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Pillow talk at a standstill There was a time when we liked our pillows so much that we took them traveling with us.

They were thick and soft and luxurious. You laid your head on them and it was pure comfort, unlike anything my good wife and I had experienced up to that point.

Motel pillows in Fort Madison, Iowa, did not begin to match these pillows, so, of course, we brought them with us when we visited my parents.

When we were checking out these pillows at the store, we actually laid down on the floor with the pillows and rested our heads on them.

And they felt wonderful.

Bedding was in the back of the department store, and it wasn’t busy, so we thought we could get away with it without too many sidelong glances from other customers. How else would you know whether you found the perfect pillow?

And that’s what we were looking for: the perfect pillow. Not too firm, not too soft. Just right, like in “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.”

We were lucky enough to find them.

That was 10 years ago. And these pillows are showing their age. They aren’t thick, soft and luxurious anymore. They are thin, hard and barely passable as pillows. And it kind of snuck up on us over the years.

At some point, we stopped traveling with them. Maybe motel pillows improved; I don’t know. That should have been a clue something was up. But they still did the job. They might not have been perfect, but they were comfortable.

Over the years, they lost their comfort.

I can’t remember whether these were feather pillows or down-filled pillows or a combination, but I’m guessing they were down-filled. The down either escaped or became crushed. Whatever happened, these pillows aren’t what they used to be. Not even close.

They ball up into something small and barely comfortable. And we paid good money for these pillows.

I’m thinking $60 a piece, but it was a small investment in something that would ensure a good night’s sleep. And, good or bad, they have lasted 10 years, so that works out to $6 a year each, which is a bargain.

We went pillow shopping last weekend and returned home with nothing. The down-filled pillows we found were small and unappealing.

We definitely didn’t want synthetic fiber-filled pillows, and what seems to have overtaken the market are memory-foam pillows, which appear to be as hard as a rock. I’m looking for something I can kind of scrunch up and fall asleep into.

I can’t believe something like that

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VIEWS Dick Peterson would be comfortable – and they are expensive, so I’m not inclined to put out the money for something I’m pretty sure won’t work for me.

It would be a pretty big leap in faith to buy a memory-foam pillow, and I don’t have that kind of faith, not even for one night’s sleep. You can’t return used pillows, can you?

I’ve had feather pillows most of my life. I grew up with one, and took it with me to college, and all was well.

Until I went home for the weekend once. I arrived back in my dorm room Sunday night and was in bed and noticed my pillow seemed to be half the size it used to be.

I looked at it, and it was torn open at the seam.

Apparently, my roommates got in a pillow fight, and mine broke open, ruining it. My roommates tried to tell me the feathers were green and moldy, but I was disconsolate. My childhood pillow was destroyed. And I replaced it with a fiber-filled pillow. It wasn’t the same.

Not nearly.

A lot has changed in the past 10 years since we went pillow shopping. Memory-foam pillows seem to be the biggest innovation. But I’m sure I wouldn’t like one of those, even if everyone else is buying them.

Trying to find down-filled pillows is difficult, but there are plenty of synthetic fiber-filled pillows.

But they also advertise pillows for back and stomach sleepers, as well as side sleepers, something that wasn’t distinguished 10 years ago. I’m a side sleeper, so that seems to further limit my choices.

I’m tempted to buy pillows online, as the stores don’t seem to have what we’re looking for. But that’s buying a pillow sight unseen, just relying on the description, and I’m not sure I trust that.

And checking with the Incredible Internet for feather pillow brings up 600,000 results. It only leads to more confusion.

We spend a third of our lives in bed – or a quarter for the hardcore – and we need pillows to provide maximum comfort. But where do you get them anymore? I’m stumped.

• 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 contacted at dickpeterson76@ gmail.com.

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ON THE COVER Algonquin General Services Superintendent Steve Ludwig arrives at a work site on Harrison Street. Ludwig has had to take on additional roles as the village chose not to fill open positions. See story page A3.

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EMPLOYEES FILLING BIG SHOES Municipalities reduce workforce as staff take on additional roles

By HANNAH PROKOP hprokop@shawmedia.com When two superintendents left the Algonquin Public Works Department in 2014, Steve Ludwig took on both of their jobs.

Ludwig, the village’s general services superintendent, went from overseeing a staff of 13 people to a staff of 32 people on three teams, including streets and rights of way, parks and forestry, and internal services.

“There is more responsibility given to everyone as a result of the changes, and the expectations have changed,” Ludwig said. “… So everyone’s job has changed all the way down to the front line.”

Algonquin has reduced its workforce by 10 percent since fiscal 2014 and filled about six positions from 22 vacancies, Assistant Village Manager Michael Kumbera said.

While operating with fewer people has caused some disruption in the way the village has worked in the past, the changes have led to cost savings and more efficient practices, Kumbera said.

Other McHenry County municipalities are in similar situations, and have been since the housing market crash started in 2007.

Years later, officials in towns including Woodstock, Harvard, Richmond and Cary said positions are constantly being evaluated to determined where cuts can be made to save money and how they will affect service.

“We don’t just go ahead and fill it,” if someone leaves a position, Woodstock City Manager Roscoe Stelford said. “We try to be critical of each one and to challenge ourselves, ‘What’s a better way to do it?

Or what’s a better way to think other

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TOP: Algonquin General Services Superintendent Steve Ludwig arrives Thursday on a work site to check on one of his crews working to remove a dead tree along North Harrison Street in Algonquin. Ludwig has had to take on additional roles, including managing a team of mechanics, as the village chose not to fill open positions. ABOVE: Village of Algonquin mechanic Marc Martinez arrives to continue regular maintenance on a fire engine at the municipal garage on Meyer Drive. than the way we’ve done for years?’ ” One proposed change in Woodstock’s staff for the next fiscal year is the elimination of the planning and zoning administrator position, which has been vacant since Jim Kastner’s retirement in March.

Woodstock’s drafted budget for fiscal 2017 suggests three officials in the Building and Zoning Department each will receive a $3,000 raise to take on the duties of the planning and zoning administrator, who received an annual salary of about

$100,000.

The budget also suggests hiring a limited part-time office assistant to assist with the department office activities for a salary of $12,500.

Woodstock is ending the current fiscal year with nine vacant full-time positions out of 143 authorized fulltime positions, Woodstock Human Resources Director Debbie Schober said.

This is because of the hiring freeze that began in February 2015 in response to the city’s concern with

the Illinois state budget crisis, she said.

“You don’t lose that many positions without some service changing,” Stelford said. “But we don’t believe that the services that changed have been noticed by the residents.”

One example of a change in service would be mowing grass once a week as opposed to twice a week, Stelford said.

Harvard’s population and staff is

See WORKFORCE, page A20

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Experts: Centegra merger could better streamline referral network

By CAITLIN SWIECA cswieca@shawmedia.com A potential affiliation or merger between Centegra Health System and Northwestern Memorial HealthCare could give McHenry County patients a more streamlined referral network and flow of information, health care experts said.

Centegra disclosed last week the two systems were in talks and exploring an affiliation. The extent of the affiliation remains uncertain, but representatives of the companies didn’t rule out the possibility of a merger or acquisition that would make Centegra a Northwestern Medicine member.

The talks mark Northwestern’s latest move into the suburbs. In 2014, Northwestern merged with Cadence Health, which has hospitals in Winfield and Geneva.

DeKalb-based KishHealth joined the system in December.

The talks are part of a national trend, according to an analysis from health care consultant Kaufman, Hall & Associates LLC. In 2015, 112 hospital transactions were announced nationwide, an 18 percent jump from 2015 and a 70 percent jump from 2010.

In his analysis, Patrick Allen, managing director of the company, said the partnerships are designed to “achieve critical alignment, network breadth and depth, operational efficiency and other critical capabilities.”

Experts said the larger entity in a merger benefits from getting a larger footprint while the smaller entity gets improved branding and prestige and access to more specialty care.

A 2012 study on hospital consolidation from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said hospital consolidation generally results in higher prices and does not necessarily improve quality of care.

James Unland, president of Health Capital Group Chicago, said it is too early to spot any trends in Northwestern’s previous acquisitions.

In most hospital transactions, he said, the smaller entity is hoping to upgrade or expand its facilities, which leads to an inevitable price increase for patients.

However, because Centegra is nearly finished with construction of a new hospital in Huntley, he said those increases might not be realized in this case.

“The good news is that the [hospital] plan is very far along for Centegra,” Unland said. “In some ways, that means there should not be a big price shock, and maybe no price increase at all.”

Sarah Nader file photo – snader@shawmedia.com

An exterior view of Centegra Hospital – Huntley is seen Feb. 16. The hospital is set to open this summer. Last week, Centegra Health System disclosed it is exploring an affiliation with Northwestern Memorial HealthCare.

“[Hospitals] are drawing together to pool resources and make it easier to borrow money, improve cash flow and, we hope, sort of consolidate back-office operations, so finance, laundry and food services can be better.”

James Ciesla NIU’s College of Health and Human Sciences associate dean for research and resources

Unland said the fact that Crystal Lakebased Centegra is already in a strong position means the affiliation is more likely to be successful and benefit both parties.

James Ciesla, associate dean for research and resources for Northern Illinois University’s College of Health and Human Sciences, said Centegra patients likely would not see much change from a merger in the short term.

Among the reasons for the merger trend, he said, is the uncertainty created by pay-for-performance initiatives from the Affordable Care Act and the private sector.

Rather than the traditional model where physicians receive a standard reimbursement for work they do, the ini-

tiatives would require paying health care providers for certain quality goals. “[Hospitals] are drawing together to pool resources and make it easier to borrow money, improve cash flow and, we hope, sort of consolidate back-office operations, so finance, laundry and food services can be better,” Ciesla said.

The main benefit to Centegra patients, he said, would be a clear referral network that would allow patients and their information to be easily moved within the system for specialist care.

Unlund said there’s a possibility that some of Northwestern’s specialists could start spending time in McHenry County offices.

Mergers recently have come under scrutiny of the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC challenged OSF HealthCare System’s proposed acquisition of Rockford Health System in 2011 before OSF dropped its bid.

In December, the agency challenged the merger of Advocate Health Care Network and NorthShore University System.

Those challenges don’t necessarily mean this transaction would be blocked, however.

Unland said the FTC generally objects when it anticipates large post-merger price increases. Ciesla said scrutiny generally is based on geography rather than size.

“They all depend on local situational factors,” Ciesla said. “One huge merger might be possible while a smaller one is stopped.”

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As a warm front lifts across the area, it will bring rain today. Despite the rain, temperatures will be higher than recent days. Another cold front will pass through the area tonight. So, tomorrow will be slightly cooler despite a good deal of sunshine.

A steady warming trend is expected through the rest of the week.

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High school may replace class rank with Latin honor system

By CAITLIN SWIECA cswieca@shawmedia.com

HUNTLEY – Huntley High School may replace class ranking with the Latin honor system after administrators proposed the switch to the Huntley Community School District 158 Board of Education last week.

A memo from District 158 Chief Academic Officer Erika Schlichter made the case for the change, saying nixing class rank would open up more college opportunities for more students, and reduce their stress and anxiety. The switch would occur for the school’s incoming freshman Class of 2020.

At a Committee of the Whole meeting Thursday, Schlichter said the proposal, which came from a committee of staff members and administrators, was a “long time coming.”

She said the switch would retain a high standard for achieving honors, but make the system less arbitrary by removing the competitive element.

“Functionally, what we would see in a competitive system is our most

Voice your opinion Do you support efforts to eliminate class rank in high school? Vote online at NWHerald.com. high-achieving students might be separated from each other by two one-hundredths of grade point average, which essentially is not meaningful, but in the end that would be the difference in a student receiving an honor or not receiving an honor,” Schlichter said.

By eliminating class rank, officials said, students who are just under the percentile cutoff to be eligible for admission to certain colleges would have more options.

The proposed Latin honor system would recognize students with a GPA between 3.75 and 4.249 as cum laude, those between 4.25 and 4.499 as magna cum laude and those with a 4.5 or above as summa cum laude.

Based on Huntley’s 2016 class, those cutoffs would honor about 15 percent of

students, administrators said.

Huntley High School Principal Scott Rowe also said class rank was changing the way students chose courses and eliminating it would force colleges to take a more holistic look at applicants from Huntley.

“I think class rank is outdated,” Rowe said. “The East Coast said, ‘We did this 10 years ago, what’s taking you so long?’ You look at the schools that have beat us to this juncture and I think they’re the highest-performing schools in the state of Illinois.”

Crystal Lake-based Community High School District 155 got rid of class rank last summer, and documents from Huntley administrators listed nearly 50 other suburban schools who had made the move.

Administrators said the three universities Huntley students most frequently apply to – Illinois State University, Northern Illinois University and University of Illinois – do not require class rank for admission.

The District 158 Board will vote on the proposal April 21.

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Sheriff’s office starts explorer club Area residents ages 14 to 20 eligible to apply

By JORDYN REILAND jreiland@shawmedia.com WONDER LAKE – Zakkary Zerin wants to be a police officer, firefighter or detective when he grows up.

The 12-year-old is one of 11 other students in the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office Police Explorer Club at Harrison School District 36 in Wonder Lake.

The club – one of the first in the area to launch – exposes students interested in law enforcement to hands-on activities, events and training they wouldn’t have in the classroom.

“They teach us everything that we’d need to know,” Zakkary said.

Club members have learned about radio communication, personal character, common police procedures and have participated in mock crime

Application deadline Applications can be downloaded from the McHenry County Sheriff’s website at www.mchenrysheriff.org and dropped off at the sheriff’s office, 2200 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock, by April 22. scenes supervised by deputies Aimee Knopp and Tim Creighton.

A few years down the road, Zakkary said he plans to learn more about his future career by joining the new police explorer post, organized by the sheriff’s office and the Boy Scouts of America.

The explorer post is open to McHenry County residents ages 14 to 20 years old who are in good academic standing.

Sarah Simpson, 13, also a member of the club, said she is interested in applying for the explorer post and hopes to pursue a career as a public servant.

“I just really want to help people,”

she said.

Sarah said before she joined the club she never considered herself a leader in group projects or classroom activities.

“I’ve started doing that since I’ve joined this club, and it’s made me more confident about myself,” she said.

Jackie and SJ Zriny, parents to 12-year-old Jackson, said the club has been a very positive influence for their son who is interested in a career in police or fire service.

“It’s amazing to see how excited he is about this club,” Jackie Zriny said, adding Jackson hasn’t missed a single event or meeting since he joined.

Applications for the police explorer post are available and can be downloaded from the McHenry County Sheriff’s website at www.mchenrysheriff.org or picked up from the sheriff’s office, 2200 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Applications must be submitted

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$95.5M spending plan about 9.6 percent less than 2016’s Just less than half of the general fund is financed by local sales taxes, with another 17 percent coming from the city’s share of the state income tax.

As in past budgets, the city is focusing on holding the line on spending.

The 2017 budget eliminates another four jobs through attrition, none of which are sworn police officers.

The city has eliminated the equivalent of 22.25 full-time jobs since the Great Recession that began at the end of 2007.

While capital expenses have decreased from last year, the city plans to spend about $20.8 million in the upcoming budget year on capital projects, such as street repaving and citywide improvements and repairs to existing infrastructure.

The City Council will vote to approve the 2017 budget after a hearing at its next meeting, which starts at 7:30 p.m. April 19 at City Hall, 100 W. Woodstock St.

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The budget document placed on review last week paints a slightly optimistic picture of increasing revenues as the nation’s economy improves.

But that optimism is tempered by the unknowns presented by the ongoing state budget crisis – the city would lose $2 million if Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposal last year to cut municipalities’ share of income-tax revenues ever comes to pass.

Crystal Lake does not levy a property tax for its general fund expenses, which cover costs such as city administration, maintenance and police protection.

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• Sunday, April 10, 2016

CRYSTAL LAKE – A 2017 budget, about 9.6 percent smaller than this year’s spending plan, will be approved by the City Council later this month.

The city plans to spend $95.5 million in the 2017 budget year that starts May 1, about $10.1 million less than the expiring 2016 budget.

The main reasons for the drop are a decrease in capital spending because of finished projects such as the widening of South Main Street, and the elimination of last year’s “27th payroll,” a calendar oddity that occurs every 11 years when surplus days for biweekly employers result in a 27th paycheck instead of 26.

The operating portion of the budget is balanced, with new capital projects accounting for the rest.

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WOODSTOCK – Nonprofit organizations in Woodstock planning tourism-related events have the chance to apply for a share of the city’s hotel/motel tax funding.

The city applies a 5 percent hotel/motel tax to all lodging facilities in city limits, and a designated group of organizations automatically receive funding from the tax.

Those organizations include the Woodstock Opera House, Woodstock Chamber of Commerce, Challenger Learning Center for Science and Technology and Visit McHenry County.

Last year, Woodstock’s grant writer Terry Willcockson said 11 other organizations were awarded funding from $500 to $4,000.

Applicants are encouraged to promote people to stay overnight in Woodstock for their events, Willcockson said.

The application can be found on the city’s website, www.woodstockil.gov, under the city manager’s office section, and it must be turned in to the city manager’s office by May 20.

For information, contact Willcockson at twillcockson@woodstockil.gov or 815338-4300.

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County to monitor alcohol offenders Anklet implemented to test those at high risk

By JORDYN REILAND jreiland@shawmedia.com

WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County Probation and Court Services department has a new tool to supervise its high-risk alcohol offenders.

The department partnered with Alcohol Monitors of Illinois to implement the technology in January.

SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring, or SCRAM CAM, is an anklet worn 24/7 to monitor potential alcohol use. The anklet tests the participant every 30 minutes to measure for alcohol consumption through their perspiration.

Roger Bacon, chief managing probation officer, said two participants have been involved in the program since its inception.

Although the initial numbers have been small, the implementation process has gone well, he said.

Bacon said the probation officer decides who will participate following a risk assessment.

The primary target is high-risk DUI offenders, as well as alcohol-involved domestic violence cases and other crimes where drinking was a primary factor.

“We’re really hoping to have better outcomes with high-risk people,” Bacon said.

Unlike many other counties in the state, the anklet will not be implemented in a courtroom or sentencing setting.

The probation department’s scope is purposely narrow so they are able to see long-term change from the highrisk offenders.

SCRAM CAM, which officially launched in the U.S. in 2003, has monitored nearly 9,000 offenders in Illinois.

Lake, Kane, Will and DuPage counties also use the technology.

“For us, we want to narrow it down for the people that it’ll have the biggest impact on,” said Walt Pesterfield, director of probation and court services.

“The ultimate goal for us is to have the offender have long-term change so when they are off probation they don’t go back to the same behaviors.”

Walt Pesterfield McHenry County Probation and Court Services director

Offenders who participate in the program pay $7.50 a day for the monitoring, with a sliding-fee scale available for those who are indigent or cannot afford to pay.

Pesterfield said the goal in implementing this technology is to see longterm change from high-risk offenders.

“The ultimate goal for us is to have the offender have long-term change so when they are off probation they don’t go back to the same behaviors,” he said.

LOCAL BRIEF Library celebrating National Library Week with events

ALGONQUIN – The Algonquin Area Public Library District will celebrate National Library Week from April 10 through 16 with programs, events and a special community project.

The Harnish Main Library and Eastgate Branch Library will serve all week as special collection points for a food drive benefiting the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Interfaith Food Pantry.

Reciprocal borrowers who owe overdue fines to the Algonquin library can donate nonperishable food items during this week and have their fines waived.

For a list of needs, visit alith-foodpantry.org.

Events during the week include children’s bookmark decorating and dance party, classes in the library’s new teaching garden, a Macaroni Soup! family concert and a Friday night genealogy workshop.

A calendar of events can be found at aapld.org/do.

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• Sunday, April 10, 2016

WOODSTOCK – The Woodstock Menards is planning an expansion of its property with the construction of a new accessory warehouse building and an addition to its existing warehouse structure.

About 6,400 square feet will be added to the existing warehouse building on-site, and a new 15,867-square-foot accessory warehouse building will be built, according to city documents.

Both of the additions would be 23 feet tall, the same size warehouse at all Menards stores, but the city’s unified development ordinance only allows for a maximum building height of 15 feet for the zoning district the building is in.

The Woodstock City Council unanimously approved at its meeting Tuesday the zoning board of appeals

recommendation to allow the zoning variation.

The store has been at 2100 Lake Ave. since 2004, according to city documents.

The purpose of the additional space is to keep more products protected from the elements, Menard Inc. Properties real estate representative Tyler Edwards said in a letter to the city.

He said a 15-foot-high roof would not be tall enough to accommodate large trucks.

Setbacks from the property lines will be the same, and the tall structures are expected to improve the screening of a storage yard viewed from Route 14, according to city documents.

Edwards said the new warehouse will match the existing one on the site, and therefore there will be no adverse effects to the look of the property.

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MCCD, Environmental Defenders to celebrate Earth Day with events NORTHWEST HERALD CRYSTAL LAKE – McHenry County Conservation District and the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County want residents to celebrate Mother Earth from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

April 23 at Prairieview Education Center, 2112 Behan Road, Crystal Lake.

More than 20 environmental booths on sustainable practices as well as myriad activities are planned, including kids’ crafts, games and activities, puppet shows at 11:15 a.m. and 1:45 p.m., guided nature hikes at 12:15 and 3 p.m., and a household recycling dropoff.

Food and beverage vendors – Toasty Cheese mobile eatery and Pop’s Premier Kettle Corn – will be on hand or residents may bring their own “no waste” picnic lunch.

Live music by Ken Lonnquist with Dave Adler will be at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Activities are both inside and outdoors; the event goes on rain or shine.

If you go n WHAT: Earth Day celebration n WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 23 n WHERE: Prairieview Education Center, 2112 Behan Road, Crystal Lake n INFORMATION: Includes a 5K EcoRun through Silver Creek Conservation Area and donation drop-off.

Residents may car pool to the event with friends and enter the raffle for a free picnic shelter reservation.

New this year, in conjunction with the Earth Day Celebration, is a 5K EcoRun through Silver Creek Conservation Area. Proceeds benefit McHenry County Conservation District, Environmental Defenders of McHenry County and Woodstock Morning Rotary Foundation.

Register online www.Rotaryecorun.org before April 20. The $25 fee includes a T-shirt. Race day check-in will be from 8:15 to 9:30 a.m., and the race

start time will be at 10 a.m.

The chip-timed certified event will have awards in eight age categories immediately after the race.

Race parking, with free shuttle, will be available at Faith Community United Church of Christ, 2023 Route 176, Crystal Lake.

Residents can drop off unwanted items, including electronics (computers and accessories, TVs, stereos, etc.), small appliances (microwaves must be clean), clean polystyrene, packing peanuts, reusable bubble wrap, Christmas lights, fluorescent tubes, VHS tapes, CDs, cassettes, and household batteries.

They also will accept clean shoes, purses, belts and fiber (clothing, towels, etc.)

Donations are requested for large TVs or monitors to offset recycling costs (50 cents per pound or not to exceed $30).

No smoke detectors, medical devices, console TVs, car batteries, or paint cans.

Lake in the Hills hosting sale for used bicycles, strollers

LAKE IN THE HILLS – The Lake in the Hills Parks and Recreation Department will host a Wheels and Deals Sale from 9 a.m. to noon April 16 to allow residents to sell unwanted bicycles, tricycles, skateboards or strollers to other residents.

Sellers must drop off items between 7:30 and 9 a.m. at Village Hall, 600 Harvest Gate, Lake in the Hills.

Residents will determine the selling price and will receive 80 percent of the price on items sold.

Unsold items must be picked up between noon and 1 p.m.

To ensure the sale offers satisfactory items, the village reserves the right to refuse any items that do not meet its specifications.

Registration is free and is preferred in advance but is not required.

Payments will be mailed to sellers in two to four weeks.

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ALGONQUIN – The village has scheduled its twice-yearly fire hydrants as part of its regular maintenance practices.

Weather permitting, the spring hydrant flushing schedule is as follows during weekdays: April 18 to 22: The entire area east of the Fox River to Village limits.

April 25 to 29: The area north of Edgewood Drive and Filip Road, east of Hanson Road, west of the Fox River.

This area includes the Arrowhead subdivision, Main Street and all of Harrison Street.

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CRYSTAL LAKE – With the state budget impasse still unresolved, the McHenry County College Adult Literacy Volunteer Program is seeking to raise funds to continue offering its program to help adult learners earn their high school equivalency and/or increase their English language skills.

Program staff are inviting all residents to help out the literacy program by joining them in the McHenry County Human Race 5K walk/run at 8 a.m. April 24 at McHenry County College.

Register at www.mchumanrace.org.

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A total of 60 percent of each race registration fee supports the charity of the participant’s choice, 28 percent supports McHenry County volunteerism and 12 percent is for race expenses.

Those who wish to donate, click on “Donate to a Charity” at the top of the page and choose MCC’s Adult Literacy Volunteer Tutoring Program.

“We’re doing all we can to keep funding the literacy program that the state impasse is blocking, and the race is one way to do that,” said Marie Day, coordinator of adult education. “Challenge your co-workers, friends and family members, and compete for prizes. You don’t have to walk or run in the event to help, simply visit the website and choose to donate to MCC’s Adult Volunteer Literacy Tutoring Program,” she said.

For information on the race, visit www.mchumanrace.org. For information about MCC’s Adult Literacy Program, contact Day at 815-455-8542 or email mday@mchenry.edu.

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Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner (right) tests a mobile phone trailer after the Palm Sunday tornado of 1965 in Crystal Lake. Phones have come a long way since – from party lines to pay phones to cellphones, which can process more data faster than the room-sized computers of the 1980s. Gone are first-generation analog cellphones that weighed in at a pound-and-ahalf. The McHenry County Historical Society will present “The History of Mexican Railroad Boxcar Communities in the Chicago Area & Midwest” at 3 p.m. April 18 at the museum, 6422 Main St., Union. Presenter Antonio Delgado will highlight the important contributions these laborers made to the area – with the use of photos, maps, political cartoons and other period images. A $10 donation is requested.

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HUNTLEY – The village will host Green & Clean Huntley Day, including electronics recycling, paper/document destruction, spring cleaning drop-off and tours of the wastewater treatment plant on April 23.

Huntley residents can drop off unwanted electronic at the Municipal Complex parking lot from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. IDs will be checked, and participants should expect long lines.

The spring cleaning drop-off will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the public works facility at East Main Street and Donald Drive.

Residents can take an hourlong tour of the West Wastewater Treatment Plant on West Main Street starting each hour between 9 a.m. and noon.

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Marengo Township to hold paint recycling opportunities

MARENGO – The Marengo Township Highway Department has set three dates for paint recycling opportunities.

From 8 to 11:30 a.m. April 23, June 18 and Sept. 24, Marengo Township residents can bring their paint to be recycled for free at 4010 N. Route 23, Marengo.

Nonresidents must pay $5 per container up to a 5 gallon pail. Five gallon pails cost $10 each. No roller pads, screens, rags, brushes, spray paint, roofing tar, drywall compound or other garbage will be accepted.

For information, call the Marengo Township Highway Department at 815568-8636.

Family Alliance to present free family caregiver conference

HUNTLEY – Family Alliance will offer a free family caregiver conference April 16 at its Huntley location, 12555 Farm Hill Drive, Suite 800.

The conference, “Your Story Matters: Support for Family Caregivers,” is part of the agency’s “Connections for Those Who Care” series.

Topics will include “Your Story Matters,” “Time to Relax” and “Art Expression.”

Coffee and refreshments will be available at 8:30 a.m. and presentations will begin at 9 a.m.

A free lunch for participants will follow the presentations.

The conference is open to anyone caring for an individual 50 years and older.

To register, call 224-654-6300.

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• Sunday, April 10, 2016

CARY – The village will host its Spring Clean Up Week for residents to get rid of unwanted items from April 11 to 14.

Advanced Disposal will collect items placed out for Spring Clean Up on the same day as residents’ regularly scheduled refuse collection day. Items must be set on the curb by 7 a.m.

All refuse must be in bags or cans, and individual items, bags or cans may not weight more than 50 pounds.

Items that will not be collected include tires, sod, rocks, dirt, automobile batteries, batteries, landscape materials, household hazardous waste, gas tanks, root balls, rocks, concrete, propane tanks, appliances containing freon, computers, monitors and electronic equipment.

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18 FAIRDALE

Town looks for progress, not perfection Residents who have rebuilt say community still not quite like home

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DeKALB – Stefanie Jacobson feels sad and empty when she looks out her upstairs window to the Fairdale community where she has lived for more than 20 years.

For nine months after an EF4 tornado packing wind speeds of up to 200 mph damaged or destroyed her home and those of her neighbors, Jacobson lived a few miles from her home at a rental on Wheeler Road in Kirkland. Today, almost a year later, she’s back in Fairdale, but the rural hamlet along Route 72 in northwest DeKalb County is still not like the home she remembers.

“That’s the hardest part for me,” she said. “Seeing what hasn’t been repaired and what hasn’t been fixed. There’s not a lot of flowers anymore. … You used to

before leveling houses and killing two people in Fairdale. National attention was briefly focused on the area, with politicians and pro athletes visiting, and volunteers and donations pouring in.

A year later, the attention has largely gone, but residents still are working to rebuild and are little by little regaining a sense of normalcy in their community.

Neighbors and friends Jackie Klosa, 69, and Geraldine Schultz, 67, were killed, and more than a dozen people were injured and about 35 homes were left uninhabitable.

The recovery effort has made progress, however. By the end of 2015, 20 families had returned to their homes and 14 new housing starts occurred, according to the DeKalb County Long Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com Term Recovery Corp.

The Long Term Recovery Corp., a Shayna Hobson, 6, and sister Hope Marston, 5, play with Play-Doh on Friday in the kitchen under a wall that sister Hazel West, 17, dedicated to the night of the tornado. Hazel volunteer-run, nonprofit organization and her mom, Danni West, repainted the walls after they were fixed in the Fairdale home that began a few weeks after the tornado struck, has led the efforts over the past the family rents from West’s aunt. year. The group relies entirely on volunhear birds all the time, and now I don’t On April 9, the tornado tore across teers and donations and received more hear them as often because there are northern Illinois, destroying Grubsteakers Restaurant outside Rochelle less trees for them to be in.”

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said. “That’s where the kids play. That’s where my kids played when they were young. We’ve been here 20-plus years.

That’s where my grandkids play. … We are trying our best to be whole again.

It feels like a broken heart, but it will mend.”

Memorials are a theme that run through the community where about 70 families live now. Six families still are displaced. People who rented will not return, said Donna Turner, president of the Long Term Recovery Corp.

A memorial gathering will be held to celebrate the anniversary of the disaster Sunday. Some residents, such as Danni West, have added memorial decor to their walls. On her kitchen wall, stenciled words revolve around remembrance and endurance with the April 9, 2015, date at the bottom.

West’s teenage daughter, Hazel, a junior at Hiawatha High School and cosmetology student at Hair Professionals in Sycamore, came up with the idea. She said she wanted to carry on the family tradition of the message wall. In the

past, the kitchen wall was a space to hang birthday messages for the kids. It seemed like a natural place to put up the sentimental words, she said.

“Hopefully, the people that live in it next if we move out will keep it,” she said. “Even if they paint over it, they will still know it was there.”

The 17-year-old was home watching her three younger siblings for a few hours while the weather was turning.

Her mother made it home at 7 p.m., in time to help get the children in the basement and carry out the emergency plan the family had developed. Everyone came out of the disaster uninjured, and the mother and teenager have been trying to stay emotionally strong for the younger ones this year, West said.

“I kept the kids away for a few weeks because everything was unreal,” she said. “When I got them back in town, I walked through and talked to them about it. I think with us being so strong and not a mental mess, that’s what helped them stay strong.”

But the town is far from back to normal. Even the little things – such as the tiny, remaining glass shards in the backyard – are a reminder of the tragedy. She always has to remind her children to put their shoes on before playing outside.

“There’s not a day that goes by that we don’t think of it,” she said. “We got back into our house in mid-September and coming home made me sick to my stomach. Now it’s easier, but it’s still a constant reminder.”

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than $1 million in 2015, according to the organization’s year-end summary.

A GoFundMe page set up by the village of Kirkland drew in more than $122,000 in donations. The group also received funding from the McCormick Foundation, United Way, the Roberts Family Foundation, Rotary International and the DeKalb County Community Foundation and community fundraisers.

The recovery corporation is taking charge of installing a community septic system, a new warning siren and a Wi-Fi network. The community playground also is under renovation, complete with a memorial bench.

Jacobson’s house on Main Street, directly across from the community playground, had to be completely rebuilt after the roof and front of the home were blown away.

Today, the rebuild is mostly complete, save for projects such as landscaping, fixing up her husband’s garage and putting in a driveway. The family moved back in December, but it still doesn’t quite feel like home, she said.

But there are moments of light. She recently heard children playing at the park, which has itself undergone renovation, to continue in 2016. That made her feel optimistic.

“The park is the heart of us,” she

“We are trying our best to be whole again. It feels like a broken heart, but it will mend.”

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Continued from page A3 much smaller, with about 40 full-time employees, City Administrator Dave Nelson said, but like Woodstock, sometimes jobs can’t get done as quickly because of the lack of employees.

“Our service levels are not as high as they used to be,” Nelson said, adding although the city would like to hire more people, finances don’t allow it.

The village of Richmond has found ways around its staff of 11 full-time employees by working with larger municipalities, such as Woodstock, to contract their services, Village President Pete Koenig said.

About six years ago, when construction dropped significantly in both Woodstock and Richmond, the village started contracting work with Woodstock’s building and zoning staff for an hourly rate for building inspection services, Koenig said.

“It’s a great example of actually being able to have a higher level of expertise beyond what we would have been able to afford,” Koenig said.

Cary Village Administrator Chris Clark said the village has managed its budget the past four years by using a unique public-private model for positions in the information technology and the finance, building and zoning departments.

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Ludwig took on additional roles when the village decided not to fill vacancies.

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OBITUARIES MARY ANN CRUZ

Richmond for 17 years and at the Richmond the Community Church of Richmond, 5714 Post Office for nine years.

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How to submit Born: Dec. 27, 1963; in Elgin, IL She worked and was a partner with her Died: April 3, 2016; in Woodstock, IL husband in Ehorn Funeral Home (presently Send obituary information to obits@ Ehorn-Adams) for over 60 years. nwherald.com or call 815-526-4438.

Mary Ann Cruz, age 52, of Crystal Lake, RICHARD A. HANSEN At age 18, Virgene joined and became a Notices are accepted until 3 p.m. for born Dec. 27, 1963, in Elgin, passed away lifelong member of the Eastern Star, where the next day’s edition. Obituaries also unexpectedly April 3, 2016, in Woodstock.

Richard A. Hansen, 75, of New Braunfels, she held the office of Treasurer for many appear online at NWHerald.com/obits, Mary enjoyed nature and traveling with her TX, passed away Friday, April 8, 2016, at years. where you may sign the guest book, longtime partner, Dave. She was a loving, Centegra Hospital in Woodstock surrounded She was a Rotary Ann of the Richmond send flowers or make a memorial nurturing mother and grandmother who by his loving family. donation. devoted her time to family, especially caring Rotary Club. She was a member of the RichArrangements are pending at the Schneimond American Legion Women’s Auxiliary, for her grandchildren. the McHenry County Historical Society and der, Leucht, Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home.

Surviving are her daughter, Tiffany (Mark) an active member of the Royal Neighbors of For more information, call at 815-338-1710 or Rick Sherman; sister in law, Audrey Sherman; Browne; grandchildren, Mason, Kendall, and visit our website at www.slmcfh.com. two great nephews, Jacob VanWazer, and America.

Parker; mother, Loretta Lockwood; siblings, Ezequiel Abadie.

She was a member of the Community Keith Lockwood, Kevin (Tania) Lockwood, and She was preceded in death by her parents; Patricia (Daniel) Dooley; nieces and nephews, Church of Richmond, where she sang in the choir for many years and was active in many and brother, Steve Iverson.

BARBRA A. IVERSON Adam, Paul, Sean, Neil, Ryan, Daniel, and committees of the church.

A Memorial visitation will be held on Caleigh; and dear friend and significant other, Virgene is survived by three nephews, Sunday, April 17, 2016, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Barbra A. “Barbie” Iverson, Dave Tubbs.

Gary (Gail) Motley of Wyomissing, PA, Gene James A. O’Connor Funeral Home, 11603 E. 59, of Huntley, passed away She was preceded in death by her father, (Evelyn) Motley of Tracy, CA, Denny (Joyce) Main St., Huntley. surrounded by her family.

Rowan Lockwood.

Ehorn of Greenwood, IL; two nieces, Diane Memorials in her name may be directed She was born Dec. 4, 1956, A memorial service will be held Tuesday, Role of Lead Hill, AK and Joan Ehorn of to the family. For info call 847-669-5111 or in Denver, CO, the daughter April 12, 2016, at 11 a.m. at The Pointe Richmond. Also surviving are great nieces, of Donald and Phyllis Nadine visit www.jamesaoconnorfuneralhome.com.

Outreach Center, 5650 Northwest Highway, Melissa (Brent) Calhoun and Rebecca (Clark) Iverson.

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(Mark) Gresh, both of Wyomissing, PA, Amy In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions Barbra enjoyed cooking, gardening, her dogs (Mike) Crotts and Lisa (John) Jackson, both may be made to Mary’s family. and working on her computer. Most of all she of Tracy, CA, Laurie Suhrke of Plymouth, WI, Please visit www.davenportfamily.com to enjoyed spending time with her family and Kathy Ehorn of McHenry,IL and Mary Fisher send condolences or call the funeral home at friends and she will be deeply missed by all. of Lead Hill, AR. 815-459-3411 for information.

She is survived by her partner, Sharon Three great nephews also survive, Rory Sherman; niece, Tami VanWazer; nephew, • Continued on page A23 Motley of Victoria, TX, Jon Role and Mark Role both of Reno, NV. Also surviving are ted her stepchildren and their families, from her ora c e marriage to Raymond Weber. ed ed daetwly R She was preceded in death by her par- ly UpN ents; her first husband, Theron Ehorn, her New brother, Wiliam Motley; and sister-in-law, Mary Motley. Also preceding her was her VIRGENE EHORN-WEBER second husband, Raymond Weber; and two Born: Oct. 31, 1916; in Richmond, IL stepsons.

Died: April 7, 2016; in Woodstock, IL Virgene was a kind, loving, honest, compassionate lady who never had an unkind Virgene Motley Ehorn-Weword to say about anyone. ber, age 99, of Richmond, IL, Many called her a guardian angel; she was 12 N Pistakee Lake Rd • Fox Lake, IL 60020 passed away on Thursday, always helping others and was a true friend April 7, 2016, at Valley Hi to many.

Nursing home in Woodstock, She will be greatly missed by all who knew IL. and loved her. www.HamsherLakeside.com She was born on Oct. 31, We wish to thank the staff at Valley Hi for 1916, in Richmond, IL, the the wonderful care and kindness shown to Licensed in Illinois and Wisconsin daughter of the late Frank and Jessie (Dike) Virgene during her years there.

Motley. She and her family were lifelong We also thank JourneyCare for coming in Offering Complimentary: residents of Richmond. to help make her last days better. We appreShe graduated from Richmond High School ciate all everyone has done for her.

Photo DVD with Music in 1934 and was married to Theron “Pete” Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until 11:30 Wood Flag Case to Family of Veteran Ehorn at her family home on July 13, 1938. a.m. Thursday, April 28, 2016, at Ehorn-AdThey were married for 44 years when he ams Funeral Home, 10011 Main St. in Richpassed away on March 14, 1984. mond. Funeral service will follow at 11:30 She married Raymond C. Weber Jr. on May a.m. Thursday, April 28, 2016. Rev. Hope Molozaiy will officiate. Interment will be in 8, 1987 in Richmond and he passed away Richmond Cemetery in Richmond, IL. Sept. 30, 1987.

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CHARLES E. MORTELL Born: Sept. 9, 1929 Died: April 7, 2016

Charles E. Mortell, 86, of Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas, formerly of Chicago, passed away peacefully on April 7, 2016. He was born on Sept. 9, 1929, in Chicago, IL, to Charles Anthony and Helen Mary (nee Flemming) Mortell.

Charles was a proud veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He was an avid golfer and enjoyed painting.

He is survived by his loving children, Kevin (Laura) Mortell, Maureen (the late John) Fanning; grandchildren, Bridget (Chris) Harden, Meghan (Manny) Josue, Miles (Bre) Mortell; great-grandson, Elliott Miles Josue; brother, James Mortell; companion Gerrie Malchiodi; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his sister, Helen; brother, Jack; and by his parents.

Memorial visitation will be Monday, April 11, 2016, from 10 a.m. until the noon memorial service at Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave. (Rte. 176), Crystal Lake, IL 60014. Interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Global Spine Outreach, 12701 W. 143rd St.,

KATHY M. STEVENS-BLASI Born: Dec. 16, 1961 Died: March 26, 2016

Kathy M. Stevens-Blasi, 54, of Woodstock, died Saturday, March 26, 2016, at Centegra-Woodstock Hospital. She was born in Kansas City, MO, on Dec. 16, 1961, to William and Rose Marie (Sedar) Stevens. She married Michael Blasi on Feb. 21, 1986. She worked as a Real Estate agent for Remax Unlimited Northwest in Crystal Lake as well as other area firms.

She is survived by her husband, Michael Blasi; a daughter, Nikki Blasi.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and a brother, David Stevens.

A gathering of friends and relatives will be held at Colonial Café, 5689 Northwest Highway in Crystal Lake, on April 16, 2016, from 4 until 8 p.m. For information, call the Schneider, Leucht, Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home at 815-3381710 or visit our website at www.slmcfh.com.

Born: Oct. 20, 1917; in Chicago, IL Died: April 6, 2016; in Woodstock, IL Ann Vutera, 98, formerly of Grayslake, passed away on Wednesday morning, April 6, 2016, in Woodstock.

She was born Oct. 20, 1917, in Chicago, the daughter of Joseph and Ann (Laniak) Znoy.

She worked for Echo Manufacturing for many years, retiring in 1982. She especially enjoyed her family, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, bowling, bunco and playing cards.

She is survived by her daughter, Dolores (Leonard) Cardascio of Huntley; her son, Joseph (Leona) Vutera of Mustang, Oklahoma; her grandchildren, Katherine Wilmoth (Ray), Robert Bowman (Rita), Elizabeth Bowman, Rhonda Vutera, Mallorie Meyers (Bob), Amy Perry (Chris) & Scott Nemiro (Kari); her great-grandchildren, Cory, Sean, Bobby, Celia, Katie, Crystal, Zachary, Spencer, Tanner, Dexter, Bailey & Tyler.

She was preceded in death by her son, Donald; and daughter, Barbara; her granddaughter, Deena; her brothers, Joseph, Frank & Edward; and her sisters, Alice and Mary.

Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. and the family will greet friends after 10 a.m.

Saturday, April 16, at the DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral & Cremation Service, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley.

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

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Alvig Dagny Carlson: A celebration of life will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 30, at Presbyterian Church in Marengo. A luncheon for family and friends will follow.

Mary Ann Cruz: The memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 12, at The Pointe Outreach Center, 5650 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake. For information, call Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory at 815-459-3411.

Virgene Ehorn-Weber: The visitation will be from 9 a.m. until the 11:30 a.m. funeral service Thursday, April 28, at Ehorn-Adams Funeral Home, 10011 Main St., Richmond. Interment will be in Richmond Cemetery in Richmond.

Robin Franz Freeman: A memorial will be April 30. For information, call Jessi at 224829-2825.

Barbra “Barbie” A. Iverson: The visitation will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 17, at James A. O’Connor Funeral Home, 11603 E. Main St., Huntley. For information, call the funeral home at 847-6695111.

Ana Marie Lopez: The visitation will be from 9 a.m. until the 10 a.m. funeral Mass celebration Saturday, April 16, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee Road, Huntley. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery. For information, call DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral and Cremation Services at 847-515-8772.

Lee Roy Mai: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the 1 p.m. funeral service Sunday, April 10, at Colonial Funeral Home in McHenry. Burial will be private.

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Charles E. Mortell: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the noon memorial service Monday, April 11, at Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. Interment will be private. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-3411.

Charles D. Porter: The visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m., with a 5 p.m. funeral service, Sunday, April 10, at Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. Interment will be private in Windridge Memorial Park

in Cary. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-1760.

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

Kathy M. Stevens-Blasi: The gathering of friends and relatives will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, April 16, at Colonial Cafe, 5689 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake. For information, call Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home at 815-338-1710.

Ann Vutera: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. memorial service Saturday, April 16, at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral & Cremation Services, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley. For information, call the funeral home at 847-515-8772.

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Ana Marie Lopez, 55, of Huntley, died Feb. 28, 2016, after a courageous battle with cancer.

A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, April 16, 2016, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee Road, Huntley.

Visitation will be on Saturday from 9 to 10 a.m. at Church. Burial will be at St. Mary Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be directed to the American Cancer Society.

Ana was born July 26, 1958, in Mexico City, Mexico the daughter of Jose and Esperanza Lopez.

She worked for District 158 as an Executive Secretary and the interpreter for the District for 25 years.

She was a devoted mother and grandmother.

She always maintained a positive and upbeat attitude.

She is survived by her children, Michael (Norsiah) Castellanos and Susan Castellanos; and by her grandson, DJ. She is also survived by many brothers, sisters and nieces and nephews.

For further information please contact the funeral home at 847-515-8772 or online condolences may be directed to www.defiorejorgensen.com.

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Students at 24 state colleges object to Illinois budget mess

SPRINGFIELD – Students at two dozen Illinois colleges have penned an open letter to Gov. Bruce Rauner and lawmakers about the 10-month stalemate on a state budget.

The letter singles out the Republican governor for saying he wants a separate piece of legislation to fund elementary and secondary education for the coming year.

The letter said that initiative would be undermined if better-prepared high school graduates “leave the state for college because their preferred in-state college has either closed, is in serious financial jeopardy, or has fallen in educational ranking due to lack of state funding.”

The Budget Cuts Mean Us Coalition began at Northern Illinois University’s student government association and gained support from 17 other universities, seven colleges and the student board member to the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

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CHICAGO – A man who fled to Mexico following a 2009 hit-and-run that killed a DePaul University student was sentenced in Chicago to eight years in prison.

Carlos Castillo pleaded guilty Friday to leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident involving the death of 25-year-old Rachel Gilliam.

Before Byrne’s court appearance, Gilliam’s sister, Audrey Gilliam, said she couldn’t reconcile the remorse Castillo expressed in a letter he wrote the family with his unwillingness to return to the United States following the crime.

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Yorkville turns on Hastert as details of claims emerge The ASSOCIATED PRESS YORKVILLE – The small town that boasted of the role it played in Dennis Hastert’s ascent from high school wrestling coach to speaker of the U.S. House spoke bitterly of him Saturday, a day after prosecutors detailed allegations that Hastert sexually abused several members of the team.

The Illinois Republican’s reputation for congeniality contrasts with the government’s portrayal of him in a presentencing filing late Friday as a manipulator who exploited his mentor role to prey on young athletes.

Prosecutors said he also lied to investigators about why he agreed to pay one alleged victim $3.5 million, falsely accusing the victim of trying to extort him.

The Hastert revelations have made Yorkville seem less idyllic, said a 65-yearold retired UPS driver Mike Piatkowski as he watched his grandson, a freshman at Yorkville High School, at a Saturday baseball practice.

“It’s going to be hard to trust anybody, especially with the kids,” he said.

Hastert pleaded guilty last fall to violating banking laws in how he structured his cash withdrawals. Prosecutors said they would have considered abuse charges, but the statute of limitations for bringing such charges expired decades ago.

The court documents detail sexual abuse allegations involving at least four boys that took place at a motel or in the boys locker room at Yorkville High School, where Hastert taught and coached from 1965 until 1981.

It describes a “Lazyboy”-style chair where Hastert often sat in the locker room with a direct view of the stalls where the boys showered.

An emailed statement from Hastert’s lawyer, Thomas Green, on Saturday – as in earlier defense filings – refers

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Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert arrives at the federal courthouse June 9 in Chicago for his arraignment on federal charges in his hush-money case in Chicago. In a court filing Friday, prosecutors said Hastert agreed to let investigators record phone conversations he had with the man who later became known as “Individual A.” Agents later questioned Individual A, who told them about abuse that occurred when he was 14. only in general terms to past misconduct by Hastert.

“Mr. Hastert acknowledges that as a young man he committed transgressions for which he is profoundly sorry,” Green wrote.

Hastert helped put Yorkville on the map during his eight years as House speaker, making his unmasking all the more painful, several residents said.

Bob Evans, a former school colleague and friend of Hastert’s, recalled telling someone during a fishing trip in Canada years ago that he was from Yorkville and the person knowing it was the House speaker’s hometown.

“It hurts even more because we were all so proud of him,” he said of Hastert’s fall from grace.

Now, Evans said he and many others in town are asking themselves the same question: “All this time together, what the hell did I miss?”

Hastert left Yorkville High School for the state Legislature in the early 1980s. He entered Congress in 1987 and became speaker in 1999, holding the spot until his retirement

in 2007. He now lives near Yorkville, in Plano.

In the court filing, prosecutors said Hastert “was so sure his secrets were safe that he apparently had no fears about entering a profession where one is subject to constant scrutiny and media attention.”

Around 2010, one of the victims confronted Hastert about what he had done to him decades earlier, prosecutors contend. After the two agreed on a total payment of $3.5 million, Hastert managed to pay $1.7 million from 2010 to 2014. They stopped when the FBI questioned Hastert in late 2014 in about his massive cash withdrawals. They had no inkling abuse allegations had anything to do with the case when they first approached Hastert, Friday’s filing said.

According to prosecutors, it was only shortly after that first interview that a Hastert lawyer got back to agents with an explanation: Hastert was being extorted by the former student, who is referred to in the filing as Individual A, on a contrived claim of sexual-abuse.

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Belgium’s Federal Prosecution Office said the recently detained Abrini – the last identified suspect at large from the deadly Nov. 13 Paris attacks – also had confessed to being the vest- and hat-wearing man linked to the Brussels bombers whose image had been widely circulated by authorities.

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Sanders picks up win in Wyo. Presidential hopefuls look East, West for delegate support The ASSOCIATED PRESS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Ted Cruz completed his sweep of Colorado’s 34 delegates on Saturday while rival Donald Trump angled for favor a half-continent away in New York’s all-important April 19 primary. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders picked up another win in Wyoming — but it did nothing to help him gain ground in the delegate chase.

Cruz netted 13 more delegates at Colorado’s state GOP convention. The Texas Senator already had locked up the support of 21 Colorado delegates and visited the state to try to pad his numbers there.

Keeping up his tussle with Trump over values, Cruz told the Colorado crowd it’s easy to talk about making America great again – “you can even print that on a baseball cap” – but that the more important question is which candidate understands “the principles and values that made America great in the first place.”

Trump left the Colorado convention to his organizers, and spent about a half-hour

on Saturday touring the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan.

His campaign issued a statement describing the site as “symbolic of the strength of our country, and in particular New Yorkers, who have done such an incredible job rebuilding that devastated section of our city.”

“This is what ‘New York values’ are really all about,” it added, a not-too-veiled poke at Cruz, who has taken heat for his earlier criticism of “New York values.”

Democratic presidential hopefuls, too, were focused on New York’s big trove of delegates even as Wyoming gave its nod to Sanders over Hillary Clinton.

Sanders got word of his Wyoming win from his wife, Jane, midway through a rally in Queens, part of a fourstop swing through New York City. A raucous cheer went up from the New Yorkers, but the Wyoming vote was a draw from a delegate perspective: Sanders and Clinton each picked up seven.

That means Clinton has 1,287 delegates based on primaries and caucuses to Sanders’ 1,037. When including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton has 1,756, or 74 percent of the number need-

ed to clinch the nomination.

Sanders has 1,068.

Sanders, who has now won seven of the last eight state contests, called Wyoming “a beautiful, beautiful state,” and told reporters the vote there was part of a shift in support in his direction since the campaign left the Deep South.

“Now that we are in the second half of this campaign, we are going to state after state which I think have a more progressive outlook,” Sanders said. “We are in this race to win.”

On the Republican side, more than 3,000 people at Colorado’s Republican state convention picked the remaining 13 delegates. Cruz supporters sported bright orange T-shirts with his slate of delegates printed on the back. Trump’s organizers distributed a slate that listed incorrect information for four of his candidates.

Trump’s campaign contended the errors were due to changes to the ballot by the state GOP and did not rule out challenging the results.

Of the 34 delegates Cruz won, only 30 are technically pledged to his campaign; four are party officials who are unpledged but have promised to support Cruz, and the campaign placed them on its slate.

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Kerry presses Afghan leaders Water systems repeatedly exceed federal lead standard on unity; no U.S. troop changes The ASSOCIATED PRESS GALESBURG – This railroad town promotes its ties to Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and the poet Carl Sandburg. But Galesburg’s long history also shows in a hidden way: Aging pipes have been leaking lead into the drinking water for decades.

Blood tests show cause for concern.

One in 20 children under the age of 6 in Knox County had lead levels exceeding the state standard for public health intervention, a rate six times higher than the Illinois average, in 2014.

Galesburg offers just one example of how the problem of lead-tainted drinking water goes far beyond Flint, Michigan, the former auto manufacturing center where the issue exploded into a public health emergency when the city’s entire water system was declared unsafe.

An Associated Press analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data found nearly 1,400 water systems serving 3.6 million Americans exceeded the federal lead standard at least once between Jan. 1, 2013, and Sept.

30, 2015. The affected systems are large and small, public and private, and include 278 systems owned and operated by schools and day care centers in 41 states.

Galesburg officials downplay the water’s potential contribution to lead poisoning, which can affect children’s mental development. But city councilor Peter Schwartzman called the AP’s findings alarming.

“Most people in Galesburg are not really being told that there is a problem,” said Schwartzman, an environmental scientist. “I’m very close to this and didn’t know it. I feel ignorant.”

The AP reviewed 25 years of sampling data reported by 75,000 drinking water systems that are subject to a federal lead rule that took effect in 1991.

Details of the EPA data were first reported by USA Today.

While no amount of lead exposure is considered safe, the rule calls for water systems to keep levels below 15 parts per billion. If more than 10 percent of sampled high-risk homes are above that level, water agencies must inform customers about the problem and take steps such as adding chemicals to control corrosion and prevent leaching of the lead.

In Galesburg, a community of 31,000 about 200 miles southwest of Chicago, lead levels have exceeded the federal standard in 22 out of 30 testing periods since 1992. City officials said their ground water and water mains are lead-free, but the toxin enters the supply in service lines that deliver water from the streets to 4,700 homes. Lead-

based plumbing fixtures that were common in homes built before 1980 also contribute.

The city discovered its most recent problem last fall, when 7 out of 40 samples came back at unacceptable levels.

The city followed EPA guidelines by informing residents of the situation two months later. Its notice said that a chemical added to the water since 1993 has been effective in reducing the lead levels and resulted in “lead compliance since 2010,” a misleading statement since no testing was required in 2013 and 2014.

The notice added that recent testing showed the standard had been exceeded “by a narrow margin.” In reality, lead levels were 1.5 times the standard.

Whitney Zielke, 32, said her mother “freaked out” after receiving notice, but that she didn’t know what to think.

“It’s so downplayed,” Zielke said, standing outside her mother’s home on a street where testing revealed high amounts of lead. “It’s like, ‘Hey, we have to tell you this may or may not be happening.’ It’s bogus.”

Critics said the current rule has not done enough to protect public health or to inform individual homeowners about risks. Dozens of systems have exceeded the standard 10 times or more in the last quarter-century, including in Portland, Oregon and Providence, Rhode Island, the data shows.

In a statement, the EPA said events in Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere have raised questions about how the lead rule has been implemented. The agency is considering changes to the rule and urging state water regulators in the meantime to improve lead monitoring.

But the ultimate solution is expensive: It will take billions of dollars to replace millions of miles of lead service lines throughout the country.

Those are the lines that connect water mains to homes, schools and businesses, remnants from a time when scientists didn’t understand the dangers caused by lead.

Water operators sought to distance their systems from the situation in Flint, saying they were taking actions to reduce lead.

“We try to minimize it, whatever our contribution is” to childhood lead poisoning, said Joseph Bella, executive director of the Passaic Valley Water Commission in New Jersey, which has repeatedly exceeded the standard.

His agency serves 314,000 customers and has increased its lead sampling. It’s also replacing the last 400 lead service lines the utility owns and is speeding up a $135 million plan to add storage tanks for treated water so phosphate can be added to prevent the corrosion that leads to lead contamination.

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KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday committed to pushing reforms after his picks for attorney general and interior minister won long-sought Cabinet confirmation, while U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pleaded with the government’s power-sharing leaders to bury their “factional divisions” for the good of the country.

John Kerry Yet Ghani could not cite progress toward ending a bitter feud with Afghanistan’s chief executive, Abdullah Abdullah, that has hobbled the Kabul government for 18 months. The unwieldy arrangement, which Kerry helped to forge, has left interim ministers in critical positions while the U.S. ally struggles to confront lawlessness, corruption and the Taliban’s resilient and perhaps expanding insurgency.

“Democracy requires credible institutions,” Kerry told reporters at the end of his brief stopover in Afghanistan on his way to Japan for a

meeting of foreign ministers. “More than that, it requires people from different political, ethnic and geographic factions to be able to come together and work toward a common good.”

Ghani, at a news conference, hailed the Cabinet votes in parliament as a turning point. Progress on that front “assures us there will be fundamental, comprehensive reforms,” Ghani said through an interpreter.

Kerry backed him up and stressed the need for a unified approach between the competing Ghani and Abdullah camps, hardened still even two years after a contested presidential election.

In the coming months, NATO and international donor summits could define long-term security and aid commitments critical to the Afghan government’s survival, so Kerry sought clarity on Afghanistan’s direction.

Kerry called on the Taliban to re-engage in peace talks dormant for almost a year, and said there was no change now in President Barack Obama’s plans for troop levels in Afghanistan. There are 9,800 U.S. forces on the ground in Afghanistan, and that number is set to fall to 5,500 next year.

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figured Greensboro’s city council districts over the city’s objections and stopped the city’s practice of accepting identification cards created by a local nonprofit for immigrants unlawfully in the country. “We have a conservative legislature and we have progressive urban centers, and I think it’s the natural rubbing of the two different philosophies.”

Canceling the Democratic-controlled Charlotte City Council ordinance March 23 has led to calls by more than 130 corporate executives to repeal the law they say legalizes discrimination. The law goes beyond what became the focal point for GOP leaders – preventing transgender people from using public bathrooms aligned with their gender identity.

Lawmakers prevented all local governments from passing protection for gays, lesbians, and bisexual and transgender people with public accommodations and left the groups out of a new statewide nondiscrimination policy.

Schools and state agencies now must limit multi-stall bathroom use to only people of the same biological sex. Gayrights groups sued last week to block the law, which also went beyond LGBT issues by reaffirming a ban on cities and counties raising the minimum

wage above $7.25.

Since 2011, the GOP legislature has rolled back statewide municipal land annexation powers and attempted to wrest Charlotte’s airport from city control. Last year, it prevented cities and counties from passing their own fracking bans and creating “sanctuary city” rules protecting immigrants. Additional home design standards were prohibited beyond what the state building code allows.

McCrory has signed several statewide local pre-emption bills into law, even though he urged the legislature to strengthen cities during his 14 years as Charlotte mayor.

As governor, he’s generally criticized legislators for interfering in local affairs when there is no consensus among leaders back home. Not so with Charlotte’s ordinance, which he said crossed the line because of the bathroom provision, the effect it had on city visitors and how other communities could follow Charlotte’s lead.

“The difference is this goes beyond city boundaries,” McCrory told The Associated Press the day after Charlotte passed the ordinance in late February. “This is not a billboard policy. ...

This is a basic policy of human interaction and privacy.”

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RALEIGH, N.C. – The decision by the North Carolina legislature and Gov. Pat McCrory to overturn Charlotte’s anti-discrimination ordinance for LGBT residents isn’t simply another skirmish in the decades-old culture war between conservatives and progressives.

It’s the latest muscle-flexing by leaders in Republican-controlled states to rebuff local governments – often large cities run by Democrats – implementing policies they disagree with or haven’t sanctioned.

“You see the most liberal city councils and mayors over-regulating,” said North Carolina House Majority Leader Mike Hager, from small-town Rutherfordton. He added the state can’t become a patchwork of key commerce and employment rules, depending on the city.

“By law we have that responsibility to make sure that the cities and counties do what they’re supposed to be doing.”

Over the past year, Alabama legislators voided Birmingham’s decision to increase the minimum wage, while Missouri lawmakers blocked similar pay increases by all cities and counties.

They also barred local governments from banning plastic bags used by retailers. Tennessee and Arkansas legislators also have passed laws overturning municipal gay rights ordinances.

“We’re increasingly seeing that the policy battleground is between the states and the localities,” said John Dinan, a Wake Forest University professor and expert in state constitutions and relationships between levels of government.

There are few states where the fissure is more noticeable than Pat McCrory North Carolina. Municipalities once considered a powerful lobbying force within the General Assembly have been in retreat since Republicans took over the legislature in 2011 for the first time in 140 years. Current top House and Senate leaders live outside urban centers like Charlotte and Raleigh, which generally skew Democratic.

“They’ve really been putting their fingers into quite a few local issues,” said Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan. She is a Democrat, although the City Council is officially nonpartisan. The legislature last year recon-

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Dan McCaleb Editorial Director

Jason Schaumburg Editor

OUR VIEW

Be responsible while gambling Now that Crystal Lake has approved video gaming, Lakewood is McHenry County’s lone holdout.

Illinois legalized video gambling in 2009 to help generate revenue to pay off the bonds for a $31 billion capital plan, although the machines didn’t start appearing in local establishments until late 2012.

Crystal Lake For the record was one of six local governments that Crystal Lake was one of six took advantage of local governments that took an opt-out under advantage of an opt-out under the law and banned the law and banned video video gambling, and gambling, and is the fifth to is the fifth to change change its mind. its mind. Woodstock reversed its ban in 2012; and Cary, Algonquin and the McHenry County Board reversed their bans the next year.

The state gets 30 percent of the proceeds, 5 percent of which is given back to the local government on top of whatever annual fees it charges.

The remaining 70 percent of the proceeds are split between the machine owner and the establishment.

The revenue is great, however, we have been opposed to video gaming from the start because of what it can do to the gamblers. We have maintained the cost of helping these establishments get additional revenue needed to be balanced with the harm it can cause an individual with an addiction and a family who may not be able to afford losing the dollars pumped into a machine with an often false hope of a big payout.

That said, it looks like video gaming is here to stay, and there doesn’t appear to be much public outcry against it.

As Paul Leech, owner of The Cottage in Crystal Lake, pointed out, there wasn’t any opposition at Tuesday’s Crystal Lake City Council meeting when the council was voting on video gambling.

“I don’t see anybody here standing up and objecting to it,” Leech said. “I don’t see people knocking down the door with pickaxes, handles and pitchforks demanding we all resign.”

Moving forward, we urge residents to proceed with caution with their video gambling habits.

When done in moderation and at a level you can afford, video gaming can be an entertaining way to spend your disposable income.

When done recklessly, it can become crippling, and a gambling addiction can tear families apart.

If you are going to gamble, please gamble responsibly.

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ANOTHER VIEW

Favor raise in minimum wage Governors of the nation’s most and fourth-most populous states, California and New York, respectively, have signed a $15-per-hour minimum wage into law. What the success of the $15 minimum wage movement shows, in part, is politics abhors a vacuum. In the absence of action by the Republican-controlled Congress to raise the federal minimum wage, states and cities encompassing about 65 percent of the U.S. population have decided to enact higher minimums, although usually less than $15. Maybe the GOP should have taken President Barack Obama up on his request for a $9 minimum when he offered it back in his 2013 State of the Union address.

Another lesson, however, is that, when it comes to public policy, popular and wise are not necessarily the same. Stuck on $7.25 an hour since 2009, the federal minimum is due for an

increase, especially in light of stagnant wages and income inequality. The magnitude of that increase, however, is a matter for caution, given the widely varying labor-market conditions across the country and the likelihood that sharp mandatory wage hikes would reduce the supply of jobs.

Moderate minimum wage increases in the past have not produced disastrous short-term employment consequences, at least not sharp enough to outweigh the perceived benefits of protecting workers from a race to the bottom of the labor market. Yet $15 an hour would represent a quantum leap in the U.S. minimum wage, from its present level of about 35 percent of the median full-time hourly wage to nearly 75 percent of it, based on our reading of figures from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and

the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

No other industrialized country’s statutory minimum wage even comes close.

Even phased in over a few years, $15 would represent a major departure, about which existing economic research offers little solid guidance. The obvious risks – borne disproportionately by the very-low-income workers whom minimums are meant to help – are apparent even to advocates of the $15 minimum, as the many loopholes and caveats built into the California and New York increases implicitly demonstrate.

The minimum wage should go up, but sustainably. Setting the minimum at a particular historical benchmark, such as a percentage of the poverty line for a family, or a share of the median wage, would help focus the debate, and anchor it.

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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VIEWS Cal Thomas exposed by the media and gloating opponents who seek to destroy a fellow candidate, rather than beat him (or her) on the field of ideas? If I were to run, I would issue a news release on every sin I can remember having committed, because for the media and the other party (and sometimes with candidates in one’s own party) it isn’t about what one has done, as much as what one is hiding.

Looking at today’s remaining field of presidential candidates reminds me of a quote from John F. Kennedy when he ran for president in 1960 against the legacy of the Eisenhower-Nixon administration. “We can do better,” JFK said.

We certainly can, but the signs offer little reason for optimism.

On one side in this presidential contest we have a tired old warhorse,

Hillary Clinton, whose chief qualifications for office appear to be her gender and a sense of entitlement after sticking with her adulterous husband. She has no real accomplishments to which she can point.

The other Democratic candidate is an even older dinosaur who metaphorically wants to change America’s initials from USA to ATM, with free stuff for all, paid for by taxing “millionaires and billionaires.”

Millennials, who apparently have no clue about economics, drink the red Kool-Aid like members of a cult.

On the Republican side there is Donald Trump. Polls show Trump has unified much of America like few other politicians. Unfortunately for him, most are unified in opposition.

There is Sen. Ted Cruz, who might save the GOP from Trump, but who needs to work on his own likability.

Ohio Governor John Kasich remains in the race for reasons known only to himself. Kasich is proving the cynicism of baseball coach Leo Durocher’s line, “nice guys finish last.”

There must be a better way to nominate and elect a president. The Constitution provides little guidance.

There is nothing in it about parties, conventions or length of campaigns.

Why must we endure nonstop politicking? As soon as one election ends, people start positioning themselves for the next one. Much of this is due to the voracious media, especially cable news. This fixation on politicians as saviors doesn’t benefit the country.

Can academia, or think tanks, put together a plan that points to a better way to get good people in office at lower cost and less time commitment? Would politicians of both parties accept it? It is obscene that it takes $1 billion to run for president today.

We can do better, but will we? We had better, or face the likelihood of even worse political choices in the future.

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After tame volleys, it’s clear Democrats don’t know ‘nasty’

By JENNIFER RUBIN The Washington Post Liberal pundits, mainstream reporters and Democratic senators and activists are aghast the Democratic presidential primary has become “nasty.”

Hillary Clinton is accused of calling Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont – gasp!

– “unqualified,” which she did not (but if she had, she would have been on solid ground, if you go by his atrocious interview with the New York Daily News). He retorts she is “unqualified” because of her Wall Street donors and Iraq War vote. (Strictly speaking, neither makes her “unqualified” – “unfit” or “vulnerable” or “wrong,” in the eyes of Democrats, perhaps.) The Clinton camp responds this is a new “low” and Sanders should take a “time out.” Get the smelling salts. The micro-aggressions are piling up.

Republicans are wondering when the nasty part comes in. Really, “unqualified” is now beyond the pale? Donald Trump calls Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a “liar” practically every hour. Sometimes he throws in “crazy” and “very dishonest.” Cruz called Trump a “sniveling coward” for retweeting an unflattering picture of his wife. Trump’s campaign fired off a statement after losing in Wisconsin, accusing Cruz’s super PAC of commit-

ting a crime, namely coordinating with the campaign in violation of federal law. Listen, the Republican primary zoomed past “nasty” months ago.

The outrage over much tamer language in the Democratic race stems, one can infer, from the frustration in the Clinton camp and among her media allies that Sanders has no place even being in the race, should have lost like a good fellow and is making Clinton look like a weak candidate. Sanders, you see, was supposed to be a “sparring” partner who would make Clinton a better candidate. He wasn’t supposed to win.

It also may derive from the mistaken assumption since Clinton has a nearly insurmountable delegate lead, Sanders cannot do real damage. Ah, but he is, simply by winning.

Frankly, no Democrat should want to look whiny and weak complaining about comparatively tame campaign rhetoric, not with Trump and Cruz in the wings licking their chops. The Clinton team is kidding themselves if they think the GOP attacks will be stronger now that Sanders has spoken.

A socialist berating Clinton as a sellout to the left is the last thing she need worry about in a general election. As much as she would like to pivot for the general election, she has to knock out Sanders first. In doing so, by the way,

she will improve her image as a fighter for the general election.

Rather than chide Sanders for having the temerity to call her “not qualified,” Clinton would do well to go after him for appalling ignorance and for cynically telling voters they can have it all without paying for anything.

She should go ahead and call him unsuited to the times in which we live, where real threats to America and real domestic problems tear at the fabric of the country. She might as well say he’s going to be a pushover for the Republicans.

The Clinton camp seems to think by training their guns on him, Clinton somehow will elevate Sanders, give him more attention or credit than he is due. That’s denial talking. He is now statistically tied with her in at least one national poll. He has won seven of the past eight states. In fact, conflict avoidance has gotten her nowhere in the race and has let her opponent gain new credibility.

Clinton has a challenge similar to opponents of Trump. Sanders and Trump have no inclination to stick to reality, no regard for facts and hence feel no obligation to propose anything approaching a realistic solution.

Clinton must watch in amazement as Sanders “gets away” with this, coming through interviews (except

the New York Daily News) virtually unscathed. Sanders and Trump do, as their opponents complain, enjoy a double standard, the soft bigotry of low expectations, if you will. The problem is not going to go away on its own, but it is solvable.

Clinton should learn the lesson Cruz did after months of trying not to tangle with his opponent. You have to embrace the fight you are in and go on offense, attacking gross errors and misstatements, demanding your opponent provide more than anger.

In the last debate before the Florida primary Cruz declared, “Listen, we’ve got lots of challenges in the world. But the answer can’t just be wave a magic wand and say, ‘Problem go away.’ You have to understand the problems. You have to have real solutions.” Later, on China and Islamic terrorism, he argued, “You’ve got to understand the nature of the threats we’re facing and how you deal with them.” Those were good lines, well targeted and entirely within the bounds of civil discourse.

Clinton should steal a few.

Come to think of it, they work just as well against Sanders as they do against Trump.

• Jennifer Rubin writes the Right Turn blog for The Post, offering opinion from a conservative perspective.

• Sunday, April 10, 2016

Occasionally, I am asked whether I ever considered running for political office. My response: “I did once, but I took two aspirin, lay down for a while and the feeling went away.”

Besides not wanting to accept a pay cut, why would I want to put myself through the agony of exposing the smallest misdeed and bad decision to political opponents and a ravenous media who could turn my public image into something no family member would recognize? Not to mention the amount of money I would have to raise that would go up exponentially the higher the office sought. With each donated dollar, a little piece of my soul, character and integrity ultimately must be exchanged. Why else do people donate if they don’t expect something in return? Might that something somehow dilute whatever virtues I am perceived to possess?

What I have just described are major reasons why people who might be smart and capable enough to run for office decline the “honor.” Who looks forward to having one’s sins

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By EUGENIA LAST Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY –Don’t shy away from change when you can embrace it. Your adventurous attitude and need to enjoy whatever you do will take you on a wild and wonderful journey. If you embrace what life offers and live in the moment, you will find peace of mind and a path that leads to happiness.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Discipline and research are encouraged. Put more time and effort into personal improvements and your relationship with someone special. Share your feelings and set the stage for romance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – A new interest will result in inexpensive fun. It’s OK to do things

differently. Figure out what works best for you and carry on.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Follow your gut feeling and get involved in something that promises personal gain or improvement. Romance is featured, and sharing an experience with someone will bring you closer together.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Don’t take on responsibilities that don’t belong to you. An unexpected change of plans shouldn’t stop you from doing your own thing. Stick close to home and nurture what’s important to you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – You will be at the top of your game physically, so make your actions count.

Don’t let someone meddle in your affairs. Stay focused and enjoy a competitive challenge.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Take the path of least resistance. There is no point in arguing or letting your emotions get the better of you. Do what needs to be done and move on.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Enjoy meeting new people or visiting places you’ve never been before. A gathering or reunion will lead to love and romance.

Don’t be afraid to initiate personal change.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) –You’ll have some great ideas that will help you incorporate something you love to do into the way you earn your living. A discussion with a colleague or someone influential will motivate you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Keep a low profile. Avoid anyone looking for a fight or trying to pressure you into something that isn’t in your best

interest. Altering your living arrangements will be beneficial.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Look after your physical well-being and make a point to find healthy alternatives to any bad habits or routines you’ve adopted. Be smart and do what’s best for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- You need to get back to the things and people that make you happy.

Spend time with children, family or the one you love.

Personal improvements will bring high returns.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Don’t give in to an unrealistic plan or individual. Emotions will surface, causing confusion and imprudent choices. Don’t contribute to something you know little about.

Protect against loss.

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Flex time, greater responsibility among opportunities to attract younger workforce

By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – When searching for a job after college, Kyle Swenson didn’t want location to determine where he would begin his career, a decision he admits not many of his friends would make.

Swenson, 26, settled on Eisenmann Corp., a global company that provides environmentally friendly engineering services with U.S. headquarters in Crystal Lake, for the opportunities and experience the company has been known to provide younger, millennial-aged workers in engineering.

“I took this for the job, not for Crystal Lake,” Swenson said. “I feel like my situation is not the norm.

I think a lot of people our age pick based off location. They pick where they want to live and then worry about work after that.”

Many stories in media generally describe young workers from the millennial generation as urban dwellers who prefer renting to owning and lively neighborhoods within walking distance to nightlife, although recent U.S. Census data suggests the trend may be changing as the generation starts to age.

For some companies that employ a large segment of millennials

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Eisenmann Corp. project manager Joe Schlesinger checks a schematic drawing recently in the Crystal Lake office. Eisenmann provides project and sales services for industrial companies, specializing in environmentally friendly products. in McHenry County, they’ve found that a clearly marked career path, engagement and perks providing the work-life balance many millennial workers are known to desire all can draw them to suburban locations and

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Cost of mailing letter drops to 47 cents The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – The cost of mailing a letter is going down.

Beginning Sunday, the price of a first-class stamp drops two cents, to 47 cents.

The reduction is the result of an expiring surcharge that had been put in place in January 2014 to help the beleaguered Postal Service recoup $4.6 billion in losses dating back to the Great Recession.

Postmaster General Megan J. Bren-

nan said in a statement that the forced rate reduction would exacerbate Postal Service losses.

The agency estimated that it would lose $2 billion in annual revenue as a result.

Commercial and other postage rates also are declining.

In its latest financial report, the agency reported a $307 million profit between October and December of 2015, in part because of increases in holiday shipping.

But postal officials said at the time

that without favorable interest rate changes and the postal surcharge, they would have had a net loss of about $700 million in the first quarter.

An independent agency, the Postal Service does not use taxpayer money for its operations.

But under federal law, it can’t raise prices more than the rate of inflation without approval from the Postal Regulatory Commission.

The service is still seeking relief from a congressional mandate to prefund retiree health benefits, something

that neither the government nor private companies are required to do, as well as greater flexibility in setting rates.

“To properly compete for customers and continue to meet America’s evolving mailing and shipping needs, the Postal Service needs the financial capability to invest in the future,” Brennan said. “We continue to seek legislative reforms to put the Postal Service back on a sustainable financial path, and pricing is an important component.”

Experts: Corporate tax inversions to survive new rules

By TOM MURPHY The Associated Press President Barack Obama scored a victory this week when Pfizer scrapped a $160 billion overseas deal that would have kept a chunk of the drugmaker’s profits beyond the U.S. tax man’s reach.

But recent, aggressive federal actions that discouraged Pfizer Inc.’s combination with another drugmaker, Allergan PLC, won’t stop all so-called inversions, or deals that end with a company relocating to another country – at least on paper – and trimming its U.S. tax bill in the process.

Tax and legal experts said these deals, which have come under growing criticism from politicians, will remain attractive to some companies until the U.S. pursues a massive tax law overhaul.

“There may be a temporary respite from inversions, but the large financial benefits ... are still there,” said Bret Wells, a tax lawyer and law professor at the University of Houston.

Even the Obama administration, which has taken several steps to discourage inversions in recent years, said Congress ultimately must step into this fight.

In an inversion, a U.S. corporation and a foreign company combine into a parent company based in the foreign country. For tax purposes, the U.S. company becomes foreign-owned, even if all the executives and operations stay in the U.S. Inversions have become particularly popular in health care. They allow companies to avoid paying additional taxes the U.S. government would impose on money earned overseas and then transferred back to the parent.

They can reduce corporate tax liability in other ways, and they provide some relief from the U.S. corporate tax rate of 35 percent, which is the highest in the industrialized world.

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The Allergan logo appears Nov. 23 above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Allergan and Pfizer called off a record $160 billion merger Wednesday after the Treasury issued new rules to make “tax inversions” less lucrative.

But Obama and others have said these deals shortchange the country because corporations fail to pay their fair share of taxes.

Earlier this week, the Treasury Department announced a third round of regulations designed to limit the practice and make it less lucrative for companies. The new regulations seek, among other things, to limit inversion benefits like tax deductions that can stem from internal corporate borrowings.

Pfizer cited the new regulations in

scuttling its deal.

These rules will make it harder for U.S. companies to find a foreign deal partner, said Donald Goldman, a professor at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business. He added the regulations “will definitely have a chilling effect on inversions.”

They actually will come close to killing the practice, according to Robert Willens, president of a New Yorkbased tax and accounting service and a former Lehman Brothers managing director.

But he said some narrowly tailored deals that have the right balance of U.S. and foreign ownership should survive.

He cited as an example the pending $14.6 billion combination of Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls Inc. and Ireland’s Tyco International, companies that make security and other building control systems.

Johnson Controls spokesman Fraser Engerman said the company was reviewing the new Treasury regulations and wouldn’t speculate on what impact they might have on the Tyco deal.

LOCAL BRIEFS Women in McHenry County to honor professionals during luncheon

CRYSTAL LAKE – Networking group Women in McHenry County (WIM3) will honor two local professionals during an upcoming awards luncheon, according to a news release.

Elaine Jungk, a Crystal Lake resident who has worked in project management, is this year’s recipient of WIM3’s Charlotte Danstrom Award in Elaine Jungk the corporate category. Patty Luchsinger, a former Crystal Lake Chamber board member who works as a network marketer at Isagenix, will receive the group’s Women of Achievement Award in the enPatty trepreneur product category. Luchsinger Throughout her career, Jungk has delivered major projects for companies such as R.R. Donnelly, Experian, Sears Corporate and her current employer, Lincoln Financial Group. She also co-chairs the WIM3 scholarship committee.

A WIM3 member, Luchsinger has served numerous local community and professional groups throughout her career. Both women will receive their awards during a WIM3 luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. April 21, at 31 North Banquets in McHenry.

For ticket information, visit WIM3.com.

McHenry sand and gravel site wins industry award

McHENRY – A sand and gravel site in McHenry recently received the Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers’ Industry Leadership Award, according to a news release.

Aggregate Industries’ McHenry site earned the award after demonstrating leadership in the industry while promoting the well-being of its site and employees, the release stated.

The award typically goes to member sites whose employees frequently have participated in association activities, and earned other association awards and certificates.

“We’re honored to receive this recognition from the IAAP and are proud of our team who worked hard to participate in association activities, as well as environmental stewardship, community outreach and safety-focused programs,” said Randi Wille, Aggregate Industries director of land and environment for the mid-America region.

Meyer Materials operates Aggregate Industries’ McHenry site along with others in Algonquin, Marengo and Harvard, according to its website. Aggregate Industries provides construction materials to markets in 16 states.

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Staffing agency Working World, 14 N. Walkup Ave., Crystal Lake, marked 35 years as a member with the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce. Chamber representatives helped Marilyn Dahlmann, Connie Goldberg, Katie Matyas, Tawny Havert, Nancy Wenzel and Richard Wenzel celebrate the milestone.

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What’s an emergency?

Dear Dave,

DAVE SAYS Dave Ramsey

Recently, I got a speeding ticket.

I’m also following your plan, so I was wondering if a speeding ticket is a good reason to dip into my emergency fund.

– Ariel

Dear Ariel,

Well, it depends. Certainly, you have to pay the ticket. In most states you could lose your driver’s license for not paying a speeding ticket.

You’d have a real emergency then, wouldn’t you?

I would advise looking at the situation this way: What is the amount of the ticket in relation to your income and overall financial health?

If the ticket is $100, and you make $200,000 a year, then stop worrying and pay the ticket. But if you got slapped with a $300 ticket and you only make $20,000 a year, then that could be an emergency.

If you can cash flow it out of your budget, then leave the emergency fund alone. If not, then dip in the fund for just enough to pay the fine and replace the amount as quickly as possible. I mean, you’ve got to get it paid, right?

That’s an interesting question, Ariel. I’m glad you’re working to get control of your money. Just remember to slow down a little when you’re behind the wheel.

– Dave

Dear Dave,

How do you decide whether or not to sell collectible memorabilia when you’re getting out of debt?

– William

Dear William,

In most cases, there’s a pretty wide spectrum of emotional involvement when it comes to this sort of stuff.

There’s a big difference between having a baseball signed by Mickey Mantle from a day that you and your dad met Mickey at the stadium, and buying a baseball a few years ago that he autographed and seeing it has gone up in value.

With the first, I’d be tempted to tell you to keep it unless you’re literally about to lose everything. In it, you have a deep, emotional connection – a personal story about you, your dad and one of the greatest baseball players of all time. It was a sentimental, once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing.

In the second case, it’s just a purchase you made as a hobby. That kind of thing can go without a whole lot of thought.

If what you own doesn’t have some kind of deep sentimental and emotional connection to family or a major life event, then it’s just stuff.

I hope this helps a little, William.

There’s nothing wrong with having some nice things. But there’s a big difference between you having things and your things having you. Never let “stuff” stand between you and your family’s sense of security and financial well-being.

– 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.

LOCAL BRIEF Cary Physical Therapy adds assistant to its staff

CARY – Cary Physical Therapy recently added a new therapist assistant to its staff, according to a news release.

New physical therapist assistant Marilee Kelly brings 27 years of experience to Cary Physical Therapy, 2615 Three Oaks Road. She received her accreditation from Oakton Community College.

“I am excited to join this family-owned private practice and learn more about all of the specialized programs,” Kelly said in the release.

Kelly will work closely with a supervising physical therapist to provide patient care and to design patient plans.

A physical therapy student from the University of Illinois at Chicago also recently completed a 12-week internship with Cary Physical Therapy.

Juliya Kulbachenko received one-onone mentoring and training during the experience, according to a news release.

For information, call 847-516-0895.

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By SINAN SALAHEDDIN The Associated Press BAGHDAD – Iraqi businessman Zaid Nazo has always been sure of his nation’s deep passion for food and wasn’t afraid to dream big when he transformed his small Baghdad coffee shop in 1999 into a casual dining and takeaway restaurant. Today, the 41-year-old father of two has opened four branches and his chain is one of the most popular in Iraq.

Many Iraqi entrepreneurs are finding restaurants and eateries a safe business bet, despite the country’s slumping economy, prevailing violence and an ongoing war with the Islamic State group.

The food business is growing quickly. There are 40 percent more restaurants in Baghdad today than there were in 2013 – when security and economic conditions in the country were much better – according to Shakir al-Zamili, the chairman of Baghdad Investment Commission.

It’s unexpected when the city still faces almost daily bombings, large swaths of the country are under control of the extremist Islamic State group and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is embroiled in a political crisis over stalled reforms and allegations of rampant corruption.

It’s also a testament to Iraqis’ determination to triumph over violence.

Nazo and his business partner, his close friend Marwan Rassam, established their first eatery – Saj al-Reef or “Country Bread” in Arabic – in the upscale Baghdad neighborhood of Karrada 18 years ago.

Then in 2007, they opened a second branch in Irbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region,

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Customers serve themselves from a buffet March 24 at a busy restaurant in Baghdad.

Many Iraqi entrepreneurs are finding restaurants and eateries a safe business bet despite the country’s slumping economy, prevailing violence and an ongoing war with the Islamic State group. The food business is booming. and a third in 2009, in the nearby town of Sulaimaniyah.

This February, he opened a new place in Baghdad’s upmarket Mansour neighborhood.

“I bet on the mentality of Iraqis,” he told The Associated Press. “The Iraqi people love to live ... and they make the most of every day because they don’t know what tomorrow will bring,” he added.

The food boom has seen new establishments open all around Baghdad, from city rooftops to the banks of the Tigris River. Local businessmen are pouring millions of dollars into buying or renting property, bringing in foreign chefs and staff, competing with one another for the fanciest design, best decoration and most attractive

cuisine.

And although suicide and car bombings regularly target large gatherings – including restaurants – the boom has not slowed.

“Baghdadis live under huge pressure,” said al-Zamili, the chairman of the Baghdad Investment Commission.

“Restaurants are the best place to vent daily frustrations and that’s the main catalyst behind the spike in these projects.”

The government offers significant tax breaks for up to 10 years for new ventures, and expedites entry visas for foreign staff at such businesses.

After the Islamic State took much of northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014, investors’ appetite for restaurants, entertainment and hospi-

tality projects slowed down considerably, al-Zamili said.

Then it picked up and started to skyrocket, he said.

Four out of 10 proposals that land before al-Zamili’s commission are for restaurants or coffee shops. Baghdad has now more than 100 restaurants, coffee shops and eateries that are licensed by his commission – and twice as many are in the planning stages.

Nazo likes to trace the Iraqi passion for food to antiquity.

Last century, archaeologists discovered what is believed to be one of the world’s oldest cookbooks – three clay tablets written in cuneiform script, dating to about 1700 B.C. Housed at the Babylonian Collection of Yale University, they give cooking instructions for more than two dozen Mesopotamian dishes, including stews made of pigeon or lamb, a turnip dish and a kind of poultry pie.

Culinary arts flourished when Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, from the eighth to the 13th century, and many cookbooks have been preserved from that period.

Iraq’s signature dishes include masgouf, a grilled fish, as well as lamb kebabs and fire-roasted chicken. But many Baghdad eateries now offer American-style fast food, with added spice to appeal to the Iraqi palate.

Nazo remembers when he started in Karrada, they offered mostly traditional shawarma sandwiches wrapped with saj – traditional, unleavened flatbread baked on a dome-shaped metal griddle over a wood fire.

His latest branch cost more than $1 million and can seat 500 clients. Its menu touts nearly 70 Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Chinese, French and Italian dishes.

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Sal’s Pizza Place, 11019 N. Woodstock St., Huntley, formally opened for business during a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony with the Huntley Area Chamber of Commerce. Chamber representatives, village officials and numerous guests helped owners Sue and Sal Bongiovanni mark the occasion.

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Children can be unwitting identity theft victims tims. Often, thieves will use a different name and birthday when opening the accounts, she says.

NEW YORK – They might not be old Crooks like to target children beenough to swipe a credit card or take cause they know they can get away out a loan, but you still need to keep an with it longer and open several aceye on your little one’s credit. counts.

Kids can be victims of identity theft, “It’s very lucrative,” Velasquez said. too, and it often goes unnoticed by parHere’s more on what parents should ents for years. Typically, a youngster know: doesn’t find out something is wrong with their credit until they grow up How common is child identity theft? and get rejected for a student loan or Putting a number on just how many isn’t able to get a credit card. That’s minors are identity theft victims is why experts say more parents should tough, since experts say many of the monitor their child’s credit to fix is- crimes are unreported or not known sues early. about until years later. The Federal “By the time the kid finds out, their Trade Commission says of the more credit has already been massacred,” than 410,000 identity theft complaints says Adam Levin, founder of identi- made last year, about 5 percent were ty theft recovery service IDT911 and for those 19 and under , the same rate author of “Swiped: How to Protect as in 2014.

Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves.”

How would someone get a hold of a All thieves need to obtain a fraud- kid’s Social Security number? ulent credit card or other loan is a There are a few ways. It could be stochild’s Social Security number, says len in a data breach. Last year, for exEva Velasquez, president and CEO of ample, children’s Social Security numThe Identity Theft Resource Center , a bers were exposed in hacks of health non-profit that helps identity theft vic- insurance companies, says Velasquez.

By JOSEPH PISANI

The Associated Press

A child’s Social Security number can also get into the wrong hands from school forms and paper work. (Always question why a school needs a child’s Social Security’s number on a form; it may not be necessary to provide the number, says Velasquez.)

A family member who knows the kid’s Social Security number may also use it to create fraudulent accounts.

Children should also be reminded not to give out personal information online, whether it’s through contest forms or social media sites. Also, they should be told to stay clear of sketchy links in emails that aim to steal passwords and other information.

How often should I check if my kid has What are the signs that someone is a credit report? using my kid’s information to open acA: At least by the time they are 16 counts? years old, according to the FTC. That

Mailed pre-approved credit offers in will give you enough time to fix any isyour child’s name, or calls from debt sues before the child may need to take out a student loan or open their first collectors. credit card. Others recommend more Is there a way to check if someone is frequent checks. Michael Bruemmer, using my kid’s credit? the vice president of consumer protecYes. You can do so for free by con- tion at Experian, says parents should tacting the three major credit report- check in with all three credit rating ing agencies – Equifax, Experian and agencies once a year.

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The countywide workforce agency detailed in its annual labor report last fall a 2.3 decline in the number of people participating in the local labor force, a drop mostly tied to retirements, workforce officials said.

“Companies are struggling to recruit and retain younger workers,” Billimack said. “In general, companies in McHenry County do not pay their workers as much as companies closer to the city. Oftentimes, younger workers struggle with paying for their expenses, including housing, on their salary.”

At Eisenmann, the company articulates the value its entry level engineering jobs can provide, Human Resource Manager Jeff Fischer said. Eisenmann also engages younger workers, giving them projects to tackle from the onset while working alongside veteran engineers, he said.

“What we do in recruiting is our value proposition,” Fischer said. “They get to work on some of the most complex technologies for manufacturing.

They work with big customers that everybody has heard about. They really find meaning in their work. They have a lot of responsibility, and they are contributing to these large capital projects.”

From Crystal Lake, Eisenmann,

H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com

Eisenmann Corp. human resources manager Jeff Fischer explains how the company recruits students from the University of Wisconsin and Purdue University engineering departments. Area employers are working to recruit and retain younger millennial workers as the labor forces ages out. which has international headquarters in Germany, provides engineering, project and sales services for companies primarily in the automotive and chemical processing industries. About 28 percent of its workforce in Crystal Lake fall within the millennial generation.

Aside from opportunity and engagement, the company grants flexible work hours, allowing workers to manage their own schedules around

TransUnion – and ask to check if your child has a credit report. They will ask you for your child’s Social Security number and may ask to mail in other forms to prove you are the kid’s parent or guardian.

If there is no credit report for your child, that’s a good sign – most kids should not have one. Credit reports are only created when a credit card, loan or other type of credit is opened.

So having one may mean someone has opened a fraudulent account. To correct any fraud, you’ll need to work with the credit reporting agencies and contact the creditors.

their needs. Unlike Swenson, who lives in Crystal Lake, project manager Joe Schlesinger, 26, said the flex hours allow him to better manage his commute from his apartment in Chicago.

“The flex hours make it convenient,” he said. “There are a lot of reasons other than just the work, but ... being younger, we want to get good experience.”

Crystal Lake-based engineering services firm Baxter and Woodman

accommodates workers’ schedules through shortened work weeks, amenable hours and a collegial culture – company features that resonate with millennials’ work-life balance and work styles, said Nicole Runions, who works in the firm’s human resource division.

Employing 200 people, Baxter and Woodman’s workforce roughly is split between millennial-aged workers and older workers from the Baby Boomer generation, Runions said.

When millennials are hired, they can choose to work from home or split time between regional offices in Crystal Lake, Chicago and Milwaukee. All staff can do a four-and-a-half day work week, allowing them to start their Friday shift at 7:30 a.m. and end it at 12:30 p.m.

Mondays through Thursdays, workers generally are on the clock from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The company hosts dinner dances, summer picnics and organizes a softball team to keep the atmosphere loose for employees. Baxter and Woodman also wants to engage their younger workers, encouraging them to find mentors within the company, Runions said.

“It’s really important to keep them engaged in their careers, so they can see where they can go. We have mentors who have been here for 20, 30 years and are great mentors for the younger generation,” she said. “Everybody works together, asks questions of each other and gives feedback.”

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79. Overly ingratiating 81. Senior project

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THE PUZZLER ACROSS 1 Jelly fruit 6 Strikebreaker 10 OT prophet 15 Story from Aesop 20 Unwind 21 Laugh out loud 22 Stage whisper 23 Shout 24 Watchful 25 -- of Wight 26 Kitchen gadget 27 Locomotive 28 Tint 29 Floating platform 31 Unclothed 33 Granular snow field 35 Copycat 36 Actuality 37 Think highly of 39 Branch 41 Imperfection 44 Stage 45 Diving bird 48 Drive forward 53 On the left, on a ship 54 Destitute 55 Zodiac sign 57 Trunk 58 Penn or Connery 59 Mutilate 60 Rotating machine part 61 Letup 63 Jelly or jumping 64 Skirt border 65 Tumble 66 Prejudiced one 68 Close with force 70 Small dog 71 Versifier 72 Changed, in biology 74 Among 76 Started 79 River in Europe 81 Give off 83 French philosopher -- Pascal 87 Prize 88 Yin and - 89 Gainful 91 Compare 92 Revoke a law 94 Falana or Kirke 96 Fight 97 Dunne or Castle 98 Oklahoma city 100 Set right 102 Maneuver 104 Pallet 107 Bakery item 109 Rule the - 110 Wreck 111 Massage 114 Leave unmentioned 116 Additional 118 Cheer from the

bleachers 119 Tardy 120 Big sandwich 121 Very mad 123 Crab claw 125 Bunch of flowers 126 Tropical fruit 127 Play 128 Sit for a painter 129 Diner fare 130 Strainer 131 Female animal 133 Way out 136 Yearn 137 Pennant 141 Headless nail 144 Colleen 145 Sharpen 146 Folklore creature 149 City in Texas 151 French painter 153 Chinese gelatin 155 Spokes 157 Street 158 Sun-dried brick 159 Bell cousin 160 T-man 161 Basil sauce 162 Like the Capitol 163 Nervous 164 Like some faucets DOWN 1 short 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 23 30 32 34 36 37 38 40 41 42 43 44 46 47 49

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Dentist’s politics are bad for patient’s blood pressure Dear Abby: I have been seeing the same dentist for a number of years and always have been satisfied with his work. He recently has begun to talk politics while he works on my teeth. While I feel he’s entitled to his opinions, I don’t think I should have to listen while his hand is in my mouth.

He doesn’t realize it, but I am very politically active with the other party.

Abby, his politicizing grates on my nerves and raises my blood pressure, but I don’t know how to tell him I find his comments to be unprofessional.

If I change dentists, I possibly could encounter the same problem, especially in this area of the country.

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DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips need a good dentist who will see me when I need him. Help. – Open Wide In

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P.S. If you feel you need more novocaine, ask for some.

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I find myself making kindhearted donations to these individuals and declining to take their goods. My husband thinks we should accept the goods so we are not making a “pity” donation. I have the best intentions.

Please clarify this for us, once and for all. – Best Intentions In Indiana Dear Best Intentions: I’m not sure I agree with your husband. If you already have bought what the man is selling and don’t need to replace it, but would like to make a donation, I see no reason to take anything you won’t use.

Give the person a small donation, wish him a good day and keep your closets

clutter-free. Sometimes less is more.

Dear Abby: I have been married three times. My first two husbands were unfaithful, and the third was bipolar. I finally have found the man of my dreams, and we recently became engaged. There is just one small problem. He has two house dogs he loves dearly and doesn’t want to part with, and I refuse to have dogs in my house.

Our marriage is on hold because of this. What should I do? – Stickler In

North Carolina Dear Stickler: If you are unable to

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By JOHN WILKINSON jwilkinson@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – It started with a simple human tunnel like you’d see on the sidelines of a youth soccer game.

It quickly turned into an escalating battle of grand and goofy entrances, as some of the area’s best senior wrestlers faced off Saturday at Huntley, trying to out do one another before they even reached the mat for their all-star bouts.

There was using teammates as bowling pins, a fake golf shot, a front handspring, some airplane arms, two wrestlers carried onto the mats and plenty of different styles of walkouts.

The referee didn’t make a judgment as to who had the best entrance, but on the mat, the McHenry County “West Side” team came out on top, beating the Lake County “East Side” team, 33-25, in a 15-bout dual for the inaugural Fight for the Fox All-Star wrestling title.

The entrances encapsulated the spirit of the night: lightheartedly competitive, a little awkward and mostly about putting on a good, entertaining show.

“It was just all about having fun,” Prairie Ridge’s Travis Piotrowski said. “I knew most of these guys and it was just good to have one last folkstyle match with all of them and it was a lot of fun.”

The event produced the rare sights of Jacobs wrestlers celebrating with Huntley teammates, or a Prairie Ridge heavyweight carrying a Crystal Lake Central 145 pounder onto the mat.

“It was really cool to be part of like all the different teams in one,” Jacobs’ Chris Dranka said.

Prairie Ridge heavyweight Dereck Pearson started the dual with a 6-5 win over Warren’s Sergio Sosa. In the next match, Piotrowski, undefeated throughout his state-championship season, went down 2-0 in the first period to Grant’s Christian Kanzler, a 3A state placer. In the only matchup of two state placers, Piotrowski came out on top, 4-3.

“Me and Christian, we’ve wrestled each other throughout like our entire childhood, so I’ve known him for so long and I’m just glad I got the opportunity to wrestle with him in this dual,” Piotrowski said. “It was a lot of fun, I had a lot of fun out there.”

In the middle of the lineup, McHenry County got wins from CaryGrove’s John Cullen (8-1 decision at 138), Jacobs’ Chris Dranka (tech. fall at 138), Crystal Lake Central’s Michael Petersen (13-0 major decision at 145) and Dean Lane (7-0 decision

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Tweet from last night The McHenry County All-Star team getting a pre-match talk from Coaches Bertlesman and Lehr. Sharp warmups too.

– @JWilks26 (John Wilkinson) Follow our writers on Twitter: Joe Stevenson – @NWH_JoePrepZone Mike DeFabo – @MikeDeFabo Jon Styf – @jonstyf

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Golf: The Masters, 1 p.m., CBS Jordan Spieth leads with a 3-under-par 213 going into the final round.

Stevenson’s Michael Kordek (left) finds himself midair against Woodstock’s Nicolas Sundberg during Saturday’s Fight for the Fox All-Star Wrestling Match at Huntley.

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Dranka said he was “pretty exhausted” by the end, but won an impressive 16-0 technical fall over Jack DeBlasio of New Trier.

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With the night dedicated to celebrating the best outgoing seniors, some of the area’s best younger wrestlers were resigned to volunteer duties. Crystal Lake Central state champ Lenny Petersen was marking hands at the door and Huntley state place winner Josh Stenger was working the music. at 160).

The local side closed out the dual with three consecutive wins.

Dundee-Crown undefeated state champion Christian Brunner was as dominant as he had been all year, producing the McHenry County team’s lone pin, 1:28 into the first round at 195. Crystal Lake Central’s Austin Parks got thrown twice early but won, 9-4, at 220 in one of the most exciting bouts of the night. Then Huntley’s Dominic Swanson finished it off with a 5-1 victory over Sosa, who was wrestling his second match of the night.

“I thought it was great honestly. I thought it was a good atmosphere. I thought as much fun as the kids had there were some really competitive, good matches.

So hopefully this kind of catches on and it keeps rolling.”

Justin Lehr Crystal Lake Central wrestling coach “It was just really fun,” Parks said.

“It’s not something to take too serious I guess. It’s just offseason, just seniors, just to work. It’s just a lot of fun.”

Also participating for the McHenry County team were Trace Conlon and Derek Neises of McHenry, Wylie Allen of Hampshire, Kevin Zange and Nick Sundberg of Woodstock and Randy Kline of Woodstock North.

The all-star dual recognizing local seniors was the brainchild of Crystal Lake Central coach Justen Lehr who, along with Huntley’s BJ Bertelsman, coached the McHenry County team.

“I thought it was great honestly,” Lehr said. “I thought it was a good atmosphere. I thought as much fun as the kids had there were some really competitive, good matches. So hopefully this kind of catches on and it keeps rolling.”

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Another Tweet We’ve got our first “carried onto the mat” entrance of the night. – @JWilks26 (John Wilkinson)

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Another tweet Had a great time at Purdue! Being with some teammates made it even better! #BoilerUp – @OladipoLere (Lere Oladipo – Huntley junior)

PREP ROUNDUP

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Elgin Academy 8, Alden-Hebron 5 (5 inn.): At Hebron, Trevor Redlin had a

double and two RBIs for the Giants (3-4) in a nonconference loss. James Lejeune (two steals), David Reiter and John Judson each had a hit and drove in one.

Brad Judson took the loss, allowing five runs (four earned) on five hits with one strikeout in three innings.

via, the Red Raiders scored five runs in the first inning en route to a nonconference win in five innings.

Hayley O’Mara and Taylor Pacana each had a home run for Huntley (2-3), while Jessica Shields (two steals, two runs), Tiffany Giese, Rylie Porretto, Autumn Kasal (two RBIs) and Sophia Tenuta (two doubles, two RBIs) each tallied two hits in the mercy-rule victory.

Giese (2-2) earned the win, allowing one run on seven hits in five innings with three strikeouts and no walks.

Alden-Hebron 4, Mineral Point (Wis.) 2:

the PepsiCo Showdown, D-C senior midfielder Emilie Hilton scored with 15 minutes left to even the score against Fenwick, but the Chargers (2-4) dropped their tournament opener in overtime.

Taylor Gonio started in goal and recorded six saves for D-C. Jacobs 1, West Aurora 0: At the PepsiCo Showdown, the Golden Eagles won their first game of the tournament.

Oak Park-River Forest 2, Prairie Ridge 0:

At the PepsiCo Showdown, the Wolves were shutout in the opening round of play. Both of the Huskies’ goals came off corner kicks.

Evanston 3, Crystal Lake South 0: At the PepsiCo Showdown, Evanston went ahead, 2-0, in the first half and shut out the Gators (6-2) in the opening-round game. Annika Sevcik made six saves for South.

Richmond-Burton 7, Harvard 0: At Richmond, the Rockets scored seven firsthalf goals to beat the Hornets in a Big Northern Conference East Division contest. Junior midfielder Breanne Retherford scored twice for R-B, while Meghan Vasseur, Taylor Webb, Liz Wertz, Taylor Enders and Rachel Daye each added a goal. The Rockets (3-2, 3-1 BNC East) have won three in a row after a 0-2 start.

At Orangeville, Kassandra Clauss improved to 5-1, allowing two unearned runs on five hits with seven strikeouts and two walks to lead the Giants to a nonconference win. Zoe Derringer went 2 for 3, and Lexi Morris added a double.

Alden-Hebron 11, Argyle (Wis.) 5: At Orangeville, Derringer made her first varsity start in the circle and picked up the win with three strikeouts in 41/3 innings for the Giants (6-1). Clauss went 4 for 5 with a double, triple and five RBIs, Zoee Lagerhausen was 3 for 5 with a run and an RBI, and Tiffany Damato added two hits, two runs and a steal.

Oregon 11, Harvard 4: At Oregon, the Hornets collected 14 hits but dropped the Big Northern Conference crossover.

Daniela Garcia, Makayla Stephens and Morgan Olbrich each had two hits and BOYS TRACK Al Bohrer Invitational: At Cary, Carydrove in one in the loss.

Grove won four events, finishing second overall to Belvidere North in the GIRLS SOCCER Huntley 2, Wheaton Academy 0: At the eight-team event.

Belvidere North won with 147.5 PepsiCo Showdown in Schaumburg, senior midfielder Bri Wilder scored in the points, followed by Cary-Grove (110.5), 39th and 47th minutes to lead Huntley to Johnsburg (80) and Richmond-Burton (71). Hampshire took seventh, and a first-round win.

Wilder was assisted by Alyssa Marengo was eighth.

The Trojans had won the last three Kaufman and Brenna Keegan, while Paige Renkosik made three saves in a Al Bohrer Invites.

Ryan Magel won the 100-meter dash shutout.

The Raiders won the sixth straight with a time of 11.1 seconds, and Tomgame and improved to 6-1-1 overall with my Williams won the 800 with a time of

and Kyle Adams (8:24.3) and the 4x400 relay team of Nick Zanetti, Magel, Williams and Altendorf (3:37.7) both won.

For Johnsburg, the 4x100 relay team of Blake Lemcke, Myles Rozell, Braden Helma and Alex Peete placed first with a time of 45.4. The Skyhawks’ 4x200 relay team of Lemcke, Jarred Berggren, Helma and Peete (1:36.9) also won.

Richmond-Burton’s Reed Marshall won the triple jump (39 feet, 7.5 inches), and Hampshire’s Douglas Stuehler won the long jump (19-4.25). Marengo’s Cameron Vanderlinden was third in the 400.

Conant Relays: At Hoffman Estates, Dundee-Crown placed sixth out of seven teams, while Lakes took the team title.

The Chargers 4x400 relay team finished second to Lakes with a time of 3:34.85.

BOYS TENNIS Triad Invitational: At East St. Louis,

the Golden Eagles defeated five-time defending champion Belleville East in the semifinals and O’Fallon in the finals to win the invitational championship.

The Golden Eagles edged Belleville East, 3-2, in the semifinals, getting wins from all three of their doubles teams.

They then beat O’Fallon, 3-2, to claim the tournament championship.

Jacobs’ No. 1 doubles team of Kendrick Chong and Kerwin Chong went 4-0, losing only four games in eight sets.

Riley Rowan was 3-1 at No. 2 singles, while Patrick Murphy and Jacob Moser were perfect at No. 3 doubles with a 4-0 record.

WATER POLO Lake Forest Meet: At Lake Forest,

McHenry took first place, finishing with two wins and one tie.

The Warriors won the tiebreaker with least goals allowed (14), defeating Lane Tech, 10-7, in their first match and St. Viator, 14-2, in their final match.

McHenry also tied host Lake Forest, 5-5.

PREPS

Prairie Ridge with slight lead on Huntley for Fox Valley Conference All-Sports Award

6. Cary-Grove 55 7. Crystal Lake South 53.5 8. Hampshire 47.5 Prairie Ridge leads Huntley by one 9. Grayslake North 42 point heading into the spring sports 10. McHenry 38.5 for the Northwest Herald All-Sports 11. Dundee-Crown 38 Award that will be handed out June 7 12. Woodstock 30.5 at the Woodstock Opera House.

13. Woodstock North 10 Here are the current standings: The award is given each year to the 1. Prairie Ridge 76 Fox Valley Conference schools with 2. Huntley 75 the best combined boys and girls sports 3. Jacobs 71 teams. There are 16 sports that count 4. Crystal Lake Central 63.5 toward the award – swimming and 4. Grayslake Central 63.5

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girls golf do not count since not all 13 schools compete in those sports. Boys golf is counted, although Woodstock co-ops with Woodstock North in that sport.

Prairie Ridge picked up first-place finishes in football, volleyball and in boys and girls basketball. Huntley won titles in football, girls basketball and wrestling, and was runner-up in both boys and girls cross country.

Six points are given for each firstplace finish, with one point less for

each place after that. In sports with conference meets or tournaments, 13 points is given for firsts, with one point less for each descending spot.

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Senior Matt Spooner singled in the bottom of the seventh inning with one out to drive in Dane Gates and Nick Lahrman and finish off a 4-3 comeback win for the McHenry baseball team Saturday against Warren in Petersen Park.

The Warriors scored three runs in the seventh, also getting a run and an RBI groundout from Colton Klein that scored Bobby Miller.

Dylan Honkala started for McHenry (7-4), allowing three runs on seven hits with four strikeouts and no walks in six innings. Pat Humphrey earned the win, and Spooner finished 2 for 4 with three RBIs and one steal, while Klein added two hits, a run and one RBI. Prairie Ridge 3, Sycamore 1: At Sycamore, Prairie Ridge used five pitchers to hold the Spartans to six hits in a nonconference win.

Ethan Routzahn, Scott Nygren, Joe Perhats and Robbie Masini combined for eight strikeouts, and Luke Annen recorded a four-out save. Tied at 1, the Wolves scored twice in the top of the sixth inning to pull ahead for the win.

Bryce Thelander went 2 for 3 with two steals, driving in the go-ahead run in the sixth with a single. Scott Stetz and Nick Schmidt both scored for the Wolves (8-4), and Annen drove in one with a pair of steals.

Rockford Boylan 4, Marengo 2: At Rockford, Cody Wilcox had the only hit for the Indians in a nonconference loss.

Alex Schirmer started and took the loss for Marengo (3-6), giving up four earned runs on seven hits with four strikeouts.

2:02.3, while the 4x800 relay team of Jon the victory.

SOFTBALL Fenwick 2, Dundee-Crown 1 (OT): At Altendorf, Alex Ratkovich, Sang Seo Huntley 11, Batavia 1 (5 inn.): At Bata-

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By JOE STEVENSON joestevenson@shawmedia.com MARENGO – Marengo third baseman Allison Jasinski feels the tough love Indians coach Dwain Nance dished out two weeks ago was warranted.

After Marengo lost to Wauconda, 9-8, for its third in a four-game losing streak, Nance referred to the Indians as a “below average” team. The skid came against challenging competition, but it also demonstrates the mindset of a program that has been to three Class 3A state championship games in five seasons.

“Anytime you hear that, it’s a big reality check,” Jasinski said. “I feel like we needed to hear it. You can think that.

I’m sure all of us, at some point, thought we weren’t where we needed to be, but when your coach tells you that and he expects Mariah Dionne more, it’s a wake-up call.”

The Indians, particularly their bats, are wide awake now.

Marengo scored 27 runs in two games Saturday to beat Woodstock North, 16-6, in Allison six innings, then hanJasinski dle Hampshire, 11-0, in five innings, for a pair of nonconference victories at Rod Poppe Fields.

Junior pitcher Mariah Dionne struck out 10 and allowed three hits to beat Hampshire and was on fire at the plate, going 7 for 7 for the day with 13 RBIs on a home run and five doubles.

“Our approaches are better and as we practice more, we’re staring to click better,” Dionne said. “As we continue through the weeks, I feel like we’re getting stronger and stronger.”

Marengo (6-4) has scored 38 runs in its past three games and banged out 24 hits Saturday. Dionne had four doubles and seven RBIs in the opener, then hit a three-run homer in the first inning of the second game.

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Walsweer had four hits and two RBIs and Susie Nawrot had a homer and three RBIs. “We have been putting so much emphasis on our hitting,” Jasinski said. “We doubled the amount of stations we do, we worked more on live pitching, coach has put us in a lot more situations and challenges on us to make us work harder in pressure situations.”

Nance was excited about what he’s seen this week.

“We hit some balls hard today, had some great quality at-bats, exactly what we wanted to do,” Nance said.

“I like our direction. I like what we’re doing every day. They show up, they work hard, they’re listening, they’re getting better.”

Hampshire (4-2) got its first hit in the third inning when Morgan Haefling ripped a hard ground ball up the middle. Elli Lapi and Renee Malecke also had hits for the Whip-Purs.

Hampshire also was missing Peyton DeChant, its top hitter, who has not yet played this season but will return this week.

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Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford leaves the ice March 11 against the Dallas Stars in Dallas. Crawford has been out with a head injury since March 14 and made his return Saturday in the Hawks’ 5-4 overtime loss to Columbus. offs start.”

Crawford certainly looked a little rusty in giving up five goals on 25 shots in his first game since March 14. But he declared himself ready to go for Game 1 on either Wednesday or Thursday, and his teammates have no doubt he will be. While Crawford – a goalie who always feels better the more he plays – would have preferred to have gotten a few games in before the playoffs, one is better than none.

Crawford was tested early and often by the Blue Jackets, who peppered him with six shots in the first three minutes of the game. After blanking Columbus

in the first period, Crawford yielded four goals on six shots – to Scott Hartnell, Matt Calvert and Brandon Saad in the second, and to Alexander Wennberg in the third – as a 3-0 lead became a 4-3 deficit, and eventually a 5-4 loss.

“It’s hard after missing some games to come in,” Crawford said. “There are some things I thought I did well, and obviously some other things that didn’t go too well. It’s good to get in there and get a feel for it.”

Joel Quenneville agreed.

“Getting that game under his belt was the best thing for him, and for us,” Quenneville said. “It was a big step.”

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Saad bracing for his first early summer with Blue Jackets

By MARK LAZERUS mlazerus@suntimes.com COLUMBUS, Ohio – Brandon Saad’s never been off in April before.

“It’s tough,” he said. “Been playing a lot of hockey lately.”

After playing in 11 playoff series in his first three NHL seasons with the Blackhawks, Saad was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets last summer. The trade seemed to catch Saad off guard, as he fully expected to re-sign with the Hawks.

But Hawks general manager Stan Bowman chose to trade him rather than give him the six-year, $36-million contract the Blue Jackets did, landing Artem Anisimov and Marko Dano (who was flipped to Winnipeg for Andrew Ladd) in the process.

Saad said he doesn’t sit around wondering, “What if?”

“I don’t think too much about it,”

Blue Jackets rally for OT win over Blackhawks COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scott Hartnell scored a power-play goal at 2:28 of overtime, and the Columbus Blue Jackets rallied for a 5-4 victory over the depleted Blackhawks on Saturday.

Patrick Kane and rookie Artemi Panarin each had two goals and an assist for the defending Stanley Cup champions, who head into the postseason and will face the St. Louis Blues in the first round.

– Wire report he said. “You move on. You talk to old buddies and friends and see how they’re doing and we all know where they’re at.

We see where they are in the standings and how teams are doing. They’re still a good team. They’ll always be a good team.

I wish them the best.”

Saad has been one of the few bright spots for the last-place Blue Jackets, one of the league’s most disappointing teams after a brilliant 15-1-1 run to close out the 2014-15 season. He scored his 30th goal Friday night at Buffalo.

“It felt good,” Saad said. “It’s been a tough year, but to finish off with some good hockey, score some goals, and hit that valuable mark, it’s definitely something I’ll remember forever.”

Saad said he’s always happy when former teammates do well, and he’ll keep an eye on the playoffs. But he’s thinking more about next season, and what he hopes is a big step forward for Columbus.

“We have a lot of young guys who’ve stepped up and had good seasons,” he said. “It’s just about stringing it together.

I know after the year, it’s a big wake-up call for a lot of us, and we should have good summers going into next year.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The way Joel Quenneville sees it, Artemi Panarin’s looming $1.725-million bonus is the price of success.

“I like when players are successful and they meet their goals,” Quenneville said after Saturday’s morning skate in Columbus. “We’ll do everything we can to help them be the best they can. That’s our motivation here.”

In other words, there was zero chance the Hawks would sit Panarin for a mostly meaningless season finale. Not only would it send a terrible message to future free agents, Artemi Panarin but it would be a slap in the face to a rookie who has been one of the Hawks’ best players all season.

Panarin entered Saturday’s action with 74 points, good enough for ninth in the league among Joel forwards. St. Louis’ Quenneville Vladimir Tarasenko and Los Angeles’ Anze Kopitar were at 73. The only way Panarin wouldn’t get his bonus for finishing in the top 10 would be if Tarasenko and Kopitar each got two more points than Panarin in their respective games.

The Islanders’ John Tavares was five points behind Panarin, with two games left. A tie for 10th would be good enough to trigger Panarin’s bonus.

Panarin also can get the bonus by placing in the top 10 in goals, assists, or points a game. He’s 11th in assists with 46, one out of the top 10. And he’s 13th in points a game, 0.01 out of the top 10.

Without Panarin producing at such a high level, who knows if Patrick Kane has the career season he’s having, and who knows where the Hawks would be in the standings.

It’s better to have Panarin earn the bonus that will put a sizable dent in next season’s salary cap than to not have him play so well.

“The other stuff sorts itself out,” Quenneville said. “It doesn’t help us, but at the same time, we don’t mind having to deal with those types of issues.”

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Corey Crawford surely would rather get a few games in before the playoffs, but for a goalie who always feels better the more he plays, one is better than none.

“He’s a gamer,” Niklas Hjalmarsson said. “I think one game for him, and he’ll be ready to go. He’s one of those goalies that when it’s more competitive and [in the] playoffs, he’s always in the past been one of our best players.

So I think he’ll get back really quick.”

Crawford returned to the net in Blackhawks’ 5-4 overtime loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets in Saturday’s season finale. He hasn’t played since March 14 while dealing with a head injury. In his absence, Scott Darling played well, going 6-3-2, but Crawford has been arguably the Hawks’ most important player this season.

“It’s huge for him, for his progress,” Jonathan Toews said. “It’s huge for the team. We all know that Scotty has been playing great, and if he happens to be the guy going forward, we’re 100 percent confident with that, as well. [But] it’s nice to know that Crow is getting where he needs to be and can at least get a game under his belt going into the postseason. It’s going to help him out.”

Said Joel Quenneville: “It’s great for the goalie, getting action in front of you, getting that pace, getting comfortable again seeing pucks and the speed of the game. It’s very important getting a game in here before the play-

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Bulls stay in playoff race, beat Cavs

By ANDREW SELIGMAN The Associated Press CHICAGO – The Bulls keep throwing in teases like this to go with all those flat performances.

That might be the most frustrating part about their season, and Jimmy Butler would rather not dwell on it.

“What’s the sense in talking about it?” he said.

Butler scored 21 points, rookie Cristiano Felicio added a career high 16 and the Bulls kept their playoff hopes alive with a 105-102 victory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night.

The Bulls took the lead with a 15-0 run early in the fourth quarter and hung on for the win when J.R. Smith missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer, preventing Cleveland from clinching the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference even though James scored 33. The Bulls still need to win their final two games and hope Indiana drops its remaining three in order to avoid missing the playoffs for the first time since 2008.

“It shows character. It shows pride,” Pau Gasol said. “But it’s also very frustrating because if we showed this type of edge and competitiveness every single night, we wouldn’t be talking about this.”

The Bulls are a combined 7-1 against the top two teams in the East, taking three of four from the Cavaliers and sweeping four games against Toronto.

They took this one even though

Butler missed a pull-up jumper with about nine seconds left. Cleveland’s Smith grabbed the rebound, got fouled and made the first free throw.

He then rebounded his miss on the second attempt, and the Cavaliers worked the ball to Matthew Dellavedova, who shot an air ball attempting a wide-open 3 with 2.5 seconds remaining rather than pass the ball to James at the top of the circle.

“One more swing (of the ball), selfishly, I wish I had a look at it the way I was shooting the ball tonight, but Delly left it short,” James said.

Gasol then hit one of two free throws to put the lead at three before Smith missed the potential tying 3 off an inbounds as time expired.

For the Bulls, Butler scored 15 in the second half, and Felicio did not miss a shot in the game, going 7 for 7 from the field and 2 of 2 on free throws.

Decisive run: The Bulls were trailing, 84-82, early in the fourth when a cutting Felicio dunked to start that 15-0 run. Felicio also had a driving layup during the spurt, Aaron Brooks added a layup and floater, and Butler AP photo buried a fadeaway shot with just less Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James hangs from the rim after dunking against the than six minutes left to make it 97-84.

Tip-ins – Cavaliers: Iman Shumpert Bulls during the first half Saturday at the United Center. (left knee soreness) sat out. ... Coach James had a huge game, hitting 13 of now,” Love said. “When we have a Tyronn Lue had no update on Mo Wil17 shots – including 4 of 5 3-pointers. win-or-die or win-or-go-home mentali- liams, who returned to Cleveland this The four-time MVP also grabbed sev- ty, we’re going to be really, really hard week for further evaluation on his inen rebounds. to beat.” jured left knee. He did not accompany Tight finish: Things got real tight in the team to Chicago.

Smith hit seven 3s and scored 24 points, and Kevin Love added 20 the closing minute when Love hit a 3 Bulls: Taj Gibson (rib contusion) and James scored on a layup to cut it and E’Twaun Moore (left hamstring) points and 13 rebounds.

“I like where this team is right to 104-101 with 30 seconds left. were sidelined.

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Hoiberg clears up a perceived slam on Butler

By JOE COWLEY jcowley@suntimes.com Saturday offered another example of just how sensitive things are for the Bulls these days when a comment coach Fred Hoiberg made in his pregame media session took on a life of its own on social media.

The hubbub began when Hoiberg was asked a question about having to be more vocal with his players next season. His response was interpreted by some as a criticism of guard Jimmy Butler.

“We went out and got off to a pretty solid start with this thing, then some things happened,” Hoiberg said.

“I think most of that comes from the

one comment that was made after the New York game by Jimmy, and, yeah, we have had some pretty heated moments with our group in the locker room, the film session.

“Would I change it? Would I be more vocal, more direct? Maybe. We’ll evaluate that as we go into the offseason, so we’ll see what happens.”

Some interpreted Jimmy Butler Hoiberg’s comments to mean things were going along fine until Butler spoke out in New York. But when Hoiberg’s response was evaluated in the context of the question, the words ‘‘most of that

comes from’’ actually referred to the perception of him needing to be more vocal.

Hoiberg came out to clear up the misunderstanding after the locker room was closed to the media.

“I was answering the question,” he said. “The question was, would I change the way I get on people? Do I need to air people out more? The response to that was that I think most of . . . the perception that I hadn’t gotten on people as much was because of the comment made after the New York game. That’s it. It wasn’t a shot at Jimmy.”

Getting defensive: T h e B u l l s watched their defensive efficiency drop from third in the league Jan.

1 to 14th entering their game Saturday against the Cavaliers.

So how did that happen?

“I think at times we just think we can outscore guys,” Butler said. ‘‘We do have guys that can put it in the basket, don’t get us wrong, but I think defense is what we can hang our hat on.

So when we get that edge back, we’ll start winning some games.”

Getting that defense back will be an emphasis this summer.

“You have to be consistent with it,” Hoiberg said of the defense. “It obviously has to be there every time you step on the floor. Yeah, it’s a commitment. Everybody has to look at themselves, starting with me, and we’ve got to be better.”

THE MASTERS

By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press

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Bernhard Langer of Germany hits out of a bunker on the second green during the third round of the Masters golf tournament Saturday in Augusta, Ga. No one has won a green jacket on his first try since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979. Maybe there’s one waiting for a 24-year-old named Smylie.

“This place fits my eye pretty well,” Kaufman said. “I just enjoy playing, coming out every day. It’s Augusta National. It’s hard not to have some fun out there.”

The biggest surprise was Langer, who won the second of his two Masters in 1993 about three months before Spieth was born. Playing alongside Day – and usually playing from some 60 yards behind him – Langer plodded his way around in the wind and ran off three birdies for a 70.

On the 30-year anniversary of Jack Nicklaus becoming the oldest Masters champion at 46, Langer now has a chance to become the oldest winner of any major by 10 years. Julius Boros won the 1968 PGA Championship when he was 48.

Can he really win?

“I believe I can,” Langer said.

Matsuyama, who won the Phoenix Open earlier this year, had a brief chance to tie Spieth until missing a birdie chance on the par-5 15th. Just like Spieth, he let the last few holes get away from him with bogeys on the 16th and 17th for a 72. He still was only two shots behind.

Day (70) and Johnson (72) were at even-par 216, along with Danny Willett, the Englishman who wasn’t sure he was going to be able to play in his first Masters because his wife was pregnant. She gave birth last week.

Almost as surprising as Langer being two shots behind is McIlroy still even having a chance. Starting the round one shot out of the lead, he fell apart after the turn with a bogey from the trees on No. 10 and a double bogey

in the water on the 11th.

Spieth also made double bogey at No. 11, but was able to recover. The lead was down to one shot, until he made an 18-foot birdie on the par-3 12th, then holed fast, sliding birdie putts on the 14th and 15th to restore his margin.

And three holes later, it was gone.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Another march to a Masters title for Jordan Spieth suddenly turned into a walk on the wild side Saturday.

Spieth finished in the lead for the seventh straight round at Augusta National. He was one round away from becoming only the fourth player to win back-to-back in 80 years at the Masters.

But he sure made it hard on himself.

Spieth had a four-shot lead as he stood on the 17th tee. The wind that caused so much havoc earlier in the round had subsided. Rory McIlroy was out of the picture. And then it all changed with two wild tee shots, two poor wedges and three dropped shots.

And just like that, it’s a wide-open Masters.

“It was a really tough finish to go from holding a four-shot lead ... to where all of the sudden, now it’s anyone’s game,” Spieth said. “So it’s tough to swallow that. I’m in the lead after 54 holes. If you told me that at the beginning of the week, I’d be very pleased. So it’s mixed feelings right now.”

A bogey and a double bogey gave Spieth a 1-over 73 and a one-shot lead over Smylie Kaufman, playing in his first Masters. It also gave plenty of hope to a cast of challengers that include 58-year-old Bernhard Langer and Hideki Matsuyama of Japan, who were two shots behind.

Looming were world No. 1 Jason Day and Dustin Johnson, only three back.

Spieth was at 3-under 213.

Eleven players – even McIlroy, who didn’t make a birdie and shot 77 – were within five shots of the lead.

“I think it will be tough to put it behind me,” Spieth said of his finish.

“That wasn’t a fun couple of holes to play. It’s not going to be fun tonight for a little while. Hopefully, I’ll sleep it off and I’ll be fine tomorrow.”

He led by four shots after the third round a year ago and was able to protect the lead. With a forecast for less wind Sunday, it could be a sprint to the green jacket filled with birdies, eagles and those Augusta National roars.

“I know I have to shoot a significant under-par round tomorrow in order to win this tournament, when I could have played a different style of golf, like I did on Sunday last year,” he said.

Kaufman, who qualified for the Masters by shooting 61 in the final round to win in Las Vegas, used to spend his summers playing junior golf against Spieth. He kept the stress to a minimum and rallied with three birdies over his last six holes for a 69.

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The White Sox’s Avisail Garcia hits a three-run home run against the Cleveland Indians during the seventh inning Saturday at U.S. Cellular Field.

WHITE SOX 7, CLEVELAND 3

Garcia’s homer powers Sale, Sox past Indians

By MIKE CRANSTON The Associated Press CHICAGO – Chris Sale had never been colder playing baseball, then exited his outing dejected and staring at a loss after giving up two late home runs.

Enter Avisail Garcia and the newlook, confident and clutch White Sox. Garcia hit a three-run home run in the decisive seventh inning in the Sox’s 7-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians on a frigid Saturday that allowed Sale to remain unbeaten.

“What a rollercoaster of emotions there,” Sale said. “Just shows the attitude, the difference, whatever it is, we’ve got it.”

Garcia, picked off first base a day earlier in a miserable home opener for the Sox, went the opposite way off Bryan Shaw (0-1). Melky Cabrera’s ninepitch RBI single a batter earlier put the Sox ahead.

Jose Abreu hit a solo home run and reached base four times, while Sale (20) allowed three runs and six hits with six strikeouts in seven innings in the Sox’s fourth win in six games.

Unlike last year’s 86-loss team, the White Sox showed spunk in their second comeback win in a week despite the 32-degree weather.

“It may or may not have been different a year or two in the past,” Sale said. “I think we all know what’s going on here, and we keep grinding.”

Sale had retired 12 straight before an infield single and Mike Napoli’s two-run homer to center in the sixth tied it. Yan Gomes’ solo shot an inning

later put the Indians ahead before Chicago’s five-run seventh.

“I was trying to nibble too much,” Garcia said. “Then when I wasn’t nibbling, I was throwing down the middle.

It was just one of those days.”

Cody Anderson was in line to win it after a solid six-inning stint in which he allowed two runs and six hits. But Cleveland wasn’t helped by three errors and two wild pitches in difficult conditions.

The grounds crew didn’t completely remove about an inch of overnight snow off the field until about 45 minutes before the game on a blustery day.

That didn’t stop both starting pitchers from wearing short sleeves. They were helped from the 13 mph wind blowing in from right field that held up numerous fly balls.

The Sox went ahead, 2-0, when center fielder Rajai Davis misplayed Alex Avila’s one-hop single and Garcia scored from first in the fourth inning.

Napoli had been 1 for 15 in his career against Sale before pouncing on Sale’s changeup.

Garcia’s base-running miscue in Friday’s 7-1 loss – the Sox trailed 5-0 in the second when he was picked off – was one of many lows for a team that came home confident after a 3-1 road start.

Garcia’s first homer off a 92 mph cutter atoned for that. Matt Albers struck out three in two scoreless innings and hasn’t given up a run in 24 straight appearances.

“Everybody is playing like it’s a family,” Garcia said. “Everybody is happy.”

CHICAGO – An unusual sight greeted the White Sox when they arrived Saturday at U.S. Cellular Field.

Friday’s snowfall blanketed the tarp and outfield, leaving a soft layer of snow for Roger Bossard and the grounds crew to contend with. Up in the stands, icy ramps and stairwells caused the Sox to close the upper deck to fans, who weren’t allowed into the stadium until 30 minutes before first pitch.

Welcome to baseball season in Chicago.

The snow was removed well before first pitch, but frigid temperatures re- Robin Ventura mained. It was 32 degrees at The Cell with a wind chill of 25 when the Sox took the field.

“I think guys are used to it by now,” Sox manager Robin Ventura said. “Everybody that plays in northern cities, you start in April, you’re gonna get it. You get used to it, prepare for it, put on enough gear and go get ’em.”

Had the Sox been playing Texas, Tampa Bay, Houston or another warm-weather team Saturday, there may have been reason to celebrate a home-field advantage.

Against Cleveland, however?

“Cleveland has bad weather, too,” Ventura said. “But there’s no sense complaining about it because we’re gonna play the game. You play it, you try to get the most out of it as you can.

They’re playing in the same stuff.”

Fans who braved the cold temperatures Saturday were offered gift certificates for a free upper-deck seat or $5 outfield reserve seat at a future April or May home game.

Robin can relate: Ventura was devastated to learn Friday of the season-ending injury that will keep Kyle Schwarber out of the Cubs lineup for the rest of the season.

“I was sick to my stomach when I saw it,” Ventura said. “You wouldn’t wish that on anyone.”

Ventura should know. He missed 100 games in 1997 on a slide into home plate during spring training.

Schwarber has full tears of the ACL and LCL in his left knee, an MRI revealed Friday.

“All the work he’s put in ... I just hope he can come back and catch and do all the things he’d hoped to do,” Ventura said. “My (injury) was different, and there’s been a lot of advances in rehab and recovery techniques since I got hurt, so hopefully he can.”

WHITE SOX 7, INDIANS 3 Cleveland Chicago

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E–Uribe (2), R.Davis (1), Co.Anderson (1), Lawrie (1).

DP–Chicago 1. LOB–Cleveland 5, Chicago 7. 2B–Rollins (1). HR–Napoli (2), Gomes (1), Abreu (2), Av.Garcia (1).

Cleveland Co.Anderson B.Shaw L,0-1 BS,1-1 McAllister Chamberlain Chicago Sale W,2-0 Duke Albers

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WP–Co.Anderson 2.

Umpires–Home, Bill Miller; First, Tony Randazzo; Second, Brian Knight; Third, Todd Tichenor.

T–2:43. A–20,192 (40,615).

More inside Turn to page 16 to read Chicago SunTimes columnist Rick Telander’s views on how the White Sox can’t win in Cubs-centric Chicago unless they’re almost perfect.

Sale and the Candy Man: Indians manager Terry Francona offered an interesting comparison for Sox starter Chris Sale.

Asked if Sale reminds him of anyone he saw as a player, Francona offered up John Candelaria, who pitched 19 major league seasons from 1975 to ’93.

“Maybe Candelaria, although Candelaria was a lot bigger than him,” Francona said. “I’m not good at that. I didn’t usually face those guys. He’s a handful. Velocity, breaking ball – he’s got a lot.”

Candelaria’s best season came with the Pirates in 1977, when he went 20-5 with a 2.34 ERA. Baby on the way: Sox leadoff man Adam Eaton was off Saturday to be with his wife, Kate, for the birth of their first child.

Ventura wasn’t sure how much time Eaton would miss but offered this suggestion for his speedy center fielder: “I let him know that he can stay and see this through and that Robin is a good name,” Ventura said. “It works either way. Boy or girl. It’s pretty universal.”

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BOX SCORE CUBS 4, DIAMONDBACKS 2 Chicago Arizona

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SB–Owings (1), D.Peralta (1). S–Greinke. SF–Montero.

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The Cubs’ Dexter Fowler (right) celebrates his run against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the fourth inning Saturday in Phoenix.

“Love it. When our guys go up to hit, it’s contagious and they talk. They’re talking that in the dugout. It’s not just happening at home plate. It’s beautiful,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.

Greinke retired the leadoff batter before Jason Heyward, Zobrist and Rizzo singled and Bryant hit an RBI double.

Miguel Montero followed with a sacrifice fly.

In six innings, Greinke gave up four runs and seven hits, striking out eight

and walking three.

Greinke has lost back-to-back starts for the first time since August 2014 with the Dodgers.

“Like we always say, we were all up there together,” Rizzo said. “When someone’s hitting, we’re all in the box with him. It’s the way our team is, and it’s a good mix right now.”

Kyle Hendricks (1-0) pitched fourhit ball into the seventh inning in his first start of the season, striking out

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Umpires–Home, Eric Cooper; First, Jim Wolf; Second, Adrian Johnson; Third, Gary Cederstrom.

T–2:46. A–32,185 (48,519).

five with a walk. He was sharp in spring training, in which he posted a 2.73 ERA in 292/3 innings and seven games, and struck out 30 with four walks.

“I was glad to get out there for the first one and kind of feel the same things as I was in spring,” Hendricks said.

CUBS

Schwarber on rehab: ‘I’m going to come back better’

By GORDON WITTENMYER gwittenmyer@suntimes.com PHOENIX – Kyle Schwarber didn’t expect the extreme severity of his injury diagnosis Friday, but he also didn’t spend much time feeling bad for himself.

“Obviously, I was disappointed for about 30 minutes,” said Schwarber, who spoke publicly Saturday for the first time since being told two full ligament tears in his left knee will require surgery and end his season.

Wait. Thirty minutes?

“I got to talk to some of the other guys, and they definitely brought my spirits up,” he said. “I could definitely feel bad if I did something wrong, or if I wasn’t playing hard or something of that nature. But me and Dex did everything we possibly could to catch that ball.”

That’s center fielder Dexter Fowl-

er, who converged with leftfielder Schwarber in the second inning of Thursday’s game in Arizona, with Schwarber’s left leg absorbing most of the damage from the collision.

“You feel like you got in a car crash,” said Fowler, who landed on his hip and remains sore from the crash.

“That’s a big man over there. But you respect Kyle Schwarber the [heck] out of him for the way he handled it. It definitely sucks. He’s a big part of our team, and he’s my little brother over there, too.”

Schwarber, the young slugger, whose power ignited the Cubs’ playoff run after his midseason debut, suffered full tears in his ACL and LCL, along with a severely sprained ankle.

Surgery hasn’t been scheduled as doctors wait for the swelling to sub-

side enough. Schwarber, who originally was scheduled to remain behind in Arizona for a few days until it was safer to fly, was cleared to return home with the team on Sunday’s charter and is scheduled to meet with team doctors before Monday’s home opener.

“I have a pretty good feel for my own body, so I knew something was probably wrong [Thursday night],” Schwarber said. “But I didn’t see two tears coming.

“But you’ve got to face it head on.

That’s what I’m going to do. I’m not going to back down from it. I want to be pushing to get myself bigger, faster and stronger for next year.”

It’s too early for Schwarber to know what his rehab timeline will be, or even where much of it will be. And he can’t know what the leg will ultimately allow him to do when he returns – whether catching, for instance, will be viable by then for the former No. 4

overall draft pick.

“It’s way too soon to say, and it all depends on how well the surgery goes, and how well the rehab goes,” team president Theo Esptein said. “If everything goes the way we want it to go with the surgery and rehab, and he comes out the other side with full range of motion, there’s the chance it won’t impact him at all going forward.”

Schwarber isn’t thinking about timelines or results, except for this: “I think I’m going to come back better,” he said. “There’s going to be a lot of hard work put into this rehab. I look at it as I’ve got a whole year to prepare for a new season. Obviously, there’s going to be some bumps in the road along the way.

“I’m going to push myself as hard as I can to be back healthy 100 percent, so wherever that timetable leaves me, I’ll be ready.”

• Sunday, April 10, 2016

PHOENIX – For Anthony Rizzo and the Cubs, the key to beating Zack Greinke was being aggressive at the plate.

That approach worked out well.

Greinke got off to a rough start and lost again, with Rizzo, Kris Bryant and the Cubs beating the Arizona Diamondbacks, 4-2, Saturday night.

Greinke (0-2) gave up three runs in the first inning on four consecutive hits and a sacrifice fly.

“We did a good job of getting those runs early,” Rizzo said. “He ended up settling, I guess, which he does to everyone, but those runs were huge for us.”

Greinke signed a $206.5 million, sixyear deal with the Diamondbacks as a free agent after going 19-3 with a 1.66 ERA for the Dodgers last season. Hit hard by Colorado on Opening day earlier this week, the right-hander now has a 9.90 ERA. “Too many mistakes, getting hit hard early and then started pitching better later. But not good enough so far,” Greinke said. “I’ve got to start pitching better here on out.”

Bryant doubled twice and Ben Zobrist had three hits for the Cubs. The Cubs hitters were talking among themselves in the dugout about to how to best attack Greinke, something they’ve been doing since the middle of spring training in games, and the dialogue wasn’t lost on their manager.

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Long ready to fight for right guard position

By PATRICK FINLEY pfinley@suntimes.com

Kyle Long is back at the position he loves – and not going anywhere soon.

“They will have to literally fight me to move me from right guard,” he told the Sun-Times on Friday night, after participating in a downtown event for Brandon Marshall’s Project 375. “I don’t think John Fox wants to do that.”

The Bears entered the offseason having declared Long the starting right tackle – and then added one.

Long, though, actually recommended the Cardinals’ Bobby Massie to the front office, who signed him to a three-year deal. The two train together at LeCharles Bentley’s O-line Performance in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Long’s eyes lit up when describing the 6-6, 316 pounder’s mental and physical prowess. Working side-byside this offseason, the two have already gained a chemistry that would have taken weeks worth of practice to achieve.

“You grind together, you shine to-

gether,” he said. “And Bobby Massie is one of those guys that pushes me.

“When I’ve got my hands on my knees after a rep, he’s like, ‘Cmon Kyle, get up.’ And I’m like, ‘OK.’ ” Some wondered whether Long could be considered for left tackle when the Bears signed two interior linemen – guard Ted Larsen and center/guard Manny Ramirez – last month.

That’s not the case; rather, Long said, the two provide the line Kyle Long with an improved depth. That same rationale could motivate the Bears to draft a lineman at the end of the month, too.

Larsen, who started seven times at right guard last year and three times at left guard, trains with Long in Scottsdale – as does Bears tackle Nick Becton and former teammate Patrick Omameh, among others.

“Depth and options are as important as talent in the first line,” Long said. “Because there’s a lot of reps,

a lot of games and you never know what’s going to happen.”

Long spoke with Marshall on camera Friday as part of his charity’s “Real Chats” series, and later participated in a ping-pong tournament to help Project 375 raise money to add behavioral health teams to 25 Chicago schools. Running back Matt Forte, Marshall’s new Jets teammate, even made an appearance.

Marshall, who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, founded the charity to improve care and change the stigma surrounding mental health issues.

He flew to Chicago from New York, where Friday a jury found he was not liable for injuries sustained by a woman who alleged, in a civil suit, Marshall hit her outside a nightclub in 2012.

Marshall did not speak to reporters at his event Friday, but conducted his own interview of Long surrounding mental health issues.

Long detailed his 2009 DUI and subsequent withdrawal from Florida State. He praised his family for help-

ing him through the ordeal; his older brother, Chris, personally took him to a rehab facility.

“It’s a very important day – to show that even a three-time Pro Bowler can struggle with certain things,” Long said. “And there’s hope out there for people that struggle with things. You can wear it with pride. Because that’s what I did.”

Long, who thrives on structure, told the group he speaks with Jay Cutler every day, even if just to compare notes on a workout. If the quarterback calls Long and doesn’t hear back quickly enough, he’ll have wife Kristin Cavallari check in on Long.

When Long joked he didn’t think Cutler liked him as a rookie, Marshall quipped that the quarterback “has a funny way of showing love.”

Long and Marshall remained friends after the Bears traded the receiver a year ago, and still talk on FaceTime frequently.

“Bear or not,” Long said, “he stands for something and he works very hard at this.”

NFL DRAFT

Draft’s top running back could be there for Bears at No. 11

By KEVIN FISHBAIN kfishbain@profootballweekly.com Leading up to the 2016 NFL Draft in Chicago, Arthur Arkush, Kevin Fishbain and Nate Atkins will break down some of this year’s top prospects. We continue with the clear-cut top running back in the draft.

RB Ezekiel Elliott / Ohio State 2015 stats: 289 carries for 1,821

yards (6.3-yard average) and 23 touchdowns. 27 receptions for 206 yards.

Measurements: 6 feet, 225 pounds, 31 1/4 arms, 10 1/4 hands 40-second dash: 4.47 seconds (tied for fifth among RBs) Vertical jump: 32.5 inches Broad jump: 118.0 inches

AP file photo Greg Gabriel’s take from the 2016 PFW Draft Preview Magazine: “Has a Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliott (15) running style conducive to success in breaks free for a touchdown against Notre the NFL. Strong and powerful inside Dame during the second half of the Fiesta with creativity and cutback ability. Bowl on Jan. 1 in Glendale, Ariz.

Consistently gets yards after contact.

Very quick-footed with quick change of direction and a burst. Reliable as a receiver with soft hands and run-after skills. Excellent blocker especially in the pass game. Will start right away, better than Melvin Gordon last year.”

Fishbain’s observations: Name a positive attribute for a running back and

Elliot has it. From the time he gets the ball to the time he ends his run, Elliott shows trait after trait of a back who can be productive at the next level.

When Elliott takes the handoff, he has outstanding vision on where the hole is. He has a quick change of direction and the balance to stay on

his feet. Against Michigan, he showed the breakaway speed when he gets to daylight, as if he’s shot out of a cannon once he finds his hole. Often, Ohio State would send him horizontally, allowing a hole to form, and then he’d find it and be off to the races.

The season-opening win over Virginia Tech allowed Elliott to show his willingness as a blocker. He has no fear sticking his nose in against a pass rusher.

In each game, Elliott showed aggression in pass protection that NFL teams will like. He went out for a few routes and had good awareness in the flat to go along with soft hands.

Michigan’s stout defense did a fine job against Elliott early on, but then Elliott showed the patience to allow gaps to form and went off for 214 yards, including a 66-yarder.

Elliott’s most memorable college performance came in the national championship game after the 2015 season, when he broke off huge runs against Oregon. He gets to another gear when he’s in the open field. His size and strength allow him to break ankle tackles, and he fights for positive yards, keeping his legs churning and always moving forward at the end of his runs.

The Buckeyes run predominantly

out of the shotgun, so being in a more pro-style offense could be an adjustment for Elliott. He did touch the ball a lot the past two seasons, and he’s not afraid of getting hit, but he hasn’t had any durability issues yet.

Elliott is elusive with great instincts. He has everything a team would want out of a running back, and it’s clear why he’s going to be the top runner off the board.

Team fits: How early will Elliott come off the board? Will teams see what Todd Gurley did in the second half of last season and think that Elliott could provide that kind of instant-impact, Rookie-of-the-Year-type production?

The Cowboys need a back, and they’d be the first bet at No. 4. The Ravens (No. 6), Eagles (No. 9) and Giants (No. 10) all could use Elliott in their backfield.

The Bears sit at No. 11, and Ryan Pace will have an intriguing decision to make. Stan Drayton, the Bears’ running backs coach, coached Elliott in Columbus, so the Bears will have all the information they’ll need.

Despite not re-signing Matt Forte, the aggressiveness in pursuing C.J. Anderson showed that if the right player is there to help the offense, Pace will grab him.

NCAA FROZEN FOUR: NORTH DAKOTA 5, QUINNIPIAC 1

By FRED GOODALL The Associated Press

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North Dakota forward Shane Gersich (19) celebrates his goal against Quinnipiac during the first period of an NCAA Frozen Four championship game Saturday in Tampa, Fla. to lead North Dakota in scoring. After assisting on Shane Gersich’s first-period goal, he put North Dakota up to 2-0 with a short-handed goal set up when Garteig left Quinnipiac’s net unattended to try to clear a loose puck from the left circle.

Instead, the goalie wound up flick-

ing the puck into Boeser’s body, and the right wing was left with an easy shot for his 27th goal of the season.

North Dakota coach Brad Berry became the only first-year head coach to win the NCAA title. Jeff Sauer led Wisconsin to the 1983 national championship in his first season with the

• Sunday, April 10, 2016

TAMPA, Fla. – Drake Caggiula scored twice in the third period and Brock Boeser had a goal and three assists to help North Dakota win its eighth NCAA hockey championship, 5-1, over top-seeded Quinnipiac on Saturday night.

Cam Johnson had 32 saves for the Fighting Hawks (34-6-4). They won their first national title since 2000 to pull within one of Michigan for the record.

Caggiula scored in each of North Dakota’s four tournament wins. He also had two goals in a 4-2 victory over Denver that sent the Fighting Hawks into the Frozen Four final for the 13th time.

Quinnipiac (32-4-7) lost in the title game for the second time in four seasons. The Bobcats trailed 2-1 entering the third period, but their hopes for a first championship faded quickly when Caggiula beat goalie Michael Garteig twice in just over two minutes to break the game open before a crowd of 19,358.

Boeser is just the third freshman

Badgers, however he had previously spent 11 years at Colorado College.

Quinnipiac advanced to the final with a 3-2 victory over Boston College on Thursday.

North Dakota, meanwhile, weathered blowing a two-goal, third-period before scoring twice in the final minute to beat Denver, 4-2, and reach the title game for the first time since 2005.

The Fighting Hawks won all three previous meetings between the teams, including a first-round victory in the 2015 NCAA tournament. They entered Saturday night with a nation-leading 33 victories, one more than Quinnipiac, which was trying to become the fourth consecutive team to leave the Frozen Four with its first national crown.

Providence took the 2015 title, Union won two years ago, and Yale claimed its first crown by beating Quinnipiac in the 2013 final in Pittsburgh. Throw in Minnesota Duluth’s title in 2011, and four of the past six winners have been first-time champions, an interesting trend considering before that stretch there had not been a first-time winner since Maine in 1993.

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MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

at New Orleans 7 p.m.

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PHILADELPHIA 7 p.m.

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at Arizona 3:10 p.m.

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CINCINNATI 7:05 p.m.

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CINCINNATI 7:05 p.m.

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CINCINNATI 7:05 p.m.

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CLEVELAND 1:10 p.m.

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at Minnesota 3:10 p.m.

CSN AM-890

at Minnesota 7:10 p.m.

WPWR AM-890

at Minnesota 12:10 p.m.

CSN AM-890

WHAT TO WATCH College softball Oklahoma at Baylor, 2 p.m., ESPN2 Cycling UCI World Tour, Paris-Roubaix race (same-day tape), 2 p.m., NBCSN Golf The Masters, final round, at Augusta, Ga., 1 p.m., CBS Gymnastics 2016 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, at Everett, Wash. (tape-delayed), noon, NBC Pro baseball Boston at Toronto or Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, noon, MLB Cleveland at White Sox, 1:10 p.m., CSN Cubs at Arizona, 3:10 p.m., WGN N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 7 p.m., ESPN UFC UFC Fight Night, prelims, at Zagreb, Croatia, 11 a.m., FS1 UFC Fight Night, Ben Rothwell vs. Junior Dos Santos, at Zagreb, Croatia, 1 p.m., FS1 Pro basketball Charlotte at Washington, 11 a.m., NBA

Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 p.m., NBA Golden State at San Antonio, 6 p.m., NBA Soccer Premier League, Leicester City at Sunderland, 7:30 a.m., NBCSN Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund at Schalke, 8:30 a.m., FS1 Premier League, Manchester United at Tottenham, 10 a.m., NBCSN Bundesliga, Bayer Leverkusen at Cologne, 10:30 a.m., FS2 Women, International friendly, United States vs. Colombia, at Chester, Pa., 1 p.m., ESPN MLS, Seattle at Houston, 3 p.m., ESPN MLS, Fire at New York City, 6 p.m., FS1 MLS, Portland at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m., FS1 Tennis WTA Tour, Volvo Cars Open, championship, at Charleston, S.C., noon, ESPN2 Wrestling U.S. Olympic Trials, finals (men’s & women’s freestyle, Greco-Roman), at Iowa City, Iowa, 9:30 p.m., NBCSN

SPORTS BRIEF Granath pitches no-hitter as MCC baseball sweeps Moraine Valley

Jack Granath pitched a no-hitter for the McHenry County College baseball team Saturday in the first game of a doubleheader sweep against Moraine Valley, striking out nine and walking one in a 17-0, five-inning Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference victory.

The Scots (19-8 overall, 7-1 ISCC) also won the second game, 16-0, in five innings behind a complete-game shutout from Mason Martin. Martin (5-0) allowed only two hits with seven strikeouts and one walk.

In Game 1, Nick Vasic had a triple and four RBIs, Connor Hafeman was 2 for 3 with four runs and two RBIs, and Brett Stratinsky had a double and three RBIs. In Game 2, Justin Blasinski had three runs and three RBIs, Riley Richarz had two

RBIs, two runs scored and two steals, and Hafeman added four runs.

Warriors rally from 10 down to beat Grizzlies

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Draymond Green scored on a tip-in in with 1 minute left, and the Golden State Warriors rallied from 10 points down early in the fourth quarter and beat the Memphis Grizzlies, 100-99, on Saturday night to match at least one NBA record held by the 1995-96 Bulls.

Golden State now has 33 road wins, tying those Bulls who went 33-8 away from Chicago. The Warriors (71-9) visit the Spurs on Sunday night, and their next win will tie the Bulls’ NBA single-season record of 72 victories – but the Warriors have lost 33 straight in San Antonio.

– Staff, wire reports

NBA

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

WESTERN CONFERENCE

y-Cleveland y-Toronto x-Atlanta x-Boston x-Miami x-Charlotte x-Detroit Indiana

W L Pct GB 56 24 .700 — 53 26 .671 2½ 48 32 .600 8 47 33 .588 9 46 33 .582 9½ 46 33 .582 9½ 43 37 .538 13 42 37 .532 13½

Bulls Washington Orlando Milwaukee New York Brooklyn Philadelphia

40 40 .500 16 38 41 .481 17½ 34 45 .430 21½ 32 47 .405 23½ 32 48 .400 24 21 58 .266 34½ 10 69 .127 45½

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z-Golden State y-San Antonio y-Oklahoma City x-L.A. Clippers x-Portland x-Memphis Dallas Utah

W L Pct GB 71 9 .888 — 65 14 .823 5½ 54 25 .684 16½ 51 28 .646 19½ 43 37 .538 28 42 38 .525 29 41 38 .519 29½ 39 40 .494 31½

Houston 38 41 .481 32½ Denver 33 47 .413 38 Sacramento 31 48 .392 39½ New Orleans 30 50 .375 41 Minnesota 27 52 .342 43½ Phoenix 22 58 .275 49 L.A. Lakers 16 63 .203 54½ x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Saturday’s Results Bulls 105, Cleveland 102 Phoenix 121, New Orleans 100 Atlanta 118, Boston 107 Golden State 100, Memphis 99 Oklahoma City at Sacramento (n) Minnesota at Portland (n) Sunday’s Games Charlotte at Washington, 11 a.m.

Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Houston, 2:30 p.m.

Utah at Denver, 4 p.m.

Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Orlando at Miami, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Golden State at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Toronto at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Bulls at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Washington at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Houston at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Utah, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Friday’s Results New York 109, Philadelphia 102 Orlando 112, Miami 109 Charlotte 113, Brooklyn 99 Toronto 111, Indiana 98 Boston 124, Milwaukee 109 Detroit 112, Washington 99 New Orleans 110, L.A. Lakers 102 Dallas 103, Memphis 93 Denver 102, San Antonio 98 L.A. Clippers 102, Utah 99, OT

Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-Dallas 82 50 23 9 109 267 230 x-St. Louis 82 49 24 9 107 224 201 x-Hawks 82 47 26 9 103 235 209 x-Nashville 82 41 27 14 96 228 215 x-Minnesota 82 38 33 11 87 216 206 Colorado 82 39 39 4 82 216 240 Winnipeg 81 34 39 8 76 211 236 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Los Angeles 81 48 28 5 101 222 191 x-Anaheim 81 45 25 11 101 216 192 x-San Jose 81 45 30 6 96 240 210 Arizona 81 35 38 8 78 209 244 Calgary 82 35 40 7 77 231 260 Vancouver 81 30 38 13 73 187 240 Edmonton 81 31 43 7 69 200 241

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Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA y-Florida 82 47 26 9 103 239 203 x-Tampa Bay 82 46 31 5 97 227 201 x-Detroit 82 41 30 11 93 211 224 Boston 82 42 31 9 93 240 230 Ottawa 82 38 35 9 85 236 247 Montreal 82 38 38 6 82 221 236 Buffalo 82 35 36 11 81 201 222 Toronto 82 29 42 11 69 198 246 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA z-Washington 81 56 17 8 120 252 191 x-Pittsburgh 82 48 26 8 104 245 203 x-N.Y. Rangers 82 46 27 9 101 236 217 x-N.Y. Islanders 81 45 26 10 100 230 211 x-Philadelphia 81 40 27 14 94 209 216 Carolina 82 35 31 16 86 198 226 New Jersey 82 38 36 8 84 184 208 Columbus 82 34 40 8 76 219 252 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference 2 points for a win, one point for OT loss Friday’s Result Columbus 4, Buffalo 1 Saturday’s Games Columbus 5, Blackhawks 4, OT Ottawa 6, Boston 1 N.Y. Rangers 3, Detroit 2 Philadelphia 3, Pittsburgh 1 Anaheim 5, Colorado 3 Montreal 5, Tampa Bay 2 Florida 5, Carolina 2 New Jersey 5, Toronto 1 Calgary 2, Minnesota 1 Buffalo 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, OT Washington 5, St. Louis 1 Dallas 3, Nashville 2 Edmonton at Vancouver (n) Winnipeg at Los Angeles (n) Arizona at San Jose (n) Sunday’s Games Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Results St. Louis 2, Blackhawks 1, OT Boston 5, Detroit 2 Tampa Bay 4, New Jersey 2 N.Y. Islanders 4, N.Y. Rangers 1 Toronto 4, Philadelphia 3, OT Pittsburgh 4, Washington 3, OT Montreal 4, Carolina 2 Ottawa 3, Florida 1 Nashville 3, Arizona 2, OT Dallas 4, Colorado 2 Calgary 7, Vancouver 3 Los Angeles 2, Anaheim 1 Winnipeg 5, San Jose 4

PREPS Monday Baseball: Round Lake at Richmond-Burton, McHenry at Grayslake North, Cary-Grove at Woodstock North, Crystal Lake South at Woodstock, Dundee-Crown at Hampshire, Antioch at Harvard, Huntley at Grayslake Central, Marengo at Burlington Central, Kaneland at Prairie Ridge, 4:30 p.m.; Marian Central at Maine South, 5 p.m.

Softball: McHenry at Grayslake North, Cary-Grove at Woodstock North, Crystal Lake South at Crystal Lake Central, Dundee-Crown at Prairie Ridge, Huntley at Hampshire, Jacobs at Grayslake Central, Alden-Hebron at Marian Central, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Wauconda at Prairie Ridge, Richmond-Burton at Johnsburg, Grayslake North at Crystal Lake South, Hampshire at Hinckley Big Rock, North Boone at Marengo, Marian Central Aurora Central Catholic, Belvidere North at Woodstock North, 4:30 p.m.

Boys Track and Field: McHenry, Jacobs, Woodstock North at Prairie Ridge, Hampshire, Cary-Grove at Huntley, Grayslake North, Crystal Lake Central at Woodstock, Crystal Lake South, Grayslake Central at Dundee-Crown, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Track and Field: Crystal Lake Central, Jacobs at Crystal Lake South, 4:15 p.m.; Woodstock, Cary-Grove at McHenry, Hampshire, Dundee-Crown at Woodstock North, Grayslake North, Huntley, Prairie Ridge at Grayslake Central, 4:30 p.m.

Boys Lacrosse: Bartlett at Jacobs, 6:15 p.m.; Huntley at Naperville Central, 7 p.m.

Boys Tennis: Dundee-Crown at Crystal Lake Central, Hampshire at Prairie Ridge, 4 p.m.; Woodstock North at Marengo,

Round Lake at Marian Central, 4:30 p.m.

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

Tuesday Baseball: Grayslake Central at Cary-Grove, Burlington Central at Richmond-Burton, Prairie Ridge at Jacobs, McHenry at Mundelein, Hampshire at Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South at Hoffman Estates, Harvard at Johnsburg, Christian Crossroads Academy at Marian Central, Woodstock North at Lake Forest Academy, Westminster Christian at Alden-Hebron, 4:30 p.m.

Softball: Richmond-Burton at Johnsburg, Woodstock at McHenry, Westminster Christian at Alden-Hebron, Grayslake North at Cary-Grove, Crystal Lake Central at Dundee-Crown, Hampshire at Crystal Lake South, Harvard at Genoa-Kingston, Woodstock North at Huntley, Prairie Ridge at Jacobs, Burlington Central at Marengo, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Crystal Lake Central at McHenry, 4:30 p.m.; Johnsburg at Harvard, 6 p.m.; Hampshire at CaryGrove, 6:30 p.m.; Crystal Lake South, Dundee-Crown, Huntley, Jacobs, Prairie Ridge at Pepsico Showdown, TBA Boys Track and Field: Rockford Lutheran at Richmond-Burton, 4 p.m.; Harvard, North Boone at Wauconda, St. Viator, Marian Central at Benet Academy, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Track and Field: Rockford Lutheran at Richmond-Burton, 4 p.m.; Marengo, North Boone at Harvard, 4:15 p.m.

Boys Lacrosse: Prairie Ridge at McHenry, Crystal Lake Central at Hampshire, 6 p.m.; Crystal Lake South at Wheaton Academy, Huntley at Wheaton St. Francis, 7 p.m.

MLB NATIONAL LEAGUE

Central Division

W L Pct GB Pittsburgh 4 0 1.000 — Cubs 3 1 .750 1 Cincinnati 3 1 .750 1 Milwaukee 2 2 .500 2 St. Louis 1 3 .250 3 East Division

W L Pct GB New York 2 1 .667 — Washington 2 1 .667 — Miami 1 2 .333 1 Atlanta 0 3 .000 2 Philadelphia 0 4 .000 2½ West Division

W L Pct GB Los Angeles 3 1 .750 — San Francisco 3 1 .750 — Colorado 2 2 .500 1 Arizona 2 3 .400 1½ San Diego 1 3 .250 2 Saturday’s Games Cubs 4, Arizona 2 Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 1 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Francisco 2, 10 innings Miami at Washington, ppd., cold weather Houston 6, Milwaukee 4 Philadelphia 1, N.Y. Mets 0 St. Louis 12, Atlanta 2 San Diego 16, Colorado 3 Sunday’s Games Cubs (Arrieta 1-0) at Arizona (S.Miller 0-0), 3:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hellickson 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 0-1), 12:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 0-0) at Cincinnati (Melville 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 0-0) at Washington (J.Ross 0-0), 12:35 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 0-1) at Atlanta (W.Perez 0-0), 12:35 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 1-0) at Milwaukee (Nelson 0-1), 1:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 1-0) at San Francisco (Cueto 1-0), 3:05 p.m.

San Diego (Shields 0-1) at Colorado (Bettis 0-0), 3:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games Cincinnati at Cubs, 7:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Detroit, 12:10 p.m.

San Diego at Philadelphia, 2:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at St. Louis, 3:15 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 6:05 p.m.

Miami at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Central Division

W L Pct GB Detroit 3 1 .750 — Kansas City 3 1 .750 — White Sox 4 2 .667 — Cleveland 2 2 .500 1 Minnesota 0 5 .000 3½ East Division

W L Pct GB Baltimore 4 0 1.000 — Boston 3 1 .750 1 New York 3 2 .600 1½ Tampa Bay 2 3 .400 2½ Toronto 2 4 .333 3 West Division

W L Pct GB Texas 3 3 .500 — Seattle 2 2 .500 — Houston 2 3 .400 ½ Oakland 2 3 .400 ½ Los Angeles 1 4 .200 1½ Saturday’s Games White Sox 7, Cleveland 3 Boston 8, Toronto 4 N.Y. Yankees 8, Detroit 4 Tampa Bay at Baltimore, ppd., rain Houston 6, Milwaukee 4 Kansas City 7, Minnesota 0 Texas 4, L.A. Angels 1 Oakland at Seattle (n) Sunday’s Games Cleveland (Tomlin 0-0) at White Sox (Quintana 0-0), 1:10 p.m.

Boston (S.Wright 0-0) at Toronto (Estrada 0-0), 12:07 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 0-0) at Baltimore (Worley 0-0), 12:35 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 1-0) at Milwaukee (Nelson 0-1), 1:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Nolasco 0-0) at Kansas City (Volquez 1-0), 1:15 p.m.

Texas (M.Perez 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-0), 2:35 p.m.

Oakland (Bassitt 0-0) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 0-1), 3:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 0-0) at Detroit (Verlander 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games White Sox at Minnesota, 3:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Detroit, 12:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 1:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Houston, 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Oakland, 9:05 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

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High school players make fast track to college ranks

By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press In January 2007, mega-recruit Jimmy Clausen enrolled at Notre Dame, bypassing a final semester of high school to partake in spring practice with the Fighting Irish and get a jump on becoming the starting quarterback.

Early enrollment was a rarity in college football at the time. Almost a decade later, it’s commonplace.

All but four teams in the Power Five conferences have at least one member of the 2016 freshman class already enrolled and practicing, a total of more than 250 players. West Virginia, North Carolina State and Florida have the most freshmen early enrolled this year with nine each.

Now a highly touted quarterback recruit from Alabama is taking early enrollment a step further. Jake Bentley announced this week he will skip his senior year of high school altogether and enroll at the University of South Carolina this summer.

While players who have enrolled early said it increased their ability to play as freshmen and gave them a head start on earning credits toward graduation, some in college sports wonder, what’s the rush?

“I don’t think there’s any way that it’s in the best interest of quality preparation for college to go early,” said Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowls-

by, head of the NCAA’s football oversight committee. “I think it’s also fair to assert that not all of the kids that are doing this are excellent students.

Just the fact that they were able to get out of high school early doesn’t make them necessarily ready for college.”

At first, most early enrollees were quarterbacks. No position requires more mental preparation.

Clemson star DeShaun Watson got on the fast track after his sophomore year of high school, with the encouragement of then-Tigers offensive coordinator Chad Morris.

Watson had to give up a final season of high school basketball but knew football was his future.

“I missed my friends, my last semester of high school and all the memories, but this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” he said. “I wanted to play as a freshman.”

Watson was Clemson’s starter by game four of his freshman season.

Only injuries held him back after that.

Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez said he doesn’t recruit players with early enrollment in mind, but “I don’t see anything wrong with it.”

He said the greatest benefits to players enrolling early come in the weight room.

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Harsh truth is that Cubs get love, flawed Sox come in 2nd season after tearing ligaments in his left knee Thursday night. That took a couple pounds-a-square-inch out of the Cubs’ balloon.

What the Cubs do or don’t do should be irrelevant to the Sox. That the Cubs Like a lot of things in White Sox hishave – or had for a week, until the tory, it would have been a nice thing – if Schwarber incident – the Greatest Team it had happened.

Ever Assembled in Baseball History That is, it would have been nice if should mean nothing to the Sox. the Sox had won their season opener at But that’s not how the world works U.S. Cellular Field on Friday afternoon, – not in Chicago, one of the few cities against the rival Cleveland Indians, in with two major league teams and maybe the midst of a pure Chicago April snow the only one with such a stark dividing shower. line between fans: North Side vs. South The snow wasn’t overwhelming, and Side. it wasn’t in the air for all of the Sox’s 7-1 It’s hard not to like the makeup of loss. But it delayed the start of the game this current Sox roster. The subtraction for 16 minutes, and it looked lovely – in of some players and the addition of good a snow globe way – when it periodically AP photo teammate vets such as Jimmy Rollins drifted down and melted on the bright The White Sox’s Austin Jackson (right) celebrates with Todd Frazier after scoring against and Todd Frazier has to be an improvegreen grass. Yet the Sox couldn’t live up the Oakland Athletics during the third inning Wednesday in Oakland, Calif. ment over last year’s underachieving to the oddball charm of the weather, and failures. the letdown was felt as much as seen. son Street float that is part grinning Repressed Cubs fan Rahm Emanuel But in this Cubs-centric town, where Lefty pitcher John Danks was incon- was in the house, acting as though he clown head, part weeping saint and all a perennial loser can suck the air out sistent and gave up five earned runs trembling emotion. cared, and so was Sox chairman Jerry of the bag just by appearing to have a and eight hits in five innings. What else Reinsdorf, who looks a lot younger than The Sox can’t win in Chicago unless chance at winning it all, the White Sox is new? they’re almost perfect, which is why it his 80 years, and who actually does have to outwork everybody all the time.

The light was there for the Sox to care. But none of that mattered because would have been nice to see them win It can be exhausting, but the truth grab, what with their 3-1 start, the Cubs until the Cubs are killed off, dead-asthis little opener in silly conditions. sometimes is. being out of town still and there being, One other reason the Sox had a shoe-leather scrap, and tossed into the as general manager Rick Hahn said chance to leap ahead was the bummer deepest part of Lake Michigan, the Sox • Rick Telander is a sports columnist pregame, “a very positive, focused vibe injury to Cubs catcher/outfielder/slugcannot win in this town. They live in for the Chicago Sun-Times and can be coming out of that clubhouse.” ger Kyle Schwarber, who is lost for the the shadow of a huge, inflatable Addireached at rtelander@suntimes.com.

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The sad march of sloshing boatshoes It’s a startling prediction I’ve seen pop up time and again lately, first in my morning paper, and most recently in Time magazine: By the year 2100, rising sea levels will displace millions of Americans.

That prediction is based on findings by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), forecasting sea-level rises of between .9 and 1.8 meters that could cause more than 4 million Americans to leave their seaside homes.

But according to Mathew Hauer, a demographer at the University of Georgia (Athens), NOAA’s refugee numbers are on the light side because they were based on current population numbers.

“Coastal communities are some of the most rapidly growing communities in the world,” Hauer points out, “so you have to account for the fact that these areas are growing. Using current data, we’re underestimating what the future growth in coastal communities is likely to do in terms of placing people at risk of sea-level rise.”

Hauer predicts it won’t be 4 million, but more than 13 million coastal Americans who will be displaced by 2100 – the startling statistic quoted in Time magazine. Half of those displaced Americans will be Floridians.

But, wait a minute.

According to Hauer, that modest NOAA prediction of 4 million displaced Americans swells alarmingly threefold because Americans are currently moving closer to the beach?!

What part of demographic disaster don’t they understand?!

Hauer laments a displacement of 13 million Americans would signify “U.S. population movements of a magnitude similar to the 20th century Great Migration of Southern African-Americans” who fled north to escape the institutionalized racism of the South.

And who are these beachfront-burgeoning boobs whom Hauer likens to the hordes of persecuted African-Americans running a step ahead of the lynch mob?

Drive along Gordon Drive in Naples,

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or through the waterside neighborhoods of Sanibel, Palm Beach, Boca Grande or any of a hundred Florida seaside towns, and you’ll get a hint. But don’t stop or knock on the door, because the security cameras are watching, and you wouldn’t want the household maids or the gardeners to release the hounds.

But if you slow down and listen carefully, you might hear the despairing sighs of the owners searching for a way to tell their yet-unborn great-great-great grandchildren they won’t be able to live in Papu’s posh family seaside mansion.

And how to tell those future great-greatgreat grandkiddies they have only 84 years to locate a new upscale address a few feet upslope from the lapping waves on the beach?

Move over, Native-Americans and African-Americans, because it seems the next chapter in our tragic national history will belong to Beachclub-Americans.

Of course, not all sea-level dwellers are lucky enough to have an address in a posh Naples zip code. There are plenty of poor folks living in low-lying parishes in New Orleans who won’t be able to sail away on their yacht when the waters rise. They, too, will have to tell the greatgreat-great-grandkids they’ll need to take a step or two back from the water when the time comes – that is, if they haven’t already been bought out by boat-shoed Beachclubbers eager to get the seaside mansion built and enjoy it for a generation or two before tapping the insurance company to pay for their inevitable, tragic loss to rising tides.

Another climate-change researcher, Athanasios Vafeidis of the University of Kiel in Germany, agrees relocation is inevitable. But he doesn’t see it as a tragic tale of mass demographic displacement, as Hauer does, because “people will adapt to the changing shoreline.”

Well, that’s saying pretty much the same thing as what Hauer is saying, I guess, but it’s not as sexy without the hysteria, is it? Don’t expect Time magazine to quote Vafeidis any time soon, because calm common sense doesn’t rake in newsstand profits nearly as well as

hysterical hyperbole does.

A change of address? Sure, says Vafeidis.

An American tragedy of refugee flight from disaster? Meh. “It’s very important to show what is potentially at stake to communicate the costs of inaction,” Vafeidis said. “But we also need to communicate the benefits of adaptation. How well we adapt will be the main determinant of future impacts.”

So – let’s get this straight – not many of us are today living in the same house where great-great-great-granddad lived 84 years ago, right? For a variety of reasons – economic, environmental, ethnic or racial societal trends – we packed our bags and put down roots elsewhere, right?

And (spoiler alert!) our great-greatgreat-grandkids probably will do the same thing, as well. At least, they will if great-great-great-grandpa lives at sea level.

Because the waters are rising. If you stand very, very still for a very, very long time, you’ll be able to see it before you die – that is, if you’re young enough today to last for several more decades as the inevitable change trickles toward your perfectly pedicured toes.

But if all those investment-portfolio Beachclub-American guys wait to contact their Realtor until the waves are lapping around their Lamborghinis, then the sorriest sound in 22nd century American history books won’t be the plaintive Native-American death songs on the Trail of Tears.

And it won’t be the heartbreaking African-American blues songs riding the rails and rivers north to Detroit, St. Louis or Chicago.

It will be the sad squish of soggy Beachclub-American boat shoes, sloshing upslope toward Immokalee.

Oh, the Gucci-clad humanity!

• 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.

EnvironmentTip It’s about the bread

Ali Plonczynski colors in the head of a lion during the Crystal Lake Library Coloring for Adults program.

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Similar to the switch from white rice to brown, swapping white bread for whole wheat can give your health and the environment a boost. It’s well-known that whole grain

and wheat breads are more nutritious than white bread, but brown breads also are less harmful to the environment.

Wheat flour must be refined and go through a series of alteration processes to make white

bread, but whole wheat flour spends less time in production.

Whole grains in general are better sources of nutrients and filling fiber and also spend less time in production, according to Mother Nature Network. “Any

ingredient that requires extensive refining requires more energy and resources and has a greater impact on the planet.”

Source: Environmental Defenders of McHenry County

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ric finished into pillows. She has mailed her custom-order artwork to customers around the world. (www.shebbodesign.etsy.com)

The Associated Press Want to record your beloved pet’s likeness in a work of art?

There are many unusual options, from artfully designed throw pillows to stained glass, metalwork and paintings. Your pet’s adorable face could adorn holiday ornaments, glass stemware, ceramics, jewelry, rock art – even a spoon or a phone case.

Just a sampling of what’s available:

Sewn pillow

In Hartlepool, England, textiles instructor Diane Watson uses applique, embroidery and pops of vintage fabric color to fashion a pet’s image onto linen that becomes a pillow.

She began by embroidering a portrait of her brother’s dog, and since has made hundreds of custom-order pillows, of guinea pigs and goats as well as the usual dogs and cats. (www.etsy.com/shop/naughtydog2)

Digital portrait

In the small fishing port of Brixham, England, Karen McIntosh assembles digital caricatures of pets. “I am a real fan of the dark, moody images of the Old Masters, and love recreating this ambience in my work,” she said. She blends images and adds shadows and brush strokes in Photoshop for a painterly feel to works printed on highquality matte paper. (www.etsy.com/shop/ yourpetspawtraits)

Painted metal

Lisa Manzo of Plainfield, Illinois, uses highgloss paints on galvanized steel – a modernlooking canvas – to create colorfully stylized pet portraits. She fills in her black outlines

Embroidery AP photos

A digitally rendered portrait of Lady Emma

by Karen McIntosh of Brixham, England, of YourPetsPawtraits. with a vibrant, fluid paint. The combination lends dimension. (www.etsy.com/shop/ dropmypaintstudio)

Painted pillow

Sebnem Ergun’s story begins with a stray cat she found near her home in Istanbul, Turkey. The animal’s courage gave Ergun the strength to quit her day job to paint – first on stones and porcelain but now on cotton fab-

ASPCA gives dogs 2nd chance

By SUE MANNING The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – Animal Planet soon will celebrate the success of a unique program aimed at second chance dogs, often shy and traumatized victims of puppy mills, hoarders and abandonment.

In an hour-long special at 8 p.m.

April 16, the network will delve into the Behavior Rehabilitation Center at St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center in Madison, New Jersey. It’s a pilot program of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that began in 2013 and soon will be expanded, in time for the ASPCA’s 150th anniversary.

Called “Second Chance Dogs,” the Animal Planet show starts at the center’s beginning, when the ASPCA decided to try rehabilitation for hardluck cases.

Of 259 dogs sent to the center since it opened, 185 have graduated. Of those, 170 were adopted, and the majority is doing quite well, said Kristen Collins, a certified applied animal behaviorist who oversees the project and will be the director of a new facility planned as part of the expansion.

Not all the dogs were success

stories. Thirteen were deemed inappropriate for the program, including those with health issues, and 28 failed to graduate after months in the program. Some of those were sent back to the shelters where they came from, and some had to be euthanized.

But the ASPCA stands firmly behind the center. It will continue to move dogs through St. Hubert’s until a new $9 million, 35,000-square-foot facility is finished in mid-2017 in Weaverville, North Carolina.

“While we can’t yet answer all of the questions associated with rehabilitating at-risk animals, we continue to witness amazing transformations, dogs that conquer their anxiety and fear despite years of devastating behavioral damage. These transformations change the trajectory of their lives,” said Matthew Bershadker, president and CEO of the ASPCA. Nearly every animal shelter in the country has a shy dog or two, Collins said. The new rehab center will have a dormitory that can accommodate visiting staff bringing in dogs from shelters or seeking training on how to handle their own loads.

Shelters will not be charged for sending dogs or staff to the center, she said.

Kathy Halper of Highland Park, Illinois, is a painter who recently began embroidering pet portraits framed in embroidery hoops or stretched over square forms. (www. kathyhalper.com)

when she began sculpting animal heads, starting with her two Goldendoodles, Fred and Ginger. Commissioned work soon followed. (www.suzellenbogen.com)

Stained glass

Glass pieces lend vibrancy to Suzanne Coverett Earls’ pet portraits at her rural home near Brantford, Ontario. Earls tries to capture each animal’s quirks and personality in custom-order pieces using hand-cut stained glass. (www. etsy.com/shop/piecefularts)

Metal

Ceramics

Suzanne Ellenbogen of Golden, Colorado, was creating ceramic jewelry and sculpture

Dadra Hunt of Scottsdale, Arizona, welds metal pet portraits out of steel. Working from a photograph, she draws on and handcuts 16-gauge steel, layering and bending the steel before welding it. Pieces are colored using stains, heat or paint. (www. dhseadragon.com/index.html)

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Lou Gaffney (from left), Ali Plonczynski, Kendahl O’Hara and Kathie Gaffney work on coloring pictures during Crystal Lake Public Library’s Coloring for Adults event March 28.

PICTURES C OF HEALTH The Crystal Lake Public Library hosted a Coloring for Adults program led by Pat Tetzlaff, who sharpens colored pencils for the group.

Adult coloring books are fun, relaxing hobby with surprising health benefits Story by OLIVIA MORRISSEY editorial@nwherald.com

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oloring inside the lines may be the key to a relaxed, creative state of mind for many adults. Such was the case for the 20 participants in the Crystal Lake Public Library’s recent Coloring for Adults program.

The library hosted its second coloring program for adults March 25. All were eager to attend an event focused on unwinding and the deeper level of calm (known as mindfulness) while filling in designs with an array of colored pencils.

“The program wasn’t supposed to start until 2 that afternoon, but everyone arrived and started coloring by 1:30,” Pat Tetzlaff, a librarian and organizer of the event, said with a laugh. “They all seemed to really enjoy the program.”

The excitement and interest surrounding the drop-in event has spurned additional coloring programs at the library. The next session will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 19.

More information can be found in the calendar on the library’s website, www.clpl.org. And it isn’t the only one. Libraries across McHenry County have started to embrace the trend.

The first commercially successful adult coloring books were published in 2012 and 2013, and demand has exploded. About 12 million adult coloring books were sold last year, up from about 1 million in 2014. And now popular brands have capitalized on their popularity, such as Crayola, which launched its own set of markers, colored pencils and adult coloring books. The company even offers a guide to take coloring to the next level, with techniques for blending, shading and other advanced coloring methods.

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Such skill is not required, however. One of the big draws of coloring is that anyone, regardless of artistic inclination or skill, can color and reap its benefits.

There is no pressure for perfection, said Linda Benjamin, a clinical social worker at The Barrington Center, a private group practice providing psychological counseling and wellness services for children, adolescents and adults.

“In our society, we have immense pressure to work toward a goal and achieve it. It is based on a Puritan work ethic that never went away,” Benjamin said. “We have been conditioned to focus on the end goal and not enjoy or learn from the process.”

Benjamin said this release of competition and being “good” at an activity is anxiety-reducing. According to research published in the Journal of the American Art Therapy Association in 2005, subjects who colored mandalas, or round forms with geometric shapes inside, experienced a significant drop in anxiety as compared with those who only doodled. Like meditation, coloring allows amateur artists to focus on the moment, reducing free-floating anxiety.

“We should let ourselves explore our creativity and relax,” she said.

“If you enjoy an activity and it’s not harmful to you or anyone else, let yourself be bad at it. What’s the harm in it? The fact that you enjoy it is the key.”

Most of the participants at the Crystal Lake library event had never met. Some sought instruction on how to color certain designs, but they were encouraged by Tetzlaff to follow their own artistic vision. Others had no qualms selecting colors and designs. Still others brought their own colored pencils and coloring books to complete. What started as a scheduled meeting of strangers soon became a gathering of friends.

“They started out very quiet and everyone kept to themselves,” Tetzlaff said. “Soon, they were chit-chat-

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ting with each other as they colored, laughing and getting along. I think they were enjoying getting to know each other. It was very nice to see.”

Tetzlaff’s casual observation of the participants in the Coloring for Adults program is indicative of something much more profound, Benjamin said.

“Coloring gave them focus. They were able to drop their defenses and just be themselves. They were authentic, in-the-moment and not concerned with what others thought of them,” she said. “Ironically, when we are worried about how others see us, that is often when they think the least of us.”

Coloring is considered a children’s hobby, but it quickly is gaining popularity among adults searching for mental calm in a stressed-out society.

The mental focus needed to choose colors and draw the pencil back and forth until an area is completely colored is so significant, participants, if only for a short time, forget dwelling

ABOVE: Alice and Charles Bretz use pencils to color pictures during the Crystal Lake Public Library Coloring for Adults program.

LEFT: Library patron Barbara LaFever colors a picture of an owl.

Classical music was played during the event.

on the past or worrying about the future and live in the moment.

As the popularity of coloring books grows in bookstores and online, it is clear coloring is not just for children anymore. But Benjamin said adults should not mistake this hobby as childish, when it is simply

childlike in its endeavor.

“As adults, we have forgotten how to have fun. It really is a big part of living,” she said.

“Something like coloring may seem like a little, insignificant thing to do, but it could turn out to be a big, positive thing in our lives.”

FIND YOUR COLOR Coloring for adults 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. April 19 Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake.

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A basket of colored pencils was provided at the Crystal Lake Library Coloring for Adults event.

Zendala the Easy Way 7 to 8:30 p.m. April 12 Algonquin Public Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin Information: www.aapld.org

Coloring for Grownups 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. May 12 Algonquin Public Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin Information: www.aapld.org

Adult Coloring Book Club 6 p.m. April 19 Marengo Public Library, 19714 E. Grant Highway, Marengo Information: www.muld.org

Calm Coloring for Adults 6:30 to 8 p.m. April 19 McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry Information: www.mchenrylibrary.org

Coloring Pages 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Monday Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock Information: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org

Coloring for Grownups 7 to 8:30 p.m. April 20 Cary Public Library, 1606 Three Oaks Road, Cary Information: www.caryarealibrary.org Adult Coloring Club 6:30 to 8 p.m. April 28 Fox River Grove Public Library, 407 Lincoln Ave., Fox River Grove Information: www.frgml.org

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SENSORY GARDENS, 7 to 8 p.m. April 11, Algonquin Area Public Library District – Harnish Main Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin.

We’ll tell you how to plan for a small beginner’s sensory garden. In sensory gardens, plants and other design elements are selected with the intention to provide experiences for heightened sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste. For adults. Free. Registration required. Information: 847-458-6060, refdesk@aapld.org or www. aapld.org/do.

CONSUMER SHOWCASE, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. April 14, Sun City Huntley – Prairie Lodge, 128880 Del Webb Blvd., Huntley. Open to the public. Meet with area businesses about your 2016 projects. Free. Information: 847-515-7650, info@sccah.org or www.sccah.com/events/ EventDetails.aspx?id=708336.

WOODSTOCK WINTER FARMERS MARKET, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 16, McHenry County Fairgrounds, Building D, 11900 Country Club Road, Woodstock. Information: www.woodstockfarmersmarket.org.

EDIBLE LANDSCAPES, 7 to 8:30 p.m. April 18, Johnsburg Public Library, 3000 N. Johnsburg Road, Johnsburg. Decorative borders of herbs, rainbow chard and paprika peppers. Springblooming perennials replaced with berries or fruit trees that are beautiful all year long.

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Advance registration required. Free. Information: 815-344-0077, mullrich@johnsburglibrary. org or www.johnsburglibrary.org/event.

COMMUNITY SHRED EVENT, 10 a.m. to noon April 30, McHenry Public Library, 809 N. Front St., McHenry. Bring up to four boxes/ bags of personal documents to have shred by a commercial service in the parking lot. Leave those staples in. Funded by the Friends of the McHenry Public Library. Free. Information: 815385-0036 or mplref@mchenrylibrary.org.

CARE & FEEDING YOUR HERB GARDEN, 7 to 8:30 p.m. May 4, Cary Area Public Library, 1606 Three Oaks Road, Cary. Includes everything a startup gardener should know: What is an herb? How do herbs differ from other plants?

Choosing plants for a garden and how to prepare the soil, etc. Registration required. Free.

Information: 847-639-4210, almamaj@caryarealibrary.info or www.caryarealibrary.info.

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By QUINN WELDER 12, of Crystal Lake Elections are coming up, and you may have the perfect president in mind. You are excited to vote, hoping it can support your candidate in some

way. But then you find out it doesn’t because of a part of our voting process called the Electoral College. This unfair and outdated system has been used for most of American history and is in need of change. We need to abolish this undemocratic system and make the popular vote, the people’s vote, count.

Under the current system, voters cast their vote to a group of electors, who “will try” to vote for the state’s majority. “Faithless” electors sometimes vote for their candidate rather than the state’s majority choice. Did you know that? Probably not. A survey by www.nbclosangeles.com showed 43 percent of people were uneducated on the Electoral College. This statistic needs to change, if not go away.

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but George W. Bush ended up winning with an electoral vote of 271 vs. 266.

And we all know who became president – Bush. This has happened seven other times before and has screwed up multiple elections.

The Electoral College can give some states an unfair advantage and voice in the elections. Usually, smaller states have more votes per person because of their lower population.

According to www.fairvote.org, people in Wyoming have almost four times as many electoral votes than residents in Texas. They try to balance out the small with the big, but it doesn’t always work, determining the number of votes by the number of U.S. senators and representatives. Wyoming ended up with one “elector” for 177,556 people. Texas had one for 715,499, making the difference an astounding 537,943 people. That is a huge differ-

ence and makes it very unbalanced between just two states.

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If we really cared about who our president should be, it wouldn’t matter if it came to a tie because we would defend our own opinion and not some electors’.

Even though this system has been used for a long time, New York Times Magazine has said that the Electoral College was based on southern states and slavery. That was destroyed years ago, and so should the Electoral College. We should stand up and destroy this antiquated and discriminatory system to allow all of our voices to be heard, equally.

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Drinking more than self-esteem problem “Don” was the youngest of a large brood from a good Catholic family with high expectations and high performers. He had a hard-working, hard-drinking dad and a stay-athome mom. His brothers and sisters were always a little hard on him because he was overweight and subsequently shy. His survival mechanism was generally withdrawal into a fantasy world of who he wished he was. His weight was always a cause of great distress and shame for Don, and his high school years were both miserable and formative.

By the time college rolled around, Don had lost weight through heavy exercise and discovered a talent for sales. However, he never lost the overweight, shy, “little fat kid” inside. This was about the time he found the magic elixir. Alcohol washed away the social anxiety and low self-esteem and made him the person he wanted to be. He could talk to women, charm people with his self-deprecating humor and, as his new boss told him, “sell snow cones to Eskimos.”

Alcohol was a part of life for Don. He had never been a big drinker and wasn’t now. He had a few cocktails at business dinners and a few beers at home on the weekends but often was the designated driver for his associates and had no complaints at home. As time went on and the demands of a family and a high-pressure job increased, Don found a few beers at home after dinner helped him relax. What used to be a few cocktails with customers a couple of nights a week turned into three or four late nights of expensive dinners and heavy drinking. Before he knew it, Don was drinking every evening and found himself explaining to his wife that he needed a few drinks to relax. He’d never heard himself say the “need” word before.

His first wakeup call was an email from his boss questioning the expense report, especially the liquor tab. The second was a suggestion from his boss that he visit the company Employee Assistance Program

since his numbers had nosedived and he was “looking rough” most mornings. Don grudgingly went to the EAP office intent on explaining his anxiety and low self-esteem problems. To his great surprise, the counselor suggested drinking might be an issue and told Don to try to stop drinking and go to some AA meetings.

As it turned out, Don had been thinking about the drinking issue for some time and so trundled off to a few meetings. But less than convinced, he went back to some “controlled drinking” after a threemonth period of abstinence to prove he could do it. Within six months of the experiment, his drinking had spiraled out of control and his understanding wife threatened to leave. He quit drinking again and went back to a few meetings but decided he could handle it. He did stay long enough to learn the difference between “not drinking” and “recovery.”

The subsequent 18 months were filled with periods of abstinence followed by weeks of heavy drinking, developing ulcers, trips to the ER, increased use of addictive antianxiety drugs and steadily falling self-esteem. Once again, Don applied the brakes and stopped drinking, but the constant battle in his head was almost more than he could bear.

He had what is called “an allergy to alcohol coupled with the compulsion to drink.” He knew he had alcoholism but hadn’t been able to surrender. He knew he could will himself to stop drinking for a period of time but he couldn’t stay stopped.

I called him and asked him how he was doing, and with a pained voice he gave me a two-word answer.

“Not drunk.”

• 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.

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Baby Boomers at front lines of opioid war I must confess, I am not one of them. I was born before World War II, as was my brother next in line. My sister and younger brother, however, are part of the largest cohort in our nation’s history – the Baby Boomers – more studied and written about than any generation yet. By 2020, most of them will have turned 65, and for the first time ever, our population will have more people older than 60 than are 14 years and younger.

The mental health and medical needs of elders will put a heavy burden on our health care system, and one of the biggest problems will be – wait for it – addiction. Baby Boomers are notoriously drug-friendly.

They coined the phrase, “sex, drugs and rock and roll,” and they believe in “better living through chemistry” as a right. Not all of them, of course, but my brother Tom and sister Ruth are typical standard-bearers for their peers.

Tom never met a drug he didn’t love on sight, and that might even include one in somebody else’s medicine cabinet. Ruth, a nurse, prefers a legally prescribed amalgam of benzodiazepines for anxiety along with percocet for pain. She routinely gives her son a strong sedative to help him sleep. This started when he was younger than 2. If you asked them, they would tell you they have chronic pain and insomnia, and need benzodiazepines, opioids, sedatives and, at times, a cocktail to wash it all down.

After all, “moderate drinking is good for you.”

Meanwhile, as they age, their metabolism slows, keeping the drugs in their systems longer. Their livers (the body’s filter) become less efficient, so toxic by-products stay in their

“Family members who are caregivers for their aging parents may encourage granny to take an extra painkiller to keep her from complaining or to help her sleep. So what if she toddles off to bed a little tipsy? ‘Her nightly cocktail is the only thing she’s got to look forward to.’ If this sounds like ageism, that’s exactly what it is.” systems longer and, eventually, when they try to cut down or their physician finally realizes they have been on painkillers far longer than the Center for Disease Control guidelines suggests, they experience withdrawal symptoms, which are really, really unpleasant. My sister, who is much more prudent than our carefree brother, is at greater risk than he is.

Because she is a woman, her body contains more fat than water, and therefore the opioid/benzodiazepine cocktail is less diluted than it would be in our brother’s body, because his is made up of more water than fat. This would be true even if they weighed the same.

So, if you are a woman of a certain age and you take opioid painkillers such as Dilaudid Percocet or Vicodin or benzodiazepines such as Klonopin, Lorazepam or Xanax, you are at serious risk for addiction. If, in addition, or instead, you have been a moderate drinker and continue to drink the same amount of alcohol as you age, you are likely to develop into an alcoholic. The risk increases if you take three or more prescriptions. And at our age, most of us do.

How did this perfect storm develop? For one thing, the pharmaceutical companies have been competing with each other in the painkiller

department and have developed stronger and stronger opioids. According the CDC, opioids are useful in three situations: for post-surgical pain prescribed for a very short time, for people who have cancer with extremely severe pain and, finally, for those who are in hospice care and are dying of something painful. They do not recommend opioids as they are being prescribed – for arthritis, for example, or fibromyalgia or many other insults to which the human body is prone.

So, why are doctors prescribing opioids so recklessly? Because, as patients age and complain of pain, doctors are less concerned about addiction. After all, they’ve got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. What’s more, the signs of addiction sometimes mimic certain symptoms and behaviors of old age.

A good example is memory loss. I have a client whose memory waxes and wanes with her use of Lorazepam and painkillers. Recently, her doctor lowered her dose of each, and guess what? She’s back!

Also, family members who are caregivers for their aging parents may encourage granny to take an extra painkiller to keep her from complaining or to help her sleep. So what if she toddles off to bed a little tipsy?

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“Her nightly cocktail is the only thing she’s got to look forward to.” If this sounds like ageism, that’s exactly what it is. Ageism has been with us for a long time, but, as the aged population increases, this particular “ism” is likely to increase, as well.

Another reason doctors and caregivers don’t think “addict” or “alcoholic” when they see an older person with a problem is because we don’t fit the stereotype – the usual benchmarks such as missing work don’t apply. Most of us are retired, so if we sleep in, nobody cares. And, women tend to abuse our medications and our alcohol at home with our cat, not going to bars and whooping it up with the band. Well, some of us do, but not the majority. If we appear with a hangover the next day, or with the glazed stare of the over-served, the grocery clerk just assumes that’s what old age looks like.

If any of this sounds like someone you know, or even a reflection in the mirror, talk to your doctor about whether some other way of dealing with pain, anxiety or depression might work just as well – acupuncture, nerve blocks, electrical stimulation for pain, for example, as well as analgesics instead of opioids. And, for anxiety, psychotherapy, mindfulness, an emotional support animal – all have worked wonders. You still may need some medication, but perhaps not as much.

• Gale Harris is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years of experience in the mental health field. Currently, she works as a therapist with Family Alliance in Woodstock. Contact her at tpgaleh@ yahoo.com.

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NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK AUTHOR SERIES: GAYLE ROSENGREN, 2 p.m. April 10, Wauconda Area Library, 800 N. Main St., Wauconda. Rosengren has written two highly popular young adult novels, “What the Moon Said” and “Cold War on Maplewood Street.”

Adults and kids alike will enjoy Rosengren’s presentation and her enthusiasm for writing.

Free. Information: 847-526-6225, tsuda@wauclib.org or http://wauclib.evanced.info/signup/eventdetails.aspx?eventId=6233&lib=0.

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK KICK-OFF PARTY, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. April 10, Johnsburg Public Library, 3000 N. Johnsburg Road, Johnsburg. Kick off National Library Week with fun and refreshments. Storyteller Ben Rosenfield spins his tales at 1:30 p.m. for ages 5 and older.

Kids in attendance will receive a bookbag with a special surprise. Registration required. From 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., there will be face painting by the Teen Advisory Group and balloon art by Holly Nagel. Free. Information: 815-344-0077, mzawacki@johnsburglibrary.org or www. johnsburglibrary.org/event.

BOOK HOSPITAL, 6 to 7 p.m. April 11, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Learn how our book doctors fix damaged materials, then try it yourself. Raffle will give away the opportunity to bring a damaged book from home for repairs. Information: https://il.evanced.info/woodstock/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=3985.

“OUR LIBRARY’S 140 JOURNEY: AN HISTORICAL REVIEW WITH PHI ALEO,” 7 p.m. April 11, Dundee Library, 555 Barrington Ave., East Dundee. Local historian and author Aleo will turn back the pages of time with a special program developed just for the library.

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DOWNLOADING HELP DROP-IN SESSIONS, 7 to 8 p.m. April 12, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Get help downloading free library eBooks to your eReader or smart device. Information: https://

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NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK AUTHOR SERIES: REBECCA MAKKAI and ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, 7 p.m. April 12, Wauconda Area Library, 800 N. Main St., Wauconda. “While Beauty Slept” by Elizabeth Blackwell is a “spellbinding new spin on a classic yarn” (Booklist).

Rebecca Makkai’s coming-of-age story “The Borrower” “strikes a nice balance between literary artistry and gripping storytelling” (The Daily Beast). Join them for a conversation on writing and the writer’s life. Free. Information: 847-526-6225, tsuda@wauclib.org or http:// wauclib.evanced.info/signup/eventdetails. aspx?EventId=6234&lib=0.

STORYTELLING SESSIONS: THE ART OF STORYTELLING, 9:30 a.m. April 12, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock.

Local resident Joy Aavang, speaker, author and storyteller, will be present to encourage interested parties to tell their stories and practice the art of storytelling. Aavang is coordinator of the Memory Makers Storytelling Group in Richmond, which was started by well-known artist Jim May, whom she credits for her start in storytelling. Participants are not required to “tell” if they are uncertain; listeners are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

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CARY AREA BOOK CLUB MEETING, 12:30 p.m. April 13, Pinecrest Golf Club, 11220 Algonquin Road, Huntley. Lani Ori will present a review of “The Wright Bros.” by David McCullough. Cost: $20 members, $25 guests.

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FRIENDS OF CRYSTAL LAKE LIBRARY USED BOOK SALE COLLECTION, 5 to 8 p.m.

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YOUNG ADULT DEPARTMENT ANNIVERSARY PARTY, 6:30 p.m. April 13, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock.

Celebrate the two-year anniversary of the Young Adult Department with snacks, activities and prizes. You’ll also have an opportunity

MEET-THE-AUTHOR TEA WHEN: 2 to 6 p.m. April 10 WHERE: Old Towne Hall, 54 Brink St., Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Meet Alicia Marcos Birong, author of “Changing the Chatter: Help Your Daughter Look Beyond the Mirror for Self-Esteem.” Adults will receive a complimentary copy of the book. Event includes a basket raffle to support the ChatterGirls scholarship fund. Cost: $30 adults, $10 children ages 6 to 13, free 5 and younger. Information: 815-404-8343 or www.chattergirls.net.

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BARK FOR BOOKS, 10 a.m. April 16, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Dogs 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=3947.

F.O.C.A.L. USED BOOK SALE AT CARY LIBRARY, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 16 and 1 to 5 p.m. April 17, Cary Area Public Library, 1606 Three Oaks Road, Cary. Used books, CDs, DVDs for sale. Sunday is $5 bag day. Teachers with ID get half off their purchases. Free. Information: 847 639-4210, almamaj@caryarealibrary. info or www.carylibrary.info.

HUGE SPRING USED BOOK SALE HOSTED

BY FRIENDS OF THE MCHENRY LIBRARY, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 16 and noon to 4 p.m. April 17, McHenry Public Library Warehouse, 809 Front St., McHenry. Proceeds from the sale go to the Friends of the McHenry Public Library to help fund library programs and services.

Special preview sale for existing Friends members only April 14 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

For all sales, there will be a $10 fee to bring in scanners. Up until the sale, get a coupon at the Checkout Desk to save $1. Free. Information: 815-385-0036 or mplfriends@mchenrylibrary. org.

WINTER STORIES AT THE FARMERS MARKET, noon to 1 p.m. April 16, McHenry County Fairgrounds Building D. Miss Mary will be back at the farmers market. Say hello to Sherbert the puppet and hear some stories. Information: https://il.evanced.info/woodstock/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=3541.

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK AUTHOR SERIES: JIM GILL, 2 p.m. April 17, Wauconda Area Library, 800 N. Main St., Wauconda.

Gill is a family entertainer and advocate for reading, singing and play. His song, “May There Always Be Sunshine,” was published as a picture book, and “A Soup Opera” won an American Library Association award for Best Audiobook for Children. Free. Information: 847-526-6225, tsuda@wauclib.org or http:// wauclib.evanced.info/signup/eventdetails. aspx?EventId=6235&lib=0.

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CRAIG BENNETT HALLENSTEIN Hometown: Woodstock. Have also resided in Crystal Lake and Bull Valley.

Latest Book: “The Dolphin” Publisher: Storyville Press Release Date: April 1 Available: Through local booksellers and online retailers in paperback and ebook formats.

What’s your book about?

“The Dolphin” is a psychological thriller set in New Orleans.

Former child prodigy and aspiring psychologist Sean Jordan moves to New Orleans, putting his past behind him, until a conservative radio station in a bid for higher ratings outs him as a dangerous sex offender. When the 13-year-old daughter of the station’s nationally celebrated talk show host disappears, police scramble to take down Jordan, unaware he, too, is a victim of the kidnapper, terrorizing the city on the eve of Mardi Gras. Jordan has a chance to save the girl but only if he meets the kidnapper’s demands. Refusing could cost him his life.

Agreeing could cost him his soul.

Where did the idea come from?

Scanning radio stations nine years ago, I suddenly heard: “We need to burn them in ovens and send them to hell!” I quickly held the station to find out who the commentator was referring to.

When I realized it was “sex offenders,” I thought, of course, they’re the one group in our culture that’s near universally despised – so much so that radio personalities can get away with disparaging them, using the language of Nazi Germany.

I thought there might be a story in that. I began doing research and came to understand that minor sexual offenders, such as 18-year-olds having consensual sex with 17-year-olds, were being forced to register as sex offenders for the rest of their lives alongside violent sexual predators in a one-size-fits-all registry that fails to distinguish between the two. Then I knew there was a story.

What genre is your book, and why were you drawn to it?

A psychological thriller. As a psychologist, I like characters who are complex, nuanced, and richly drawn – wonderful in some ways, and deeply flawed in others. I also like to see the different ways people act under duress.

Who is the intended audience?

Adults Why is this story important to you?

My parents fought for civil rights in the 1960s.

My kids and I have been fighting for gay rights for years. Realizing people were being punished beyond time served for minor crimes – if crimes at all – I saw a civil rights violation needing to be addressed. I hope the book will launch a national dialogue about innocent “dolphins” getting caught in the net of sex offender registration.

How long did it take you to write? What was your process?

I’d figure out each chapter every morning in the shower, then sit in front of the computer and watch the chapter write itself. I followed Stephen King’s prescription and wrote 1,000 words a day. At the end of 90 days, I had my first draft. It took eight more years to turn it into a book worth reading.

What did you enjoy most about writing this book? What was the hardest part?

Crafting story, writing dialogue and laughing out loud as amusing possibilities arose. There’s nothing better for a writer than creating a remarkable sentence in which every word works to spark a reader’s imagination.

What’s hard is sticking with it while facing endless, necessary rewrites, spanning months if not years.

How are you publishing this book and why (traditional/indie/self-publishing)?

I’m publishing under my own imprint, Storyville Press. For years, I swore I’d never self-publish.

But watching the turmoil in the publishing industry, and finding out their authors have to similarly do all their own pr, I decided to jump on the emerging bandwagon and do it all myself.

However, while most self-published authors rush books into print, I took my time, working with four award-winning editors over the span of eight years.

What is your education/background?

I attended Beloit College and the California School of Professional Psychology, earning a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and prompting a study of contemporary sexuality. I then studied writing at Chicago Dramatists and the University of Iowa.

How/why did you decide to write a book?

I was born into a family of writers. My father was day news editor for the Chicago Tribune.

My mother was managing editor of a suburban weekly. I always wrote. My first (unpublished) novel was written at age 13. Writers have to write.

Who are your favorite authors?

John Irving!

Pick one: Danielle Steel or John Grisham?

Grisham Pick one: Stephen King or Nicholas Sparks?

King Pick one: Ebooks or hard/paperbacks?

Hardback, but that’s changing. By the end of the year, I’ll own a tablet.

Have you written anything else?

My writing has appeared in publications as diverse as The Journal of Professional Psychology and The National Enquirer. A cover story I wrote for People Finders magazine was optioned by Dick Clark Productions for a madefor-TV movie.

‘THE DOLPHIN’ RELEASE: April 1 through Storyville Press INFO: Learn more about Hallenstein’s work: Website: http://craighallensten.com Blog: http://craighallenstein. com/blog/ Facebook: www.facebook. com/TheDolphinThriller Twitter: @cbhallenstein Amazon Author Page: www.amazon.com/-/e/ B01BFK1JG2 Goodreads: www.goodreads. com/book/show/28541293the- dolphin?ref=ru_lihp_up_ rv_0_mclk-up2869094594 Netgalley: https:// s2.netgalley.com/catalog/ book/81637 Kirkus: www.kirkusreviews. com/book-reviews/craigbennett-hallenstein/thedolphin/

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Carpenter/Remodeler

SR QUALITY ENGINEER

Growing remodeling contractor in McHenry looking for a reliable person to join our team! Must have own transportation and tools, knowledge in rough, finish carpentry, tile work and all other aspects of construction.

General Laborer

Position will include delivery of material to sites, light carpentry, deck staining and the ability to learn a trade. Must have transportation and some tools.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Contact GR General Contracting LLC at 847-871-7439 or email resume to sales@grgeneralcontracting.com

Mergers & Acquisitions firm is seeking a professional, detailed and self-motived administrative assistant to join small team in West Dundee. Must have at least 3 years of related experience. Full or part-time available. Email resume: kspan@cfachicago.com

CDL DRIVER / MACHINE OPERATOR CDL A, Dump, Lowboy, Flat Machine operator inc tractors, loaders.

Shop work also. Send resume Dispatch@dahmco.com

ASSISTANT MANAGER

Director of Nursing

Needed for a quick service restaurant. High volume experience preferred. Salary to reflect experience.

Send resume to ryanchgoryan@aol.com Northwest suburbs (Woodstock) location.

AUTOMOTIVE PARTS PULLER - FT Experienced Preferred, but will train.

Apply in person: Route 14 Auto Parts Woodstock, IL. Call: 815-338-2800 ext. 16 or email: rt14kimr@gmail.com

CARPENTER & CARPENTERS HELPER

McHenry small construction company specializing in property maintenance & repairs is looking for a well rounded FT Carpenter & Carpenter Helper. 5+ years experience.

Able to climb ladder. Work inside & outside environments.

Must have valid drivers license.

Email resume to: heyjoey1@comcast.net

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DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center is currently accepting applications for the

Director of Nursing position.

The Director of Nursing is responsible for overseeing the nursing department and assuring high quality nursing care for the residents in accordance with State and Federal regulations. Applicants must have an active Illinois Registered Nurse license with strong customer service and leadership abilities. Previous long-term care experience required. D.O.N. or A.D.O.N. experience is preferred.

Some of the benefits include Health Insurance (with employer contribution), Paid Hours Off, excellent County retirement (IMRF), and nine holidays.

Apply at:

FARM - 10 temp farmworkers needed 5/9/16-11/11/16. Workers will perform duties with harvesting employer's crops. Must have 3 months verifiable experience harvesting a perishable crop & affirmative verifiable job references. Random drug testing at employer's expense. Guaranteed ž of contract hours. Work tools, supplies & equipment provided at no cost. Conditional housing provided for non-commuting workers.

Transportation & subsistence reimbursed to worker upon completion of 50% of contract or earlier if appropriate. EOE. $12.07/hr. Worksites in McHenry & Kane County IL. Report or send resume to nearest local IL Dept. of Employment Security office or call 312-793-1284 & ref. job # 3785734. J & J Dill LLC - Union, IL

NURSE PRACTITIONER

Family Nurse Practitioner for clinic in Crystal Lake. Part time, great work environment, making a real difference in the lives of many.

Resumes to pmontemurro@hpclinic.org www.hpclinic.org

PERSONAL ASSISTANT

EOE

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2600 North Annie Glidden Rd DeKalb, Illinois 60115

Send resumes to: HR@kenmode.com or via fax at: 847-658-9150

The Reason You Went Into Nursing:

Executive Family seeking a candidate for a Personal Assistant position.

This position will run Monday thru Friday, as well as, Saturdays as needed (hours will vary depending on tasks). Duties will include, but not limited to: special projects, filing, helping with household work loads of any kind, store runs, laundry, meals, light cleaning, organizing, helping with driving older children, anything the family needs to have done. Candidates must have excellent communication skills, organizational skills, must be proficient with computers and be comfortable with clerical work, must be ok with large dogs. This position will include any office, personal and house management.

Serious inquiries only. Background check & confidentiality agreement required. Qualified candidates can submit resume to: sharonsmeja@metalmaster.us

DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center

Kenmode Tool & Engineering (a metal stamping company) in Algonquin is looking for a Sr. Quality Engineer. This person will be responsible for planning and directing activities concerning with the development, application and maintenance of quality standards. Assist with PPAP and annual re-submissions of active parts. Control suppliers ISO and TS certifications making sure that suppliers are up to date. The person must have a strong background in ISO/TS 16949, direct corrective action and problem solving, PPAP submissions, MSA, SPC, FMEA; Bachelor's degree in Engineering is preferred; Minimum of 8-10 years experience in QA in a manufacturing environment.

OFFICE HELP – PT

Assist w/ secretarial, A/P, etc. for union mason contractor.

Phone, computer, MS Word and Excel exp. required.

16-25 hours per week. $10/hr.

Call: 815-477-0123

SERVERS AND BARTENDERS need for Thursday's at Fishermen's Inn in Elburn. Ph: 630-365-9697.

SERVICE ADVISORS

Rosen Hyundai is looking for a Full Time Service Advisor at: 771 S. Randall Rd. Algonquin IL 60102

April 14th, 8am – 4pm Holiday Inn – Walnut Room 800 S Illinois Rte 31 Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Seeking candidates for 2nd + 3rd shift Direct Hire Maintenance Mechanics for awesome organizations in the Rockford, IL, Lake Geneva, WI, and Gurnee, IL regions. Companies offer

ranging from $23-$25/hr.

For more information call 262-754-6386.

Maintenance Technician Manufacturing plant has immediate position for a maintenance technician with 5 years experience including

Please contact Jeff Harris: 847-854-6700 Please email resumes to: jeffh@rosencars.com

ROSEN HYUNDAI

HYGIENIST

Algonquin Dental Office looking for a part-time hygienist. Seeking a dynamic team player with a good periodontal protocol and the ability to educate patients. We are a private office focused on personal care. Send resume to: docmp315@gmail.com

RN / LPN

Immediate Openings!

FT Days/Nights/PMs / Peds.

$32 / hour Top Rate

$500 Sign On Bonus!

McHenry & Lake Co. 815-356-8400

mechanical with replacement of motors, bearings and gear drives, as well as the ability to weld, read blueprints, and perform PM on plant machinery. We offer an excellent starting wage and benefit package.

Please submit your resume with salary requirements to mbrietzke@selee.com or mail to Personnel, PO Box 365, Gilberts, IL 60136 SM-CL1175964

Retired Minister Provides Non-Medical Home

Companion Care for Elderly & Disabled Persons 815-338-2234 or email: dplarsen1073@att.net

MAILBOX & POST SALES & INSTALLATION

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Sat, April 9 Sun, April 10

#'s @ 8:30 CASH ONLY

207 S. Fleming Rd. Leather Sofa, Howard Miller Wall Clock, DR Set with China Cabinet, Kitchen Table & Chairs, Dressers, Northwoods Bed, Desks, Pool Table, Unusual Office Desk, Bookcases, Many, Many Books, Glass Chandelier, Many Garage Items, Patio Furniture, China, Glassware, Many Kitchen Items, Linens, CD's, VHS, Large TV & SO MUCH MORE!

Windfall Antiques www.estatesales.net Find the help you need

8am - 3pm 8am - 2pm

1605 Wildflower Lane

9-3

HO train sets, parts, Lionel trains, and more.

Thomas Kincaid Hawthorn Village & complete train set, collectible model cars, Vintage Dolls; Terri Lee doll,Terri Lee outfits, Campbell's Doll, Lulu Doll,many more collectible dolls. Collectible and vintage glass Dog figurines, Depression glass, china, milk glass, collectible beer steins.

Antique photo equipment, Original Snow Village, Antique microscope, projector,trunks, books, wall art, stained glass, sewing table & machine.

Furniture including life size doll house bedroom set, antique type writer, silver, porcelain figurines + many house hold items incl tools NO HOLDING or DELIVERY OPTIONS CASH ONLY PLEASE

LAKEWOOD – MOVING SALE

Lifestyle Transitions moving sale Sat 9-3, Sun 10-3 at

755 S. Shore Dr, Lakewood, IL

WOODSTOCK

SAT & SUN, APRIL 9 & 10 9AM - 3PM

7514 Bonnie Ridge Rd. Antiques, Furniture, Clothing, Toys, Collectibles, Seasonal Decorations, Books & Much, Much More!

Lots of GREAT Stuff!

Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 877-264-2527

FREE! ENTERTAINMENT UNIT – Solid oak, Exc. Cond. Heavy. 60” w x 76” h x 16” d.

Algonquin. Call: 847-658-3638

FREE: WOOD PIER PIECES 847-401-7613 OR 815-728-8507 Parakeet (2) and Cage 815-725-3800

TV - Older Model, Color TV, 32” Works great! You PU! 224-858-4175 Jewelry Making - All sizes, shapes & colors of beads and pendants, chains, pins, clasps and findings in both gold and silver. Also, earring display cards, black velvet necklace stands, jewelry bags, jewelry organizers & more. Some brand new! All for $100. 815-575-0411 or klutz@d47.org MEN*S JACKET - Polo by Ralph Lauren, great for spring, 100% cotton jacket, size XL, full zip front with pockets, machine washable, Pony logo on the front. Excellent condition. $30. 815 477-9023 SPECIAL OCCASION DRESS - Gorgeous detailing, beautiful bead work, very pretty. Junior bride, flower girl, communion, white, Girls size 10/12.

Excellent. $75. 815-477-9023 TRENCH COAT - Ladies petite or juniors classic trench coat w/lining, beautiful regal royal blue, Size 3/4, like new condition, $45. Please call 815-477-9023

Bama, James Riding The High Country signed, framed,COA #959/1250 - $250. 815-363-8974 Bev Doolittle "Sacred Ground" signed #1464/69996 matted & framed - $300. 815-363-8974 CAKE PLATE AND COVER - Vintage Retro Polished Chrome Square Cake Carrier with locking lid, fantastic condition. Top locks onto serving tray with two push tabs. $35. 815-477-9023

Sat & Sun, Apr 9 & 10 9-3

DRESS SET- A beautiful 2-piece black and white houndstooth design Dress & Coat set, size 4T, very nice quality. NEW w/tags. $35. 815 477-9023

~ CASH ONLY ~ 1411 Savanna Lane

NURSERY ART - Framed Beatrix Potter Benjamin Bunny, vivid & detailed, excellent condition. $35. 815 477-9023

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Laser Disk / Karoke Player - Pioneer CLD-D504, Includes Microphone, Remote and 11 movies, Excellent Condition, $125. 815-337-0632

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Great furniture for every room, kitchen, household, Xmas & Halloween, yard accessories, tools, bikes, Radio Flyer wagon

At Your Service

COMPUTER - DELL LAPTOP - Wireless, 15.6” screen 1.73GHZ, Pentium M, 2GB, 533MHZ Ram. 40GBHDD, CD DVD, RW Rom, $79.00 815-212-9171

LOTS of AUDIO EQUIPMENT

HARVARD ESTATE SALE

FRI & SAT, SUN

FRENCH BISTRO ART - Framed and matted Paris Cafe artwork 31*T x 25*W. Excellent. $65. 815 477-9023

FRI, SAT, SUN 9-3 1065 Wheatland Drive

& MUCH MORE!!

BULL VALLEY

BUNNY - Very cute ceramic rabbit. Adorable for your spring garden or festive indoor decor! 13*L x 11*H x 9*W. $25. 815 477-9023

CRYSTAL LAKE ESTATE SALE

Audio recorders; Mixing Consoles; Speakers, Amplifiers, Monitors, Effects Pedals, & Microphones. Cables & Albums too.

Atari ST-1040 Computer w/Hybrid Arts SMPTE-TrackMidi Sequencer; Silvertone (Harmony) & Guild Star vintage guitars.

Antiques & Collectibles, Household items, books, vintage cookbooks, furniture, clothes, metal shelving, 2 snow blowers, lawnmower, yarn & misc craft books

Be sure to include a photo of your pet, home, auto or merchandise.

Call to advertise 877-264-2527 Or place your ad online nwherald.com/placeanad

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26 in. Woman's Diamondback - 21 speed, purple/white, great condition $125. 630-835-5694

Bike Blue - GT Performer BMX, $115.

815-455-5928 Bike ~ Black Diamond Back Viper BMX $50 815-455-5928 File Cabinet (HON) Series 600 Black, 2 drawer, 36"W x 19"D x 28.5”H, Very good condition with a few scratches on the top. $175. 815- 337-0632

Stereo -The Wedge, 1970's, works great, $240/obo.

847-602-1230 K-Cups for Keurig Coffee Maker - Assorted Flavors Regular & decaf,60 cups - $25 - 815-459-5204 K-CUPS for Keurig Coffee Maker - assorted flavors, regular & decaf, 60 cups for $25 - 815-459-5204 BAR STOOL - Tall wooden bar stool with wicker seat, light wood, square seat. 14*D x 16*W x 35*H Excellent condition. $40. 815-477-9023

Bedroom Set, Vintage Dresser with Mirror, Chest of Drawers, exc cond! $350. 815-790-5040 Desk - Glass and metal, attractive, 48x28, $40 815-477-5301 Living Room Upholstered Chairs (2) Excellent condition! $100/both.

815-790-5040 Oak Corner TV Cabinet – Glass & Wood Doors, center opening 52”diagonal, 82”H x 58”W x 30”D Like New $85. 815-236-0463 Recliner / Rocker, sand color , like brand new - excellent condition. $60. Call 815-900-1807

Recliner Sofa & Chair – Leather, full size, 3 seat sofa w/ recliners at each end, Includes matching Leather Reclining Rocking Chair. $250 OBO. 815-349-0206 Rocking Chair - Solid oak, beautiful condition $60, 815-342-8888 Sofa - Lazy-Boy, reclines on both sides, microfiber, dark brown, excellent condition. $200. 815-342-8888

Sofa Bed with Matching Love Seat, $150/obo.

815-385-9603 TV Cabinet Set – 3 piece, white, has glass doors at top & solid doors at bottom. Makes a great storage/display set for books, toys, games, etc. $50. 815-276-1479 Crystal Lake WICKER CHAIRS - Very sturdy, large, high back antique, cushioned, 2 available, made in Sheboygan Wisc. $150. 630-835-5694 Wicker Desk & Matching Hanging Lamp - Wood desk has wicker overlay. includes glass top & 3 large drawers on one side, both painted purple, but easy to change color. $30 for the set. Crystal Lake (815) 276-1479 ACCENT TABLE - Cute smaller table, side table or plant stand, wooden pedestal, marble top. Very good condition. $35. 815-477-9023 PLANT STAND - 2 tier metal plant stand, bakers rack or book shelves, 39*H x 24*W x 13*D. Excellent. $55. 815 477-9023 TEAPOT SET - Signed Mary Engelbreit Very Cherry Teapot Cup Saucer Black with Cherries Tea Set, hard to find, retired set. Excellent. $75.

815-477-9023

Chipper/Shredder, 5HP Engine + Extras, $400.

815-535-2279 Cub Cadet Riding Mower - 16 hp, 2 stage snow blower, tire chains, weights, and lawn sweeper $350. Crystal Lake (815) 276-7110

HOME LITE CORDLESS 24 VOLT BATTERY OPERATED LAWN MOWER WITH GRASS CATCHER AND CHARGER PLUS ORIGINAL OWNERS MANUAL. $88. 847-658-3436 Lawn Mower, Snapper 22" Variable speed, self-propelled Briggs & Stratton engine. Bought new in July '13 for $325, minimal use. $150.

815.482.0521

3500 HONDA GENERATOR, $900 815-790-1896

Air Compressor/Bostich Gas, Dual Tank, 8HP, $300/obo 815-861-3699

ALUMINUM BRAKE, $1000 815-790-1896

Book - Titled “Legally Sane” 1972 First Edition

Good Condition, $250. 815-404-1587 NO texts 7a-7p

PORTER CABLE framing nailer kit w nailer, case, wrench, manual & almost full new box of collated 30 deg nails. $140 for all, 815-444-0504

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PRE-OWNED ANDERSON BMW

360 N. Rte. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

888/682-4485 www.andersoncars.com

BILL JACOBS BMW

1564 W. Ogden Ave. • Naperville, IL

800/731-5824 www.billjacobs.com

KNAUZ BMW

407 Skokie Valley Hwy. • Lake Bluff, IL

847/604-5000 www.KnauzBMW.com

MOTOR WERKS BMW Barrington & Dundee Rds. Barrington, IL

800/935-5913 www.motorwerks.com

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

10709 N. Main St. (Route 12) Richmond, IL

847/838-4444

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE

MERCEDES-BENZ OF ST. CHARLES

888/800-6100

877/226-5099

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

GURNEE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM 7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

GARY LANG KIA

BILL JACOBS MINI

www.garylangauto.com

815/385-2100

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847/426-2000 www.piemontechevy.com

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

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7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

888/471-1219

800/935-5913

RAYMOND KIA

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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

888/800-6100

GURNEE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM

ELGIN HYUNDAI

881 E. Chicago St. • Elgin, IL

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ROSEN HYUNDAI

771 S. Randall Rd. • Algonquin, IL

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SUNNYSIDE COMPANY CHRYSLER DODGE Route 120 • McHenry, IL

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

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ELGIN TOYOTA 1200 E. Chicago St. Elgin, IL

847/741-2100

300 East Ogden Ave. • Hinsdale, IL

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE

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847/816-6660

1035 S. Rt. 31, One Mile South of Rt. 14 Crystal Lake, IL

1119 S. Milwaukee Ave.• Libertyville, IL

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MOTOR WERKS PORSCHE Barrington & Dundee Rds., Barrington, IL

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800/935-5913

888/682-4485

866/346-0211

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360 N. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

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1051 W. Higgins • Hoffman Estates, IL

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770 Dundee Ave. (Rt. 25) • Dundee, IL

1035 S. Rt. 31, One Mile South of Rt. 14 Crystal Lake, IL

847/869-5700

888/471-1219

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7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

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815/385-2100

800/935-5909

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800/935-5923

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

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847/202-3900

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

GARY LANG CHEVROLET

800/295-0166

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1400 E. Dundee Rd., Palatine, IL

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847/234-1700

815/385-2100

847/683-2424

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

200 N. Cook St. • Barrington, IL

409 Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

1564 W. Ogden Ave. • Naperville, IL

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www.sunnysidecompany.com

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225 N. Randall Road • St. Charles, IL

1107 S Rt. 31 between Crystal Lake and McHenry

206 S. State Street • Hampshire, IL

815/385-2100

Golf Rd. (Rt. 58) • Hoffman Estates, IL

STEVE’S AUTO SALES

888/471-1219

FENZEL MOTOR SALES

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

www.knauznorth.com

2950 N. Skokie Hwy • North Chicago, IL

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www.clcjd.com

815/338-2780

888/800-6100

847/235-8300

www.andersoncars.com

www.bussford.com

2525 E. Main Street • St. Charles, IL

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

888/682-4485

815/385-2000

2145 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE

KNAUZ NORTH

360 N. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

111 S. Rte 31 • McHenry, IL

REICHERT CHEVROLET

www.clcjd.com

GARY LANG BUICK

1075 W. Golf Rd. Hoffman Estates, IL

ANDERSON MAZDA

888/280-6844

ZIMMERMAN FORD

www.reichertautos.com

INFINITI OF HOFFMAN ESTATES

landroverhoffman.com

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815/385-7220

Barrington & Dundee Rds. Barrington, IL

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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

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Sunday, April 10, 2016 • SEARS/CRAFTSMAN INDUSTRIAL VARIABLE SPEED/REVERSIBLE SCREW DRIVER. $9. 847-658-3436 Sears/Craftsman Industrial Electric Screwdriver – Variable Speed, Reversible, Mainly used for drywall - $9. 847-658-3436

Starrett Depth Venier 0 to 12 inch, English & metric #448 - $100 or best 630-835-5694

Table Saw, With All Attachments, Good Condition $75.00. 815-385-4295

Powered Wheelchair, Invacare-Promto 31 Brand New, $1100/obo. 815-759-9361 Chain Link Fence, Black, Heavy Duty, 5' + assorted poles, caps, etc, $1.50 per foot. 815-385-5145 Advanced Placement Study Aids: Boxed Card sets for A/P Biology & Chemistry, $10/each. Excellent condition.

Boxed sets of dog & cat anatomy cards. $9/each. Saunders Veterinary Anatomy Cards - $30. 815 276-1479 BEAUTY SUPPLY ORGANIZER - High end, commercial grade tower style organizer on wheels. Excellent. $95. 815 477-9023

Crocheted Afghans, New, Varied Sizes, Starting at $45 and up.

815-477-4667 Custom SUV cover - Ordered to fit 2002 and newer Ford Explorers. May fit others Good shape, only used couple months. $200/OBO. 630-835-5694 Trailer Hitch - Volvo S60, V70 and XC70 (2001 - 2009), Hidden Hitch Class II with 2" ball receiver, excellent Condition, $85. 815-337-0632

KAWAI UPRIGHT PIANO - From Japan 1970's. Good condition.

Includes matching bench. Piano has traveled the world. Perfect for child who wants to learn, $350- you move. 815-276-1479. Text for photos.

ALICE: 7 Year Old Female Tabby & White DSH

JOEY: 7 Year Old Male Shepherd Mix The idea of doing something unexpected and unpredictable--daring myself to tune into another way of seeing-- intrigues me. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

PUTTER - Taylor Made Ghost Spider SI Putter Excellent Condition - $75. 847-322-9588 Putter - Tour Edge Backdraft GT-Pro with Superstroke Fatso 5.0 Grip. Excellent Condition $15. 847-322-9588 SCHOOL BUS TOTE - Designed just like a yellow school bus! Carrying strap with zipper closure. Adorable, NEW, never used. $15. 815 477-9023

WANTED TO BUY: Vintage or New, working or not.

Bicycles, Outboard motors, fishing gear, motorcycles or mopeds, chainsaws, tools etc. Cash on the spot. Cell: 815-322-6383

CAR, TRUCK, SUV,

MOST CASH

WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!!

$400 - $2000 “don't wait....call 2day”!!

815-575-5153

2004 JAYCO JAY FEATHER 23B, EXC COND!

Stored inside, sleeps 6-8, very light weight, under 4000 lbs + many upgrades, $6,499.

815-477-0386

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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Restored or Unrestored Cars & Vintage Motorcycles Domestic / Import Cars: Mercedes, Porsche, Corvette, Ferrari's, Jaguars, Muscle Cars, Mustang & Mopars, $$ Top $$ all makes, Etc.

Motorcycle Swap Meet WOODSTOCK SUN, APRIL 24 8-3 McHenry County Fairgrounds $8 Admission & $40 Booth 630-985-2097 OR 630-826-7923

MOTORCYCLES WANTED

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ CUSTOM CAP - Fiberglass for 6' bed, will fit Dodge Ram Quad cab from 2002 to 2009, front window, keys, locks & clamps. Excellent Condition sells for $1500 new, sell for $250/best offer. 815-212-9171

ROOFERS RACK, ADJUSTABLE, UNIVERSAL, BOLT TOGETHER $1200 new, 8 months old, $300/obo.

815-212-9171

Sunroof, ice cold A/C, great heat, pw, pdl, newer brakes and tires, looks and runs great! Free 6 mo warranty. $3600/obo MPR Auto Sales 815-344-9440

All makes, cash paid, reasonable. Will pick-up.

630-660-0571

★★ ★★ ★★★ ★★ ★★

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs 1990 & Newer

I love to watch drama on television. Love seeing strong characters and Powered by: peel back layers to find out what makes them 1999 Mazda 626 LX, 1 Owner, 79K, Clean Carfax tick.

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Will BUY UR USED

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BEN: 7-1/2 Year Old Male Orange Tabby DSH

CANARY - TRI-COLOR, 10 MONTHS OLD FREE TO GOOD HOME! 815-648-2501

2006 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT

1 Owner, 71K Only, Loaded, leather, stow and go seating, power sliding doors and rear hatch, DVD, sunroof, navigation, free 6 mo warranty, $6500.

MPR Sales 815-344-9440

On wheels w/playtop, exc cond, $125/obo. 815-568-7730

Music & Military CASH 815-354-6169

www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

2004 Mercury Monterey, 1 Owner, 72K

7 passenger, new brakes, newer tires, front and rear heat and A/C, looks and runs great! Free 6 mo warranty. $5300.

MPR Sales 815-344-9440

Kittens ~ 2 Male Tuxedos

PATIO BISTRO SET - All weather wicker, table, 2 chairs, walnut color, sturdy, high quality. Ideal for deck, porch, backyard and dining spaces Excellent condition $250. 815-477-9023

A-1 AUTO

2004 Chevy Silverado 1500 2WD EXT CAB

Trailer pkg, bedliner & cover, $5200. 847-899-5909

Born Feb 28, part Mainecoon, $100/ea. 815-347-6888 Parrot Cage ~ 32"W x 23"D x 53"H

Life comes in Antique and Modern Guns clusters, clusters of Old Lever Actions, Winchesters, Marlins, Savages, etc. Old Pistols alone time, then and Revolvers. Cash for Collection. FFL License. 815-338-4731 clusters where I HUMMELS, LLADROS, PRECIOUS MOMENTS, STEIFF hardly have time to ETC! CALL STEVE 847-542-5713 breathe. Can't things Lionel & American Flyer Trains be more balanced?

815-353-7668 www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

2012 Mitsubishi Galant, White, 4 Cyl, 77K Mi.

Sunroof, heated leather seats, navigation, fully loaded. $12,000 815-337-1605

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815-814-1964

or

815-814-1224

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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

McHenry 1BR, Clean, Quiet, Close to Everything. $735/mo + sec dep, Sect 8 OK. 815-385-1311 CRYSTAL LAKE 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH DUPLEX W/D, attach garage, storage, $1350/mo + sec.

815-675-6799 or 630-605-2776

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2002 Chrysler Sebring LXI Convertble, 1 Owner Leather, loaded, looks and runs great!

Free 6 mo warranty, $3500.

MPR Auto Sales 815-344-9440

2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser GT Turbo,1 Owner

Fully loaded, 78K, black, custom wheels, free 6 mo warranty, $4900. MPR Sales 815-344-9440

2005 Dodge Neon SXT, 4 Door, 77K Only

Looks and runs great! $3500, free 6 mo warranty.

MPR Auto Sales 815-344-9440

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Crystal Lake - Randall Village, 2 BR, 2 BA, 2nd Floor, Frplc, W/D, Exercise Room, Pool, $1,200/mo. Avail. June 1st 815-953-5434

McHenry In Town 2BR, No Dogs, No Smokers Richmond 1BR, 1BA Condo, 1st Floor, W/D, 1 Car Gar. All Utilities Incl, $755/mo. Broker. 815-575-6869

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Washington Street, Suite 100, 19No. CLASSIFIED Naperville, Illinois 60540, Tel.

630-420-8228, as the Special Get the job you want at NWHerald.com/jobs Representative of the above named decedent under 735 ILCS 13-1209 (Death of a Party). The cause of action for the Foreclosure of a certain Mortgage upon the premises commonly known as: 1404 Adams Street, Lake in the Hills, IL 60156.

(Published in the Northwest Herald on April 10, 17, 24, 2016) 1176408

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY-IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of ROSANNE V SPEARS Deceased

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Notice is given of the death of: ROSANNE V SPEARS of: LAKEMOOR, IL Letters of office were issued on: 3/30/2016 to: Representative: JILL M QUILLIN 121 S SHERIDAN RD LAKEMOOR, IL 60051 whose attorney is: POPER, MICHAEL C 130 CASS STREET WOODSTOCK, IL 60098 Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois, 60098, or with the representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald April 10, 17, 24, 2016) 1176410

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

Chris Goff; Credit Union 1, Robert Goff; Scott Knight; David Knight; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Ronald E. Goff; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; Richard Kuhn, as Special Representative for Ronald E. Goff (deceased) Case No. 16 CH 00186 Notice to Heirs and Legatees.

Notice is hereby given to you, the Unknown Heirs and Unknown Legatees of the decedent, Ronald E. Goff, that on March 22, 2016, an order was entered by the Court, naming Richard W. Kuhn, 552 S. Washington Street, Suite 100, Naperville, Illinois 60540, Tel. No. 630-420-8228, as the Special Representative of the above named decedent under 735 ILCS 13-1209 (Death of a Party). The cause of

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE

Public Notice is hereby given that on /April 1, 2016, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and postoffice address of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as D.MARIE'S LAWNCARE AND MORE located at: 7608 BEAVER ROAD WONDER LAKE, IL 60097 Dated April 1, 2016

/s/ Mary E. McClellan McHenry County Clerk

(Published in the Northwest Herald April 10, 17, 24, 2016) 1176518

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE

Public Notice is hereby given that on March 29, 2016, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and postoffice address of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as MIDWEST CLASSIC TRUCKS located at: 2805 KENDALL CROSSING, JOHNSBURG IL 60051 Dated March 29, 2016

/s/ Mary E. McClellan McHenry County Clerk

(Published in the Northwest Herald April 10, 17, 24, 2016) 1176368

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