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New report opens possibility to edit genes free of disease

By LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Don’t expect designer babies anytime soon – but a major new ethics report leaves open the possibility of one day altering human heredity to fight genetic diseases, with stringent oversight, using new tools that precisely edit genes inside living cells.

What’s called genome editing already is transforming biological research, and being used to develop treatments for patients struggling with a range of diseases.

The science is nowhere near ready for a huge next step that raises ethical questions – altering sperm, eggs or embryos so that babies don’t inherit a disease that runs in the family, said a report Tuesday from the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine.

But if scientists learn how to safely pass alterations of the genetic code to future generations, the panel said “germline” editing could be attempted under strict criteria, including that it targets a serious disease with no reasonable alternative and is conducted under rigorous oversight.

“Caution is absolutely needed, but being cautious does not mean prohibition,” said bioethicist R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“This committee is not saying we will or should do germline – heritable – editing. What we are saying is that we can identify a set of strict conditions under which it would be permissible to do it,” Charo added. “But we are far, far away from being ready to try.”

Genome editing should not go beyond healing the sick and enhance traits such as physical strength, what’s commonly called “designer babies,” the panel stressed.

But the public should get involved in these debates now, to say what might one day be acceptable.

The long-awaited report offers advice – the prestigious academies cannot set policy. But it is considered a step toward creating international norms for responsible development of this powerful technology. The U.S. National Academies and its counterparts in Britain and China have been holding international meetings with the hope of doing just that.

“Genome editing is a new tool for gene therapy and it has tremendous promise,” Charo said.

But, she added, it has to be pursued in a way that promotes well-being and is responsible, respectful and fair.

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Genome editing is essentially a biological version of cut-and-paste software, allowing scientists to turn genes on or off, repair or modify them inside living cells. There are a few older methods but one with the wonky name CRISPR-Cas9 is so much faster, cheaper and simpler to use that it has spurred an explosion of research.

Under development are ways to treat a range of diseases from sickle cell and hemophilia to cancer. In lab experiments using human cells or animals engineered with humanlike disorders, scientists are unraveling how gene defects fuel disease – and are even trying to grow transplantable human organs inside pigs.

That kind of research is very promising, is adequately regulated today and should continue at full speed, the National Academies panel concluded.

When it comes to the more sci fi-sounding uses, it’s quite possible scientists will learn how to perform germline editing in five to 10 years, said panel co-chairman Richard Hynes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Safety is one reason for caution, he said, as scientists will have to learn whether editing one gene has unwanted downstream effects.

Some critics argue that families plagued by inherited diseases already have other alternatives – adopt, use donated eggs, or undergo in vitro fertilization and discard resulting embryos that inherit the bad gene. But Charo noted that sometimes parents carry two copies of a lethal gene, guaranteeing any children inherit it. Others oppose the discarding of embryos for religious reasons.

For some families, “you can see there would be strong arguments for doing it” if the other criteria are met, said Robin Lovell-Badge of Britain’s Francis Crick Institute.

Some countries prohibit any germline editing research. Others, such as Britain, allow laboratory research with genome editing in embryos, not for pregnancy but to understand human development.

In the U.S., scientists can perform laboratory embryo research only with private, not government, funding.

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McHenry County College student and Excel/Focus program alumna Kaylana Crowley of Lake in the Hills discusses a project Friday with Candice Johnson, coordinator of multicultural affairs, at MCC in Crystal Lake. The Focus program offers mentoring to students to help them improve their grades and find their place at the school. See story, page A3.

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McHenry County College student Kaylana Crowley of Lake in the Hills participated in the Focus program during the fall semester. The Focus program offers mentoring to students to help them improve their grades and find their place at MCC.

McHenry County College students mentor peers through new program

By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Students now are able to mentor and be mentored by their peers through two new programs at McHenry County College.

The Focus program is open to students who want to establish or improve their GPA, or those who may need additional encouragement. The semesterlong program is particularly tailored to meet the needs of multicultural students.

Those who participate in the program are required to attend meetings with their mentor, the coordinator of multicultural affairs and a counselor; attend five workshops or study events; and receive at least a 2.5 GPA at the end of the semester.

“The difference between a Focus and Excel person is confidence, and of course, maybe some better study habits.”

Candice Johnson

coordinator of multicultural affairs at McHenry County College The Excel program provides students an opportunity to develop leadership skills by mentoring other students and preparing them for life after community college. Students in this program mentor one or two students by meeting with them in person at least once a month and checking in weekly.

Mentors also are required to maintain at least a 3.0 GPA; meet with the coordinator of multicultural affairs, an academic counselor and a counselor; and be involved in at least one club.

The Focus and Excel programs kicked off at the start of the fall semester. The programs currently have 15 mentees and 12 mentors. Both programs offer reimbursement of up to eight credit hours if the program is successfully completed.

Candice Johnson, coordinator of multicultural affairs at MCC, said the college had mentor programs available to students in the past, but she wanted to revamp and update what already was being offered.

She said that when developing the program, she recognized that students who use their school’s resources tend to do better than those who don’t. By providing Focus students with an Excel mentor, the school is connecting both types of students so they can work and learn from one another.

“The difference between a Focus and Excel person is confidence, and of course, maybe some better study habits,” Johnson said.

Kaylana Crowley, a freshman at MCC who participated in the focus program in the fall, said the program helped boost her confidence so she felt more comfortable speaking with teachers if she didn’t understand something or needed additional help.

See MCC PROGRAM, page A9

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Candidate forum for City Council, D-155 coming up

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

kcraver@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Voters will have a chance Thursday to hear from candidates for the Crystal Lake City Council and the Community High School District 155 Board.

The candidates will appear Thursday evening at the first of four League of Women Voters of McHenry County forums for candidates in the April 4 election. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Leucht Conference Center at McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake.

Nine candidates are running for four open seats on the board that governs District 155, which consists of Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South, Prairie Ridge and Cary-Grove

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high schools. Candidates are Ron Ludwig, Jason Blake, David Secrest, Nicole Pavoris, Ann Somers, John Pletz, Donna Kurtz, Raphael Kamner and Scott Vetter. Secrest and Somers are incumbents.

Crystal Lake City Council incumbents Cameron Hubbard, Haig Haleblian and Ralph Dawson face challenges from candidates Sally Munn and Stefano Liparoto for three open seats.

The next league forum – for candidates for McHenry School District 15 and McHenry Community High School District 156 boards – will take place at 7 p.m. March 1 at Parkland School, 1802 N. Ringwood Road, McHenry.

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Organizations launch McHenry events website

By NATE LINHART

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nlinhart@shawmedia.com McHENRY – To improve the city’s marketing efforts, several McHenry businesses and organizations have created a new website – www.mchenryevents.com.

The website was launched Thursday, and as of Monday, it listed all the major upcoming events through May. The goal of the website is to unite the community through events and promote McHenry as a destination spot. The events website was created by the city of McHenry, McHenry Downtown Business Association, McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce, McHenry Sunrise Rotary Club, McHenry Kiwanis Club, Green Street Cruise Nights and McHenry Outdoor Theater.

Kim Loewe, owner of Kiera Confections in McHenry, is the leader behind the project and will be updating the website.

“We’re trying to make this a better place for everybody, so that more people come out here for work or for play,” Loewe said.

The organizations also created a new brochure that can be found at downtown businesses, the McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce and online, among other places.

“It’s a yearly brochure that will have all the downtown events listed in it and all of the major yearly events

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Created by McHenry Events, mchenryevents.com was made to unite the community through events and to promote the town as a destination. It is the collaboration of the City of McHenry, McHenry Downtown Business Association, McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce. for people to check out,” Loewe said.

“It also has some transportation details of how to get here.”

Loewe said the new website costs $200 to maintain every year, and she plans to update the website within the

LAKE IN THE HILLS

LAKE IN THE HILLS – The Learning Experience Academy of Early Education in Lake in the Hills is hosting a silent auction to raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The event is open to the public and will be from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Thursday at 15 Crystal Lake Road, Lake in the Hills.

Heart-themed art created by preschoolers will be auctioned with proceeds benefiting children diagnosed with life-threatening medical conditions, according to a news release

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next few days to include major events happening throughout the entire year.

“As new things come up, we’ll put those in,” Loewe said. “And every year it will be updated with the new events for that year.”

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The event is part of The Learning Experience’s fifth annual nationwide BeCause Our Hearts Beat philanthropic initiative, according to the release. Part of the academy of early education includes a proprietary philanthropy curriculum designed to teach students selflessness, generosity and giving.

The Learning Experience Corp. has raised $1.5 million for the MakeA-Wish Foundation to date, according to the release.

For information, visit www.thelearningexperience.com.

McCAP to host ninth annual winter fundraiser

LAKE IN THE HILLS – March Madness, McHenry County Adult Program’s ninth annual winter fundraiser, will be from 6 to 11 p.m. March 4 at Boulder Ridge Country Club, 350 Boulder Drive, Lake in the Hills.

The event will include an Italian dinner buffet, cash bar, contests, auctions and music by the Not For Profit Band.

Proceeds benefit McCAP, which offers academic, social and vocational programs for adults with severe and profound disabilities. Tickets are $55 for adults, $25 for youth. Tickets must be bought by Friday.

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Fire causes $50K in damage to building NORTHWEST HERALD CRYSTAL LAKE – Fire officials are investigating what started a fire that caused more than $50,000 in damage to a commercial building Monday night.

The Crystal Lake Fire Rescue Department responded about 12:18 a.m. to Independent Auto Craft Inc., 6207 Factory Road, for the report of a commercial structure on fire, Battalion Chief William Whyte said. The Crystal Lake Police Department first responded to a reported burglar alarm and alerted fire officials upon arrival.

Fire officials located heavy smoke coming from the roof of the structure. The fire was quickly extinguished and contained to the roof area, but there was smoke damage throughout the rest of the building, Whyte said.

Crystal Lake Building Department officials responded to the scene and said the structure was uninhabitable until repairs are made.

Additional units assisted from fire protection districts in Algonquin-Lake in the Hills McHenry Township, Barrington-Countryside, Marengo, Huntley, Cary, Nunda Rural and Wonder Lake, as well as the Carpentersville, Wauconda and West Dundee fire departments.

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career aspirations change again.

Now I was intrigued by public policy and current events. This was the mid-1980s, and the Cold War was raging. The Soviet Union loomed large on the international stage, and international relations fascinated my teenage mind.

Somewhere along the line, a love of writing and current events merged and led to my pursuit of a degree in journalism. Originally, the idea was to become a foreign correspondent.

Salary-wise, I think I should have stuck with science. However, my heart was elsewhere.

All of this came to mind when I saw a recent Associated Press report. A study published in Science magazine suggested that girls as young as 6 can be led to believe that men are inherently smarter than women, and that this could make girls less likely to pursue ambitious careers.

Can women be brilliant? Our answer should always be: Of course!

However, the study suggests that as a society, perhaps we are telling our girls they somehow have to settle for less. We’ve led our girls to doubt their own abilities.

In my own case, I can say that I often felt I was swimming against the tide. Sure, I had ambitious goals, but I often was mocked for my intelligence, which I easily could have viewed as something to hide rather than to celebrate. Good thing I had supportive parents and teachers who served as cheerleaders for those dreams.

Perhaps with films such as “Hidden Figures,” ad campaigns that feature fathers championing their daughters’ goals and even school programs that promote STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, especially among girls, we can start to turn the tide.

Sadly, however, given the results of studies such as the one just published in Science, there seems to be a long way to go.

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When I was 5 or 6, I wanted to be a nurse or a teacher. Maybe that had something to do with the toys I played with or that I really thought my teachers were the greatest people in the world besides my parents.

About fourth grade, I fell in love with NASA, and I desperately wanted to be an astronaut, going so far as to write to the space agency.

Imagine my delight when I received an envelope full of astronomical facts.

Oh, and there was a dalliance with becoming an archaeologist, probably coinciding with the release of the first “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in 1981.

In junior high, I had my first taste of biology and chemistry.

So for a while, I thought I might become a biochemist. Then it was on to chemical engineering, mainly because applying chemistry to the real world seemed like a useful and noble pursuit.

Of course, this ran alongside my interest in library science. I spent a lot of time helping out the school librarian and trying to memorize the Dewey Decimal System for fun.

Then came high school, where I joined the debate team and saw my

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Official: No one injured, but cat missing after fire NORTHWEST HERALD ALGONQUIN – The Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District battled a residential structure fire Tuesday in Algonquin, a fire official said.

Battalion Fire Chief John Knebl said crews were called to the 1200 block of Winaki Trail about 3:27 p.m. for a report of a structure fire.

Upon arrival, firefighters found a single-story home with flames and smoke coming from the rear.

While battling the flames, firefighters encountered a partial collapse at the rear and were forced to extinguish the fire from the outside, Knebl said. The fire was under control about 4:20 p.m.

Knebl said no one was hurt in the fire, and a family cat in the home is missing.

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DeKALB – When Mary Kay Mace saw how tall the trees had grown around the Forward, Together Forward memorial statue on campus at Northern Illinois University, it reminded her that “time just keeps on moving.”

Mace’s daughter, Ryanne Mace, was one of the five NIU students killed nine years ago during the Feb. 14, 2008, shooting in Cole Hall.

“It’s strange to reflect on how next year is going to be the 10-year anniversary,” Mace said. “We’re going to be in the double digits; 10 years is more than half my daughter’s life.”

Ryanne Mace, 19; Gayle Dubowski, 20; Catalina Garcia, 20; Julianna Gehant, 32; and Daniel Parmenter, 20, were killed in the shooting, which occurred near the end of an oceanography class. Nineteen others were wounded.

The victims’ family members, students, faculty, President Doug Baker and others gathered Tuesday outside of Cole Hall and listened for a bell to toll five times at 3:06 p.m. in honor of the students who lost their lives.

After leaving flowers and tokens of remembrance in front of the memorial stones, many stood and put their arms around each other during a moment of silent reflection.

Mace said she and her husband haven’t been able to make the anniversary for the past three years because of the snow, but she was glad Tuesday was a nice day so they could come and connect with the other families.

“It’s soothing,” she said. “It’s kind of a balm for our pain to see that other people remember.”

Mace said that although the anniversary brings up a lot of emotions, it also makes her happy to be able to talk open-

“I like to think I’m a very social person, but I get nervous to talk and speak in class and ask my teacher for help,” Crowley said. “If I wasn’t part of this program, I think I would still be trying to come out of my shell.”

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She was born on December 16, 1942 in Chicago, the daughter of Leon and Helen (Smallwood) Tippet. On September 23, 1961, she married Richard F. Furst.

Kay is survived by her husband, Richard, and their 4 children, Donald (Betty Wilson) Furst, Robert (Kathy) Furst, Bryon (Kimberly) Furst, Mark (Lisa Serdar) Furst; grandchildren, Stephanie Cowden, Samantha Furst, Brandon Furst, Justin Furst, Sarah Furst, Alyssa Furst, Kristyn Furst, Michael Furst; great-grandchildren, Skylar, Hunter, Selena, Sophia, brother; Victor (Joan) Tippet; and sister, Judy Diane (Frank) Mical.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Memorial visitation will be held from 10:00am to 1:00pm on Saturday, February 18, 2017 at Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Dr., McHenry. Memorial service will begin at 12:30pm. Interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1801 S. Meyers Road, Suite 100, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181.

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than Garza, Bronson and Robbie Owen, Khristal (Brian) Keller, Selena Fuentes, Daniel Stith, Sonny (Calla) Stith, Samantha (Kenny) Dowell, JAIME E. BELLO Carl Jr., Andreas, and Emma Anderson, Jazmin Born: December 4, 1927; in Colombia (Ramiro) Lopez, Raquel (Alex) Carbajal, Alfonso Died: February 12, 2017; in McHenry, IL Lopez, Angel Lopez, Alejandra aka Peanut Lopez, Jaime “Jimmy” E. Bello, age Bradley, Derrick, Anna Jacobs, Max and Emily Ja89, of McHenry, passed away cobs; 10 great-grandchildren, Sonny Jr., Jalynn, Sunday, February 12, 2017, at Annie, Avery, Kurt, Serenity, Kody, Isayah, Zoe, home, surrounded by his loving MANUEL GARZA JR. Vida; one sister, Maria Garza and one brother, family.

Born: February 3, 1948 James Martin Garza.

He was born December 4, Died: February 12, 2017 He was preceded in death by his parents; son, 1927, to the late Carlos FranManuel Garza III (Jr); stepson, Shaun Jacobs, Manuel Garza Jr., 69, of cisco and Anna Betulia (Sanchez) Bello. On May and grandson, Nathan Fuentes.

Harvard passed away Sunday, 16, 1999, Jimmy married his wife, Krystyna, in Visitation will be 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Friday, FebFebruary 12, 2017 at his home Lake Tahoe. Jimmy has a passion for planes and LAVERGNE A. ADAMS ruary 17, 2017 at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral surrounded by his family. worked as a mechanic for the British Airways Born: June 21, 1927 Home, 107 W. Sumner St. Harvard, IL 60033. A He was born February 3, 1948 Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:00 a.m. Satfor over 30 years. He had a love for dancing, Died: February 4 2017 in Edinburg, TX the son of Man- urday, February 18, 2017 at St. Joseph Catholic music, and animals, especially birds. He enjoyed Lavergne A. Adams, 89, of Johnsburg IL uel and Maria Luz (Sanchez) spending time with his dog, Princess. Jimmy Church, 206 E. Front Street, Harvard, IL 60033.

Garza Sr. Manuel served in the Interment will follow at Calvary Cemeterywill always be remembered as a romantic, very passed away on Saturday Feb. 4 2017. The famiMarines during the Vietnam social, kind-hearted, and always willing to lend a ly sincerely thanks the staff at Alden Terrace for Woodstock, IL. providing loving care.

War. hand. He was very proud of his whole family.

Family and friends may sign the online guest Lavergne was born in Chicago IL to Thomas On September 28, 1990, he Jimmy is survived by his loving wife of 17 book at www.saundersmcfarlin.net. married Patricia Lynn Fiegel. years, Krystyna; his children, Carlo Bello, Ricardo and Agnes(Andersen) Petersen on June 21st For more information call the funeral home at Bello, Flor (Joe) Meyers, Bessie (Wayne) Brant- 1927. She married Ron Adams on June 20 1964. Manuel enjoyed camping with Noe and Tina and 815-943-5400.

Lavergne was active in Women of the Moose tinkering in the garage. He loved spending time ley, Bogdan (Lucyna) Grodecki, and Marzena McHenry, also the Blessed Virgin Mary Sodality with his friends and family. He will be missed by (Piotr) Holobud; grandchildren, Nickey, Corri, at St. John’s. all that knew him.

Tina, Tracy, Jaqueline, Kristina, Gina, Sean, MARIE J. GEORGE Lavergne was preceded in death by her Survivors include his wife of 26 years Patti; Elizabeth, Dianna, Jonathan, Raven, and Kaj; and Marie J. George, 95, of Belvidere, IL passed his 5 daughters, Stella Owen of Paducah, KY, nine great-grandchildren. He is further survived husband Ron; her parents; and siblings.

She is survived by her daughter, Debra (Bruce) Christine (Jesse) Garza/ Lira of Wonder Lake, IL, away Monday. by his sister, Yolanda Izquirdo, of Colombia; and Arrangements are pending at the Belvidere Eternick; grandchildren, Giles (Beth) Eternick, Angela (Cecil) Garza-Stith- Burch Falls of Rough cousin, Edgar.

Funeral Home Inc. In addition to his parents, Jimmy was preced- Annaleis (Will) Hulina, Colin Eternick, Ian (Kate) KY, Connie (Carl) Anderson of Woodstock, IL, Ann (Jose) Lopez of Harvard and stepson Ronnie ed in death by his first wife, Flor Bello; daughter, Eternick, Gretchen Eternick, Tegan Eternick, and Thane Eternick; 6 great-grandchildren, Jacobs of Harvard; 27 grandchildren, Isis and Na• Continued on page A12 Clara Bello; and his in-laws, Henryk Marszalek

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Funeral Mass with Rosary preceding will be celebrated at 11:00am on Thursday Feb. 16th at St. John the Baptist Church in Johnsburg IL. In lieu of flowers please consider contributions to the family or to Journey Care.

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A visitation will be held from 9:00am to time of Mass at 11:00am on Friday, February 17, 2017, at Church of Holy Apostles, 5211 Bull Valley Road, McHenry. Interment will follow at Woodland Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the family.

Arrangements were made by Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry, IL 60050. For more information visit www.colonialmchenry.com or contact the funeral home at 815-385-0063.

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CHARLES E. HOWELL Born: November 9, 1928 Died: February 13, 2017

Charles E. Howell, 88, of Woodstock, passed away on Monday, February 13, 2017 at the Hearthstone Manor in Woodstock.

He was born on November 9, 1928 in Woodstock to Jake and Hazel Howell. He was raised by his aunt and uncle, Lena and William Gancar.

He married Julia A. Carroll on September 12, 1953 at St. Patrick Church in Hartland.

Mr. Howell was a veteran. He and his brother Cliff joined the Navy right after high school. He then went to work for the Telephone Company and retired from AT&T after 35 years of service.

He was an avid golfer, and he bowled on many leagues. He was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church, a life member of the Woodstock Moose, and a life member of the Woodstock Knights of Columbus Council 776.

He is survived by his wife, Julia; sons, Robert (Alice), Lawrence (Kris), Donald, Edward (Maryellen); daughters, Laura, Nancee (Roswell), and Denise; and six grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his aunt and uncle; twin brother, Clifton; and a brother, James.

A visitation will be held on Thursday, February 16, 2017 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the Schneider Leucht Merwin & Cooney Funeral

Home, 1211 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, IL. The funeral Mass will be held on Friday, February 17, 2017 at 11:00 am at St. Mary Catholic Church, 312 Lincoln Avenue, Woodstock.

Interment will follow in Calvary Cemetery in Woodstock.

Memorials in his name may be made to University of Wisconsin Cancer Center.

For information call the Schneider, Leucht, Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home at 815 338 1710 or visit our website at www.slmcfh.com.

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Born: June 12, 1942; in Belvedere, IL Died: February 11, 2017; in Belvidere, IL Gale L. “Butch” Kunde, 74, of Belvidere passed away February 11, 2017 surrounded by his family.

He was born June 12, 1942 in Belvidere, the son of Harvey and Helen (Bloedorn) Kunde.

In July of 1961 he married Bonnie Nelson. Butch worked in the woodworking profession all his working years. He was an avid hunter and fisherman but loved all sports. Butch served as a Little League coach for many years and he was also a lifetime Atlanta Braves fan.

Butch was a very social man. He enjoyed spending time with his grandkids, family and friends. He was a social member of the American Legion and VFW and he liked pinochle with friends. Butch was also known to play the

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He also enjoyed crossword puzzles. All holidays brought a special joy for Butch, but he especially loved Christmas. Most of all Butch was a proud and loving husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.

He is survived by his loving wife of 56 years, Bonnie; his sons, Terry (Mary), Jim (Lisa), Tony (Marianne); his grandchildren, Ryan, Mallory, Cassie, Cody, Jake, Sam, Troy, Alexis, and Daniel; step-grandchildren, Brandan and Travis Brock; great-grandchildren, Graham, Beau, Michael, and one on the way; his mother, Helen Kunde Meinke; and his siblings, Bonnie (Bob) Oser, Ginny (Ed) Sytsma, and Larry Kunde.

He was preceded in death by his father, Harvey.

Visitation will be from 9:30am to noon on Saturday, February 18 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 6821 Main St., Union. The funeral service will be at Noon. Interment will be in Union Cemetery, Union.

Memorials may be made to St. John’s Lutheran Church.

Online condolences may be made at www. marengo-unionfuneralhome.com.

Joseph and Catherine (McLeod) LaPorte. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving during the Vietnam War. On March 24, 1972 he married Susan J. Sudeikis in Chicago. John was a meat cutter for National Tea Company, Sentry Foods, Meijer Foods, and Pacemaker Foods.

He is survived by his wife, Susan J. LaPorte; his children, Richard (Jaclyn) LaPorte, Jennifer (Rizik) Mohammad, and Justin LaPorte; his grandchildren, Isabella and Khloe LaPorte, Noah, Cordelia, and Ramzi Mohammad; and his brother, Thomas (Cathy) LaPorte. He was preceded in death by his parents and his siblings, Lawrence LaPorte and Margaret Widmer.

The family would like to thank the Veterans Assistance Commission of Boone County, Dr. Sharif of the VA Clinic of Rockford, the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Heartland Hospice, and Swedish Memorial Medical Clinic in Belvidere.

Visitation will be from 4:00 to 9:00pm on Thursday, February 16 at Marengo-Union Funeral Home, 505 E. Grant Hwy., Marengo.

There will be a service at 7:00pm. Interment will be at Noon on Friday, February 17 at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, 20953 W. Hoff Road, Elwood.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Veterans Assistance Commission of Boone County, 130 South State St., Suite 212, Belvidere, IL 61008.

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JOHN J. LAPORTE John J. LaPorte, 68, of Garden Prairie passed away February 13, 2017 surrounded by his family.

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preserves for the winter. She was an excellent Research Hospital housekeeper and outstanding cook, always For info: 847-639-3817 or kahlemoore.com. trying new recipes. She did all this and worked CLARK E. DUFIELD outside of the home, at Sterling Corporation, Born: March 1, 1922 Intermatic Inc. and lastly Janair in Richmond, IL Died: January 30, 2017 where she held the role of team leader until her retirement.

Clark E. Dufield was born on Leona and Ed maintained the Turner Family March 1, 1922 in Dundee, Illinois and passed away suddenly Cemetery for several years, where she will be laid to rest, next to her husband, daughter and on January 30, 2017.

Clark graduated from Crystal other family members.

Funeral services will be held at Olson FunerLake High School June 1941. He joined the al Home, Friday, February 17, 2017 at 12:00 United States Air Force on May 30, 1942. Clark DAKOTA M. SIKULA p.m. with a visitation from 10:00 am to 12:00 Born: January 15, 1996 survived in World War II and the Korean War. He married Phillis Nystrom on June 26, 1944 his p.m at the funeral home on Friday.

Died: February 11, 2017 high school sweetheart.

Clark is survived by his loving wife of 72 Dakota M. “Dale” Sikula, 21, of Hampshire years; Sons, Gary and Rodger; and daughter, ROSE M. NOLAN passed away suddenly Saturday evening, Feb. Diane; grandchildren, Cristi, Cole Neathery and 11, 2017 in DeKalb County.

Rod Paschall; great-granddaughter, Camden Rose M. Nolan, age 99, of Crystal Lake, forHe was born January 15, 1996 in Woodstock Paschall. merly of Henderson, NV, passed away Saturday, the son of Mike and Luann (Piske) Sikula. He Services were held at Dallas Fort Worth February 11, 2017, at The Fountains of Crystal was a 2014 graduate of Hampshire High School National Cemetery, Dallas Texas.

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Dakota loved the outdoors and all kinds of trucks, tractors, 4 wheelers, 3 wheelers and Jon L. Herlehy, of McHenry, passed away snowmobiles.

Friday, February 10, 2017 at Centegra Hospital Surviving are his mother, Luann; brother, in McHenry.

DELLA MARIE PASSAGLIA Kody; grandmothers, Alma Piske, and Terri Arrangements are pending at Hamsher Born: May 14, 1931; in Dubuque, IA Sikula; many aunts, uncles, cousins, extended Lakeside Funerals & Cremations, Fox Lake, IL. Died: February 12, 2017; in Cary, IL family, and good friends.

He was preceded in death by his father, Mike; Della M. Passaglia, age 85 and grandfathers, Allen Piske, and Mike Sikula.

LEONA M. LUECK of Cary passed away February The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 12, 2017.

Leona M. (McFarlane) Lueck, She was born May 14, 1931 in at 10:00 am Saturday, Feb. 18 at St. Charles Borromeo Church, 297 E. Jefferson Ave. in at age 85, Leona passed away Dubuque, Iowa.

Hampshire. Burial will follow in the Huntley February 11, 2017 after a long Dolly is survived by her chilCemetery. struggle with Alzheimer’s dren, Brenda (Mark) Walker, Visitation will be Friday from 3:00 to 8:00 pm disease.

Joylyn (Lawrence) Nagorny, Peter (Elizabeth) at the St. Charles Borromeo Church.

She is preceded in death Passaglia and Paul (Lisa) Passaglia, daughterIn lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in by her husband, Edwin; her in-law, Candaci (Marc) Passaglia Kresmery; her his name may be directed to the Dakota Sikula parents, Edward and Alma (Paulson) McFarlane; grandchildren, Ryan (Amy) Passaglia, Shannon brothers, Wilbur, Albert and Lloyd; sisters, Hazel (Christopher) Copeland, Zachary (Sarah) Hines, Memorial, c/o Fredrick Funeral Home, P.O. Box 445, Hampshire, IL 60140-445. Information Ehrenberg and Edna Stumpf; daughter, Peggy Christopher (Tessie) Nagorny, Philip Nagorny, (847) 683-2711.

Ann; son-in-law, Randy Findlay; step-grandAndrea (Fiance’ James) Passaglia, Amanda daughter, Anna Daumler, and she is survived Passaglia, Lindsey (Kyle) Medley, Kevin (Maura) by her sister, Lucille Ruda of Merrillan and her Passaglia, Kelsey (Amber) Passaglia; her great five children, Dwight (Marilyn) Genoa City, grandchildren, Lauren, Derek, Kailyn Passaglia, Duane, Gratiot, Douglas (Jean), Anderson SC, Christian, Caleb, Anavina, Micah Copeland, Diane (Walter Daumler) Green Bay and Debra Charlie Hines, and David Nagorny.

(Findlay) Ft. Atkinson; six grandchildren, eight She is preceded in death by her husband, great-grandchildren, three step-grandchildren Roger P. Passaglia; a son, Roger M. Passaglia; FRANK J. SILK and 11 stepgreat-grandchildren. and her mother, Melvina Davini.

Born: September 20, 1934; in Chicago, IL Leona was born in the farming area of CleveDolly will be greatly missed by those who Died: February 13, 2017; in Woodstock, IL land. She graduated from Bloomer High School meant the most to her. She was a woman of and worked at the Bloomer Theater, where grace and kindness who cherished her husband, Frank J. Silk, age 82, of McHenry, passed away she met her husband of 67 years, Edwin. They children and their spouses, grandchildren, Monday, February 13, 2017, at JourneyCare of married in 1949, moved to Minneapolis and great-grandchildren and her cat, Callie, as well Woodstock, surrounded by his loving family. started their family. They then moved to north- as her many dear friends. Nothing gave her He was born September 20, 1934 in Chicago, ern Illinois and established their life until retiring more joy than to be in the company of those she to John Joseph and Marie (Wujek) Silkowski. back to the New Auburn area. When friends loved. She will be remembered for her loving Formerly Prospect Heights, Niles, but it all and family stopped to visit, Leona always had a and welcoming spirit. started on the South Side of Chicago. On June cheery disposition, fresh pot of coffee and some Visitation will be held on Wednesday, February 15, 1957, he married the love of his life, Ann L. delectable dessert ready.

15, 2017 from 4:00 PM until 8:00 PM at the Silk nee Krawiec, whom he is reunited with once Family was very important to Leona and she Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Rd., again. Someone or something was looking out took care of them well. Leona never missed Cary. A Funeral Mass will be offered on February for him the day he bumped into his partner in a family member’s birthday or anniversary, 16th at 10:30 AM at Sts. Peter & Paul Church, crime. She provided the inspiration and expectaalways sending a card and giving a call, and 410 First St., Cary and will be followed by tion that lead him down the path to greatness. that’s a lot each year. She planted large gardens entombment at Windridge Memorial Park.

He was a simple man who never gave himself and went berry picking so she could put up Memorials appreciated to the St. Jude the credit he deserved, because it wasn’t

what mattered. It was always about loyalty, dedication, support, compassion, faith, honesty and hard work, accompanied with a wink n’ a whistle. We’re all so very thankful for the man who came from having virtually nothing. There are a never ending list of stories, nicknames, phrases, and memories which will fill our hearts forever.

Frank is survived by and will forever be remembered by his children, Dawn Silk, Joyce (Peter) Becker, Frank (Lisa) Silk, Vicki (Robert) Silk-VanOrmer; 9 grandchildren; one great-grandson; and his sister Ann (the late Ray) Brozynski.

In addition to his parents, Frank was preceded in death by his wife, Ann on September 7, 2014, sister, Clara Kimberling, and his two brothers, Richard and Chester Silk.

All family, friends, and acquaintances are welcome to join and share their memories with us for a short visitation on Friday, February 17th from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00a.m. at Justen Funeral Home, 3700 Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. We will leave in procession to St. John the Baptist Church, 2302 W. Church Street, Johnsburg, IL 60051, for the 10:30 a.m. funeral Mass.

Flowers and working outside were a big part of Frank’s life. The family requests that instead of donations or sending an abundance of flowers, that you pass on his love and give someone in need a rose bush that will provide happiness in its bloom all summer long. With a final breath we know he would say... Always Say A Prayer!

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

ELEANOR T. SOWA Eleanor T. Sowa, age 93, formerly of Decatur, MI passed away Tuesday February 7, 2017 in Woodstock, IL. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Andrew; her son, James; a sister, Anna; and brothers, Walter, Stanley and John.

Survivors include a son, Steven of Woodstock, IL; grandchildren, Jeni (Mark) Van Thomme and Patricia Lynn Sowa; a sister-in-law, Jean; and many nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held at Holy Family Church in Decatur. Those wishing to sign Eleanor’s memory book online may do so at www.starks-menchinger.com (http://www. starks-menchinger.com/) Memorials may be given in Eleanor’s name to either: Holy Family Catholic Church, 500 W. St. Mary Street, Decatur, MI 49045 or VFW Auxiliary, 560 N. Phelps Street. Decatur, MI 49045

JANET SPEARS Janet Spears, 84, of Cary passed away February 13, 2017.

Davenport Family Funeral Home is assisting the family. Please see www.davenportfamily. com.

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• Continued from page A14 Born: June 5, 1929 Died: February 10, 2017

MARYLIN RAY VEHRS

Born: August 19, 1937; in Chicago, IL Died: February 13, 2017; in Woodstock, IL Marylin Ray (nee Thielenhouse) Vehrs of Marengo passed away February 13, 2017.

Marylin was born August 19, 1937 in Chicago to Roy and Helen Thielenhouse. In 1959 she married her loving husband, Herb. She was a longtime member of Zion Lutheran Church and the Ladies Aid in Marengo.

She enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom until her children were grown; then she was a Realtor for 20 years.

Her loving husband, family and church were most important to her. She was a lifetime Cubs fan, loved polka dancing and having and celebrating Christmas with family.

She is survived by her loving husband and best friend, Herb; children, Kevin (Debbie), Randy (Kim), Herb (Laura), Dean, Melody (Tim) Winter and Rick (Carla); 14 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren; brother-in-law, Marv Birkhoff; dear sister in law, Bernice Lemke and a very special friend, Maureen Tisdall; and many nieces and nephews.

Marylin was preceded in death by her parents, Roy and Helen Thielenhouse; daughter, Linda;

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the lake, fishing and golfing with his sons and friends, and spending his winters in the Florida sunshine. Rich was always a hardworking man.

He started working for the family business, D & Z Transfer, after returning from active duty in the Navy in 1966. He continued for 33 years, eventually becoming president of the company and then moving on to become a Local 150 Operating Engineer. He will be missed every day by all of those who knew him.

Surviving are his wife of 50 yrs., Sheila; children, Scott (Laura), Lance (Linda), Stacy (Thad) Zimmerman Ferrell; grandchildren, Scott Jr., Brittany, and Autumn Marie Zimmerman, Wally, and RICHARD L ZIMMERMAN Hazel Ferrell; brothers and sisters, Jerry (Marilyn), Born: October 2, 1944 Sandy (Robert) Zanzig, Randy (Lynn), Pam (Gary) Died: February 10, 2017 Gallaugher; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Richard L Zimmerman, 72, of A Memorial Service will be held on Sat., Feb. Wisconsin, formerly of Huntley passed away early Friday morn- 18, 2017 at 1 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church, 11008 N. Church St. in Huntley. Inurnment with ing, Feb. 10, 2017 at Loyola Military Honors will be in the McHenry Co. Hospital in Maywood with his Memorial Park Cemetery in Woodstock. family by his side.

Visitation will be prior to services at the church He was born Oct. 2, 1944 in from 10:00 to 1:00pm.

Woodstock the son of Norman In lieu of flowers, memorials in his name may and Viola (Kolberg) Zimmerbe directed to the Leukemia Research Foundaman. He was a proud veteran tion, www.allbloodcancers.org/donate of the U.S. Navy. On Oct. 22, The James A. O’Connor Funeral Home in Hunt1966, he married Sheila Ule in ley is assisting the family. Info (847) 669-5111 or Huntley. visit www.jamesaoconnorfuneralhome.com.

Richard was a family man through and through. He loved his wife, children, and grandchildren with all of his heart. Rich and Sheila had recently retired to Lake Arrowhead in Wisconsin, finally getting his dream home on the lake. He enjoyed drinking his morning coffee overlooking

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Vernon M. Stefanski, 87, of Harvard, IL passed away on February 10, 2017 at home surrounded by his family.

Vernon was born on June 5, 1929 in Chicago to Vern and Libbie (Sikorski) Stefanski.

On August 5, 1967, he married Martha D. Hoeflich at Midwest Bible Church in Chicago; along with a new wife he had six new children, Karen, Linda, Gary, Julie, Louie and Mike. They went on to have two children together, Laurie and Peggy.

Vernon worked at Northern Illinois Gas for 39 years, until he retired as a young man in 1984. In his free time, Vern enjoyed his family, his many animals and bowling. He also enjoyed his home Bible study with the Jehovah Witnesses. In his younger days, Vernon served 12 years in the National Guard.

Vern was a loving, compassionate man who usually had a smile on his face and will be dearly missed.

Vernon is survived by his wife Martha; daughter, Laurie (Tom) Bellino; Step-children, Karen (Ed) Kuras, Linda Mitchell, Julie (Jack) Reveland, Louis Hoeflich, Michael (Vania) Hoeflich; Niece, Jill (Wilson) Drake; Numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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

Thursday, February 16 at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner St., Harvard, IL 60033. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday,

grandson Joshua and sister, Nancy Birkoff.

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

Wednesday, February 15, 2017, at Zion Lutheran Church, 412 Jackson St, Marengo. Visitation will continue February 16, 2017 from 9 a.m. until time of service at 10:00 a.m. at the church. Burial will take place in Memory Gardens, Arlington Heights.

Arrangements entrusted to Marengo-Union Funeral Home. Online condolences may be submitted at Marengo-unionfuneralhome.com.

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February 17 at the funeral home. Interment will be in McHenry County Memorial Park.

Family and friends may sign the online guest book at www.saundersmcfarlin.net.

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

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GEMS CONFERENCE – Aaron Cummins (right), a Prairie Ridge High School art teacher, shows Vanessa Holz different Lego pieces that may help complete her project. Students spoke to a Lego Master Builder about engineering Lego builds at the second annual District 155 GEMS (Girls in Engineering, Math and Science) Conference Jan. 28 at Prairie Ridge High School.

Thomas M. Armstrong shares his story of the segregated Deep South, when lynching, Klansmen and Jim Crow laws ruled in “My Life as a Foot Soldier for Civil Rights” from 7 to 8 p.m. Feb. 22 at Algonquin Area Public Library District – Harnish Main Library, 2600 Harnish Drive, Algonquin.

Armstrong belonged to a group of foot soldiers ready to sacrifice their lives for the right to vote, to enter rooms marked “White Only” and to live with simple dignity. He will share his experience as a Freedom Rider and his choice to get involved in building a more just and democratic society. His memoir, “Autobiography of a Freedom Rider,” offers a glimpse into the Mississippi civil rights involvement. This program is offered in cooperation with the District 300 African American Parent Advisory Committee. Registration required.

For information, call 847-458-3144.

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THINGS TO DO IN & AROUND McHENRY COUNTY

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WORLD FILM NIGHT: “GLASSLAND”

WHEN: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Feb. 15 WHERE: Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock COST & INFO: “Glassland” (Ireland), a winner at the Sundance Festival, film features Toni Collette. Set in Dublin, ‘Glassland’ tells the story of a young taxi driver who gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from drug addiction. Information: www. woodstockpubliclibrary. org.

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INDIE AUTHOR ADELE CRANDELL DURKEE

WHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 15 WHERE: Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Crandell Durkee will host a book signing and a reading from one of her books. Durkee talks about what led her to become an author and answers questions. Information: www. crystallakelibrary.org.

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Richmond Police to offer Citizen Academy

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The Richmond Police Department will offer its Citizen Police Academy from 6 to 9 p.m. Mondays, April 3 through June 12, at the Richmond Village Hall and Police Department.

The free program is open to everyone and offers participants a look into the behind-the-scenes world of the daily functions of law enforcement.

Applications can be found on the Village of Richmond website, www.richmond-il.com, the Richmond Police Department Facebook page or at the Richmond Village Hall and Police Department.

For information, contact Officer Jennifer Fillicaro or Lt. Scott Adams at the Richmond Police Department or call 815678-4163.

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• 9 a.m. – Senior coffee, games and lunch, St. John’s Lutheran Church, 9812 St. Albans St., Hebron. Salvation Army Golden Diner lunch at 11 a.m. Other activities at noon. Call 630-232-6676 to reserve a meal. Information: 815-648-2671 or www.stjlutheran.com.

• 1 to 2:30 p.m. – Village Quilters Meeting, 504 E. Diggins. St., Harvard. Presentation by The Stitchery of Delavan, Wisconsin, “What’s New At The Stitchery” with Nancy and Carrie. Cost: $5.

Information: 815-943-0922 or sml1935@mc.net.

• 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. – And the Winner is ...,

McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry.

An Academy Awards party. Create your own star for the “Hollywood Walk of Fame” and more. For Grades K-3. Free. Information: 815-385-0036 or mplyps@mchenrylibrary.org.

• 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. – Volunteer Literacy Tutor orientation session, McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. For anyone interested in becoming a volunteer literacy tutor for reading, math and/or English language skills. No registration required. Free.

Information: 815-455-8542 or www.mchenry. edu/volunteer.

• 7 to 9 p.m. – ShutterBugs Nature Photography Club, Volo Bog State Natural Area Visitor Center, 28478 W. Brandenburg Road, Ingleside.

Nonmembers welcome. Free. Information: www. shutterbugsofvolobog.com.

• 7 to 8:30 p.m. – Picture Perfect: Tips and Techniques for Great-Looking Por-

FREE THROW CHAMPIONSHIP – St. Mary’s Knights of Columbus Council 11666 hosted its annual Free Throw Championship Jan. 7.

Adam Guazzo (left), 12-year-old boys champion, is shown with Jerry O’Sullivan. trait and Event Photography, Johnsburg Public Library, 3000 N. Johnsburg Road, Johnsburg. Learn from professional photographer Molly Freund. For all skill levels. Registration required. Presented by the Johnsburg Library Photography Club. Free. Information: 815-3440077, jschoen@johnsburglibrary.org or www. johnsburglibrary.org/event.

• 7 p.m. – Chain-O-Lakes RC Eagles Club meeting, Whispering Hills Community Center, 4708 Jeffrey St., Johnsburg. Learn about unmanned flight as well as building and flying RC aircraft. Visitors welcome. Free. Information: 815307-5594, michael.schulz@gmail.com or www. coleagles.com.

Have an event to share? Submit your information online at PlanitNorthwest.com.

Photos may be emailed to neighbors@nwherald.com.

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By JOHN O’CONNOR The Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois officials waited more than five months to alert dozens of domestic violence programs that their funding had been eliminated, an omission that has forced layoffs and other cuts at some facilities, according to interviews and documents reviewed

by The Associated Press.

No one knows – or is saying – why about $9 million in state funding for 62 programs that provide shelter, counseling and advocacy for victims of domestic abuse was left out of a six-month budget that took effect July 1. When providers finally learned they were left empty-handed, they scrambled to make up the lost money by slashing jobs and salaries and expanding client waiting lists.

Although there is no indication officials intended to slice funding for the domestic violence programs, the money won’t easily be restored in the state’s precarious economic situation. Illinois has operated without a spending plan since July 2015 because of bickering between first-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democrats who control the Legislature.

Rauner will deliver a budget address Wednesday to the General Assembly.

Michelle Meyer, executive director

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Frat suspended after reports of sexual assaults at house

EVANSTON – The Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at Northwestern University has been suspended by its national headquarters after allegations of sexual assault at the local fraternity house.

The Chicago Tribune reported that the suspension was confirmed Friday.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon spokesman Brandon Weghorst says the chapter has to “cease and desist all operations,” meaning it can’t hold chapter meetings, attend fraternity social events or take part in other activities under the fraternity’s banner.

The newspaper has reported that Northwestern administrators issued a security alert Feb. 6 after reports that as many as four female students were possibly given a date rape drug last month during an event

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Advocates for victims of domestic abuse protest Oct. 1, 2015, outside of state offices in downtown Chicago. The Illinois Department of Human Services waited five months to inform dozens of domestic violence shelters there was no money for them in a temporary budget lawmakers approved last summer. of Kane County-based Mutual Ground, a 24-hour shelter and counseling center, laid off four people in November after months of not receiving checks – or answers – from the state. They include a case manager and a sexual assault counselor. That’s not counting the six who have left in the last year Mutual

Ground can’t afford to replace.

“We have no more case managers, who help clients get benefits, housing, child care, accompany them to court,” Meyer said. “There’s nobody to pick up that work. Everybody that we can’t help is put on a waiting list.”

It wasn’t until Dec. 16 – just two

at the fraternity’s house. Two of the women said they were sexually assaulted.

The reported sexual assaults are under investigation.

he will announce on Wednesday in his budget speech a push to fund 200 more state police cadets to patrol Chicago-area expressways. In 2016, there were 51 shootings on those roadways, compared with 37 in 2015.

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Rauner to push funding more state police cadets

CHICAGO – A Chicago toddler was shot and killed on Tuesday in what police suspect was a “gang hit” on a man in a vehicle with her, just a few days after two young girls were shot in the head. It marked the latest spasm of violence in a city struggling to contain such attacks.

Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said police suspect the man, a well-known gang member with an extensive criminal history, was the target of the shooting that also left a woman wounded.

The shootings highlight the street gang violence that police said was largely responsible for 762 homicides last year – nearly 300 more than occurred in 2015 – and more than 3,500 shooting incidents.

Those kinds of numbers help explain why Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office said

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Chicago schools sue state over ‘discriminatory’ funding

CHICAGO – Chicago Public Schools filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the governor and state education officials, claiming the way Illinois funds its schools violates the civil rights of the predominantly minority student population in the nation’s third-largest school district.

The complaint, filed on behalf of black and Hispanic families who say Chicago’s schools are underfunded, seeks to have a Cook County judge declare the funding system unlawful.

The lawsuit cites the landmark Brown v. Board of Education civil rights case. It argues Illinois essentially has one way of funding Chicago schools, where 90 percent of the students are Hispanic and black, and another for the other districts statewide,

weeks before the temporary budget expired – that Human Services Secretary James Dimas sent a letter to all providers alerting them that the money had been left out.

The program was fully funded in 2015-2016, at $18.6 million, money that was tapped out by late summer. In his letter, Dimas acknowledged “some confusion” about funding in the latest spending plan and promised that it would be fully paid when available.

Dimas offered no explanation for the delayed announcement, and spokeswoman Meghan Powers declined to answer AP questions about the late notice.

Experienced state vendors know they sign state contracts that make payment dependent on legislative approval. But domestic violence program providers say they submitted budgets to DHS for review and, in some cases, had to amend them before getting DHS contract approval last spring. Without notice that there wasn’t money forthcoming, “They’ve already spent that money and they’re struggling,” said Vickie Smith, executive director of the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Of the 62 domestic violence sites that receive state funding, 39 also receive federal money because they provide 24-hour shelters, Smith said. That amounts to about two months’ worth of operations.

which are predominantly white.

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Lincoln sculpture stolen from museum found in a church

KANKAKEE – A sculpture of Abraham Lincoln’s hand that was stolen from the Kankakee County Museum more than a year ago has been found in a local church.

The plaster study by George Grey Barnard was discovered in the back of St. Rose of Lima Parish on Sunday afternoon, the Daily Journal reported.

“It’s a miracle,” said Connie Licon, museum director. “It happened in a church.

It happened on a Sunday. It happened on Lincoln’s birthday.”

A church usher found it in a bag with a note requesting that it be returned to the museum. The usher contacted Licon, who identified it as the lost piece Monday morning.

The sculpture was taken sometime in December 2015. The museum has improved security since the incident, installing security cameras and adding glass cases over all the small pieces.

– Wire reports

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS GOP blocks Dems’ efforts does not cover Washington or to get Trump’s tax returns politics.

WASHINGTON – House Republicans on Tuesday blocked an attempt by Democrats to use an obscure law to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns from the IRS. Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee tried to frame the issue as a matter of national security. They questioned whether Trump has any investments in Russia.

Trump has said he has no investments in Russia, and Democrats acknowledged that they have no evidence otherwise. That’s why they want Trump’s returns, said Rep. Joseph Crowley, R-N.Y. The Ways and Means Committee has legal authority to obtain confidential tax records. The committee then could vote to make them public.

She said, “The comment was not intended to be public, but it was nonetheless completely inappropriate and should not have occurred.”

Lawyer: No promises were made to Brendan Dassey

CHICAGO – State attorneys tried to persuade a panel of federal appellate judges that a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” made a voluntary confession and was properly convicted.

Brendan Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in connection with Teresa Halbach’s death two years earlier. Dassey told detectives he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill Halbach in the Avery family’s Manitowoc County salvage yard.

A federal magistrate judge N.Y. Times: Reporter’s first overturned Dassey’s conviction in August, ruling investigators took lady dig ‘inappropriate’ advantage of the then-16-year-old NEW YORK – The New York Times said a reporter’s comment Dassey’s cognitive disabilities and about an unfounded rumor about tricked him into confessing with false promises that he would be all first lady Melania Trump in a right. The state Department of Jusprivate conversation with an actress at a party was “completely tice has appealed; Dassey remains in prison pending the outcome. inappropriate.”

The Milwaukee Journal SenThe comment came to light tinel reported that DOJ Deputy after actress Emily Ratajkowski Solicitor General Luke Berg told a tweeted Monday that a Times three-judge panel at the 7th U.S. journalist told her “Melania is a Circuit Court of Appeals in Chihooker.” cago that detectives never made Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said in a statement Mon- Dassey any specific promises.

– Wire reports day that the unnamed reporter

Officials: Trump knew Flynn misled his aides

By JULIE PACE and VIVIAN SALAMA The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Just six days into his presidency, Donald Trump was informed his national security adviser had misled his vice president about contacts with Russia. Trump kept his No. 2 in the dark and waited another two weeks before ousting the aide, Michael Flynn, citing a slow but steady erosion of trust, White House officials said Tuesday.

Flynn was interviewed by the FBI about his telephone conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., a sign his ties to Russia had caught the attention of law enforcement officials.

But in the White House’s retelling of Flynn’s stunning downfall, his error was not that he discussed U.S. sanctions with the Russian before the inauguration – a potential violation of a rarely enforced law – but the fact that he denied it for weeks, apparently misleading Vice President Mike Pence and other senior Trump aides about the nature of the conversations. White House officials said they conducted a thorough review of Flynn’s interactions, including transcripts of calls secretly recorded by U.S. intelligence officials, but found nothing illegal.

Pence, who had vouched for Flynn in a televised interview, is said to have been angry and deeply frustrated.

“The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable incidents is what led the president to ask General Flynn for his resignation,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Tuesday, one day after the president asked Flynn to leave.

Flynn, in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation, said Monday “there were no lines crossed” in his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

The explanation of the epi-

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National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing Feb. 1 at the White House in Washington, D.C. Flynn resigned as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Monday. sode left many questions unanswered, including why Trump didn’t alert Pence to the matter and why Trump allowed Flynn to keep accessing classified information and taking part in the president’s discussions with world leaders up until the day he was fired.

White House officials also struggled to explain why Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway had declared the president retained “full confidence” in Flynn just hours before the adviser had to submit his letter of resignation.

The White House shakeup, less than one month into Trump’s tenure, marked another jarring setback for a new administration already dealing with a legal fight over the president’s travel ban order and tensions among top aides.

Flynn’s firing also heightened questions about the president’s friendly posture toward Russia. Democrats called for investigations into Flynn’s contacts, and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Congress needed to know whether he had been acting with direction from the president or others.

Trump initially thought Flynn could survive the controversy, according to a person with direct knowledge of the president’s views, but a pair of explosive stories in The Washington Post in recent days

made the situation untenable.

As early as last week, he and aides began making contingency plans for Flynn’s dismissal, a senior administration official said. While the president was said to be upset with Flynn, he also expressed anger with other aides for “losing control” of the story and making his young administration look bad.

Pence spokesman Marc Lotter said Pence became aware that he had received “incomplete information” from Flynn only after the first Washington Post report Thursday night.

Pence learned about the Justice Department warnings to the White House around the same time.

The officials and others with knowledge of the situation were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and requested anonymity.

Ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration, Pence and other officials insisted publicly that Flynn had not discussed sanctions in his talks with Kislyak.

On Jan. 26, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates contacted White House counsel Don McGahn to raise concerns about discrepancies between the public accounting and what intelligence officials knew to be true about the contacts based on routine recordings of communications with foreign officials who are in the U.S.

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and PAUL ELIAS The Associated Press

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Over the weekend, the swollen lake spilled down the unpaved emergency spillway for nearly 40 hours, leaving it badly eroded.

The problem occurred six days after engineers discovered a growing hole in

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State and federal officials ignored calls in 2005 from environmental groups to armor the earthen spillway in concrete to prevent erosion. Federal regulators concluded the earthen spillway could handle a large amount of overflow after water agencies that would have had to pay for the upgrade argued it was unnecessary.

On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. John Gara-

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OROVILLE, Calif. – Nearly 200,000 Northern Californians who live downstream of the country’s tallest dam were allowed to return home Tuesday after two nights of uncertainty, but they were warned they may still have to again flee to higher ground on a moment’s notice if hastily made repairs to the battered structure don’t hold.

The fixes could be put to their first test later this week with first of a series of small storms forecast for the region.

But the real test is still to come in the weeks ahead when a record amount of snowfall melts in nearby mountains.

“There is the prospect that we could issue another evacuation order if the situation changes and the risk increases,” Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said Tuesday, telling residents they could return home but to remain vigilant.

Residents living below the Oroville Dam were suddenly ordered to evacuate Sunday afternoon after water authorities had assured them for nearly a week that the dam was sound despite a gaping and growing hole found in the structure’s main spillway. The order came after authorities feared an earthen

mendi, a Democrat who represents an area near Oroville, called the government’s failure to coat the spillway in concrete “a classic case of woulda, coulda, shoulda.”

He said that if the state had listened to the 2005 warnings and installed the concrete a decade ago, “This problem would not have occurred. But they didn’t, and there are probably multiple reasons why,” with cost a crucial one.

The California Department of Water Resources said both holes had been repaired and the dam was ready to handle rain and melting snow. State water officials said they have drained enough of the lake behind Oroville Dam that the emergency spillway will not be needed to handle runoff from an approaching storm.

Forecasts call for 2 inches to 4 inches of rain and snow in the foothills and mountains starting Wednesday night.

But the storm was looking colder than initially projected, meaning less snow and less runoff than last week’s storms.

Acting department chief Bill Croyle said 40 trucks have dumped 30 tons of bags loaded with sand, concrete blocks and boulders every hour into the damaged areas, while helicopters have dropped bags of rocks onto the problem sites.

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Stanley Patz (right), father of 6-year-old Etan Patz – who disappeared on the way to the school bus stop 38 years ago – reacts after a news conference Tuesday in New York’s Manhattan Supreme Court with Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann after the second trial for the man convicted of killing the boy.

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NEW YORK – Nearly four decades after 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished on the way to his school bus stop, a former convenience store clerk was convicted Tuesday of murder in a case that influenced American parenting and law enforcement.

The jury verdict against Pedro Hernandez gave Etan’s relatives a resolution they had sought since May 1979 and gave prosecutors a conviction that eluded them when a 2015 jury deadlocked.

“The Patz family has waited a long time, but we’ve finally found some measure of justice for our wonderful little boy, Etan,” said his father, Stanley Patz, as he choked up.

“I am truly relieved, and I’ll tell you, it’s about time. It’s about time.”

Hernandez, who once worked in a shop in Etan’s neighborhood, had confessed, but his lawyers said his admissions were the false imaginings of a man whose mind blurred the boundary between reality and illusion.

On the earlier jury, the lone holdout against conviction cited the mental health issue as a major reason for his stance. This time, the jury concluded Hernandez had a psychiatric disorder but hadn’t imagined killing the boy, one member said.

“We decided he has an illness ... but that didn’t make him delusional,” said Michael Castellon, a construction company attorney. “We think that he could tell right from wrong. He could tell fantasy from reality.”

Hernandez, 56, showed no reaction on hearing the verdict, but his lawyers said he planned to appeal. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 28.

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resolve the story of what happened to Etan back in 1979,” lawyer Harvey Fishbein said.

Etan became one of the first missing children ever pictured on milk cartons, and the anniversary of his disappearance has been designated National Missing Children’s Day. His parents lent their voices to a campaign to make missing children a national cause, and it fueled laws that established a national hotline and made it easier for law enforcement agencies to share information about vanished youngsters.

And his disappearance helped tilt parenting to more protectiveness in a nation where many families had felt comfortable letting children play and roam alone. As Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi put it when the trial opened last fall, Etan “will forever symbolize the loss of that innocence.”

The long-awaited verdict had one prosecutor quoting the Bible – “justice shall you pursue,” Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann said – and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. declaring that Hernandez’ guilt had been “affirmed beyond all lasting doubt.” The verdict even spurred tears from some pro-conviction jurors from the first trial, who had attended the second one, although the lone holdout, Adam Sirois, said via text message that he hadn’t changed his mind in feeling there wasn’t enough evidence to convict.

Still, the Patz family – which focused for years on another suspect before Hernandez’s 2012 arrest – may never know exactly what became of the boy.

Hernandez told authorities he’d left Etan’s body, still living, in a box with some trash, but no trace of him has been found since he vanished in a then-edgy but neighborly part of lower Manhattan.

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Postal Service needs more than Band-Aid The U.S. Postal Service continues to hemorrhage red ink. The USPS reported a net loss of $5.6 billion for fiscal 2016, the 10th straight year its expenses have exceeded revenue. Meanwhile, the Postal Service has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs.

There are many reasons this formerly stable federal institution finds itself on the brink of insolvency. Fundamentally, the USPS is in a historic squeeze between technological change that permanently has decreased demand for its bread-and-butter product, first-class mail, and a regulatory structure that denies management the flexibility to adjust its operations to the new reality.

To cite just one example: Products that account for 74 percent of USPS revenue are covered by a statutory price cap.

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS’s ultimate overseer – Congress – insisting whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected. This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization; the average postal delivery vehicle went into operation about President Bill Clinton’s first year in office.

Now comes word that everyone involved – Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system’s heaviest users – finally have agreed on a plan to fix the system. Legislation is moving through the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that would save USPS an estimated $28.6 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures. Most of the money would come from a penny-per-letter permanent rate increase and from shifting postal retirees into Medicare (to which they already contributed through payroll deductions). The latter step largely would offset the financial burden of annually pre-funding retiree health care, thus addressing a long-standing complaint by the USPS and its unions.

If it clears the House, this measure still would have to get through the Senate – where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform. There’s no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency’s costs.

Also missing is any discussion of eliminating Saturday letter delivery. That common-sense change enjoys wide public support and would save the USPS $2 billion a year.

But postal special-interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House.

The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS – which is progress of a sort. It is not, however, a sign they’re getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.

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Civil forfeiture a national scandal

When President Donald Trump recently offered to “ruin the career” of the Texas lawmaker pushing civil forfeiture reform, the ensuing political maelstrom made headlines for days. But far more important than the president’s remarks, which seemed to have been offered at least half in jest, is the question of whether the laws need changing in the first place.

Boy, do they. Civil forfeiture as practiced in Texas and many other states is an affront to even the most basic notions of due process and of presumed innocence. It’s also a direct assault of property rights.

In Texas, the government routinely seizes cash, cars, homes and other valuables for people suspected of certain crimes, especially those related to drugs.

A suspected drug dealer may have a satchel of cash seized.

Or a parent whose adult child is accused of dealing drugs in the home even may have the house seized.

The scandal is that the government often gets to keep the money even if the suspects are never convicted or, as in many cases, never even charged.

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If the property belongs to someone else – say, the suspect had borrowed a car or lived with a parent or friend – the true owners must, at their own considerable expense, prove they were “innocent owners.”

That’s a burden of proof higher than what it takes to convict a defendant. If they can’t prove it, they lose the property – whether they had anything to do with the crime or not.

This system ought to offend anyone, liberal or conservative, who values property rights, respects due process or values simple fairness.

It’s true local departments have come to depend on money from these forfeitures. Federal agencies reported more than $4.5 billion worth of seized property in 2014, with some paid back to victims but much more shared with local, state and federal law enforcement. In Texas, the annual total seized by state and local officials was more than $63 million in 2013. Local officials have been dinged in the past for violating rules on how to spend the money, too.

No wonder officials such as Rockwall County Sheriff Harold

Eavenson like the program. But his decision to squander his time with the president to complain about reform efforts was a poor one.

The bills filed to fix this situation need help, not scorn.

Perhaps the best bill this session has been filed by Sen. Konni Burton, a Colleyville Republican.

SB 380 would require that seized property be returned unless the suspect is convicted of a crime.

Even then, the owner would be entitled to a hearing to determine whether the value of the seized properly is massively out of proportion to the crime itself.

The bill, which reasonably includes a dozen or so broadly worded exceptions, also would require the government to return property to third parties who were not convicted, unless it can show they were somehow involved or had knowledge of the crime.

Civil forfeiture is a national scandal, and reforms are needed

by Congress, too. But Texas lawmakers have the chance to clean up our house first, and they should do so while the current Legislature meets.

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How Trump will change Obamacare

By PETER R. ORSZAG Bloomberg View

Promises made by President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act are proving to be more complicated than they sounded on the campaign trail. With reality now setting in, what’s most likely to happen?

I expect to see Republicans stage a dramatic early vote to repeal, with legislation that includes only very modest steps toward replacement – and leave most of the work for later. Next, the new administration will aggressively issue waivers allowing states to experiment with different approaches, including changes to Medicaid and private insurance rules. At some point, then, the administration will declare these state experiments have been so successful, Obamacare no longer exists.

In other words, the repeal vote will be just for show; the waivers will do most of the heavy lifting.

I predict something like this will happen because of two core challenges that stand in the way of Republicans’ replacing the ACA through legislation: the need for so-called community rating and the need to have 60 votes in the Senate to pass a comprehensive new health care law.

First, community rating. It is one of the basic building blocks needed to create a workable private insurance market – whether Democrats or Republicans are doing the building. If your insurance covers a pre-existing

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To the Editor: As a Nunda Township taxpayer, I want to believe our leadership is using my money responsibly.

The current supervisor is paid full time at a salary of $76,000, and – except for the rare occasion when someone visits to apply for general assistance – I’m not sure what he’s doing for our community.

I’m also concerned about the cost of the garden in our township. While supervisor Lee Jennings claims taxpayers aren’t paying for its maintenance, it’s unclear who’s funding things like the shed, irrigation system and parking lot. I want value and accountability for my tax dollars, not a Nunda gardener.

We need a change in leadership. I’ve known candidate Catherine Williams for 25 years, and I’m confident she is the right per-

condition but at a cost of, say, $100,000, that doesn’t really help. Community rating requires that your premium be the same as that of other people in your area, no matter how unhealthy you are.

With community rating in place, the next step is to recognize how easy it is to game the system: People can just wait until they get sick, then buy insurance at the community rate. To discourage that practice, the system needs to give people some strong incentive to purchase insurance before they get sick. The Affordable Care Act used an individual mandate; most Republican plans instead propose a requirement for continuous coverage. That is, people enjoy access to community-rated premiums in the future only if they have kept themselves insured over some period of time in the past.

Given the costs involved, subsidies are also needed to ensure that low- and moderate-income households can afford the coverage. This overall structure means that younger, healthier people implicitly subsidize older, sicker people.

Such are the inescapable constraints imposed by community rating. Community rating could be discarded, as Mark Pauly of the University of Pennsylvania has argued. Pauly instead proposes that insurance companies be allowed to vary people’s premiums according to their health status, and that general revenue be used to pay sicker people’s higher premiums. This would require substantial new taxes, however, which is presumably a nonstarter in a

son for the job. She’s fiscally responsible.

Please join me in helping elect a new leader who will listen to our concerns.

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To the Editor: Feb. 28, is election day for township offices in Algonquin Township, and Scott Rodgers, highway commissioner of Boone Township, and myself, Norm Pierce, highway commissioner of Caledonia Township, both of Boone County, would like to take this opportunity to share our support of Bob Miller, the current Algonquin Township highway commissioner.

Bob has served Algonquin Township well for the past 24 years. He has maintained 65 miles of road and provided outstanding ser-

Republican plan. In any case, it would only make the transfers to older, sicker people more explicit.

The second challenge is more nakedly political: Without a substantial change in Senate procedure, a bill to fully replace the Affordable Care Act, including changes to insurance rules, will require 60 votes. Republicans have only 52, so at least eight Democratic senators would need to be persuaded to go along. This is a much tougher assignment, especially since the administration will already be calling in legislative favors on ongoing confirmations, the debt limit, tax reform and other issues.

The Republicans’ desire to hold an early partisan vote repealing the ACA (through the reconciliation process that requires only a simple majority in the Senate) seems too strong to resist. The repeal will probably be set to become effective in the future, perhaps 2019 or 2020.

This vote will probably be closer than many people think, given the concerns that some moderate Republican senators have expressed about repealing the ACA with no replacement ready. Some far-right Republicans may also balk at anything less than a full immediate repeal. For the White House, however, the closeness of the vote will be a feature rather than a bug, because it will create the impression that the vote is significant.

The repeal legislation will probably include some modest steps toward replacing the ACA, but these will be mostly symbolic measures such as allowing

insurance companies to sell across state lines (which by itself would do little to lower people’s premiums). The hard work of a creating comprehensive replacement is then likely to get bogged down in legislative muck.

But the administration can use its expansive waiver authority to allow states to experiment with both Medicaid and the individual insurance markets. As these 50 flowers bloom, President Trump could at some point declare victory and assert the ACA has been sufficiently reformed.

This approach, whatever its potential substantive shortcomings, provides a major political benefit: The administration would not necessarily own the many problems that inevitably would remain. In response to any particular complaint in a specific state, the administration could simply shrug its shoulders and direct the inquiry to the relevant governor.

This outlook assumes that the Republican leadership in Congress isn’t willing, or lacks the votes, to change the Senate’s traditional rules, and that a comprehensive replacement for the ACA will indeed require 60 votes. If that changes, all bets are off.

• Peter R. Orszag is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is a vice chairman of investment banking at Lazard. He was President Barack Obama’s director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2009 to 2010 and the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2007 to 2008.

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vice for all of his residents. He is president of the McHenry County Township Highway Commissioners’ Association, which includes 19 different townships. Bob is active in Springfield, meeting with our legislators, bringing back information that affects us all. Scott and I belong to this organization because we want to be informed and Bob takes his job very seriously. He is a good

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Volkswagen fuel-efficient diesel and other models are displayed Feb. 10, 2010, at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show in Chicago. A federal judge in San Francisco granted initial approval to a deal worth at least $1.2 billion that aims to compensate the owners of roughly 78,000 Volkswagens that were rigged to cheat on emissions tests. Owners of 20,000 3-liter VW models dating back to 2009-2012 that can’t be fixed to meet pollution standards will be offered buybacks or trade-ins.

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge in San Francisco granted initial approval Tuesday to a deal worth at least $1.2 billion that aims to compensate the owners of roughly 78,000 Volkswagens with 3-liter engines that were rigged to cheat on emissions tests.

The company previously agreed to spend up to $10 billion compensating owners of roughly 475,000 Volkswagens and Audi vehicles with 2-liter diesel engines – the bulk of the vehicles caught up in Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer congratulated attorneys for Volkswagen and car owners before granting preliminary approval to the smaller deal involving Volkswagens, Audis and Porsches. He said the settlement was complicated and motivated by economic and environmental concerns.

The deal offers thousands of dollars in compensation to individual car owners on top of buybacks or repairs.

“This settlement marks an important milestone in Volkswagen’s efforts to make things right in the United States,” said Robert Giuffra, an attorney representing

the company.

Owners of 20,000 3-liter models dating back to 2009-2012 that cannot be fixed to meet pollution standards will be offered buybacks or trade-ins. They also will receive compensation ranging from $7,755 to $13,880, according to attorneys representing car owners.

People who bought 58,000 newer cars will get compensation of $7,039 to $16,114.

If VW can’t fix the newer cars to regulators’ satisfaction, then the owners’ attorneys are expected to go back to court to seek buybacks. That could push the value of the deal for the 3-liter engines up to $4 billion.

Preliminary approval allows consumers to weigh in on the deal and learn online whether they have an eligible vehicle and how much compensation to expect.

Breyer set May 11 for a hearing on final approval.

Volkswagen has now settled most U.S. consumer claims stemming from the emissions scandal and agreed to pay $4.3 billion to settle a U.S. criminal investigation.

The company has acknowledged that the cars were programmed to turn on emissions controls during government lab tests and turn off the controls while on the road.

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Hugh Jackman has revealed another treatment for skin cancer.

The 48-year-old star of the X-Men and Wolverine franchises posted a selfie on social media Monday showing off his bandaged nose. Jackman writes, “Another basal cell carcinoma. Thanks to frequent checks & amazing doctors, all’s well. Looks worse w the dressing on than off!”

He also offered his fans some advice to wear sunscreen.

Jackman has been open about his battle against skin cancer in recent years. Basal-cell carcinoma is a slow-growing form of skin cancer.

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Harrison Ford arrives Jan. 10, 2016, at the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. NBC-TV says Ford had a potentially serious run-in with an airliner at a Southern California airport. NBC reported that Ford was told to land on a runway at John Wayne Airport in Orange County on Monday but mistakenly landed on a parallel taxiway, passing over an American Airlines jet holding nearby.

Report: Harrison Ford has jet run-in at California airport SANTA ANA, Calif. – Actor Harrison Ford had a potentially serious run-in with an airliner at a Southern California airport, NBC-TV reported Tuesday.

Ford, 74, was told to land his single-engine plane on a runway at John Wayne Airport in Orange County on Monday, but he mistakenly landed it on a parallel taxiway, passing over an American Airlines jet holding nearby, NBC reported.

“Was that airliner meant to be underneath me?” Ford is heard asking air-traffic controllers in a recording, NBC reported.

American Airlines Flight 1456, with 110 passengers and six crew, departed safely for Dallas a few minutes later.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor couldn’t confirm that Ford was piloting the Aviat Husky that overflew the Boeing 737, but he said the pilot received and had read back the proper landing instructions.

The FAA is investigating, Gregor said.

Ford collects vintage planes and has a long and good record as an aviator.

But he has had several close calls.

In March 2015, Ford suffered a broken arm and a gashed forehead when his World War II-era trainer crashed on a Los Angeles golf course when it lost power shortly after takeoff.

In 1999, Ford crash-landed his helicopter during a training flight in which he and an instructor were practicing auto rotations in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles. Ford and the instructor were unhurt.

LOS ANGELES – The Oscar-nominated film “Hidden Figures” about the untold story of the black women mathematicians who worked at NASA during the space race will screen for free in select U.S. cities in celebration of Black History Month.

AMC Theaters and 21st Century Fox said Tuesday that screenings will take place on Feb. 18 at 10 a.m. in 14 cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Miami.

“Hidden Figures” stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae. It has become a critical and box office hit. The movie earned three Oscar nominations, including best picture.

Rachel Lindsay named ABC’s first black ‘Bachelorette’

LOS ANGELES – ABC has named a black woman as its “Bachelorette” for the first time in the show’s history.

Rachel Lindsay will lead the 13th season of “The Bachelor” spinoff. The announcement came Monday night on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

The news is somewhat of a spoiler for fans of the ongoing season of “The Bachelor.”

The 31-year-old attorney from Texas has yet to be eliminated from the dating show, where she is competing for the affections of Nick Viall. Nevertheless, Lindsay told Kimmel on Monday that she’s ready to find love and a husband. She also encouraged the audience to send any interested suitors to apply for the show.

“The Bachelorette” begins airing in May.

LOS ANGELES – Turner Classic Movies is recognizing Sidney Poitier, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher at its eighth annual TCM Classic Film Festival.

The Los Angeles event opens April 6 with a 50th anniversary screening of “In the Heat of the Night.”

Festival organizers said Poitier, the star of the film, will appear at the screening along with producer Walter Mirisch, director Norman Jewison, actress Lee Grant and composer Quincy Jones.

The festival will celebrate Reynolds with a screening of “Singin’ in the Rain,” and Fisher with a look at “Postcards From the Edge.”

Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd, and Reynolds’ son, Todd Fisher, will host discussions after the screenings.

Mics fixed, Metallica heads out on tour

The good news: 26 million people were glued to their TV sets Sunday night as heavy metal heroes Metallica gave their genre a rare appearance on network TV. The bad news: A decent portion of their must-see duet with Lady Gaga was sung into a dead microphone. Her vocals were fine.

But with their “Spinal Tap” moment behind them, Metallica is heading out on a 23date North American stadium tour in May in support of their new album “Hardwired ... To Self-Destruct.” It’s their first real tour since 2009, and the album has sold nearly 2 million copies since its November release.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Actress Claire Bloom is 86. Songwriter Brian Holland (Holland-Dozier-Holland) is 76. Drummer Mick Avory of The Kinks is 73. Actress Marisa Berenson (“Barry Lyndon”) is 70. Actress Jane Seymour is 66. Singer Melissa Manchester is 66. Cartoonist Matt Groening (“The Simpsons”) is 63. Model Janice Dickinson is 62. Singer Ali

Campbell (UB40) is 58. Actor Michael Easton is 50. Actress Renee O’Connor (“Xena: Warrior Princess”) is 46. Actress Sarah Wynter (“24”) is 44. Singer Brandon Boyd of Incubus is 41.

Singer Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes is 37. Actress Natalie Morales (“The Grinder,” “90210”) is 32.

Actress Amber Riley (“Glee”) is 31.

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Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – Don’t sit back when you should be taking advantage of every opportunity that comes your way. Make every move count. Be a participant and indulge in mental, physical and financial endeavors that will make you feel good about your achievements and lifestyle.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Sign up for whatever interests you. Past friendships and experiences will play a role in some important decisions. Make a commitment to someone or something you believe in. Financial gain looks likely.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – You can offer to help others, but don’t let anyone take advan-

tage of you. Set reasonable expectations and only promise what you know you can deliver.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Be confident about your words and actions. Mark your territory and prove to everyone you encounter that you know what you are doing and plan to get ahead. Love is highlighted.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Difficulties with a colleague will set you back. Don’t meddle or interfere in someone else’s personal affairs. Focus on making personal changes, not on trying to change others.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Emotional misunderstandings will develop if you are evasive about your feelings and desires. Honesty will play an important role when dealing with matters that affect your reputation.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Problems will arise with some former associates. Avoid anyone who might be a bad influence. Stick to people you can trust and who share your concerns and interests.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Share information with people you want to spend more time with. The friendship you have will provide you with a comfortable forum to promote your skills and services.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Money matters and medical issues will surface if you don’t take good care of your health and investments. Don’t trust anyone but yourself to look out for your interests.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Disagreements will not be in your best interest. If you harbor

differences, back away and give yourself time to consider your options. Choose to do what’s best for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Take care of legal, contractual and financial matters on your own.

Keeping secrets will be in your best interest.

Make changes at home that will allow you to live life your way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Romantic relationships will lead to a happy home environment and greater personal security. Working as part of a team will encourage long-term plans.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Problems while traveling or trying to relay important information will arise. Do your best not to get upset over or overreact to others’ words or actions.

Avoid arguments and impulsive decisions.

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Lifting the mind

Pumping iron able to provide a type of meditation in motion

By CHAUNIE BRUSIE The Washington Post

When I think of meditation, I picture an image of serenity – a wide-open room, a person sitting cross-legged on a mat, eyes closed and mind relaxed.

Meditation, to me, conjures up peacefulness, calmness, quietness and stillness.

Which is why the sight of bulging biceps, dripping sweat and a barbell slamming to the floor doesn’t exactly fit with that picture. But looking a little closer, the practice of weightlifting actually has a lot more in common with the art of meditation than first meets the eye.

To meditate is to spend time in quiet thought, as the dictionary puts it, and while the purpose of meditation is to still the mind, that doesn’t necessarily mean stilling the body. Meditation, many people mistakenly believe, can be performed only through sitting quietly and clearing the mind of intrusive thoughts. In actuality, meditation can be as simple as focusing your mind on a single point of reference, even when intrusive thoughts insist on cropping up.

“Meditation can be achieved in the middle of Times Square,” said Cali Estes, a psychologist, personal trainer and chief executive of the Miami-based Addictions Coach, which offers help to celebrities and corporate leaders trying to overcome drug, alcohol and other problems.

“Meditation is simply the decompression of thoughts and clearing of the mind from any unwanted, negative threats or harmful ideals that can sabotage your success, [and] using exercise as a means to release stress and clear the mind is an excellent tool in both personal and professional life,” said Estes, who uses a variety of methods in her work, including exercise and meditation.

And in a world that increasingly has people chained to desks and screens and spreadsheets and Snapchats, it may be more important than ever to free the mind by first freeing the body through exercise.

“When I am lifting – and seriously lifting – there’s nothing else besides me, the iron and the goals I place around it,” said Janelle Tank, 23, a personal trainer and fitness entrepreneur from Michigan who began weightlifting three years ago to protect against

The author lifts weights at Crossfit and Nell Nation of Lapeer in Lapeer, Mich. what she calls “self-hate” and substance abuse. “My life up to that point was ... well, I shouldn’t be here today.”

After experiencing a miscarriage that left me feeling unmoored, weak in more ways than just physically, I also turned to weightlifting, and I soon realized the benefits that could be unlocked through grunting, repping and sweating more than I thought a 5-foot-4, 150-pound woman of 30 should ever sweat. There is such blissful release in the hour I spend at the gym, where I can think of nothing but the next repetition, pushing through the burn, completely focused on one task, instead of the hundreds of to-dos normally flitting through my mind like a relentless Rolodex.

Weightlifting, I have come to find, is my meditation. Breathe in, breathe out, lift, hold and repeat.

“Consciously focusing the attention of the mind is the backbone of medi-

tation,” notes Larissa Hall Carlson, 41, a yoga, mindfulness and ayurveda expert at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

“Any activity can be done mindfully, [but] what turns an ordinary exercise into a potent and benefit-rich form of meditation is one’s awareness and intention.”

Carlson says by focusing all of one’s attention on the lifting of weights, indulging in the sensation of muscles contracting and releasing, feeling the roughness of your skin against the weight in your hands, noticing the sweat trickling down your back, and by connecting breath with movement, it is possible to transform a workout into what she dubs “meditation in motion.”

And it’s that meditation in motion that fitness experts, such as celebrity trainer Kira Stokes, say can affect the rest of life. Stokes, who is based in New York, trains her clients to focus on

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every muscle contraction through her Stoked method, a mindfulness practice she encourages them to use throughout the day. Her clients learn to pay attention to their breath, when to inhale and exhale with stress, and to recognize how it feels when their muscles are clenched in tension.

“You become more aware on an average day of how you’re feeling: ‘Do I need to sit down?’ ‘Do I need some fresh air?’ ‘Do I need to take a nap?’ ” she said.

I guard my meditation-in-motion time fiercely. That hour is more than just “me” time; it is also a time that allows my mind to empty enough to tackle the rest of my life.

I started lifting weights because I wanted to feel stronger at a time in my life when I felt the weakest. And it is through weightlifting that I have found my strength in one of the most unlikely of places – my own mind.

By MASHA RUMER

The Washington Post

Kelly Dean

Founder of the Tummy Team engineer from Northern California, tore her anterior cruciate ligament while playing volleyball six weeks after giving birth. “After jumping to hit the ball, I landed and felt my knee pop,” said Zipkin, who says less exercise during pregnancy and postpartum weakness contributed to her injury.

Another common postpartum problem is diastasis recti, a separation of the “six-pack,” or rectus abdominis, caused, in part, by loose connective tissue. It goes hand in hand with abdominal weakness and instability and often is associated with back pain, “mommy tummy,” urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and umbilical hernias. Ryan said up to 60 percent of new

mothers have the condition, with 30 percent still affected one month postpartum.

Diastasis recti is considered, from a medical standpoint, a hernia, said Joan Loveland, a gynecologist and obstetrician in Washington. Most hernias are ignored until they become symptomatic, which is one of the reasons physicians don’t check for diastasis recti in postpartum mothers. In recent years, physical therapists’ insistence that diastasis recti and pelvic floor problems are treatable has become more mainstream.

“Everything comes from the pelvis.

It’s such a critical area to ensure strength and wellness and fitness,” Loveland said, describing why diastasis recti affects a woman’s well-being.

“I think [physicians] always thought of it as more of a cosmetic thing.”

Yet after an obstetrician gives the green light for all activity at the six- to eight-week checkup, a woman typically is left to her own devices, whether she delivered vaginally or via C-section.

As a result, a new mother may overdo it when exercising without rehabilitative guidance, or may avoid fitness altogether for fear of damage.

Women’s health experts emphasize rehabilitation before fitness.

“You can work out for an hour ev-

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ery day, but what you do in the remaining 23 hours adds up to more,” said Kelly Dean, a physical therapist and founder of the Tummy Team, a Washington state clinic and online program.

“Birth is probably the most physically demanding thing many women are going to do, but we expect them to jump into a Zumba class right away. More is not better. Better is better.”

Rehabilitate with daily activities.

For example, everyday movements such as picking up a baby, loading a stroller into a car and walking are opportunities to engage the core muscles, which refer collectively to multiple muscle groups including the transverse abdominis (deep corset-like muscle), six-pack, obliques, diaphragm, lower back and pelvic floor.

Ryan recommends getting up from a chair by bending forward, pressing the heels of your hands into your thighs to take the weight off the belly and exhaling. To get out of bed, roll onto your side, shoulders and hips moving together with knees bent, drop your legs down off the bed and push up with your arms. Avoid jackknife movements.

Because physicians generally don’t check for diastasis recti, ask your doctor to do so at your postnatal appointment.

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One January morning, while attempting my first jog since the birth of my 6-week-old baby, I was taken aback by my low endurance as I plodded along, hyperventilating and draped over the stroller’s handle.

I soon discovered endurance was only the beginning of the physical challenges I’d experience as a new mom. Pregnancy and childbirth also can weaken abdominal muscles, loosen ligaments and cause structural changes in the rib cage and pelvis. All of this makes a woman prone to injury if she pursues a bikini body too quickly.

Pregnancy hormones stay in the body for about three months postpartum, continuing to loosen joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments as they did in preparation for delivery. For those breastfeeding, hormones can have a loosening effect even a few months after nursing stops.

Marianne Ryan, owner of Marianne Ryan Physical Therapy in Manhattan and author of “Baby Bod: Turn Flab to Fab in 12 Weeks Flat,” urges new and especially breastfeeding mothers to exercise carefully. “Don’t do too much too soon,” she said.

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“Birth is probably the most physically demanding thing many women are going to do, but we expect them to jump into a Zumba class right away.

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Know effects of taking PPIs Dear Doctor: Because I had an ulcer, three years ago a doctor wrote me a prescription for Prilosec and told me I had to take it for the rest of my life. But lately, articles in the newspaper have seemed to contradict his thinking, suggesting that Prilosec and similar medicines can cause heart problems. What’s your opinion?

Dear Reader: Prilosec is one of many proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) that include Prevacid, Aciphex, Protonix, Nexium and Dexilant.

These drugs work by blocking the formation of hydrogen chloride in the stomach. This very strong acid is necessary to break down proteins so they can be absorbed by the small intestine.

I don’t know the specifics about the causes of your stomach ulcer – the size, the depth, whether it was a bleeding ulcer or caused by aspirin or other anti-inflammatory medications – but I do agree with your doctor that a proton pump inhibitor would be necessary for the healing of the ulcer. These drugs decrease the acidity of your upper gastrointestinal tract, allowing for an ulcer to heal. The normal duration for treatment is from two to 12 weeks.

In some circumstances, a PPI needs to be continued indefinitely, such as when an ulcer doesn’t heal, when an older patient has an ulcer that’s larger than 2 centimeters, or when a patient has three or more ulcers per year.

People with recurrent acid reflux also need to be on prolonged courses of proton pump inhibitors.

While there are benefits to these medications, there also are downsides. Any drug that changes the normal physiological process of the body can have unintended consequences, and PPIs are no exception. With prolonged use, the decreased formation of hydrogen chloride in the stomach can decrease calcium absorption and bone strengthening, increasing the risk of osteoporosis. Prolonged use can also reduce the absorption of magnesium and B12, and increase the risk of intestinal infections, such as those caused by Clostridium

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As for your specific question about proton pump inhibitors and heart disease, a 2014 study published in the International Journal of Cardiology compared more than 126,000 people who took PPIs with an equal number who didn’t. After 120 days, researchers found a 58 percent increase in the risk of heart attacks among those who took them. The biggest problem with this study is that the authors couldn’t assess whether those in the study smoked cigarettes, were obese or had a family history of heart disease. A 2015 study published in the journal PLOS One analyzed large amounts of data both from people who used PPIs for gastroesophageal reflux and those who didn’t. In this study, researchers found a 16 percent increase in the rate of heart attacks among those who took PPIs. Finally, an analysis of 11 studies -- with a total of more than 84,000 patients -- looked at use of proton pump inhibitors in people taking the blood thinner Plavix after having an angioplasty.

The authors found a 37 percent increase in the rate of heart events among those taking the proton pump inhibitor Clopidogrel with Plavix and those taking just Plavix, but they found no difference in death rates. The findings suggest that PPIs decrease the ability of a blood thinner, like Plavix, to work.

Your worry about taking Prilosec for the rest of your life is understandable, but you’re probably on the drug for a good reason. Just know that there can be long-term side effects, and be aware of them. You can also ask your doctor to keep you apprised of any new research on long-term use of PPIs.

• Robert Ashley, M.D., is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Dear Abby: I DEAR ABBY am 68 and my husband is 80.

Jeanne I just found out Phillips he is involved with a 40-year-old woman. He says it is not an affair because they haven’t actually had sex! I don’t know what to do.

Can you help me? – Heartbroken in New Mexico Dear Heartbroken: Your husband may not be having an affair in the physical sense, but he IS having an emotional affair. He may be flattered by the attention he’s receiving from a younger woman, or he may think he’s actually in love with her. Whether she is in love with him is open to question.

However, if your husband is giving her money, you might have an argument he is being manipulated into it, which could qualify as elder abuse. Remember, too, if you are a longtime wife in a community property state, half of the assets acquired during your marriage are yours.

If he doesn’t agree to end the relationship, this is something you might want to discuss with a lawyer.

Dear Abby: My 7-year-old daughter, “Jessie,” has a best friend who lives next door. The neighbor, “Laurie,” has an older brother, “Jason,” who is 13.

Recently, Jessie played at Laurie’s house, and when she came home she told me Jason had said some nasty things to her. When I asked what they were, she told me that one time Jason told her to pull down her underwear, and another time he told her to pull down his pants and do something that can’t be mentioned in a family newspaper.

When I heard it, I was livid. I told his mother about it, and now she will not let my daughter play with Laurie. She believes Jessie made it all up. My daughter is inconsolable because she no longer has a playmate. She believes it is her fault Laurie can’t play with her because she told me. I don’t know what to do so the girls can play together. – Needs a Playmate Dear Needs: It is important that you make Jessie understand that none of this was her fault – it was Jason’s fault – and she did the right thing by telling you. What you need to do now is help your daughter find other playmates, preferably some whose parents supervise when children play in their home.

While Jason’s mother may not want to believe what her son did, it’s highly unlikely your daughter made it up. Dealing with a problem like that by putting her head in the sand only will invite more trouble, because Jason is sure to repeat it with some other little girl.

Dear Abby: Today, I called my church to cancel my attendance at a retreat a month from now. I had paid $25 to hold my spot. When I stated my reason for calling, the church secretary said, “Do you want a refund or would you like to donate toward tithes?” I thought this was nervy. I told her to refund the money. What is your thought on this? – Wants a Refund in Brentwood, Calif.

Dear Wants: Just this: You were offered an option, and you chose the one you preferred. Let it go.

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Marengo senior Mike Volkening (right) fights for the ball Tuesday with Burlington Central sophomore Patrick Mayfield at Marengo. Burlington Central won, 63-43.

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BOYS BASKETBALL: BURLINGTON CENTRAL 63, MARENGO 43

Hole too deep

Marengo falls behind early in KRC defeat

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What to watch College basketball: Maryland at Northwestern, 6 p.m., BTN The Wildcats (19-6, 8-4 Big Ten), fresh off a win Sunday at then-No. 7 Wisconsin, host the No. 23 Terrapins (21-4, 9-3).

MARENGO – Marengo guard Blaine Borhart summed up the Indians’ first quarter quite succinctly with one word.

“Rough,” he said. “It was rough.”

The Indians only mustered eight shots because they succumbed to Burlington Central’s pressure and committed 11 turnovers. Yet when Marengo rebounded with a couple of seconds remaining and guard Mike Volkening swished a 55-footer to end the quarter, there was a glimmer of hope.

“I thought it was going to get us going,” Volkening said. “It didn’t really.”

Although Marengo took better care of the ball, the double-digit hole was too deep against the relentless Rockets, who cruised to a 63-43 victory in their Kishwaukee River Conference boys basketball game Tuesday night at Homer “Bill” Barry Gymnasium.

The win lifts Burlington (21-3 overall, 7-2 KRC) into a tie with Richmond-Burton with three games remaining. Marengo (18-7, 6-3) is one game back and will require some help to grab a share of the title.

“I just don’t think we were ready to begin the game,” said Volkening, who led the Indians with 14 points, 10 below his average. “We got a little flustered to start off; after that we never really got it back together. It’s disappointing, it happens. We have to take one in the face and move on. That’s all we can do.”

Burlington used a lot of full-court pressure, and also utilized a box-andone on Volkening with Emmanuel Wells taking him most of the game. Marengo had trouble finding any offensive consistency.

“We struggled early and kind of got down on ourselves and kind of snowballed from there,” Borhart said. “It was a little difficult to dig ourselves out of that.”

Burlington made it tougher by shooting 57.1 percent (16 of 28) in the first half to build a 35-21 lead.

“We didn’t make the reactions quick enough,” Indians coach Nate Wright said. “We didn’t do the little bit extra, and they did the little bit extra to start the game. You’re down, 12 to 15, and it’s

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Marengo junior Alexander Schirmer shoots as Burlington Central senior Joseph Ratzek tries to block the shot Tuesday at Marengo. Burlington Central won, 63-43.

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Borhart scored 11 points and hit 4 of 8 from the field to help the Indians, while also leading them with six rebounds.

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Here are the remaining opponents for the top three Kishwaukee River Conference teams: Richmond-Burton (7-2 KRC) plays Woodstock North, Marengo and Harvard; Burlington Central (7-2) plays Johnsburg, Harvard and Woodstock North; Marengo (6-3) plays Harvard, R-B and Woodstock. a back-and-forth game. If we just could have found a way to get a run somewhere and get it closer in the first half.

I thought maybe the momentum was go-

ing to kick in on that three-quarter-court shot.”

Patrick Mayfield came off the bench to lead a balanced Rockets attack with 14 points. Wells added 10 and four other starters had at least six points. The teams split two games in a five-day stretch last month at Burlington.

“We wanted to put a complete 32 minutes together, executing and really getting after people in the different defenses we employed out there,” Rockets coach Brett Porto said. “Start to finish, that was about as well as we could execute. It was pretty clean on the defensive end.”

Burlington forward Joey Ratzek thought the Rockets were prepared well to defend Volkening, one of the KRC’s most dynamic players.

“You start recognizing the lineup and understanding how each guy plays, and they do the same thing with us,” Ratzek said. “But it kind of comes down to who wants it more, and that, I think, stood out tonight. Conference is on the line, and our guys stepped up tonight and played with more energy and more effort.”

GIRLS BASKETBALL: CLASS 3A RICHMOND-BURTON REGIONAL

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Brooke Legnaioli Richmond-Burton, sr., G

Legnaioli ignited the Rockets’ furious comeback, hitting all three of her 3-point field goal attempts in the fourth quarter.

She finished with a team-high six 3s and 18 points, going 6 of 11 from the field.

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With 23 points, Marian Central’s Vannessa Garrelts joined Johnsburg’s Aannah Interrante in becoming the second local girls basketball player to surpass 1,000 career points this season.

Garrelts (1,017 career points) and Interrante (1,178), both juniors, play on the same Illinois Elite AAU travel team.

7 p.m. The No. 2-seeded Skyhawks were credited with a 2-0 forfeit win against Chicago Senn, which did not make it to R-B after having transportation issues.

Johnsburg, which won the Kishwaukee River Conference championship with a perfect record, swept the Rockets

Scoreboard

Tuesday’s semifinals (10) Richmond-Burton 53, (7) Marian Central 51 (2) Johnsburg 2, (15) Chicago Senn 0 (Fft.) Thursday’s championship (2) Johnsburg vs. (10) Richmond-Burton, 7 p.m. in two regular-season meetings.

“I always tell the girls, ‘Never quit,’ ” Rockets coach Todd Severns said. “I always try to stay positive and give them all the cliches. It comes down to making shots, and we made shots. We switched and went man-to-man, because we’re at our best when we’re in transition. Shots just started falling.”

Davids finished with 17 points, including 15 in the second half, as the Rockets (12-14) scored 13 points in the third quarter and 26 in the fourth, outscoring the Hurricanes, 39-19, after the break.

“We knew that we just had to keep moving the ball around,” Legnaioli said.

“It was just really nerve-wracking being down by so much, but the comeback was awesome.”

Anna Vlasak added eight points and eight rebounds for R-B, and Kayla Malec

had four points and assisted Davids’ buzzer-beater. Sam Miller also hit a big 3 in the fourth quarter.

Marian was led by junior guard Vannessa Garrelts, who led all scorers with 23 points. The speedy guard entered the game needing six points to surpass 1,000, getting a steal and layup at the end of the first quarter to reach the milestone.

She has 1,017 career points in twoplus seasons. She played in only a handful of varsity games as a freshman.

“At halftime, (Marian) coach (Tony Powe) said that was a good half of basketball,” Garrelts said. “But he told us anything can happen, especially come playoffs. We came out in the third, made two quick baskets, and just hit a dry spell that killed us.

“It feels good getting 1,000. It was definitely one of my main goals. Bittersweet given how the game ended, but I’ll definitely remember it.”

Grace Shukis and Katie Littner each had seven points for Marian, and Margaret Palmer added six. Emily Radecki had four points and four assists in the season-ending loss.

“We controlled the first half, and the second half it flipped,” Powe said. “They increased their intensity, they made some shots, they were feeling confident, and we had trouble getting in any flow.”

BOYS BASKETBALL: JACOBS 53, CARY-GROVE 32

Jacobs overcomes loss of Krutwig to ankle injury

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CARY – By its own admission, adverDaniel Murray Jacobs, jr., F sity isn’t something the Jacobs boys basketball team has faced often this season.

When teammate Cameron That changed late in the third quarKrutwig left the game late ter Tuesday night during its Fox Valley in the third quarter with an Conference showdown against Caryankle injury and didn’t return, Grove when Golden Eagles standout Murray, a first-year varsity senior forward Cameron Krutwig was player, gave his team a huge lift off the bench helped to the bench with a right ankle in his absence. injury and didn’t return. q THE NUMBER At the time, Jacobs led by four. Undeterred by their tough luck, the Golden Jacobs’ 3-point field goal percentage Tuesday (10 of 27) Eagles (23-1, 12-1 FVC) proceeded to go on a 10-0 run over the next few minutes, then stormed away for a critical 53-32 q AND ANOTHER THING ... victory that keeps them tied for first Jacobs and Prairie Ridge will meet for the third place with Prairie Ridge. time this season Friday night. They are tied for During a timeout moments after first in the Fox Valley Conference and have split Krutwig’s injury, Jacobs coach Jimmy their previous two meetings.

Roberts didn’t panic or give his team any special words of wisdom. He simply “I kept telling our guys, ‘I like this advised them to keep playing the type of fight,’ ” Roberts said. “That’s a tough unselfish, team-oriented basketball they had all evening. fight to be in. Cam goes down, and for-

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tunately we haven’t had to play without him a lot this year. But that gets me a little bit excited, seeing how we responded.

Obviously, you want the kid to be OK.” Roberts said after the game the severity of Krutwig’s injury was “unknown” but later added it didn’t appear to be too serious. He finished with four points and nine rebounds, while junior guard Ryan Phillips notched a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds.

However, it was the effort of first-year varsity player Daniel Murray off the bench, replacing Krutwig, that seemed to provide a spark for the Golden Eagles.

He only scored two points in about 10 minutes of action but had three assists, four rebounds and two steals.

“When I came in, I wasn’t looking at the scoreboard and didn’t really realize we were only up by four after building such a big (16-point) lead earlier in the game in the first half,” Murray said. “It’s hard to get playing time behind such a talented guy like Cam, but I just came in and did what I had to do.

“I love being that scrappy, in-your-

face energy type of guy off the bench who rips down important rebounds, dives for loose balls and brings intangibles to the game. I have to make the most of what little time I have out there, and I felt like I accomplished that goal tonight.”

Jacobs used quick ball movement and a solid inside-outside game to set up plenty of open looks on the perimeter.

The Eagles shot 10 for 27 from threepoint range, and 50 percent (8 for 16) from two-point territory. The Eagles also were perfect (7 of 7) from the foul line.

“Any time you have a guy like Cam on the inside who’s drawing doubleand triple-teams in the lane, it’s gonna open up shots on the outside,” Roberts said. “It’s not about the quantity of 3s we took. It’s about the quality.”

C-G (13-10, 8-6) faced a double-edged sword while Krutwig was in the game, Trojans coach Adam McCloud said.

“We knew putting so much attention on Krutwig in the lane would open up things potentially for them from outside the arc,” McCloud said. “But we were comfortable with that decision.”

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RICHMOND – The look of disbelief on K.C. Davids’ face said it all. The Richmond-Burton senior guard’s 35foot heave to end a wild 53-51 Class 3A Richmond-Burton Regional semifinal victory over Marian Central was real, but it didn’t feel that way for the 5-foot-1 captain.

In the opening minute of the third quarter, the Rockets trailed, 35-14, and had hit only four of their first 20 field goal attempts. R-B switched to a man-toman defense in the second half, and the points followed.

Senior Brooke Legnaioli led the charge with six 3s and 18 points, hitting three long balls in the final quarter. Kayla Malec tied the score at 40-all with 4:30 remaining, but Marian didn’t trail until the final shot by Davids, one that left her hands with less than two seconds on the clock and banked in to complete the comeback.

“My coach on the sideline said, ‘You’ve got two seconds,’ ” Davids said.

“I don’t know. ... It’s really unbelievable.

Our team just never gave up. The fight was always there.”

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4 GIRLS BASKETBALL: CLASS 4A McHENRY REGIONAL

South outlasts McHenry in 2 OTs

By SEAN HAMMOND

shammond@shawmedia.com McHENRY – Through 40 minutes of basketball, not once did Crystal Lake South coach Mark Mucha go to his bench.

And he didn’t have to.

South’s five starters played the entire game Tuesday, through two overtimes, and outlasted McHenry, 54-49, in the IHSA Class 4A McHenry Regional semifinal. With Dundee-Crown’s 55-34 win over Prairie Ridge earlier in the day, the Gators and the Chargers will square off at 7 p.m. Thursday in McHenry.

Although only five Gators played in the marathon nightcap, Mucha was quick to credit the girls on the bench.

“Those five kids aren’t the ones that earn all the recognition,” Mucha said.

“We had one heck of a practice yesterday. It was the 10 kids on the bench that got these kids ready to play against a good McHenry team.”

South (14-14) trailed the entire first three quarters and into the fourth.

McHenry (15-13) extended its lead to as much as 10 in the first half, but the Gators wouldn’t go away.

South took its first lead with 5:02 to play in the fourth. McHenry’s Jamie

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South and McHenry met four times this season and finished the year even, 2-2, in those battles.

“A possession here or there always wins it,” McHenry coach Rob Niemic said. “It’s been like that for three years.”

Howie drained a 3-pointer with 2:28 in regulation to even things up, 37-37. It proved to be the last basket of regulation. Both teams had looks, but couldn’t convert in the final minute.

South’s Annika Sevcik made 3 of 5 free throws down the stretch in the first overtime to put her team up three.

With 18.2 seconds on the clock, McHen-

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Tuesday’s semifinals (2) Dundee-Crown 55, (9) Prairie Ridge 34 (7) Crystal Lake South 54, (3) McHenry 49 (2OT) Thursday’s championship (2) Dundee-Crown vs. (7) Crystal Lake South, 7 p.m. ry drew up a play for Izzy Gscheidle, who drained a 3-pointer from the right wing and sent the McHenry fans into a frenzy.

“The execution was excellent,” McHenry coach Rob Niemic said.

“We always talk about not leaving a game-winner short and she didn’t leave it short. [She] gave it a chance.”

The game moved to double-overtime, where Sevcik scored four of her 17 total points and the Gators went on to win by five. Teammate Kelly Gaede led South with 20 points, including six 3-pointers.

“It was probably the most exciting game I’ve ever been a part of,” Gaede said. “We never gave up. It was so awesome. [The ball] felt really good in my hand. My teammates were hitting me and they looked for me off passes and

cuts. I felt good and just kept making them.”

Sevcik and Gaede teamed up with Taylor Jozefowicz, Maddie Bush and Taylor Keegan to play all 40 minutes.

For McHenry, Gscheidle and Madi Kaempf each scored 13 points in the losing effort. Howie added 12.

“I had to thank my four seniors,” Niemic said. “We made a major turn this season. I’m really pleased with our effort. There were times in that game when we could have mailed it in. I’m thankful I’ve got 12 kids that have bought in this year.”

South will meet D-C, a team that has won nine consecutive games after handling Prairie Ridge in Tuesday’s other regional semifinal.

Paige Gieseke led the Chargers (1811) with 13 points. Allison Michalski scored 11, and Katelyn Skibinski added eight.

For Prairie Ridge (10-18), Nicole Dorn scored 14 points, including 10-for13 shooting from the free throw line.

Emily Perhats scored nine points.

“It was a difficult year for us, really up and down,” Prairie Ridge coach Rick Lima said. “We had a lot of injuries, a lot of illnesses. I’m proud that we pulled out 10 wins this season.”

GIRLS BASKETBALL: CLASS 4A LARKIN REGIONAL

Cary-Grove falls short against Streamwood

By CHRIS CASEY

sports@nwherald.com ELGIN – If Rod Saffert saw his team play the entire game Thursday with the offensive execution and urgency it did in the fourth quarter, there’s no doubt he would have felt positive about the outcome.

But his Cary-Grove girls basketball team faced too big of a deficit after three quarters.

Despite cutting Streamwood’s double-digit lead for most of the second half down to six at one point, the Trojans couldn’t overcome the Sabres in a 6052 loss in the Class 4A Larkin Regional semifinals.

The Trojans (16-12) trailed by 13 heading into the fourth quarter and were unable to get past Streamwood, despite a game-high 26 points from junior Katie Sowa.

“It was definitely a little rough at the beginning,” said Sowa, who scored 12 of her 26 points in the final quarter of C-G’s season. “It was frustrating because we knew what we wanted to do, but we just

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The Trojans scored 26 points in the fourth quarter, trying to mount a comeback. That total matched their scoring output for the first three quarters combined. couldn’t execute it.”

Sowa and fellow junior Maddie Gorz (eight points) were able to cut Streamwood’s lead to 53-47 with 1:51 to go, but the Sabres would not budge.

Streamwood finished 25 of 33 from

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Tuesday’s semifinals (1) South Elgin 78, (8) Larkin 72 (5) Streamwood 60, (4) Cary-Grove 52 Thursday’s championship (1) South Elgin vs. (5) Streamwood, 7 p.m. the free-throw line – including 13 of 19 in the fourth quarter.

The free-throw shooting, combined with the Trojans getting doubled up on rebounds, 36-18, combined to be too tough to overcome that early deficit.

“It’s tough to tell them in the last game of the season, but the better team tonight won the game,” Saffert said.

“When [Streamwood] shoots like they did from the free-throw line, it’s tough.

That’s the one thing you can’t defend.

We really didn’t have much going until the fourth quarter.”

Streamwood’s Jenehja Williams was tough for the Trojans to guard from start to finish. The 6-foot-3 forward scored 21 points and snagged a game-high 12 re-

bounds.

After missing a couple of games, Williams was on Saffert’s radar but was just too difficult for his team to contain.

“We knew she would be fired up to get back out there, but she did an amazing job out there tonight,” Saffert said. “You can’t even begin to talk about the mark our seniors had, but you also hope that a loss like this motivates the returning group to work hard and see what we can do next year.”

For those two seniors, Katie Demert and Becca Kendeigh, it was not an easy night to deal with. However, a Fox Valley Conference championship and 16win season is something they can say they accomplished when that didn’t look like a realistic goal when they were underclassmen.

“It meant a lot to be a senior and help lead this program,” Kendeigh said. “To lead them to a conference championship this year … I mean, we worked so hard over our four years, and I know I can speak for Katie (Demert) and I when I say that we were so happy to see that hard work pay off the way it did.”

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: MIDWEST ROUNDUP

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No. 25 Notre Dame 84, Boston College 76: At Boston, Bonzie Colson scored

20 points, Matt Farrell had 19, and Notre Dame overcame a 13-point firsthalf deficit for a victory over Boston College, sending the Eagles to their 10th straight loss.

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Notre Dame forward V.J. Beachem (center) is surrounded on a drive to the basket against Boston College during the first half Tuesday in Boston.

V.J. Beachem had 16 points, and Steve Vasturia added 15 for the Fighting Irish (20-7, 9-5 Atlantic Coast Conference). It is coach Mike Brey’s 13th time winning at least 20 games with Notre Dame.

Ky Bowman led Boston College (918, 2-12) with 29 points, and Mo Jeffers had 12.

The Fighting Irish trailed by 10 points early in the second half before outscoring BC, 21-3, over a 4:50 span.

No. 16 Purdue 74, Rutgers 55: At West Lafayette, Indiana, center Isaac

Haas had 24 points and 11 rebounds, and power forward Caleb Swanigan added 12 points and 17 rebounds, and Purdue pulled away from Rutgers.

Purdue (21-5, 10-3 Big Ten) led only 45-39 with just over 12:30 remaining, but from the 11:15 mark until he left the game with 2:20 to play, Haas scored 16 points, and the Boilermakers pulled away for their fourth consecutive victory.

Nigel Johnson scored 23 points to lead Rutgers (13-14, 2-12), which had no answer for Purdue’s big men.

PREP ROUNDUP

Woodstock North, Huntley girls advance in regionals NORTHWEST HERALD Abby Hartmann scored 14 points, and three other Woodstock North players hit double digits as the Thunder (13-15) defeated the host Mustangs, 70-48, in their Class 3A Chicago Northside Prep Regional opener Tuesday in Chicago.

Lulu Nicks added 12 points, and Kaitlyn Ford and Maddie Busch each scored 10 for North.

Class 3A Chicago Resurrection Regional: At Chicago, the host Bandits defeated Woodstock, 52-34, in their regional opener.

The Blue Streaks (10-18) were led

by Autumn Overly and Gabriella Scolio with nine points each.

Class 4A Harlem Regional: A t Machesney Park, Huntley’s Morgan Clausen scored a game-high 15 points to lead the Red Raiders past Harlem, 54-31, in the regional quarterfinals.

Grace Gajewski added 14 points, and Missy Moffett had 11.

Huntley (17-12) will face Ho nonegah at 6 p.m. Wednesday in semifinal action.

Class 4A Boylan Regional: At Rockford, Hampshire (17-10) battled from behind most of the way but lost to Rockford Guilford, 44-37, in a regional opener.

Kaleia Monteiro scored 21 to lead Guilford. Rachel Dumoulin led the Whip-Purs with 13, and Megan Heine added eight.

Blake Kuffel topped South (9-15, 5-8) with 17 points.

Hampshire 38, Huntley 34: At Huntley, Billy Dumoulin scored 12 points to lead the Whip-Purs past the Red Raiders in FVC play. Nate Cork added 10 points for Hampshire (6-19, 2-9 FVC), and Nate Gomez scored nine.

For Huntley (6-19, 4-9), Chris Costantino scored 12 points, Andrew Fulcer had eight, and Matthew Seng had seven.

Woodstock 85, Johnsburg 75: At Johnsburg, Matt Shook scored 25 points, Evan Bridges added 24, and BOYS BASKETBALL Woodstock defeated Johnsburg in Crystal Lake Central 61, Crystal Lake Kishwaukee River Conference play.

South 39: At Crystal Lake, the host TiThe Blue Streaks (10-16, 5-5 KRC) gers built a 21-point lead by halftime shot 8 of 13 from 3-point range in the and cruised to the FVC victory. first quarter, and led, 30-14, after Alex Timmerman led Central (8-16, eight minutes. Mikey Gardner and 4-10 FVC) with 14 points, Christian Justin Leith scored 13 points apiece Lerum had 11 points, and Kyle Vesely for the Streaks, and Carl Anderson contributed 10 points. had eight.

For Johnsburg (12-15, 5-5), Zach Toussaint scored 28 points, Mason Sobiesk had 19, and Jackson LaMarche and Brody Frazier added 12.

McHenry 51, Dundee-Crown 36: At Carpentersville, the Warriors scored 37 of their 51 points in the second half to pull away for the FVC win.

Patrick Breisch provided McHenry (15-10, 9-3 FVC) with 19 points, and Matt Mohr had 12.

Jack Orndahl led Dundee-Crown (4-20, 2-11) with 10 points.

Richmond-Burton 54, Woodstock North 42: At Woodstock, Blaine Bayer

knocked down four 3-pointers on his way to a game-high 22 points in his team’s KRC victory over Woodstock North.

Shane Byrne added 12 points in the win for the Rockets (16-11, 8-2).

Ryan Medina scored 13 points for North (5-17, 2-7), and Collin Mergl had 11.

• Wednesday, February 15, 2017

DeKALB – Ryan Weber scored 23 points shooting 7 for 11 from 3-point range, and Trey Moses had 10 points and 12 rebounds to lead Ball State to an 81-72 overtime win over Northern Illinois on Tuesday night.

The Cardinals started the extra session with a Jeremie Tyler 3, Franko House had a 3-point play and a jumper, and a Weber 3 capped an 11-0 run from which NIU could never recover.

The Huskies closed to 72-68 on Eugene German’s layup with 1:27 to go before Weber buried another 3 26 second later. Levi Bradley added a 3 for NIU, but the Huskies didn’t score again.

Ball State (16-10, 7-6 Mid-American Conference) went on an 8-0 run in the final 4:10 of regulation. Weber’s 3 with 14 seconds left tied the game at 61. Tyler finished with 18 points on 7-for-12 shooting for the Cardinals, which snapped a three-game losing streak.

German led NIU (14-12, 6-7) with 20 points and Bradley scored 13. The Huskies have lost three straight.

Michigan St. 74, Ohio St. 66: At East Lansing, Michigan, Alvin Ellis scored 15 of his 18 points with a 3-point barrage in the first half, and Michigan State went on to beat Ohio State.

Miles Bridges had 17 points and 11 rebounds, and Nick Ward scored 15 for Michigan State (16-10, 8-5 Big Ten), which has won four of five.

The Buckeyes (15-12, 5-9) have lost four of six.

Ohio State’s Marc Loving scored 22 points, and reserve JaQuan Lyle scored all 10 of his points in the first half.

Nebraska 82, Penn St. 66: At Lincoln, Nebraska, an easy win over Penn State provided a huge morale boost to a Nebraska team that had lost eight of its past nine games, including a bunch of close ones.

Glynn Watson Jr. and Jack McVeigh scored 15 points apiece to lead four Cornhuskers in double figures, and they used their best shooting half of the season to set the tone in a Big Ten victory.

Jordy Tshimanga and Tai Webster had 12 points each for the Huskers (11-14, 5-8 Big Ten), who ended a three-game losing streak before playing their next two on the road.

Tony Carr had 15 points, and Lamar Stevens added 13 to pace Penn State (14-13, 6-8), which lost for the first time in three games.

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6 WHITE SOX SPRING TRAINING

Robertson realizes trade is likely

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN

dvanschouwen@suntimes.com

GLENDALE, Ariz. – David Robertson understands his days with the White Sox are likely numbered.

“It’s tough because there is nothing I can really do. I just try to put it in the back of my mind, come to the field and do the work I need to do,’’ Robertson said Tuesday. “Whatever decision this organization makes is what they’re going to do.’’

Pitchers and catchers reported to spring training Tuesday, sounding the opening bell for White Sox camp. Robertson’s bell has been rung by the uncertainty of where he’ll be playing this season, but all he can do is carry on with the business of getting ready for his 10th season in the major leagues, his third with the Sox. The Washington Nationals and Sox have been in talks for weeks about his services, however. Robertson has two years and $25 million left on his contract, which the Sox wouldn’t mind shedding in this rebuilding stage and as they look to add to a core of prospects already built up with trades of Chris Sale and Adam Eaton.

“We expect [trade talks] to continue,’’ general manager Rick Hahn said Tuesday. “We are going to continue to keep an open mind, and where there are conversations to be had, we will pursue them.

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White Sox closer David Robertson throws against the Oakland Athletics during the ninth inning Aug. 21 in Chicago. The Sox are likely to trade Robertson before the season begins.

“We have had extensive conversations on various fronts and as we sit here today there’s nothing that’s gnawing at us or appealing enough to make us move.’’

In the meantime, players such as Robertson and Jose Quintana come to work wondering how long they’ll be in this workplace. Quintana is expect-

ed to talk to media today, but after addressing trade rumors during SoxFest, he will ask media to refrain from the subject after going through it again today.

“It’s probably harder for them when they are not here,’’ Hahn said, “and they have to spend winter at home with their friends and family, asking

them ‘Did you see this?’ and tweets sent to them with their names in rumors When they are here, they can focus more on doing their job. Regardless of the uniform they are wearing, they know how to prepare for a season.

“They are able to a little more easily block out a little more of the outside distractions when they are here. I don’t foresee that being an issue at all.’’

Robertson figured he could be next as soon as Chris Sale and Adam Eaton were traded in December. But the Sox haven’t made any more major moves, aside from signing left-hander Derek Holland to a one-year, $6 million deal to offset the loss of innings by Sale and perhaps Quintana.

“I’m going to continue to work on getting better and let the cards fall where they’re going to be,’’ Robertson said. “I can’t do anything about it.

“If I stay here, great. If I get moved, it’s their decision.’’

Robertson, who, like Quintana, will pitch in the World Baseball Classic, had postseason arthroscopic surgery to repair a damaged meniscus in his left knee. He dealt with some command issues while pitching to a 3.46 ERA but refused to use the knee as an excuse.

Every pitcher works through discomfort, Robertson said.

“I needed to get it fixed because it was irritating me, but I’m not going to put any of my performances on that,’’ he said.

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Rodon says he’s taking it easy, insists arm is fine

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN dvanchouwen@suntimes.com

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Left-hander Carlos Rodon separated himself from the group of White Sox pitchers playing catch in an outfield Tuesday at Camelback Ranch, which raised an eyebrow or two.

Rodon, who would later say his arm is fine and that he’s taking a slower approach to getting ready for the regular season – perhaps similar to the light-load tactic Chris Sale took during spring training last year – spent the time talking to Kirk Champion, the Sox’s director of minor league instruction, near home plate. When a group of pitchers came over to take part in light fielding drills, Rodon joined in but didn’t use his left arm at all, not even for short flips.

“Everything’s normal. Everything’s

good,’’ Rodon said. “We’re just taking our time, trying to figure out what the plan is here for the long term. Workload is going to be a little more this year. So we’re going to take it a little slow.’’

So there are no issues on the first day of spring training?

“No. Everything Carlos Rodon feels great,’’ Rodon said. “I’m just excited for this year.’’

Rodon threw a career-high 165 innings last season, his second in the majors, at least 35 shy of what he wants this season. With Sale gone and Jose Quintana the subject of trade rumors, he’ll be needed to carry more weight.

“I want to be one of those [200-inning] guys like Quintana and Sale,’’ Rodon said. “I’m expected to do that, and hope-

fully I’ll live up to that.’’

Asked when he will throw, Rodon said, “I think Friday. So we’ll see.’’

“There are certain guys we’re going to be measuring in terms of their work,’’ manager Rick Renteria said, “and as soon as we get that structured out there in the longer format, we’ll get them out there and do what we need them to do.’’

Renteria said Rodon is “one we keep measuring.”

Tilson in center: Fleet prospect Charlie Tilson “has the inside track” on the center field job, general manager Rick Hahn said.

“We’d all like to see what he can do on a regular basis in center,” Hahn said.

“Physically, he’s fine.’’

Hahn said prospects Jacob May and Adam Engel project to play a role and “can certainly handle it defensively,” although they have “more development

ahead of them.’’

Also on the depth chart are Peter Bourjos and Leury Garcia, who have big-league experience in center.

Tilson had season-ending surgery after tearing his left hamstring in his debut Aug. 3 in Detroit.

“I’m pleased with where I’m at,” the New Trier graduate said.

This and that: Hahn seems comfortable going forward with the catchers on the roster. Omar Narvaez and Geovany Soto are the leading candidates to open the season.

• Asked whether he was looking to add to the roster, perhaps at designated hitter, Hahn said, “We want to give guys here opportunities to show what they can do.” The DH spot could be filled by a variety of options, including right fielder Avisail Garcia and corner infielder Matt Davidson.

CUBS SPRING TRAINING

By BRUCE MILES

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Cubs promise to be cautious with Schwarber

By BRUCE MILES

bmiles@dailyherald.com MESA, Ariz. – There’s very little stopping Kyle Schwarber.

All the Cubs can hope to do is contain their hardworking slugger.

Schwarber has been in Arizona working hard as he tries to make a full comeback from major knee surgery in April.

There was a happy little detour, of course, when Schwarber was activated for the World Series and helped the Cubs win it as the designated hitter in the four games at Cleveland.

The Cubs vow to take it easy with

Schwarber and will limit his time as a catcher in spring-training drills.

“If he’s medically cleared today to start introducing some catching as we expect him to be, we’re going to really go slow with it, like one or two days a week in spring training,” team president Kyle Theo Epstein said. “His Schwarber primary focus is going to be a left fielder, and the goal, if he is cleared, would be to have him ready potentially at the end of spring training to fill that role of third catcher.

“We’re not going to give him too much. His future is too valuable. We want him to have the longest possible career. He makes such a great impact on us with his bat and the person that he is that we don’t want to do anything to jeopardize the length and impact of his career.”

Epstein injected a note of humor into how the Cubs will handle Schwarber.

“We’re just going to walk before we run, or walk before we squat, I guess is the appropriate thing to say with catching,” he said.

Schwarber took batting practice and went out to left field Tuesday as pitchers and catchers reported for spring train-

ing. Even though position players don’t have to be in camp until Friday, many are at the Cubs complex and working out hard.

“I’m 100 percent, ready to go,” Schwarber said. “I’m sure there will be some off-days and things like that. I’m going to take it easy but get some work in.”

Schwarber, the Cubs’ top draft pick in 2014, came up as a catcher, but the Cubs have Willson Contreras and Miguel Montero ahead of him. When he suffered the knee injury last year, he was playing left field. Schwarber said he will wear a knee brace all year, as he did in the World Series.

• Wednesday, February 15, 2017

MESA, Ariz. – The world champion Cubs aren’t planning to mess too much with success this year.

But with Joe Maddon at the helm as manager, you can expect a new wrinkle here or a new slogan or two there.

Maddon met the news media Tuesday along with team president Theo Epstein and general manager Jed Hoyer as pitchers and catchers reported for spring training, and discussed his motivational messages.

“We’re working on several, including ‘That’s Cub,’ ” Maddon said of his slogans. “That’s coming directly from Wrigley, I believe. I kind of dig ‘That’s Cub.’ “Beyond that, I want to focus on the word ‘uncomfortable.’ I want to focus on the word ‘authenticity.’ And ‘don’t forget the heartbeat.’ ” It might be difficult for players, fans and the media to keep track of all that, but no doubt Maddon will keep the T-shirt companies busy with all of those sayings.

As with most things Maddon, there’s a method to the madness.

Start with “uncomfortable.” Who wants to be uncomfortable?

Let Joe explain.

“It’s really important to be uncomfortable,” he began. “If you become a comfortable person, I think that subtracts growth from the equation. I think if you remain somewhat uncomfortable, you’ll continue to grow. You don’t become stagnant. You don’t become complacent, set in your ways. On every level, I want us to be uncomfortable. I think that’s a really positive word. That’s one of the messages I want to get out there

anything different. There’s a part of the sameness that I would like to see is the authentic part of our guys.”

Maddon went all humanist on us when he talked about the “heartbeat.”

“Don’t forget the heartbeat,” he said.

“Why? Last year, Game 7, Cleveland.

Things went badly for a bit. We came back and regrouped because our guys got together in a room, void of any kind of statistical, video, analytical kind of information. They went in there as human beings and came out unified. And that’s Cub. Everybody just wants to talk about this other stuff, and everybody’s forgetting the heartbeat. So I don’t want us to forget the heartbeat – ever.”

All of this talk is geared toward the Cubs putting themselves in position to repeat as world champions. The talent is good enough to reach the postseason, where anything can happen.

For now, the goal seems to be staying hungry.

“After a World Series, you do kind of either get complacent or get even hungrier, because now that you’ve tasted it, there’s no real in-between,” said Epstein, who won two World Series titles with Boston before coming to the Cubs.

“I never doubted it for a second that with our group of guys they’ll be extremely hungry. Just taking a quick look at their physical condition and how early John Starks – jstarks@dailyherald.com they’ve shown up to camp really indiCubs manager Joe Maddon shows off a new T-shirt last year at a rally for the team in cates how hungry they are.”

Grant Park in Chicago.

When Epstein and Hoyer came to Chicago in 2011, they talked of developIt’s just who you are. There’s nothing ing a “Cubs way” of doing things, startquickly with our boys. “ ‘Authenticity’, not to remind them contrived about somebody that’s au- ing in the minor leagues. That seems to that they’re authentic. For me, the per- thentic. have evolved into “that’s Cub.” tinent part about the authentic compo“I really want us to understand the nent is the fact that if you are in fact an authentic part of who we are. From that, • Follow Bruce Miles’ Cubs and authentic person, you’re able to repeat to be able to sustain what we’ve done in baseball reports on Twitter @Brucewhat you’ve done in the past naturally. the past just by being us. Don’t try to be Miles2112.

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8 BULLS 105, RAPTORS 94

Bulls win 11th straight over Raptors

By JEFF ARNOLD

BULLS 105, RAPTORS 94

For the Sun-Times

CHICAGO – The question, while fundamentally simple, had still managed to stump Taj Gibson, who struggled to come up with a succinct answer.

How exactly – Gibson was asked Tuesday morning – had the Bulls, through good times and bad, managed to string together 10 straight victories over the Toronto Raptors?

Gibson stammered.

“I don’t know,” he offered initially. “I wish I could tell you.”

Finally, the veteran forward reversed course.

“We seem to get lucky at different times,” Gibson said, hours before the Bulls snapped their string of three lopsided losses and extended their streak against the Raptors to 11 games with a 105-94 win Tuesday night at the United Center.

But as been the case with the Bulls, who continue to have more questions than answers as the All-Star break and trade deadline loom, nothing came easy.

Again depleted by injuries and with Jimmy Butler’s healing heel still smarting, the Bulls appeared to be on a clear course toward responding to getting blown out by an average of 26 points in each of their past three outings with a double-digit victory of their own.

The Bulls led by as many as 23 points, but then watched as the cushion evaporated to only five with less

TORONTO (94) Carroll 1-4 2-2 4, Poeltl 2-2 0-0 4, Valanciunas 6-11 0-0 12, Lowry 8-17 2-2 22, DeRozan 5-19 8-9 18, Siakam 1-2 0-0 2, Nogueira 3-4 1-3 7, Wright 1-2 0-0 2, Joseph 4-8 1-2 10, Powell 4-8 5-6 13. Totals 35-77 19-24 94.

CHICAGO (105) Gibson 6-9 2-2 14, Lopez 4-12 0-0 8, Grant 1-5 0-0 2, Carter-Williams 2-2 4-6 8, Butler 2-10 15-19 19, McDermott 8-13 2-2 20, Portis 1-5 3-4 6, Felicio 4-6 2-2 10, Rondo 5-8 0-0 12, Canaan 0-0 0-0 0, Valentine 2-3 0-0 6. Totals 35-73 28-35 105.

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25 20

30 — 94 27 — 105

3-Point Goals–Toronto 5-20 (Lowry 4-11, Joseph 1-1, DeRozan 0-1, Wright 0-1, Powell 0-3, Carroll 0-3), Chicago 7-17 (Rondo 2-2, Valentine 2-3, McDermott 2-4, Portis 1-2, Gibson 0-1, Grant 0-2, Butler 0-3). Fouled Out–None.

Rebounds–Toronto 34 (Valanciunas 9), Chicago 37 (Lopez, Felicio 6). Assists–Toronto 15 (Powell, Lowry 4), Chicago 22 (Butler 12). Total Fouls–Toronto 26, Chicago 23. Technicals–Valanciunas, DeRozan 2, Chicago defensive three second, Chicago team, McDermott. Ejected–DeRozan.

A–21,220 (20,917).

game anyway they could, they managed to gut out a victory without much of the star power they have come to depend on.

“It’s huge for me,” said McDermott, who paced the victory with 20 points.

“With D-Wade out, I knew I had to step up a little bit.”

McDermott may have paced the way, AP photo but playing without Wade, Nikola MirotThe Toronto Raptors’ Jakob Poeltl (left) is fouled by the Bulls’ Taj Gibson during the first ic and Paul Zipser, the Bulls proved to have plenty in their reserve. With Buthalf Tuesday at the United Center. ler struggling to hit shots and Wade unavailable, Hoiberg’s supporting cast than three minutes to play. The Bulls’ recent struggles. supporting cast of Gibson, Doug McWithout Dwyane Wade’s leadership made a considerable contribution.

It proved be exactly the kind of shot Dermott, Rajon Rondo and Denzel Val- to calm the storm, McDermott and Valentine had helped construct the sizable entine hit big shots before Butler closed in the arm a team that remains two scoreboard advantage. But that lead, out the win with five free throws in the games under .500 needed with only one once comfortable, was slowly slipping closing minutes. And at a time when the more game remaining before the Allaway in a manner befitting of the Bulls’ Bulls needed to end find a way to win a Star break arrives.

Spate of injuries gives others opportunities

By JEFF ARNOLD

For The Sun-Times

CHICAGO – Considering the way injuries have depleted the Bulls lineup, coach Fred Hoiberg is convinced opportunities for younger players to see meaningful minutes aren’t going to diminish any time soon.

With Dwyane Wade still ailing with a right wrist injury, Nikola Mirotic dealing with persistent back spasms and Paul Zipser in a walking boot with tendinitis in his right ankle, plenty of chances remain up for grabs.

Michael Carter-Williams and Jerian Grant started Tuesday against Toronto, as Wade missed his second straight game. An MRI exam Monday didn’t indicate any long-term damage, but Hoiberg said the veteran guard wasn’t ready to return. Wade could return Thursday against Boston.

While Wade gets closer to returning, Mirotic and Zipser could miss more time. Mirotic said before Tuesday’s game his back is better, but it still isn’t at 100 percent. Hoiberg wouldn’t rule Mirotic out for Thursday’s game, but said Zipser likely wouldn’t play again until after the All-Star break.

Dwyane Wade The rash of injuries has provided chances for Carter-Williams and second-year forward Bobby Portis. Although Hoiberg’s youngsters played well at times during the Bulls’ recent six-game road swing that finished with three straight losses, consistency continues to be an issue.

And as the Bulls continue to hover under .500, putting together a complete 48-minute effort continues to be

an issue.

“That’s going to happen with young players, especially with guys that are getting opportunities for the first time,” Hoiberg said. “You’ve got to learn from it, you’ve got to get better. Those guys will continue to get opportunities because of where we are with our lineup right now – and hopefully, play better.”

As Hoiberg has been forced to continually juggle his lineup, Carter-Williams has been the biggest beneficiary of the Bulls’ injury woes. Before Jimmy Butler returned Tuesday night after missing Sunday’s blowout loss to the Timberwolves, Carter-Williams was the All-Star swingman’s fill-in as Butler missed four of the Bulls past five games.

Carter-Williams scored 23 points in a Feb. 3 loss to the Rockets and followed it with a 21-point effort in a win over Sacramento. But Carter-Williams

struggled during the Bulls three-game losing streak, including a 1-for-9 shooting performance last week against Golden State and a 4-for-12 outing Sunday against the Timberwolves.

Injuries aside, the Bulls’ road won’t get any easier entering the All-Star break. While the break will provide a respite from a grueling West Coast swing, veteran forward Taj Gibson said Tuesday the Bulls can’t lose sight of the job at hand.

“It’s tough, because a lot of times guys tend to dwell off and set their minds on the All-Star break (and) being around family,” Gibson said. “We just try to keep guys’ heads level, try to keep guys’ heads still into the fight, try to end on the right path. Because you know the second half is even harder.

These next two games are important to us, and we try to instill that into the young guys.”

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SPORTS BRIEFS es, including a trip to the 2014 Eastern Canadiens fire Therrien, Conference final. They missed the playoffs hire Julien as coach last season after goaltender Carey Price In the midst of losing their grip on first injured his knee in November. place, the Montreal Canadiens abruptly Owner Geoff Molson tweeted Tuesfired coach Michel Therrien on Tuesday day afternoon: “Michel Therrien, merci and hired Claude Julien in hopes of getting beaucoup pour tout, thank you for giving their season back on track. everything you had to our team.”

Montreal general manager Marc BerTherrien went 194-121-37 as coach of the gevin made the announcement two days Canadiens this time around. into his team’s bye week. Julien was fired as coach of the Boston Bruins last week, and predictions that the veteran wouldn’t Ex-NIU receivers coach Copeland among new hires at Iowa be out of work for long proved true.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division GP W L OT Pts Minnesota 56 37 13 6 80 Blackhawks 57 35 17 5 75 St. Louis 56 29 22 5 63 Nashville 56 27 21 8 62 Winnipeg 59 26 29 4 56 Dallas 58 22 26 10 54 Colorado 54 15 37 2 32 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts San Jose 57 34 18 5 73 Anaheim 58 30 18 10 70 Edmonton 57 30 19 8 68 Los Angeles 55 28 23 4 60 Calgary 57 28 26 3 59 Vancouver 57 25 26 6 56 Arizona 55 19 29 7 45

GF 187 166 161 158 171 160 109

GA 130 147 165 151 187 187 184

GF 156 152 162 138 149 135 131

GA 135 147 148 136 164 164 174

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 58 31 19 8 70 165 150 Ottawa 54 29 19 6 64 145 146 Boston 58 29 23 6 64 157 155 Toronto 55 26 18 11 63 172 162 Florida 54 24 20 10 58 134 153 Buffalo 57 24 23 10 58 141 161 \Tampa Bay 56 25 24 7 57 154 160 Detroit 56 22 24 10 54 141 169 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 56 39 11 6 84 192 121 Pittsburgh 55 35 13 7 77 197 155 Columbus 55 35 15 5 75 177 136 N.Y. Rangers 56 37 18 1 75 192 147 Philadelphia 56 27 22 7 61 147 168 N.Y. Islanders 55 25 20 10 60 162 165 New Jersey 56 24 22 10 58 131 159 Carolina 53 24 22 7 55 140 156 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s Results Pittsburgh 4, Vancouver 0 New Jersey 3, Colorado 2 Toronto 7, N.Y. Islanders 1 Buffalo 3, Ottawa 2 Winnipeg 5, Dallas 2 Anaheim 1, Minnesota 0 Edmonton 5, Arizona 2 Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Columbus, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Calgary, 8:30 p.m.

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

Thursday’s Games Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

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

Ottawa at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Arizona at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Pittsburgh at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

Florida at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

PREPS

Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 38 16 .704 Indiana 29 26 .527 Bulls 27 29 .482 Detroit 26 30 .464 Milwaukee 24 30 .444 Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 36 19 .655 Toronto 32 24 .571 New York 23 33 .411 Philadelphia 21 34 .382 Brooklyn 9 46 .164 Southeast Division W L Pct Washington 33 21 .611 Atlanta 31 23 .574 Charlotte 24 31 .436 Miami 24 32 .429 Orlando 21 36 .368

GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS

GB — 9½ 12 13 14 GB — 4½ 13½ 15 27 GB — 2 9½ 10 13½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 42 13 .764 Houston 40 17 .702 Memphis 34 23 .596 Dallas 22 33 .400 New Orleans 22 34 .393 Northwest Division W L Pct Utah 34 22 .607 Oklahoma City 31 25 .554 Denver 25 30 .455 Portland 23 31 .426 Minnesota 21 35 .375 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 46 9 .836 L.A. Clippers 34 21 .618 Sacramento 24 32 .429 L.A. Lakers 19 38 .333 Phoenix 17 39 .304

GB — 3 9 20 20½ GB — 3 8½ 10 13 GB — 12 22½ 28 29½

Tuesday’s Results Bulls 105, Toronto 94 Cleveland 116, Minnesota 108 Sacramento 97, L.A. Lakers 96 Wednesday’s Games Indiana at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Miami at Houston, 7 p.m.

New Orleans at Memphis, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Denver, 8 p.m.

Portland at Utah, 8 p.m.

New York at Oklahoma City, 8:30 p.m.

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

Sacramento at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Boston at Bulls, 7 p.m.

Washington at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s Game Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference at New Orleans, LA, 8:30 p.m.

NCAA BASKETBALL MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE

Conference W L PCT Akron 12 1 .923 Ohio 8 5 .615 Buffalo 8 5 .615 Ball St. 7 6 .538 C. Michigan 6 7 .462 N. Illinois 6 7 .462 Kent St. 6 7 .462 Toledo 6 7 .462 W. Michigan 6 7 .462 E. Michigan 5 8 .385 Bowling Green 5 8 .385 Miami (Ohio) 3 10 .231

Overall W L PCT 22 4 .846 16 8 .667 14 12 .538 16 10 .615 16 10 .615 14 12 .538 14 12 .538 13 13 .500 10 15 .400 13 13 .500 11 15 .423 10 16 .385

Tuesday’s Results Ball St. 81, N. Illinois 72 Buffalo 99, Cent. Michigan 93 Kent St. 76, Miami (Ohio) 72 W. Michigan 89, Bowling Green 79 Ohio 79, E. Michigan 71 Akron 71, Toledo 65 Friday’s Game Kent St. at Akron, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Toledo at N. Illinois, 2:30 p.m.

Bowling Green at Ohio, 1 p.m.

Miami at Buffalo, 2:30 p.m.

E. Michigan at W. Michigan, 3 p.m.

Ball St. at C. Michigan, 3:30 p.m.

BIG TEN CONFERENCE

Conference W L PCT Wisconsin 10 2 .833 Purdue 10 3 .769 Maryland 9 3 .750 Northwestern 8 4 .667 Michigan St. 8 5 .615 Minnesota 6 6 .500 Michigan 6 6 .500 Iowa 6 7 .462

Overall W L PCT 21 4 .840 21 5 .808 21 4 .840 19 6 .760 16 10 .615 18 7 .720 16 9 .640 14 12 .538

Penn St. Indiana Nebraska Ohio St. Illinois Rutgers

6 8 5 8 5 8 5 9 4 9 2 12

.429 .385 .385 .357 .308 .143

14 15 11 15 14 13

13 11 14 12 12 14

.519 .577 .440 .556 .538 .481

Tuesday’s Results Purdue 74, Rutgers 55 Nebraska 82, Penn St. 66 Michigan St. 74, Ohio St. 66 Wednesday’s Games Maryland at Northwestern, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s Game Wisconsin at Michigan, 6 p.m.

TOP 25 SCHEDULE

Tuesday’s Results No. 13 Kentucky 83, Tennessee 58 No. 15 Florida 114, Auburn 95 No. 16 Purdue 74, Rutgers 55 No. 25 Notre Dame 84, Boston College 76 Wednesday’s Games No. 10 North Carolina at N.C. State, 7 p.m.

No. 12 Duke at No. 14 Virginia, 8 p.m.

No. 18 Cincinnati at South Florida, 6 p.m.

No. 19 SMU vs. Tulane, 8 p.m.

No. 20 Creighton at Seton Hall, 7 p.m.

No. 21 South Carolina vs. Arkansas, 5:30 p.m.

No. 23 Maryland at Northwestern, 6 p.m.

No. 24 Butler vs. St. John’s, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games No. 1 Gonzaga vs. San Francisco, 8 p.m.

No. 5 Arizona at Washington St., 8 p.m.

No. 7 Oregon vs. Utah, 8 p.m.

No. 11 Wisconsin at Michigan, 6 p.m.

No. 22 Saint Mary’s vs. Loyola Marymount, 10 p.m.

CLASS 3A Richmond-Burton Regional Tuesday Game 3: (10) Richmond-Burton 53, (7) Marian Central 51 Game 2: (2) Johnsburg 2, (15) Chicago Senn 0 (fft.)

Thursday Game 4 at 7 p.m.: (2) Johnsburg vs.

(10) Richmond-Burton Chicago Resurrection Regional Tuesday Game 2: (1) Antioch 74, (17) Chicago Amundsen 14 Game 3: (9) Chicago Resurrection 52, (8) Woodstock 34 Thursday Game 4 at 7 p.m.: (1) Antioch vs. (9) Chicago Resurrection Chicago Northside Regional Tuesday Game 2: (3) Carmel 71, (19) North Chicago 21 Game 3: (6) Woodstock North 70, (11) Chicago Northside 48 Thursday Game 4 at 7 p.m.: (3) Carmel vs. (6) Woodstock North CLASS 4A Larkin Regional Tuesday (1) South Elgin 78, (8) Larkin 72 (5) Streamwood 60, (4) Cary-Grove 52 Thursday Game 5 at 7 p.m.: (1) South Elgin vs.

(5) Streamwood Harlem Regional Tuesday Game 1 at 7 p.m.: (7) Huntley 54, (8) Harlem 31 Wednesday Game 2 at 6 p.m.: (2) Hononegah vs.

(7) Huntley Game 3 at 7:30 p.m.: (3) Rockford East vs. (5) Belvidere North Friday Game 4 at 7 p.m.: Winner Game 2 vs.

Winner Game 3 McHenry Regional Tuesday Game 2 at 6 p.m.: (2) Dundee-Crown 55, (9) Prairie Ridge 34 Game 3 at 7:30 p.m.: (7) Crystal Lake South 54, (3) McHenry 49 (2OT) Thursday Game 4 at 7 p.m.: (2) Dundee-Crown vs. (7) Crystal Lake South Rockford Boylan Regional Tuesday Game 2 at 6 p.m.: (1) Rockford Boylan 69, (9) Rockford Auburn 29 Game 3 at 7:30 p.m.: (6) Rockford Guilford 44, (4) Hampshire 37 Thursday Game 4 at 7 p.m.: (1) Rockford Boylan vs. (6) Rockford Guilford

MLB SPRING TRAINING SCHEDULE

Wednesday, Feb. 22 Grand Canyon University vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 23 Florida Southern College vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

University of Tampa vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Northeastern University vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 24 Baltimore vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 5:05 p.m.

GOLF WORLD GOLF RANKING

Through Sunday 1. Jason Day AUS 2. Rory McIlroy NIR 3. Dustin Johnson USA 4. Henrik Stenson SWE 5. Hideki Matsuyama JPN

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Patrick finds sponsorship help days before Daytona

By JENNA FRYER

The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. – One of Danica Patrick’s sponsors has stepped up to fill a sudden funding void created when Stewart-Haas Racing sued her primary backer for $31 million in a breachof-contract lawsuit.

Aspen Dental said Tuesday that it will be the lead sponsor for Danica Patrick Patrick and debut on her car during the Feb. 26 season-opening Daytona 500. Teams arrive this week to begin preparations for one of NASCAR’s showcase races.

Patrick and SHR were left with 20some races to fill less than two weeks before teams report to Daytona International Speedway because of a nasty split between the team and primary sponsor Nature’s Bakery. SHR is suing for money it said is owed for the final two years of the Nature’s Bakery contract.

Aspen Dental sponsored four races on Patrick’s No. 10 last season, and that total will be raised to “double digits” in 2017, the team said Tuesday. The team is not giving an exact number of sponsored races because there is additional inventory Aspen Dental could take on as the season progresses.

Nature’s Bakery was on target for a minimum of 20 races this year.

Aspen Dental has been a partner of SHR since 2012, then aligned with Patrick in 2014. There are nearly 600 Aspen Dental practices across 35 states.

“Our commitment to Danica Patrick goes back almost four years and our relationship with SHR even further,” said Bob Fontana, chairman and CEO of Aspen Dental Management Inc. “We look forward to our enhanced partnership.”

The partnership has put Patrick in an active role promoting oral health across a multitude of channels.

“I love working with organizations that care about people, and teaming up with a group that has such an important mission,” Patrick said.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL: NORTHWESTERN

By ANDREW SELIGMAN The Associated Press

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Northwestern coach Chris Collins (center) reacts during the second half against Wisconsin on Sunday in Madison, Wis. Northwestern upset Wisconsin, 66-59. last season.

For a long-struggling program, everything seems to be falling into place.

Along with the upgrade on the court, the Wildcats are about to see a big improvement in their facilities.

A $110 million renovation of Welsh-Ryan Arena is set to begin on the 64-year-old facility after the season.

Although that means playing next sea-

son at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, the Wildcats probably will like what they see when the work is finished.

The school plans to replace existing wooden bleachers with chair-back seats, update audio and video systems, add premium seating and widen concourses.

Along with a renovated arena, the men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball teams will get a new practice facility in

• Wednesday, February 15, 2017

EVANSTON – Chris Collins recalled playing a state tournament game in a sold out arena at Northwestern when he was a star at Glenbrook North High School.

The atmosphere was off the charts.

“It was so loud, and it was an amazing environment,” he said Tuesday. “That’s what I envisioned for this place to become.”

Collins no longer has to use his imagination. Big things are happening at Northwestern, the school that hosted the first Final Four but still hasn’t been to the NCAA tournament.

That might be about to change.

Collins, the longtime former Duke assistant and son of an NBA coach, has the Wildcats (19-6, 8-4 Big Ten) poised for their first NCAA appearance in his fourth season as their coach.

Northwestern is coming off a huge win at then-No. 7 Wisconsin on Sunday and is staring at another big opportunity against No. 23 Maryland on Wednesday at home. They have a chance not only to strengthen their NCAA standing, but tie their regular-season record for wins set

an existing building adjacent to the arena.

But there are more immediate issues.

An NCAA appearance is in reach, for one.

“I’m not shying away from the NCAA tournament question,” Collins said. “I know it’s something that’s on everybody’s mind because it historically is something that hasn’t been done.

People want to see it be done. I’m not avoiding that. But really, when I came here, it wasn’t about going to the NCAA tournament. I viewed this as situation where it’s a great school in a great city that plays in one of the best conferences, arguably the best conference, in college basketball. Why can’t we have a program that’s good every year?”

It’s not just about making the NCAA tournament for the Wildcats. It’s about making a run, too.

“We believe in ourselves; we think we’re really good,” guard Bryant McIntosh said. “When we do make the NCAA tournament, that’s not our end goal. We want to compete for a championship, and it starts with the Big Ten Tournament. It starts with the Big Ten championship, regular season. We have our eyes set on that.”

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8 ounces smoked salmon, finely chopped ¼ cup sour cream or Greek yogurt 2 tablespoons minced shallot 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh chives, tarragon or dill or a mix 2 tablespoons well-drained capers, chopped 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard Black pepper to taste

In a bowl combine all the ingredients and stir gently until just combined. Chill until ready to serve.

Nutrition information per serving: 214 calories; 61 calories from fat; 7 g fat (2 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 89 mg cholesterol; 195 mg sodium; 3 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 1 g sugar; 36 g protein.

flakes, and salt to taste and stir well. Chill until ready to serve.

Nutrition information per serving: 199 calories; 67 calories from fat; 7 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 73 mg sodium; 25 g carbohydrate; 5 g fiber; 1 g sugar; 8 g protein.

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White Bean Salad

Start to finish: 25 minutes Servings: 4 1/3 cup minced red onion One 15½-ounce can white beans 1/3 cup finely diced fresh fennel or celery 1 teaspoon minced garlic 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh oregano ½ teaspoon hot pepper flakes (optional) Kosher salt In a bowl of ice and water, soak the onion for 15 minutes, drain and pat dry Drain and rinse the white beans and pat them dry. In a medium bowl, mash the beans using a potato masher, leaving about half in large pieces and the rest mashed. Add the onion, fennel, garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, oregano, hot pepper

Start to finish: 10 minutes Servings: 4 12 slices ½-inch thick rustic bread Extra-virgin olive oil for brushing the bread 1 garlic clove, halved Kosher salt Preheat a grill pan over high heat. Brush both sides of the bread slices with the oil. Add the bread to the preheated grill, reduce the heat to medium, and cook until bread is nicely browned on both sides (about 1 minute a side). Remove the bread from the pan and, while it’s still hot, rub one side of each slice with a cut clove of garlic, then sprinkle it very lightly with kosher salt.

Nutrition information per serving: 256 calories; 39 calories from fat; 4 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 552 mg sodium; 45 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 1 g sugar; 8 g protein.

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Canapes able to dress up any Academy Awards party buffet

By THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA The Associated Press

When it comes to planning party menus, we often think the most special dishes are the most complicated ones, with exotic and expensive ingredients. But often, it’s the classic recipes that rely on familiar flavors your guests will remember.

Food trends are cyclical, and right now, to the benefit of party hosts and chefs, diners are craving unfussy recipes that rely on the quality of its ingredients. This party classic for prosciutto and melon canapes is a quick-and-easy small bite that will shine on your Oscar party table.

A canape is a small, one-or-two bite hors d’oeuvre, usually consisting of a piece of bread or cracker topped with, well, anything. They are great for parties, since they are not too filling and easy to eat when one hand is occupied by a glass of champagne. And for the host, they are a breeze to make.

You can make toppings ahead of time, such as chutneys or caramelized onions, or even rely on prepared ingredients with great flavor combinations. Brie and fig jam on crackers, for example, needs no preparation.

Prosciutto, a salty cured ham from Italy, and melon are a classic combination. Thanks to our global food market, sweet cantaloupe and honeydew melons can be found year-round, and their brightness reminds us there is some warm sunshine following the cold winter.

A slice of prosciutto adds a savory twist and a satisfying texture. We like to spread our soft white bread canape base with a little bit of mascarpone cheese before topping it, but you could even use a soft goat cheese or an herbed spreadable fresh cheese.

This canape relies on flavor from the melon.

Look for melons with no stem attached, since that means they were picked mature. Also, search for ones with a thick, pronounced netting on the exterior of the skin, and it should be tan. Green skin means the melon was picked too early.

Prosciutto and Melon Canape Start to finish: 25 minutes Servings: 30

8 very thin slices prosciutto (about 5 ounces) 30 (1½-inch-diamater) round white bread canapé bases, toasted 5 ounces mascarpone cheese, or as needed 30 pieces cantaloupe, cut into medium dice, or scooped into 1/2-inch balls 30 mint leaves, for garnish

Whether you are a film fanatic or just in it for the gowns, awards season is a no-brainer excuse for a theme party. Hollywood glitz and glamour offers the perfect opportunity to pull out your fancy Champagne flutes and costume jewelry for an affair to remember.

Maybe you’re partial to a menu of bad film-food puns (Manchester by the Sea-Salt Caramels?), but if you prefer a more refined gathering, the best place to start is with the right cocktail.

This recipe for a Red Carpet Royal is a traditional champagne cocktail that’s dressed for the biggest night in Hollywood, which falls on Feb. 26.

We’ve added some gold leaf, which you should be able to find in most specialty stores, because we like the sparkle. If you prefer minimalism, you can leave the gold leaf out and have an equally delicious cocktail.

We call for a sugar cube placed at the bottom of each glass. Although you can use granulated sugar or simple syrup instead, the sugar cube creates an experience for you and your guests. As the sugar dissolves, it helps to create layers while it slowly sweetens the cocktail. Your first sip will be unlike your last, and all the while, the cube will be sending up bubbles for Academy Award-worthy drama.

Although the cocktail shouldn’t be mixed ahead, you can prepare your lemon curl garnish earlier in the day. Make the Royals on demand to make every guest feel like a VIP, and you’re sure to land a nod for best host.

Red Carpet Royal

Serving: One Start to finish: 10 minutes 1 sugar cube 2 dashes lemon bitters 1 sheet of gold leaf 1 ounce elderflower liqueur 4.5 ounces sparkling wine Lemon zest, as needed

Fold the prosciutto to fit the canape bases.

To assemble the canapes, spread the canapé with some of the mascarpone cheese and top with a piece of prosciutto.

Pipe a small mound of mascarpone in the center of each canapé and top with cut melon. Top each canape with a mint leaf.

Chef’s note: You can be very flexible with this recipe and easily change the look of the canape by simply cutting the melon into different shapes, such as slices, rings and diamonds. Use a different base in place of the bread: Your favorite chip or a curled sweet potato chip can make a festive presentation.

Put the sugar cube in the bottom of a flute and add bitters.

Separate the sheet of gold leaf into quarters and place in the bottom of the glass. Add elderflower liqueur, then top with sparkling wine.

Using a channel knife, cut around the axis of the lemon to create a long spiral thread of zest. Place into glass.

Instructor’s note: If you are without a channel knife you can create the spiral using a peeler. Start at the top of the lemon and zest a long continuous spiral around the lemon.

When you lay the lemon strip on a cutting board, it should resemble an “S.” Using a sharp knife, cut the jagged edge off of one side of the peel. Return to the clean edge and cut another thin strip following the contour of the zest.

Nutrition information per serving: 59 calories; 26 calories from fat; 3 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 9 mg cholesterol; 152 mg sodium; 6 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 2 g sugar; 2 g protein.

Nutrition information per serving: 195 calories; 0 calories from fat; 0 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 7 mg sodium; 16 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 15 g sugar; 0 g protein.

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Charcuterie boards an impressive appetizer

By ELIZABETH KARMEL The Associated Press

Who says you can enjoy a charcuterie board only when you go out to eat? Restaurants have made them a diner’s favorite, and many restaurants become destinations based on their ability to source great meats and cheeses.

With a little planning, you can do this same thing any night of the week.

In fact, you don’t even need to go to a fancy store to get the provisions. Most grocery stores have everything you need.

Once you find your favorite dried sausage, keep it on hand. It lasts for a very long time in the fridge and is handy to pull out when people stop over unexpectedly for a drink. My favorite sausages are reasonably priced, vacuum-sealed, have a good lean to fat ratio and are very clean tasting. These days, it’s easy to find very good dried sausages.

When shopping for a party, plan on

3 ounces of charcuterie a person for an appetizer and about twice that if it’s the only food being served. With bread and olives, pickles and nuts, that should be enough to satiate all of your meat-loving friends and family.

Your charcuterie board can be as simple as one dried sausage, olives, nuts and a special mustard dipping sauce or make it a little more expansive by adding a paté, thin-sliced prosciutto, chunks of real Parmesan or pecorino and another mustard for dipping and spreading. Bread and butter, homemade seeded crackers, fresh ricotta cheese, good olive oil and cocktail rye also are good choices.

I like to dress up my favorite mustards with jam, herbs and spices.

It’s easy to make but adds that special touch that will make your charcuterie board even more craveable than the one at your favorite restaurant. Add your favorite flavors to the mustard and just pick a jam and an herb that you like together.

Most importantly, have fun with

your combinations. A charcuterie board is easy, elegant and a guaranteed crowd pleaser. The winner of the night for my last party was the original Apricot Sweet and Sharp Mustard. It’s as simple as mixing mustards and jam together, and the variations are endless.

Sweet and Sharp Mustard Party For the Charcuterie Board: Saucisson Sec (Dry Salami) such as D’artangia, Bende Hungarian Sausage Prosciutto or Iberico , or southern ham such as Benton’s Pate Salami Soppressetta Parmesan Reggiano cheese, broken into small chunks Cornichon pickles Olives Marcona almonds Pistachios Good bread, seeded crackers

Ricotta cheese topped with honey or herbs and olive oil For the Original Sweet and Sharp Mustard for Sausages and Cured Meats: 1/4 cup whole-grain Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon apricot jam 2 teaspoons smooth Dijon mustard Pinch of Coleman’s dry mustard Pinch of dried parsley or other dried green herb For the meat and cheese, slice it cold and serve it room temperature. Mix jam and mustards together until combined but still chunky. Add dried herbs and mix until combined. Serve immediately or store covered in the refrigerator for up to five days. For variations, try raspberry jam and mint; fig jam and dehydrated shallots; red currant jelly and red pepper flakes; and blackberry jam and tarragon

Nutritional value will differ depending on selection of charcuterie.

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1 tablespoon real maple syrup Pinch salt

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Sweet potato slices are the latest rage in the avocado toast trend. If you at all are involved with Pinterest, you know this already. Pop slices of unpeeled sweet potato in a regular old toaster, and then top it with healthy goodies – like the very popular avocado – for a breakfast or snack filled with slower carbs and healthy fats.

I’ll admit, I was skeptical. But I decided to take one for the team, and get to the bottom of this sweet potato toast craze for the benefit of us all.

I love the idea of getting some extra vitamins (mostly A and B6) and minerals (mostly potassium and magnesium) with my morning meal.

Here is what I found: Sweet potatoes really will cook in the toaster, if you let it go through enough cycles.

However, a few of my slices got dried out with all that toasting, and sides turned an unpleasant shade of dull brown in some cases.

My solution? Slice potato into 1/4-inch toasts and give them a quick turn (30-60 seconds) in the microwave wrapped in a damp towel. This process barely started cooking the slices while also infusing them with the smidgen of moisture that made all

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the difference. The toasts still took 3-4 toasting cycles to cook but retained their color and pleasant texture.

Dip your toe into this sweet potato toast craze using our family’s favorite – a super-simple pear and yogurt combination that reminded us all of a heavenly sour cream apple pie.

Feel free to swap out toppings, or even toast up a bunch of toasts and serve with a spicy dip at your next party.

Sweet Potato Toast with Pear Slices and Yogurt Start to finish: 10 minutes Servings: 8 toasts

1 long orange-fleshed sweet potato, clean and unpeeled, sliced into eight 1/4-inch slices 1/2 cup reduced fat plain Greek yogurt 1/2 pear, thinly sliced Ground cinnamon, for sprinkling

Lay a damp paper towel on a microwavesafe plate and lay out the sweet potato slices. Cover with a second damp paper towel. Microwave until slices barely begin to soften and turn brighter orange, about one minute. Blot with paper towel to remove any extra moisture. Run the slices through the toaster cycle until the potato is softened, but not flimsy, about 3-4 cycles. Let the slices cool a few minutes. Top with yogurt, pear slices, a sprinkling of cinnamon, a drizzle of maple syrup and a tiny pinch of salt. Pick up a mini-pie or two with your hands and enjoy for breakfast, snack or even dessert.

Other topping options: almond butter, banana slices and chia seed; peanut butter and honey; avocado, lime juice, hot sauce and cilantro; hardboiled egg, tomato slices and chopped cooked turkey bacon.

Cook’s note: Orange-fleshed sweet potatoes often are called “garnet” sweet potatoes or “yams” in American grocery stores.

Nutrition information per serving: 40 calories; 1 calories from fat; 0 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 1 mg cholesterol; 58 mg sodium; 8 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 4 g sugar; 2 g protein.

Try a caramelized onion tart that can ease hosting strain

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We know it isn’t always enough for a party recipe to be delicious. The most helpful recipes are the ones we can prepare ahead of time, and our cheese and onion tart recipe fits the bill.

The tart dough can be made weeks ahead and frozen. The filling is a simple egg custard, layered with caramelized onions.

You can caramelize the onions earlier in the week, and even mix in and cook the flour that’s added as a thickener. Just cool the whole mixture and seal it tightly in a zip-top bag. Bring it to room temperature, then spread it in your tart shell when you’re ready.

You can bake the assembled tart a day or two before your party. You won’t want to serve it fresh out of the oven anyway, since the custard filling needs to cool and set. Remove it from the refrigerator the day of your party and either serve it at room temperature or quickly warm it in the oven before slicing.

Caramelizing apples is an easy way to dress up this tart. Serve them in a bowl alongside the tart.

You also can serve this tart as small bites. Use a square or rectangular tart pan to make your tart, and once it is baked and cooled, cut it into small squares that can be passed as hors d’oeuvre.

Cheese and Onion Tart

Makes one 10-inch tart Servings: 10 Start to finish: 3 hours, 15 minutes Tart Dough: 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour 1/8 teaspoon salt 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, cubed and chilled 7 tablespoons ice water Filling: 1 quart water 3 thick slices bacon 1/4 cup unsalted butter 5 cups finely sliced onions Salt, to taste Freshly ground black pepper, to taste Freshly grated nutmeg, to taste 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 cup Gruyère, diced 1/2 cup heavy cream

1/2 cup whole milk 1 large egg, lightly beaten Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. To make the dough: Place the flour and salt in a mixing bowl and work the cold butter into the flour until the mixture resembles fine crumbs. Add the cold water and mix just until the dough forms a ball; do not knead or overwork the dough. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

On a board or work surface lightly dusted with flour, roll out the dough into a 12-inch circle with a thickness of 1/8 inch. Line a 10inch tart pan with the dough and chill the tart shell for at least 30 minutes in the refrigerator.

Prick the bottom and sides of the tart shell with the tines of a fork and then line with parchment paper or aluminum foil. Weigh down the paper with some dried beans, lentils or rice to keep the dough from puffing up as it bakes.

Blind bake the tart shell until the dough sets and the edges look dry, 10 to 12 minutes.

Remove the paper or foil and the beans and set the shell aside to cool. Reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F. To make the filling: Bring the water to a boil in a pot over high heat. Add the bacon slic-

es and blanch for about 10 seconds. Remove the bacon from the water and allow to drain completely. When cool, cut into 1/4-inch dice.

In a sauté pan over low to medium heat, melt the butter. Add the onions and season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Cook until the onions are a rich golden brown and smell sweet, about 50 minutes. Do not hurry this process; the onions should cook slowly to attain a rich golden color.

Sprinkle the flour onto the onions and cook for another 5 to 7 minutes, stirring to avoid burning the onions. Remove from the heat and allow the mixture to cool.

To fill the tart: Place the onion mixture and cheese on the bottom of the prebaked and cooled tart shell. In a bowl, whisk together the cream, milk and egg. Pour the milk mixture into the tart shell. Sprinkle the pieces of blanched bacon on top.

Place the tart on a sheet pan on the lowest shelf of the oven and bake until the crust is golden brown and the filling is completely set, about 25 minutes.

Nutrition information per serving: 378 calories; 207 calories from fat; 23 g fat (14 g saturated; 1 g trans fats); 87 mg cholesterol; 175 mg sodium; 33 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 3 g sugar; 10 g protein.

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Lasagna epitomizes Big Crowd Food

By KATIE WORKMAN The Associated Press

In the quest for Big Crowd Food, lasagna reigns supreme. And at this time of year, you may find yourself entertaining a big crowd for the Oscars or another awards show, or just because it’s cold out and it’s nice to put together a cozy gathering.

This lasagna is rich and creamy, absent the tomato sauce that anchors many lasagnas, filled with sautéed spinach folded into fluffy ricotta and a very simple béchamel sauce, rich with melty cheeses. The nutmeg is optional – a little can add a nice flavor, but too much can overpower.

A few more notes on the ingredients: You may think 2 pounds of spinach looks like an awful lot for one lasagna, but it cooks down to just a few cups. No-boil, or oven-ready, lasagna noodles are a gift to the busy cook, and the reason I make lasagna more often. I also have made this recipe in a super-large lasagna pan and increased the quantities by half again. Then it will serve 12 to 16.

It is tempting to dig into a bubbling lasagna, but resist the urge.

Letting it sit for at least 10 minutes will reward you with slices that hold together, and it still will be perfectly warm – in fact, just the right temperature for you to enjoy the flavors without the pieces sliding apart on the plates.

This also can be assembled a day ahead, held in the fridge and baked before dinner. Or it can be baked up to two days ahead and reheated for about 20 minutes in a 375 degrees F. oven.

1 pound fresh mozzarella, shredded 8 ounces shredded Monterey Jack cheese 1 (8 ounce) package no-boil lasagna noodles (containing 12 noodles)

Spinach-Basil-Ricotta Filling: 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1/2 cup minced shallots 1 tablespoon minced garlic Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 2 pounds baby spinach leaves, roughly chopped 2 pounds ricotta, preferably fresh 2 large eggs 1 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese, plus 1/3 cup for sprinkling the top 1/2 cup chopped fresh basil leaves

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Make the Spinach-Basil-Ricotta Filling: Heat the tablespoon butter in a large saucepan over medium heat until melted.

Add the shallots and garlic, season with salt and pepper and sauté for 2 minutes until tender. Add the spinach in batches and saute, adding more spinach as each batch wilts down, about 6 minutes in all, until all of the spinach is added and wilted. Adjust the seasoning, transfer to a strainer over a bowl, press down with a spoon to release excess liquid, and set aside to cool slightly.

In a large bowl combine the ricotta, eggs, 1 cup Parmesan and basil. Season with salt and pepper, and set aside.

Make the Béchamel-Cheese Sauce: Heat the 4 tablespoons butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat until melted.

Whisk in the flour until the mixture turns a light golden color, about 3 minutes. While whisking constantly, slowly pour in the milk. Continue to cook and whisk until the mixture thickens and bubbles, about 4 minutes, adding the nutmeg, if using. Whisk in the mozzarella and Monterey Jack cheeses until they are melted, and season with salt and pepper.

If the spinach still seems wet, give it a squeeze with your hands. Stir the drained spinach into the reserved ricotta mixture.

Lay out all of the lasagna noodles on a clean counter top. Spread the spinachricotta filling evenly over all of the noodles, so that each is topped with about a 1/2-inch-thick layer of the spinach-ricotta mixture.

Pour a small amount of Bechamel Sauce into the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch pan and spread it out. Place four ricotta-covered noodles in the bottom of the pan to cover it in a single layer. Drizzle 1/3 of the white sauce over the noodles. Place another layer of the ricotta-covered noodles over the top, drizzle with another third of the sauce, and then repeat the layers once more. Sprinkle with the remaining Parmesan cheese. Bake for about 40 minutes until the top is golden and the lasagna is bubbling.

If you want a more browned top, run it under the broiler for 1 or 2 minutes, watching it carefully.

Let the lasagna rest for at least 10 to 15 minutes before cutting into squares and serving warm.

Béchamel-Cheese Sauce: 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 4 cups (1 quart) whole milk Pinch ground nutmeg (optional)

Nutrition information per serving: 674 calories; 383 calories from fat; 43 g fat (25 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 174 mg cholesterol; 871 mg sodium; 35 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 6 g sugar; 38 g protein.

Cheesy White and Green Spinach Lasagna Serves 10 to 12 Start to finish: 2 hours

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Eighteenth-century sibling authors Augustus and Julius Hare wrote, “A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides.”

A bridge play by declarer that often results in prosperity is leading a weak suit. The opponents assume declarer has values there and steer clear of it. This deal occurred during the 2016 Yeh Online World Bridge Cup. Matches were played simultaneously among four teams in three venues: Beijing, Turin and Seattle.

How did Lin Rongqiang of the Chinese Contract Bridge Association play in three no-trump after receiving a spade lead?

South’s strong-club sequence promised a balanced 22-24; he rightly upgraded for the five-card suit and excellent controls (four aces and a king).

West, nervous of leading a redsuit king, chose the spade 10.

Declarer won with his jack and played two rounds of clubs. After West threw the heart six, East won with the king and returned his second spade. South took the trick with the ace, played a spade to the queen (East pitched a heart) and cashed the club queen. Declarer discarded a diamond, and West shed the spade nine.

Now South threw a curve: He led a heart to his 10! West won with her queen and shifted to the diamond king. When that held the trick, West, misled by South’s play, continued with the diamond six. This gave declarer nine tricks via four spades, one heart, two diamonds and two clubs.

Then West discarded a diamond on the spade ace, so Lin took 10 tricks and gained 10 international match points when South’s opening bid of one diamond was passed out at the other table.

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West Harbor Residences At Reva Bay Be In Your New Home by Spring!

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West Harbor Residences at Reva Bay 8300 Reva Bay Lane Fox Lake, IL 60020 Phone: 630-835-4287 Email: westharborppm@gmail.com

10 ACRES, Zoned AG, 21 year old 2.5 story home needs updating. 12 rooms, 5 baths, 6 fireplaces, 3924 sq ft + 1521 sq ft ground level in-law arrangement. 4 car garage, dormers with guest quarters, Florida room/whirlpool, 3 decks, 2 ponds, 35x104 pole building, part heated with offices and bath, 3 stall barn. I have Home Inspection Report. Market Value $352,000, Bank Appraisal as is and Shown $260,000.

Cash Buyers Only, Must Close 30 Days. $230,000/FIRM, BY OWNER 815-568-0008

PUBLIC NOTICE

U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST; Plaintiff, vs.

UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; CONDOMINIUM SOMERSET OWNERS ASSOCIATION; CAITLIN M. HENDERSON; JULIE FOX, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF DAWN M. HENDERSON, DECEASED UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF DAWN M. HENDERSON, DECEASED; Defendants, 16 CH 169 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, March 9, 2017 at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the conference room, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 592 Somerset, Unit 3, Crystal Lake, IL 60014.

P.I.N. 19-08-253-139.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611.

16-003821 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I713884

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS BMO HARRIS BANK, N.A.; Plaintiff, vs.

NESTOR J. SEGARRA; CATHERINE C. SEGARRA; NAVY FEDERAL Gary Swift CREDIT UNION; BMO HARRIS Berkshire Hathaway Starck Realty BANK N.A. AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO HARRIS N.A., AS McHenryCountyRentToOwnHomes.com SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO HARRIS BANK WOODSTOCK; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, CRYSTAL LAKE SLEEPING ROOM 2nd FlOOR. 15 CH 743 Utilities included. $400/mo. No Pets. 815-790-0240 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Hebron Private/New Kit, LR, BR, Bath, W/D, Util Incl. Thursday, March 9, 2017 at Fireplace, $700/mo, $1500 Dep. 815-482-8549 the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the conference room, 970 McHenry Crystal Lake, Illinois Woodstock Furnished Room, All Utilities Incl. Avenue, 60014, sell at public auction to the $475/mo, No Pets.

Call 815-451-2462 highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 08-13-253-027-0000.

Commonly known as 8510 Alden Road, Wonder Lake, IL 60097.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee pay the assessments required shall Publisher's Notice: All real estate advertising in this by subsection (g-1) of Section newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which 18.5 of the Condominium Property makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation Act. or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, Sale terms: 10% down by handicap, familial status or national origin, or an certified funds, balance, by certified intention, to make any such preference, limitation of funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. discrimination." Familial status includes children under The property will NOT be open for the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, inspection. pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

For information call Ms. Gabriella This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that Comstock at Plaintiff's Attorney, all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal Keough & Moody, P.C., 114 East Van Buren Avenue, Naperville, opportunity basis.

Illinois 60563. (630) 369-2700.

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INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275 CORPORATION (Published in the Northwest Selling Officer, Herald, February 1, 8, 15, 2017) (312) 444-1122 I713882

815-814-6004

(Published in the Northwest Herald, February 1, 8, 15, 2017)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS AMERICAN FIRST CREDIT UNION Plaintiff, -v.JACQUELINE P MAXWELL, CITY OF CRYSTAL LAKE

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Wednesday, February 15, 2017 • Defendant

2016 CH 464 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 8, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on March 24, 2017, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1566 BIRMINGHAM COURT, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014 Property Index No. 19-19-101-025.

The real estate is improved with a single family home with an attached 2 car garage.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. McCalla Raymer Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500.

Please refer to file number 255522.

THE JUDICIAL SALES

CLASSIFIED 13

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

McCalla Raymer Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@pierceservices.com Attorney File No. 255522 Case Number: 2016 CH 464 TJSC#: 37-1306 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I715016 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 15, 22, 2017 March 1, 2017) Get the job you want at NWHerald.com/jobs Publisher's Notice: All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation of discrimination." Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS BMO HARRIS BANK, N.A.; Plaintiff, vs.

NESTOR J. SEGARRA; CATHERINE C. SEGARRA; NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION; BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO HARRIS N.A., AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO HARRIS BANK WOODSTOCK; OWNERS AND UNKNOWN NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 15 CH 743 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, March 9, 2017 at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the conference room, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT 11 AND THE WEST 1/2 OF LOT 10 IN BLOCK 18 IN SUNRISE RIDGE UNIT 2, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 14, 1953 AS DOCUMENT NO. 270736 IN BOOK OF PLATS, PAGE 93, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 08-13-253-027-0000.

Commonly known as 8510 Alden Road, Wonder Lake, IL 60097.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Ms. Gabriella Comstock at Plaintiff's Attorney, Keough & Moody, P.C., 114 East Van Buren Avenue, Naperville, Illinois 60563. (630) 369-2700.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I713882 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 1, 8, 15, 2017)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST; Plaintiff, vs.

UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; SOMERSET CONDOMINIUM

OWNERS ASSOCIATION; CAITLIN M. HENDERSON; JULIE FOX, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF DAWN M. HENDERSON, DECEASED UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF DAWN M. HENDERSON, DECEASED; Defendants, 16 CH 169 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, March 9, 2017 at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the conference room, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Unit 592-3 as delineated on survey of the following described parcel of Real Estate (hereinafter referred to as "Parcel"): That part of Lot 16 in Plat of Farms at Crystal Lake in Section 8, Township 43 North, Range 8 East of the Third Meridian, recorded Principal October 6, 1858 in Book 22 of Deeds, page 1, described as follows: Commencing at the Northwest corner of Lot 7 in Block 31 in Tenth Addition to Coventry as recorded August 21, 1970 as Document 529157; thence North 15 degrees, 16 minutes, 50 seconds East, along the Easterly line of Eighth Addition to Coventry as recorded August 19, 1968, as Document No. 494839, a distance of 275.88 feet to the place of beginning of this description; thence continuing North 15 degrees, 16 minutes, 50 seconds East 244.12 feet; thence North 49 degrees, 49 minutes, 20 seconds East 135.0 feet; thence South 40 degrees, 10 minutes, 40 seconds East 247.45 feet; thence South 49 degrees, 49 minutes, 20 seconds West 16.59 feet; thence South 66 degrees, 35 minutes, 05 seconds West 133.72 feet; thence South 7 degrees, 46 minutes, 50 seconds West 95.0 feet; thence North 82 degrees, 13 minutes, 10 seconds West 180.56 feet to the place of beginning in McHenry County, Illinois, which survey is attached as Exhibit "A" to Declaration of Condominium Ownership made by McHenry State Bank as Trustee under Trust No. 301, recorded in the Office of Recorder of Deeds of McHenry County, Illinois as Document No. 603023, First Amendment recorded December 7, 1973 as Document No. 607905, Second Amendment recorded November 12, 1975 as Document No. 650437, Third Amendment recorded March 22, 1976 as Document No. 658976, Fourth Amendment recorded July 1, 1976 as Document No. 667491 and re-recorded July 14, 1976 as Document No. 674903, together with a percentage of the Common Elements appurtenant to said Unit as set forth in said Declaration, as amended from time to time, which percentage shall automatically change in accordance with Amended Declarations as same are filed of record pursuant to said Declaration, and together with additional Common Elements as such Amended Declarations are filed of record, in the percentages set forth in such Amended Declarations, which percentages shall automatically be deemed to be conveyed effective on the recording of each such Amended Declaration as though conveyed hereby.

Commonly known as 592 Somerset, Unit 3, Crystal Lake, IL 60014.

P.I.N. 19-08-253-139.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees

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ga required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611.

16-003821 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I713884 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 1, 8, 15, 2017)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS AMERICAN FIRST CREDIT UNION Plaintiff, -v.JACQUELINE P MAXWELL, CITY OF CRYSTAL LAKE Defendant

2016 CH 464 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 8, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on March 24, 2017, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 10 IN BLOCK 14 IN THE VILLAGES UNIT 4, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF LOT 2 IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 9, 1989 AS DOCUMENT NO. 89R038437, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1566 BIRMINGHAM COURT, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014 Property Index No. 19-19-101-025.

The real estate is improved with a single family home with an attached 2 car garage.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fe fo Abandoned Residential

PUBLIC NOTICE

STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, iLLINOIS MCHENRY SAVINGS BANK, Plaintiff, vs.

KAREN M. DICK-IPSEN a/k/a KAREN DICK-IPSEN, UNKNOWN OWNERS & NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

Case No. 17 CH 99 NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE (FOR PUBLICATION) NOTICE is given to Unknown Owners and Non-record Claimants, of the following-described real estate, that the above-entitled mortgage foreclosure action has been commenced and is now pending, and the day on or after which a default may be entered against said Defendants is March 22nd, 2017.

1) The title of the court, the title of the case, the name of the first named plaintiff and the first named defendant, and the number of the case are identified above.

2) The name of the title holder of record is: Karen Dick-Ipsen.

3) A legal description of the real estate sufficient to identify it with reasonable certainty is as follows: LOT 30 OF PRAIRIE VIEW ESTATES OF JOHNSBURG, PHASE 1, BEING A PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER AND THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AND PART OF GOVERNMENT LOT 2 OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER AND PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 6 TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 3, 1997 AS DOCUMENT NO. 97R048837, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 4) Common address or location of mortgaged property is 1915 Indigo Ct., Johnsburg, IL 60051; Permanent Index Number is 10-06-301-009-0000.

5) An identification of the mortgage sought to be foreclosed is as follows: a. Name of mortgagee: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for McHenry Savings Bank b. Name of Lien: Purchase Money Mortgage August 14, 2014 c. Date of mortgage: d. Names of Mortgagor: Karen M. Dick-Ipsen a/k/a Karen Dick-Ipsen e. Date and place of recording: August 22, 2014 McHenry County Recorders Office f. Identification of recording: Document No. 2014R0028289 Clerk of the Circuit Court, 22nd Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, Illinois 02/08/2017 /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Michael G. Cortina Amber L. Bishop SmithAmundsen, LLC Attorney for McHenry Savings Bank 2460 Lake Shore Drive Woodstock, Illinois 60098 (815) 337-4900 Telephone (815) 337-4910 Facsimile mcortina@salawus.com abishop@salawus.com ARDC No. 6255782 ARDC No. 6309698 (Published in the Northwest Herald February 15, 22, 2017 & March 1, 2017) 1265746

including fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to

check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between

LEGAL NOTICE To: Patricia Bacon; Home Start, LLC; Occupant; occupants or persons in actual possession of real estate hereinafter described; County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois; unknown owners and parties interested in said real estate.

Filed

that purpos I715016 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 15, 22, 2017 March 1, 2017)

PUBLIC NOTICE

STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY – IN PROBATE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHRISTOPHER M. DURCAN Deceased.

Case No. 16 PR 402 Notice is given of the death of: CHRISTOPHER M. DURCAN of CRYSTAL LAKE, IL Letters of Office were issued on: 1/10/2017 to: Representative: Martha M. Durcan, 40 Pomeroy Ave., Crystal Lake, IL 60014 whose attorney is: Militello & Struck 820 E Terra Cotta Avenue Suite 116 Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Claims against the estate may be filed withiin six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the dat of fi t publi tio clai

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

TAX DEED NO. 17TX10006

atty-p the hours of 3 and 5 pm. McCalla Raymer Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500.

Please refer to file number 255522.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

McCalla Raymer Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@pierceservices.com Attorney File No. 255522 Case Number: 2016 CH 464 TJSC#: 37-1306 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

January 30, 2017

TAKE NOTICE County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Certificate No. 2013-01219 Sold for General Taxes of 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and Special assessment number (Not Applicable) Warrant No. (Not Applicable) Inst. No. (Not Applicable) THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES

LEGAL NOTICE To: Romanenko, Vasyl Antonina; Nicholas V. Romanenko; Occupant; Adam Nestor Shymansky, a/k/a Adam Nestor Szymanskyj; Rachel Van Wieren; occupants or persons in actual possession of real estate hereinafter described; County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois; unknown owners and parties interested in said real estate.

TAX DEED NO.: 17TX10009

Filed: January 30, 2017

TAKE NOTICE County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Certificate No. 2013-01695 Sold for General Taxes of 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and Special assessment number (Not Applicable) Warrant No. (Not Applicable) Inst. No. (Not Applicable) THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES

Property located at: 546 Nantucket Way, Island Lake, Illinois Property Index No. 15-20-154-052

Property located at: 210 Wellington, Crystal Lake, Illinois Property Index No. 19-08-326-025

This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on July 27, 2017.

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

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before July 27, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, in Courtroom 103, Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois on August 25, 2017 at 1:30 p.m.

You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on July 27, 2017.

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

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before July 27, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, in Courtroom 103, Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois on August 25, 2017 at 1:30 p.m.

You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before July 27, 2017 by applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Woodstock, Illinois.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before July 27, 2017 by applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Woodstock, Illinois.

For further information contact the County Clerk

For further information contact the County Clerk

Address: 667 Ware Rd, Woodstock, IL 60098 Telephone: (815) 334-4242

Address: 667 Ware Rd, Woodstock, IL 60098 Telephone: (815) 334-4242

Oak Park Investments, Inc. MICHAEL J. WILSON & ASSOCIATES Michael J. Wilson Attorneys at Law 309 West Washington Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Purchaser or Assignee 312- 781-9510 Dated 1/30/2017 #OP-317 (Published in the Northwest Herald February 8, 15, 22, 2017) 1264433

Oak Park Investments, Inc. MICHAEL J. WILSON & ASSOCIATES Michael J. Wilson Attorneys at Law 309 West Washington Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Purchaser or Assignee 312- 781-9510 Dated 1/30/2017 #OP-320 (Published in the Northwest Herald February 8, 15, 22, 2017) 1264462

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Wednesday, February 15, 2017 • date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

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

Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court February 1, 8, 15, 2017 Northwest Herald 1262504 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 Gabriel Juarez Hernandez Case Number 17 MR 14 Public notice is hereby given that I have filed a Petition for Change of Name and scheduled a hearing on my Petition on March 9, 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 GABRIEL JUAREZ HERNANDEZ to the new name of: GABRIEL JUAREZ pursuant to the Illinois Compiled Statutes on Change of Names.

pr ey within ten days after it has been filed.

PUBLIC NOTICE /s/ Katherine M. Keefe LEGAL NOTICE Clerk of the Circuit Court To: Harold Lake; Harold Lake, as Trustee or Successor Trustee of the February 1, 8, 15, 2017 Harold Lake Trust No. 1 dated April 30, 1994; Dennis Lake; Occupant; Northwest Herald 1262540 occupants or persons in actual possession of real estate hereinafter described; County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois; unknown owners and PUBLIC NOTICE parties interested in said real estate.

LEGAL NOTICE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TAX DEED NO.: 17TX10007 Filed: January 30, 2017 INVITATION TO BID The City of Crystal Lake will be acTAKE NOTICE cepting sealed bids in accordance County of McHenry with specifications for Empty Fiber Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Optic Conduit Installation. The City Certificate No. 2013-01586 of Crystal Lake Procurement Ser- Sold for General Taxes of 2013 vices, and its service provider Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and BidSync, are the only authorized Special assessment number (Not Applicable) sources of bidding information. Warrant No. (Not Applicable) Inst. No. (Not Applicable) Bidding instructions are available the City's website at on THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES www.crystallake.org. All bids must be submitted electronically by Property located at: 10910 Woodstock Street, Huntley, Illinois 11:00 a.m. on February 23, 2017 Property Index No. 18-28-378-003 through BidSync.

Dates: Feb 15, 2017 Bid Number: 1702-004 Bid Title: Empty Fiber Optic Conduit Installation Bidding Starts: Feb 10, 2017 2:45:18 PM CST Bidding Ends: Feb 23, 2017 11:00:00 AM CST (Published in the Northwest Herald February 15, 2017) 1265860

PUBLIC NOTICE

This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on July 27, 2017.

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

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before July 27, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, in Courtroom 103, Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois on August 25, 2017 at 1:30 p.m.

You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

Notice of intent to dispose of abandoned and unclaimed property.

Pyott Road Self Storage, 1404 Industrial Drive, Lake In The Hills, IL YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF 60156, will sell on February 23, PROPERTY 2017 at 11:00 a.m. the following Redemption can be made at any time on or before July 27, 2017 by property: applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the Office of Unit 330 ( 10 X 20 ) Property the County Clerk in Woodstock, Illinois. of Wesely Peterson. /s/ Gabriel Juarez Hernandez Parking Space 859 (10 X 25) For further information contact the County Clerk Petitioner Property of Brent F. Lutsch.

Unit 150 ( 10 x 20 ) Property Address: 667 Ware Rd, Woodstock, IL 60098 (Published in the Northwest Herald of Family Mechanical.

Telephone: (815) 334-4242 on February 1, 8, 15, 2017, Unit 526 ( 10 X 10 ) Property 2017) 1262549 of Aundrea L. McNulty.

Oak Park Investments, Inc. MICHAEL J. WILSON & ASSOCIATES BREAKING NEWS (Published in the Northwest Herald Michael J. Wilson available 24/7 at February 8, 15, 2017) 1264337 Attorneys at Law NWHerald.com 309 West Washington Street, Suite 1200 PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE Chicago, Illinois 60606 Purchaser or Assignee Notice of intent to dispose of STATE OF ILLINOIS 312- 781-9510 Dated 1/30/2017 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT abandoned and unclaimed #OP-318 OF THE TWENTY-SECOND property.

(Published in the Northwest Herald February 8, 15, 22, 2017) JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CARPENTERSVILLE STORAGE, 1264456 MCHENRY COUNTY-IN PROBATE 250 Williams Street, CarpenIN THE MATTER OF THE tersvlille, IL 60110, will sell on ESTATE OF February 23, 2017 at 10:00 a.m.

MIR IQBAL the following property: Deceased.

Unit 123 ( 10 X 18 ) Property Case No. 17 PR 9 of Scott Horcher.

CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of: (Published in the Northwest Herald MIR IQBAL of: February 8, 15, 2017) 1264332 WOODSTOCK, IL Letters of office were issued on 1/20/2017 to: PUBLIC NOTICE Representative: Notice of intent to dispose of Anees Iqbal abandoned and unclaimed 1801 N. Seminary property.

Woodstock, IL 60098 HIGHWAY 20 SELF STORAGE, whose attorney is: 1030 E. Grant Highway, Marengo, Hasan, Imtiaz IL 60152, will sell on February 24, 700 Commerce Dr. 2017 at 11:00 a.m. the following 5th Floor property: Oak Brook, IL 60523 Unit 230 ( 10 X 15 ) Property Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the of Kellie Loyo. date of first publication. Any claim Unit 118 ( 10 x 15 ) Property not filed within six months from the of Kellie Loyo. date of first publication or claims Unit 504 ( 10 X 20 ) Property not filed within three months from of Cheryl Koehnke. the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is lat(Published in the Northwest Herald er, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the office of February 8, 15, 2017) 1264318 the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois 60098, or with It works. the representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Clerk Call today to place your ad must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to his attorney 877-264-2527

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PUBLIC NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE To: US Bank NA TRS; Charles Ensslin; Occupant; occupants or persons in actual possession of real estate hereinafter described; County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois; unknown owners and parties interested in said real estate.

TAX DEED NO.: 17TX10005 Filed: January 30, 2017 TAKE NOTICE County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Certificate No. 2013-01215 Sold for General Taxes of 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and Special assessment number (Not Applicable) Warrant No.(Not Applicable) Inst. No.(Not Applicable) THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at: 3610 Linden Drive, Island Lake, Illinois Property Index No. 15-19-426-037

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LEGAL NOTICE To: Joseph Schwerthoffer; Evelyn Louise Schwerthoffer; Barbara Schwerthoffer; David Reiman; Cheryl Reiman; Occupant; occupants or persons in actual possession of real estate hereinafter described; County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois; unknown owners and parties interested in said real estate.

TAX DEED NO.: 17TX10008

Filed: January 30, 2017

TAKE NOTICE County of McHenry Date Premises Sold October 27, 2014 Certificate No. 2013-01664 Sold for General Taxes of 2013 Sold for Special Assessment of (Municipality) and Special assessment number (Not Applicable) Warrant No. (Not Applicable) Inst. No. (Not Applicable) THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at: 510 East Broadway Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois Property Index No. 19-06-431-004

This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on July 27, 2017.

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

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before July 27, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, in Courtroom 103, Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois on August 25, 2017 at 1:30 p.m.

You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on July 27, 2017.

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

This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before July 27, 2017.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, in Courtroom 103, Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois on August 25, 2017 at 1:30 p.m.

You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before July 27, 2017 by applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Woodstock, Illinois.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before July 27, 2017 by applying to the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Woodstock, Illinois.

For further information contact the County Clerk

For further information contact the County Clerk

Address: 667 Ware Rd, Woodstock, IL 60098 Telephone: (815) 334-4242

Address: 667 Ware Rd, Woodstock, IL 60098 Telephone: (815) 334-4242

Oak Park Investments, Inc. MICHAEL J. WILSON & ASSOCIATES Michael J. Wilson Attorneys at Law 309 West Washington Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Purchaser or Assignee 312- 781-9510 Dated 1/30/2017 OP-315 (Published in the Northwest Herald February 8, 15, 22, 2017) 1264382

Oak Park Investments, Inc. MICHAEL J. WILSON & ASSOCIATES Michael J. Wilson Attorneys at Law 309 West Washington Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Purchaser or Assignee 312- 781-9510 Dated 1/30/2017 #OP-319 (Published in the Northwest Herald February 8, 15, 22, 2017) 1264458

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2007 Ford Explorer Limited 4.0L 4WD Fog Lights, Premium Sound, 4x4, Front Side Airbag with Head Protection, Privacy Glass

$8,977 or 2.7% Financing

SM-CL0381740

Cloth, Black, 4WD, V6, 3.6 Liter, Automatic, 29,584 Miles

4WD/AWD, Front Air Dam, Rear Defroster, 4x4, Front Side Airbag, Rear Window Defogger, ABS Brakes

$10,977 or 2.7% Financing

2004 GMC Yukon 4WD, White, Automatic, Cloth, V8, 4.8 Liter

$7,477 or 2.7% Financing

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$15,477 or 2.7% Financing 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited AWD ABS (4-Wheel), Fog Lights, Power Seat, Air Conditioning, Front Side Airbag, Power Steering

$8,977 or 2.7% Financing

2006 Jeep Liberty Sport 4WD, Cruise Control, Power Windows, 4x4, Driver Airbag, Rear Defroster, ABS (4-Wheel)

$6,977 or 2.7% Financing