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Pocket planner up to the task of keeping track of the future I went in for a physical the other morning, VIEWS and I am happy to report I passed the test.

You never know when you go in to see the Dick doctor. It’s like you’re looking for trouble when Peterson you go in for the annual checkup. At least, I think it’s annual. my liking.

One year blurs into the next, and before you This two-year, month-by-month calendar is know it, it’s been two or three years since your going to go the distance. And I could write out last annual physical. So much for trying. appointments to the dentist a year in advance.

General practitioners aren’t like dentists, Imagine that. Maybe the doctor won’t schedule a who schedule your next checkup six months year in advance, but I was ready for it. in advance. You don’t leave the office without The doctor’s appointment went fine, although scheduling your next visit in an altogether difit lasted two and a half hours, most of the time ferent season. And who’s to say you will be free six months from today? But you mark it on your spent going over paperwork and waiting. My blood pressure and pulse were calendar and go with it. fine, my heart sounded good, To put it mildly, I was And my pocket calendar my breathing was in order, is a marvel. The end of the amazed. I didn’t have to there were no strange sounds year always puts me on edge: Will I be able to find another worry about finding a 2017 or feelings coming from my stomach, and my leg kicked yearlong calendar that breaks calendar ... . when the knee was tapped down week by week for a full with the little hammer. year so I can note coming The most daunting test appointments in it? And will was for hearing. I was outfitted with a pair of it be strong enough to last the pressure it faces headphones and shut in a soundproof box about when it is stored in the back pocket of my pants the size of a refrigerator. There was room for next to my wallet?

Last year, I couldn’t find the just-right pocket a chair, and nothing else. I was given a control stick a little thicker than a pen with a button on calendar. They just didn’t seem to make them top to push when I heard a sound. I was shut in anymore. They had calendars broken down by the month, but that’s not what I was used to. For the box while the test was carried out.

Some sounds were as clear as a bell, but they the past several years, I had been able to score became increasingly more difficult to hear, and weekly planning pocket calendars. I was out of it seemed as if I was pushing the button when I luck.

My good wife picked up a pocket calendar for could barely hear anything at all, just my imagination mostly. Was that a beep or was it air? I me. It really wasn’t what I was looking for, but had to stop breathing so as not to interfere with I had no choice. It was that or nothing. This one was slim enough, and it had a plastic protector to the lowest sounds.

I passed the test, hearing what I should help it stand up to abuse. normally be able to hear, but the nurse did point This wasn’t a weekly planner, but a monthout the fact that I had some hearing loss, which ly planner and it went out two years. Yes, two is expected as we age. Yes, as we age. Ugh. And years. And I was thinking, there’s no way this calendar is going to last one year, much less two. I am aging, there can be no doubt about that. I’d rather blame it on the jet-engine levels of the And I would have to get used to writing small in rock music I listened to in my youth. the squares for the dates for the month that it I suppose I could have scheduled my next covered. appointment for a year out – my pocket calendar But wouldn’t you know, I got used to it. I got has two pages for 2018 notes, a third year – but used to a month at a glance. And I was able to keep my appointments straight by writing extra I wasn’t offered the chance. Maybe that’s too far down the road. My calendar’s ready, but my small in the space allotted. And it looks as if it doctor isn’t. is even going to last two years. I got through the first year, with only having to tape in the center • Dick Peterson, who lives in Woodstock, is a page of the calendar where the staple joins the calendar halfway through. To put it mildly, I was mental-health advocate. He is a freelance writer and a former Northwest Herald Opinion Page amazed. I didn’t have to worry about finding a 2017 calendar, even though I made a cursory look editor. He can be contacted at dickpeterson76@ gmail.com. at what was available, and there was nothing to

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The number of students from Crystal Lake School District 47 set to go to Washington, D.C., Wednesday to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th president of the U.S. See story on Page A6.

ON THE COVER Ryan Wagner and his wife, Ashley, play with their son, Miles, 2, Wednesday at their Woodridge home. In December 2013, Ryan was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer that will ultimately be terminal. At two months, Miles was diagnosed with a rare disease that requires him to have both a liver and kidney transplant. He received his donor liver about a year ago and is now getting ready for a kidney transplant.

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Never did I think the doctor would say, ‘I’m sorry, but your baby is in kidney failure.’ ” Ashley Wagner, Johnsburg High School graduate

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Ryan Wagner gives a kiss to his son, Miles, 2, while they eat lunch Wednesday at their Woodridge home. In December 2013, Ryan was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer that will ultimately be terminal. At 2 months, Miles was diagnosed with a rare disease that requires him to have both a liver and kidney transplant. He received his donor liver about a year ago and is getting ready for a kidney transplant.

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Family hit by terminal cancer, son in need of kidney donation finds silver lining The conversation pretty much went, ‘Ryan has cancer, and oh, by the way, we’re pregnant.’ ” Ashley Wagner, Johnsburg High School graduate on telling their family the news

By SARAH STRZALKA editorial@nwherald.com JOHNSBURG – Married not long after graduating from Johnsburg High School where they met, Ryan and Ashley Wagner’s joy 10 years later over expanding their family was quickly followed by a blow.

“We found out we were expecting

in December 2013, and then, literally a week later, we found out Ryan had cancer,” Ashley said.

They had been planning on telling their families about the pregnancy at Christmas.

“The conversation pretty much went, ‘Ryan has cancer, and oh, by the way, we’re pregnant,’ ” Ashley said.

“I’m sure they were shocked at both.”

Miles Ryan Wagner was born Aug. 10, 2014.

“He was born on a Sunday, and we went home from the hospital on a Tuesday,” Ashley said, remembering how she thought that everything simply had to be fine. She had a husband with cancer, and that was enough to

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Cary Library holds open house after $2.6M renovation complete

By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com CARY – The Somers family is looking forward to more visits to the library in 2017 after seeing the new renovations at this weekend’s open house.

The Cary Area Public Library hosted its open house Friday and Saturday to celebrate the end of its $2.6 million renovation project that upgraded the building’s facilities, reconfigured existing space and added areas such as study rooms for patron use. Hundreds showed up for the special events, which included live music, children’s events and an after-hours party Friday night.

The Somers family, which includes four children, is most excited about additional resources, mother Emily Somers said.

“I was so pumped to see the shelf of book club bags,” she said.

“I am part of a book club, and I think we will be going through every single kit. … I think it’s neat to see them get more savvy and advanced with what they offer.”

The book club bags include the books for club members, recipes, conversation questions and so on. They are available for adults and children. The children’s bags are more themed and contain things such as puzzles and books, she said.

“We’ve been here two times in two days now,” she said. “I think we are definitely going to be here more often.”

The library had money in its special reserve fund for capital projects that helped fund the renovations. It also borrowed about $1.2 million and received a grant of $125,000 from the state of Illinois that helped offset construction costs, library Director

Anne Krause (left) of Cary is showed how to work the new book return

by Mona Reynolds, head of public services, at the Grand Reopening of the Cary Area Public Library Friday.

Diane McNulty said.

Some projects were absolutely needed, such as roof shingling, fixing the skylight and completing lighting and HVAC replacements, so it made sense to roll the improvements into

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Algonquin village officials are considering plans for a medical marijuana dispensary at 1154 N. Main St. in Algonquin.

Main Street medical marijuana dispensary under consideration

By HANNAH PROKOP hprokop@shawmedia.com ALGONQUIN – Village officials are considering plans for a medical marijuana dispensary that could open in Algonquin in the coming year.

The business would operate similar to a pharmacy and distribute limited quantities of marijuana to patients with a prescription from a doctor, according to village documents.

Ross Morreale, representing ILDISP III, LLC, has petitioned the village for a special use permit that would allow the company to build an attached garage to the property at 1154 N. Main St. to provide space for secure delivers and removal of waste product, village documents show.

The freestanding building, located in the Algonquin Business Center, was previously occupied by a MRI facility.

The Algonquin Planning and Zon-

ing Commission decided in a 4-1 vote to recommend the petition, Assistant Village Manager Mike Kumbera said.

The item is tentatively scheduled to come before village trustees at the Jan. 24 Committee of the Whole meeting, he said.

“In accordance with the State Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis act and the Rules, this location requested is necessary and desirable as it provides a location that is very central to the majority of the population in McHenry County,” Community Development Director Russ Farnum said in a village memo. “This location could also easily service a large proportion of population from Lake or Kane counties.”

The memo also notes the location is easily accessible and has a high visibility for regular police monitoring. The building would operate with a 24-hour video monitoring system, documents

show.

The State of Illinois’ Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act became effective in January 2014, and expires at the end of 2017, according to village documents. The act allows for one medical marijuana dispensary in McHenry County.

ILDISP III, LLC, will be petitioning for approval by the state for its facility in the spring of 2017, village documents show.

At that time, the state is expected to accept another round of applications for licensing, but it’s unknown how the expiration of the pilot program will affect existing or approved dispensaries.

If plans for the project are approved, the facility would open in October, according to village documents.

Products will be available to patients and their caregivers and include smokable marijuana, edible and topical marijuana and paraphernalia.

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By NATE LINHART nlinhart@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – District 47 educators and eighth-grade students will witness the 45th presidential inauguration next week.

About 160 students and 22 teachers and administrators will depart for Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The group is scheduled to return from the four-day trip Saturday.

During the trip, students, teachers

and administrators will gather at the National Mall to watch President-elect Donald Trump take the oath of office and give his inauguration speech.

“This is a great opportunity for our eighth-grade students to see our democracy in action,” said Matt Jonker, trip chaperone and Spanish teacher at Richard Bernotas Middle School. “It’s important for them to see in our country we have free elections and a peaceful transfer of power.”

The four-day trip will include tours

of The Smithsonian Museum, Arlington Cemetery, Mount Vernon and a night tour of the nation’s capital. Students also will get the chance to visit the Washington Monument, the FDR and MLK memorials and Capitol Hill.

“Even outside of the inauguration ceremony itself, it’ll be educational for the students to see our nation’s capital and learn more about our nation’s history,” Jonker said.

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District 47 students also are invited to attend an inaugural ball after the inauguration ceremony, where they can meet other middle school students from across the nation.

“I think it will be really cool getting to experience (the presidential inauguration) in person,” said Jake Hartman, an eighth-grade student at Bernotas.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I’m really excited for it.”

The four-day trip will be paid for by the students’ parents and is hosted by EF Explore America, which offers students trips nationwide.

The school district has offered eighth-grade students a trip to Washington, D.C., the past three years, but this year District 47 and the school board decided to change the trip date so students could be a part of the historic event.

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one project, McNulty said.

“All of this I’m going to say was necessary,” she said. “Since we have been here, people have been asking for study rooms and small meeting spaces. More recently, people have been asking for expanded programming. In order to do some expanded programming, we decided to reallocate some staff space to public space.”

New technology is offered in the collaboration room of the library, where up to six laptops can collaborate and share their screens on two desktop screens. More space is available for studying. The library plans to offer more children’s programming to go along with its existing storytime as

well, McNulty said.

The Potter family, of Cary, has an almost 3-year-old and said it’s good libraries are becoming more advanced – despite their own personal feelings on technology.

“I think it’s good because of how everything is digital now,” Justin Potter said. “It keeps libraries relevant, in a way. It’s not what I’m used to, so I don’t really like it. I’m not big on technology,” His wife, Kathryn, said she agreed.

“Technology is the future,” she said.

“We are more traditional at home. He doesn’t do this stuff at home. He doesn’t have the iPad or anything. So it’s good he gets that stuff here.

“And I think since we’re paying taxes for it, more people will get use from it when there it more stuff that is interactive.”

The Japan-based company, which manufactures mounted ball bearing units, is planning to add a 36,810-square-foot warehouse to the existing 41,482-square-foot office and warehouse space at 13201 FYH Drive, village documents show.

“Our inventory levels at our existing buildings are pretty much close to capacity,” FYH Bearing Units USA Executive Vice President Jay Frasor said. “And we’ve introduced a brandnew line of bearings, so a brand-new line requires additional space.”

The company has always planned on expanding since it built its original facility in 2012, Frasor said. FYH employs 16 people, he said, and plans to hire about 10 more with the expansion.

If the project moves on schedule, ground could be broken as early as March, and construction would finish in August, Frasor said.

At its meeting Thursday, the Huntley Village Board unanimously approved the site plan review for the business, Huntley’s Director of Development Services Charles Nordman said.

“Our board was very excited to see that they were essentially doubling in size so quickly after constructing their original building,” Nordman said.

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According to evidence presented at trial, Cavitt arrived at a restaurant parking lot in the 1600 block of Ravine Lane in Carpentersville on Jan. 17, 2012, to buy 1 kilogram of cocaine, a deal arranged by the co-defendant in the case. Cavitt provided $30,000 to the co-defendant, who carried it to the sellers, two undercover police officers.

Cavitt remained in his parked car.

Once the co-defendant took possession of the kilogram of cocaine on Cavitt’s behalf, police signaled for the arrest to proceed, and an unmarked police vehicle pulled behind Cavitt’s car.

Kane County Assistant State’s Attorney Kelly M. Orland said Cavitt put his car in reverse and rammed into the police vehicle at high speed as an officer was exiting, striking and injuring the officer. Cavitt then went forward at high speed, forcing another officer to jump out of the way to avoid being run over. Cavitt then left the scene at

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Police pursued Cavitt at high speeds through multiple jurisdictions until Cavitt surrendered in Itasca. Multiple officers fired their weapons at Cavitt during the incident, striking him and wounding him, according to the news release.

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[Ryan’s] future is so uncertain … but I know that it’s so important for us – especially him – to see that Miles is going to be OK.” Ashley Wagner, Johnsburg High School graduate

Miles Wagner, 2, runs around his Woodridge home Wednesday. At 2 months, Miles was diagnosed with a rare disease that requires him to have both a liver and kidney transplant. He received his donor liver about a year ago and is getting ready for a kidney transplant.

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patient his doctor has seen.

Ryan said his goal is to live to five Continued from page A3 years beyond the initial diagnosis.

“Of course, we hope and we pray for as much time as we can get, but we also worry about.

Then, when Miles was 8 weeks old, have to balance – we’ve talked about Ashley saw him have a seizure. They this – balance quantity with quality,” Ashley said. “We always have that in rushed him to the emergency room.

“Never did I think the doctor would the back of our heads, I think, making say, ‘I’m sorry, but your baby is in kid- sure our time together is quality and we’re living the best life possible.” ney failure,’ ” Ashley said.

It was another twist to the Wagners’ story, the latest of which has brought Another diagnosis them back to high school, where they At about 5 weeks old, Miles began first met. crying a lot and throwing up.

“You don’t want to be that crazy mom who’s running off to the pediatriChemo for life Ryan’s initial diagnosis was good, cian all the time, because new babies do with doctors thinking a surgery fol- cry, and they do spit up,” Ashley said.

The pediatrician initially thought lowed by 12 rounds of chemotherapy Miles had acid reflux and prescribed would eradicate the cancer.

But halfway through the chemo, a a medication to try, but it didn’t work. scan revealed that the cancer had al- Then Ashley saw him have the seizure, and brought him to the ER, where the ready spread.

“It had been stage 4 all along,” Ash- doctors said he was too sick to stay – he needed to be transferred to Advocate Luley said.

They went for a second opinion and theran General Hospital in Park Ridge.

“We were there for three days and looked at options, but the doctors’ consensus was that surgery was not a good I think it was on the second day they started throwing this word around that choice and would not be curative.

“That’s when it transitioned to che- I had to go look up,” Ashley said.

Oxalosis. mo for life,” Ashley said. “It probably After another transfer, this time to means that his life span is going to be Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, cut drastically much shorter.”

Ryan was 29 years old at the time of where the diagnosis was confirmed: prithe diagnosis, with no family history of mary hyperoxaluria.

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As a result of the condition, Miles would need not only a kidney transplant, but a liver transplant, as well.

“I remember when getting ready for the transfer to Lurie crying like, ‘What did I do to deserve this?’ ” Ashley said.

“The craziest thing really is that the shock of Ryan’s diagnosis helped prepare us for the shock of Miles’ diagnosis. I think we both were just completely overwhelmed, and that’s an understatement.”

So began the juggling of chemo for Ryan and dialysis for Miles.

Five days a week, the family traveled downtown for dialysis, usually taking about eight hours to get there, receive treatment, and get back home to Woodridge.

He’s in a roomful of children with life-threatening conditions, Ashley said.

“I feel like until you personally know someone that needs a transplant, you never think it’s going to happen to you,” she said. “Until it does.”

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Miles’ liver would come from a deceased donor.

“That’s kind of hard to wrap your head around,” Ashley said. “For your child to live, someone is going to have died.”

But on the flip side, many people told her that when someone dies, it’s often a gift to know that their loved one will live on through organ donation.

Miles waited 11 months before Ashley received the call while at dialysis.

“It went from all of the happy tears and, ‘This is it! Miles has a liver!’ then my mind went to this family, which we knew nothing about,” Ashley said.

“We just knew that someone was dying; they were on life support.”

Thirteen-year-old Abby Reiswitz of northeast Wisconsin died from allergy and asthma complications.

The 12-hour transplant surgery didn’t go smoothly.

Clotting of the main artery affected blood flow to the liver so seriously that Miles was relisted for a new liver.

“So much went wrong, and then Miles turned the corner and didn’t look back,” Ashley said.

A kidney for Miles

Once Miles began to thrive with his new liver, the search was on for a kidney.

Which is when someone unexpected came along.

A fellow Johnsburg grad, Liz Wolodkiewicz, is scheduled Feb. 6 to donate one of her kidneys to the little boy she hadn’t ever met.

Wolodkiewicz hadn’t kept in touch with Ryan or Ashley since high school, but had followed the story through their Team Ryan page on Facebook. “[Ashley] asked the question, ‘Is it on your bucket list to save a life?’ ” Wolodkiewicz said. “I thought that should be on everyone’s bucket list … and how many people have the chance to do that in their lifetime?”

After two previous potential donors

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is a speech language pathologist at Johnsburg Elementary School, a lime green butterfly ring. That color and butterflies are symbols of organ donation awareness.

Plus, her birthday this year falls on National Donate Life Day. “At first, it was like, ‘If I’m a match, I’ll donate,’ ” Wolodkiewicz said. “Then it turned to, ‘Oh my God, I really, really want it to be me.’ I want this kid to get healthy, and I want Ryan to be able to see him get healthy.”

LEFT: Johnsburg Elementary School speech language pathologist Liz Wolodkiewicz will donate a kidney to high school friends Ryan and Ashley Wagner’s son Miles.

RIGHT: Miles Wagner, 2, relaxes Wednesday at his Woodridge home. At 2 months, Wagner was diagnosed with a rare disease that requires him to have both a liver and kidney transplant.

Transplants aren’t a cure and come with a lifetime of medication and immunosuppression. A donated kidney usually has a lifespan of about 15 years, so another transplant is in Miles’ future, Ashley said. “[Ryan’s] future is so uncertain … but I know that it’s so important for us – especially him – to see that Miles is going to be OK,” Ashley said.

Miles will live as normal of a life as possible for the recipient of an organ donation.

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“Of course there are days that are harder than others, but so much good has come from all this,” Ashley said.

“We have met so many incredible people in the cancer world, in the transplant world. Nurses, doctors and other families.”

Perspectives change when faced with the mortality of a child or spouse.

“Last night we went grocery shopping, and I just kept thinking about how nice it was to be out as a family,” Ashley said.

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didn’t work out and she passed initial questioning, Wolodkiewicz was the next human pin cushion on a “donor evaluation day” that included a CT scan and EKG. In December, Wolodkiewicz was declared a match, but there were signs along the way, she said.

A student gave Wolodkiewicz, who

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“At first, it was like, ‘If I’m a match, I’ll donate.’ Then it turned to, ‘Oh my God, I really, really want it to be me.’ I want this kid to get healthy, and I want Ryan to be able to see him get healthy.”

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City of Woodstock seeks input via online economic development survey Views from residents, businesses, employees and visitors sought NORTHWEST HERALD WOODSTOCK – The city of Woodstock wants input from residents, business owners and employees, and visitors regarding their views of how things are working and what the focus should be for the city’s Economic Development Department.

A brief online survey is posted at www.woodstockil.gov/survey, or it can be accessed through the city website’s homepage.

City officials said the survey is modeled after a survey used nationally to help guide a community’s economic development efforts, and it has been customized to reflect local interests of Woodstock residents and businesses.

The survey was tested late last year with a select group of business owners. This year’s survey offers opportunities for broader participation for stakeholders to answer questions as business owners, business managers or employees, residents or fans of Woodstock.

More than one identity may be checked, allowing participants to provide opinions pertaining to the community’s business climate, its qualities relevant to residents or visitors, or all of these areas.

The questions cover topics assessing the area’s attractiveness for businesses, such as labor workforce availability and highway accessibility, as well as items of interest to new residents, such as quality of schools and retail shopping.

Other questions seek comparative examples – towns that are perceived to be similar to Woodstock, as well as communities that survey participants feel Woodstock should aspire to be more like.

Answers will be evaluated to determine not only what is being done well, but what level of importance those categories have with the survey audience.

Survey takers could, for example, provide input that the community is doing well in supporting local retail and restaurants, but might indicate that attracting manufacturing concerns offering jobs is more important to them overall.

These insights are beneficial to determining the Economic Development Department’s ongoing priorities.

This year’s survey will be open until April 30, and responses to the survey will be posted periodically until the final response summary is available.

City officials said they plan to repeat the survey each spring and track the results over time.

More information about Woodstock’s economic development activities can be obtained at www.choosewoodstock.com or by calling Economic Development Director Garrett Anderson or Economic Development coordinator Krista Coltrin at 815-338-3176.

LOCAL BRIEFS District 154 students invited to apply for scholarship

MARENGO – The Marengo Woman’s Club will award one $1,500 scholarship to a 2017 graduating high school senior in District 154, including Marengo Community High School, Faith Lutheran High School and home-schooled students.

Application forms are available in the high school guidance offices. The application deadline is March 17.

For information, call Cynthia Tomczyk, Marengo Woman’s Club scholarship chairwoman, at 815568-1776.

Volunteer Center offers workshops for nonprofits

McHENRY COUNTY – Volunteer Center McHenry County, 620 Dakota St., Crystal Lake, offers the following workshops for local nonprofit organizations. For information or to register, visit www. volunteercentermchenrycounty.org or call 815344-4483.

• “Using Facebook in Your Volunteer Program” will be from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Jan. 19.

• Volunteer Management Certificate Program will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 26 and 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Jan. 27. The program will focus on skills necessary to increase the impact of a volunteer workforce for nonprofit organizations, churches, civic groups or community events and projects.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Don’t worry about change when you should be concentrating on your performance and ability to get things done. Your gut feeling will not mislead you. Romance will improve your life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Listen, be patient and consider ways that you can help or contribute.

Finding solutions is a much better way to offer help than giving a cash donation.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Don’t sit back stewing over a situation that needs your attention. If you bring matters out into the open, you will discover that you aren’t alone in wanting to bring about positive change.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Don’t let uncertainty set in and hold you back. If you don’t know something, ask questions and verify what you believe to be true.

Discipline and hard work will pay off.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – What you get back will depend on what you put out. Collaborate, offer assistance and share your knowledge and experience with people you feel have something to offer you.

Romance will brighten up your day.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Carefully inch your way from one situation to the next and you may avoid getting dragged into an uncomfortable position.

Honesty and mindfulness are favored when dealing with domestic matters.

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relationships. Plan a family night or make a romantic gesture. Activities that bring you and your loved ones closer together will have an impact on the way you move forward.

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Make decisions based on facts.

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OBITUARIES SANDRA L. CARLSON

WILMA M. DAVIDSON

Survivors include her children, Bonnie (Dick) Maguire, Connie (Terry) Beard, Donald Born: August 25, 1947; in McHenry, IL Born: November 26, 1926 (Chris) Davidson; 7 grandchildren, Jacque Died: January 13, 2017; in Lakemoor, IL Died: January 12, 2017 Gratz, Roberta (Michael) Munger, Amanda Sandra L. Carlson, age 69 of Lakemoor, Wilma M. Davidson, 90, of Harvard, passed (Travis) Kirk, Bridgett (Joe) Cash, Brad (Kaypassed away on Friday, January 13th, 2017 at away on Thursday, January 12, 2017 at Mercy sie) Beard, Amy (Kevin) Sterken and Donald Davidson; 17 great-grandchildren; sisters, her home.

Harvard Hospital.

Darlene Lloyd and Evelyn Blank.

She was born in McHenry on August 25th, She was born on November 26, 1926 in She was preceded in death by her parents, 1947, the daughter of Vernon and Vivian Genoa, IL the daughter of the late Clarence spouse and sister, Joyce Svensen.

(Peterson) Ficken. and Hazel (Hart) Whitacre.

Visitation will be from 4:00 to 7:00 pm Sandra enjoyed listening to music, collectOn December 1, 1945, she married Robert Monday, January 16, 2017 at Saunders & ing lighthouse figurines and reading.

L. Davidson at the First Presbyterian Church McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner St. She is survived by her son, Douglas; and in Harvard, IL. Wilma was a devoted farm four grandchildren, Amber, Jamie, Ashley and wife to Bobby; she worked the farm with her Harvard, IL 60033. Funeral services will be 11:00 am Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at The Hannah. husband for many years. She also worked First Presbyterian Church, 7100 Harvard Hills She was preceded in death by her daughter, at the Starline factory as a switchboard Lelania Carlson; brother, Chipper Ficken; and operator and 20 years doing clerical work at Road, Harvard with visitation from 10:00 until time of service. Interment will be in Mt. her parents. the Trophy Store.

Funeral Services will be private.

Wilma was a member of the First Presbyte- Auburn Cemetery, Harvard.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may rian Church. She taught Sunday School and be made to her family. for 40 years she baked the bread for the com- in Wilma’s name to the First Presbyterian Arrangements were handled by Colonial munion table. She was one of the founders of Church.

Family and friends may sign the online Funeral Home & Crematory 815-385-0063 or the AFS Committee in Harvard and started a guest book at www.saundersmcfarlin.net. www.colonialmchenry.com.

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For more information, call the funeral home at 815-943-5400.

HENRY J. DEBOER

Henry “Hank” J. DeBoer, 76, of Marengo, passed away January 13, 2017 in his home.

Arrangements incomplete at Fredrick Funeral Home.

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ERIK K. FREDRICKSEN

Born: February 16, 1961; in Woodstock, IL Died: January 11, 2017; in McHenry, IL Erik Karl Fredricksen, 55, of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, passed away far too soon on Wednesday, January 11, 2017.

He was born on February 16, 1961 to Karl Jakob and Agnes Belle (Miller) Fredricksen and grew up in Wonder Lake. His gypsy nature moved him from different homes in Woodstock, Harvard, Lawrence, McHenry, Lake Geneva, Hebron and Elkhorn – and was probably the reason he worked in a variety of trades, from construction to foundries, from installations to disaster restoration. He was a true “MacGyver” who seemed to know a little about everything. This not only made him an extraordinary conversationalist, but a guy who loved figuring out a way to make things work. He is affectionately remembered for his clever wit and animated talent of “Fredricksen storytelling.”

Erik was as sentimental as he was generous, dearly loving his family, his friends, and traveling, and was happiest when combining all three. He was proud of his Norwegian ancestry and was excited to visit his paternal relatives in Norway with his siblings. Famous for his love of driving and road trips, it was fondly joked that he knew every road in the area - and he always had a partner in crime with him. His adventurous spirit took him from Florida to California, along with memorable vacations with family & friends to Holland, Belgium, Germany and Jamaica. He loved life and living it fully: boating, jet-skiing, skydiving, pyrotechnics, target shooting, gadgets and technology, his pets, cooking with friends, spending time with his family (the bigger and louder the gathering, the better), and classic black-and-white movies.

He is survived by his older sister, Kari Koch (Scott); younger brothers, Rod (Mary), and Mark (Bobbie); nieces and nephews, Grant, Bridget (Mike) Haddad, Branden, Jake

(Hannah), Garrett Landwehr and Samantha; and great-nephew, Sawyer Haddad. He is deeply missed by the children he loved and was so proud of, Joshua (35), of Elkhorn, and Christina Elizabeth (30), of Harvard, with Cathy (Irwin), of Chicago, and Savannah Jade, “B” (17), of Hebron, with Lisa Boden, of Hebron; and his grandchildren, Brandon Vail, Alex and Elyza.

Memorial service in celebration of Erik’s life will be held at Wonder Lake Bible Church, 7511 Howe Rd, on Thursday, January 19th, 2017 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

WILLIAM M. HAURI, JR.

Born: February 5, 1945; in Libertyville,IL Died: January 8, 2017; in McHenry, IL William M. “Skip” Hauri, Jr., age 71, of Hebron, passed away on Sunday, January 8, 2017, at Centegra Hospital-McHenry.

He was born in Libertyville on February 5, 1945, to the late William (Florence) Hauri, Sr. and Verna (Maynard) Anderson.

After high school graduation Skip joined the Army and served three years including 13 months in Vietnam. On May 11, 1968, he married the love of his life, Linda Meyer.

Skip enjoyed farming and was a skilled welder. He was an avid hunter and fisherman.

He managed the McCullom Lake Hunt Club proudly for 38 years. In his spare time, he and Linda enjoyed visiting Las Vegas.

He is survived by his loving wife of almost 49 years, Linda; their children, Jeff (Amy) Hauri and Mark Hauri; and grandchildren, Kasey Hauri, Hailey Perry Hauri, and Hunter Hauri.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and step-parents; as well as his daughter-inlaw, Mandy Hauri.

A memorial service will be held on March 26, 2017, beginning at 1:00pm at the McCullom Lake Hunt Club, 10603 Okeson Rd, Hebron.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in Skip’s name may be made to the American Heart

Association, 3816 Paysphere Circle, Chicago, IL 60674.

Arrangements were made by Colonial Funeral Home and Crematory. For more information visit www.colonialmchenry.com or contact us at 815-385-0063.

GEORGE C. KELLER

George C. Keller, 107, of Huntley passed away January 10, 2017 at The Springs in Crystal Lake.

The James A. O’Connor Funeral Home in Huntley is assisting the family. For information call (847)669-5111.

ETHEL McCARTHY

VIVIAN M. WILK

Born: May 1, 1921; in Chicago, IL Died: January 9, 2017; in Woodstock, IL

Born: April 10, 1933; in Chicago, IL Died: January 12, 2017; in Sycamore, IL

Ethel McCarthy, 95, of Crystal Lake, passed away peacefully on Monday, January 9, 2017 in Woodstock.

She was born May 1, 1921 in Chicago to Arthur and Margaret (nee McKeon) Beening.

Ethel enjoyed baking, sewing and spending time with her family. She also enjoyed puzzles, crosswords and reading in her spare time.

She is survived by her children, Kathleen (Len) Korn, Susan (Dave) Hattas, Linda (Joe) Basgall, John (Mary) McCarthy, Mark (the late Kathleen) McCarthy, Richard (Karen) McCarthy, and Michael (Marilyn) McCarthy; 25 grandchildren; and 27 great-grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Norman McCarthy, whom she married on June 10, 1944 in Chicago; her son, Patrick McCarthy; her brother, Arthur Beening; and her parents.

The family will receive guests from 3:00 to 8:00pm, Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at Davenport Family Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake, IL. A visitation will be held from 10:00am until time of funeral Mass at 11:00am, Thursday, January 19, 2017 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1023 McHenry Ave., Crystal Lake, IL. Burial will take place at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines.

Vivian M. Wilk, age 83, passed away Thursday, January 12, 2017 in Sycamore, IL. She was born April 10, 1933 in Chicago, the daughter of John and Marie (Kruczynski) Kersten. On August 19, 1972, she married (the late) Robert Wilk in Norridge Il. Vivian worked for Kemper Insurance for 28 years. After she retired, she worked at Walmart as a greeter for 13 years. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. Her family and friends will miss her very much.

She is survived by her children, Charlene Mohr of Lombard and Michael Vlasak of Norridge; three grandchildren; and her very good friend, Ann Macey.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Wilk; her parents, John and Marie Kersten; brothers, Raymond Kersten and Eugene Kersten; and sister, Eleanor Kersten.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Vivian’s name to the American Cancer Society, 1801 S. Meyers Road, Suite 100, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 or to the American Heart Association, 3816 Paysphere Circle, Chicago, IL 60674.

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

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• Sunday, January 15, 2017

call the funeral home at 815-722-0524.

Alex Shustitzky: The visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, at Thompson Spring Grove Funeral Home, 8103 Wilmot Road, Spring Grove. The funeral blessing will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 16, at the funeral home. Interment will be in Windridge Memorial Park Cemetery in Cary. For information, call the funeral home at 815-675-0550.

Geoffrey E. Simmons: The visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, at Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 16, at Living Grace Community Church, 1500 Silver Lake Road, Cary. Burial with military honors will follow at Windridge Memorial Park. For information, call the funeral home at 847-639-3817.

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Donna Lynn Blanski: The celebration of life ed at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 16, at St. John Patricia Meitzler: The visitation will be from will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, at Querhamthe Baptist Church in Johnsburg. Burial will 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, at Willow Funeral mer and Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra follow in the churchyard cemetery.

Home, 1415 W. Algonquin Road, Algonquin.

Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake.

Patrick Victor Fox: The celebration of life will Funeral services will start at 10:15 a.m. at the Wilma M. Davidson: The visitation will be be from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, at the funeral home, preceding to the 11 a.m. fufrom 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, at Saunders Center for Independent Futures office, 1015 neral Mass celebration at St. Margaret Mary & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner St., Davis St., Evanston. For information, call Church. Interment will be in Mount Emblem Harvard. Visitation will continue from 10 a.m.

847-328-2044.

Cemetery in Elmhurst. For information, call until the 11 a.m. funeral service Wednesday, Ethel McCarthy: The visitation will be from 3 the funeral home at 847-458-1700.

Jan. 17, at First Presbyterian Church, 7100 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, at Davenport Elmer Loraine Rubsam: The visitation will be Harvard Hills Road, Harvard. Interment will Family Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave., from 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, at Tezak be at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Harvard. For Crystal Lake. Visitation will continue from 10 Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Road, Joliet. information, call the funeral home at 815a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral Mass Thursday, Prayers will be at 9:10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 16, 943-5400.

Jan. 19, at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, at the funeral home, then driving in procesClayton G. Davis: The visitation will be from 1 1023 McHenry Ave., Crystal Lake. Burial will sion for the 10 a.m. funeral Mass celebration to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, at Colonial Funeral be All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines. For at St. Dennis Catholic Church in Lockport.

Home & Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Drive, information, call the funeral home at 815Interment to follow in Abraham Lincoln NaMcHenry. The funeral Mass will be celebrat459-3411. tional Cemetery in Elwood. For information,

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STATE

Chicago pledges improvements to police

large protests and cost the city’s police superintendent his job.

The report’s conclusions were unsparing, blaming “systemic deficiencies” within the department and the city, including insufficient training and a failure to hold bad officers accountable for misconduct. Officers endangered civilians, caused avoidable injuries and deaths, and eroded community trust that is “the cornerstone of public safe-

ty,” said Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division.

The federal government’s recommendations follow an especially bloody year on Chicago streets. The city logged 762 homicides in 2016, the highest tally in 20 years and more than the combined total of the two largest U.S. cities – New York and Los Angeles.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the results of the investigation were “sobering” and pledged to make changes beyond those the city already has adopted, including de-escalation training and stricter use-of-force policies. Federal authorities and city officials have signed an agreement that offers a broad outline for reform, including commitments to improved transparency, training and accountability for bad officers.

The Justice Department and the city will negotiate a final settlement to be enforced by the courts.

Attorney General Lynch said the report lays “the groundwork for the difficult but necessary work of building a stronger, safer, and more united Chicago for all who call it home.”

She was pressed to address questions about the fate of the investigation under the Trump administration, and insisted that talks between Chicago and the federal government about police reforms would continue regardless “of who is at the top of the Justice Department.”

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By ERIC TUCKER, MICHAEL TARM and DON BABWIN The Associated Press CHICAGO – Chicago officials are pledging to revamp the city Police Department after a scathing federal report, but a change in presidential administrations could spell uncertainty for the critical next step in the process: negotiating a court-enforceable improvement plan with the Justice Department.

A report released Friday in the final days of Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s tenure found that police in the nation’s second-largest department had violated the constitutional rights of residents for years, including by frequently using excessive force, shooting at people who did not pose imminent threats and using stun guns on others only because they refused to follow commands.

The report was the culmination of a yearlong investigation, one of about two dozen civil-rights probes of local law enforcement agencies undertaken

by President Barack Obama’s Justice Department.

The findings come just a week before Donald Trump is sworn in as president, marking a change from a Democratic White House that has strongly backed the review process to a Republican one that has expressed far less support for

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News from across the state

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel answers questions Friday during a news conference in Chicago. The U.S. Justice Department issued a scathing report on civil-rights abuses by Chicago’s police department over the years. federally mandated overhauls of troubled police agencies.

The Justice Department began investigating the police force in December 2015 after the release of dashcam video showing a white officer shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald, who was hit 16 times as he held a small folded knife while walking away from police.

The video of the 2014 shooting, which the city fought to keep secret, inspired

balancing the budget by “taking from students and educators.”

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Schools boost recruitment for substitute teachers

CHATHAM – Faced with a shortage of substitute teachers, school districts in Illinois are increasing their recruitment Chicago Schools mandate efforts and getting a boost from a new law 4 furlough days for staff that’s set to take effect next year.

CHICAGO – The Chicago Public The law signed by Gov. Bruce RaunSchools has mandated four unpaid er earlier this month reduces fees for furlough days this school year for its interested applicants by $50 and removes teachers and staff. the requirement of passing a test of basic In a letter sent Friday to district skills, the State Journal-Register reported. employees, CPS CEO Forrest Claypool Jeff Vose, regional school superintenblamed Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a dent for Sangamon and Menard counties, measure providing $215 million in state said a cost increase implemented five aid to the district for the action. years ago to become a substitute and a However, the Chicago Teachers Union said the district’s action is the latest con- criminal background check requirement, sequence of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s and are some of the various reasons for the Claypool’s failure to pursue “progressive shortage.

In Illinois, substitute teachers are only revenue for our schools.”

CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said required to have a four-year degree, a substitute license and pass background in a statement the furloughs are anothcheck. er example of Emanuel and the board

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Documents: Son of slain aide named in warrant

OAK LAWN – A 27-year-old man has been named in a warrant in the slaying of his mother who worked as an aide to Illinois Congressman Dan Lipinski.

Court records reveal the warrant was issued for Steven Chmela.

Marianne Viverito’s body was found Tuesday in the basement of her Oak Lawn home after police received a request for a well-being check from an out-of-state police agency. She suffered multiple stab wounds.

The Daily Southtown reported that Chmela shared the home with his 55-yearold mother. Chmela is expected to be formally charged in the coming days.

Oak Lawn Division Chief Randy Palmer said Friday that a suspect was being held in Wisconsin.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that a doctor’s evaluation is scheduled for Chmela.

Viverito had worked in Lipinski’s office for the past decade.

Adams County to use grant to help mentally ill offenders

QUINCY – Adams County will use a $29,000 state grant to begin a court specifically for nonviolent criminal offenders.

The grant announced Thursday comes from Adult Redeploy Illinois. It’s a state program that uses community support systems to keep nonviolent criminals out of prison to save money and reduce recidivism.

Adams County will create a Mental Health Court by July. It will resemble the county’s 10-year-old Drug Court. Nonviolent offenders diagnosed with a serious mental illness will undergo an intensive probation program. That program will include counseling, medication monitoring, frequent court appearances and probation appointments.

Assistant State’s Attorney Jamie Friye will oversee the court. She said the program will help direct mentally ill defendants away from jail or prison and toward the treatment they need.

– Wire reports

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Iraq makes swift territory gains against IS in Mosul

“... We want to say to each and every one of you, you are not alone.”

congressman days before the national holiday honoring Martin MOSUL, Iraq – Iraqi forces have Luther King Jr. Trump tweeted that Lewis, won a string of swift territorial gains in Mosul in the fight against D-Ga., “should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, the Islamic State group after months of slow progress, with a which is in horrible shape and senior officer on Saturday laying falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely claim to a cluster of buildings complaining about the election inside Mosul University and results.” another edge of a bridge.

Lewis suffered a skull fracture Iraqi forces now control the eastern sides of three of the city’s during the march in Selma, Alabama, more than a half-century five bridges that span the Tigris River connecting Mosul’s east to ago and has devoted his life to west. Warplanes from the U.S.-led promoting equal rights for blacks. coalition bombed the city’s bridgRingling Bros. circus to es late last year in an effort to isolate IS fighters in the city’s east close after 146 years ELLENTON, Fla. – After 146 by disrupting resupply routes. years, the curtain is coming down At Mosul University, senior on “The Greatest Show on Earth.” commanders said Iraqi forces had secured more than half of the The owner of the Ringling Bros. campus Saturday amid stiff resis- and Barnum & Bailey Circus told tance, but clashes were ongoing The Associated Press that the show will close forever in May. into the afternoon. Iraqi forces The iconic American spectacle entered the university from the southeast Friday morning and by was felled by a variety of factors, company executives say. nightfall had secured a handful Declining attendance combined of buildings, Brig. Gen. Haider Fadhil and Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahab with high operating costs, along with changing public tastes and al-Saadi said. prolonged battles with animal rights groups all contributed to Trump unleashes Twitter attack against John Lewis its demise.

NEW YORK – Donald Trump tore “There isn’t any one thing,” into civil-rights legend John Lewis said Kenneth Feld, chairman and CEO of Feld Entertainment. “This on Saturday for questioning the has been a very difficult decision legitimacy of the Republican billionaire’s White House victory, for me and for the entire family.”

– Wire reports intensifying a feud with the black

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Protesters decry Trump’s anti-immigrant stance

By BEN NUCKOLS The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Protesters gathered Saturday to support immigrant rights at rallies around the U.S., denouncing President-elect Donald Trump for his anti-immigrant rhetoric and his pledges to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border and to crack down on Muslims entering the country.

“We are not going to allow Donald Trump to bury the Statue of Liberty,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, told a standing-room-only crowd at a historic black church in downtown Washington during one of dozens of rallies around the nation.

In Chicago, more than 1,000 people poured into a teachers’ union hall to support immigrant rights and implore one another to fight for those rights against what they fear will be a hostile Trump administration.

Ron Taylor, pastor of a Chicago-area Disciples for Christ Church and executive director of the United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations, told the audience there, “Regardless of what happens in the coming days, we know that good will conquer evil and we want to say to each and every one of you, you are not alone.”

In Los Angeles, several hundred people rallied at a downtown Mexican-American cultural center and plaza. Some carried signs saying “Here to Stay” and chanted “Si se puede,” Spanish for “Yes, we can.”

The protests mark the latest chapter in a movement that has evolved since 2006, when more than a million people took to the streets to protest a Republican-backed immigration bill that would have made it a crime to be in the country illegally.

Saturday’s events in Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Jose, California, and elsewhere took place as thousands participated in a “We Shall Not Be Moved” march and rally in Washington ahead of Monday’s Martin Luther

King Jr. Day holiday.

The line to enter Metropolitan AME Church in Washington stretched nearly a city block.

People attending included immigrants who lack permission to be in the country and their relatives and supporters. Also present were elected officials, clergy and representatives of labor and women’s groups.

“I stand here because I have nothing to apologize for. I am not ashamed of my status because it is a constant reminder to myself that I have something to fight for,” said Max Kim, 19, who was brought to the U.S. from South Korea when he was 6 and lacks legal permission to stay in the country.

The Washington crowd urged Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress not to undo the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, aimed at helping people like Kim who were brought to the country as children.

Michael Takada of the Japanese American Service Committee urged the Chicago audience to “disrupt the deportation machine” that he and others fear will ramp up under the new president. He also urged them to keep a close eye on their local police departments and speak out if they see those departments help “ICE to deport our community members.”

Dr. Bassam Osman, chairman and co-founder of The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, elicited one of the loudest cheers from the crowd when he called out the president-elect by name in an opening prayer: “Lord, this land is your land, it is not Trump’s land.”

While there was plenty of cheering, there was also uneasiness and fear of what’s to come after Trump is sworn in.

Rehab Alkadi, a 31-year-old mother of a young son who came to the United States four years ago from war-torn Syria, said she doesn’t believe she can be deported because “there is a war in Syria, but who knows. It’s so scary, what Trump says,” she said. “He said a lot of things bad about the Muslim people.”

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Airport shooting highlights nexus between mentally ill, cops

By KELLI KENNEDY The Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Just weeks before a gunman opened fire at Fort Lauderdale’s airport, authorities said he walked into an FBI office in Alaska, telling agents the government was controlling his mind and that he was having terroristic thoughts. It’s a daily occurrence for law enforcement agencies and authorities said the difficulty is in assessing whether people are reporting a credible threat or whether they need medical help. “A lot of resources, time and effort are all put into dealing with mentally challenged people and trying to sort through that type of information to find out what’s valid,� said Pat O’Carroll, former supervisor with the Secret Service and executive director of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.

Relatives of the alleged airport gunman, Esteban Santiago, said his behavior had grown increasingly erratic in the year before the shooting. While in Iraq, his family said, he witnessed a bomb explode near two friends.

Santiago’s brother Bryan said that at one point his bother requested psychological help but barely received any, and it’s not clear to what extent he was ever diagnosed or treated, if ever, for

“You can go through and look at a lot of the shootings, whether it’s the Colorado theater or Navy shipyard or Newtown, obviously there were mental health issues involved.�

Michael Bouchard Oakland County sheriff mental illness. After the incident at the FBI office, Santiago was held for four days for an evaluation and released.

Law enforcement said each hotline tip and visit is documented, but there is usually no record of whether someone appears to be mentally ill because authorities don’t have the expertise to make that determination and don’t want to stigmatize people. “There are times of lucidness, and you can’t just reject everything the person says. Even if they have a frequent track record of calling up, they are going to be given the same amount of attention ... so it is even more time consuming,� O’Carroll said.

In November, agents questioned an agitated and disjointed-sounding Santiago and called police, who took him for

a mental health evaluation. Authorities said he clearly indicated at the time that he was not intent on hurting anyone, and that authorities had no legal right to detain him. Weeks later, he perpetrated one of the deadliest airport attacks in U.S. history, killing five people and wounding six, authorities said.

Law enforcement officials and mental health experts agree the nation’s crumbling mental health system has exacerbated the problem, often making officers de facto crisis counselors.

In most states, the standards for involuntary hospitalization are stringent and require that someone be a threat to themselves or someone else. The FBI in Anchorage stressed that Santiago was not dangerous at the time they interviewed him. “It’s not an easy problem,� said St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne, president of the National Sheriffs’ Association. “There’s no simple fix to say the FBI should’ve just locked this guy away because he’s hearing voices.�

Experts are quick to point out that mental illness is not an indicator of violence. “If you have a mental health issue, you’re more likely to be a victim of a crime than a perpetrator,� Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said.

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The Secret Service conducted a detailed investigation of 43 attacks on federal government officials and facilities between 2001 and 2013. Over half of the offenders experienced one or more mental health symptoms, including paranoia, delusions and disorganized or odd thinking, according to the 2015 report. “You can go through and look at a lot of the shootings, whether it’s the Colorado theater or Navy shipyard or Newtown, obviously there were mental health issues involved,� Bouchard said.

Involuntary hospitalizations typically don’t last more than three days and often function more as a holding place with little therapeutic benefit. Many patients are released with no follow-up appointments or medications, such as the case with Santiago, according to his brother. “If the way we responded to heart attacks was to hospitalize people, save their life and discharge them after three or four days with no follow-up care, we’d have a lot of people dying and not recovering and that’s in essence what I think we have with our mental health system,� said Ron Honberg, senior policy adviser for the advocacy group National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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A trio of glossy ibis fly over the marshes of Jamaica Bay on June 21, 2007, in New York. Eight years after the miracle landing on the Hudson River, thousands of birds have been killed at New York City airports to avoid more strikes.

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crash, the number of reported strikes has ticked up, too, while the number of birds killed there has dropped slightly in some recent years.

Advocates for the birds said officials should find other, more effective ways to protect aircraft.

“There has to be a long-term solution that doesn’t rely so extensively on killing birds and also keeps us safe in the sky,” said Jeffrey Kramer, of the group GooseWatch NYC, suggesting better radar systems to detect problematic flocks.

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“We do our best to reduce the risk as much as possible,” said Laura Francoeur, the chief wildlife biologist at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the airports.

“There’s still a lot of random chance involved.”

That was the case on Jan. 15, 2009, when US Airways Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia and almost immediately soared into a flock of big Canada geese. Two engines were knocked out.

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NEW YORK – Birds took the blame for bringing down the jetliner that “Sully” Sullenberger landed on the Hudson River eight years ago this weekend.

They have been paying for it with their lives ever since.

An Associated Press analysis of bird-killing programs at the New York City area’s three major airports found that nearly 70,000 gulls, starling, geese and other birds have been slaughtered, mostly by shooting and trapping, since the 2009 accident, and it is not clear whether those killings have made the skies safer.

Federal data show that in the years after bird-killing programs LaGuardia and Newark airports ramped up in response to the gutsy landing, the number of recorded bird strikes involving those airports actually went up.

Combined, the two airports went from an average of 158 strikes per year in the five years before the accident to an average of 299 per year in the six years after it, though that could be because of more diligent reporting.

At the seaside Kennedy Airport, which is on a major route for migrating birds and had a robust slaughter program even before the Flight 1549

ly down in the frigid water. All 155 people on board survived.

Sullenberger became a national hero.

Geese became public enemy No. 1. They were targeted around LaGuardia, JFK and Newark airports by wildlife officials with shotguns. In some cases, birds were rounded up in traps and killed.

But the Port Authority data of bird-slaughter campaigns around the three major New York City-area airports between 2009 and last October show thousands of smaller birds also were swept up.

Of the 70,000 birds killed during that time, the most commonly slaughtered were seagulls, with 28,000 dead, followed by about 16,800 European starlings, nearly 6,000 brown-headed cowbirds and about 4,500 mourning doves. Canada geese come in a little farther down the list, with about 1,830 dead.

While aircraft hit birds over New York on a daily basis, incidents resulting in damage to a plane remain relatively rare and usually involve larger bird varieties.

Of the 249 birds that damaged an aircraft from 2004 to April of last year, 54 were seagulls, 12 were osprey, 11 were double-crested cormorants and 30 were geese, according to Federal Aviation Administration data. The species wasn’t known in 69 instances.

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Dan McCaleb

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Valerie Katzenstein

John Sahly

OUR VIEW

‘We cannot walk alone’ The nation will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, a good time to reflect on the work of the country’s greatest civil rights leader and on our current state of race relations.

Service, nonviolent protest, and insistence his fellow man be treated with dignity are For the record big parts of King’s legacy. Although If Martin Luther King Jr. were he accomplished alive today, he would say his tremendous things work remains incomplete. in his all-too-brief 39 years before his 1968 assassination, if King were alive today, he would say that work remains incomplete.

A great deal of progress has been made. Regardless of one’s political affiliation, this week marks the end of two terms for President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president who is a testament to where we’ve come as a nation since the 1960s.

There is more justice, but there still is injustice. There is peace, but that peace sometimes is marred by violence. There is acceptance, but there still is bigotry, anger, ignorance and fear.

There are instances of overplayed racial politics, and there is a refusal to listen from the other side when race is a factor in matters, whether the subject is police misconduct or poorly chosen words or deeds. There still is a wide perception gulf in this country too many refuse to traverse.

There still are too many instances when an individual is judged not by the content of his character but by the color of his skin, when one of such an instance is too many.

There are people still trapped in poverty, in neighborhoods with failing schools, preyed upon by drug-dealing gang members with little hope for the promise of the dream Martin Luther King envisioned.

The solutions will not be black solutions or white solutions. They will not be Democrat or Republican solutions. The continued insistence on these divisions, the bickering, the choosing of sides leads us toward no solutions whatsoever.

King cautioned against “drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred,” reminding us the destinies of blacks and whites in America were intertwined rather than separate.

“And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom,” King said in his most famous speech. “We cannot walk alone.”

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Fiscal irresponsibility is bipartisan Members of a Republican-led Congress have pitched a budget resolution this month to add $9.7 trillion of new debt over the next 10 years, a move that would increase the total shortfall to $29 trillion.

The resolution was justified as a step to replace the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – and legislators needed to use a reconciliation process to pass new laws to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature measure. Under such a process, The Washington Examiner reports legislation called for under a budget resolution can be passed in the U.S. Senate with a simple majority vote to avoid a filibuster.

The resolution does exempt future GOP-sponsored legislation to replace Obamacare from budget rules designed to impose fiscal discipline, according to the Committee for a Responsible

Federal Budget. This means the resolution would permit possible tax/revenue cutbacks from an ACA repeal to possibly loop into its replacement program.

For a party that campaigned hard on slashing the federal debt, it would be a slap in the face to fiscal conservatives who are seeking reasonable solutions to balance the budget.

Jim Rubens, a New Hampshire businessman, former state senator and former New Hampshire Republican Party platform committee chairman, called the budget resolution “an early indicator of collapsing GOP support for fiscal restraint” in a release.

Rubens brings his party to task for its evaporating budgetary restraint during the George W. Bush administration.

“The only solution will be to bypass our debt-addicted Congress with a constitutional balanced budget amendment

proposed under the Article V state-led process,” Rubens concluded. “Thirty-four states are needed to launch; 28, including New Hampshire, are already onboard – six states to go.”

A constitutional balanced budget amendment long has been a conservative dream, although many economists reject the proposal as unsound policy.

Opponents say implementing a balanced budget amendment disrupts safety net programs and purchasing power at state and local levels. Such an amendment could exacerbate recessions, as well.

Nevertheless, with Republicans seeking to add trillions more in debt over the next decade, a balanced budget amendment should at least be subject to a fair and bipartisan review to curb the reckless spending in Washington.

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ate, it is the Federal Reserve. (The Environmental Protection Agency would be another candidate.) Very few citizens understand such basic concepts as how inflation rates are calculated, the differences between real and nominal rates of interest or how the shadow banking system is supposed to work, much less tripartite repurchase agreements or the Basel capital standards. The complexities increase every year, and it is no accident the last two Fed chairs have been drawn from the highest ranks of academic economists.

In contrast, the citizenry probably would put forth various populist arguments for “hard money” and “easy money.” It’s not that those claims are always wrong, rather each stands a chance of being right in some particular circumstances, and the populist approach doesn’t have any way to differentiate. For that you have to call in someone who specializes in monetary economics, a field with many counterintuitive conclusions.

I worry the current debate over the Fed is headed in the wrong direction, namely away from reliance on expertise. For instance, financial analyst Danielle DiMartino Booth has argued the Fed should put CEOs on its Board of Governors and more generally purge itself of many professional economists. She is not calling for the rule of the Boston citizenry, but still she seems comfortable pushing academics into a narrow corner, on the grounds

that professors are basically out of touch. But compared to whom or to what?

The general trend in policy-making is more worrying yet. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated businesspeople to important economic posts, which is not intrinsically objectionable, but he simultaneously has shown aggressive disdain for academic advice. The main Ph.D. economist in the group, Peter Navarro, has economic views that basically nobody in the mainstream agrees with, and he’s been asked to lead a council on trade policy – another technical area where the experts really know something.

Trump’s flirtation with the discredited idea vaccines cause autism is another worrying sign.

The real issue here isn’t intellectuals versus populism writ large.

There is a time and place for populist sentiment, but an excess can be counterproductive on its own terms.

As expertise is pushed out the door, the citizenry itself gets a bad name, precisely when we most need it to step up to the plate and demand some excellence.

• Tyler Cowen is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is a professor of economics at George Mason University and writes for the blog Marginal Revolution. His books include “Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation.”

IT’S YOUR WRITE Obama not leaving gracefully

To the Editor: Obviously, President Barack Obama will not go quietly into that good night. He isn’t leaving with grace and dignity, as one letter writer recently claimed. The Democrats did not take their loss with dignity, unless you consider it dignified to protest and riot when you don’t get your way. Is it dignified for spoiled college students to suck their thumbs while visiting counselors who provided them with coloring books and other stress relievers to help them through the trauma of seeing Hillary Clinton lose?

We saw Clinton and the Democrats coming up with a lot of reasons for Clinton’s loss, from James Comey to WikiLeaks to the Russians. Even if Putin hacked their emails, there is no proof the election was affected. Even

more, why would Putin want Donald Trump to win? Countries hack other countries’ systems regularly. When China was caught a few years ago, Obama did not punish them. This leads one to believe punishing the Russians is Obama’s attempt to delegitimize Trump’s presidency.

Even though promising a smooth transition, Obama is doing everything he can to make everything more difficult for his successor: admitting scores of refugees, putting more regulations in place, banning oil drilling, creating new environmental monuments and worst of all, poking Israel in the eye by changing years of America’s policy of backing Israel in the United Nations.

He likes to compare himself to other great presidents. Too bad he’s not following their good example in leaving

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“Meryl Streep is an overrated actress.”

“Kim Jong Un is a strong leader.”

“I consult myself because I have a good brain.”

This guy is going to be the president of the United States. God help us.

David Harper Crystal Lake

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William F. Buckley famously said he would rather be ruled by the first 2,000 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard University. The government about to take over in Washington has more billionaires than the Boston of Buckley’s time, but it seems willing to test the theory academics can be dispensed with for the most part. Rather than give Buckley’s comparison a simple thumbs up or down, I find it more useful to ask when we would side with the citizens and when with the faculty.

I prefer the citizens for broad questions of policy and society. The citizens are more likely to be in touch with the concerns of everyday life, and less likely to embrace utopian schemes.

They are more likely to be politically and culturally diverse. Overall, they are more conservative in both the “small c” sense of that word and the more political sense. By one estimate, 84 percent of campaign contributions from Harvard faculty in 2014 went to Democrats.

For better or worse, direct rule

by Buckley’s 2,000 American citizens probably would mean a slower pace of immigration, less emphasis on free trade, more law and order politics, and a blunter form of nationalism in foreign policy.

Those don’t match my policy

preferences (I am more of a globalist, and also a professional academic), but I fear what the Harvard faculty could bring. I can imagine an America closer to Bernie Sanders’ vision, with single-payer health insurance, levels of taxation exceeding 50 percent of GDP, levels of immigration unsustainable with a large welfare state, too many aggressive attempts to legislate equal treatment for various groups, excessive fondness for a universal basic income, and too many humanitarian interventions abroad.

I worry rates of innovation and economic growth would fall, making that a bad deal for the world as a whole.

The faculty also would underestimate the backlash from the American public for their social engineering. It’s a good rule of governance that policy cannot race too far ahead of the citizenry, and I don’t view faculty as a class of people well-suited for that kind of humility.

Nonetheless, when it comes to the nuts and bolts of governance, typically I would prefer to be ruled by the Harvard faculty, even recognizing the biases of experts. They understand the importance of applying expertise to complex problems, and they realize many issues do not respond well to common-sense fixes. The citizenry usually cannot make good decisions, or for that matter expert appointments, when technocracy is required.

If I had to pick a single area where faculty rule would be most appropri-

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Zac Pletz, Angela Pletz, Granddaughter Briana, Marilyn Donta, John Pletz and Kathy Pletz outside the Blazier Center for Community, Leadership and Commerce.

ServiceMaster by Pletz celebrates 30th anniversary NORTHWEST HERALD ServiceMaster by Pletz is celebrating its 30th year in business.

Owners John and Kathy Pletz heard about ServiceMaster while listening to Paul Harvey radio commercials.

After investigating numerous business opportunities, including two other franchise organizations, the Pletzes decided the ServiceMaster franchise best fit their vision. ServiceMaster’s corporate objectives fit with the Pletz family vision, John Pletz said: “To honor God in all we do; to help people develop; to pursue excellence; to grow profitably.”

These objectives, on an old black plaque with gold letters, still hang on the wall in their office above John’s head.

ServiceMaster by Pletz offers jan-

itorial services to businesses, manufacturers and schools. It started in 1986 and is located at 1120 Mitchell Court, Suite E, in Crystal Lake.

Every one of John and Kathy Pletz’s children have worked in the family business, John Pletz said. All have either folded cleaning cloths, stripped floors, cleaned carpets, done post construction cleans and other specialty cleans over the years, he said.

John and Kathy Pletz’s daughter, Angela, “who has done everything from the bottom up,” will lead the business into the future, John Pletz said.

“Our granddaughter and Angela’s 7-year-old daughter still folds towels and recently, much to grandpa and grandma’s surprise, helped fix a vacuum cleaner,” he said.

Angela Pletz soon will complete her bachelor’s degree in Marketing and

Business Management at Columbia College in Crystal Lake. She will become the CEO, as John Pletz transitions out of the direct leadership of the company. Kathy Pletz, the company’s financial manager, will remain in that position.

The Pletzes have been involved in the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce for the past 27 years. John Pletz has served on almost every committee in the chamber, was a board member for eight years and was invited to be one of the chamber’s Ambassadors in 2007, he said. Pletz plans on staying active in the business community and public service, he said.

In addition to has family, Pletz also attributed the business’s success to hard-working loyal staff and customers.

Marilyn Donta, sales and produc-

tion manager, has been with ServiceMaster by Pletz for 23 years and is an integral part of the business, John Pletz said. Donta, like the Pletz family members, has done every job in the company, from folding cleaning towels to sales and providing support for all of their service partners and customers, he said.

Peter Anderson, owner of Buzz Sales in Crystal Lake, has been a customer for 29 of the past 30 years and was the first cold call Kathy Pletz got a “Yes come by and give me a quote” from, John Pletz said.

“We all know faithful customers are the reason we stay in business,” he said.

For more information about ServiceMasters by Pletz, call 815-455-5646, 847-658-8889 in Lake County, or visit www.servicemasterbypletz.com.

LAW Brad Stewart prohibit an employer from requiring an employee to provide a user name and/or password to any personal online account.

While much of the new language in the act adds prohibitions to employers, employers are also provided some limited protections and rights to access personal account information. For instance, an employer may require an employee to share specific content that has been reported to the employer, without requesting or requiring an employee or applicant to provide a user name and password.

An employer may require an employee to share content in this manner only if the employer is ensuring compliance with the law, investigating an allegation of unauthorized transfer of an employer’s proprietary or confidential information to an employee’s personal account, investigating a violation of laws or work-related misconduct, or certain other circumstances.

As with any changes to law that incorporate broad definitions, what exactly constitutes an employer obtaining personal account information to ensure compliance with law or investigating a violation of laws, for example, remains to be tested by the courts.

Nothing in the amended law prohibits the employer from enacting

lawful policies governing the use of electronic devices and/or the internet in the work place or on employer-provided devices. So an employee could be justly disciplined for using a personal online account on employer devices if the employer has a policy that prohibits such activity.

The amended Act now also clarifies that an employer can only directly access accounts which are provided by the employer or are accounts created at the direction of the employer related to the employee’s employment.

• Brad Stewart is an attorney with Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle in Crystal Lake. Stewart mainly practices corporate and local government law. He can be reached at bstewart@ zrfmlaw.com.

BRIEFS Networking group to host luncheon

ALGONQUIN – APW, an open networking group of the Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Chamber of Commerce, will host a luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 17 at Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano, 1524 S. Randall Road, Algonquin.

Guest speaker Victoria Cook will discuss success strategies. The cost is $20 for members, $25 for nonmembers.

Registration is required.

For information, call 847-658-5300 or visit www.alchamber.com.

Algonquin Commons hosts scavenger hunt

ALGONQUIN – The stores and restaurants at Algonquin Commons Mall are hosting a winter-long scavenger hunt for prizes.

The #ifounditatAC Scavenger Hunt will award $1,000 in prizes to the top scavengers. Participants can sign up on the mall’s website at www.shopatalgonquincommons.com to get the weekly Monday clues via email. Each clue gives participants something either to post on social media or to do at the mall that week. The more clues participants complete, the better chance they have

of winning.

The top prize is a $500 Algonquin Commons gift certificate, Second place is a $250 gift certificate, Third prize is a $100 gift certificate, and there will be six consolation prize winners of $25 gift certificates.

The first clue was posted Jan. 9 and the final clue will be posted March 27.

Those who start playing after the hunt has started may go back and participate in past clues.

Hajda rejoins Baxter & Woodman Inc.

CRYSTAL LAKE – Baxter & Woodman Inc., an engineering firm that provides services for water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation facilities for municipalities, counties and state agencies, announced Pavel Hajda has rejoined the firm as a senior process engineer.

Hajda will develop wastewater system programs and projects for public sector and industrial clients. He earned a Master of Science and Ph.D. in civil engineering at Marquette University and a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic.

Turgeon joins Prairie Community Bank

MARENGO – Lydia Turgeon recently joined Prairie Community Bank as a vice president/commercial lending officer, according to a news release.

Turgeon has more than 23 years of commercial banking experience, and was previously employed by a community bank Lydia in Elgin. She serves as Turgeon the chairman of the finance committee and treasurer for the Elgin YWCA, and is the president and founder of Always Room 4 More Paws, a nonprofit animal rescue organization.

Women’s networking group to host high tea

The McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce will host a WINGs (Women’s Interactive Network Group) high tea luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Jan. 18 at the Shah Center, 4100 W. Shamrock, McHenry.

Julie Ford of Julz For Life will present “Creating Time and Energy – Foundational Habits for a Scattered World.”

The cost is $25 for chamber members, $30 for nonmembers. The registration deadline is Jan. 16.

To register, call 815-385-4300 or visit www.mchenrychamber.com.

Women’s networking group to meet Thursday

CRYSTAL LAKE – Women in McHenry County3 will meet from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Thursday at The Listening Room at the Dole, 401 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake.

Kathleen Caldwell, CEO of Caldwell Consulting Kathleen Group and founder of the Caldwell WHEE Institute (Wealthy, Healthy, Energetic Edge), will present a mini-workshop, “Use Your Mind Power to Experience Greater Wealth, Health, Energy and Fun.” The cost is $17 for members, $25 for nonmembers, which includes continental breakfast. Registration is required.

Women of McHenry County3, formerly known as Women in Management, is a networking and mentoring organization for women. For information, visit www. wim3.com.

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The Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act was amended, effective Jan. 1, 2017, to broaden the scope of what an employer may not access or request from an employee in regards to online accounts.

A major change is that the category of “personal online account” was added to the statute, which encompasses any online account “that is used by a person primarily for personal purposes.” The prior definition was focused only on social networking accounts.

Some of the new prohibitions for employers include: any request or requirement to access an employee’s personal online account with the employer present, as well as any requirement that the employee be required to join with an online group/ social media. The law continues to

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Despite nominal annual fee, keep your LLC in place Dear Dave: My wife and I are debtfree, plus she has a business giving music lessons. We formed an LLC last year when she had several students and was making over $3,000 a month, but that all changed when our first baby arrived. Now, she has only a few students, and they bring in around $700 per month. Should we dissolve the LLC? – Ben Dear Ben: First, congratulations on being debt-free and new parents.

Happy New Year to you all!

In most states, the only upfront cost for an LLC is the money you pay for the initial set up. There may be a small fee for a business license and subsequent annual renewal, but that generally doesn’t add up to much.

Then, there’s the money you pay for filing your tax return on the LLC once a year. Even if you live in a state where there are other fees to consider, as long as the cost of maintaining the LLC wasn’t killing you, I’d recom-

DAVE SAYS Dave Ramsey mend keeping it in place. You went to the trouble of opening it, and you just might use it again someday. Even if your wife is staying home with the baby, she just might be able to take on more students again as time goes by.

Just be reasonable and use common sense. If you spend $3,000 to stay open, and you’re making $700, you’d dissolve it, right? But as long as you don’t have fees that are making you cringe, I’d probably leave it in place.

Dear Dave: My dad has been really bad with money his entire life. Anytime he would get into trouble, my grandparents would always bail him out. This time he came to my wife

and I, asking for $350 to get out of overdraft at the bank. We’re trying to live on a budget and get control of our finances, and $350 would make things kind of tight at the moment. What do you think we should do? – Jeremy Dear Jeremy: I understand feeling an obligation to help your dad. But there’s a lesson here that dad needs to learn, and it’s something that goes much deeper than the money or helping out a family member.

You have to do the right thing, no matter how dad reacts to this. Right now, the right thing is taking care of your family and not putting them in jeopardy. So my answer to dad would be no. Another thing that needs to happen is for the definition of “help” to change. When you say he’s been irresponsible with money his whole life, giving him $350 won’t help – and it will make you an enabler. Just handing him $350 will actually hurt him, and it will give him the idea he

can continue being dumb with money and hit you up for cash anytime.

Like I said, I understand the pull of helping out a parent. So if you feel this is something you absolutely must do, I would advise making the $350 contingent on the fact that he begin and complete a financial counseling course. Be gentle when you talk to him, and let him know it hurts to see him struggling. But let him know, too, it’s his responsibility to work through his debts and take care of his own finances!

• 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.

Auto show concepts: Would you build them or forget them?

efficient engine. Infiniti is expected to build a model very close to the concept version that will go on sale next year.

By DEE-ANN DURBIN The Associated Press DETROIT – Car companies don’t just show current models at auto shows. They also unveil prototypes that could be built in the future. These so-called concept cars help them gauge the public’s reaction to new designs or technology.

They can also amp up excitement about a company’s future.

These are some of the concept vehicles on display at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, which is open to the public. As show visitors check out these concepts, they should ask themselves: Would I build it or bag it?

CADILLAC ESCALA

Cadillac says the gleaming Escala gives an idea of a future flagship sedan. It has smooth surfaces and a long hood. Inside are thin, curved display screens that respond to touch, voice and gesture commands and fabric seats inspired by high-fashion suits.

The Escala is a rear-wheel-drive sedan with a 4.2-liter twin-turbocharged V8 that can cut back to four cylinders to save fuel. While the Escala is a beauty, its sales prospects are dim in a market that is crazy for SUVs. Cadillac sedan sales were down 2 percent last year; by contrast, sales of the Escalade SUV jumped 11 percent.

LINCOLN NAVIGATOR

Automakers often load up concept vehicles with features that might not make it into production. Take the concept Lincoln Navigator. Giant gullwing doors in the rear and three steps that unfold to help occupants climb in aren’t likely to be seen in dealer showroom. Still, the sleek, wagon-like shape gives a clue that the new Navigator will be a sharp departure from the current, truck-like one, which debuted in 1997. The 2018 Navigator is expected to go on sale later this year.

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The Cadillac Escala is displayed at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Cadillac says the gleaming Escala gives an idea of a future flagship sedan from Cadillac. On the outside, it has smooth surfaces and a long hood, while inside are thin, curved display screens that respond to touch, voice and gesture commands and fabric seats inspired by high-fashion suits.

drive system, which can take the minivan up to 270 miles on a charge. The I.D. Buzz seats up to eight and lets the driver’s seat face the rear when the minivan is in self-driving mode. VW minibuses haven’t been sold in the U.S. since the 1970s, but the company VOLKSWAGEN I.D. BUZZ The latest incarnation of VW’s has released several concepts over the groovy, 1960s minibus is the I.D. Buzz. years that take their styling cues from VW says I.D. stands for “identity” and the beloved minibus. This one would “iconic design.” The “buzz” refers fit neatly with VW’s goal of selling 1 to the whirring sound of the electric million electric vehicles annually by

2025.

INFINITI QX50

Infiniti hints at the future design of its midsize SUV with the QX50. Its flowing lines resemble other, newer members of the Infiniti family, like the smaller QX30. The concept has an advanced semi-autonomous driving system that can take over for the driver in some situations, like stop-and-go traffic. It also has a significantly more

GAC ENSPIRIT

What could make an SUV stand out in a market overrun with them? How about a bonsai tree? Chinese automaker GAC – that stands for Guangzhou Automotive Group – is displaying the EnSpirit concept on the auto show floor, a small four-door SUV with a retractable cloth roof. Inside are light wood accents and a long center stack that features a little bonsai tree in the rear. The EnSpirit is a plug-in hybrid, and GAC says it can go around 60 miles in electric mode before the small gas engine kicks in. Although GAC says it hopes to sell vehicles in the U.S. by 2019, it won’t say whether the EnSpirit – or anything like it – could eventually be sold here.

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ACROSS 1. Loops in, in a way 5. Goddess with a throne headdress 9. Tempo 13. Figs. on drivers’ licenses 16. When repeated, a Pacific tourist destination 17. Fish whose name is a celebrity’s name minus an R 18. Old bandleader with an Egyptian-inspired name 19. Outrigger projections 20. Things smoked by singer Courtney?

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Sister worries hotel plans might insult rest of family Dear Abby: My sister and her family recently moved out of state after having lived near our family all her life. Mom and I want to visit her this year, but she likely won’t have enough room for us in the house because she has three kids and only three bedrooms. She does have a sofa bed and an air mattress, but neither my mother nor I want to sleep on them. Both of us suffer from back and knee problems and don’t want to be uncomfortable.

Would it be rude if we stayed at a hotel? We have never stayed with her family before, so we’re not sure if they would be upset. What is the proper etiquette here? – Puzzled Guest Dear Puzzled: Call your sister around the time you’re planning to visit, and tell her how much you both are looking forward to seeing her. Then ask if there are any hotels or motels nearby, making

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips sure to explain that you and your mother plan to stay in one because your physical problems prevent either of you from sleeping comfortably on a sofa bed or an air mattress. To do that is not insulting, and it may take the pressure of “entertaining” off your sister’s shoulders, because with three children, I’m sure she’s plenty busy.

Dear Abby: I had a relationship with a man who was introduced by a family friend. Our relationship lasted a month before he ended it without giving me a reason. I went on with my life.

A year later, he sent me a message asking how I was and what was happen-

ing in my life. I was caught by surprise because I thought he had forgotten about me. I replied casually, and the conversation continues.

He knows about my plans to work abroad. He says he supports them and would like to send money to help me start, but he wants to keep it a secret and asked me to promise not to tell anybody. Is it OK to accept his offer? –

Tempted In The Philippines Dear Tempted: I vote no. Unless you

fully understand why your benefactor wants to keep his generosity hush-hush, I don’t think you should accept. Keep your guard up and the relationship casual until you know a lot more about him – like whether the man is married, because I’m wondering if he may be.

When something seems too good to be true, it usually is.

Dear Abby: I have read letters in your

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you act like a lady. Not all divorces are friendly, but if you exhibit hostility, it will make everyone at the gathering uncomfortable. Give a pleasant greeting when you see your ex. If relations are cordial, make conversation. If not, then occupy yourself with others. And when the party is over, say a pleasant goodbye. I think that about covers it.

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BOYS BASKETBALL: PRAIRIE RIDGE 50, JACOBS 41

A different story Wolves avenge tourney defeat, hand Eagles first loss

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3 Champs at the Batavia Tournament!! – @McHenryWrestle (McHenry wrestling) Warriors champions shown are Lucas Busse (from left), Jaden Glauser and AJ Sweeney

It’s pack the place at CLC today. Everyone is disguised as bleachers. – @lancehuber929 (Dundee-Crown boys basketball coach Lance Huber) #lonelysaturdays – @CoachCzes (Crystal Lake Central boys basketball coach Rich Czeslawski, in a retweet of Huber’s tweet)

Nikki Freeman was SIU’s top-finisher in the shot put Saturday as she threw 45’2.50” (13.78m) on her 5th attempt to take 4th. – @SIU_TrackXC (Southern Illinois track and cross country, on Cary-Grove graduate Freeman Follow our writers on Twitter: Joe Stevenson – @NWH_JoePrepZone Sean Hammond – @sean_hammond

What to watch NHL: Minnesota at Blackhawks, 6 p.m., NBCSN The Hawks will try to bounce back from Friday’s 6-0 loss at Washington when they host the Wild.

joestevenson@shawmedia.com ALGONQUIN – Prairie Ridge was determined not to be physically dominated by Jacobs, even with 6-foot9 center Cameron Krutwig lurking whenever one of the Wolves drove to the hoop.

The Wolves prepared to be tougher, to push back, to dictate how the game was going to be played, rather than being dictated to, as was the case 19 days earlier in Jacobs’ Hinkle Holiday Classic championship.

Thus, Saturday’s Fox Valley Conference boys basketball matchup starkly contrasted the previous meeting. Prairie Ridge’s pressure harassed Jacobs into 22 turnovers and the Wolves played with confidence throughout in a 50-41 victory at the Eagles’ Nest that ended Jacobs’ perfect season.

“We were being a lot more physical, as compared to the first game when they were being physical and we were kind of letting it happen,” said Wolves guard Brian Dorn, who scored 17 points. “I felt our team moving into them, being physical back, so it was a back-and-forth fight.”

Prairie Ridge (12-4 overall, 6-0 FVC) took a game lead on the Golden Eagles (14-1, 5-1) in the FVC race with the victory. Jacobs won the Hinkle Classic title game, 61-49.

“We came out with a ton more energy,” said Wolves forward Kyle Loeding, who led his team with 18 points and eight rebounds. “Our main prep was a lot more intense this time.

We had to work on Krutwig, work on (Ryan) Phillips and figure out what they were doing on offense. Defensively, all around, we were firing on all cylinders.”

In the first game, Jacobs committed only 12 turnovers and made shots.

This time, there were 10 more turnovers, and the Eagles’ shooting was woeful, 35.4 on all field goals and 12.5 on 3-pointers.

“Our guys were a little frazzled,” Eagles coach Jimmy Roberts said.

“They were too worried about what was going on in their area, and a lot of that is a credit to PR’s pressure.”

Prairie Ridge led, 26-25, at halftime, then built that lead to double digits in the third. James Queen hit a 3-pointer with 4:30 to go in the third and Dorn added another 3 at the 2:40

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Prairie Ridge forward Matthew Hoyland shoots a layup against Jacobs forward Cameron Krutwig during the first quarter Saturday in Algonquin. Prairie Ridge won, 50-41.

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Queen scored eight points and hit a pair of 3-pointers.

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Prairie Ridge came out wearing new shooting shirts with “212” on the back, signifying the boiling point. The Wolves took that to heart and played with high intensity from the outset to hand Jacobs its first loss. mark for a 38-29 lead.

Loeding’s three-point play helped push it to 43-31 heading into the fourth quarter. The 6-foot-3 senior set the tone earlier with drives to the basket and by hitting two 3s in the first quarter. “[Loeding] can do things,” Wolves coach Corky Card said. “He can score inside, he can score outside, he can drive and he’s a good passer.”

Jacobs pulled to 45-41 with 3:06 remaining on Kameron Mack’s 3, but could not get closer. Krutwig led the Eagles with 19 points on 9 of 10 fieldgoal shooting and 17 rebounds. But he did not get enough help elsewhere because Prairie Ridge’s defense was much more effective. “[Krutwig] can rebound it, he has really good touch, he doesn’t foul people, he does a good job using his body,” Card said. “We really try to get guys on top of him and have three others pressure the ball. They’re good. That’s a good basketball team.”

Roberts feels similarly about Prairie Ridge.

“No disservice to them, because they do a great job, but it came down to 22 turnovers and 3 for 24 from 3,” Roberts said. “You have to put the ball in the basket. That’s the biggest thing we didn’t do. They just beat us; they were better. They’re a good team. I’m fine with getting beat because they played better than us.”

The Wolves were thrilled to have their second shot at Jacobs in three weeks and hand the Eagles their first loss.

“It’s really sweet, especially knowing they ended our (10-game winning) streak in the championship game,” Dorn said.

BOYS BASKETBALL: LAKE ZURICH MLK TOURNAMENT – RICHMOND-BURTON 62, STREAMWOOD 55

After falling by 41 to Geneva, R-B bounces back

By TIM FROEHLIG sports@nwherald.com

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Kaufman did a little bit of everything at both ends of the floor against Streamwood.

He scored 11 of his 16 points in the first half, but his six assists, five rebounds and four steals arguably made him the game’s most influential player.

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“It’s tough, to put it mildly,” Creason said. “We can’t get caught up in half-court games anymore. But it’s a chance for other guys to step up.”

Four-year varsity senior guard Jake Kaufman (16 points, six assists) did just that against Streamwood, as did Joshua Hansel (10 points) and Kyle Townsend (seven points, three assists, two steals) off the bench.

“This may sound funny, but I think losing by 41 to Geneva in that first game prepared the heck out of us for the second game,” Kaufman said. “Geneva had a great man-to-man defense, and it forced us to try and step up and be better than the guy we were up against.

“I think that’s why you saw us attacking the basket and moving the ball so well in transition when we played Streamwood. We were prepared, and extra motivated to bounce back. How you respond to adversity says a lot about your character. And our entire team showed a lot of character and heart in that second game.

BOYS BASKETBALL: BURLINGTON CENTRAL MLK CLASSIC – HAMPSHIRE 81, KANELAND 60

Whips top Kaneland behind Powell’s 20 points

By CHRIS CASEY sports@nwherald.com BURLINGTON – A team that can knock down 3-pointers always gives itself a chance to win.

The Hampshire boys basketball team usually tries to get the ball inside as much as possible, but the deep ball found the bottom of the net early and often for the Whip-Purs in their Burlington Central MLK Classic game against Kaneland on Saturday.

Hampshire drained 12 3-pointers and scored a season high in points to pick up an 81-60 win over the Knights.

The win was only the fourth of the season for Hampshire (4-12), but it was a much-needed victory in terms of confidence for the group moving forward.

“It’s hard to get wins like this when you’re struggling like we have been,” said Hampshire guard Tre Powell, who knocked down four 3-pointers to go along with his team-high 20 points.

“But when we play like this, it really gives us a lot of confidence and we feed of each other playing well. Hope-

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The Whip-Purs finished the first half on a 10-2 run to take a 15-point halftime lead over Kaneland. The Knights never got closer than nine the rest of the game. fully, we can keep this kind of effort up and carry it into the second half of the season.”

Powell’s back-to-back 3-pointers at the end of the first half gave the WhipPurs a lead of 15 points heading into halftime.

It was noticeable in the second half, at least at the beginning of the half, that Kaneland wanted to limit Hampshire from knocking down 3-pointers.

The Whip-Purs shot 7 of 14 from long distance in the first half and 12 of 24 for the game.

A beneficiary of the Knights trying to take away the deep ball was Hampshire center Nate Gomez. The 6-foot-6 senior found a lot of room in the lane after halftime.

“Our offense usually starts with trying to get the ball inside from the beginning,” said Gomez, who scored all 12 of his points after halftime. “Today guys were doing a great job of making outside shots and forcing the defense to spread out a little. That really opened up room inside. We have had trouble finishing games, but I think this could be a big boost for us.”

One bright spot for Kaneland was senior forward Dan Franck, who scored a game-high 22 points, much of which came driving left and finishing off the glass.

Nathan Cork (11 points) joined Powell and Gomez in double figures,

as he was one of four Hampshire players to knock down multiple 3-pointers.

“We run drills to take shots a lot in practice,” Powell said. “I think it’s been a struggle at times this year, but games like this one shows that it pays off.”

“We shoot a lot of 3s and we practice it a lot,” Hampshire coach Ben Whitehouse said. “We have potential to shoot that well, but today was definitely one of our better shooting games this season. I think there were spots where we could have been more efficient defensively, but when you knock down (12 3-pointers), it allowed us to keep the lead.”

Fouls were whistled quite often in the game, as Kaneland scored 19 points from the free-throw line (in 28 attempts), while Hampshire made 13 of 16 from the foul line.

Hampshire had 11 players score in the game.

Hampshire lost to Burlington Central, 70-68, later Saturday. The WhipPurs finished third in their pool and will take on Elgin at 1:30 p.m. Monday.

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LAKE ZURICH – After losing by 41 q THE NUMBER points to unbeaten Geneva earlier in Points senior guard Blaine Bayer scored the day at the Lake Zurich Martin Luduring a minute-long stretch midway ther King boys basketball tournament through the fourth quarter after the Saturday, Richmond-Burton easily Rockets fell behind by a point. They never could have dwelled on such a dishearttrailed again. ening 32 minutes.

Instead, the Rockets quickly put q AND ANOTHER THING ... that mess behind them, then respondRichmond-Burton dished out 15 assists, got ed a few hours later with a 62-55 victory 10 rebounds from junior Shane Byrne, and had 10 steals, thanks in large part to its effective over Streamwood in their second game full-court trap. of the afternoon.

Aside from the game’s first possesThen, things went south quickly. sion, the Rockets (9-9) led almost the Streamwood (5-14) – led by sophentire first half. That lead ballooned to 12 points two times, and they took a omore forward Keenan Cole’s game38-29 lead into the locker room at inter- high 29 points, on 13-for-20 shooting mission. from the field – finished the third quar-

ter on a 9-0 run. It gave the Sabres a one-point edge headed to the fourth.

“We just lost our aggressiveness there for a while, and that’s why we only scored five points in the third,” Rockets coach Brandon Creason said.

A huge part of that aggressiveness was R-B’s full-court trap, which had been successful the handful of times Creason used it early in the game. Midway through the fourth quarter, the Sabres still led by a point. So Creason cranked up the defensive intensity again and went back to trapping.

The results spoke for themselves.

The Rockets forced turnovers on three straight Sabres possessions after that, and each time, it ended with a basket by senior guard Blaine Bayer in transition. They never trailed again, as R-B stormed away on a 15-2 run.

“We’re going to have to become a much more up-tempo team that pushes the pace now, especially since we lost (6-9 senior) Joey St. Pierre for the season,” Bayer said. “In the past, we could just turn to him to bail us out, or get big rebounds, but we can’t be that team anymore. It’s a huge adjustment for us.”

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4 GIRLS BASKETBALL: DEKALB MLK CLASSIC

Johnsburg, Huntley start tourney 1-1

By ALEX KANTECKI akantecki@shawmedia.com

DeKALB – Johnsburg never felt out of place in a come-from-behind victory over Lincoln-Way East, 65-59, on Saturday morning to start the DeKalb Martin Luther King Jr. Girls Basketball Tournament.

Johnsburg, making its tournament debut as a No. 8 seed, rallied from an eight-point deficit at halftime and outscored the Griffins, 21-8, in the third quarter to advance in the winner’s bracket and set up a rematch against Rock Island, the No. 2-ranked team in Class 4A, later Saturday.

But, much like in the teams’ early-season matchup, Rock Island jumped on Johnsburg early, scoring the first eight points of the game and cruising to a 75-53 win. Rock Island also defeated the Skyhawks, 63-32, on Nov. 19.

Senior guard Justice Wilson-Edell led the Rocks with 21 points, and 6-foot-1 guard Breanna Beal, who ranks among the top sophomores nationally by multiple evaluators, had 19 points and 12 rebounds.

“I was really excited to play Rock Island again,” Johnsburg coach Brad Frey said. “I think we’re much better than we were before Thanksgiving time. ...

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Johnsburg coach Brad Frey liked how his team finished the fourth quarter against Rock Island.

Taylor Piggott and Ava Interrante each scored five points in the quarter, and Heather Arden and Maggie Elliot each buried a 3. Johnsburg outscored Rock Island, 18-7. tournaments around. We’ll go out and try to sneak a fifth place out of this.”

Frey jumped at a chance to join the 16-team field, which also includes Huntley, when a spot opened. Johnsburg (16-6) will play Plainfield East at 3 p.m.

Monday with a chance to advance to the fifth-place title game.

The loss against Rock Island brought up a disturbing trend against top-ranked

teams, Frey said.

“When our girls know the team is good, sometimes it gets in their head,” Frey said. “And we’ve got to fix that.

They didn’t know that Lincoln-Way East was good. They just went out and played basketball. (Against Rock Island), I think they were afraid. I think they were intimidated a little bit.”

In Johnsburg’s win over Lincoln-Way East, Kayla Stefka Aannah Interrante continued her recent tear of production, scoring a game-high 27 points with four 3-pointers. She added 13 points and two 3s against Rock Island.

Her 13 points against Rock Island snapped a six-game streak with 23-plus points. She’s averaging 24.1 points over her past seven games.

Kayla Stefka had 11 points against Lincoln-Way East and 10 against Rock Island, and Morgan Madsen had 20 in two games. Against Lincoln-Way East, Megan Madsen had eight points.

“I don’t think we had enough energy coming from the last game,” Stefka said. “But that was pretty cool beating Lincoln-Way East, because it felt like a sectional game. It was really intense.”

Elsewhere in the tournament, Huntley dropped its opener, 44-39, to Hins-

dale Central. Missy Moffett led the Red Raiders (9-8) with a career-high 17 points and four 3s, and Morgan Clausen had 10 points and eight rebounds.

Huntley was coming off a loss to Dundee-Crown in Fox Valley Conference play Friday night. Against D-C, Huntley scored only seven points in the first two quarters.

“I’m really proud with how our kids fought,” Huntley coach Steve Raethz said. “I thought our effort was really good for four quarters. That was a point of emphasis. We know this is a tough tournament. We’re going to play some really quality competition over the next two days.”

Huntley led, 14-7, at halftime, but Hinsdale Central rallied to tie the score at halftime, 21-all. The second half featured nine lead changes, with Huntley’s last lead coming on two free throws by Janelle Allen with 4:27 left.

Raethz hopes Moffett’s performance is a sign of things to come for the sophomore.

“I just had a lot of space to focus on my shot, and I was able to knock them down,” Moffett said. “We’ve have a rough couple of games, and we just want to come out and prove ourselves.”

Huntley bounced back to defeat Batavia, 43-26, in a consolation bracket game.

Clausen scored 15 points and Janelle Allen added 10 to lead the Red Raiders.

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McHenry 2nd in Batavia tourney, wins 3 weight classes NORTHWEST HERALD McHenry finished second at the 17team Batavia Tournament on Saturday with three individual champions and nine place winners.

Lucas Busse (120 pounds), Jaden Glauser (170) and AJ Sweeney (220) each won their bracket, giving the Warriors the second-most champions behind team winner Wheaton North (four champions). The Warriors finished with a team score of 165.5 to Wheaton North’s 224.

In addition to the three champions, McHenry’s Jake Leske (182) and Geoff Cagel (285) took second, Andrew Hertel-Pence (138) took third, Jeremy Komers (132) finished fifth, Dominic Rossier (152) finished sixth and Kerick Mesa (145) took eighth.

Marian Central finished eighth (93.5) with two runners-up and six placers.

Luke Silva and Anthony Randazzo finished second for the Hurricanes, with Anthony Silva in third.

Hampshire finished 10th (67) with

five placers, including a runner-up.

Amboy Invitational: Woodstock North finished second, with two champions and eight placers. Nico Mazzanti and Ed Flores each won their bracket, while Brian Kline, Carter Miller and Nathan Estrada reached the finals but finished as runner-up. Ismael Rodriguez, Cole Walkington and Christopher Flores placed fourth and Jake Finch finished fifth.

Carl Sandburg duals: Crystal Lake Central went 2-1 in duals, beating South Elgin, 65-15, and Joliet West, 3431, thanks to a late takedown by Braden Bisram.

Central’s loss came to Oak Park and River Forest, the No. 2 ranked team in Class 3A by illinoismatmen.com, by a score of 54-9. The Tigers, ranked No. 2 in Class 2A, got wins from Seamus and Liam O’Donnell.

Highland Park quad: At Highland Park, Prairie Ridge went 2-1 in duals, beating Lakes, 34-33, and Bartlett, 41-26, while losing to Highland Park, 39-36. Jace Sparks (120), Trey Piotrowski (138) and

Nick Fetzner (170) led the way with three wins apiece. Drake Regenhardt (152) won two matches, including a decision over No. 4 Xavian Girona of Lakes.

Stevenson quad: At Lincolnshire, Huntley went 0-3 in duals, losing to two ranked Class 3A opponents.

Huntley lost, 39-27, to Deerfield, Ranked No. 8 in 3A; lost, 41-31, to Stevenson, ranked No. 10 in 3A; and lost, 39-33, to Yorkville. Huntley (14-9) is ranked as honorable mention in 3A. Sam Spencer (106), Josh Stenger (120) and David Ferrante (152) led the Red Raiders with three wins apiece, all earning bonus points. Spencer had a pair of pins and a tech fall, Stenger had a pin and a tech fall and Ferrante had a pin and two tech falls.

Going 2-1 on the day for Huntley were Zach Spencer (126) with a pin and a tech fall, Juan Quiroz (160) with a pin and a tech fall, and Justin Allen (182) with a tech fall.

Harvard 69, Belvidere North 9: At Harvard, Zach Bokowy (120), Josh Fiegel

(126) and Marty Krasinski (160) each won by pin in the first period to lead the Hornets to a nonconference victory.

Round Lake quad: Marengo beat Crystal Lake South in a dual.

The Gators (17-15) went 0-3 with losses to Marengo, Zion-Benton and Round Lake. South was led by Vinnie Fontanetta and Shahyan Malik going 3-0, while Peyton Timmons, Mohamed Elmeligi and Brady Weidner each went 2-1.

Dakota quad: Richmond-Burton went 0-3 in duals against tough competition, losing to two teams ranked in the top 10 in their classes. The Rockets lost, 54-16, to Dakota which is ranked No. 2 in 1A, lost, 62-12, to Montini, the No. 6 team in 3A, and lost 43-8 to Lincoln-Way Central.

Richmond-Burton was led by Gavin Sutton, who went 2-1 at 145 with a pin and major decision. Brenden Kaminscky (120) was the only other Rocket with two wins, winning by fall and receiving a forfeit. Also winning matches for R-B were Joshua Dumont (220), John Kellum (138) and Joseph Kaht (152).

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against 12th-ranked Drury University.

The victory was Lewis’ first in school history at Drury, which is located in Springfield, Missouri.

Most improved at Carthage: Freshman midfielder/forward Samantha Sisto, who played in every game during the fall for D-III Carthage College’s women’s soccer team, was voted by teammates as the program’s Most Improved Player for 2016.

Sisto, a Crystal Lake South grad, scored two goals and had a season-high four shots Sept. 2 in a 4-0 victory against Lawrence University. Carthage finished 10-7 this season.

Coach Sara Meyer said Sisto quickly adjusted to the physicality and speed of the college game to earn significant player time.

“Samantha continued to improve each and every day,” Meyer said. “I am excited to see where Samantha continues to grow as a player.”

Aiding the Illini: Redshirt freshman 149-pounder Eric Barone (Crystal Lake South) and true freshman 125-pounder Travis Piotrowski (Prairie Ridge) are both in the starting lineup this season for the University of Illinois wrestling team.

Barone (3-3) and Piotrowski (9-7) have helped the Illini earn No. 12 national rankings from W.I.N. Magazine and the USA Today/Coaches polls.

Both wrestlers won their first career dual matches this season for Illinois (2-1).

The Illini compete Sunday against No. 4 Ohio State in Columbus.

• Barry Bottino writes a weekly column about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at BarryOnCampus@hotmail.com and follow @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.

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Marengo boys reach Burlington Central MLK final NORTHWEST HERALD Marengo won a pair of close games Saturday to advance to the championship game of the Burlington Central MLK Classic boys basketball tournament.

The Indians beat Wheaton Academy, 63-60, in overtime of their first game, getting 29 points from Mike Volkening and 22 from Blaine Borhart. Volkening and Borhart each hit four 3-pointers, while Aidan Kirchner made two 3s to add six points.

In their second game of the day, the Indians topped Elgin, 59-57, behind 34 points from Volkening, who again hit four 3s. Borhart added 10 points, Connor

Wascher made three 3s to add nine and Jake LaSota chipped in six points with a pair of 3s.

The Indians (14-3) have won seven in a row and advance to face Burlington Central in the championship game at 4:30 p.m. Monday.

Also at the Burlington Central Tournament, McHenry went 2-0 on Saturday with wins over Wheaton Academy and Elgin to improve to 2-1 in the tournament.

The Warriors beat Wheaton Academy, 75-46, in their first game. Gavin Markgraff led the way with 20 points, including a pair of 3-pointers. Gio Calabrese and Maki Mohr each added 12 points.

McHenry then topped Elgin, 55-34, behind 19 points from Markgraff and 17 from Calabrese, who each hit four 3-pointers.

The Warriors will face Genoa-Kingston in the tournament’s third-place game at 3 p.m Monday.

South Beloit MLK Tournament: Harvard lost both of its games, 63-32, to East Dubuque and 71-39 to Ashton-Franklin Center. Angel Castaneda led Harvard with nine points against East Dubuque, and Dylan Stephens had a team-high 14 against Ashton-Franklin Center.

1-6) in a Fox Valley Conference game.

Adam Pump hit three 3s and added 13 points for Central.

Jefferson MLK Tournament: Johnsburg split its games in Rockford, losing to the host J-Hawks, 103-46, and defeating Guilford, 90-84.

In the first game, the Skyhawks (9-7) were led by Jackson LaMarche with 13 points and Warren Nusser with 10.

Zach Toussaint topped Johnsburg in the second game with 32 points, while LaMarche added 15, Mason Sobiesk had 14 and Will Conroy had 12.

Timmerman scored 26 points as the Tigers (5-11, 1-6) held off the Chargers (3-13,

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When it comes to rebounding, Olivia Jakubicek has a simple approach.

“I just focus on playing each minute as hard as I can,” she said. “There’s a sense of fight in rebounding. It’s hard work. It’s a rewarding thing to get a good rebound that you work hard for.

You earned it.”

Jakubicek’s work has created plenty of rewards this season for Saint Louis University’s women’s basketball team.

The Billikens (14-3) won their seventh game in a row when they beat St. Bonaventure, 64-49, on Wednesday.

Jakubicek, a senior forward, had 10 rebounds and a career-high five assists as Saint Louis stayed unbeaten (4-0) in the Atlantic 10 Conference.

Three days earlier, Jakubicek pulled down a career-high 15 rebounds in a 6248 victory at Virginia Commonwealth.

Jakubicek, a Cary-Grove grad, is averaging career highs of 7.8 points and 7.6 rebounds while starting every game.

Against VCU, she overcame a formidable opposing front line to post the best game of her career on the boards.

“I’m watching the game as we speak,” Saint Louis coach Lisa Stone said. “She’s 5-foot-8, and she’s in there with 6-4, 6-5, and has great position.

She’s in the right place at the right time all the time. There are some NFL teams right now that could use her. That ball sticks in her hands.”

Her impact goes well beyond stats, however.

“She’s the face of the program,” Stone said. “If I could have a whole team of Olivias, it would be the most

going to lead by the way she practices and her approach to everything in life.

Her competitiveness is everywhere.”

Jakubicek leads the team Bible study session, Stone said, and approached her coach with a unique request for this academic year.

“She came to me and asked if she could room with a freshman,” Stone said. “She’s a senior. She rooms with (Batavia’s) Hannah Frazier. She said, ‘I want to help her with this transition.’”

After starting for two seasons, Jakubicek took on a new role last season as a junior.

“We talked about bringing her off the bench,” Stone said. “It wasn’t a punishment. She said, ‘Coach, whatever’s best for the team.’ She was OK and accepted her role.”

The result was a 26-8 record, an AtPhoto provided by Bill Barrett – Saint Louis University lantic 10 co-championship and advanceSaint Louis senior forward Olivia Jakubicek, ment to the third round of the WNIT. “She played starters’ minutes,” a Cary-Grove graduate, is averaging career highs of 7.8 points and 7.6 rebounds a game Stone said. “Olivia is an example to all. She is the sweetest, kindest, most this season. well-rounded person I know. Everymagnificent team ever. She does so body trusts Olivia. There’s a trust and many great things that don’t get noa respect for how she goes about her ticed on the stat sheet. She’s the MVP of business.” our team.”

Frequent Flyer: Marian Central grad As a senior, Jakubicek takes her Adam Pischke has played in 15 games leadership role seriously. this season for D-II Lewis University’s “I really try to encourage our team men’s basketball team (11-5). unity and togetherness,” she said. “I The Flyers are 6-0 in Great Lakes know the highs and lows. I’ve been Valley Conference play with Pischke, able to use my experience to help build a freshman guard, starting the past up my younger teammates. It makes a four games. On Saturday, he had eight huge difference on the court. It brings a points and four assists in Lewis’ 84-65 sense of togetherness and love, and we GLVC victory over Maryville. Pischke all really want the best for each other.” is averaging 5.1 points and 1.7 assists On the court, Stone said Jakubicek’s a game this season. Since joining the impact is in pushing others to succeed starting lineup, he is averaging 10 and raise their effort level. points and 3.5 assists.

“She’s not going to lead a cheer in Pischke scored six points last the locker room,” Stone said. “She’s weekend in the Flyers’ 76-75 upset win

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Wade has big 4th quarter; Butler scores 28 in return

from the flu, and Dwyane Wade had 17 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter in the Bulls’ 107-99 victory over the New CHICAGO – Jimmy Butler’s health Orleans Pelicans on Saturday.

The Bulls desperately needed Butler and the Bulls’ play this week coincided back after losing their previous three for different reasons.

Butler scored 28 points in his return games while he struggled with the flu.

He didn’t play in two games and was limited Monday night against Oklahoma City.

After the Pelicans cut a 15-point second-half deficit to one point early in the fourth, Wade scored six straight points to push the advantage to 85-80.

Wade made it 89-82 with a 3-pointer, and spun off a defender to convert a three-point play for a 102-91 lead with 2:27 left.

Taj Gibson added 15 points and 16 rebounds to help the Bulls snap a three-game losing streak.

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37.35 and Maddy Kim placed fifth (36.5).

Baars won the vault with a score of 9.65 and Karlblom placing second with a score of 9.5.

On the bars, Baars scored a 9.4 to finish first, followed by Karlblom in second with a 9.35 then Kim and Alyssa Petko each scoring 9.25.

Baars also won the floor exercise with a score of 9.75, while Karlblom scored a 9.7 to finish second.

Kim took first on the beam with a score of 9.3.

Prairie Ridge had a score of 148.05.

Lincoln-Way co-op took second with a 144.6 and Lake Park placed third, scoring 144.

Cogs in a nonconference game. Diana Spokas added six points, Emma Brand had four and Camryn Tafoya made a 3-pointer.

Palatine 42, Hampshire 40: At Palatine, the Whip-Purs lost a nonconference game.

Round Lake 54, Harvard 13: At Round Lake, the Hornets lost a nonconference game.

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Continued from page 5 tournament to Homewood-Flossmoor, 56-36, and to Hinsdale South, 47-29.

Cory Knipp led the Red Raiders (511) in the first game with three 3s and 13 points. Matt Seng and Michael Parks each scored eight.

Luke Mahnke led the Raiders with seven points in the loss to Hinsdale South.

Lake Zurich MLK Tournament: Woodstock lost its two games, falling to Niles North, 74-27, and to Mundelein, 86-62.

Carl Anderson led the Blue Streaks (5-12) with seven points in the loss to Niles North. Blake Brainard scored 16 in the second game, while Mikey Gardner added 11 and Josh Turner had 10.

Westminster Christian 55, Woodstock North 51: At Elgin, Vic Ortiz hit five

3-pointers scored 26 points to lead the Thunder (3-10) in a nonconference loss.

Collin Mergl and Ryan Medina each added 10 points for Woodstock North.

BOYS BOWLING Guilford Regional: Woodstock’s Joey

Brown rolled a 300 in his fifth game at Don Carter Lanes in Rockford. The perfect game helped Brown to a 1,299 series, good for 10th place. With teammate Ed Zurawski Jr. rolling a 1,307 series to finish ninth, the Blue Streaks took fourth as a team and advanced to sectionals.

Also scoring for Woodstock were Ryan Baier with a 1,220 series, Jax Obenchain with a 1,160 and Josh Black with a 981.

Marengo’s Jake Barton rolled a 1,333 six-game series to advance as an individual.

St. Charles East Regional: Huntley’s Kevin Sieb rolled a 1,308 series, 24 pins behind the winner, to lead the Red Raiders to a third-place finish in the regional.

Huntley finished with a team score of 5,861 to advance to sectionals. St. Charles North won the regional with 6,291 pins.

Also contributing for the Red Raiders were Michael Corsaro with a 1,172, Bailey Manczko with a 1,152, Brett Giovacchini with a 1,151 and Jesse Alcasid with a 1,078.

Lake Zurich Regional: Johnsburg’s Jacob Smith rolled a six-game series of 1,206 to qualify for sectionals as an individual. Johnsburg finished ninth with a 5,293, and McHenry placed 10th with 5,037 pins.

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Cary-Grove co-op did not win an individual event and won only one relay but earned the team championship Saturday at the boys swimming J-Hawk Invitational at Rockford Jefferson.

The Trojans (made up of swimmers from Cary-Grove, Prairie Ridge, Crystal Lake Central and Crystal Lake South) had 236 points. Hononegah was second with 191, McHenry was fourth with 157 and Woodstock co-op was 12th with 47.

The Trojans’ only win came in the 400-yard freestyle relay, which Connor Dolezal, Kolin Fadden, Cole Seeger and Ethan Hare won in 3:20.76.

Hare had C-G’s best individual finishes with a second in the 100 butterfly (56.25) and a third in the 200 individual medley (2:05.92). Also for the Trojans, Omid Babakhani was second in the 50 freestyle (23.44), Connor Dolezal was third in the 200 freestyle (1:53.01), Noah Siegmeier was third in the 500 freestyle (5:15.42) and Peter Hankins was third in the 100 breaststroke (1:05.80).

McHenry’s Riley Hedberg was second in the 200 freestyle (1:51.71) and third in the 100 butterfly (56.25) while Josh Zabor was third in the 50 freestyle (23.56) for the Warriors.

For Woodstock, Jeremy Wolf won the 200 freestyle (1:51.20) and was second in the 100 freestyle (49.98).

St. Charles East Invitational: Harold Ogaban took first place in the 100 backstroke, followed by teammate Elijah Stuart in second, giving the Jacobs co-op its best finish of the meet. Ogaban won the race with a time of 55.36, while Stuart swam a 58.35.

Ogaban also took second in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:05.1, followed by teammate Alec Orndahl in third (2:06.39). Ogaban also placed fourth in the 400 individual medley (4:28.55). Jacobs co-op’s Reid Coyle took third in the 50 freestyle (23.75) and fourth in the 100 freestyle (53.22).

Huntley’s best finisher was Maxwell Hagberg, who took fourth in the 1,000 freestyle – a distance not usually used in high school meets – with a time of 11:09.9.

GIRLS GYMNASTICS Nequa Valley Invitational: At Naper-

ville, the Prairie Ridge co-op team won the meet, led by Nikki Baars, who won the all-around competition.

Baars took first place in three events and won the all-around with a score of 37.65. The Wolves’ Kira Karlblom took second in the all-around with a score of

Friday’s late result Luther North 51, Alden-Hebron 25: At

Chicago, Tally Lalor scored seven points and Emily Webber had six to lead the Giants (7-8, 2-5) in a Northeastern Athletic Conference loss.

GIRLS BOWLING GIRLS BASKETBALL Jacobs Invitational: Marengo’s MeGenoa-Kingston 56, Woodstock 33: At gan Anthony took fourth with a 1,212

Woodstock, Autumn Overly scored series, including a high-game of 235. nine points and Gabriella Scolio had Leah Secor took eighth with a 1,160 seeight, but the Blue Streaks lost to the ries.

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CHICAGO – Maybe there just aren’t any other questions left to ask, now that the Cubs got their long-awaited answer to that 108-year-old question two months ago.

Maybe it’s just the last of the pent-up, “long-suffering” ethos of Cub fandom finding its escape.

Whatever it is, Joe Maddon doesn’t seem to be getting away from it anytime soon.

Think about it: the man won a World Series in a Cubs uniform.

And, yet, in their first Joe Maddon formal opportunity to talk to him and his bosses since then, appreciative fans still wanted to know why he made those Game 6 and 7 pitching moves – and what the boss thought about them.

Enough that the first question to team president Theo Epstein during Saturday’s front office session with fans was about whether he has the same problem the fan did with Maddon lifting starter Kyle Hendricks with a 5-1 lead after a two-out walk in the fifth inning of Game 7 (Jon Lester took over; two runs scored; eventually a gassed Aroldis Chapman gave up three in the eighth to allow Cleveland to tie).

“We do kind of manage along with Joe in the stands, and I’ll be the first to say I don’t always agree with everything, but he’s always got a reason for everything,” Epstein said. “Before the game he had a really strong feeling. The way he saw it going was Hendricks for five or so, Lester for a couple and then Chapman.

“Which is different. Joe usually really makes sure he watches the game.

He doesn’t like to set things up. He likes to anticipate all the different scenarios before the game, but he’s really big on watching the game and seeing how the game’s going and then managing the game that he sees, not the game he anticipated.”

Not exactly the strongest defense of the three-time Manager of the Year that Epstein has delivered on the subject the past two months.

Hendricks was asked about the same thing during his panel Q-and-A with fans. He played it modestly, deferring to the wisdom of the manager and the big-bucks veteran playoff experience of Lester.

Maddon, of course, was asked about it by a fan, who first spent a lengthy preamble praising the manager before saying, “That being said, Game 7 …”

And then even after his event schedule was fulfilled, Maddon answered for the moves on the lobby set of a radio broadcast, Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg – ringless teammate of Leon Durham and his ill-timed 1984 error – by his side.

Earlier in the week, Maddon said all the second-guessing after the historic championship made him laugh.

They won, after all. What else matters? And nobody can reasonably believe this team would have had the level of success it has the past two years without Maddon at the helm.

So maybe it’s just a natural outgrowth of the long-suffering Cub fan ethos, of centurylong pathos.

Or maybe it’s that Maddon sticks so firmly to his defense of his moves that he sometimes seems like the only one unwilling to acknowledge that one or more of those moves might have been wrong.

“There’s no Game 8,” he said again Saturday in response to the fan. “You can’t play like you play in June or July.

You have to be a little bit more proactive.”

Another fan opened a question to Maddon, joking that if Chapman were still with the team, “Would you have asked him to sign 100 autographs [Friday], then do 200 [Saturday] and 300 [Sunday]?”

Maddon hasn’t lost his humor in the criticism made surreal by its championship context.

“He’s in good enough shape to do something like that,” he said.

Epstein admits “it looked to me probably like it looked to you at home,” he said, adding the manager sees a different game from the dugout.

“The bottom line is I’m usually a process-based person, not outcome-based,” Epstein said. “But when you win the World Series I love being outcome-based.”

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12 AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS: PATRIOTS 34, TEXANS 16

Lewis’ 3 TDs power New England

By KYLE HIGHTOWER The Associated Press

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Patriots are headed back to a familiar spot: the AFC Championship Game.

Dion Lewis had a 13-yard touchdown reception, a 98-yard kickoff return for a score, and a late 1-yard touchdown to help the Patriots hold off the Houston Texans, 34-16, Saturday night and advance to an NFL-record sixth straight conference title game.

Lewis became the fifth Patriots player to score three touchdowns in a playoff game. He’s also the first player in the Super Bowl era to score on a rush, a catch and a kick return in a postseason game.

The Patriots (15-2) survived a gritty effort by the Texans’ top-ranked defense, which intercepted Brady twice.

Houston’s special teams also forced a third turnover.

But the Texans (10-8) couldn’t find enough traction on offense to take full advantage of the Patriots’ mistakes, settling for field goals on both of Brady’s picks.

New England led just 17-13 at the half, but pushed its lead to 24-13 early in the third quarter on a 19-yard touchdown pass from Brady to James White.

Houston’s Brock Osweiler was intercepted three times after that, and the Texans managed only a field goal the rest of game.

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New England Patriots running back James White celebrates after scoring a touchdown against the Houston Texans during the second half of their NFC divisional playoff game Saturday in Foxborough, Mass.

It was the first breakout game of the season for Lewis, who spent the first eight games of the season on injured reserve recovering from offseason surgery on his left knee.

Brady finished 18 of 38 for 287 yards and two touchdowns and was showered with chants of “MVP! MVP!” and “Brady! Brady!” late in the game. Julian Edelman was Brady’s most dependable target, catching eight passes for 137

yards.

Osweiler was 23 of 40 for 198 yards with the two turnovers. He also threw a 10-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter to tight end C.J. Fiedorowicz of Johnsburg. Fiedorowicz finished with three catches for 36 yards.

When New England did have the ball in the first half, it gave Houston a steady diet of Lewis early with LeGarrette Blount coming off an illness that

limited him during practice this week.

Without Blount to contend with, the Texans applied pressure to Brady.

A.J. Bouye intercepted a slightly overthrown ball by Brady late in the first quarter on a pass that bounced out of the hands of receiver Michael Floyd.

That led to a 27-yard field goal that cut New England’s lead to 14-6.

On the ensuing kickoff, Lewis coughed up the ball on a hit from Akeem Dent. Eddie Pleasant fell on it at the Patriots 12, and two plays later, Brock Osweiler hit C.J. Fiedorowicz from 8 yards out to cut the deficit to 14-13.

Brady only threw two interceptions during the regular season. With his 28 touchdown passes, that was the lowest touchdown to interception ratio in NFL history.

Jadeveon Clowney was in Brady’s face all game, flattening him in the first half with a legal hit and bringing him down a couple of times in the second on plays that were a little more questionable.

In the third quarter, Brady was chased out of the pocket before heaving the ball downfield. Clowney dragged him to the turf, and Brady came up kicking. The Patriots quarterback made his case to the referee, but no penalty was called.

Early in the fourth, however, Clowney was called for roughing the passer on Brady after he got rid of the ball and while he was in the clutches of defensive end Christian Covington.

NFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS: FALCONS 36, SEAHAWKS 20

Ryan passes Atlanta past Seattle, into NFC title game

By PAUL NEWBERRY The Associated Press ATLANTA – Matt Ryan hardly resembled a quarterback who can’t win the big games.

No, this looked more like an MVP. Returning to the postseason for the first time in four years, Ryan threw for 338 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Atlanta Falcons past the Seattle Seahawks, 36-20, in the divisional round Saturday.

The Falcons are headed to the NFC Championship Game for only the fourth time in their 51-year history, and they’re on quite a roll with Matty Ice at the helm.

He finished up to chants of “MVP! MVP! MVP” from a raucous Georgia Dome crowd that gave the Seahawks a dose of what it’s like for opposing teams at CenturyLink Field.

“It was pretty cool considering the circumstances, too, with the game in hand,” Ryan said. “That’s got to be as loud as it’s ever been in here.”

Ryan turned in another dynamic performance in the best season of his career, shaking off a 1-4 record in his previous playoff appearances.

In an interesting twist, his lone postseason victory before Saturday was a 30-28 thriller over the Seahawks in the divisional round of the 2012 season.

Make it 2-0 over Seattle.

After the Seahawks zipped down the field for a touchdown on the opening possession, Atlanta’s young defense largely shut down Russell Wilson & Co. the rest of the way.

Ryan and the high-scoring Falcons took it from there – getting a huge boost from a holding penalty that wiped out an 80-yard punt return by Devin Hester.

Ryan hooked up with Julio Jones on a 7-yard touchdown and Tevin Coleman for a 14-yard score before finishing off the Seahawks with a 3-yard toss to Mohamed Sanu in the corner of the end zone with just under 4 minutes remaining.

Atlanta (12-5) moves on to face either the Dallas Cowboys or the Green Bay Packers, who meet Sunday in the NFC’s other divisional-round game.

After a 26-24 loss at Seattle during the regular season, the Falcons showed off all their offensive weapons against the Legion of Boom.

Eight players caught passes from Ryan, including running back Devonta Freeman on a 53-yard play that included a dazzling fake on replacement free safety Steven Terrell right in the middle of the field.

The Seahawks (11-6-1) sure missed

Earl Thomas, out for the season with a broken leg.

“It’s just really hard to think it’s over,” said coach Pete Carroll, whose team couldn’t follow up a dominating win over Detroit in the opening round.

The game turned dramatically on a holding penalty in the second quarter that negated Hester’s return to the Atlanta 7. Instead of having first-and-goal and a chance to extend a 10-7 lead, Seattle was backed up to its 7.

“Just a ridiculously large play in the game,” Carroll said.

Especially with what came next.

After Thomas Rawls was thrown for a 3-yard loss, Wilson dropped back to pass.

One problem: rookie right guard Rees Odhiambo, taking over after Germain Ifedi was injured, stepped back onto Wilson’s foot, sending the quarterback tumbling down in the end zone for a safety.

NFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS – PACKERS AT COWBOYS, 3:40 P.M. SUNDAY, FOX

ers. “That was really early in the season, so yeah they’re going to be a better team as we are,” Elliott said.

By SCHUYLER DIXON The Associated Press

NO NELSON

The Packers might be in better shape this season without receiver Jordy Nelson, out because of a rib injury suffered in the 38-13 wild-card win over the New York Giants. Randall Cobb and Davante Adams combined for 241 yards receiving and four touchdowns against the Giants, and there are other proven options. “It hasn’t been just one guy all season, even with Jordy out there,” Rodgers said.

REINFORCEMENTS

The Cowboys will have four defensive linemen who missed the regular-season finale at Philadelphia mostly AP photo as a precaution: ends DeMarcus LawDallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott takes the handoff from quarterback Dak rence and Tyrone Crawford and tackles Prescott during practice Wednesday at the team’s headquarters in Frisco, Texas.

Terrell McClain and Cedric Thornton.

It’s the healthiest the Dallas defense all year. When it’s time to lock in, trust play. I think they understand they just has been all season. Cornerback Morhave to be themselves.” me we’ll be ready.” ris Claiborne, who missed the last nine Here are some things to consider in games of the regular season with a Prescott and NFL rushing champion Ezekiel Elliott will try to become the the eighth postseason meeting between groin injury, is expected to play. first rookie QB-RB tandem to win a these storied franchises, two years afplayoff game in the Super Bowl era. ter Green Bay’s 26-21 divisional victo- TWILIGHT TIME Two had a chance after the 2012 sea- ry made famous by Dallas receiver Dez Pass-rushing Green Bay linebacker son – Andrew Luck and Vick Ballard Bryant’s catch that wasn’t : Julius Peppers has spent 15 years in the with Indianapolis and Robert Griffin III NFL without winning a Super Bowl. and current Dallas running back Alfred REMATCH Peppers, who turns 37 on Wednesday, Morris with Washington.

Prescott led a 97-yard scoring drive had limited snaps in the regular season “I don’t view these guys as rookies,” in 33 seconds at the end of the first half to keep him fresh. He lost to New Ensaid 14th-year tight end Jason Witten, at Lambeau Field in Dallas’ 30-16 vic- gland with Carolina in the Super Bowl set for his sixth trip to the postseason. tory in Week 6. Rodgers threw an in- after the 2003 season. “Regardless of “They’ve had a lot of at-bats at the terception and the Packers lost three what stage he’s on, what team he’s playplate. They’ve shown it over the course fumbles. Elliott was the first 100-yard ing for, he always seems to show up,” of 16 games who they are and how they rusher of the season against the Pack- Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said.

AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS – STEELERS AT CHIEFS, 7:20 P.M. SUNDAY, NBC

Kansas City aims to get even for loss at Pittsburgh

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Alex Smith endured watching film of the Kansas City Chiefs’ meltdown in Pittsburgh this season “a bunch of times” this week, still trying to figure out where everything went wrong.

As if he hasn’t relived it enough in his nightmares.

Ben Roethlisberger threw five touchdown passes. Le’Veon Bell starred in his return from a threegame suspension.

The Steelers scored 22 first-quarter points, led 36-0 before the Chiefs finally scored, and they proceeded to route the eventual AFC West champions, 43-

14, that October night.

“It’s been a long time,” Smith said, “so they’ve changed. Over the course of the season, they’ve progressed and gone a certain direction. There’s a lot they change week-to-week as well.”

But the Chiefs (12-4) are a different team, too.

Wide receiver Tyreek Hill has made a name for himself as one of the NFL’s most dynamic rookies, going from special-teams standout to offensive difference-maker.

Top pass rusher Justin Houston is also expected to be available after missing the first meeting while recovering from knee surgery.

Oh, and this matchup with the Steelers (12-5) will be at loud Arrow-

head Stadium rather than Heinz Field, and a spot in the AFC title game awaits the winner.

“We got embarrassed in the first meeting,” Chiefs center Mitch Morse said, “and we had to come back and kind of take a step back and realize, ‘We’re a good football team.’ We had to understand where we were. We learned a lot from that game and we were able to take the next step.”

Indeed, the Chiefs ripped off five straight wins after that loss in Pittsburgh, a stretch that turned around their season.

They wound up overtaking Oakland for the division title on the final day of the regular season, earning a first-round bye and a home playoff

game.

The Steelers basically had a bye, too: They routed Miami last weekend to advance.

“I think a postseason challenge on the road is one thing,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said, “but at a legendary venue like that is something else.

We’re excited about it. We respect it.”

Forecasts for Sunday call for a near-100 percent chance of freezing rain that could leave the turf, resodded this week, with a thick glaze.

The game was supposed to kick off at 12:05 p.m. but was moved to 7:20 p.m. so stadium and road crews along with local and state authorities could ensure roads and parking lots were safe.

• Sunday, January 15, 2017

ARLINGTON, Texas – Aaron Rodgers has been unbeatable on a seven-game run that carried Green Bay to the divisional round.

So was Dallas rookie Dak Prescott for 11 straight in the regular season, a surge that ultimately benched 10-year starter Tony Romo and led to the No. 1 seed in the NFC for the quarterback’s playoff debut Sunday against the Packers (11-6).

Rodgers plays at the home of the Cowboys (13-3) for the first time since winning his only Super Bowl after the 2010 season. And perhaps he’ll flash back to his first playoff game a year before that while watching his counterpart try to lead Dallas to its first NFC championship game in more than 20 years.

“There’s a lot of nerves in your first playoff game. You know there was for me,” Rodgers said of a 51-45 wild-card loss to Arizona seven years ago. “I think I threw a pick on my first play. So, yeah, you’ve got to find a way to settle in.”

The two-time MVP has a good memory. He was right about that shootout loss, when he settled in and threw four touchdown passes after his only interception.

And Prescott, who had the lowest interception rate for a rookie in NFL history in the regular season, knows it’s about having a short memory now.

“We’re not putting too much pressure on ourselves, on this team or this situation,” Prescott said. “We’re continuing to be the same guys we’ve been

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’Cats honor Jankins, win

By MATT CARLSON The Associated Press

EVANSTON – The Northwestern women’s basketball team honored Jordan Hankins by wearing her name and number during warm-ups and then, in a gym filled with the school’s athletes, won in its first game since her death.

The Wildcats beat Indiana, 80-67, Saturday less than a week after the sophomore guard committed suicide.

The body of the 19-year-old from Indianapolis was found Monday in her dorm room. Because of the tragedy, Northwestern’s game at Minnesota on Wednesday was postponed.

A block of about 300 of Northwestern’s 472 total athletes – including the men’s basketball team in their jerseys – clustered in the west end of the 8,117seat Welsh-Ryan and stood for much of the game.

After the victory, the team huddled at center court with players wrapping their arms over each other’s shoulders while the band played the alma mater.

The crowd followed with a restrained cheer.

Before the game, a moment of silence for Hankins was observed after a photo montage of her was presented on the scoreboard and the arena announcer somberly told the crowd of a

COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: UCONN 88, SMU 48

UConn wins record 91st straight game

By STEPHEN HAWKINS The Associated Press

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Northwestern’s Nia Coffey cries after her team’s game against Indiana on Saturday in Evanston. It was the Wildcats’ first game since Northwestern guard Jordan Hankins, a sophomore from Indianapolis, was found dead in her room Monday. “loss in Northwestern’s family.”

Wildcats sophomore guard Amber Jamison wore Hankins’ No. 5 jersey and made her first start in 18 games.

She finished with 13 points.

While the Wildcats seemed to bring their usual game faces and focus to the floor and bench against the Hoosiers, they got a boisterous boost of solidarity from fellow Northwestern student-athletes in the school’s 18 oth-

er sports programs. Most in the group wore white and purple shirts, and stomped, clapped and cheered when Northwestern made a shot or grabbed a rebound.

The lower bowl of 8,117-seat Welsh-Ryan arena, where crowds for women’s games usually have been a little less than 1,000 this season, was almost full. The crowd spilled into the upper half of the south section.

DALLAS – Top-ranked UConn’s women’s basketball team broke its own NCAA record with its 91st consecutive victory, scoring the first 21 points and romping past SMU, 88-48, Saturday.

Coach Geno Auriemma and the Huskies (16-0, 4-0 AAC) broke the record of 90 wins in a row that his team first accomplished more than six years ago. They matched that mark with a 65-point rout of No. 20 South Florida on Tuesday.

The four-time defending national champion Huskies haven’t lost a game since falling in overtime Nov. 17, 2014, at sixth-ranked Stanford.

Their first 90-game winning streak broke the Division I record of 88 straight wins by the UCLA men’s basketball team and famed coach John Wooden. That UConn streak also started after a loss to Stanford, in the 2008 national semifinal game, and ended with another loss at Stanford on Dec. 30, 2010.

COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL: MIDWEST ROUNDUP

Maryland knocks off Illinois in Champaign The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHAMPAIGN – Maryland coach Mark Turgeon didn’t let history repeat itself when his team defeated Illinois, 62-56, Saturday.

The Terrapins were No. 11 when they came to Champaign two years ago and were upset, 64-57, by an Illinois team that did not make the NCAA tournament.

Despite defeating Illinois, 84-59, earlier this season, Turgeon made sure his team was focused.

“We had a lot of ammo to get our players dialed in,” Turgeon said. “We needed to stay confident. We had a lot of history to keep us focused.”

Maryland (16-2, 4-1 Big Ten) faced a better team than the one it dominated early in the season, but a sloppy second half from the Illini allowed the Terrapins to come back and hold off the Illini in the final five minutes.

Anthony Cowan led Maryland with 19 points, but Melo Trimble and Jaylen Brantley each added 12 points to add

diversity to the offensive flow.

Maverick Morgan led the way for Illinois (12-6, 2-3 Big Ten) with 15 points and five rebounds.

Penn St. 52, No. 24 Minnesota 50: At State College, Pennsylvania, Tony Carr made two free throws with 5 seconds left to lift Penn State to the win.

Mike Watkins had 15 points and 15 rebounds, and Payton Banks added 10 points for the Nittany Lions (11-7, 3-2 Big Ten) who recovered from a 32-22 halftime deficit.

Reggie Lynch scored 12 points for the Golden Gophers (15-4, 3-3).

Michigan 91, Nebraska 85: At Ann Arbor, Michigan, Derrick Walton scored 16 of his 20 points in the final 7:25, and Michigan held on for a much-needed victory over Nebraska.

Moe Wagner scored 23 points for the Wolverines (12-6, 2-3 Big Ten), and Zak Irvin added 21.

Tai Webster had 28 points for Nebraska (9-8, 3-2), and Glynn Watson scored 20 of his 22 in the second half.

N. Illinois 69, Bowling Green 52: At

Bowling Green, Ohio, Levi Bradley scored all 12 of his points in a game-breaking second-half run, and Northern Illinois beat Bowling Green to win its third straight.

Jaylen Key also scored 12 for the Huskies (11-6, 2-1 Mid-American), who outrebounded the Falcons, 40-31, for 14 second-chance points.

The Huskies made six free throws in the final 2:38, and Jon Siu’s 3-pointer with 22 seconds left sealed it. Aaric Armstead tied his career best with four of the Huskies’ 14 steals.

Ismail Ali led Bowling Green (7-10, 1-3) with 16 points.

No. 20 Notre Dame 76, Virginia Tech 71:

At Blacksburg , Virginia, Steve Vasturia scored 20 points ,and Notre Dame rebounded after blowing a 19-point lead.

Matt Farrell and Bonzie Colson had 14 points apiece for the Fighting Irish (16-2, 5-0 Atlantic Coast Conference).

Virginia Tech had won 15 in a row at home. Chris Clarke had 21 points, nine rebounds and five assists for the Hokies (13-4, 2-3), and Seth Allen added

16 points.

Marquette 83, DePaul 58: At Milwaukee, Andrew Rowsey sank 6 of 7 3-point attempts and scored a season-high 24 points to lead Marquette over DePaul.

Katin Reinhardt added three 3-pointers and a season-high 19 points for the Golden Eagles (12-5, 3-2 Big East), who won their second straight by shooting 62.5 percent, including 13 of 27 (48 percent) from 3-point range.

Billy Garrett scored 12 points and Darrick Wood 11 for the Blue Demons (8-10, 1-4), who have lost six of their past seven.

Illinois St. 76, Wichita st. 62: At Normal, MiKyle McIntosh scored 20 points, Deontae Hawkins added 14, and Illinois State took sole possession of first place in the Missouri Valley Conference with a win over Wichita State (15-4, 5-1).

Illinois State (14-4, 6-0) got a layup from DJ Clayton with just over five minutes left in the first half to spark a 12-3 run that gave the Redbirds a 3627 halftime advantage and the lead for good.

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

PLAYOFF GLANCE

Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Minnesota 41 27 9 5 59 135 90 Blackhawks 45 27 13 5 59 124 113 St. Louis 42 21 16 5 47 118 128 Nashville 43 20 16 7 47 119 114 Dallas 44 18 18 8 44 118 134 Winnipeg 45 20 22 3 43 125 137 Colorado 41 13 27 1 27 82 137 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 45 24 13 8 56 122 114 San Jose 42 25 15 2 52 112 96 Edmonton 44 22 15 7 51 126 120 Calgary 45 23 20 2 48 118 123 Los Angeles 42 21 17 4 46 107 106 Vancouver 44 20 19 5 45 110 128 Arizona 42 13 23 6 32 90 134

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 44 27 11 6 60 138 112 Boston 46 23 18 5 51 117 113 Ottawa 41 22 15 4 48 105 107 Toronto 41 20 13 8 48 128 120 Florida 45 20 17 8 48 106 122 Tampa Bay 44 20 20 4 44 123 132 Detroit 43 18 19 6 42 111 127 Buffalo 42 16 17 9 41 97 119 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Columbus 42 29 9 4 62 141 95 Washington 42 28 9 5 61 126 86 Pittsburgh 42 26 11 5 57 145 124 N.Y. Rangers 44 28 15 1 57 152 116 Philadelphia 45 22 17 6 50 132 143 Carolina 43 21 15 7 49 121 117 New Jersey 44 17 18 9 43 99 128 N.Y. Islanders 41 16 17 8 40 116 128 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Results Boston 6, Philadelphia 3 Nashville 3, Colorado 2 Carolina 7, N.Y. Islanders 4 Toronto 4, Ottawa 2 Detroit 6, Pittsburgh 3 Montreal 5, N.Y. Rangers 4 Florida 4, Columbus 3 Minnesota 5, Dallas 4 Anaheim 3, Arizona 0 Calgary at Edmonton (n) Winnipeg at Los Angeles (n) St. Louis at San Jose (n) Sunday’s Games Minnesota at Blackhawks, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 1 p.m.

New Jersey at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 29 10 .744 — Milwaukee 20 18 .526 8½ Indiana 20 19 .513 9 Bulls 20 21 .488 10 Detroit 18 24 .429 12½ Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 26 13 .667 — Boston 25 15 .625 1½ New York 18 22 .450 8½ Philadelphia 12 26 .316 13½ Brooklyn 8 31 .205 18 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta 22 17 .564 — Washington 20 19 .513 2 Charlotte 20 20 .500 2½ Orlando 17 25 .405 6½ Miami 11 30 .268 12

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 31 9 .775 — Houston 31 11 .738 1 Memphis 25 17 .595 7 New Orleans 16 25 .390 15½ Dallas 12 27 .308 18½ Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Utah 26 16 .619 — Oklahoma City 24 17 .585 1½ Portland 18 24 .429 8 Denver 15 23 .395 9 Minnesota 14 26 .350 11 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 34 6 .850 — L.A. Clippers 28 14 .667 7 Sacramento 16 23 .410 17½ L.A. Lakers 15 29 .341 21 Phoenix 13 27 .325 21 Saturday’s Results Bulls 107, New Orleans 99 L.A. Clippers 113, L.A. Lakers 97 Phoenix 108, San Antonio 105 Washington 109, Philadelphia 93 Utah 114, Orlando 107 Sunday’s Games Bulls at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Milwaukee at Atlanta, 2 p.m.

New York at Toronto, 2 p.m.

Houston at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

PREPS

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SCHEDULE

Thomas ties PGA Tour’s 54-hole score record at Sony Open

HONOLULU – Justin Thomas made a 15foot birdie putt on the final hole Saturday for a 5-under-par 65 to tie the 54-hole score record on the PGA Tour and build a seven-shot lead going into the final round of the Sony Open.

No one has ever lost a PGA Tour event with a seven-shot lead, and Thomas has given no indication that will change.

His goal was to not drop any shots on another calm day at Waialae, and he wound up stretching his lead as he goes for a sweep of Hawaii. That last birdie putt put

Thomas at 22-under 188, tying the mark Steve Stricker set at the 2010 John Deere Classic.

Zach Johnson shot a 65 to keep pace, though he remained seven shots behind.

Vonn’s World Cup comeback race delayed because of snowfall

ALTENMARKT-ZAUCHENSEE, Austria – Lindsey Vonn’s return to World Cup skiing has been delayed for at least a day after snowfall forced the cancellation of downhill training and the race itself Saturday.

Organizers moved the program to Sunday.

– Wire reports

BETTING ODDS NBA

FAVORITE at MEMPHIS at TORONTO at ATLANTA at DALLAS Houston Oklahoma City Detroit

Sunday LINE O/U UNDERDOG OFF (OFF) Bulls 9½ (218) New York 3 (207½) Milwaukee OFF (OFF) Minnesota 12½ (231½) at BROOKLYN 1½ (212) at SACRAMENTO 1½ (214½) at LA LAKERS

COLLEGE BASKETBALL FAVORITE at OHIO STATE at RHODE ISLAND at EAST CAROLINA at LOYOLA OF CHICAGO at N. IOWA at LA SALLE

Sunday LINE UNDERDOG 2 Michigan St 12 UMass 14 Cincinnati 3½ Missouri St 7 Drake 6 George Washington

at INDIANA SMU at NC STATE at NORTHWESTERN at COLORADO

16½ 16 9 7½ 2

Rutgers at TULANE Georgia Tech Iowa SOUTHERN CAL

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LINE OFF +205 +110 OFF

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FAVORITE at KANSAS CITY at DALLAS

Playoffs Sunday OPEN TODAY O/U 2 1½ (44½) 5 5½ (52)

UNDERDOG Pittsburgh Green Bay

Updated odds available at Pregame.com

Monday Boys basketball: Johnsburg vs. Belvidere at Rockford Jefferson Shootout, 10:30 a.m., Johnsburg vs. South Elgin at Jefferson Shootout, 6 p.m., Hampshire, Marengo, McHenry at Burlington Central MLK Tournament, Harvard at South Beloit Tournament, Huntley at Wheaton Warrenville South MLK Tournament, Richmond-Burton, Woodstock at Lake Zurich MLK Tournament, TBA Girls basketball: Marengo at Belvidere, Jacobs at Elk Grove, 3:30 p.m., Huntley, Johnsburg at DeKalb MLK Tournament, TBA Girls bowling: McHenry at Lakes, 4:30 p.m.

Wrestling: Marian Central at ESCC Mega Duals at St. Viator, TBA

Tuesday Boys basketball: Crystal Lake South at Hampshire, Alden-Hebron at Berean Baptist, Woodstock North at Stillman Valley, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball: Faith Lutheran at Christian Life, Alden-Hebron at Berean Baptist, 5:30 p.m., Antioch at Richmond-Burton, Woodstock at Marengo, 7 p.m.

Boys swimming: Huntley at CaryGrove co-op, 4:30 p.m., Woodstock coop at Belvidere North, 6 p.m.

Girls bowling: Belvidere at Marengo, 4 p.m., Westminster Christian at Woodstock, Lakes at Johnsburg, DundeeCrown at McHenry, 4:30 p.m.

Wrestling: Belvidre North at Marian Central, Marengo at Prairie Ridge, 5:30 p.m.

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DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS Saturday Atlanta 36, Seattle 20 New England 34, Houston 16 Sunday Green Bay at Dallas, 3:40 p.m. (FOX) Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 7:20 p.m.

(NBC) CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Sunday, Jan. 22 NFC Atlanta vs. Green Bay-Dallas winner, 2:05 p.m.

AFC Pittsburgh-Kansas City winner at New England, 5:40 p.m.

PRO BOWL Sunday, Jan. 29 At Orlando, Fla. AFC vs. NFC, 7 p.m. (ESPN) SUPER BOWL Sunday, Feb. 5 At Houston TBD, 5:30 p.m. (FOX)

NCAA FOOTBALL BOWL SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, JAN. 21 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. West vs. East, 2 p.m. (NFLN) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl At Carson, Calif.

National vs. American, 3 p.m. (FS1) SATURDAY, JAN. 28 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. South vs. North, 1:30 p.m. (NFLN)

NCAA BASKETBALL TOP 25 SCHEDULE

Saturday’s Results No. 1 Baylor 77, No. 25 Kansas St. 68 No. 2 Kansas 87, Oklahoma St. 80 No. 3 Villanova 70, St. John’s 57 No. 4 UCLA 83, Utah 82 No. 5 Gonzaga vs. No. 21 Saint Mary’s (n) No. 6 Kentucky 92, Auburn 72 No. 14 Louisville 78, No. 7 Duke 69 No. 8 Creighton 101, Truman St. 69 No. 11 North Carolina 96, No. 9 Florida St. 83 No. 10 West Virginia 74, Texas 72 No. 12 Butler 83, No. 15 Xavier 78 No. 13 Oregon vs. Oregon St. (n) No. 19 Virginia 77, Clemson 73 No. 20 Notre Dame 76, Va. Tech 71 No. 23 Florida 80, Georgia 76, OT Penn St. 52, No. 24 Minnesota 50 Sunday’s Games No. 22 Cincinnati at E. Carolina, 3 p.m.

No. 25 Southern Cal at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games No. 2. Kansas at Iowa St., 8 p.m.

No. 3 Villanova vs. Seton Hall, 5:30 p.m.

No. 8 Creighton at No. 15 Xavier, 1 p.m.

No. 11 North Carolina vs. Syracuse, 6 p.m.

No. 12 Butler vs. Marquette, 11 a.m.

PGA TOUR SONY OPEN

Saturday at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu Purse: $6 million Yardage: 7,044; Par 70 (35-35) Third Round Justin Thomas 59-64-65—188 -22 Zach Johnson 69-61-65—195 -15 Justin Rose 66-64-66—196 -14 Gary Woodland 64-64-68—196 -14 Hudson Swafford 62-68-66—196 -14 Jamie Lovemark 64-68-65—197 -13 Russell Knox 64-67-66—197 -13 Kevin Kisner 70-67-60—197 -13 Jordan Spieth 65-67-66—198 -12 Ollie Schniederjans 66-67-66—199 -11 Brian Harman 66-67-66—199 -11 Hideto Tanihara 67-65-67—199 -11 Russell Henley 64-67-68—199 -11 Tony Finau 64-67-68—199 -11 Charles Howell III 65-66-68—199 -11 Daniel Summerhays 66-68-66—200 -10 Marc Leishman 68-66-66—200 -10 Branden Grace 67-68-65—200 -10 Jim Herman 66-67-67—200 -10 Bill Haas 67-66-67—200 -10 Brian Gay 69-64-67—200 -10

Hideki Matsuyama 66-67-67—200 -10 Henrik Norlander 67-65-68—200 -10 Ryan Brehm 68-68-64—200 -10 Billy Hurley III 64-68-68—200 -10 Luke List 67-64-69—200 -10 Webb Simpson 66-65-69—200 -10 Tim Wilkinson 67-67-67—201 -9 Shawn Stefani 64-70-67—201 -9 Kevin Na 67-67-67—201 -9 Jason Bohn 66-68-67—201 -9 Ben Martin 66-68-67—201 -9 Mackenzie Hughes 68-65-68—201 -9 Cameron Smith 64-68-69—201 -9 Kelly Kraft 69-67-65—201 -9 Daniel Berger 65-67-69—201 -9 Satoshi Kodaira 65-66-70—201 -9 Michael Kim 67-67-68—202 -8 Pat Perez 67-67-68—202 -8 Seamus Power 69-66-67—202 -8 Sean O’Hair 66-69-67—202 -8 Robert Streb 68-67-67—202 -8 James Hahn 68-68-66—202 -8 Bryson DeChambeau 69-67-66—202 -8 Andres Gonzales 68-68-66—202 -8 Rory Sabbatini 63-69-70—202 -8 Vaughn Taylor 68-69-65—202 -8 Richy Werenski 65-69-69—203 -7

Chez Reavie 67-67-69—203 Y.E. Yang 67-65-71—203 Scott Piercy 66-66-71—203 William McGirt 68-69-66—203 Kyle Stanley 71-66-66—203 David Lingmerth 67-67-70—204 Peter Malnati 69-66-69—204 Stewart Cink 66-70-68—204 Miguel Tabuena 67-65-72—204 Jared Sawada 68-66-71—205 Rod Pampling 68-66-71—205 Vijay Singh 65-70-70—205 Michael Thompson 65-68-72—205 Bryce Molder 72-61-72—205 Billy Horschel 69-67-69—205 Brian Stuard 66-71-68—205 Trey Mullinax 69-68-68—205 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano 67-68-71—206 Fabian Gomez 69-66-71—206 J.T. Poston 68-67-71—206 Jon Curran 65-71-70—206 Ken Duke 71-65-70—206 Zac Blair 70-66-70—206 John Huh 68-69-69—206 Scott Brown 70-67-69—206 Made Cut - Does Not Finish Chad Campbell 71-62-74—207

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Raise your glass to the Polar Vortex ​As the Polar Vortex dashes once again through the Midwest on its way to New England, dwellers in southwest Florida dash to the early bird special in hopes of getting a seat inside, because, dang, it’s too hot and muggy for outdoor seating.

And as they munch their crisp Caesar salad, Floridians wonder: “How in the world do people live up there during the winter?”

As a kid growing up in Illinois, I never wondered how people could live through the winter because … well, because we just did it. Snow and cold could be a bother, sure, but they also could give you a day off from school – a day that you would spend outside, playing in the snow and cold that made life too dangerous for school.

Of course, we had the house nearby when our gloves froze too stiff to make another snowball, or our toes became too numb for one more attack on the enemy’s snow fort. A mug of cocoa with marshmallows melting on top was enough to restore our spirits, and we would pull on our galoshes and our spare pair of dry gloves for another adventure outside, maybe this time a sword fight with icicles that dangled from the eaves.

And if we were lucky enough to get even more snow and yet another day off from school, maybe tomorrow we would build an igloo and heat it with a can of Sterno. Or if Mom and Dad banned the Sterno because of how that adventure worked out last winter, we could just bring Mickey the springer spaniel into the igloo. He threw off a lot of heat.

Still, whenever I went rabbit hunting with Dad and trudged across frozen fallow farm fields without a warm house or a cup of cocoa nearby, my ribs and shoulders aching from endless shivering, I remember asking myself: “But how did Native Americans live here during the winter hundreds of years ago, before grocery stores and furnaces? Or even, for that matter, before houses?”

Why didn’t they go (as a popular ’60s song said) “where the sun keeps shining through the pouring rain. Going where the weather suits my clothes.”

Some place like Florida.

I had heard of Florida. It was warm enough to sleep on the beach there, I had heard – even in wintertime. Why didn’t all those long-ago Illinois Native Americans just hike off to Florida when the leaves turned orange and the nights got nippy?

Why not just sleep on the beach with all the fish, crabs and shrimp you could eat, and then come back sometime in April or May, when the birds headed north again?

Or, for that matter, why head back north at all?

But Illinois Native Americans didn’t do that. No, they hunkered down during the winter months, and somehow they muddled through. But they must have had a reason why they didn’t all hike south.

Probably, I figured, because Florida already was crowded with millions of other Native Americans who would wage war on “snowbird” Native Americans coming to eat their shellfish and snore on their beaches. Yeah, that had to be it. Illinois Native Americans were stuck living in Illinois because they got the idea too late to hike off to paradise, doomed to live in a land that was barely livable. And without modern conveniences – furnaces, hot cocoa, grocery stores – their cursed lives must have been miserable and short, huddled in tiny withering bands of sniffling sufferers.

But then I went to college at Western Illinois University, not far from a site called Cahokia, where a thousand years ago 40,000 Illinois Native Americans lived.

Paris or London at that time weren’t much bigger. No other city in America would be that big until 1800.

But wait, I thought. That’s a lot of Native Americans. Why wouldn’t they just march off as an army to take Florida for themselves? How many Native Americans could have lived in Florida at the time to resist them? Why not go where the weather suits their clothes – which, according to most movies about Native Americans, looked more like leather Speedos anyway, perfect for Paleolithic beachwear.

Well, they must not have even known Florida existed, I reasoned. That had to be it.

Huddled miserably around the fire, they never ventured far from home, not even in summer, when they waited for their sinuses to clear. Those poor chumps.

All they had to do was launch their canoes into the nearest river and paddle south.

They wouldn’t even have to paddle, because all Illinois rivers end up in the Gulf of Mexico anyway. They could have dawdled along, fishing for bluegills and catfish along the way. If only they had known!

But no, I was wrong about that, too. Excavations of their garbage dumps reveal shells, pottery and other goods from far away, proving they were well-acquainted with the Gulf of Mexico and even with Canada, either through travel or trade.

Yet they called Illinois home – not because they had to, but because they wanted to.

And who lived in Florida a thousand years ago?

Hardly anyone.

Through travel and trade, the Illinois Native Americans would have known that. They would have sat around the winter fire in Cahokia, telling tales of a godforsaken far-off land where the water is too salty to drink, the air is always muggy, and the soil is too sandy for corn or pumpkins. No place to camp unless you pile enough oyster shells to rise above the roach-ridden, moldy, muck and mire. A land with no buffalo, which could never travel through the tangled mangrove forests. Nothing can travel through mangroves, except palm rats – and there are plenty of palm rats. And gators, snakes, fire ants, mosquitos – good God, the mosquitos!

“Well, what do you expect of a land without Polar Vortex?” one Cahokian would say.

Everyone around the fire would raise their glass to toast the frozen wind howling outside the tent.

“Just another day in paradise!” someone would say.

• Tom “T. R.” Kerth is a Sun City resident and retired English teacher from Park Ridge. He can be reached at trkerth@yahoo.com.

EnvironmentTip Resolve to set a positive example

For the New Year, be challenged to stop doing something instead of starting something new. How about giving up disposables, such as paper towels, disposable dusters, plastic utensils, napkins,

Styrofoam cups, and maybe even meat for one night a week?

For the bigger picture, resolve to visit shops only when you truly need something. Make your consumption conscious. Planning your purchases in advance also allows you to research whether

you can buy it from a local shop, buy it secondhand or make it yourself.

As you carry your new habits through 2017, remember everyone makes changes at their own pace and to fit their own lives.

Be gentle with yourself when you

fall short of your goals and make sure you’re not judging others who might not have the same ones. Resolve to be a positive example.

Source: Environmental Defenders of McHenry County

The new S’mores Girl Scout cookie from ABC Bakers (left) and Little Brownie Bakers.

Photo by Maura Judkis for the Washington Post

By MAURA JUDKIS The Washington Post It’s the 100-year anniversary of a classic childhood ritual: Girl Scout cookie sales. And in its honor, the Scouts’ bakeries – Little Brownie Bakers in Louisville and ABC Bakers in Richmond – are introducing a new cookie, S’mores. Depending on which bakery supplies your local troops, you’ll get either a graham-cookie sandwich filled with marshmallow and chocolate cream (Little Brownie), or a graham cookie coated in marshmallow and chocolate (ABC). They’re different because “There’s no wrong way to eat a s’more.”

Either way, based on the track record of new Girl Scout cookies, it’s hard to say whether the S’mores will become a part of the permanent lineup. The Girl Scout bakeries introduce new cookies every few years. But few have reached the popularity of perpetual bestsellers such as Thin Mints and Samoas (a.k.a. Caramel-deLites, depending on where you live – some cookies have different names depending on their bakery of origin).

Still, Girl Scout cookies have come a long way since 1917, when plucky Scouts raised funds by baking cookies themselves. They went commercial

Will the Girl Scouts’ new cookie be the next Thin Mints?

Or the next Le Chip?

cookie,” according to Mental Floss).

But sometimes a new concept sticks: One current long-runner on the menu are Lemonades, which were introduced in 2006.

Will S’mores be this year’s Le Chip? Our tasters think so. The in 1934. Trefoils, a shortbread cookie, “made of chewy caramel and pecans were among the first cookies proand covered with maple-flavored coat- Little Brownie Bakers cookies “get duced, and chocolate mints – now ing,” one Scout helpfully explained to points for actually looking like a known as Thin Mints – were introthe St. Louis Post-Dispatch that year. s’more,” one taster said, and they’d be pretty good dunked in coffee or duced in 1951. Other cookies have There were Juliettes, named after tea. But some of us thought they were come and gone over the years, such as Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon teeth-achingly sugary, especially the shortbread Scot-Teas, coconut Pixies Lowe, which tasted like nutty chocomarshmallow creme. late turtles and did their time on the and Pecanettes. It remains to be seen They’re kind of like what would whether S’mores will become another cookie roster briefly in the 1980s, and happen if you added Oreo filling to a Tagalong/Peanut Butter Patty, or just again in the early ’90s. In 1997, there Keebler E.L. Fudge. another reduced-fat OléOlé. (Remem- was Le Chip, which tried to give a And the ABC Bakers S’mores ber those? No?) chic Francophile vibe to the all-Amercookie has a Keebler equivalent, ican chocolate cookie.

Maybe the reason new cookies too: It’s basically a knockoff of that “They were quite a hit with our come and go is that people tend to facompany’s Deluxe Grahams. There’s vor the tried-and-true – and they have office, too,” then-Girl Scout spokeswoman Judi B. Borgo told the Atlanta allegedly a marshmallow coating on strong feelings about the treats. One the graham cracker, below the fudge, Journal-Constitution that year. “But 1979 Washington Post cookie but we had to squint to see it – it’s Some of the departed cookies were whether Le Chip stays around deless than one millimeter thick. But pends on how well it sells this year.” cult favorites – and deeply missed. because the marshmallow fluff wasn’t You can probably guess how that Home cooks have revived the Kookexactly an asset for the other cookie, aburra in their own kitchens. But turned out. There’s a whole gravethis works out in ABC Bakers’ favor yard of abandoned Girl Scout cookie some of the offerings probably never – it’s the cookie more of us said we should have been added to the lineup concepts – some lost to the whims of would order, even though it’s really fad diets (RIP, 100-calorie pack Cinin the first place, such as Golden only two-thirds of a s’more.

Yangles – which wasn’t even a cookie, naSpins), some too boring to rememReally, though, when it came down ber (white chocolate macadamia nut it was a cheese cracker.

Aloha Chips, “the gussied up version to it, we all said we’d rather just have Whither the Golden Nut Cluster? a box of Thin Mints. of everyone’s least favorite cafeteria It was introduced in 1992 and was

“Will S’mores be this year’s Le Chip? Our tasters think so. ...

Some of us thought they were teeth-achingly sugary, especially the marshmallow creme.”

A Quilt Mafia Daughter comes to Opera House NORTHWEST HERALD

Mary Fons

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WOODSTOCK – Mary Fons, daughter of quilting legend Marianne Fons, will present “A Quilter Tells All: Notes on the Industry from a Quilt Mafia Daughter” for the Creative Living Series at 10 a.m.

Jan. 19 at the Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock.

Mary Fons is the co-host of the PBS

show “Love of Quilting,” as well as the founder of the Small Wonders line of quilting fabrics. She is a columnist for quilts.com and co-host of the podcast Quilt Your Heart Out with her mother.

She also teaches writing and performance at the University of Chicago and maintains a blog, Papergirl.

“To make a quilt,” she said, “is to make functional art.”

Tickets are $25 each and may be bought through the Opera House box office at 815-338-5300 or at www.woodstockoperahouse.com. Attendees are invited for coffee and conversation at 9 a.m. at Stage Left Café, 125 E. Van Buren St., Woodstock.

The Creative Living Series is sponsored by the Woodstock Fine Arts Association, now in its 53rd season.

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Artist Paul Turnbaugh works in his new WildHeartland Studio and Gallery at 116 S. State St. in Marengo. Turnbaugh, along with gallery manager Jacqueline Webster, remodeled the space for the unique gallery.

‘Cool Little Town’

Marengo artist brings hometown pride to new gallery

By JAMI KUNZER jkunzer@shawmedia.com Where others might see an alley, a back entrance to another downtown Marengo shop, Paul Turnbaugh sees art.

It’s what he sees most mornings with his dog, June, as the sun rises over Marengo Ridge and the pair take their morning hike. The wooded trail before him, his guitars, pictures of his son – all inspire. With an artist’s vision, life is all about potential, beauty.

“We’re kind of a secret,” Turnbaugh said as he headed to that alley, where he recently built a pergola topped by a wooden “WildHeartland” sign.

Eventually, this will become the main entrance

to Turnbaugh’s new WildHeartland art gallery.

There’ll be tables handcrafted by Turnbaugh, easels, food, wine, people. It’ll have an urban feel to it, he said.

For now, WildHeartland shares an entrance with the Marengo Chamber of Commerce at 116 S. State St. Tucked behind the chamber’s office space lies the unexpected.

“It’s a feast for the eyes,” said Turnbaugh, surrounded by a sampling of his more than 400 creations – paintings of wildlife, nature and his guitars, along with numerous patriotic creations, inspired both by his son, Elliott, a veteran of the Army infantry, and his upbringing.

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While son Elliott Turnbaugh was serving in the Army in the Middle East, he would send his father photos for him to turn into paintings.

ABOVE: After catching a largemouth bass in a lake on his former property and buying some shiners, artist Paul Turnbaugh photographed his catch for reference for this piece that hangs in the WildHeartland Studio and Gallery at 116 S. State St. in Marengo. LEFT: Turnbaugh dabs paint for a patriotic painting in his studio.

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Artist Paul Turnbaugh and Jacqueline Webster, gallery manager and “Resident Viking,” work on the gallery’s social media sites in the new WildHeartland Studio and Gallery in Marengo. BELOW: Turnbaugh usually can be found out hiking with his dogs, making photographs of nature he finds along the way to turn into paintings.

• MARENGO Continued from page 4 “People come in here totally shocked with what they see. They don’t expect this in Marengo. … It’s pretty unique.”

A professional illustrator and artist who moved to Marengo several years ago looking to enjoy a small-town atmosphere – he’s now greeted by name at the nearby Dino’s Café – this is the 61-year-old Turnbaugh’s first gallery. He has big plans.

“When people come, we want them to leave feeling, ‘Wow, that was a cultural experience,’ ” he said as June, the dog he recently adopted from Glory Bound Rescue in Marengo and fondly calls Junebug, meandered through the studio. Junebug rarely leaves Turnbaugh’s side.

Having opened at the start of the new year, Turnbaugh intends to host art shows and fundraisers for groups such as Glory Bound, promote other artists and bring in live music, food and wine.

His inspiration is the Starline Gallery in Harvard, a renovated historic factory where 1st Friday events showcase artists and live music monthly.

In the spring, Turnbaugh plans to offer art lessons, using both the gallery space and an abandoned basement area he’s transforming with the help of his

gallery manager, Jacqueline Webster, a Marine he jokingly calls the “Resident Viking.” (The moniker is even printed on Webster’s business cards with an image of a viking.)

Turnbaugh hired Webster last summer to help him turn what once was a dilapidated space into the studio.

“This thing was a dive,” he said.

“We gutted it and rebuilt it.”

What the two didn’t know how to do – the wood flooring, a new floorboard entrance and stairs to the basement, now called “Rivendell South” (a “Lord of the Rings” reference) – they figured out and continue to figure out along the way.

“We’re willing to try it all,” said Webster, who met Turnbaugh through mutual friends years ago as she participated with the McHenry County Marine Corps League in a Crystal Lake parade.

Turnbaugh said she’s become like a daughter to him.

“I just get along with Marines,” Turnbaugh said. “They like the artwork, and I like their service.”

Having learned growing up to stop everything when the national anthem comes on and put your hand on your heart and to shake the hands of any military veterans he sees, Turnbaugh is an “unabashed patriot.”

His patriotic and military paintings – some created from actual images his son sent him from Afghanistan – have been replicated on products, such as

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coffee mugs. His goal is to eventually offer unique gift baskets with the mugs, and perhaps a print of his work.

Other WildHeartland products include “Bringing Cool to Goobertown” T-shirts.

“That’s what we call Marengo because it reminds us of Mayberry,” Turnbaugh said. “It’s a term of affection. … People seem to get the joke.”

Keeping his main WildHeartland website at www.wildheartland.net, he’d like to eventually separate his work into several categories, representing his military/patriotic, outdoor-themed and guitar creations. He’s also quite active on WildHeartland’s Facebook page – www.facebook.com/wildheartlandart – where he’s known for daily pictures of his morning hikes and where he and Webster post quirky videos.

The two have interviewed animals at Glory Bound, where Turnbaugh has

adopted a ram, Stonewall Jackson, and Webster a goat, Pete, for her daughter.

The animals stay at the shelter, and they regularly visit, providing funding for their care.

Those who stop by the WildHeartland studio can’t leave without signing Turnbaugh’s “guest book” bathroom door. Inside the bathroom, personal photographs make a collage on the wall. “This is my life since I came to Marengo,” he said.

It’s about more than the business, he said.

“If people are going to buy your stuff, they want to know who you are,” said Turnbaugh, who’s made it his mission to meet as many people in Marengo as possible and to let others know what the town has to offer.

“Marengo has all it needs to become a cool little town people want to come to,” he said. “It just needs a boost.”

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Dream a little dream – but don’t tell me about it Don’t you hate when someone tells you: “I had the weirdest dream last night?”

First of all, dreams are supposed to be weird. If they were normal, they wouldn’t be dreams, but instead it would be a mental movie of you reviewing your auto insurance policy and then taking the dog for a walk.

And, while readers of this column and myself have dreams the magnitude and spectacle of a J.J. Abrams vs. Steven Spielberg production cage match, whenever a non-reader of this column starts to tell me about their dream, it always sounds like: “So, I opened this box of saltines …”

Also, no matter how great our dreams are, women never want to let us finish them.

For instance, why, when women have a scary dream, do they feel compelled to wake you up and tell you about it? One minute I am playing Monopoly with real money while Beyoncé dances on “Free Parking,” and the next my wife is detailing how a lion was chasing her.

“There’s Africa, an ocean, Pennsylvania, several mini-malls and a fence between us and lions,” I tell her. “Go back to sleep.”

She reminds me how I still haven’t fixed the hole in the fence and then hits me with a pillow.

I try to go back to sleep and pick up where I left off. But when you try to recreate a good dream, it never works.

Now, Beyoncé is gone and Queen Elizabeth has taken her place. Luckily, the Queen Mother is not dancing, but she does wave to me each time I am sent “directly to jail.” And now Mike Tyson owns Boardwalk.

But the “wife scary dream” is not nearly as nightmarish as the “wife jealousy dream.”

I am at the plate. Game 7. Bases load-

ed. The crowd loves me. I take low for a ball. The count evens up, but the next pitch is letter-high. I start my swing, I make solid contact with the Mariano Rivera fastball, the crowd jumps to their feet, then the umpire grabs my shoulder and starts shaking me, but it’s not the umpire, it’s my awake world wife.

“Do you like Ashli?” she demands.

“Who?” I groggily answer, wondering where my Red Sox uniform and 40,000 cheering fans went.

“Ashli – the girl from Buffalo Wild Wings. With the tattoo.”

Now my wife has lost me, because when chicken wings are involved, it is hard to remember much of anything else that happened. But I do remember a waitress bringing me an extra Sam Adams by mistake the last time we were there.

I fall back on my man code training: Never admit to girl whose name does not end in “i” that you have ever looked at a girl whose name does end in “i.”

“No,” I say, not because I don’t remember the striking blond that gave me a free Boston Lager, but because any answer other than “no” is ill-advised when you are in the vulnerable state of defending yourself while wearing panda pajamas (hey, they were on sale and pandas were endangered at the time).

“Because I had a dream that you and she went to Aruba – on our anniversary!”

“Well … I didn’t. Clearly, I was with you. I think it was right after our Woolen Anniversary. Yes. Our Pancake Anniversary. We went to IHOP, remember?”

“But my dream was so real feeling!”

She shoves me hard in the ribs. “Are you sure?”

“Positive!” I say, but to no avail.

She hits me with two pillows, I end up in the doghouse for several hours

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and cannot bring up chicken wings for the next three weeks.

So, anyway ... I had the weirdest dream last night. Fortunately, I ran into my good friend and psychoanalyst, Dr. Horst Von Heineken in the Armanetti’s parking lot.

I tell the good doctor of my dream: I am at Chipotle, but it is not a regular Chipotle, it is more of a hot tub/ fast food restaurant. “Ramblin’ Man” is blaring over the sound system. I order a secret menu “quesarito.” It is loaded with everything, including guacamole, which in my dream is not an extra charge. Three workers are trying to fold the monstrous burrito, but they can’t, because it keeps getting bigger. They call their manager for help. The manager is Dick Butkus.

“So what do you think, Dr. Von H?” The doctor looks to the sky. He pulls out his Kemperling pipe and lights it.

He puffs twice.

“Zat’s easy. Zee Chipotle quesarito, vich includes everyting off zee menu – und zen some – is zee top of the line.

It is zee ‘Ultimate.’ Now, zee Allman Brothers’ ‘Ramblin’ Man’ is a road trip song. Zee classic road trip alvays involves ‘Driving.’ Und finally, Herr Dick Butkus vit his 1,000-plus career tackles vas clearly more zen a man, he vas a ‘Machine.’ ” “Ultimate. Driving. Machine.” I mutter to myself. “What could that mean?”

The doctor scribbles a phone number on a piece of paper and hands it to me.

“Zis is my brother, Otto. He verks at zee BMW dealership. He vill be able to help.”

I thanked the doctor and paid him, as usual, in schnapps, to avoid the “pesky record keeping” his alimony-awarded wife required. How fortunate I am to have a friend that can help sort out the complexities of my subconscious.

• 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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By KENDRA NICHOLS

tips to try An organizer’s top strategies for problem areas of the home

The Washington Post Organizing is always a popular topic around the new year, as people resolve to de-clutter, de-stress and generally start over with a clean slate. We asked Cris Sgrott-Wheedleton, owner and founder of Organizing Maniacs in Tysons Corner, Virginia, for her advice about some of the biggest problem areas in people’s homes.

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Play rooms

Storage needs to be safe and secure, but it needn’t be primary-colored plastic. Wicker baskets can work either on the wall (mounted shelving units) or the floor (baskets lined up in a row). For smaller children, consider a vertical storage solution that hangs on the wall. “That would prevent them from easily getting to them and would give you more control over what they can get at any one time,” Sgrott-Wheedleton says.

As for larger furniture, storage benches can work well, but like any piece of furniture (dressers, shelves, desks or anything else on which a child can climb) always anchor them to a stud in the wall.

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Filing cabinets

It’s all too easy to let filing cabinets become a dumping zone for loose paper – out of sight, out of mind. But Sgrott-Wheedleton doesn’t mind them, as long as they are used properly. “Keeping paperwork for the sake of keeping paperwork is where we get into trouble,” she says. “Take some time to weed out the old and think about organizing what’s important.”

If your filing cabinet already is a disaster, set a timer for an hour a day until you’ve sorted through everything, starting with the oldest

paperwork. “It will be easier to purge things, and you’ll start to feel more confident moving forward.”

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Closets

If your closet is a mess, don’t try to tackle it all at once. “I take it all out, evaluate what I have, what fits and doesn’t, organize that shelf, bag the donations and then evaluate my time again to see about starting another shelf,” (Sgrott-Wheedleton says. “The secret to success is breaking down every project into smaller projects and taking each one to completion. It will build your confidence, and you’ll accomplish the small wins and keep you motivated to continue organizing.”

If you’re planning a closet from scratch, remember to use as much of the vertical space as possible. For a DIY closet system, Sgrott-Wheedleton loves ClosetMaid available at Home Depot. For shoes, she recommends stacking containers on shelves, using over-the-door organizers or placing a rack on the closet floor.

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Bathrooms

Too many products? Not everything can be donated, and sometimes you have to just throw stuff away.

Sgrott-Wheedleton recommends checking with a local shelter to see what its policies are. Some will accept half-full, non-perfumed lotions.

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Make bills a priority and put them in a safe place, such as a basket, bin or drawer. “The important part here is to not throw anything else in that safe place,” Sgrott-Wheedleton says. “Bills only!”

If automatic bill pay is an option, that will take one more thing off your plate each month.

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January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month January is a time for resolutions.

It’s also a great time for women to remember their own needs, especially after a busy holiday season with much of our time focused on others. January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month and is the perfect time for women to remember their cervical health.

Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers, but it doesn’t always get the attention it deserves.

Each year, about 12,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer in the United States. Cervical cancer most often results from exposure to the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection. A screening known as a Pap test can find changes in the cervix before

cancer develops. A few simple steps can help women take care of their cervical health: • Quit smoking. Women who smoke are nearly twice as likely to get cervical cancer as those who don’t. If you want to quit but need help, you can call the Illinois Tobacco QUITLINE at 1-866-QUIT-YES. • Get a Pap test. The CDC says women should start getting a Pap test at age 21. If your results are normal, you may not need another test for three years. Women older than 30 may choose to have an HPV test with their Pap test. If the results of both tests are normal, the chance of getting cervical cancer within the next few years is low, and your doctor may say you can wait five years until

your next screening.

Getting the HPV vaccine helps protect against the two types of HPV that are known to cause cervical cancer.

The McHenry County Department of Health wants all women to complete their cervical cancer screenings. The Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (IBCCP) is there to help women without health insurance. Funded through the Illinois Department of Public Health, IBCCP provides free screenings to detect breast and cervical cancer for underserved women in McHenry County.

Services are free of charge to eligible women at participating providers within the county and can include: • Office visit for breast and/or

pelvic exam • Pap test and HPV test • Screening mammogram • Diagnostic workup for abnormal screening results The program also may be able to help women with Medicaid or insurance whose plan is accepted by IBCCP providers.

For information about IBCCP or to find out if you qualify, contact MCDH at 815-334-0232, the Illinois Women’s Health-Line at 888-522-1282 or visit www.mcdh.info.

• Jennifer Schorsch, RN, is coordinator of the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program for McHenry County Department of Health. She can be reached at 815-334-0232.

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Parents’ plans for son’s bright future dimmed by addiction continuing success.

“What a quack!” they thought when the counselor didn’t pay attention to Alan’s potential but noticed his budding chemical dependency. Alan and his family grudgingly agreed to the counseling recommendations to get him back in school more quickly.

Alan, for his part, already had graduated to pills and cough syrup, using weed as a standby. Grades tanked, behavior deteriorated and Alan, after a particularly nasty episode of threatening to jump out a window, landed in the psych ward.

Within days after his arrival, the staff knew it was a chemical problem more than a psych problem, and Alan was transferred to his first of three rehab stints.

His parents had, by this time, accepted his chemical problem and had been through the wringer, having weathered strange people arriving late at night, police cars cruising the neighborhood, an occasional ambulance complete with those neigh-

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“Alan” was a bright kid. He did well in school and clearly had a good life in front of him. Everybody liked him and saw his potential. His parents never saw addiction coming. It turned out to be a long, bumpy road to dysfunction junction.

By the time he was 13, he was smoking weed regularly, and by 14, he was distributing it to his friends and their friends. His ability to procure weed made him popular with a certain segment of the school population, those who smoked weed and used other substances Alan’s first run-in with trouble was around this time, when, under suspicion and being watched by school personnel, he was busted with a small amount of marijuana, suspended and told to get a substance abuse evaluation.

Alan’s parents were appalled and took him for his evaluation, fully expecting the counselor would vindicate him and perhaps notice he had a little anxiety that might have caused this hiccup in the master plan for Alan’s

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bor-jarring sirens, locking up jewelry, physical altercations, etc. In essence, they weren’t that excited about the prospect of having Alan back home, but home he came. And the cycle repeated, with the end product being more misery and another, longer-term rehab.

On return home from rehab number two, Alan was able to get a job at a pizza place and took a few classes to try to finish high school. He stayed sober a couple of months but started to use again, this time pain pills and heroin. His ability to function quickly was compromised, and he flunked both classes, got fired from his job and, since his parents had gotten themselves some help, asked to live elsewhere.

With no money, few friends and nowhere to go within a few weeks, he asked his parents for help, and they sent him to a long-term treatment program. They were lucky to have the means to do so as they were nearly financially tapped out by the medical

bills from the other two rehabs. Alan finally got sober, moved to a sober living home and after a year, into his own apartment.

His parents came to accept their son was a recovering drug addict.

That was hard, painful and embarrassing. Then they had to accept their plans for him – engineering or law at a good school – probably were not going to happen. But when all was said and done, Alan was a good person, got his GED and started community college classes. He had a good relationship with his parents and his sisters and felt grateful for the life he was living.

He was able to accept his illness and his limitations and no longer lived life feeling like a disappointment.

• Rick Atwater is a licensed clinical professional counselor. He hosts the weekly radio show Straight Stuff on Addictions at recoveryinternetradio. com. He can reached by email at rickatwater@northwestcommunitycounseling.com.

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Author Spotlight

TOM SHOUF Hometown: Palatine Latest book: “Secrets of Culver Falls,” book three in the Culver Falls Chronicles Publisher: CreateSpace Release date: May 16, 2016

What’s your new book about?

The series follows the extraordinary lives of two, otherwise ordinary 12-year-old girls who were given supernatural abilities to stand against evil, in whatever form the darkness may take.

Where did the idea come from?

From characters I made up when telling my kids bedtime stories.

What genre is your book?

Juvenile fiction and action and adventure.

Who is the intended audience?

For grades: 4-9, ages 8–15.

Why is this story important to you?

I felt there should be more stories where middleschool-age kids are thrown into unfamiliar or dangerous situations. I want them to make their own decisions, without adult interference or guidance.

Sometimes we make wrong choices, sometimes we don’t, but the key is learning to live with those choices.

How long did it take you to write? What was your process?

Each of my books takes about a year to write and edit. My process starts with trying to develop a plot that is both interesting, believable and pertinent to my readers. The story line changes many times during the creation of the book.

Sometimes I will write a few thousand words, only to have them end up on the editing room floor because they did not advance the plot. Other

times, I will write only a few hundred words trying to wring out of them emotions the passage tries to convey.

I keep a notebook, where I work out the story problems my character is facing, or plot lines that are dead ends. I do this during lunch, before I go to sleep, sitting in traffic, just about anywhere I can grab a few minutes.

During the editing stage, I use an application that will read the text to me so I can listen for awkward or poorly formed sentences. This way I can make corrections in the moment. I also use the grammar checker in my software to measure the reading ease to make sure I am writing to my target audience, not below or above them.

Finally, I create the book’s front and back cover text, along with a short narrative that is made to pique the reader into wanting to read more.

Believe it or not, this step takes a very long time to get right.

What did you enjoy most about writing this book? What was the hardest part?

The best part? I couldn’t wait to see what my characters were going to do next.

The hardest part? Creating an interesting story line where the characters grow/mature over the course of the story.

What is your education/background?

Bachelor of Arts in education.

John Grisham.

How/why did you decide to write a book?

I wanted to write stories that entertain and educate. I want my readers to experience life from the safety of their armchair.

Who are your favorite authors?

C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Dale Brown, Dan Brown.

Pick one: Danielle Steel or John Grisham?

Pick one: Ebooks or hard/paperbacks?

Paperbacks.

Have you written anything else?

Yes, the first two books in the series of the Culver Falls Chronicles. Book one, “The Mystery of Maywood Mansion,” and book two, “The Battle of Culver Falls.”

What’s next for you?

Book four in the Culver Falls series.

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“RED CARPET READS” – WINTER READING 2017, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Jan. 15, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry.

Kids in K-8 and adults can pick up a book DOG OBSESSED BOOK SIGNING WITH log at the questions desk and turn it in by LUCY POSTINS, noon to 3 p.m. Jan. 15, Feb. 19. Free. Information: 815-385-0036 or Bentley’s Pet Stuff, 5300 C Route 14, mplyps@mchenrylibrary.org.

Crystal Lake. Meet Lucy Postins, CEO and CLASSIC LITERATURE BOOK DISCUSFounder of the Honest Kitchen for a signing of her book “Dog Obsessed.” Free. Informa- SION GROUP, 7 to 8 p.m. Jan. 16, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry. tion: http://thehonestkitchen.com.

Read and discuss “Kidnapped” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Copies available at the checkout desk. For ages 18 & up. No registration needed. Free. Information: 815-3850036 or mplref@mchenrylibrary.org.

FAMILY BOOK CLUB GOES TO THE MOVIES, 9:30 a.m. to noon Jan. 16, Classic Cinemas Woodstock, 209 Main St., Woodstock. Read a book then join us at Classic Cinemas in Woodstock to watch the movie

“How to Train Your Dragon” based on the book by Cressida Cowell, and then stay for some trivia and prizes. The first 25 families to sign up will receive a free copy of the book to read beforehand. For kids in Grade 2 and older with an adult. Free. Information: 815-385-0036 or mplyps@mchenrylibrary.org.

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DOWNLOADING HELP DROP-IN SESSIONS, PIZZA & PAGES TEEN BOOK GROUP: 7 to 8 p.m. Jan. 17, Woodstock Public Library, “EVERY DAY” BY DAVID LEVITHAN, 3:30 to 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. A how-to down- 4:30 p.m. Jan. 19, Jimano’s Pizza, 366 Bank load lesson. Information: 815-338-0542.

Drive, McHenry. For ages 12 to 18. The first 10 BOOKIES – ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION people to sign up will receive a free copy of GROUP, 9:30 to 11 a.m. Jan. 18, Crystal Lake the book. Free. Information: 815-385-0036 or Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal mplyps@mchenrylibrary.org.

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BARK FOR BOOKS, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Jan. 21, This month’s book is “The Light Between Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Oceans” by M.L. Stedman. Books are availWoodstock. Read to a dog! They are great able at the circulation desk. New members listeners and can listen in any language. Sign welcome. Free. Information: 815-459-1687. up at the children’s desk starting at 9 a.m.

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Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., POP-UP LIBRARY AT THE FARMER’S Woodstock. Local resident Joy Aavang, WINTER MARKET, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 21, speaker, author and storyteller, will be McHenry County Fairgrounds Building D, present to encourage interested parties to 1051 Country Club Road, Woodstock. Get a tell their stories and practice the art of stolibrary card, register for programs, renew rytelling. Light refreshments will be served. materials and more. Featuring stories Information: https://il.evanced.info/woodand crafts as well. Information: https:// stock/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=4436. il.evanced.info/woodstock/lib/eventsignup.

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10 a.m. Jan. 19, Woodstock Opera House, 121 WINTER READING PROGRAM, 9 a.m. to Van Buren St., Woodstock. Fons is co-host 9 p.m. Jan. 23, Crystal Lake Public Library, of the nationally airing PBS show “Love of 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake. Today is Quilting” and co-hosts the “Quilt Your Heart the first day of the Winter Reading Program Out” podcast with her mom, quilt legend “Read, Dream, Imagine ...” Children from birth Marianne Fons. As a writer, Mary Fons has to eighth grade may sign up with their CLPL been published widely and is pursuing a card. Record the minutes you read in the log, Writing MFA at the School of the Art Institute. and when it is complete, you are awarded She teaches writing and performance at the prizes. Free. Sponsored by the Chicago University of Chicago. Her fabric line, Small Wolves Hockey team and the Rotary Club Wonders, launched in 2015, and she writes of Crystal Lake, Dawnbreakers. Informathe Quilt Scout column at Quilts.com as well tion: http://evanced.crystallakelibrary.org/ as her blog, Papergirl. Cost: $25. Tickets and evanced/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=17302.

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Nick Bruel pokes fun at tests in newest book

By MARY QUATTLEBAUM The Washington Post Nick Bruel visits schools across the United States to talk about his “Bad Kitty” books. And he sees a lot of kids stressed out about the same thing: standardized tests.

So for his new chapter book, “Bad Kitty Takes the Test,” Bruel wanted his readers to relax and laugh – and also question whether tests are all necessary.

Kitty must take a goofy test “to PROVE she is a cat even though she clearly IS a cat,” Bruel said in an email from his home in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Chatty Kitty, another cat, and Uncle Murray, a silly human, take the test, too. And so does a chicken disguised as a cat.

“A chicken is taking the test to demonstrate that the testing process is not necessarily accurate,” Bruel said.

Another chicken is asking the questions and making it clear he doesn’t like cats. No matter what the cats say, the chicken shouts, “Wrong!”

It’s definitely not part of a plan, he says, to have chickens kept as pets while cats “are served at dinnertime on a bed of rice next to potatoes and green beans.”

Like all the “Bad Kitty” chapter books, this one resembles a graphic novel, with dialogue balloons and large comic panels.

Bruel grew up in New York City with a feisty pet who helped inspire Kitty.

Zou-zou was black “with a tiny patch of white fur on her chest,” he said.

In kindergarten, Bruel discovered what he called “the magic of comic books.” He also loved reading the comic strip “King Aroo” and children’s books

by Jack Kent, especially “The Fat Cat.” Bruel enjoys story ideas that are “outright funny.” Kitty has starred in chapter books and picture books about birthdays, babysitters and babies. In a new early reader, “Bad Kitty Does Not Like Snow,” the cranky main character discovers slippery, cold snow for the first time – and high-tails it home to her warm bed.

The author confessed this is how he feels when he looks out the window and realizes that his morning will be spent shoveling the driveway.

For kids interested in writing, drawing and creating comics, Bruel has one piece of advice: Be brave.

“It’s never easy to work past the ‘you shouldn’ts’ and the ‘you mustn’ts’ and the ‘you can’ts,’ but it really is so critical to listen to your own ‘I wants’ in order to pursue your goals,” he said.

This is advice Bruel is taking himself as he finishes “Bad Kitty: Camp Daze,” Photo provided by MacMillan Children’s Publishing Group which he aims to release in 2018. Bruel said he’s also working on a project com- For his latest “Bad Kitty” book, Nick Bruel wants readers to question the purpose of pletely new to him: a middle-grade novel. standardized tests.

Cozy up with these winter books (and your kids)

By MIA GEIGER

they know: “Winter, winter, cold and snow/ Chickadee, Chickadee, who do you know?”

She answers: “I know Bear, asleep in her den; Sometimes things seem colder than she might wake up when the sun shines in.” usual, and perhaps a bit dull, particThen Bear is asked who he knows, and he ularly after all the holiday buzz. You mentions Beaver. A deer, rabbit, wolf, rabbit can warm things up with these books and woodchuck also get a turn. The rhymes that explore the wonders of winter. have an easy, playful rhythm that are pleasSo go ahead, make a hot pot of cocoa, ing to the ear. Cut-paper illustrations offer grab your little ones by the hands and cute-yet-realistic depictions of animals that cozy up on the couch. Your kids will be inspired by these stories, though, so you’ll want to linger over.

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don’t be surprised if a short time later they’re setting down their mugs and asking you to find their snow boots.

“Samson in the Snow”

By Philip C. Stead

Samson, a mammoth, spends most of his

“Winter, Winter, Cold and Snow” time alone in a field of dandelions hoping for

By Sharon Gibson Palermo; illustrated by Christina Song Woodland animals populate this endearing book, in which an unseen narrator asks them who

a friend. A tiny red bird visits one day and asks for a few flowers to cheer up someone she knows. After a snowstorm, Samson worries the little bird, which has flown away, is cold. “It is better to walk than to worry,” he decided. And so he did. Fierce winds and deep valleys do not stop him from his search.

He meets a mouse, who also is looking for someone whom he is concerned about. They

find the bird hidden in snow, barely able to move, and near the flowers, which she brought for – surprise! – the mouse. A full-circle story with plenty of heart, the tale is memorable for its themes of friendship, longing and kindness. The drawings, created from oil pastels, charcoal, and cardboard printing, evoke both the cold of winter and warmth of belonging.

“Bunny Slopes”

By Claudia Rueda

In this interactive book, a rabbit asks if the reader would like to join her in a day of skiing. There’s a problem, though – no snow.

Bunny asks: “Maybe we can make some!

Could you please shake this book?” Bunny is appreciative, but soon needs more help.

She needs more snow – via more shaking.

Then when it’s time to go downhill, she needs someone to tilt the book.

When she’s about to flip over, she needs the reader to (quickly!) turn the book upside down. When she gets too close to a hole (an actual circular cutout), she can’t avoid falling through; luckily she lands in an underground familiar place with a familiar face waiting for her. Throughout, the adorable rabbit with expressive facial features seems like a furry friend. It’s a cute story with fun elements sure to incite giggles.

Also look for: “Little Penguins,” by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Christian Robinson; and “Waiting for Snow,” by Marsha Diane Arnold and illustrated by Renata Liwska.

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Job requirements include a high school diploma, minimum typing skills of 40-50 wpm, basic use of Microsoft Office (Word & Excel), and must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills. Some college preferred and those with classified sales experience preferred.

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Visit: www.mchenry.edu/jobs to view all available employment opportunities, complete job description(s), application process and requirements.

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Production Position Kikkoman Foods, Inc. is currently in search of candidates to fill a 3rd shift production position in our Walworth,WI plant. Applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent, a strong work ethic, an excellent attendance record, and a safety-conscious attitude.

Strong mechanical aptitude is also preferred. We are a growing company and we offer an excellent wage and benefits package.

Interested candidates can apply in person at:

Shaw Media offers a comprehensive benefit package, including medical, dental, vision and 401(k) with company match.

Walworth County Job Center 400 County Rd. H Elkhorn, WI 53121 Apply on-line at: www.kfijobs.com Or email/fax your resume to: bhertel@kikkoman.com Fax: 262-275-1475

Qualified candidates may submit a cover letter and resume to:

Qualified candidates should send cover letter and resume to: Online: www.ShawMedia.com/careers recruitment@shawmedia.com Mail to: Shaw Media - HR • PO Box 250 • Crystal Lake, IL 60039

Kikkoman Foods, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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CREATIVE SERVICES COORDINATOR

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Please send cover letter and resume to: applicants@muld.org

HANDYMAN

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Night Shift C.N.A.'s $11.23 per hour Dramatically increased!

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888/471-1219 www.gurneedodge.com

847/869-5700 www.EvanstonSubaru.com

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BILL JACOBS VOLKSWAGEN 2211 Aurora Avenue • Naperville, IL

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CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM 5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

888/800-6100

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7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

3340 Oakton St., Skokie, IL

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225 N. Randall Road • St. Charles, IL

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5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

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www.infinitihoffman.com

CRYSTAL LAKE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

800/935-5909

888/280-6844

888/471-1219

GARY LANG SUBARU

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800/935-5913

815/459-4000

847/587-3300

888/204-0042

Barrington & Dundee Rds. Barrington, IL

7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

39 N. Rte. 12 • Fox Lake, IL

300 East Ogden Ave. • Hinsdale, IL

www.rosenrosenrosen.com

Route 120 • McHenry, IL

5220 W. Northwest Highway Crystal Lake, IL

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www.libertyvillemitsubishi.com

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www.clcjd.com

www.martin-chevy.com

847/816-6660

866/469-0114

847/426-2000

MARTIN CHEVROLET

1119 S. Milwaukee Ave.• Libertyville, IL

SUNNYSIDE COMPANY CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP RAM

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LIBERTYVILLE MITSUBISHI

www.knauznorth.com

5404 S. Rt. 31 • Crystal Lake, IL

770 Dundee Ave. (Rt. 25) • Dundee, IL

www.garylangauto.com

771 S. Randall Rd. • Algonquin, IL

GARY LANG CHEVROLET

www.garylangauto.com

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www.raychryslerdodgejeepram.com

www.sunnysidecompany.com

815/385-2100

BILL JACOBS LAND ROVER HINSDALE

www.knauzlandrover.com

ELGIN HYUNDAI

815/459-7100 or 847/658-9050

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

www.motorwerks.com

847/604-8100

815/385-7220

Route 31, between Crystal Lake & McHenry

GARY LANG MITSUBISHI

800/935-5913

375 Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

www.raychryslerdodgejeepram.com

Route 120 • McHenry, IL

www.Knauz-mini.com

119 Route 173 • Antioch, IL

Barrington & Dundee Rds. Barrington, IL

RAY CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP RAM 888/538-4492

SUNNYSIDE COMPANY CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP RAM

www.sunnysidecompany.com

847/604-5050

Barrington & Dundee Rds., Barrington, IL

MOTOR WERKS HONDA

www.gurneedodge.com

2145 S. Eastwood Dr. • Woodstock, IL

815/385-7220

409A Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

RAYMOND KIA

www.raymondkia.com

REICHERT BUICK

Route 120 • McHenry, IL

1035 S. Rt. 31, One Mile South of Rt. 14 Crystal Lake, IL

ZIMMERMAN FORD

224/603-8611

888/471-1219

SUNNYSIDE COMPANY CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP RAM

PAULY SCION

www.clcjd.com

7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

800/295-0166

www.TomPeckFord.com

FENZEL MOTOR SALES GARY LANG BUICK

1564 W. Ogden Ave. • Naperville, IL

847/669-6060

888/800-6100 206 S. State Street • Hampshire, IL

BILL JACOBS MINI

13900 Automall Dr. • Huntley, IL

7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

888/471-1219

23 N US Highway • Fox Lake, IL

www.st-charles.mercedesdealer.com

KNAUZ CONTINENTAL AUTOS

409 Skokie Valley Hwy • Lake Bluff, IL

847/234-1700 www.Knauzcontinentalauto.com

www.clcjd.com

FENZEL MOTOR SALES

206 S. State Street • Hampshire, IL

847/683-2424

GURNEE CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM 7255 Grand Avenue • Gurnee, IL

888/471-1219 www.gurneedodge.com

RAY CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP RAM 23 N US Highway • Fox Lake, IL

847/587-3800 www.raychryslerdodgejeepram.com

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PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY NOTICE OF FILING A REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (ADULT) Request of SARA ROSE HEELEIN Case Number 16MR736

Public notice is hereby given that I have filed a Petition for Change of Name and scheduled a hearing on my Petition on March 3, 2017 at 9:00 a.m., in the Circuit Court of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, Illinois in Courtroom #201, praying for the change of my name from Sara Rose Heelein to the new name of: Sara Edith Rose pursuant to the Illinois Compiled Statutes on Change of Names. /s/ Sara Rose Heelein Petitioner

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