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Bob called me Wednesday to tell me that he doesn’t care about parking meters in North Dakota. A story about the state’s efforts to end a 70-year ban on parking meters on public streets had run on page A2 of that day’s Northwest Herald. Bob said he cares about what is happening in McHenry County, and specifically, what is happening in McHenry.

Bob is right. This paper exists to cover local news.

Since I started as the news editor of the Northwest Herald two weeks ago, I’ve been working to make sure we’re using the resources we have to tell as many interesting and important local stories as we can each day in print and online.

While the newspaper is owned by Shaw Media, it belongs to the community. To readers like Bob. I’ve spent the past 12 years covering local news. My first job was at the Hollister Free Lance in San Benito County, California. My first story was about that year’s rodeo queen.

After that, I took a job at the Fond du Lac Reporter in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, covering local government. That’s where I met my wife, Amie, who’s also a journalist.

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Brett Rowland I started as a reporter at the Northwest Herald in September 2008 covering Crystal Lake. Later, I moved to the business section and eventually became the editor of that section.

I received a crash course in local business culture, learning about and telling the stories of local entrepreneurs, small business owners and corporate leaders.

In early 2015, shortly after the birth of our son, Wesley, Amie and I moved to Sycamore when I took over as news editor at the Daily Chronicle in DeKalb, another Shaw Media newspaper.

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TODAY’S TALKER on Trump’s trademark approvals.

Critics fear foreign governments might gain leverage from Trump’s global portfolio of brands.

SHANGHAI – China on Thursday defended its Democrats in Congress have been pushing Trump handling of 38 trademarks it recently approved to sever financial ties with his global businesses to provisionally for President Donald Trump, saying it followed the law in processing the applications at a avoid potential violations of the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars federal officials pace that some experts view as unusually quick. from accepting anything of value from foreign Democrats in Congress were critical of Trump governments unless approved by Congress. after The Associated Press reported Wednesday The monopoly right to a successful brand in a marthat the potentially valuable trademarks had been ket like China can be worth huge sums. Former top granted, raising questions of conflict of interest and political favoritism. One senator said the issue ethics lawyers from the administrations of Barack Obama and George W. Bush said any special treat“merits investigation.” ment from Beijing in awarding Trump intellectual Trump has sometimes struggled to win tradeproperty protection would violate the Constitution. marks from China; he secured one recently after Concerns about political influence are particularly a 10-year fight that turned his way only after he sharp in China, where the courts and bureaucracy declared his candidacy for the presidency.

China’s foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang are designed to reflect the will of the ruling Commusaid in a regular briefing with reporters that Chinese nist Party, and foreign companies and the lawyers authorities handle all trademark applications “in ac- that work for them regularly ask embassy staff for cordance with the law and regulation.” He declined help lobbying Chinese officials.

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ON THE COVER McHenry County College board of trustees Chairman Mike Smith (left) holds a special board of trustees meeting Thursday at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake to discuss layoffs. MCC officials said the layoffs are a result of the state budget impasse.

See story on page A3.

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MCC LAYS OFF 14

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Luisa Lauf of Woodstock speaks Thursday during a special board of trustees meeting at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake to discuss layoffs. Lauf, along with three other fulltime counselors, was unexpectedly laid off on Tuesday from the MCC counseling department.

25 jobs affected by cutbacks as college deals with projected loss of $1.7M

By NATE LINHART

nlinhart@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The McHenry County College board of trustees approved cutting staff, faculty and administration at a special board meeting Thursday.

A total of 25 positions are affected from these moves. Of the 25 positions, 14 full- and part-time positions are being eliminated, while five positions are being reduced from full-time to part-time.

As for the remaining six, those positions are currently open because of retirement or vacancy and will

not be filled.

“Really good people, through no fault of their own, are losing their jobs. This is a painful truth,” MCC President Clint Gabbard said. “At the same time, we will continue to be innovative and creative in serving this great community. We will do more with less, because our students deserve our best efforts. Students are not responsible for this financial crisis, and we will do everything possible to protect the integrity of the education that they receive.”

College officials said the layoffs are a result of the state budget im-

passe and declining enrollment.

With these reductions, the college is expected to save $1.5 million.

According to MCC, the college is projecting a loss of $1.7 million in operating funds for fiscal 2017. Because of the state budget impasse, college spokeswoman Christina Haggerty said MCC is owed nearly $1.5 million in state funds for the current fiscal year.

Enrollment figures were not immediately available.

“This has been an extraordinarily challenging process for all,

See MCC LAYOFFS, page A15

“Really good people, through no fault of their own, are losing their jobs. This is a painful truth. At the same time, ... we will do more with less, because our students deserve our best efforts. Students are not responsible for this financial crisis, and we will do everything possible to protect the integrity of the education that they receive.”

Clint Gabbard, McHenry County College president

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CRYSTAL LAKE – Part of Eastgate Road in Crystal Lake likely will remain closed for cleanup from a chemical spill through Friday – and possibly longer – after a semitrailer crash earlier this week, authorities More online said Thursday.

Westbound Route 14 at Hart Road in Check out a Barrington will revideo of the main closed through cleanup at the evening. Officials NWHerald.com. plan to open at least one lane overnight into Friday morning, according to a news release.

The spill happened about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday when the semi collided with a pickup truck at Route 14 and Hart Road in Barrington. The semi caught fire and the product leaked onto the ground and shoulder at the scene of the crash, officials said.

The same goes for your mattress. Cleaning it can not only help prevent allergies, it can make you a happy sleeper.

If you’re one of those people who practically live in your bed, you might have accumulated food particles on your mattress. Even if you don’t eat in bed, there are still other little “items” that need to be removed, such as dead skin cells, hair (yoursand/oryourpet’s),sweat,stains,dustmites and other unsavory matter.

You likely use a mattress pad to help protect your mattress, but there’s nothing like a good vacuuming to make sure you’ve eliminate as much of the above as possible according to Apartment Therapy, a publishing company focusing on home design and decor.

Next up is spot cleaning. There are several ways to treat stains. Using a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, liquid dish soap and baking soda appliedinaspraybottle,blotandrubwithaclean rag. Another option is a non-toxic enzyme cleaner that breaks down stains and odors. Alternatively, apply lemon juice and salt, let it stand for up to an hour, then wipe off. You can then deodorize by sprinkling a light layer of baking soda over the stain, allowing it to sit for a couple of hours, then vacuum.

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WEATHER

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Canadian high pressure will build across the Upper Midwest, ushering in very cold air with breezy conditions. Winds could gust up to 25 mph; wind chills between 10 to 15 degrees. Cold and quiet conditions are expected for the weekend, but a storm system will track more north, resulting in snow late Sunday night through Monday with 1-3 inches possible.

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

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Crystal Lake City Council objects to county rezoning in watershed

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

kcraver@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The City Council is objecting to a county rezoning just outside city limits and in the Crystal Lake Watershed.

Council members voted Tuesday evening, 6-0, to file an objection over a request filed with the McHenry County to rezone 5.6 acres of property at 8733 Ridgefield Road from agriculture to business use to conform with several existing uses. The concerns aired by council members and area residents was not what is on the property now – a tree care service and a garage door repair business – but what could occupy it in the future under county business zoning.

Uses permitted under B-3 general business zoning in the county’s Unified Development Ordinance include automobile repair, a car wash, a gas station, and a household hazardous waste collection facility with a conditional-use permit – all of which would have the potential to contaminate the

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“We have an opportunity here to at least voice our opinion,” council member Ralph Dawson said.

The council’s vote forces a threefourths supermajority vote of the McHenry County Board – 18 of its 24 members – to approve the zoning change rather than simple majority.

Crystal Lake’s municipal boundaries border the property on its south and west.

The property is about 40 acres, but only 5.6 acres of it are being rezoned. It is across the street from the McHenry Athletic Complex and just southwest of the unincorporated town of Ridgefield.

Three speakers came forth during

public comment to ask the City Council to formally object and send a message discouraging future commercial development in the watershed. One of them, former council member Jeff Thorsen, is now the vice chairman of the County Board.

Thorsen, who lives on the lake’s north shore, said an objection would send a message, at the very least discouraging any future plans to develop the remaining 35 acres of the property.

“Just to let this go without making some kind of a play here is … something I don’t think we want to do,” Thorsen told council members.

Besides voting to object to the rezoning, council members agreed with Mayor Aaron Shepley that the city should reach out to the property owner and offer the opportunity to annex, with the offer of waiving fees, to prevent a future use being damaging to the watershed.

Other uses allowed in B-3 county zoning include a lumberyard, a flea market, a recycling center and a medical marijuana dispensary.

ALGONQUIN

Jacobs students putting on musical with 24 hours to prep to benefit Turning Point

By HANNAH PROKOP

hprokop@shawmedia.com ALGONQUIN – From the moment they receive their scripts at 7 p.m. Friday, students will have 24 hours before they perform in the second annual 24hour musical at Jacobs High School.

All proceeds from the show will go to Turning Point of McHenry County, a domestic violence agency with a mission to confront violence against women and children in the county.

Student director and Jacobs senior Stephanie Fiorentino decided to donate to Turning Point because of her past involvement fundraising for the organization through the Light of Christ Church. When she was about 8 years old, Fiorentino said she ran a lemonade stand to help Turning Point open its new facility.

“It’s definitely something unique,” Fiorentino said. “You will never see a show this funny necessarily and a show where you’re giving back to the community.”

Fiorentino said that although the

“It’s definitely something unique.

You will never see a show this funny necessarily and a show where you’re giving back to the community.”

Stephanie Fiorentino, Jacobs High School senior and student director of the 24-hour musical to benefit Turning Point name of the musical is being kept secret until actors receive their scripts, it will be a “contemporary musical.” Students will be “locked in” the school overnight as they practice.

The play will be directed by Jake Stouffer, and the creative team includes Jennifer Wiczer as music director and Alexander Sitko as choreographer.

About 100 students, most without a musical theater background, are ex-

pected to participate.

“It’s our hope that this is something that continues going year after year,” said Stouffer, coordinator of fine and performing arts for Community Unit School District 300. “… It’s not only for a good cause, but it helps our kids, too.

It gives them another opportunity to be on stage and express themselves.”

Fiorentino said she’s looking forward to seeing everyone enjoy themselves Saturday.

“You don’t get very often that so many different groups of kids from the school and their families are together. … I think that’s the best part,” Fiorentino said.

The idea for the 24-hour musical was started in 2016 by student Nicole Frantik.

The production will start at 7 p.m.

Saturday in the Jacobs High School auditorium, 2601 Bunker Hill Drive, Algonquin.

Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students, and can be purchased at the door with a check or cash. There will be a raffle at intermission.

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Eastgate Road in Crystal Lake is closed between Factory Road and Commercial Road for the cleanup.

Both the semi and pickup truck involved in the crash were towed from the scene to Whitey’s Towing at 710 Eastgate Road in Crystal Lake before officials knew the substance was an industrial chemical, which is when the asphalt became contaminated.

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warnings and no advisories.”

It is unknown when Eastgate Road will open but the road and businesses affected will likely stay closed through Friday and possibly longer, Barrington spokeswoman Patty Dowd Schmitz said.

“Due to the nature of what we are dealing with, it’s a time-intensive process,” she said. “Right now, it’s closed until further notice.”

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ABOVE: The remains of a burned semitrailer are parked in the Whitey’s Towing yard at 710 Eastgate Road in Crystal Lake.

RIGHT: McHenry County Emergency Management workers gather equipment at the scene of a cleanup at Whitey’s Towing. After a crash Tuesday night at Route 14 at Hart Road in Barrington, a semitrailer carrying methylene diphenyl diisocyanate was towed to Crystal Lake. The chemical is used in the production of polyurethane and can be an allergen and an irritant, officials said. For more photos from the cleanup in Barrington and Crystal Lake, check out a photo gallery at NWHerald.com.

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hprokop@shawmedia.com LAKE IN THE HILLS – Lake in the Hills Airport manager Michael Peranich said he’s hoping an intensive flight instruction business looking to rent space at the airport will help bring in more traffic.

Pilot Flight Training Courses, owned by Joe Standley, would cater to pilots who already have licenses and wish to obtain additional ratings or endorsements, according to village documents.

The business would offer a 10-day course offering tailored flight lessons in the pilot’s own aircraft or an aircraft owned by the business.

Blue Skies Flying Services, located adjacent to the Lake in the Hills Airport, is the only other flight school near the airport, and is geared more toward new fliers, Peranich said.

“This one offers something a little bit unique,” Peranich said of Pilot Flight Training Courses.

If approved by the Lake in the Hills Village Board, the two-year lease would require Pilot Flight Training Courses pay $300 a month rent the first year and $350 a month rent the second year, according to village documents. The lease will begin Friday.

Half of the rent for the office space would go to the village, and the other half would go to S&K Aviation, the company the Lake in the Hills Airport rents its space from since its office was demolished as part of the taxiway project.

An incentive program also could allow Pilot Flight Training Courses up to a $150 rebate a month on its rent, Peranich said.

Rent would be discounted by $50 for each customer who rents a hanger for a minimum of eight nights, and discounted by $25

for anyone who rents a tie-down space for the same amount of time, according to village documents.

The airport is not looking to become rich from the rent, Peranich said, but airport officials hope the additional traffic the business brings in will result in increased fuel sales, as well as hanger and tie-down rentals.

“Those three combined are more valuable to us than any rent we would be receiving,” Peranich said.

Plans for the business were discussed at the Lake in the Hills Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday, and trustees are expected to approve the necessary items for the business to operate at their next board meeting, 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Lake in the Hills Village Hall, 600 Harvest Gate.

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Environmental Defenders to host recycling drive NORTHWEST HERALD McHENRY – The Environmental Defenders of McHenry County will host a recycling drive Saturday that is open to all McHenry County residents.

The collection will take place from 9 a.m. to noon at the McHenry Train Station, 4005 Main St., McHenry.

The Environmental Defenders will collect items that usually are not accepted by curbside programs and are considered harmful to the environment if put in landfills. Items accepted include electronics, fluorescent tubes, batteries, cloth items, clean Styrofoam, reusable bubble wrap, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs and floppy disks.

Because the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County is a nonprofit, members are asking for donations at the drive to help offset the costs of transportation and proper recycling.

The nonprofit is requesting a 50 cent to $1 fee for fluorescent tubes, 50 cents a pound for TV and computer monitors, and 50 cents a pound for household, rechargeable and car batteries.

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OBITUARIES MARILYN L. BURHITE

Born: March 8, 1932; in Chicago, IL Died: March 9, 2017; in Huntley, IL Marilyn L. Burhite, 85 of Sun City, Huntley, passed away at her home on Thursday morning, March 9, 2017 following a lengthy illness.

She was born March 8, 1932 in Chicago, the daughter of Joseph and Pearl (Kimmell) Angarola. She graduated from Austin High School. She was united in marriage to Everett A. Burhite on April 28, 1951. The couple made their home in Hanover Park where they raised their family. In 1999, Marilyn moved to Sun City, Huntley. She especially enjoyed her artistic creations of sculpture, painting and stained glass. She enjoyed music and playing cards.

She is survived by her children, Roger (Darlene) Burhite of Schaumburg, Ronald (Debby) Burhite of Highlands Ranch, Colorado, Sharon (Scott) Slayton of Tampa, Florida, Robert (Kathi) Burhite of Elgin and James (Alison) Burhite of Boca Raton, Florida; her daughterin-law, Mary Burhite; fourteen grandchildren, Felicia, Anthony, Richard, Jason, Tracy, Amy, Tiffany, Krista, Brian, Kristen, Kelli, Andrew, Matthew and Maia; many great-grandchildren; her brother, Richard (Marilyn) Angarola of California; and her sister, Dorothy Nolan of Huntley.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Everett; and her son, Richard.

A memorial gathering will be held from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. and a Memorial Service will follow at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 12th at the DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral & Cremation Service, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Disabled Artist Association.

For more information please call 847-5158772 or online condolences can be directed to www.defiorejorgensen.com.

LUKE ANDREW JOHNSOS

Born: May 10, 1941; in Evanston, IL Died: March 5, 2017; in Woodstock, IL Luke Andrew Johnsos, who cherished his family, his faith and his community, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 75.

Johnsos devoted his life to serving others.

He held positions on the Deerfield School Board, many District 200 referendum

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

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

GARY L. KAMHOLZ Gary “Cub” L. Kamholz, 65, of Aurora formerly of Marengo, passed away Wed. Morning March 8, 2017 in his home surrounded by his family.

Arrangements pending Fredrick Funeral Home Hampshire, IL.

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In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to JourneyCare Hospice, 405 N. Lake Zurich Rd., Barrington, Il 60010.

For more information, please visit www. willowfh.com or call (847) 458-1700.

PATRICIA A. SCHLOTFELDT

Born: December 17, 1935; in Algonquin, IL Died: March 3, 2017; in Huntley, IL

Patricia A. “Trish” Schlotfeldt, 81, of Algonquin, passed away March 3, 2017 at committees, the McHenry County Restaurant Francisco “Butch” Maldonado Jr. born Lexington Healthcare in Lake Zurich.

Association, the Illinois Restaurant AssociaMarch 12, 1964 to Bonnie (Klawes) and Ray She was born Dec. 17, 1935 the daughter tion and the Rural Woodstock Public Library Francisco Maldonado. He married Dorann of Francis W. and Eveline (Partridge) Duke.

Board. He was president of the District 200 Clem In 1992.

Trish was a secretary in the manufacturing Backers Club for two years.

Francisco is survived by his father, Ray, business. Her hobbies and interests included, Johnsos’s decades of commitment to local Dorann; daughter, Danielle; 3 step children, yoga, gardening, playing bridge and doing healthcare included time on the Memorial Christina Crain, Andrea Fisher, Christopher puzzles. She also enjoyed reading, especially Hospital Foundation Board, of which he was Saldaris; brothers, Robert, John and Daniele mysteries, and had a love for documentaries president in 1995. He also sat on the Board Maldonado; 9 grand children; and Iots of and exploring ideas about spirituality. Trish of Governors of Centegra Health System for nieces and nephews. did volunteer work for many years as her more than 20 years and was chairman from Preceded in death by his mother. health permitted. She enjoyed spending time 2000 - 2002.

Memorial is March 12, 2017 at 290 W. Johnsos established Business Graphics/ Crystal Lake Ave. from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. All with her family and friends, and she will be missed by many.

Woodstock Dietary Systems in 1981 and ran are welcome.

Surviving are her children, Catherine King, the business with his wife until his retirement Christopher (Mary Lee) King, Timothy (D’Aun) in 2015. He served many years as an usher at King, and Susan Vickers; step children, Ken St. Mary Catholic Church in Woodstock.

JOHN R. PACK SR. (Allison) Schlotfeldt, and Candi (Rollie) He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Judy Born: March 24, 1938 Carnes; 7 grandchildren; 5 step grandchilCorey Johnsos; his children, Luke Andrew Died: March 5, 2017 dren; 10 great grandchildren; 4 step great Johnsos, III, of Chicago, Peter (Charlene) grandchildren; brothers and sisters, Susan Johnsos of Batavia, Anne (Clark) Richter of John R. Pack Sr., 78 of Algonquin, passed (Richard) Thomkins, Mary (Don) Parker, and Chicago and Katie (Kimo) Sanderson of Chiaway peacefully at home on March 5th, 2017. Kevin Duke. cago. His greatest joy came from spending John was born on March 24, 1938 in El She was preceded in death by her parents; time with his six grandchildren: Jack and Ellie Dorado, Il. He worked for B.F.I. for 30 years husband, Walter Schlotfeldt; and grandSanderson, Sofia and Hannah Richter, and before retiring in 1999, and he spent some daughter, Jessica Erin King.

Zeke and Josh Johnsos. time traveling the United States in an RV. He A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00pm Johnsos also is survived by his much-loved enjoyed gardening, camping, and being with on Sunday, March 12 at the James A. sisters, Judy (John) Wohlford, Janet Trafelet, his family.

O’Connor Funeral Home, 11603 E. Main St in Barbara (Brian) Kocher, Ann (Bob) Steffes; as John is survived by his loving wife of 27 Huntley. Burial will be held on Wed. March 15 well as many nieces and nephews. years, Camille (Nielsen); siblings, Gary Pack, in Mt. Emblem Cemetery in Elmhurst.

Johnsos graduated from Michigan State Wayne Pack, and Dan Pack; children, John Jr. A Memorial Visitation will be prior to University in 1964 and remained a Spartan (Jeannine) Pack, Dawn (Larry) Nelson, Tanya services at the funeral home from 12:00 noon fan all his life. His other favorite pastimes (Keith) Rose, Sandy Martinson, and Christina to 2:00pm. undoubtedly were playing golf with friends Nolan; grandchildren, T.J. Decker, Stephanie Memorials in her name may be directed and family and rooting for the Chicago Bears Van Fossen, Kyle Decker, Amy Giannetto, to the Ronald McDonald House at www. through thick and thin.

Rayanne Hibshman, Shanna McCauley, Visitation will take place Sunday, March 12 Bridgette Nolan, John Nolan, Dawn Martinson, armhc.org or Ann & Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital at www.luriechildrens.org and click from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Schneider, Leucht, Justin Martinson, and Samantha Rose; and on Donate.

Merwin and Cooney, 1211 N. Seminary Ave. ten great grandchildren.

Info (847) 669-5111 or online at www. , Woodstock. Another hour of visitation will He was preceded in death by his parents, jamesaoconnorfuneralhome.com. begin at 10 a.m. Monday, March 13 before the H.G. Boots Pack, and Katie Pack; his first wife, 11:00 a.m. funeral mass at St. Mary Church, Sharon; and his brother, Jack.

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A memorial service will be held on Sunday, In lieu of flowers donations can be made to March 12, 2017, from noon to 3:00 pm at the Centegra Health System Foundation, 527 Willow Funeral Home, 1415 W. Algonquin Rd., W. South St., Woodstock, Ill., 60098.

Algonquin, Il. Services will begin at 2:00 pm.

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NEW YORK – Robert Osborne, the genial face of Turner Classic Movies and a walking encyclopedia of classic Hollywood, has died. He was 84.

Jennifer Dorian, general manager of TCM, announced Osborne’s death Monday. A publicist for the network said he passed away Monday in New York.

“His calming presence, gentlemanly style, encyclopedic knowledge of film history, fervent support for film preservation and highly personal interviewing style all combined to make him a truly world-class host,” Dorian said. “Robert’s contributions were fundamental in shaping TCM into what it is today and we owe him a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid.”

A cause of death was not announced, although Osborne’s waning health had forced him to miss the previous two TCM Film Festivals, which he hosted annually in Los Angeles.

Osborne was there from the inception of Ted Turner’s commercial-free classic movie network. To open its first broadcast on April 14, 1994, he introduced “Gone With the Wind.” In the decades after, he remained Turner Classic’s primary – and often sole – host.

For TCM viewers, Osborne was a constant and comforting presence. He presented nightly films and movies packaged in series such as “The Essentials” with bits of history and trivia. He also conducted interviews with stars for the network’s guest programmer evenings. His intros – always beginning “Hi, I’m Robert Osborne” – were the warm appetizers to countless feasts of Hollywood classics.

In a 2014 interview with The As-

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Robert Osborne attends the 73rd Annual George Foster Peabody Awards on May 19, 2014, in New York. Osborne, the genial face of Turner Classic Movies and a walking encyclopedia of classic Hollywood, has died. He was 84. A publicist for the network said he passed away Monday in New York.

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sociated Press, Osborne – who previously worked as a Hollywood Reporter columnist and as host of the Movie Channel – recalled his long-standing obsession with Hollywood. Even in college, he maintained a black book, nicknamed “Blackie,” of his research into films and the details of their making.

“I was ready with all that information when a job was created. I prepared for something that didn’t exist,” said Osborne.

Born in Colfax, Washington, Osborne studied journalism at the University of Washington and spent two years in the Air Force in Seattle. He then moved to Los Angeles to make it

film festival but an annual cruise.

“I get stopped on the street all the time,” Osborne once told The New York Times. “People say: ‘You got me through cancer last year. You got me past unemployment. You take me away from my troubles.’ Exactly what movies did in the ’30s and ’40s.”

Osborne was an Academy Awards historian, too. He wrote his first history of the Oscars in 1965 (“Academy Awards Illustrated”) and later became its official red-carpet greeter. He wrote several official histories of the Academy Awards, including 2008’s “80 Years of the Oscar.”

He was unabashed about his proclivity for ’30s-’50s-era Hollywood.

Turner Classic has somewhat expanded beyond that heyday, and in 2003 brought in Ben Mankiewicz as a second host. Mankiewicz on Monday praised Osborne for forging “a profound link to movie lovers, a visceral sense of connection to our history, to our parents and grandparents.”

For Osborne, that connection was forged early on, and his affection for Golden Age Hollywood remained forever undimmed.

“We don’t seem to want people bigger than life. We want people who look ordinary,” Osborne lamented in 2014.

Growing up in a small Washington state town, he said, “there was never anybody who looked like Audrey Hepburn or Lana Turner or Hedy Lamarr .... actresses who were bigger than life.”

But Osborne’s genuine passion for a dapper kind of film connoisseurship was unquestioned by the TCM viewers who happily watched him stride into their living room, again and again.

“If I wasn’t doing it (on TV) I’d be doing it as a hobby,” Osborne said, “so I might as well get paid for it.”

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3 hurt in head-on crash, officials say

By HANNAH PROKOP

hprokop@shawmedia.com MARENGO – Three people were taken to the hospital – one with serious injuries – after a two-car crash Thursday night outside Marengo, officials said.

Marengo Fire Protection District Lt. Noel Gaines said crews responded about 6:30 p.m. to Route 20, east of Bur-

ma Road.

McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Aimee Knop said a 2012 Chevrolet Malibu was traveling west on Route 20 when for unknown reasons it crossed the center line and struck an eastbound 2007 Toyota Yaris head-on.

Two occupants in the Malibu were taken to Centegra Hospital – Huntley with minor injuries, Knop and Gaines

said, and the driver of the Yaris was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. All injuries were not considered to be life-threatening, Knop said.

The Woodstock Fire Protection District and Huntley Fire Protection District also assisted.

Knop said traffic was detoured for a short time. Investigation of the crash is ongoing, she said.

McHenry County State’s Attorney forms crime victims support group

By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office has formed a support group for those who have lost someone to crime.

Members of the group will meet from 6 to 7 p.m. on the first and third Thursday of every month starting April 6. It will be run by Jen Ahrens, a retired police officer with 30 years of experience in the field, according to a

news release from the state’s attorney’s office.

Ahrens has worked with victims and their families throughout her career, and she also is set to get her master’s in clin- Patrick ical mental health coun- Kenneally seling later this month.

The group is an opportunity to meet other survivors who might be experiencing similar thoughts and feelings in a safe and supportive environment,

according to a news release.

“Survivors of crime victims can never be fully recompensed for the cruel and senseless loss they have endured, and many continue to struggle long after criminal proceedings have ended,” State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally said. “We hope they can find some solace in sharing their experience with others and helping shoulder the burden together.”

For information, call the State’s Attorney’s Office at 815-334-4159.

Officials: Wreck near Marengo sends 1 to hospital

By HANNAH PROKOP

hprokop@shawmedia.com MARENGO – A crash between a car and semitrailer sent one person to the hospital Thursday, a fire official said.

Marengo Fire Protection District Lt. Noel Gaines said about 2:45 p.m. crews were called to Route 176 and Millstream Road near Marengo for the crash.

McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Aimee Knop said a 2003 Toyota Camry was traveling south on Millstream Road at Route 176 when it stopped at the stop sign, and then proceeded through the intersection and was struck by a westbound semitrailer.

The semitrailer hit the driver’s side door of the car, Gaines said. Fire crews had to take the door off the car to extricate the driver, he said.

The driver of the Camry was taken to Centegra Hospital – Huntley with minor injuries, Gaines said. There were no passengers involved.

The Camry driver, 39-year-old Wasiu Adeyemi of Calumet City, was cited for failure to yield at an intersection and no insurance, Knop said.

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Ellen Zimmerman (center) of Barrington listens to her colleagues speak to the board Thursday during a special board of trustees meeting at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake to discuss layoffs. Zimmerman, along with three other full-time counselors, was unexpectedly laid off on Tuesday from the MCC counseling department.

Steiger said. “The board eliminated a department that was based on meeting students’ needs. As someone who struggles with mental health issues ...

I know firsthand how important it is to have resources and a support system.”

MCC graduate Jazmin Rangel attended the meeting to address how important Luisa Lauf – a bilingual counselor who had been with the college for 21 years – is to the Latino community.

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“[Luisa Lauf] was one of the few Latino resources we had at MCC. … Losing her is hurting the Latino students at MCC.”

“[Luisa] was one of the few Latino resources we had at MCC. … Losing her is hurting the Latino students at MCC,” Rangel said.

The community college employed Jazmin Rangel about 750 people in 2015, which includMcHenry County College graduate ed 105 full-time instructors and an average of 370 part-time instructors each semester, according to the 2015 MCC 34 positions will have been affected by annual report. With the board-ap- cuts in fiscal 2017, which runs from proved reduction Thursday, a total of July 2016 to June, according to MCC.

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and we are empathetic to all who have been adversely affected,” MCC Chairman Mike Smith said.

At the meeting, the board approved three separate resolutions requested to reduce support staff, nontenured and tenured faculty and administration.

Three administrators, four faculty members and seven support staff members were laid off, according to the resolutions. The five positions reduced to part-time also are support staff.

While the reduction of staff and administration was unanimously approved by the board, the reduction of faculty, which included four full-time counselors, was passed by a 6-2 vote.

Voting “no” were trustees Ronald Parrish and Colin Worden.

“I think we can definitely look at a different way to handle this counseling thing,” Worden said. “I would like to see a few counselors kept.”

Several MCC students and alumni attended the meeting to express their concerns with the recent layoffs of four full-time counselors, who said they were let go without notice.

“It seems that in this last week the board completely overlooked student success, well-being and also staff well-being,” MCC student Amber

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“It seems that in this last week the board completely overlooked student success, well-being and also staff well-being. The board eliminated a department that was based on meeting students’ needs.

As someone who struggles with mental health issues ...

I know firsthand how important it is to have resources and a support system.”

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Freeport man keeps ham radio operators returning

By DERRICK MASON The Journal-Standard

FREEPORT – If you were to walk into Jim Dorsey’s one-bedroom apartment, you might not expect to see 30 to 50 people gather there each Friday night.

Dorsey, 69, runs Friday Night Fun Net, a weekly gathering of ham radio operators. Dorsey’s net draws people from Freeport to Michigan to his living room via radio waves. As many as 120 people in a single night have tuned in to Dorsey’s frequency to swap stories.

Dorsey, who is legally blind, got his ham radio license in 2004 after memorizing all the questions to the test. His love for radio goes back to when he was growing up in Ridott. Overall, there are 68 people with amateur radio call signs in Freeport, according to radioreference.com.

“Radio has always been my thing,” he said. “I’ve been interested in it since I was a young man. I listen to more radio than I watch TV.” When people tune in to Dorsey’s net, it’s all about relaxing and getting to know other people. Dorsey makes sure he has a topic prepared that will spark conversation. He might ask everyone about their Valentine’s Day plans or their favorite beer.

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Ham radio operator Jim Dorsey looks through logs of his weekly radio net Friday Night Fun, a gathering of ham radio operators, at his home Feb. 3 in Freeport. A net is a scheduled gathering of ham radio operators on a particular frequency. Dorsey, who is legally blind, has been running the Friday Night Fun Net since 2008.

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“I get to hear a lot of hams come in and talk about what they’re doing, what topics are on their mind,” said Scott Francis, a frequent Friday Night Fun Net participant. “Jim gets quite the collection of check-ins to his net.”

There are plenty of nets to choose Friday Night.” from, but none quite like Dorsey’s. He “None of the other nets in the area started Friday Night Fun Net in 2008, get the same amount of participation as and he’s seen its popularity boom, as Jim’s does,” Francis said. “He is just so well as his own. His enthusiasm as a host has earned him the nickname “Mr. See HAM RADIO, page A17

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do this,” he said. “I think I’m doing his work when I’m bringing people togethContinued from page A16 er like this.”

To get a basic technician license to gung-ho for it, and I think he’s just as become a ham radio operator, a candiexcited now as he was when he started date has to pass a 35-question examination that covers regulations, operation it.”

Dorsey, who never forgets some- practices and electronics theory. There one’s name, radio call sign or even is a large variety of new and used radio voice, considers the other radio opera- equipment available to those interesttors an extension of his family. He said ed in starting a new hobby. the reason he still loves hosting the net This is an AP-Illinois Exchange stocomes from his faith.

“I feel like the Lord wanted me to ry offered by The Journal-Standard.

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“SANDY WILSON’S THE BOY FRIEND” – Richmond-Burton High School, 8311 Route 31, Richmond, will present “Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend” at 7 p.m. March 10-11 and 2 p.m. March 12. The Jazz Age lives on in this light romantic spoof of a 1920s musical comedy set in the French Riviera. Tickets: $7 adults, $5 students and seniors available at the door. Weekend passes for all three shows can be bought Friday at a cost of $14 for students and seniors and $20 for adults. Tickets and information: 815-678-4525 or www.rbchs.com.

POETS IN RESISTANCE READING & RALLY – Poets in Resistance is organized and hosted by long-time McHenry County poet and activist Patrick Murfin and hosted by the Social Justice Team of Tree of Life Unitarian Congregation from 7 to 10 p.m. March 10 at the church, 5603 Bull Valley Road, McHenry. More than a dozen poets, including Lake County poet Jacqueline Nichole Harris (above), as well high school students, senior citizens, accomplished published writers, poetry slam stars and fresh new voices will participate. A free-will collection will be taken. Information: Patrick Murfin, 815814-5645 or www.treeoflifeuu.org. “The event is a response to the many threats to civil liberties, social justice, women’s rights, marriage equality, voting rights, the ecology and the basic economic security and medical care of millions of Americans are now facing,” Murfin said.

THINGS TO DO IN & AROUND McHENRY COUNTY

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THE MOODS

WHEN: 7 to 11 p.m. March 10 WHERE: Park Place Banquets, 406 W. Woodstock St., Crystal Lake COST and INFO: Featuring ward-winning recording and performing artists since 1995.

Performance begins at 8 p.m.

Includes a cash bar. Tickets: $10 at the door. Information: 815-477-5871 or www.crystallakeparks.org.

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GREEN ON BLUE SHOW

WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. March 10 WHERE: The Listening Room at Lakeside Legacy Arts Park, 401 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake COST and INFO: Roger Adler and his Blues Deluxe Band will be rockin’ the blues with an Irish twist in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. There also will be an open jam opportunity during the show. Tickets: $18 in advance, $23 at the door.

Tickets and information: www. lakesideartspark.org.

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“SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN”

WHEN: March 10-11 WHERE: Marengo Community High School, 110 Franks Road, Marengo COST and INFO: A family-friendly show featuring a classic musical. Schedule: 7 p.m. March 10 and 2 & 7 p.m. March 11. Tickets: $10 adults, $8 students. Save $1 in advance by booking online at https://mchs.booktix.com.

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McHenry County College welding boot camp offered

A Welding Boot Camp will be offered

by McHenry County College’s Continuing Education Department to teach welding for job advancement or as a hobby.

Welders work in a variety of environments, both indoors and out, using heat to melt and fuse metal for a common bond.

Classes are available from 6 to 9:20 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, March 6 through April 12 (course code: NWL C01 016) or April 17 through May 24 (course code: NWL C01 019); 6 to 9:20 p.m. on Tues-

COMMUNITY

CALENDAR March 10

• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Rummage Sale, Faith Community United Church of Christ, 2023 Route 176, Prairie Grove. March 10 is Bag Sale Day with $2 paper bags and $5 garbage bags. Information: 815-479-1307 or faithcommucc@aol.com.

• 10 a.m. to noon – Friday food distribution, Nunda Township Office, 3510 Bay Road, Crystal Lake. Food donated through the Northern Illinois Food Bank by local grocery stores will be distributed to those in need. Free. Information: 815-459-0785 or foodministries@firstchurchcl.org.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Brown Bag Sale, Little Christopher Resale Shoppe, 469 Lake St., Crystal Lake.

Bags of items will be $1 Friday and Saturday. The shop is operated by the Women’s Club of St. Thomas the Apostle Church to support the ministries of the church. Information: 815-459-9442.

• 11:30 a.m. – Early Bird Bingo, VFW Post 4600, 3002 W. Route 120, McHenry. Every Friday sonsored by the VFW Auxiliary. Doors open at 10 a.m.

days and Thursdays, March 7 through April 13 (course code: NWL C01 017) or from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, April 1 through May 20 (course code: NWL C01 018). Classes take place at the Woodstock Center, 912 Trakk Lane, Woodstock. The cost is $1,000 a student. To register, call the MCC Registration Office at 815-4558588 or register online at www.mchenry. edu/myMCC. For information, call Tracy Berry at 815-455-8758 or Dori Sullens at 815-455-8559.

Kitchen open at 11 am. Information: 815-236-3345, wrgaylord@att.net or www.vfwmchenry.org.

• 1 to 4 p.m. – McHenry County Animal Control Rabies Vaccination Clinic, McHenry County Department of Health, 100 N Virginia St., Crystal Lake. Hosted by MCAC and Forever Husky.

Vaccination waivers provided to the first 100 dogs of income-qualified residents. The next clinic is March 16. Appointments required at 815-459-6222.

Information: www.mcdh.info.

• 4 to 10 p.m. – Play Light’ning and swap stories, Woodstock VFW Post 5040, 201 N. Main St., Woodstock. Information: 815-338-5040, 815861-2014 or www.vfw5040.org.

• 4 to 8 p.m. – Spring Book Sale, Algonquin Area Public Library, 115 Eastgate Drive, Algonquin.

Hosted by Friends of the Algonquin Area Public Library District. Continues 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 11 and 1 to 4 p.m. March 12. Light refreshments available at the Book Bistro. Information: 847-4584343, ext. 207, or www.aapld.org.

• 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. – Dinner with Abraham, Unity Spiritual Center of Woodstock, 225 W. Calhoun St., Woodstock. This group focuses on the teachings of Abraham-Hicks. Free. Information: 815-337-3534, rina@rinaassociates.com or http:// unitywoodstock.org.

• 4:30 p.m. – Crossfit for Cole, CrossFit AMRAP,

9114 Virginia Road, Unit 111, Lake in the Hills. An vent in dedication of Cole Nelson, 6, who was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. A silent auction to raise money for his medical bills will include more than 30 items. Free admission. Information: www. crossfitamrap.com.

• 6:30 to 9 p.m. – Northern Illinois Scale Modelers Club, Goodwill, 2006 N. Richmond Road, McHenry. All ages welcome. Free. Information: modelcars14@yahoo.com.

• 7 p.m. – Friday Night Bingo, McCullom Lake Village Hall, 4811 W. Orchard Drive, McCullom Lake. Food served at 5:30 p.m. Bring your own drink. Information: 815-385-2211 or www.frinitebingo.com.

• 7 to 9 p.m. – Library After Dark: Mini Links for Adults, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Experience the fun of Mini Links while relaxing with a glass of wine or beer and appetizers. Must be 21 years or older to attend.

Cost: $25. Tickets may be bought at the library front desk. Advance ticket sales only. Information: www. woodstockpubliclibrary.org.

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Whether at home or work, clearing a space that is conducive to getting things done will improve your attitude and productivity.

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Man who returned to crime after award sentenced The ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO – A Chicago man who used a $25 million settlement of his wrongful murder conviction lawsuit for purchases of guns, expensive cars and to rebuild his street gang is heading back to prison after a judge sentenced him to more than nine years on federal weapons charges.

The Chicago Tribune reported that at a hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber sentenced Thaddeus Jimenez after watching a video – shot on an iPhone by his co-defendant from the front seat of

Jimenez’s Mercedes – of Jimenez calmly shooting a former gang member in his legs. Both Jimenez and Jose Roman, who was sentenced to just more Thaddeus than 7 years in prison, Jimenez had previously pleaded guilty to the weapons charges. Both still face charges in Cook County related to the 2015 shooting.

Jimenez was 13 years old when he was charged as an adult in the 1993 gang-related shooting death of a

19-year-old man. He was convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison, but in 2007, after two witnesses said that Jimenez had not fired the fatal shots as they previously claimed, prosecutors reopened the investigation and indicted another man. Jimenez was released from prison; the other man was later acquitted.

Jimenez sued the city and the police department and in 2012, a federal jury awarded him $25 million, one of largest police misconduct awards in city history.

Citing court documents, the Tribune reported that after Jimenez got

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News from across the state

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Police superintendent wants stricter gun sentencing

SPRINGFIELD – An Illinois Senate proposal to increase prison sentences for repeat gun offenders would help curb the city’s rampant gun violence, Chicago’s top law enforcement officer said Thursday.

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson appeared before the Senate’s Criminal Law Committee to support the measure, which would direct courts to lengthen penalties for repeat gun offenders within the existing sentencing limits of current law. Judges still could hand out lighter sentences to those charged with possessing weapons illegally, but they’d be required to publicly explain mitigating factors behind their decisions.

“What we’re trying to do is create a mentality, a culture of accountability,” Johnson said.

The committee endorsed the measure with a 6-5 vote, sending it to the Senate floor.

Chicago recorded 767 homicides last year. Johnson said the vast majority of victims were young black men killed by guns.

Johnson believes the plan will not only do more to keep violent offenders off the streets, but also discourage potential criminals from picking up guns illegally in the first place. He told lawmakers “the people that pull the triggers” are following the issue closely.

“They tell me they make the decision to pull the trigger because they don’t

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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert leaves the federal courthouse April 27, 2016, in Chicago. Kristi Browne, a lawyer for a sexual abuse victim of Hastert, said Wednesday she’ll depose the former U.S. House speaker after he’s released from federal custody.

fear our judicial system,” he said.

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Chicago gets worst pension rating of 15 largest cities

CHICAGO – A Wall Street rating agency said Chicago isn’t alone in grappling with underfunded city employee pensions, but that it’s in the worst shape among the nation’s 15 largest cities.

The mayor’s office had no immediate reaction to Standard & Poor’s survey of pension obligations, in which Chicago performed the worst across the board, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.

The city registered the highest annual debt, pension post-employment benefits costs as a percentage of governmental expenditures, and the highest debt and pension liability per capita.

The burden in Chicago is more than $12,400 a person, double New York City’s more than $6,100 a person.

Chicago also had the lowest weighted pension fund ratio, the worst pension contribution versus required level, and the lowest funded return for a single fund. That last distinction went to the Chicago Police Annuity and Benefit Fund, which had assets to cover just 25 percent of its liabilities in fiscal 2015, down from 26 percent the year prior.

Chicago also had the lowest bond rating among the cities, at BBB-plus with a stable outlook. All of the other cities had a bond rating of AA-minus or better.

The report said funded ratios reported in fiscal 2016 are likely to look worse for most cities, given weak market returns last year.

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1st female brigadier general in guard to retire

SPRINGFIELD – The first woman to be promoted to brigadier general in the Illinois National Guard is retiring.

out of prison he bought luxury items and spent tens of thousands of dollars to rebuild Simon City Royals street gang, doling out cash bonuses to recruit new members and paying members to tattoo the gang’s insignia on their faces.

Police and prosecutors have said he posted on YouTube and Facebook videos that showed he and other gang members flash gang signs, brandish weapons and threaten violence against rival gangs and police.

His lawyer, Steven Greenberg, said that Jimenez suffered during his 16 years behind bars.

Alicia Tate-Nadeau made history in 2015 when she became the guard’s first woman promoted to brigadier general.

The Delavan native is retiring after 32 years in the military.

Tate-Nadeau joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. She said the school’s dean of women encouraged her.

She served in a variety of military positions around the world.

She was feted at a Camp Lincoln ceremony last week. She said her most difficult task came early in the Iraq War when she served as National Guard public affairs officer. She said it was a “privilege to serve” the families and military members who served.

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Lawyer plans to depose ex-House speaker Hastert

CHICAGO – A lawyer for a sexual abuse victim of Dennis Hastert said she’ll depose the former U.S. House speaker after he’s released from federal custody.

Kristi Browne represents a former Yorkville High School athlete who is suing Hastert for breach of contract in the hush-money pact that led to the Illinois Republican’s downfall.

Browne said Wednesday no settlement has been discussed.

Her client, now a married father, argues he kept his end of the bargain to keep quiet about Hastert’s misconduct when he was the wrestling coach at the suburban Chicago high school in the 1970s. Hastert paid him $1.7 million. The man said he’s owed $3.5 million.

The 75-year-old Hastert is due for parole in August. He’s serving a 15-month sentence for illegally structuring bank withdrawals to avoid reporting requirements.

– Wire reports

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Slower winds could aid crews battling wildfires

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The winds fueling deadly wildfires that scorched vast swathes of land in four Plains states finally dropped Thursday, bringing hope to crews trying to contain the blazes. Emergency personnel warned, however, that extremely dry conditions and hot spots could cause a flare-up, even in areas where there’s “not much left to burn.”

Most of the burned land is in Kansas, where about 2,000 firefighters have been battling a series of blazes that consumed more than 1,000 square miles and damaged or destroyed dozens of structures. The firefight Thursday was focused on four counties, down from 21 on Monday.

executive tried to force Holder to perform oral sex when they were alone in his office.

Francisco Cortes, vice president for Fox News Latino, lost his job because of the incident.

Cortes’ lawyer, Jay Sanchez, told The Associated Press that he had told Cortes not to comment and that “I am presently considering Mr. Cortes’ legal options.”

Florida taking steps to fix death penalty law

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida took a big step to fix its death penalty law Thursday when the Senate passed a bill to require a unanimous jury decision before the death penalty is imposed.

The proposal – the second attempt in two years to address court decisions that found the state’s capital punishment law unconstitutional – is expected Fox News settles sexual to go to Gov. Rick Scott on assault complaint Friday after the House votes NEW YORK – Fox News on it.

Channel’s parent company has It’s a fix that people on both reportedly fired an executive and paid more than $2.5 million sides of the death penalty issue see as needed, but few on either to settle a sexual assault complaint made by a former network side are entirely happy with.

Many death penalty propocontributor.

The network said that Tamara nents were OK with a majority jury vote determining a death Holder, a lawyer who would sentence and are frustrated the often offer a Democratic point courts forced them to move to a of view in Fox segments, last September told them about the unanimous decision. Opponents incident, which had taken place would prefer to abolish the practice altogether. a year earlier. The New York Times said Thursday that the – Wire reports

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GOP claims momentum as health bill advances

By ERICA WERNER and ALAN FRAM

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Republican leaders drove their long-promised legislation to dismantle Barack Obama’s health care law over its first big hurdles in the House on Thursday, claiming fresh momentum despite cries of protest from right, left and center.

After grueling all-night sessions, the Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees both approved their portions of the bill along party-line votes.

The legislation, strongly supported by President Donald Trump, would eliminate the unpopular tax penalties for the uninsured under the Affordable Care Act, replacing Obama’s law with a conservative blueprint likely to cover far fewer people but – Republicans hope – increase choice.

The vote in Ways and Means came before dawn, while the Energy and Commerce meeting lasted past 27 hours as exhausted lawmakers groped for coffee refills, clean shirts and showers.

Angry Democrats protested that Republicans were acting in the dead of night to rip insurance coverage from poor Americans. But Republican leaders sounded increasingly confident that, after seven years of empty promises about undoing Obama’s law, they might finally be able to overcome their own deep divisions and deliver a bill to Trump to sign.

“This is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing Obamacare,” Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin said at a press briefing where he arrived in shirt-sleeves to deliver a wonky power-point presentation on the GOP bill, part TED Talk and part “Schoolhouse Rock.”

“The time is here. The time is now. This is the moment.

And this is the closest this will ever happen,” Ryan said.

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House Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Tony Cardenas (left), D-Calif., and Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., pause as members of the committee argue the details of the GOP’s “Obamacare” replacement bill after working all night Thursday in Washington.

Leaders are aiming for passage by the full House in the next couple of weeks, and from there the legislation would go to the Senate and, they hope, on to Trump’s desk. The president has promised to sign it, declaring over Twitter on Thursday, “We are talking to many groups and it will end in a beautiful picture!”

Yet at the same time the president is leaving himself a political out, privately telling conservative leaders that if the whole effort fails, Democrats will ultimately shoulder the blame for the problems that remain. That’s according to a participant in the meeting Wednesday who spoke only on the condition of anonymity to relay the private discussion.

Democrats reject that notion, and the entire GOP effort.

“What we have seen is the Republicans’ long-feared and job-killing health bill that means less coverage and more cost to American people,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said. “I don’t think the president really knows what he’s talking about.”

The GOP legislation would

kill Obama’s requirement that everyone buy insurance by repealing the tax fines imposed on those who don’t.

The bill would replace income-based subsidies Obama provided with tax credits based more on age, and insurers would charge higher premiums for customers who drop coverage for more than two months.

The extra billions Washington has sent states to expand the federal-state Medicaid program would phase out, and spending on the entire program would be capped at per-patient limits. Around $600 billion in tax boosts that Obama’s statute imposed on wealthy Americans and others to finance his overhaul would be repealed. Insurers could charge older customers five times more than younger ones instead of the current 3-1 limit but would still be required to include children up to age 26 in family policies, and they would be barred from imposing annual or lifetime benefit caps.

Democrats said the Republicans would yank health coverage from many of the 20 million people who gained it under Obama’s statute, and drive up costs for others.

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EPA chief poses contrary view of global warming

By MATTHEW DALY The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – The new chief of the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming, a statement at odds with mainstream scientific consensus and his own agency.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said measuring the effect of human activity on the climate is “very challenging” and that “there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact” of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

“So, no, I would not agree that (carbon dioxide) is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” Pruitt told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Pruitt’s view is contrary to mainstream climate science, including

NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the EPA itself.

Carbon dioxide is the biggest heat trapping force and is responsible for about 33 times more added warming than natural causes, according to calculations from the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change organized by the United Nations.

The panel’s calculations mean carbon dioxide alone accounts for between 1 and 3 degrees warming, MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel said.

“Scott Pruitt is just wrong on this,” he said.

The Associated Press sent Pruitt’s comments to numerous scientists who study climate.

All seven climate scientists who responded said Pruitt was wrong and

that carbon dioxide is the primary driver of global warming.

NASA and NOAA reported in January that earth’s 2016 temperatures were the warmest ever. The planet’s average surface temperature has risen about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the late 19th century, “a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere,” the agencies said in a joint statement.

The EPA says on its website that “carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change.”

Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, “release large amounts of CO2, causing concentrations in the atmosphere to rise,” the website says.

Environmental groups and Democrats seized on Pruitt’s comments as

evidence he is unfit for the office he holds.

“The arsonist is now in charge of the fire department, and he seems happy to let the climate crisis burn out of control,” Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune said.

Pruitt “is spewing corporate polluter talking points rather than fulfilling the EPA’s mission of protecting our air, our water and our communities,” Brune said, noting that EPA has a legal responsibility to address carbon pollution.

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said the comments underscore that Pruitt is a “climate denier” and insisted lawmakers will stand up to him.

“Anyone who denies over a century’s worth of established science and basic facts is unqualified to be the administrator of the EPA,” Schatz said in a statement.

White House: Trump unaware of Flynn’s foreign work

By STEPHEN BRAUN and CHAD DAY The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump was not aware that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had worked to further the interests of the government of Turkey before appointing him, the White House said Thursday.

The comments came two days after Flynn and his firm, Flynn Intel Group Inc., filed paperwork with the Justice Department formally identifying him as a foreign agent and acknowledging that his work for a company owned by a Turkish businessman could have aided Turkey’s government. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday called the action “an affirmation of the president’s decision to ask General Flynn to resign.”

At the White House, asked whether Trump knew about Flynn’s work before he appointed him as national security adviser, press secretary Sean Spicer said, “I don’t believe that that was known.”

Pence said in an interview later with Fox News that he also did not know about Flynn’s paid work.

Flynn and his company filed the registration paperwork describing $530,000 worth of lobbying before Election Day on behalf of Inovo BV, a Dutch-based company owned by Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Alptekin said Flynn did so after pressure from Justice Department officials.

The filing this week was the for-

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Michael Flynn arrives for a news conference Feb. 13 in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser who was fired last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish government in exchange for $530,000. mer head of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s first acknowledgment that his consulting business furthered the interests of a foreign government while he was working as a top adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign.

Flynn’s disclosure that his lobbying – from August through November – may have benefited Turkey’s authoritarian government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came as Flynn has drawn scrutiny from the FBI for his

contacts with Russian officials. Trump fired Flynn last month for misleading Pence and other administration officials about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak.

In paperwork filed with the Justice Department’s Foreign Agent Registration Unit, Flynn and his firm acknowledged that his lobbying “could be construed to have principally benefited the Republic of Turkey.” The lobbying

contract ended after Trump’s election in November, according to the paperwork.

A spokesman for Flynn, Price Floyd, said the general was not available for an interview Thursday.

Floyd referred the AP to Flynn’s filing in response to questions about why he and his firm had decided to register this week.

Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, declined to comment through a spokesman for his law firm, Covington & Burling. The Turkish Embassy also didn’t respond to questions from the AP. Spicer said he didn’t know what Flynn had disclosed about his background and lobbying work during the White House’s vetting of him for appointment as national security adviser.

Spicer said Flynn was free to do the lobbying work because it occurred while he was a private citizen.

“There’s nothing nefarious about doing anything that’s legal as long as the proper paperwork if filed,” Spicer said. He declined to say whether Trump would have appointed Flynn if he had known about the lobbying.

After Flynn joined the Trump administration, he agreed not to lobby for five years after leaving government service and never to represent foreign governments. Flynn’s newly disclosed lobbying would not have violated that pledge because it occurred before he joined the Trump administration in January, but the pledge precludes Flynn from ever doing the same type of work again in his lifetime.

Con artists scam immigrants fearing Trump crackdown Raluca Oncioiu

Director of immigration legal services for Catholic Charities Bramer, a Democrat from a Queens district with a large number of Spanish-speaking immigrants.

The targets of such rip-offs are often reluctant to go to the police for fear of exposing their immigration status. That has made it difficult to investigate such schemes or determine how common they are.

“It’s very hard to persuade people, especially now, to come forward and file a complaint,” said Raluca Oncioiu, director of immigration legal services for Catholic Charities.

The New York attorney general’s office, Catholic Charities and ICE have urged immigrants to contact them about such shakedowns. And the attorney general issued an alert last week warning people not to fall for such scams.

Real ICE agents, it said, “will never ask you for money or threaten detainment or deportation if you do not pay them.”

The cases reported in New York include the immigrant who got the phone call demanding $1,550 and a person in suburban Orange County who received a text from “ICE” telling him he needed to pay $479 if he wanted to stay in the U.S. Perhaps the most brazen example in New York City was recorded this month, when a woman called Van Bramer’s office to report that four men wearing ICE jackets approached her husband on a Queens street and told him they would take him into custody unless he gave them all his money. He gave them $250.

The couple have since resisted efforts to coax them into helping police find the men.

“I think there’s a great deal of fear and also a bit of embarrassment about what happened,” the councilman said.

“They called because they wanted to let people know about it so it might not happen to others.”

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• Friday, March 10, 2017

NEW YORK – The call came from what looked like a government number. When an immigrant in New York City answered, the voice on the other end told him he was in the U.S. illegally and would have to pay $1,550 to stay.

It was a scam, carried out by one of a number of con artists who have been exploiting immigrants’ heightened fears of deportation by posing as federal agents and demanding money, authorities say.

Such scams have been around for a long time, but there has been a flurry of reported cases since Donald Trump was elected president on promises to get tough on immigrants in the country without permission.

Police in Lynn, Mass a c h u s e t t s , w a r n e d Michael Ruiz immigrants to be on guard last month after a family reported getting a call from a person who claimed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would raid their home if they didn’t wire money.

In Illinois, authorities are looking into reports from about 10 Chicago-area residents with ties to Ecuador who said a woman posing as a lawyer reached out through text messages and Facebook, falsely warned people they had a pending immigration case and demanded money for visa and tax help.

And in Greenville, South Carolina, prosecutors charged a man last week with stealing more than $70,000 from a group of immigrants by pretending to be a federal agent.

The defendant, Michael Ruiz, 53, had been released from prison in New Jersey in September after serving a seven-year sentence for scamming immigrants by posing as an immigration officer and telling them he could help them get documents or bring relatives to the U.S. A lawyer for Ruiz didn’t return a call and email seeking comment.

With anxieties running high over Trump’s accelerated efforts to round up and deport immigrants, “scammers can thrive more than ever,” said New York City Councilman Jimmy Van

“It’s very hard to persuade people, especially now, to come forward and file a complaint.”

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2017 McHenry County Spelling Bee Champion Serena Huberty from Bernotas Middle School

is congratulated by Northwest Herald Managing Editor Kevin Lyons.

By winning the McHenry County Bee, Serena has earned a trip to Washington, D.C. to compete in the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee! The Northwest Herald would like to thank the McHenry County Regional Office of Education for being the Bee sponsor and co-host, and for supplying the awards for the event.Thanks to Heineman Middle School Literacy Teacher Denise Stanfa for serving as pronouncer.Thanks, also, to Heineman Middle School 7th Grade Literacy Team Leader Jill Lamb and Northwest Herald Reporter Joan Oliver for assisting as judges.Thank you to McHenry County College for the use of their auditorium, and a special thanks to Laura Dorfler and the Regional Office of Education for their work on the Local, Regional and County Spelling Bees.

Congratulations to all the contestants and good luck, Serena!

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NORTHWEST HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD:

Kevin Lyons

Brett Rowland

Valerie Katzenstein

John Sahly

Kyle Nabors

ANOTHER VIEW

WikiLeaks’ big favor The first thing to say about the archive of cyberhacking tools stolen from the CIA and released by WikiLeaks is that they are not instruments of mass surveillance, but means for spying on individual phones, computers and televisions.

There is no evidence they have been used against Americans or otherwise improperly. If there were, we can be sure that WikiLeaks, whose core mission is not transparency but undermining U.S. national security, would have trumpeted it. It follows that the targets of the hacking methods, and the prime beneficiaries of their release, will be Islamic State terrorists, North Korean bombmakers, Iranian, Chinese and Russian spies, and other U.S. adversaries.

WikiLeaks claims it obtained the 8,761 documents and files it released from a former U.S. government employee or contractor. But given the organization’s close ties with Russia’s intelligence services, a link established by the U.S. intelligence community’s investigation into the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, it won’t be a surprise if Moscow again turns out to be the source of the leak.

In addition to losing valuable surveillance tools, the CIA now will be subjected – as the leakers intended – to disruptive controversy and unreasonable demands for greater “cooperation” with technology companies. Adherents to the theory that a “deep state” is attempting to undermine the Trump administration will seize on the revelation that the CIA arsenal included the tools and languages of other countries – proof, it will be said, that the DNC hack was a CIA “false flag” operation after all.

Civil libertarians are insisting U.S. government hackers inform phone- and computer-makers of vulnerabilities, rather than using them for their own vital work. But defending the integrity of devices is the job of the companies, not the CIA. As The Post’s Ellen Nakashima reported, U.S. agencies already submit all software vulnerabilities they discover to a governmental review that determines whether they should be disclosed.

The CIA will doubtless recover from this leak and find new tools; some experts say much of what was disclosed was relatively unsophisticated malware.

But the agency, as does the rest of the intelligence community, still faces the critical challenge of how to operate effectively in cyberspace while safeguarding its own secrets and methods. Procedures for vetting employees and contractors and providing them access to highly classified information must be studied again, and servers hardened against external penetration. One thing the agency must not do, however, is stop trying to develop a qualitative technological edge over U.S. adversaries, including the means to surveil them.

– The Washington Post

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AMENDMENT

ANOTHER VIEW

Brakes put on funds for high-speed rail

The federal government is putting a hold on funding that would aid the California high-speed rail project, but the state apparently didn’t get the memo.

The Trump administration has suspended, pending the completion of its proposed budget, a decision on a $647 million grant intended to electrify Caltrain commuter rail tracks, which would ultimately be used by the high-speed rail system.

As noted about two weeks ago, all 14 congressional Republicans sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, asserting: “We think providing additional funding at this time to the Authority would be an irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars.”

The letter cited a confidential Federal Railroad Administration report that concluded that the initial 119-mile segment of the system in the Central Valley could cost 50 percent ($3.6 billion) more than estimated.

But the state has nonetheless doubled down on the project. Last week, the Finance Department approved the California High-

Speed Rail Authority’s request to ask the State Treasurer’s Office to issue $2.6 billion of the nearly $10 billion in funds authorized by the 2008 bond measure narrowly approved by voters.

The state also appears nonplussed by the fact that its major ongoing revenue source for the project, the proceeds from the state’s “cap-and-trade” auctions, seems to be drying up. Just a small fraction of the pollution credits up for sale have been sold in the last year, threatening the hundreds of millions of dollars the bullet train expects to receive annually.

The Legislative Analyst’s Office noted in 2012, when the capand-trade program first got up and running, that the use of such proceeds was “very speculative,” and cautioned that using them to fund the high-speed rail system might be illegal, since they were supposed to be used to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions but the high-speed rail system will actually increase net greenhouse gas emissions for at least several decades because of construction

and operation effects.

The cap-and-trade program itself is facing great uncertainty.

A lawsuit challenges that the program’s “fees” are an unconstitutional tax, and the Legislature has yet to extend the program past its current sunset date of 2020.

From the very beginning, the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s business plans have been based more on hope and fantasy than on sound finance or economics. Proponents seem to have adopted the “in for a penny, in for a pound” strategy: Just grab as much money as you can, as quickly as you can, and start building.

But there is a saying in economics: “Sunk costs are sunk.”

That money is gone, and sometimes it is best to just cut your losses, rather than continuing to rack them up. Or, as actor and humorist Will Rogers once said, “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

The same holds true if you’re laying tracks for California’s high-speed rail project.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

– Orange County Register

By CHARLES LANE

The Washington Post

Who knows if this bill would actually stabilize individual insurance markets, as the GOP claims? Again, by purporting to fix them, the Republicans have assumed the burden of showing that their incentives are better calibrated to draw young, healthy people into the risk pool than President Barack Obama’s were. One conservative health care expert, Avik Roy, has crunched the numbers and calls the plan “a recipe for ... death spirals” in the individual market.

To be sure, the bill attempts to evade, or postpone, political fallout by waiting until after the 2018 elections for its most controversial provisions to take effect: Medicaid expansion, for example, wouldn’t end until 2020 – plenty of time for a state or two that balked under Obama to change their minds – after which skimpier federal funding kicks in. Maybe this gambit will work.

Or maybe it just hands the Democrats a campaign issue: Vote for us and we’ll stop the GOP cuts.

Conservative true believers certainly aren’t impressed.

“Many Americans seeking health insurance on the individual market will notice no significant difference between the Affordable Care Act (i.e., Obamacare) and the American Health Care Act,” wrote Michael Needham of Heritage Action for America. “That is bad politics and, more importantly, bad policy.”

Needham has a point. However, there’s little evidence that Americans

are clamoring for the free-market alternatives that Heritage Action and other Obamacare critics have been pushing – and which the House leadership accordingly eschewed.

President Donald Trump got elected president by promising to repeal Obamacare – except for all the good stuff such as preexisting-condition coverage and up-to-26-year-olds staying on their parents’ plans – as well as to protect Medicare.

A not-unfair summary of the typical American voter’s view on health care might go like this: “Give me a plan with abundant covered services and choice, and shift as much of the cost as possible onto someone else, while protecting the poor, but for heaven’s sake don’t make it ‘government-run.’ ” That inconsistent set of demands pretty much defined public opinion back in 2009, too, which is partly why Obamacare came out as it did. It represented the maximum politically feasible distance Democrats could move toward their top goal, universal coverage.

The GOP bill conversely – and revealingly – represents the maximum progress House Republicans think they can make toward free-market health care without committing political suicide.

They sure didn’t get very far.

• Charles Lane is a Post editorial writer specializing in economic and fiscal policy, a weekly columnist, and a contributor to the PostPartisan blog.

IT’S YOUR WRITE Make good choices, Hebron

To the Editor: Fellow Hebron residents, let’s elect a mayor free of embarrassing legal issues. Primary qualification of an elected official should be to be an example of good a citizen.

We have two choices who meet this qualification running for mayor, Kimberly Martinez and Frank Beatty.

Those involved in an alleged DUI with or without a death of a pedestrian or having drugs in their home or car or illegal possession of guns and ammunition do not meet this qualification.

Also, our current or future mayor should at least follow speed limits on his own street where children live.

Hebron, please, lets make the news for the great community that we are, not by electing another poor mayoral choice. Thank you.

Lisa Keiser

Hebron

Postal service did good work

To the Editor: You recently printed “Another View” from the Washington Post. While agreeing with the conclusion, I wish to correct some misinformation.

The United States Postal Service was profitable for years before the 10-year period it lost money.

Congress mandated USPS must put $5.5 billion a year toward future health benefits for 75 years on employees not even hired yet. No other corporation in the world must do this.

The great recession hit, no fault of USPS, affecting all businesses. Congress would not allow them to stop payments, exaggerating the losses.

The USPS doesn’t take a penny of taxpayer money, it is supported entirely by postage.

Yet USPS made a profit each of the past five years (with postal rates being lowered) not including the $5.5 billion pre-funding payment.

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“USPS spends 80 percent of its costs on personnel.” Perhaps I need to state the obvious here, but it is the US Postal Service. It doesn’t make things, it sells postage (cheapest in the world) and delivers mail (best service in the world). What else would it spend on?

The column suggests stopping Saturday delivery and saving some (unproven and illogical) sum of money.

Look outdoors on any Sunday and see

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the USPS trucks delivering mail seven days a week, 365 days a year.

However, I agree it is time for Congress to sit down with USPS and everyone involved, and allow it to become the best it can be, as was intended when written into our Constitution.

God bless.

Mike Montes

Retired letter carrier, Crystal Lake

• Friday, March 10, 2017

Democrats denouncing the new House GOP health care bill actually should be dancing in the streets.

Perhaps, in the privacy of their own homes, the savvier ones are popping the champagne corks.

The true meaning of the proposed legislation is that, after eight years of all-out political and ideological struggle against Obamacare, Republicans have surrendered – pretty much on all fronts.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., should have written the bill on a large white tablecloth and run it up the nearest flagpole.

Yes, yes, the plan is labeled “repeal and replace.” And, true, it does away with many of the Obamacare provisions that conservatives most reviled, including the individual mandate to buy insurance and a bevy of taxes. If enacted and fully implemented, the plan probably would insure fewer people and shift more of the cost down the income distribution scale, in part by restricting the flow of Medicaid funds to the states.

Democrats and their allies in the liberal policy community are not wrong to fret about that. However, when they look up from their spreadsheets, what they’ll notice is that much of Obamacare’s architecture remains: The GOP bill relies on regulated and subsidized individual insurance, plus a Medicaid program that would be small-

er than it has been since Obamacare began, but still larger than it was before, to fill coverage gaps left by the mainstays of U.S. health care: Medicare and employer-paid plans.

After vilifying that set of interlocking policy compromises as a budget-busting, freedom-destroying ticket to second-rate medical care, the leaders of the GOP House have now declared, in writing, that they don’t have a fundamentally different idea, much less a better one. Even the individual mandate, and the “tax penalty” that enforced it, isn’t really gone. It is recast as a requirement to maintain continuous coverage, enforced by a surcharge payable to insurance companies.

Heretofore, the health care debate was a contest between Republicans, who were bent on repealing “every word of Obamacare,” and Democrats, who defended it.

Now it’s an argument about whose subsidized-regulated-individual-market-plus-some-Medicaid thingy works better. And it’s far from clear that the Republican mousetrap would win this contest. What would it do to the federal deficit? The bill didn’t come with the usual Congressional Budget Office fiscal projection, but it’s hard to believe there’s a fiscally responsible way to maintain so many of Obamacare’s popular benefits, such as coverage for preexisting conditions, as the bill does, while abolishing or postponing the taxes that would help pay for them, as the bill also does.

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Sears’ adjusted loss smaller, shares rise

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and MICHELLE CHAPMAN The Associated Press

NEW YORK – Sears, stung by higher charges, reported a wider fourth-quarter loss Thursday, but its adjusted loss was smaller than last year and investors were encouraged that the company closely controlled inventory and expenses.

Wall Street looked past falling comparable-store sales as well, and Sears Holdings Corp. shares rose 5 percent.

Sales at Sears and Kmart stores open at least a year, a key indicator of a retailer’s health, dropped 10.3 percent.

Sears same-store sales slid 12.3 percent, mostly hurt by falling sales of appliances, clothing, consumer electronics and tools.

At Kmart stores, comparable-store sales fell 8 percent, mainly because of softer sales of consumer electronics, toys, clothing and grocery and household items.

Chief Financial Officer Jason Hollar said a challenging holiday season pressured margins and same-store sales, but the company had a better adjusted profit by watching its inventory and managing costs.

The company also said it would use a big portion of the proceeds from the $900 million sale of its Craftsman brand to Stanley Black & Decker to bolster its ailing pension plan. It will put $250 million in cash and some income from annual payments toward

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Shoppers walk into a Sears store Wednesday in Pittsburgh. Sears Holdings Corp. reported Thursday a loss of $607 million in its fiscal fourth quarter. the plan as part of a deal with the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp., a federal agency that protects private pension plans.

Chairman and CEO Edward Lampert, whose hedge fund has forwarded millions in funding to keep Sears afloat, has long pledged to turn the company’s fortunes around and that the retailer would find ways to capitalize on its best-known brands such as Kenmore appliances and DieHard car batteries, as well as its vast holdings of land.

The faltering retail chain has also

said it may sell more locations, cut more jobs and put more of its famous brands on the block as part of its latest plan to revive itself. It has promised to cut costs by at least $1 billion a year, and said it’s reworking its debt to give itself more breathing room.

Sears said it would examine its organizational structure, but didn’t specify any more store closings. It already announced in January it would close 150 of its 1,500 stores.

Lampert combined Sears and Kmart in 2005, about two years after he helped bring Kmart out of bankruptcy.

But the retail landscape has undergone seismic shifts since then. While Amazon.com had been up and running for almost a decade at that time, the big disruption in retail went into full force about the time of the recession a few years later.

Sears’ troubles go further than that, having to compete on appliance sales with Home Depot and to match the cut-rate prices at huge chains like Wal-Mart. And old rivals have made it tougher. J.C. Penney has brought back to its floors major appliances more than 30 years after abandoning the sale of refrigerators and stoves.

Sears has ramped up online services, but it’s having a hard time disguising its age. Stores are in need of a major redo.

For the period ended Jan. 28, the Hoffman Estates-based company lost $607 million, or $5.67 per share. That compares with a loss of $580 million, or $5.44 per share, a year ago. Impairment charges climbed to $409 million, from $203 million.

Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.28 a share, or 42 cents better than last year on a pershare basis.

Revenue declined to $6.05 billion from $7.3 billion. The company’s merchandise inventories shrunk to $4 billion, from $5.2 billion a year earlier.

Total costs and expenses declined to $6.77 billion, from $7.84 billion.

Shares rose 40 cents to $7.89 Thursday.

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NEW YORK – John Kerry, the former secretary of state, U.S. senator and presidential candidate, has a book deal.

Kerry, 73, has signed with Simon & Schuster, the publisher told The Associated Press on Thursday. The book, a memoir covering his life from childhood through his recent time as secretary of state, does not yet have a title or release date.

“This is the first opportunity I’ve had in a long time to pause and look back, with an eye toward looking forward. I hope we can produce a good book that captures for readers not so much my story, but some of the lessons learned along the way, including lessons learned the hard way,” Kerry said.

BUZZWORTHY

Notorious B.I.G. honored Brian d’Arcy James returns to ‘Hamilton’ as King George 20 years after slaying

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Actor Samuel L. Jackson attends “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” red carpet event Sept. 26, 2016, in New York. In an appearance Monday on the radio station Hot 97, Jackson criticized the casting of black British actors in American films like “Get Out” and “Selma.”

Samuel Jackson: Comments about black Brit actors not a slam LOS ANGELES – Samuel Jackson said Wednesday he wasn’t trying to slam black British actors when he criticized their casting in American films such as the horror hit “Get Out” and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drama “Selma.”

Jackson told The Associated Press that his comments Monday on the radio station Hot 97 weren’t necessarily misunderstood, but his criticism was not of the performers but rather of the system that allows black actors from overseas take prominent roles in American films.

“It was not a slam against them, but it was just a comment about how Hollywood works in an interesting sort of way sometimes,” Jackson said at the premiere of his new film, “Kong: Skull Island.”

Jackson noted Monday that a lot of roles are going to British actors. He said he wondered what “Get Out” would have been like “with an American brother who really feels that.” Jordan Peele’s film is about an African-American photographer, played by the British actor Daniel Kaluuya, whose white girlfriend brings him home to her parents’ house.

Jackson also pointed to Ava DuVernay’s “Selma,” which starred David Oyelowo as King.

His comments drew criticism from John Boyega, the British “Star Wars” star, who on Twitter called the debate a “stupid” conflict “we don’t have time for.”

On Wednesday, Jackson was complimentary of the skills and hard work black British performers put in to take on American roles, but he said that was a one-way street.

“We’re not afforded that same luxury, but that’s fine, we have plenty of opportunities to work,” he said.

NEW YORK – The first King George III from “Hamilton” is ready to put on his crown again.

Brian d’Arcy James, who originated the sly and hysterical monarch singing the song “You’ll Be Back,” will be back – he’ll play him on Broadway starting April 14.

Others who have played the king include Jonathan Groff, Andrew Rannells, Rory O’Malley and Taran Killam.

James most recently was Tony Award-nominated for “Something Rotten!”

He was in the show “Shrek The Musical,” on NBC’s series “Smash” and was part of the Oscar-winning cast of the movie “Spotlight.”

Samantha Bee, Masha Gessen to speak at PEN fest

NEW YORK – Comedian-commentator Samantha Bee and author-activist Masha Gessen will be speaking in May about “gender and power” during the age of President Donald Trump.

PEN America announced Thursday that Gessen and Bee have agreed to participate in the annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, a featured event of the PEN World Voices Festival. Gessen, a prominent critic of Trump and of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, will give a talk, followed by a conversation with Bee. The PEN festival takes place May 1 to 7.

Other participants include Salman Rushdie, Patti Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

NEW YORK – The Notorious B.I.G. is being remembered by his wife, Faith Evans, and by collaborator Sean “Diddy” Combs 20 years after his killing.

Combs asked social media users to salute the rapper also known as Biggie Smalls by rapping their favorite Biggie verse and posting video on social media. He put up a somber video message saying “time heals all wounds, but this one ain’t healed yet.”

Evans said in an appearance on the syndicated “The Breakfast Club” morning radio show Thursday she hasn’t been able to find closure and “live with the great memories of Big that we have.”

B.I.G.’s real name was Christopher Wallace. He was fatally shot in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, at age 24. The case remains unsolved.

Olsen twins’ company may pay $140K to ex-interns

NEW YORK – The company owned by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen may settle a lawsuit by paying up to $140,000 to a group of interns who claim they did the work of employees without payment.

Under the proposed settlement filed last week in a New York court by attorneys for a former intern, each of the 185 members of the class-action lawsuit would receive $530 for the work they performed at the twins’ Dualstar Entertainment Group.

The settlement would have to be approved by a judge.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Bluegrass musician Norman Blake is 79. Actor Chuck Norris is 77. Guitarist Tom Scholz of Boston is 70. TV personality/businesswoman Barbara Corcoran (“Shark Tank”) is 68. Actress Aloma Wright (“Scrubs”) is 67. Actress Sharon Stone is 59. Bassist Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam is 54. Music producer Rick Rubin is 54. Actor

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The Associated Press NEW YORK – For a change, a few celebrities are chasing a trend rather than setting one – times two and three.

We’re talking about the mini boom in Hollywood of expected twins, with the recent arrival of triplets for Pharrell Williams and his wife, Helen Lasichanh, thrown in as a happy bonus.

Beyoncé and Jay Z, along with George and Amal Clooney, have announced they’re expecting twins.

It’s news that one obstetrician who has delivered hundreds of multiples said often initially stuns anxious parents-to-be.

“When people are imagining a pregnancy, it’s usually a dream that involves just one baby,” said Dr. Roger B. Newman, a co-author of the recently updated guide, “When You’re Expecting Twins, Triples or Quads: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy.”

“To find out you’re carrying two almost always comes as a shock,” he said, “but the vast majority of people are thrilled by the process. It just takes a while to soak in.”

Sometimes takes a village

Evan Weinberg, the father of 6-year-old twin boys in Manhattan, said hiring a baby nurse might seem AP photo silly to some, “but trust me, it isn’t.” With a rate of Actor George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, arrive at the 42nd Cesar Film Awards ceremony Feb. 24 in Paris. Becesarean sections at roughly 50 percent for twins, yoncé and Jay Z, along with the Clooneys, have announced recently they are expecting twins. compared to 20 or 30 percent for singletons, mommy won’t be fast on her feet, he said.

The need for protein, for instance, goes up to “It takes time to recover,” Weinberg said. “Daddy in vitro fertilization.

“I went back into the hospital when my twins about 175 grams a day for women carrying twins, is going to be in charge of taking care of mommy were 2 weeks old, so we got a referral quickly for a Newman said. and the two little ones. Our baby nurse did the midnanny to help my husband out immediately,” she Becca Robins, who has fraternal twin 2-year-old night feedings, got them on a schedule.” said. “Enlist family to help with things like grocery boys and an older son, nearly 7, agrees with the Weinberg and his wife hired their nurse for one shopping and cleaning. My sister stayed with me for messy part when it comes to bringing the babies month, and she stayed for four. “She became a part several weeks.” home. of our family,” he said.

Having one boy and one girl inspired Holden to “Twins are a crazy ride,” said the Boise, Idaho, New parents bringing home multiples who can’t shoot for unisex-colored onesies in the beginning. “I mom. “You will have a lot of fighting during the afford to hire help shouldn’t be shy about asking just wanted to grab whatever from the drawer,” she toddler years before they learn to play together. friends, family, church groups or others for help, said.

You will tell one ‘no,’ only to have the other do the said Newman, in Charleston, South Carolina. He In Ontario, Canada, parenting coach Debbie exact same thing. They will conspire against you. said some couples get creative, seeking out nearby But they will also give you twice the hugs, twice the Fazio – with 16-year-old identical twin daughters college sororities to “adopt” their multiples as a kisses.” and a 17-year-old – added: “Don’t expect to have project to help with baby-sitting and child care.

The Clooneys (Amal is 39) and the Knowles-Carevery day perfect.

Having twins is messy.”

So who’s having all these multiples we hear so ters (Beyonce is 35) have released virtually no much about these days? And why? details about the pregnancies, although Beyoncé reNewman co-wrote the book, out in February from ‘Twins are a crazy ride’ Newman said the majority of twins are born pre- cently bowed out of performing at Coachella. PharWilliam Morrow, with Barbara Luke, a professor maturely, which adds a layer of medical complexity, rell attended the Oscars with his producing partner of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology rather than his wife and said on the red carpet of his and breastfeeding multiples makes the right kind at Michigan State University in East Lansing, and family: “Everybody is good.” of nutrition intensely important. The same is true health journalist Tamara Eberlein. It points to the Frieda Birnbaum, in Saddle River, New Jersey, during pregnancy, he said. advent of infertility treatments several decades gave birth to twins at 60, becoming the oldest Amer“There are many obstetricians and other care ago as a major factor in the rise in multiples. Other ican to do so. The boys are now 9. providers who don’t recognize the increased nutrifactors include women having children later in “They are different. They have different friends, life. Biologically speaking, conceiving at 30 years of tional needs that women carrying twins have. They different school activities, different after-school will tell them to just eat well or maybe add an extra age or older makes women more likely to conceive activities, so it becomes a little bit more diverse,” 5 pounds, or just eat when you’re hungry. Women multiples.

Helen Holden in Los Angeles was 36 when she be- carrying multiples get all kinds of fairly inappropri- she said. “You have to divide your time with giving each child what they really want.” ate and non-scientific information,” he said. came pregnant with boy-girl twins, now 7, through

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percent of them women, 54 percent single – who are raising dependent children, according to a 2014 report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

“Paying for college is hard enough,” Solomon said. “Being a single mother while navigating this financial burden and studying? That’s brutal.”

Only 33 percent of students with children complete a certificate or degree within six years of enrollment, according to the report, in part because of all the time they must spend providing child care (often more than 30 hours a week). Moreover, most “have no money to contribute to college expenses. ... Among single students with children, 88 percent have incomes at or below 200 percent of poverty.”

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First came last fall’s scholarship contest. More than 600 entrants vied for the award. Although the GoFundMe team focused on people who are currently enrolled this time around, Solomon envisions broader future initiatives.

Solomon said the company is investigating ways to address one impediment to stranger contributions: the fact that “only donations made to a legally registered nonprofit or charity may be considered eligible for donors to claim as a tax deduction,” as the website puts it.

In another effort, GoFundMe recently released a guidebook and launched a college tuition fundraising hub, a landing page that puts education-related campaigns in the same place for donors and offers supplicants tips for maximizing success on the platform.

As for Nelson, the scholarship she won from GoFundMe allowed her to continue her studies. She’s on track to graduate in May.

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Southfield, Michigan, native Emettra Nelson, one of 10 winners of a $10,000 GoFundMe Scholarship, was such a driven high school student she earned a spot at Michigan State University on full scholarship.

“I was determined not to let anything get in the way of my degree,” she said. But a positive pregnancy test at 19 left her asking, “What am I going to do?”

Knowing that taking a break would mean forfeiting financial aid, Nelson finished the term, worked for a construction company over the summer as planned and started her junior year nine months pregnant. “On September 4, I was in the labor room doing my homework,” she said.

After her daughter’s birth, Nelson managed to make it work with child care, first from her mother and sister, and then by a day-care center paid for with a grant, financial aid and “always working somewhere.” She was set to begin her final year in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics when she got word her aid would not be re-

newed. Her account carried a disqualifying balance, despite Nelson having worked for months to pay down the spring break study-abroad program required for her major.

“My advisers were really saddened, because a lot of times when stuff like this happens people just drop out and you don’t hear from them again,” Nelson said, but she was determined to achieve her goal of bringing sustainable urban farms to low-income communities. She looked for private scholarships and grants, but deadlines had passed. She sought a loan from a bank, but like most college students, she hadn’t yet developed sufficient credit. So she turned to GoFundMe. “For me to put up the GoFundMe page,” Nelson said, “just because I’m a very independent person, was a last resort.”

It’s a position familiar to many.

“More than half of all Americans, if they have to come up with $400 unexpectedly, they can’t,” GoFundMe chief executive Rob Solomon said. “A car repair can be the difference between finishing college and dropping out.”

The situation is even more dire for the 4.8 million college students – 71

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Coconut oil may be good alternative Dear Doctor: I’m 75, healthy, and want to stay that way – despite a bad family history regarding hearts and arteries. I have taken 10 milligrams of Lipitor daily for several years, but am wondering if I should try coconut oil to lower my cholesterol?

Dear Reader: Coconut oil is very high in saturated fat, with 12 grams per tablespoon.

Compare that to olive oil, which has 1.9 grams of saturated fat per tablespoon. Both have 14 grams of total fat, but almost all of olive oil’s is monounsaturated, widely considered to be better for the heart and cardiovascular system. Saturated fats in meats and dairy products, on the other hand, have been shown to increase LDL cholesterol, the so-called “bad” cholesterol linked to coronary artery disease.

For someone with a family history of vascular disease, we really have no good data on coconut oil’s ability to reduce the risk of heart disease and strokes. We do have observational data from societies that have lower heart disease rates and include coconuts as a significant percentage of their diet. But they’re consuming the coconut, not just the oil of the coconut.

One factor to consider: The meat of the coconut has a considerable amount of fiber.

This fiber is not found in the oil, and it may be the fiber that confers the greatest benefit from coconut consumption. Also, the diet and lifestyle of societies that consume large amounts of coconut cannot be translated well to our Western diets and lifestyle, meaning they probably are healthier in many respects.

One aspect of coconut oil that we can assess is how it might affect cholesterol levels. As I noted earlier, coconut oil is high in saturated fat. But the majority of the saturated fat is in the form of lauric acid; the majority of the saturated fat in animal fat is palmitic acid. Lauric acid is absorbed

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ASK THE DOCTORS Robert Ashley differently than palmitic acid, which could suggest that coconut oil doesn’t cause the same degree of LDL elevation as animal fat.

But that would appear to be wishful thinking.

A study published in the journal Nutrition Reviews in 2016 analyzed multiple studies and found no difference in the LDL cholesterol level between people who used coconut oil and people who used butter. It does appear, however, that consumption of coconut oil was linked to lower triglyceride levels as compared to beef fat. That said, the cholesterol profiles found among consumers of coconut oil are much worse than those found among people who consume olive oil, canola oil, or even corn, safflower and palm oil.

I believe you should look at coconut oil as a saturated fat. The current recommendation is that these fats should make up only 10 percent of your diet. You could use coconut oil as a replacement to the fat from meat or dairy.

However, if you have a family history of heart disease, I would use olive and canola oils in recipes and when cooking; these oils have shown beneficial effects in regards to cholesterol.

In addition, if you have risk factors for heart disease, there is a significant benefit in staying on the statin you are taking. I would not stop that in lieu of adding coconut oil to your diet.

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

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and living together for five, you still haven’t met his family, he has no intention of introducing you – ever. Your inability to give his mother grandchildren has nothing to do with it. You are a human being, not a broodmare, and the excuse he’s giving you makes no sense. Picture this scenario: “Hey, Ma, this is ‘Becky’ and she’s fertile!” Puh-leeze!

Dear Abby: My sister, who is very religious, sent my gay daughter a Bible with her name engraved on it for Christmas, even though we told her – after she asked for suggestions – that a gift card would be more appropriate. We are not religious, by the way.

My wife and I feel strange about it, as if my sister is trying to tell us something like, “Your gay daughter needs religion.” How should we respond to this? – Baffled in the East Dear Baffled: You do not have to respond.

The Bible was a gift for your daughter, and the “privilege” of acknowledging it, ignoring it or regifting it is hers. What I do not recommend is allowing your sister’s gift choice to become an argument about your family’s values.

Dear Abby: I’ve recently rekindled an old romance with a wonderful guy. Only one thing mars our relationship. When we go out to eat, we don’t carry on a conversation past occasional chitchat. The problem may be that while he’s a speedy eater, I’m slow. I feel bad about not being able to talk and chew fast enough to keep up, so he finishes well before me and ends up waiting quite a while until I polish off my meal.

Can you offer any suggestions on how to come to a compromise where dinner isn’t a race to the finish line, but an experience full of laughter and discussion? – Slower in California Dear Slower: Yes, but it may involve making the meal even longer. If there’s a topic you would like to explore with him, put down your fork, swallow your food and speak up. In Europe it’s common for people to linger over their meal and communicate with each other. This practice not only fosters deeper relationships, but there are also health benefits to eating slowly. Because you’re a couple, you should feel comfortable enough to ask him to slow down so your conversation can flow more easily.

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E-mail resume to: HR@snogem.com

STAFF ACCOUNTANT/ANALYST

Description: Responsible for general accounting support, including month end closing entries, account reconciliation and analysis, light budget and forecasting. 3-5 years' experience required.

SAP accounting software experience preferred.

Sun Tzu is believed to have lived from 544 to 496 B.C. In some areas, his “The Art of War” still influences competitive endeavors, including business, culture, politics and sports, as well as warfare. Sun Tzu said, “A military operation involves deception.

Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.”

This deal was used in yesterday’s column. Then, South made six spades after taking a safety play in trumps by running dummy’s four.

Can you see any way for a defender to influence declarer to his detriment?

In the auction, North’s four diamonds was a splinter bid. It showed four-plus spades, at least game-going values and a singleton (or void) in diamonds. Then South, confident that his partner had to have strength in clubs, used 14-30 Roman Key Card Blackwood. He learned that his partner had one key card (an ace or the spade king), then slightly optimistically jumped to six spades.

West, who disliked leading from a jack, chose the club seven to dummy’s king. What might have happened next?

Here was East’s chance to deceive declarer. If he had smoothly played the club queen under dummy’s king, what would South have thought?

Surely he would have assumed it was a singleton; and if it were, next running the spade four would have been risky. If West could have taken that trick with a singleton honor, he could then have given his partner a club ruff. So declarer was highly likely to play a spade to his ace and go down.

PRAYER to the BLESSED VIRGIN

INSIDE SALES / CUSTOMER SERVICE REP

Sno Gem, Inc. is a dynamic and fast growing organization centrally located in McHenry, Illinois that sells roofing and sheet metal accessory products throughout the country. This position is for an energetic, aggressive self-starter who is capable of managing heavy inbound/outbound phone contact with existing and prospective clients nationwide. Requirements include excellent organization, computer and phone skills, and the ability to achieve sales goals and quotas.

Occasional travel to tradeshows to promote the product offerings is also required.

Sno Gem, Inc. provides its sales representatives with all of the tools to succeed, as it is partnered with one of the largest commercial sheet metal and roofing contractors in North America for additional support.

The position offers a competitive base salary with commission and unlimited growth potential!

Sno Gem Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and offers a full benefit package that includes 401(k) and health Insurance. Serious Inquiries only.

For more information, visit our web-site at: www.snogem.com

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MAILBOX & POST SALES & INSTALLATION 815-653-7095 ~ 815-341-7822 www.mailboxpostman.com

Kathy's Office & Home Cleaning Service

Licensed, Bonded, Insured. 815-355-5297 POLISH LADY Will Clean Your Home/Office FREE ESTIMATES, Great Ref. 224-858-4515

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Qualified candidates can email their resume and salary requirements to: HR@QTITECH.com.

TOOL & DIE DESIGNER (Metal Stampings)

Kenmode Tool & Engineering in Algonquin is seeking a Tool & Die Designer for our New Technology Center.

Position requires: High School diploma (or equivalent), Tool and die apprenticeship (preferred), Minimum of 5 - 10 years progressive tool and die experience, Minimum of 5 - 10 years die design experience with proficiency in 3D SolidWorks software.

Candidates can forward resumes to: rbd@kenmode.com

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Glass Sale & Show Sponsored by The

20-30-40 Glass Society of Illinois Specializing in: Depression, Elegant, Carnival, Pattern, Quality Art Glass and Pottery

Saturday, March 11th. 2017 10am to 5pm

Sunday, March 12th. 2017 11am to 4pm

BARRINGTON -- ESTATE SALE STOREFRONT ONE SPECIAL LADY'S ESTATE IN TWO STORE SETTINGS OPEN EVERY WEDNESDAY THRU SATURDAY - 1PM - 6PM UNTIL 3/31

654 S. NORTHWEST HWY., BARRINGTON

(LOCATED IN STRIP MALL WITH PRIMO PIZZA AND CHINESE PALACE) DESIGNER CLOTHING, PURSES, AND SHOES (SIZES 5-6), FABULOUS ARTWORK, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, FURNITURE, BOOKS, LAMPS, NORITAKE CHINA, CEILING FANS AND MANY MORE TREASURES. (CASH OR CHECK ONLY)

CRYSTAL LAKE

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Lifestyle Transitions is having a moving sale

Saturday 9-3, Sunday 10-3

Furniture Outdoor and more.

See https://www.estatesales.net/IL/Crystal-Lake/60014/1450629

Crystal Lake Estate Sale THURS & FRI 10-6

THE CONCORD PLAZA MIDWEST CONFERENCE CENTER 401 West Lake Street, Northlake, IL 60164 Admission: $8.00 per Person Door Prizes - Crystal Repair Glass Identification - Reference Library Visit our website at: 20-30-40glasssociety.org Free parking and shuttle bus to front door For information, call 630-851-4504 Northwest Herald.

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Saturday & Sunday 15004 Pleasant Valley Woodstock 9am - 3pm Numbers at 8:30am Cash, Visa & Master Card A Modern Country Estate in Woodstock Jewelry, Rugs from Iran and Turkey, Southwest Native American Rugs, Fine Leather Furnishings, Crystal & Silver Entertaining Wares, Fine Porcelain, Roseville Pottery, Art Glass, Clocks, Tobacco Collectibles, Trains, Mid Century Pieces, Vintage Boxing, Griswold, Extensive Kitchen, Workout Room Equipment, White Wicker, Extensive Workshop with Hundreds of Tools, Weber, Genesis, and Much More.

See Photos at http://www.ctnorthern.com This is a CARING TRANSITIONS Sale

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Woodstock Estate Sale

MCHENRY MOVING SALE 3220 Lorient Fri 9-3 & Sat 9-12 Furniture, household items, American Girl dolls and much more!

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Reconditioned Appliances Sales and Service Lakemoor 815-385-1872

Washer & Dryer, Kenmore, White 815-861-2174

1972 Oakland A's World Series bat. Signed by the players. $100 847-669-2331 Complete pkg, will save $1000's. 636-474-1201

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CARY RUMMAGE SALE

THURS MAR 9 9-4 FRI MAR 10 9-1 ★ March 10 is Bag Sale Day $2/Paper Bag ★ $5/Garbage Bag

2 miles W of Island Lake, 3 miles E. of Rt 31 off Bayview Beach Rd.

THURS, MAR 9 9:30AM - 7PM FRI, MAR 10 9:30AM - 4PM SAT, MAR 11 9:00AM - 12PM Saturday 1/2 Price ★ Bag Sale ★ 1 Bag for $3.00 & 2 Bags for $5.00

Cary United Methodist Church

FRI & SAT 10-4

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RUMMAGE ROOM SALE

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OPEN MON THRU SAT 9AM-5PM 25¢ DAYS March 9, 10, & 11

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March 15, 16 & 17

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$1 A BAG March 18

(With few exceptions) Closed until April 1st for cleaning & restocking

Gun Cabinet- Holds 6, locking glass doors, & has 1 drawer. $100 815-354-9752

MASSAGE CHAIR

DELUXE MASSAGE CHAIR, brand new Honey-Can-Do, Model STG-06058. Still in the box, $750. 847-308-7198, Michelle

Furs - Sable Mink & Leather Jacket From the 70's, $250.

Beaver Stole, great condition! $150 847-683-2105

Fynn, 1 year old male, Terrier mix.

Some good advice is: Be patient with others and yourself.

Breathe, Deep breaths won't solve my problems but they calm me to get by.

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Crystal Punch Bowl w/24 cups. $25 847-669-2331

Trees ✦ Delivered & Installed Evergreens 6'-8' $250 Evergreens, 9-12' $350 Shade Trees, 3-4” $350 815-378-1868

ALFALFA & TIMOTHY BALES

2 cutting, $4.50/bale. 815-236-5427 nd

Woodstock Moving Sale

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Stacked washer, gas dryer combo, $350.

Cary - Windridge Memorial Park (2) Plots

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Lift Chair, $350

815-477-8523 Please call after 10am

Missy, 4 year old female, Tabby DSH. Some people have it easier than others.

Unfortunately, I have to work at not being fat.

I'm always trying different things to see what sticks.

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10 Longaberger Baskets, various sizes.

Hand signed. $10 to $25 ea. 847-669-2331 5 Buckley Moss Prints, double matted. $200 for the set or $50 ea. 847-669-2331 Cuckoo Clock , medium size. $50 847-669-2331

Dan

Dried Gourds for Crafting

Apples, Snake, Penquin, $2/ea.

Home grown Hampshire. 847-683-2105 Shallow well pump with pressure tank.

For house or river use. Like new condition. $125 815-344-4238

Cat - 2 Year Old Grey American Short Hair Very sweet, declawed and neutered in need of loving home, preferably older couple but good with other cats, dogs and children.

815-276-1006 Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up?

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Pet Lodge cages- 1 is 16x24, 4 are 24x24 & stackable. McHenry area, $45 for all.

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1966 Ford Mustang, Body EXC COND!

No rust, needs minor work. 815-527-2526

Antique and Modern Guns

Old Lever Actions, Winchesters, Marlins, Savages, etc.

Old Pistols and Revolvers. Cash for Collection.

FFL License. 815-338-4731

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DO YOU HAVE A BOAT RAMP ON THE FOX RIVER OR CHAIN OF LAKES? Has that ramp been unused for years? If so, I am inerested in buying your “rights” to that ramp. Call Bill: 630-253-4776 and lve. Msg. All calls will be returned.

Lionel & American Flyer Trains 815-353-7668

WANTED TO BUY: Vintage or New, Cameras.

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Cash on the spot. Cell: 815-322-6383

WE BUY GUNS

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MOTORCYCLES WANTED

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan.

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West Harbor Residences At Reva Bay Be In Your New Home by Spring!

Units are completed and ready for you. Boating season is near!

West Harbor Residences at Reva Bay is a brand new apartment community in beautiful Fox Lake, IL. 5 minutes from Metra station.

Shopping and entertainment is just minutes away.

Residence is 2 bedrooms with 2 baths in a spacious 1,250 square feet. Larger unit also has dining room and guest bath. All new stainless steel appliances with washer/dryer included. Balconies, patios, covered and open parking. Boat slips available right at your back door. Additional storage available.

Monthly rent begins at $1,425.

West Harbor Residences at Reva Bay 8300 Reva Bay Lane Fox Lake, IL 60020 Phone: 630-835-4287 Email: westharborppm@gmail.com

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Crystal Lake 1BR $815/mo, 2BR $1075/mo

2nd flr, W/D, no pets/smkg, garage. 815-344-5797 FOX LAKE 1 BR, Laundry on-site, no pets, Sect 8 OK, $730/mo + sec. 847-812-9830

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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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McHenry 2BR, 2BA Condo, Garage, Great Area With conservation behind, 1st floor, $105,500.

FSBO By Appt. 815-344-4410 or 815-353-4252

Woodstock 1 Bedroom, Net $685 All appl, A/C, balcony, on site laundry - no pets except companion/service animals permitted under fair housing laws.

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Woodstock 2BR, Patio, Heat, Water, Gas, Garbage incl Laundry avail, no pets, $790/mo + sec. 815-337-2803

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS OWNER TRUSTEE OF MATAWIN VENTURES TRUST SERIES 2016-2 Plaintiff, -v.BRUCE JOHNSON A/K/A BRUCE C. JOHNSON, et al Defendant 11 CH 02042 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 12, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on April 17, 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 4005 TULIP STREET, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014 Property Index No. 15-19-377-025, Property Index No. 15-19-377-035.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. 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 pur-

pu chaser 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, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-11-15381.

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.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-11-15381 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 11 CH 02042 TJSC#: 37-743 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.

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This property is commonly known as 815 Finch Trail, McHenry, IL 60051, and may be improved. This real estate is being sold in an "As Is Condition" for cash or its equivalent in accordance with the terms and provisions of said judgment through which the Plaintiff is owed at least $133,280.04. The successful bidder is required to deposit 10% of the bid amount at the time of the sale with the McHenry County Sheriff, with the balance to be paid by noon of the Tuesday following the sale. For information regarding this real estate, including the possibility of inspection, interested parties may contact Amber L. Bishop or Michael G. Cortina, SmithAmundsen, LLC, 2460 Lake Shore Drive, Woodstock, Illinois 60098 815-337-4900.

Dated this 23rd day of February, 2017.

Bill Prim Sheriff of McHenry County 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 on the March 3, 10, 17, 2017) 1270372 Find !t here!

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS MCHENRY SAVINGS BANK, Plaintiff, vs.

LAURIE HALCOM a/k/a LAURIE A. HALCOM, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as NOMINEE FOR RBS CITIZENS, N.A., UNKNOWN OWNERS & NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

Case No. 16 CH 356 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment for Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above-captioned case, the Sheriff of McHenry County, Illinois, or his deputy, on the 6th day of April, 2017, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the McHenry County Courthouse, Room 262, 2200 N. Seminary Ave, Woodstock, IL 60098, will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, property legally described as follows: Permanent Index Number 10-08-128-002-0000

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS OWNER TRUSTEE OF MATAWIN VENTURES TRUST SERIES 2016-2 Plaintiff, -v.BRUCE JOHNSON A/K/A BRUCE C. JOHNSON, et al Defendant 11 CH 02042 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 12, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on April 17, 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: LOTS 22 AND 19 (EXCEPT TUE NORTH 25 FEET THEREOF) IN BLOCK 13 IN FRANK E. MERRILL & CO.'S FIRST ADDITION TO BURTON BRIDGE BEACH SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF LOT 1 OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER, AND PART OF THE WEST FRACTION OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, WEST OF THE FOX RIVER, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 4, 1925 AS DOCUMENT NO. 69768, IN BOOK 5 OF PLATS, PAGE 47, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 4005 TULIP STREET, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014 Property Index No. 15-19-377-025, Property Index No. 15-19-377-035.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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

pu the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. 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 (driver's government agency 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, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-11-15381.

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.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-11-15381 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 11 CH 02042 TJSC#: 37-743 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.

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS MCHENRY SAVINGS BANK, Plaintiff, vs.

LAURIE HALCOM a/k/a LAURIE A.

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Friday, March 10, 2017 • HALCOM, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as NOMINEE FOR RBS CITIZENS, N.A., UNKNOWN OWNERS & NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

Case No. 16 CH 356 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment for Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above-captioned case, the Sheriff of McHenry County, Illinois, or his deputy, on the 6th day of April, 2017, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the McHenry County Courthouse, Room 262, 2200 N. Seminary Ave, Woodstock, IL 60098, will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, property legally described as follows: LOT 144 IN PISTAKEE HILLS UNIT NO. 1, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 5 AND PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 9 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 4, 1957 AS DOCUMENT NO. 322564, IN BOOK 13 OF PLATS, PAGE 18, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Permanent Index Number 10-08-128-002-0000 This property is commonly known as 815 Finch Trail, McHenry, IL 60051, and may contain improvements. This real estate is being sold in an "As Is Condition" for cash or its equivalent in accordance with the terms and provisions of said judgment through which the Plaintiff is owed at least $133,280.04. The successful bidder is required to deposit 10% of the bid amount at the time of the sale with the McHenry County Sheriff, with the balance to be paid by noon of the Tuesday following the sale. For information regarding this real estate, including the possibility of inspection, interested parties may contact Amber L. Bishop or Michael G. Cortina, SmithAmundsen, LLC, 2460 Lake Shore Drive, Woodstock, Illinois 60098 815-337-4900.

Dated this 23rd day of February, 2017.

Bill Prim Sheriff of McHenry County 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

qu public tion having been filed, notice is hereby given you, David A. Kamholtz; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants Defendant(s) in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court of McHenry County, Illinois, by the Plaintiff(s) against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit: LOT 17 IN SHADOW CREEK, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF GOVERNMENT LOTS 1 AND 2 OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 5 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 10, 1999 AS DOCUMENT NO. 1999R64036, AND CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION RECORDED OCTOBER 5, 1999 AS DOCUMET NO. 1999R69511, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as: 919 Joanne Lane, Harvard, IL 60033 P.I.N. 06-02-152-008 and which said Mortgage was made by David A. Kamholtz, Mortgagor(s), to BMO Harris Bank N.A. as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of McHenry County, Illinois as Document No. 2012R0034762.

And for such other relief prayed; that summons was duly issued out of the said 22nd Judicial Circuit Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

NOW THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU, the said above defendant(s), file your anser to complaint in the said suit, or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court, at the McHenry County Courthouse, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, L 60098 on or before the 14th day of April, 2017 default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a decree entered in accordance with the prayer of said complaint.

Dated: 3/3/2017 at Woodstock, IL /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court, McHenry County, Illinois Egan & Alaily LLC BMO Harris Bank N.A. 321 N. Clark St., Suite 1430 Chicago, IL 60654 312-253-8640 clerk@ea-atty.com March 10, 17, 24, 2017 Northwest Herald 1272434

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STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY – IN PROBATE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ANDRE PFUNDT Deceased.

Case No. 17 PR 20 Notice is given of the death of: ANDRE PFUNDT of LAKE IN THE HILLS, IL (Published in the Northwest Herald Letters of Office were issued on: on the March 3, 10, 17, 2017) 2/10/2017 to: 1270363 Representative: BRIGITTA PFUNDT PUBLIC NOTICE 13420 ROBBINS WAY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HUNTLEY, IL 60142 STATE OF ILLINOIS whose attorney is: COUNTY OF MCHENRY Militello & Struck IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF 820 E Terra Cotta Avenue MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS Suite 116 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Crystal Lake, IL 60014 BMO Harris Bank, N.A., Claims against the estate may be Plaintiff, filed withiin six months from the v. date of first publication. Any claim David A. Kamholtz; City of not filed within six months from the Harvard; Unknown Owners and date of first publication or claims Non-Record Claimants, not filed within three months from Defendants. the date of mailing or delivery of Case No. 16 CH 913 Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit for publica- Claims may be filed in the office of

y 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 24, March 3, 10, 2017 Northwest Herald 1268360

600 JAMES COURT MARENGO, IL 60152 whose attorney is: FRANKS GERKIN & MCKENNA 19333 E GRANT HIGHWAY PO BOX 5 MARENGO, IL 60152 Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is PUBLIC NOTICE later, shall be barred.

STATE OF ILLINOIS Claims may be filed in the office IN THE CIRCUIT COURT of the Clerk of Circuit Court at OF THE TWENTY-SECOND the McHenry County Government JUDICAL CIRCUIT Center, 2200 North Seminary MCHENRY COUNTY-IN PROBATE Avenue, Woodstock, lllinois, ln the Matter of the Estate of 60098, or with the representative, GERALD H KRANZ or both.

Deceased Copies of claims filed with the Case No. 17PR000051 Clerk must be mailed or delivered CLAIM NOTICE to the representative and to his Notice is given of the death of: attorney within ten days after it has GERALD H KRANZ been filed. of: PINE RIVER, MN Letters of office were issued on: 2/15/2017 to: Representitive: RICHARD J KRANZ

Katherine M Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald on February 24, 2017 March 3, 10, 2017) 1268407

ope public Peggy Bevis District Clerk Northern Moraine Wastewater Reclamation District (Published in the Northwest Herald March 10, 2017) 1272196

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE On March 18, 2017, at 11:00 a.m., at 135 Sponable Street, Marengo, Illinois, the following item, owned by Mr. Joe Marchetti d/b/a MPI Entertainment, will be offered for sale: One Twenty (20) Foot Storage Container, including the contents therein.

Said sale will be conducted by auction, to the highest bidder, with payment in full required at the time of sale. Items will be available for examination for 1 hour prior to the sale.

Sealed proposals will be received by the Algonquin Township Road District at 3702 US Highway 14, Crystal Lake, Illinois, until 9:00 a.m.

Tuesday, March 21, 2017, at which time they will be opened and publicly read for the following work: Section 17-00000-01-GM, 2017 Road Program consisting of 6,455 tons of Hot Mix Asphalt Surface Course, Mix D, N50; 3,170 tons of Polymerized Leveling Binder IL-4.75, N50; 18,550 square yards of hot-mix asphalt surface removal and other related work.

Prequalification of Bidders in accordance with the applicable parts of IDOT Bureau of Local Roads and Streets Recurring Special Provision “Bidding Requirements and Conditions for Contract Proposals” (Check Sheet LRS 6) will be required of all bidders on this proposal.

Not less than the prevailing rate of wages as found by the Road District or the Department of Labor, or as determined by the Court on Review, shall be paid to all laborers, workmen, and mechanics performing work as indicated in the special provisions to the specifications.

All proposals shall be submitted on forms furnished by the Road District, which may be obtained at the office of HR Green, Inc., 420 N. Front Street, McHenry, Illinois.

All proposals must be accompanied by a proposal guarantee in the amount of not less than five percent of bid, or as provided in applicable parts of “Bidding Requirements and Conditions for Contract Proposals” (Check Sheet LRS 6). The right is reserved to reject any or all proposals and to waive technicalities.

By Order of the Algonquin Township Road District Charles A. Lutzow, Jr., Township Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald on March 10, 2016) 1272189

PUBLIC NOTICE

MCHENRY TOWNSHIP ROAD DISTRICT NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals will be received by the McHenry Township Road District at the offices of HR Green, Inc., 420 N Front Street, McHenry, Illinois, until 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 21, 2017, at which time they will be opened and publicly read for the following work: Section 17-00000-01-GM, 2017 Road Program consisting of 4,230 tons of Hot-Mix Asphalt Surface Course, Mix D, N50; 1,615 tons of Polymerized Leveling Binder IL-4.75, N50; 1,385 tons of Hot-Mix Asphalt Binder Course, IL-19.0, N50; 38,630 square yards of hot-mix asphalt surface removal and other related work.

Prequalification of Bidders in accordance with the applicable parts of IDOT Bureau of Local Roads and Streets Recurring Special Provision “Bidding Requirements and Conditions for Contract Proposals” (Check Sheet LRS 6) will be required of all bidders on this proposal.

Not less than the prevailing rate of wages as found by the Road District or the Department of Labor, or as determined by the Court on Review, shall be paid to all laborers, workmen, and mechanics performing work as indicated in the special provisions to the specifications.

All proposals shall be submitted on forms furnished by the Road District, which may be obtained at the office of HR Green, Inc., 420 N. Front Street, McHenry, Illinois.

All proposals must be accompanied by a proposal guarantee in the amount of not less than five percent of bid, or as provided in applicable parts of “Bidding Requirements and Conditions for Contract Proposals” (Check Sheet LRS 6). The right is reserved to reject any or all proposals and to waive technicalities.

By Order of the McHenry Township Road District Marsha Nelson, Township Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald March 10, 2017) 1272206

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on February 27, 2017, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office address of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as BIG ASS BANDANA located at: 22516 Carmack Rd.

(Published in the Northwest Herald on March 10, 17, 24, 2017) 1271902

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Dated February 27, 2017 (Published in the Northwest Herald /s/ Mary E. McClellan on March 3, 10, 2017) 1270346 McHenry County Clerk

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Northern Moraine Wastewater Reclamation District Proposed Operating Budget Available for public review The proposed operating Budget of the Northern Moraine Wastewater Reclamation District for the fiscal year May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018 will be considered for adoption at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees on April 11, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. at the District office. A public hearing will be conducted prior to adoption of the budget. A copy of the proposed Budget will be available for public inspection at the District offices beginning March 10, 2017.

The District office is located at 113 Timber Trail, Island Lake Illinois.

Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. All Board of Trustees meetings are open to the public.

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INVITATION FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR THE 2017 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN FOR MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS Public comments on the 2017 Annual Action Plan are being solicited from March 10, 2017 to April 10, 2017.

The Plan will guide decisions regarding allocations and expenditure of funds available to McHenry County through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Annual Action Plan will set forth specific courses of action to be undertaken to address the needs of low and moderate income persons in such areas as affordable housing, homelessness, persons with special needs, public facility improvement, infrastructure, and health and human services. In 2017, McHenry County allocated over $1,900,000 in Community Development Block Grant Program and HOME Investment Partnerships Program funding to support service providers and local government entities in McHenry County. The Annual Action Plan is guided by the 2015-2019 Five Year Consolidated Plan.

The Department of Planning and Development-Community Development (CD) Division will provide a report on the anticipated progress toward its Five Year Consolidated Plan. This progress report toward the Consolidated Plan goals will be available in person or on the McHenry County website beginning March 10, 2017: www.co.mchenry.il.us/CD. The CD Division will provide one free report to those requesting one by contacting its office at (815) 334-4560 or through the email address listed below.

Public Hearing: A Public Hearing and presentation for the 2017 Annual Action Plan, review of the Consolidated Plan progress and review of 2017 CDBG application materials will be held on Friday, March 10, 2017 at 10:00 am in Conference Rooms B at the McHenry County Administration Building 667 Ware Road, Woodstock, IL 60098. Potential CDBG or future HOME applicants are encouraged to attend this meeting.

Citizen participation and input is encouraged. Comments submitted by mail must be postmarked no later than April 10, 2017 and directed to: Planning and Development-CD Division, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois, 60098 or via e-mail to: McHenryCountyComDev@co.mchenry.il.us. All comments must include name and address. Comments submitted in person can be brought to the 667 Ware Road address above or given orally during the public hearing.

(Published in the Northwest Herald March 10, 2017) 1272424

PUBLIC NOTICE

PI Telecom Infrastructure V, LLC proposes to build a 150-foot monopole communications tower (155-foot overall height). Anticipated lighting application is medium intensity dual red/white strobes if required. The Site location is 15113 Marengo Road, Union, McHenry County, Illinois 60180 Latitude: 42-11-30.5 N, Longitude: 88-29-45.7 W. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Antenna Structure Registration (ASR, Form 854) filing number is A1066468.

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS - Interested persons may review the application (www.fcc.gov/asr/applications) by entering the filing number. Environmental concerns may be raised by filing a Request for Environmental Review (www.fcc.gov/asr/environmentalrequest) and online filings are strongly encouraged. The mailing address to file a paper copy is: FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554.

HISTORIC PROPERTIES EFFECTS - Public comments regarding potential effects on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Lauren Herrnreiter, G2 Consulting Group, LLC, 1186 Heather Drive, Lake Zurich, Illinois 60047 Phone: 847353-8740, E-Mail: lherrnreiter@g2consultinggroup.com.

(Published in the Northwest Herald on March 10, 2017) 1272234

VILLAGE OF HUNTLEY JOINT BID NOTICE

The Village of Huntley, Village of Cary, and City of McHenry are jointly soliciting sealed bids from construction contractors for the following project: 2017 Sewer Lining Program Joint Bid Sealed bids for this contract must be received before 10:00 a.m. on Friday, March 24, 2017 at the Huntley Village Hall, 10987 Main Street, Huntley, Illinois 60142, at which time all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud The scope of the work includes furnishing all labor, material and equipment necessary to perform all operations for the cleaning, closed circuit television inspection, cured-in-place pipe lining of sewers, and lining of manholes at the locations designated by each municipality in accordance with the specifications.

Copies of the bidding documents, including contract provisions and specifications, may be obtained at the Village of Huntley Public Works Department by calling 847-515-5222 or direct to the Assistant to the Public Works Director, Jason Irvin at 847-515-5284 or emailing a request to jirvin@hunley.il.us. It is the responsibility of the bidder to meet all requirements of the bid documents. All work under this contract shall comply with the Prevailing Wage Act of the State of Illinois, 820 ILCS 130/0.01 et seq. & the Employment of Illinois Workers on Public Works Act (30 ILCS 570/0.01 et. seq).

All bids shall be accompanied by a Bid Bond, Certified or Cashier's Check made payable to the Village of Huntley for not less than ten percent (10%) of the bid amount. The successful bidder must furnish a satisfactory performance and payment bond in the full amount of the bid.

The Municipalities reserve the right to accept the bid from the lowest responsible bidder most favorable to the Municipalities, as determined by the Municipalities. The Municipalities also reserve the right to reject any bid or part of a bid that does not conform to the bidding requirements or to modify or waive all formalities and technicalities in a bid, or to reject all bids.

Compliance conditions are included in the bid documents.

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Jacobs’ Cameron Krutwig shoots over Hononegah’s Max Miller in the second half Wednesday in a Class 4A Elgin Sectional semifinal in Elgin.

Jacobs advanced to Friday’s final against Larkin with a 60-55 win.

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By JOE STEVENSON

joestevenson@shawmedia.com Hump Day took on a completely different meaning for Jacobs’ boys basketball team Wednesday at the Class 4A Elgin Sectional tournament.

The Golden Eagles were battling not only Hononegah but were chasing history for a school that had never sent a team to a sectional final in the boys tournament.

“It’s something we talked about since I got here,” said Jimmy Roberts, who is in his fourth season as Jacobs’ coach. “We’re still hungry, we want to keep going, but that’s a big hump we just got over. We’ve had opportunities the past three years and it’s a tough hump.”

Jacobs (29-1) held off Hononegah, 60-55, and will play Larkin (19-14) at 7 p.m. Friday in Chesbrough Field House for the sectional championship. Marengo (24-7) will meet Syc-

Class 3A Genoa-Kingston Sectional Friday’s championship Sycamore vs. Marengo, 7 p.m.

Class 4A Elgin Sectional Friday’s championship Larkin vs. Jacobs, 7 p.m. to sectional championships several times, most recently two years ago at Two Jacobs cheerleaders watch the final Rochelle, where they lost to Rockford seconds of the game Wednesday during a Lutheran.

Class 4A Elgin Sectional semifinal against Jacobs lost its sectional semifinal Hononegah. Jacobs won, 60-55. to South Elgin in 2014, then fell to Rockford Auburn last season at Rock amore (13-15) at 7 p.m. Friday in the Valley College. All season, the Eagles’ Class 3A Genoa-Kingston Sectional goal has been to be the best team in final. school history.

Marengo edged Glenbard South, “It’s incredible,” said senior for50-49, on Blaine Borhart’s late 3-point- ward Mason Materna, who scored 13 er Wednesday to advance to that title game. The Indians have been See PREVIEW, page 3 H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com

McHENRY BOYS WATER POLO

Team lost 3 key players to graduation

By JOHN WILKINSON

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Continued from page 2 points Wednesday. “There’s a legacy about what good guys have come through here, what good players.

Johnny Moran, Conrad Krutwig, who’s still with us (as assistant coach), they never got past here. So it’s an amazing feeling to get past it, and really be able to fight another day.”

With 6-foot-9 center Cameron Krutwig leading an experienced group, the Eagles felt all along this was possible. The taste, and disappointment, of being close last year before a poor second half against Auburn spurred them harder.

“We’re just going to try to keep winning,” Krutwig said. “It means something to me, having [Conrad] on the bench with me. He’s encouraging me. After the game, I gave

him a big hug and said, ‘Thank you.’

Anything can happen now, so we’re pushing.”

Marengo senior Mike Volkening played an integral role two years ago on that sectional finalist. Although the Indians’ mental hurdle might not have been as high as Jacobs’, they overcame a 14-point deficit to nip the Raiders on Wednesday.

Marengo’s largest lead of the game was one point, at three separate times. “[Shots] weren’t falling as much as I’d have liked, but we got the win,” said Volkening, who led Marengo with 24 points.

Borhart was a freshman spectator two years ago when the Indians played at the Rochelle Sectional.

“I’m glad to be in the Sweet 16.

It’s amazing,” Borhart said. “They went there two years ago when I was a freshman. I always wanted to get back there.”

Michael Matusek

McHenry senior water polo player team could be something here pretty soon.”

McHenry will have to figure out how to replace three of its most prominent scorers from last year after the Warriors graduated seniors Kevin Braun, Jackson Smith and Josh Frost. In last year’s postseason, those three combined for 13 of the Warriors’ 15 goals in the sectional quarterfinals and eight of 13 goals in the sectional semifinals.

Junior captain Jonah Smith, Jackson’s younger brother, said the Warriors know this year they’ll have to play more as a unit, trying to find the best shot rather than being able to dump it to one reliable star.

“They need to communicate and try to be a team,” Das said. “They kind of had those three big guys to rely on and make all the goals and make things happen, where this year it’s pretty much going to be a brand-new crew in the water almost. They’re all going to have to take charge. They’re all going to have to be leaders in the water themselves. It’s going to be a fun season.”

Along with Matusek and Smith, Das said he expects the team to be led by senior goalie Adam Starus and junior captain Tyler Hemphill.

Matusek said the team’s hands, passing ability, improved size and a few strong outside shooters should be strengths of the offense if it’s clicking, while Das commended Starus for his leadership in goal.

Jonah Smith understands the season is going to be a work in progress.

“I really just want to see us get together and build up from last year,” he said. “Because next year I know, if we do really great this year, then we’re going to have an amazing year next year.

I just want to see everyone build up and get better, get as good as they can ... to see what we can do this year and especially next year.”

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Marengo’s Blaine Borhart scores over Glenbard South’s Charlie Bair during the third quarter of their Class 3A Genoa-Kingston Sectional semifinal Wednesday in Genoa.

Borhart later hit the winning 3-point basket in the final seconds of the fourth quarter.

For some members of the McHenry boys swimming team, the best day of the year is when swimming season ends. The grueling, repetitive laps of swimming’s winter season give way to the team games of water polo in the spring.

“Once the polo season starts ... they’re very relieved and happy at the same time, and a lot of them just have a lot more fun with it,” McHenry coach Brandon Das said. “[With] swimming, there’s only so much fun you can have, and polo is kind of what they wait for year round.”

Senior Michael Matusek is one of those kids.

“Michael, polo is his passion,” Das said. “He goes to school so he can play polo. You can see a complete 360 once swim season’s over and polo season begins with him.”

The captain agreed with his coach, chuckling.

“That’s very true,” Matusek said. “I do not like swimming, but I go to all the practices. I get it done just so I can be a stronger water polo player, faster in the water, because it is what I look forward to the most.”

The Warriors begin their season this weekend with a quick test, a four-game invitational at Palatine, opening with one game Friday and three Saturday.

This season is one the Warriors expect to be tough, but they’ve been encouraged by the early weeks of practice.

“First game Friday, I feel like a lot of the guys this preseason didn’t have high hopes for the season,” Matusek said. “We lost some star players on our team, we came in with new coaches, but our captains ... came in and kind of turned the mentality around, and everybody’s been stepping up really well. I think we’re going to come out, and we’re going to look really good on Friday, better than anybody expected.”

Last year, the Warriors won a sectional quarterfinal before being eliminated in the semifinals by eventual state runner-up Stevenson.

“We had the big three seniors leave. ... They were like the big leaders on the team,” Das said. “So it’s a little different there, where it’s kind of like a building year, but after these first two weeks of practice, it’s pretty easy to see that this

“I think we’re going to come out, and we’re going to look really good on Friday, better than anybody expected.”

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Maddon has no worries with Bryant

By BRUCE MILES

bmiles@dailyherald.com Kris Bryant has had himself quite a past few months.

He survived a slip of the foot on some wet sod to record the assist for the final out of the 2016 World Series, giving the Cubs their first title since 1908.

Shortly after that, he received the National League MVP Award, followed by a trip to the White House.

And, oh yes, Bryant got married.

What possibly could be next for the 25-year-old third baseman, who added the MVP to his Rookie of the Year Award from 2015?

The stratosphere seems likely, but you never would know it watching Bryant at the Cubs’ spring training camp in Mesa, Arizona.

On mornings early in camp, Bryant would walk out to the cages with a bat resting on his shoulder and a smile on his face as he prepared for the day.

His manager doesn’t seem worried about how Bryant is handling things.

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This is the fourth in a series of position previews on the Cubs.

This one hurt.

The Mariners peppered lefthander Brian Duensing for five hits and four runs (with an error along the way) in the ninth inning to beat the Cubs, 8-6, in a Cactus League game Thursday at Sloan Park.

But Duensing, who signed as a $2 million free agent in the winter, left the mound with the trainer with one out and the bases loaded because of tightness in his lower back.

He was to be evaluated again Friday morning.

“He’s done pretty good in college,” Joe Maddon said.

“He’s been pretty good in the minor leagues. He’s been pretty good as a rookie. He’s been pretty good as a second-year guy. He’s so grounded, and that’s the only thing. You see, with him, the method Kris Bryant with which he thinks and the support staff that he has, I’m not concerned.

“My biggest concern is always health. A guy like him, you want to keep him mentally and physically well. And if you can do that, there’s no reason he can’t continue to actually keep getting better.”

Bryant has handled major league pitching pretty well, too.

Last year, he put up a batting line of .292/.385/.554 for an OPS of .939 to go along with 39 home

TAKING THE FIFTH “Hybrid” fifth-starter tandem Mike Montgomery and Brett Anderson each worked two innings to start the game, each allowing one run – Montgomery on a homer, Anderson on a two-out double followed by a runs and 102 RBIs. As a rookie in 2015, his line was .275/.369/.488 with 26 homers and 99 RBIs. Perhaps equally impressive, he cut his strikeout rate from 30.6 percent in 2015 to 22 percent last year, cutting the

“That’s just how I’ve always been,” he said. “I love striving to be the best I can be. There’s run-scoring single in the third. no sense in not doing that.”

“The command wasn’t the best, A third baseman by trade, but I felt good,” Montgomery said.

Bryant saw action last year at “Just building arm strength. It was all three outfield positions (60 definitely a step in the right direcgames in left field) in addition tion again.” to nine games at first base and one at shortstop. He was asked SCHWARBER BRINGS GLOVE whether he’s likely to see more Slugging leadoff man Kyle action at third base this season Schwarber, considered the weak at the expense of other spots. link in the Cubs’ projected starting “I don’t care. I don’t care defense, made a leaping catch at at all,” he said. “... I like movthe wall in left to rob Tyler Smith of ing around. It’s fun for me. It keeps me fresh. I’m ready for extra bases leading off the top of it. I’ve got all my gloves here.” the sixth.

He also doesn’t seem worried about heightened expectations, ON DECK Cubs at Mariners, Peoria, Arizona, either for himself or the team.

“Doing what we did last 2:10 p.m. Friday, cubs.com audio, year and winning the whole Kyle Hendricks vs. Chris Heston – Gorden Wittenmyer, thing, it just makes us want to gwittenmyer@suntimes.com go through it all over again,” he said. “Playing in a Game 7, that’s the most stressraw number of strikeouts from ful game you can probably a league-leading 199 in 2015 to play in sports. I think all our nerves heading into this year 154 last year.

Asked early in camp about are pretty calm knowing that his goals for this year, he said we played in one of the most he was aiming for improve- stressful games in the history ment in all categories. of the game.”

WHITE SOX SPRING TRAINING

Rewinding Tilson’s Sox story to the very beginning

By STEVE GREENBERG

sgreenberg@suntimes.com GLENDALE, Ariz. – Charlie Tilson’s jersey hung down to his knees.

He might not have looked like much, but he dug into the batter’s box like a young man who knew a thing or two about a thing or two. The pitch came.

The bat fired off his shoulder.

Double.

The pitcher recently had completed his freshman season of high school ball.

Tilson had just wrapped up fourth grade.

A prodigy? The Tilsons weren’t fully sure, but older brother Steve’s summer-league team was down a player and, well, Charlie always was game for anything baseball-related.

“Nobody loved baseball like Charlie” said Joe Tilson, father of the White Sox center fielder.

That Tilson was ahead of his time merely gives him something in common with so many of his peers who made it all the way to the major leagues. That the Wilmette native and former New Tri-

er star is getting to play for the team he grew up rooting for makes him special.

The basics of the 24-year-old’s story have somewhat made the rounds. Unfortunately, the story has been on hold since August, when – two days after the Sox traded reliever Zach Duke to St. Louis for him – Tilson tore his left hamstring diving for a gapper off the bat of the Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera.

It was Tilson’s big Charlie Tilson league debut, and it ended his season. He entered spring training as the seeming front-runner for the starting job in center this season, but a right foot injury has kept him out of action since the early going.

“Don’t count him out” for Opening Day, manager Rick Renteria advised Thursday. Still, Tilson’s story – begging to move forward – is stuck on “pause.” So you know what? Let’s try to rewind instead.

Joe Tilson has been a Sox fan since

he moved to the Chicago area in 1980. A Cubs fan, too – hey, it’s allowed – who eventually bought season tickets on both sides of town.

When Charlie, the middle of five children, first started going to games, he’d watch intently, never taking his eyes off the field, while others his age toggled between desperate needs for concession items and the bathroom.

“He would just soak it up,” said his father, a prominent attorney at a Loop law firm.

When Charlie was 6, he made an unassisted triple play. He caught a popup at shortstop, tagged one baserunner and stepped on the bag at third – all before his coaches could shout to him what to do.

The Sox’s “These Kids Can Play” slogan resonated with Tilson, who pledged his allegiance to Magglio Ordonez, Carlos Lee, Paul Konerko, Mark Buehrle. Whenever his dad took him to Wrigley Field, he’d wear Sox black.

Unless the Cubs were playing the Cardinals, in which case Charlie would

wear red.

Soon, center fielder Scott Podsednik came – Tilson’s favorite Sox player to this day. When the team won the World Series in 2005, Charlie and Steve begged their parents to let them teepee the houses of their Cubs-fan neighbors.

As Tilson grew into a young star, his summer-league pals on the Highwood Braves came around one by one to the idea that a future major leaguer was in their midst.

“And now I’m here,” Tilson said.

“I’m really here. It’s the ultimate opportunity. It’s very special to me.”

And for his family?

“There’s nothing quite like having your kid’s dream come true,” Joe Tilson said. “I think every parent enjoys that more than their own success. To have him home playing for the Sox – his lifelong dream – is surreal for all of us.”

About that pause button: Tilson will play again soon. A few days? A week?

Maybe then, his story really will get good.

DUCKS 1, BLACKHAWKS 0

Goalie makes 43 saves, including 19 in 1st period

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Anaheim Ducks goalie Jonathan Bernier blocks a shot by Blackhawks right wing Jordin Tootoo during the second period Thursday at the United Center. up with a game in hand. The Hawks had won 12 of their past 13 games.

The Hawks had their way with the Ducks throughout the game but had little to show for it. In the opening minutes, Tanner Kero and Ryan Hartman each generated excellent scoring chances but were stopped by Bernier.

The Hawks had a five-shot power play early in the period but couldn’t score.

Halfway through the period, they led, 11-2, in shots. A few minutes later, it was 15-2. By the time the first period ended, the Hawks had a ridiculous 19-2 edge in shots and had Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf sidelined for 17 minutes, thanks to an instigator penalty and

misconduct for a fight with Richard Panik, yet the score still was 0-0.

The ice remained tilted in the Hawks’ favor in the second period. After killing a Johnny Oduya interference penalty early on, they set up shop in the Anaheim zone and stayed there for more than two minutes.

It was a virtuoso puck-possession shift, with Jonathan Toews on the ice for 2:54, Duncan Keith for 2:20, Artemi Panarin for 2:04, Brent Seabrook for 1:54 and Patrick Kane for 1:43.

But it again yielded nothing.

The period ended with a gut punch for the Hawks in a wild sequence.

Kero thought he had scored a goal in a crowded crease, raising his arms

in celebration, but the official waved it off and play continued. Seconds later, Corey Perry beat Corey Crawford from the slot, and the Ducks – despite being outshot, 30-14, at the time – had a 1-0 lead at 17:44 of the second.

Despite their dominance, the highlight of the game to that point for the Hawks might have been the comical sight of Nick Schmaltz – having lost a skate blade – stumbling to the bench, with Panarin giving him a needed push with a stick to the backside.

The Hawks shouldn’t need much of a push down the stretch. With a fiveday break last month and a four-day break this week – not to mention a long summer for the first time since 2012 – the Hawks feel ready for the busiest, and most important, stretch of the regular season.

“Everyone is excited,” Marcus Kruger said. “Last year ended earlier than we wanted it to. I think everyone is excited to make it another long season.”

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Final trip to Joe Louis Arena will be bittersweet

By MARK LAZERUS

mlazerus@suntimes.com CHICAGO – There’s a distinct yet indefinable odor to Joe Louis Arena, Detroit’s venerable old barn that is in its last month as the home of the Red Wings. Once it hits your nostrils, it doesn’t ever seem to leave.

“Reminded me of the old (Chicago) Stadium,” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said.

The Hawks will play at the Joe for the last time Friday, as the Red Wings prepare to move to the new Little Caesars Arena next season. Known for its pristine ice surface, its wonky boards,

and its terrific atmosphere, the Joe is the last of the old rinks left in the league, a relic of a bygone era.

And the Hawks will miss it. A bit.

“Some real good memories, some real bad memories,” Quenneville said. “It was always a hard building Jonathan to play in. The octopus Toews was a regular visitor.”

The modern-day Hawks had two memorable playoff series with the Wings – the educational 2009 conference final in which the Hawks “fell on

our face and learned a hard lesson,” in Jonathan Toews’ words; and the unforgettable 2013 second-round series, in which the Hawks rallied from a 3-1 series deficit to win in seven games.

“Obviously a lot of great memories in that building,” Toews said. “The history goes way beyond my time in the league, but it’s cool to play in that building. And you tend to think about it and appreciate it more when you know you’re going to play your last game there.”

Injury update: Scott Darling, the lone injured Hawks player, skated on his own before Thursday’s morning skate.

Quenneville said the three-week time-

table hasn’t changed, which would put him on pace for a return around March 24, in time for a three-game road trip to Florida, Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh.

“First time out there, did well,” Quenneville said. “Good to get his feet wet again.”

Line dance: Tomas Jurco moved up from the fourth line to the third line, swapping spots with Ryan Hartman.

Quenneville said he likes Jurco’s offensive game, and that he’s starting to adjust to the Hawks’ defensive systems.

“I think his last game (in Nashville) was his best game,” Quenneville said.

“You like the progress. That’s a good sign.”

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First Period–None. Penalties–Boll, ANA, (roughing), 6:10; Panik, CHI, (high sticking), 14:35; Manson, ANA, (slashing), 14:35; Getzlaf, ANA, Major (fighting), 17:12; Panik, CHI, Major (fighting), 17:12; Getzlaf, ANA, served

by Kase, (instigator), 17:12; Getzlaf, ANA, Misconduct (misconduct), 17:12.

Second Period–1, Anaheim, Perry 12 (Bieksa, Shaw), 17:44. Penalties–Oduya, CHI, (interference), 3:53; Seabrook, CHI, (high sticking), 11:45.

Third Period–None. Penalties–None.

Shots on Goal–Anaheim 2-12-12–26. Chicago 19-1212–43.

Power-play opportunities–Anaheim 0 of 2; Chicago 0 of 2.

Goalies–Anaheim, Bernier 12-7-2 (43 shots-43 saves).

Chicago, Crawford 26-14-3 (26-25).

A–21,838 (19,717). T–2:37.

Referees–Steve Kozari, Evgeny Romasko. Linesmen– Steve Barton, Brandon Gawryletz.

mlazerus@suntimes.com CHICAGO – The Blackhawks generally don’t concern themselves too much with playoff seeding and homeice advantage, but the idea of chasing down the Minnesota Wild – who just a few weeks ago had a nine-point lead in the Central Division – has been a welcome carrot at the end of a stick as they face a daunting stretch of 17 games in 31 days to close out the regular season.

“It’s something to shoot for,” Patrick Kane said, with a bit of a verbal shrug. “It keeps the mind occupied, with what we want to accomplish.

That’s something we set out to do every year, to try to win the division. … We’ve got 17 games left here, might as well try and do it. Could come in handy.”

If they wind up falling short of first place, the 1-0 loss Thursday to the Ducks might stick out as a turning point.

Despite an utterly dominant performance, the Hawks couldn’t solve goaltender Jonathan Bernier, who made 43 saves. They wasted a golden opportunity in the wake of Minnesota’s loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning earlier in the night. The Wild remain one point

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Day 1 underwhelming for Bears

Team says goodbye to Cutler, Jeffery

As NFL free agency opening acts go, Thursday’s was a real “No, they didn’t?”

The Houston Texans’ swap with the Cleveland Browns shipping Brock Osweiler out of town was an NBA salary-dump deal, and I never have seen anything quite like it in the NFL. The New England Patriots just don’t buy talent the way they rushed to the bank for Stephon Gilmore.

For the second straight season, the Jacksonville Jaguars are on their way to winning the offseason again after snagging defensive end Calais Campbell, cornerback A.J. Bouye, safety Barry Church and left tackle Branden Albert. Last year’s remarkable haul made the Jaguars a 3-13 football team. Will they be better this year?

The $25 million-plus the Chargers guaranteed offensive tackle Russell Okung and the like amount Carolina gave OT Matt Kalil are insane.

BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush And did receiver Alshon Jeffery really agree to a single year at $14 million? No, he didn’t, did he? Yep. With all of that as context, the Bears’ first day of free agency was somewhat predictable, if less than impressive.

Clearly the biggest story of the day was the long expected release of Jay Cutler. What I found most interesting was that it was announced as having come at the quarterback’s request.

I’m sorry, but I just don’t believe that. Once it became clear the Bears were going to sign Mike Glennon, there was no way they were bringing back Cutler.

The bottom line, however, is it was time for a change for both the team and the QB. My hope is that a few years down the road, Bears fans will come to understand through the prism of history that Cutler was not the reason for the Bears’ mediocrity since his arrival.

He did, however, fail to perform up to the level of

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Buccaneers quarterback Mike Glennon looks to pass against the Browns on Nov. 2, 2014, in Cleveland. Glennon will take over for Jay Cutler at quarterback for the Bears next season. a Super Bowl quarterback, which is what the Bears paid for with two No. 1 draft choices, QB Kyle Orton and a swap of third-rounders, and it just wasn’t going to get better.

Hopefully, Bears fans will understand Glennon isn’t being brought in to be that guy, either.

Historically, backup quarterbacks brought to new clubs

to lead them fail, and there is nothing on Glennon’s résumé or on his 18 games worth of tape to suggest he will be the exception.

He is a big man with an excellent pocket presence, cannon for an arm and impressive release.

But he never has completed 60 percent or more of his passes. His career 30-touchdowns-to-15-interceptions ratio is unremarkable, and he is a poor athlete with no movement skills and a sack waiting to happen.

As solid as the Bears are at guard and center, if they see Glennon as anything more than a bridge, it is essential they upgrade the tackle positions.

On the upside, his comp stylistically would be Eli Manning, and better accuracy and ball security can be coached.

The Quintin Demps signing honestly caught me by surprise because with Tony Jefferson, T.J. McDonald, Church and D.J. Swearinger also all available at safety, and all younger and more athletic, it never occurred to me Demps was on the Bears’ radar.

The signing just feels too much like the Antrel Rolle

deal.

Former Steelers receiver Markus Wheaton is a really nice get if he can stay healthy.

A healthy Wheaton will be a great fit in the slot between Kevin White and Cameron Meredith and is an instant and huge upgrade to the Bears’ team speed and return game.

At the end of the day, I think the less than ebullient reaction we all are seeing from Bears Nation is mostly because general manager Ryan Pace, possibly unintentionally, had suggested we should expect more than a couple of guys in Glennon and Demps who have spent most of their careers as backups.

But chins up Bears fans, the ceilings on Glennon and Wheaton still are fairly high, and there still are more than three months of free agency to work with and a lot more talent on the board.

It could be worse, we could be looking at the Bears’ moves and saying, “No, they didn’t?”

• Hub Arkush is executive editor of Pro Football Weekly.

Write to him at harkush@ profootballweekly.com and follow him on Twitter @Hub_Arkush.

BEARS NOTES

Jeffery signs 1-year, $14M deal with Eagles

By KEVIN FISHBAIN

kfishbain@profootballweekly.com Alshon Jeffery’s career with the Bears is over, and the 2012 second-round pick is betting on himself, signing a one-year deal worth $14 million with the Eagles.

Jeffery will enter his third consecutive contract year. Soft-tissue injuries in 2015 limited him to nine games, and he played under the franchise tag in 2016, when he was suspended four games for a PED violation.

Jeffery leaves the Bears ranked third in franchise history with 4,549 receiving yards in his five seasons.

He had only two touchdown catches in 2016 and clearly couldn’t find what he was seeking on the open market in terms of a long-term deal. NFL Network reported that the Vikings offered Jeffery a multiyear contract, and the

receiver turned it down.

In Philadelphia, Jeffery will be the Eagles’ No. 1 receiver for second-year QB Carson Wentz, and he reunites with Mike Groh, who was the Bears’ receivers coach from 2013 to 2015. Jeffery should be a good complement for the other Eagles addition at wideout, the speedy Torrey Smith.

The Bears now have a major need to fill at Alshon Jeffery the receiver position.

Eddie Royal is expected to be released when healthy, according to the Chicago Tribune, leaving new quarterback Mike Glennon with Kevin White, Cameron Meredith, Josh Bellamy, Rueben Randle and Daniel Braverman.

Safety help: The Bears added a veteran safety for the second time in three offseasons, agreeing to terms on a

three-year deal with Quintin Demps averaging $4.5 million a year, according to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle.

The $13.5 million contract nets Demps $5 million in his first year, according to ESPN’s Adam Caplan.

Demps, who turns 32 in June, played in and started 13 games for the Texans last season and had six interceptions to go with nine passes defensed and 55 tackles. In 14 games (13 starts) in 2015, Demps had six passes defensed and a pick.

In 2014, Demps played in all 16 games with nine starts for the Giants and had four interceptions. He picked off four passes as a member of the Chiefs in 2013.

The Bears will be Demps’ fifth team in his NFL career, which began with the Eagles in 2008 as a fourth-round pick out of UTEP.

Despite being in the league for nine seasons, Demps has appeared in only 107 games and has been a full-time starter for two years. Demps joins a young Bears safeties room that struggled mightily last season. Adrian Amos, Harold Jones-Quartey and Deon Bush combined for one interception last season.

The move comes two years after the Bears signed Antrel Rolle, then 32, to a three-year contract.

Quick hits: The Bears agreed to terms with former Steelers WR Markus Wheaton. ... Defensive lineman Cornelius Washington, a sixth-round pick by the Bears in 2013, signed a two-year deal with the Lions, according to ESPN. … Guard Ted Larsen agreed to a threeyear deal with the Dolphins, according to the Chicago Tribune. … The 49ers signed former Bears placekicker Robbie Gould and tight end Logan Paulsen.

NFL

By BARRY WILNER

The Associated Press

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The Houston Texans traded quarterback Brock Osweiler to the Cleveland Browns on Thursday. you it’s been a crazy 48 hours here. Me and my family felt the outpouring of support and love from all of you. It’s been overwhelming, and it doesn’t go unnoticed. I want to say thank you, and we have a lot to think about going forward, but we’ll see what happens. Until then, I’m just going to keep listening to Bob Dylan.”

Romo could be headed to Houston to replace Osweiler now that the Texans have room to pay him. Whether Dallas releases its longtime quarterback or works out a trade soon will be known.

As for the Texans-Browns stunner,

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the 1970 merger with 26 or more career touchdowns of 50-plus yards. Only Hall of Famer Jerry Rice (23) has more than Jackson’s 22 touchdowns of 60-plus yards.

“DeSean is exactly the type of dynamic playmaker we have been targeting for our offense,” Buccaneers coach Dirk Koetter said. “DeSean brings a veteran presence and a bigplay mentality that fits in perfectly with our offensive philosophy. He is a tough-minded competitor who has the game-breaking speed and pass-catching ability that stretches the defense and creates matchup problems.”

The Buccaneers also added defensive tackle Chris Baker, formerly of Washington.

Philadelphia got perhaps the most coveted wideout available in Alshon Jeffery, who left the Bears, and also agreed to terms with Torrey Smith, who was cut by San Francisco. Carson Wentz now has two more downfield threats than he did in his rookie season.

Philly also grabbed guard Chance Warmack and released DE Connor Barwin.

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Everyone expected a free agency flurry when the NFL’s year began Thursday. Predicting what happened with Brock Osweiler was beyond anyone’s projections.

One year after signing a four-year deal with Houston, then losing the starting job to Tom Savage late in the season before returning and winning a playoff game, Osweiler is headed to Cleveland.

The Texans basically took whatever deal they could get to rid themselves of a $16 million payout to the quarterback in 2017. The Browns and Texans also are swapping fourth- and sixth-round picks in 2017, and Cleveland gets a 2018 second-rounder.

Far more predictable was the Bears releasing Jay Cutler, who had no guaranteed money left on his contract. Cutler led the Bears to the 2010 NFC Championship Game but otherwise struggled in Chicago.

Yet another QB soon to be on the move, the Cowboys’ Tony Romo teasingly told fans in a tweeted video: “Hey everyone. I just wanted to come to tell

it’s possible Cleveland, which owns the top pick in April’s draft, will be moving Osweiler, too. But the Browns had plenty of cap room to absorb the financial hit and load up with more draft picks.

“We’re really excited to acquire a second-round draft choice in this trade,” said Sashi Brown, Cleveland’s executive vice president of football operations. “Draft picks are extremely important to our approach in building a championship-caliber football team.

We are intent on adding competition to every position on our roster and look forward to having Brock come in and compete.”

Cleveland added to the offensive line guard Kevin Zeitler, formerly of division rival Cincinnati, and center J.C. Tretter from Green Bay. Joel Bitonio got a five-year extension – so much for the Browns’ needs at guard.

Among the busiest teams were the Buccaneers and Eagles, each getting a dangerous receiver for its young passer.

Tampa Bay brought in DeSean Jackson to team with Mike Evans as targets for Jameis Winston.

Jackson is one of five players since

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Slumping Bulls feel sense of urgency Wade expected to return from injury Friday vs. Rockets

By JOE COWLEY

The Associated Press These weren’t the topics that Fred Hoiberg wanted to be discussing with 18 games left in the regular season.

Consistency, urgency, players knowing their roles. …

Discussions that took place through the first half of the season, and were supposed to be left there.

But there was the Bulls’ coach again Thursday, fresh off of a three-game losing streak, still trying to explain the pulse of his 31-33 team as honestly as he could.

“I hope so,” Hoiberg said, when asked whether he still felt like the Bulls were a playoff team. “Again, if you look back at this stretch, I loved how we were playing. We won those five out of six games (over the previous two weeks) against really good teams. You look at the teams we beat. We beat Boston, Toronto, at Cleveland, Golden State and then a Phoenix team that I think has lost once since we played them. Now we’re on a little bit of a slide.

“You gotta get back to doing the things that made us successful. That’s going out there and playing together and making the right plays, competing on a nightly basis.’’

Basically what the Bulls struggled

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The Bulls’ Jimmy Butler has the ball stripped by the Magic’s Elfrid Payton (left) as Bismack Biyombo (right) and Aaron Gordon help defend during the first half Wednesday in Orlando, Fla. The Bulls lost, 98-91. with in both Detroit and Orlando to start this week.

“The thing I look at, you talk a lot about the offense woes that we had (this week) and there’s no question that was a huge part of [Wednesday night’s loss in Orlando], but we gave up 27 on the break, we gave up 15 offensive rebounds, we turned it over 18 times, and

Colson helps No. 22 Notre Dame team owners Joe Gibbs and Roger Penske as well as the late Davey Allison are cruise past No. 21 Virginia among five new nominees for the 2018 NEW YORK – Bonzie Colson had 21 points and 10 rebounds, and No. 22 Notre NASCAR Hall of Fame class.

NASCAR announced the additions Dame beat No. 21 Virginia for the first Wednesday. Three-time Late Model time since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference, topping the Cavaliers, 71-58, Sportsman and 1956 Modified champion Thursday night to reach the ACC tourna- Red Farmer and 2000 NASCAR champion Bobby Labonte also are new to the ment semifinals.

20-person nomination class. They join 15 The third-seeded Fighting Irish (24-8) will face second-seeded and No. 16 Florida holdovers from last year.

Gibbs has nine car owner champiState on Friday in the late semifinal at Barclays Center. North Carolina-Duke will onships in NASCAR’S top two series. be both the main event and opening act. Penske has four car owner titles in the The Fighting Irish were 0-5 against the top two series. Allison won 19 times in Cavaliers (22-10) since entering the ACC. NASCAR’s premier series, including the 1992 Daytona 500.

The returning nominees are Buddy Gibbs, Penske, Allison among NASCAR Hall of Fame nominees Baker, Red Byron, Ray Evernham, Ray Fox, DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Championship Ron Hornaday Jr., Harry Hyde, Alan Kul-

you can’t do that and expect to win on the road. You have to do the basics, we have to do the basics better. If we do that, we’re going to give ourselves a chance each and every time we step on the floor.’’

All valid points, but something this Bulls team can only do in spurts.

Three straight losses in early Febru-

wicki, Hershel McGriff, Larry Phillips, Jack Roush, Ricky Rudd, Mike Stefanik, Ken Squier, Waddell Wilson and Robert Yates.

Five nominees will be elected May 24.

Herman opens with 9-under 62 to lead by 2 shots at Innisbrook

PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Jim Herman opened with a 9-under-par 62 on Thursday to lead the Valspar Championship.

He played bogey-free, missed the course record by one shot and had a two-shot lead over British Open champion Henrik Stenson and Russell Henley.

Herman, who won the Shell Houston Open last year, once worked as an assistant pro at Trump National. It was there that Donald Trump told him he belonged on the PGA Tour and not in a golf shop.

– Wire reports

ary, only to bounce back before the AllStar break and beat playoff teams such as the Raptors and Celtics. Then huge wins against the Cavs and Warriors, only to take two steps back in three straight losses to the Clippers, Pistons and Magic.

And now the Bulls find themselves hanging onto the final Eastern Conference playoff spot, and facing Houston, Boston, Charlotte, Memphis and Washington over the next five games.

If not now, when?

“It’s time now,” starting point guard Jerian Grant said. “We’re in the eighth spot right now; we’re trying to get into the playoffs. We’ve shown that we can beat any team in this league, so it’s all about getting in right now.”

Asked how they got there, Grant said, “We’re just inconsistent. We’ve obviously been inconsistent all year, and we’re trying to find that consistency.

Until we do that, we won’t be as good as we can.”

The good news is Hoiberg will have Dwyane Wade (thigh) back from injury after the veteran missed the past two games.

The coach also has dropped Nikola Mirotic out of the rotation, so there shouldn’t be as many defensive problems as there have been the past week.

However, the roster still remains flawed in its construction, and it undoubtedly will fall on Wade and Jimmy Butler to continue to carry the load.

“I think the biggest thing that we have to talk about right now is you can’t look at if we get into the playoffs,” Hoiberg said. “We have to worry about today.”

BETTING ODDS NBA

FAVORITE Houston at CHARLOTTE Golden State at ATLANTA at MILWAUKEE at DENVER at DALLAS Washington

Friday LINE O/U 4½ (223½) 8 (206) 5 (216) 2 (201) 2½ (209½) OFF (OFF) 9 (212½) 8 (213½)

UNDERDOG at BULLS Orlando at MINNESOTA Toronto Indiana Boston Brooklyn at SACRAMENTO

COLLEGE BASKETBALL FAVORITE Purdue Dayton UCF Texas-Arlington Texas State Georgia St. Troy Kentucky

Friday LINE 2 5 1 8 4 1 1 9½

UNDERDOG Michigan Davidson Memphis Coastal Carolina Louisiana-Monroe Louisiana-Lafayette Georgia Southern Georgia

NHL

FAVORITE at DETROIT at COLUMBUS at FLORIDA at ST. LOUIS Pittsburgh

Friday LINE UNDERDOG OFF Blackhawks -245 Buffalo OFF Minnesota OFF Anaheim -110 at EDMONTON

Updated odds available at Pregame.com

LINE OFF +225 OFF OFF +100

FIVE-DAY PLANNER TEAM

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

MINNESOTA 11:30 a.m.

NBC AM-720

HOUSTON 7 p.m.

WGN AM-890

at Boston 2:30 p.m.

ABC AM-890

at Charlotte 6 p.m.

CSN AM-890

at Oakland* 3:05 p.m.

AM-670

at San Diego* 3:10 p.m.

at Seattle* 2:10 p.m.

at Milwaukee* 2:05 p.m.

COLORADO* 2:05 p.m.

AM-670 at Texas* 2:05 p.m.

AM-890

TEXAS* 2:05 p.m., WGN at L.A. Dodgers* 9:05 p.m., AM-890

at Montreal 6:30 p.m.

NBCSN, CSN AM-720

MILWAUKEE* 3:05 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

GF 214 198 197 178 204 188 129

GA 155 165 191 183 216 216 217

Cleveland Boston Washington Toronto Atlanta Indiana Detroit Bulls

W 42 41 39 38 35 33 32 31

GF 184 173 188 184 164 156 159

GA 154 168 174 182 166 192 213

Miami Milwaukee Charlotte New York Orlando Philadelphia Brooklyn

31 30 28 26 24 23 11

EASTERN CONFERENCE

CLEVELAND* 3:05 p.m.

at Seattle* 3:10 p.m.

CSN *–Spring training

vs. Kansas St., ESPN2 8 p.m.: American Athletic tournament, quarterfinal, Houston vs. Connecticut, ESPNU 8 p.m.: Big East tournament, semifinal, Xavier vs.

Creighton, FS1 8 p.m.: SEC tournament, quarterfinal, Arkansas vs.

Mississippi, SEC 9 p.m.: Mountain West tournament, semifinal, Nevada vs. Fresno St., CBSSN 10:30 p.m.: Pac-12 tournament, semifinal, Arizona vs. UCLA or Southern Cal, ESPN 11 p.m.: Big West tournament, semifinal, UC Irvine vs. Long Beach St., ESPNU 11:30 p.m.: Mountain West tournament, semifinal, Colorado St. vs. San Diego St., CBSSN 1 a.m. (Saturday): Big West tournament, semifinal, UC Davis vs. Cal State Fullerton, ESPNU (same-day tape) Women’s basketball 3:30 p.m.: America East tournament, championship,Maine at Albany, ESPNU Golf 1 p.m.: PGA Tour, Valspar Championship, second round, TGC 1 a.m. (Saturday): European PGA Tour, Hero Indian Open, third round, TGC Auto racing 1 p.m.: NASCAR, Monster Energy Cup Series, Kobalt 400, practice, FS1 3 p.m.: NASCAR, Xfinity Series, Boyd Gaming 300, practice, FS1 5 p.m.: NASCAR, Xfinity Series, Boyd Gaming 300, final practice, FS2 6:30 p.m.: NASCAR, Monster Energy Cup Series, Kobalt 400, qualifying, FS2 Prep boys basketball 11 a.m.: IHSA Class 1A semifinal, Hope Academy vs.

St. Anthony, CSN 12:45 p.m.: IHSA Class 1A semifinal, Okawville vs.

Newark, CSN 1:30 p.m.: Iowa Class 4A semifinal, Iowa City, West vs. Cedar Rapids, Kennedy, CSN+ 3:15 p.m.: Iowa Class 4A semifinal, Valley, West Des Moines vs. Sioux City, East, CSN+ 5:30 p.m.: IHSA Class 2A semifinal, McNamara vs.

Mount Carmel, CSN+ 7:15 p.m.: IHSA Class 2A semifinal, Orr Academy vs.

Monticello, CSN+ Soccer 1:30 p.m.: Bundesliga, Bayer Leverkusen vs. Werder Bremen, FS2 Boxing 9 p.m.: Claressa Shields vs. Szilvia Szabados, female middleweights; Antonio Nieves vs. Nikolay Potapov, bantamweights; Wesley Tucker vs. Ed Williams, welterweights; James Gordon Smith vs. Joshua Greer Jr., bantamweights, SHOW Cycling 1 a.m. (Saturday): 2017 Paris-Nice, Stage 6, Aubagne to Fayence, France, NBCSN (same-day tape)

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 68 38 22 8 84 185 171 Ottawa 66 38 22 6 82 178 171 Boston 67 35 26 6 76 188 175 Toronto 66 30 22 14 74 201 197 Tampa Bay 66 31 26 9 71 183 182 Florida 65 29 25 11 69 162 183 Buffalo 67 27 28 12 66 169 196 Detroit 65 25 29 11 61 161 196 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 66 44 15 7 95 214 143 Columbus 65 42 17 6 90 207 149 Pittsburgh 65 41 16 8 90 230 184 N.Y. Rangers 68 43 23 2 88 219 179 N.Y. Islanders 66 32 23 11 75 196 197 Philadelphia 66 31 27 8 70 172 197 Carolina 64 27 27 10 64 160 186 New Jersey 67 25 30 12 62 149 192 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s Results Anaheim 1, Blackhawks 0 Carolina 4, N.Y. Rangers 3 Toronto 4, Philadelphia 2 Tampa Bay 4, Minnesota 1 Colorado 3, New Jersey 2 Calgary 5, Montreal 0 Ottawa 3, Arizona 2 (OT) N.Y. Islanders 4, Vancouver 3 (OT) San Jose 4, Washington 2 Los Angeles 3, Nashville 2 (OT) Friday’s Games Blackhawks at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Philadelphia at Boston, noon Nashville at San Jose, 3 p.m.

Calgary at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Arizona, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

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

L 21 24 24 26 29 31 33 33

Pct .667 .631 .619 .594 .547 .516 .492 .484

GB — 2 3 4½ 7½ 9½ 11 11½

34 33 36 39 41 41 52

.477 .476 .438 .400 .369 .359 .175

12 12 14½ 17 19 19½ 31

WESTERN CONFERENCE Pct .813 .781 .677 .631 .600 .554 .554 .453

GB — 2 8½ 11½ 13½ 16½ 16½ 23

Portland 28 35 .444 Dallas 27 36 .429 Minnesota 26 37 .413 Sacramento 25 39 .391 New Orleans 25 40 .385 Phoenix 21 44 .323 L.A. Lakers 20 45 .308 x-clinched playoff spot

23½ 24½ 25½ 27 27½ 31½ 32½

x-Golden State x-San Antonio Houston Utah L.A. Clippers Memphis Oklahoma City Denver

W 52 50 44 41 39 36 36 29

L 12 14 21 24 26 29 29 35

Thursday’s Results Detroit 106, Cleveland 101 L.A. Clippers 114, Memphis 98 Oklahoma City 102, San Antonio 92 Portland 114, Philadelphia 108, OT L.A. Lakers 122, Phoenix 110 Friday’s Games Houston at Bulls, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Boston at Denver, 8 p.m.

Brooklyn at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Washington at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Utah at Oklahoma City, 2 p.m.

Philadelphia at L.A. Clippers, 2:30 p.m.

New York at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Cleveland at Orlando, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Miami, 7 p.m.

Golden State at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Washington at Portland, 9 p.m.

Denver at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Bulls at Boston, 2:30 p.m.

Miami at Indiana, 5 p.m.

New York at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Houston, 8 p.m.

Portland at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

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

NCAA BASKETBALL BIG TEN TOURNAMENT

At The Verizon Center Washington First Round Wednesday Penn St. 76, Nebraska 67 (OT) Rutgers 66, Ohio St. 57 Second Round Thursday Michigan 75, Illinois 55 Michigan St. 78, Penn St. 51 Indiana 95, Iowa 73 Northwestern 83, Rutgers 61 Quarterfinals Friday Purdue vs. Michigan, 11 a.m.

Minnesota vs. Michigan St., 1:25 p.m.

Wisconsin vs. Indiana, 5:30 p.m.

Maryland vs. Northwestern, 7:55 p.m.

Semifinals Saturday Purdue-Michigan winner vs. Minnesota-Michigan St. winner, noon Wisconsin-Iowa winner vs. Maryland-Northwestern winner, 2:30 p.m.

Championship Sunday Semifinal winners, 2 p.m.

MID-AMERICAN TOURNAMENT

First Round Monday E. Michigan 72, N. Illinois 69 Kent St. 116, C. Michigan 106 (OT) W. Michigan 65, Miami (Ohio) 61 Toledo 77, Bowling Green 62 At Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland Quarterfinals Thursday Akron 79, E. Michigan 62

Ball St. 66, W. Michigan 63 Ohio 67, Toledo 66 Kent St. 68, Buffalo 65 Semifinals Friday Akron vs. Ball St., 4:30 p.m.

Ohio vs. Kent St., 7 p.m.

Championship Saturday Semifinal winners, 6:30 p.m.

AP TOP 25 SCHEDULE

Thursday’s Results TCU 85, No. 1 Kansas 82 No. 2 Villanova 108, St. John’s 67 No. 3 UCLA vs. Southern Cal (n) No. 5 Oregon 80 Arizona St. 57 No. 6 North Carolina 78, Miami 53 No. 7 Arizona 92, Colorado 79 Kansas St. 70, No. 9 Baylor 64 No. 14 Duke 81, No. 10 Louisville 77 No. 11 West Virginia 63, Texas 53 No. 16 Florida St. 74, Virginia Tech 68 Xavier 62, No. 18 Butler 57 No. 22 Notre Dame 71, No. 21 Virginia 58 No. 23 Iowa St. 92, Oklahoma St. 83 Friday’s Games No. 8 Kentucky vs. Georgia at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tenn., noon No. 12 SMU vs. East Carolina at the XL Center, Hartford, Conn., 11 a.m.

No. 13 Purdue vs. Michigan at the Verizon Center, 11 a.m.

No. 15 Cincinnati vs. Tulsa at the XL Center, Hartford, Conn., 6 p.m.

No. 17 Florida vs. Vanderbilt at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tenn., 6 p.m.

No. 24 Wisconsin vs. Indiana at the Verizon Center, 5:30 p.m.

No. 25 Maryland vs. Northwestern at the Verizon Center, 7:55 p.m.

Remainder of schedule TBD

SPRING TRAINING

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pittsburgh 10 3 St. Louis 9 4 New York 8 5 Milwaukee 8 5 Colorado 7 5 Philadelphia 6 6 Arizona 6 7 Los Angeles 6 7 Washington 5 6 San Diego 5 7 Cubs 4 6 Cincinnati 5 8 San Francisco 5 8 Miami 3 7 Atlanta 3 10 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L New York 11 3 Los Angeles 9 3 Oakland 7 4 Seattle 8 5 Minnesota 6 4 White Sox 7 5 Baltimore 7 5 Kansas City 7 5 Tampa Bay 6 5 Boston 5 7 Cleveland 5 7 Houston 4 6 Toronto 3 8 Detroit 3 10 Texas 2 9

Pct. 0.769 0.692 0.615 0.615 0.583 0.500 0.462 0.462 0.455 0.417 0.400 0.385 0.385 0.300 0.231 Pct. 0.786 0.750 0.636 0.615 0.600 0.583 0.583 0.583 0.545 0.417 0.417 0.400 0.273 0.231 0.182

Thursday’s Results White Sox 4, Arizona 2 Seattle 8, Cubs 6 Minnesota 10, Colombia 7 Houston 3, St. Louis 0 Miami 2, Washington 2 N.Y. Yankees 8, Atlanta 7 Pittsburgh 10, Tampa Bay 8 Toronto 6, Philadelphia 4 Boston 7, United States 5 Detroit 5, N.Y. Mets 5 Oakland 12, Cincinnati 5 L.A. Angels 5, Cleveland 4 Venezuela 6, Texas 4 Milwaukee 8, San Diego 2 Colorado 10, Puerto Rico 2 Friday’s Games White Sox vs. Milwaukee (ss) at Phoenix, 2:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

St. Louis vs. Washington at West Palm Beach, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Toronto vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (ss) vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

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

Houston vs. N.Y. Mets (ss) at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 12:10 p.m.

Cleveland vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (ss) vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

San Diego vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

Baltimore vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 5:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 7:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 7:05 p.m.

Texas vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 8:05 p.m.

GOLF PGA-VALSPAR CHAMPIONSHIP

Thursday at Innisbrook Golf Resort (Copperhead Course) Palm Harbor, Fla. Purse: $6.3 million Yardage: 7,340; Par: 71 (36-35) Partial First Round Jim Herman 32-30—62 -9 Russell Henley 34-30—64 -7 Henrik Stenson 33-31—64 -7 James Hahn 33-32—65 -6 Seamus Power 35-31—66 -5 Tony Finau 34-33—67 -4 Keegan Bradley 35-32—67 -4 Charles Howell III 35-32—67 -4 Webb Simpson 34-33—67 -4 David Hearn 33-35—68 -3 Ryan Blaum 33-35—68 -3 Adam Hadwin 35-33—68 -3 Chad Collins 34-34—68 -3 Hudson Swafford 33-35—68 -3 Jason Kokrak 34-34—68 -3 Luke List 35-33—68 -3 Lucas Glover 36-32—68 -3 Soren Kjeldsen 35-33—68 -3 Jason Dufner 34-34—68 -3 Alex Cejka 35-33—68 -3 Wesley Bryan 35-33—68 -3

• Friday, March 10, 2017

WHAT TO WATCH Pro hockey 6:30 p.m.: Blackhawks at Detroit, NHLN, CSN Pro basketball 7 p.m.: Houston at Bulls, WGN 7 p.m.: Golden State at Minnesota, NBATV 9:30 p.m.: Washington at Sacramento, NBATV Pro baseball Noon: Spring training, N.Y. Yankees vs. Philadelphia, MLBN 5 p.m.: World Baseball Classic, first round, Colombia vs. United States, MLBN 8 p.m.: World Baseball Classic, first round, Venezuela vs. Puerto Rico, MLBN Men’s basketball 11 a.m.: Big Ten tournament, quarterfinal, Purdue vs. Michigan, ESPN 11 a.m.: American Athletic tournament, quarterfinal, SMU vs. East Carolina, ESPN2 11 a.m.: Atlantic 10 tournament, quarterfinal, Dayton vs. Davidson, NBCSN 11:30 a.m.: Conference USA tournament, semifinal, Middle Tennessee vs. UTEP, CBSSN Noon: SEC tournament, quarterfnal, Kentucky vs.

Georgia, SEC 1 p.m.: Big Ten tournament, quarterfinal, Minnesota vs. Michigan St., ESPN 1 p.m.: American Athletic tournament, quarterfinal, Central Florida vs. Memphis, ESPN2 1:30 p.m.: Atlantic 10 tournament, quarterfinal, Rhode Island vs. St. Bonaventure, NBCSN 2 p.m.: Conference USA tournament, semifinal, Louisiana Tech vs. Marshall, CBSSN 2 p.m.: SEC tournament, quarterfinal, South Carolina vs. Alabama, SEC 4:30 p.m.: Mid-American tournament, semifinal, Akron vs. Ball St., CBSSN 5 p.m.: Atlantic 10 tournament, quarterfinal, VCU vs. George Mason, NBCSN 5:30 p.m.: Big Ten tournament, quarterfinal, Wisconsin vs. Indiana, BTN 5:30 p.m.: Big East tournament, semifinal, Villanova vs. Seton Hall, FS1 6 p.m.: ACC tournament, semifinal, North Carolina vs. Duke, ESPN 6 p.m.: Big 12 tournament, semifinal, Iowa St. vs.

TCU, ESPN2 6 p.m.: American Athletic tournament, quarterfinal, Cincinnati vs. Tulsa, ESPNU 6 p.m.: SEC tournament, quarterfinal, Florida vs.

Vanderbilt, SEC 7 p.m.: Mid-American tournament, semifinal, Ohio vs. Kent St., CBSSN 7:30 p.m.: Atlantic 10 tournament, quarterfinal, Richmond vs. George Washington, NBCSN 8 p.m.: Big Ten tournament, quarterfinal, Maryland vs. Northwestern, BTN 8 p.m.: ACC tournament, semifinal, Florida St. vs.

Notre Dame, ESPN 8 p.m.: Big 12 tournament, semifinal, West Virginia

NBA

Central Division GP W L OT Pts Minnesota 65 42 17 6 90 Blackhawks 66 42 19 5 89 Nashville 67 32 24 11 75 St. Louis 65 33 27 5 71 Winnipeg 68 30 32 6 66 Dallas 67 27 30 10 64 Colorado 66 19 44 3 41 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts San Jose 66 40 19 7 87 Anaheim 67 35 22 10 80 Edmonton 66 35 23 8 78 Calgary 67 37 26 4 78 Los Angeles 66 32 28 6 70 Vancouver 67 28 30 9 65 Arizona 66 23 35 8 54

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After travel scare, Michigan routs Illinois Northwestern tops Rutgers, uses 31-0 spurt in first half The ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON – The toughest part for some of Michigan’s basketball players was simply getting back on an airplane.

Getting back out on court – wearing yellow practice jerseys in place of their missing game uniforms – was easy by comparison.

Flying into town on the Detroit Pistons’ team jet only a few hours before tipoff Thursday because Michigan’s original plane slid off a runway and slammed through a fence during an aborted takeoff a day earlier, the Wolverines raced to an early double-digit lead and beat Illinois, 75-55, to reach the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals.

“It was something our kids will always remember, but I want them to always remember how they responded,” Michigan coach John Beilein said. “Because this is really important. This is the way life goes sometimes, and you’ve got to respond positively to whatever comes your way. And, boy, did they.”

Derrick Walton scored 19 points, and Zak Irvin added 18 for No. 8 seed Michigan (21-11), which led Illinois by 20 points in the first half and will meet regular-season conference champion Purdue.

Illinois got 23 points from Tracy Abrams. Malcom Hill, the senior guard who leads the Illini in points, rebounds, assists and steals, wound up with four points on 1-of-8 shooting.

“Maybe some people, in the back of their mind, thought we might come out flat or come out a little tired,” Michigan’s Duncan Robinson said. “But I think we were just aggressive.”

The airplane carrying Michigan’s coaching staff, players, cheerleaders and others – “Children, families,” Irvin said – aborted its takeoff Wednesday.

“To see the fear in some (passengers’) eyes,” sophomore forward Moe Wagner said, “I realized, ‘Oh, my God, this is real.’ ” No one was injured, Michigan spokesman Kurt Svoboda said.

Beilein, players and others helped folks get off the plane – senior forward Mark Donnal opened one emergency exit door – as the smell of gas fumes filled the air outside.

During a meeting attended by players and counselors Wednesday night, Beilein offered the option of forfeiting

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Michigan forward D.J. Wilson celebrates after his dunk during the first half against Illinois in the Big Ten tournament Thursday in Washington. the game. Some players wondered aloud about driving.

Eventually, the decision was made to play and to fly.

The journey began all over again Thursday, with players waking around 6 a.m., grabbing breakfast at a hotel buffet, boarding the plane lent by their neighboring NBA team, and landing at 8:45 a.m.

“I was legitimately scared today,” Wagner said, “starting and landing.”

Michigan arrived at the arena about 10:35 a.m., and they were playing basketball less than two hours after that (tipoff was delayed about 20 minutes).

The Wolverines were forced to wear simple, practice tank tops – no players’ names on the backs – against ninth-seeded Illinois (18-14) because their proper uniforms, along with everyone’s suitcases, were trapped on the plane.

Once play began, however, Michigan never trailed.

“Felt like we were back in our sanctuary,” Walton said. “We’ve been through a lot emotionally, mentally.”

After the game, Beilein’s voice choked while he spoke about seeing his daughter and son in the arena at game’s end. (His wife, who was on the plane Wednesday, decided to stay home.)

It didn’t matter that much to him that his team won.

Or that he earned his school-record 210th basketball coaching victory.

“I never feared for my life at any time,” he said, “but there’s a lot of circumstances that could’ve been very different in those few minutes.”

Northwestern 83, Rutgers 61: As Northwestern scored basket after basket,

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Northwestern’s Sanjay Lumpkin soars toward the basket ahead of Rutgers’ Deshawn Freeman during a Big Ten tournament game Thursday in Washington. guard Bryant McIntosh kept looking at the scoreboard and saw Rutgers was stuck on nine points.

“That was the one thing that stuck with me,” he said. “I didn’t really gather how much we were scoring on top of that.”

It was 31 consecutive points over a stretch of 10½ minutes, as sixth-seeded Northwestern routed 14th-seeded Rutgers in the second round of the Big Ten tournament. Vic Law scored 10 of his 16 points during that 31-0 run that put the game out of reach early.

Rutgers missed 14 shots in a row as Northwestern took over and made a

major statement in moving on to the quarterfinals to face third-seeded and 25th-ranked Maryland. The NCAA tournament-bound Wildcats (22-10) can only improve their seeding from here after taking care of business against the 14th-seeded Scarlet Knights (15-18).

Four players scored in double figures for Northwestern, which shot a season- and Big Ten tournament-best 60 percent and proved something during that impressive run.

Nigel Johnson led Rutgers with 21 points.

Indiana 95, Iowa 73: Too many times this season, Indiana took good shots that ended up hitting nothing but rim.

All that changed against Iowa.

James Blackmon Jr. and the Hoosiers fired away effectively from long range, and Indiana used a huge second half to notch a victory.

The 10th-seeded Hoosiers will face second-seeded Wisconsin in the quarterfinals Friday night. Indiana was 3-10 in the Big Ten tournament over the previous 10 years.

The Hoosiers shot a blistering 60 percent from the floor and went 12 for 20 from behind the arc – including 6 for 8 after halftime.

Indiana (18-14) used the 3-pointer to turn a close game into a rout. It was 48all before Blackmon, Devonte Green and Josh Newkirk combined to connect five times from behind the arc during a 30-11 blitz.

Blackmon scored 23 points and De’Ron Davis added 15. Seven players scored at least eight points.

Jordan Bohannon led seventh-seeded Iowa (18-14) with 24 points and 10 assists.

The Hawkeyes entered the tournament with a four-game winning streak, including victories over Indiana, Maryland and Wisconsin.

Michigan St. 78, Penn St. 51: It didn’t matter that Michigan State had no momentum, or that the Spartans were playing a team that beat them soundly in January.

This was the Big Ten tournament, when the past usually doesn’t matter and Michigan State is almost always at its best.

Miles Bridges and Nick Ward had 15 points and nine rebounds apiece, and the Spartans breezed past weary Penn State.

The fifth-seeded Spartans (19-13) will face No. 4 seed Minnesota in the quarterfinals Friday. Michigan State, the defending Big Ten champion, is seeking its fourth title in the past six years.

The 13th-seeded Nittany Lions (1518) fell behind for good with less than four minutes elapsed, trailed by 18 at halftime and sputtered to the finish after taking out Nebraska in overtime on Wednesday.