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Good morning, McHenry County ...

School closures, enrollment will be hot topics locally next year Just like the rest of you, we’re ready to slam the door on 2016 before any more celebrity creeping death blows in. Somehow Keith Richards never seems to sweat it.

We’re also wrapping up our Stories of the Year, which we’ll reveal beginning Monday. In the meantime, it’s becoming obvious what one of the big local stories will be in 2017.

Woodstock School District 200 is wrestling with the thorny question of whether to close school buildings in the face of declining enrollment as taxpayers across McHenry County and Illinois do battle over exorbitant property taxes.

They won’t be alone in Woodstock, Crystal Lake-based School Districts 47 and 155 and others are facing similar predicaments. Lots of nice, shiny new schools, but fewer and fewer shiny new faces to take seats at the desks.

If you’ve lived here since the early 1990s, you watched McHenry County experience one of the largest population explosions in the country.

Things were leveling out a bit by the mid-2000s, but another boom appeared to be on its way in certain portions of the county.

Coincidentally, my family was growing then and I was shopping for a home around then.

If it grows anymore in 2017, it will be because of some biological or cosmic malfunction. But about 2006, we were among potential buyers at the Apple Creek development near Routes 47 and 14.

We should have seen something coming

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Kevin Lyons when existing homes in neighborhoods that we previously couldn’t afford started falling into our mortgage possibility wheelhouse. Apple Creek was slated for 1,100 units. Only a few hundred were build before the housing market collapsed like the fourth-quarter Chicago Bears.

Now my oldest attends school in one of those new buildings in Apple Creek built to meet the needs of rooftops that only exist theoretically on some sad and lonely city planning documents.

As a taxpayer, I’m concerned. As a parent with two school-age children, I’m more concerned. That same scenario will play out in other parts of the county and meanwhile there will be school board elections this spring.

Meanwhile, as journalists, we’ll need to take an unflinching and unsentimental look at the numbers and at these issues over the next few years.

• Kevin Lyons is news editor of the Northwest Herald. Reach him at 815-526-4505 or email him at kelyons@shawmedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @KevinLyonsNWH.

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NEW YORK – A New York man says he and his husband were removed from a JetBlue flight after his husband “expressed displeasure” about flying with Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner.

Matthew Lasner said on Twitter that JetBlue staff kicked him and his husband off the flight from New York’s Kennedy airport to Florida on Thursday after overhearing his husband’s remarks. Lasner tweeted earlier that his husband was chasing the couple down in the terminal “to harass them.”

Lasner has since deleted his Twitter account.

JetBlue cited the possibility of “the risk of escalation during flight” in explaining the decision to remove the men. The airline said the couple was rebooked for the next available flight.

–Wire report

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“My daughter graduated from there last year, I told her this news and she was excited and happy for him to get the position. I was glad to hear her reaction as I have more kids about to go through that school.”

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on a story about RichmondBurton High School principal Thomas Lind being selected as the superintendent of Richmond-Burton Community High School District 157 and Nippersink School District 2 See story on page A6

ON THE COVER People wait in line Thursday while they drop off items for Huntley’s Holiday Without Hunger food drive to benefit the Grafton Food Pantry at Pub 47 in Huntley.

See story on page A3.

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CORRECTION

A story about local candidates who have filed for the upcoming April 4 election that appeared on page A3 of the Tuesday, Dec. 20, edition incorrectly labeled Lakewood Village Board candidate Eugene Furey as a newcomer. He is an incumbent running for his third term.

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ABOVE: Santa Claus greets people while they drop off items Thursday at Pub 47 in Huntley for Huntley’s Holiday Without Hunger to benefit the Grafton Food Pantry. BELOW: Joshua Gliszczynski (left), 9, of Huntley and his father, Keith Gliszczynski, hand off items Thursday to the Huntley Red Raiders Travel Baseball team while dropping off items for the food drive.

Pub 47 hosts huge fundraiser in Huntley for Grafton Food Pantry

By NATE LINHART

nlinhart@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – Pub 47 assistant manager Lacey McKenzie said she was looking for a way to give back during the holidays when she saw a flier from the Grafton Food Pantry. That’s when she helped come up with the idea to start a fundraiser.

“We then brainstormed a way to give back and help out the food pantry and started thinking about who could help us accomplish this fundraiser

and who would be our supporters,” McKenzie said.

Pub 47 hosted its inaugural Huntley’s Holiday Without Hunger from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday. Throughout the day, hundreds of people came out to fill a bus parked in front of Pub 47, 10400 Route 47, with donated items for the local food pantry. Requested items included canned goods, personal grooming products, clothing, shoes, gas cards, gift cards and monetary donations.

See HOLIDAY WITHOUT HUNGER, page A10

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McHenry County College concert band members and Salvation Army volunteers Bruce Lane of Cary, with a vintage Salvation Army cornet, and Terri Bohl of Hebron, with a trumpet, play Christmas music Thursday in front of the Crystal Lake Walmart. Extreme weather has caused a $60,000 shortfall in The Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign. Bell ringing ends Saturday. For a video, visit NWHerald.com.

Cold spell freezes Salvation Army red kettle donations

By NATE LINHART

nlinhart@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The Salvation Army of McHenry County set a goal to collect $200,000 from this year’s Red Kettle Campaign. However, because of recent freezing temperatures, the campaign is short about $60,000.

“It’s difficult to ask our wonderful volunteers to stand outside during periods

where the wind chill is so dangerous,” Executive Director Carol Lewis said.

“Several of our partner stores allowed our kettle stands to be moved inside for a few days, for which we are truly grateful.”

With more than 50 red kettles set up around McHenry County, the Red Kettle Campaign is The Salvation Army’s biggest fundraiser of the year. But donations still are falling short of expectations.

“We want to serve in the same capacity as we always have. We need help in order to do that,” said Robert Miller, advisory board chairman of The Salvation Army McHenry County.

Along with needing more donations, more volunteers also are needed through Christmas Eve. To volunteer, people can sign up by calling 815-455-2769 or by checking out its website at www.salarmycl.org.

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Donate your car, SUV, truck, boat, RV or motorcycle. You’ll get a receipt for the amount of the sale for tax purposes.

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SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR MCHENRY COUNTY SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR McHENRY COUNTY

A weak storm system will produce spotty rain and snow showers across the region Friday afternoon and evening. High temperatures will generally rise to near the freezing mark. Rather cloudy and seasonably chilly on Saturday to start off the holiday weekend. Christmas Day on Sunday looks to be wet with on-and-off rain and drizzle.

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Richmond-Burton, Nippersink school districts pick new leader NORTHWEST HERALD RICHMOND – Richmond-Burton Community High School District 157 and Nippersink School District 2 announced that the school boards have selected a new superintendent to replace retiring Superintendent Dan Oest.

The boards chose Richmond-Burton High School Principal Thomas Lind, who has been with the district for the past eight years serving first Thomas Lind as assistant principal and as principal for the past five years.

Over the past eight years, Lind also has taught graduate school courses at St. Xavier University in Chicago, National Louis University and Concordia

University in Chicago. Before moving with his family to Richmond, Lind was an educator and coach at Hononegah Community High School for 13 years.

Lind has a master’s degree in educational leadership from Concordia University, a degree in educational leadership and administration and an educational specialist degree from Northern Illinois University. School district officials said Lind also will earn his doctorate degree in education in January.

School officials said the school boards conducted their search for a new superintendent with the assistance of the Illinois School Board Association in a rigorous process that included surveys, focus groups and interviews before selecting Lind from among a highly qualified field of candidates.

Steve Holtz, president of the Richmond-Burton Community High School District 157 School Board and Nippersink School District 2 Board President Bert Irslinger released a joint written statement Wednesday after Lind’s selection. They thanked the community, faculty, parents and others who participated in the process.

“We are excited to welcome Mr. Lind into this new role as our superintendent, and believe his leadership skills will continue to move our districts forward as we look to build on the high level of education our schools currently provide to our students,” the statement said.

Oest makes $206,394 a year as superintendent, with both districts paying a share of his salary, according to records.

Althoff files bill to create new tax credit program to replace EDGE

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

The bill is Senate Bill 3459.

The program at its core does what EDGE did, namely awarding tax credits for job creation to companies that are actively considering relocating to another state.

“Employers are frequently being solicited to move across the border to Wisconsin,” Althoff said in a statement.

“We need to continue to provide them with incentives to stay, especially in a time when jobs are already leaving our state in record numbers.”

Under the provisions of the new bill, companies would receive credit

for half of the Illinois withholding attributable to job creation, offsetting the corporate income tax for that year.

Companies to be eligible most create at least 50 jobs or jobs equal to 10 percent of its global workforce, whichever is less. They also must have a capital investment in Illinois of at least $2.5 million unless the company employs fewer than 100 people.

The EDGE program has faced controversy as several employers received credits and then let go of employees. The program was reformed to grant credits only for new jobs, not the promise of keeping existing jobs.

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Two MCCD sites open The trail at Hickory Grove Highlands after dark through March 12 is a 1.25-mile looped trail that travels The McHenry County Conservation Dis- through a restored savanna, offering a trict has two sites open late for hiking or longer scenic route with some hills and cross-country skiing through March 12. turns, suitable for intermediate skiers.

Hiking or skiing is permitted until 9 p.m. Visitors should sign in at the trail head. daily on the solar-lit trails at Pleasant For information, visit www.mccdistrict.

Valley, 13315 Pleasant Valley Road, org.

Woodstock, and Hickory Grove Highlands, 500 Hickory Nut Grove Lane, Cary. Winter camping open The Pleasant Valley trail is a half-mile at Marengo Ridge trail on the east side of the entrance MARENGO –McHenry County Conserdrive that traverses relatively flat terrain, vation District winter camping is open

within Thomas Woods at Marengo Ridge Conservation Area, 3100 N. Route 23.

Winter tent campers can enjoy camping and exploring more than 5 miles of hiking and cross-country ski trails that wind through the oak and evergreen woodlands at the site. Both large and small groups are welcome; the campground can accommodate up to 100 people.

Reservations are available on a firstcome, first-served basis. Reserve dates at 815-338-6223 at least 10 working days before your desired camping date.

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kcraver@shawmedia.com State Sen. Pam Althoff and a Democratic lawmaker are making an attempt in the final days of session to revive the more important components of a state business tax credit program set to expire Dec. 31.

Althoff, R-McHenry, and Sen. Melinda Bush, D-Grayslake, filed legislation to preserve the EDGE tax credit program through a successor, the Transforming, Helping and Reviving Illinois’ Versatile Economy, or THRIVE, Act.

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MARENGO – A federal grand jury Thursday charged the vice president of a Marengo asphalt paving company with providing false statements and concealing facts regarding an employee welfare and pension benefit plan and failing to collect taxes.

The federal indictment alleges that Brent Schroeder, vice president of Schroeder Asphalt Services Inc., made false statements and representations of fact in a document required by the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Schroeder submitted a monthly remittance report in May 2012 where he allegedly falsely reported the number of hours his employees worked, ac-

on a quarterly basis, which includes both the employees’ and employer’s share of FICA taxes on wages of individual employees of Schroeder Asphalt Services.

The indictment alleges that between Jan. 1, 2012, and April 16, 2012, Schroeder failed to collect about $2,207.24 in FICA taxes that were due for the first

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Fighting cancer on the ice U.S. women’s hockey Olympians Megan Bozek (left) and Kendall Coyne give Abby Greene, 7, of Crystal Lake a high-five Thursday after she dropped the puck during the opening ceremonies of the third annual Bonnie V. Memorial All Girls Skate at the Crystal Lake Ice House in Crystal Lake. The fundraiser will benefit Greene, who is battling an aggressive brain cancer known as intrinsic pontine glioma.

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Society Museum, 6422 Main St., Union. A holiday open house, contest and show. Quilters invited to show their holiday-themed bed, wall and heirloom quilts at this inaugural event.

Awards given in six categories. The quilts will be on display from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday (closed Dec. 23 & 26). Museum admission is $5, $3 for seniors. Members are free. For information or an entry form, visit www.gothistory.org.

WOODSTOCK OPERA HOUSE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS TREE EXHIBIT, through Dec. 31, Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock. The community is invited to come enjoy the beauty of the holiday season with more than 30 Christmas trees decorated by local community groups and volunteer organizations. On display during business hours and scheduled events. Free. Information: 815-3385300 or www.woodstockoperahouse.com.

DEC. 23 JINGLE BINGO, 7 p.m. Dec. 23, McCullom Lake Village Hall, 4811 W. Orchard Drive, McCullom Lake. Free giveaways, holiday cash and more. Free dinner and desserts. Proceeds benefit pediatric cancer. Information: 815-3852211 or www.frinitebingo.com.

ED HALL’S CHRISTMAS GUITAR NIGHT, 8 p.m. Dec. 23, Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock. Five internationally acclaimed musicians will present an evening of arrangements for the guitar as well as popular holiday favorites. Performing will be Tim

and Myles Thompson, a father/son duo from Hendersonville, Tennessee; Helen Avakian, a singer/songwriter and “guitar goddess” from Madison, Wisconsin; Brother Yusef, the originator of the “Fattback Blues” guitar style from Altadena, California; and host, award-winning guitarist and songwriter Jeff Friedlander from Pittsburgh. Tickets: $30 all seats. Tickets and information: 815-338-5300 or www.woodstockoperahouse.com.

DEC. 25 CHURCH SERVICE, 11 a.m. to noon Dec. 25, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 480 N. Walkup Ave., Crystal Lake. If you haven’t been to church, but feel the draw of Christmas – or if you are looking to spend some family time reflecting on the birth of Christ, come spend some time with us. Free.

Information: Daniel Woestman, 815-997-0087 or dsw@danielwoestman.com.

REGIONAL ONGOING GENEVA LAKE ARTS FOUNDATION HOLIDAY SHOW, through Jan. 8, Gallery 223, 223 Broad St., Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Presented by members of the foundation. The show will include holiday-themed art of various media including paintings, jewelry, pottery and other 3-D work for purchase. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Information: 262-249-7988 or www.genevalakeartsfoundation.org.

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ONGOING OLD COURTHOUSE ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY SALE, through Dec. 30, Old Courthouse Arts Center, 101 N. Johnson St., Woodstock. Featuring 3-D objects, fiber arts of all kinds, jewelry and all kinds of clever, offbeat objects with which to stuff stockings for the holiday season. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Sunday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Free admission. Information: www.oldcourthouseartscenter.org or newsletter@oldcourthouseartscenter.org.

MUSEUM HOLIDAY DISPLAY, through December, McHenry County Historical Society Museum, 6422 Main St., Union. Along with the monthlong Christmas-themed quilt contest and show visitors can see a display of old sleds from Christmas memorabilia collector Dave Harms. The museum stage and exhibit halls are decked out with Santas, bells, holiday china and more. Hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Admission: $5 adults, $3 seniors and students, $12 family, free for members. Information: 815-923-2267 or www. gothistory.org.

CLAYWORKERS GUILD OF ILLINOIS HOLIDAY POTTERY SALE, through Jan. 7, Old Courthouse Arts Center, 101 N. Johnson St., Woodstock. Featuring the work of 15 members

of the guild. Extended hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sundays. Free. Information: www.clayworkersguild.com.

HOLIDAY TRAIN DISPLAY, through Dec. 28, Prairie Lodge, 12880 Del Webb Blvd., Huntley. Annual model train display presented by the Kishwaukee Valley & Eakin Creek Sun City Model Railroad Club. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free. Information: 847-669-2392 or www.sccah.com.

ANNUAL CHRISTMAS TREE & WREATH SALE, Algonquin State Bank, 2400 N. Huntington Drive, Algonquin. The Algonquin Lions Club will sell Fraser fir trees and wreaths from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Information: 847-877-1221 or www.lionsclubofalgonquin.org.

SANTA HOUSE VISITS, through Dec. 23, Brink Street Market, 30 to 40 Brink St., Crystal Lake. Children and their families invited to visit with Santa. Bring a camera. Schedule: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturdays, noon to 3 p.m. Sundays. Hosted

by Downtown Crystal Lake. Free. Information: 815-479-0835 or www.downtowncl.org.

WOODSTOCK SANTA HUT, through Dec. 23, Woodstock Square. Visits with Santa in his hut on the historic square. Schedule: 5 to 7 p.m.

Dec. 23. Information: www.woodstockil.gov.

“ROCK AROUND THE QUILTED TREE,” through Dec. 29, McHenry County Historical

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Halfway through the event, the bus already was filled with hundreds of donated goods.

“We actually had people come here before we planned to open at 9 a.m.,” McKenzie said. “So it’s been a huge success.”

Donor Sunday Graham was just one of the many local residents throughout the day who came in to help out the cause.

“What better gift to give, especially this time of year, to help people who are in need,” Graham said. “The food pantry does such a great thing for the community that events like this are awesome to be able to help them out.”

Later in the evening, the Huntley Red Raiders Travel Baseball team also showed up to support the food pantry.

“Part of our mission is to help mold young men and teach them that there are others in need of help,” said Anthony Siriano, Huntley Red Raiders Travel Baseball president.

“Anytime that we can do something for our community, it’s good for us and

“What better gift to give, especially this time of year, to help people who are in need.”

wood, and portions of Lake in the Hills, Crystal Lake and Algonquin. Harriet Ford, Grafton Food Pantry board member, said the pantry serves about 150 Sunday Graham, donor at Huntley’s Holiday Without Hunger families a year.

“We’re just humbled by the efforts on our behalf,” Ford said. “This not only helps us reach out to new donors but also to potential new clients who may need our services and may not know we exist.”

In addition to the donations, Pub 47 also held a holiday tap takeover where holiday beers were available to buy on tap from Crystal Lake Brewing, One Trick Pony, Revolution and New Belgium Brewing. For the children, Santa came to visit Pub 47 from 5 to 7 p.m.

“The purpose of all these other events was to help draw more people to donate today,” McKenzie said. “We figured it would attract even more people.”

McKenzie said the event wouldn’t have been so successful without the help of other local organizations and Photos by Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com community members who helped supZach Rysavy, 10, of Huntley loads donated items onto the bus Thursday for Huntley’s port the event, including the Huntley Community Radio, The Village of HuntHoliday Without Hunger to benefit the Grafton Food Pantry at Pub 47 in Huntley. ley, Huntley Chamber of Commerce, our kids to be involved,” said Patrick Grafton Food Pantry is a nonprofit Huntley Community School District 158 Kelly, media director for the team. serving the areas of Huntley and Lake- and J Miller Marketing, among others.

Brian Karlow, 18, of Marengo loads donated items onto the bus Thursday for Huntley’s Holiday Without Hunger to benefit the Grafton Food Pantry at Pub 47 in Huntley.

OBITUARIES Sarah L. Belcher 98 of Woodstock died Wednesday December 21, 2016 at Hearthstone Manor Nursing Home in Woodstock Funeral arrangements are pending at the Schneider, Leucht, Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home in Woodstock. For more information call the funeral home at 815 338 1710 or see our website at www.slmcfh@sbcglobal.net.

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.

ERIN K. DAVIS

Among the fellowship of the Saints who greeted her were her parents; brother; nephew; and two loving husbands, John Cannady and Werner Fritsch.

Dee is survived by two sons and their famErin K. Davis, 44, of Woodstock, passed away Friday, December 16, 2016 at her home. ilies; one daughter; and the wonderful community of friends who shared her journey.

She was born May 11, 1972 in Woodstock, Visitation will begin at 10:00am Tuesday, IL the daughter of Gerald E. and Carol A. December 27th until the funeral service at (McClannahan) Davis.

11:00am at Grace Lutheran Church, 1300 Erin worked as an auditor at the Holiday Kishwaukee Valley Rd. in Woodstock. Burial Inn in Crystal Lake. She enjoyed collecting Hollywood Memorabilia and had a passion for will be at Memory Gardens Cemetery in writing. Her dream was to write a Hollywood Arlington Heights.

Memorials can be made to Grace Lutheran script someday. Erin loved music and was a Church or JourneyCare Hospice, 405 Lake diehard Cubs fan. Like many she was so exZurich Rd, Barrington, IL 60010. cited when they won the 2016 World Series.

She would have loved it if her father and uncle For more information, call Schneider Leucht could have been able to see the World Series Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home at 815-3381710, or visit our website at www.slmcfh. memorabilia she bought. Erin will be missed com. by all that knew here. She was a kind-hearted, and sweet soul and would have done anything for anyone.

Survivors include her mother, Carol (Craig ROBERT J. GRUEL Miller) Davis; sister, Terese (Tali) Lemus; niece and nephew, Cheyenne and Konnor Robert J. Gruel, age 82, of Garden Prairie, Lemus; aunts and uncles, Ernest (Connie) passed away Wed. evening at St. Anthony McClannahan, Richard (Jeannie) McClannah- Medical Center, Rockford. an, and Janet (Michael) Feeney.

Arrangements pending at Fredrick Funeral She was preceded in death by her father, Home 847-683-2711.

Jerry; nephew, Nikola Lemus; and her uncle, Dale McClannahan.

Memorial services will be at 11:00 am Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at Four Colo- MARY HAZEL WRONA nies Clubhouse, 680 Cress Creek Lane, Crystal Born: March 8, 1926 Died: December 21, 2016 Lake, IL 60014; with a luncheon to follow.

Family and friends may sign the online guest Mary Hazel Wrona, 90, of book at www.saundersmcfarlin.net.

West Columbia, South CaroliFor more information, call Saunders & Mcna passed away Wednesday, Farlin Funeral Home at 815-943-5400.

December 21, 2016.

She was born on March 8, 1926 in Illinois to the late DOLORES HUELSKAMP Joseph and Mabel (Gufstavasen) Kanaly.

CANNADY FRITSCH In addition to her parents, she is predeBorn: September 1, 1928 ceased by her husband, Raymond Wrona; two Died: December 20, 2016 brothers, Charles and Daniel Kanaly.

Mary is survived by her son, Larry Wrona Dolores “Dee” Huelskamp Cannady Fritsch, born September 1, 1928, walked into the lov- (Anita); four grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. ing arms of her Lord and Savior on Tuesday, Thompson Funeral Home of Lexington is December 20, 2016. After a distinguished assisting the family. Family and friends may career with AT&T, Dee enjoyed volunteering with the American Cancer Society and Journ- sign the online guest book at www.thompsonsfuneral.com. eyCare Hospice.

Born: May 11, 1972; in Woodstock, IL Died: December 16, 2016; in Woodstock, IL

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FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS John J. Alesch: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 26, at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral Home, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley. The funeral Mass celebration will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 27, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee Road, Huntley. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 847-515-8772.

Mona Arend: The visitation will be from 5 p.m. until the 7 p.m. funeral service Friday, Dec. 23, at Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave. (Route 176), Crystal Lake. For information, call the funeral home at 815459-3411.

Eloise F. Arnolde: The visitation will be from 1 p.m. until the 2 p.m. funeral Mass is celebrated Friday, Dec. 23, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 2302 W. Church St., Johnsburg. Interment will be in St. John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery. For information, call Justen Funeral Home & Crematory at 815-385-2400.

Jeannette S. Broughton: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 23, at Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 24, at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 3500 Washington St., McHenry. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery in Woodstock. For information, call the funeral home at 815-338-1710.

Arthur David Carlson Jr.: The memorial celebration will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 27, at Crystal Lake Brewing Company, 150 N. Main St., Crystal Lake.

Erin K. Davis: The memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28, at Four Colonies Clubhouse, 680 Cress Creek Lane, Crystal Lake, with a luncheon to follow.

For information, call Saunders & McFarlin

Funeral Home at 815-943-5400.

Dolores Huelskamp Cannady Fritsch: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service Tuesday, Dec. 27, at Grace Lutheran Church, 1300 Kishwaukee Valley Road, Woodstock. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Arlington Heights. For information, call Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home at 815-338-1710.

Hermine A. Kohout: The visitation will be from 4 p.m. until the 7:30 p.m. service Friday, Dec. 23, at Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary. Burial will be in Windridge Memorial Park. For information, call the funeral home at 847639-3817.

Rhea J. Lapp: The celebration of life will be Saturday, Jan. 28, at Vivante in Punta Gorda, Florida. The funeral Mass celebration will be Saturday, June 3, at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 451 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake.

Lucile L. Oakley: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service Friday, Dec. 23, at Marengo-Union Funeral Home, 505 E. Grant Highway, Marengo. Interment will be private in Flora Cemetery.

For information, call the funeral home at 815-568-8131.

Eugene Seaver: The visitation will be from 3 p.m. until the 6 p.m. funeral Mass is celebrated Tuesday, Dec. 27, at The Church of Holy Apostles, 5211 Bull Valley Road, McHenry. A reception will follow immediately after in the Father Sherry Parish Center. For information, call Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory at 815-385-0063.

Larry J. Seaver: There will be a luncheon to celebrate his life from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, at the Moose Lodge in Harvard.

For information, call Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home at 815-943-5400.

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Please help support our no-kill animal shelter for the stray and abandoned dogs and cats of McHenry County.

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THINGS TO DO IN & AROUND McHENRY COUNTY

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ED HALL’S CHRISTMAS GUITAR NIGHT

WHEN: 8 p.m. Dec. 23 WHERE: Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock COST & INFO: Five internationally acclaimed musicians will present an evening of arrangements for the guitar as well as popular holiday favorites. Performing will be Tim and Myles Thompson, a father/son duo from Hendersonville, Tennessee; Helen Avakian, a singer/songwriter and “guitar goddess” from Madison, Wisconsin; Brother Yusef, the originator of the “Fattback Blues” guitar style from Altadena, California; and host, award-winning guitarist and songwriter Jeff Friedlander from Pittsburgh. Tickets: $30 all seats. Tickets and information: 815-338-5300 or www. woodstockoperahouse.com.

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GENTLE JACK JONES WITH AJ O’REILLY

WHEN: 9 p.m. Dec. 23 WHERE: Mackey’s Hideout, 2601 S. River Road, McHenry COST & INFO: Gentle Jack Jones performs the music of the Grateful Dead; O’Reilly combines the percussive rhythm of the acoustic guitar and the driving force of the Mississippi kick drum. Free.

Information: www.mackeyshideout.com.

ROCKETTES RULE – The Mar Ray Dance Studio “Rockettes” won Best Group for their performance in the McHenry Toys for Tots Christmas parade Nov. 20. The dancers also donated toys for the event. Among those pictured are Hailey Ball, Caitlyn Busse, Sheridan Click, Elizabeth Drwila, Abriel Dullum, Ashley Freund, Madison Jensen, Abby Levinson, Skyler Malcolm, Alyssa McKellar, Brooke Miller, Sarah Rankin, Abby Reich, Amanda Reich, Amber Reich, Kayla Starzyk, Ahlea Voltaire and Paige Wessel.

Crystal Lake

Church to host mobile food pantry

McHenry

The First Congregational Church, 461 Pierson St., will sponsor a Crystal Lake Food Pantry food truck for those in need from 9:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday.

Numbers will be handed out at 9:30 a.m., and shopping begins at 10 a.m. Participants should bring bags to carry the food.

For information, call 815-459-6010 or visit www.fcc-cl.org.

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MCCD offers weekend with nature The McHenry County Conservation District will host “Weekend of Restoration XI: Back to Basics – Coming Close to Nature” from 1 p.m. Jan. 14 to noon Jan. 15 at Lost Valley Visitor Center in Glacial Park, Route 31 and Harts Road.

Participants will help remove invasive trees and shrubs from oak savannas, study winter ecology and enjoy quiet time in the woods. Those who wish to stay on-site overnight may “camp out” inside Lost Valley Visitor Center. The program is open to ages 16 and older.

The registration deadline is Jan. 7. The cost is $45, $30 for seniors, $20 for students. The Register with a Friend Discount offers $10 off the second registration. The fee includes dinner Saturday and breakfast Sunday.

For information, contact Tom Simpson at 815678-4532, ext. 8218, or tsimpson@mccdistrict.org.

WINNING TICKET – Richard Gernady shows the arrangement he won at the McHenry Garden Club’s Holiday Floral Show Nov. 15 at McHenry High School West Campus.

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Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – Accept the inevitable and do your best to come up with innovative solutions that will help you move forward. Connecting the dots between the past and the present will help give you greater insight into the future. Don’t give in to pressure or put up with indecisiveness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Getting involved in the festivities going on around you will lead to indulgences that could end up making you look bad. Be cognizant of the impression you make on others.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Show how much you care for the ones you love by offering affection and hands-on help instead of fancy goods

you cannot afford. Regulate your spending.

Reflect on the past and make smart choices.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Don’t reveal a surprise prematurely. Take time to do something nice for your peers, boss or someone who can make a difference to your status, reputation or financial future.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Keep your reactions to a minimum. If you say or do something that someone doesn’t like, you will be faced with a problem that can affect your reputation as well as your professional gains.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Get together with someone you haven’t seen in a long time. The memories you share will lift your spirits and encourage you to revive old dreams. Consider your professional options.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – A unique gesture will puzzle an employer or co-worker. Put time aside to primp and pamper yourself in preparation for upcoming festivities.

Romance is highlighted.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – It’s time to try something totally new. Taking a trip or attending a cultural event that gives you insight into different traditions will be enlightening.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Look over personal papers and make sure your finances are in order. You’ll discover an interesting way to improve your home without hurting your budget. Aim for greater security.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Plan to have some fun. Decorating your home or getting together with friends or peers for a little

festive cheer will bring you closer together.

Talks will lead to advancement.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Overreacting or doing something on the spur of the moment will lead to trouble. Spending, eating or drinking too much will create a difficult situation.

Self-improvement is encouraged.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – A gift or offering will take you by surprise. Check out an investment that someone suggests. Stick close to home and nurture the relationships that are most important to you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Last-minute paperwork and decisions will help set you up for a better future. Take advantage of an opportunity to network. Romance is encouraged.

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Jurors deliberate in street-gang trial

By MICHAEL TARM The Associated Press

CHICAGO – Jurors who deliberated Thursday for their first full day at the biggest street-gang trial in recent Chicago history head into the holidays facing the daunting task of sorting through months of evidence in a complex racketeering case against purported leaders of the South Side Hobos.

To convict, it won’t be enough for the 12 jurors to conclude the Hobos killed one government witness in front of his terrified stepchildren, robbed then-NBA player Bobby Simmons of his $200,000 diamond chain at gunpoint or committed multiple other crimes. They must find the six defendants coordinated their crimes within an organized criminal enterprise and shared their illicit profits.

Deliberations in the trial, which is drawing to a close in a year when homicides spiked in the city, came after three months of testimony and four

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News from across the state Illinois man sentenced in child porn, knife attack case

PEKIN – A central Illinois man has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for possessing child porn and trying to kill a man who prevented his knife-wielding assault on a room full of children in 2015.

Dustin Brown, 20, learned his punishment Wednesday after pleading guilty but mentally ill in November to possessing child porn, attempted murder and armed violence, the Pekin Daily Times reported.

Tazewell County Circuit Judge Paul Gilfillan said Brown’s mental conditions, including an intellect years behind his age, and sexual abuse he said he allegedly suffered as a child might have contributed to his actions, but that Brown understood they were criminal.

Two of the charges stemmed from his October 2015 attack when he entered the Morton Public Library with two knives, saying he was going to kill more than a dozen children. Army veteran James Vernon, then 75, was injured as he fought

days of closing arguments in federal court in Chicago. Jurors were expected to take Friday through Monday off and resume deliberations Tuesday.

After sitting through four seven-hour days of testimony per week for months, jurors might not begin discussing the evidence in earnest until after Christmas, said Jeff Cramer, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago who’s not involved in the case.

“The evidence has Paris Poe been weighty and disturbing,” he said. “They may need time to decompress.”

Alleged Hobos boss Gregory “Bowlegs” Chester, alleged Hobos hit man Paris Poe and four alleged cohorts are charged with racketeering conspiracy, including nine killings. If jurors enter guilty verdicts on racketeering conspiracy and decide the conspiracy included murders, they could go to prison for life.

But during his closing this week, Chester’s lawyer likened law enforcement to an archer who first shoots an arrow and then draws a target around wherever it lands.

“It was always a fix,” Beau Brindley said. “It was always a fraud.”

When Chester surprised courtroom observers by choosing to testify, he almost immediately addressed the issue of coordinated crimes. The 39-year-old promptly conceded he sold heroin, but asserted it was a one-man operation and that his co-defendants had nothing to do with his crimes and he had nothing to do with theirs. He also repeatedly insisted that the Hobos gang didn’t even exist – despite his full-arm tattoo that read, “Hobo: The Earth is Our Turf.”

The most chilling testimony involved the allegation that Poe, at Chester’s urging, killed gang associate-turned-informant Keith Daniels in 2013 days after Chester’s arrest and after Daniels testified to a grand jury. Prosecutors said Poe shot Dan-

iels over and over at close range as the man’s 4-year-old stepdaughter and 6-year-old stepson looked on.

Daniels’ girlfriend, Shanice Peatry, witnessed the shooting and testified that she immediately recognized Poe, although the defense questioned how she could have been so sure since the attacker wore a mask. Poe’s dreadlocks and a distinctive limp convinced her she identified him correctly, she said. Poe’s lawyer had him walk in front of the jury to demonstrate that Poe doesn’t limp.

In a video statement played to jurors, the boy described someone suddenly appearing and shooting through the family-car windows. He added, “I was covering my ears because the gunshots were too loud.”

Prosecutor Derek Owens told jurors during his closing argument that the killing of Daniels and others was meant as a message from the Hobos that, “You don’t snitch on the Hobos and think you’ll get away with it.”

Brown, managing to pin Brown onto a table and hold him until help arrived.

Brown told police that the children at the library had become targets of revenge after he was charged in February 2015 with 22 counts of possessing child pornography. Brown was free on bond when the incident at the library occurred.

Gilfillan said the community needs protection from someone “who commits fairly horrific crimes” that stem from disturbed fixations that will remain difficult to control.

Brown will be eligible to receive mental health treatment, but must serve his time in prison, Assistant State’s Attorney Kevin Johnson said previously. Time spent since the incident and good behavior could reduce Brown’s prison term to about 22 years. State law requires Brown to serve at least 85 percent of his total term.

The free rides have been sponsored by MillerCoors for several years. Organizers said it’s a safe travel option for people celebrating.

Riders shouldn’t use their fare cards during the free ride period because no refunds will be issued.

Last year, about 113,000 bus and train rides were taken during the hours of the promotion.

Last week at a news conference Ban praised Lincoln, calling him a “heroic force for equality, integration and reconciliation.”

Ban became leader of the United Nations in 2007. His successor is former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, who takes over in January.

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Chicago offers free bus, train rides New Year’s Eve

CHICAGO – New Year’s Eve revelers in Chicago will be able to ride the bus and train for free.

The Chicago Transit Authority announced Wednesday that free rides will begin at 10 p.m. Dec. 31 and run through 4 a.m. Jan. 1. The CTA will increase the frequency of service on some popular routes that night.

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Outgoing U.N. leader praises Lincoln in Illinois

SPRINGFIELD – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has traveled to Illinois in his final days in office.

The (Springfield) State-Journal Register reported the outgoing secretary-general stopped Wednesday at Abraham Lincoln’s tomb. He said Ban Ki-moon the 16th president “exemplified how a leader can inspire people to unite and reconcile and integrate.” While in Springfield, Ban also visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

Earlier Wednesday, he spoke at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. The (Decatur) Herald & Review reported he said his visit comes during “transition and uncertainty.”

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Chicago police to take on ‘code of silence’ on the force

CHICAGO – Chicago’s police chief said the department will attack the “code of silence” by making it easier for officers to report police misconduct and by making it tougher on officers who harass those who do come forward.

In a Wednesday interview, Superintendent Eddie Johnson said in the coming months the department will provide a hotline for officers to report police misconduct. He also said a policy is being put in place in which officers who try to intimidate or ostracize those who come forward will face discipline and could be fired.

The release of a video showing a white police officer fatally shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald and the release of police reports in which officers’ accounts contradicted video accounts have shined a spotlight on the so-called “code of silence.”

– Wire reports

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Clinton wins popular vote It concluded that Snowden compromised national security by nearly 2.9 million WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton received nearly 2.9 million more votes than President-elect Donald Trump, giving her the largest popular vote margin of any losing presidential candidate.

Certified results in all 50 states and the District of Columbia show Clinton winning nearly 65,844,610 million votes – 48 percent – to Trump’s 62,979,636 million votes – 46 percent – according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

Clinton is the fifth presidential candidate in American history to win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College. Democrat Al Gore, the only other presidential candidate this century to come up short in the Electoral College but claim a popular vote victory, received 540,000 more votes than President George W. Bush.

Report: Snowden in contact with Russia’s spy services WASHINGTON – Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden remains in contact with Russian intelligence services, according to a bipartisan congressional report released at a time when Russia is considered a top national security concern.

The two-year inquiry focused on Snowden’s 2013 leak of classified U.S. material about America’s surveillance programs.

by these disclosures and is avoiding prosecution while living in a country that is considered one of the top U.S. adversaries. In recent months, U.S. intelligence agencies have been outspoken about their beliefs that Russia actively interfered in the U.S. political process by hacking into private email accounts.

The report sends a strong message to President Barack Obama during his final days in office: Do not pardon Edward Snowden.

Obama scraps registry for some immigrant men

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration on Thursday officially scrapped the last vestiges of a U.S. registration system for Muslim immigrants. If President-elect Donald Trump now wants to introduce an expanded version of the program, he will have to start from scratch.

The post-9/11 registration program for immigrant men arriving mainly from the Islamic world hasn’t been enforced since 2011.

Although it never prohibited travel for men and boys from the more than 20 affected countries, including Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump’s suggestions about banning Muslim immigrants from the U.S. have led to fears that it could be reinstated and used for new and enhanced purposes.

– Wire reports

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President-elect Donald Trump (second from left) shows out admirals and generals from the Pentagon (foreground) after a meeting Wednesday at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.

Trump says U.S. should expand nuclear capability

By JULIE PACE

The Associated Press WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday abruptly called for the U.S. to “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability” until the rest of the world “comes to its senses” regarding nuclear weapons.

His comments on Twitter came hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said strengthening his country’s nuclear capabilities should be a chief military objective in the coming year. The president-elect’s statement also followed his meetings a day earlier with top Pentagon officials and defense contractors.

Trump, who is spending the holidays at his palatial private club in Florida, did not expand on the actions he wants the U.S. to take or say why he raised the issue Thursday.

Spokesman Jason Miller said the president-elect was referring to the threat of nuclear proliferation “particularly to and among terrorist organizations and unstable and rogue regimes.” Miller said Trump sees modernizing the nation’s deterrent capability “as a vital way to pursue peace through strength.”

If Trump were to seek an expansion of the nuclear stockpiles, it would mark a sharp shift in U.S. national security policy. President Barack Obama has made nuclear non-proliferation a centerpiece of his agenda, calling in 2009 for the U.S. to lead efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons – a goal he acknowledged would not be accomplished quickly or easily.

Still, the U.S. has been moving forward on plans to upgrade its aging nuclear arsenal.

Earlier this year, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the Pentagon planned to spend $108 billion over the next five years to sustain and improve its nuclear force.

The U.S. and Russia hold the vast majority of the world’s nuclear weapons. In 2010, the two countries signed the New START treaty capping the number of nuclear warheads and missile launchers each country can possess.

The agreement is in effect until 2021 and can be extended for another five years.

Thomas Karako, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the last comprehensive review of the U.S. nuclear force – which was conducted during Obama’s first term – occurred against the backdrop of efforts to reset relations between Washington and Moscow. The relationship has since deteriorated, with Obama and Putin clashing over Russia’s provocations in Ukraine and support for Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“We need to candidly asses what the environment is and what the prospects are for Russian compliance with current treaties,” Karako said.

Trump has repeatedly called for closer relations with Russia and has spoken favorably about Putin. Democrats have questioned his ties to the Kremlin, particularly after U.S. intelligence officials assessed that Russia had interfered in the U.S. election on Trump’s behalf.

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Dems press Trump’s picks for financial data

By ANDREW TAYLOR The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Top Senate Democrats are trying to put the brakes on President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, insisting on extensive financial information on some of the wealthiest Americans before moving forward on nominations.

Frustrated by the slow response of billionaires and multimillionaires to their request, 16 Democrats delivered an ultimatum Thursday, saying no committee should vote on a nominee until the individual has cleared an FBI background check, provided a financial report and an ethics agreement with the Office of Government Ethics, and responded to “reasonable requests for additional information” such as tax returns.

“The United States Senate has a rich, bipartisan tradition of vetting nominees to the president’s Cabinet,” said New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the incoming Democratic leader. “We hope to continue that tradition with our colleagues in the Republican majority because the American people are entitled to a fair and open consideration process for all executive nom-

inations.”

Republicans controlling the Senate, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, want to make quick work of Cabinet confirmations once Trump takes office Jan. 20.

Democrats have limited options to block nominees outright because they changed filibuster rules when they controlled the Senate in 2013, and Cabinet nominees can win approval on a simple majority vote. Republicans will hold a 52-48 advantage next year.

However, Democrats could drag out the process in committee or force longer Senate debates than usual.

“President-elect Trump refused to release his tax returns and will start his presidency consumed by questions about how he could be using his position to enrich himself and his family, but that doesn’t mean that his nominees should be held to the same low standards,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

Transition officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Trump’s choice of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson for secretary of state touched off an escalating fight Thursday between the top Republican and Democrat on the Foreign Rela-

tions Committee, the panel that will vote on the multimillionaire’s nomination.

Sen. Bob Corker, the committee chairman, complained that Democrats are asking for disclosures not demanded of previous nominees, including wealthy people such as Secretary of State John Kerry.

“This is being driven by the election,” Corker, R-Tenn., told The Associated Press. “The fact that Donald Trump did not provide tax returns is driving all that is being done.”

In fact, Kerry, a former Massachusetts senator, had to file an annual financial disclosure report, and he released 20 years of tax returns when he ran for president in 2004.

In a letter to colleagues, Sen. Ben Cardin, the panel’s top Democrat, said he asked the Trump transition team for three years’ worth of tax returns because Tillerson was “actively engaged with many foreign governments” at Exxon Mobil. Cardin said Tillerson “promised to provide” the tax information in response to a question on a standard questionnaire that all nominees submit before appearing before the committee.

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agreement about the need to review the nominee’s tax returns,” Cardin said. “I think it is an important part of vetting this candidate because he has never made public disclosures of this type, as he has worked at Exxon Mobil for his entire career and has never been in public service.”

Corker quickly responded with a statement saying the GOP-controlled committee never officially asked for the tax returns and insisted that Tillerson was ahead of schedule in providing information to the committee.

The issue has the potential to produce a major political battle in the opening days of Trump’s administration. In addition to Tillerson, Trump has tapped Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs executive, for treasury secretary, and Betsy DeVos, daughter of the Amway co-founder, for education secretary.

Corker said it is not the practice of his committee to request tax information.

“We’re going to operate exactly the same way that we’ve been operating the 10 years that I’ve been on the committee,” Corker added. “We’ve never asked for tax returns. It’s not what we do on our committee.”

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BEIRUT – The Syrian government took full control of Aleppo on Thursday for the first time in four years after the last opposition fighters and civilians were bused out of war-ravaged eastern districts, sealing the end of the rebellion’s most important stronghold.

The evacuations ended a brutal chapter in Syria’s nearly six-year civil war, allowing President Bashar Assad to regain full authority over the country’s largest city and former commercial powerhouse. It marked his most significant victory since an uprising against his family’s four-decade rule began in 2011.

The announcement was made via an army statement broadcast on Syrian state TV shortly after the last four buses carrying fighters left through the Ramousseh crossing.

“Thanks to the blood of our heroic martyrs, the heroic deeds and sacrifices of our armed forces and the allied forces, and the steadfastness of our people, the General Command of the Army and the Armed Forces announces the return of security and stability to Aleppo,” an army general said in the statement.

dia activist who left the city before the siege, said the fall of Aleppo was a date “we’ll never forget and we will never forgive.”

“Let the world bear witness that Bashar Assad has killed and displaced and destroyed Aleppo, and he celebrates in his victory over the blood and offspring of Aleppo ... with the agreement of the Arab and Western nations,” he posted on Twitter.

The ancient city had been divided into rebel and government parts since 2012, when rebels from the countryside swept in and took hold of eastern districts. That set the stage for more than four years of brutal fighting and government bombardment that laid waste to those neighborhoods.

The army statement said the victory in Aleppo is a “strategic transformation and a turning point in the war on terrorism and a deadly blow to the terrorist project and its supporters.”

It was a further incentive to keep fighting to “eradicate terrorism and restore security and stability to every span of the homeland,” it added.

Earlier in the day, Assad said his forces’ achievements in Aleppo are a “major step on the road to wiping out terrorism” and ending the civil war.

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• Friday, December 23, 2016

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NORTHWEST HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD:

Dan McCaleb

Kevin Lyons

Valerie Katzenstein

John Sahly

OUR VIEW

Christmas spirit shared

Thumbs-up: To the communities and volunteers who have donated their time and creativity to making the season special for McHenry County families. Area residents had their pick of tree lightings, parades and scavenger hunts; carriage rides, train displays and the magic of the Polar Express; cookie walks, holiday crafts and decorating contests; caroling, plays, choir performances and holiday concerts; and visits with Mrs. Claus, Santa and his reindeer – all often capped off with a warm cup of hot cocoa. We know that each listing in our extensive annual holiday calendar represents the time and dedication of many behind the scenes, and we appreciate their efforts to bring their communities together and spread a little Christmas joy.

Thumbs-up: To Lakewood Sgt. Mike Roth and the partnership that allowed Roth’s quick thinking and action to save a man’s life Dec. 14 when Roth recognized an unresponsive man whom he found inside a vehicle was experiencing an opioid overdose. Roth used two doses of naloxone that restored the man’s breathing and saved his life. The drug and the training was provided by the McHenry County Substance Abuse Coalition, the McHenry County Opioid Awareness Initiative and Centegra Health System and likely will save many more lives.

Thumbs-up: To Crystal Lake Elementary School District 47 teacher Gail Kelley, who has initiated a fundraising campaign through classes4classes.org, where classes use crowdfunding to buy something another school needs. Kelley’s Woods Creek Elementary class, the first Illinois school to participate in the program, is raising $1,750 to buy two buddy benches for Broad River Elementary School in Beaufort, South Carolina. Children can sit on the buddy benches when they need a friend. The benches are especially needed now because some of Broad River’s benches were recently destroyed after Hurricane Matthew hit the area.

Thumbs-up: To downtown Crystal Lake businesses participating in a gingerbread house project to help raise money for the Salvation Army. Each participating business has created a gingerbread display that is positioned next to a Salvation Army red kettle.

Every dollar deposited into a kettle counts as one vote toward the business. The business that collects the most money will be named the winner of the Business Gingerbread Creation contest and will receive a small gift along with bragging rights. “The real winners though are the Salvation Army and the people they serve,” said Diana Kenney, Downtown Crystal Lake/ Main Street executive director. “All the money collected stays in the county and goes to someone in need.”

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Long wait for mental health care What would you choose: long wait or expensive?

Nobody wants either, but when it comes to mental health care, these are usually the only options.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness recently released a report saying, “Despite the federal parity law, the promise of parity remains elusive.”

Mental health parity, in which mental health insurance benefits are no less restrictive than general medical benefits, has been federally mandated in some fashion for almost 30 years.

But before the Affordable Care Act, major depressive disorders, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia and similar mental health issues were put in the “high risk” insurance pool and considered a pre-existing condition – which meant either no independent insurance coverage or ridiculously high monthly

rates.

With Obamacare, people suffering from mental health issues have access to more affordable health insurance, but not enough resources are available for it to be beneficial.

Long wait-list periods, overwhelmed medical professionals and/or spotty insurance coverage are unfortunately normal occurrences – if there’s even a mental health practitioner nearby.

NAMI in November released a study showing about one out of four Americans didn’t have an in-network mental health medication prescriber available to them.

Insurance plans also can have confusing or outdated information. People seeking mental health care can find that psychiatrists listed as “in-network” are not accepting new patients, are retired/not practicing or have

moved.

Some people decide to forgo the confusing and restrictive network and pay out-of-pocket for mental health services, which can get expensive fast.

And even with paying outof-pocket, mental health practitioners aren’t widely accessible.

Hogg Foundation of Mental Health reports that 206 out of 254 Texas counties had some kind of medical health professional shortage as of July 2015, 185 of those counties didn’t have a single psychiatrist and 149 didn’t have a single licensed psychologist.

More than 3 million Texans didn’t have reasonable access to mental health care in 2015.

How is this parity?

The promise of mental health parity must be fulfilled.

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Santa Run success

Success. Tradition. Family fun.

The words above describe our fifth annual Kiwanis Santa Run for Kids. Once you see this sea of Santa’s strolling through our streets, it is something you will never forget.

A thousand people showed up the snowy morning of Dec. 6 to partake in what has become a family tradition for many. The crowd consisted of over 900 participants dressed in Santa suits, over 70 volunteers and a group of smiling spectators watching the fun. The Raue Center for the Arts was a fantastic host once again. Special kudos go to our North Pole sponsor: Centegra Health System.

This McHenry County family-focused event benefits several nonprofit agencies, including Turning Point, Big Brother Big Sister, CASA, Main Stay Therapeutic Riding and Girls on the Run of Northwest Illinois.

This year, the Santa Run raised over $30,000 of much needed funds for these agencies. Our other sponsors included: The Northwest Herald, Advocate Good Shepherd, STAR 105.5, Curran Contracting, BMO Harris, Neis Insurance, Erie Insurance, Service Printing, Infinium Marketing, Express Personnel, afterglow creative services, First Midwest Bank, Black Diamond, The Running Depot, Miller Verchota, Intren,

VIEWS Garrison Keillor mother, of scarlet fever, and Grace was raised by her older sisters, Marian and Ruby and Margaret. Complaint was not encouraged in that family, and mental health was not a topic for discussion, but clearly Christmas was a shining moment of gaiety in a family of modest means and strict decorum.

When I was 19, my older brother asked me to look after his house over Christmas so he and his young family could drive out to New York for a week.

His house was in the woods and I, intoxicated by Thoreau at the time, was more dramatic than necessary and announced I would spend Christmas alone out there “to figure things out.” A poem of mine got in the college literary magazine, with the lines:

The ice is thin and deep is the dark Below, green lights in the trees and red, Winding my way into the winter mist.

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This event is successful because of its dedicated committee. Thank you to them.

The Kiwanis Club is always looking to add members that like to change lives in a positive way. If you would like to sponsor, participate in, or volunteer for next year’s great event, please call 815-459-1773, ext.

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Coat open and the silver blades are sharp And that long long bend ahead Will take me out and away from you and all of this.

Which was about skating but a girl I knew thought it was suicidal and she came out to the woods to visit me and bring me dinner from her mother – turkey, candied yams, cranberry, in tinfoil. We lit candles and sat and meditated on the mystery of life, and it was pleasant to have someone be so concerned about my well-being.

At the time, I thought of suicide as poetic, an artistic choice stemming from great emotional depths. Two months later, her boyfriend Leeds was killed when a drunk driver pulled out of a parking lot and into his mother’s car coming back home from a play at the Guthrie Theater. Twenty-some years later, sunk in depression, my friend filled her pockets with rocks and paddled a canoe out to the middle of a lake and capsized it and drowned.

Life is good. On a winter night, looking into a fire, our dead are around us, testifying to that. The books on the shelves, the young people around the

table, the carols on the radio in the kitchen, the shining snow on the hill that looks out at the Mississippi River.

As you get old, you gain a strippeddown life, minus the clutter and hullabaloo, the excess food and alcohol, the meaningless gifts, and it is quite satisfying to sit with your true love in candlelight, a plate of cookies on the table, and let memories come and go.

My mother is there. It’s 6 a.m., still dark out, and I’ve come down the stairs in my pajamas to the darkened tree, a note from Santa, the crumbs of the gingersnap I left for him, and I hear the padding of bare feet on the stair, and suddenly the tree bursts into light, and my mother is standing there in a raggedy robe. She missed her dead mother and found her every year in making Christmas for us.

Even after she moved to Florida, she flew back for a proper Minnesota Christmas with frost on the windows and wind in the chimney. What you do for children is never wasted: this Christmas will live on and nourish them long after you have faded away.

• Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality.

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Negative attitude

To the Editor: What jerks you and your editor are to use “Wasted effort” as a headline after Sunday’s Bears game. That was the best game the Bears have played in the past 10 years.

Considering the weather factor, they provided a never-give-up effort, kept coming from behind, played their butts off, and showed a classy performance and hope for the future. Why not “Outstanding effort falls short” as a positive look instead of your negative attitude.

Give credit when credit is due. The team should be given praise, not your trashing, when they really had no reason to give that type of effort. What a showcase of personal pride in what

they were doing!

Don Sebo McHenry

Merry Christmas

To the Editor: Why would we be unwilling to acknowledge and confront evil? Why would we be willing to believe a lie and reject the truth? Why would we be willing to ignore our Creator’s council and rely on our own feelings?

If we are honest with ourselves, the answer is that we all are part of the same problem. We are prone to sin. Our solution is the same, too. It begins with the Christmas story! Unfortunately, it’s easy to forget why we celebrate this remarkable event with all the shopping.

If we do take a break and watch the

classics: “White Christmas,” “The Christmas Story” or “A Christmas Carol,” nothing about the meaning of or the main characters of the Christmas event is mentioned.

In fact, in “A Christmas Carol,” Mr. Scrooge is led everywhere but to Bethlehem.

We have had a president who informed the world we no longer are a Christian nation. His secular party, many liberal teachers and even some of our clergy have been aggressively supporting anti-Christian principals. They lead us away, and maybe unintentionally, from Bethlehem, from Calvary and ultimately away from our God. The same and only God that loves us and gave His Son for us all. This is the reason Christians say, “Merry Christmas!”

Jim Doll Huntley

• Friday, December 23, 2016

It is hard to believe the Creator of our universe with its billions of galaxies could have sent Himself to this little blue blip not so long ago in the form of an infant born to a virgin, to be first worshipped by illiterate shepherds where He lay in a feed trough, livestock peering down at Him, Eastern potentates following a star to the site. But here we are again, singing those songs, so we shall see.

My mother loved Christmas with her whole heart. With six children and no credit cards and my father ever watchful for unnecessary expense, Christmas was a mountain for Grace to climb, requiring endurance, planning, stealth and skill, but she brought it off to perfection every year, until she was in her 90s and then she coasted on her memories.

Her mother died when my mother was 7 and Mother had no memory of her, which troubled her deeply. She looked at photos of her mother, tall, haggard, from the early 1920s, and tried to dredge up some recollection, anything at all, the sound of her voice, what she cooked, what her hand felt like. Grace was third from the end of 11 children, the 12th having died with the

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Green energy producers hopeful despite Trump’s coal promise “The train to a global clean-energy future has already left the station. We can choose to get on board – to lead – or we can choose to be left behind, to stand stubbornly.”

By ALICIA CHANG

The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the election of a president who is making fossil fuel-friendly Cabinet appointments and promises to bring back coal.

With the support of Congress, the renewable energy industry has enjoyed a tax credit-buoyed building boom under President Barack Obama, who has aggressively pushed to slash greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal and other fossil fuels.

Electricity generated by solar panels and windmills has played a bigger role in the energy mix in recent years as the federal government and states seek to reduce heat-trapping gases through ambitious climate goals. And, despite President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to revitalize the coal industry and “put our miners back to work,” renewable developers are hopeful about their future.

“We’re looking forward to competing with other energy sources as a lowcost option,” said Tom Kimbis, interim president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group.

There’s the economic reality: Coal plants have shuttered in recent years as utilities favor cheaper, natural gas extracted from shale-rich places such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia using the controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing. The plummeting cost of solar pan-

Gina McCarthy

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Installers from California Green Design install solar electrical panels March 23, 2010, on the roof of a home in Glendale, Calif. Renewable energy developers say they’re hopeful about the future despite President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to bring coal mining jobs back. In recent years, huge solar and wind farms have sprouted up on public desert land in the western U.S. buoyed by generous federal tax credits. els and wind turbines also has added to coal’s woes.

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to reverse the coal industry’s declining fortunes and supported opening up offshore drilling in the Atlantic. Obama this week moved to permanently ban future oil and gas leasing in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic.

The day after Trump won, the American Wind Energy Association released a statement touting its contributions to the economy including the fees developers pay to farmers who agree to host wind turbines on their land and

the jobs the industry creates. The trade group also noted that many wind farms are churning out power in traditional red states such as Wyoming, Oklahoma and Texas.

“An unstoppable shift to a cleaner energy economy is underway,” said Tom Kiernan, chief executive of the American Wind Energy Association, calling wind a “mainstream energy source.”

The sentiment was echoed recently by the outgoing head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, who credited the Obama adminis-

tration with helping to create thousands of renewable energy jobs.

“The train to a global clean-energy future has already left the station,” McCarthy said last month. “We can choose to get on board – to lead – or we can choose to be left behind, to stand stubbornly.”

While wind and solar power have grown in recent years, renewable sources accounted for just 10 percent of total U.S. energy consumption and about 13 percent of electricity generation in 2015.

During his campaign, Trump called solar energy an “unproven technology” and wind power a “very, very poor source of energy.” He also said tax credits and other subsidies for the renewable industry “distort” the market, but at the same time said the country should “encourage all facets of the energy industry,” including wind and solar.

Environmentalists have raised concerns about his Cabinet picks for energy and interior secretaries – ex-Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, strong supporters of the fossil fuel industry.

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WORTH TALKIN’ ABOUT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2016

NEW YORK – Two of Matt Lauer’s former “Today” show co-hosts – Katie Couric and Meredith Vieira – are returning to the show for a week each in January with Savannah Guthrie on maternity leave.

Couric, who was “Today” host from 1989 to 2006, has returned for special occasions but this will be the first time in the anchor’s role. In 2012, she spent a week as a fill-in co-host on the NBC show’s bitter rival, ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Vieira worked alongside Lauer from 2006 to 2011.

“It’s going to be fun,” said Lauer on Thursday, describing it as a “walk down memory lane.”

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‘Jeopardy!’ player wins $103K before death

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Katherine Russell (right), widow of Boston Marathon bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, leaves the law office of DeLuca and Weizenbaum on April 29, 2013, with Amato DeLuca (left) in Providence, R.I.

Lawyer says Wahlberg movie unfair to Boston bomber’s widow PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A lawyer for Katherine Russell, widow of one of the Boston Marathon bombers, said the new film “Patriots Day” is unfair because it suggests she knew something was up before the attack and then didn’t cooperate with the investigation afterward.

“It’s just not true,” lawyer Amato DeLuca told The Associated Press. “I have no objection to them making a movie. ... What I quarrel with is the license they take in portraying Katie as someone who did not cooperate and try to save lives. She did everything she could.”

The movie opened this week in Boston, New York and Los Angeles, and will open Jan. 13 nationwide.

Russell was married to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died during a violent encounter with police.

She has never been charged with any wrongdoing, and her lawyer has said repeatedly that she didn’t suspect anything before the bombings.

In one scene in the Mark Wahlberg film, Russell is shown being defiant as an investigator grills her on whether there are more bombs. The movie character also refuses to answer questions and asks for a lawyer but is told she has no right to one.

DeLuca said Russell willingly sat down with authorities multiple times, including in the hours after her husband was killed. She also talked eight to 10 times with three Washington-based anti-terror investigators during meetings at the kitchen table in her parents’ home in Rhode Island as well as at his law office in Providence, he said.

Faced with a terminal diagnosis in her battle against colon cancer, Cindy Stowell saw an appearance on “Jeopardy!” in her final months as a “good opportunity” to help others struggling against the disease by donating money she might win to cancer research.

She made the most of it by winning six nights in a row and more than $103,000 in a run that ended on Wednesday’s episode.

The Austin, Texas, woman died Dec. 5 at the age of 41, eight days before her first appearance aired Dec. 13. “Jeopardy!” sent her advance copies of three of her appearances so she could watch them in the hospital, the show said in a statement. It also expedited getting her winnings to her.

Before her August audition for the show, Stowell emailed a “Jeopardy!” producer that she didn’t have long to live, and that if she were selected, she’d like to donate any winnings to charities involved in cancer research.

She passed the audition and was booked for the first available taping Aug.31, “Jeopardy!” said. She won four games taped that day and returned for a Sept. 13 taping. She won two more games before finishing second in her final appearance.

Alex Trebek paid tribute to Stowell on Wednesday’s program. The “Jeopardy!” host called her appearance “a fulfillment of a lifelong ambition.”

Oprah Winfrey’s loss is Weight Watchers’ gain

NEW YORK – Oprah Winfrey’s loss is Weight Watchers’ gain.

The former talk show host, who bought a nearly 10 percent stake in the weight loss company last year, sent shares soaring Thursday after saying in a new ad that she’s lost more than 40 pounds on the plan, all while eating pasta and tacos.

Shedding pounds is Winfrey’s financial gain as well as Weight Watchers.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – A court in Argentina has indicted Justin Bieber for allegedly sending his bodyguards to beat up a photographer and take his camera equipment outside a Buenos Aires nightclub three years ago.

Court clerk Soledad Nieto confirmed the decision to The Associated Press on Thursday. She said Judge Alberto Banos did not issue an arrest warrant and the Canadian pop idol can appeal the court decision, which was signed Wednesday and surfaced late in the day.

Argentine photographer Diego Pesoa alleged he was chased down and beaten on Nov. 9, 2013, by Bieber’s bodyguards outside the INK nightclub, where the singer and his entourage partied during his South American tour. Pesoa also said the bodyguards took some of his camera equipment.

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A nonprofit founder offers tips on raising charitable children

By ANJALI VARMA

The Washington Post

Many of us take the opportunity during the holiday season to reinforce to our children the concept of giving.

We initiate conversations about giving back and try to involve our children in our charitable efforts, buying presents for children in need, offering a few coins to the Salvation Army.

But are we doing enough to make sure this concept gets woven into their everyday behavior? How do we raise charitable children who give because they want to and not just because mom and dad say they should? And how do we get them to think about doing this all year, not just during the holidays? (Which many of us are guilty of as well.)

Sometimes it’s tough to involve children, particularly young ones, in charity. But charity: water, a nonprofit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries, has seen great success in involving children in their mission. In fact, more than 2,400 of charity: water giving campaigns have been run by kids, who have raised more than $5 million.

Scott Harrison, the founder of the organization and father of two, shares insight on how his organization inspires children to give back and provides tips on what parents can do to raise charitable children.

What are your thoughts on instilling social good in our children? Do you have tips for parents who would like to raise charitable children and instill these values at a young age?

I think content is important. Reading books about different issues, showing them videos. charity: water made a pretty long video series for kids [“The Journey,” available on YouTube] as a way of speaking to younger kids – talking about the water crisis, talking about some of the solutions, taking them inside the culture, really trying to engage them and speak their language, trying to make it fun for kids and bringing it alive.

I think giving at a young age is a great thing. I know several parents who will give their kids money at a young age to give away. They then force their children to do research on different charities and determine where they would like to give. And,

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In this screen shot taken from video, Ethiopian children are seen in episode one of charity: water’s “The Journey: Seven things to know about Ethiopia.” kids will find their interest through to sacrifice birthday gifts and instead that. Are you interested in education, collect money to donate to those less health, an issue like water? They befortunate. How have you gotten kids come a steward of their parents money involved in giving back and supporting initially and then you hope that one your mission? day they will want to give their own The birthday is a great thing for money away. kids but it is actually quite a feat if a parent can get their child to donate Can you talk about your birthday and their birthday. I will say if you speak birth campaigns? How have parents been to kids the right way, and I think that able to utilize their birthdays and their is visually, showing them photos and kids’ birthdays to raise money? video, kids are moved to tears. And in We have asked millions of people some way, they lack the cynicism that around the world to give up gifts for many older people would have around their birthday and instead we ask charities and bureaucracy. Kids will them to raise their age in dollars. So say “why isn’t everyone drinking it occurred to me a couple of years clean water?” They can’t fathom why ago [when son Jackson was born] these injustices exist in our world. I that birth campaigns also would be a think it sparks some great conversagreat idea. We are bringing kids into tion. If I can get an hour with any kid, a world of privilege. We are bringing they are going to give up their birthkids into a world where they will day. If they see the photos, they see the never drink dirty water, they will video, they understand the issue. probably never go hungry, [and] they Every kid, if they really underwill probably always have a roof over stand, will pick goodness, happiness, their heads. But yet so many kids are health for others over material possesbeing born into situations where they sions. I think it is the job of parents to have never had clean water, going to give them the opportunity. Introduce bed hungry. So if we could celebrate them to these stories, images, videos, the life of our children and instead of these issues. ... You don’t know what getting ... what if these births could is really going to resonate with your actually help other kids. kids, but something will. It is in all of us.

You have had several kids support We have had a 7-year-old kid go your organization through birth camdoor to door asking for $7 donations paigns. These children have chosen and raised $20,000. One story is this

9-year-old girl named Rachel who had donated her birthday. She tragically passed away in a car accident right after her birthday. But the story of her birthday wish, really her final wish, moved so many people throughout the world. Over 60,000 people, strangers that gave $9 or more in her honor, ended up raising $1.3 million. From a very humble dream of helping a few people she ended up helping 40,000 people receive clean water.

So I think it is an idea for anyone, anyone reading this, that they could donate one birthday.

How do you plan to personally expose your own children to charitable giving?

When Jackson was born, I did a birth campaign for him. I was really surprised at how generous people were. We raised $250,000 to help people in Niger get clean water. We helped 7,700 people get access to clean water.

At some point I want him to go and meet those people maybe six-to-seven years in, maybe even earlier he would start to comprehend. I hope to connect that loop, that you were born and your friends and family welcomed you into the world. And just that act of being born improved the lives of 7,700 people.

• Anjali Varma is the owner of Kidville Bethesda, mother and freelancer.

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said nonchalantly over turkey Bolognese the other night. The kids’ faces lit up, like they were witnessing a Christmas miracle. But I Grinched that thought right then and there: “No. We don’t celebrate Christmas,” I stated with finality. Shoulders slumped, they slurped their pasta in silence.

It’s not that I’m an uber-Jew. In fact, we’re pretty much the opposite – we don’t keep kosher (you want bacon with your ice cream? Awesome), we don’t celebrate Shabbat (unless lighting the occasional lemon verbena candle counts) and we don’t go to services – even during the High Holidays. In fact, we don’t actually belong to a Temple, although we plan to ... one day.

Still, we will not be among the one-third of American Jews who have a Christmas tree in their house. And it’s obviously not because I feel too religious to celebrate the holly jolly day, even culturally. It turns out, it’s the opposite reason: I’m not religious enough.

And I’m blaming my tree resistance on my Jewish guilt.

I hate to admit it, but I’m pretty much failing when it comes to passing Jewish traditions down to my children.

And to be honest, I’m uncomfortable with them filling the void with mistletoe memories. It’s not their fault they

don’t know the story of Moses. It’s not like I’ve tried to teach them. Although I did go to their school to demonstrate the dreidel game and make hand-print menorahs.

That day, watching my son and daughter with their friends in class, I was reminded the majority of their classmates are not Jewish. It’s not like my kids aren’t asked to join the reindeer games, it’s just that while everyone else hangs twinkly lights, they merely stand on the outside and observe. Whether I like it or not, during the holidays, my kids can’t help but feel like they aren’t invited to the proverbial “party.”

The interesting thing about traditions is they are malleable. Growing up, my parents never decorated our house for Halloween – that’s my little family’s tradition. This year, I think I’ll start something new. And while hanging ornaments from a Christmas tree still is not an option, I may be open to stringing silver bells around a Hanukkah bush. Which reminds me, I can’t wait to see the joy on my family’s faces when I tell them we’re definitely joining a Temple ... next year.

• Sara Stillman Berger is a writer and mother based in Chicago.

• Friday, December 23, 2016

Fa la la la la, we decked our house out! In October. Because December is for Christmas, and the closest we get to tinsel is the wax-catching foil under our Menorah.

But Halloween? We can do that. My husband props skeletons on our roof, hangs ghosts and goblins off our porch, plants “Danger” signs in our garden and stretches cobwebs 8 feet high and 20 feet long. The delight in my 7-yearold son’s face (and slight fear in my 5-year-old daughter’s) when they wake up, step outside and rub the sleep from their eyes to see our house transformed is possibly the closest we get to holiday joy.

Nonsecular as it is, Halloween is a spectacularly inclusive holiday. But as soon as the wind eats through the cobwebs, the squirrels eat through the jack-o’-lanterns and the kids eat through the candy (or at least what’s left after Mom and Dad pilfer it while they slumber), icy Christmas creeps in its joyous stead.

Wreath and stocking catalogs arrive in the mail, twinkling lights pop up on trees, Starbucks cups turn red, peppermint stick chocolate bark and edible

advent calendars line the shelves at grocery stores.

Some may simply note, “The holidays are coming!” But let’s be honest: It’s Christmas in the air. Hanukkah is more like the ugly stepsister who gets a little politically correct attention.

(And Diwali and Kwanzaa are like the completely forgotten-about cousins who are never included in any family gatherings.)

As soon as the first signs of “the holidays” hit, my ever-observant son begins to ask questions.

From the days it is celebrated, to the presents, to, “Why are there so many cartoons and TV shows about Christmas but none about Hanukkah?”

Judging from the number of times he brings up this topic of contention, he clearly is unsatisfied with my answer: More people celebrate Christmas.

It’s true, though. According to a 2013 Pew Research survey, 9 out of 10 Americans celebrate Christmas. Which means it isn’t just Christians who are cozying up to St. Nick. And I don’t blame all the revelers. ... after all, it’s almost impossible to resist the two-month-long intense marketing blitz of Holiday Cheer. Honestly? It sounds amazing.

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26 Monitor amount of rice cereal fed to infants Dear Doctor: I want to start feeding my baby solid food, but I read rice cereal is contaminated with arsenic. What should I do?

Dear Reader: Your concern is understandable. The inorganic form of arsenic, found throughout nature in both the soil and water, is highly carcinogenic – leading to an increased risk of bladder, skin and lung cancers. Areas with high levels of arsenic in the drinking water, such as Bangladesh, see higher rates of some cancers as a result.

In the United States, arsenic levels in drinking water are tightly regulated, which limits our overall risk from arsenic. That doesn’t mean we’re not exposed, however.

Inorganic arsenic still is prevalent in our environment, and organic arsenic, which is much less toxic, can be found in most plants and animals in small amounts.

Rice poses a particular risk, as it concentrates inorganic arsenic more than other types of foods do. That’s because rice is grown in stagnant water, which leads to conditions of low oxygen and allows arsenic to dissolve more easily into the water.

The rice plant then more readily absorbs the arsenic. In fact, the level of uptake is 10 times that of wheat or barley.

The amount of arsenic in rice depends on the type of rice and where it was grown.

Rice grown in California appears to have less arsenic then rice grown in Texas and Louisiana. Sushi rice and basmati rice have lower amounts of arsenic, while organic brown rice concentrates more arsenic.

Rice cereals traditionally have been used to transition infants from milk to more solid foods because, for the most part, rice is hypoallergenic and a good alternative for children with allergies or intolerance to wheat-based cereals. But no one wants to worry the foods meant to help children grow actually might be harming them.

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ASK THE DOCTORS Robert Ashley So what should be done? Focus on the total risk.

To that end, the European Food Safety Authority has created the benchmark lower-dose limit, meaning the dose that would increase the risk of cancer by 1 percent.

Consuming more than two servings of rice cereal a day would equal this dose. So, if you are transitioning your child to solid foods and they’re consuming three or four servings of rice cereal a day, you should reassess your child’s diet. This is especially true if you feed your child organic brown rice.

A big caveat is the specific risk of cancer from rice consumption is not known.

Researchers have not studied the connection between rice consumption in infants and cancer. Although a study of 200,000 people, published in the International Journal of Cancer, found no link between rice consumption and cancer, infants can concentrate more arsenic due to their smaller size.

My sense is if you’re transitioning your child to solid foods, rice cereal at one to two servings a day should be fine. What may be better is to balance rice cereals with other types of cereals, such as barley cereal or oatmeal cereal. Even better than cereals can be foods such as bananas, egg yolks and puréed vegetables.

It may get a little messy, so be prepared.

• Send your questions to askthedoctors@ mednet.ucla.edu or write Ask the Doctors, c/o Media Relations, UCLA Health, 924 Westwood Blvd., Suite 350, Los Angeles, CA 90095.

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Dear Abby: I volunteer at a local hospital. We were told in training not to come to work if we were sick. One volunteer I work with didn’t heed what he was told and showed up last week sneezing and coughing. When I asked if he wanted to go home, he declined. Although I cleaned his workstation with an antiseptic, a few days later I came down with the worst cold I have had in years.

I take care not to do anything to jeopardize my good health, but I had no control over this situation. I think it is extremely thoughtless of sick people to expose co-workers to their germs.

– Still Recovering In Oklahoma Dear Still Recovering: I hear you loud and clear, and I agree. Your co-worker should be ashamed of himself. If he infected you, I can only wonder how many of the patients were put at risk or infected. As soon as you saw your co-worker had come to work sick, you should have informed your supervisor. If you had, it might have saved you some misery.

Dear Abby: My so-called boyfriend asked me to marry him. The problem is, he’s already married to a woman he married for financial reasons. He doesn’t believe in divorce, so where does that leave me? Yes, I love him, but my heart is heavy. He doesn’t know I know all of this, and if he did, he probably would be upset.

What should I do? – Hurting Heart Dear Hurting Heart: I know your heart is heavy. Any woman’s heart would be if she found herself in your situation. If your boyfriend’s wife knew what he was proposing, I’ll bet she would believe in divorce.

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New Year's Day Gun Auction January 1st 9:00 am 950 Firearms inc/Colt, Win. S&W, Browning, Military, Antique to NIB 2601 Lake Land Blvd Mattoon, IL Bauer Auction Service, LLC See complete sale bill & 6,000 photos at twww.bauerauction.com#ction.com The Illinois Classified Advertising Network (ICAN) provides advertising of a national appeal. To advertise in this section, please call ICAN directly at 217-241-1700. We recommend discretion when responding. Please refer questions & comments directly to ICAN.

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In yesterday’s deal, South had to visualize an end-position in which he could make an apparently unavoidable loser evaporate when he forced an opponent to concede a ruff-andsluff. That deal did not require any luck. Today, though, not only must declarer visualize a winning distribution of the opposing hands, but he must also get lucky because that distribution is a priori unlikely. However, as Seal, an English singer-songwriter, said, “The harder you work ... and visualize something, the luckier you get.”

South is in four hearts. West leads the diamond 10. East takes two tricks in the suit, then shifts to the spade jack. How should declarer continue?

Strangely, three no-trump and four hearts are comparable contracts in that both can be made unless West leads a club at trick one.

Even after the diamond start, declarer seems to have four unavoidable losers: one heart (assuming the suit is splitting 3-2; if it is 4-1, the contract has no chance), two diamonds and one club. South cannot do anything about the red suits; how can he eliminate that club loser?

Declarer needs the defender with three trumps to have at most two clubs. There might be a little guesswork involved, but not here.

South takes the third trick, draws two rounds of trumps, then cashes the diamond queen (discarding a club from the board) and the black-suit winners. Finally, he casts adrift with a trump.

West wins and must return a spade or a diamond. Declarer ruffs in one hand and sluffs the remaining club from the other.

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g y Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois, 60098 or with the representative or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered PUBLIC NOTICE to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed.

STATE OF ILLINOIS /s/ Katherine M. Keefe IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF Clerk of the Circuit Court THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY(Published in the Northwest Herald IN PROBATE on December 16, 23, 30, 2016) IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF 1252351 CAROL CARLISLE DECEASED CASE NO. 16PR000373 PUBLIC NOTICE CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of STATE OF ILLINOIS CAROL CARLISLE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICAL of: WOODSTOCK, IL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY Letters of Office were issued on -IN PROBATE 12/8/16 In the Matter of the Estate of Representative RUTH ANN MCCARTHY KENNETH CARLISLE Deceased 420 DARTMOOR DR Case No. 16PR000374 CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014 CLAIM NOTICE whose attorney is Notice is given of the death of: HAMER SCHUH & CUDA RUTH ANN MCCARTHY 101 E VAN BUREN ST of: ALDEN, IL WOODSTOCK, IL 60098 Letters of office were issued on: Claims against the estate may 12/8/2016 be filed within six months from the to: date of first publication. Any claim Representitive: not filed within six months from the TERENCE DAVID MCCARTHY date of first publication or claims N1665 WOODDALE RD not filed within three months from LAKE GENEVA,WI 53147 the date of mailing or delivery of whose attorney is: CAMPION CURRAN LAMB &

CUNABAUGH 8600 ROUTE 14 SUITE 201 CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60012 Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue.

Woodstock, Illinois, 60098, or with the representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed. /s/Katherine M Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court

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of: HARVARD, IL Letters of office were issued on: 11/17/2016 to LEONARD D ACKERMAN Representitive: PAMELA K ACKERMAN 5013 RINGWOOD RD RINGWOOD, IL 60072 whose attorney is: FlLLER & ASSOCIATES 3901 N ROUTE 23 PO BOX 115 MARENGO, IL 60152 Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the (Published in the Northwest Herald McHenry County Government Cenon December 16, 23, 30, 2016) ter, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, 1252335 Woodstock, Illinois, 60098, or with the representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the PUBLIC NOTICE Clerk must be mailed or delivered STATE OF ILLINOIS to the representative and to his atIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF torney within ten days after it has THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICAL been filed.

CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY /s/ Katherine M. Keefe -IN PROBATE Clerk of the Circuit Court In the Matter of the Estate of (Published in the Northwest Herald, LEONARD D ACKERMAN on December 16, 23, 20 2016) Deceased, 1252329 CLAIM NOTICE www.HuskieWire.com Case No. 16PR000375 Notice is given of the death of: All NIU Sports... All The Time

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Availability of Audit Report Notice is given pursuant to the Public Funds Statement Publication Act of the availability of an audit report for the Algonquin Area Public Library District.

The audit report: 1. Covers the time period from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016; 2. The audit was conducted by Knutte and Associates, certified public accountants and advisors; 3. The audit report is available for inspection at the Algonquin Area Public Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin, Illinois between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. /s/ Erin Van Der Bosch President, Board of Trustees (Published in the Northwest Herald on December 23, 2016) 1253694

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice for Bids

g, Seal Bids shall be accepted during Regular business hours of said Township until 10: 00 a.m, on January 13, 2017 at the above listed address. All sealed bids shall be presented and read aloud at a publicbid open, held the 13th day of January, 2017 at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the Township Hall, 3703 Richmond Rd, (Rt. 31) Johnsburg, Illinois. All Sealed Bids shall be addressed by mail or by delivery or in hand attention Marsha Nelson, Township Clerk.

Bids not received by said date and time will be returned unopened.

Bid #1: GU433 - SX4 Mack Chassis w/ Burke Snow Plow equipment & Dump Body as per specifications.

Vehicle Specs., may be viewed during regular business hours at McHenry Township. Bid Package Specs may also be emailed to your location at your request. Contact Jim Condon at 815-385-3076 or email jcondo11@rnchenrytownship.com, All bids shall be submitted on forms furnished by the Road District.

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The Road District Office of McHenry Township requests bids for Vehicle (Published in the Northwest Herald Purchases under Government on December 23, 2016) 1253911 Pricing.

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PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE

TAX DEED NO. 16TX010171 FILED 11/21/2016 TAKE NOTICE TOMASZ DRABCZYNSKI McHenry County Clerk Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property and Unknown Owners or parties of interest in said land or lots.

County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Certificate No. 2013-00519 Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and special assessment number not applicable Warrant No. not applicable Inst. No. not applicable THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at W LAKESHORE DR, MCHENRY, IL 60050 Legal Description or Property Index No. 09-22-182-019 LOTS 20 IN OAK GLEN SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF PAJRT OF THE SOUTH 1/2 OF THE NORTH 1/2 OF SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDLAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 23,1923 AS DOCUMENT 59090, LN BOOK 4 OF PLATS, PAGE 86, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on April 28, 2017.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming.

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before April 28, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county in Woodstock, Illinois on May 04, 2017 at 1:30 P.M. You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before April 28, 2017 by applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Woodstock, Illinois.

For further information contact the County Clerk ADDRESS: McHenry County Clerk, 667 Ware Rd, Suite 107., Woodstock, IL 60098 TELEPHONE: (815) 334-4242 William I Dubin Purchaser or Assignee.

Dated November 16, 2016

TAX DEED NO. 16TX010170 FILED 11/21/2016 TAKE NOTICE FAIRVIEW, LLC JOHN G ZAJICEK KEITH MOLL McHenry County Clerk Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property and Unknown Owners or parties of interest in said land or lots.

County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Certificate No. 2013-00467 Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and special assessment number not applicable Warrant No. not applicable Inst. No. not applicable THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at E PARKWOOD DR, WONDER LAKE, IL 60097 Legal Description or Property Index No. 09-18-454-002 LOT 2 IN BLOCK 4 IN OAKWOOD SHORES, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO PLAT RECORDED THEREOF MAY 14, 1959 IN BOOK 14 OF PLATS, AS DOCUMENT 354007, TOWNSHIP OF MCHENRY, COUNTY OF MCHENRY, STATE OF ILLINOIS. This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on April 28, 2017.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming.

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before April 28, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county in Woodstock, Illinois on May 04, 2017 at 1:30 P.M. You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before April 28, 2017 by applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Woodstock, Illinois.

For further information contact the County Clerk ADDRESS: McHenry County Clerk, 667 Ware Rd, Suite 107., Woodstock, IL 60098 TELEPHONE: (815) 334-4242 William I Dubin Purchaser or Assignee.

Dated November 16, 2016

TAX DEED NO. 16TX010169 FILED 11/21/2016 TAKE NOTICE JOHN ZAJICEK DBA Z FINANCIAL JOHN ZAJICEK KEITH MOLL McHenry County Clerk Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property and Unknown Owners or parties of interest in said land or lots.

County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Certificate No. 2013-00464 Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and special assessment number not applicable Warrant No. not applicable Inst. No. not applicable THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at 7506 HICKORY GRV, WONDER LAKE, IL 600978699 Legal Description or Property Index No. 09-18-402-017 LOT 12 IN BLOCK 6 IN PARKER'S HIGHLAND, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER AND PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AUGUST 10, 1954 AS DOCUMENT NO. 281648, IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS, PAGE 120, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on April 28, 2017.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming.

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before April 28, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county in Woodstock, Illinois on May 04, 2017 at 1:30 P.M. You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before April 28, 2017 by applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Woodstock, Illinois.

For further information contact the County Clerk ADDRESS: McHenry County Clerk, 667 Ware Rd, Suite 107., Woodstock, IL 60098 TELEPHONE: (815) 334-4242 William I Dubin Purchaser or Assignee.

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County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Certificate No. 2013-00522 Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and special assessment number not applicable Warrant No. not applicable Inst. No. not applicable THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at W LAKESHORE DR, MCHENRY, IL 60050 Legal Description or Property Index No. 09-22-182-022 LOTS 23 IN OAK GLEN SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF PAJRT OF THE SOUTH 1/2 OF THE NORTH 1/2 OF SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDLAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 23,1923 AS DOCUMENT 59090, LN BOOK 4 OF PLATS, PAGE 86, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on April 28, 2017.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming.

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before April 28, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county in Woodstock, Illinois on May 04, 2017 at 1:30 P.M. You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

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County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Certificate No. 2013-01855 Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and special assessment number not applicable Warrant No. not applicable Inst. No. not applicable THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at LOWE DR, ALGONQUIN, IL Legal Description or Property Index No. 19-26-176-016 LOTS 6 IN BLOCK 33 IN FRANK E. MERRILL AND COMPANY'S ALGONQUIN HILLS UNIT NO. 2, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF FRACTIONAL SECTIONS 26 AND 27, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JULY 16, 1926 AS DOCUMENT NO. 74120, IN BOOK 5 OF PLATS, PAGE 71, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on April 28, 2017.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming.

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before April 28, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county in Woodstock, Illinois on May 04, 2017 at 1:30 P.M. You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before April 28, 2017 by applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Woodstock, Illinois.

For further information contact the County Clerk ADDRESS: McHenry County Clerk, 667 Ware Rd, Suite 107., Woodstock, IL 60098 TELEPHONE: (815) 334-4242 William I Dubin Purchaser or Assignee.

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TAX DEED NO. 16TX010173 FILED 11/21/2016 TAKE NOTICE SASS MUNI V McHenry County Clerk Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property and Unknown Owners or parties of interest in said land or lots.

County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Certificate No. 2013-00703 Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and special assessment number not applicable Warrant No. not applicable Inst. No. not applicable THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at 806 OAK GROVE RD, JOHNSBURG, IL 600519501 Legal Description or Property Index No. 10-17-327-001 LOT NUMBER 7 AND THE WEST ONE-HALF OF LOT NUMBER 8 OF OAK GROVE CLUB GROUNDS, BEING PART OF THE NORTHWEST FRACTIONAL OF THE SOUTHWEST FRACTIONAL QUARTER OF SECTION 17, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY OF JOHN BRINK, COUNTY SURVEYOR, DATED SEPTEMBER 22, 1884, RECORDED AT WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS ON THE 25TH DAY OF AUGUST A.D. 1888, IN BOOK OF PLATS ON PAGE 14, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on April 28, 2017.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming.

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before April 28, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county in Woodstock, Illinois on May 04, 2017 at 1:30 P.M. You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before April 28, 2017 by applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Woodstock, Illinois.

For further information contact the County Clerk ADDRESS: McHenry County Clerk, 667 Ware Rd, Suite 107., Woodstock, IL 60098 TELEPHONE: (815) 334-4242 William I Dubin Purchaser or Assignee.

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TAX DEED NO. 16TX010175 FILED 11/21/2016 TAKE NOTICE SLOANE PROPERTIES, LLC JONATHAN LYNN MEYER JONATHAN MEYER RODNEY N MASON JENNIFER L MASON McHenry County Clerk Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property and Unknown Owners or parties of interest in said land or lots.

County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Certificate No. 2013-01972 Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and special assessment number not applicable Warrant No. not applicable Inst. No. not applicable THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at PARK DR, PORT BARRINGTON, IL 60010 Legal Description or Property Index No. 20-05-276-011 LOT 24 IN SUBDIVISION OF LOT B OF THE FIRST ADDITION TO FOX RIVER VALLEY GARDENS IN THE SOUTH ONE HALF OF THE SOUTH EAST QUARTER OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AND IN THE NORTH FRACTIONAL ONE HALF OF THE NORTH EAST QUARTER OF SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JANUARY 21, 1959 AS DOCUMENT NO. 348990 IN BOOK 14 OF PLATS, PAGE 12, TOWNSHIP OF ALGONQUIN, COUNTY OF MCHENRY, STATE OF ILLINOIS. This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on April 28, 2017.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming.

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before April 28, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this county in Woodstock, Illinois on May 04, 2017 at 1:30 P.M. You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before April 28, 2017 by applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Woodstock, Illinois.

For further information contact the County Clerk ADDRESS: McHenry County Clerk, 667 Ware Rd, Suite 107., Woodstock, IL 60098 TELEPHONE: (815) 334-4242 William I Dubin Purchaser or Assignee.

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McHenry’s Liz Alsot (left) is guarded by Prairie Ridge’s Bailey Gorman during the first quarter of Thursday’s Northern Illinois Holiday Classic championship game at McHenry West.

McHenry won, 65-49.

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NORTHERN ILLINOIS HOLIDAY CLASSIC FINAL – McHENRY 65, PRAIRIE RIDGE 49

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What to watch NBA: Bulls at Charlotte, 6 p.m., WGN The Bulls will try to bounce back from their loss to Washington on Wednesday when they visit the Hornets.

NHL: Colorado at Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m., CSN The Hawks, whose five-game winning streak ended Tuesday against Ottawa, host the Avalanche.

McHENRY – McHenry’s Liz Alsot punished Prairie Ridge on the inside repeatedly, outmuscling and outworking Wolves defenders underneath the basket and finishing at a remarkable clip.

But out of all the points scored and rebounds grabbed by Alsot in the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic final Thursday, it was an uncontested 3-pointer that brought McHenry’s bench to its feet midway through the second quarter.

“That was my first 3 ever,” said Alsot, whose follow-through resembled Michael Jordan’s. “That felt really good. I was surprised. I was so excited when it went in. I was like, ‘Well, I’m going to shoot it, and if it’s in, it’s in.’ I couldn’t believe it.”

Alsot’s first 3 at the high-school level was only the start of a career effort for the 6-foot forward. By the end of the night, Alsot had 30 points on 11-of-13 shooting and 19 rebounds, and the Warriors had a 65-49 victory over Prairie Ridge to win the tournament championship.

McHenry (11-4 overall, 5-0 tournament) has won 10 of 11 games since a 1-3 start.

“It feels great,” Alsot said of winning the tournament title after finishing second last season. “We play as a team, and we just wanted it for each other. There’s no selfish players on this team.”

As a group, McHenry was lights out, shooting better than 50 percent – going 21 of 40 from the field. Madisyn Kaempf added 11 points and three assists, Izzy Gscheidle had seven points, and Julia Rice added six points on two 3s. Avalon Henderson grabbed five rebounds with two blocks.

“Liz is obviously a very talented basketball player, but if you knew her as a person, she’s even better,” McHenry coach Rob Niemic said. “I’m pretty hard on her, and she just responds. She doesn’t let adversity ever get to her.

We’ve got 12 really good teammates, and she’s up there as one of the best.”

“She’s got a nice recipe of being physical, but she just has a real feel and savvy for the ball. She believes every ball is going to be hers. It’s hard to teach girls to do that. I don’t have to teach her that.”

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McHenry’s Madisyn Kaempf drives toward the basket during the first quarter of the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic championship game against Prairie Ridge on Thursday at McHenry West. McHenry won, 65-49.

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Rice came off the bench in the first quarter and made two quick 3s for the Warriors.

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Prairie Ridge coach Rick Lima received news Thursday that 6-foot-3 sophomore center Sammi Lockwood no longer would be on the basketball team, instead choosing to focus on volleyball. Lockwood committed in the summer to play volleyball at Notre Dame. “She’s a heck of a player. We’ll miss her,” Lima said. “She’s a great kid, and I really enjoyed coaching her.”

Alsot had a double-double with 2:50 left in the first half, and the Warriors led, 37-26, at halftime. That advantage

ballooned to 53-34 after three quarters as McHenry made 13 of 17 shots in the second and third quarters.

“I think as a team today, we just came ready,” said Rice, who had two 3s off the bench in the first quarter. “I think this year we’ve had really good team chemistry, and that’s what pushed us to win it this year.”

The Wolves made five 3s in the first half to keep the Warriors within reach, but McHenry outscored Prairie Ridge, 16-8, in the third.

Point guard Nicole Dorn led the Wolves (6-10, 4-1 tournament) with 13 points, Maddy Ljunggren added 12 points and three 3s, Lauren Brown had eight points, and Karly Statter had seven.

“I’m so happy and proud of our kids,” Wolves coach Rick Lima said. “For a while we were with them (McHenry), going back and forth. We had a really good first quarter, but as the second progressed, [Alsot] started inching away at things, and I thought we couldn’t stay in on her.”

“She’s so physical. Her will is just amazing ... just relentless.”

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Shook discovers he broke hand; Brainard also out

points and seven rebounds. McNeal scored 18 points and pulled down 10 rebounds.

To make matters worse, G-K owned the rebounding battle inside, especially in the first half. The Cogs outrebounded the Streaks, 42-32, for the game.

“Losing [Brainard] hurt us on the boards,” Baker said. “We did rebound better in the second half, but there really weren’t any areas where we played well today. That was one of the areas that we struggled.”

Mikey Gardner led Woodstock with 12 points, all on 3-pointers. He said playing without Shook at guard was an adjustment.

“We had to put in a new set to kind of go around that injury, but hopefully he’ll be back soon and be back to normal,” Gardner said. “Their shots were falling, ours weren’t. I thought we did a better job of closing out on their shooters (later in the game).”

Josh Turner also scored nine points and grabbed five rebounds.

Spencer Zanck led the Streaks with six rebounds.

placed second in their pool. Davids scored a game-high of 23 points against Woodstock North. She shot close to 70 percent from the field, R-B coach Todd Severns said.

Stefka, a junior forward, averaged better than 17 points a game in pool play, adding 7.7 rebounds, 2.3 steals and 3.1 blocks a game for Proud Sponsor of the Skyhawks. She was 11 of 13 from the freeAthlete of the Week throw line and had a high of 19 points against Prairie Ridge.

3. Huntley (4-4): The Red Raiders knocked Making them go: During Prairie Ridge’s curoff McHenry on Dec. 13, 44-39, but don’t play rent five-game winning streak, Wolves coach again until Tuesday, when they meet Benet Rick Lima has seen sophomore Nicole Dorn in the super-competitive Montini Christmas Tournament. Morgan Clausen led Huntley with take on more of a leadership role.

Dorn, who started as a freshman, missed 14 points against McHenry.

4. Cary-Grove (7-5): The Trojans lead the Fox time with a concussion and had bronchitis this season but has settled into a more established Valley Conference at 5-1 and have won six of role as point guard for Prairie Ridge, which seven overall. C-G’s only conference loss was started 1-9. to Huntley.

“She’s playing, she really is,” Lima said. “I’m 5. Hampshire (6-4): The Whip-Purs lost to so excited for her, because she got off to such C-G last week but are in the thick of the FVC NORTHWEST HERALD POWER RANKINGS a slow start with some things. ... She keeps race at 3-2. Hampshire next plays Burlington (Records through Wednesday) Central on Monday to open the Dundee-Crown us organized. She attacks the middle of the 1. McHenry (10-4): The Warriors have won floor more, and shes’ able to go right or left to Christmas Tournament. Rachel Dumoulin is nine of 10 and reached the Northern Illinois initiate our offense. averaging 14.1 points a game.

Holiday Classic final Thursday against Prairie “Just from the standpoint from being aggresRidge. McHenry advanced to the tournament sive and scoring here and there, she kind of just NOTEWORTHY championship last season, falling to Johnsburg. keeps us in a good rhythm. I think she leads Standing out: Richmond-Burton’s K.C. 2. Johnsburg (11-5): The Skyhawks went the team. She’s a little quiet, but she leads by Davids and Johnsburg’s Kayla Stefka made 2-1 in pool play at the Northern Illinois Holiday example.” strong cases for Athlete of the Week with Classic, falling to Prairie Ridge, and will play for their respective performances at the Northern Healthy and happy: Cary-Grove’s Becca the second-place bracket championship. Johns- Illinois Holiday Classic.

Kendeigh missed the majority of her sophoburg leads the Kishwaukee River Conference more season with a stress fracture and sat Davids, a senior guard, averaged 18 points at 5-0. in pool play for the Rockets, who went 2-1 and out a good portion of her junior year with a

concussion.

So far, Kendeigh has enjoyed an injury-free senior season and has been a big-time contributor for C-G. The Trojans lead the FVC at 5-1, followed by McHenry (4-1) and Huntley (3-1).

“It feels amazing. It really feels good to make it this far in the season injury-free,” said Kendeigh, who scored 10 points with four assists in last week’s FVC win over Hampshire. “It feels so great. I don’t think about it (the injuries). I’m just trying to play my game and help the team.”

The Trojans’ health and depth has been a big part of the team’s early-season success. Last year, C-G’s starting five all had injuries at one point. This year, coach Rod Saffert has regularly rotated 10 players.

“You try to keep you studs on the court as long as possible but they need breaks now and then, too,” Saffert said. “We’ve got kids ready to play. And that’s what you want.”

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shammond@shawmedia.com MARENGO – Woodstock played Thursday’s opening round of the 67th annual E.C. Nichols Holiday Classic without two key players. Unfortunately for the Blue Streaks, it showed.

Genoa-Kingston beat Woodstock, 62-36, to advance to Friday’s quarterfinals to play Antioch. Woodstock drops into the consolation bracket, where it will face Elgin at 10:30 a.m.

Friday.

The Streaks were playing without guard Matt Shook and center Blake Brainard. Shook learned this week he had a broken bone in his hand after playing through the injury for two games.

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When Woodstock guard Matt Shook tweeted that he had broken a bone in his hand Tuesday, coach Al Baker responded with “wut” on Twitter. To those outside the program, it might have looked like the coach was just learning of his player’s injury via Twitter. “I tweeted that just to be funny,” Baker said. “We talked, it wasn’t like I didn’t have any idea that he was going to the doctor.”

“He’s been playing with the inju-

Inside Girls Basketball ATHLETE OF THE WEEK IZZY GSCHEIDLE McHenry, so., G Gscheidle has been on fire at the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic, averaging 18 points a game in the tournament entering Thursday. The 5-foot-9 sophomore scored 18 points in Wednesday’s 44-39 semifinal victory over Crystal Lake South, going 7 of 15 from the field with three 3-pointers.

Also in the tournament, she scored 29 points with seven 3s in a win against Belvidere, 15 points against Marengo, and 10 points and two 3s against North Chicago.

On the season, Gscheidle is averaging 12.9 points a game and is among the area leaders with 28 3s.

WHAT TO WATCH 34th Charger-Komaromy Christmas Classic Where: At Dundee-Crown When: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday What: Dundee-Crown and Hampshire are the local teams playing in the 16-team tournament.

Hampshire, making its D-C Tournament debut, starts with Burlington Central, while DundeeCrown takes on Maine West in its opener Monday.

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ry because we thought it was just a jammed finger,” Woodstock coach Al Baker said.

Turns out, it was worse than that.

Shook learned the severity of his injury Tuesday, and Thursday’s game was his team’s first without him. The 6-foot-3 Brainard also was noticeably absent. He had been on pace to set the Woodstock single-season rebounds record, according to Baker. Baker declined to elaborate on his absence.

“He is just out right now is all I’m going to say about that,” Baker said.

Genoa-Kingston (5-5) jumped out to a 21-10 lead by the end of the first quarter. Woodstock (3-5) switched from a man-to-man defense to a zone between quarters, and the Cogs promptly went on a 3-point shooting tear.

“They shot for a real high percentage,” Baker said. “[Shook and Brainard] are important to us defensively. We had to do some things that we hadn’t typically done.”

Genoa-Kingston’s Zach Miller and Justin McNeal each made four 3-pointers. Miller finished with 23

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Rebounding, turnovers hurt Trojans Dixon’s 28 points power J-Hawks

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Clarke made 5 of 8 field goals and hit four 3-pointers to help the Trojans stay close to the J-Hawks.

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Free throws made by Jefferson in the First, the Trojans allowed Jefferson fourth quarter on 14 attempts too many second chances. Then, they did not allow themselves enough first q AND ANOTHER THING ... chances.

Cary-Grove guard Zach Beaugureau, who was a C-G was well within reach of the Northwest Herald All-Area first-team selection J-Hawks midway through the final in golf, just found out he is the recipient of a quarter, but difficulties with reboundChick Evans Scholarship, which will pay for ing and turnovers enabled Jefferson to all his college costs. Beaugureau caddies at put away the game.

McHenry County Club, where his father, Scott, “It’s like (assistant coach) Dan Adis the club professional. The scholarship is ams said, ‘Turnovers and defensive awarded to caddies who have displayed model glass,’ ” Trojans coach Adam McCloud citizenship and academics. said. “You can’t score if you don’t shoot. And you can’t give them three and win, 56-47, in a Pool IV game of Jashots.”

Jefferson hit 12 of 14 free throws in cobs’ Hinkle Holiday Classic on Thursthe fourth quarter to extend its lead day in the Eagles’ Nest.

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Hinkle Holiday Classic roundup: Prairie Ridge, Jacobs win ALGONQUIN – Prairie Ridge turned in another tough defensive performance as it defeated Lakes, 49-29, in Pool II of Jacobs’ Hinkle Holiday Classic on Thursday at the Eagles’ Nest.

Kyle Loeding led the Wolves (8-3 overall, 2-0 Pool II) with 15 points, as they won their eighth consecutive game. Brian Dorn added 14 points.

Loeding, Dorn and Trevor Potter each tossed in two 3s, and Prairie Ridge led, 29-19, at halftime and held the Eagles (3-7, 0-2) to 10 second-half points.

The Wolves play Chicago Clark at 6 p.m. Friday in their final pool game. A win would send Prairie Ridge to the championship bracket for Monday and Tuesday.

Zion-Benton 51, Crystal Lake South 40: The Zee-Bees (6-1, 2-0) came out after halftime and held the Gators (4-7, 0-2) to four points in the third quarter to move to 2-0 in Pool III, tied with Barrington. Z-B plays Barrington, which also is 2-0 in the pool, at 1:30 p.m. Friday with the winner heading to the

championship bracket.

South was led by Luke Nolan with 11 points and Michael Holloway with nine. Both hit three 3s.

Jaelen Ray led Z-B with 17 points, and Damarquis Henry added 15.

Barrington 83, Johnsburg 46: Zach Toussaint scored 17 points and hit three 3s as the Skyhawks (4-5, 0-2) fell to the Broncos (8-2, 2-0) in their Pool III game. Jackson LaMarche added 12 for Johnsburg.

Barrington was led by Anthony Spann’s 14 points. Jake Parsons added 12.

Jacobs 67, Chicago Sullivan 19: Kameron Mack hit three 3s and scored 11 points, and Anthony Perry hit a pair of 3s and added 10 points as the Golden Eagles (9-0, 2-0) won their Pool I game.

Jacobs hit 11 3s for the game and will meet Bartlett (7-6, 2-0) at 7:30 p.m. Friday with the winner heading to the championship bracket.

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HINKLE HOLIDAY CLASSIC SCOREBOARD Pool I: Jacobs (2-0), Bartlett (2-0), Marian Central (0-2), Sullivan (0-2).

Pool II: Prairie Ridge (2-0), Boylan (1-1), Clark (1-1), Lakes (0-2).

Pool III: Zion-Benton (2-0), Barrington (2-0), Crystal Lake South (0-2), Johnsburg (0-2).

Pool IV: Streamwood (2-0), Grant (1-1), Jefferson (1-1), Cary-Grove (0-2).

Thursday Game 9: Prairie Ridge 49, Lakes 29 Game 10: Bartlett 62, Marian Central 49 Game 11: Jacobs 67, Sullivan 19 Game 12: Zion-Benton 51. Crystal Lake South 40

Game 13: Jefferson 56, Cary-Grove 47 Game 14: Barrington 83, Johnsburg 46 Game 15: Boylan 63, Clark 35 Game 16: Streamwood 49, Grant 43 Friday Game 17: Crystal Lake South vs. Johnsburg, 9 a.m.

Game 18: Grant vs. Cary-Grove, 10:30 a.m.

Game 19: Marian Central vs. Sullivan, noon Game 20: Barrington vs. Zion-Benton, 1:30 p.m.

Game 21: Jefferson vs. Streamwood, 3 p.m.

Game 22: Boylan vs. Lakes, 4:30 p.m.

Game 23: Prairie Ridge vs. Clark, 6 p.m.

Game 24: Jacobs vs. Bartlett, 7:30 p.m.

C-G (5-5 overall, 0-2 Pool IV) cut Jefferson’s lead to 44-40 with 4:00 remaining on Chris Walther’s jumper from the free-throw line.

The J-Hawks’ Alishawaun Taylor, playing his last game before he moves out of state, scored a layup after an offensive rebound, then junior guard Quillin Dixon kept finding his way to the line. Dixon hit 9 of 10 free throws in the fourth quarter as Jefferson moved to 5-8, 1-1.

“Defensive rebounding,” said Trojans guard Danny Clarke, who scored 14 points and hit four 3-pointers. “They got way too many offensive rebounds on us. We didn’t box out well enough.

I’m not blaming anyone, it was a team thing, we all have to hold our guys off.

Those offensive rebounds got them fouls, and they stuck their free throws.”

Dixon finished with a game-high 28 points, hitting four 3s.

Despite the fourth-quarter problems, McCloud liked a lot of what he saw from the Trojans.

“We don’t take moral victories. We don’t tolerate them. That’s not what we’re shooting for, but we felt better

about the way we competed,” McCloud said. “Saturday, we let that one get away (a 49-47 loss to Streamwood that C-G led most of the way). I felt like we competed for four quarters. We just didn’t make enough plays.”

Zach Beaugureau, who led C-G with 20 points, agreed with his coach.

“We were up six or seven with a couple minutes (left against Streamwood) and had a big collapse,” Beaugureau said. “We battled and got ourselves in position. We just couldn’t pull it out.

Dixon’s really hard to guard, he’s pretty shifty, and he was making his free throws. When we were fouling him, it was not good.”

J-Hawks coach Todd Brannan thought his team did well finding open spots against C-G’s 1-3-1 zone defense, especially for Dixon.

“I liked our patience; we haven’t seen a zone like they play,” Brannan said. “It’s the best we’ve shot free throws (18 of 25) in a while this year.

We got to the line 25 times, I like that.

It was a combination of us executing offensively in the fourth quarter, and I really liked our (1-2-2) zone defense.”

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There were coaches from NCAA Division II schools Minot State and St. Cloud State, both in Minnesota, in attendance to watch Marian 6-foot-8 senior Sam Ohlrich. They saw one of his best performances, as he had 21 points, eight rebounds and three blocked shots. points in the second half and tied Ben Thompson for team-high honors.

“I was really impressed with the way we controlled the ball,” Hawks coach Jim Wolfsmith said. “We made smart decisions on our passes, we helped teammates out. We had less than 60 possessions and we still scored 60 points, that’s efficient basketball.

We took time off the clock and got baskets. We weren’t just eating clock, we were eating clock and scoring.”

Ohlrich, a 6-foot-8 senior center, scored 21 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead all players.

“Sam had one of his better games,” Sarther said. “He likes to shoot on the outside a lot, and today he had a great mindset to go inside and beat double teams down low. I was really happy that he did that.”

Ohlrich hit 10 of 19 field goals and blocked three shots. Ohlrich is 5 inches taller than any of the Hawks’ starters.

“I was just using my height advantage, I was able to shoot over them,” Ohlrich said. “It would have been better if it came with a ‘W’. We have to come out next game harder (at the start).”

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ALGONQUIN – Marian Central boys basketball coach Jim Sarther used his second timeout late in the first quarter to give his players an earful.

Eight of Bartlett’s 10 baskets had come in the paint, and Sarther was tired of seeing Hawks driving to the hoop, almost at will.

The Hurricanes seemed to get the message. The defense was tighter in the second quarter, with big men Sam Ohlrich and Kevin Herbst each getting blocks.

Marian thought its problems were solved as it cut Bartlett’s lead from 11 to four by halftime.

“I was confident coming out (in the second half) that we were going to have a good third quarter, and we had momentum swung our way,” Sarther said.

That was not the case. Bartlett guard Drew Martin sparked the Hawks with 13 third-quarter points as they defeated Marian, 62-49, in their Pool I game in Jacobs’ Hinkle Holiday Classic on Thursday at the Eagles’ Nest.

Bartlett (6-6 overall, 2-0 Pool I) meets Jacobs at 7:30 p.m. Friday for the right to move on to the championship bracket. Marian (4-5, 0-2) lost its third game in a row.

“We had a lot more energy (in the second quarter),” Ohlrich said. “We came out way too slow. In the second quarter, we settled down on defense and started stopping them. Everyone was talking, everyone was on the help side.”

Ohlrich had two blocks, and Herbst got another block as Marian cut the lead to 30-26 at the break.

“It started on the defensive side,” Herbst said. “We were able to stop their penetration to the lane, and that got things going on offense for us, too.

We started really slow. That’s been a problem for us. We have to be ready to go from the start.”

Bartlett hit 10 of 12 field goals in the first quarter but was 2 of 10 in the second. Martin scored all of his 19

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Four local wrestlers – Huntley’s Zach Spencer, Jacobs’ Jacob Sabella and Crystal Lake Central’s Lenny Petersen and Seamus O’Donnell – advanced to the semifinals of the Dvorak Tournament on Thursday at Harlem in Machesney Park. Overall, 19 local competitors advanced to the second day of the prestigious annual tournament.

Spencer reached the semifinals at 126 pounds with a technical fall and a pair of wins by decision. Sabella reached the 152-pound semifinals with a pin in his opening match and a pair of decisions.

Petersen was dominant at 138, winning with a pair of tech falls and a pin, while his teammate O’Donnell got a bye and two pins.

Huntley is in ninth place out of 35 teams, with Sammy Spencer (106), Jimmy Pellegrino (113), Josh Stenger (120), Luke Loprieno (138), Justin Allen (182), Michael Jernigan (195) and Christian Benitez (285) still alive in the fourth round of the consolation bracket.

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Harvard triangular: Harvard’s Josh Fiegel pinned Prairie Ridge’s Jace Sparks in a matchup of previous state qualifiers, leading the Hornets to a win over the Wolves, 48-27. The Wolves were hurt by six forfeits, as the teams ended up splitting the six contested bouts. In addition to Fiegel’s win at 126, Keenan Brummett won for Harvard with an 8-2 decision over Trey Piotrowski at 138 and Marty Krasinski beat Dean Reid, 3-0, at 160.

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Rochelle 75, Woodstock North 37: At the E.C. Nichols Holiday Classic at Marengo, Woodstock North’s Collin Mergl scored eight points to lead the Thunder in a loss. Vic Ortiz scored seven points, and Cade Patenaude had six.

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Hoiberg said Carter-Williams, acquired in an October trade with Milwaukee for Tony Snell, “most likely” would miss the next two games.

“He’ll do a little bit more tomorrow at the shootaround,” Hoiberg said. “Then he’ll be evaluated after this trip and we’ll see where he is.”

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CHICAGO – During his four stops in 10-plus NBA seasons, Rajon Rondo has developed something of a reputation.

Assist machine, All-Star, world champion. Loner, malcontent, uncoachable.

Some of those characterizations are fair, some may be overblown. But these days, as the Bulls twist and sputter through a 1-4 stretch, including Wednesday’s 107-97 home loss to Washington, Rondo stepped into the role the club hoped Rajon Rondo he’d fill when it signed the 30-year-old point guard over the summer: team leader.

Depending on who you ask, what day, and which way the wind is blowing, the Bulls’ struggles come down to shooting.

Or chemistry. Or defense. Or predictable offensive sets.

The latter was alluded to by Dwyane Wade after the loss to the Wizards, in which the Bulls’ offensive flow came to a near halt after a productive first quarter. But a day later, Rondo, who has been critical of past coaches and who earlier this month received a one-game suspension for a confrontation with associate head coach Jim Boylen, didn’t want to hear about any issues with the game plan.

“It’s not the play-calling,” Rondo said.

“I think it’s the excuses.

“I dislike that when things go wrong, at times we seem like a team of excuses.

And that’s just not how you win at basketball.

“Players are the ones out on the court making the plays. That’s what it is. Everyone has to man up, look themselves in the mirror and find a way to make this team better.”

A pretty stark stance for a guy branded by some as a coach killer. Rondo, who claimed he and coach Fred Hoiberg are on the same page, said he doesn’t feel the need to go off script often. And Hoiberg conceded that his offense was too flat-footed against the Wizards.

“We do need more movement, there’s no doubt about that,” Hoiberg said. “In the fourth quarter, we were a lot more stagnant than we were in the other three.”

Hoiberg went back to some of his favorite saws to source the team’s problems: pace and transition defense. He pointed to the first quarter against

Washington, when the Bulls were able to get stops and get run-outs on their way to a 33-22 lead. Even in the fourth, Hoiberg said, there were opportunities to be had when the Bulls pressed the action.

“When we did that, we got some good looks,” he said. “We executed a couple of plays, had some wide-open shots. We just didn’t knock them down. Had a couple plays at the rim that we just didn’t finish.”

Those misses led to the Bulls pressing for a Plan B, scrambling for offensive rebounds and breaking from their transition defense principles, Hoiberg said. And against a quicksilver Wizards point guard in John Wall, that’s death.

Washington torched the Bulls for eight fast-break points and outscored them, 3020, in the fourth quarter – the difference in the final margin.

“In my mind,” Hoiberg said, “that’s why we lost that game.”

As the Bulls arrived Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a short road trip – they play the Hornets on Friday and face the Spurs on Sunday in San Antonio – they may not be hitting on all cylinders. But at least they’re all toeing the company line, Rondo included.

“We have to do the little things, the intangibles, to compete,” Rondo said.

“Get back in transition in the fourth quarter. It starts with me. I can’t crash a lot. I’ve got to get back, get the defense set. So I’ll take a lot of the blame, figure it out, watch some more film and get this thing rolling.”

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LAKE FOREST – Cornerbacks discuss having a short memory, and that’s especially important for a Bears secondary when the last play it had was giving up a 60-yarder from Aaron Rodgers to Jordy Nelson.

It also will help them get ready for Christmas Eve, when that secondary has to face Washington’s second-ranked passing offense.

“They have a talented group,” cornerback Tracy Porter said. “You have DeSean [Jackson], you have Pierre [Garcon], you have Jordan [Reed], you have the young guy [Jamison] Crowder.

So we have a task set up for us.”

Jackson, Crowder and Garcon each has more than 800 yards receiving this season. Then add in Reed (646 yards) and Vernon Davis (521 yards), and quarterback Kirk Cousins isn’t short on weapons. Coverage hasn’t been a major issue for the Bears’ young secondary, but the group still has struggled mightily to force a turnover with a league-low 10 takeaways.

“We have to do a better job on the back end of attacking the ball when it’s in the air, making plays on the ball when it’s in the air,” Porter said. “We do a decent job for the most part, but we want to do that more often. We have to do that. It’s just simple and plain.”

To help the secondary, the Bears will have to keep up a pass rush that is third in the NFL in sacks per pass attempt, but outside linebacker Leonard Floyd knows that Washington’s offensive line

provides a challenge.

“They have pretty good tackles on both sides,” the rookie said. “They’re physical, come off the ball pretty physical. It’ll be a good matchup. I can’t wait for it.”

Washington is the third-best team in the NFL at protecting the quarterback.

“It’s very important to get pressure to get [Cousins] off his spot, get him to get out of the pocket to make throws he’s not used to making outside the pocket,” said Floyd, who added that he expects to be used in coverage Saturday more than he has this season.

High effort continues: The last four Bears losses have come by a combined 18 points, with all of those games coming against teams in the playoff hunt heading into Week 16. The team isn’t pleased about the record, but there is a sense of pride in the way the Bears have fought in the fourth quarters of these losses.

“There are no moral victories. Let’s make that clear,” coach John Fox said.

“But I think when things aren’t going well, it’s a small fraternity of people.

Players. Coaches. Everybody who does it for a living. I think there’s a pride and respect that guys watch video every single play. Different angles. So I think I’ve been proud of the way we’ve given our effort and the focus, and how they’ve stuck together.”

Injury update: Eddie Goldman (ankle), Eric Kush (concussion) and Bryce Callahan (knee) did not practice. Backup quarterback David Fales (thumb) was among the Bears limited. The team will announce its game status Friday afternoon.

NFL: EAGLES 24, GIANTS 19

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PHILADELPHIA – The New York Giants will have to wait a while to make the playoffs.

Malcolm Jenkins had the second two-interception game of his eight-year career, returning one for a touchdown, and the Philadelphia Eagles snapped a five-game slide by beating the Giants, 24-19, Thursday night. The loss handed Dallas the NFC East title – and homefield advantage throughout the conference playoffs.

It also put the Giants (10-5) in a more

difficult spot for ending their four-season playoff drought. They still own the top wild-card position heading into their finale at Washington.

New York still can get in this weekend if Detroit, Green Bay, Tampa Bay or Atlanta loses.

Carson Wentz threw a touchdown pass to Nelson Agholor, then returned from being examined for a concussion in the fourth quarter to guide a drive to Caleb Sturgis’ 41-yard field goal.

After New York’s Robbie Gould made his fourth field goal, Philadelphia (5-9) held on downs with just under two minutes remaining.

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Vibrant chants of “Si se puede!” resonated around Rio’s main tennis stadium as Puerto Rico’s unseeded Monica Puig beat Germany’s Angelique Kerber – who would win two Grand Slam titles in 2016 and take over the No. 1 ranking – to become her island nation’s first gold medalist in any Olympic sport.

As the Puerto Rican anthem echoed around an Olympic arena and spectators belted out the lyrics, Puig was unable to join in for one simple reason: too many tears. “If I would’ve stopped crying,” Puig said, “I probably would have started singing.”

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Murtaza Ahmadi, a 5-year-old Afghan Lionel Messi fan plays soccer Feb. 2 at the Afghan Football Federation Stadium in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan Football Federation set up a meeting between Messi and Ahmadi, who became an internet sensation when photos circulated of him wearing an improvised Messi shirt made from a plastic bag.

D’Agostino could barely move by race’s end and needed a wheelchair – but they crossed the line. Then they hugged. Longtime friends? Hardly.

“That girl is the Olympic spirit, right there,” Hamblin said. “I’ve never met her before. Like, I never met this girl before. And isn’t that just so amazing? Such an amazing woman.”

LENDING A HAND Even Olympic officials were moved During a qualifying heat for the 5,000 meters at the Rio Games, Abbey by the episode, awarding both runners D’Agostino of the U.S. and Nikki Ham- berths in the final. blin of New Zealand got their feet tangled, sending both sprawling. D’Agos- MEETING MESSI First, Murtaza Ahmadi, a 5-year-old tino got up and, instead of trying to get herself back into the race, crouched from Afghanistan, was photographed down, helped Hamblin rise and whis- wearing a plastic bag fashioned into a pered, “Get up. We have to finish this.” makeshift Lionel Messi uniform – blue Turned out both were injured – and white stripes, like Argentina’s na-

tional team; Messi’s name and number written in black marker. The image became an internet sensation.

Later, Murtaza got to walk with Messi onto the field before an exhibition game. When it was time for the kickoff, Murtaza did not want to leave his new pal’s side.

SALUTING AN OPPONENT

Takes something special for supporters of one team to salute a player for an opponent that won a game, and that’s what happened early in the NHL season in Edmonton. The Oilers’ fans gave Senators goalie Craig Anderson a standing ovation after he made 37 saves for a shutout in Ottawa’s 2-0 victory over Edmonton – his first start

Allen suspended indefinitely Grayson Allen’s latest antics again may have tripped up No. 5 Duke.

The Blue Devils have had a full roster for about three days this season. And after Allen tripped yet another opponent, it’s not clear when they’ll have a complete lineup again.

Allen was suspended indefinitely from the team Thursday after the preseason AP All-American tripped an Elon player – the third time he has been in-

volved in a tripping incident this calendar year.

Coach Mike Krzyzewski explained the suspension in a brief statement, saying the program “needed to take further steps regarding his actions that do not meet the standards of Duke basketball.”

The growing concern is that Allen continues to repeat what the school and the Atlantic Coast Conference deems unacceptable behavior.

Allen tripped opposing players from Louisville and Florida State last winter.

BREAKING RECORDS AFTER CANCER

University of Pittsburgh running back James Conner was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 2015, went through more than five months of draining treatment, then returned to college football this year and wound up breaking Atlantic Coast Conference records for career touchdowns and rushing TDs. Now he’s headed to the NFL.

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The Cubs’ first World Series championship in more than a century was a big deal to many long-suffering fans – and provided a way for some to reconnect spiritually with lost loved ones who never got to see Wrigleyville turn into Titletown.

Wayne Williams kept a pledge he and his father made to each other and shared a moment they’d both been waiting for all their lives. Williams drove from North Carolina to his father’s gravesite in Indiana to listen on the radio “together” as the Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in Game 7.

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We watch sports to see who wins and loses, but also to be inspired – and 2016 offered plenty of examples of the latter, from a touching moment between two strangers on the Olympic track, to a little boy from a war-torn land who met his favorite soccer player, to a warm ovation fueled by empathy for a visiting NHL goalie.

Moments and feelings that will be recalled more vividly than any numbers on a result sheet or etched in bright lights on a scoreboard.

There were athletes and coaches whose stories touched us, as well as folks connected to the sports world who contributed their own uplifting vignettes.

One example: When sideline reporter Craig Sager died of leukemia this month, there were heartfelt tributes tinged with sadness, of course, but also remembrances that spread the positive message he offered as he continued to cover the NBA and college basketball despite his illness.

“Man, life is too beautiful, too wonderful. There’s just too many things,” Sager said in August. “It’s not just you.

It’s your family and kids and all. Fight.

Fight until the end. Fight as hard as you can.”

Some inspiring sports moments during the past year:

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Crawford finally ready, but Hossa, Anisimov out

By BRIAN HEDGER For the Sun-Times

CHICAGO – When you’ve overcome injuries like the Blackhawks this season, what’s one more game without two key players?

The wheel of injuries keeps spinning for the Hawks, who will get Corey Crawford back Friday against the Colorado Avalanche – but won’t have Marian Hossa or Artem Anisimov.

It’s par for the course, as the Hawks have risen to the top of the NHL with 48 points amid a multitude of ailments.

“You learn a little bit about your players,” coach Joel Quenneville said after practice Thursday at the United Center. “You learn about your team, as well. I think that’s helped us out as we’ve gone through this, and some of the tests have been passed in a good way.”

The Hawks have dealt with extended absences for Crawford (10 games), Jonathan Toews (nine games), Andrew Desjardins (13 games), Trevor van Riemsdyk (20 games) and Tyler Motte (five games). They’ve cleared short-term hurdles without Brent Seabrook (two games), Anisimov (two games) and Hossa – who left the game Tuesday against Ottawa and will miss his second game of the season.

Quenneville is “hopeful” Hossa and Anisimov will be ready Tuesday against

• ROUNDUP

Continued from page 6 Lakes came all the way back from a 17-2 deficit after the first quarter to win in the third-place game of the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic at McHenry.

The Gators (6-9) finished fourth.

Sevcik put South ahead, 36-35, with 13.1 seconds remaining, but Natalie Pawlak answered on the other end with a baseline jumper with less than four seconds left.

Taylor Jozefowicz and Kelly Gaede added five points apiece for the Gators, each hitting one 3. The Gators shot 6 of 15 from the free-throw line.

Richmond-Burton 61, Crystal Lake Central 52: In the Northern Illinois Holiday Clas-

sic, Brooke Leganaioli hit five 3-pointers and scored a game-high 19 points to lead the Rockets past the Tigers in a consolation game at Richmond-Burton. KC Davids added 14 points, Brittney Olson scored six points, and Mackenzie Hahn and Megan Curran each had five.

the Winnipeg Jets, after a four-day holiday weekend to recover, but there’s no telling what malady might crop up against the Avalanche.

“I don’t think we’ve had a big number of injuries, but they’ve been key, and it looks like as soon as you’re healthy, something else pops up,” Quenneville said.

“I think everybody deals with it.”

The Hawks have become adept at plugging Corey leaks, and this time Crawford they’re tapping into the minors to do it. Anisimov was placed on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 18, and center Tanner Kero was recalled from Rockford.

Kero, 24, had a goal and two assists in 17 games with the Hawks last season.

He has seven goals and 13 assists in 28 games for Rockford this season.

“You keep track as much as you can,” said Kero, who recently became a father for the first time. “Every chance we get, we’re trying to watch [the Hawks] to learn how they’re playing and what kind of style they’re playing, just in case you get the chance to get called up.”

Kero centered the fourth line at practice, skating with Desjardins and Jordin Tootoo. He’s not the only rookie looking to impress with Hossa and

Anisimov out. Motte skated in Hossa’s spot on the second line, and Vinnie Hinostroza continued centering that line for Anisimov.

Meanwhile, Crawford went through his first full practice since undergoing an emergency appendectomy Dec. 3 in Philadelphia. He saw a lot of shots, which is the only way goalies can sharpen their timing and puck-tracking in practices.

Crawford, who has a .955 save percentage during 5-on-5 this season, is hoping to buck a negative trend coming back from injuries. He’s had five extended injury absences in the past four seasons, but is 1-1-3 with a .903 save percentage in the first games back after each.

Last season, after missing 11 games March 16 to April 7, Crawford allowed five goals on 25 shots in the Hawks’ 5-4 overtime loss at the Columbus Blue Jackets to conclude the regular season.

“You never really can recapture the pace of having a full 60 minutes in front of you, where you’re standing up there constantly getting pushed on and fighting through screens and finding the shots,” Quenneville said. “I think just getting through a game will probably make a world of difference for him.

I think recapturing it with a couple of practices is going to help him, but the game … there’s nothing like it.”

Crystal Lake Central had four players score in double figures, led by Cori Hamll’s team-high 11 points. Jane Johnsey, Maddie Haslow and Keeley Hamill each hit a pair of 3s and finished with 10 points apiece. Tara Ernd added eight.

Johnsburg 65, Belvidere 28: In the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic, Aannah Interrante scored a game-high 25 points in three quarters, including three 3-pointers, to lead the Skyhawks (12-5) to a win in a consolation game at Richmond-Burton. Kayla Stefka scored 11 points for Johnsburg, while Ava Interrante added seven and Heather Arden made a pair of 3s to finish with six points.

Marengo 55, Woodstock 51: In the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic, Marengo’s Marissa Knobloch scored 19 points, including three 3-pointers, to lead the Indians (6-8) in a consolation bracket win over the Blue Streaks at Woodstock.

Hannah Faber added nine points for the Indians, hitting the team’s other 3-pointer, and Bailey Bertrand added eight.

Gabriella Scolio scored a game-high 23 points to lead Woodstock, hitting 7 of

9 free throws. Autumn Overly added 10 points and hit the team’s only 3-pointer. Diana Spokas had eight points, and Emma Brand added seven points.

Woodstock North 47, DeKalb 36: In the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic, Lulu Nicks scored 16 points, including two 3-pointers, to lead the Thunder in a consolation bracket win over DeKalb at McHenry. After leading by one point at halftime, the Thunder scored 32 points in the second half, including outscoring DeKalb, 12-4, in the fourth quarter to put the game away. Madison Butler added eight points, Paiton Lawrence added seven, while Taylor Prerost and Maddie Busch chipped in six points apiece.

Wauconda 51, Marian Central 35: In the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic, Vannessa Garrelts scored a team-high 18 points to lead the Hurricanes in a loss in a consolation game at Woodstock. Marian Central was within two points at the end of the first quarter but went cold, scoring just eight points over the next two quarters. Emily Radecki added six points, and Grace Shukis had five points.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Woodstock H.S. announces 2016-17 Hall of Fame inductees

The best girls runner in Illinois state history is among the members of the Woodstock High School Hall of Fame induction class for 2016-17.

Kayla Beattie, a 2011 graduate, won the Class 2A cross country state championship, then won the Class 2A 3,200- and 1,600-meter state titles in track and field, all in state-record times.

Beattie is one of two Northwest Herald Female Athlete of the Year winners in this class. The other is 2006 winner Jen Nichols-Hogle, a 2006 graduate and basketball standout who is the Blue Streaks’ girls basketball coach.

The other inductees will be Rob Mecklenburg (1985), Becky Wagenaar (1992), Nikki Schulty (2006) and Matt Lehl (2005). The ceremony will take place at halftime of the boys basketball game Jan. 20 when the Streaks host Johnsburg. A Hall of Fame Social will start in the Commons at 5:30 p.m.

Beattie, who ran collegiately at Iowa and Arizona, still holds the IHSA state meet records for any class in the 3,200 (9:56.96) and 1,600 (4:43.65). She is the only girl in Illinois history to break 10 minutes in the 3,200. She won five state championships in her high school career.

Nichols-Hogle was the IHSA Class AA 3-Point Showdown winner and Queen of the Hill champion. She is Woodstock’s girls career leader in scoring (1,742), rebounds (779), free throws made (548), steals (261) and 2-point field goals made (489).

Mecklenburg played baseball and was a longtime physical education teacher and coach in District 200. Wagenaar was a standout swimmer for the Streaks. Schulty was one of the area’s top softball pitchers during her Woodstock career. Lehl was one of the best golfers in Streaks history.

Lindsey scores 19; Northwestern rallies past Houston Baptist

EVANSTON – Scottie Lindsey had 19 points, Isiah Brown added 12, and Northwestern overcame a sluggish first half for a 72-63 victory over Houston Baptist on Thursday night. Sanjay Lumpkin and Vic Law had 11 points apiece as the Wildcats (11-2) won their eighth straight game.

Colter Lasher and Atif Russell had 13 points apiece for HBU (4-6), which led at halftime, 35-25.

Idaho tops Colorado State in third-highest scoring bowl game

BOISE, Idaho – Matt Linehan threw for 381 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score to help Idaho beat Colorado State, 61-50, on Thursday night in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in the third-highest scoring game in bowl history.

Idaho (9-4) matched its highest victory total since moving to FBS in 1996, but the victory will do nothing to quell the debate over the school’s decision to move back down to FCS play.

Colorado State (7-6) finished with a bowl loss for the second straight year.

– Staff, wire reports

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WEEK 17 Sunday, Jan. 1 Bears at Minnesota, noon New England at Miami, noon Cleveland at Pittsburgh, noon Green Bay at Detroit, noon Carolina at Tampa Bay, noon Dallas at Philadelphia, noon Houston at Tennessee, noon Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, noon Baltimore at Cincinnati, noon Jacksonville at Indianapolis, noon New Orleans at Atlanta, noon N.Y. Giants at Washington, noon Seattle at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Arizona at Los Angeles, 3:25 p.m.

Oakland at Denver, 3:25 p.m.

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Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Blackhawks 35 22 9 4 48 101 84 Minnesota 31 19 8 4 42 91 60 St. Louis 34 18 11 5 41 96 98 Nashville 32 15 12 5 35 94 90 Winnipeg 36 16 17 3 35 95 105 Dallas 34 13 14 7 33 86 104 Colorado 32 11 20 1 23 65 105 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 33 20 12 1 41 84 73 Edmonton 35 18 12 5 41 103 94 Anaheim 34 17 12 5 39 95 97 Calgary 35 17 16 2 36 90 102 Los Angeles 32 16 13 3 35 81 81 Vancouver 34 14 17 3 31 85 105 Arizona 33 11 17 5 27 74 104

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Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 32 21 7 4 46 101 70 Ottawa 33 19 11 3 41 86 88 Boston 34 17 14 3 37 80 83 Tampa Bay 33 16 14 3 35 95 92 Florida 33 15 13 5 35 81 90 Toronto 32 13 12 7 33 93 94 Buffalo 31 12 11 8 32 69 83 Detroit 33 14 15 4 32 79 93 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 33 21 7 5 47 116 92 N.Y. Rangers 35 23 11 1 47 115 82 Columbus 30 21 5 4 46 101 63 Philadelphia 35 20 11 4 44 110104 Washington 31 19 8 4 42 83 69 Carolina 31 13 11 7 33 82 87 New Jersey 32 12 13 7 31 75 98 N.Y. Islanders 32 12 14 6 30 85 101 2 points for a win, 1 point for OT loss.

Thursday’s Results Columbus 7, Pittsburgh 1 Carolina 3, Buffalo 1 New Jersey 4, Philadelphia 0 Ottawa 2, Anaheim 1, OT Boston 3, Florida 1 Minnesota 4, Montreal 2 Tampa Bay 5, St. Louis 2 Los Angeles 4, Nashville 0 Toronto 6, Colorado 0 Winnipeg 4, Vancouver 1 Friday’s Games Colorado at Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m.

Minnesota at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Columbus, 6 p.m.

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

New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Boston at Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

SCHEDULE

Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 21 6 .778 Bulls 14 14 .500 Indiana 15 16 .484 Milwaukee 13 14 .481 Detroit 14 17 .452 Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 20 8 .714 Boston 17 12 .586 New York 16 13 .552 Philadelphia 7 21 .250 Brooklyn 7 21 .250 Southeast Division W L Pct Charlotte 16 13 .552 Atlanta 14 15 .483 Washington 13 15 .464 Orlando 13 18 .419 Miami 10 20 .333

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Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 23 6 .793 — Houston 22 8 .733 1½ Memphis 19 12 .613 5 New Orleans 10 21 .323 14 Dallas 8 21 .276 15 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Utah 18 12 .600 — Oklahoma City 17 12 .586 ½ Portland 13 18 .419 5½ Denver 12 17 .414 5½ Minnesota 9 19 .321 8 Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 26 4 .867 — L.A. Clippers 22 8 .733 4 Sacramento 12 17 .414 13½ L.A. Lakers 11 21 .344 16 Phoenix 8 21 .276 17½ Thursday’s Results Boston 109, Indiana 102 Golden State 117, Brooklyn 101 New York 106, Orlando 95 Miami 115, L.A. Lakers 107 L.A. Clippers 106, San Antonio 101 Friday’s Games Bulls at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Houston at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Miami at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Denver, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Utah, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Portland, 9 p.m.

Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Boston at New York, 11 a.m.

Golden State at Cleveland, 1:30 p.m.

Bulls at San Antonio, 4 p.m.

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Friday Boys basketball: Crystal Lake South vs. Johnsburg at Jacobs Tournament, 9 a.m., Cary-Grove vs. Grant at Jacobs Tournament, 10:30 a.m., Jacobs, Marian Central, Prairie Ridge at Jacobs Tournament, Crystal Lake Central, Marengo, Richmond-Burton, Woodstock, Woodstock North at Marengo Tournament, TBA Wrestling: Richmond-Burton at Woodstock Quad, Crystal Lake Central, Huntley, Jacobs at Al Dvorak Harlem Tournament, 9 a.m., Marian Central at Harvard Triangular, 3:30 p.m.

NCAA BASKETBALL TOP 25 FARED

1. Villanova (12-0) did not play. Next: vs. DePaul, Wednesday.

2. UCLA (13-0) did not play. Next: at No. 20 Oregon, Wednesday.

3. Kansas (10-1) at UNLV. Next: at TCU, Friday, Dec. 30.

4. Baylor (12-0) did not play. Next: at Oklahoma, Friday, Dec. 30.

5. Duke (12-1) did not play. Next: at Virginia Tech, Saturday, Dec. 31.

6. Kentucky (10-2) did not play. Next: at Mississippi, Thursday.

7. Gonzaga (12-0) did not play. Next: vs. Pepperdine, Friday, Dec. 30.

8. North Carolina (11-2) did not play.

Next: vs. Monmouth (N.J.), Wednesday.

9. Creighton (12-0) did not play. Next: vs. Seton Hall, Wednesday.

10. Louisville (11-1) did not play. Next: vs. No. 12 Virginia, Wednesday.

11. West Virginia (10-1) did not play.

Next: vs. Northern Kentucky, Friday.

12. Virginia (10-1) did not play. Next: at No. 10 Louisville, Wednesday.

13. Butler (11-1) did not play. Next: at St. John’s, Wednesday.

14. Wisconsin (10-2) did not play.

Next: vs. Florida A&M, Friday.

15. Purdue (11-2) did not play. Next: vs. Iowa, Wednesday.

16. Indiana (10-2) beat Austin Peay 97-62. Next: vs. Nebraska, Wednesday.

17. Xavier (10-2) did not play. Next: vs.

Providence, Wednesday.

18. Arizona (11-2) did not play. Next: at California, Friday, Dec. 30.

19. Saint Mary’s (9-1) vs. South Carolina State. Next: at Loyola Marymount, Thursday.

20. Oregon (11-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 2 UCLA, Wednesday.

21. Florida State (12-1) did not play.

Next: vs. Wake Forest, Wednesday.

22. South Carolina (9-2) did not play.

Next: vs. Lander, Tuesday.

23. Southern Cal (11-0) vs. Missouri State. Next: vs. DePaul or Wyoming, Friday.

24. Cincinnati (10-2) beat Marshall 93-91, OT. Next: at Temple, Wednesday.

25. Notre Dame (10-2) did not play.

Next: vs. Saint Peter’s, Wednesday.

NCAA FOOTBALL BOWL SCHEDULE THURSDAY Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise Idaho 61, Colorado St 50 FRIDAY Bahamas Bowl Nassau Eastern Michigan (7-5) vs. Old Dominion (9-3), noon (ESPN) Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Navy (9-3) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-5), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Dollar General Bowl Mobile, Ala. Ohio (8-5) vs. Troy (9-3), 7 p.m.

(ESPN) SATURDAY Hawaii Bowl Honolulu Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Hawaii (6-7), 7 p.m. (ESPN) MONDAY St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl Mississippi State (5-7) vs. Miami (Ohio) (6-6), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl Detroit Boston College (6-6) vs. Maryland 6-6), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. NC State (6-6) vs. Vanderbilt (6-6), 4 p.m. (ESPN2) TUESDAY Heart of Dallas Bowl Army (6-5) vs. North Texas (5-7), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Military Bowl Annapolis, Md. Wake Forest (6-6) vs. Temple (10-3), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl San Diego Minnesota (8-4) vs. Washington State (8-4), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Cactus Bowl Phoenix Boise State (10-2) vs. Baylor (6-6), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN)

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• Friday, December 23, 2016

NBA 6 p.m.: Bulls at Charlotte, WGN 6:30 p.m.: Oklahoma City at Boston, NBA 9:30 p.m.: Dallas at L.A. Clippers, NBA NHL 7 p.m.: Colorado at Blackhawks, CSN Men’s basketball 1:30 p.m.: Auburn at UConn, ESPN2 3 p.m.: Providence at Boston College, ESPNU 3:30 p.m.: Diamond Head Classic, first semifinal, ESPN 5:30 p.m.: Rutgers at Seton Hall, FS1 6 p.m.: Arkansas State at Minnesota, 6 p.m., BTN 7 p.m.: Harvard at Houston, ESPN2 7:30 p.m.: Las Vegas Classic, third place game, 7:30 p.m., FS1

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North W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 9 5 0 .643 301 285 Green Bay 8 6 0 .571 363 339 Minnesota 7 7 0 .500 264 259 Bears 3 11 0 .214 248 320 East W L T Pct PF PA x-Dallas 12 2 0 .857 366 258 N.Y. Giants 10 5 0 .667 291 274 Washington 7 6 1 .536 345 343 Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 340 318 South W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 9 5 0 .643 469 358 Tampa Bay 8 6 0 .571 313 322 New Orleans 6 8 0 .429 406 392 Carolina 6 8 0 .429 337 352 West W L T Pct PF PA y-Seattle 9 4 1 .679 298 235 Arizona 5 8 1 .393 340 325 Los Angeles 4 10 0 .286 197 328 San Francisco 1 13 0 .071 264 434 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division WEEK 16 Thursday’s Result Philadelphia 24, N.Y. Giants 19 Saturday’s Games Washington at Bears, noon N.Y. Jets at New England, noon San Diego at Cleveland, noon Miami at Buffalo, noon Tennessee at Jacksonville, noon Minnesota at Green Bay, noon Tampa Bay at New Orleans, noon Atlanta at Carolina, noon Indianapolis at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Los Angeles, 3:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston,7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 3:30 p.m.

Denver at Kansas City, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Detroit at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

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100 FORD PICK-UPS 10 FORD FOCUS 50 FORD ESCAPES 15 FORD EXPLORERS 20 FORD EDGES 20 FORD FUSIONS

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Plus tax, title license and doc fee to qualified buyers. *On select models. Excludes Raptor, Shelby, SVO and other specialty units. In stock units only. All Ford factory rebates included. 0% APR for 72 mos. = $13.89/$1,000 financed. Savings from MSRP. MSRP may not be the actual price at which the vehicle is sold in the trade area. 20% Off Example: New 2016 Ford F-150, Stk#62637, MSRP: $52,020 – 20% = $41,616. Excludes SVT models. Photos for illustration purposes only. See dealer for details. Expires 1/3/17.

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