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Local church hosts African Children’s Choir concert By ryan Ostry Bugle staff

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In sub-Saharan Africa, education opportunities are the highest rates of educational exclusion in the world.

More than one-fifth of children between the ages of seven and 11

and one-third between the ages of 12 and 14 are not educated.

Almost 60 percent of children in sub-Saharan Africa between the ages of 15 and 17 are also not educated.

While traveling from Uganda to Downers Grove, members of the impoverished country are trying to do something about those num-

bers.

A group of children from ages seven to 10, known as the African Children’s Choir, brought their talents to the First United Methodist Church.

“The choir basically helps Africa’s most vulnerable children,” said choir director Paul Maina Kibutha.

“It helps them with their education

and helps them be able to go on in life.”

With a primary focus on education and a means for change within the country, the Choir is currently caring for underprivileged and poverty-stricken children throughout Africa.

Though Kibutha said a lot of the children have not had a great card dealt to them so far in life, the Choir brings happiness to the children, as well as their families and country.

“These kids from the most poor parts in Africa such as Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria,” Kibutha said.

“Being in this Choir brings great joy to our country and helps in so many ways, especially financially.”

Since being founded in 1984, the popular Choir is celebrating its 50th choir tour. While performing all over the world for audiences, the funds that are raised go back to the Choir, the children’s education and administrative costs.

“About 85 percent of the funds go back to support the children throughout their education,” Kibutha said. “The rest goes back for administrative purposes so we can travel and try and raise money for the group.”

Not only does the choir travel to the United States, but also to the United Kingdom and Canada.

The talented choir group usually is on tour for nine months, while rotating different choirs each time the group gets back to Uganda.

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it was a long trip but we love performing for the people ... We always want to do best by africa and we enjoy coming to the united states.

The African Children’s Choir, through Music for Life, has educated more than 52,000 children in several countries in Africa, with hundreds of lives being affected because of the group.

In order to keep traveling and performing around the world while receiving funds benefitting the children and their education, Kibutha said that the performances always have to be at a high peak, which comes through a lot of practice.

“Every day we practice after school for two hours,” Kibutha said.

“It’s a lot of work but we want to be able to represent Africa in a good way whenever we travel.”

Specifically, for this trip to Downers Grove, Kibutha said that with layovers it was around a 27-hour trip, but it’s all worth it when they’re performing.

“It was a long trip but we love performing for the people,” Kibutha said. “We always want to do best by Africa and we enjoy coming to the United States.”

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Debt isn’t mathematics problem your probability of becoming wealthy is more closely connected to your behavior, than sophistication In this week’s “Dave Says,” individuals ask if paying off debts from smallest to largest is a good theory and if using savings to purchase rental property is good practice:

dave says By dave ramsey

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dear dave,

dear dave,

I’ve heard lots of different theories and recommendations when it comes to paying off debt. Why do you advise paying off debts from smallest to largest?

I’m 35, and I’ve always wanted to own rental property. I think I’ve found a deal that would work for me. I want to take $20,000 out of my thrift savings account to use as a down payment on the property. I could rent the place for $1,400 a month, and my loan payment would be $1,100 a month. What do you think about this idea?

marlee dear marlee, A lot of people wonder the same thing when I bring up the debt snowball. Some think paying off the debt with highest interest rate first is the best approach.

This may seem to make sense mathematically, but I realized a long time ago debt is not a mathematics problem—it’s a behavior problem. Personal finance is 80 percent behavior, and only 20 percent head knowledge. Besides, if all those people were so great at math, they wouldn’t be up to their eyeballs in debt in the first place!

The reason the debt snowball pays off debt from smallest to largest is that modifying your behavior and providing inspiration to get out of debt is more important than the math.

Your probability of becoming wealthy is more closely connected to your behavior than your financial “sophistication” or academic pedigree.

When you pay off a small debt you experience success, and that gives you hope.

Then, you move on the next debt. When you pay that one off, and you’ve wiped out two debts, it really energizes you. At that point you start to get excited, and you begin to believe in yourself and in the fact you’re actually on the road to becoming debt-free!

dave

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nathan dear nathan, I love real estate, so I understand the allure.

But what you’re telling me is you want to cash out part of your retirement, get hit with a penalty and take on debt, to buy an investment property. I wouldn’t do it.

I’ve got a feeling you’ve never been a landlord before. Bringing in $1,400 and paying out $1,100 may seem like a good place to be, but you haven’t figured all the risk into your equation. Rental properties just sit there empty sometimes. Other times you have renters who don’t pay, repairs, and people who just tear up things. In other words, you won’t be able to count on an easy $300 in your pocket every month.

Like I said, I totally get your fascination with real estate. But my advice is to save up, and pay cash for one decent rental property to see if this game is really for you.

dave *Dave Ramsey is CEO of Ramsey Solutions. He has authored seven best-selling books, including The Total Money Makeover.

The Dave Ramsey Show is heard by more than 16 million listeners each week on 600 radio stations and multiple digital platforms. Follow Dave on the web at daveramsey.com and on Twitter at @DaveRamsey.

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octoBer 10 BolingBrook spookY string art. 6:30-8 p.m. Bolingbrook Fountaindale Library. Make your very own spooktacular wooden sign using nails and colorful string.

Grades 6–12. octoBer 10 crest hill true crime Book cluB: the serial killer WhisPerer. 6-7 p.m. White Oak Library District Crest Hill Branch Meeting room C. Do you listen, read, and watch information on true crime, serial killers, and unsolved mysteries? Do other people look at you like you’re a nut when you tell them to, “Stay sexy and don’t get murdered”? The True Crime Book Club is the place for you to meet like-minded octoBer 10 lockport Felt pumpkins. 6:30-8 p.m. White Oak Library Lockport Branch. Join us to learn the art of needle felting! Create an adorable, soft sculpture by needle felting wool into a pumpkin. Participants will learn beginner felting techniques to create a pumpkin with either fall detail or jack-o-lantern detail. This is a great introduction to needle felting, no prior experience required! octoBer 11 downers groVe sPeCters & sPirits. 7 p.m. start time. Downers Grove Museum. Join us for a spirited exploration of the allegedly haunted Downers Grove Museum while enjoying a spook-filled evening of some adult fun. Enjoy a drink around a bonfire, and watch paranormal investigations, before going on one of four half hour searches for signs of spirits with paranormal experts David Scott and John Stephens of IPRA Strong while they demonstrate paranormal detection equipment and conduct paranormal investigations. Fee includes light appetizers and a non-alcoholic beverage. Wine, beer (ID required) and additional nonalcoholic beverages will be available for purchase. octoBer 11 niles hOrrOr trivia night. 4-6 p.m. Niles Maine District Library. Join us in the Teen Underground for an extra spooky trivia night and see if you have what it takes to be crowned Master of Horror.

Prizes will be awarded to the winners. octoBer 12 lisle sCareCrOW sCramBle. 3-9pm Lisle Community Park, Route 53 & Short Street. Help us raise money for a great cause and make a difference in someone’s life. Register today and run or walk to help us provide recreation scholarships to low-income families who do not have the means to participate in recreation activities, and the Lisle Teens with Character Program. This event is a USATF certified race winding through slightly hilly paths of Lisle Community Park lit gently by luminaria for safety. It is more than a race, it is a family event with music, food & drinks, hayrides, costume contest, fun family games, face painting, balloon artist, crafters, vendors and more! Now in its 15th year, the Scarecrow Scramble is a premiere running experience race for the most avid runners and race participants, while promoting quality and safety. All proceeds benefit the Lisle Partners for Parks Foundation Scholarship Fund & Lisle Teens with Character Program. Prices Increase September 13. Pre-Registration Ends October 9 at noon. octoBer 12 westmont ZOmBie run. 6:30-10 p.m. Twin Lakes Golf Club 400 W 59th St Westmont, IL United States, the Zombie apocalypse is here! Twin Lakes Golf Course is going to be crawling with brain hungry Zombies. In order to survive, you must maneuver your way through the mile-long golf course avoiding the brain eating zombies to get to safety.

Participants (10 years and older) will run in small groups from hole to hole trying to reach each safe zone before moving on to the next hole and the next zombie encounter. Each participant will be equipped with a belt of flags; if you are able to make it through the course with at least one of your flags remaining you will survive the apocalypse and earn a cool T-Shirt!

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despite records, lisle gives Westmont a battle By ryan Ostry

Bugle staff

@RyanOstry_BR18 rostry@buglenewspapers.com On paper, a 15-win team and one with only three victories should be an easy win for the stronger team – not when Westmont and Lisle meet up.

Despite a 3-17 record coming into the match, the Lions (3-18), gave Westmont (15-8) all it could handle in the first set between the two rivals.

Back-and-forth lead changes gave Westmont and Lisle both momentum in the opening set, with the Sentinels eventually winning 27-25.

Westmont carried that momentum into the second set and won easily 25-18.

For the Sentinels (15-8), junior

Alexa Buesner had 18 assists, senior Maggie Durr had five kills, junior Deniz Barkin had seven kills and junior Megan Thompson also had seven kills.

“One thing that we’ve gotten better at in the last week has been winning some rallies,” said Jennifer Gliwa-Bell, Sentinel coach. “We could rally in the past and not always come out on the winning side, so I think that’s a little bit of a momentum changer and I also think with that our defense has gotten better.”

To this point in the season, the Sentinels have had success especially at home, posting a 9-5 record.

Gliwa-Bell said one thing in this game that was evident, and something the entire season that has PHOTO BY RYAN OSTRY

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despite only three wins on the season, danielle laue and lisle gave Westmont a battle in the first set.

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First battle for ‘Downers Cup’ ends in a tie

By matt le Cren for the Bugle

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Soccer players from Downers Grove North and Downers Grove South have never lacked for motivation when playing against each other.

Now they have even more to get excited about.

The crosstown rivalry got an added boost this season with the introduction of the Downers Cup, a traveling trophy which will be given to the winner each year.

“We’ve talked about it for a couple years and (assistant) coach (Nate) Terry is the one who found it and picked it up for us,” Downers Grove South coach Jon Stapleton said. “We didn’t have time to work all the kinks.”

One of those kinks was what to do in case of a tie. The procedure going forward will have the team that holds the trophy retain possession in the event of a tie.

But the first meeting between the Trojans and Mustangs ended in an exciting yet inconclusive 3-3 tie on October 3 at Downers South.

Since neither team had “won” the trophy, it will not be awarded until next year.

“We’re going to throw it in a close and we won’t see it until next year,” Stapleton said. “It won’t be on display or anything. We’ll bring it over to North and give it a shot next year.”

Even so, both teams posed for pictures with the trophy and their fans after the Mustangs (5-7-1) rallied from a 3-0 halftime deficit on the strength of goals from Blazo Jovicevic, Josh Venouziou and Kyle Fenner.

Fenner tied the game with 4:55 remaining when he headed in a long throw-in from Ethan Kelly to cap an unlikely comeback.

“We went in the locker room (at halftime) and everyone was like, ‘Keep your heads up,’” Fenner said. “We got the first (goal), got the second and the third one we’ve been dangerous on throw-ins all year, me and Ethan “Everyone was like, ‘Get a head on one.’”

The rally allowed the Mustangs to extend their unbeaten streak to four games. After a 2-7 start,

South won three straight games before tying North, so Fenner and his teammates were on a high after the match.

“It feels good,” Fenner said. “Everyone is excited.

“It feels like a win right now. No one is down from this game.”

The Trojans (6-6-2) weren’t feeling quite as good after letting a commanding lead slip away.

“That was probably the best first half we’ve played this season and probably one of the worst second

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‘rivalry ’ from page 5 needed work to become an even better team, is serving.

“Even last night we missed eight serves alone in just the second set, that’s not going to get the job done,” Gliwa-Bell said. “Serving continues to be a struggle for us because we’re just not consistent enough, but we’re going to figure out.”

With six seniors and seven juniors on the team, Gliwa-Bell said that leadership and team unity is the reason why they have been successful to this point in the season, and will need to con-

‘cup ’ from page 5 halves we’ve played,” Downers North junior Sam Bull said.

“We’ve been caught in that situation before and we’ve been on the good side of that before. It’s just really frustrating to be on that bad side.”

The Trojans scored in the first minute on 35-yard rocket

by Trygve Hansen that went in off the inside of the right post.

It was the seventh goal of the season for Hansen, who like Fenner is a junior midfielder who wears No. 16.

“The ball just bounced to me and I saw the goalie was off his line, so I just shot it where he wasn’t,” Hansen said. “I really like shooting from distance.”

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tinue that momentum to make a playoff push.“A lot of times you will have cliques on the team, but these girls are so unique and intelligent we really don’t have that,” Gliwa-Bell said. “All of these girls just get along, a lot play other sports, are in honors classes and they really just have a lot of fun and comradery when they’re together on the court and off.”

For the Lions a hard fought battle in the first set was offset in the second set, which first year head coach Bonnie Pettigrew said was caused my too many miscues.

Pettigrew is the fifth coach in the last five years.

“We made four errors in the first 20 points in the first set,” Pettigrew said. “In the second set we made nine out of the last 11 errors so we just weren’t controlling our side of the court.”

With four seniors, four juniors and five sophomores on the roster, Pettigrew said she has expected growing pains, but the experience from the sophomores will benefit her team in the future.

“We usually start about three sophomores on the team so that valuable time they’re getting on

varsity will really help them on and our team in the future,” Pettigrew said. “We started off really slow so that obviously hurt us but we’re growing and learning so I know we will keep getting better.”

Although Lisle has struggled, it has won three out of their last eight games, and is heading in the right direction.

“One of our sophomores Zoey Sharafinski is our lead point earner serving and attacking and all that so we’re really high on her and our other younger girls to lead the way in the future to get back on track,” Pettigrew said.

Downers North coach Mike Schmitt encourages Hansen to do so.

“You couldn’t ask for a better start,” Schmitt said. “He got the ball and we were all yelling at him to shoot.

“He took it and from our angle it looked like it was veering pretty far wide but it was a perfectly-placed shot, right into the top corner. It was a fantastic way to start, especially in an atmosphere at a game like this.”

Bull increased the lead to 2-0 when he bent in a corner kick at the 26:14 mark of the first half. The Trojans made it 3-0 at the 14:01 mark when Jose Perez booted home a cross from Hansen.

Few people anticipated South making a comeback at that

point, but the Mustangs never lost confidence.

“Some people might have (doubted us) but in the locker room we were just telling each other keep our heads up, we got this, we can do this, nothing is impossible,” Venouziou said.

“We can win or tie this game and that’s what happened.”

While Hansen would have preferred a victory, he said the Trojans can learn some lessons from the result.

“We had a really good first half and we had a really good buildup,” Hansen said. “We’ve just to got to keep our composure in the second half. (If we had) we would have won the game.”

Not to mention the new trophy.

“It’s already such an energetic game on its own and we wanted to add something to it,” Schmitt said of the new tradition. “It’s something tangible that you can hold onto and have for a year.

“This was a fantastic game on both sides. We had a really good half, dominated the play and had a lot of opportunities. They came out and really took over the second half.”

Players, especially those who will be back next year, said the new trophy enhances the rivalry.

“I think it definitely does,” Bull said. “Obviously, it’s the first year of doing it and everybody is motivated to grab that trophy and keep it for the whole year.”

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