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CANDLELIGHT TRADITION St. Paul’s United Church of Christ holds annual Christmas Eve service / A3

On assignment Hebron pastor brings true meaning of Advent to parish / Inside LOCAL NEWS

Going electronic State’s Attorney’s Office to launch new warrant program / A4 SPORTS

QB struggles

Jahns: Barkley gives away opportunity to shine vs. Redskins / B2

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The warm sector of a large storm system will cross the region Sunday. Rain and thunderstorms are possible throughout the night.

Complete forecast on page A5

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Have yourself a merry, mutt puppy Christmas Who would have expected the unbridled joy of Christmas in a mutt puppy?

We’ve had Mutt Puppy – a wire-haired terrier mix who happens to be younger than 2 years old, still a puppy, in other words – going on three months now. He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In fact, he’s more knob than knife, but he’s learning.

There’s something infectious about him.

From the moment you get home from work, he goes wild with happiness upon seeing you. And he jumps up on you. He wants a hug or something.

And the word of the moment is “Down!” It’s a word he is kind of getting, but really he has trained us to get down to his level, and hold him down while petting him vigorously and telling him how happy we are to see him, but would you please calm down and stay down?

We try to keep our commands simple and to one word in hopes that he will match the word with the desired action, such as down. Or sit. Or stay. Or toy.

I think lay might be beyond his capability, as Mutt Puppy has no intention of laying when he is full of it. And forget about roll over. We’re not talking genius dog there.

But he is getting the idea of down. He’s not jumping up quite as long as he was. When he gets his front paws on your lap, if you say “down” persistently enough, he will back off.

And we’ve pretty much got him trained not to get on the couches anymore.

Sit seems to work sometimes, too. If he’s excited, and that is a perpetual state, it is hard for him to concentrate on sitting. But if he is calmed down, he will sit after a command or two. Or three.

Ever the gentlemen, he invariably offers his paw to shake.

But when he sits, he expects to be petted.

And he has this habit of sitting just at the length of your outstretched arm, so you have to reach for him and give a tug on his collar to slide him closer to you.

Thankfully, we have hardwood floors, and he slides easily. But he does like to be petted, and that seems to have a calming effect on him.

The unbridled joy of Christmas for Mutt Puppy comes with snow, preferably the light powder that has fallen the past couple of weekends. He loves the snow and the cold.

Actually, he loves the idea of going on a walk. He knows the signals: our putting on

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VIEWS Dick Peterson shoes or boots, then coats and hats. The checking grocery bags for holes in them. We don’t want holes because the bags are used to pick up his business.

And we don’t want to get any on our hands, not even through a pinprick.

By then he’s running from one end of the house to the other, his back arched and his paws coming together under him as he picks up speed.

Oh, and he jumps, and can barely comprehend the word “down.”

Then, just try to get him to stop and sit to hook the leash onto his collar, or to put on the harness we have for him. He can barely contain himself. This is every walk so far. Nothing lackadaisical about Mutt Puppy.

But the snow has been something else. I don’t know whether he’s seen snow before; he’s from Tennessee.

We have a long, retractable leash that we sometimes use, and have learned to use it all the time in the snow. It goes out 15 or 20 feet, giving him plenty of room to run. And he just dives into the snow, head first, burying his head in it, his hind end in the air, running in circles, and diving into it again.

When he comes close, he likes to have snow kicked in his face. It’s all just a wonderful game.

But, alas, the long leash is ruined. I had no idea how the leash was made; I thought it was a black nylon cord all the way through.

But I’ve come to find out the black is a sheathing over a few strings, and the black sheathing somehow cut through, exposing the thin strands of string.

Luckily, we were almost home, and he didn’t break free.

Now, it’s back to the short leash, not nearly as much fun, but Mutt Puppy doesn’t seem to notice. He still romps in the snow like nothing happened. It sometimes helps being a knob.

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

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DIGIT 160 The estimated number of people who attended St. Paul’s United Church of Christ’s Christmas Eve service at 5 p.m.

ON THE COVER Emilee Campisi, 17, of Wonder Lake raises her candle while singing “Silent Night” on Saturday during St. Paul’s United Church of Christ’s annual Christmas Eve services in Crystal Lake.

See story, page A3.

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CELEBRATING ‘REASON FOR THE SEASON’ Pastor at St. Paul’s focuses on message of hope, service

By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN

bkeeperman@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – More than 150 worshippers gathered Saturday night at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Crystal Lake for a night of tradition.

The church held its annual Christmas Eve services and saw about double the turnout of a typical Sunday service.

The service, referred to as a “Service of Lessons and Carols,” involved the singing of traditional hymns and carols, reading Bible passages related to the story of the birth of Jesus Christ and lighting candles.

“My hope would be that [the congregation] would leave feeling hopeful and desiring to serve people,” said Greg Lucas, who has been a pastor at the church for 13 years.

“There is the expression that Jesus is the reason of the season,” he said. “Well, I am saying he is the reason for everything.”

The church held two Christmas Eve services, one at 5 p.m. and one at 11 p.m., and it also will hold a Christmas Day service at 10:30 a.m.

There was no sermon Saturday, but Lucas plans to preach Sunday, he said.

The message he wants to focus on is one of hope and service, he said. “[Jesus] is the reason for our lives,” he said. “He is the reason for our hope and the reason we serve, help and care for people. He is our example of selfless service and loving others.”

St. Paul’s Sunday services average about 160 people, he said.

See CANDLELIGHT SERVICE, page A4

Photos by Mike Greene for Shaw Media

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ABOVE: Krista Seibt (right) of McHenry passes the flame on her candle to Carole Bellino of Florida during St. Paul’s United Church of Christ’s annual Christmas Eve services Saturday in Crystal Lake. TOP: Pastor Greg Lucas speaks during St. Paul’s United Church of Christ’s Christmas Eve services. Lucas has been a pastor at the church for 13 years.

Bill Eich of Lakewood lights a candle during St. Paul’s United Church of Christ’s annual Christmas Eve services Saturday in Crystal Lake.

[Jesus] is the reason for our lives. He is the reason for our hope and the reason we serve, help and care for people. He is our example of selfless service and loving others.”

Greg Lucas, St. Paul’s United Church

of Christ pastor

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Alexander “Gator” S. Chiarello 18 Genevieve Irene DeLance 93, Crystal Lake Vernon L. Holm 85, Woodstock Donald C. Marski 69, McHenry Valeria M. Scarbrough 76, McHenry

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State’s Attorney’s Office to launch electronic warrant program Jan. 9

By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office is implementing new technology at the beginning of next year to streamline the search warrant authorization process.

The new program, set to take effect Jan. 9, will allow a police officer to create search warrant affidavits, send the documents electronically to a judge, interact with the judge via video conference and have the judge sign and authorize the search warrant and send the corresponding order back to the police officer.

The technology will eliminate the need for police officers to travel to the McHenry County Courthouse or meet a judge after normal business hours to ob-

“The technology being deployed is going to save law enforcement an enormous amount of time and taxpayer money.”

McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally said the program is an example of multiple government agencies working together to promote justice and efficiency.

“The technology being deployed is going to save law enforcement an enormous amount of time and taxpayer money spent coming to and from the Patrick Kenneally courthouse for a judge’s approval and McHenry County state’s attorney signature on a warrant,” Kenneally said in a statement.

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ABOVE: Ginny Deurling (center) of Woodstock smiles while directing Lilly Greve, 12, and Meghan Schneeweiss, 15, during St. Paul’s United Church of Christ’s annual Christmas Eve services Saturday in Crystal Lake. The children’s choir performed all songs at the 5 p.m. service.

RIGHT: Molly Schneeweiss (left), 13, performs a duet with Meghan Schneeweiss during St. Paul’s annual Christmas Eve services.

• CANDLELIGHT SERVICE Continued from page A3

About the same number came to the 5 p.m. service. Another 160 were expected to show up for the later service.

There is a greater expectation put on places of worship during the holidays, Lucas said.

“People want to have the candle-

light,” he said. “They want to sing ‘Silent Night.’ They want to light candles.

They want to sing carols. On Sunday mornings, there is more variation in our church because people don’t have the expectations that they do during the holiday season.”

The candlelighting ceremony symbolizes a passage in the Bible that talks about how Jesus brought light to the world and how light can break through

darkness, he said.

The only difference between the 5 p.m. service and the 11 p.m. service was the music, Lucas said.

At 5 p.m., the church’s children’s choir performed. Lilly Greve, 12, Molly Schneeweiss, 13, and Meghan Schneeweiss, 15, performed under the direction of Ginny Deuerling.

The trio practices weekly, and all said they were nervous about the per-

formance.

The group also performs monthly during Sunday services, but it seemed like a bigger crowd Saturday, the trio said.

It’s worth the nervous moments, however, said Molly Schneeweiss, who has been with the choir for about seven years.

“We can spread the gospel,” she said. “And I just love to sing.”

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We will be in the warm sector of a large storm system on Christmas Day. Highs will rise from the low 40s in the afternoon to the upper 40s overnight. Rain and a thunderstorm are possible. The workweek will begin mild with rain and storms Monday morning. Highs will return to the low 30s by Thursday with a chance of flurries.

TODAY

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MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Mild; rain or a storm early

Partly sunny and cooler

Mostly sunny

Cloudy; a passing snow shower

Partly sunny and windy

48 28

Cloudy, mild, afternoon rain

39 25

42 30

Lake Geneva

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Galena

Freeport

38/36

41/38

Belvidere

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Rockford

UV INDEX

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AIR QUALITY TODAY Main offender ................. particulates

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Orland Park 42/40 Hammond

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Joliet

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Gary

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Ottawa

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Kankakee

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NATIONAL WEATHER

Fld: flood stage. Prs: stage in feet at 7 a.m Saturday.

Chg: change in previous 24 hours.

Station Fld Prs Chg

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WEATHER HISTORY Record cold gripped the East and the Ohio Valley Christmas Day of 1983. Philadelphia reached a high temperature of 1 degree.

The Donner and Blitzen storm.

Dec.24, 1966.

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Sunset today ........................... 4:27 p.m.

Moonrise today ........................ 3:47 a.m.

Moonset today ......................... 2:21 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow .................... 7:21 a.m.

Sunset tomorrow ..................... 4:27 p.m.

Moonrise tomorrow ................. 4:43 a.m.

Moonset tomorrow .................. 2:58 p.m.

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37/35

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Savanna

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39/37

TEMPERATURES High ................................................... 38° Low ................................................... 34° Normal high ....................................... 33° Normal low ........................................ 19° Record high .......................... 64° in 1889 Record low ......................... -25° in 1983 Peak wind ....................... NNW at 10 mph PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest............0.07” Month to date ................................. 1.45” Normal month to date ..................... 1.83” Year to date .................................. 35.65” Normal year to date ...................... 36.55”

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A snapshot of McHenry County history

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Fruitcake’s origins date to the Middle Ages, when it consisted of pine nuts, pomegranate seeds and barley mash. Dried fruits and nuts were added over the centuries with alcohol (optional). It still is popular around the world, with Germans calling it “stollen” and Italians “panettone.” If your mom didn’t make it at home, you could buy it locally in places such as the Bohemian bakery in Fox River Grove around 1922. Perhaps you left some fruitcake out for Santa – provided it was not the rock-hard version made by your Great-aunt Hermione that ended its days as a hockey puck on the backyard skating rink or as a chew toy for the dog. Irma Rombauer, celebrated author of the iconic “Joy of Cooking,” said a properly made fruitcake stored in a tight fitting tin could last up to 25 years. Yum. The McHenry County Historical Society is hosting a quilt display and holiday memorabilia exhibit through December. Hours are from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday – with the exception of Dec. 30 – at the county historical museum, 6422 Main St. in Union. The stage and exhibit halls feature rare sleds, Santas, bells, holiday china and a one-of-a-kind display of holiday-themed quilts. Play some vintage holiday songs on a jukebox or just soak in the ambiance. Regular museum admission applies to nonmembers. For details, visit www.gothistory.org.

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TLS Veterans offering support, services

By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com McHENRY – For McHenry County veterans and their families looking for services and support, TLS Veterans may be the place to go.

The nonprofit, founded in 1996, assists veterans and their families through programs including its New Horizons Transitional Living home in Hebron and a Peer Support Group, run through its McHenry drop-in center, 5330 Elm St. TLS Veterans is offering an Emotion Freedom Techniques meeting for veterans and their family members

starting at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 16. Those facing sleeplessness, unwelcome thoughts, anxiety, quick temper and other concerns are welcome to attend the eight-week series that will teach and practice “tapping” techniques and related information to help decrease concerns. For information on the program, contact Laura Franz at 815-6796667 or email lfranz@tlsveterans.org.

An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting also is from 7 to 8 p.m. Mondays at New Horizons, 10513 Route 57 in Hebron.

The meeting is hosted by a military veteran.

The TLS Veterans drop-in resource center offers a dinner from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Wednesdays. Walk-ins are welcome, as are Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans.

Those interested can contact Rose or Matt at 815-679-6667 for information.

A support group luncheon for female veterans and military spouses is offered from 11 a.m. to noon Wednesdays. The lunch, led by female veterans and military spouses, gives participants a chance to speak with other women with similar experiences.

Family members and veterans interested in writing can join Voices for Veterans, an ongoing writing group that meets at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Thursdays of the month.

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Born: September 18, 1998 Died: December 22, 2016

Alexander “Gator” Salvatore Chiarello on December 22, 2016 lost his battle with addiction and heroin took his life.

He was born on September 18, 1998 to Paul Chiarello and Lisa Bell Righter in Cape Coral, FL. In 2002 David Righter entered his life as a loving stepfather. In Al’s 18 short years with us he made a positive and unforgettable impact on everyone he met. His smile was contagious and could light up a room. He was positive and always made everyone laugh. His heart was made of gold and he was so kind and generous. Al would do anything to help anyone in need. Al had a phenomenal work ethic and especially took pride when he was working side by side with his stepfather, Dave. His passion for football started at a very young age. He was an amazing player and always was an awesome team member. He was very proud that he just completed all his coursework to graduate Belleville High School in June.

He is preceded in death by his grandmother, Sherry Nellis Bell; grandfather, Paul Frank Chiarello; grandmother, Nancy Mulbarger Chiarello; and uncle, Scott Chiarello.

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Al is survived by his mother and stepfather, David and Lisa (Bell) Righter; his father and stepmother, Paul and Carrie (Nellis) Chiarello; sisters, Paige, Pollie (Bryce Laube), Ruby, and Rian; brothers, Anthony (Cassie McMillan), Holden, and Harry; grandfather, Harry Bell; grandparents, Rick (Lorna) Righter; Aunt, Gina (Michael) Tetner, Nina Bell, Cheri (Gary) Kitson, Stacie (Jon) Basliadas, Jackie Righter; uncles, David Bell, Nicholas Bell, Bill (Angel) Righter, Randy (Abby) Righter; his very special uncle, Vince (Penny) Sossong; many cousins, including Jacob and Jesse Tetner, who were more like his brothers than cousins.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 338 S. Harrison St., Belleville, WI with Rev. Michael Moon officiating. Relatives and friends may call from

4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 338 S. Harrison St., Belleville, WI. The Zentner-Beal Funeral Home of New Glarus is serving the family.

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Visitation Tuesday from 3:00PM until 9:00 PM at Skaja Bachmann Funeral Home 7715 W. Route 14 in Crystal Lake, Funeral Wednesday 9:30 AM to St. Thomas the Apostle Church for 10:00 AM Mass. Interment Windridge Memorial Park. 815 455 2233 or skajafuneralhomes.com.

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Christopher Holm (Christine); grandchildren, Visitation is from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm on Franklin Adams, Lisa Walls, Rosemary Adams, Friday, December 30, 2016 at the Colonial Cecilia Zachary, Antonia Hillstrom, Amber Hillstrom, Brianna Hillstrom, Samantha Heller, and Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry, Eric Hillstrom; six great-grandchildren; sister-in- IL. A memorial mass will be held on Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 10:00 am at St. Patrick’s law, Judy Peloquin; and many friends.

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Vegas, NV. Formerly of Chicago, Valeria lived in Wonder Lake from 1952 until moving to the McCullom Lake area of McHenry in 1964. She worked as a secretary for the McHenry County Sheriff’s department for 13 years, retiring in December of 1989. For 8 years, she was also a waitress at the former Whale’s Tail restaurant in McHenry. A member of The Church of Holy Apostles in McHenry, Valeria was a former member of St. Patrick’s Church in McHenry.

For a number of years in the ’70s, she was also a member of the McCullom Lake Beach Gals.

Enjoyments during her lifetime included reading, scrapbooking, gardening and traveling.

Survivors include her husband, George Scarbrough, of McHenry; six children, Laura (Fred) O’Halleran of Hebron, Ramona Bitterman of McHenry, Kathleen (Michael) McDow of Wonder Lake, Daniel Bitterman of Fox Lake, Deborah (John) Rothlisberger of McHenry, and Angela (Shaun) Kirkwood of Huntley; grandchildren, Autumn & Alec O’Halleran, Christopher Bitterman/Justes, Bradlee & Rachael McDow, Hailey Bitterman, Nicholas Larsen & Rebecca Rothlisberger, and Alexis Lowitzki; five great-grandchildren; stepchildren, Sherry (Earl) Hucker of McHenry and Steven Scarbrough of North Dakota; step-grandchildren, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas; her sisters, Kathleen (the late Al) Krepel, Tootsie Buss, Carol (Bob Beyer), Rosemary Schaefer, and Hattie (Dennis) Kozicki; her brothers, Robert (Dodi) Buss, Bernard (Jan) Buss, Charles (Wilma) Buss, Gerard (Nancy) Buss, David Buss, Dominic Buss, and Peter (Carol) Buss.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and her brothers, Leon and Jim Mulholland.

Visitation will be from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, December 27, 2016, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. Visitation will resume Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. at The Church of Holy Apostles, 5211 W. Bull Valley Road, McHenry, IL 60050. The funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, at the church.

Interment will be in Ringwood Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, her family suggests memorials to JourneyCare Foundation, 2050 Claire Court, Glenview, IL 60025-7635.

For information, please call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com , where friends may leave an on-line condolence message for her family.

BELGRADE, Serbia – Vesna Vulovic, a Serbian stewardess who survived a plunge from 33,000 feet after her plane exploded in mid-air in 1972, has died. She was 66.

Serbia’s state TV said Saturday that Vulovic was found dead by her friends in her apartment in Belgrade. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Vulovic was working as a Yugoslav Airlines flight attendant on Jan. 26, 1972, when the Douglas DC-9 airliner she was aboard blew up high above the snowy • Continued from page A18

Donald C. Marski, 69, died peacefully on December 17, 2016 surrounded by his loving family.

Don was born on April 23, 1947, the son of Carroll L. and Rose Ann (Schaefer) Marski.

In 1970, Don married the love of his life, Jane Lauterer. Don and Jane made their home in McHenry, Illinois and were blessed with two daughters, Dana and Erin. Don

VALERIA M. SCARBROUGH

Born: January 29, 1940 Died: December 23, 2016

Valeria M. (Buss) Scarbrough, age 76, of McHenry, passed away Friday, December 23, 2016, at Valley Hi Nursing Home in Hartland Township.

She was born January 29, 1940 in Chicago to Leon F. and Florence B. (Baranski) Buss. On May 7, 1999, she married George Scarbrough in Las

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.

Sarah L. Belcher: The visitation will be from 4 p.m. until the 7 p.m. funeral service Tuesday, Dec. 27, at Free Methodist Church, 934 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock. Interment will be private in McHenry County Memorial Park Cemetery. For information, call Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney 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.

Robert J. Gruel: The visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 26, at Zion Lutheran Church, 412 Jackson St., Marengo. The visitation will continue from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service Tuesday, Dec. 27, at the church.

Interment with military honors will be in McHenry County Memorial Park Cemetery in Woodstock. For information, call Fredrick Funeral Home at 847-683-2711.

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.

Eugene Seaver: The visitation will be from 3 p.m. until the 6 p.m. funeral Mass celebration Tuesday, Dec. 27, at The Church of Holy Apostles, 5211 Bull Valley Road, McHenry. A reception will follow in the Father Sherry Parish Center. For information, call Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory at 815-3850063.

Larry J. Seaver: The luncheon to celebrate his life will be from 1 to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 14, at the Moose Lodge in Harvard. For information, call Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home at 815-9435400.

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mountain ranges of Czechoslovakia. All 27 other passengers and crew aboard died.

Vulovic entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1985 for “the highest fall survived without a parachute.” It was suspected that a bomb was planted inside the jet during a scheduled stopover in Copenhagen, Denmark, but no arrests were ever made. Trapped in the plane’s tail cone, she plummeted to earth in sub-freezing temperatures and landed on a steep, heavily wooded slope near a village. The fuselage tumbled through pine branches and into a thick coating of snow, softening the impact

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Reunited mother, daughter feel instant bond

By THERESA CHURCHILL Decatur Herald & Review

DECATUR – Similarities between a Decatur woman and the newborn she gave up for adoption 36 years ago just keep adding up.

Since their reunion in August and as mother and daughter begin to create new holiday traditions together, it’s clear both love to talk and use their hands for emphasis. They also share some dietary preferences, including a habit of smashing their sandwiches before eating them.

They also don’t keep secrets from their families, so their children have always known about the other.

Linda Fleckenstein, 53, said she did not fully appreciate the magnitude of what she gave up at age 17 until she gave birth 13 years later to the first of three more daughters she had with her late husband, Mark.

So Fleckenstein went so far as to include her maiden name (Craig) when she created a Facebook profile to make it easier for her daughter to find her one day.

Therein lay the rub and a difference between the two: Lani Greenarch, 36, of Ivesdale is far more internet savvy.

Greenarch found Fleckenstein on Facebook early this year, but the private message she sent March 23, one

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News from across the state State Fairgrounds Coliseum not safe for public use

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Fairgrounds Coliseum has deteriorated to the point the 115-year-old structure is no longer safe for public use, according to an engineering firm’s analysis obtained by a newspaper.

The 141-page report shows corrosion on steel support columns puts them at risk of “multiple failures.” The document also notes multiple roof leaks, loose or missing bolts and screws in support beams, peeling paint and mold.

The (Springfield) State Journal-Register obtained the report through a Freedom of Information Act request.

“Based on this observation, it is our opinion that the Coliseum should not be

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Lani Greenarch (right) puts her arm around her birth mother, Linda Fleckenstein, Nov. 21 in Decatur. she spent three days crafting, went unanswered.

So did four more messages she sent over the next three months. “I knew she had these teenage daughters,” Greenarch said. “I didn’t ever want to barge in for me to, like, take over.”

Even so, she upped her game in the message she sent to Fleckenstein June 22.

“I always knew it was possible if I found my mother, she might not want anything to do with me,” Greenarch

wrote. “I thought I was prepared for that. But. I am not. It’s breaking my heart.”

Fleckenstein, meanwhile, hadn’t opened any of the messages. “I’m horrible at social media,” she said.

Greenarch finally told a cousin “who knew everybody in Decatur” and who asked a mutual friend on Facebook if she would talk to Fleckenstein.

The woman, unfortunately, waited several more weeks to do so, in part, because Fleckenstein was mourning a

occupied until repairs have been made,” Hillsboro engineering firm Hurst-Roche Inc. said in its report to the Illinois Capital Development Board, which oversees state construction projects.

The popular venue in Springfield has been used for concerts, horse shows and other events. The Coliseum was shut down in October after workers found a loose ceiling beam. Events such as the Mid-America Mane Event Horse Show have been moved to other locations.

Illinoisan reported.

The university currently sells wine and beer to donors at the basketball arena and special events inside the club areas, as well as to the football stadium’s suite owners. According to university records, SIU Carbondale sold more than $39,000 worth of alcohol in those clubs and suites during the 2015 to 2016 school year.

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Southern Illinois University to sell more alcohol at games

CARBONDALE – Southern Illinois University-Carbondale officials said fans of legal drinking age might be able to buy alcohol at sporting events as soon as next fall.

Athletic director Tommy Bell said there still are details to work out, such as whether there will be a limit to where and how many drinks fans can buy. Bell estimated that the plan could generate about $50,000 a year, the Southern

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House fire kills 3 children, injures 5 other people

ROCKFORD – Authorities said three children are dead and five other people were injured in a predawn house fire in Rockford.

Firefighters were called to a home on the city’s west side around 3:40 a.m. Saturday. They found the house in flames and two boys, one girl and a dog dead inside.

Rockford Fire Division Chief Matt Knott told the (Rockford) Register Star that two adults and three other children escaped with injuries that were not life-threatening after smoke detectors

death in her family.

Finally, as Fleckenstein was headed for Blessingdales on Aug. 24, the woman called.

“She said, ‘Your daughter’s looking for you,’ and I said, ‘I just left them.

What do they want now??’” Fleckenstein said. “She said, ‘No, your first daughter,’ and I go, ‘Whoa, what?’ and I was like, ‘Wait, I gotta pull over.’”

She drove back home and was in such a state when she woke up daughter Morgan, 19, the teenager thought at first someone else had died.

The mutual friend then called Greenarch while she was getting ready to go to her job as a nurse at Maple Point, an assisted-living facility in Monticello.

Fleckenstein and Greenarch spoke by telephone that evening and met for the first time Aug. 27 in Fairview Park.

“She is so me,” Fleckenstein said.

Greenarch has also reunited with her biological father, who went to MacArthur High School with Fleckenstein and lives in Missouri.

Mother and daughter have since gotten together several times.

A jack-o-lantern carving session at Greenarch’s house Oct. 23 brought just about everyone together, including Greenarch’s parents, husband and daughters, ages 14, 11 and 4, and Fleckenstein’s other girls, ages 23, 19 and 14.

awakened them. Knott said the fire’s cause remains under investigation.

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Groups get $6.5M in federal grants to help homeless

SPRINGFIELD – More than two dozen Illinois organizations will receive a combined $6.5 million in federal grants to help reduce homelessness.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced the funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Friday. The money is used to provide housing and support services to people who are homeless.

Among the recipients are Good Samaritan House of Granite City, the city of Rockford, M.E.R.C.Y. Communities in Springfield and Renaissance Social Services in Chicago. In a statement, Durbin said nearly 1,000 veterans are sleeping on the streets in Illinois alone. He said that nationally, close to 380,000 children under age 18 will experience homelessness throughout the year.

– Wire reports

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Trump says he will dissolve his foundation

of Los Angeles. It shut down the state’s main north-south WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. –Pres- interstate – I-5 – for nearly four hours Saturday. ident-elect Donald Trump said In the coming days, a large Saturday that he will dissolve swath of the Dakotas is under his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts a blizzard warning, with the of interest before he takes office National Weather Service forecasting heavy snow and strong next month. winds Sunday and Monday. The The revelation comes as the Dakota Access pipeline protest New York attorney general’s encampment in southern North office investigates the foundaDakota will be affected. tion after media reports that foundation spending went to Best wishes flow in for benefit Trump’s campaign.

‘Star Wars’ star Fisher Trump said in a statement NEW YORK – Tributes and that he has directed his counsel well-wishes poured in for “Star to take the necessary steps to Wars” actress Carrie Fisher, who implement the dissolution of was spending Christmas Eve the Donald J. Trump Foundation, saying that it operated “at in a Los Angeles hospital after essentially no cost for decades, suffering a medical emergency with 100 percent of the money on a flight the day before.

“Princess Leia can survive going to charity.” anything!” wrote one fan on Weather may be a bummer Twitter. “Hold on, Carrie Fisher. for jolly holiday travelers We’re taking you into 2017 with us,” wrote another. Her “Star CHICAGO – It’ll be a white Wars” co-star Mark Hamill said Christmas for the northern Plains and some Western states, he was “sending all our love.”

Todd Fisher, the actress’ but it’s likely to cause troublebrother, said Friday night that some travel.

Forecasters cautioned drivers his sister is receiving excellent to keep alternate routes in mind care, but that he could not clasand prepare for possible delays. sify her condition. He had earlier told The Associated Press that Southern California even got she had been stabilized and was a dose of snow, with about 2 inches falling in a mountainous out of the emergency room.

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European leaders weigh freedom against security

By ANGELA CHARLTON The Associated Press

PARIS – Europe’s open borders symbolize liberty and forward thinking for many residents – but they increasingly look like the continent’s Achilles’ heel.

Europe’s No. 1 terrorism suspect crossed at least two borders this week despite an international manhunt, and was felled only by chance, in a random ID check in a Milan suburb. The bungled chase for Berlin market attack suspect Anis Amri is just one example of recent cross-border security failures that are emboldening nationalists fed up with European unity. Extremist violence, they argue, is too high a price to pay for the freedom to travel easily.

Defenders of the EU’s border-free zone say the security failures show the need for more cooperation among European governments, even shared militaries – not new barriers. Hidebound habits of hoarding intelligence within centuries-old borders, they contend, are part of the problem.

But their arguments are easily drowned out by the likes of far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who is hoping to win France’s presidency in May. “The myth of total free movement in Europe, which my rivals are clinging to in this presidential election, should be definitively buried. Our security depends on it,” she said in a statement Friday, calling Europe’s free-travel zone a “total security catastrophe.”

That poses a dilemma for European Union devotees such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, facing a re-election battle next year.

Merkel’s defense of the EU, and the welcoming hand she extended to Syrian war refugees, were once seen as assets, signs of her moral authority.

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Armed police officers stand behind concrete blocks for protection Friday near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, after Anis Amri, the suspect of the terrorist attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, was shot in Milan, Italy.

Today, with anti-immigrant, anti-establishment sentiment rising across Europe, they are threatening to become liabilities.

Millions of people cross borders in the 26-country Schengen travel zone every day, thanks to a 31-year-old system encompassing nearly 400 million people that has dramatically boosted trade and job prospects across the world’s largest collective economy.

It’s a pillar of a system designed to prevent new world wars – a system that’s under growing strain. While EU countries debated over how to manage an influx of migrants last year, eastern nations rebuilt fences and exposed EU weaknesses.

The German far right is insisting on closing the country’s borders. Merkel’s conservatives are suggesting “transit zones” to hold migrants at the borders while their identities are confirmed, and making it easier to hold people in pre-deportation detention.

Berlin truck attacker Amri is a painful example of how Islamic extremists have used Europe’s open borders to attack the principles of tolerance they’re meant to epitomize.

After migrating illegally from Tunisia in 2011, he was imprisoned for burning down a migrant detention center in Italy. When freed, attempts to deport him to Tunisia failed for bureaucratic reasons. He subsequently traveled to Switzerland and then Germany, where he apparently fell under the influence of a radical network accused of recruiting for the Islamic State group.

Although Germany rejected his asylum application last summer and flagged him as a potential terror threat, authorities patiently waited for Tunisia to produce the required paperwork before deporting him.

And just as the deportation was being finalized Monday, Amri is believed to have hijacked a truck and rammed it into holiday crowds at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 and wounding dozens.

He evaded an international manhunt for more than three days, slipping apparently into France – possibly with a pistol in his pocket – and then Italy before stumbling into a standard ID check in suburban Milan, where he died in a police shootout.

Germany, France and Italy have failed to explain how he escaped the dragnet.

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Pope celebrates somber Christmas Eve Mass

By NICOLE WINFIELD The Associated Press

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis urged Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus by thinking about the plight of today’s children, bemoaning how some must escape bombs or flee in migrant boats and how others are prevented from being born at all.

Francis celebrated a somber Christmas Eve Mass in a packed St. Peter’s Basilica, processing to the altar behind cardinals draped in golden vestments as the Sistine Chapel choir sang “Gloria” and the church bells rang out across Rome.

Francis has spent much of the year denouncing the Islamic extremist violence that has driven Christians from Mideast communities that date to the time of Christ. He also has demanded Europe in particular do more to welcome refugees, saying Jesus himself was a migrant who deserved more than being born in a manger. And he has called out the wasteful ways of the wealthy when children and the poor die of hunger every day.

In his homily, Francis urged his flock to reflect on how children today aren’t always allowed to lie peacefully in a cot, loved by their parents as Jesus was, but rather “suffer the squalid mangers that devour dignity.”

Among the indignities, he said, are “hiding underground to escape bombardment, on the pavements of a large city, at the bottom of a boat overladen with immigrants.”

“Let us allow ourselves to be challenged by the children who are not allowed to be born, by those who cry because no one satiates their hunger,

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The Aleppo Media Center, an activist collective, said the airstrikes killed seven people, including a woman and two children.

The Saturday noon airstrike on Atareb came after airstrikes on nearby

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BEIRUT – An explosion rocked eastern Aleppo on Saturday as some residents were returning to their homes after the government assumed full control of the city earlier this week, state TV reported while fresh airstrikes on a rebel-held town near Aleppo killed at least five people.

The airstrikes on areas near the northern city of Aleppo show that the government has resumed military activities after days of calm that coincided with the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians and rebels from east Aleppo.

On Thursday, President Bashar Assad’s forces took control of eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo for the first time since July 2012, marking the government’s biggest victory since the crisis began more than five years ago.

Government forces likely will now try to secure the outskirts of the city as rebels are based in the western and southwestern suburbs of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and once commercial center.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an airstrike on the town of Atareb, west of Aleppo,

ing. It said three people were wounded in the blast.

A correspondent for Lebanon’s Hezbollah-run Al-Manar TV was reporting live from the area when the blast sounded in the background, sending a huge cloud of dust into the air. The correspondent later said that at least three people were killed.

In the capital Damascus, state news agency SANA said militants blew up the Barada water pipeline in the suburb of Kafr al-Zayt.

SANA quoted the director of Damascus and Damascus Countryside Water Establishment Hussam Hreidin as saying that the pipeline went out of service due to the attack.

He added that the pipeline had been fixed and its service restored on Friday, less than a month after a similar attack.

Pro-government media said the government was forced to cut water supplies coming to the Syrian capital for a few days and use reserves instead after rebels polluted the water with diesel.

The al-Fija spring that supplies Damascus with water is in the rebel-held Barada valley northwest of the capital in a mountainous area near the Lebanese border.

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OPINION

NORTHWEST HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD:

Dan McCaleb

Kevin Lyons

Valerie Katzenstein

John Sahly

‘On this day in Bethlehem’

In those days Note to Caesar Augustus readers issued a decree that a census should be In celebration taken of the entire of Christmas Roman world. (This was the first cenDay, we reprint sus that took place this passage while Quirinius was from the Book of governor of Syria.)

Luke.

And everyone went to his own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and

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line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

But the angel said to them, “Do not be

afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.

Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favour rests.”

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has

happened, which the Lord has told us about.” So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.

But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

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In icy Alaska, footwear options abound to stay upright

By DAN JOLING

The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Darrell Bachmann doesn’t wear ruby slippers, but when he clicks his heel, something magical happens.

Bachmann invented KickSpikes, a boot designed to walk on ice. Kick a button on the heel and 7mm steel cleats pop out. Kick the button again and the cleats retract, allowing the wearer to walk inside without tearing up floors.

“Traction on demand,” he says.

Bachmann’s boots are the latest option for secure footwear in Anchorage, where streets are icy up to seven months per year and falling could mean a broken wrist or worse.

Alaskans, like Scandinavians, look for technology that will allow them to embrace long winters, said John Clark, running shoe buyer for Skinny Raven, an athletic gear store that caters to runners.

The store carries three brands of shoes for running on ice. That niche market, like trail shoes, didn’t exist a few years ago.

“People see those types of things and go, ‘This is a tool for me to not just survive winter, but more likely conquer winter,’” Clark said.

The Toronto Rehabilitation Institute tested 98 winter boots in a study released Nov. 24 and found only 8 percent met minimum slip resistance.

None of the tested boots had cleats.

No one shoe is perfect for all applications, Clark said, but there are plenty of options for getting outside.

OLD STANDBYS

Strap-on cleats – mini versions of crampons used by mountaineers – make any shoe an ice shoe. Held on by straps or rubber harnesses, they stretch from toe to heel and put steel teeth on a shoe bottom.

They remain a popular choice in Anchorage because they can be transferred between shoes and removed to enter a store. The price: $10 to $70.

ATHLETIC SHOES

Strap-on cleats can pinch soft running shoes. Swedish manufacturer Icebugs was one of the first to offer running shoes with cleats.

Their bottoms are flecked with tungsten carbide studs. The shoes’ popularity led to competition. Skinny

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A display shows the bottom and back of boots at the KickSpike store in Anchorage, Alaska. Activate the green button on the back of the boot heel and 7mm steel cleats pop out. Kick the button again and the cleats retract, allowing the wearer to walk inside without tearing up floors. The boots are a new option for walking safely in Anchorage, where ice can be found on streets up to seven months a year.

Raven offers studded running shoes from two other European manufacturers, Salomon of France and Inov-8 from Great Britain. They range in price from $150 to $220.

OVERSHOES

Galoshes used to be the norm for northern schoolchildren. Neos Overshoe and Tingley Rubber Corp. offer studded overshoes with uppers like wide gaiters that easily fit over a shoe or boot. They’re waterproof and offer an added layer of warmth. Prices start at about $120.

“Very handy for the person who doesn’t like to take off his shoes and put on another one,” said Stewart Valladolid, boot buyer at B&J Sporting Goods.

One Anchorage flightseeing company provides tourists with the nonslip footwear on flights to glaciers.

“A lot of their clients come unprepared,” Valladolid said. “This way, if they’re wearing regular dress shoes, they can pop these on and not lose their toes.”

Tingley and LaCrosse also offer more traditional rubber overshoes with studs.

CLEATS ON THE FLY

For a warm hiking boot with cleats, Anchorage stores offer Korkers, boots with interchangeable outer soles. Agile users can peel off a rubber outsole and snap on one with cleats without taking the boot off. Prices start at $180.

For the fashion-conscious, Canadian manufacturer Pajar offers boots with a hinged insert on the bottom.

Flip the insert and cleats appear.

Women’s versions have been popular with customers who have had hip or knee replacements, said Alexa Ives, a manager at Shuzy Q, a downtown boutique. Prices start at $240. Men’s versions are available online.

And then there are Kickspikes.

Bachmann set out to invent a golf shoe with steel cleats that could be retracted so they didn’t tear up greens.

“It turns out that golf is half of 1 percent of the market we’re after,” he said. “We went full-fledge into boots.”

One model is aimed at hikers.

Some feature safety toes. In industrial settings, users can transition out of cleats without bending over if they have to climb a ladder or walk into a building.

The soles are slightly taller and

wider than a regular boot but Bachmann swears by their stability. A video on the company website shoes him racing behind a Zamboni ice resurfacer between periods at a hockey game. Prices start at $350.

DO IT YOURSELF

Valladolid one day received an appeal from a gentleman with feet so wide, he could not find winter boots.

The man navigated Anchorage in flipflops but took a nasty fall.

Valladolid showed him Goat Head Sole Spikes – cleats that screw into the bottoms of almost any shoe. A $24 kit includes spikes and a handle to install them.

“We studded out his sandals and he was very happy,” Valladolid said.

Skinny Raven offers a similar service. For $10, the store will drill case-hardened screws to the bottom of shoes. The service is free for anyone pregnant, disabled or over 60.

“We just don’t want people getting hurt,” Clark said. “We don’t want that to be a limiting factor for people. It’s not that big of a deal for us. We should be doing something nice for those people to encourage them to be out.”

Layaway programs offer no solution

him, it might be a better idea to gently ask questions and talk things through. You said he grew up in poverty. What I’m hearing is that the cards represent a kind of security blanket for him. I can understand that. But if you had $10,000 set aside for emergencies, you’d have the security of knowing that a transmission repair on the car or a new water heater for the house would only be a minor inconvenience – and you wouldn’t have to go back into debt to make things right again.

Explain to him that what you’d like to do is replace the credit cards with your own money. You’d also be replacing what they do with a debit card. Ask him if there’s a reasonable amount you two could have in the bank that would take away his worry and stress.

Talk it out, agree on the amount, and then agree that when you’ve saved up and hit that number, the cards get cut up and the accounts are closed.

Just be patient and understanding. Above all, make sure you work together. If he’s recognized the wisdom of getting out of debt and taking control of your finances, he’s moving in the right direction.

• Dave Ramsey is CEO of Ramsey Solutions. He has authored seven best-selling books, includingThe Total Money Makeover. The Dave Ramsey Show is heard by more than 12 million listeners each week on 575 radio stations and multiple digital platforms.

Follow Dave on the web at daveramsey.com and on Twitter at @DaveRamsey.

BUSINESS BRIEFS Rex Auto Body and 24/7 Towing receives ACE Award

McHENRY – Rick Miller of Rex Auto Body and 24/7 Towing, 4910 W. Elm St., McHenry, received the American Towman ACE Award Nov. 20 during the American Towman Exposition in Baltimore, according to a news release.

Recipients were nominated by the nation’s major motor clubs and dispatch centers. Nomination guidelines for the ACE Award include the highest percentage of calls when the estimated time of arrival is achieved, consistency in response time, written appreciation from customers and percentage of calls serviced. ACE recipients rank in the top 1 percent of the towing industry’s service providers.

The ACE Award is presented by American Towman Magazine, a trade publication serving emergency road

service professionals.

Physical therapy student completes internship

CARY – Intern Ashley Poczekaj, a second-year physical therapy student attending Northern Illinois University, has successfully completed a six-week internship at Cary Physical Therapy, 2615 Three Oaks Road, according to a news release.

The instruction provides physical Ashley therapy interns with “one-on-one” Poczekaj mentoring and instruction in the practical application of physical therapy skills and training.

– Northwest Herald

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– Lynn Dear Lynn: I think rather than trying to convince

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The Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting at Dunkin’ Donuts, 1469 S. Randall Road, Algonquin.

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Dear Dave: How do you feel about using layaway programs? – Jay Dear Jay: I’m DAVE SAYS not a huge fan of layaway plans, beDave cause they’re not Ramsey really the solution to a problem.

What’s wrong with just saving up and buying stuff when you have the cash? I mean, Christmas comes at the same time every year, you know? It’s not like it snuck up on you.

I know there are rare instances when particular items are on sale, and you can take advantage of it through layaway if you don’t have the cash at the moment.

I don’t really have a problem with that kind of thing in rare instances. But I would not, under any circumstances, use a layaway plan that has fees attached. You might as well borrow the money if you’re going that route.

Here’s a good rule of thumb: if you don’t have the money, you can’t afford it. And make sure you don’t get into the habit of lusting after things you don’t own, because that lack of contentment is always tied to people being broke. Just don’t make plans like this a way of life, Jay. If you do, you’re liable to stay chained to layaway programs just like you’d be chained to debt!

Dear Dave: My husband and I are trying to follow your plan. We’ve paid off all of our credit cards, but he still doesn’t want to close the accounts and cut up the cards. Instead, he wants to keep them in a drawer and use them as an emergency fund. He grew up really poor, and I think he’s afraid of being poor again.

We both know that’s not what you recommend, so what can I do to convince him to follow your advice?

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Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – Discuss your plans, call in favors and get things done. You can make headway this year if you are dedicated to the projects that mean the most to you. Don’t let anyone or anything sidetrack you. If you stay on course and on budget, you will have no regrets.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – If you do something nice for someone less fortunate, you will feel good about your contribution as well as boost your reputation. Offer your services instead of cash.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Don’t overdo it. The festivities may be intense and emotions may run high if you indulge or take on someone who is

looking for an argument. Take care of yourself first and foremost.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – You’ll receive something you didn’t expect. Be gracious and adjust to whatever develops. It’s better to know the truth and act accordingly. What transpires will turn out to be to your benefit.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Don’t feel the need to give what you cannot afford. Keep your emotions to yourself and don’t offer to do something that is unrealistic. Make romance a priority.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Don’t let a little disappointment get you down. Take better care of your health by limiting how much you eat and drink.

You’ll better enjoy spending time with family if you feel good physically.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Make someone happy.

It’s not what you spend, it’s how you treat people that counts. If you do something nice or offer your time or skills, your gesture will be appreciated.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Moderation will be necessary. Too much to eat or drink will put a damper on your day. Choose to enjoy the youngsters and steer clear of indulgent adults.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – You’ll be kicking yourself if you were prone to unwise spending during the past few weeks. Don’t fret over what you cannot change when you should be setting up a plan to save money.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Playful dialogue will bring out the best in everyone you talk to today. If you share your humor and joy with young and old

alike, you will encourage the same in return.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Navigating family get-togethers and dealing with children will be tiring.

Offer something that will keep everyone occupied and help the day pass peacefully. Choose to let your actions speak for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – You’ll feel emotional about the conversations that unfold today. Listen to people, but don’t bother trying to convert others to your beliefs. Freedom is the greatest gift you can offer others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Confusion will set in if someone has been sending you mixed signals. Don’t show disappointment when you should be considering the truth as well as your next move.

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ACROSS 1. One of the blanks in the cereal slogan “____ are for ____” 5. Tinker, for one, in olden days 14. Certain blade 19. Spread dirt, in a way 21. Legendary Egyptian queen 22. Run off 23. Stick together 24. Liberal-arts college in the Keystone State 25. Like many a lot 26. Hood lead-in 28. Caterpillar product 29. Dud 31. Historical period 32. One of Frank’s wives 33. Member of the cat family 35. Father, familiarly 36. Japanese auto make 38. Court concern 39. Big Australian export 40. One of five on a starfish 42. Set of clubs in a bag 44. These could amount to fortunes 48. Dead follower 50. Where to find grooms 53. Vingt-____ (multiple de trois) 54. This does not fly 56. Anagram of the letters O-N-D 58. State with part of I-81: Abbr.

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Woman’s use of free guest pass to gym isn’t working out Dear Abby: I go to the gym regularly. Part of my membership includes a free guest pass. Working out with others can be much more fun and a really good motivator. I have a friend who has taken me up on my offer to join me at the gym. She goes with me two to four times a week.

Initially, I made the offer to get her going. Never in a million years did I think she’d still be piggybacking off of my membership all these months later. Now that it has become routine, I feel bad saying anything to her. Should I suggest she get her own membership? Or must I just own this since I invited her along in the first place without clear and obvious boundaries? – Working Out At The Gym Dear Working: You have a right to draw the line. Tell your friend how

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips pleased you are she now works out regularly, and because she seems to enjoy it, she should get a gym membership of her own. If she asks why, tell her it’s so you can bring other people with you if you wish. If she objects, then she has been taking advantage of your generosity, and that’s not how “friends” treat each other.

P.S. If money is an issue for her, you could always suggest she split the cost of your annual membership with you.

Dear Abby: I have been married to my wife for four years, but we have been together for 11. She has three

children whom I love and treat as my own. My problem is my wife is a baker and lets the kids eat whatever, whenever and as much as they want.

My older daughter has graduated from college, where she worked out regularly and lost weight. However, my son and younger daughter have ballooned to obese. I have tried to talk to my wife about instilling better eating habits, but it never materializes. Food with no nutritional value is consumed each school night, along with bowls of my wife’s homemade ice cream. I know being obese will have lifelong consequences for them.

How can I fix the problem and help them change how they eat? – Needs

stage for lifelong health problems.

I’m surprised your wife hasn’t been told this by their doctor. If she thinks stuffing them with unhealthy food and failing to instill good eating habits is showing them “love,” she’s misguided.

If she is doing this because of some emotional need of her own, she may need both nutritional and emotional counseling to get past it. A step in the right direction would be for you to involve your kids in family time that includes exercise and encourage them to choose a sport that interests them and to pursue it. If you ask your older daughter, I’ll bet she would be glad to support the idea.

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WASHINGTON 41, BEARS 21

Bears coach John Fox watches during the second half against Washington on Saturday at Soldier Field. The Bears lost, 41-21.

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NO HOLIDAY CHEERS

Sparse crowd sees Bears fall flat against Washington in home season finale / 2-4

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Tweets from last night

WASHINGTON 41, BEARS 21

Gifts from Barkley

My latest chalk drawing! Merry Christmas everyone! – @Coach_Ahsmann (Former Crystal Lake South football coach Chuck Ahsmann)

Matt Barkley interceptions today: 5 Bears interceptions on defense this season: 7 – @kfishbain (Pro Football Weekly’s Kevin Fishbain) Follow our writers on Twitter: Joe Stevenson – @NWH_JoePrepZone Sean Hammond – @sean_hammond Alex Kantecki – @akantecki John Wilkinson – @jwilks26 AP photo

What to watch

Washington cornerback Bashaud Breeland (26) intercepts a pass intended for Bears receiver Josh Bellamy as Donte Whitner and Josh Norman also defend during the first half Saturday at Soldier Field.

NBA: Bulls at San Antonio, 4 p.m., ABC In the third of five consecutive games on ABC and ESPN on Sunday, the Bulls (14-15) visit the Spurs (24-6).

Fun fact Assuming he plays Sunday, the Bulls’ Dwyane Wade will become the eighth player to appear in at least 12 Christmas games. Kobe Bryant played in 16, Shaquille O’Neal, Dolph Schayes and Earl Monroe played in 13 and Oscar Robertson, Dick Van Arsdale and Johnny Green are the others in the NBA’s 12-timers club for Dec. 25.

Wade still can’t believe he got to play on Christmas even once. “It means a lot about what the NBA thinks of me in this game,” he said.

– The Associated Press

QB takes big step backward with 5 INTs Forget about watching the tape, as coach John Fox suggested. Quarterback Matt Barkley said he’s to blame for everything that went wrong for him Saturday against Washington.

“I feel like on some plays I tried to win the game on that play.”

“I tried to do too much.”

“I think I was standing in my way today.”

Those are words of a young quarterback who blew a grand opportunity against a mediocre defense to continue to win over a team that has a job opening at quarterback.

Barkley’s struggles in Washington’s 41-21 rout of the Bears overshadow any progress he made since taking over as the starter. It will take a stellar finish next week against the Vikings for that to change.

first four possessions in the second half ended with ghastly interceptions.

In the past two games, Barkley has accounted for nine turnovers, which includes only one fumble. His five inMaking definitive statements terceptions Saturday were the most about Barkley still remains shortin a game since Jay Cutler produced sighted and premature. Five starts the same in a 10-6 loss to the 49ers on don’t make for a complete evaluation. Nov. 12, 2009.

But Barkley’s naysayers – the “It was a tough one to swallow, ones who consider him a backup at another one you’d want to forget,” best – have plenty of ammunition afsaid Barkley, who completed 24 of 40 ter his awful outing against a defense passes for 323 yards, two touchdowns that was ranked 26th coming into and a 62.8 passer rating.

Week 16.

“But there’s a lot to learn from, a Barkley threw five interceptions, lot we did really well in this game. It’s and all of them were on him. just those glaring mistakes stand out, There were no second-half heroand those are the ones that hurt.” ics, no moral victories for the Bears See JAHNS, page 4 for him to feel good about after their

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“It’s disappointing to everyone, ourselves included. I feel bad for our fans. We have great fans. … They hang with us. Better days are to come.

We see improvement. It’s not in our record, but I think we are closer than people think.”

– Bears coach John Fox

“I embarrassed my teammates, the Bears, the coaches, myself. It started with me. I had a terrible performance. I don’t know how else to put it.”

– Bears CB Tracy Porter

“It’s a tough one to swallow.

It’s kind of one that you want to forget. There’s still a lot to learn from.

There’s a lot that we did well. It’s just that the glaring mistakes stand out, and those are the ones that hurt.” – Bears QB Matt

Barkley

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Bears receiver Alshon Jeffery pulls in a reception as Washington cornerback Josh Norman defends during the first half Saturday at Soldier Field.

3 things that worked Feeding Howard: A mainstay in this section all season long, running back Jordan Howard remains the giant bright spot for a bad Bears team. He finished with 18 carries for 119 yards (6.3-yard average) against Washington with several chunk runs.

Trickeration: A fake punt call from Jeff Rodgers worked when Chris Prosinski took the snap for 2 yards and a first down on the first drive after halftime.

A better draft pick: Saturday’s loss combined with a Jaguars win means the Bears are in position for the No. 3 pick in the draft, which would be the franchise’s highest since 1972.

3 that didn’t

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Pass defense: Kirk Cousins had all day to throw and receivers wide open in the middle of the field. Washington’s receivers are good enough as it is, and the Bears’ secondary gave them quite the cushions throughout the afternoon. Cousins had a passer rating of 104.1, helped by a mostly nonexistent Bears pass rush, as he was not sacked.

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Third-down ‘D’: That ineffective pass rush also hurt the Bears on third down, allowing Washington to easily extend drives. Robert Kelley’s runs put Washington in third-and-manageable often, as the Bears gave up eight conversions on 13 third-down attempts.

Protecting the football: It was another bad turnover day for Barkley, who threw five interceptions. Washington did a good job pressuring him off the edge, but at least two of the picks were avoidable, and he badly overthrew an open Alshon Jeffery for his fourth INT. The Bears did not tally a takeaway of their own.

3 moments that mattered

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Incomplete in the end zone: On second-and-goal from the Washington 4-yard line with a chance to tie the score at 7 in the first quarter, Barkley threw a pass to tight end Daniel Brown – instead of running it with Howard. Will Blackmon swatted the pass away, and after a third-down incompletion – again, instead of a run – Connor Barth’s field goal was blocked.

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Pass interference on Porter: The Bears had Washington in its second third-and-11 on a drive in the second quarter when Cousins launched a deep, potentially uncatchable ball toward DeSean Jackson – who converted the earlier third-and-11 – and Porter was flagged for pass interference. Cousins took it in for a touchdown on a zone read three plays later.

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Norman’s pick: Down 10 and driving to start the second half, the Bears lost whatever momentum they had when Barkley, instead of taking a sack, tried to get the ball to Jeffery.

Josh Norman picked it off, and Washington scored a touchdown on its ensuing drive to go up, 31-14, essentially putting away the game.

What now?

Record: 3-12 What it means: A loss next week would mark the franchise’s worst record in a 16-game season since 1979.

What’s next: The Bears conclude the 2016 season with a New Year’s Day game in Minnesota against the Vikings, hoping to avoid a winless season on the road.

– Kevin Fishbain, kfishbain@profootballweekly.com

WASHINGTON 41, BEARS 21 Washington 14 10 7 10 – 41 Chicago

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Was 21 478 35-208 270 0-0 1-18 5-122 18-29-0 0-0 2-41.5 0-0 7-73 32:35

First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

– 21 Chi 31 458 26-140 318 1-3 3-65 0-0 24-40-5 1-5 1-51.0 0-0 4-52 27:25

HOW THEY SCORED First Quarter Was–C.Thompson 7 run (Hopkins kick), 7:43.

Was–C.Thompson 17 pass from Cousins (Hopkins kick), :57.

Second Quarter Was–FG Hopkins 29, 10:07.

Chi–Langford 1 run (Barth kick), 6:20.

Was–Cousins 9 run (Hopkins kick), 1:41.

Chi–Meredith 21 pass from Barkley (Barth kick), :34.

Third Quarter Was–Cousins 1 run (Hopkins kick), 3:05.

Fourth Quarter Was–FG Hopkins 20, 12:53.

Chi–D.Thompson 3 pass from Barkley (Barth kick), 1:21.

Was–M.Brown 61 run (Hopkins kick), :57.

A–57,953.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Washington PASSING K. Cousins RUSHING M. Brown R. Kelley K. Cousins C. Thompson RECEIVING D. Jackson P. Garcon R. Grant C. Thompson V. Davis R. Kelley J. Crowder M. Brown KICKING D. Hopkins PUNTING T. Way KICKOFF RETURNS B. Breeland PUNT RETURNS J. Crowder DEFENSE M. Foster T. Garvin J. Norman D. Whitner D. Ihenacho M. Spaight G. Toler C. Baker B. Breeland W. Compton D. Everett W. Blackmon K. Fuller C. Jenkins T. Murphy D. Phillips P. Smith L. Trail E. Hood

CP/AT 18/29 ATT 8 19 5 3 REC 5 4 3 1 1 2 1 1 FG 2/2 NO 2 NO 1 NO 0 T-A 7-1 5-0 4-1 4-3 3-0 3-0 3-1 2-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 1-0 1-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1

YDS 270 YDS 82 76 30 20 YDS 114 94 25 17 13 6 3 -2 LG 29 AVG 40.0 AVG 18 AVG 0 SCK 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0

TD 1 TD 1 0 2 1 TD 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 XP 5/5 I20 2 TD 0 TD 0 INT 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

INT 0 LG 61T 15 13 9 LG 57 46 16 17T 13 5 3 -2 PTS 11 LG 49 LG 18 LG 0 FF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

PASSING M. Barkley RUSHING J. Howard J. Langford C. Prosinski RECEIVING C. Meredith A. Jeffery D. Thompson B. Braunecker D. Brown J. Bellamy J. Howard J. Langford KICKING C. Barth PUNTING P. O’Donnell KICKOFF RETURNS D. Thompson B. Addison PUNT RETURNS B. Addison DEFENSE J. Freeman H. Jones-Quartey N. Kwiatkoski A. Hicks P. McPhee J. Bullard T. Porter C. Wilson S. Acho A. Amos D. Bush L. Floyd D. Hall M. Unrein C. Washington J. Banks W. Young

Bears CP/AT 24/40 ATT 18 7 1 REC 9 5 3 2 2 1 1 1 FG 0/1 NO 1 NO 2 1 NO 1 T-A 8-1 6-0 6-1 5-1 3-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 1-0 1-0 1-1 1-0 1-0 1-1 1-0 0-1 0-2

YDS 323 YDS 119 19 2 YDS 135 92 34 19 19 11 9 4 LG 0 AVG 51.0 AVG 23 18 AVG 3 SCK 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

TD 2 TD 0 1 0 TD 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 XP 3/3 I20 0 TD 0 0 TD 0 INT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

INT 5 LG 23 5 2 LG 32 37 18 12 10 11 9 4 PTS 3 LG 51 LG 33 18 LG 3 FF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Howard continues to be brightest light

By KEVIN FISHBAIN

kfishbain@profootballweekly.com CHICAGO – Jordan Howard has played the role of silver lining for the Bears, but that doesn’t mean he’s pleased with the label.

“I don’t really care about individual success because we haven’t been winning,” Howard said Saturday after the Bears’ 41-21 loss to Washington at Soldier Field. “At the end of the day, all it comes down to is winning. We haven’t been doing it enough.”

Howard rushed for 119 yards on 18 carries, averaging 6.6 yards an attempt in the loss. With Matt Barkley, the other “positive” during the Bears’ current losing stretch, throwing five interceptions, Howard was the bright spot. Again.

“Pretty much anything we called [worked],” the rookie said. “The O-line, they were getting a great push, staying on their blocks and opening up lanes for me. It was working pretty well.”

Despite that success, the Bears dialed up back-to-back passing plays from Washington’s 4-yard line in the first quarter while trailing, 7-0. Both of Barkley’s passes fell incomplete, and Connor Barth had his field goal blocked.

“It’s never frustrating for me,” Howard said of the play-calling. “I just go with whatever the coach calls, and I always have faith in whatever he calls is going to work.”

The fifth-round pick has done all the right things on the field and says all the right things off the field, adding that the team is in a “don’t-care mentality” when it comes to the 3-12 record.

Receiver Alshon Jeffery is past the point of being impressed by Howard’s running abilities.

“We saw it in training camp,” he said. “I mean, he’s impressing y’all. He ain’t impressing us. It’s something we’ve been seeing since training camp. We just wanted to see what he could do when he gets an opportunity to get the ball.”

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Continued from page 2 Barkley’s decision-making was extremely suspect. He threw a deep pass to maligned receiver Josh Bellamy over the middle despite triple coverage, and he inexplicably forced a ball to receiver Alshon Jeffery to avoid taking a sack.

Barkley also fired a pass at Cam Meredith despite cornerback Josh Norman being all over him. He overthrew a wide-open Jeffery and later threw behind Jeffery while off his back foot.

All of the above situations resulted

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Bears running back Jordan Howard runs past Washington defensive back Greg Toler during the first half Saturday at Soldier Field. ta next week to set the Bears’ franchise record for rushing yards by a rookie in a season, passing Matt Forte’s 1,238 in 2008.

Holiday no-shows: A Christmas Eve game for a three-win team meant a lot of empty seats. Officially, the attendance was 39,837 at Soldier Field with 18,116 unused tickets.

“It was tough the way it looked, but at the same time, it was Christmas Eve,” Jeffery said.

The sparsely attended game was the final Bears home game of 2016. They fin-

ished the year 3-5 at home after going 1-7 at Soldier Field in 2015.

“It’s really disappointing,” receiver Cameron Meredith said. “The fans expect more. We expect more of ourselves.

So you can’t blame them. But there are a lot of positives to look at for this year.

We have to focus on that and finish the season strong.”

Injury report: Outside linebacker Leonard Floyd left the game on a cart and did not return. He is in the concussion protocol for the second time in five weeks. Safety Deon Bush (ankle) and

tight end Daniel Brown (shoulder) were the other injured players who did not return.

Quick hits: A loss in Minnesota next week would mark the franchise’s lowest win total since the NFL moved to a 16-game season in 1978. ... Meredith led the Bears with nine catches, 135 yards receiving and a touchdown. ... In his return from a four-game suspension for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs, linebacker Jerrell Freeman led the Bears with nine tackles and one tackle for loss.

in interceptions by Barkley. Norman and cornerback Bashaud Breeland each made two; safety Will Blackmon had one.

“My boys were out there flying around,” receiver DeSean Jackson said of the Redskins’ defense. “A lot of Christmas gifts being thrown in the air.”

Trash talk aside, evaluating Barkley still remains a muddled process.

It would be interesting to see what Barkley could be with an offseason program, training camp and preseason in the books. Barkley was signed to the practice squad Sept. 5 and didn’t prac-

tice with the first team until the week of Thanksgiving.

It would be important to see what Barkley could do if he wasn’t throwing to Bellamy, returner Deonte Thompson or tight end Daniel Brown this much.

Jeffery was suspended for Barkley’s first three starts, and tight end Zach Miller broke his right foot before Barkley took over.

And it would be more compelling if Barkley wasn’t a late-season surprise for a team that’s well out of contention and playing an array of young players.

Much of the buzz about Barkley is rooted in the Bears’ need for a young

quarterback to go with their rebuilding efforts.

“He just got out of rhythm a little bit maybe,” said Meredith, who caught a 21-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter. “We know that’s not how he is all the time. He’s a steady playmaker.

He’s stepped up and done a lot of good things for us. Everybody has those games. Receivers have drops, defense has missed tackles. He’s just like everybody else.”

• Adam L. Jahns is a Chicago SunTimes sports writer. Write to him at ajahns@suntimes.com.

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OAKLAND, Calif. – Derek Carr threw three touchdown passes in the second quarter before leaving in the fourth quarter with a broken right leg in the Oakland Raiders’ 33-25 victory Saturday over the Indianapolis Colts (7-8).

Carr’s injury leaves a dark cloud over the best season for the Raiders (12-3) in 14 years.

Oakland clinched its first playoff berth since 2002 last week and can win the AFC West and earn a first-round bye by winning next week in Denver or if Kansas City loses one of its final two games.

But that is all secondary to Carr’s health. The third-year quarterback has led a resurgence in Oakland with 28 TD passes and seven fourth-quarter comebacks this season.

Now the Raiders may have to prepare for life with Matt McGloin at quarterback.

BROWNS 20, CHARGERS 17 CLEVELAND – The Browns are winless no more.

Cleveland avoided that fate by beating San Diego for its first victory in more than a year. San Diego’s Josh Lambo, who grew up in Crystal Lake, missed a 45-yard field goal as time expired, giving the Browns (1-14) their first win in 377 days.

When the kick sailed right, Cleveland’s small crowd erupted in celebration and Browns players poured off their sideline as if they had just won the Super Bowl.

The Browns avoided becoming the second team to go 0-15 and no longer have to worry about joining the 2008 Detroit Lions as the only teams to lose all 16 games.

The win also snapped Cleveland’s 17-game losing streak dating to last season.

The Chargers (5-10) lost their fourth straight.

TEXANS 12, BENGALS 10 HOUSTON – Tom Savage threw for 176 yards in his first career start, and Cincinnati missed a field goal as time expired, giving Houston a victory and its second straight AFC South title.

The Bengals (6-8-1) converted a fourth-down play to keep a drive alive, but four plays later, former Texan Randy Bullock’s 43-yard attempt sailed wide right to secure Houston’s victory.

Savage helped the Texans (9-6) rally for a win over the Jaguars last week after taking over when Brock Osweiler was benched after throwing interceptions on back-to-back possessions in the second quarter.

The Texans knew they were in the postseason with a win after the Titans lost to the Jaguars earlier Saturday.

Texans tight end C.J. Fiedorowicz of Johnsburg caught four passes for 42 yards.

FALCONS 33, PANTHERS 16 CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Falcons are back on top of the NFC South, capturing their first division title since 2012.

Matt Ryan threw for 277 yards and two touchdowns, Tevin Coleman had 135 yards from scrimmage, including a pivotal 55-yard fourth-quarter TD

SAINTS 31, BUCCANEERS 24 NEW ORLEANS– Mark Ingram rushed for two-touchdowns and a game-sealing first down in the final minutes to help New Orleans defeat Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers (8-7) needed a win to keep pace with Green Bay (9-6) for the final NFC wildcard spot, but couldn’t keep up with the Saints’ explosive offense. And their loss handed the NFC South to Atlanta, while giving the New York Giants a wild-card berth.

Drew Brees was 23 of 34 for 299 yards and a touchdown for New Orleans (7-8).

PATRIOTS 41, JETS 3 FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Tom Brady passed for 214 yards and three touchdowns , and New England (13-2) moved a step closer to securing home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs with a victory over New York (4-11).

The only really good piece of news for the Jets came before the game, when Todd Bowles rejoined the team and coached from the sideline a day after a medical scare sent him to the hospital.

DOLPHINS 34, BILLS 31 (OT) ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – Jay Ajayi ran for 206 yards and broke loose for a 57-yarder in overtime to set up Andrew Franks’ 27-yard field goal, and Miami defeated Buffalo.

In winning for the ninth time in 10 games, the Dolphins (10-5) inched closer to their first playoff berth since 2008. Miami can secure the AFC’s final wild-card berth as early as Sunday if Denver loses to Kansas City.

Denver needs to win its final two games to make the postseason, and Baltimore is eliminated from the wild-card race and can only make the playoffs as the AFC North champion.

The Bills (7-8) were eliminated from contention and extended the NFL’s longest active playoff drought to 17 seasons.

CARDINALS 34, SEAHAWKS 31 SEATTLE – Chandler Catanzaro hit a 43-yard field goal on the final play for Arizona (6-8-1) in its victory over Seattle (9-5-1).

Seattle rallied from a 31-18 deficit, scoring two touchdowns inside the final three minutes to pull even at 31. Jimmy Graham had a 37-yard touchdown catch and Paul Richardson’s 5-yard TD with 1:06 left tied it. Steven Hauschka missed the extra point that could have given Seattle the lead, but it didn’t matter in the end.

Arizona went 50 yards in the final minute and Catanzaro’s kick was good, delivering a huge blow to Seattle’s chances at the No. 2 seed in the NFC. 49ERS 22, RAMS 21 LOS ANGELES – Colin Kaepernick threw a 10-yard touchdown pass with 31 seconds remaining and scrambled for a go-ahead 2-point conversion as San Francisco (2-13) overcame a 14-point deficit against Los Angeles (4-11) to end a 13-game losing streak.

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NFL: PACKERS 38, VIKINGS 25

Rodgers, Nelson shred Minnesota

By GENARO C. ARMAS The Associated Press

GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers are back in familiar territory, so close to another NFC North title.

Aaron Rodgers and Jordy Nelson are combining to shred secondaries.

The defense is creating turnovers.

It’s hard to believe this same team was once 4-6.

But the Packers won their fifth straight game, riding a big-play passing attack and an opportunistic defense in a 38-25 victory Saturday over the Minnesota Vikings. Rodgers threw for 347 yards and four scores, and the Packers cashed in on two Vikings turnovers with touchdown drives.

Next up is a winner-take-all showdown next week with Detroit for the division title.

“We’re planning on going to Detroit to win the division,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “Merry Christmas.”

The win also extinguished the Vikings’ faint postseason hopes. Their chances to repeat as division champs were already gone.

A 5-0 start to the year was wasted.

“I think when you look at it, there were just a lot of mistakes, self-inflicted wounds, and they came back to bite us, and we weren’t able to overcome those at times,” quarterback Sam Bradford said.

The Packers have thrived after their own bouts of adversity, notably a midseason, four-game losing streak.

Nelson had 154 yards and two touchdowns from 21 yards and 2 yards in the first half. The receiver found seams in Minnesota’s defense, despite the return of safety Harrison Smith from an ankle injury.

Green Bay (9-6) built a 28-13 lead at halftime, with Rodgers accounting for all four scores. He finished 28 of 38, and shrugged off his right calf injury after scrambling for a 6-yard touchdown late in the second quarter and making a rare Lambeau Leap .

“Once I got moving, I felt like myself,” Rodgers said, adding that the sore calf is getting better.

Playing again without running back Adrian Peterson, the Vikings (78) had success through the air. Bradford threw for 382 yards and three touchdowns, including a 71-yard touchdown pass to Adam Thielen in the second quarter.

Thielen had a career-high 202 yards and two scores.

But the Vikings made too many other mistakes to catch up to the Packers.

“One time a guy fell down, one time on the deep route to Nelson, (cornerback Xavier Rhodes) pulled off it too soon,” coach Mike Zimmer said about the porous pass coverage.

“Trying to think of all them, but there was a lot.”

• Sunday, December 25, 2016

JAGUARS 38, TITANS 17 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Blake Bortles’ best game of the season helped the Jaguars (3-12) end a ninegame losing streak with a victory over Tennessee (8-7).

It was a debacle for the Titans, who had won three in a row and needed a victory to set up an AFC South title game next week against Houston.

Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota left late in the third quarter after suffering a broken right leg.

run, and Atlanta (10-5) beat Carolina.

The Falcons then had to wait about 3½ hours to celebrate when the Saints defeated the Buccaneers to seal Atlanta’s first playoff appearance in four years.

The Panthers (6-9) were eliminated from playoff contention after making the Super Bowl last season.

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BULLS

MCC to induct No single reason 5 new members for Bulls’ failures

By JOE COWLEY

“I knew in my heart when I graduatBy JOE STEVENSON ed high school that was my goal (to play joestevenson@shawmedia.com D-I),” Loeding said. “I didn’t know if that Rick Peterson’s collegiate basketball was going to be a possibility. It was a great career rated high by any standards. opportunity, and I had a lot of supportive The fact that Peterson did not people. A lot of kids may not want even play high school basketball to stay around, think they might made it even more remarkable. miss out on something. In reality, Peterson, a Johnsburg res[MCC] was a great stepping stone ident and 1975 graduate of for me and opened up a lot of McHenry High School, was talkdoors and opportunities for me.” ed into playing when he attendLoeding, whose son Kyle is ed McHenry County College and one of the leading scorers on Praibecame a scoring machine in Rick Peterson rie Ridge’s varsity team, rememtwo years for the Scots. bers Peterson bringing in Peterson, a 6-foot-6 a local junior high-aged forward, earned a scholteam that he also coached arship to NCAA Divito scrimmage against the sion II Regis University Scots, who had only eight in Denver, where he players. played for two years. He “That had an impact. is one of five people who They were so much Rafael will be inducted into Michelle quicker, even though Loeding Arellano the MCC Athletic Hall we had quite a few years of Fame on Jan. 17. The on them,” Loeding said. induction ceremony “That helped.” will take place between Loeding was grateful the women’s and men’s to everyone – coaches, basketball games that administrators and espeevening. cially her teammates at Peterson, who later MCC. coached MCC’s wom“The hardest thing Tom Carle en’s team, will be joined Kelly Heider with this whole Hall of in the induction class Fame thing is you have by one of his former players, Michelle to have teammates. It’s not about me,” (Crosby) Loeding. Also going in will be Loeding said. “You’re in this position besoccer player Rafael Arellano (1994-95), cause you have to have people who revolleyball player Kelly (Freund) Heider bound, scrap on the floor and pass you (1997-98) and Tom Carle, a longtime vol- the ball.” unteer with the athletic department who Peterson also gave credit to former has worked such jobs as basketball score- Scots women’s coach Bob Edwards for eskeeper and assistant baseball coach. tablishing a solid program ahead of him.

Peterson scored 26.7 points a game as “We finished 13-1 and won [the Skya freshman, then averaged 30 points a way] conference,” Peterson said. “The game as a sophomore.

‘80s or ‘90s for MCC was huge. Bob Ed“Someone saw me at MCC and said, wards had really good teams in the 1980s.

‘You’re a big strong guy. You want to He kind of laid the groundwork down and play?’ ” Peterson said. “I said I’d go play. made people want to come there.”

Who would have thought? I played a lot Arellano, who graduated from Woodof street ball growing up, but I didn’t play stock, was an All-Skyway Conference in junior high or high school. That’s why and All-NJCAA Region IV first-team I’m so proud about what happened.” player. His teams finished with a comPeterson was hired by former MCC bined 38-8 record. He also played a vital athletic director Dave Hill to coach the role as co-founder of MCC’s Latinos Uniwomen’s team and took the Scots to a dos, a club that promotes Latino cultural 21-5 record in 1988, then a 20-5 record in awareness.

1989. Loeding, who also played volleyball Heider, a Crystal Lake Central graduand softball for the Scots, graduated from ate, earned NJCAA All-America honors Harvard High School in 1986. She played in 1998 and was on the Scots’ first team for Peterson’s first team, then earned a to qualify for the NJCAA National Tourscholarship to D-I Illinois-Chicago for nament. She played at Northern Illinois University. basketball.

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Dwyane Wade had his explanation.

The veteran made that clear after the 103-91 loss to the Hornets on Friday in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the Bulls now entering a Christmas Day game in San Antonio and sitting with a mediocre 14-15 record.

“It’s just not enough consistency,” Wade told reporters. “We have to get to the point where we decide, as a team, to be more consistent in what we do – in our coverages, in the way we run the offense.

“We’re not going to make shots all the time. But we have to shoot our shots. We have to get back in transition and make them see as many defenders as possible. But defensively we just got to ... we make small mistakes. And those small mistakes in this league can tear you up.”

So it’s small mistakes?

That’s the latest excuse of the week for a Bulls team that went from feel-good story to start the season to the same unlikeable brand of basketball that was on display far too many times last year.

And there’s no Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah or Pau Gasol to point the finger at this time. The front office made sure of that. They’ve already blamed a former coach, a head trainer and then the roster, changing up all three in their house of no mirrors.

According to one NBA scout who has seen the Bulls “at least 15 times” since the start of last season, there is not one explanation for the failure.

There’s many.

First of all, the offensive sets from last season have been completely changed with this year’s group.

According to the scout, coach Fred Hoiberg tried to use many of the sets he used at Iowa State early last season before quickly discovering that they didn’t have the personnel to run those, as well as the trouble Rose had understanding the concepts.

“As the season went on, [Hoiberg] had no choice but to start scrapping those early sets,” the scout said.

“They started to add more basic NBA sets, but it just never looked comfortable.”

Hoiberg admittedly had his staff break down all the film on Wade’s 2015-16 season with Miami, as well

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The Bulls’ Dwyane Wade said the team’s recent struggles stem from a lack of consistency.

as film on Rajon Rondo and Robin Lopez once they were added to the roster last summer, picking out the sets that seemed to offer up the best results.

To Hoiberg’s credit, as well as the staff that sifted through all that film, the sets they started the season with were “sound and built to win games,” the scout said.

“Now, everything looks loose compared to early on in the season,” the scout said.

A big reason for that crisp look to be gone is the fact that at 34 years old, Wade’s participation in practice over the last month has been minimal.

According to one player, Jimmy Butler and Taj Gibson also have been given a smaller practice workload, thanks to a front office that decided three seasons ago that health over practice time was the priority.

A lack of rhythm has been the result.

Some other offensive problems that the scout noticed were “they go low early, and even if it’s working they stray away from it,” “the bigs off the bench look confused,” and “Niko (Mirotic’s) offense isn’t worth his (poor) defense.”

As far as the defense, well, there’s no easy fix there.

“They blow so many assignments,” the scout said. “I don’t know if it’s communication, prep or concept, but they have to cover up for one another so often that no one seems to be in position. It’s a mess.”

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Defenseman glad he came home

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Well, Campbell said he’s only focusing on the present. But he wasn’t exactly coy about his future, either.

“I want to play,” he told the SunTimes. “I don’t see myself stopping. And I don’t want to go anywhere, that’s for sure.”

The Hawks would love to keep him around, too, if they can somehow make the money work. Campbell has been everything the Hawks hoped he would be – a legitimate top-four defenseman who has helped turn their biggest weakness into one of their biggest strengths.

Campbell spent much of the season on the top pairing with Duncan Keith and now is back on his preferred left side on the second pairing with Brent Seabrook. He’s gobbling up 19 minutes a night, hasn’t missed a game, is a positive possession player, has chipped in three goals and seven assists, has stabilized the second power-play unit and has fit right into a dressing room he never wanted to leave in the first place.

“It was a great fit for us,” Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. “The price tag had to be accommodating, [so] we were fortunate that he chose to come

back with us. We have a lot of versatility with him being in our defense group.

We know how important that is. We felt we were a little light in that area last year. [He] added that experience, and is everything you look for in a defenseman.”

Seabrook called it “a testament to the organization we’ve got here” that Campbell so badly wanted to come back. And that’s certainly part of it, as Campbell watched with “frustration” as the Panthers retooled a division-winning team and jettisoned many players and staffers he respected in an effort to remake the team.

But more than anything, it was Chicago itself that drew Campbell back.

He never sold his home. He returned every summer. Even with his wife and two young daughters with him in South Florida, it always felt more like an extended business trip than home.

Now he’s truly home. In Chicago, on the ice, in the room. And for Campbell, that’s priceless.

“I’m smiling now, I’m happy,” he said. “I don’t look back. I know I made the right decision.”

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Utah 12 7 (54½) Indiana Thursday Birmingham Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. South Florida 11 10 (62) South Carolina Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Virginia Tech 6 7 (61) Arkansas Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Colorado 4½ 3 (62) Oklahoma St. Friday Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

TCU 1½ PK (48) Georgia Sun Bowl At El Paso, TX Stanford +1 2½ (54) North Carolina Arizona Bowl At Tucson, Ariz.

Air Force 15 13½ (57) South Alabama Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Tennessee 3 4½ (61) Nebraska Orange Bowl At Miami Gardens, Fla. Michigan 8 7 (52½) Florida St. Saturday Citrus Bowl At Orlando, Fla. LSU PK 3 (59½) Louisville Taxslayer Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Georgia Tech 5 3 (62) Kentucky CFP Semifinals Peach Bowl At Atlanta Alabama 11 15 (54) Washington Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Ohio State 3½ 3 (59½) Clemson Jan. 2 Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Florida 2 3 (40½) Iowa Cotton Bowl At Arlington, TX Wisconsin 7 7½ (53½) W. Michigan Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

SOUTHERN CAL 6½ 6½ (60½) Penn St. Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Oklahoma 4 3 (63) Auburn

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Defenseman Brian Campbell returned to the Blackhawks this season after playing the past five seasons with Florida. He won the Stanley Cup with the Hawks in 2010.

Sunday LINE O/U 9 (199) 2 (212½) 2 (223) 4½ (210) 6 (213½)

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By MARK LAZERUS

For some players, the NHL’s threeday Christmas break can be almost as tiring as the regular season – a game the night before, a flight from their in-season home to their actual home Christmas Eve, the usual fun and aggravation of the holiday, then a flight back for a game Dec. 27.

All Brian Campbell had to do this year was make his usual 25-minute commute Friday night from the United Center to his home in Western Springs.

That, in essence, is what Campbell paid for when he left millions of dollars on the table in Florida to return to Chicago, his wife’s hometown, and a city that never stopped tugging his sleeve.

“I wouldn’t change anything at all,” Campbell said. “I’m lucky. I can’t put a price tag on how happy we are as a family. Money – I’ve been lucky in my career to play a long time and make some money. I was in a situation where I was able to do something like this, and I’m lucky to be in this situation.”

Campbell made more than $57 million over the past seven seasons and is earning $2.25 million this season – a $1.5 million salary and a $750,000 games-played bonus that he already has reached. So he hardly took a vow of poverty to rejoin the Blackhawks, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2010. But that massive payday gave him the flexibility to give the Hawks a significant hometown discount – and, yes, Campbell does consider Chicago his permanent hometown these days – over the summer.

The perpetually cap-strapped Hawks never could match the kind of contract the Florida Panthers were offering, so the two sides made it work. Campbell isn’t the first veteran to do so. Brad Richards came to Chicago on a $2 million deal in 2014, won the Stanley Cup, and then was off to Detroit. But Campbell’s situation is different. This isn’t some last-gasp Cup-chasing quest.

Campbell is 37 but is in excellent shape, is still playing well and likely has a few more years left in him.

So the question is, what happens next? Campbell’s deal is for one year only. And with a stagnant salary cap and Artemi Panarin’s contract extension (and potential bonuses) looming larger with every one-timer he takes, the Hawks figure to be even shorter on cap space than ever next season. Can the two sides somehow make it work again?

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Downie attacks Cherry, Coyotes in Twitter rant The ASSOCIATED PRESS

TORONTO – Former NHL forward Steve Downie went on a lengthy Twitter rant Friday night, taking aim at hockey commentator Don Cherry and the Arizona Coyotes.

Downie, who played parts of eight seasons in the NHL, criticized the culture of violence that he believes Cherry perpetuates through his “Rock ’Em Sock Steve Downie ’Em” series of videos.

In response to some of his tweets, a fan tweeted an animated gif of Downie bodychecking Pittsburgh Penguins forward Dean McAmmond in 2007, a play that left McAmmond concussed and Downie suspended for 20 games. Downie retweeted the gif and then spoke about his regrets from the play.

“That hit is what happens when you watch don cherry rock em sock em videos from age 5 to 18. Nothing good comes from those vids,” Downie said from his verified account. “I just did what I had to do to play. I still think about what I did to Dean macomond and what I caused him to go through with his family.

“But again, I did what don cherry said to do every Saturday night. Just ... disgusted when I look back. Wish I never played.”

Downie then added another tweet, criticizing Cherry for his stance against visors.

“Sorry Don, but you called me a (coward) for wearing a visor and trying to protect my eyes. Sad thing is I listened to you,” Downie said.

Downie was drafted 29th overall by Philadelphia in 2005. He played for the Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Colorado Avalanche and Pittsburgh Penguins, as well as 26 games with the Coyotes last season. He had 76 goals, 120 assists and 1,057 penalty minutes.

The 29-year-old Downie started with a series of tweets about the Coyotes’ handling of various players’ injuries and the treatment of John Scott, the veteran enforcer who was voted into the NHL All-Star tournament last season by fans but was traded by Arizona to Montreal and was briefly left out of the showcase by the NHL. Downie also said the Ontario Hockey League’s Peterborough Petes are a better-run organization than the Coyotes.

On Saturday morning, he compared Arizona’s organization to the Philadelphia Flyers.

“I got a concussion with Arizona they don’t call or check up. They actually sent me to a knee doctor haha,” Downie wrote. “When I got a concussion in Philly i spent 3 days in the hospital bed. (Former Flyers chairman) Ed Snider came and sat next to me just to make sure I was doing OK.”

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North W L T Pct PF Detroit 9 5 0 .643 301 Green Bay 9 6 0 .600 401 Minnesota 7 8 0 .467 289 Bears 3 12 0 .200 269 East W L T Pct PF y-Dallas 12 2 0 .857 366 x-N.Y. Giants 10 5 0 .667 291 Washington 8 6 1 .567 386 Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 340 South W L T Pct PF y-Atlanta 10 5 0 .667 502 Tampa Bay 8 7 0 .533 337 New Orleans 7 8 0 .467 437 Carolina 6 9 0 .400 353 West W L T Pct PF y-Seattle 9 5 1 .633 329 Arizona 6 8 1 .433 374 Los Angeles 4 11 0 .267 218 San Francisco 2 13 0 .133 286 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division WEEK 16 Thursday’s Result Philadelphia 24, N.Y. Giants 19 Saturday’s Games Washington 41, Bears 21 New England 41, N.Y. Jets 3 Jacksonville 38, Tennessee 17 Green Bay 38, Minnesota 25 Cleveland 20, San Diego 17 Atlanta 33, Carolina 16 Miami 34, Buffalo 31, OT Oakland 33, Indianapolis 25 New Orleans 31, Tampa Bay 24 San Francisco 22, Los Angeles 21 Arizona 34, Seattle 31 Houston 12, Cincinnati 10 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.

PA 258 274 364 318 PA 374 353 416 385 PA 269 356 350 455

East W L T Pct PF y-New England13 2 0 .867 406 Miami 10 5 0 .667 349 Buffalo 7 8 0 .467 389 N.Y. Jets 4 11 0 .267 245 South W L T Pct PF y-Houston 9 6 0 .600 262 Tennessee 8 7 0 .533 357 Indianapolis 7 8 0 .467 387 Jacksonville 3 12 0 .200 298 North W L T Pct PF Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 341 Baltimore 8 6 0 .571 306 Cincinnati 5 9 1 .367 298 Cleveland 1 14 0 .067 240 West W L T Pct PF x-Oakland 12 3 0 .800 410 Kansas City 10 4 0 .714 319 Denver 8 6 0 .571 299 San Diego 5 10 0 .333 383 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

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Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Blackhawks 36 22 9 5 49 102 86 Minnesota 33 21 8 4 46 102 66 St. Louis 35 18 12 5 41 98 103 Nashville 33 15 13 5 35 94 94 Dallas 35 14 14 7 35 89 106 Winnipeg 36 16 17 3 35 95 105 Colorado 33 12 20 1 25 67 106 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 34 21 12 1 43 87 75 Edmonton 36 18 12 6 42 105 97 Anaheim 35 17 12 6 40 96 99 Los Angeles 34 17 13 4 38 87 84 Calgary 36 18 16 2 38 94 103 Vancouver 35 14 18 3 31 86 109 Arizona 34 11 18 5 27 75 108 Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 34 21 9 4 46 104 76 Ottawa 34 20 11 3 43 88 89 Boston 36 18 14 4 40 85 87 Tampa Bay 35 17 15 3 37 100 98 Florida 35 15 14 6 36 85 97 Toronto 33 14 12 7 35 97 95 Detroit 34 15 15 4 34 83 96 Buffalo 33 12 13 8 32 71 91 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Columbus 32 23 5 4 50 110 65 Pittsburgh 35 22 8 5 49 121100 N.Y. Rangers 36 23 12 1 47 119 89 Washington 32 20 8 4 44 87 69 Philadelphia 36 20 12 4 44 110108 Carolina 33 15 11 7 37 88 90 New Jersey 34 13 14 7 33 80 102 N.Y. Islanders 33 13 14 6 32 90 102 2 points for a win, 1 point for OT loss.

Saturday’s Games No games scheduled Sunday’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games No games scheduled Friday’s Results Colorado 2, Blackhawks 1, OT Pittsburgh 4, New Jersey 1 N.Y. Islanders 5, Buffalo 1 Columbus 2, Montreal 1 Washington 4, Tampa Bay 0 Minnesota 7, N.Y. Rangers 4 Carolina 3, Boston 2, OT Detroit 4, Florida 3, SO Dallas 3, Los Angeles 2, OT Toronto 4, Arizona 1 Calgary 4, Vancouver 1 San Jose 3, Edmonton 2, OT

PA 236 345 348 399 PA 304 361 372 376 PA 276 263 305 425 PA 361 274 258 386

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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PA 285 364 297 361

Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 22 6 .786 Milwaukee 14 14 .500 Indiana 15 16 .484 Bulls 14 15 .483 Detroit 14 18 .438 Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 21 8 .724 Boston 17 13 .567 New York 16 13 .552 Philadelphia 7 22 .241 Brooklyn 7 22 .241 Southeast Division W L Pct Charlotte 17 13 .567 Atlanta 15 15 .500 Washington 13 16 .448 Orlando 14 18 .438 Miami 10 21 .323

GB — 8 8½ 8½ 10 GB — 4½ 5 14 14 GB — 2 3½ 4 7½

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Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 24 6 .800 Houston 22 9 .710 Memphis 20 12 .625 New Orleans 11 21 .344 Dallas 9 21 .300 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 18 12 .600 Utah 18 13 .581 Portland 13 19 .406 Denver 12 18 .400 Minnesota 9 20 .310 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 27 4 .871 L.A. Clippers 22 9 .710 Sacramento 13 17 .433 L.A. Lakers 11 22 .333 Phoenix 9 21 .300

GB — 2½ 5 14 15 GB — ½ 6 6 8½ GB — 5 13½ 17 17½

Saturday’s Games No games scheduled Sunday’s Games Bulls at San Antonio, 4 p.m.

Boston at New York, 11 a.m.

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

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

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

Friday’s Results Charlotte 103, Bulls 91 Orlando 109, L.A. Lakers 90 Cleveland 119, Brooklyn 99 Golden State 119, Detroit 113 Oklahoma City 117, Boston 112 Memphis 115, Houston 109 Milwaukee 123, Washington 96 New Orleans 91, Miami 87 Sacramento 109, Minnesota 105 Atlanta 109, Denver 108 Phoenix 123, Philadelphia 116 Toronto 104, Utah 98 San Antonio at Portland (n) Dallas 90, L.A. Clippers 88

Monday Boys basketball: Harvard at Alden-Hebron Christmas Tournament, Cary-Grove, Crystal Lake South, Jacobs, Johnsburg, Marian Central, Prairie Ridge at Jacobs Tournament, McHenry at York Jack Tosh Holiday Tournament, Woodstock North at Marengo Tournament, TBA Girls basketball: Cary-Grove vs.

Conant at Libertyville Tournament, 10 a.m., Hampshire vs. Burlington Central at D-C Charger Christmas Classic, 4 p.m., Dundee-Crown vs. Maine West at D-C Charger Christmas Classic, 8:30 p.m., Jacobs at Wheaton North Holiday Classic

NCAA FOOTBALL BOWL SCHEDULE SATURDAY Hawaii Bowl Honolulu Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Hawaii (6-7), (n) 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) WEDNESDAY Pinstripe Bowl Bronx, N.Y. Northwestern (6-6) vs. Pittsburgh (84), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl Orlando, Fla. Miami (8-4) vs. West Virginia (10-2), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) Foster Farms Bowl Santa Clara, Calif.

Indiana (6-6) vs. Utah (8-4), 8:30 p.m.

(FOX) Texas Bowl Houston Kansas State (8-4) vs. Texas A&M (84), 9 p.m. (ESPN) THURSDAY Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl South Florida (10-2) vs. South Carolina (6-6), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl Charlotte, N.C. Virginia Tech (9-4) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl San Antonio Oklahoma State (9-3) vs. Colorado (10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) FRIDAY Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn.

Georgia (7-5) vs. TCU (6-6), 11 a.m.

(ESPN) Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas North Carolina (8-4) vs. Stanford (93), 1 p.m. (CBS) Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn.

Tennessee (8-4) vs. Nebraska (9-3), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Arizona Bowl Tucson, Ariz.

Air Force (9-3) vs. South Alabama (66), 4:30 p.m. (ASN) Orange Bowl Miami Gardens, Fla. Florida State (9-3) vs. Michigan (102), 7 p.m. (ESPN) SATURDAY, DEC. 31 Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. LSU (7-4) vs. Louisville (9-3), 10 a.m.

(ABC) TaxSlayer Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. Kentucky (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech (8-4), 10 a.m. (ESPN) CFP Semifinals Peach Bowl Atlanta Alabama (13-0) vs. Washington (12-1), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz.

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Santa always comes through Christmas comes too fast. I’m not talking about, it’s Thanksgiving, then all of a sudden it’s Christmas. I mean when you just touch your head to the pillow Christmas Eve and next thing you know, someone is knocking on your door.

Knock! Knock! Knock! It starts with the youngest. “It’s Christmas! Can we go down and open presents?”

I look out the window. “It’s still dark.

Come back when it’s light out.”

“It’s always dark in the winter. It’s almost 5 a.m.”

“5 a.m.? Come back later,” I say. I pull the pillow over my head.

Knock! Knock! The youngest comes back with his sister.

“It’s later now. Can we open presents now?” they say in unison.

“Christmas is not about presents.

It’s about your fellow man. And sleep.

Besides, it is still dark. Come back in a little while,” I say.

Knock! The youngest comes back with both his brother and sister. “It’s lighter out now. Can we open presents?” they all say.

“Soon. Just a few more minutes of sleep,” I plead.

No knock. All three come barreling in with the two dogs and the guinea pig.

They jump on the bed.

“Everyone’s up! Can we go down and do presents now? Please! Please!” They have me surrounded. The dogs also are on the bed and digging at covers trying to get to me. The guinea pig somehow got under the pillow and is licking my nose. Total elapsed time since the first pre-dawn intrusion: 3 minutes. I give up.

“YES!” I say, forced out of my warm bed.

With one eye open, I am pulled down the stairs to the living room. My wife detours to the kitchen to start much-needed coffee. The living room looks so much different than last night.

Just a few hours earlier, there was a nicely decorated tree with a couple of small presents under it. Now, the tree seems brighter, fuller; the room transformed into a sprawl of brightly wrapped boxes of all sizes and shapes; and “Run Run Rudolph” is blaring from the stereo. My three kids yank down their stockings and empty them on the coffee table. After comparing who got something the others didn’t in their

“And so it continues until each of my kids has a pile of toys and games in front of them that will last them at least well into January. My wife is now outfitted for the rest of winter. I stack my Old Spice gift sets. I will smell the ocean breeze and be on landlocked shore leave until next Christmas.” stocking, they move to the main event.

“Can I hand out the presents?” my youngest asks.

“You handed them out last year!” my daughter points out.

“The youngest should hand out the presents,” I reason.

“But I was the youngest for the shortest amount of time!” my daughter, who is the middle child, argues. “To be fair, I should get an additional two years four months.” She clearly has lawyer in her future. It’s far too early in the morning for union-style negotiations or arithmetic. I look at my oldest. He is yawning.

“Today, we’ll mix it up and go to oldest to hand out presents.”

After some grumbling, they unanimously approve my decision.

My oldest hands presents all around.

“Make sure to keep the tags with the presents, so we know who to thank later,” my wife advises.

Despite her organizational pitch, all three tear off the wrapping paper without any acknowledgment and throw them into a common pile in the middle of the room. We have yet to ever thank the right relative for the right gift.

“Call of Duty 4!”

“A new yoga mat!”

“Unicorn earrings!”

“Lego Minecraft!” my youngest says.

I hurriedly pulled the wrapping paper off my gift: Old Spice Original Scent Aftershave.

My son runs and grabs another round of presents and distributes them.

“Halo 5!”

“Beats headphones!” my daughter yells.

“A Nerf Rival Zeus MXV 1200!”

“A cashmere sweater!”

I think this was the gift I was waiting for. Amid everyone’s uncontrolled excitement, I pull at the bow on my box and tear through the paper. Old Spice Wolfthorn Cologne. What is Wolfthorn, I wonder.

More gifts and more jubilance: “Madden 16!” my son exclaims.

“Dualshock Wireless Controller!”

“A new selfie stick!” my wife yells.

“A Ramones T-shirt and matching hat!”

My box was unusually shaped. This could be the one! I rip off the wrapping from corner to corner: Old Spice Desperado Variety Pack … with body wash.

And so it continues until each of my kids has a pile of toys and games in front of them that will last them at least well into January. My wife is now outfitted for the rest of winter. I stack my Old Spice gift sets. I will smell the ocean breeze and be on landlocked shore leave until next Christmas.

My wife is picking up the strewn wrapping paper. All the presents are handed out, or so I think. My daughter sees something under the tree near the back. She picks it up.

“It’s mine!” my youngest claims.

“It’s for Dad!” she says, holding it out of his reach.

“Who’s it from?” my oldest asks. He looks at his brother and sister. They shake their heads. My wife looks puzzled.

“It just says ‘You have been mostly good!”

My daughter hands me the gift.

With everyone’s eyes glued to the mystery gift for which no one in the room has taken credit, I untie the blue ribbon and open the end of the reindeer print-wrapped present, then I slowly pull out a black rectangular box. I see the recognizable, partially eaten fruit logo.

“An iPad!” I jump off the sofa. “Yes! Yes!” Santa came through again.

• Brian Stevens is a resident of Bull Valley, embarks daily on suburban adventures, has done at least one household chore and mixes amazing Old Fashioneds at all family gatherings. Email him at bstevenscolumn@ gmail.com.

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space, said Dr. Eileen Crehan, a postdoctoral fellow at the autism program at Rush University Medical Center NEW YORK – Toy stores, with in Chicago. She’s noticed that movie bright lights, loud sounds and crowdtheaters and ballparks also are offering ed aisles, can be hard to manage for sensory-friendly days. “It’s sort of children with autism or other sensory catching on,” Dr. Crehan said. issues. For parents, finding toys that After hearing from employees and match their kids’ skill sets and will customers, Hasbro Inc. teamed up hold their attention can be a process with The Autism Project two years ago of trial and error. Big toy sellers and to teach parents and caregivers how specialists are trying to provide some autistic children can play with its toys. better options.

The company launched a site called Hasbro, for instance, offers tips on Hasbro Toybox Tools with videos and how parents can teach autistic children downloadable instructions for some to play with Mr. Potato Head or a My of its more popular toys, such as Baby Little Pony set. Toy maker Melissa & Alive dolls and the Chutes and Ladders Doug offers stores special catalogs. board game.

A Toys R Us in King of Prussia, “Play doesn’t always come natuPennsylvania, turned off its music for ral with kids with autism,” but it’s three hours on a recent Saturday mornimportant to their development and ing and turned its break room into a helps them learn to socialize with quiet zone as part of an event planned others, said Sandra Pierce-Jordan, the with the Greater Philadelphia Autism executive director of The Birchtree Society. The company’s 100 stores in Center, a nonprofit in Newington, New the U.K. have been offering similar Hampshire, that works with autistic hours for one day a year since 2014, and children.

Toys R Us plans to bring similar events Emily Berman said she has had to to more of its 900 U.S. stores. Chuck E. teach her daughter how to pretend to Cheese’s, the chain with arcade games eat plastic toy foods or how to move a and rides, similarly plans to turn off toy train on its tracks. Her daughter is the music and dim the lights at 40 non-verbal, making it hard to pick out AP photo toys, said Berman, who is a life coach Northeast restaurants for a couple of Paxton Mathis, 8, plays with a remote car Dec. 13 at Time 4 Toys, in Flowood, Miss. The in Encinitas, California. hours one Sunday a month starting in youngest child of store owner Bethany Mathis, Paxton, who has sensory processing disJanuary, as part of a trial run.

“I wish I knew what she wanted,” order, often tests out some of the multipurpose toys offered in his mother’s toy store.

In the meantime, small stores she said. Berman has bought toys designed specifically for children with suggested by behavioral therapists and sensory issues are popping up as well. buys many items online. “A lot of it is make choosing toys even harder than it to visit the store from her home in “The need for a store like this is trial and error,” Berman said. is for unaffected kids.

Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Two of Hetheven bigger than I thought it would Another toymaker, Melissa & Doug, erton’s four children are autistic, and Jamilah Rahim opened Spectrum be,” said Bethany Mathis, who opened began printing a dedicated catalog when she takes them shopping at big Toy Store in Chicago this year after Time 4 Toys last month after having a she realized no toy stores were meeting stores, her 4-year-old son hums to cope about five years ago after it noticed hard time finding toys for her 8-yearan increase in letters and calls from with the crowds and noise. Hetherton that need. As an in-home behavioral old son with sensory processing issues. therapist, she saw parents spend monparents of autistic kids who said their often finds herself apologizing to store The walls at the store in Flowood, children loved the company’s woodey buying toys online their children workers.

Mississippi, are painted in soft colors, en puzzles or stuffed animals. It also ended up not being interested in. At “I shouldn’t have to,” she said, but and kids can test out the toys. added a section to its website that lets her 700-square-foot store, kids can “store employees just don’t underAn estimated one in 68 children shoppers browse for toys by specifying stand.” At Spectrum Toy Store, her sit and play with any of the toys, and have autism or a related disorder, the skills the child needs to work on. parents can see if they like them before kids pulled toys from the shelves, according to a government study based buying.

Melissa & Doug said some stores have played with putty and tried on chewon 2012 data. That’s up from one in 150 “It’s more of an experience than just able silicone jewelry before she bought added special sections in their stores, a decade before. Symptoms of autism and that notes come in from parents some. “They were able to be thema one-stop shop for them to buy toys,” vary widely, and can range from mild whose kids spoke for the first time said Rahim, who still works as a behav- selves,” Hetherton said. social interaction problems to repetplaying or had other developments. ioral therapist part time, which helps Dimming the lights and turning off itive behaviors to difficulty speaking “It’s really fulfilling,” co-founder her discover new toys to stock. the music can help some autistic kids, or even the inability to speak. This can Meghan Hetherton drove four hours but others may still be affected by a big Melissa Bernstein said.

The Associated Press

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CONFETTI GOURMET 3 DAY WINTER CAMP FOR KIDS, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Dec. 27, Confetti Gourmet Academy, 8505 RedTail Drive, unit F, Lakewood. For ages 9-16. Junior bakers and chefs will learn basic techniques in baking and decorating a cake. Also learn

how to create easy and savory appetizers.

Cost: $178 residents, $188 nonresidents.

Information: www.crystallakeparks.org/ VW-Systems/Calendar/sys-cal-details. asp?id=4769.

CONFETTI GOURMET FOR ADULTS, 9 p.m.

Jan. 13, Confetti Gourmet Academy, 8505 RedTail Drive, unit F, Lakewood. For ages 17 and older. Hands-on cooking class led by a

professional chef. For details and menus, visit crystallakeparks.org/programs/cooking.

Cost: $98 residents, $103 nonresident. Information: www.crystallakeparks.org/VW-Systems/Calendar/sys-cal-details.asp?id=4783.

COOKBOOK AUTHOR VISIT @ CARY LIBRARY, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Jan. 14, Cary Area Public Library, 1606 Three Oaks Road, Cary. Meet JeanMarie Brownson, author of

“Dinner at Home: 140 Recipes to Enjoy with Family and Friends.” She’s a food writer for the Chicago Tribune and has a partnership with Rick Bayless. She’ll demonstrate recipes and provide samples. Books will be available for sale and signing. Cash or credit cards accepted. Cost: Free, but registration required.

Information: 847-639-4210, almamaj@caryarealibrary.info or www.caryarealibrary.info.

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Finding meaning on film Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com

Sarah Wilson, pastor at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Hebron, walks around Dec. 10 taking pictures on the Woodstock Square. Wilson, a hobby photographer, loves to take photographs, and every Advent and Lent she challenges her congregation also to take photos.

Pastor leads congregation in Advent photography challenge

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or centuries, the season of Advent has symbolized a time of preparation for the Christmas holiday, and for Christians, the countdown to Jesus’ birth. Now, it often is associated with paper candy-filled calendars marking the shopping days until Christmas morning.

Sarah Wilson, pastor at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Hebron, is bringing the concept and true meaning of the Advent calendar to life through photography and contemplative practice.

For the past few years, Wilson has challenged her congregation to capture images representing the holiday season of Advent and share their personal reflections. In the weeks leading up to Easter in the spring, Wilson hosts another photo challenge for the Lenten season.

“For me, photography has been a focus other than my pastoral work or my family,” Wilson said. “But I’ve brought them all together in this Advent challenge; the purpose is really to slow down and capture the meaning of Christmas.”

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private reflection.

On Dec. 12, the word of the day was Continued from page 4 “impatience.” Wilson, a tea drinker, took a photo of her morning tea and shared her thoughts on the importance of waiting – Wilson’s love of photography began how waiting for the tea to steep is what out of necessity, when her three children makes it taste as good as it does. At the were young and she wanted to capture same time, she reflected, impatience is not every fleeting moment of their youth. always a negative reaction; we need to be But in 2009, her passion for photography impatient in order to bring about change was catalyzed by her pastoral work. That year, Wilson presided over many funerals. in our world.

About a dozen people participated in the One was for a child, and she realized the challenge this year, with many who post significant meaning photography has for regularly, a few who post when they can, parents who recently have lost a child. and some who are outside the congregation Photos of their child were treasures to them. Wilson said she felt a deeper need to in California and New York who heard about the challenge and wanted to join in document her children’s lives, and inthe experience. When the challenge ends, vested in a Nikon camera and enrolled in Wilson said, she will compile the photos as photography classes at McHenry County a collection of thoughts and reflections for College. her congregation.

“The experience of my pastoral work Jess Steidl, secretary at St. John’s, really got me thinking about photography has participated in past challenges and as documentation and art,” Wilson said. recognizes the amount of time and effort In October 2016, Wilson again drew Wilson donates each season. She said on this experience in preparation for her the encouragement to pause and take in bi-annual challenge to her congregation. special moments often missed in the husThis time, however, she posed a simple tle-and-bustle of the season has only added question to her congregation, “What do to the Christmas spirit of the congregation. you think of when you think of Christ“Sarah is always behind the scenes. She mas?” She asked that they capture it in does so much for our congregation and one word. She then made a list of the deserves so much credit,” Steidl said. “The words spanning the days of Advent, and photo challenges are an example of that: challenged her congregation to join her in Even though she is behind the lens, she capturing the word in a photo and writing has been able to reach out and impact so a short, accompanying reflection.

These then could be posted on social me- many young and mature lives through this challenge. It’s pretty special to see.” dia under the hashtag #stjohnsadvent2016 Although attention and participation is or emailed to Wilson directly in a more

Sarah Wilson, pastor at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Hebron, lines up a photograph with her camera while taking pictures on the Woodstock Square.

Wilson, a hobby photographer, loves to take photographs, and every Advent and Lent she challenges her congregation also to take photos.

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– Jess Steidl, secretary, St. John’s Lutheran Church in Hebron

growing, Wilson said her purpose for the challenge remains the same: to encourage people to slow down, be more thoughtful and take better care of their words.

“I’m not trying to teach anyone anything through this challenge or my posts; I’m just sharing my thoughts each day,” Wilson said. “Photography is art. It is about how we, as individuals, see the world. The more honest we are with ourselves, the better our art will be.”

On Christmas Day, the last day of Advent, the word is “love.” Wilson said she is looking forward to reading the posts from her congregation, taking pause with them, and reflecting on the lasting impact of words chosen and images captured.

“She enjoys how there are many ways to see God’s love and grace,” Steidl said. “You just need to change your focus sometimes.”

Online See more Advent Challenge photos taken by Sarah Wilson, Dan and Laura Simpson, Amber Ceffalio, Mary Sue Houston, Laura Leedle, Ben Quint, Dawn Stauss and Deb Fuller at NWHerald.com.

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Home improvement projects inspired by addiction I think I have evidence that alcoholism can be treated by redesigning your home or repurposing existing living space.

“Tim” drank from the time he came home from work (and sometimes a few on the way home). He sat in the TV room in the same chair and insisted he needed to relax. He usually drank himself to sleep and was awakened by his wife in the wee hours of the morning to come to bed. When his wife had finally had enough, she insisted Tim stop drinking so much. He agreed but assumed she meant not to drink so much in his chair, so he moved a large percentage of his supply to the basement ,where he “built models” until wee hours of the morning, thinking his “better use of space” strategy solved his drinking

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“Joan” thought she was a closet drinker, but everyone she knew understood she had a drinking problem.

Her idea was to drink after her husband left for work and sober up before he came home. When he caught on to her timing, she promised to “handle it.” It was at this point her drinking went dark. She promised not to drink, although she continued in smaller quantities more frequently. She put booze in her coffee, booze in her Gatorade and booze in her water bottles.

Then she had a cocktail by the sink after dinner as if to show her husband how well she could control her drinking. When the evening cocktail wasn’t enough to get through the night, she stashed a bottle in the laundry room and spent an unusual amount of time

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4 AND OLDER STORYTIME, 9:30 to 10 a.m. Jan. 12, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake. For children

Judd St., Woodstock. The library’s longest-running book club meets the second Thursday of the month. Group members read two to three mysteries on a certain theme each month.

Request a copy of the book using the online catalog. No registration required. Information: WHEN: 6:30 p.m. Dec. 28 https://il.evanced.info/woodstock/lib/eventsigWHERE: Read Between the Lynes, 111 E. nup.asp?ID=5054.

Van Buren St., Woodstock COOKBOOK AUTHOR VISIT @ CARY COST & INFO: Meet Susan Mullen, LIBRARY, 3 to 4:30 p.m. Jan. 14, Cary Area co-author of “We Are Still Tornadoes,” Public Library, 1606 Three Oaks Road, Cary. one of owner Arlene Lynes’ favorite Meet JeanMarie Brownson, author of “Dinner books of 2016. This funny, extraordinary at Home: 140 Recipes to Enjoy with Family and Friends.” She’s a food writer for the Chicago and deeply moving book set to an aweTribune and has a partnership with Rick Bayless. some ’80s soundtrack captures all the She’ll demonstrate recipes and provide sambeautiful confusion and emotional intenples. Books will be available for sale and signing. sity we find on the verge of adulthood Cash or credit cards accepted. Cost: Free, but and first love. Free. Books available to registration required. Information: 847-639buy. Information: 815-206-5967, arlene@ 4210, almamaj@caryarealibrary.info or www. readbetweenthelynes.com or www. caryarealibrary.info. readbetweenthelynes.com.

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“doing the laundry.” Joan’s alcoholism helped her make clever use of her whole home, when in the past she had lived largely in the TV room, kitchen and bedroom.

Steve’s drug problem led to a more straightforward space repurposing focus. With his parents’ help, he went from his bedroom on the second floor to the basement, which incidentally had its own entrance, to his car to rehab.

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“Terry” was more of a binge drinker. His drug of choice was boxed wine, and he thought because he drank wine he couldn’t be an alcoholic. He also thought because he didn’t drink every day his “occasional mistakes” were within normal limits. Terry was unaware of how much different his behavior was when he had been drinking, but his family knew. He told his family he would quit but moved his supply to the garage, thinking they wouldn’t know and he would cut down, particularly since the garage wasn’t heated.

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Huntley resident John Martinez brings Dickens village to life each year

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By LINDSAY WEBER • editorial@nwherald.com

hristmas is only a single day each year, but over the past 30 years, John Martinez has built himself a winter wonderland to carry on the Christmas spirit all 365 days.

What started as a small collection of David Winter cottages on a cocktail table eventually outgrew its available space and was moved to the dining table. Then it grew into a dining room/living room combo. This hobby of Martinez’s now occupies a 28-foot-by-14-foot room in his basement.

“The wife told me she wanted it out of the dining and living room area. It was taking up too much space,” Martinez said.

Martinez’s wife, Jane, said after her husband saw a Department 52 village a co-worker of his had set up, there was no looking back.

“He decided he wanted the big buildings, so my little buildings took a back seat to the big buildings. It just started growing from there,” Jane said.

The 72-year-old now has a late 1800s to early 1900s Dickens-themed village that consists of 103 buildings, about 600 figurine people and about 450 figurine animals. The village also has three ice ponds made of actual ice. Martinez said the ponds last about 2½ hours, after which he pulls them out and replaces them with fresh slabs of ice from his freezer.

Martinez keeps the village up until April, when he breaks it down and places the elements back in their boxes to revise his entire layout.

He completes the new village each year before Thanksgiving.

“It take three months to break down because the pieces go back in original boxes,” Martinez said. “I take it down, box it up, paint the plywood white, wait for that to dry and then figure out a new setup to reset it differently. For example, a few years ago, my farm area was 4-foot-by-4-foot.

This year it’s 4-by-2-foot.”

Martinez said he still is adding pieces to his collection and will continue to do so.

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Views of John Martinez’s Christmas village at his Huntley home.

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John Martinez of Huntley looks at his Christmas village Dec. 16 at his home. Martinez has putting out his village for 31 years. It has three ice ponds, 103 buildings, more than 600 people and 450 animals, many featured on a farm (below) that fills about 8 square feet of the village.

• VILLAGE

Continued from page 8 His favorite piece is his Department 52 hospital, which he has named “Sherman Hospital.”

In the past, Martinez has held open houses. One year, he had as many as 88 visitors in one day to view the village.

He has not held them in recent years but says anybody who wants to see it is welcome.

“Just give me a call and you can come over!” Martinez said.

Although the appearance of the village may change each year, his theme of Christmas will not.

“I created something that I really love to do. It gives me a really good feeling that I created something and it’s mine,” Martinez said. “Especially when children come to look at it and just to see their eyes sparkle really makes me happy.

“Occasionally, I’ll even have a child come back to my house after they’ve seen it with something they have bought for my village.”

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December 11, 2016 /s/ Katherine M. Keefe (Clerk of the Circuit Court) (Published in the Northwest Herald on December 25, 2016) 1253912

by day January 11, 2017 when all proposals will be opened and read.

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(Published in the Northwest Herald (Published in the Northwest Herald on December 18, 25, January 1, on December 25, 2016)1253926 2016) 1252741

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE

Public Notice is hereby given that on December 14, 2016, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office address of all of the persons owning, conductNOTICE OF FILING A REQUEST FOR ing and transacting the business NAME CHANGE (ADULT) known as PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY

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Public notice is hereby given that I have filed a Petition for Change of Dated December 14, 2016 Name and scheduled a hearing on my Petition on January 9, /s/ Mary E. McClellan 2017 at 9:00 a.m., in the Circuit McHenry County Clerk Court of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, (Published in the Northwest Herald Illinois in Courtroom #201, praying on December 18, 25, January 1, for the change of my name from 2016) 1252746 Ryan Michael Lopez to the new name of: Ryan Starns Lopez pursuant to the Illinois Compiled PUBLIC NOTICE Statutes on Change of Names. /s/ Ryan Michael Lopez Petitioner

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(Published in the Northwest Herald Public Notice is hereby given that on December 11, 18, 25, 2016 on December 14, 2016, a certifi2016) 1250844 cate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office address of all PUBLIC NOTICE of the persons owning, conductThe Village of Lake in The Hills ing and transacting the business Public Works Department will be known as accepting sealed proposals for Pause for Pets Playground Impact Attenuating Surface (Blown-in Installation) for the Village's playgrounds. Proposal located at: packets can be downloaded from 1945 Ozark Parkway the Village's website www.lith.org. Algonquin, IL 60102 Sealed proposals must be submitted by 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Dated December 14, 2016

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