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Recovery from mental illness worth the struggle I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Because I feel good. I feel well. I am living life in recovery.

Is recovery possible? I think so. I say, “ I think so,” when I should say, “I know so.”

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I have mental illnesses, as do one out of five Americans at any given time. Mental illnesses are not uncommon. We all know someone with mental illnesses – depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia. The list goes on.

But these diseases are treatable, and people can live full lives in recovery, with the proper mix of medications and counseling, self-help programs such as the Wellness Recovery Action Plan, support groups, and loving family and friends.

Since the mid-1990s, I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, major depression and generalized anxiety disorder, and these diagnoses came as a surprise to me. I thought mood swings were part of normal life, that depression was a fact of life, that anxiety was something we all felt.

But they were tearing my life apart. Something wasn’t right, and I sought help – psychiatrists and therapists.

In 2000-02, my mental health bottomed out. I became suicidal. I lost hope. I lost faith. And in June 2000, I was hospitalized in a Centegra behavioral-health unit for my own safety. That was the first of four or five hospitalizations over the next two years. Each time, I came out stronger, a little more resilient.

That was a long time ago, and my memory of that period of my life is vague. It all seems like a blur. In between hospitalizations, I went back to work in a stressful, intellectually demanding job, but I had the support of my bosses and colleagues, who helped me get through the rough patches. I was living proof that severe mental illnesses do not have to be disabling. I was living proof that recovery was possible.

The first several years after hospitalization were challenging, as psychiatrists and I tried to find the right combination of medications to heal me. It was a long process, and it seemed like psychiatry was as much an art as it was a science.

Medications affect each person differently; it’s hard to paint with a broad brush with psychotropic medications. It can take an excruciatingly long time – six weeks – to know if a medication was working. And then you might find out it wasn’t working, and you would start all over.

Or you find the right combination of medications, and they are working well, only to see them deteriorate in their effectiveness over time, and

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VIEWS Dick Peterson you start all over again. It can be frustrating.

I’m happy to say I have been on the same medications for several years, and they are working well. Some minor adjustments have been made, but all is well. I check in with my psychiatrist regularly.

Depression and anxiety do return, but they are manageable. They don’t settle in for weeks at a time and wear me down; they come and go in days at the most, and I have plans to deal with them. My memory isn’t what it should be, and I am usually pretty beat down by early evening, symptoms of depression. I don’t do well at night meetings.

There’s not much I can do about my memory, but I rebound by morning after a good night’s sleep, and sleep is important in maintaining my recovery.

I know that, about eight years ago, I was struggling with depression and anxiety, and that’s when I created my Wellness Recovery Action Plan. And that was a turning point. The Wellness Recovery Action Plan, also known as WRAP, is a simple, commonsense approach to mental health wellness and recovery. You build your own plan under the guidance of a facilitator over a course of eight weeks. That helped, and I believed so much in WRAP that I became certified by the state as a facilitator.

But the biggest difference has been made by my good and loving wife, who has been with me through the ups and downs over the past 11 years – our anniversary was yesterday. She has been unfailing in her support and love, in spite of what I might be going through. The depression and anxiety are there, after all, and she has been unflappable and perseverant.

Over the years, I have talked to hundreds of people with mental illnesses, and the majority of them credit loving, supportive family for getting them through the rough patches. That kind of support is crucial. We can’t do it alone. Come to think of it, the other shoe doesn’t have to drop. That’s recovery.

If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, do not hesitate to call the McHenry County Crisis Line at 800-892-8900.

• 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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McHenry County officials work to keep lead problems from happening here

By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com Good stewardship, good infrastructure and good transparency will prevent crises similar to the lead-tainted drinking water afflicting the people of Flint, Michigan – and elsewhere – from happening here, according to local public works professionals.

McHenry County’s municipal water supplies are routinely treated to prevent corrosion of lead pipes – for the first 18 months after switching to a new and much more corrosive water source, Flint’s supply was not. What’s more, many consumers – on top of the mandated annual reports they receive in the mail – have access to real-time posting of water testing results.

The city of Crystal Lake, for example, collects samples of its drinking water a minimum of 71 times a month, Water and Sewer Superintendent Andrew Resek said. Those samples, upon testing by an independent outside lab, get posted online after the results are sent to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

Lead is one of numerous contaminants that state and federal law mandates municipal water be tested for, as well as naturally occurring radioactive substances, bacteria, nitrates from fertilizer and industrial pollutants such as volatile organic compounds. Consumers each year must be mailed a report listing how much of those items was found in the water, and their likely sources.

While Flint has grabbed the headlines – accusations of racially motivated disregard and a cover-up abound, and three government employees are now facing criminal charges – lead in drinking water is hardly an isolated issue. An Associated Press analysis of EPA data found that almost 1,400 water systems serving 3.6 million Americans exceeded the federal lead standard at least once between 2013 and late 2015. In Illinois, lead-tainted water has become an issue in Chicago and downstate Galesburg.

In Illinois, people who get their water from private wells have the responsibility for testing for contaminants.

Crystal Lake does not have any lead pipes in its water distribution system. But as with other cities, service pipes connecting homes built before 1986 – the year lead pipes were banned nationwide – still can be made of the toxic metal. Lead also can be

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Crystal Lake public water supply operator Greg Cook tests water samples Wednesday from five different Crystal Lake water treatment facilities. Cook completed multiple tests for fluoride and chlorine standards in the lab.

More online You can learn about lead contamination from water, construction and other sources at www.epa.gov/lead.

After testing for fluoride, Cook enters results into the main record system via a tablet. found in old solder and older home water fixtures. And even plumbing legally considered “lead-free” can contain up to 8 percent lead, according

to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A number of municipalities add chemicals to the water supply that

form a protective coating inside pipes to prevent corrosion. Cash-strapped Flint, however, stopped using the chemicals as a cost-cutting measure.

If chemical treatment falls short, local government has taken action.

When lead and copper levels exceeded regulations in some parts of Algonquin about a decade ago, the village worked with residents to replace a number of lead service pipes, Public Works Director Robert Mitchard said.

Under state law, municipalities typically are responsible for the service pipe from the street main to the curb, with the remainder being the responsibility of the property owner.

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Huntley High School junior Vince Eliscu (center) and sophomore Bianca Spann let 7-year-old Grace Benson try a science experiment during the school’s open house Saturday. The event marked the near-end of a $34.5 million renovation project, which included adding a west addition of six science labs and four classrooms.

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HUNTLEY – A 7-year-old in a green shirt and goggles jumped back and let out a yelp as a plastic tube burst, water droplets sprinkling a slick, new science table.

The science experiment pit stop was one of many Grace Benson of Lake in the Hills made while getting a full tour of the renovated high school. She and a number of other local kids, adults and Huntley High School students roamed the building Saturday morning – primarily the recently completed west wing addition – during an open house event marking the near-end of the $34.5 million renovation project.

With the project at about 99 percent completion, all that’s left is a punch list, Director of Communications Dan Armstrong said.

“It’s exciting this project is coming to a conclusion,” Huntley High School Principal Scott Rowe said. “It’s really nice our facilities will now reflect our progressive approach to education.”

School officials pointed to the west wing, including six new science labs and four classrooms, as an example. In the labs, the tables are set on wheels so the classroom configuration can change depending on the lesson, and the classrooms are set up similarly, with tables rather than desks to encourage group work and collaboration.

Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony with the Huntley Chamber of Commerce, the Huntley Community School District 158 event featured activities in the new multipurpose field house, science experiments in the new labs, a scavenger hunt for kids and self-guided tours for members of the community.

Throughout the renovation, District 158 officials underlined the likeness to a college campus, saying the goals of the project were in line with the high school’s attempt to create a flexible and more independent environment.

In addition to the new field house, west addition and library, the cafeteria and football stadium also were redone.

Superintendent John Burkey reiterated to attendees at the open house the purpose of the renovation project, which was paid for using a state grant, is to ensure the school can accommodate a projected enrollment increase to 3,000 students. Officials said there currently are about 2,800 students at the school.

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Lawmakers look to continue the discussion on daily fantasy sports

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jreiland@shawmedia.com On the heels of two states legalizing and regulating daily fantasy sports, Illinois lawmakers are hoping to do the same.

Indiana and Virginia both signed bills into law last month that limit on how much participants can wager, require players to be 18 or older, bar employees from competing in company contests and require annual audits.

The legislation will take effect July 1.

Similar legislation has been proposed in this state after Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan ruled in December that such contests were illegal under state law.

Madigan said in her decision that “all games of chance or skill, when played for money, are illegal gambling in Illinois, unless under exception.”

Madigan’s office sent a separate letter to representatives of FanDuel and DraftKings to amend their terms of use to no longer allow Illinois residents to participate in contests unless the Illinois General Assembly passed legislation specifically exempting daily fantasy sports contests from state gambling law.

Illinois is not alone. New York and Nevada have expressed similar concerns, and several states have or are working to make it illegal.

One state representative is working to change the state’s current status on daily fantasy sports.

Rep. Mike Zalewski, D-Riverside, introduced House Bill 4323 in October that would regulate fantasy sports sites and set up certain consumer protections for participants.

The Fantasy Contests Act would allow the Illinois Gaming Board, the government body that oversees the state’s casino and video gambling operators, to regulate all fantasy sports companies in the state.

Proposed amendments to the bill would include that Illinois residents must be 21 or older to play, fantasy players would be limited to having one account, a sliding scale on entry limits would be created depending on the number of players, and a tax structure would be put in place.

Since the bill was introduced in October, Zalewski said he has been working with stakeholders to create the best possible piece of legislation. The bill passed out of the House Criminal Law Committee, 9-4, and will be under consideration of the House floor.

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“Oftentimes, our statutes aren’t able to catch up with new technologies as fast as they should. We want to be a place where new technology flourishes.”

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Zalewski said he chose to work on the bill because the issue was receiving an increasing amount of attention nationwide.

“Oftentimes, our statutes aren’t able to catch up with new technologies as fast as they should,” he said. “We want to be a place where new technology flourishes.”

About 118 million Americans, or 38 percent of the population, admitted to betting on sports in 2008, according to an ESPN survey, and that number continues to grow each year.

Daily fantasy sports players participate by paying entrance fees that range from 25 cents to as much as $1,000. Those who win each daily contest are paid at the end of the contest.

Similar to with other fantasy sports, participants put together a roster, and players are awarded points based on performance.

Even though sites such as FanDuel and DraftKings were not founded until 2009 and 2012 respectively, the daily fantasy sports debate was present before then.

People such as McHenry resident Rick Weaver have participated in fantasy sports for most of their lives.

Weaver has played fantasy sports since middle school, and said he became in-

terested because it added another layer to the game. He started playing daily fantasy sports in 2006 and continues to play football, basketball, hockey, baseball and soccer, waging anywhere between $2 and $50 a day.

“For me, the immediacy is what kind of drew me to it,” Weaver said.

The 27-year-old said Madigan’s ruling “opened the door for a real piece of legislation” in Illinois.

“I think it was a very important piece to move forward legitimate legislation to legalize and regulate,” he said.

Weaver said that since he started playing daily fantasy sports, he has noticed a general shift in opinion of those who initially opposed it, but he also understands there always will be an opposition, and those who feel that way usually are not likely to change their minds.

“I think there’s a lot of education that still needs to take place,” he said.

Zalewski said the wrong decision would be to leave things the way they are and continue the statewide ban.

“I don’t ever think it’s wise to shut something down that people enjoy,” he said. “We’re never going to prevent people from doing this, so as policymakers we have the choice to hope it gets better or go about trying to fix it.”

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“Chief Van Dorpe ... is one of the most sought-after instructors in the country as a champion of the Principles of Modern Fire Attack,” ISFSI President Steve Pegram said in a statement. “His service to the UL advisory board has guided the research and message to create a global impact.”

Van Dorpe said fire education is more important than ever because today’s common consumer materials help fires spread more quickly.

He said he would like the fire service to become a “true profession” and incorporate national minimum standards, guidelines and procedures.

Today, the first-year chief is active “It’s just one of the things you do,” across the country in groups that reVan Dorpe said. “Chisearch best practices for the fire sercago’s got a bunch of vice, including as an advisory board training officers.” member of Underwriters Laboratory Van Dorpe went on Firefighter Safety Research Institute. to become the director He also has given presentations on of the department’s the challenges of modern fires at the training division, and FDIC convention and National Fire he has served as a field Peter Academy, and he has addressed the instructor for the Il- Van Dorpe U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcomlinois Fire Service Institute and an instructor on building mittee about furniture flammability construction through the City Col- and flame retardant chemicals. leges of Chicago.

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LAKE IN THE HILLS – Nearly three decades after teaching his first class of recruits to the fire service, Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District Chief Peter Van Dorpe was recognized nationally for his service as an instructor with the George D. Post Instructor of the Year Award.

Van Dorpe received the award, which is presented by Fire Engineering/International Society of Fire Service Instructors, on April 21 at the Fire Department Instructors Conference International in Indianapolis.

His career as an instructor began in 1988, when he was thrown into an instruction role while working for the Chicago Fire Department.

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Group for veterans with PTSD restarting in May

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LAKE IN THE HILLS – When the veterans therapy group he organized lost its funding last fall, Ted Biever was determined to continue the group sessions for one reason: It had truly helped veterans suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The members of that group had been taught the Emotional Freedom Technique, which involves tapping certain parts of the head or chest to relieve symptoms of stress.

It helped a former Army Ranger who had nightmares about his time serving in Somalia. It helped the Iraq veteran whose friends asked unwanted questions about his experience overseas. It helped Biever, a Vietnam veteran, himself.

“There are so many vets out there that need this,” Biever said. “I figure if it helps one veteran, it’s worth it all.”

The group, which he had organized with Tammy Stroud from the McHenry County Mental Health Board, disbanded last fall. Since then, Biever has collaborated with the McHenry County Behavioral Health Foundation to get grant

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Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War Ted Biever of Lake in the Hills had a hand at starting a therapy group for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder that departs from traditional techniques. funding to restart it.

The group, which is free to all veterans, will meet at 7 p.m. May 10 at the Lake in the Hills American Legion Post 1231 for an informational session for veterans and their spouses.

For the eight Tuesdays after that, both veterans and their spouses will meet in separate groups with the counselors to learn about techniques for managing symptoms of depression, PTSD and military sexual trauma.

Sharon Smith, a contract administrator for the Behavioral Health Foundation, said the group has spent time finding three licensed clinicians who also are trained in Emotional Freedom Technique, a difficult task in this region.

She said studies have shown 90 percent of veterans who try it see a reduction in PTSD symptoms, which can include fatigue, anxiety, depression, insomnia, inability to eat and difficulty maintaining relationships.

“It’s not like cognitive behavior therapy. It doesn’t make the veteran relive the incident or the trigger that would cause symptoms of PTSD,” Smith said.

Another positive, Smith said, is veterans or their spouses can become trained in administering the therapy.

The treatment complements other therapy veterans might be going through.

Stroud also said the group is hoping to expand to another location farther north using a peer mentor model, in which veterans who have learned the therapy technique can be trained as tapping coaches and teach others to use it.

Veterans interested in joining the group should call Biever at 815-529-2571 or the Behavioral Health Foundation at 815-308-0866.

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McHenry County communities and organizations have a history of providing for their citizens. One former child advocacy center was the “Chicago Industrial Home for Children” founded in 1888 by the Rev. T. B. Arnold of the Free Methodist Church in Chicago. He moved the home to Woodstock in 1891, and it became known as the Woodstock Children’s Home. Originally designed to provide vocational training, it instead became an orphanage and adoption-placement agency. While there, children received medical and dental services, as well as recreational opportunities, until it ceased operation in the 1970s. The building now houses the Woodstock Early Learning under the auspices of the Hearthstone Communities. The photo at left was taken during a picnic for the Home’s children in early 1900s. The McHenry County Historical Society Museum is open for the season from 1-4 p.m. Sundays in May, select Sundays during the summer and Tuesdays–Fridays until through September. Featured exhibits include “Bottles, Barrels & Brews: McHenry County on Tap,” “Members’ Only” (members showcase personal collections), “Gone But Not Forgotten” (Victorian mourning customs) and “A Tale of 10 Textiles” (highlights from the costume collection). Society members enjoy free admission.

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Anthony McGinn Director of public relations and communications “The primary goal of our website currently is to provide information to parents, students, staff and community stakeholders, and we do a pretty good job with that, but there are still four significant barriers,” McGinn said.

Because of the customized coding used to build the current site, he said security updates are high-risk tasks and that there have been instances of

viruses shutting down school sites in the recent past.

McGinn added the district’s communications department is focusing on producing more content such as videos, infographics and social media integration, which will require a more “responsive” website.

Making the site mobile-friendly also is a goal, as is getting each individual school site onto one common

platform, he said.

The redesign will cost $23,910 in the first year and $13,650 for the second and third years, according to district documents. District 300 intends to buy a support plan and a content migration service, but also expects a discount on a parent information service.

District 300 Superintendent Fred Heid said staff will be aggressively working behind the scenes on the redesign, which will require transferring years worth of content.

“All of that content has to be vetted yet again to make sure links to parents and programs and brochures are all accurate and appropriate,” Heid said.

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ALGONQUIN – Community Unit School District 300 board members recently made the first official move toward a website redesign project, expected to take about six months.

At the latest regular meeting, the school board unanimously approved – with Board President Anne Miller absent – a staff recommendation to secure a contract with Blackboard for a three-year cost of $41,645.

Director of Public Relations and Communications Anthony McGinn said factors such as vulnerability to malware, the ability to host 21st century content and easier management of the website were key in the request for proposal process. The process began in October and generated responses from five vendors.

“The primary goal of our website currently is to provide information to parents, students, staff and community stakeholders, and we do a pretty good job with that, but there are still four significant barriers.”

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Tee 2 Green may amend its plan for outdoor space

By CAITLIN SWIECA cswieca@shawmedia.com

HUNTLEY – The owner of Tee 2 Green Indoor Golf said he will work with the village to plan an outdoor entertainment area within Huntley’s boundaries after trustees remained concerned about his original plan to build the area in unincorporated McHenry County.

Tee 2 Green owner Marc Tintner discussed the plan Tuesday with Village Board members, who still expressed concerns about the plan. Because the designated area is on the other side of the building’s parking lot and outside the village’s limits, Huntley Police would not have jurisdiction there.

The landlord of the property, which is at 11193 Dundee Road, made it clear he had no interest

in that land being annexed into the village, said Director of Development Services Charles Nordman.

In the course of discussion, Mayor Charles Sass suggested creating an entertainment area adjacent to the building, which would fall under Huntley’s jurisdiction.

“I’d rather have something happen on the south side, something we can control in Huntley, and it’ll probably actually save you money,” Sass said. “I just don’t like the idea of it being out there.”

Tintner said he would be willing to withdraw his petition to the county if he and the village could agree to a compromise on that smaller piece of land.

He said he hopes to have the outdoor area open as soon as possible, and putting the area closer to the building would eliminate

the need for a separate county liquor license, portable toilets and concession stands.

“I’m looking for something to add in the summer,” Tintner said.

“It doesn’t matter to me, really, where it is, as long as we can do it. We already have a lot of people interested just in the hearsay.”

The entertainment area likely will be smaller than the originally planned space, which included two volleyball courts, a bocce ball court, two horseshoe pits, an area with seating and games, and an area for food and beverage service.

Trustee Niko Kanakaris suggested allowing the business to try the concept this year and discuss an expansion next year if it goes well.

Tintner said he hopes to bring the petition back to the board May 12.

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Registration is required. To register, call 877-CENTEGRA (236-8347).

Huntley Village Board approves plan for downtown cruise nights

HUNTLEY – The village’s downtown area will host weekly cruise nights this summer after the Village Board approved the event this week.

The cruise nights, which would feature classic cars, food and drink specials and music from DJ Rudy K, will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday nights June 7 through Sept. 13 except June 14 and 28 and July 26.

The Village Board approved the plan for the events, which include closing downtown streets on those nights, and approved a $1,500 fee to the promoter of the event.

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HUNTLEY – Authorities are investigating the reported armed robbery of a local 7-Eleven that occurred early Saturday morning, according to a news release from the Huntley Police Department.

Officers were called about 3:09 a.m. to 7-Eleven, 12400 Princeton Drive in Huntley, for a reported armed robbery, police said.

The store clerk described the offender as a black male about 5 foot 6 to 8 inches tall and dressed in black clothing, with his hands and face covered, according to the release.

The offender apparently demanded money from the cash register and displayed a black handgun, police said, then ran south from the store.

Officers searched the area with help from a Kane County Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit, but the offender was not immedi-

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The incident is under investigation.

Anyone who can provide additional information is asked to call the police at 847-515-5311 or the Huntley Police Tip Line at 847-515-5333.

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LOCAL BRIEFS Woodstock crash sends Crystal Lake man to hospital WOODSTOCK – A 66-year-old Crystal Lake man was taken to Centegra Hospital – Woodstock on Saturday morning after a two-vehicle crash, a fire official said.

The Woodstock Fire Rescue District was dispatched about 10:45 a.m. to Route 14 and Doty Road for a reported crash involving injuries.

Responders treated three patients from the two vehicles, signed two off and transported one to the hospital, Lt. Chad Williams said.

Woodstock Police Sgt. Dan Wesolek said Guan Cook-Maelynn, 18, of Lake in the Hills, was driving a 2007 Dodge Caravan with her juvenile brother as passenger.

She was headed north on Doty, disregarded a red light and struck a vehicle going west on Route 14, Wesolek said.

Stewart Davies, 66, of Crystal Lake, who was driving a 2013 Honda Insight, was transported to the hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, Wesolek said.

Firefighters observed minor damage to both vehicles, Williams said.

Eastbound traffic on Route 14 was shut down for 25 to 30 minutes while

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Two vehicles were traveling east on Route 14 when the first vehicle, a 2012 Ford Escape driven by 64-year-old Maureen Matroni of Woodstock, attempted to turn left onto Sunset Ridge Road. “The [driver of the] vehicle behind her said she suddenly stopped and in order to not run into her, he went left and side-swiped her and went into a ditch,� Wesolek said.

That driver, 45-year-old Eric Dakey of Pingree Grove, driving a 1996 Chrysler Sebring, was cited with failure to use due care, and was taken to Centegra Hospital – Woodstock with injuries not considered life-threatening, Wesolek said.

One of the two women passengers of the Ford Escape also was transported, Wesolek said.

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Crash sends 2 to hospital, fire officials say

By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com SPRING GROVE – Two people were taken to the hospital after a crash in Spring Grove that left one vehicle totaled against a utility pole, a fire official said.

The Spring Grove Fire Protection District was called about 4:30 p.m. Saturday for a two-vehicle crash on Route 173 at Winn Road. The Richmond Fire Protection District also was dispatched to the scene.

Spring Grove Battalion Chief Dan Illges said his district handled one vehicle while Richmond handled the other. He said both drivers were extricated after fire crews determined the wires that had fallen because of the crash were not charged.

The woman who was extricated by Spring Grove fire officials was taken to Centegra Hospital – McHenry, and Illges said her injuries did not appear life-threatening.

Illges said a Richmond ambulance also took someone to the hospital, but he did not know the details, adding the two crews were working about 100 feet apart at their respective vehicles.

The vehicle he saw was totaled up against the pole, Illges added.

The Richmond Fire Protection District and the Spring Grove Police Department were not immediately available to comment.

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CRYSTAL LAKE – In preparation for its spring garage sale, the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County will be taking donations of gently used items that can be resold.

Donations will be accepted from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. May 15 and from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. May 16 to 18, at the Algonquin Township Road District garage, 3702 Route 14, between Crystal Lake and Cary.

Defenders representatives said almost anything that is resellable will be accepted, with a few exceptions: small appliances and electronics must be in working order; and no monitors or TVs, no clothes, no baby carriers or cribs, no large appliances or upholstered furniture.

Residents who have questions about what can be accepted can email EnviroDefMC@gmail.com or call 815-338-0393.

“The Defenders have been involved with diverting things from

the landfills for over 45 years,” said Christy Matsuoka, EDMC’s office administrator. “Doing a garage sale is a form of recycling. Buying secondhand items instead of new ones keeps things out of the landfills, saves you money and supports a McHenry County nonprofit.”

Sale dates for the garage sale are from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. May 19 to 21.

The Environmental Defenders of McHenry County is a 501(c)(3) notfor-profit organization, and donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

The group is dedicated to the preservation and improvement of the environment, and provides the community with educational programs and volunteer action on pollution prevention, sustainable land use and energy and natural resource conservation. For more information, visit its website: www.mcdef.org, or its Facebook page at www.facebook. com/EnvironmentalDefenders, or call 815-338-0393.

Algonquin’s water has tested within acceptable levels for lead and copper since the work. Like Crystal Lake, Algonquin also posts its water testing results online.

“In Flint, there’s a lot of political posturing and people not doing the right thing. Here, we always choose to do the right thing,” Mitchard said.

Algonquin is in the “very early stages” of planning to canvass the village to find out which homes are connected with lead service lines, in the event that future opportunities arise to replace them. One such opportunity, Mitchard said, would be if the village proceeds with a $30 million downtown improvement plan.

While reassuring residents that their drinking water is and always has been safe, Crystal Lake Public Works Director Victor Ramirez said

“In Flint, there’s a lot of political posturing and people not doing the right thing. Here, we always choose to do the right thing.”

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House Speaker Michael Madigan makes a rare appearance in Joliet

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JOLIET – Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan – arguably the most powerful politician in Springfield – made a rare appearance Friday night in Joliet to address labor leaders of Will and Grundy counties.

And to give, as he called it, his “side of the story” as to why Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and a Democrat-controlled majority remain deadlocked in a 10-month budget impasse.

“The governor’s advocacy of these nonbudget issues – workers’ compensation, collective bargaining, prevailing wage – in my judgment, runs contrary to the core beliefs of both Democrats and Republicans,” Madigan said before a packed International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 167 West Banquet Hall. “Because advocacy of these issues would reduce wages for … middle-class families and send injured workers to the emergency room and to the welfare program.”

Madigan, who’s served as speaker of the Illinois House for 31 of the last 33 years, was the keynote speaker Friday night for the Will-Grundy Central Trades and Labor Council AFL-CIO’s 38th annual dinner. Local, state and federal elected officials from both political parties were in attendance.

Madigan said he pledged from Day 1 to work closely and cooperatively with Rauner, noting he has a long record of working with other governors – both Democrats and Republi-

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Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan speaks Friday during the Will-Grundy Central Trades and Labor Council AFL-CIO’s 38th annual dinner. Speaking to a packed International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 167 West Banquet Hall, Madigan addressed labor leaders of Will and Grundy counties about the ongoing state budget impasse. cans – but this time, things are different, he said.

“Thompson, Edgar, Ryan. I’ve worked with a lot of governors.

We’ve never had this difficult of situation. Never,” he said.

Rauner, he said, is holding the budget hostage with the goal of stripping away union powers and collective bargaining rights.

The Republican governor won’t consider new revenue unless Democrats agree to his Turnaround Agenda.

Faced with ballooning pension obligations and a $6.9 billion backlog for the current fiscal year – which started July 1 of last year – Madigan said it’s impossible for Illinois to cut its way out of the deficit.

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“You take all of that, you add it up. It’s very obvious that Illinois is awash in debt. The state is swimming in debt,” Madigan said.

Charlie Hanus, president of the Will-Grundy Counties Central Trades Council, lauded Madigan for his support of union rights.

“You look where we’d be at today without Mike Madigan there, that we’d be just a neighbor state. Right to work. Depressed wages. Everybody out of work. It’d be terrible. In the last line of the defense for many years has been Mike Madigan,” Hanus said.

He also called on labor supporters and union members to retain seats in the House and Senate during the upcoming November election “We gotta work our tails off this fall because if we lose the majority and let Rauner buy this election and we lose control, every one of us in this room, we’re done. We’re done,” Hanus said.

“Everybody needs to put the wheel to the grindstone.”

Will County Democratic Caucus Chair Herbert Brooks, D-Joliet, said it was quite the rare appearance from Madigan, but a pleasant surprise.

“It is rare. We feel privileged to have him here tonight,” Brooks said.

“I’m surprised he came.”

The fact that Madigan showed up in Joliet on Friday night is “a real credit to the trades here,” Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk said.

“He doesn’t speak at a lot of events, but he came out to the trades in Joliet tonight to give a fair representation of how he sees things in Springfield,” O’Dekirk said.

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As the years increase, the survival rate decreases. At 15 years, about a quarter of businesses survive. Interestingly, these rates were relatively similar across industries for employer-based businesses, retail, food service and hotels, manufacturing and construction.

Now, the data doesn’t say why, after a long period, business success continues to decline. But you don’t go into business hoping to be out of business, right? With that said, improving your odds of business success is the ability to plan ahead, forecast your financials accurately so you can absorb unexpected turns in the business climate, and have a realistic plan to make money and survive stormy weather.

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To keep it short and with our theme, my outlook for business is that it will be cloudy, with a chance of business success. The data did not support a forecast of all sunshine, rainbows and blue skies. And it seemed to suggest to be prepared for the unexpected.

What will the world’s economies do? How will that affect the bigger picture of the U.S. economy and policy? What will the state of Illinois do? If the minimum wage goes up, how will that affect your business?

More taxes? Health care expenses?

Covering new time off work rules for employees? The list of things to consider in your forecast goes on and on.

As business owners and managers, for profit or a nonprofit, the goal is the same: develop a realistic forecast and incorporate risk

factors that prepare you for an unexpected stormy economic environment. For example, who would have expected the state to have an overdue budget, almost a year of impasse? I worked with many managers in my past and current role, one consistent planning tip is to be able to answer “why.”

If you think your revenue is going up, why?

What data makes you anticipate that direction? If you plan for more expenses, why?

Standard pay raises, required minimum wage increases, rental/ lease costs increasing? Be able to answer “why.”

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How’s the weather? Wow, what a beautiful day! Talking and planning for the weather is part of our daily conversation. Most of us either have an “app” for our smart phones, a link on the computer, watch, listen or read about the impending weather forecast.

We tend to pay especially close attention to the details when the weather is going to be more severe, and when we are planning some type of outdoor event. With the forecast of severe weather, you may try to become more prepared by getting a more accurate, detailed forecast, checking for the weather hour by hour, and looking at multiple weather sources.

Business forecasting is much like weather forecasting; it helps you anticipate and plan for your business results, the ability to absorb unexpected storms, and prepares your business for the best odds of success. Why do you need to take the time to accurately forecast?

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OBITUARIES How to submit Send obituary information to obits@ nwherald.com or call 815-526-4438.

Notices are accepted until 3 p.m. for the next day’s edition. Obituaries also appear online at NWHerald.com/obits, where you may sign the guest book, send flowers or make a memorial donation.

PHYLLIS M. BORMET Phyllis M. Bormet, age 88. At rest Friday, April 29, 2016, surrounded by her loving family.

Born in Chicago, the daughter of the late Salvatore and Loretta Fiore.

Residing in Morris the past 25 years. Former owner/operator of Phyl’s Beauty Shop of Oak Lawn, IL. A volunteer as a receptionist in the surgical unit and waiting room of Morris Hospital. Member of First Presbyterian Church of Morris and the Morris Moose Lodge. An avid gardener and thoroughly enjoyed her exercise class, all her friends and loved to sew and travel.

Survived by her children, Phyllis Mueller (Quentin Blome) of Woodstock, IL and William (Lorraine) Parks of Utah; 10 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren; one sister, Carmela (Vincent) Canino of Tinley Park, IL and several nieces and nephews also survive.

Preceded by her husband, Norman Bormet (2009); her son, Howard S. Parks (2014) and six siblings.

Phyllis M. Bormet will lie in state Monday, May 2, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 200 E. Jackson Street, Morris, until time of services at 10:00 a.m. Interment Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Tinley Park.

Memorials in her name to First Presbyterian Church or the Transportation Department at Morris Hospital would be appreciated.

Visitation Sunday from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 1201 W. Route 6 (at Deerpath Drive) Morris.

For information (815) 942-5040 or visit her Book of Memories at www.fredcdames.com

JOHN C. DIAZ

August H. Ganzer; and parents, Bernard and Georgia Walter.

The memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, May 21, at Hamsher Lakeside John C. Diaz, age 55 of Crystal Lake, passed Funerals and Cremations, 12 N. Pistakee Lake Rd., Fox Lake. Inurnment will follow in East away at home on April 5, 2016.

John was born October 15, 1960, in Honolu- Fox Lake Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in Carol’s lu, Hawaii, the son of John H. and Ann B. Diaz. name may be made to the American Heart John is survived by his brother, Richard F. Diaz (Sarah) of Deep Haven, MN; a sister, Con- Association, www.heart.org, 800-242-8721, stance A. Diaz of Cheyenne, WY; a step-sister, or the American Diabetes Association, www. diabetes.org, 800-342-2383.

Anne Epperson (Patrick) of McHenry; his You may leave online condolences for the mother, Ann B. Halstead; and step-father, Burfamily at www.HamsherLakeside.com, or call nett A. Halstead; a niece, three nephews and three great nieces as well as many step-niec- 847-587-2100, for information. es and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his father.

John graduated from Crystal lake South and attended the University of Montana, Missoula, MT. He enjoyed the outdoors particularly hiking in Wyoming and sailing.

Services and burial were private.

Born: October 15, 1960; in Honolulu, HI Died: April 5, 2016; in Crystal Lake, IL

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JEANETTE EMMA FARVER Jeanette Emma Farver, age 85, of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Passed away peacefully on April 23, 2016, in Roseville, MN. Preceded in death by husband, Robert; and daughter, Jane.

Survived by son, Steve (Cheryl); brothers, Ray and Dick; grandson, Jocco (Peggy); and many nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.

Private services will be held in Minnesota.

CAROL A. GANZER

Born: October 12, 1947; In Waukegan, IL Died: April 22, 2016; In Des Plaines, IL Carol A. Ganzer, 68, of Johnsburg, passed away Friday, April 22, 2016, at Presence Holy Family Medical Center, Des Plaines.

She was born October 12, 1947, in Waukegan, to the late Bernard and Georgia (nee Lubeck) Walter.

Carol was a dedicated, special-education teacher with S.E.D.O.L. for over 40 years. She was a modest, patient, and loving person who put others’ needs ahead of her own. Most of all, Carol was very dedicated and devoted to her family.

Survivors include her children, Christine (Brent) Farka, Thomas Ganzer, Andrew (Christine) Ganzer, and Caryn (John) Garcia; and grandchildren, Ethan and Jason Farka, Kayla and James Ganzer, and Johnny Garcia.

She was preceded in death by her husband,

(Lara), Stephanie (John), Philip (Rebecca); two great-grandchildren, Alyssa, Ethan; and her niece and nephews, Linda (Gary), Bill (Carol), and Mike.

In addition to her parents, Elaine is preceded in death by her husband, Erwin T. Laures on March 31, 1986; and her two sisters.

Friends and neighbors may gather from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Friday, May 6, 2016, at Shepherd of the Hills Church, 404 N. Green Street, McHenry, IL 60050. The funeral service will be at 11:00 a.m. at the church. A luncheon will follow. Inurnment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery in McHenry.

For those wishing to send an expression of sympathy, her family suggests memorials to The Salvation Army, 290 W. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake, IL 60014.

For information, please call Justen Funeral Home & Crematory at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com, where friends may leave an on-line condolence message for her family.

Born: April 15, 1931; In Chicago, IL Died: April 25, 2016; In Fox River Grove, IL

Frank E. Liden, age 85 of Fox River Grove passed Born: October 18, 1924 away peacefully at his Died: April 28, 2016 home on April 25, 2016. He was born April 15, 1931 in Elaine F. Laures, age 91, of McHenry, passed Chicago, the son of Tage away Thursday, April 28, 2016, at her residence. and Guline Liden.

She was born October 18, 1924, in McHenry Frank is survived by his to William and Anna (Steinhaufer) Heimer. sons, Timothy Liden and Kevin (Deborah) Elaine was raised in McHenry, and spent the Liden; a grandson, Brandon Liden; as well as majority of her lifetime in the area. She also lived in Wheaton, Waukegan, and Northbrook, his dear companion, Marge Lacey.

Besides his parents, Frank is preceded as her husband took different management in death by his wife of 35 years, Joan (nee roles within the company he worked for. She Madaj) Liden. was mainly a homemaker, but worked partVisitation will be held on Wednesday, time for many years as a teller for a local bank May 4, 2016 from 4:00 until 8:00 PM at the in Northbrook.

Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Elaine was a member of Shepherd of the Hills Church. Elaine loved being on the go and Rd., Cary. There will be a Funeral Mass offered was looking forward to her next new car. She for Frank at 10:30 AM on Thursday, May 5th enjoyed driving to her sons home in Bannock- at Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 410 First St., Cary burn for holidays and many Sundays for dinner and will be followed with burial at St. John as well as to meet friends for lunch and dinner Nepomucene Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers memorials would be appreat various restaurants throughout McHenry, ciated to Sts. Peter & Paul Church.

Lake and Cook counties. Among other hobFor information, 847-639-3817 or bies, she was an avid reader of James Patterkahlemoore.com son mysteries and loved watching mysteries on TV and at the movies. She also enjoyed traveling, which she and her husband did much of, including trips to Hawaii, Germany and Ireland. She also joined her son’s family and her daughter on a trip to France.

Elaine is survived by her four children, James (Nancy) Laures, Gerald (Anne Marie) Laures, Victoria Laures, Jeffrey (Janice) Laures; five • Continued on page 21 grandchildren, Leigh, Michael, Christopher

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on January 26, 1956, the daughter of Josef and Maria (Baumgartner) Krizanovic.

Susan is survived by her children, Christopher, Anthony and Alisha; brothers and sisters, David (Debbie) Krizanovic, Joe (Mary) Krizanovic, Peter (Debbie) Krizanovic and Irene Krizanovic; as well as many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

The celebration of life service will be held on Saturday, May 7, 2016, at 10am at Life Bridge Community Church, 700 W. Liberty St., Wauconda, IL 60084.

Arrangements were handled by Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory. For information call 815-385-0063 or log on at www. colonialmchenry.com

will be in St. Mary Cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 847-515-8772.

Ronald R. Meinert: The visitation will be from 3 p.m. until the 7 p.m. service Tuesday, May 3, at Zion Lutheran Church, 412 Jackson St., Marengo. Private interment will be in Marengo City Cemetery at a later date. For information, call 847-6832711.

Susan Tapia: The celebration of life service will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 7, at Life Bridge Community Church, 700 W. Liberty St., Wauconda. For information, call 815-385-0063.

Grant Hoffman Sension: A Celebration of Life Service will be at 10:30 a.m. June 25 at Faith Presbyterian Church, 2107 W. Lincoln Rd, McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400.

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.

James T. Vecchio: The visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary. The funeral Mass celebration will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 2, at Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 410 First St., Cary, and will be followed by burial in St. John Nepomucene Cemetery.

Jennie L. Wessman: A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 1:30 p.m., and the family will greet friends after 12:30 p.m.

Monday, May 2, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee Road, Huntley.

Entombment will be in Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside. For information, call the funeral home at 847-515-8772.

MARY JO LYNCH TRUCHAN Born: May 19, 1947; In Joliet, IL Died: April 15, 2016; In Bellingham, WA

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Humberto Bernal Jr.: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 2, at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner St., Harvard. For information, call 815-943-5400.

Phyllis M. Bormet: The visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 1201 W. Route 6 (at Deerpath Drive) Morris. For information, call 815-942-5040.

Carol A. Ganzer: The memorial service will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, May 21, at Hamsher Lakeside Funerals and Cremations, 12 N. Pistakee Lake Road, Fox Lake.

Inurnment will follow in East Fox Lake Cemetery. For information, call 847-5872100.

Margaret A. Kish: The memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 14, at Bells Coulee Lutheran Church in Bangor, Wisconsin. A reception will follow at the church.

Elaine F. Laures: Friends and neighbors may gather from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Friday, May 6, at Shepherd of the Hills Church, 404 N. Green St., McHenry. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. at the church. A luncheon will follow. Inurn-

ment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery in McHenry. For information, call Justen Funeral Home & Crematory at 815-3852400.

Joann L. Lewis: The celebration of her life will be from 2 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at the McHenry Moose Lodge, 3535 N. Richmond Road, Johnsburg. For information, call Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home at 815-459-1760.

Frank E. Liden: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, at the Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary. There will be a Funeral Mass offered for Frank at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, May 5, at Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 410 First St., Cary, and will be followed with burial at St. John Nepomucene Cemetery. For information, call 847-639-3817.

Barbara J. Mangan: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral Home, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley. The visitation will continue from 9 a.m. until the 10 a.m. funeral Mass celebration Monday, May 2, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee Road. Burial

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Mary Jo Lynch Truchan, a resident of Bellingham, WA, and formerly of Cary, IL, passed away peacefully on Friday, April 15, 2016 at Hospice House in Bellingham, WA. She was born May 19, 1947, in Joliet, IL. Mary Jo was a loving mother and grandmother to her three daughters, two granddaughters and one grandson.

She is survived by her daughters and her son-in-law: Victoria Truchan, Lisa Truchan,

Erin Truchan and her husband Rob Adams and her two granddaughters and one grandson, Emily and Maddie Young and Salvador Adams, all of Bellingham, WA. She is also survived by her siblings and their spouses, Dan Lynch of Long Beach, CA; Bill (Gina) Lynch of Bellingham, WA; Patty (Don) Osmun of Crystal Lake, IL; and Jane (John) Howie of Crystal Lake, IL. In addition, she is survived by her former husband, Gregory Truchan, of Cary, IL, and many loving cousins, nieces and nephews.

Mary Jo was preceded in death by her parents, Victoria and Joseph Lynch of Crystal Lake, IL and her brother-in-law, Thomas Truchan of Denver, CO. Mary Jo was born in Joliet, IL and later lived in Homewood, Dixon, Crystal Lake and Cary, IL. She graduated from Crystal Lake High School in 1965 and married in 1968. She and her daughters later moved to Bellingham, WA. Mary Jo was a nurturing woman who always held a passion for the nursing field.

She fulfilled her dream of becoming a nurse in 1999. She was known and loved by her fellow nurses as a truly compassionate nurse.

Mary Jo also had a love of animals, especially her two dogs, Isabella and Maggie. In addition, Mary Jo had a passion for reading, which was an enjoyable pastime all her life.

Memorials (both in Bellingham, WA and Crystal Lake, IL) to celebrate Mary Jo’s life will take place at a later date.

Those wishing to make a contribution in memory of Mary Jo’s life may make a donation to support her daughter, Lisa: The Lisa Truchan Donation Account, WECU, P.O. Box 9750, Bellingham, WA 98227-9750.

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in church ministries. On a typical morning, Grant could be found at a local coffee shop conversing with locals about current events, GRANT HOFFMAN SENSION politics, work, and life in general. It was one Born: June 15, 1928 of his ways of getting to know people. AnDied: April 22, 2016 other joy for Grant was getting to know his grandchildren and sharing God’s guidance Grant Hoffman Sension, with them. age 87, of McHenry, enHe is survived by his wife of 58 years, tered into God’s eternity, April 22, 2016, surrounded Marita (McSherry) Sension; two daughters, Debra (Steve) Hall, Sherry (Ruben) Arevalo; by his family. two sons, Dr. Michael Sension, Scott (Kris) He was born June 15, Sension; seven grandchildren, Lindsey and 1928, in Louisville, KY, Kyle Hall, Megan, Jacqueline and Joshua to U.S. Grant and Helen Arevalo, Chloe and Ethan Sension; sister, (Hoffman) Sension. Grant’s early years Virginia (the late Walter) Smetana; and two were spent in India where his parents were missionaries until 1939, when they returned brothers, Donald (Priscilla) Sension and Gordon (Sharon) Sension. to New London, CT. He completed his He is preceded in death by his parents, Helundergraduate degree at Houghton College, en and U.S. Grant Sension; and two sisters, Houghton, NY; received a Master of Divinity Helen Sension and Mary Jane Wilke. from Northern Baptist Seminary, did post Memorials can be directed to The First graduate work in Counseling at the UniverBaptist Church of Chenoa, IL. sity of Chicago and completed his Master’s A Celebration of Life Service will be held Degree in Guidance & Counseling of Illinois June 25th, 10:30 am at Faith Presbyterian State University where he earned his MasChurch, 2107 W. Lincoln Rd, McHenry, IL. ter’s Degree in Guidance and Counseling.

For information, please call the funeral In June, 1958 he became the pastor of the home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenFirst Baptist Church of Chenoa, IL. Grant considered his time and service in Chenoa to fh.com, where friends may leave an on-line condolence message for his family. be God’s lifelong vocational calling. He also taught math and science and worked as a counselor in the Chenoa School system. Following retirement, he and his wife moved to SUSAN TAPIA Berwyn, IL where he served on the Deacon Born: January 26, 1956 board of the Oak Park Avenue Baptist Church Died: April 24, 2016 until 2001, when they made McHenry, IL Susan Tapia, age 60, of McHenry, passed their final home.

Grant enjoyed reading, traveling, remodel- away Sunday, April 24, 2016, with her loving family by her side. She was born in Chicago ing with his son-in-law, Ruben, and serving

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Budget standoff forces 300 layoffs at Chicago State The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – Chicago State University laid off more than 300 employees, about a third of its workforce, after emergency state funding recently approved amid Illinois’ ongoing budget stalemate proved too little to prevent the cuts.

Chicago State President Thomas Calhoun Jr. said the layoffs announced Friday spared faculty, but they are likely to be affected by later cuts. Friday’s layoffs affected most areas from administrators and counselors to police and carpenters.

Calhoun called the layoffs “dreadful” but said they will save about 40 percent in payroll costs, about $2 million a month.

Lawmakers approved a $600 million short-term funding fix on April 22 for the state’s colleges and universities. But Calhoun said the $20 million that went to Chicago State wasn’t enough to prevent job cuts.

“It was less than what we needed and later than we needed it, as much as we appreciated getting it,” he told

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Flooding has left behind sand, debris in southern county

MILLER CITY – Early-winter flooding that affected several Illinois counties has left behind a scarred landscape in Alexander County in southern Illinois.

The Southern Illinoisan reported that debris piles and massive sand deposits were left behind after waters went through the breach of the Len Small Levee.

“It’s almost a barren Mad Max-type landscape,” said Kenneth Delahunt, an Illinois Department of Natural Resources biologist. “It looked rough in 2011, but this last time it was really crazy. They had snow plows blowing sand off the road.”

The Jan. 1 levee breach

laying off half of your non-instructional staff. I just don’t know who is going to do the work,” he said.

Some of the school’s emergency funding needs to go toward outstanding vendor bills.

The four-year university on Chicago’s South Side that serves about 4,500 mostly minority and low-income students from the city has been the hardest hit in the state by the ongoing budget standoff.

The school’s spring semester ended Thursday, two weeks early, to ensure that students could graduate before the money ran out.

Other schools have also cut staff this year, including Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, which eliminated 65 noninstructional positions.

AP file photo Western Illinois University has Chicago State University in Chicago, seen in February, announced it will lay off about a cut 147 positions, including 30 faculty jobs, and about 500 employees are third of its workforce despite recently approved emergency state funding. taking furlough days and pay cuts the Chicago Tribune. “It really is a some of the laid-off academic service this spring. Northern Illinois UniverBand-Aid and not the solution.” professionals, said the cuts are “a sity has avoided layoffs but has left 116 jobs unfilled during this academic Robert Bionaz, president of the staggering number.” school’s faculty union that represents “It’s profound that you talk about year.

intensified flooding. Danette Cross, a Natural Resources Conservation Service district conservationist, said that when the levee breaks, water rushes in and brings along sand and debris.

Cross said piles of trees and other debris and differing levels of sand cover as many as 17,000 acres. Sand covering fields ranges from roughly 6 inches to about 6 feet, and the topsoil was taken away by flooding in other areas.

“They are starting to remove sand and starting to try to pick up debris, but they know it could be for naught,” Cross said. “Every spring the river comes up to at least 32 feet.

With the levee where it’s at, it’s just going to come in.”

The levee hasn’t gotten fixed. Water would start going into the countryside, with the conditions right now, when the river hits 32 feet.

“Even if they decided to rebuild it, it would probably be two years,” Cross said. “Right now, it’s not looking hopeful.”

Wildlife shouldn’t be affected long term, Delahunt said.

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NIU faculty to form union, seeks voice in school decisions

DeKALB – Northern Illinois University faculty members plan to form a union.

The Daily Chronicle reported the instructors will join the Illinois Federation of Teachers.

The union represents 100,000 elementary school teachers and other classroom employees as well as faculty and staff at several Illinois universities and community colleges.

NIU support staff unionized last summer after clerical and other administrative assistants raised concerns about wages and complained they had not had a raise for several years.

The university issued a statement saying administrators would wait for a certification decision by state labor regulators. The school “values our faculty and respects their right to organize,” it said.

Rosemary Feurer, an associ-

ate professor of history, said the faculty union wants more say in administrative decisions.

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Mitsubishi vehicle plant is sold to liquidation firm

NORMAL – A Mitsubishi plant in central Illinois that ended production last year has been sold to an auctioneering and liquidation firm.

The Journal Star reported that Maynards Industries will take possession of the property in Normal on June 1.

No terms were announced.

Mitsubishi spokesman Dan Irvin said he doesn’t know what Maynards is planning for the site. Officials with Maynards could not be reached for comment.

The sale ends the Japanese automaker’s involvement in central Illinois. The plant was Mitsubishi’s only manufacturing facility in the U.S. The plant’s assembly of the Outlander Sport ended in November. That was the last model built at the plant. About

1,200 employees were laid off.

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Troopers step up traffic enforcement for prom, graduation

ELGIN – Troopers with the Illinois State Police in District 2 have a reminder for young drivers during prom and graduation season.

They want them to think about the safety message in the word “PROM” and “Please Return on Monday.” That means celebrating responsibly and not drinking and driving.

State troopers will be aggressively enforcing speeding violations and looking for distracted and intoxicated drivers. They will be looking for seat belt violations, too.

The Illinois Department of Transportation reported 135 teenagers died last year in traffic crashes in Illinois. Factors contributing to teenage deaths in motor vehicles include not wearing a seat belt, speed, distraction, impaired driving and lack of experience.

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS four great-grandchildren who Priest, peace activist Daniel Berrigan dies at 94 lived down the street in PalesNEW YORK – The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a Roman Catholic priest and peace activist who was imprisoned for burning draft files in a protest against the Vietnam War, died Saturday.

He was 94.

Berrigan died at Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit health care community in New York City after a “long illness,” according to Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province.

Berrigan and his younger brother, the Rev. Philip Berrigan, emerged as leaders of the radical anti-war movement in the 1960s.

The Berrigan brothers entered a draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, on May 17, 1968, with eight other activists and removed records of young men about to be shipped off to Vietnam. They took the files outside and burned them in garbage cans.

tine, Texas, didn’t make it.

The bodies of Davis’ cousin, 64-year-old Lenda Asberry, and her great-grandchildren, 6-yearold Jamonicka Johnson, 7-yearold Von Anthony Johnson Jr., 8-year-old Devonte Asberry and 9-year-old Venetia Asberry were found in the receding water.

Authorities found a sixth body later on Saturday, identified as 30-year-old Giovani Olivas of Palestine, who was swept under the flood waters.

Iraqi protesters enter Green Zone, storm parliament

BAGHDAD – Anti-government protesters tore down walls and poured into the Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone on Saturday, where they stormed parliament in a major escalation of a simmering political crisis.

Supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been holding demonstrations and Sixth body found after sit-ins for months to demand an Texas flash floods overhaul of Iraq’s corrupt and FORT WORTH, Texas – Lisa Asberry Davis said Saturday she ineffective political system, but Saturday was the first time they and her three children waded broke into the Green Zone, home to safety through water up to to most government ministries their chins after torrential rains and foreign embassies. in East Texas swamped homes during the night and forced some Iraq has been mired in a political crisis for months, hindering residents onto rooftops.

Firefighters lifted them out of its ability to combat the Islamic the water at a rescue point, but State group or its financial crisis.

– Wire reports Davis’ cousin and the woman’s

Trump, Clinton angle for the advantage in politics of gender

By NANCY BENAC The Associated Press WASHINGTON – She has no stamina. She shouts.

She’s got nothing going for her but being a woman.

Donald Trump, after toying with gender politics off and on during the campaign, is all in on a mission to undercut Hillary Clinton’s credentials by syncing up his say-anything campaign strategy with his alpha-male persona.

The same Republican presidential candidate who mocked “little” Marco Rubio, dismissed “low-energy” Jeb Bush and promises to “cherish” and “protect” women as president is dismissing the former senator, secretary of state and first lady as little more than a token female who’s playing the “woman’s card.”

“Frankly, all I’m doing is stating the obvious,” Trump insisted, when pressed about whether his latest Clinton take-downs were sexist.

“Without the woman’s card, Hillary would not even be a viable person to run for city council.”

That message may resonate with one subset of the electorate and touch off outrage with another. But for many other voters, Trump’s line of attack is simply baffling when America is trying to deal with far more complex matters of gender, such as gay marriage and transgender rights.

“It’s a very simplistic notion of gender,” said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. She said Trump is “putting out there a notion of masculinity” that fits with popular images of the presidency. “He is playing the gender card but not connecting it to policy, instead connecting it to his own macho image and his bravado.”

Trump’s messages about women represent a tangle of views, said Stanley Ren-

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks Tuesday. shon, a political psychologist at the City University of New York.

There’s the Trump who has no qualms about advancing women within his business enterprises, the Trump who disparages women just because “I can say whatever comes to mind,” and the retrograde Trump who never outgrew an adolescent fixation with desirable and beautiful women, Renshon said.

“I don’t think he knows how to talk about them in a modern sensibility way,” said Renshon, adding that the billionaire businessman is not used to having his utterances corrected by anyone.

Trump rival Ted Cruz said the GOP front-runner’s attacks on Clinton are unsurprising.

“Donald Trump has a real problem with strong women,” Cruz said. “It’s one of the reasons he can’t win a general election.”

Trump’s issues with women in the campaign extend well beyond Clinton.

He has mocked the face of onetime GOP rival Carly Fiorina, who’s now Cruz’s running mate. He’s retweeted an unflattering image of Heidi Cruz, the Texas senator’s wife, juxtaposed with a glamorous photo of his wife, Melania. He engaged in a long-running dispute with Megyn Kelly of Fox News in

which he dismissed her as a “lightweight” and “bimbo,” and described her at one point as having “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”

He was just as unfiltered in his thoughts about women and their appearances before entering politics. In 1996, Trump reportedly described a Miss Universe who had gained weight as “an eating machine.” He described Rosie O’Donnell as “my nice fat little Rosie” in a 2006 spat. In 2012, he tweeted that Huffington Post editor Arianna Huffington was “unattractive both inside and out.”

None of this has seemed to bother Trump’s loyal followers in the GOP primaries. But it could be a different matter in the general election, when Republican candidates typically suffer from a gender gap. In every presidential election since 1980, a greater proportion of women than men preferred the Democratic candidate.

“The challenge for Republican candidates has been trying to make some inroads into that women’s vote,” Walsh said. “And it’s hard to imagine that Donald Trump, as of right now, is well positioned to be the Republican candidate to make those inroads, given the things that he’s said.”

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GOP race shifts California’s political fault lines

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and MICHAEL R. BLOOD The Associated Press BURLINGAME, Calif. – The Republican Party in California has been riven for decades between those who want to tack to the ideological center to expand its diminishing appeal and those who want it to enforce conservative purity. But the prospect of Donald Trump clinching the nomination in the Golden State has scrambled the party’s political fault lines in advance of its pivotal June primary, forging unexpected alliances that blur those longstanding divisions.

Tea party favorite Ted Cruz was endorsed Saturday by former Gov. Pete Wilson, a centrist governor who raised taxes and feuded regularly with conservatives. Trump, meanwhile, has snapped up support from stalwarts on California’s right, such as conservative activist Ted Costa and former state Sen. Tony Strickland, and its middle, such as former U.S. Rep. Doug Ose. Cruz might also be effectively helped by big-tent Republicans trying to stop Trump.

“There’s always been that conservative versus moderate, can you speak to the middle or only to the base? And this transcends that,” said Tim Clark, Trump’s state director and a seasoned

will parcel out most of its delegates to the winners of each of its 53 congressional districts, with only 13 going to the statewide winner.

The state’s Republican presidential primaries are usually low-profile affairs, occurring after the nomination has been clinched. All sides agree that makes it very hard to predict how this race, expected to draw millions to the polls, will go.

There’s no question it will be tumultuous. That was made clear at the state party convention in Burlingame, a suburb just outside San Francisco airport. On Friday, Trump had to enter the convention hotel from a rear entrance to avoid hundreds of demonstrators who had pushed through police barricades to the front door of the hotel. The previous night, after the front-runner’s rally in Orange County, protesters damaged police cars and struggled with police.

California, the home turf of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, was once a reliable Republican state in presiAP file photo dential elections. But the party’s forThen-California State Sen. Tony Strickland speaks in 2011 at the Capitol in Sacramento, tunes started to erode in the late 1990s Calif. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has snapped up support from Cal- after a series of measures targeting immigrants, which alienated growing ifornia stalwarts such as Strickland, Ted Costa and former congressman Doug Ose. segments of the state’s population. In be the first time in memory that the 2007, then-Gov. Arnold SchwarzenegGOP strategist here.

California caps the epic Republican state’s unusual system could decide ger warned party members that the contest with its June 7 primary. It will a presidential nomination. The state GOP was “dying at the box office.”

Terminating parental rights: State policies vary widely

By DAVID CRARY The Associated Press NEW YORK – For child-welfare agencies across the United States, it’s the ultimate sanction: terminating the rights of parents to raise their own children because of concerns about abuse and neglect.

All states resort to this step when deemed necessary for a child’s well-being, but there are wide state-to-state disparities in the rate of terminations and the extent of support services to avoid foster care placements. According to federal data, some states terminate parental rights at a rate 25 times higher than states at the low end of the scale.

Calling for reforms to help more families stay together are many child welfare officials and academics, and also some parents who’ve faced the threat of termination proceedings themselves.

Among them is Denise Moore of Des Moines, Iowa, a mother of seven who nearly lost her parental rights after her arrest in 2003 for conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine. Caseworkers allowed the children to remain in their

diction, enrolled in college and is now working with a state-backed program that assists families during their initial contacts with the child welfare system.

Moore says her children, ranging in age from 12 to 27, are all thriving; one son hopes to become a family-law attorney. But she says the support she and her family received was the exception, not the rule.

“I think we terminate too easily,” she said. “I always believe that families can change, and we just need to find the right intervention to help them get there.”

Each state has its own system for dealing with cases in which termination of parental rights is considered.

Federal law spells out certain conditions and timelines, but states interAP photo pret and apply them differently.

An Associated Press analysis of data Denise Moore (center, in white) of Des Moines, Iowa, poses Tuesday with her family during a visit to Water Works Park in Des Moines, Iowa. Moore, a mother of seven, nearly lost compiled by federal officials shows her parental rights after her arrest in 2003 for conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine. some striking variations. Maryland, for example, had a rate of 10.5 parental home in the care of their grandmother, failed to accomplish this, but her case- rights terminations for every 100,000 but ordered Moore to vacate the house worker gave her one last chance at children in 2014; at the high end of the and follow a regimen that would end a meeting where all seven of the scale, the rate per 100,000 children was her addiction to meth. children were present. Grateful for 283 in neighboring West Virginia and Over an 18-month span, Moore the reprieve, Moore overcame her ad- 252 in Oklahoma.

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and DAVID RISING The Associated Press

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A pedestrian passes a poster of a supermarket offering Russian food and products in Berlin, Germany. that this wave was better-educated. I see some potential for integration, and it’s clearly going to be the case that if they decide to stay in Germany, the better-educated will be more easily integrated.”

Syrians were the largest single group of the estimated 1.1 million asylum seekers who flocked to Germany last year, many of them university-educated like Askar, a 41-year-old microbiologist, and her husband, a dentist.

They fled their Syrian hometown of Daraa in December 2012 and made it to Berlin in August 2014, after stops in Lebanon, Egypt and Libya. The couple are trying to get their university degrees recognized in Germany and find jobs, while their three children – sons aged 12 and 7 and a 4-year-old daughter – already are so comfortable with their new language that they speak German with one another.

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BERLIN – Wafaa Askar arrived in Germany barely a year and a half ago from her Syrian homeland, but she already speaks German fluently and counts more Germans than Syrians as friends. Orhan Sahin arrived from Turkey more than three decades ago, but still feels like a foreigner and speaks in broken German.

The difference? Education.

Based on previous waves of immigration, experts say that the best indicator of whether someone will fit into society is their level of education – the higher, the better. That trend bodes well for many of Europe’s newest residents even as many arrivals from long ago struggle to integrate.

Germany now is taking a more proactive stance toward better educating and integrating its more than 1 million newcomers, something it neglected in the past with the millions of Turkish guest workers.

“It’s really the skills of the migrants that make the difference,” said Wolfgang Lutz, director of the Vienna Institute of Demography, who is studying the most recent surge of immigration.

“There seems to be an indication

“My sons are doing so well in school.

I’m very proud,” Askar said, noting that teachers had told her that both sons sounded close to native German speakers. And her daughter, in kindergarten, was already speaking a little too much German for her taste.

“I have to tell my daughter not to answer back to me in German. When they talk to their parents they should speak in Arabic so they won’t forget that,” she said.

For many of the 3 million or more Turkish ethnic minority, with decades of roots in Germany, striking a cultural balance remains a struggle.

When Sahin arrived as a 19-year-old in Berlin more than three decades ago, he was dreaming of becoming a chemist. But he came from a poor family in rural Turkey and had to work hard every night distributing newspapers to pay for his German classes during the day. He managed to enroll for a few semesters in university, but once he married and had three little children, he could no longer afford his studies.

“I wish Germany would have helped support my studies,” Sahin said in heavily accented, broken German. Instead of becoming a scientist, Sahin worked long hours at a kebab store for a decade before he became a taxi driver in 2005.

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NORTHWEST HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD:

Dan McCaleb

Kevin Lyons

Valerie Katzenstein

Jon Styf

John Sahly

OUR VIEW

Lessons from Hastert case Federal Judge Thomas M. Durkin did not mince words last week in sentencing former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert to a 15-month jail term in a sexual abuse-hush money case. Durkin described Hastert as a “serial child abuser” and described his attempt to accuse one of his victims of extortion as “unconscionable.”

In addition to jail time, Durkin For the record ordered Hastert to undergo sex offender Illinois lawmakers should treatment, serve two learn from the Dennis Hastert years of supervised case and enact legislation release after his eliminating the statute of limrelease from prison, itations for child sex crimes. and pay $250,000 to a crime victims’ fund.

Hastert admitted in a statement he “mistreated” some of his Yorkville High School athletes when he was a teacher and wrestling coach at the school between 1965 and 1981, when he left YHS to begin his political career. He told the judge and courtroom, “I wanted to apologize for the boys I mistreated when I was their coach. What I did was wrong, and I regret it. They looked to me, and I took advantage of them.”

Fortunately, Durkin did not let Hastert off with a blanket apology. The judge asked Hastert, pointblank, if he had sexually abused three wrestlers.

Hastert – after conferring with his lawyers – agreed to accept their statements accusing him of sexually abusing them.

We’re pleased Durkin refused to accept Hastert’s initial apology and instead pressed him to admit publicly to sexually abusing multiple victims. Hastert’s victims, their families and the public – whose trust he violated – needed to hear the former House Speaker confirm the heinous nature of his crimes. Hastert’s admission leaves no doubt – as stunning as it still may be to some of his friends and ardent political supporters – that he was, in fact, a predatory criminal during his years as teacher and coach at Yorkville High School.

Sadly, the judge was limited to imposing a sentence on Hastert only related to the hush money case. The statute of limitations on his admitted sexual abuse of his students at Yorkville High School has long since expired.

Within hours of Durkin handing down his sentence, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan called on state lawmakers to enact legislation eliminating the statute of limitations for child sex crimes. Passage of such legislation is long overdue and may provide some measure of consolation to Hastert’s victims and their families.

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ANOTHER VIEW

Trump’s incomprehensible policies What was supposed to be a rare set-piece speech by Donald Trump on foreign policy last week resembled a pastiche of his off-the-cuff postulations from the campaign trail, cobbled together under the slogan “America First.”

Like the previous rhetoric, his proposals were loose, contradictory and embedded in a bucket of falsehoods. Of these, the biggest was Trump’s claim that he could somehow reverse the historical tides that have created a globalized economy and remedy the complex security challenges of the 21st century with a simple “plan for victory with a capital V.” It’s not clear whether Trump intended to associate himself with the original America Firsters, who campaigned to prevent U.S. entry into World War II and, in some cases, played down Nazi crimes and spun anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. But to the extent they had any coherence, his nostrums evoked the isolationism

of Robert A. Taft or the mercantilism and fondness for authoritarian regimes of Pat Buchanan – Republicans who were resoundingly rejected by the party in the 1940s and 1990s, respectively. Among other things, Trump promised to “quickly” eliminate the U.S. trade deficit with China, force U.S. allies to pay for their own defense, and end “this horrible cycle of hostility” with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. He did this while excoriating President Obama as a leader who “picked fights with our oldest friends” and “bows to our enemies.”

Those weren’t the only contradictions. Trump said the United States had “no choice” but to abandon defense commitments to allies because of the allegedly weakened state of the U.S. economy. But minutes later the candidate was lamenting the shrinkage in the U.S. armed forces and declaring, “We will spend what we need to rebuild our military. It is

the cheapest single investment we can make.” What’s more, he said, “your friends need to know that you will stick by the agreements that you have with them.”

Trump blamed previous administrations for making a mess of the Middle East – a reasonable claim, but one he littered with false assertions. He again claimed, against the known record, to have opposed the Iraq War well before it began. He said, falsely, that the Islamic State was exporting oil from Libya. Then there were the flagrant lies that “there are scores of recent migrants inside our borders charged with terrorism.”

One line in Trump’s speech did have the ring of truth. Having elsewhere stressed the need for consistency and reliability in U.S. foreign policy, he blurted: “We must as a nation be more unpredictable.” It’s a good bet that the United States under a President Trump would be just that.

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 passage, they should be “wise as serpents, but harmless as doves.”

The difficulty facing conservative Christians today is revealed in research conducted by the Barna Group, a leading research organization focused on the intersection of faith and culture. In a survey published in August 2015, Barna found that: “While the United States remains shaped by Christianity, the faith’s influence – particularly as a force in American politics and culture – is slowly waning. An increasing number of religiously unaffiliated, a steady drop in church attendance, the recent Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage, and the growing tension over religious freedoms all point to a larger secularizing trend sweeping across the nation.”

To underscore its findings, Barna reported that between 2013 and 2015, “the percentage of Americans who qualify as ‘post-Christian’ rose by seven percentage points,” from 37 percent to 44 percent.

This tracks with what the Pew Research Center reported in May 2015.

It found “the percentage of Americans who are religiously unaffiliated – describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” – has jumped more than six points, from 16.1 percent to 22.8 percent.”

And, according to Pew, the “unaffiliated are comparatively young – and getting younger.”

Before secularists start rejoicing, they should consider what happens to nations that abandon faith, or transfer faith to political leaders whose unwillingness to solve problems is behind much of the anger and frustration in both parties.

Religious language infused the nation’s founders, and even the late liberal icon, Justice William O. Douglas said, “We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.” The problem has always been how one applies such a presupposition to government and culture. It is a tension that has been with us from the beginning of the nation and most notably influenced the debate over slavery, the civil rights movement and in our day, abortion and human relations.

That Christians seem to be losing ground in what has erroneously been

called the “culture war” may not be a bad thing. It might force them to rethink their primary calling, which is to a kingdom “not of this world.” By following the instructions and example of Jesus of Nazareth to love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit those in prison, care for widows and orphans and love your neighbor as yourself, the result might be what they are seeking in politics, but can never find: a bubble-up “morality” that results from transformed hearts, which cannot come through politics.

During the SBTS conversation, I quoted C.S. Lewis: “A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think about his digestion.”

That we focus too much on politics – a faith in its own right – when it consistently has demonstrated it cannot address our deepest needs is an indication of how sick we have become. Rather than despair, Christians should recall where real power comes from and apply it as the early church did when it was the target of persecution.

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IT’S YOUR WRITE Stop wandering, seek the truth

To the Editor: Our country is wandering. The ability to discern what’s right and wrong is absent. Righteousness and evil have blended together so even some clergy cannot distinguish between them.

Enormous national debt doesn’t bother us. Our allies don’t trust us. We don’t trust each other. We ignore the truth and are attracted to lies. Marriage has been polluted, and the White House celebrates. If you don’t like being a male today, become a female tomorrow and use either bathroom. Planned Parenthood makes getting an abortion easy, like going to McDonalds. The problem is gone quickly, and the parts can be redistributed. No life lost here, under their definition.

We are so mixed up, messed up and lost we continue to applaud a president who consistently lies to us, displays a dislike for our country and has succeeded in hurting us. The Democratic Party has succeeded, too. It has convinced many minorities they are only vic-

tims and in need of its help. Just look at Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Ferguson, Missouri, under their control for many years – all disaster cities because Democrats automatically get their vote.

The wandering stops when we all turn away from the lies and seek the truth.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6.

Jim Doll Huntley

Stay the course, governor

To the Editor: Governor, please keep in mind Reagan’s comment and stay the course.

“I know it’s hard when you’re up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp.” – The Gipper

Bill McElman Lake In The Hills

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Dark side of road improvements

To the Editor: As long as people are talking about McHenry County roads and the problems they are causing, I would like to share this with you.

Yesterday, I received a letter from my bank, First National Bank of McHenry on Route 31 near Bull Valley Road. It talked about the road improvements on Route 31 and how my bank would have to close because of these improvements. IDOT did not consider the banks’ customers when it constructed an uncrossable barrier median down the center of Route

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31. From the bank, you cannot turn left onto Route 31 but must go north and try to get across traffic to turn left on Bull Valley to go to Crystal Lake Road to again head south. It’s not a convenient trip at all. Bank business has dropped off dramatically, so now that branch is closing permanently July 30. Those are jobs lost for the cost of a new road. It’s a no-win for all of us.

I just wanted you to know about the dark side of road improvements.

Linda Schultz Prairie Grove

• Sunday, May 1, 2016

LOUISVILLE – Religion and politics again are at the forefront of this year’s presidential race. Yet, in this campaign, self-described evangelicals don’t seem as concerned as they once were about a candidate’s personal faith. Otherwise, more of them might support the openly Christian candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, rather than Donald Trump, whose familiarity with the Bible, not to mention the lifestyle it recommends, places him among biblical illiterates.

At the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, I participated in a forum called “God and Politics,” along with SBTS President R. Albert Mohler Jr. The forum was packed.

It also was civil, respectful and non-confrontational, and many in attendance wished it could be the norm.

Dr. Mohler noted “God and Politics” wasn’t meant to be “either/or,” and he was right. Christians have the freedom, he said, even the obligation, to speak to leadership and culture from a biblical viewpoint. Right again, but my main point was in an increasingly secular society, conservative Christians must find a better way to make their message heard, if they hope to prevail, especially on social issues. To quote a biblical

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By EUGENIA LAST Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – The kindness, generosity and good will you offer will bring greater popularity, unexpected rewards and feelings of satisfaction and contentment. You can and will make a difference using your imagination and practical intelligence to find solutions. Live in the moment and embrace life, love and laughter.

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Retraining will be crucial for workers whose jobs are affected

By Matt McFarland

A sensor mounted on the roof of Baidu’s autonomous car is seen at headquarters in Beijing on Jan. 19. The introduction of driverless cars could reduce the 1.25 million deaths a year on global roads.

The Washington Post Proponents of autonomous vehicles are in a sticky situation.

Self-driving technology is expected to have a tremendous impact on public health and reduce the 1.25 million deaths every year on global roads. At the same time, this emerging technology is a threat to the employment of the millions who are paid to sit behind the wheel – from truck drivers to cab drivers and delivery workers.

Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng, an expert in the world of artificial intelligence, acknowledges the unemployment concerns, but he sees a way forward that offers society the benefits of autonomous vehicles and blunts the negative impact of job losses.

“I feel a strong moral responsibility or obligation to try to make self-driving cars a reality as quickly as possible,” Ng said.

At Baidu, a Chinese tech company where Ng is developing self-driving technology, the number 3,000 has become a rallying call, representing the number of humans killed every day on roads. For Ng, self-driving cars are a prime example of the benefits of what he calls the golden age of artificial intelligence.

But for humans who could lose their jobs in this golden age, governments could offer a solution, Ng said.

He is an advocate for basic income, in which governments pay citizens a

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nominal amount to guarantee a basic standard of living. Several Northern European countries are planning basic income experiments.

“We as a society have an ethical responsibility to help those whose jobs are displaced by this value-creating artificial intelligence,” Ng said. “I think everyone in this country has a right to a livelihood. Everyone has a right to a chance at having a great life.”

Ng suggests a tweak to basic income – paying the unemployed to study online and prepare for a new career.

“We ask you to invest in yourself so as to increase the chance that you

can re-enter the workforce if you’re unemployed, and contribute back to the tax base and contribute back more to society in the future,” Ng said.

Ng, who is also the chairman of the online education platform Coursera, believes such digital learning programs are a natural fit for retraining workers because of their low costs.

Coursera, which Ng co-founded before joining Baidu, is independent of the tech company.

Such education options could become especially valuable as early as 2018, when Baidu plans to have commercial self-driving cars

on the road. Ng envisions launching them in limited areas, such as bus routes, rather than having the cars drive everywhere at once.

In the meantime, Ng believes cities and corporations should team up to make infrastructure changes to prepare for the vehicles. Some intersections may need duplicate traffic lights to aid self-driving cars. And Ng wants construction workers to be given devices that would allow them to easily communicate with self-driving vehicles. (Construction sites are difficult for driverless vehicles to navigate because of their fluid nature.)

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Lakeside Arts Park awarded Pride in Crystal Lake Award NORTHWEST HERALD Lakeside Arts Park At The Dole has been selected by the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors to receive the Pride in Crystal Lake Award, according to a news release from the chamber.

Lakeside was honored in recognition of its dedication to providing the community with outstanding resources for the advancement of the arts while preserving and protecting a historic facility for future generations to enjoy, the news release said.

Lakeside has fostered the arts through many events that enrich the quality of life for the community.

This dedication imparts positive values to all ages and allows creativity to flourish.

The Pride in Crystal Lake Award is presented quarterly to a business, organization or individual who has exhibited “pride in Crystal Lake.”

The award is co-sponsored by the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce and Schafer Brothers Remodeling, Inc.

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Lakeside Arts Park At The Dole has been selected by the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors to receive the Pride in Crystal Lake Award. Pictured are: Steve Slack of Home State Bank, Ann Viger of the Crystal Lake Park District, Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce President Mary Margaret Maule, Executive Director of Lakeside Arts Park at the Dole Siobhan Cottone, Patti Lutz of Home State Bank, Laura Sinnaeve of Celebrate With Signs! and Lakeside Arts Park at the Dole Foundation Board of Directors President Greg Keller.

Studio 912 Inc. celebrates ribbon cutting

FASTSIGNS celebrates opening in Crystal Lake

Studio 912 Inc. – Kitchens, Baths & Custom Woodworking, 565 Dakota St., Unit D, Crystal Lake, celebrated its opening during a ribbon-cutting event with the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce. Among those pictured are owners Randy and Wendy Franz, their employees, friends, family members, Chamber Ambassadors and Chamber members.

FASTSIGNS, 580 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Suite A, Crystal Lake, opened its doors during a ribbon-cutting event with the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce. FASTSIGNS uses custom signs, banners and graphics to increase business visibility. Pictured (from left) are Laura Sinnaeve of Celebrate With Signs!; Carlos Toledo of FASTSIGNS; Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce President Mary Margaret Maule; Ambassador Jack Sebesta of the Crystal Lake Park District; owners Jody Kemp and Jeremy Kemp; Ambassador Ann Viger of the Crystal Lake Park District; Chris Bain of FASTSIGNS; Linda and Larry Owens; Yvette and Mike Winnecke; and Dana Waters.

Millington recipient of F.R. Geigle Service Award

Christopher Millington of Algonquin, a Northern Illinois University College of Business honorary alumnus, was chosen to receive the 2016 F.R. Geigle Service Award from the NIU Alumni Association.

Millington is a retired principal and founder of Top-Down Leadership Consulting LLC. He is a former adjunct faculty coach for the NIU College of Business Experiential Learning Center.

He and his wife, Lorraine, created the Millington Challenge Fund, which established 17 scholarships for students in the Department of Operations Management Christopher and Information Systems.

Millington The Millingtons also created the Marian Elizabeth Millington Scholarship for the Advancement of Women in Information Technology in 2008 and

the Dr. Denise Schoenbachler Leadership Award in MIS/SAP Integration in 2015.

Also, to advance research for women in senior information technology, they have funded faculty fellowships.

Summers Academy of Dance welcomes new artistic director

CRYSTAL LAKE – Executive Director Victoria Summers of Summers Academy of Dance has announced the appointment of Courtney Kramer Petrocci as the new artis-

Courtney Kramer Petrocci

tic director of the dance center and Berkshire Ballet Company, according to a news release.

Petrocci recently retired from a 10-year performance career with Milwaukee Ballet. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in dance from the • Continued on page A31

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BUSINESS BRIEFS Denny’s to host grand opening celebration in Huntley

HUNTLEY – Denny’s, 13240 S. Route 47, will host a grand opening celebration from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. May 18.

The event will feature games, prizes and giveaways of food.

“We are excited to celebrate our diner’s opening with the Huntley community,” said Denny’s franchisee Dave Kahre in a news release.

“This celebration is our way of welcoming them to our new restaurant to kick off what promises to be a lifelong relationship with our friends and neighbors.”

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University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.

‘We are thrilled to have Ms. Petrocci take on this leadership position with our school.

She brings with her an incredible background in classical ballet, having been featured in works choreographed by legendary choreographers George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Marius Petipa,” Summers said.

Petrocci’s husband, Milwaukee Ballet leading artist Marc Petrocci, will join the Summers Academy of Dance as a faculty member. He will lead pas de deux classes for the academy’s summer program and will offer a weekly partnering class in the fall.

Jun joins Centegra Physician Care

CRYSTAL LAKE – Centegra Physician Care welcomes internal medicine specialist Dr. Greg Jun to its Fox Valley-Crystal Lake practice, 650 Dakota St., Suite A, according to a

Chapel Hill Bodyworks to celebrate anniversary

JOHNSBURG – Chapel Hill Bodyworks Wellness Center will celebrate its 10-year anniversary from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. May 21 at Rescue Squad Memorial Park, behind the Community Center, 2315 W. Church St. The festivities will begin with Yoga in the Park at 10:45 a.m., followed by Kids Yoga. There also will be music by a DJ, giveaways, chair massages and a class on “Cortices of the Brain, a Body and Mind Balance.”

For information, call 815-578-8430 or visit www.chbodyworks.com.

–The Northwest Herald

news release.

Jun received his medical degree from Northwestern University School of Medicine and completed his residency at Lutheran General Hospital.

Kalbach joins Realty Executives Cornerstone CRYSTAL LAKE – McHenry resident Kevin Kalbach has joined The Rick O’Connor Group of Realty Executives Cornerstone, according to a news release.

Kalbach, a licensed broker, has re-entered the real estate business after working as a firefighter and 911 operator for 15 years. He received a fire science degree from Triton College.

“Immediately after selling my home with Rick O’Connor, I realized I wanted to work with Realty Executives Cornerstone,” Kalbach said in the release.

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DeKALB – The Northern Illinois University College of Business has named Balaji Rajagopalan as its next dean, the university announced.

Rajagopalan, who currently serves as the head of the Black School of Business at Penn State Behrend, will assume his new role at NIU on July 1, according to a news release. He also holds the Toudy Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

At the Black School of Business, his accomplishments include adding online programs in finance and marketing; creating a hybrid MBA program that combines classroom and online learning; and implementing a professional development program for undergraduate students.

Over the past two decades, Rajagopalan also established a reputation for his success in developing international collaborations, particularly with universities in Germany, India, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He also has cultivated relationships with a number of Fortune 500 companies including General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, CSC, Federal Express and Caterpillar.

“Dr. Rajagopalan’s documented success at promoting academic excellence, interdisciplinary program development and faculty diversity will benefit the university,” NIU Executive Vice President and Provost Lisa Freeman said in the news release. “His collaborative leadership style will engage faculty, students, staff and alumni in defining the future of the College of Business.”

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Condos are fine, but do your research Dear Dave, I know when it comes to investing, you like mutual funds and paid-for real estate. What do you think about using condominiums as investment properties instead of single-family homes?

– Jason

Dear Jason, I don’t really have a problem with condos as paid-for investments. I own a couple of them myself. When it comes to making this kind of investment for the first time, however, I would advise that you keep a few things in mind.

Based on equal price and equal neighborhood, the average single-family home will probably increase more in value over the years.

Now, a nice, well-placed condo will obviously go up in value faster than a traditional house in a lesser neighborhood. So, speaking in an overall sense, they’re not bad investments if you do your homework.

You have to think about what you’re getting into and also take into consideration a number of variables. What are the HOA dues or

DAVE SAYS Dave Ramsey condo fees going to be? Is the condo association being managed well?

That and the neighborhood are the two biggest concerns I have when buying a condo. A lot of condo associations are very poorly managed.

And if they don’t provide proper maintenance or keep a certain percentage of the complex owner-occupied versus rental, the condo association or complex can lose the ability to get normal permanent financing. If they can’t get FHA, VA or conventional financing, the values are going to drop like a rock – because you’ve only got cash buyers and investment buyers at that point.

Research on these kinds of things doesn’t take an awful lot of work.

Just call the management company, and the Realtor who’s involved if it’s listed, and ask for the documentation. Most of the time this sort of stuff is public information, so it’s not hard to access. Some other

questions you might ask are: What are the reserves for the roof? What are the reserves for paint and the parking lot? Are they collecting enough to pay their bills, and are they actually paying their bills?

Then you start looking at things from a buyer’s perspective. Would I want to live in here and have my wife and children here? Would a normal, reasonable person want to live here? If the answers are yes, then you’ve probably got a good, solid condo complex.

– Dave

Dear Dave,

I pastor a small church that is debt-free. I’d like for us to save an emergency fund for the church, but I’m not sure what would be considered an expense. Can you help?

– David

sake of the church’s reputation, and the third goal would be to do all this without putting a strain on the organization. In business, we would call this fund “retained earnings.”

Technically, a church doesn’t have earnings, but they do have income.

You’ll want to retain some of that on a regular monthly basis.

For a church, basic things such as payroll, utilities, insurance and taxes would need to be covered under an emergency fund. Coffee and doughnuts, new hymnals and mission trips aren’t necessities.

You should already be running a monthly and annual budget on the church, so separate the necessities per month and multiply that by a three- to six-month figure.

There’s a huge level of wisdom involved in a church being debt-free, David. Congratulations!

– Dave

Dear David,

In terms of mathematics, I would advise looking at it the same way you would a small business. The goal, first and foremost, is to keep the doors open in case something bad happens. The secondary goal could be to pay bills on time for the

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McDonald’s tests McNuggets without artificial additives The ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK – Like the indestructible Twinkie, Chicken McNuggets are practically a culinary punchline, a symbol of hyper-processed fast food with a list of ingredients that reads like a chemistry exam. But now McDonald’s wants to take at least some of the mystery substances out.

The world’s biggest hamburger chain says it is testing a version without artificial preservatives.

It’s the latest move by McDonald’s to try to catch up with changing tastes and turn around its business, which has lost customers in recent years.

The new McNugget recipe is “simpler,” and “parents can feel good” about it, the fast-food company said.

While McDonald’s did not give full details about what is or isn’t in the test recipe, it said the new McNuggets do not have sodium phosphates, widely used food additives that the company has said can keep chicken moist.

Also, the McNuggets will not be fried in oil containing the artificial preservative TBHQ. Chicken McNuggets have become an often-mocked symbol of heavily processed fast food since they were introduced in the 1980s. The bread-

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An order of McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets is displayed for a photo in 2015 in Olmsted Falls, Ohio. McDonald’s is testing Chicken McNuggets with no artificial preservatives as it works to revive its U.S. business. The world’s biggest hamburger chain said it began testing the new recipe in about 140 stores in Oregon and Washington in March. ed and fried nuggets are made of ground-up chicken rather than intact chunks of meat and are deliv-

ered to stores frozen.

The company said it began testing the new recipe in about 140 stores in

Oregon and Washington in March.

The test was first reported by Crain’s Chicago Business.

As people pay closer attention to food labels, companies across the food and drink industry have adjusted recipes to remove ingredients that may sound unappetizing.

Last year, for instance, McDonald’s changed its grilled chicken recipe to replace sodium phosphates with vegetable starch and to remove maltodextrin, which was used to increase browning.

The McNugget test reflects the sensitivities of parents of young children in particular.

McDonald’s has long targeted families, with its Happy Meals and Ronald McDonald mascot.

McDonald’s said it is getting feedback from customers with the McNugget test, and did not say when it might launch the new recipe nationally.

Last week, McDonald’s said sales rose 5.4 percent at established U.S. locations during the first three months of the year. The results were boosted at least in part by higher prices and the closing of underperforming stores.

McDonald’s Corp., based in Oak Brook, Illinois, has more than 14,000 locations in the U.S.

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45. Field 46. Subject in metallurgy 47. Figure on a utility bill 48. What a limo may be for 49. Served well?

50. What some mascara does to lashes 53. Remains suspended 55. iTunes category 57. Debussy composition 59. Nerve-racking performance, maybe 61. “Likewise” 63. Community- service club 67. Country capital with the world’s tallest building before the Burj Khalifa 68. Like AARP The Magazine 70. Spice 71. Part of AMPAS 73. Knocks the socks off 76. Hon 77. “Later” 78. Almost 80. + 82. Simple sandwich, simply 84. Actor Alan 86. Longtime Sudanese president ____ al-Bashir 89. First name in country music

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ACROSS 1. Contents of some tubs 5. Copacetic 8. Military band 12. Showy debut 18. Turning brown, as a banana 20. Acid head?

21. How some papers are presented 22. Nickname for an accident-prone L.A.P.D. sergeant?

24. ____ note 25. Stat 26. Avoided a tag, say 27. Cry from an errant burger flipper?

29. Chatty Cathy types 31. Bit of pond slime 33. Chaps 34. “Able was I ____ I saw Elba” 35. Brit. reference sets 37. Captivate 40. Bridge 44. Victoria’s Secret job description?

47. Copy, briefly 48. In better shape 51. Weather forecast that’s hard to predict?

52. Low 53. Milliner’s accessory 54. Lemonade go-with in an Arnold Palmer 56. Farmer’s place 58. Some trattoria orders 60. Landlord’s business 62. Wing it?

64. Groups of quail 65. Avant-garde 66. Gulf Coast port that’s gone bonkers?

69. Multitalented Minnelli 72. Source of add-on damages in a lawsuit 74. ____ Institute (astronomers’ org.

75. NASA vehicle 77. Literally, “fried noodles” 79. Help for motorcycle daredevils 81. Having the most marbles 82. List for a recital

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‘Tee’ Time • By Kathy Wienberg

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Daughter shuts door on mom in retaliation for remarriage Dear Abby: I am 54. My daughter is 25 and married with two kids. Her dad and I have been divorced for almost 10 years. Three years ago, I met a wonderful man. After dating for about a year, we were married. It’s been heavenly; I love my life.

My problem is my daughter. She’s angry I remarried. She told me she should be first in my life. She no longer calls me Mom and now calls me by my first name when she talks to me, which isn’t often. I no longer am allowed to be around her or my grandchildren.

I am heartbroken. I feel like she expects me to choose between my husband and her. Abby, she is married and has her own family. I was very lonely until I finally found happiness. I have no intention of leaving my husband. Please tell me what to do. – Heartbroken In South Carolina

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips Dear Heartbroken: For your own emotional well-being, accept you have an immature, selfish, resentful daughter who is determined to punish you for going on with your life. Much as you might wish to, you can’t change another person. You can, however, change yourself by looking straight ahead and toughening up your hide.

That your daughter would punish her children by depriving them of a grandmother who loves them is disgraceful. My advice is to move on, and if you’re “stuck,” talk about it with a licensed mental health counselor.

Dear Abby: My wife and I are board

members of a local club. Yesterday, we attended a special board meeting intended to resolve an issue within the club. Before the meeting, my wife and I agreed we were against the proposed action. After much discussion, a voice vote was taken, and I ended up casting the only “no” vote.

I feel betrayed because my wife told me one thing and then did the exact opposite. How do I move past this resentment? It’s difficult to have a rational discussion with her because she easily becomes angry and emotional. – David

In Florida Dear David: Calmly ask your wife

why she changed her vote after having agreed she would vote in sync with you.

Then let her explain. And in the future, be prepared ahead of time to vote your conscience without support from her.

Dear Abby: I had to pick up two wom-

en and the first one was younger. When I picked her up, she got in the back seat so the older woman could sit in front. I thought she should have gotten in the front with me and then, when we got to the other house, got out and let the older woman in front.

Was I wrong to feel uncomfortable that she got in the back seat like I was some kind of chauffeur? It’s a petty annoyance, but my husband says what she did was OK. Just curious to see what you think. – Judy In New Jersey Dear Judy: I agree with your husband. By getting in the back seat, your passenger avoided the hassle of trading seats with the second person you were picking up.

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BASEBALL: WOODSTOCK NORTH 15, WOODSTOCK NORTH 7

FVC Fox win Thunder’s 1st Woodstock North outscores crosstown rival 9-1 after 3rd

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What to watch NBA playoffs: Charlotte at Miami, noon, ABC LeBron James and the Heat face off against Kemba Walker and the Hornets in the first of two first-round Game 7s on Sunday. The Toronto Raptors play host to the Indiana Pacers in the other (7 p.m., TNT).

Really?

The Bears have agreed to a one-year contract with former Houston Texans quarterback Brian Hoyer, giving them a veteran backup to Jay Cutler.

Hoyer was released nearly two weeks ago – a little more than a month after Houston signed Brock Osweiler to a four-year, $72 million contract.

Numbers game The Cubs’ pitching staff has a 2.30 ERA, the best in the National League, through 22 games this season. Saturday’s game against the Atlanta Braves was rained out.

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WOODSTOCK – Saturday’s steady rain and wind didn’t necessarily play favorites for either the Woodstock or Woodstock North baseball teams.

Instead, their Fox Valley Conference Fox Division game merely came down to whoever made the fewest mistakes.

Behind demonstrated patience at the plate, a handful of Woodstock errors and a clean defensive outing, the Thunder beat their crosstown rival, 157, at Emricson Park. “[Friday], we chased quite a few off-speed pitches, so that was an emphasis today, to see the ball out of the [pitcher’s] hand and hitting fastballs hard,” Thunder coach John Oslovich said. “We were able to do that and with guys on base.”

The Blue Streaks (4-13, 2-9 FVC Fox) jumped ahead in the first inning when John Kubacha ripped a two-run double to left field. Three batters later, Kubacha scored on Justyn Eisenmenger’s fielder’s choice for a 3-0 lead.

On two errors and five walks in the second, the Thunder (7-11, 1-8) tagged Eisenmenger for six runs, including Cory Busse’s three-run triple that put the visitors ahead, 6-3.

The Blue Streaks committed five errors, allowed 11 walks and hit two batters in all, giving the Thunder plenty of scoring opportunities. The Thunder capitalized on three of the errors for runs.

“Their answer was walks and errors, but give them credit,” Blue Streaks coach John Oliveira said, “they had a couple guys hit some nice shots. ... It was just the end of a Mike Greene for Shaw Media long week and guys are starting to get Woodstock North’s Jacob Goldberg is hit in the back by a pitch during Saturday’s game sore.”

Thunder outfielder Brennan Ward against Woodstock Saturday at Emricson Park in Woodstock. The Thunder won, 15-7. said he liked his team’s response early on after dropping a close 2-1 contest OUTSIDE THE BOX SCORE Friday to the Blue Streaks. q THE NUMBER q UNSUNG HERO “We really played as a whole and got In addition to eight hits, the Thunder back some of the runs we should have Nate Harris Woodstock North, jr., P/INF reached base 18 times via 11 walks, had [on Friday],” said Ward, who went five errors and two hit by pitches.

3 for 4, falling a home run shy of the Harris reached base in three of his cycle. “It was really nice to see how we q AND ANOTHER THING ... five official plate appearances, finishbounced back after scoring only once ing with a single, double and a hit-byEach of the Thunder’s starting nine reached yesterday.” pitch, scoring three times. Harris (3IP, base at least once and eight of nine scored at 1H, 1ER, 3K) earned the win as well on the mound. least one run.

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Ole Miss offensive lineman taken in 5th round, No. 174 overall

By MIKE DeFABO mdefabo@shawmedia.com

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Mississippi offensive lineman Fahn Cooper (74) pass blocks against Florida on Oct. 3 in Gainesville, Fla. The Crystal Lake South graduate was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the fifth round of the NFL draft Saturday.

The 49ers showed perhaps the most interest of any team before the draft.

He met with the 49ers at the NFL Scouting Combine. Offensive line coach Pat Flaherty attended the pro day at Ole Miss. And Cooper was invited to San Francisco to meet with the coaching staff.

“It’s a great city and a great staff,”

Cooper said. “The coaches are all fired up about the season and the guys they got there. It’s a place with great tradition with their five Super Bowls.

That’s a big deal. That’s an honor and a blessing to be part of that and wear the same jersey as some of the toughest guys who ever played football.”

Saturday represents the end of a

CLS grad Bernstein signs with Chiefs as free agent

By MIKE DeFABO mdefabo@shawmedia.com Crystal Lake South graduate and Vanderbilt product Jake Bernstein is headed to the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted free agent, a deal he signed after the conclusion of Saturday’s NFL draft.

Bernstein, an offensive lineman who can play guard or center, was a significant contributor for Vanderbilt during his career. The 6-foot-4, 310-pounder played nearly every meaningful snap in the past 31/2 years and finished his career with 26 consecutive starts.

“It’s just something I’ve always dreamed of as a kid,” Bernstein said. “I chose Vanderbilt University and was fortunate to play in the best conference (SEC) and get a really good program. I

never imagined myself starting 44 games or anything like that.”

Bernstein visited with the Chiefs during the pre-draft process. He will join a Chiefs organization that went 10-6 last season, claiming a wild-card spot and winning its first playoff game in 22 years.

“The No. 1 thing with me is just getting my foot in the door,” Bernstein said. “There were a lot of people who didn’t really put that much faith in me as a player. I’m glad some teams did.

“The goals I see myself having are going in there right away and being the player they didn’t expect me to be and the player a whole lot of people didn’t believe I could be. I want to turn a lot of heads and be the best team player I can possibly be.”

Bernstein became the second Crystal Lake South graduate to

find an NFL home Saturday. He joins Fahn Cooper, the former Mississippi offensive tackle who was selected by San Francisco 49ers in the fifth round.

Bernstein and Cooper anchored the Gators’ offensive line in 2010. They led Crystal Lake South to its only undefeated regular season in school history as well as a state quarterfinal appearance.

“It’s funny because Fahn is one of my best friends,” Bernstein said. “Growing up, we always talked about something like this. It’s finally here. It’s crazy.”

Now, they’ll try to make their mark in the NFL. “Football has taught me a lot of things in life,” Bernstein said.

“It’s made me the person I am today. Getting the most out of it is what I want to achieve.”

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Vanderbilt quarterback Johnny McCrary (middle) celebrates with Barrett Gouger and Jake Bernstein (left) after McCrary scored on a two-point conversion against Georgia on Sept. 12, in Nashville, Tenn.

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Crystal Lake South grad Fahn Cooper was playing LEGOs with his cousin when he got the call on where he’d be playing next. On the other end of the line, San Francisco 49ers coach Chip Kelly told the offensive lineman from Ole Miss they were drafting him in the fifth round of the NFL draft (No. 174 overall).

Cooper said his mom, Caroline, ran around the room screaming. His dad sat in place and started crying.

All in all, not a bad birthday present for Cooper, who turned 23 on Saturday.

“It feels good,” Cooper said. “I’ve really just been trying to stay calm. My parents have been really, really excited and really emotional. I’m looking forward to the opportunity. I’m looking forward to working hard with my new teammates. I’m ready to accept the call.”

Cooper went into the draft with an open mind, anticipating the team he least expected would call his number.

As it turned out, one of the most likely destinations became the reality.

long, winding journey to the NFL that started in Bowling Green, made a pit stop at College of DuPage and ended at Ole Miss.

In the past two seasons at Ole Miss, the 6-foot-4, 303-pound offensive tackle started all 26 games, and in 2015, he was selected as the Kent Hull Trophy winner, awarded to Mississippi’s top offensive lineman.

The Pro Football Weekly draft guide ranked Cooper as the 16th-best offensive tackle in draft. PFW’s draft expert Greg Gabriel, who spent 32 years as an NFL Scout and Director of College Scouting, praised Cooper’s work ethic and leadership.

“A legitimate tough guy with good strength, but he lacks the athleticism and range to play tackle in the NFL,” Gabriel wrote in the draft magazine.

“Most teams will start him out there because of his length, but I would bet that he will end up inside. His traits are more like a guard than a tackle.”

Cooper said he’s open to playing any position on the offensive line. His experience with zone blocking should fit well with the 49ers’ style of offense.

“My first goal is to get on the field,” Cooper said. “I’m going to work my butt off to do whatever I have to do to get on the field. If that’s guard or tackle or wherever they need me, I’ll do whatever I can to get on the field and, hopefully, help the 49ers win.”

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4 SOFTBALL: HUNTLEY 12, MARENGO 2 (5 INN.)

Red Raiders follow Shields’ lead Senior shortstop goes 4 for 4 with 3 runs, 2 RBIs

By ALEX KANTECKI akantecki@shawmedia.com

MARENGO – Huntley’s Jessica Shields slapped a triple to left field in her first at-bat, and pulled a triple down the right-field line in her second at-bat.

By the time Shields was up to bat for the fourth time against Marengo, the senior shortstop was 3 for 3 and had already seen three pitchers in three innings.

The rest of Huntley’s offense followed the lead of their speedy leadoff hitter, as the Red Raiders banged out 15 hits and stole eight bases on Saturday in a 12-2 nonconference softball victory in five innings.

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Megan Baczewski Huntley, sr., 3B

Baczewski collected four hits (all singles) in four plate appearances, driving in Sofia Tenuta in the top of the first inning to give the Red Raiders a 4-0 lead.

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Rain and slippery conditions didn’t slow down Huntley on the base paths. The Raiders stole eight bases without being caught. Tiffany Giese, Rylie Porretto and Caitlin Brown each had two swipes. ride these waves when they come,” Huntley coach Mark Petryniec said.

“Hitting is contagious, and, like I’ve said, we’ve been following the philosophy of, ‘Get on, get over, get in,’ and it’s been working.”

Shields finished 4 for 4 with two triples, three runs scored and two RBIs, while Tiffany Giese, Rylie Porretto and Sofia Tenuta each drove in two runs.

Megan Baczewski went 4 for 4 and drove in one, and Giese, Porretto and Caitlin Brown (2 for 3, two runs) each had two steals.

Huntley chased two-time defending Big Northern Conference East Division Pitcher of the Year Mariah Dionne in the first, scoring four runs on three hits. Tenuta ripped a double over the head of center fielder Riley Connell, scoring Shields and Giese and chasing Dionne with only one out.

“I just had a good mindset getting ready to play,” said Baczewski, who capped a four-run first inning for Huntley with an RBI single. “We’re putting it together, we’re coming along very well. Everybody wants to hit, we’re all great hitters, and it’s just great teamwork.”

The Raiders tacked on two more runs in the second, and four in the third to take a 10-0 lead. Taylor Pacana added an RBI double for Huntley (14-5).

The loss snapped a 12-game winning streak for the Indians (15-5), whose last loss had come against Sterling, 5-2, on March 26.

Huntley, meanwhile, has victories in 14 of 16 games after a 0-3 start to the season.

“It’s big, because we’re trying to get that top spot in the area,” said Shields, the school’s all-time leader in stolen bases. “Beating a good team like (Marengo), I think it proves ourselves.”

Tiffany Giese held the Indians to two runs on six hits in five innings, striking out five and walking four. Anna Walsweer went 3 for 3 with two doubles and one RBI for Marengo, while Leah Secor was 2 for 3 with a run.

The Indians, who have won 44 straight BNC East games, will look to rebound this week with conference games against Harvard, Richmond-Burton and Burlington Central.

“We won a lot of games in a row, and I told our kids, ‘You’ve got to show up and play every game,’” Indians coach Dwain Nance said. “If we don’t show up and play, we’re going to get beat.”

Which high school baseball team is area’s best?

Baseball season is heating up around the area. With an abundance of talent, several teams can make the case they are the area’s best. Sports writers Joe Stevenson and Mike DeFabo discuss which teams are the top contenders:

DeFabo: Every week you rank the top five teams in the area. I don’t know how you do it, with so many competitive teams. This week, you had Prairie Ridge at No. 1, followed

by Dundee-Crown, Huntley, Jacobs and Crystal Lake South. I could see any one of those teams at No. 1. Take South, for example. It is ranked No. 5 right now. But the Gators started the season as the hottest team in the area, winning their first 11 games. They have only three losses, the fewest of any local team. That’s awfully impressive. What do you make of all the competition?

Stevenson: You know, I like to think I know what I’m talking about, but this spring it looks like I’m throwing darts at a board and picking that way.

Baseball rankings tend to be fluid anyway because they play so often and upsets are easier. I still think Jacobs

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might be our last team standing, but the Golden Eagles have lost four in a row. I might have better luck solving a Rubik’s Cube than ranking our baseball teams.

DeFabo: True, Jacobs has a lot of pitching depth. In the postseason, that’s the most important factor. For that same reason, I have to think Prairie Ridge will be another one of the top teams. The Wolves, who have won 10 of their past 11, have three pitchers who will play in college next season in Jon Tieman, Ethan Routzahn and Joey Hanley.

Stevenson: For that reason, I think Jacobs and Prairie Ridge have the best chances at getting to Joliet. But no one

wants to see Dundee-Crown’s Danny Denz, McHenry’s Bobby Miller or, in Class 3A, Richmond-Burton’s Jake Rosing in the postseason. Pitching gets you a long way in the postseason, and this area is quite pitching-rich. So many staffs have one NCAA Division I guy, Prairie Ridge (Tieman, Routzahn) and R-B (Rosing, Joe Dittmar) have two.

DeFabo: The one team we haven’t talked about that’s in your top five is Huntley. The Red Raiders swept Jacobs over the weekend, and like we said before, Jacobs probably has one of the best shots to make it to Joliet.

What do you make of that?

Stevenson: Huntley already has well

surpassed its nine victories from last season. Coach Andy Jakubowski has a strong program there and I figured the Red Raiders would bounce back.

Now, they’re right in the thick of the Fox Valley Conference Valley Division race. And they’re doing it with a lineup of mostly juniors, so there should be a lot of good times ahead for Huntley. They earned that No. 3 this week.

DeFabo: So, what about some of the teams outside of the top five? I feel like there’s several who we haven’t even talked about that could be making deep playoff runs.

Stevenson: Cary-Grove is heating up and probably will be back in the top five soon. The Trojans have been hitting well and threw a shutout and perfect game against D-C this week.

Also, R-B has been hot and has a deep pitching staff behind Rosing and Dittmar. I think the Rockets will be a force in the 3A playoffs.

• Write to Northwest senior sports writer Joe Stevenson at joestevenson@shawmedia.com. Write to Northwest Herald sports writer Mike DeFabo at mdefabo@shawmedia.com.

Baseball Player of the Year watch list Bobby Miller, McHenry Danny Denz, Dundee-Crown Jon Tieman, Prairie Ridge Tyler Pennington, Cary-Grove Mike Addante, Jacobs Softball Player of the Year watch list Mariah Dionne, Marengo Alex Martens, McHenry Kaleigh O’Brien, Prairie Ridge Jessica Shields, Huntley Emily Miller, Marian Central Boys Tennis Player of the Year watch list Kailash Panchapakesan, Jacobs Hayden Dzurisin, Prairie Ridge Kendrick/Kerwin Chong, Jacobs Nick Thome, Crystal Lake South Ethan St. John/Johnny Wallace, Crystal Lake Central Girls Soccer Player of the Year watch list Taryn Jakubowski, Huntley Jess Schoenfeldt, Crystal Lake South Taylor Piggott, Johnsburg Halley Havlicek, Richmond-Burton Megan Walsh, Prairie Ridge Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year watch list Tim McCloyn, Huntley Sean Patel, Huntley Keagan Smith, Huntley Brandon Dahl, Crystal Lake Central Kevin Szamlewski, McHenry Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year watch list Nikki Freeman, Cary-Grove Cassidy Lackovic, Huntley Savannah Howie, McHenry Caleigh Walsh, Jacobs Natasha Schaffer, Prairie Ridge Caitlin Bruzzini, Crystal Lake South Tabor Gleason, Cary-Grove Lacrosse Player of the Year watch list Tommy Martin, Cary-Grove Collin Fischer, Huntley James Huber, Huntley Matt Bertone, Jacobs Zach Starks, Prairie Ridge

NORTHWEST HERALD Matt Spooner went 3 for 4 with a double and four RBIs on Saturday to lead the McHenry baseball team to a 10-1 Fox Valley Conference Valley Division victory over Huntley in Huntley.

The Warriors put the game out of reach with seven runs in the top of the seventh inning, turning a three-run lead into a 10-0 lead. Michael Lasiewicz earned the win for McHenry (14-6 overall, 5-4 FVC Valley), pitching six scoreless innings, allowing three hits, striking out four and walking four.

Dylan Honkala was 2 for 3 with a double and two RBIs, and Colton Klein added two hits and two runs scored.

For Huntley (14-8, 6-4), Brad Model was 2 for 3 with a double, while Jeff Heinrich scored the Raiders’ only run.

Kyle Morgan took the loss, allowing three runs (two earned) on five hits in 42/3 innings with three strikeouts and two walks.

Crystal Lake South 5, Lakes 3: At Lake Villa, Cam Geisser was 1 for 3 with two steals and two RBIs for the Gators (17-3) in a nonconference win. Andrew Engelking picked up the win, pitching three scoreless innings and allowing two hits with three strikeouts and one walk.

Michael Humphrey was 2 for 3 with a run scored, Nick Wolski drove in one and Ethan Weinandy scored twice in the win.

Conant 5, Jacobs 2: At Algonquin, Conant scored three runs in the top of the seventh to beat the Golden Eagles (13-8) in a nonconference game. Adam Kale and Tim Randl each drove in a run in the bottom of the first to give Jacobs a 2-0 lead, while Stevie Krueger finished 2 for 3 with a run scored.

Evan Liebau was charged with the loss, allowing three runs on five hits in six-plus innings with six strikeouts and two walks.

Johnsburg 12, Sycamore 7: At Johnsburg, Riley Elliot was 1 for 3 with a double and three RBIs for the Skyhawks in a nonconference victory.

Adam Jayko finished 4 for 4 with a double and a steal, Dillon Pokuta was 2 for 5 with two RBIs, and Nico LoDolce was 2 for 3 with two runs and one RBI. Ryan Linkletter earned the win for Johnsburg, allowing four earned runs in four innings.

Cary-Grove 6, Fremd 3 (5 inn.): At Cary, Tyler Pennington was 1 for 3 with a double and three RBIs as the Trojans picked up a nonconference win. Kevin Pedersen and Collin Walsh (1 for 1, double, stolen base, run) each knocked in a run for C-G (15-7), and Ben Dolezal earned the win by allowing three runs (two earned) on five

hits in five innings with three strike- for 5 with a homer, two doubles, four outs and one walk. runs scored and five RBIs. Kerri Healy and Emily Borg each SOFTBALL went 4 for 5 with four runs scored and Alden-Hebron 11-15, Luther North 1-1: three RBIs, while Alexis Addante was At Hebron, the Giants scored 26 runs 3 for 5 with two RBIs and Felicia Rufon 31 hits in a doubleheader sweep folo was 2 for 4 with two runs and one in Northeastern Athletic Conference RBI. play.

Brittany Feldmann struck out 12 In Game 1, Zoee Lagerhausen (three and allowed three earned runs inr five RBIs) and Emily Webber (two RBIs) innings to earn the win. For Johnseach hit a home run for the Giants in burg (8-11), Leah Kottke was 2 for 3 the six-inning contest. Chey Knoll was with a home run and two RBIs, Paige 3 for 4 with a double and three runs King went 3 for 3 and drove in one, and scored, and Lexi Morris went 3 for 3 Adriana Montewska was 2 for 3 with with three RBIs and two runs. Emily two runs scored.

Cunningham had two doubles.

Kassandra Clauss earned the win GIRLS SOCCER for A-H (15-4), allowing one unearned Marengo 4, Harvard 0: At Marengo, run on six hits in six innings with four junior midfielder Amanda Jaeger strikeouts and no walks. scored two goals to lead the Indians In Game 2, Lagerhausen, Webber to a Big Northern Conference East and Clauss each hit a home run and Division victory against Harvard in drove in two runs, and Tiffany Dam- Marengo. ato was 3 for 4 with four runs and two Yuri Reyes and Maddie Hoey also RBIs. Zoe Derringer added a triple and scored for the Indians (4-12), and Reyes a pair of RBIs, while Clauss gave up added an assist in the win. one unearned run on two hits in five Huntley 2, Elk Grove 0: At Elk Grove innings with three strikeouts.

Village, Brenna Keegan and Bri WildMcHenry 5, Belvidere North 4: At er both scored for the Red Raiders (13Roscoe, Erika Breidenbach hit a two- 3-1) in a nonconference win. Alyssa run home run for the Warriors in a Kaufman added an assist, and Paige nonconference win. Amanda Manssen Renkosik made six saves in the shutwas 3 for 4 with a triple and two RBIs, out. and Alex Martens was 3 for 3 with a Prairie Ridge 1, Lake Zurich 1: At Crystriple and two runs. Lindsey Ciesla tal Lake, Melissa Bear scored for the earned the victory, going all seven in- Wolves in a nonconference tie. Krisnings and allowing four runs (three ten Vosberg had an assist, Taylor earned) on six hits with six strikeouts. Golt made three saves and Savannah McHenry 10, Hononegah 4 (5 inn.): Schuler-Winoker stopped five shots At Roscoe, Martens went 3 for 4 with for Prairie Ridge. a double, three RBIs and two runs Glenbrook Cup: At Glenview, Crysscored to lead the Warriors (14-6) to tal Lake Central lost to Deerfield, 2-0, the nonconference win. Manssen was and beat Chicago University, 2-0, to 2 for 3 with a double and two RBIs, finish 2-1 in the tournament. StephaLexi Larson was 2 for 3 and drove in nie Hayes and Maddie West both had one, and Tori Boysen scored two runs. goals for the Tigers (7-5-2), and Emily Paige Rauhut picked up the win, Basile and Tatyana Gusakow added tossing three scoreless innings and al- assists. lowing two hits with three strikeouts and one walk. The game was short- GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD ened to five innings because of rain.

Palatine Relays: At Palatine, SavanPrairie Ridge 5, Bartlett 3: At Crystal nah Howie won the pole vault and Lake, the Wolves came back from a Haley Meszaros finished first in the 3-1 deficit in a nonconference victory. discus to lead McHenry to third place Maddie Schillinger was 2 for 4 with at the 84th Palatine Relays. two runs scored, Kaleigh O’Brien was Barrington won the 15-team meet 2 for 3 and drove in one, Hailey Baker with 150 points, McHenry (71 points) was 1 for 3 with a double and one RBI, was third, Prairie Ridge (23) was and Haley Barnes drove in one. eighth and Jacobs (13) took 12th.

Baker (13-3) also earned the win for Howie jumped 11 feet, Meszaros Prairie Ridge (15-3), allowing three threw 112-3 and McHenry’s 4X100 runs in seven innings with six strike- shuttle hurdles relay finished first. outs and three walks.

Prairie Ridge’s Natasha Schaffer Jacobs 23, Johnsburg 4 (5 inn.): At placed first in the long jump and secJohnsburg, the Golden Eagles (5-8) ond in the triple jump. Caleigh Walsh collected 25 hits in a nonconference was fourth in the 300 hurdles for Jawin. Teaghan Richman finished 5 for cobs.

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• Sunday, May 1, 2016

The Northwest Herald will be hosting the 2015-16 Most Valuable Athletes award show June 7 at the Woodstock Opera House.

The show will honor the top high school athletes from around the McHenry County area, including: our 17 athletes of the year from individual sports, our athletes of the month, our overall male and female athletes of the year and more.

Honorees and finalists for the spring sports will receive invitations and tickets to the event.

Tickets for the public will go on sale in early May through the Woodstock Opera House.

The three finalists for each sport will be announced by mid-May.

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6 NFL DRAFT: BEARS

LB Kwiatkoski heads Day 3 picks Bears sign Hoyer to 1-year deal to back up Cutler

By KEVIN FISHBAIN kfishbain@profootballweekly.com

Ryan Pace and the Bears entered the third and final day of the 2016 NFL Draft with seven picks – which became six when they traded up to get Saturday underway.

West Virginia inside linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski went to the Bears at pick No. 113, which cost the Bears their 206th pick. The extremely productive and versatile linebacker adds depth on the inside and on special teams.

“I play hard-nosed linebacker,” said Kwiatkoski, who lived with Kevin White’s brother Ka’Raun last year in Morgantown. “I like to hit and be physical, but at the same time I’m versatile, so I can cover. I played many positions at West Virginia, so I think that makes me versatile.”

Pace liked Kwiatkoski enough to trade up, pointing out that Kwiatkoski was a three-year starter and team captain for the Mountaineers.

Safety Deon Bush was the first of three defensive backs to go to the Bears on Sunday. A fourth-round pick, Bush has been compared to – and trained with – Antrel Rolle.

“He throws his body around and plays with toughness, plays with instincts and plays fast on the field,” Pace said.

The Bears’ third fourth-round pick was the first small-school selection of Pace’s era as the Bears’ decision-maker – Northern Iowa’s Deiondre’ Hall,

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something that’s been huge to me throughout my time at Northern Iowa.”

It took until the fifth round when the Bears took a running back, drafting Indiana’s Jordan Howard, a bigger back who averaged 6.2 yards a carry last season.

“This guy is a downhill, physical north-south runner,” Pace said. “I just like the style and physicality that he plays with, as well. I think he complements our other backs, very good type of running back that can just wear down the defense, just real physical nature.”

Defensive backs coach Ed Donatell’s room got bigger in the sixth round when the Bears took a third defensive back, another from a small school – William and Mary’s DeAndre Houston-Carson, who had nine blocked kicks in his career and scored three touchdowns in 2015. Pace said special teams coordinator Jeff Rodgers is excited about having Houston-Carson for the coverage teams.

“Special teams, it’s huge for me, AP file photo West Virginia inside linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski (front) runs through drills during practice personally. I take a lot of pride in that,” Houston-Carson said. for the Senior Bowl on Jan. 28 at Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala. The Bears concluded the draft with the selection of Western Michigan reBears’ 2016 draft picks ceiver Daniel Braverman, a slot wideout who had a strong Pro Day and 13 Sixth round First round Fourth round touchdowns last season.

(185) DeAndre Houston(9) Leonard Floyd, LB, (113) Nick Kwiatkoski, LB, The biggest news, however, did not Carson, S, William & Mary Georgia West Virginia involve a rookie. The Bears signed BriSeventh round Second round (124) Deon Bush, S, Miami an Hoyer to a one-year deal worth a (56) Cody Whitehair, G, (127) Deiondre’ Hall, S, (230) Daniel Braverman, reported $2 million to be Jay Cutler’s WR, Western Michigan Kansas St. Northern Iowa backup. Hoyer played for Bears offenThird round Fifth round sive coordinator Dowell Loggains in (72) Jonathan Bullard, DT, (150) Jordan Howard, RB, Cleveland in 2014.

Florida Indiana “A very intelligent player,” Pace said of Hoyer. “I know he’s got a strong “I’ve always loved him is Charles work ethic because we’ve got coaches a long, versatile and productive corner who models his game after Charles Tillman,” Hall said. “Just being a that have been with him. I think he’s Tillman. ballhawk and getting that ball. That’s a really good piece to add to the mix.”

first in the 1,600 with a time of 4:29.56.

made it hard to practice. We executed well, limited our mistakes and didn’t commit a single penalty.”

LACROSSE BOYS TRACK AND FIELD Prairie Ridge 16, Montini 3: At Palatine Relays: At Palatine, Lombard, Zack Starks and Cole BOYS TENNIS Cam Reedy won the 3,200 meters to lead Jacobs to sixth place at the 84h Palatine Relays.

Palatine won the 15-team event with 132 points, Jacobs was sixth with 47 points, and Prairie Ridge (28 points) took seventh.

Reedy won the 3,200 with a time of 9:43.18, while the Golden Eagles’ 200-200-400-800 relay was second.

Also for Jacobs, Patrick Shannon finished second in the long jump.

Prairie Ridge’s Filip Pajak took

Naumovski both scored four goals for the Wolves in a nonconference victory.

The Wolves (10-1) jumped out to 5-1 lead after the first quarter, bouncing back from the team’s only loss of the season – a 10-8 defeat to South Elgin.

“I was really pleased with how we responded today,” Prairie Ridge coach Josh Cole said. “This week was challenging. South Elgin was a tough loss, and the weather

At Huntley, Keaton Newsome won at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-2, and Zach Swim won at No. 2 singles, 6-0, 6-1, in the Huntley boys tennis team’s nonconference win over Johnsburg.

Charlie Burian and Jacob Wat picked up a 6-0, 6-0 victory at No. 2 doubles, and Ben Saiz and Trey Coleman added a 6-1, 6-1 win at No. 3 doubles.

The No. 1 doubles match was suspended by rain.

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After Noah Dehn Franklin’s RBI single in the fourth, Dan Mutter’s two-run shot for the Blue Streaks tied the score at 6 in the third. However, from that point on, they were outscored 9-1.

Thunder infielder Nate Harris went 2 for 5 with two RBIs, Jake Fiorito had an RBI single and Jake Goldberg drew a pair of walks and scored three times.

Harris also picked up the win in relief, giving up one hit and striking out three in three innings.

For the Blue Streaks, Dehn Franklin and Jacob Sumner each recorded a pair of singles.

“Even though we had some trouble yesterday, we knew we had to come back and win,” Harris

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General manager Ryan Pace discusses the Bears’ 2015 draft picks during a news conference May 1, 2015, at Halas Hall in Lake Forest.

Pace knows what he’s doing Bears GM has been tough to figure out, but his strategy could pay off big time Wow, 253 picks in 47 hours spread over three days and the 2016 NFL Draft, as well as the Draft Town experience in Chicago, are history.

We’ll get to how the Bears did in a minute, but first there is some business I have to take care of.

Just more than 5 hours in Thursday night at the end of the first round, I had this epiphany that I had figured out Bears general manager Ryan Pace, and I wrote it and broadcast it on both radio and TV. I now know I was only about 20 percent right.

Although it isn’t really this simple, in general terms, there are three categories of “Draftmeisters” in the NFL: those who chase the best player available regardless of position, a group that pursues best athlete available regardless of position, and those who approach each pick looking to fill a specific need.

That final group almost always fails over time, the best athlete guys end up with a mixed bag of wins and

BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush losses and the best player guys usually have the best chances of success.

When Pace followed his 2015 firstround pick of Kevin White with a trade up to take linebacker Leonard Floyd, I cut loose with a eureka, I’ve got it!

Pace is a best-athlete guy; woe is me.

I was wrong, and what is really interesting is I think Pace might be creating a new category that might be all his own.

There are two things you can find in every Super Bowl champion and every great team that has managed to earn playoff games year after year for an extended period of time.

Each has at least a few flat-out studs, playmakers who can change a game in a heartbeat, and they do it on

a consistent basis.

But those guys can he hard to find, and sometimes you have to take a few chances, swing and miss on occasion, and, eventually, hit a few home runs.

The second thing about those teams is they never have any bad football players. There are no soft spots, and they have a bunch of guys who would be the best players on the team with almost any other club.

I think that’s what Pace is trying to build here with the Bears.

His two first-round picks for the Bears were down-and-dirty best-athletes-available who were not the best players available coming out of college, where he drafted them at Nos. 7 and 9 in the first round.

But both have almost limitless ceilings, and if coach John Fox and company can get out of them all they have to give, the Bears will have two playmaking difference-makers.

The rest of Pace’s 2015 picks all were arguably best-players-available with the exception of Tayo Fabuluje. And all of them, Eddie Goldman, Hroniss Grasu, Jeremy Langford and Adrian Amos, started as rookies.

I’ve got my butt planted firmly on the fence on the Floyd pick. I simply

could have filled this column with what I don’t like about him, or I could have filled it with what I love.

He’s a swing for the fences and we’ll see if he goes out of the park.

But like last year, the next eight players Pace took in this draft all had significantly higher grades on them on most draft boards than those that would fit where they were drafted.

For example, the Bears had no real need for another guard or inside linebacker, but Cody Whitehair and Nick Kwiatkoski were classic attempts at best-players-available.

The draft is as inexact a science as you will find, and teams that can bat .500 or better can become champions.

We’ll see how Pace and his Bears have done in a couple years.

But as we put this draft to bed, I find myself feeling exactly the same way about Pace as I did going in.

I think this guy knows exactly what he’s doing. Now, for Bears’ fans sake, I sure hope these kids can play.

• Write to Pro Football Weekly editor Hub Arkush at harkush@profootballweekly.com or on Twitter @Hub_Arkush.

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FIVE-DAY PLANNER TEAM

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

ATLANTA 1:20 p.m.

WGN AM-670

at Pittsburgh 6:05 p.m.

CSN AM-670

at Pittsburgh 6:05 p.m.

WPWR AM-670

at Pittsburgh 11:35 a.m.

CSN AM-670

WASHINGTON 7:05 p.m.

CSN AM-670

BOSTON 7:10 p.m.

CSN AM-890

BOSTON 7:10 p.m.

WPWR, ESPN AM-890

BOSTON 7:10 p.m.

CSN+ AM-890

at Baltimore 12:35 p.m.

CSN AM-890

WHAT TO WATCH Pro baseball Noon: San Francisco at N.Y. Mets or Toronto at Tampa Bay, MLB 12:30 p.m.: White Sox at Baltimore, CSN 1:20 p.m.: Atlanta at Cubs, WGN 7 p.m.: N.Y. Yankees at Boston, ESPN NBA playoffs Noon: Charlotte at Miami, Game 7, ABC 2:30 p.m.: Portland at L.A. Clippers, Game 1, ABC 7 p.m.: Indiana at Toronto, Game 7, TNT Stanley Cup playoffs 2 p.m.: St. Louis at Dallas, Game 2, NBC 7 p.m.: Nashville at San Jose, Game 2, NBCSN Auto racing 6:30 a.m.: Formula One, Russian Grand Prix, NBCSN Noon: NASCAR, Sprint Cup Series, GEICO 500, FOX 1 p.m.: IMSA Series, Weathertech Sportscar Championship, FS1 5:30 p.m.: IMSA Series, Weathertech Sportscar Championship, FS2 Drag racing 4 p.m.: NHRA, SpringNationals, finals, FS1 (same-day tape) Golf 5 a.m.: European PGA Tour, Volvo China Open, final

round, TGC (same-day tape) Noon: PGA Tour, Zurich Classic, final round, TGC 2 p.m.: PGA Tour, Zurich Classic, final round, CBS 2 p.m.: LPGA Tour, Volunteers of America Texas Shootout, final round, TGC 6 p.m.: Web.com Tour, United Leasing & Finance Championship, final round, TGC (same-day tape) Soccer 6 a.m.: Premier League, Liverpool at Swansea City, NBCSN 8:05 a.m.: Premier League, Leicester City at Manchester United, NBCSN 10:30 a.m.: Premier League, Manchester City at Southampton, NBCSN 2:30 p.m.: MLS, Toronto at Portland, ESPN 7 p.m.: MLS, Los Angeles at Sporting Kansas City, FS1 College baseball 2 p.m.: Northwestern at Indiana, BTN College softball Noon: Maryland at Minnesota, BTN 1 p.m.: Texas-San Antonio at Alabama-Birmingham, CSN+ 2 p.m.: Arizona at Oregon, ESPN2 College tennis 1 p.m.: Big 12 Championship, women’s singles, FS2

NHL

MLB

PLAYOFF GLANCE

NATIONAL LEAGUE

FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary)

SECOND ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary)

Friday Indiana 101, Toronto 83, series tied 3-3 Miami 97, Charlotte 90, series tied 3-3 Sunday Charlotte at Miami, noon Indiana at Toronto, 7 p.m.

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) Saturday San Antonio 124, Oklahoma City 92, Spurs lead series, 1-0 Sunday Portland at Golden State, 2:30 p.m.

Monday Atlanta at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday Portland at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday Atlanta at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Friday Cleveland at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday Golden State at Portland, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 8 Cleveland at Atlanta, 2:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Monday, May 9 Golden State at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 10 x-Atlanta at Cleveland, TBA x- Oklahoma City at San Antonio, TBA Wednesday, May 11 x-Portland at Golden State, TBA Thursday, May 12 x-Cleveland at Atlanta, TBA x-San Antonio at Oklahoma City, TBA Friday, May 13 x-Golden State at Portland, TBA Sunday, May 15 x-Atlanta at Cleveland, TBA x-Oklahoma City at San Antonio, TBA Monday, May 16 x-Portland at Golden State, 8 p.m.

Remainder of schedule TBA

Wednesday N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 3 Thursday Washington 4, Pittsburgh 3 (OT) Friday Dallas 2, St. Louis 1, Stars lead series, 1-0 San Jose 5, Nashville 2, Sharks lead series, 1-0 Saturday Tampa Bay 4, N.Y. Islanders 1, series tied 1-1 Pittsburgh 2, Washington 1, series tied 1-1 Sunday St. Louis at Dallas, 2 p.m.

Nashville at San Jose, 7 p.m.

Monday Washington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Tuesday Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Wednesday Washington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Thursday Dallas at St. Louis, 8:30 p.m.

San Jose at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Friday Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Saturday Pittsburgh at Washington, TBA x-St. Louis at Dallas, TBA x-Nashville at San Jose, TBA Sunday, May 8 N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, TBA Monday, May 9 x-Dallas at St. Louis, TBA x-San Jose at Nashville, TBA Tuesday, May 10 x-Washington at Pittsburgh, TBA x-Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, TBA Wednesday, May 11 x-St. Louis at Dallas, TBA Thursday, May 12 x-Pittsburgh at Washington, TBA x-N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, TBA x-Nashville at San Jose, TBA

NFL

SPORTS BRIEFS

NFC NORTH TEAM-BY-TEAM DRAFT

Nyarko scores in 64th, DC United ties Fire

BRIDGEVIEW – Patrick Nyarko scored for D.C. United in the 64th minute, and the Washington club (2-3-4) tied the Fire, 1-1, in rainy conditions Saturday.

Nyarko headed in a cross on a short corner against his former team. Fire (1-24) rookie Jonathan Campbell scored off Arturo Alvarez’s cross in the 41st minute.

Sadler wins Xfinity Series race at Talladega after OT wreck TALLADEGA, Ala. – Elliott Sadler cele-

brated his 41st birthday Saturday with his first victory in almost two years.

Mired in a drought that dated to May 4, 2014, Sadler didn’t mind waiting through a five-minute post-race review by NASCAR to be named the winner of the Xfinity Series race at Talladega Superspeedway.

NASCAR had to determine who was the actual leader when a caution froze the field in overtime. Brennan Poole crossed the finish line first, but was denied his first career Xfinity Series win when NASCAR said the field was frozen with Sadler still ahead of Poole.

– Wire reports

PGA TOUR ZURICH CLASSIC

-12 -11 -11 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6

Chris Stroud Bryce Molder Ryan Ruffels Cameron Tringale Will Wilcox David Toms Billy Horschel Robert Garrigus Henrik Norlander Jonas Blixt Freddie Jacobson Stuart Appleby Robert Streb Geoff Ogilvy Retief Goosen Charley Hoffman Scott Stallings Dicky Pride Michael Kim Lucas Lee Jeff Overton Danny Lee J.J. Henry Chesson Hadley Marc Turnesa David Hearn Tyler Aldridge Andres Gonzales Tim Wilkinson Jon Curran

Bears 1 (9) Leonard Floyd, lb, Georgia 2 (56) Cody Whitehair, g, Kansas St. 3 (72) Jonathan Bullard, dt, Florida 4 (113) Nick Kwiatkoski, lb, West Virginia 4 (124) Deon Bush, s, Miami 4 (127) Deiondre’ Hall, s, Northern Iowa 5 (150) Jordan Howard, rb, Indiana 6 (185) DeAndre Houston-Carson, s, William & Mary 7 (230) Daniel Braverman, wr, Western Michigan Detroit 1 (16) Taylor Decker, ot, Ohio St. 2 (46) A’Shawn Robinson, dt, Alabama 3 (95) Graham Glasgow, c, Michigan 4 (111) Miles Killebrew, s, Southern Utah 5 (151) Joe Dahl, g, Washington St. 5 (169) Antwione Williams, lb, Georgia Southern 6 (191) Jake Rudock, qb, Michigan

6 (202) Anthony Zettel, dt, Penn St. 6 (210) Jimmy Landes, ls, Baylor 7 (236) Dwayne Washington, rb, Washington Green Bay 1 (27) Kenny Clark, dt, UCLA 2 (48) Jason Spriggs, ot, Indiana 3 (88) Kyler Fackrell, lb, Utah St. 4 131) Blake Martinez, lb, Stanford 4 (137) Dean Lowry, de, Northwestern 5 (163) Trevor Davis, wr, California 6 (200) Kyle Murphy, ot, Stanford Minnesota 1 (23) Laquon Treadwell, wr, Mississippi 2 (54) Mackensie Alexander, cb, Clemson 4 (121) Willie Beavers, ot, Western Michigan 5 (160) Kentrell Brothers, lb, Missouri 6 (180) Moritz Boehringer, wr, no college (Germany) 6 (188) David Morgan, te, Texas-San Antonio 7 (227) Stephen Weatherly, lb, Vanderbilt 7 (244) Jayron Kearse, s, Clemson

NASCAR

GOLF Saturday At TPC Louisiana Avondale, La. Purse: $7 million Yardage: 7,341; Par: 72 Completed Second Round Brian Stuard 64-68—132 Jamie Lovemark 67-66—133 Jhonattan Vegas 64-69—133 Harold Varner III 69-67—136 Daniel Berger 71-65—136 Byeong-Hun An 68-68—136 Charles Howell III 67-69—136 Chad Collins 72-64—136 Patrick Rodgers 67-69—136 Patton Kizzire 67-70—137 Thomas Aiken 68-69—137 Steve Wheatcroft 69-68—137 John Senden 70-67—137 Jason Day 69-68—137 Seung-Yul Noh 68-69—137 Derek Ernst 67-70—137 Lucas Glover 69-69—138 Chris Kirk 71-67—138 Spencer Levin 68-70—138 Cameron Percy 68-70—138 Bobby Wyatt 67-71—138 Gary Woodland 72-66—138

NBA PLAYOFF GLANCE

SPRINT CUP 72-66—138 71-67—138 70-68—138 69-70—139 70-69—139 68-71—139 68-71—139 69-70—139 66-73—139 70-69—139 69-70—139 69-70—139 71-68—139 67-72—139 65-74—139 67-73—140 72-68—140 70-70—140 74-66—140 72-68—140 70-70—140 68-72—140 67-73—140 71-69—140 70-70—140 69-71—140 70-70—140 69-71—140 72-69—141 71-70—141

-6 -6 -6 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -3 -3

Chad Campbell Roberto Castro Anirban Lahiri Aaron Baddeley Adam Hadwin Ben Martin Rickie Fowler Bronson Burgoon Jamie Donaldson Ken Duke Russell Henley Troy Merritt Si Woo Kim Michael Bradley Benjamin Taylor Joe Affrunti Scott Langley Mark Hubbard Angel Cabrera Nick Taylor Brian Gay Steve Stricker Vijay Singh Morgan Hoffmann Marc Leishman Blayne Barber Erik Compton Sung Kang Rob Oppenheim Rhein Gibson

69-72—141 -3 69-72—141 -3 72-69—141 -3 70-71—141 -3 72-69—141 -3 70-71—141 -3 68-73—141 -3 72-69—141 -3 73-69—142 -2 67-75—142 -2 69-73—142 -2 71-71—142 -2 70-72—142 -2 72-70—142 -2 70-72—142 -2 69-73—142 -2 75-67—142 -2 74-68—142 -2 69-73—142 -2 70-72—142 -2 73-69—142 -2 70-72—142 -2 72-70—142 -2 73-69—142 -2 71-71—142 -2 70-72—142 -2 73-69—142 -2 71-71—142 -2 70-72—142 -2 71-71—142 -2

After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway Talladega, Ala. Lap length: 2.66 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 192.661 2. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 192.424 3. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 192.293 4. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 192.181 5. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 192.116 6. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 192.089 7. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 192.008 8. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 191.954 9. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 191.819 10. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 191.812 11. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 191.789 12. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 191.581 13. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 191.566 14. (14) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 191.509 15. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 191.298 16. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 191.191 17. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 191.164 18. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 191.039 19. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 190.921

20. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 190.772 21. (44) Brian Scott, Ford, 190.73 22. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 190.382 23. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 190.26 24. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 190.166 25. (7) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 190.109 26. (32) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 189.966 27. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 189.925.

28. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 189.921 29. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 189.8 30. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 189.729 31. (95) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 189.519 32. (38) Landon Cassill, Ford, 189.47 33. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 189.313 34. (15) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 189.025 35. (83) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, 189.01 36. (98) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 188.961 37. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 188.954 38. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 188.478 39. (35) David Gilliland, Ford, 188.467 40. (23) David Ragan, Toyota, 187.636 Failed to Qualify 41. (30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 185.679

Central Division

W L Pct GB Cubs 17 5 .773 — Pittsburgh 15 9 .625 3 St. Louis 12 12 .500 6 Cincinnati 9 15 .375 9 Milwaukee 8 15 .348 9½ East Division

W L Pct GB Washington 16 7 .696 — New York 15 7 .682 ½ Philadelphia 14 10 .583 2½ Miami 12 11 .522 4 Atlanta 5 18 .217 11 West Division

W L Pct GB Los Angeles 12 13 .480 — San Francisco 12 13 .480 — Colorado 11 12 .478 — Arizona 12 14 .462 ½ San Diego 9 15 .375 2½

Saturday’s Results Atlanta at Cubs, ppd.

Washington 6, St. Louis 1 N.Y. Mets 6, San Francisco 5 Philadelphia 4, Cleveland 3 Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 1 Miami 7, Milwaukee 5 Colorado 5, Arizona 2 San Diego 5, L.A. Dodgers 2 Sunday’s Games Atlanta (Teheran 0-3) at Cubs (Lackey 3-1), 1:20 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 2-2) at N.Y. Mets (Syndergaard 2-0), 12:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Iglesias 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Locke 1-2), 12:35 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 2-2) at Milwaukee (Peralta 1-3), 1:10 p.m.

Washington (Scherzer 2-1) at St. Louis (Martinez 4-0), 1:15 p.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 2-1) at Philadelphia (Velasquez 3-1), 1:35 p.m.

Colorado (Bettis 2-1) at Arizona (Miller 0-2), 3:10 p.m.

San Diego (Pomeranz 2-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 2-1), 3:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games Cubs at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Cincinnati, 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Milwaukee, 6:20 p.m.

Philadelphia at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

Washington at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Central Division

W L Pct GB White Sox 17 8 .680 — Detroit 13 10 .565 3 Kansas City 12 11 .522 4 Cleveland 10 11 .476 5 Minnesota 7 17 .292 9½ East Division

W L Pct GB Baltimore 14 9 .609 — Boston 14 10 .583 ½ Tampa Bay 11 12 .478 3 Toronto 11 14 .440 4 New York 8 14 .364 5½ West Division

W L Pct GB Texas 14 10 .583 — Seattle 13 10 .565 ½ Oakland 13 12 .520 1½ Los Angeles 11 13 .458 3 Houston 7 17 .292 7

Saturday’s Results White Sox 8, Baltimore 7 Detroit 4, Minnesota 1 Oakland 2, Houston 0 Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 3 Philadelphia 4, Cleveland 3 Boston 8, N.Y. Yankees 0 Texas 7, L.A. Angels 2 Seattle 6, Kansas City 0 Sunday’s Games White Sox (Sale 5-0) at Baltimore (Jimenez 1-2), 12:35 p.m.

Toronto (Stroman 3-0) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 0-1), 12:10 p.m.

Detroit (Pelfrey 0-4) at Minnesota (Nolasco 1-0), 1:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 2-1) at Philadelphia (Velasquez 3-1), 1:35 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 1-3) at Texas (Hamels 3-0), 2:05 p.m.

Houston (Fister 1-3) at Oakland (Hill 3-2), 3:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Kennedy 2-2) at Seattle (Walker 2-0), 3:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 1-2) at Boston (Price 3-0), 7:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Texas at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Milwaukee, 7:20 p.m.

Minnesota at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

Washington at Kansas City, 8:15 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

WHITE SOX 8, ORIOLES 7

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN dvanschouwen@suntimes.com

AP photo

White Sox outfielders (left to right) Melky Cabrera, Adam Eaton and Austin Jackson celebrate their 8-7 win over the Orioles on Saturday night in Baltimore.

Britton struck out the first two batters of the inning.

“In my head, I was going to bunt off him three times if that’s what it took,” Eaton said. “I said to (catcher) Matt Wieters, ‘Are you going to wish me luck?’

This guy is filthy.”

The Sox got some luck when Britton was injured fielding Eaton’s bunt. He was replaced by Zach Worley.

“I don’t know what it is, but I guess it’s because of all the energy and good

vibes we have right now,” Abreu said through a translator. “Working hard every day and rooting for each other to win the games. It doesn’t matter if we’re behind late in the games because we have confidence in ourselves that we can go back and win games.”

Abreu was down on himself for his error after third baseman Todd Frazier made a nice play on what should have been the third out of the eighth.

“I thank God for the opportunity” to

WHITE SOX NOTES

PED issue gets under Sale’s skin

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN dvanschouwen@suntimes.com BALTIMORE – It bothers Chris Sale that performance-enhancing drugs still are an issue in major league baseball.

The White Sox ace left-hander loves the game too much to see its integrity compromised, where users have an unfair advantage over those who don’t.

“I just hope that we can eventually get to where we want to be,” Sale said Saturday. “Where everyone’s integrity and character is not questioned.”

After Marlins second baseman Dee Gordon was suspended 80 games for testing positive to two PEDs, shortly after Blue Jays first baseman Chris Colabello was given an 80-game PED suspension, A’s closer and player representative Sean Doolittle called for stiffer penalties.

“Guys are [angry],” Doolittle said.

“They want players to be more accountable for their actions. They want

a more level playing field.”

Sale said he prefers to keep his views on stiffer penalties to himself.

“But for the sake of the game, and where we want to go with it, we need to clean it up,” he said. “We need to be better role models, have better character, be better people, rise above any temptation we might have.”

Sale, a perennial Cy Young candidate who is off to one of his better starts with a 5-0 record and 1.66 ERA, is scheduled to start the Sox’s series finale Sunday afternoon in Baltimore.

“I think everyone is on the same page.

We all want to be on the same playing field. I don’t think it’s too much to ask.”

“Major League Baseball is doing an unbelievable job trying to make that happen,” he said. “Players have to be smarter and have more respect for the game. We’re role models. What we do sets the tone for the next generation.

The generation before us set the tone for

us. Hopefully, we can be that generation to take the next step to make it better for the 13- and 14-year-old kids out there busting their tails to be where we’re at.”

Hamstring sidelines Garcia: Avisail Garcia will miss the last two games of the series against the Orioles with a right mid-hamstring strain suffered when he made the final out of the Sox’s 6-3 loss Friday night.

“It’s nothing bad, nothing serious,” Garcia said after receiving treatment Saturday. “A couple of days. Get treatment and see how I feel Tuesday.”

“It’s a little tight,” manager Robin Ventura said. “I don’t think it’s a DL situation there, but he definitely did something going down the line there.”

Garcia will be re-evaluated Sunday.

The Sox have their first off day Monday after what would follow games on 19 consecutive days. They open a threegame series against Boston on Tuesday at home.

WHITE SOX 8, ORIOLES 7 Chicago Baltimore

ab r h bi ab r h bi Eaton rf 4 1 1 1 Machado 3b 5 1 2 0 Saladino ss 3 0 0 0 A.Jones cf 4 2 2 1 Sanchez ph-ss 1 1 1 0 C.Davis 1b 4 0 2 2 Abreu 1b 5 1 2 2 Trumbo rf 4 0 1 1 Frazier 3b 4 1 1 2 Rickard rf 1 0 0 0 Me.Cabrera lf 5 0 0 0 Wieters c 4 1 0 0 Lawrie 2b 3 2 1 1 P.Alvarez dh 5 1 3 2 Sands dh 4 1 2 0 J.Hardy ss 5 0 0 0 Navarro c 4 1 1 0 Schoop 2b 3 1 1 1 A.Jackson cf 4 0 1 1 Kim lf 4 1 3 0 Totals 37 8 10 7 Totals 39 7 14 7 Chicago Baltimore

002 100 131 — 8 100 211 020 — 7

E–Navarro (2), Abreu (2), Schoop (1), Machado (1).

DP–Chicago 2, Baltimore 2. LOB–Chicago 6, Baltimore 9.

2B–C.Sanchez (1), A.Jones (4), C.Davis (2), P.Alvarez (4), Kim (1). HR–Frazier (7), Lawrie (3), P.Alvarez (1), Schoop (4). SB–Lawrie (2).

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Latos 5 11 4 4 1 2 Putnam 1 2 1 1 1 1 Da.Jennings 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 Albers 1 0 2 0 1 0 Duke BS,1-1 0 1 0 0 0 0 N.Jones W,2-0 11/3 0 0 0 0 1 Baltimore Gausman 6 4 3 2 1 3 Givens H,5 2/3 1 1 1 1 2 Matusz H,1 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 O’Day BS,1-2 1 3 3 3 0 1 Britton L,1-1 2/3 1 1 1 0 2 Worley 1/3 1 0 0 2 0 Duke pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.

HBP–by Albers (A.Jones). WP–Putnam.

Umpires–Home, Carlos Torres; First, Gerry Davis; Second, Cory Blaser; Third, Sam Holbrook.

T–3:42. A–29,152 (45,971).

• Sunday, May 1, 2016

BALTIMORE – Manager Robin Ventura tried to downplay the White Sox’s remarkable April, which ended with an extraordinary 8-7 victory Saturday night over the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards.

The win gave the Sox 17 victories against eight losses in the opening month, tying a franchise record held by the 2005 World Series champion team and the 2006 unit the next year.

Chris Sale opens the month of May in the series finale Sunday afternoon.

“You don’t get caught up in that too much,” Ventura said. “This group is old enough that they just play day by day, and, eventually, you get to where you can look back ... don’t get caught up too much in trying to pat yourself on the back.

“They’re looking for Sunday.”

Looking at Saturday night would make your head spin. The Sox played a sloppy defensive game for the second straight night, but the most costly error, by first baseman Jose Abreu, was made up for when he punched the goahead single to right field in the ninth inning.

The goat for an error in the Orioles’ two-run eighth that tied the score, Abreu scored Adam Eaton from second in the ninth. Eaton had reached on bunt single after the Orioles’ Zach

make amends, he said.

Nate Jones got the final four outs for the Sox, who were without closer David Robertson, who was on bereavement leave.

Chris Davis’ two-out double in the Orioles’ eighth against Zach Duke scored two runs to tie the score at 7.

Abreu also singled in the tying run in the eighth, knocking in pinch hitter Carlos Sanchez (leadoff double) and Frazier followed with a two-run homer to center against Orioles right-hander Darren O’Day to help the Sox come from behind and take a 7-5 lead.

“I finally got the fastball and drove it out of the park,” Frazier said. “It was a great day for the team. I have to give all the credit to the guys who found a way to get on base, either get a walk or double. Sanchez came in and did his job. It’s just a good character builder here, a good win for us.”

The Sox trailed 5-3 in the sixth inning on Adam Jones’ RBI double. They got to within one when Brett Lawrie walked, stole second and scored on a close play at home on Austin Jackson’s two-out, two-strike single to right, Jackson’s first hit of the series.

Ventura was ejected in the third inning by umpire crew chief Gerry Davis after he challenged the Orioles’ Machado had violated the slide rule at second base. A favorable ruling would have given the Sox their second triple play of the season.

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Cubs close opening month with best record in baseball

By DAVID JUST For the Sun-Times An April rainout in Chicago is nothing new, but the Cubs in first place?

That’s something baseball fans around town could get used to.

At 17-5, the Cubs closed the first month of the season atop the National League Central and with the best record in baseball.

“Coming out of spring training, we talked about getting off to a good start,” manager Joe Maddon said after Saturday’s game against the Braves was postponed because of rain. “I don’t think it could have gone any better. You’re not going to be perfect.”

What’s been most awe-inspiring about these Cubs is not just that they win games – it’s how they win games.

Baseball isn’t a sport that inspires much conversation about margin of victory, but the Cubs are putting away opponents by an average of 3.6 runs. The Mets and Cardinals are a distant second at 1.9.

To put those numbers in perspective, the best average margin of victory by any team last season was the Blue Jays at 1.4.

Chicago Cubs starter Jon Lester delivers a pitch Friday during the first inning against the Atlanta Braves in Chicago.

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The Cubs owe much of their success during the first month to their pitching, which by nearly any metric has been the best in baseball.

The rotation and bullpen have combined for a baseball-best 2.39 ERA by giving up only 57 runs in 195 2⁄3 innings.

“You can’t ask for a better month out of the entire group, starting and relieving,” Maddon said.

On offense, the Cubs haven’t put up particularly overwhelming individual numbers, hitting just .255 with star An-

thony Rizzo batting .218.

Even if those numbers aren’t there, though, Maddon has been impressed with the quality of his team’s at-bats.

The Cubs have drawn a baseball-best 121 walks and scored 136 runs, which is second only to the Cardinals’ 141.

Rizzo, even with his lowly .218 average, has driven in a team- and leaguebest 24 runs.

“What Rizzo has done this month, those RBIs with a low batting average,” Maddon said, “it’s good to see because

you know he’s going to hit even better average-wise as we move further along.”

Perhaps the least discussed element of the Cubs’ success to this point is the defense. The Cubs have the best total defense according to the advanced metrics at FanGraphs.com.

Maddon has done his part by nurturing a loose, fun atmosphere in the clubhouse. In fact, the Cubs will have their first themed roadtrip of the season next week in Pittsburgh, and Maddon is coining it the “zany minimalist suit trip.”

Maddon said he’ll be wearing a suit with tulips on it.

Needless to say, whatever he’s doing, it’s working.

Notes: John Lackey, who was supposed to pitch Saturday’s postponed game, will stay on schedule and pitch Sunday’s finale at Wrigley. Jason Hammel, Jake Arrieta and Jon Lester will pitch in Pittsburgh, and Kyle Hendricks will open the Cubs’ four-game series against Washington on Thursday.

No makeup date for Saturday’s game has been announced. It’s possible the game could be made up July 7, when both teams share an off day, and the Braves will be in Chicago that weekend to face the White Sox.

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By JENNA FRYER The Associated Press

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NASCAR driver Chase Elliott sits in his car after qualifying first for Sunday’s NASCAR auto race at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday in Talladega, Ala. in the same car he drove at Daytona, and he credited his No. 24 team and the Hendrick engine department for giving him such a good car.

“Man, this is cool,” he said.

“Those guys do such a good job. And

as I said in Daytona, this had nothing to do with me. This is the car that we had. This is the same car we had in Daytona. They brought another fast one here.”

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Gerina Piller takes 2-stroke CALL HOME lead in home event in Texas The ASSOCIATED PRESS IRVING, Texas – Gerina Piller took a two-stroke lead Saturday in the LPGA Tour’s Volunteers of America Texas Shootout, putting her in position for a breakthrough victory in her home event.

Winless in 123 career starts, the 31-year-old Piller shot a bogey-free 4-under 67 to reach 14-under-par 199 at Las Colinas Country Club.

Piller lives in Plano, about 20 miles from Las Colinas. The long-hitting U.S. Solheim Cup hero grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, and played at the University Texas-El Paso.

Piller hit to 4 feet to set up a birdie on the par-4 second, then birdied three straight par 5s – two-putting No. 3 and making a 5-footer on No. 7 and a 10-footer on No. 10. She parred the final eight holes.

Piller has hit 52 of 54 greens in regulation, with the two misses coming in the first round. She tied for third last week in California in the Swinging Skirts for

her third straight top-six finish.

Zurich Classic: At Avondale, Louisiana, Brian Stuard completed his second straight bogey-free round to take a one-shot lead in the waterlogged Zurich Classic.

Stuard played just six holes, completing his second round with a 4-under 68 to reach 12 under at TPC Louisiana.

Jamie Landmark and Jhonattan Vegas were tied for second. They finished the second round Friday.

The 33-year-old Stuard, winless on the PGA Tour, continued his steady play with two birdies Some players were able to begin the third round on Saturday before thunderstorms swept through the area, but the leaders haven’t teed off.

China Open: At Bejing, Denmark’s Lucas Bjerregaard shot a 7-under 65 in the China Open for a share of the thirdround lead with Chile’s Felipe Aguilar.

Bjerregaard eagled the par-4 third hole and had five birdies. Aguilar had a 67 to match Bjerregaard at 16-under 200 at Topwin Golf and Country Club.

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TALLADEGA, Ala. – Chase Elliott wasn’t born yet when his father turned a record-setting lap to win the pole at Talladega Superspeedway.

He’ll get to experience leading the field to green just like his dad did, though, after winning the pole himself Saturday, 30 years after Bill Elliott’s blistering qualifying run.

Elliott turned a lap at 192.661 mph to put his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in the top position for Sunday’s race. Bill Elliott won the pole in 1986 with a lap at 212.229 mph.

“This is definitely a special place,” said Chase Elliott, who grew up in Dawsonville, Georgia, which is 170 miles from Talladega.

“This has always been a special place to him and it’s certainly great to be here and have the opportunity.”

Elliott also won the pole for the season-opening Daytona 500, but he crashed and finished 37th. He’s back

restrictor-plate races for the No. 24 Chevrolet.

Jeff Gordon won three of those poles before he retired and turned the car over to Elliott this season.

Elliott is eager to finish his first plate race in the Sprint Cup Series.

“Obviously I have a lot to learn,” he said. “The race last time at Daytona didn’t go so good. Hopefully for me, I’ll just try to take what I learned and try to cut down those dumb mistakes that I made in the Daytona 500 this year and just try to be smarter.

The first thing is making it to the end and obviously I didn’t do a very good job of that in February. Our first goal is to try to get to the end of the race; and if we can get there, just try to be smart.”

Austin Dillon qualified second for Sunday’s race with a lap at 192.424 mph.

Driving the No. 3 Chevrolet the late Dale Earnhardt drove to nine of his record 10 Talladega victories, Dillon hoped to give grandfather Richard Childress another trip to victory lane.

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Fehr tiebreaker lifts Penguins past Capitals to tie the series The ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON – Eric Fehr scored the tiebreaking goal against his former team with about 41⁄2 minutes remaining Saturday night, giving the Pittsburgh Penguins a 2-1 victory over the Washington Capitals that tied the Eastern Conference second-round playoff series at a game apiece.

Fehr redirected a pass out of a corner from Evgeni Malkin, sending the puck off the right post and past goalie Braden Holtby. Fehr played parts of nine seasons in Washington across two stints before leaving as a free agent last summer to join Pittsburgh.

Carl Hagelin had put Pittsburgh ahead in the second period of Game 2, before Marcus Johansson pulled Washington even on a power play with about 16 minutes to go in the third.

The series shifts to Pittsburgh for Game 3 on Monday night.

The Penguins improved to 43-0 this season, including the playoffs, when leading after two periods. They have

not lost two consecutive games in 31⁄2 months – since dropping a pair in overtime against Carolina and Tampa Bay on Jan. 12 and 14.

This time, Pittsburgh recovered quickly from its 4-3 overtime loss in Game 1 on Thursday night, and did it in part by again shutting down Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin, who led the NHL with 50 goals this season.

While Penguins star Sidney Crosby didn’t factor in Saturday’s scoring, either. Malkin did provide a spark on the go-ahead goal, and 21-year-old rookie goalie Matt Murray made 23 saves.

Tampa Bay 4, The Islanders 1: At Tampa, Florida, Tyler Johnson had two goals and an assist and The Lightning beat New York to even the second-round series at a game apiece.

Lightning goalie Ben Bishop rebounded after being pulled in the second period of Game 1 to make 19 saves.

He gave up four goals on 13 shots Wednesday night in a 5-3 loss.

Game 3 is Tuesday night in Brooklyn.

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By RAUL DOMINGUEZ The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO – LaMarcus Aldridge had 38 points and the San Antonio Spurs dismantled the Oklahoma City Thunder, 124-92, Saturday night, never trailing in Game 1 of the second-round series.

Kawhi Leonard added 25 points, five rebounds and five assists in 22 minutes for San Antonio. The Spurs led by as many as 43 points and sat their starters in the fourth quarter to rest them for Game 2 on Monday night.

Aldridge broke out for his finest performance of the season after Memphis held him to 14.5 points in the first round, nearly seven points below his regular-season numbers. Aldridge was 18 for 23 from the field, including his first 3-pointer of the season and banking in a left-handed scoop shot as he was falling in the lane.

Leonard and Aldridge combined for 45 points in the first half, outscoring Oklahoma City as a team by four. Unfortunately for the Thunder, the rest of the Spurs were just as impressive early.

San Antonio matched a postseason franchise record for points in a quarter

with 43 in the opening period.

Serge Ibaka led Oklahoma City with 19 points, but was limited to two rebounds.

Kevin Durant had 16 points, and Russell Westbrook added 14, but they were harassed into 11-for-34 shooting.

The Spurs scored the most postseason points against the Thunder. They had 39 assists, which was more than the Thunder’s field goal total of 35.

San Antonio shot 82 percent in the opening quarter, including 3 for 4 on 3-pointers in taking a 23-point lead.

The Spurs also blocked six shots, collapsing and surrounding the Thunder with multiple defenders whenever they drove into the lane.

The only scare came when Leonard grabbed the back of his left leg after landing on it awkwardly off a powerful one-handed dunk on the game’s opening possession. San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich paced the sideline in concern, asking Leonard “are you OK?” on the Spurs’ ensuing possession.

Leonard didn’t respond verbally, but his dynamic efforts on both ends of the court answered Popovich’s concerns.

He shot 10 for 13 from the field and had only one turnover while guarding Westbrook and Durant.

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CELEBRATIONS Births, engagements, weddings and anniversaries are printed every Sunday in the Style section in the Northwest Herald.

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Photos not accompanied with a self-addressed, stamped envelope will not be returned. They may be picked up at the Crystal Lake office after publication.

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ON THE COVER Deanna Reeves of Huntley, who will participate in Walk MS on Sunday at Sunset Park in Lake in the Hills.

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RIDGEFIELD ANTIQUE GARDEN EVENT, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 1, The Antique Shops of Ridgefield, 8509 Ridgefield Road, Ridgefield. Dealers present their antiques, vintage and garden finds. Free. Information: 815-477-4601, theantiqueshopsofridgefield@gmail.com or www. theantiqueshopsofridgefield.com/antique-garden-event.html.

WPPC NATIVE PLANT SALE, noon to 3 p.m.

May 1, McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. The Wildflower Preservation and Propagation Committee will have more than 150 species, including organic heirloom garden vegetables and native trees and shrubs. Cash or check only. Free. Information: theWPPC@ hotmail.com or http://thewppc.org/sale.html.

ANNUAL SPRING PLANT SALE, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. May 4, McHenry County College Greenhouse, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Sale will feature annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs, hanging baskets, container gardens and more. Proceeds will support the MCC Horticulture Department. Cash or check only. Information: 815-455-8674.

CARE & FEEDING YOUR HERB GARDEN, 7 to 8:30 p.m. May 4, Cary Area Public Library, 1606 Three Oaks Road, Cary. This basic look at how to garden with herbs includes everything a startup gardener should know. Registration required.

Free. Information: 847-639-4210, almamaj@ caryarealibrary.info or www.caryarealibrary.info.

HISTORY OF WESTERN GARDENS WITH SUSAN LANGWORTHY, 2 to 3:30 p.m. May 4, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake. Master Gardener Langworthy will present a chronological walk through the history of western gardens beginning with ancient Rome. Free. Information: 815-459-1687.

IN THE GARDEN LAB: PLANTING THE CUTTING GARDEN, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 4, Algonquin Area Public Library – Harnish Main Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin. Plant

BOY SCOUT TROOP 455 MULCH FUNDRAISER SALE WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 7 WHERE: Johnsburg Community Club, 2315 W. Church St., Johnsburg COST & INFO: Offering premium bagged mulch in dark walnut, red, dark brown and non-dyed natural. Cost: $4 a 2-cubic-foot bag; $1 a bag Boy Scout installation. Information: 815-382-1621 or western.gary@gmail.com.

flowers and greens in our new teaching garden.

Learn gardening tips and skills from a Master Gardener. Free. Registration required. Information: 847-458-3139, aparmele@aapld.org or www.aapld.org/do.

ALGONQUIN GARDEN CLUB ANNUAL PLANT SALE, 8 a.m. to noon May 7, Algonquin Town Shopping Center, 1310 E. Algonquin Road, Algonquin. The sale will include more than 800 perennials from members’ gardens, colorful hanging baskets, tomato plants and many woodland plants. Proceeds will be used for scholarships and other civic projects. Information: 847-658-4641.

ANNUAL PIE/FLOWER SALE, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 7, St. Joseph Church, 10519 Main St., Richmond. St. Joseph Church Altar & Rosary – Council of Catholic Women ninth annual Day Before Mother’s Day Pie Sale will run until all pies

are sold. Last year’s selection included apple, rhubarb, peach and blueberry pies. In addition to the pie sale, there will be a spring flower sale, offering hanging baskets, patio planters, geraniums and wildflowers. Free. Information: 815-678-7421, stjosephchurch@gmail.com or www.stjosephrichmondil.weconnect.com.

BULL VALLEY GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE, 8 a.m. to noon May 7, Old Courthouse Lawn, 101 N. Johnson St., Woodstock. Members will sell herbs, native wildflowers and unusual perennials and grasses from their lawns and woods.

Intrinsic Perennial Gardens will be selling a full range of professionally grown plants. Proceeds benefit civic projects and scholarships for students studying horticulture at McHenry County College. Information: 815 354-3842.

GARDEN CLUBS PLANT SALE, 9 a.m. to noon May 7, Colonel Palmer House, 660 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. Purchase plants from members’ gardens of the Garden Gate Club and Green Twig Garden Club. Offering plants, perennials, grasses, herbs, ferns, shrubs and trees. Plant pricing starts at $3. Kids can start their own garden as they plant seeds. Proceeds support the clubs’ work promoting horticultural education, outreach and scholarships. Information: May Ott, 815-477-5873, palmerhouse@ crystallakeparks.org or garden.gate.of.crystal. lake@gmail.com.

HOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY PLANT SALE, 10 a.m. May 7, Hooved Animal Humane Society, 10804 McConnell Road, Woodstock.

A wide selection of plants will be available for sale. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the animals. Information: 815-337-5563 or www. hahs.org.

BENEFICIAL BUGS, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 9, Algonquin Area Public Library District – Harnish Main Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin. Not all bugs are bad. Learn from a Master Gardener how to attract and keep pollinators and pest controllers on your property. For adults. Free.

Registration required. Information: 847-4583168, anewman@aapld.org or www.aapld.org/ do.

LITERARY EVENTS THE NUTS & BOLTS OF DYSTOPIAN FICTION WITH AUTHOR HEATHER LETTO, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. May 5, Johnsburg Public Library, 3000 N. Johnsburg Road, Johnsburg. For ages 12-18. An interactive Dystopian Fiction writing program with Heather Letto, author of the young adult trilogy “Ascension.” Attendees will receive a swag bag, and one teen will win copies of all the “Ascension” books. Advance registration is required. Free.

Information: 815-344-0077, hstewart@johnsburglibrary.org or http:// johnsburglibrary.org/event.

HENS FOR FRIENDS BOOK SIGNING, 11 a.m. May 7, Read Between the Lynes, 111 E. Van Buren St., Woodstock. Author Sandy De Lisle will sign copies of her picture book, “Hens for Friends,” during the first outdoor Saturday Woodstock Farmers Market. Hens are smart, savvy and like to cuddle, as Aaron describes in this picture book about his relationship with his best friend, a Rhode Island Red hen he names Margaret. Free.

Information: 815-206-5967, arlene@readbetweenthelynes.com or www. readbetweenthelynes.com/event/meet-sandy-de-lisle.

EnvironmentTip Kids say keep it simple

Children across the U.S. submitted their ideas about how to care for our Earth at www.earthsaversclubforkids. com. Here is what they said: • Eat REAL FOOD no more processed junk/snack foods! It

is better for your body and for our Earth!

• Don’t waste food. Transporting food from the field, to the processing plant, to the grocery store, then to your house takes a lot of energy and creates a lot of carbon emissions.

• Ask your parents to turn off the car while waiting in line to pick you up. Ten percent of all gas is wasted idling. After only 10 seconds, you use less gas turning the ignition off.

• Eat locally grown food, and don’t burn trash.

• Try to drive less to save gas and reduce pollution. Ride a bike to school, sports or work (for your mom and dad). Use an electric car. Walk to school.

Source: Environmental Defenders of McHenry County

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BEAUTY Oakwood Hills resident wins contest to appear in People’s World’s Most Beautiful issue

By VALERIE KATZENSTEIN vkatzenstein@shawmedia.com Jennifer Aniston may be the world’s most beautiful woman 2016, as chosen by People Magazine, but when it comes to natural beauty, the magazine searched the country before discovering a 20-year-old nursing student from Oakwood Hills.

Mallory Pennino was named the winner of Aveeno Natural Beauty Contest and appears on page 173 in the May 2 issue of People magazine featuring Aniston, on store shelves through May 6.

Natural beauty is an appropriate title for Pennino, who prefers a minimalist Photo provided beauty routine, Mallory Pennino submitted this forgoing founselfie to People magazine on dation so she Twitter in February for considcan feature one eration for its Aveeno Natural of her favorite Beauty Contest. Pennino was assets. informed the first week of April “I think it that she had won and was flown was probably to New York City to appear in the my freckles, magazine. and my blue eyes and dark hair,” she said of how People magazine and Aveeno chose her from among the thousands of entrants. “I would definitely say that [the

freckles] are my trademark. I love them, and I’ve always loved them.”

Pennino doesn’t subscribe to People but follows the magazine on social media. In February, she saw the publication was asking for people to submit a selfie of themselves at their “most naturally beautiful” with the hashtag #peoplenaturalbeautycontest.

“It was a very positive time in my life, so I just thought, ‘Why not?’ ” said Pennino, who is on track to graduate with her nursing degree from Chamberlain College of Nursing in Addison in August. She also was going through an interview process for what she calls her “dream job” as a nursing technician on a mother/baby unit of a hospital and recently had left a relationship of four years that no longer was working. “I was just really happy because I’m doing a lot better. It definitely was a positive step.”

That positivity must have shone through in her selfie, because People notified her she made it through the first round and asked for more selfies. When she made it through the second round, she had to sign an agreement that she wouldn’t discuss her involvement from there on out.

“I didn’t even tell my mom because I didn’t want anybody to know about it,” she said.

A couple of weeks later, while on her lunch break at school, she received an email saying she had won. Unable to tell anyone, she quickly left the cafeteria to celebrate. A week later, the magazine flew her and her mother, Kim, to New

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Mallory Pennino appears on page 173 of People magazine’s World’s Most Beautiful issue featuring Jennifer Aniston.

York City for an interview and session with a professional photographer, Stephanie Noritz.

“She and I really connected,” Pennino said.

Noritz played music by her favorite band, One Direction, to help Pennino relax in front of the camera. “I don’t do this professionally,” Pennino said with a laugh.

When the issue first came out, Pennino said, her phone started ringing as friends, family and people she hadn’t heard from in years reached out to congratulate her, sharing pictures of them with her article. A longer interview and video of Pennino also can be found on www.people.com.

“It’s been amazing, that support, and everybody’s so proud,” she said. “It makes me feel really good.”

Pennino isn’t completely new to the spotlight. She did some modeling and acting work as a child and said she would like to pursue it more after graduation in addition to her nursing job, starting with more classes and training. She hopes the spread in People will help open doors for her.

“If it doesn’t, I’m still grateful for this opportunity,” she said, “but I’m going to stay positive.”

Crystal Lake turns purple for lupus awareness

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Advocates organize ribbons, raffles and promotions at downtown businesses

By JAMI KUNZER jkunzer@shawmedia.com What began as a mother’s passion to raise awareness for a disease that threatened her daughter’s life has grown into a unique fundraiser, unlike any throughout the country.

In its fourth year, the May 7 fundraiser in downtown Crystal Lake for the Lupus Foundation of America and in honor of National Lupus Awareness Month is expected to turn the area into a sea of purple.

“We are the only place within our country that does this, and it’s pretty valuable,” said Bonnie Kassel of Crystal Lake, who started the fundraiser in support of her 18-year-old daughter, Taylor, a senior at Crystal Lake South High School, where she plays on the varsity softball team.

Taylor was diagnosed with the chronic autoimmune disease in 2011. She and her mother are hosting the fundraiser with the help of Regina Villalobos of Huntley, who suffers from the disease and sells lupus-themed jewelry to raise money for the Lupus Foundation.

Along with purple ribbons throughout downtown, the event from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 7 will include a Lupus Foundation booth near Benedict’s La Strata, where Bonnie Kassel works, raffles of baskets full of donated goodies, vendors inside the nearby Raue Center for the Arts and other promotions. Downtown businesses with posters in their windows will donate 10 percent of proceeds that day to the Lupus Foundation.

The Service League of Crystal Lake donated a tent to house the Lupus Foundation booth, and other businesses and individuals have supported the cause, Kassel said. SweetPea Cake & Cupcake Boutique will offer purple cupcakes, Enlightened Balance Chakra Spa will have face-painting and

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Bonnie Kassel (left) of Crystal Lake, and her daughter, Taylor, 18, traveled to Washington, D.C., last summer to represent the Lupus Foundation and lobby Congress for funding.

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Kassel said. And on May 14, Julie Ann’s Frozen Custard in Crystal Lake will donate proceeds from a Tay Tays custard, a banana custard with chocolate-covered pretzels and peanut butter, in honor of Taylor Kassel.

“None of this is possible without an amazing community,” Bonnie Kassel said.

She said she’s been overwhelmed by the show of support since starting the fundraiser. Her goal always has been to educate the community and provide support for those suffering from the disease, which often goes undiagnosed.

People have died from the disease because of a lack of diagnosis, Bonnie Kassel said.

“This is wrong. Why does it keep happening?

I can’t accept that. Who’s going to fight for these kids? … It takes so long to diagnose, and there’s only one medicine for it,” said Bonnie Kassel, who went to Washington, D.C., with Taylor this past summer to help represent the Lupus Foundation and lobby Congress for funding.

Taylor has managed the disease by being careful with what she exposes herself to, as far as chemicals and such, and what she eats, sticking to pure and organic foods. But she still struggles, her mother said.

The disease basically attacks the skin, joints and organs, causing extreme fatigue, headaches, painful or swollen joints, chest pain, fever and numerous other symptoms, and there is no known cure.

Many who have it suffer quietly, Bonnie Kassel said, just like her daughter, who plans to attend Northern Illinois University in the fall and become a teacher.

“I couldn’t bear anything happening to her. It keeps me fighting every single day,” she said.

“My passion is, let’s recognize this,” she said.

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Author Spotlight TIMOTHY W. AYERS What’s your new book about?

Jesus’ disciples asked the same question that lays in every heart: What is the sign of the end of times? Driven by the quest for fame and power, Father John Russo, Rev. T.N. Thompson and bio-geneticist Matthew MacDonald create a human clone from the DNA of Jesus. Into a world that is desperate for peace, answers and prosperity comes a spiritual leader like no other.

This modern-day Christ’s following expands rapidly, and for the next three years, the world changes. But MacDonald knew there was something wrong, something missing and something dark lurking in the shadows. After threatening to reveal the clone’s true nature to the world, MacDonald is hunted across a global landscape, littered with bodies, in order to silence him before he reveals the truth that can stop the prophesied end.

Where did the idea come from?

Amazingly, it came from a news article I read in a Chicago paper. Two priests were being disciplined by the Pope for stealing threads from the Shroud of Turin for the purpose of cloning Jesus. The idea and plot exploded in my head after that.

What genre is your book, and why were you drawn to it?

It is an apocalyptic thriller. It is a true “what if” story. I see books as they unfold in my mind. I imagine each scene like a movie, then wrote what I imagined. This unfolded as a thriller in my imagination, therefore it became a thriller.

Who is the intended audience?

There are several levels of readers who would enjoy the book.

First: Those who like possible projections of what the future might be. People who read the “Left Behind” series would find “The Sign of the End” a perfect fit for their reading tastes. A second audience would be those who enjoy a thriller with some international intrigue. Lastly, readers who like a book that moves fast. A friend described it by saying it read like a runaway bullet train hurtling toward a washed-out bridge.

Why is this story important to you?

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Great fiction is based on a kernel of truth. For those who have read the Bible and the Book of Revelation, it is obvious I laid my plot line along the timeline of what the Bible says are the end times.

How long did it take you to write? What was your process?

I started the “Sign of the End” over 15 years ago but got sidetracked by 15 others books under contract. I finally finished it after three years of writing. Then, the computer it was stored on was stolen. I thought I had lost it except for a paper copy my brother had. While moving to the Buffalo area, I found an old floppy disk that said it contained the book. I was excited but needed to have a tech person retrieve it for me. They did, and the updating process began.

What did you enjoy most about writing this book? What was the hardest part?

Writing is like watching a very long movie to me. I get wrapped up inside the scenes and the characters. I have found the characters begin to control the book after awhile. I become an outside observer at that point, and the book comes to life. The hardest part about writing is what I teach my writing class students: A writer writes. Sometimes I don’t feel like writing. It is the process of sitting down and tapping on the computer keys that is difficult. It seems everything else seems more important until I finally sit down and do what I teach – a writer writes.

How are you publishing this book and why (traditional/ indie/self-publishing)?

I am not big on self publishing. I have those works that I do for fun or for family that are self-published on Smashwords or Amazon, but I prefer the help and guidance of a publisher. I do not have a literary agent. At first, I thought I didn’t need one considering that I did quite well without one. I sold 14 books (including “The Sign of the End”) in 2015. “Cruel Messenger” will be released in September of this year, and the Nanobot Kids series has no release date as of now. With my next novel, I do want an agent, and that is my project for the next few months.

What is your education/background?

I have an undergraduate degree in art education and am getting closer to my Masters in Biblical Studies. Most of my education comes from reading and observing. My craft demands

that I know people, what they are doing and how they speak. I am a big people watcher and a voracious reader.

What’s next for you?

Castlegate Press is releasing my cop thriller “Cruel Messenger” in September of this year. Crossroads Press is releasing the first book in the Nanobot Kids series, “Brainbyters” this summer. After that, I am under contract for the next 11 in that series. I have a goal of writing a New York Times bestseller. I believe I have that book started. It has a working title of “The Beatle Murders.”

It is about a serial killer that leaves his clues in Beatles’ songs for a detective entrenched in Beatles trivia. I started a romance novel years ago and a publisher was interested, but I got cold feet. I mean, what do I know about romance? I am working with a female co-writer to finish “Never A Bride, Never Again.” That should keep me busy this year.

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Huntley resident turns to Walk MS, finds ‘new norm’ after MS diagnosis

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he team name Deanna Reeves chose for an upcoming Walk MS in Lake in the Hills says as much about her attitude as it does the disease’s symptoms.

Both of the Huntley woman’s legs went numb in January of 2015. Several months later, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Soon after that, she formed the team Tingle Toes to take part in her first Walk MS. “I thought what better way to deal than to jump right in and do the walk. …We thought we might as well make it humorous,” she said of the team name.

The 37-year-old carries that same attitude with her as she and about 15 teammates prepare for a second Walk MS. One of more than 550 walks throughout the country and 11 in Illinois designed to raise money for research and awareness of MS, the Lake in the Hills walk begins at 9 a.m. today at Sunset Park at Albrecht and Miller roads.

Registration at www.walkms.org has closed, but day-of registration begins at 7:30 a.m.

Participants earn pledges for the National MS Society, Greater Illinois Chapter, to walk 1 to 3 miles, sometimes more. Raising more than $5,000 last year – an amount Reeves never imagined she’d raise as family, friends and even strangers joined in her fundraising effort – Tingle Toes has set that same goal this year.

Reeves already has exceeded her personal fundraising goal of $1,000.

The average Walk MS participant raises $250.

Reeves achieved another goal – running her first 5K – last fall. She’d never really been a runner before and continues to do so weekly.

“The numbness in my legs and feet has mostly gone away,” she said. “I still have some. It gets a little worse when I run or exercise, but you’ve got to stay healthy. It’s my new norm.”

MS is an unpredictable disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body. It can be disabling. Along with numbness, it can cause blurred vision, muscle stiffness, thinking problems and urinary trouble. About 2.3 million are affected by it worldwide, roughly 20,000 in Illinois.

Reeves receives shots three times a week with the help of her husband,

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Deanna Reeves of Huntley exercises near her home Friday. In January 2015, both of Reeves’ legs unexpectedly went numb; her doctors later confirmed she had MS. Shortly after, she signed up for her first Walk MS event. She will participate for the second consecutive year today at the McHenry County location at Sunset Park in Lake in the Hills.

“There are people who do have more trouble, physically or emotionally or mentally.

It’s really about not letting it define you or staying positive.

I can’t worry about what might come in the future.”

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Deanna Reeves of Huntley takes a walk with her son, Aaron, daughter, Rebekah, 9, and husband, Casey, near her home Friday.

Casey, who is on her team, along with their children, 9-year-old Rebekah and 6-year-old Aaron.

“Needles are my least favorite

thing in the world. My husband does them for me. I still can’t look even after a year later,” she said.

She’s quick to point out others

with MS are worse off.

“I think the biggest thing is attitude,” said Reeves, who works part time at Journey Church in Huntley.

“I’m really fortunate. I’m doing great with this and haven’t had a lot of trouble. There are people who do have more trouble, physically or emotionally or mentally. It’s really about not letting it define you or staying positive. I can’t worry about what might come in the future.”

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Fans rejoice with Star Wars, Free Comic Book days

By VALERIE KATZENSTEIN vkatzenstein@shawmedia.com Pop culture fans have plenty of ways to celebrate their fandom next week, with Star Wars Day events May 4 and Free Comic Book Day on May 7.

“May the 4th be with you” is a way for Star Wars fans to greet each other and celebrate the saga. Started in 1979, according to www.starwars.com, May 4 became a grass-roots tradition that has grown each year, though it has grown exponentially in recent years with the help of social media. Lucasfilm didn’t create the fan-driven celebration but has embraced the spirit of the day and helps spread the word and showcase fan activity.

In McHenry County, Star Wars fans have a few ways to celebrate. Barnes & Noble Crystal Lake will host a free Star Wars X-Wing Learn to Play event at 7 p.m. May 4. In the miniatures game, teens ages 14 and older can pit X-Wings against TIE fighters to battle for the fate of the Star Wars galaxy.

Advance registration is encouraged at 815-444-0824. Other events will include activities for younger children, a trivia game, costume contest and a special Star Wars storytime. Fans are encouraged to dress in costumes or

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Brody Feetterer of Lake In The Hills, then 7, was in costume as Marvel comic book hero Captain America on Free Comic Book Day 2015 at the Algonquin Area Public Library. wear Star Wars-themed clothing. The Woodstock Public Library will host a free showing of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” and the Wauconda Area Library has events planned throughout the day for all ages.

Several McHenry County libraries also are participating in Free Comic Book Day on May 7, with some help

from area comic book stores. Cary and Crystal Lake libraries will offer patrons a free comic provided by Modern Age Comics in Algonquin and Crystal Lake. Jesse Buck, owner of Modern Age Comics, said his stores are gold sponsors of the event and also will be hosting a raffle and offering sales throughout the day in each location.

Started in 2002, Free Comic Book Day provides a selection of 50 titles for patrons to select from for free, including well-known Marvel and DC titles, but also some lesser known or for younger ages. The free comics will feature popular superheroes, such as The Avengers, but also characters such as Grumpy Cat, Strawberry Shortcake, Spongebob, Doctor Who, Archie and the family from Bob’s Burgers.

My Happy Place Comics in Crystal Lake will be hosting a mini comic con along with Free Comic Book Day, bringing in nine different artists and writers to sign their work and talk with fans. Jim Read, sales associate at the store, said attendees sometimes dress up for the event, and this year a cosplayer dressed as Thanos from Marvel’s upcoming “Avengers: Infinity War” movies will be in the store for pictures. Read said the store gave away about 2,000 books last year, and they have ordered more to give away this year.

“Before we even opened, the line was past our door, past the 7-eleven next to us and around the corner of the store,” Read said. “Our customer base has grown quite a bit since last year, so we’re expecting it to be even bigger this year.”

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• Baked Ham w/Raisin Sauce - $17.95 • Roast Duck - $19.95 • Broiled Salmon -$21.95 • Lemon Tilapia - $18.95 • French Fried Shrimp - $23.95 • Prime Rib of Beef Au Jus - $31.95 • New York Cut Sirloin Steak - $29.95 • Prime Filet Mignon w/mush. - $33.95 • Stuffed Chicken Breast - $19.95 • Chicken a la Kiev - $18.95 • Roast Turkey - $17.95 KID’S DINNERS: • Baked Virgina Ham - $10.95 • Roast Turkey - $9.95 Ask your Server about the dessert selections of the day.

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McHenry County events to celebrate Star Wars Day and Free Comic Book Day STAR WARS DAY EVENTS “May the 4th Be With You!” Star Wars X-Wing Learn to Play Event 7 p.m. May 4, Barnes & Noble, 5380 Route 14, Crystal Lake.

Based on “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” X-Wings and TIE fighters battle for the fate of the Star Wars galaxy in the squad-based dogfights of the X-Wing Miniatures Game. For ages 14 and older. Fans may sign up in groups of two to learn how to play. Advance registration is encouraged. Other events will include activities for younger children, a trivia game, costume contest and a Star Wars storytime.

Fans are encouraged to dress in costume or wear Star Wars themed clothing. Information: 815-444-0824.

Wednesday Movie Series: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” 10 a.m. to noon and 6 to 8 p.m. May 4, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock Two free showings of “Star Wars: the Force Awakens.” In this continuation of the epic space opera, ex-stormtrooper Finn, scrappy desert dweller Rey and droid companion BB-8 get caught up in a galactic war when they come across a map containing the whereabouts of the vanished Luke Skywalker. They soon embark on an epic adventure that brings

them face-to-face with heroes from the past, as well as new villains such as Kylo Ren and the First Order, a fascist regime that has emerged from the ashes of the old Empire. Information: 815-338-0542

beads are shaped on a template and then ironed into place. Make the mini light-sabers as shown or try your hand at creating your own Star Wars-themed image. Registration required.

Information: 815-943-4671.

May the 4th Be With You! Star Wars Day at Wauconda Area Library Jedi Younglings: 9:30 a.m. to noon May 4, Wauconda Area Library, 801 N. Main St., Wauconda. Watch “Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales” and participate in related activities.

Information: 847-526-6225.

Tweens & Teens Drop-in: 3 to 5 p.m. May 4, Wauconda Area Library, 801 N. Main St., Wauconda. Test your Star Wars knowledge in our trivia contest or make a Star Wars Lego mosaic. Information: 847-526-6225.

Family Event: 6:30 to 8 p.m. May 4, Wauconda Area Library, 801 N. Main St., Wauconda.

Here’s your chance to attend Jedi Training School, where you can explore the Force and perfect your skills. Be sure to bring a camera, as you will get to shake hands with real Stormtroopers and other Star Wars characters.

Information: 847-526-6225.

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

Teen Star Wars craft 3:30 p.m. May 4, Harvard-Diggins Library, 900 E. McKinley St., Harvard Grades 6 to 12 are invited to bead to the theme of Star Wars with Perler beads. These 20th anniversary IN ROARING TWENTIES STYLE

Family Health Partnership Clinic’s Annual Gala & Auction

THANK YOU to our family of supporters, YOU raised over $93,000.00 this year for patients in need!

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My Happy Place Comics 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 7, 19 B Berkshire Drive, Crystal Lake Free comics and mini comic con with artist and writer signings, cosplayers and more.

Information: 815-526-3649.

Modern Age Comics 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 2210 E. Algonquin Road, Algonquin Noon to 6 p.m. 5150 Route 14, Suite 6, Crystal Lake Free comics, raffles and sales. Information: 847-409-6295.

Cary Public Library 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 1606 Three Oaks Road, Cary Get a free comic provided by Modern Age Comic. The first 200 patrons can pick one to take home. All ages are welcome. Information: 847-639-4210.

Crystal Lake Public Library 9 a.m., 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake

Children grade 8 and younger may choose one free comic book from the youth department while supplies last. Information: 815-4591687.

McHenry Public Library 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 5, 809 Front St., McHenry There will be a variety of titles to choose from for all ages. One per person. Information: 815-385-0036.

Wauconda Area Library Free Comic Book Day Doodle Party 10:30 a.m., 801 N. Main St., Wauconda Snag some free comics, do some doodling and enjoy superhero cartoons on our movie screen. A local artist, Patrick Michael Taylor, will demonstrate how to draw your own comics. Information: 847-526-6225 Teen Marvel Movie Marathon 9:30 a.m. May 7, Harvard Diggins Library, 900 E. McKinley St., Harvard For grades 6 to 12. Starting with ”Captain America: the Winter Soldier” at 9:30 a.m. “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” will follow at noon.

“Antman” will be the final feature starting at 2:30 p.m. Attendees are invited to bring their own snacks. These movies are rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and language. Free.

Information: 815-943-4671.

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Below are events scheduled for Star Wars Day on May 4 and Free Comic Book Day on May 7. For additional details or events, visit PlanitNorthwest.com or contact your local library.

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OPEN POSITIONS NOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! OPEN POSITIONS NOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

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MAINTENANCE WORKER Allendale Association, a Child Welfare, Mental Health and Special Education facility is currently seeking a full time Maintenance Worker to perform a variety of complex and routine repairs/preventive maintenance of physical plant and equipment including rough/ finish carpentry, painting, electrical, and plumbing at our Lake Villa IL location. Candidate must have a High School diploma or equivalent experience.

Exceptions will be considered based on agency need and experience. A valid driver’s license with a valid driving record is also required. Journeyman level experience in one or more of the following trades: carpentry, electrical, or plumbing, and an eligibility to obtain a Journeyman license is also required.

Familiarity with hardware repair and installation, building and NFPA code requirements, and installing and repairing VCT, VET, and Ceramic tile desired.

We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits and an education assistance program.

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PAINTER MAINTENANCE WORKER Allendale Association, a Child Welfare, Mental Health and Special Education facility is currently seeking a full time Painter Maintenance Worker to perform routine maintenance of the physical plant, skilled interior and exterior painting/ staining of walls, buildings, and other structural surfaces using hand/power tools, brushes, rollers, and spray equipment at our Lake Villa IL location. Candidate must have a High School diploma or equivalent experience. Exceptions will be considered based on agency need and experience.

Three years painting and maintenance experience, One year patching, hanging, taping, and finishing drywall experience, and a working knowledge of surface preparation, paint, stain, and finish products, their application, and in the use of hand/power tools required. An ability to calculate amounts of required materials and estimate costs, based on surface measurements and work orders, and a valid driver’s license with a valid driving record also required. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits and an education assistance program.

Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download our application and email or send with a copy of your resume to:

Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download our application and email or send with a copy of your resume to:

ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION Attn: HR Dept P.O. Box 1088, Lake Villa, IL 60046 Fax: 847-356-0290 careers@allendale4kids.org AA/EEO

ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION Attn: HR Dept P.O. Box 1088, Lake Villa, IL 60046 Fax: 847-356-0290 careers@allendale4kids.org AA/EEO

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MAY 9TH, 8:00 8:00AM-1:00PM & 3:00PM - 7:00PM • Hiring Sous Chef for ���� West • Hiring Full-Time & Seasonal Cooks • On The Spot Hiring & Interviews

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• Meet The Culinary Team • Chef’s Demo Table • Menu Samplings

McHenry County Valley Hi Nursing Home is looking for FT/PT CNAs, FT/PT Nurses and Registry for all shifts to join their team.

Nursing Assistant CertiďŹ cation required, C.P.R. Cert. preferred and RN/LPN degree required for Nurses. FT employees are eligible for health insurance,, County/employee ty mp ye sponsored pension, and generous spon sp onso on sore so red re d pe pens nsio ns ion, io n, a nd g ener en erou er ouss time off. ou

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Machine Operators (Full Time) • 12 Hour Rotational Shift: Night Shift Available • 8 Hour Shift: 2nd & 3rd Shift Available

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MECHANIC The Village of Huntley has an opening for a Mechanic.

Apply at: www.huntley.il.us

OFFICE, WAREHOUSE and SUMMER POSITIONS

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Metalmaster Roofmaster is a large commercial sheetmetal & roofing contractor located in McHenry, IL that is seeking a candidate for an immediate, full time position of Administrative Assistant in our Estimating Department. Duties include proficiency in typing notes and proposals. filing, spreadsheet data entry, calling contractors for projects to bid, searching for leads on projects to bid via construction websites, customer service, light marketing, cross-training, problem solving and posses strong organizational, verbal & written communication skills.

Must be able to manage heavy volume of emails and daily web-site searches. Requirement: To be proficient w/ Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. Hours: 7:30am-5:30PM, Mon-Fri. Qualified candidates please submit resume to: HR@Metalmaster.us Animal Care

EXPERIENCED PET GROOMER – FULL TIME Located in Woodstock. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday. Dogs bathed & HV dried for you. Must have own tools.

We provide all other equipment & supplies.

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PET BATHER – FULL TIME

Flinn Scientific is hiring 1st shift teammates across the company!

We even have opportunities for graduating high school seniors and college students for the summer!

Join our winning team by applying in person today at: 770 N Raddant Rd. Batavia, IL 60510 or by submitting a resume to hr@flinnsci.com.

Quality Control Technician

Lehigh Hanson: Algonquin Sand and Gravel Duties: The candidate should be an organized, safety conscious, motivated individual that will perform all of the aggregate quality testing at this sand and gravel plant in accordance with the IDOT standard.

Please email resume to: Koleary@Lehighcement.com

LEHIGH HANSON IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER - EEO/M/F/D/V "A Drug Free Workplace

SWIMMING POOL TECHNICIAN

We are looking for a motivated, dependable person for a Full Time opportunity as a Swimming Pool Technician.

Experience preferred but willing to train the right person.

Veterans welcome. Valid Drivers License required.

Call 847-854-7767 or fax 847-854-5444

Call for interview 815-338-3647.

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Available Shifts Weekdays and/or Weekends 3-12 Hour Days &/or Night. 24-Hour Sleep-Overnight Shifts.

Apply online: https://va175.ersp.biz/employment Visiting Angels is an EEO employer

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Woodstock Estate Sale

815-355-8790

Sat Apr 30 & Sun May 1 8-5

HANDYMAN

11315 Country Club Road

Anything to do with Wood

We can Fix or Replace Doors and Windows Senior Discount 815-943-4765 CAT FOUND - Young male cat white with black NW of Harvard 815-943-5623

GENERAL LABOR

Temporary part time positions at Heider's Berry Farm in Woodstock.

CAREGIVERS

MAILBOX & POST SALES & INSTALLATION

Call 815-482-0171

Membership/Volunteer Coordinator

The McHenry County Historical Society & Museum in Union seeks an organized, flexible and people-oriented Membership/Volunteer Coordinator to assist with the management and recruitment of members and volunteers. Computer skills a must. Start at 18 hours/week. Salary commensurate w/experience. Some weekends/evenings required.

Email resume w/references to Kurt Begalka at

kurt@mchenrycountyhistory.org

DOG – FOUND

Male small black and white dog.

Not fixed or chipped, no tags.

Found on East side of Wonder Lake on 4/14/16.

Looks as if recently groomed.

Contact at bentza1101@gmail.com

READER NOTICE:

We need high energy, experienced, fun loving & customer oriented staff. WAVE BAR & GRILLE in Johnsburg Also, FRONT DESK RECEPTIONIST opening at hotel.

Email: info@waterfronthotelandmarina.com

HORSE FARM LABORER

Experience with horses preferred. Call 847-501-0190

LABORERS

Custom homebuilder seeking entry level Laborers.

Must be able to lift 70 lbs or more. Material handling experience desired. Valid DL with reliable transportation is a must. Pay based on experience. Benefits. Call 262-248-9210

DENTAL ASSISTANT / RECEPTIONIST PART TIME Flexible hours, no weekends. Experience a plus.

Bruggeman Dentistry, Crystal Lake Call 815-455-3123 or email resume: bruggemandentistry@sbcglobal.net

LEGAL ASSISTANT

Full time Legal Assistant needed for busy Crystal Lake law office with nine attorneys. Responsibilities require experience with document preparation, filing of motions & notices, subpoenas, written discovery, family law, real estate transactions, scanning and filing, answering phones, computers, Microsoft Office, transcription from dictation, communication with clients. Flexibility and ability to multi-task are critical. Competitive compensation, paid vacations, group health and retirement benefits.

Please send resume and cover letter with salary requirements to dplunkett@bruninglaw.com

LEGAL SECRETARY Position available for a family law firm - McHenry county.

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Huntley Estate Sale Health Care

The Springs at Crystal Lake Rehab Center is hiring

PM CNAs and Nurses 1000 Brighton Lane, Crystal Lake

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Retired Minister Provides Non-Medical Home Companion Care for Elderly & Disabled Persons 815-338-2234 or email: dplarsen1073@att.net

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Ridgefield Garden Sale

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8509 Ridgefield Rd. Antiques, Vintage Garden Products, Primitives & Salvage + Many Garden Items & Much More!

Crystal Lake Huge Moving Sale

Prom Dresses – Pink, size 5, lace up back and scalloped waist; Turquoise Blue size 3/4, Cinderella style $35 each 815-651-0846

Electric Dryer – Maytag, Bisque $75 815-861-2174 Frigid Air- Side by Side, Good Cond! $100 630-330-9970

Kenmore Window Air Conditioner – $100 5200BTU. Works Great! Hardly used!

815-3540654 Kitchen Range – Kenmore, White, 5 Burner, Gas $260 815-861-2174

Microwave – OTC, White, GE Profile $60 815-861-2174

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McHenry Garage Sale 1403 N Freund Ave April 30th 9-3 May 1st 9-2 ST. FRANCIS RUMMAGE SALE - MCHENRY 5345 Flanders Road

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Reconditioned and Guaranteed Washers, Dryers, Stoves and Refrigerators.

Good Selection. Low Prices.

Assured Appliance, 121 N. Emmett St, Genoa 847-293-0047

Dressers/Antique, Oak, 4 Drawers, Excellent Condition. $350/both. 815-459-1179 21 speed bicycle with Mountain Suspension - 24 x 1.95 tires. Model Kawasaki MXL 250. Good condition. $45. Crystal Lake. 815-477-7429

Bricks & Pavers - $100/per pallet – Can Send Pics.

630-330-9970

Whirlpool Tub/Indoor - 42 x 66, Dark Navy Blue New, never used, (paid $1,950 new), sell for $400/firm.

815-653-4612

Store Fixtures, Shelving, Etc.

All Fixtures Must Go! Wendt True Value, Plano 630-552-3564 or 630-330-3126

TV – 46” Sony Bravia LCD HD, Exc Cond! $250 UPU 847-658-4913 2 oak, carved antique rocking chairs, 1 with cane seat $30 each or take both for $50. 847-659-9822

Pair of La-Z-Boy leather recliners. Navy Blue. Good condition. $125 for both. Crystal Lake. 815-477-7429

Absorbent Mattress Pads 30”x30” for People or Pets

Rattan Furniture, Sofa, Floor Lamp, End Table and (2) Chairs, EXC COND! $250 815-943-5304 Sofa ~ 84” Tan, Excellent Condition, $200/obo.

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BBQ- Stainless Steel Charm Glow, 4 Burner w/ Cover $25 224-569-6246

Solid oak pedestal table with 1 leaf, 4 oak chairs.

Great condition. $100. 847-659-9822

White Metal Bunk Bed – Lower Dble Sz, Upper Twin Sz. Matresses Not Incl. Exc Cond! $100 815-308-5515

Wicker Furniture Set – White, 2 Chairs, Bench, Table $150 815-344-4863 Wood Table and 2 wooden chairs - New in the box and never used, 3ft x 3ft $60. Call 815-900-1807 Youth Bedroom Set - Will furnish 2 rooms. "Windjammer" by Young-Hinkle.

Saddle brown finish w/ heavily distressed solid oak & matching oak veneers. Set includes: sea chest, pair of 3 drawer chests with bookshelves, pair of door chests, 2 desks - 1 has lighted hutch, 1 chair, 1 light bridge.

1 door hinge needs repair. $400. Crystal Lake. 815-477-7429

Area Rugs – Gently Used, Very Good Prices, Most Burgundy Themed Colors, Can E-Mail Pics if Interested.

847-254-4760 2002 John Deere L120 Lawn tractor.

20hp 48 inch cut. Runs well, needs cowling. $500. 815-363-0858

Cub Cadet Riding Mower – 2013, LTX 1046M 46” Cut, 67hrs, $1200 815-382-2400 ELECTRIC LAWN MOWER - Home Lite Cordless 24 volt, battery operated with grass catcher & charger plus original owners manual. $58. 847-658-3436

Garden Bench - Cast iron and wood $30. 847-659-9822 LAWN MOWER -- Cub Cadet Z Force Series zero radius 46" lawn mower. 5 years old with 141.5 hours in good condition.

Asking $3,200. 847-456-0961 Chris

4 cases, disposable, 100 pads per case, $30/ea 815-701-7369

Diecast Model Cars –1/18th Scale, Buicks, $20each/OBO 815-477-4667 GRILL - Weber, 3 burner with gas tank and cover. $125. 847-952-1920

AVA 2 Year Old Female Jack Russell/Pug Mix I can always count on my best friend to show me where I am wrong--in a loving way. I will always listen to her criticism. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400 Chihuahua Pups, 9 Weeks, Also Chinese Crested Fluffy Pups for adoption, $250/ea. 847-487-5900 Dog Kennels (4) 10x10x6 with gate.

(2) 10x4, all for $100.00. 815-653-1031

Guinea Pig, White, Long Hair Male With cage, water bottle and food dish.

Also 3 Hamsters

Patio Set - Dark brown, 2 sling rockers, w/matching ottoman, slate top table. Good condition $60. 847-659-9822

1 male and 2 female with cage and dishes.

Perrennial Hardy Geraniums - $3.50/ea 815-338-5621 Ryobi Weed Eater – Great Cond! $65 815-653-4612

815-526-2109

TREES ~ NICE! - Evergreens 6'-8', 3 or more $225, Maples 3”- 6” $350+ . Delivered and planted.

815-378-1868

HAY ~ 4x5 ROUND BALES, $20/EA

SMALL SQUARES BALES, $3. 815-338-3388

Bedroom Set - Solid oak Captains bed w/bookcase headboard & 4 drawers, matching desk w/3 drawers $400. 815-651-0846

6' Wood Step Ladder, 8' Wood Step Ladder (Keller) 4in Heavy Duty Belt Sander - $65 for all 3 Cedar Lined Blanket Chest, 847-624-9544 Great Condition - $50. 847-659-9822 Aluminum step ladder, unfolds to Couch – 75” w/ Chair, Tan & Brown, Trim Wood 14 ft. straight ladder. $50. 847-659-9822 Carving. $100 815-403-4388 (Mchenry) Delta free standing drill press – 17-900 -$75 + Delta Curio Cabinet - Pine, Half Moon, $40. ½ hp grinder on stand- $75- 815-459-8417 815-578-1429 Ladder – Fiberglass Exten. Ladder. 28' Heavy Duty.

Dining Room Set - Includes table with 1 leaf, custom $150 815-653-4612. table pads, 6 oak chairs, matching lighted China Cabinet and buffet with 4 doors. $350. 847-659-9822 Ryobi TS254 Miter Saw – Like New. 80T Thin Kerf Glider Rocker with ottoman. Beige upholstery Good condition. $30. 847-659-9822

Carbide Blade. Dustbag. Work Clamp. Table Extensions. Laser Guide. $50 312-608-1009

Leather Love Seat & Ottoman - Royal Green, Good condition. $125. Crystal Lake. 815-477-7429

Sears/Craftsman Industrial Electric Screwdriver, Variable Speed/Reversible - $8. 847-658-3436

Living Room Set with Ottoman, $350.

815-403-2044

TILE SAW - Workforce 7” electric tile saw, like new in box.

Used only for one bathroom project. $50. 815-245-1055

MOVE-OUT SALE Duncan Fife Mahogany Dining Table w/ 4 chairs $300 D.F. Coffee Table $150 Matching end tables $150 Various Wall hangings, Brass items, Crystal accessories.

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GUINEA PIGS (2) FREE TO GOOD HOME With cage and extras. 262-949-7195 Kittens ~ Very Friendly Need good home ! 6 weeks old Tabby. Grey/White/Tan – POTTY TRAINED! 847-639-0686

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2010 Mini Cooper Convertible

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Antique and Modern Guns

Old Lever Actions, Winchesters, Marlins, Savages, etc. Old Pistols and Revolvers. Cash for Collection. FFL License. 815-338-4731

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2 door, 28K miles, automatic, all leather/power, brown with black top.

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LINDY'S LANDING ON BANGS LAKE IN WAUCONDA APRIL 29, 30 AND MAY 1ST FOR MORE INFO GO TO LAKECOUNTY WATERSPORTS.COM

Crystal Lake-Somerset Condo. 2BR, 2B, AC, All Apls. Incl. Pool, Patio, Storage, Complete Upgrade.

No Pets. 900/mo + Sec. 815-459-8281

some work. Garaged and will include custom cover. 87,043 miles with recent tune up. $8,000 OBO - Chris 847-456-0961

McHenry – Morgan Hill. 2BR, 2B, Beautiful View of Park. $1275/mo Jeff: 815-276-3413 All makes, cash paid, reasonable. Will pick-up.

630-660-0571

2002 Ford Taurus Station Wagon – 122k, Runs Good, Clean $3500 815-575-1591 2002 Toyota Avalon XLS Gold – 135k, Exc. Cond! $4000 847-658-8522

2003 PT Cruiser Turbo, 120K Mi, New Tires

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Twin Lakes, WI Lakefront Studio - Beach, pier, 18 min to Rt. 120 & 31. $475/mo. MONTH FREE! 847-256-0986

Woodstock 1BR $645 & 2BR $745 2012 Harley Heritage Soft Tail Classic – $13,500/obo. 14k. Transferrable Serive Plan until All appliances, A/C, balcony, on site laundry, no pets.

847-382-2313 ~ 708-204-3823 1/21/18. New Rear tire, Recent Clutch Cable. woodstocknorthwestapartments.com Jim : 847-458-1971 Woodstock ~ Quiet, Nice 1BR, Heat Included MOTORCYCLES WANTED Vouchers considered, $735/mo. 815-337-0628

1978 VW Super Beetle convertible in good shape. Runs but needs

KNACK ROOFERS RACK FOR PICKUP TRUCK FITS 6' OR 8' BED ADJUSTABLE, UNIVERSAL, BOLT TOGETHER $1200 new, 8 months old, $300/obo.

815-212-9171

117K miles, $1,000/obo

Fox River Grove - Across the Street from Metra. Brand New

Apartments and Store, 1 & 2BR Apt, $650/mo. 847-812-9274

Boat - Aluminum, 14', Good Condition!

Call 847-452-8956 Days or 224-800-6604 Nights

4 WeatherTek Mats (2 Front, 2 Back) – Black Exc. Cond!

2012-2015 Nissan Sentra + 2 Remotes W/ Key. 262-496-2614

1992 Pontiac Grand Am - Good Running Car

Crystal Lake – 1BR, $800 + SEC, Quiet Bldg, Hardwood Floors, No Pets, Heat & Water Incl, Garage Avail. 815-455-6964

150HP fuel injected mariner, hydraulic steering, manual jack plate, hot foot, 4 blade SS prop, 2 fish locators, on board battery charger, 3 newer 2002 Chevy Astro Van – AWD, V6, A/C, Rear Heat, batteries, AM/FM stereo, 24 volt motor guide, 70 lb Power Windows & Mirrors, Stereo Tape/CD, $3500 hand-bow mount trolling motor. Boat is stored inside, trailer has Buddie bearings, spare tire and transom 847-899-5909 saver, $7900. Call Wes 815-382-0025

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Electronics, Outboard motors, fishing gear, motorcycles or mopeds, chainsaws, tools etc. Cash on the spot.

Cell: 815-322-6383

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan.

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Portable Oxygen Concentrator WANTED TO BUY: Vintage or New, working or not.

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs 1990 & Newer Will beat anyone's price by $300.

Golf Bag - Salzenger, 15 Clubs, Size 8 Shoes, Glove, 2 dozen golf balls, $70.

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Harvard 2BR in Country,1BA, 1CG, Appl, W/D, Pets OK $850 + sec + credit chk, Util not incl. 815-943-7493

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Hometown Realty 815-347-1712

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3600-10400 SF Office/WH. 14' OH Doors w/Dock.

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Randall Rd to Miller Rd on Lakewood, R on Player Publisher's Notice: All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation of discrimination." Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

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Harrison School District #36, 6809 McCullom Lake Road, Wonder Lake, IL 60097 announces that proposals will be taken for Diesel Fuel and Seal Coating for the 2016-2017 school year until May 18, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. Bids will be opened on that same date at 12:00 p.m. To view and/or print the RFP or bid packet, visit the District website, www.hsd36.org; click District, and then scroll down to the section labeled “Bid Packet”. For further information, please contact Sue Wings, Superintendent of Harrison School, 815-653-2311.

Harrison School District #36 receives grant monies from various federal and state programs and sources. These grants include REAP, Title I, Title II. The proposed work is not paid for by grant funding.

Dr. Susan Wings, Superintendent Board of Education Harrison School District #36 (Published in the Northwest Herald May 1, 2016) 1182901

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before the Committee of the Whole of the Village of Cary, McHenry County, Illinois, located at 655 Village Hall Drive, Cary, Illinois 60013 on May 17, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. The purpose of the hearing is to consider the Petition of Ridgefield Homes, LLC for a variation to install a sixfoot fence in an exterior side yard for the property commonly known as 1 Walnut Ridge Court, PIN 1912-253-021. Copies of the Petition are on file with the Village. Interested persons who wish to provide written testimony or documentary evidence to the Committee of the Whole may contact the Cary Community Development Department at (847) 639-1100.

Nancy Bragg Village Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald on May 1, 2016) 1183306

2016 SENIOR CITIZENS ASSESSMENT FREEZE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION The Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption (35ILCS 200/15-172) allows qualified senior citizens to elect to maintain the equalized assessed value of their home at the base year value and prevent any increase due to inflation. The base year is the year prior to the year you first qualify and apply for the exemption. The assessment freeze exemption does not freeze the amount of your property tax bill, which could increase if the tax rate increases. Your assessment and tax bill may also increase if you add improvements to your home.

To qualify for the assessment freeze in 2016, you must be 65 years of age or older during the taxable year and have a total household income of no more than $55,000 in 2015. In addition, on January 1, 2016 and January 1, 2015, you must have used the property as your principal place of residence, have owned the property or had legal or equitable interest in the property by written instrument, or had a leasehold interest in the single-family residence and be liable for the payment of property taxes.

Application must be submitted by July 1st, 2016. Information and applications are available from the Office of Assessments, located in the Administration Building, directly north of the Courthouse Complex on Ware Road, 2200 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock, IL 60098, (815) 334-4290. Applications are also available on our website at www.co.mchenry.il.us . Click on County Government, then Departments A-I, then Assessments, then Forms and Rules and click on the above named application for the current year.

Marengo, Grafton, Greenwood, Chemung, Riley, Seneca, McHenry, Dunham, Dorr, Bloomington, Ela, Lyle, Winfield, Downers Grove Township Road Districts, as a joint venture will be receiving sealed bids to supply and apply Reclamite Asphalt Rejuvenator and CRF Restorative Seal, manufactured by Golden Bear Specialties as per specifications. Specifications and bid forms may be obtained at the Marengo Township Road District office at 4010 N. Route 23, from 7:00, am to 3:00 pm Monday through Friday they will not be mailed or E mailed. Sealed bids must be received no later than 8:00 AM May 17th 2016 at the Marengo Township Road District office. They will be opened and read aloud at 9AM at the offices of Dorr Township 1039 Lake Ave. Woodstock, Il. 60098 The combined Government Agencies listed above shall reserve the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informalities/technicalities and to select and accept that bid considered to be the most PUBLIC advantageous.

8:00 AM May 17th 2016 at the

Marengo Township Road District office. They will be opened 19and CLASSIFIED read aloud at 9AM at the offices of

Dorr Township 1039 Lake Ave. Woodstock, Il. 60098 The combined Government Agencies listed above shall reserve the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informalities/technicalities and to select and accept that bid considered to be the most advantageous.

By order of John Adamson Marengo Township Highway Commissioner

(Published in the Northwest Herald May 1, 2016) 1183006

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Notice of Public Hearing By order of John Adamson Pioneer Center for Human Services Marengo Township RE: State of Illinois Paratransit Vehicle Grant for McHenry County Highway Commissioner Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by: Pioneer (Published in the Northwest Center for Human Services. Herald May 2016) On:1,May 12th,1183006 2016 at 2:30 p.m.

Where: Pioneer Center for Human Services Pioneer West Building - Conference Room 4031 Dayton Street McHenry, Illinois, 60050 I. For the purpose of considering a project for which financial assistance is being sought from the Illinois Department of Transportation, pursuant to the Illinois Department of Transportation's general authority to make such Grants, and which is generally described as follows: A. Description of Project: A request for up to four Paratransit Vehicles each with a capacity of five to fourteen seated passengers and/or up to two to four wheelchairs at a cost of $41,000 - 63,000 per vehicle to be used to provide transportation throughout McHenry County, including door-to-door service when necessary, to persons with disabilities, low-incomes and/or those who are homeless and who are unable to access these transportation services at this time from other public and private transit operators. This project will be included in a Consolidated Vehicle Procurement Program undertaken by the State of Illinois on behalf of Pioneer Center for Human Services, with State and Federal Funds.

B. Relocation - Relocation Assistance will not be required.

C. Environment - This project is being implemented to minimize en(Published in the Northwest Herald vironmental impact.

May 1, 2016) 1182870 D. Comprehensive Planning - This project is in conformance with comprehensive transportation planning in the area.

E. Elderly and Disabled - All new equipment included in this project PUBLIC NOTICE will meet ADA accessibility rules for the elderly and persons with disabilMARENGO TOWNSHIP HIGHWAY ities.

II. At the hearing Pioneer Center for Human Services will afford an opDEPT. portunity for interested persons or agencies to be heard with respect to 4010 N. Route 23 the social, economic and environmental aspects of the project. InterestMarengo, IL. 60152 ed persons may submit orally or in writing, evidence and recommendaMcHenry County John Adamson, tions with respect to said project.

Highway Commissioner III. A copy of the application for a state grant for the proposed project for Phone 815-568-8636 the intended service area will be made available for public inspection Fax 815-568-1851 at: Pioneer Center for Human Services - 4100 Veterans Parkway E-mail mgocom@sbcglobal.net McHenry, Illinois, 60050, Contact: Tom Riley - Grant Writer (815) 759-7121 Prevailing wage bid opportunity (Published in the Northwest Herald May 1, 2016.) 1182838 Marengo, Grafton, Greenwood, Chemung, Riley, Seneca, McHenry, Dunham, Dorr, Bloomington, Ela, Lyle, Winfield, Downers Grove Township Road Districts, as a joint venture will be receiving sealed bids to supply and apply Reclamite Asphalt Rejuvenator and CRF Restorative Seal, manufactured by Golden Bear Specialties as per specifications. Specifications and bid forms may be obtained at the Marengo Township Road District office at 4010 N. Route 23, from 7:00, am to 3:00 pm Monday through Friday they will not be mailed or E mailed. Sealed bids must be received no later than 8:00 AM May 17th 2016 at the Marengo Township Road District office. They will be opened and read aloud at 9AM at the offices of Dorr Township 1039 Lake Ave. Woodstock, Il. 60098 The combined Government Agencies listed above shall reserve the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informalities/technicalities and

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