Racing teammates. Busch and sejust barely. The defending champion ries rookie Erik Jones raced side-by-side got going on the back nine Saturday at for several laps before their green-flag Innisbrook and shot 68 to wind up six pitstops with 24 laps left. Busch beat shots behind.

Jones to the line and built as much as a Haas was at 8-under 205.

3-second edge.

DeLaet had an eagle on the par-5 14th When Brad Keselowski finally pitted hole that sent him to a 68 to get into with 13 laps left, Busch took the lead the last group as he goes for his first for good and secured his ninth Xfinity PGA Tour win. Haas and DeLaet got Series win in 20 races at Phoenix. a little separation going into Sunday.

Jones finished second, 2.3 seconds Charley Hoffman (67) and Ryan Moore back. But his car failed the post-race (69) were three shots behind, while laser inspection and his team could be Charles Howell III (70) and Steve Strickfined. er (72) were four shots back.

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All is quiet on my upper shelf

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own a Nook, but I haven’t fired it up in more than two years because, although a Nook or a Kindle can tell you one kind of story, it can’t tell the whole story a real paper-and-ink book can tell.

And, more importantly, without a book in your hands, you can’t become part of the book’s story itself.

Just this week, I pulled an old book off the top shelf of my bookcase. It was “All Quiet on the Western Front,” by Erich Maria Remarque, a tale of the First World War told from the point of view of a German soldier.

I had read the novel many years ago, but not this particular copy I held in my hand. This one was an original first edition in English, and although the almost century-old book was yellowed and fragile, it held me with a power that went far beyond the magnetism of a tale of survival in a time of soulcrushing war.

Because the physical book in my hands itself was a survivor.

My cloth-bound copy was inked and sewn in October 1929, just days before the start of the Great Depression. Who was the first person to buy and read it? Did the owners regret spending the money for a novel when jobs and food would be so hard to come by only days later? Or did it bring them comfort to read about lives that were more harshly lived than their own?

My copy surely must have been passed from hand to hand, because, as a novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front” was a blockbuster. Within 18 months, it had been translated into 22 languages, with more than 2 million copies sold.

Less than four years later, Adolph Hitler would become chancellor of Germany, and copies of this book were among the first tossed onto the bonfires in Berlin. In America, how many more readers rushed out to peruse it for that reason alone?

When read, what discussions did it spark? Was my copy passed to a friend

as a good argument for sending American troops to intervene in Hitler’s rush to begin a second global conflict? Or was it shared as just one more example of why we needed to stay out of that whole mess in Europe?

After the horror of the Second World War, how many more hands held my copy of the book and left their mark on it, as it did on them? Who was it who folded down the corner just seven pages into the story, and then again just 12 pages later? Was it the same person who dog-eared page 280, only 10 pages from the end? What reallife intrusion could stop the reader from finishing at that riveting point of the story?

Who made the black thumbprint on page 282, right at the upper spine? It is the kind of print you might make if you grabbed an open book at the top and held it out to another person, saying, “Here, read this!” What passage on that page was so moving that it had to be shared?

Most intriguing, who made the brutal piercing scar on my copy that penetrates from the very back cover deep into the pages, fully halfway through the book? It is as though the book had been stabbed with an icepick, or shot with a BB gun. But why? Was it an unfortunate accident, or was it the thoughtless play of a bored child?

Still later, how many other readers of my copy worked their way around that signature gash, struck by the irony as they read of bayonets and belly wounds?

And now, how many of those readers have passed on, while the copy they once held survived beyond them for me to read?

There is no name claiming ownership of the book at any point in its life, and, for my part, it will stay that way.

I bought it for a dollar last year at a library book sale. It held no library markings, for it had been donated – probably by someone who had never read it but had carried it to the library

after cleaning out an aged parent’s house after a funeral. They had no use for it, because to them it was just an old, dusty book. And who reads actual paper and ink books these days, other than old codgers who still go to the library?

Had that person bothered to check the first edition copyright, they might have realized it could bring a nice price on Ebay and end up in a collection – one that is never again read or touched by human hands.

But that is not what happened, and now the book – all of it, including the scars, dog-ears and thumbprint – is precious to me beyond its money value, because I will never sell it or lock it inside a display case.

It is a book.

A book is to be read.

And every time it is held in hands and it is read page by page, its story only grows.

While I read it, the book left its literal mark on me as the dry, brittle pages flaked away, leaving my shirt with a dusting of ancient paper every time I laid it down.

And, as careful as I was with each brittle page, I am certain I left my mark on it, as well, if only in a forensic way. My DNA is surely now a part of that book’s story, because, after all, it isn’t only books that flake away with age.

It is back on my bookshelf now, and it will stay there until I decide to read it yet again or a friend asks to borrow it – or until my shelves are cleaned out by a child or grandchild after I am gone.

But for now, after nearly a century, the book waits quietly on my upper shelf for others to become part of its tale of survival.

• Tom “T. R.” Kerth is a Sun City resident and retired English teacher from Park Ridge. He is the author of the book “Revenge of the Sardines.” He can be reached at trkerth@yahoo.com.

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Planning to take a vacation? Your cats can enjoy luxury digs, too

By SUE MANNING The Associated Press When Boris and Anastasia vacation, they prefer to stay in a deluxe three-story suite, dine on tuna mackerel and lobster consommé and spend their time on an iPad. The Russian blue cats spend a few days to a couple of weeks at Morris Animal Inn in Morristown, New Jersey, when their owners go out of town.

And it’s pretty clear to owner Shannon Muller, of nearby Morris Plains, her cats get more indulgences at the hotel than at home.

When Boris and Anastasia get to the resort, “they barely look back at us,” she said. “But when they come home, they are glad to be home.”

People are pouring more money into pampering their pets, including at high-amenity hotels such as Morris Animal Inn. The luxury and the costs vary widely at kitty resorts, but all cater to cats that are no longer left at home without care. These days, they’re getting the same out-of-town treatment as dogs while people emphasize pet care and cats become more popular with help from online videos and TV specials.

Morris Animal Inn started boarding cats in the 1980s with a basic enclosure, litter and food. It expanded its services because pet parents are treating their cats and dogs more like family and demanding specialized and customizable services, said Joann Morris, vice president and co-owner.

“Our first activity was the pampered pet session, simulating the love and attention they might get at home from an independent cat sitter,” she said.

It costs $12.95 a session and is popular with those who don’t want to buy a full menu of services. For those who do, package prices range from $19.95 to $49.95 a day and vary mainly by how much one-on-one attention the cat gets.

The most popular is the Purr-fect package, built for the most active animals, which gives cats lots of personal attention, five-star fare and even a running wheel that looks like a large hamster wheel. They also get plenty

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Shannon Muller visits her two Russian blue cats, Anastasia and Boris, at their enclosure, containing small beds, video and a clock, for pampering cats at Morris Animal Inn in Morristown, N.J. Boris stands on a playhouse at the inn. A video displaying birds plays in his enclosure.

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of time to play with toys, climb ropes, create art on iPads by pawing at the screen, listen to classical music and snack on catnip.

Kitty TV always is tuned to something cats like to watch: butterflies, balls, birds. Once they’re tired, they head back to their three-story suites for a snooze. The rooms offer a birds-eye view of the lobby through clear plastic, wide window seats and soft pillows – no metal resembling a cage.

Older cats, or those who like to laze, can get cheaper packages with more sleep time, fewer activities and a premium bed. But everyone gets maid service and daily brushing.

Morris Animal Inn isn’t the only

hotel doling out kitty amenities.

The Pawington in South San Francisco is a 23,000-square-foot dog and cat day-care and boarding center.

Suites, much like Morris’, come in packages or ala carte. Priced at $45 to $65, they include separate ventilation systems and hideaway dens for peaceful rest.

At Whiskers Luxury Cat Boarding in Georgetown, Texas, every suite has a 7-foot tree topped with a kitty skybox.

The owners even promise a family of finches for cats to watch. Suites range from $25 to $80 a night, depending on amenities.

The cat-comfort craze even has moved into veterinarians’ offices, with

a push for feline-friendly, dog-free facilities where cats are handled more gently and get calming pheromones, said Raelynn Farnsworth, a professor at Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

For Muller, she wonders if her cats realize all the ways they’re pampered at luxury kitty camp. It wasn’t long ago that Boris and Anastasia stayed in a cage at the vet’s office when she and her husband left town.

When the Mullers heard about the attention Morris Animal Inn gave cats, they signed up their pets for every amenity.

“It was like opening the door to paradise,” Shannon Muller said.

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SPRING 2016 PLANT SALE – FLOWERS & VEGGIES, March 13, St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, 530 W. Jackson St., Woodstock.

St. Final day to fill out an order form and put in Howard McCarthy’s mailbox at St. Ann’s with payment. Make checks payable to St. Ann’s Episcopal Church. Pick-up will be 4 to 7 p.m. May 20 and 8 to 10 a.m.

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BUS TRIP TO CHICAGO FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

March 15, departing Senior Services Associates Inc., 3519 N. Richmond Road, Johnsburg.

Trip includes transportation, show and lunch cruise aboard the Spirit of Chicago. Cost: $75 members, $80 nonmembers. Information: 815-344-3555 or www.senorservicesassociates.org.

HISTORY OF WESTERN GARDENS BY MASTER GARDENER SUSAN LANGWORTHY, 2 to 3 p.m. March 20, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock.

A chronological walk through the history of western gardens, beginning with ancient Roman gardens and ending with observations on the future direction of gardening.

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DIY FAIRY GARDENS WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. March 15 WHERE: Wauconda Area Library, 801 N. Main St., Wauconda.

COST & INFO: Heather Moister from the Barn Nursery in Crystal Lake will help you make a potted fairy garden. Supplies include a container, stone path, three plants and a figurine. Additional materials will be available to buy. Cost: $25 a person. Registration required. Information: 847-526-6225 or tsuda@wauclib.org. stock/lib/eventsignup.asp?id=4002.

CLASS ON SUSTAINABILITY, ORGANIC,

PERMACULTURE: SORTING THEM ALL OUT, 7 to 9 p.m. March 24, McHenry County

Extension office, 1102 McConnell Road, Woodstock. Join Rich Tobiasz, a University of Illinois Extension master gardener, as he explores the connection between sustainability and organic foods and explains the permaculture movement. Tobiasz is the Spring Grove fire chief by day and a master gardener, master composter, master preserver and educator by night. He lives with his wife on a sustainable organic farm in Spring Grove. Cost: $5. To register, visit https://web.extension.illinois.edu/registratio n/?registrationid=13915. Information: Brenda Dahlfors, 815-338-3737 or dahlfors@illinois. edu.

GARDENFEST 2016, 7:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. April 9, McHenry County College, 8900 U.S. Route 14, in Crystal Lake. Registration ongoing through March 29. Sponsored by McHenry County College and University of Illinois Extension McHenry County Master Gardeners. The keynote speaker will be nationally renowned author Kerry Ann Mendez. More than 30 breakout sessions will be offered on topics including permaculture basics, creating terrariums, cooking with herbs, dragonflies, vegetable gardening, new plants for 2016, garden design and more. Lunch is included. Dozens of exhibitors also will be on site selling garden-related products and offering demonstrations. Cost: $45. Information: http://mchenry.edu/gardenfest, conferencecenter@mchenry.edu or 815-455-8764.

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By JENNIFER FORKER The Associated Press

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Amanda Brown updated this chair for a tutorial, “Upholstery Basics: Picture Perfect Backs,” for the design blog Design*Sponge.

Amanda Brown encourages creative types who are looking to upgrade their furniture to think outside the box – big-box retailers, that is.

“I’m not the same person as 1,000 other people with the same sofa, so why should my furniture be?” said the furniture upholsterer and owner of Spruce, an Austin, Texas, furniture-redesign studio.

She sees potential in outdated, neglected furniture. But before reupholstering a family heirloom, she said, learn the basics of the craft with an inexpensive thrift-store find. A smaller, less time-intensive piece such as an armchair is a great place to begin.

“Most people start with something they have – a sofa or something – and that’s a good way to get overwhelmed,” Brown said. She describes how to refinish a Louis XVI chair among other projects in

her book, “Spruce: A Step-by-step Gide to Upholstery and Design” (Storey, 2013).

Eddie Ross, East Coast editor and producer of home design for Better Homes and Gardens magazine, recommends novices start even simpler: Make a window cornice or reupholster a small seat back, using only a staple gun, foam batting and fabric.

Better Homes has an online reupholstery project, “How to Reupholster a Chair,” that offers quick results. (www.bhg.com/decorating/ do-it-yourself/fabric-paper-projects/diy-chairupholstery-guide) What furniture is worth a redo?

Usually, it’s any new or old piece made with wood rather than particleboard or melamine. Brown suggests picking up the end of a chair or sofa to gauge its weight. Hefty is good. Check the armrests and legs: Are they sturdy or do they wiggle? Woodworking repairs can be costly and difficult. Brown also suggests hunting for the dirtiest, ugliest furniture at garage sales and flea markets.

“If the piece looks dirty or the padding is sunken in, those are the things people stay away from and those are the things I look for. I want it as ugly as possible so I get the best price,” said Brown, adding, “it just makes for a much more satisfying ‘before’ and ‘after.’ ”

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Bill & Vel Dysart of Crystal Lake celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary with a family dinner, hosted by their children. As well as the family dinner, each child is sending them 10 cards, with the granddaughter sending 5, so they’ll come home from a week’s vacation to 65 anniversary cards.

Velma Plumb married Wilson Dysart on March 16, 1951 at Vel’s home in Dixon, Illinois.

They first lived near Purdue University in Indiana. Bill was employed by Union Oil of California. Vel was employed by Prairie Grove School as a Remedial Reading Teacher. Vel and Bill enjoy spending time with Square Dancing,AAUW, Barbershop, McHenry Historical Museum, Habitats for Humanity and Christian Science Church, Their children are, Jennifer (Kenneth) Balla of Pasadena, MD, Nan (Bill) Luby of Deerfield, IL, Amy (Ray) Beth of Woodstock, IL, Bart (Kat) Dysart of Dallas, TX, Heather (Mark) Monson of Madison, WI and Lissa Dysart of Oak Park, IL. They have one granddaughter, Beth Luby of Madison, WI.

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By LEANNE ITALIE The Associated Press NEW YORK – Barbie has her own color (pink). So does Tiffany (blue), Gap (also blue), Coach (brown) and even the roly poly Minions (yellow), but rare is the individual who cares deeply enough about a shade to have one custom made.

At the Pantone Color Institute, the privilege doesn’t come cheap. It can cost tens of thousands of dollars for the company to come up with just the right one. So why would an actual person, rather than a business, even bother? Only two, at least in the Pantone client books, actually have.

Jay Z was the first, back in 2007.

He introduced his “Jay Z” pearly blue – mixed with platinum dust – on a limited edition GM Yukon Denali later that year in Detroit. The head of a marketing firm he was working with brought along a piece of the hip hop mogul’s motorcycle as a guide when meeting with Pantone.

Blue (daughter Blue Ivy, blue jewels, blue jackets, the Blueprint albums) had been a favorite but his Pantone color code name is confidential, said Laurie Pressman, a Pantone vice president.

Who else has the color honor with

Jay Z? Her name is Sherry Chris, president and chief executive of a New Jersey real estate firm, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate. She used a scarf at Pantone for her bright pink in 2011 and Chris couldn’t be prouder of her color card: SC2011.

So what do they get besides a card and a code? They get formulas. How many and for what uses depends on what they want to do. Consistency over different fabrications, from paper stock for stationery to fabrics for fashion to paint to metal, is key.

“Both of them were very clear on what they wanted in their signature shades,” Pressman said. “When somebody comes with a very clear idea of what they’re looking for, that shade definitely has meaning for them.”

Pantone has a vast color wheel, but you can forget finding “Jay Z Blue” or SC2011 in any swatch or Pantone color guide available for public consumption.

“Some people are really strict about that to the point where we’re not even allowed to share that we work with them on the development of that color,” she said.

But Pressman has plenty of ways to describe Jay’s blue, a combination of sky and cobalt.

“I would describe that shade as a

Phenomenal Quartz

mesmerizing blue. There’s a pearlescent quality to that blue. There’s a magnetic quality to that blue. It’s a happy blue. It’s an optimistic blue,” she said. “It was pretty smooth sailing with Jay Z.” Pantone has existed in its present form since 1963. Creating custom color has been a service since the beginning, but sometimes the work is about helping a brand maintain color integrity.

Tiffany & Co., for instance, went to Pantone in 2001 for help with its trademark robin egg blue across media, materials and fabrications. It’s been the company’s signature since founder Charles Lewis Tiffany used it for the cover of its Blue Book, first published in 1845.

Mixing custom color isn’t always easy. Depending on the intended material, a color may be difficult to achieve and stay true to the precise shade. And some dyestuff and pigments no longer are considered environmentally safe so can’t be used.

“We’re not allowed to use any ingredients that are toxic,” Pressman said. “There was a time when we really had to move away from the neons because they weren’t good for the environment.”

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Sherry Chris, president and chief executive of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, sits in an office chair made in her signature pink in Madison, N.J. said she’s always been a hot pink person and that’s just what she got with SC2011, a vibrant hue with violet undertones.

“I wear a pop of pink every day. At first I thought, ‘Well, do I really need this?’ Of course there are many things that you don’t need. It’s kind of a cool,” she said. “Just me and Jay Z.”

Gem Talk

When thinking about quartz, the first thing that comes to mind is amethyst, rose quartz or citrine. But did you know that quartz also has some phenomenal varieties that are not as well known? Today I will discuss drusy, rutilated and aventurine quartz.

Drusy Quartz: Essentially a geode that has been carved to wear in a piece of jewelry, drusy quartz is a stone that has tiny quartz crystals that have formed on top of a host rock (usually quartz or chalcedony). Drusies form when ground water forces dissolved silica crystals into the porous areas of an already formed rock. Rapid cooling occurs which causes the formation of tiny quartz crystals. The crystals look like tiny bits of salt or sugar covering the surface of the host rock. Drusy is believed to be associated with peace, tranquility, patience, intuition, unconditional love and even aid in the relief of ulcers and arthritis.

Rutilated Quartz: Also known in the gemology world as sagenitic quartz, rutilated quartz is a colorless piece of rock crystal quartz that is filled with beautiful rutile inclusions. The rutile needles are often large and beautiful and in unusual shapes and textures contributing to the beauty and allure of the gemstone. The rutile needles can be reddish, golden, greenish, silvery or grey with golden as the most popular. There are not many historical records concerning rutilated quartz, but a few documents have dated it back to early Roman and Greek times. It has also been recorded that French doctors used to prescribe it to cure bronchitis.

Aventurine Quartz: Generally green in color, aventurine quartz is a clear piece of rock crystal that is heavily included with mica inclusions that, not only make the stone appear green, but also gives it a metallic sheen called Aventurescence. The phenomenon of Aventurescence ranges in intensity from weak to intense. This depends on the amount and size of the metallic inclusions. Aventurine is known to be a stone of luck. It is known to ease anxiety and emotion and it will help one to make choices from the heart.

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Pride kills more alcoholics than alcohol “Marie” spent her early childhood in Puerto Rico. Her dad died of alcoholism in his early 40s, when Marie was 7 years old, and her mom had abandoned the family many years before. She and her sister were sent to New Jersey to live with an aunt.

Marie was a beautiful, lively, creative child, and even with minimal supervision did well in school. Her sister was trouble from the start and tragically was killed in a car accident several years later. Marie was on her own.

She loved to draw and paint, and before long, her paintings were being noticed by teachers and peers.

Her high school years were filled with friends and what had become her love and identity – her art.

Shortly after high school, she began to sell some paintings and hang out at galleries with much older, suc-

cessful artists and art dealers. She had never been much for drinking or drugs, but the social scene offered it, and Marie accepted. Although she had seen her dad die from drinking, she naively thought it wouldn’t happen to her. She had no knowledge of the power and genetic mobility of alcoholism.

Within a year, Marie had lost her passion for art and replaced it with a passion for liquor and cocaine. She was a regular at nightclubs, where her drinks often were free and the cocaine was easy to come by. Her morals basically needed to collapse to maintain the lifestyle, but she was oblivious, she says, until the day her roommate tricked her into going to AA. Home one morning with a crushing headache and a hangover of epic proportions, she was out of booze,

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out of money and, she thought, out of luck. Her roommate asked her if she ever had thought about stopping drinking, and Marie, in that moment, was ready to give it a try. Her roommate had been sober and active in AA for three years, and without telling her where they were going, took her down the street to the first meeting they could find.

Marie was in shock. There were people of all kinds from all walks of life, and they were friendly. They made some suggestions, and they treated her with respect. She found herself liking them, feeling like she fit someplace for the first time in a long time.

She didn’t stay sober the first time, and she didn’t stay sober the second time, but she kept the words of one of her old AA buddies in mind. He had told her pride kills

more alcoholics than alcohol, so never be too prideful to come back.

Marie remembered that, and even though she sometimes came to meetings still smelling of booze from the night before, she came back.

She kept coming back because she saw people change. She saw lives get better, and even though she didn’t have much hope for herself, she borrowed enough to get by until she could generate enough of her own.

Marie is an internationally known painter and has been sober more than 20 years.

• Rick Atwater is a licensed clinical professional counselor. He hosts the weekly radio show Straight Stuff on Addictions at recoveryinternetradio.com. He can reached by email at rickatwater@northwestcommunitycounseling.com.

Philip and Cheryl Leyden

50th Anniversary

Philip and Cheryl Leyden of Harvard, will celebrate their wedding anniversary March 26, 2016.

Cheryl Lynn Noe married Philip John Leyden, March 26, 1966 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Harvard, Illinois. They first lived in Jacksonville Florida. He is employed

by Swanson Martin Bell in Chicago, as a Private Investigator. She was employed by Butcher Boy Refrigerator Door Co. in Harvard, Illinois. as a Financial Dept. Manager.

Phil and Cheryl enjoy taking short or sometimes long trips together on their motorcycle or convertible Miata. Phil is still an avid hunter and loves flying planes on his computer; Cheryl adores watching the Blackhawks, doing crossword puzzles, and playing solitaire. They love spending time with their friends and family.

Their children are, Shannan (Leyden) LaRoche (Joseph LaRoche), Tracy (Leyden) Boldog (Jeffrey Boldog), and Michael Leyden (Joelle Ulmer Leyden). They have 8 grandchildren.

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EVENTS 8 LITERARY To have your event listed in this calendar, fill out the form at PlanitNorthwest.com.

AN AFTERNOON OF LENTEN MUSIC AND READINGS, 3:30 p.m. March 13, Grace Lutheran Church, 1300 Kishwaukee Valley Road, Woodstock. Presented by the adult choirs of Grace and St. Mary, with choir anthems and words inspired by scripture and hymns. A free-will offering will be taken to support the Woodstock Area Community Ministries. Free. Information: 815-338-0554 or www.gracewoodstock.org.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. SEUSS!, through March 15, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry. Vote for your favorite Dr. Seuss book and get a Dr. Seuss prize. For children in preschool through fifth-grade. Information: 815-385-0036 or mplyps@mchenrylibrary.org.

MEET AUTHOR AARON REYNOLDS, 1 p.m. March 13, Read Between the Lynes, 111 Van Buren St, Woodstock. Squid knows all about being president. It means living in a big house, doing all the talking – oh, and having a tie is crucial. In the next election, make a more informed choice. Vote for “President Squid!” Free. Information: 815-206-5967, arlene@readbetweenthelynes.com or www. readbetweenthelynes.com/event/aaronreynolds-introduces-president-squid.

BABYTIME, 9:30 to 10 a.m. March 14, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock St., Crystal Lake. For children from birth to

17 months old, accompanied by a parent or adult caregiver. Information: http:// evanced.crystallakelibrary.org/evanced/lib/ eventsignup.asp?ID=15036.

BIRTH TO 5 STORYTIME, 10:30 to 11 a.m.

March 14, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock St., Crystal Lake. For children from birth to age 5 years accompanied by an adult. Information: http://evanced.crystallakelibrary.org/evanced/lib/eventsignup. asp?id=15040.

CONTEMPORARY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP, 7 to 8:30 p.m. March 14, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry. Read and discuss “The Husband’s Secret” by Liane Moriarty. Copies are available at the checkout desk. Information: 815-385-0036 or mplref@mchenrylibrary.org.

CUENTOS EN ESPAÑOL, 6:30 to 7 p.m.

March 14, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Families who speak or are learning to speak Spanish can enjoy stories, crafts and songs at aSpanish-language storytime. This program is conducted entirely in Spanish. Information: https:// il.evanced.info/woodstock/lib/eventsignup. asp?id=3926.

TODDLERTIME, 9:30 to 10 a.m. March 14, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock St., Crystal Lake. Storytime for children from age 18-35 months, accompanied by an adult. Information: http://evanced.crystallakelibrary. org/evanced/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=15032.

3- AND 4-YEAR-OLD STORYTIME, 9:30 to

10 a.m. March 15, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock St., Crystal Lake. For children ages 3 and 4 years old. Information: http:// evanced.crystallakelibrary.org/evanced/lib/ eventsignup.asp?id=15048.

AUTHOR EVENT, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

March 15, McHenry County College, Room B166, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Huntley resident Peter J. Aterberg will read from his recently published thriller, “Dragon Heart.”

Books will be available to buy and for signing.

BIRTH TO AGE 3 STORYTIME, 10:30 to 11 a.m. March 15, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock St., Crystal Lake. For children from birth to age 3 accompanied by an adult. Information: http://evanced.crystallakelibrary.org/evanced/lib/eventsignup. asp?ID=15052.

BOOKS AND BABIES STORYTIME, 10:30 to 11 a.m. March 15, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Babies and caregivers will share books, songs, activities and playtime during each lap-sit program. Information: https://il.evanced.info/ woodstock/lib/eventsignup.asp?id=3896.

TERRIFIC TALES FOR 2s AND 3s, 9:30 to 10 a.m. March 15, Algonquin Area Public LIbrary District – Harnish Main Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin. Children 2 and 3 years old and their caregiver invited to enjoy stories and fingerplays. Registration required. Free. Information: 847-458-3139, aparmele@aapld.org or www.aapld.org/do.

4 YEARS-KINDERGARTEN STORYTIME, 11 to 11:30 a.m. March 16, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Stories, dancing and crafts. Younger siblings are welcome if caregivers are present. Information: https://il.evanced.info/woodstock/lib/ eventsignup.asp?id=3916.

ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION, 9:30 to 11 a.m. March 16, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock St., Crystal Lake. “Shotgun Lovesongs” by Nickolas Butler. Four boyhood friends are reminded of the depths of their love and friendship when they are reunited for a wedding. Information: http://evanced. crystallakelibrary.org/evanced/lib/eventsignup.asp?id=10613.

DROP-IN FAMILY STORYTIME, 7 to 7:30 p.m. March 16, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock St., Crystal Lake. For children from birth to age 5, accompanied by an adult. Information: http://evanced.crystallakelibrary.org/evanced/lib/eventsignup. asp?id=15072.

FRIENDS OF CRYSTAL LAKE LIBRARY USED BOOK SALE COLLECTION, 5 to 8 p.m.

March 16, Crystal Lake Plaza, 6500 Northwest Highway, Unit 15, Crystal Lake. Items accepted include adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction books, CDs and DVDs. Information: raneestrawn@sbcglobal.net, http:// evanced.crystallakelibrary.org/evanced/lib/ eventsignup.asp?id=15983.

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Orthopedic Update

by Geoffrey Van Thiel, MD Wheeling and Dealing The good news is that increasing numbers of individuals have taken up bicycling for the beneficial effects it has on body and spirit. However, this intensified interest has also come with a downside in that bicyclerelated injuries have dramatically increased since 1998. This is especially true of cyclists over the age of 45,who accounted for 23 percent of reported injuries in 1998 and now account 42 percent all bicycle-related injuries. In addition, approximately two-thirds of cycling injuries requiring hospitalization currently involve people over the age of 45. With this in mind, cyclists should be sure to outfit themselves with the proper gear and be mindful of dangers posed by motorists and rough roads.

The most common area for injuries in cyclists is the knee, from possible overuse, trauma and the cycling position. Whether you are a weekend warrior or the member of a biking club, accidents and injuries can happen. Fortunately, the specialty-trained sports medicine team at ORTHOILLINOIS is dedicated to getting you back to the activities you love as quickly as possible. To schedule an appointment, please call 815-398-9491 to discuss your treatment options. We are located at 750 E. Terra Cotta in Crystal Lake and 12519 Regency Parkway in Huntley. www.orthoillinois.com

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CREATIVE LIVING SERIES WITH PHIL PONCE WHEN: 10 a.m. March 17 WHERE: Woodstock Opera House, 121 W. Van Buren St., Woodstock.

COST & INFO: The host of “Chicago Tonight,” Ponce is an award-winning journalist who has participated in presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial and mayoral debates as either moderator or panelist. Sharing insights into being a member of what has been named one of the city’s power families, Ponce tells the tale of a career that has spanned law, acting and anchoring WTTW11’s flagship show. Coffee and conversation precedes event at 9 a.m.

Tickets: $24. Information: www.woodstockoperahouse.com. p.m. March 17, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. The library’s longest running book club meets the third Thursday of each month. Group members read two or three mysteries on a certain theme each

month. No registration required. Information: https://il.evanced.info/woodstock/lib/eventsignup.asp?id=3977.

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PRESCHOOL STORYTIME, 10:30 to 11 a.m. March 16, Algonquin Area Public Library District – Harnish Main Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin. Children ages 3 to 5 who can attend without a parent/caregiver are invited to enjoy stories and fingerplays. Registration required. Free. Information: 847-458-3139, aparmele@aapld.org or www.aapld.org/do.

SPRING BOOK BUZZ AT CARY LIBRARY, 7 p.m. March 16, Cary Public Library, 1606 Three Oaks Road, Cary. Robert Haddock, a Penguin Random House representative, will feature books that will be released this spring.

Attendees will receive goodie bags, and there will be door prizes. Register online at www. carylibrary.info, by phone during regular hours at 847-639-4210 or in person. Information: http://business.carygrovechamber.com/ events/details/spring-book-buzz-at-carylibrary-6582.

STORYTIME AT PANERA BREAD, 10 to 10:30 a.m. March 16, Panera Bread, 1711 N. Richmond Road, McHenry. Listen to stories, songs and fingerplays with milk and cookies.

For ages 3 to 6 with an adult. Free. Information: 815-385-0036 or mplyps@mchenrylibrary.org.

4 AND OLDER STORYTIME, 9:30 to 10 a.m. March 17, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock St., Crystal Lake. For children ages 4 and older. Information: http://evanced.crystallakelibrary.org/evanced/lib/eventsignup. asp?id=15080.

MURDER & MAYHEM BOOK CLUB, 7 to 8

Library District – Harnish Main Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin. Babies 23 months and younger with an adult are invited to join a traditional lap-sit storytime followed by playtime. No older siblings please. Free. No registration required. Information: 847-4583139, aparmele@aapld.org or www.aapld. org/do.

HUNTLEY AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION MEETING, 11 a.m. to noon March 18, Huntley Area Public Library, 11000 Ruth Road, Huntley. Learn how to support the library through volunteering and fundraising. Information: www.huntleylibraryfriends.org.

BARK FOR BOOKS, 10 to 11:30 a.m. March 19, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Read to a dog. They are great listeners and they can listen in any language. Sign up at the Children’s Desk starting at 9 a.m. Information: https:// il.evanced.info/woodstock/lib/eventsignup. asp?id=3946.

WINTER STORIES AT THE FARMER S MARKET, noon to 1 p.m. March 19, McHenry County Fairgrounds Building D. Market Miss Mary will be back at the farmers market with Sherbert the puppet to tell some stories. Information: https://il.evanced.info/woodstock/ lib/eventsignup.asp?id=3540.

LAST DAY TO TURN IN POEMS FOR POETRY: IMAGINE, WRITE AND WIN, 1 p.m.

March 20, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock St., Crystal Lake. Information: http:// evanced.crystallakelibrary.org/evanced/lib/ eventsignup.asp?id=15651.

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Author Spotlight

“LEO AND ME” RELEASE: Dec. 31, 2015 ABOUT: A relationship drama and historical fiction about the changing relationship between a man and his granddaughter.

MORE BY JOSEPH COOLS: “Near Miss,” “The Building Killer,” “ ‘Murder’ in Quotes: The Birthday Bash: Murder on Kauai; “The Sins of the Sons”; “The Haole Murders”; and “The Bridge Club.” In addition, I wrote a children’s book, “Chocolate Moose and the Antarctic Adventure,” as well as a book of short stories, “The Crow and other Tales of Murder, Mayhem and Madness.”

JOSEPH COOLS Hometown: Woodstock Latest Book: “Leo and Me” Publisher: www.createspace.com Release Date: Dec. 31, 2015 Where can we find it?

Createspace.com, Amazon, Kindle, and selected libraries and bookstores What’s it about?

Leo Aristopolous grew up during the almost unimaginable horror of the Nazi occupation of Crete during the Second World War and the Greek civil war that followed the defeat of the German army. Now, at age 84, a retired professor at the University of Illinois, he carries the scars in his mind and his soul of the years of torment, betrayal and murder he was forced to endure. His tortured memories may be the cause of his hallucinations, which have surfaced in his old age. Panicked during the latest hallucination, he makes his fifth 911 call to report the emergency. When the resulting massive response from first responders fails to identify any real threat, an ambitious state’s attorney sees an opportunity to further his career by petitioning the court to institutionalize the retired history professor, leaping at the chance to grab headlines for himself. He vows to protect the interests of the citizens who have been put into danger by diverting emergency response to imagined threats.

Leo’s 24 year-old granddaughter, Kathryn, has a lifetime of unconditional love from Leo and has promised to take care of him when he is unable to care for himself. Although she is able to enlist the aid of two gifted attorneys, Leo refuses to believe his perceptions are hallucinations. The story follows the efforts of Leo, Kathryn and the two attorneys as they try to save Leo from a fate that, for him, is worse than anything he has endured in the past.

Where did the idea come from?

The idea happened over a period of time.

The process began with an idea as I watched an amazing person, my youngest granddaughter, grow physically (she was 3 pounds at birth) and developmentally. The process began with an idea outlined above as I watched my granddaughter, grow from a neonatal preemie into a precocious toddler. I was struck with how rapidly she changed week by week. As is usual in all of my books, there came a point at which I thought, ‘What if?’ In this case, I asked, “What if I wrote a fictional

story of an aging grandfather and his changing relationship with his granddaughter?”

Who is the intended audience?

The book is intended for adult readers who enjoy stories of the complexity of relationships. The plot carries the reader into real events of history. The story utilizes humor as it follows the lives of the grandchild and her Papa as they struggle with their own issues, while trying to maintain their love and support for each other, as their roles make the drastic change from “cared for” to “caring for.”

Why is this story important to you?

I have always been fascinated by the process of forming and maintaining relationships in the midst of changing roles, personal issues and the adversities that every person must face throughout life. Some people succeed, some fail, to maintain some relationships, but all people have a basic need for love and forgiveness. It is at the core of human relationships. When that fails, chaos ensues.

How long did it take you to write?

What was your process?

This book took about one year from the birth of the idea until I typed “The End.” What did you enjoy most about writing this book? What was the hardest part?

I very much enjoyed the process of unfolding the plot of the story as the characters relate to each other in ever-changing circumstances.

I tried to utilize humor throughout the story – to relieve tension, and because it was fun to play with lighter aspects of daily encounters.

The most difficult part was writing about the tragedies in the lives of the characters. I tend to become very attached to the characters and the crises I create for them, making for some difficult times maintaining my composure, particularly since much of the story was written on my daily three-hour train commute.

More than one time I have seen puzzled looks from fellow commuters.

How are you publishing this book and why (traditional/indie/self-publishing)?

I chose to self-publish this and my other nine books. I tried to contact literary agents after I wrote my first novel more than 10 years ago, but found the process tedious and frustrating.

Self-publishing allows me to retain all rights, including how much to charge, cover design

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and distribution.

What is your education/background?

I have an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois with majors in wildlife management and English literature. I have a master’s degree in rehabilitation psychology from DePaul University and a Ph.D. in neuropsychology from The Chicago Medical School.

How/why did you decide to write a book?

I have always worked in fields that require a great deal of writing. I enjoy reading fine literature, popular fiction, and poetry, and it seemed to be a natural step to create my own worlds to the best of my ability.

Who are your favorite authors?

The first adult-type book I ever read was “The Sands of Mars,” by Arthur C. Clarke, when I was 12 years old. I was hooked on

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reading from that time until the present. My favorite authors: Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis, Herman Melville, Emile Zola, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Tom Clancy, Stephen King and Greg Iles.

Pick one: Ebooks or hard/paperbacks?

I love eBooks for convenience and price, but I love the feel of reading a book held in my hands, turning down a a corner of a page and keeping the best ones on my bookshelf. Real books are my choice.

What’s next for you?

I have a glimmer of an idea about a reluctant police detective who hates violence. He cannot explain to his partner why he ever chose to go into police work, although he never ceases trying. Meanwhile, he continues to operate as an investigator, albeit with a great deal of discomfort. I’m not sure if the idea will be realized as an actual book.

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hat would you do if you knew you could look better, feel healthier and have a better memory in one easy step?

Sounds a little like an infomercial pitch for a liquid miracle cure available in three easy payments, plus shipping and handling.

Finding that magic elixir is so much easier than picking up a phone and calling. All you have to do is go to sleep.

Missing out on high-quality shut-eye makes us irritable and causes us to perform worse at work and school. Insufficient sleep is associated with numerous chronic diseases and conditions,

Story by CHRIS MORDI – editorial@nwherald.com such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and depression.

With daylight saving time requiring us to move the clocks ahead one hour Sunday morning – at 2 a.m. precisely – it’s time to start thinking about getting a better handle on sleep.

According to area doctors who specialize in sleep disorders and a recent national survey, a large percentage of us aren’t getting the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep a night.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report revealed more than a third of American adults are not getting enough sleep regularly.

Cheating sleep

Despite all of the evidence and warnings, we still try to cheat sleep.

“During the day, our brain is a computer that is running thoughts and daily functions,” said Dr. Firas Dairi of the Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine Clinic in Algonquin.

“It is working very hard. Sleep is the only time to put it to rest.

The computer needs to rest and recharge.”

Dairi said he has seen an increase in the past five years of people coming to him with sleep problems.

“A high percentage of people

are not getting the proper amount of sleep,” he said.

Some of the blame can be placed on our always-on way of living.

Some is attributed to stress at work.

And some can be traced to the electronic gadgets that have permeated our lives.

“The light [gadgets] emit is in the daylight range. It interferes with the circadian rhythm. The brain thinks it is time to be awake.

This wreaks havoc in teens and younger kids,” said Dr. Gene Sherman of Northwest Dental Sleep Medicine in Algonquin.

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Dr. Firas Dairi (left) meets with Ruthie Porter of Elgin March 9 at the Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine Clinic in Algonquin.

“A high percentage of people are not getting the proper amount of sleep,” Dairi said.

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“Nobody goes to bed and sleeps any more. They are on the laptop, tablet, or they are on their phone, watching TV or texting. That is probably having a significant negative impact on sleep.”

Dr. Rajesh Balagani of the Mercy Harvard Sleep Disorders Clinic in Harvard

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Continued from page 11 The circadian rhythm is a 24-hour cycle that tells our bodies when to sleep and regulates many other physiological processes.

This internal body clock is affected by environmental cues, such as sunlight and temperature, according to Psychologytoday.com.

“Kids and teenagers get into circadian rhythm disorders,” Dairi said. “They go to school early, stay in school till 4 or 5 [in the afternoon], participate in after-school activities. Some may have to work, then do homework.”

He said this results in the brain telling the body to push back the waking hour. So when kids wake up and they don’t get the right amount of sleep, they are not going to function well in school.

“Nobody goes to bed and sleeps any more,” said Dr. Rajesh Balagani of the Mercy Harvard Sleep Disorders Clinic in Harvard. “They are on the laptop, tablet, or they are on their phone, watching TV or texting.

That is probably having a significant negative impact on sleep.”

Bore your mind to sleep

To get serious about real and restful sleep, each doctor offers advice that might be difficult to take, but pays off in big dividends.

Balagani said most sleep physicians and societies look at prescription medicines as a crutch for a short time.

“It’s not something we like using on a long-term basis. The biggest thing that is going to help is changing habits,” he said.

Each doctor said people need to start practicing sleep hygiene, or habits and practices conducive to

sleeping well on a regular basis.

“Unfortunately, and nobody is going to like this, but first and foremost, most times you want your electronics or anything stimulating turned off for about an hour before going to sleep. That’s a big plus,” Balagani said.

Dairi said the bed should be a place reserved only for sleep.

For adults, “The bed is to be used for sleep and sex,” he said.

It is not a place to indulge in food, long conversations or entertainment, he said.

Dairi also said people need to stop eating or drinking anything with caffeine six to seven hours before going to bed.

“Caffeine has a long half-life, and it disrupts sleep. That means anywhere caffeine can be found – even in pop,” he said.

Address daily stressors before going to bed by writing them down.

“Once you go to bed, you’re actually thinking, ‘You know what, I don’t have to think about these things because I’ve already made a list,’ ” Balagani said.

Balagani offered a new take on the old-fashioned counting sheep.

“Instead of counting sheep, we have [patients] engage their muscles. Something we do is called progressive muscle relaxation,” he said.

He tells patients to go from head to toe, thinking about particular body parts and concentrating on contracting and relaxing the muscles.

“It bores your mind to sleep,” Balagani said.

Sherman advises staying off your back while sleeping.

“Train your brain to sleep on your side or stomach by sticking tennis balls in a sock and attaching them to your back,” he said.

A lobsterman boats at sunrise in Kennebunkport, Maine. Some corners of the country are proposing bold alternatives to daylight saving time.

AP photo

Change daylight saving time? It could happen Some lawmakers around the United States are proposing alternatives to daylight saving time, which starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November to make more of the northern hemisphere’s evening sunlight. As we brace ourselves to lose an hour of sleep this weekend, here is what we know: Who started this? America followed Germany’s effort to conserve electricity, establishing both time zones and daylight saving time in 1918. U.S. retailers loved the expanded shopping “Fast Time” enabled, but farmer opposition led to its repeal in 1919. “War Time” returned during World War II, but states and cities chose their own time thereafter until the Uniform Time Act of 1966.

What’s the alternative? Some

California lawmakers would have voters decide whether to abolish DST. Lawmakers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island would shift their states from Eastern to Atlantic time.

Lawmakers in Alaska, Florida, Kansas, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and Wyoming also recently considered changes to DST. Can states do this? States can exempt themselves from DST – Hawaii and Arizona already do – but changing time zones requires federal approval.

Texas House members seemed likely to end DST until they realized this could force Texans to choose between attending church and watching out-of-state football.

– The Associated Press

Tips to promote good sleep • Maintain a regular sleep routine.

Go to bed at the same time. Wake up at the same time. Ideally, your schedule will remain the same every night of the week.

• Avoid naps if possible. When we take naps, it decreases the amount of sleep we need the next night, which may cause sleep fragmentation and difficulty initiating sleep, and may lead to insomnia.

• Don’t stay in bed awake for more than 5 to 10 minutes. If you find your mind racing or worrying about not being able to sleep during the middle of the night, get out of bed and sit in a chair in the dark. Do your mind-racing in the chair until you are sleepy, then return to bed. No TV or Internet during these periods. That just will stimulate you more than desired.

• Exercise regularly. Exercise before 2 p.m. every day. Exercise promotes continuous sleep.

• Avoid rigorous exercise before bedtime. Rigorous exercise circulates endor-

phins in the body which may cause difficulty initiating sleep.

• Have a quiet, comfortable

bedroom. Set your bedroom thermostat at a comfortable temperature.

Generally, a little cooler is better than a little warmer.

• Turn off the TV and other extraneous noise that may disrupt sleep.

Background ‘white noise,’ such as a fan, is OK. • If your pets awaken you, keep

them outside the bedroom.

• Turn off bright lights. Your bedroom should be dark.

• Have a comfortable mattress.

• If you are a ‘clock watcher’ at

night, hide the clock.

• Have a comfortable pre-bedtime routine. Take a warm bath or shower.

• Meditate or have some kind of quiet time.

Source: American Sleep Association

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Manufacturing fabricator in NW Kane Co. looking for a qualified Manufacturing Tech candidate to join our Engineering Dept.

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Ideal candidate should be experienced in manufacturing processes and possess a CNC machine programming background.

Qualifications for job include min. 3 yrs exp. CNC programming, read and interpret blueprints, knowledge of CNC cutting tools, and understanding of metrology and inspection practices. Must have working knowledge of EdgeCam and Solid Works, Microsoft Office, and AutoCad. Min. education of AS Degree in Mfg. Technology or CAD/CAM cert. Individual should be detail oriented, work well with others, and be able to handle multiple priorities.

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BUSINESS OFFICE MANAGER DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center has full time accounting position available for a

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5-7 years experience required, Bachelors degree desired.

Knowledge of Medicare & Medicaid, must be able to work through the General Ledger process including financial statements. Strong interpersonal skills necessary, as one manages & supervises staff, as well as interacts with general public, county offices & auditors.

Excellent County Retirement benefits (IMRF) Health Insurance Generous paid hours off accrual 9 holidays Apply at:

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Receptionist / Client Services Fast-paced community bank has immediate opening for a detail minded person with excellent customer service skills.

This position includes greeting clients, telephone reception, administrative duties and customer service.

A friendly, flexible person with a positive attitude is desired for this unique opportunity in our Huntley bank.

Applicants should be proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel, and previous banking experience is a plus.

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IMMEDIATE opening at McCann Industries: PT PARTS COUNTER SALES - McHenry Branch FT COUNTER SALES REPRESENTATIVE - Wauconda Branch We are looking for a “Jack-of-all-Trades”! The prime candidate for the Parts Counter Sales Associate must have experience with OEM parts, placing orders, answering questions over the phone and warehousing inventory with an aptitude for servicing customers. The Counter Sales Associate might have a few of these qualities, but a strong focus on Customer Service. Apply online at McCannOnline.com.

Job Fair

For Light Industrial Temp to Hire Positions at Medela Location: Hampton Inn

1555 S Illinois Rte 31, McHenry, IL 60050 Date: March 15, 2016 Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION Installation of brick pavers & retaining walls.

Experience preferred.

Call Campobello Landscape 815-338-3299

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LEAD CARPENTER - REMODELING INDUSTRY

Required skills include window/door installation, interior/exterior trim work, drywall repair, basic electric & plumbing knowledge. Ability to manage & communicate with others, including clients. Must have drivers license & professional appearance. Call 815-893-6201

Customer Service Representative Wanted Landscape / Tree Service Co ★ Woodstock, IL

Full time and Saturdays. Candidate must be professional, energetic, friendly, great on the phone and computer, be able to multi-task and have attention to detail, must possess excellent time management skills & ability to perform expected tasks without supervision. Duties include: greeting customers, answering phones, scheduling, billing & collections & contracts. Please email a brief cover letter outlying how your specific experience meets the outlined requirements and previous work places with salary requirement to: eddieslandscaping@gmail.com

DRIVER CDL – Class B

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MOLD MAKER Chemtech Plastics, Inc., a Thermoplastics Injection Molding Company is seeking an experienced Journeyman Mold Maker. Applicants must be able to evaluate and troubleshoot new and existing molds, & fixtures. Roboform EDM & Huron CNC experience is a plus. Duties include mold repair, insert changeovers & maintenance. We offer excellent benefits package, including a matching 401K plan. EOE Qualified candidates should apply in person or email resume:

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765 Church Road, Elgin, IL 60123

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Office / Warehouse Assistant Part Time - CARY

Small company needs assistant to ship and receive packages, parts ordering and office work. You should: Have some computer skills, drive, work independently and be flexible with hours.

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Metalmaster Roofmaster is a large commercial sheet metal & roofing contractor located in McHenry, IL that is seeking a candidate for an immediate, full time position of entry-level or experienced service estimator. Candidates must have a great attitude, strong dedication to learning and growing within the company. Duties include: printing blueprints, plans and specifications, obtaining material quotes, estimating, searching for leads and possess excellent organizational skills. Must be proficient with Microsoft programs.

Must be able to read blueprints. Familiarity with construction detail knowledge is a plus. We offer a full benefit package that includes 401(K) and health insurance.

Qualified candidates please submit resume to: HR@Metalmaster.us

FABRICATOR / WELDER

Brake, Roller, Shear, Mill, Lathe and TIG Welding S.S. polished sheet metal experience preferred but willing to train. Must have valid D.L. Excellent Benefits.

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The Village of Lakewood, IL (est. pop 3,800) is seeking candidates for a FT Police Officer. The Vlg of Lakewood is primarily a residential community with commercial growth potential.

Applicants must meet: U.S. Citizen Possess valid driver's license State of Illinois certification as a Law Enforcement Officer (or compatible training from another state) High School graduate (or equivalent) with emphasis placed on education, training, experience and military Pass background investigation Starting salary is $48,000 +/- DOQ. Exc benefit pkg. This is an IMRF position.

Send application, resume, and training history by 4pm March 25, 2016 to: Village of Lakewood ATTN: Chief of Police, 2500 Lake Avenue, Village of Lakewood, IL 60014 or police@village.lakewood.il.us. EOE. Complete job description and application available at (http://village.lakewood.il.us)

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Experience with inspection hand tools and ability to read blueprints.

Knowledge of SPC and Control Plans preferred. Bilingual (Spanish) skills a plus. We offer competitive wages and an excellent benefits package. EOE. Please apply in person or email resume to:

HOUSEKEEPING, GOLF CART ATTENDANTS and BUSSERS Openings for the 2016 Golf Season Apply in Person

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Sno Gem, Inc. is a dynamic and fast growing organization centrally located in McHenry, Illinois that sells roofing and sheet metal accessory products throughout the country. This position is for an energetic, aggressive self-starter who is capable of managing heavy inbound/outbound phone contact with existing and prospective clients nationwide. Requirements include excellent organization, computer and phone skills, and the ability to achieve sales goals and quotas.

Occasional travel to tradeshows to promote the product offerings is also required.

Sno Gem, Inc. provides its sales representatives with all of the tools to succeed, as it is partnered with one of the largest commercial sheet metal and roofing contractors in North America for additional support.

The position offers a competitive base salary with commission and unlimited growth potential!

Sno Gem Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and offers a full benefit package that includes 401(k) and health Insurance. Serious Inquiries only.

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Part Time – Flex Hours

Clean comfortable factory work. Will train.

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SALES ASSOCIATE/CASHIER - PT

Pasquesi Home and Gardens located in Barrington.

Call Cindy: 847-381-5511 Email resume to: cap9208@aol.com Apply in Person: Pasquesi Home & Gardens 990 W. NW Hwy. Barrington, IL.

MEDICAL ASSISTANT - certified, bilingual a plus for Harvard Community Health Partnership of Illinois. F/T with great benefits.

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McHenry County ~ Long-Time Elementary School Teacher Seeks a Position as Nanny or FT/PT Sitter References available.

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Wilmot Union High School is looking for a permanent part-time (20 hrs/wk), 2nd shift Custodian. Typical duties include classroom, hallway and restroom cleaning; setup for events; and performing seasonal grounds keeping. The starting wage is $13.22/hr.

Apply online at: services.education.wisc.edu/wecan/ or in person at: Wilmot Union High School, 11112 308th Avenue, Wilmot, WI - Entrance A. Applications will be accepted until the needs of the District are met.

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SIDE TABLE - Cute accent table, plant stand, wooden pedestal, marble top. Very good condition. $35. 815 477-9023

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Hoover wet rug cleaner LS Edition. $50 and (2) Hoover self propelled vacuum cleaner. Good condition. $25 ea.

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MAKE UP VANITY, WHITE WITH MIRROR GOOD CONDITION! $75/FIRM. JANET 815-455-5928 Matching Couch with Love Seat - 4 built in recliners. Fabric light colors.

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847-854-7980

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Couch, $75, Queen Anne Chair, $50, Twin Box Spring & Mattress, $60, Small Chest of Drawers, $15, Vacuum, $15 and 16” Girl's Bike, $15.

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Wheel chair 20” Roscoe Brand, max weight 300# – very good condition $100 815-943-7299

Wheelchair, $75 and a Roller Walker, $25 Both have never been used. 224-433-0133

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LADYBUG TENT, Never Used, Still in Carry Bag, Easy To Assemble. Colorful with a tunnel & side flaps, $25.

SPLASH ART-Clean Portable Fun-Marker set filled with water (New) $10. 815-353-0125

Paper Towels, Scott, C Fold, 5 Cases 4000 Towels per case, $20/ea. 815-701-7369 PLANT STAND- Metal plant stand, bakers rack, 39*H x 24*W x 13*D, folds for easy storage. Excellent. $55. 815 477-9023

Cage for a Parrot 32”Wx23”Dx68”H Incl Playtop Dark grey on wheels, $175.

847-639-8572

CATS (2) 1 YEAR OLD Must go together, twin female.

815-546-2109

PATIO BISTRO SET - All weather wicker, table, 2 chairs, walnut color, sturdy, high quality. Excellent. $250. 815 477-9023

Hawaii (2) Round Trip Airfares, Leave O'Hare, $199/ea.

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American Girl Chicago Cubs Satin Jacket & Matching Chicago Cubs Baseball Cap New In Package, For 18" Doll, $25, 815-739-1953 Lego/Duplo/Tabletop - Has a Lego/Duplo blocks table top for building, can also use as a drawing/art/misc.. table, comes w/ two chairs, made by Tot Tutors, shape of a square & in good condition, $40. 815-739-1953.

SCHOOL BUS TOTE - Designed just like a yellow school bus! Carrying handle, zipper closure. Adorable, NEW, never used. $15. 815 477-9023 Powered by:

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1998 Chrysler Town & Country LXI. McHenry. Leather interior, loaded, clean inside and out. $4,000 OBO. Call Bob at 815-353-1231

1999 Buick LeSabre. Crystal Lake. $900.

Antique and Modern Guns It will get you where you need to go. Call 815-455-5458 DOG CRATE - Extra large. Made by Remington. 36" long x 30" high x 25" Old Lever Actions, Winchesters, Marlins, Savages, etc. Old Pistols wide. Can text pictures if wanted. $40. 815-307-4177 and Revolvers. Cash for Collection. FFL License. 815-338-4731 2003 Honda Accord - Needs work. $500 or best offer. 331-442-1819

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2001 Dodge Durango SLT, Newer Tires

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Ceiling Fan, Duel Pane Windows, 16' Patio Awning, 12' Slide-out Awning.

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MOTORCYCLES WANTED

New battery, 145K miles, 4WD, 1 owner, accident free. Some rust damage, $2,350 815-459-3236

Woodstock Studio $600/mo + sec. Efficiency

$575/mo + sec, 1BR $700/mo + sec. All 3 furnished with all utilities included, no pets.

815-509-5876

Harvard 1BR, 1BA, Full Basement, Hardwood Floors

1 car gar, storage, $595/mo, Agent Owned. 815-814-3700

2003 Nissan Frontier SE, V-6, 4WD, With Cap & Liner 142K miles, in & out excellent condition, no rust.

Asking $7,995.

815-728-1270

ALGONQUIN 2 BEDROOM - CLEAN & QUIET BUILDING With storage, laundry and parking, $875/mo.

847-401-3242

All makes, cash paid, reasonable. Will pick-up.

630-660-0571

Crystal Lake 2BR Duplex, 1 Bath, C/A, Garage

Stock Mufflers, Off a 2005 H. D. Electra Glide, Brand New Will fit on a 2000 - 2008 Electra Glide, $390/obo.

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PRE-OWNED ANDERSON BMW

360 N. Rte. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

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BILL JACOBS BMW

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407 Skokie Valley Hwy. • Lake Bluff, IL

847/604-5000 www.KnauzBMW.com

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800/935-5913 www.motorwerks.com

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815-814-1964

or

815-814-1224

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MOTOR WERKS CERTIFIED OUTLET Late Model Luxury PreOwned Vehicles

1001 W. Higgins Rd. (Rt. 71) or 1000 W. Golf Rd. (Rt. 58) • Hoffman Estates, IL

800/935-5909 www.motorwerks.com

MARTIN CHEVROLET 5220 W. Northwest Highway Crystal Lake, IL

815/459-4000 www.martin-chevy.com

RAY CHEVROLET

39 N. Rte. 12 • Fox Lake, IL

847/587-3300 www.raychevrolet.com

RAYMOND CHEVROLET 118 Route 173 • Antioch, IL

847/395-3600 www.raymondchevrolet.com

BULL VALLEY FORD

1460 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

800/407-0223 www.bullvalleyford.com

BUSS FORD

TOM PECK FORD

13900 Auto Mall Dr. • Huntley, IL

847/669-6060 www.TomPeckFord.com

630/584-1800 www.zimmermanford.com

GARY LANG GMC

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

www.garylangauto.com

REICHERT BUICK

2145 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

815/338-2780 www.reichertautos.com

877/226-5099

GURNEE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM 7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

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GARY LANG KIA

BILL JACOBS MINI

ARLINGTON KIA IN PALATINE

www.garylangauto.com

AL PIEMONTE CHEVROLET 770 Dundee Ave. (Rt. 25) • Dundee, IL

847/426-2000 www.piemontechevy.com

PAULY SCION

1035 S. Rt. 31, One Mile South of Rt. 14 Crystal Lake, IL

815/459-7100 or 847/658-9050

GARY LANG SUBARU

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

815/385-2100 www.garylangauto.com

KNAUZ MINI

409A Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

847/604-5050 www.Knauz-mini.com

EVANSTON SUBARU IN SKOKIE 3340 Oakton St., Skokie, IL

847/869-5700 www.EvanstonSubaru.com

7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

Barrington & Dundee Rds. Barrington, IL

www.arlingtonkia.com

888/471-1219

800/935-5913

RAYMOND KIA

www.gurneedodge.com

www.motorwerks.com

SUNNYSIDE COMPANY CHRYSLER DODGE

O’HARE HONDA

Route 120 • McHenry, IL

888/538-4492

815/385-7220

www.oharehonda.com

119 Route 173 • Antioch, IL

224/603-8611 www.raymondkia.com

River Rd & Oakton, • Des Plaines, IL

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE 888/800-6100

GURNEE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM

881 E. Chicago St. • Elgin, IL

847/888-8222 www.elginhyundai.com

ROSEN HYUNDAI

771 S. Randall Rd. • Algonquin, IL

866/469-0114 www.rosenrosenrosen.com

SUNNYSIDE COMPANY CHRYSLER DODGE Route 120 • McHenry, IL

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

www.garylangauto.com

ELGIN TOYOTA 1200 E. Chicago St. Elgin, IL

847/741-2100

300 East Ogden Ave. • Hinsdale, IL

ELGIN HYUNDAI

GARY LANG MITSUBISHI 815/385-2100

BILL JACOBS LAND ROVER HINSDALE

www.clcjd.com

815/385-2100

www.motorwerks.com

847/202-3900

800/935-5923

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

800/935-5909

MOTOR WERKS HONDA

MOTOR WERKS CADILLAC

GARY LANG CHEVROLET

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GURNEE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

www.motorwerks.com

800/295-0166

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1400 E. Dundee Rd., Palatine, IL

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

200 N. Cook St. • Barrington, IL

847/234-1700

www.billjacobs.com

GARY LANG CADILLAC

www.garylangauto.com

409 Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

www.gurneedodge.com

www.sunnysidecompany.com

815/385-2100

KNAUZ CONTINENTAL AUTOS

815/385-2100

847/683-2424

www.steves-auto-sales.com

www.st-charles.mercedesdealer.com

www.garylangauto.com

888/204-0042

LIBERTYVILLE MITSUBISHI

www.elgintoyota.com

847/816-6660

1035 S. Rt. 31, One Mile South of Rt. 14 Crystal Lake, IL

1119 S. Milwaukee Ave.• Libertyville, IL

www.libertyvillemitsubishi.com

www.billjacobs.com

PAULY TOYOTA

815/459-7100 or 847/658-9050 www.paulytoyota.com

LAND ROVER LAKE BLUFF 375 Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

847/604-8100 www.knauzlandrover.com

MOTOR WERKS PORSCHE Barrington & Dundee Rds., Barrington, IL

ANDERSON VOLKSWAGEN

LAND ROVER HOFFMAN ESTATES

800/935-5913

888/682-4485

866/346-0211

MOTOR WERKS CERTIFIED OUTLET Late Model Luxury Pre-Owned Vehicles

www.motorwerks.com

360 N. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

www.andersoncars.com

1051 W. Higgins • Hoffman Estates, IL

www.gurneedodge.com

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888/800-6100

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

225 N. Randall Road • St. Charles, IL

1564 W. Ogden Ave. • Naperville, IL

888/471-1219

Portable Sonar depth finder fish locator - Fishing Buddy brand $50. 847-658-6920

MERCEDES-BENZ OF ST. CHARLES

1107 S Rt. 31 between Crystal Lake and McHenry

7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

Boat Trailer Winch 12V, 1400lb. Line pull, 3500lb. boat weight. $50. 847-658-6920

847/838-4444

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE

815/385-2100

206 S. State Street • Hampshire, IL

815/385-2100

10709 N. Main St. (Route 12) Richmond, IL

888/471-1219

FENZEL MOTOR SALES

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

Golf Rd. (Rt. 58) • Hoffman Estates, IL

STEVE’S AUTO SALES

www.clcjd.com 2525 E. Main Street • St. Charles, IL

888/800-6100

www.knauznorth.com

2950 N. Skokie Hwy • North Chicago, IL

www.infinitihoffman.com

www.bussford.com

ZIMMERMAN FORD

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

847/235-8300

www.andersoncars.com

815/385-2000

815/338-2780

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE

KNAUZ NORTH

888/682-4485

360 N. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

111 S. Rte 31 • McHenry, IL

2145 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

www.clcjd.com

GARY LANG BUICK

1075 W. Golf Rd. Hoffman Estates, IL

ANDERSON MAZDA

888/280-6844

REICHERT CHEVROLET www.reichertautos.com

INFINITI OF HOFFMAN ESTATES

landroverhoffman.com

MOTOR WERKS INFINITI

815/385-7220

Barrington & Dundee Rds. Barrington, IL

www.sunnysidecompany.com

800/935-5913 www.motorwerks.com

BUSS FORD LINCOLN 111 S. Rte 31 • McHenry, IL

815/385-2000 busslincolnmchenry.com

BILL JACOBS VOLKSWAGEN 2211 Aurora Avenue • Naperville, IL

800/720-7036 www.billjacobs.com

1001 W. Higgins Rd. (Rt. 71) or 1000 W. 1000 W. Golf Rd. (Rt. 58) Hoffman Estates, IL

800/935-5909

www.motorwerks.com

BARRINGTON VOLVO

300 N. Hough (Rt. 59) • Barrington, IL

847/381-9400

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RENT TO BUY Choose from 400 listed homes Flexible Credit Rules

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Marengo 1 Bedroom, $550/mo incl Water & Garbage, $550 security dep. 815-651-6445 MARENGO 3BR, 2ND FLR, SEWER & WATER INCL. $800/mo, available now.

815-575-2446 W. Dundee/Historical Area 2BR,1BA, Parking on Site No pets/smoking, $995/mo + sec dep. 847-830-1597

Cary/Oakwood Hills ~ 1100 Sq Ft, 2BR, 1BA Full house privileges, parking, no pets/smoking. $800/mo + references.

847-322-7606

Johnsburg Beautiful Home, Female

Walden Oaks Apartments – Affordable Senior Living Facility 1155 Walden Oaks, Woodstock 815-338-7630 Hispanic Housing Development

Non-Smoker, no pets, $500/mo. 847-431-8229 Woodstock Furnished Rooms, All Utilities Incl. $435 - $465, no pets. Call Gina 815-451-2462

WOODSTOCK

Marengo/Harvard Area, Storage Building

1 and 2 Bedroom Apts

Autumnwood ★ Elevator Bldgs.

Silver Creek ★ Garage Incl.

Rents starting at $805 per month

SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COUNTY OF BERNALILLO STATE OF NEW MEXICO

807 Cayuga Trail Desirable Indian Trails!

Prime lot, very quiet 2 bedrooms + den, 2 car garage! No signs, google address.

$57,500

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VILLAGE OF LAKEWOOD OPEN HOUSE SUN, MAR 13 12PM - 3PM

35'x70', no posts, open floor, 8 miles NW of Marengo. $300/mo, $150 for half bldg.

312-337-7054

MCHENRY / RINGWOOD ROUTE 31

815-334-9380

www.cunat.com Woodstock Apartment ~ Quiet and Comfortable

7303 Scots Lane

1 or 2BR In town, heat Included and vouchers considered.

Starting at $720/mo.

815-337-0628

WOODSTOCK Walnut Ridge Apartments New Construction Non-Smoking Units Available In Unit Washer & Dryer Willow Brooke Apartments Garages Pet Friendly

1800-3600 Sq Ft Office/Warehouse. 14' OH Doors, Zoned B-3/I-1, $6.50 SF Gross. Broker 815-236-3453 Crystal Lake Approx 400 Sq FtWith Waiting Area. Clean, nice office suite incl all util + high speed DSL, $545/mo. 815-790-0240

CRYSTAL LAKE Office Space for rent, 3 rooms, can customize, approx 600 sq/ft, $1100/mo 2 yr lease, available 4/1. 815-444-6724

815-338-2383

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779-704-2123

CRYSTAL LAKE - 4BR, 1.5 Bath, 1 car garage. W/D. Close to lake and downtown district. $1350.00/month. 815-482-6337.

Crystal Lake, CUTE 3BR, 1 BA. W/D, Fenced in yard, 1 car gar. $1,300/mo. 815-690-8186

Hampshire 153 Oak St., 2BR, 1BA, Laundry

2 car gar, double lot, pets OK, $1100/mo. 815-757-5079 MCHENRY Single Family Home, 2-3 BR, 2 FULL BA, Wood Floors, Overlooks forest preserve. $1,400/mo. 224-619-5493

CRYSTAL LAKE, 3BR, 1 BA, with Add'l Lot. Frplc, Finished. Full Bsmt, Brick Home, 1 Story, 2 Car Gar., Wood Flrs, Lake Access. $149,900.

MARENGO 5 ACRE FARMETTE

Large Master, W/D, D/W, NEW SS Appl/Flooring/Carpet and Paint. “Forest View Sunsets” $1295/mo. 224-633-5049

829 Ross Lane Newly Constructed Townhomes In McHenry.

$354,900

Keith Schauer, Broker, RE/MAX of Barrington 847-217-8049

Solid 4BR Farmhouse, New Roof & Paint Newer Septic, Well, Furnace & Gutters

Lake In The Hills, 2BR, 1.5BA, Attach Gar, Fireplace

The Villas of Patriot Estates

All brick ranch with full fin basement & 3 car garage!

Open floor plan, soaring ceilings, hardwood flooring & floor-to-ceiling brick fireplace.

815-307-5881

All units include Clubhouse Membership

Publisher's Notice: All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation of discrimination." Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

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Inside needs kitchen, bath, carpet, patch, paint.

Good for landscaper, trucker, contractor, horses.

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CHRISTOPHER RYAN, Petitioner, vs.

CHRISTINA RODRIGUEZ PIPPIN, Respondent.

District Court No. D-202-DM-2015-04397 PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the above-named Petitioner filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage in the above named Court on December 23, 2015, on grounds of incompatibility. The Petitioner states: Petitioner has been a resident of the State of New Mexico, for more than six months prior to the filing of Petition for Dissolution of Marriage; Respondent's whereabouts are unknown; Respondent's last known address is: 524 S. Catherine Ave.,La Grange, IL 60525-2823. A state of incompatibility exists between the parties and there is no reasonable expectation of reconciliation all as more specifically stated in the Petition. FURTHER the abovenamed Respondent is hereby notified she has thirty (30) days to respond from the date of completion of publication of this Notice in which to file an answer or other pleading responsive to the Petition and should said Respondent choose not to file an answer or other responsive pleading to the Petition on or before thirty (30) days from date of completions of publication of this Notice, an Order of Dissolution of Marriage or other appropriate relief may be rendered in the above named case.

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Public Notice is hereby given that on February 26, 2016, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office address of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as CUBA SOCIAL TOURS located at: 1608 Walnut Dr. Woodstock, IL 60098 Dated February 26, 2016

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In accordance with 105 ILCS 5/2412, the Executive Board of the Special Education District of McHenry County (“SEDOM”) will convene a public hearing at a special meeting at 9:00 on Wednesday March 16, 2016, at 1200 Claussen Drive, Woodstock, IL to consider public comment regarding the possible honorable dismissal of tenured staff due to economic necessity. After the public hearing is closed, the Board shall consider the approval of a Resolution authorizing the honorable dismissal of tenured staff due to economic necessity.

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