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Dold, Schneider trade barbs on Revved-up Carr raves guns & more BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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ep. Robert Dold (R-Kenilworth) and former Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Deerfield) were quick to criticize each as they tried to show voters how they differ while agreeing on several issues. They discussed gun control, the Middle East, campaign finance reform, social security and more during a League of Women Voters forum October 16 in Lake Forest. Schneider and Dold are competing against each other for the third time since 2012, seeking the right to represent the 10th Congressional District in Congress. The election is on November 8. Both candidates said they favored legislation geared to reduce gun violence, including a law not allowing people barred from boarding an airliner from buying firearms. Dold said he has introduced legislation with that provision. It has not received a vote in the House of Representatives. Schneider criticized Dold for not signing a Democratic petition Continued on PG 12
about Paralympic rugby talent in Rio BY JULIE KEMP PICK DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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game that’s played on a regulation basketball court with an object resembling volleyball isn’t as tame as it seems. “If you get into a wheelchair and you try to play Wheelchair Rugby against those players, it will humble you, because they make it look so easy, but it’s not,” said Mitch Carr, general manager of the Recreation Center of Highland Park. “As an able-bodied athlete trying to maneuver that chair, they can lock you up, so you can’t move and you feel helpless.” Carr was one of two Americans who officiated at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby Games in Rio de Janeiro. He officiated at the Great Britain/Canada game, which was the medal qualifier
Mitch Carr talks about Wheelchair Rugby at the Highland Park Recreation Center. He was one of two Americans who officiated at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby Games in Rio de Janeiro. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
that went into overtime with seven seconds left on the clock. Canada won the game. Carr also officiated in the 2012 London Games. He said both London and Rio had similarities as well as differences, but the biggest similarity
was the number fans that came out to support the athletes. Local-level games with recently injured athletes might draw a crowd of 50 or 100 people in the stands, he said. “But in Rio when the athletes are representing their country
and put in front of 14,000 fans, it gives you chills, and the energy in the stadium is something that will always stick with me,” he added. “A lot of the Paralympic sports go hand in hand with (their) Olympic counterparts,
but a sport like Wheelchair Rugby isn’t like rugby,” he said. “If you’ve never seen Wheelchair Rugby it’s just amazing that the chairs look like something out of Mad Max and how aggressive
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