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Thursday, August 7, 2014
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Orland Park Deputy Village Clerk Joseph S. La Margo speaks with Ishnala Woods residents soon after the start of Monday’s Village Board meeting to offer them personal meetings with village staff and assure them that government is working on flooding-related issues.
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The Boardwalk of Palos Heights plans to narrow its proposed signature boardwalk from 60 down to 30 feet wide in order to conform with the number of spaces required for the development by the letter of law of city code. That code has changed little since Harlem Avenue’s heyday as a shopping destination shown in this photo of the Sidewalk Sale 50 years ago this week in 1964. For the second summer in a row, the Palos Area Chamber of Commerce has not held a Sidewalk Sale.
Ishnala Woods Heights stuck on Free Parking joins Maycliff in city’s Advance to Boardwalk to hit flooding by Jack Murray The Regional editor
by Tim Hadac staff reporter Purple storm clouds rolled behind the heads of Orland Park Village Board members Monday night, as about a dozen Orland Park homeowners voiced their frustration with flooding and what some say are years of mostly unkept promises by local government. The complaints were essentially a continuation of the earful that Orland Park board members received on July 21 from about two dozen residents of the Maycliff subdivision. “I’ve lived in my neighborhood for 45 years, and many of my neighbors have been there 50 years,” said Katherine Champion, a Maycliff resident. “So it’s taken a half century for people to realize that this is a severe, severe problem.”
Champion is “really concerned” about the fact that flooding in newer subdivisions “are being taken care of before ours,” she added. “Maycliff is a nice neighborhood, filled with nice people who pay their taxes and maintain their homes,” she concluded. “We do not deserve to be ignored, as we have been for far too many years.” Most of those who came to Monday’s board meeting are residents of the Ishnala Woods subdivision. Some of their criticisms did not make it into the public record, because they were offered premeeting access to Village Manager Paul Grimes and Village Infrastructure Maintenance Director in a room upstairs in Village Hall. “We’ve had flooding, not just (See Flooding, Page 4)
Orland Chamber urges decision in sign debate by Tim Hadac staff reporter A decision in the ongoing debate over whether Orland Park should allow electronic message boards to be used as part of businesses’ outdoor signs was postponed at Monday night’s Village Board meeting. Trustee Kathleen M. Fenton moved to postpone the issue, unanimously approved by trustees, until the board’s Aug. 18 meeting. Absent was Trustee James V. Dodge Jr., a critic of electronic message boards, who has in the past talked about the importance of maintaining a “certain aesthetic” in the village that could be damaged by gaudy outdoor signs. The matter, discussed on and off since 2010 by village officials, was delayed two more weeks to allow village staff time to finalize any recommendations they have
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Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce President Rob Wehmeier urges the mayor and trustees to move forward and make a decision on whether or not the village will allow electronic message boards on outdoor signs and under what conditions.
Although the incredibly shrinking boardwalk in the proposed Boardwalk of Palos Heights gets narrower and narrower to make room for the parking necessary to comply with a dated city code, the revised plan to transform the field of weeds that once contained Crown, then Rizza Buick at Route 83 and Harlem Avenue won a positive recommendation by a city planning panel on Monday. The Palos Heights Planned Unit Development (PUD) Commisssion voted unanimously to approve the final plat of survey for the mixed-use retail, restaurants, offices, hotel and multifamily residential building, but not without stipulating conditions the development group must fulfill in order to reach final approval by the City Council. The Boardwalk group’s spokesman Charles “Chuck” Allenson explained the revised and refined plans to PUD commissioners, including the three aldermen who sit on it. The revisions reduce the number of planned eateries in the portion of the parcel closest to Harlem from eight to five. He noted that he and other representatives of managing partner John Livaditis have met with members of the Palos Heights Fire Protection District, the city’s consulting engineer, Morris Engineering, and Lake Katherine Nature Center. The Boardwalk has agreed to contribute up to $200,000 to meet Lake Katherine’s “wish list” for its eastern preserve bounded by the Boardwalk to the north, Allenson told the PUD panel. Despite the ear candy Allenson fed to them of all the good things the development would bring to Palos Heights as a “community
center,” however, it soon because apparent to Alderman Alan Fulkerson and the other PUD commissioners that the Boardwalk still must obtain state, Metropolitan Water District and other regulatory approval for many crucial aspects of its plans to be realized. “How can we give final approval if you don’t have a final traffic plan?” Fulkerson demanded to know. It was Fulkerson, an attorney, who penned during the hearing a short and stringent list of conditions necessary for the Boardwalk to complete for the PUD panel to approve the development’s final plat. He listed them firmly and succinctly just before the unanimous vote to approve: A tax increment financing (TIF) agreement must be reached between the city and the developer. The Boardwalk must obtain Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) approval for a traffic light signal at 71st Avenue and turning lanes into and out of the complex. MWRD approval of all aspects of all storm drainage and other aspects of the development under its jurisdiction prior to May 1 of 2015. The plan is to tap the Boardwalk’s storm drainage into the MWRD system near the Calumet-Sag Channel, or barring that, the far more costly route of connecting into the drainage system at Oak Park Avenue. Completion of final landscaping, parking, fire access and lighting engineering plans and a traffic study. Fire Chief Tim Sarhage had made clear at Monday’s hearing that the fire district needs at least two access points for its engines to reach the planned 4-story condo building at the parcel’s eastern edge at 70th Avenue.
A connection between the Boardwalk with the Cal-Sag bicycle path that has been started along the channel. Those stipulations taken together are likely to delay City Council approval, and could quash Allenson’s optimistic projection in last week’s Regional that ground may be broken as early as fall. Allenson has said that if all goes smoothly, the restaurants, retail and offices will open sometime in 2015, with the hotel and condominium building following in 2016.
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PUD commissioners weighed in with other objections before the final vote – targeting the narrowing of the Boardwalk planned along the northern edge of the development between it and the wilds of buckthorn and other invasive species to be cleared along the Cal-Sag for the bike path. “This boardwalk keeps getting shorter and shorter,” one commissioner said, meaning narrower and narrower, “from 60 down to 30 to 25 feet” wide in the developers’ various plans in the plat of survey packets given to commissioners. The narrowing of the boardwalk—the entire centerpiece of the plan—was necessary to create more parking spaces in order to conform with the city’s own parking requirements, Allenson and his civil engineer Kevin Coughlin explained to the PUD commissioners, who count among them sticklers to uphold the city’s dated parking requirements for any and all new developments without a variance. Mike Coogan had run into the same old-school attitude from some parking-minded PUD commissioners when he presented plans for Palos Place.
It is also the city’s own parking requirements that create the sea of asphalt, or “blacktop,” that Alderman Jack Clifford bemoaned, and suggested be ameliorated with landscaping elements. Not one single member of the PUD commission suggested that city might loosen with variances its number-of-spaces parking requirements to enhance or retain the width of the boardwalk, and prevent a wide-open sea of blacktop from destroying the aesthetic appearance of what could be Palos Heights’ signature development. As blacktopped lots behind businesses along Harlem crumble and fill with water after the polar vortex, the question for aldermen and the City Council is: Must the city impose on the Boardwalk the same dinosaur-days parking requirements left over from the 1960s and ’70s when the stores along Harlem Avenue were many, varied and busy places, in a thriving business community that was able to sustain a Sidewalk Sale on the magnitude of that shown 50 years ago in the photo above? Harlem has fallen far from its heyday, as the lack of enough stores to even hold a Sidewalk Sale for the second year in a row attests. And that leads to the big question Carol Stefan posed at Monday’s PUD hearing, to which she was not given much of an answer. Looking at all the vacant retail spaces in Palos Heights, who is going to come in and fill all these stores the Boardwalk plans to build? she wanted to know. That and how much money the city will be asked to issue in TIF bonds to help finance the project are among the biggest of unanswered questions in Palos Heights’ biggest marathon—the Boardwalk approval process — ahead.
on the sometimes touchy issue. Three local business leaders who came to the meeting to have their say, did exactly that, despite the postponement, and at the invitation of Mayor Daniel McLaughlin. “There is a matter of importance on this,” said Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce President Rob Wehmeier. “There are businesses up and down [La Grange Road] that are required to move their signs [due to the road’s widening and reconstruction], and they’ve already gotten a letter about how they need to remove their signs or the signs will be removed for them. “I think it’s important for [village officials] to make a decision so that the businesses know where they stand, whether they can have [signs with electronic message boards] or whether they can’t. “Businesses really can’t just take their signs down and leave themselves without signs,” Wehmeier added, saying that the time is now to make a decision, because businesses need to make decisions now on what kind of signs they will erect when the road project ends next year. “Businesses cannot be without a sign. People will think they are closed, so I’d like to recommend that we get moving on this.” Also weighing in was Lori Stengren, sales, merchandising and marketing vice president of Darvin Furniture, 15400 S. La Grange Road. “We are currently in compliance, in terms of taking our sign down and are paying storage [fees] on that sign until a decision is Submitted photo made,” she said, noting that the sign is “historical” and something the family-owned company feels proud of. As she has several times at The Crisis Center for South Suburbia Auxiliary plans its annual Walk Against Domestic Violence this Saturday, Aug. 9, at Lake Katherine past board meetings, she said that Nature Preserve in Palos Heights. Darvin supports electronic mesShown are members of the planning committee at last week’s Palos Heights farmers Market. sage boards and urged officials “to Check-in and registration at the Walk begin at 8:30 a.m. Registration fee is $15 for adults; children 12 and under walk for free. In addiembrace technology and use it to tion to the walk, participants can get a blood pressure check and enter a raffle for varied prizes, including a $100 gift card. Proceeds will benefit the Crisis Center’s emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence. To download a printable registration form, (See Orland signs, Page 4) visit the Crisis Center’s website at crisisctr.org/events/ccss-auxiliary. For more information, call 312-448-3192.
Walk against Domestic Violence at Lake Katherine
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Good candidates urged to run for school board by Karen P. Wright The next election for the District 128 Board of Education will be held in April, 2015. The process to get on the ballot will start in late September. The Palos Heights School District 128 Board of Education governs one of the largest agencies in our community and is responsible for numerous important functions. The Board sets policies and standards affecting the future of every child in the district. Three seats on the sevenmember Board of Education will be filled at the April, 2015 election. All of the seats are full, four-year terms, expiring in April, 2019. I am writing to urge District 128 residents to consider running for these important positions. As a parent in this district, I would be thrilled to see a number of people run — so that we have many qualified, committed candidates to choose from. I also think that it would be great to see candidates from a variety of backgrounds — finance, accounting, education, law, social work, stay at home parents, special education, marketing, business, etc. I believe that diversity on the Board is critical since it has such broad responsibilities. To be eligible to serve, a school board member must be a U.S. citizen, at least 18 years of age, a registered voter, and a resident of Illinois & of District 128 for at least one year. The school board election is nonpartisan and board candidates do not run under political party affiliation. What exactly does the Board do? According to the IASB’s guide “Your School Board & You”: “The ultimate responsibility for education rests with the state of Illinois. The state has seen fit to delegate much of that responsibility to the local school board. School boards — although elected locally — are state agencies carrying out a state function. While school boards are granted wide latitude in governing their schools, they are subject to numerous state laws and regulations. Perhaps the single most important job of a school board is to employ a superintendent and to hold him or her responsible for managing the schools in accordance with state law and
the school board’s policies. The board also should set educational goals for the schools — based on state laws and community values — and see that the superintendent and the total staff vigorously pursue those goals.” The types of topics that I have observed the Board discussing at board meetings and/or read about in meeting minutes include: The district budget, finances, and expenses. State mandated initiatives (like Common Core) and how they are being implemented at the schools. Test results (MAP, ISAT). Employee / personnel issues (staffing needs, contracts, retirement, FMLA, etc). Enrollment and registration. Managing and improving district property, facilities, and other resources. Litigation. Student services (such as bus services). District initiatives (such as updating our report cards). District programs (such as when the district decided to offer all-day kindergarten). District audits. Student and teacher recognition. The school calendar. ……According to the Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB), the average board member spends 10 to 20 hours a month on board work. Some less, some more. District 128 has a monthly Board meeting that is typically held on the second Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. The next two Board meetings are Wednesday, Aug. 13, and Wednesday, Sept. 17. Both meetings are at 7 p.m. at the district offices. If you haven’t been to a meeting before, please come to see what they’re all about. Agendas and minutes from previous board meetings can be found on the district website at www. palos128.org. Click on the School Board tab and then on Board Meeting Agendas and Minutes. The Illinois Association of School Boards website also has a lot of great information: www.iasb.com. I am grateful to live in such a wonderful school district. And I think that it is so important that we participate in our community wherever and however we can. Being on the school board probably isn’t for everyone. But those of you that would be a good fit, I hope that you’ll consider it.
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Readers Write Many thanks for biggest, best Classic Car Event
really starting to show. Bob Starzyk Palos Heights
Dear Editor: My name is Bob Starzyk and I’m the co-chair of the Palos Heights Classic Car Event. In the representation of our Car Classic Committee, I would like to voice appreciation in making this event a success. We would like to thank all the merchants on Harlem Avenue. We understand that some of the businesses do very well on the day of the car show. On the other hand, other businesses have to sacrifice that day, and we want to thank them the most for tolerating the car show. Our committee and I would like to thank the city of Palos Heights especially the Police Department that controls the show that night and makes everyone safe. We would also want to thank the Fire Dept. for letting us use their building as our car show central. Great thanks are given to the Public Works Dept. that helped set up, take down and had everything cleaned up by 9 a.m. the next morning and it did not looked like we had a huge event the night before. Further, we would like to express our appreciation to the city administrative staff and our numerous generous sponsors that made this year fund raiser one of the most successful. Thank you to all of the Classic Car Committee and Beautification Committee members, also all volunteers that night. We would like you to remember that this is the fundraiser for the Beautification Committee and if you look around our town, the work we do is
Dumbed down and frivolous society Dear Editor: What an absolutely perfect illustration of what is happening to our youth of today as portrayed in your cartoon last Thursday, July 24, in your newspaper. “Reaching for the Stars” — on the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. Carol Falkner Palos Heights Editor: That cartoon poked fun at today’s youth, comparing a boy’s ambition to become an astronaut in 1969 during the moon landing to a fatter, lazier boy’s ambition in 2014 to star on a reality TV show.
Summer Reading says big thanks Dear Editor: The Youth Services Department would like to thank everyone involved for another successful year of summer reading at the Palos Heights Public Library! Our theme this summer was “Paws to Read”, and hundreds of local children and teens did just that, coming to the library each week to take part in our reading program and events. During June and July, we registered a total of 563 participants (450 children and 113 teens) who read a total of 373,441 minutes. The goal for children of all ages was to read for 20 minutes a day, five days a week, for a total of 100 minutes each week. We were pleasantly surprised to find that many children read well over 100 minutes each week. A record 54 percent of
the participants completed the program by July 31. We would like to thank local businesses for their generous support of our summer reading program. Donated prizes from these businesses helped motivate kids and teens to keep reading this summer. Thanks go out to: Applebees, Aurelio’s Pizza, Breadsmith, Brookfield Zoo, DuPage Children’s Museum, Flying High Gym, Jewel Osco, Jullianni’s, Krazy Nails, McDonalds, Merci Nails, Nick’s BBQ, Natalie Light/ Noah’s Ark, Oak Forest Bowl, Oak Lawn Children’s Museum, Palos Heights Parks and Recreation Department, Pop’s Italian Beef, Raging Waves Water Park, Sam’s Club, The Shedd Aquarium, Standard Bank and Trust, Target, Tastee Freez, Walgreens, Wendy’s, and the Windy City Thunderbolts. Also, special thanks to Dr. Jeff Sankey from Palos Animal Hospital, Officer David Staszak and Harry of the Orland Park Police Department, and Gareth Blakesley of Lake Katherine, who donated their time and shared their work with the community this summer. Thank you to our teen volunteers for sharing their time and talents with us this summer. More than 20 teens volunteered for more than 150 hours during June and July. We couldn’t provide such a wide variety of activities without their help. Lastly, thank you to all of the parents who brought their children to the library this summer to take part in our program. We hope that you will continue to take advantage of what the library can offer for your family during the school year as well! Debbie Larsen Head of Youth Services Palos Heights Public Library
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What is your favorite part of a community fest? (Asked at Ridge Fest in Chicago Ridge)
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Joe Riesler, Palos Heights “The beer.”
Lidia Molina, Alsip Justina Molina, Alsip “Fireworks and the funnel cake, “The live entertainment.” of course.”
Stephanie Oberbeck Evergreen Park “Hanging out and listening to music.“
Anthony Melendez Evergreen Park “Seeing the community come together and having fun.”
The Regional News Thursday, August 7, 2014
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The front steps at Stagg High School, 8015 W. 111th St., Palos Hills were reduced to rubble last month as part of a $103,000 project to replace cracked sidewalks around the perimeter of the building. The steps, used by literally thousands of students, faculty, staff, parents and visitors since concrete
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was last poured in 2000, had been sinking into the soil beneath, causing cracks at several points. Temporary fencing frames the new steps this week, and permanent railings are expected to be installed by the time teachers report for duty next Thursday, according to School District 230 Director of Communications Carla Erdey.
Dist. 230 Foundation funds special projects by Tim Hadac staff reporter Ten teacher-driven projects in High School District 230 will move forward this fall, thanks to grants from the district’s charitable arm. The awards totaling $25,500 were announced at last Thursday’s District 230 board of education meeting, held at the administrative center, 15100 S. 94th Ave., Orland Park. “The District 230 Foundation Board was very impressed with these projects,” said foundation President Ann Oliver. “We look forward to seeing these ideas come to life for the district’s students.” The $25,500 donated this year is part of more than $150,00 the foundation has donated to its high schools—Sandburg, Stagg and Andrew—in seven years. “It’s a hefty sum that the foundation gives every year,” said Dr. James Gay, district superintendent. “A lot of people work very hard on fundraising to make this happen.” Getting students excited about robotics and its wide range of possibilities in the 21st century is the focus of a $2,000 grant to Stagg
High School teachers Chris Komer and Izz Matariyeh. “The foundation really saves our butt,” Matariyeh said. “We use every bit of what’s in our bank account every year, and without their assistance, we’d be counting pennies. This grant allows us to focus on learning instead of fundraising.” About 45 students at Stagg participate in the STEM Robotics program at the school. It is an extra-curricular activity, and while those participating receive no credit, they make up for it with enthusiasm. The program’s focus is for students to work as a team and compete in the annual Midwest Regional FIRST Robotics Competition, an international, three-day event showcasing robots designed, built and operated by teams of high school students over a sixweek period. The competition is “pretty intense,” Matariyeh said, and a lot of fun. Last year’s competition required students to build a robot that could perform on a basketball court, scoring points on offense and blocking shots on defense. “Our students get excited about the whole thing,” he added. “They
arrive early to school, and they stay late, sometimes until midnight.” He said that a number of the students in the program “are not on sports or necessarily hooked into any other [extra-curricular] groups at the school,” and might otherwise be relatively idle at home. Aside from being “a blast of fun,” Matariyeh said students in the program—now in its fourth year at Stagg—learn vital realworld skills like planning, teamwork, problem solving, attention to detail, and working within a multi-lingual, multi-cultural setting, as the students typically collaborate via the Internet with their peers from around the world. The experience also helps push science-minded students towards robotics, a still-expanding field with practical applications from outer space to deep beneath the earth’s surface, and all points between. Expanding the three schools’ digital libraries and encouraging students to use them will be assisted by a $6,000 grant. Each school plans to expand its collection of “eBooks, audio books, eTextbooks and video streaming,”
Man in SUV exposes himself to woman walking on 123rd by Tim Hadac staff reporter
ately stepped away from the vehicle and called her husband, as the SUV drove away. Palos Park police said last week She described the offender that they were investigating a re- white, about 50 years old, with port of indecent exposure. a thin build and salt-and-pepper A woman told police that while hair. she was walking in the 8100 block The vehicle is described as a of West 123rd Street in the late Ford Escape or Buick Enclave, morning of July 30, a man driving with “possible” Illinois license a white SUV pulled up and asked plate numbers that include for directions to Palos Community “K3949,” police said. Hospital. Those with relevant information As the victim leaned forward to share about the July 30 incident to respond to his question, she are encouraged to call Palos Park noticed that he was massaging police at 671-3770 or 448-2191 and his exposed penis, she told police. refer to case number 1214-9208. The woman said she immediIn the wake of the incident, Po-
lice Chief Joe Miller has issued several crime prevention tips. • Be careful and always your instincts. • If you fear you are being followed, err on the side of caution and assume that person is dangerous • Don’t go straight home, because you don’t want the person to know where you live • Make sure your car doors are locked • Get a license plate number if you can • Call 911 or drive directly to the nearest police station and ask for help
Palos man taken for $13,000 by con man posing as IRS agent by Tim Hadac staff reporter A 74-year-old Palos Park man was bilked out of $13,000 last Thursday by a confidence artist posing as an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent. The victim received a phone call at about 9:30 a.m. from a man who identified himself as IRS agent “Jack Copper,” according to Palos park Police Chief Joe Miller. The victim’s caller ID display showed 1-800-829-1040, an actual IRS phone number. However, Miller said, the phone number was clearly spoofed—stolen temporarily for the purposes of fraud—by the con artist. The fake IRS agent then told the victim that he is delinquent on his taxes since 2001-06 and owes $4,400 to the government. “Lose your house or pay your debt,” the impostor told the victim, according to Miller. The victim then drove to a Marquette Bank location with instructions to obtain a Green Dot MoneyPak card and then share the card numbers with “Jack Copper,” which he did. In the wake of the crime, Miller shared advice relating to scams, taken from IRS website (IRS.gov). Earlier this year, the IRS warned consumers to guard against “sophisticated and aggressive phone scams targeting taxpayers, including recent im-
migrants, as reported incidents of this crime continue to rise nationwide.” The IRS will always send taxpayers a written notification of any tax due via the U.S. mail, the agency stated. The IRS never asks for credit card, debit card or prepaid card information over the telephone. For more information or to report a scam, go to www.irs.gov and type “scam” in the search box. The agency cautioned about “a particularly aggressive phone scam” in which “potential victims are threatened with deportation, arrest, having their utilities shut off, or having their driver’s licenses revoked. Callers are frequently insulting or hostile, apparently to scare their potential victims.” Potential victims may be told they are entitled to big refunds, or that they owe money that must be paid immediately to the IRS. When unsuccessful the first time, sometimes phone scammers call back trying a new strategy. Other characteristics of this scam include: • Scammers use fake names and IRS badge numbers. They generally use common names and surnames to identify themselves. • Scammers may be able to recite the last four digits of a victim’s Social Security number. • Scammers spoof the IRS toll-free number on caller ID to make it appear that it’s the IRS calling.
• Scammers sometimes send bogus IRS emails to some victims to support their bogus calls. • Victims hear background noise of other calls being conducted to mimic a call site. • After threatening victims with jail time or driver’s license revocation, scammers hang up and others soon call back pretending to be from the local police or another government agency, and the caller ID supports their claim. Those who receive a phone call from someone claiming to be from the IRS, should hang up and then report the incident promptly to local police. The IRS added that those who owe taxes or think they might should call the IRS at 1-800-8291040. The IRS employees at that line can help with a payment issue, if there really is such an issue. Those who don’t owe taxes or have no reason to think that they owe any taxes should report the incident to local police, as well as the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 1-800-366-4484. IRS officials added that those who believe they have been targeted by a con artist pretending to be an IRS agent should also contact the Federal Trade Commission and use their “FTC Complaint Assistant” at FTC. gov and use add “IRS Telephone Scam” to the contents of the complaint.
according to a district fact sheet. The expansion will be accomplished through OverDrive, a Cleveland, Ohio-based company that supplies eBooks, audiobooks, streaming video and other digital services to 30,000 libraries worldwide. The expansion will encourage students to read more by giving them 24-hour access to library materials, every day of the year. That expanded access to knowledge is quite a leap from the state of school libraries in 1996, when Stagg librarian La ura Begani began her career. “There was nothing like this back then,” she said. “If you
wanted a school library book in the summer, well, the library was closed. We’re moving forward, and we’re grateful for this assistance from the foundation.” Using nature as a learning tool is the focus of a $2,500 grant to “green” the outdoor classroom established in 2012 at Andrew High School. The funds will help pay for gutters, rain barrels, compost bins and more, encouraging students to better understand the importance of being good stewards of the environment, according to biology teacher Laura Kirby. “Not a lot of biology teachers take their kids outside any
more,” Kirby said. “We’ve used the outdoor classroom to plant milkweed to encourage monarch butterflies, we’ve conducted experiments about acid rain, and much more.” The classroom is also used for parenting classes, in which students interact with preschoolers, Kirby said, and she encourages all educators at the school to use the outdoor classroom as a teaching tool. “Kids need to reconnect with the environment.” Some of the other projects funded by the foundation encourage learning in physical fitness, sports medicine, foreign languages, writing, and history.
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The Regional News Thursday, August 7, 2014
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Taste of Orland Park grows as tourism draw Orland Park officials were still grappling Tuesday with calculating a final estimate of the huge crowds The Southwest Symphony Orchestra had a booth on the Taste grounds for the first time this year. They attracted to last weekend’s three-day Taste of Orland Park food, music and entertainment festival. brought a violin and the coming season’s concert schedule programs. The first one is Suite Overtures People came from near and as far as across the country to attend the village’s ever-popular Taste, on Sept. 28. Representing the Symphony Sunday were Rosanne Arnold (left) and Mary Ann Anifer. organizers noted. The three rows of food booths representing a large cross section of Orland Park’s scores of restaurants drew large crows of hungry people sampling the fare at reasonable prices. Community organizations manned booths at the fest, including Orland Township, where Charlotte A vast throng estimated by police at more than 5,000 people “on the grass,” not counting hundreds Reynolds (left) and Hailey Farrell, both of Orland Park, played a ring toss game, aiming to ring pencils others milling around the food booths and elsewhere on the Taste grounds of the Civic Center, watch a for prizes late Sunday afternoon (photos clockwise from top left). routine heavy on acrobatics by the Sandburg High School cheerleaders. They wowed the Taste-goers Orland Lions Club President Steve Anton called bingo games inside the cool of the civic center before headliner Beatles tribute band American English took the main stage to culminate Sunday’s Sunday, splitting the pot of each game between shouting Bingo! winners and the Lions. entertainment on the final night of Taste of Orland Park
Heights Classic Car group earns praise by Tim Hadac staff reporter
“And we can’t wait to spend the money on different projects,” responded Committee Co-Chair Palos Heights Classic Car Event John Hanley, alluding to the Committee members took a bow range of municipal beautificaat Tuesday night’s City Council tion efforts the event has made meeting for what Co-Chairman possible in recent years. Bob Starzyk called “probably “That’s what it comes down one of our best years for fun- to,” Straz concluded. “People draising before and during the helping out and working for show,” although a dollar amount our city.” has not been released for the July 17 event. Library board Starzyk and about 10 commit- appointments tee members were on hand to Also Tuesday night, a motion award two minor prizes--$500 and by Straz to make three appoint$250—connected with the event’s ments to the Palos Heights Public raffle, the financial engine of the Library Board of Trustees was event. The top three prize win- put on ice by aldermen. Alderman ners, including a Highland, Ind., Jack Clifford (2nd Ward) made a man who won the 1967 Buick motion, seconded by Alderman Skylark grand prize, were not Jerry McGovern (4th Ward), to on hand. table the appointments of JenStarzyk thanked the event’s nifer Georgis and Patricia Glynn, corporate sponsors, as well as city as well as the re-appointment of departments, for their support. William Poore. “If you went there on Friday The motion to table was passed morning, it didn’t look like we’d on a unanimous voice vote. had an event there at all,” StarClifford said he made the mozyk said as a compliment to city tion in the interest of gaining crews that cleaned up after the “further insight” and added that nearly 5,000 people who attended Alderman Don Bylut (1st Ward), the event along Harlem Avenue. who was absent Tuesday night, “Bob, you didn’t mention your- should be included in deliberation self, and I saw you everywhere on the proposed appointments. in the world with that car [sellThe motion is expected to be ing raffle tickets and promoting heard again at the next City the event],” said Mayor Robert Council meeting, set for 7 p.m. Straz to Starzyk. “You put a lot Tuesday, Aug. 19 at City Hall, of time and effort into this, and 7607 W. College Drive. I’ve heard nothing but accolades The Council granted a liquor as far as what we did there. So license to Trio bar and restauthank you.” rant, 11845 S. Southwest High-
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him, and we expect to see some results in the near future.” Mayor Daniel McLaughlin re(Continued from page 1) sponded to the complaints with observations similar to those he the last several rains we’ve had,” made on July 21. said Mike Srdanovic later at the “A lot of these things take a lot lectern, as he addressed “I’m not longer than you think,” he said, going to get into all the details, adding that it is of “debatable” because we did just meet with merit to blame village officials for Paul and John. We are seeing an flooding of the last 50 years, if only abnormal amount of ponding on because decades ago, “streets were the streets, in front of the homes, designed to hold the water, instead behind the homes. There seems to of retention ponds” and therefore be a lot of capacity issues, not just keep it away from homes. in the subdivision, but in Ishnala “I don’t know that we’ve igWoods Park.” nored anybody for 50 years,” the Srdanovic, a 12-year resident of mayor added. “I think we try to Ishnala Woods, also complained work with the situation.” about what he said are frequent McLaughlin noted that the vilinterruptions of ComEd electri- lage’s budget planning process will cal service. begin soon and that “flooding and “I guess the good thing for us is neighborhood road improvement that the village manager does live programs are probably our biggest in the subdivision, as well, so he’s point of discussion. We’re trying well aware of it,” he concluded. to find money to fix as many “We had a good conversation with problems as we can.
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Palos Heights Class Car Event Co-Chairman Bob Starzyk, flanked by committee members, thanks corporate sponsors, city officials, volunteers and everyone who made this year’s event arguably the most successful ever. Starzyk said the group is looking for volunteers to join the committee and help plan the 2015 event. way. New owner Marie Joyce, a Tinley Park resident, said she has restaurant experience dating back to when she was a teenager working at the ShowBiz Pizza Place in Oak Lawn (today known as Chuck E. Cheese). She is currently the manager of Elks Lodge 2254, 10720 S. Central Ave., Chicago Ridge. Joyce said she has no immediate plans to change hours or anything else at Trio, and looks forward to operating the establishment as a family business. Also, longtime Palos Heights residents Dennis and Judy Wierzal complained about a neighbor they said is dumping garbage in her backyard for about the last 18 months. They said the matter is becoming a public health concern, since the food waste accumulating in the yard will attract rats and
other vermin. Straz responded by saying, “One of the problems—and I’m not making excuses—we can cite people [for municipal code violations], but there’s a deeper problem there that’s got to be addressed at some point in time, so we’ll be looking for an alternative, an answer to that question, too.” Due to privacy concerns, he did not elaborate publicly on what the “deeper problem” is, but pledged that city officials “will do something about this in the next couple of days.” Finally, the mayor declared Aug. 3-9 to be National Farmers Market Week in Palos Heights and encouraged everyone to visit the city’s market, held from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Wednesday at a municipal parking lot near 122nd Street and Harlem Avenue.
“You might not believe me, but I would say that I don’t think anybody here has ignored anybody,” he continued. “We’re trying to address issues as we’re going along, and then you find out things are worse than you expected, or a new storm will come along with more rain in a shorter period of time, and it exposes other problems. “This last storm on Mother’s Day and then two or three days later were so bad, it exposed a lot of flooding issues all over town that really were never much of a problem,” he added. Trustee Edward G. Schussler III addressed the issue of some residents believing that some subdivisions’ flooding problems are being fixed before others. “At any point in time, Public Works normally has several projects ongoing,” he said noting that the board’s Public Works Committee early in the evening approved initial engineering work to
address flooding in the Parkview Estates subdivision. “Maycliff’s engineering has been in the works for several years, and is 90 percent completed as of today. Maycliff’s situation is also complicated, due to the fact that in addition to looking at storm sewers, Maycliff’s work will also involve water main replacement and street renovation. Schussler pointed out that Maycliff was built before it was annexed by the village, and construction projects in unincorporated Cook County were built under standards that were “a lot looser than municipal standards, and we’re having to contend with that situation. That’s not an excuse, and we still have to address these [flooding] concerns and will, but it is an explanation.” The next Orland Park Village Board meeting is set for 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18 at Village Hall, 14700 S. Ravinia Ave.
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Palos Heights Mayor Robert Straz (right) speaks to longtime homeowners Dennis and Judy Wierzal at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. He explained what he said are the limitations of what city officials can do to address a “nuisance neighbor” situation, yet pledged to take action regarding their complaint about a neighbor.
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Las Vegas-type of affair…it will be toned down and tasteful. “Road signs and message boards (Continued from page 1) are a key part of our marketing,” Schwarting continued. Newspaper its best advantage.” She repeated ads and TV commercials are efher assertion that under the cur- fective, he said, but need more rent prohibition of electronic mes- immediate reinforcement by outsage boards, Darvin employees use door signs. ladders to change their manual He added that he “has a little board “letter by letter, rather than problem” with being allowed to being able to go on a laptop and change a message on an electronic make a change.” board just once every 24 hours, Greg Schwarting, owner of as village officials have proposed McDonald’s, 14445 S. La Grange in the past. “I serve breakfast, Road, talked about his commit- lunch, snack time, dinner time ment to the village. and so forth,” and need to change “I’m rebuilding that restaurant the message a few times a day. completely,” he said. “We’re tearing it down completely and putting up a brand new restaurant that will open in the spring.” He added that he is “very much in favor of electronic message boards. I think they’re contemporary and make good use of technology. It’s not going to be a
The Regional News Thursday, August 7, 2014
Driver charged with aggravated speeding Palos Heights police charged Sahar A. Jallaq, 21, of Chicago Ridge, with aggravated speeding, as well as no proof of insurance. Police curbed her vehicle in the 11800 block of South Harlem Avenue at 12:07 a.m. last Monday, after they said they saw it traveling at 69 mph, 34 mph over the posted limit. Police accepted her driver’s license in lieu of bond, and Jallaq is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on Sept. 16. In other Palos Heights police news, Sohiub Assaf, 19, of Palos Park, was charged with driving on a suspended license, no proof of insurance, and talking on a cell phone while driving. His vehicle was stopped by police in the 7200 block of West 127th Street at 11:29 p.m. last Saturday. Bond was set at $2,000, and Assaf was given a court date of Aug. 22 in Bridgeview. Michael J. Vanberschot, 30, of Orland Park, was charged with DUI, illegal transportation of alcohol, improper lane usage, and failure to wear a seatbelt. His vehicle was pulled over by police in the 7500 block of West 131st Street at 9:15 p.m. last Sunday. Bond was set at $3,000, and Vanberschot is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on Sept. 2. Police charged Audy J. Higgins, 25, of Plainfield, with theft of services, as well as possession of drug paraphernalia. He allegedly hired a cab to transport him from Chicago, but refused to pay and got out in the 12100 block of South Harlem Avenue at 5:06 a.m. last Saturday. Police said that Higgins fled on foot, but they apprehended him a short distance away. He also was found to be in possession of a glass smok-
PALOS HEIGHTS POLICE ing pipe, according to the police report. Bond was set at $1,500, and Higgins is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on Sept. 2. Jason J. Grimes, 39, of Tinley Park, was charged with DUI, no proof of insurance, and improper lane usage. Police curbed his vehicle in the 13500 block of South Ridgeland Avenue at 12:11 a.m. July 29. Bond was set at $1,000, and Grimes was given a court date of Sept. 2 in Bridgeview. Police charged Kourtney K. Hill, 26, of Champaign, with DUI, no proof of insurance, driving without a valid license, and improper u-turn. Police stopped her vehicle in the 12100 block of South Harlem Avenue at 3:31 a.m. July 29. Bond was set at $3,000, and Hill is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on Sept. 2. Moaied S. Maali, 33, of Tinley Park, was charged with DUI, no proof of insurance, and speeding. Her vehicle was pulled over by police in the 13200 block of Ridgeland Avenue at 1:17 a.m. July 30. Bond was set at $1,000, and Maali is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on Sept. 2. Police charged Brian T. Maziarka, 25, of Tinley Park, with DUI, illegal transportation of alcohol, no proof of insurance, and improper lane usage. Police curbed his vehicle in the 13500 block of South Harlem Avenue at 9:48 p.m. last Thursday. Bond was set at $3,000, and Maziarka was given a court date of Aug. 22 in Bridgeview. Alyssa F. Moscoso, 24, of Oak Forest, was charged with driving on a suspended license, as well as
driving without headlights. Police stopped her vehicle in the 12600 block of South Harlem Avenue at 10:58 p.m. last Friday. Bond was set at $1,500, and Moscoso is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on Sept. 2. Police charged Martinice P. Price, 23, of Aurora, with driving on a suspended license. Her vehicle was pulled over by police in the 7100 block of West College Drive at 9:34 p.m. last Saturday, after police said they saw her not wearing a seatbelt. Bond was set at $1,500, and Price is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on Aug. 22. Robert M. O’Donnell, 32, of Willow Springs, was charged with DUI, no proof of insurance, and improper lane usage. Police curbed his vehicle in the 12500 block of South Ridgeland Avenue at 1:39 a.m. last Saturday. Bond was set at $1,000, and O’Donnell was given a court date of Sept. 2 in Bridgeview. Police charged Brian K. Poletto, 40, of Tinley Park, with driving on a suspended license, as well as no proof of insurance. Police stopped his vehicle in the 6400 block of West College Drive at 10:16 a.m. last Sunday after a random registration check. Bond was set at $1,500, and Poletto is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on Sept. 16. Tracy S. Strickland, 25, of Chicago, was charged with driving on a suspended license, no proof of insurance, and improper lane usage. Her vehicle was pulled over by police in the 11900 block of South Harlem Avenue at 3:24 a.m. last Sunday. Cond was set at $2,000, and Strickland is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on Sept. 2.
Man with baby in auto found with heroin: cops Orland Park police charged James T. Egyarto, 23, of Orland Park, with possession of a controlled substance after police on patrol in an Orland Square Mall parking lot saw Egyarto sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked car, using a gas station rewards card to cut heroin, police said. He was arrested at 8:16 p.m. July 9. When questioned, Egyarto reportedly said he had purchased two bags of heroin for $17 in Markham, police said. The police report gave no indication of a court date. Police said that in response to the incident, they contacted the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, because Egyarto’s 5-month-old child was in the back seat of the car at the time with the baby’s mother, according to the police report. Police added that they detected traces of heroin on the car’s back seat. In other Orland Park police news, Eamonn S. O’Connell, 19, of Orland Park, was charged with possession of cannabis, possession of drug paraphernalia, illegal transportation of alcohol, possession of alcohol by a minor, speeding, and driving without headlights on. Police curbed his SUV in the 7700 block of West 157th Street at 8:50 p.m. July 6, after they said they spotting it traveling at 30 mph, 10 mph over the speed limit. A search of the vehicle yielded a plastic bag containing cannabis, two smoking pipes, a grinder, an open bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey, an open bottle of Captain Morgan rum, an open bottle of Fireball cinnamon whiskey, and 20 cans of beer, according to police. The police report, which did not give a court date, noted that neither O’Connell nor his passenger appeared impaired in any way. Ryan J. O’Leary, 34, of Palos Heights, and Andrew C. Roesing, 35, of Crestwood, were charged with possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police said that both men were sitting
ORLAND PARK POLICE in a parked car on a street behind the Marcus Orland Park Cinema, 16350 S. La Grange Road, at 9:06 p.m. July 8. A search of the vehicle yielded a metal box containing cannabis, two glass smoking pipes, and a hookah pen, according to the police report. Both men are scheduled to appear at a hearing at the Orland Park Civic Center on Tuesday. Mark. E. Diver, 24, of Orland Park, was charged with theft of services, as well as resisting arrest. He allegedly refused to pay fare for a taxi ride that began in the Wrigleyville neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side. The cab driver, a 39-year-old Chicago man, told police that Diver exited the cab in the 8800 block of West Maple Drive at 3:43 a.m. July 13 and walked away. The cabbie called police, who said they apprehended Diver a short distance away. He allegedly resisted arrest while police tried to place him in handcuffs, and then later when they tried to place him in a police squad. He denied being a passenger in the cab, according to the police report. Diver is set to appear in court in Bridgeview next Thursday. Police charged Juan C. CruzHernandez, 26, of Orland Park, with driving on a suspended license, no proof of insurance, having an overly loud muffler, and making an improper u-turn. Police responding to a “reckless driver” call at 8:13 p.m. July 13 stopped his car in the 15100 block of South La Grange Road. The vehicle was towed and impounded, and Cruz-Hernandez is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview next Thursday. Benjamin Del Valle, 42, of Orland Park, was charged with possession of cannabis, driving on a suspended license, no proof of insurance, improper lane usage,
Park cops honored for DUI enforcement Palos Park Police Commissioner Dan Polk has announced that Palos Park Police Sgt. Chris Hughes, Officer John Winter and Officer Ross Chibe have received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorist (AAIM) in recognition of their exceptional DUI enforcement efforts. The enforcement of DUI laws is a thankless, time consuming and unpleasant arrest situation. It is; however, one of the most important arrests that you can make on a regular basis. Officers who work hard every day in this area are not always recognized for
their efforts as they should be. With this in mind, I.D.O.T. instituted an awards program that provides a continuing recognition system for those officers that excel in arresting impaired drivers. The program began in 2001 and any officer who has made 25 or more DUI arrests since January 1st, 2001 is eligible to receive the award. Every year hundreds of people are killed and thousands severely injured as a result of alcohol and drug-related crashes in Illinois. It takes only seconds to become a victim – without warning or choice. Impaired drivers make choices.
improper passing, and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. Police said his SUV was involved in a one-vehicle crash near 159th Street and La Grange Road at 12:17 a.m. July 16. A witness reportedly told police that Del Valle’s vehicle struck two light poles, a tree, roadside landscaping, and a fire hydrant, police said. Police at the scene described Del Valle as confused, but not impaired. He was transported to Silver Cross Hospital for treatment of minor injuries, police added. A search of the SUV, which was towed and impounded, yielded a plastic bag containing cannabis, according to the police report. Del Valle was scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview last Tuesday. Police charged Jody J. Sisco, 41, of Orland Park, with battery and criminal damage to property after he allegedly pushed another man into a homeowners’ association pool in the 9200 block of West Montgomery Drive at 8 p.m. July 13. The alleged victim, a homeowners’ association board member, said he and another board member were at the pool to tell Sisco and others to leave, since the pool closes at 8 p.m. According to a witness, Sisco argued with the victim over the time and also damaged a poolside table and chair, police said. Sisco was given a court date of Aug. 28 in Bridgeview. Paul D. Kolios, 20, Brenton E. Robinson, 20, William K. Christensen, 18, and Hannah L. LeHouillier, 18, all of Orland Park, were charged with consumption of alcohol by a minor. Police on bicycle patrol said they spotted the quartet drinking in Sunny Pine Park, 13701 S. 88th Ave., at 5:38 p.m. July 15. Three of the four are set to appear at a hearing at the Orland Park Civic Center on Tuesday. Police said that Kolios was charged with a crime under state law because of what they said were his past arrests relating to alcohol. He was set to appear in court in Bridgeview last Tuesday. Police charged Traci L. Hamm, 29, of Palos Heights, with retail theft. She allegedly stole more than $200 worth of cigars, cigarettes, meat, cheese, muffins and other merchandise from a grocery store in the 9300 block of West 159th Street at 11:12 p.m. July 1. She was set to appear in court in Bridgeview on July 28. Patricia M. Norris, 52, of Oak Lawn, was charged with DUI. Police responding a call about two women fighting in a bathroom at Cooper’s Hawk Winery and Restaurant, 15690 S. Harlem Ave., at 2:58 p.m. July 6, said they pulled over Norris’ car nearby. Norris acknowledged being involved in a dispute with another customer, but denied that it was a fight, according to the police report. Her car was towed and impounded, and she was given a court date of July 30 in Bridgeview.
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Cleaning up the water Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) President Kathleen Meany, Vice President Barbara McGowan, Commissioners Debra Shore and Patrick D. Thompson along with MWRD Executive Director David St. Pierre, joined Governor Pat Quinn and other officials as the governor signed legislation to help combat flooding across the state and protect Illinois’ drinking water recently in Oak Lawn. “The Governor’s Clean Water Initiative has passed the triple crown of infrastructure investment,” said Meany. “It creates jobs, invests in infrastructure so that it lasts for the next generation, and it allows us to address stormwater issues with our changing weather patterns.” Pictured, left to right, are Thompson, St. Pierre, Meany, McGowan and Shore.
Spate of burglaries from cars keeps hitting victims in Palos by Tim Hadac staff reporter
services at Palos Park Presbyterian Community Church, 12312 S. 88th Ave. on July 20. Palos Park police said this • A 60-year-old Palos Park man week that all motorists in the watering his plants found a wallet village should remember to lock and a purse in his backyard in the their vehicles’ doors, including 12000 block of South Timberlane when they are parked outdoors Drive on June 14. He reported the at home. discovery to police, who learned The reminder was issued by that the items had been stolen Police Chief Joe Miller in the the night before from a vehicle wake of a series of crimes com- parked at a home a block away. mitted late last Sunday night and The victims, a 45-year-old man early Monday morning. Burglars and a 40-year-old woman, told entered a number of unlocked ve- police that their vehicle was not hicles parked near 123rd Street locked because they never lock it and 91st Avenue. in Palos Park, according to the The news comes in the wake of police report. similar crimes committed recently • Two Palos Park women, ages in Palos Park. 44 and 45, called police on June 12 • A 48-year-old Lombard man to report that their vehicles had reported that a thief stole his cell been burglarized overnight while phone from the front seat of his parked near Woodland Trail and unlocked car while he attended Southwest Highway. Belongings
were strewn about in both vehicles, but all that appeared to be missing was a handful of change from one. The women said their vehicles were unlocked because they do not lock them in Palos Park. “This is a crime of opportunity,” Miller said. “Please make sure your car doors are locked and the windows are rolled up.” Miller added that valuables should not be kept in unattended vehicles. If they must be kept there, they should be out of plain view, stored in the trunk or at least under a blanket. Those who see anything suspicious should call 911 promptly, so police may investigate, Miller said. He also said people may call police dispatch at 448-2191 or police administrative offices at 671-3770.
Orland cops, firefighters will team in charity hockey game US Women’s Olympic hockey players also on Team Orland
A 501(c) 3 class tax exempt charitable organization, Hockey Saves began as a small program in Fort Benning, Georgia to give soldiers an outlet through hockey. It has now drawn the attention Hockey playing members of the Orland Park Police Department. of people all over the world. Orland Park Police Department “This is the third time Orland “We invite everyone to come and the Orland Fire Protection Police and Fire are playing on the out for some exciting hockey and District have been invited to play in same team and when we’ve played to show these soldiers from Fort the Chicago Hockey Tourney with together, we’ve been undefeated. Benning that we appreciate all Hockey Saves, facing active duty We’re looking forward to help- that they do,” Boblak said. soldiers from Fort Benning, Ga. ing this great cause — – helping The Chicago Hockey TourThe game will be held at the these guys who are serving our ney with Hockey Saves is being Oak Lawn Ice Arena this Sat- country,” he said held all weekend, Friday, Aug. urday, Aug. 9, and is sponsored The Orland Police and Fire 8 through Sunday, Aug. 10. The by Hockey Saves, a charity or- Team has added two celebrities Orland game will be held this ganization that invites soldiers to its roster. Area natives Kendall Saturday, Aug. 9, beginning at to play hockey to get away from Coyne and Lisa Chesson, silver 7 p.m. the stresses of war. medalists from the US Women’s Tickets are available for $15 “The Orland Police and Fire Olympic Hockey Team, will play per person at the door. The Oak Teams usually face each other,” with Orland’s emergency respond- Lawn Ice Arena is located at 9320 said Sgt. Andrew Boblak of the ers. S. Kenton Ave. in Oak Lawn.
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Weish you were here Weishar family hosts second big bash to help families of loved ones with cancer by Declan Harty For Regional Publishing Andrew Weishar’s name will live on. Even though he would not like the attention, he would love the result. Weishar, who was known for his quiet manner and humility, will be honored Saturday at Standard Bank Stadium, in Crestwood, at the second WeishFest – pronounced Wish-fest. The 21-yearold Midlothian native passed away in October, 2012 after a four-year battle with colorectal cancer, but left behind a legacy that has stricken communities across the state. Family members said that in his final days, Weishar only thought of others. His request to have his family “pay forward” the support that it received during his battle, was fulfilled in last year’s inaugural WeishFest, and will live on again this Saturday. WeishFest, which kicks off at 2 p.m., is an all-day music festival featuring five different artists. Local and upcoming artists such as Sean & Charlie, Chris Medina, C2 and the Brothers Reed and Infinity will all lead up to the headliner, Rodney Atkins, who will go on at 9 p.m. Tickets for the event can be purchased at WeishFest. com, and Standard Bank seating tickets cost $25, and field access cost $35, with varying levels of VIP tickets available as well. After raising $125,000 from the 2,500 people in attendance last year, Dan Weishar, president and executive director of the Andrew Weishar Foundation (AWF) and Andrew’s younger brother has managed to spearhead the event this year. Dan Weishar said that the organization is prepared to make WeishFest huge, whether that includes keeping the event at Standard Bank Stadium for a few more years and then growing or ending up at Wrigley Field in 10 years, he said they have an open mind. Weishar said they “just have got to have a great WeishFest 2014, thinking about this year.” Dan, a senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said that it is because of the support his family received before and after Andrew passed that made him want to return the favor through both the AWF and WeishFest. “The communities around us could not have been a bigger support for us,” he said. “There are a lot of people in his (Andrew’s) situation who need help, like the help that we got, and he
Brothers Dan and Nic Weishar share a laugh while figuring out the Photo by Jeff Vorva poster situation to promote Saturday’s WeishFest at Standard Bank Dan and Nic Weishar are getting the word out about WeishFest II at Standard Bank Park Saturday Park in Crestwood. which raises money in the name of the late Andrew Weishar (inset photo) for cancer victims’ families. wanted to make sure that we pay forward that generosity. That is really what sparked the Andrew Weishar Foundation.”
values that he stood for.” Dan Weishar said it was only But the Illinois Wesleyan right to make sure the event is and Bloomington communities in the heart of Andrew’s largweren’t the only ones who found est support and close to home Andrew’s story inspirational. — Crestwood’s Standard Bank Wide-ranging impact After attending both St. Damien Stadium, the home of the Windy A St. Damien Lancer, Brother and Brother Rice, Andrew and City Thunderbolts. Rice Crusader and Illinois Wes- the Weishar family have the sup“The fact is that this stadium leyan Titan, Andrew affected port of South Siders. Both Dan is in the heart of our support. communities from central Illinois and Andrew have maintained a It is in the middle of where we to Chicago, but it was through South Side mindset, along with grew up, and it is in the middle social media that Andrew’s story their youngest brother, Nic, who of all the high schools around us,” spread. After #Weish4Ever went will play tight end at Notre Dame Dan said. “It is really the heart viral, thousands of people were next year after a successful high and soul of the Andrew Weishar impacted by the 21-year-old and school career at Marist. Foundation in that we have evhis relentless mindset towards his erybody around us.” battle with cancer. True South Siders The stadium also allows for AnAfter a semester of playing According to Delicath, the Weis- drew’s spirit to continue spreading football at Illinois Wesleyan, a har family embodies everything a through the crowd. The stadium, consistent powerhouse in NCAA South Sider is. which holds approximately 3,200 Division III football, Weishar’s col“Andrew is a quiet, quiet guy people, will allow for the crowd to lege career was looking bright. But with just a ferocious spirit and get an atmosphere that is unlike during the spring semester of his a lot of courage,” the Peoria na- any other concert. freshman year, he began to lose tive said. “What you will find “You get there and there is an weight dramatically, and was later out about a lot of people on the intimate feeling in the setting,” diagnosed with colorectal cancer South Side is that they are a little Delicath said. “I think you could at the age of 19. bit more talkative than Andrew, only get that to happen on the Immediately beginning treat- but also that they are very tough, south side and that can only hapment and having to drop out dedicated and driven people, and pen when you have a memory of school, Andrew was facing a Andrew embodied all of that.” of someone who lived very much battle that was uncommon for a Being from the South Side, like that. Someone that was big19-year-old. After months of intensive chemotherapy, Andrew went into surgery in Minnesota and would later go into remission. But after spending months visiting friends at Illinois Wesleyan and even going abroad with fellow titan, Ted Delicath, who now serves on the AWF board, Andrew was rediagnosed. After an emotional and trying four years of battling cancer, Andrew passed away October 12, 2012, a matter of hours before some of Andrew’s best friends would take the field against Carthage in Bloomington. The game resulted in a win for the Titans, and spurred on the spreading of Andrew’s story. “There was a group of guys that were so close to him that their love for him kind of permeated out,” Delicath said. “So other people began to understand the story, and see the love in our eyes. I think that is very telling of the kind of person Andrew was… It was very evident that the community bought into the type of Rodney Atkins will be the main event act at WeishFest Saturday.
ger than life, and then when you met them, they made you feel like you were the only person in the world.”
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WeishFest is designed, according to Dan, to allow the crowd to come and go as they please after paying an initial rate, and to simply enjoy the day, all while honoring Andrew and raising money for families affected by cancer. The funds from WeishFest are 100 percent given back to families in need. With the assistance of a social worker and a partnership with Hope Children’s Hospital, the AWF has already helped over 15 families that have been financially stricken with the burden of cancer. But according to Dan, the difference between the AWF and other organizations is that these families receive immediate financial assistance, all in the name of Andrew. “There is nothing like telling people, we are giving you this money because of Andrew Weishar. It is the most gratify-
ing thing in the world, and I am pretty excited about continuing to do that,” Dan said. “There is no question that Andrew Weishar is in the spirit of the foundation that Andrew Weishar is in the spirit of WeishFest.” For Dan, this year’s WeishFest may be the beginning of WeishFest and the Andrew Weishar Foundation’s hopeful and expected growth. “This year is pretty big in terms of how quickly we are expanding. The actual investment of WeishFest is massive, it is a huge, huge event, but we think that as long as we sell tickets and as long as we get people here that day, it is going to pay off,” he said. “I started the Andrew Weishar Foundation with really one intention and that intention was to honor Andrew, and his legacy, and that is what we did in starting it, and it really has taken off from there. Obviously as we grow we are going to hopefully be able to grow the amount of families we can help each year. There really is no limit.”
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Marquette launches Adopt-a-Classroom annual prize drawing
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Orland Dist. 135 sends surplus items to needy schools Orland School District 135 is doing its part to help its needy counterparts around the globe. The board of education last month adopted a resolution to dispose of school property that has become obsolete and no longer needed by the district. St. Gall and St. Ailbe Schools accepted the offer and took what they needed for their buildings. New Faith Baptist Church International, in Matteson, took a majority of the items. New Faith Baptist is part of the Joseph Assignment Global Initiative, a 501c3 organization created as a global humanitarian organization to help people living in poverty. “New Faith Baptist Church is part of a mission to build a new school in Liberia, Africa,” La Margo explained. “The no longer needed furniture from Orland Park will help furnish a new school that was destroyed during civil unrest.” Above, volunteers from the Joseph Assignment are shown with Carl Forn, District 135 Finance Director, District 135 Board President Joe La Margo and Superintendent Dr. Janet M. Stutz. Right, La Margo talks with Dr. Alexis L. Felder, founder and CEO of the Joseph Assignment Global Initiative.
Marquette Bank, a locallyowned neighborhood bank, announced its sixth annual Adopta-Classroom prize drawing. Now through Saturday, Sept. 8, Marquette Bank customers, local teachers and parents can enter at any Marquette Bank location for a chance to win a $200 gift card for any elementary, junior high or high school classroom in Illinois. The gift cards can be used to purchase any educational-related materials. One winner will be selected from each of Marquette Bank’s 22 branch locations. “The Adopt-a-Classroom prize drawing is one of the many ways we promote education and support local teachers and their
students,” Betty Kosky-Harn, Executive Vice President, said. “This is a popular program as we see a flood of entries in several communities from teachers, parents and grandparents.” The Adopt-a-Classroom prize drawing is part of the Marquette Neighborhood Commitment to support education. Each quarter, the bank focuses on a different area of need, including shelter, hunger, education and health/ wellness. For more information about Marquette Bank and its Neighborhood Commitment, visit www.emarquettebank.com/ neighborhood or call 1-888-2549500.
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Community Notes Thunderbolts ballgame with Knights of Columbus The local Knights of Columbus Council 14057 sponsor a night at the ballpark to see the Windy City Thunderbolts play the Joliet Slammers and enjoy fireworks on Saturday, Aug. 23, at 6 p.m., at Standard Bank Stadium, 14011 S. Kenton Ave. in Crestwood. Tickets are $10, available after this weekend’s Masses at St. Alexander Church in Palos Heights.
Palos Heights Woman’s Club annual blood drive The Palos Heights Community
Blood Drive sponsored by the Palos Heights Woman’s Club is today (Thursday), from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the Palos Heights Recreation Center, 6601 W. 127 St. Donors will receive a T-shirt and a $5 Subway gift card. The theme is Saving Lives…It’s Parrotdise. Walk-ins are welcome to donate. Or to reserve a time slot, call Courtney at Heartland Blood Center at 342-9722, or Nancy of the Palos Heights Woman’s Club 769-5724
Keep Palos Heights Beautiful Awards nominations sought The Keep Palos Heights Beautiful subcommittee of the city’s
Business and Economic Development Committee invites nominations for the 2014 Keep Palos Heights Beautiful Awards. Residents can nominate their own or a neighbor’s gardens (or a business, subdivision or church entrance), in the categories of landscaping, porch, deck, tree, and/or home (new home, home with addition, home with Palos charm). The deadline for nominations has been extended to Aug. 20. Nomination forms are available at City Hall, the Recreation Center and the Palos Heights Public Library, or call Eileen at 466-7089 or Lois at 361-9394. An Awards Night party for all nominations will be held in October at Lake Katherine. Submitted photo and text
Club Activities Palos Park Woman’s Club ‘Sell it Again Palos’
Street and 82nd Avenue. The club is seeking sellers who will be charged a fee of $20. Each seller will be given The Palos Park Woman’s Club two car spaces and must provide will sponsor its first rummage their own tables and chairs. Set sale on Saturday, Sept. 27, at the up will begin at 7 a.m. Sellers Palos Park train station,123rd may pull up to their location
to set up their merchandise. The public will be allowed in at 8 a.m. The sale will continue until 3 p.m. Anyone wishing to reserve a space may call Marie at 4804103 or Maureen at 923-0651 for more information.
Recreation Roundup Waddles’ Wacky Cardboard Boat Regatta
23, for Waddles’ Wacky Cardboard Boat Regatta. Teams of two will create a Cardboard boats will be sail- boat made of only cardboard ing or sinking away at the Palos and duct tape and then will Heights Pool on Saturday, Aug. put them to the ultimate test
and race them down the pool. Registration for this event is going on now at the Recreation Center 6601 W 127th St. For more information, call 480-3056.
School Notes Alaskan cruise with Trinity
Highlights of the trip include: Round-trip flights from Chicago; one night in Vancouver and sevTrinity Christian College, in en nights aboard Princess Cruise cooperation with Witte Travel & Lines’ Coral Princess; visits to Tours, is sponsoring an Alaskan Ketchikan, Juneau and Skagway; cruise in 2015, Sept. 1-13. Register cruising in Glacier Bay National by Nov. 1 to qualify for an early- Park and College Fjord; a scenic rail booking rate. journey from Whittier to Talkeetna;
two nights near Denali National Park and one night in Fairbanks. For more information, contact Ruth De Bruyn, Trinity development coordinator, at 2394827 or ruth.debruyn@trnty. edu. To register, visit www. regonline/2015Alaska and select “Trinity Group.”
Student News Degrees have now been officially awarded to more than 1,325 Spring 2014 graduates at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston Students were certified by their respective deans as having completed all requirements leading to the awarding of degrees. Local grads are Joseph Lippe of Palos Heights, Katherine Ozark of Orland Park, Samantha Quero of Palos Heights, Samantha Gobeli of Orland Park,
Sara Heinking of Orland Park, Tiffanie Kempke of Orland Park, Kevin Braglia, Ryan J. Halleran, Alexandra Ochoa, Christin Cavanagh and Matthew Hopf, all of Palos Heights; and Morgan Kogut and Shane Schedin, both of Palos Park. *** The following local students have been named to Eastern Illinois University’s Spring 2014 Dean’s List. The Deans’ List at EIU recognizes undergraduates
with a declared major whose academic performance has been excellent. Students who achieve a GPA of 3.80 to 4.00 (on a 4.00 scale) while completing a minimum of 12 graded semester hours, excluding credit/no credit grades, in a fall or spring semester are named to the Deans’ List. Ashley Biro, Cayla Wagner, Christopher Adams, Kati Winchel and Ryan Ludwig, all of Orland Park.
Library Notes American music Centenniel celebration The Palos Park Public Library will host Roots of Americana on Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 7 p.m., with a free, live performance open to the public. Singer/guitarist Steve Justman will celebrate the centennial anniversary of Palos Park by taking an entertaining tour of the musical world starting in the early 1900s showcasing what American music was like during Palos Park’s beginning and throughout the following decades. This program marks the end of the Summer Reading Program and prizes for the program will be awarded. Call the library to register at 448-1530 or visit the library online at palosparklibrary. org. The library is at 12330 Forest Glen Blvd.
Book & Film The Book & Film Series returns to the Palos Park Public Library on Wednesday, Aug. 13, at 2 p.m., with “August: Osage County.” Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts star in a family drama based on Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. This program is free and open to the public. All who attend will be entered in a raffle to win a free copy of the book. The library at
12330 Forest Glen Blvd. Call the library to register at 448-1530. (palosparklibrary.org)
Heights library featured database Auto Repair Reference Center (ARRC) is the most comprehensive collection of automobile repair reference information and contains repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. New repair procedures and updates are added to the product on a regular basis. All content in ARRC has been created by ASE-certified technicians. Access is available in the library or online at www.palosheightslibrary. org/services/online-databases. html by clicking “Alphabetical List.” Scroll down and click on “Auto Repair Reference Center” to begin. Outside the library use your Palos Heights Library card number to log in.
Heights library upcoming programs The following events will take place at the Palos Heights Public Library, 12501 S. 71st Ave. • The Lunch Bunch will discuss “The King of Sports: Football’s Impact on America” by Gregg Easterbrook at noon Monday, Aug. 11, available for
pick up at the library. Bring your lunch; refreshments and dessert will be provided. • Needle Club will work on Tuesday, Aug. 12, from 10 a.m. to noon. New members always welcome. • Meet at the library and bring your game to play American Mah Jongg on Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 1 p.m. Novice and experienced players welcome. Call Adult Services to register at 448-1473. • Afraid of Windows 8? Forget what you think you know. Come to this introduction of the newest version of Windows from Microsoft on Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 6:30 p.m. • Join Judi Weber at the program Organizing & Archiving Your Memories to learn about the importance of organizing, preserving and making accessible old photographs, movies and memorabilia on Wednesday, Aug. 13, at 6:30 p.m. • Suzette Horyza of Colorburst Images presents “What Do I Do With All These Scarves” on Thursday, Aug. 14, at 7 p.m. Learn how to wear scarves with a variety of outfits. Bring a square and an oblong scarf to the program. Program registration is always appreciated. Register online at palosheightslibrary.org, by phone at 448-1473, or in person. All programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Rec. Center, Rita Schultz guests of Palos Market
— Last week to start New Frequent Shopper Card — The Palos Heights Recreation Department will be the guest of the Palos Heights Farmers Market on Wednesday, Aug. 13. They will be holding a Fitness Punch Card Raffle, and have information about the upcoming Fall Programs, including the Little Learners Preschool Program. The Little Learners teacher, Rita Schultz, will be on hand, selling her beautiful DayDreamer Jewelry. More information about the jewelry can be found on www.ritaschultz.com . The harvest is bountiful! The market is overflowing with delicious fruits and vegetables of all kinds. In addition to all the produce, you can find eggs, cheeses and butter, bakery and bread items, beef, pork and chicken, pizza products and pesto, tamales, salsas, pasta sauces, jams and jelly, honey, hot and iced coffees and nutritional drink products, desserts and more. In addition, you can find beautiful perennial flowering plants and grasses, Pampered Chef, and Shaklee products. Finally, make sure to have your knives sharpened at Super Sharp. Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Coupons are accepted at the Lyons Fruit Farm and the Zeldenrust Farm stands every week. The coupons work as cash for fresh fruits and vegetables. Stop by the City Tent for more information about the program. This is the last week to start a new Frequent Shopper Card. All completed cards are entered into a year-end market raffle, featuring an item from each of our vendors. Ten visits are all you need to complete one card. Make sure to stop by the City Tent to pick yours up, or to have it endorsed. While at the City Tent, make sure to pick up this week’s recipe courtesy of Dr. John Principe MD of WellbeingMD Center for Life. This week’s and many previous week’s recipes are available. Also available are beautiful photo note cards, featuring scenes from Lake Katherine and other Palos locales. The cards make great gifts, and sell for $4 each, or 3/$10. More information about the market can be found at www.palosheights.org , join our email update, or join us on Facebook. The Palos Heights Farmers Market is open Wednesdays from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. rain or shine. More information is available at www.palosheights.org , call 361-1800 or join our weekly email update or Facebook page.
Orland Pandemonium in the Park offers wet, muddy, slippery, foamy and fun 5K The Orland Park Recreation Department promises complete pandemonium this Saturday, Aug. 9, when the village hosts its inaugural Pandemonium in the Park 5K for participants age 12 and older. Pandemonium in the Park begins at the village’s outdoor concert venue at Centennial Park West, at Somerglen Road and Park Station Boulevard near 159th Street and 108th Avenue, and will include obstacles at nearby Centennial Park at 15600 West Avenue. Registration continues for the challenge with a course described as wet, muddy, slippery, possibly foamy and challenging obstacles. The cost through Aug. 8 is $50 per person with all participants receiving technical T-shirts, a slice of Beggar’s pizza and each finisher receiving an official Pandemonium Finisher’s Medal. The day of registration fee is $55 per person. Registered participants may pick up their swag bags, including a Pandemonium dri-fit T-shirt and race bib this Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Boombah Store, at 15758 S. LaGrange Road. Photo identification is required for pick up. “Obstacle, mud, foam and color runs have become very popular,” Ray Piattoni, facility administrator for the village and one of the event organizers. “As the mayor said, we wanted to add something new to the village’s run offerings. Most races offer a single feature like mud, foam or obstacles with some offering a few elements. We decided to offer all of them and more, feeding into the event’s theme of pandemonium,” he added. Waves of participants begin at 8 a.m. with a new wave leaving every 15-20 minutes. Participants are encouraged to come in costume — – including tutus, super heroes, rock stars or whatever participants choose. The course includes more than 20 obstacles with each wave beginning with a count down and color explosion leading into areas called the bubble pass, slip and slide, sand bag hill, soapy water cannons, Mud
Mountain, pillar killer, an inflatable obstacle course and more. Advance registration and further information is available at the Village of Orland Park Recreation Administration Building, 14600 S. Ravinia Ave. and at the village’s Sportsplex,
11351 W. 159th St. For more information, call 403-7275. Additional details and online registration are available on the village’s website at http://orlandpark.org/index. aspx?NID=2201. —Village of Orland Park
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Orland Park’s inaugural Pandemonium in the Park this Saturday is a 5K challenge with a course described as wet, muddy, slippery, and possibly foamy, posing challenging obstacles.
Michael Rabadi of Oak Lawn Business finance major Works at the college’s FitRec fitness center as a trainer
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Shoppers jam Heights for Sidewalk Sale Saturday: Shoppers making purchases at participating stores earned Lucky Bucks to try to win gift certificates in a promotion by the Chamber of Commerce. The winner of the $100 gift certificate, an Oak Forest man, said he got his Bucks from purchases at Gregory Furniture. More than 50,000 were given out by local merchants. [The photo above was uncaptioned].
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50 Years Ago This Week End of Rudy’s – A familiar Worth landmark for more than 25 years at 111th and Harlem was intentionally burned to the ground Saturday by the Worth fire department with assistance from surrounding departments. The building, formerly housing Rudy’s Lounge and Liquor Store, had burned earlier and was declared a hazard.
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Geez, I even make Penn look skinny LAS VEGAS — Yeah, I know. What goes on in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas. And I am not sure if people really care what I did on my trip out of town, but when I see in the archives people such as former publisher Charles Richards writing miles of copy on his fishing trips in the past, I know I am in great company, and I am keeping the Regional Publishing tradition alive. So bear with me as I delve into tales of goofiness from a city that never sleeps written by a guy who always has Jeff-lag and always wants to sleep.
of the MGM Grand hotel and then And no, it wasn’t a dry heat. walk away like it was no big deal. There were traces of humidity That was the second grossest enough to keep us sweating for thing I had seen during the trip. most of the trip. The first was in a swimming pool. And anyone who says there Three plus-, plus-, plus-sized is not much difference once the women got on the shoulders of temperature reaches 100, I can three other big gals. One sang assure you that you can feel a by Jeff loudly “Giddyup horsey,” which difference between 118 and 100. Vorva nearly made me barf in the pool. And a bigger difference once So these six bigs had a race. you get home and it is 70. celebrities in my time and posThere is no truth to the rumor ing for a picture with them is that first prize for the winning Sign of the not high on my fun list. Besides, jockey and horsey was to get their (ouch) times there were thousands of people picture taken with me. gathered around in the lobby so There were plenty of bums and I wasn’t figuring on any photo Feeling hot, hot, hot panhandlers with signs begging ops with the fellas, anyway. for money. But on the Strip, my But for some reason, there was The temperature, according son found a guy with a sign that this whole group of people stand- to my rent-a-car thermometer, said “For $20, you can kick me Photo by Jeff Vorva Pencil-thin Penn ing to Penn’s left and no one to was up to 118 degrees on the in the [privates].’’ For years, I have joked to people his right. I went toward his right day that you folks enjoyed a He must have once been a that if they want to look skinnier, to gawk because he let his hair 70-degree day. newspaper editor. just take a photo with me. My down. Literally. His hair was out Well, the Whatizit Wizards know their weaponry. height and weight make people of the ponytail. Everyone who played the game guessed right – a rifle and a look petite. I feel that provides a One of the security guys mobayonet – and all six Reporter towns were represented. good service – doing God’s work if tioned me to come take a photo. Most people guessed it was an M1 rifle but the stock of the rifle you will – in making people feel Penn said “Come on, boss.’’ The said A-51. The ornery board of directors wouldn’t know the differ- batter so give me that last slice last celebrity to call me “boss’’ ence. They never fired a rifle in their lives. of pizza, please. was Todd Hundley when he was Evergreen Park’s Vince Vizza, a fella who usually waits until MonWell, I was in Vegas with my with the Cubs and we know that day afternoons to get his guesses in, was the first to take a stab at son, T.J., for his basketball tourna- didn’t turn out so hot for him. the right answer. ment and the first night we were So my son snapped the photo Others who shot bulls eyes were Chicago Ridge’s Pat Kopchar, able to catch irreverent magicians and I thanked Penn and Penn Dan Higgins, Rick Towner, Joe and Marilyn Blackwell and Dana Penn & Teller at the Rio. They are said “Thanks boss” to me and Oswald, Oak Lawn’s Danny Veres, Bob and Jane Foley and Mike usually more funny than amazing we went on our way. Sutko and Hickory Hills’ Paul Kristofek, Jack and Griffin Burke Fad- but on this night they were more Then I saw the photo. dis, Ken Osborne, Laura Smith and Robert Beegle. amazing than funny, but it was “Boss” was big. Penn looked Other sharpshooters were Worth’s Len Marszalek, Mike Martin, still a great show. skinny. German Cordova, Celeste Cameron, Tammy Moran, Jerry and Carol Penn Jillette is this big boisMaybe Penn lost weight. Maybe Janicki, Theresa and George Rebersky, Robert Solner, Frank and terous 6-foot-7 dude who wears during the show, all of the props Donna Hirsch and David Roehr, glasses and wears his long hair in and stuff he needed under his Hickory Hills’ Evergreen Park’s a ponytail. And, like me, he has jacket made him bigger than he Jan Merchantz, Palos Hills’ Ed the frame of a guy who wants really is. Modla, and the Friday Night that last slice of pizza. Teller is Or maybe through the magic of Poker Ladies (and Gun Club) of an older, smaller guy who rarely the great Vorva-dini, I can make Oak Lawn, Orland Park and Oak talks on stage. pounds disappear just by posing Forest. Penn looked the same on stage with me. This week’s clue: This puts the on this night. If that’s the case, it was the par in park. Big. best trick of the night. Send those guesses to thereAfter the show, the two hung porter@comcast.net with WHA- out in the lobby and posed for Speaking of Photo by T.J. Vorva TIZIT? in the subject line by pictures. It’s magic! Look at the pounds disappear! Penn of Penn & Teller larger than life… Monday night. Don’t forget your Being the old and jaded writer (right) is the latest person to look slim when standing next to Rename and hometown. that I am, I have met a lot of I saw a young girl barf on the side porter editor Jeff Vorva.
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Pick of the Litter By John R. Fleming, DVM • PrairieStateVet.com Dear Readers, Many of you know that last November we lost our best friend Ebie to a brain tumor. The doctors out at Colorado State University vet school did a heroic job trying to save him and they did give us six more months with him. Some weeks after I had let Dr. Custis know that Ebie had died, I received a copy of Eugene O’Neill’s “testament” in the mail. Throughout the book he sent, CSU staff members who had worked that springtime week with Ebie, wrote to us about their experiences working with him during his treatment sessions. It was an amazing gift. This book can be found on Amazon and would be a nice gift for you to give someone who has lost a loved pet. Here is an excerpt:
The Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Loved Dog I, Silverdene Emblem O’Neill (familiarly known to my family, friends and acquaintances as Blemie), because of the burden of my years and infirmities are heavy upon me, and I realize the end of my life is near, do hereby bury my last will and testament in the mind of my Master. He will not know it is there until after I am
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Dogs do go to heaven: Ebie at peace at Eagle Terrace in Peninsula State Park in Door County, Wis., overlooking Green Bay. dead. Then, remembering me in his loneliness, he will suddenly know of this testament, and I ask him to inscribe it as memorial to me. I have little in the way of material things to leave. Dogs are wiser than men. They do not set great store upon things. They do not waste their day hoarding property. They do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain objects they have not. There is nothing of value I have to bequeath except my love and loyalty. These I leave to all who have loved me, especially to my Master and Mistress, who I know will mourn me the most. I ask my Master and my Mistress to remember me always, but not to grieve for me too long. In my life I have tried to be a comfort to them in time of sorrow, and a reason for added joy in their happiness. It is painful for me to think that even in death I should cause them pain. Let them remember that while no dog has ever had a happier life (and this I owe to their love and care for me), now that I have grown blind and deaf and lame, and even my sense of smell fails
me so that a rabbit could be right under my nose and I might not know, my pride has sunk to a sick, bewildered humiliation. I feel life is taunting me with having overlingered my welcome. It is time I said good-bye, before I become too sick a burden on myself and on those who love me. It will be a sorrow to leave them, but not a sorrow to die. Dogs do not fear death as men do. We accept it as part of life, not as something alien and terrible which destroys life. What may come after death, who knows? I would like to believe that there is a Paradise. Where one is always you and full-bladdered. Where all the day one dillies and dallies. Where each blissful hour is mealtime. Where in the long evenings there are a million fireplaces with logs forever burning, and one curls oneself up and blinks into the flames and nods and dreams, remembering the old brave days on earth and the love of one’s Master and Mistress. I am afraid that this is too much for even such a dog as I am to expect. But peace, at least, is certain. Peace and a long rest for my weary old heart and head
Health Beat Early-stage memory loss education and support from PLOWS
to participate. To register, contact PLOWS Council on Aging, 3610219. PLOWS a non-profit organizaand limbs, and eternal sleep in To help people experiencing tion dedicated to assisting older the earth I have loved so well. early-stage memory loss and their people who reside in Palos, LemPerhaps, after all, it is best. loved ones, PLOWS Council on ont, Orland and Worth townships. One last request, I earnestly Aging offers a supportive, informake. I have heard my Mistress mative group. Harry’s Health Forum say, “When Blemie dies we must PLOWS and the Alzheimer’s hormone balance never have another dog. I love Association is offering an eighthim so much I could never love week group that provides educaHarry’s topic is hormones on another one”. Now I would ask tion, emotional support, and social Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 7:15 p.m., at her, for the love of me, to have interaction in a safe supportive Chicago Gaelic Park, 6119 W. 147th another. It would be a poor tribute environment. Topics may vary St. in Oak Forest (Celtic Room) to my memory never to have a but include an overview of early Learn nutritional ways of baldog again. stage memory loss, medical infor- ancing your hormones to corWhat I would like to feel is that, mation, legal and financial plan- rect adrenal exhaustion, estrohaving once had me in the family, ning, and navigating social and gen dominance, breast tumors, she cannot live without a dog! family relationships. endometrial concerns, thyroid I have never had a narrow, jealDate and location is to be de- dysfunction, low energy, and acous spirit; I have always held that termined. Space is limited. An celerated heart rate. most dogs are good. My successor interview is required prior to atFor information or directions, can hardly be as well-loved or as tending the group. There is no fee call Harry at 361-6223. well-mannered or as distinguished and handsome as I was in my prime. My Master and Mistress must not ask the impossible. But he will do his best, I am sure, and even his inevitable defects will help by comparison to keep my memory green. To him I bequeath my collar and leash and my overcoat and raincoat. He can never wear them with the distinction I did, all eyes For decades, Palos Community SHIP counselors are trained to: fixed on me in admiration; but Hospital has been at the forefront • Educate consumers and anagain I am sure he will do his in assisting Medicare beneficia- swer questions about Medicare, utmost not to appear a mere ries and their families in mak- Medicare Supplements, long-term gauche provincial dog. ing informed health-insurance care insurance, Medicare HMOs, I hereby wish him the happi- decisions. private fee-for-service and other ness I know will be his in my The Senior Resources depart- health insurance. old home. ment at Palos Community Hos• Organize and assist in filing One last word of farewell, dear pital is recognized by the Illinois Medicare and Medicare SuppleMaster and Mistress. Whenever Department on Aging as a spon- ment claims. you visit my grave, say to your- soring organization for the Se• Analyze Medicare Suppleselves with regret but also with nior Health Insurance Program ment and long-term care policies. happiness in your hearts at the (SHIP). The program is a valuable tool remembrance of my long, happy As a SHIP-sponsoring organiza- with a mission to educate, advolife with you: “Here lies one who tion, Palos Community Hospital cate, counsel and empower people loved us and who we loved.” No has trained counselors who are eligible for Medicare to make matter how deep my sleep I shall available to provide objective in- informed health care decisions. hear you and not all the power formation on health insurance, SHIP currently has 186 offices of death can keep my spirit from advocacy assistance or referral if throughout Illinois staffed by a wagging a grateful tail. appropriate. total of more than 600 volunteer I will always love you as only “Our clients are very apprecia- counselors. a dog can. tive of the services we provide, and Senior Resources offers assiswhen we tell them it’s a free ser- tance to Medicare beneficiaries vice, there are smiles all around,” by appointments, mail and telesays Janet Kohler, who’s been a phone. To learn more about the part of the SHIP program at Palos services offered at Palos Commufor 20 years. “It’s rewarding to nity Hospital or to schedule an help our clients when they need appointment, call 923-4785. it most.” — Palos Community Hospital
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A Fashion Chat with Pale Moonlight
The Kid’s Doctor
by Caroline Foreman Music and fashion have an undeniable bond. Perhaps the expressive nature of musicians also encompasses the ability and desire to be poignantly expressive through visible means. During last weekend’s tenth annual Lollapalooza festival, I caught up with Chicago band Pale Moonlight to discuss fashion, style influences and Chicago’s unique impact. Pale Moonlight is comprised of songwriter Ramon Guillen on vocals and guitar, Jeremy Napier on lead guitar, Andrew Fields on bass guitar and Michael Gonzalez on drums. Since the current lineup formed in 2010, the members have become a powerful force on the stage, and each member has developed perspicacity within their respective instrument category. However, I sought to discover the roots of their individual fashion styles. Front man Ramon reminisced fondly, “I’ve been playing music at shows since I was in high school, and when I started, I was really into punk music. Because of that, my clothes were really simplistic, and I would just do weird little things like I would wear my shirts inside out and all that…lots of bright colors.” Currently, Ramon was wearing a bright, sunny yellow vintage tee turned inside out, revealing the worn seams. On the bottom, he wore burgundy skinny pants and solid brown Converse AllStars. He told me proudly, “I think the plainness also reflects sort of a humbling thing; not taking ourselves too seriously…I stay away from labels and logos and things like that.” When the topic of influences arose, Ramon shared his roots, saying, “Definitely, one band that had an influence on me was Blink 182 because that’s where my punk roots started. You’ll see me still wear Dickie’s shorts from time to time, solid-colored t-shirts that are brighter. I don’t really stray from those.” He went on to elucidate, “When I dress up more, it’s like dark, wine colored pants, some burgundy stuff. That’s from when I was getting into Alkaline Trio. When I first started listening to them, I was just wearing black all the time; I was painting my nails black, all sorts of stuff like that… but more recently I have been attracted to – both musically and fashion-wise – more classic stuff like in the Doors, stuff that’s more theatrical. I guess I have so many influences that I pay less mind to what I’m wearing, whereas before it was kind of reflected in me very directly…Definitely a lot of influences have impacted me.” Bassist Andrew wore a yellow Hawaiian shirt with light pink-
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by Sue Hubbard, M.D. Especially in summer, childhood drowning is an ever-present concern. Between 2000 and 2005, 6,900 U.S. children died from non-boating accidental drowning. The rate of drowning was almost four times higher for children one to two years old, and twice as high for those younger than five. Photo by Sophia Rapata The American Academy of PeMusicians Michael, Andrew, Jeremy and Ramon stay in tune with their individual fashion tastes. diatrics recommends that after age 5, all children be taught to gray flowers, black pants and swim. At present, however, the what he called a “shield of faith” AAP does not recommend for or pendant necklace. “I was going to against swimming lessons as a wear my new Panama hat, but I measure to prevent drowning in forgot it at my house,” he said children younger than age 5.) disappointedly. Andrew has been A recent article in Archives of seen on stage wearing a variety of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine vintage shirts in bold prints and looked at the association between patterns. “[My style,] I don’t even swimming lessons and the risk know where that comes from!” of drowning specifically in the 1 When I asked Andrew about his – to 4-year-old age groups. Presource of style inspiration, he vious concerns had been raised responded, “David Lee Roth, I about the potential for swimming always thought, was one of the lessons to increase the risk for best dressed musicians.” drowning in such young children. Lead guitarist Jeremy wore a This study provided good news muted, monochromatic ensemble, that kids ages 1-4 who’ve taken including a gray tee, gray straightformal swimming lessons have leg trousers and gray Nike train88 percent less risk of drowning. ers. He explained, “I guess in Researchers found, however, that terms of influences, I grew up in only three percent of the children an urban setting where I was influwho’d drowned had taken swimenced by hip hop and rock-and-roll Photo by Caroline Foreman ming lessons. at the same time, so it’s kind of Jeremy, Andrew, Michael and Ramon of the band Pale Moonlight So with this news, it might be like a fusion of both, I guess, but express themselves distinctly both musically and visually. prudent to start swimming lessons not on purpose.“ I inquired about at a younger age than previously bands that influenced his style to themes and tees and tanks with style reflects the style of Chicago thought. But swimming lessons which Jeremy answered, “I was graphics or patterns. When the because we are all influenced by alone will not prevent drowning, heavily influenced by punk rock topic of artists of inspiring style different things in Chicago. You and even in this study, many of music at first, so basically I started arose, Michael said, “I’ve always have a good variety of styles in the older children who drowned off with that punk rock look, like thought it was unique the way Chicago, and I look different all were noted to have been proficient tight pants, tight shirts, tattoos… the drummer from Dresden Dolls the time.” Ramon said, “[It has Maybe with bands like Rancid tended to dress. He wore a sort of affected my] sense of style a bit. I or even like Metallica later.” He Neo-jazz bowler hat and suspend- guess you can’t help but pick up added chuckling, “I mean, they’re ers with no shirt. The bowler was certain things because in Chicago, not punk rock, but they’re a tra- also worn by one of my main drum- we’re influenced by both coasts ditional cliché rock style.” When ming influences, John Bonham, with what’s going on…So I guess asked how Jeremy would define who also wore these T-shirts with I’ve picked up certain things. Like We believe that refinancing his style, if he were forced to do spider webs or some other kind I’ve been called a hipster based or purchasing the home of so, he said, “People always accuse of symmetrical designs on them. on my pants alone.” Michael’s me of being a hipster, but I would I’ve always wanted some like that. response was, “I try not to be your dreams should be a say it’s hip hop style more so.” For one of our first shows – it was influenced by the style of those comfortable and For the performance of the at Elbo Room – the front half my around me.” pain-free process. night, drummer Michael wore a t-shirt resembled the front half of The boys demonstrate the lonWe offer the following sky blue v-neck tee with narrow Spiderman’s torso.” When asked gevity of influences and inspiration programs for residential black stripes and a subtle tie-dye about preferred performance wear, on personal style. The roots of mortgages: effect. He also wore black pants Michael answered, “I like wear- our passions, whether they are from H&M, bold socks with Robin ing tank tops while playing, but grounded in music or some other • Fixed Rate Loans with from Batman and what he termed I’ve always liked the suits worn source, make residual imprints on terms ranging from “Bruce Lee-type” black slip-on by jazz musicians. Another drum- our tastes and tendencies. It is 10 to 30 years canvas shoes. When asked about mer, Akira Jimbo, wore red dress fascinating to trace our current • Adjustable Rate Loans his approach to dressing for per- shoes with brightly-colored dress preferences back to their origi• Balloon Loans A P P LY formances, Michael responded clothes, and I respect that style.” nal sources. Try shedding light on NOW! saying, “The main thing I keep In closing, I asked the members your own inspirations and become
swimmers. It’s still important to have other drowning prevention strategies in place, including pool fencing, constant and age-appropriate adult supervision and training in CPR. Children are amazing at finding ways to unlock doors and windows that lead outside, and no parent can know where their child is every minute of the day. If you have a pool and a child is missing, always check the pool first, as a child can quietly slip underwater and lose consciousness in as little as two minutes and drown in five minutes! (Dr. Sue Hubbard is an awardwinning pediatrician, medical editor and media host. “The Kid’s Doctor” TV feature can be seen on more than 90 stations across the U.S. Submit questions at http:// www.kidsdr.com. The Kid’s Doctor e-book, “Tattoos to Texting: Parenting Today’s Teen,” is now available from Amazon and other e-book vendors.)
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in mind is comfort and ease of motion, given the instrument. You can’t wear pants that catch the beater of the bass drum pedal while playing.” Michael’s day-today summer style usually includes cheeky socks with characters or
of Pale Moonlight whether they believe the Chicago scene has impacted their sense of fashion style. “Chicago style has affected me very much,” was Andrew’s response. Jeremy went on saying, “I would agree. I think my
better aware of your personal individuality. Also, check out Pale Moonlight online at soundcloud.com/palemoonlight, reverbnation.com/ palemoonlight and facebook.com/ palemoonlightmusic.
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The Regional News Thursday, August 7, 2014
Death Notices
Those who serve
Isabel Carroll Christofferson
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Colin O’Shea has graduated from the Army ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) Leader Development and Assessment Course (LDAC), also known as “Operation Warrior Forge,” at Fort Knox, Ky. He is shown in his tent at LDAC (top). The 29 days of training provide professional training and evaluation for all cadets in the aspects of military life, administration and logistical support. The primary focus of the course is to develop and evaluate each cadet’s officer potential as a leader by exercising the cadet’s intelligence, common sense, ingenuity and physical stamina. Cadets in their junior and senior year of college must complete the leadership development course. Upon successful completion of the course, the ROTC program, and graduation from college, cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army, National Guard, or Reserve. O’Shea is the son of Kevin M. and Carol A. O’Shea of Orland Park. He is a 2011 graduate Sandburg High School. Above, Cadet O’Shea is shown with his family after his graduation from LDAC.
Isabel Carroll Christofferson, 92, passed peacefully away on July 19, 2014, in Seattle, Washington, surrounded by family. She was known for her intelligence, compassion, tremendous spirit, beauty, and wit; as well as her great love of friends, family and animals. Born February 14, 1922, in Casper, Wyoming, one of Floyd (“Doc”) and Grace Carroll’s six children, she grew up in Wyoming and Hollywood, where her father was a stunt double for the great western stars of the day, including Tom Mix. When her father became the Wyoming state veterinarian, the family returned to Wyoming and a ranch outside Cheyenne, Remount Ranch, which they owned with author Mary O’Hara and her husband. Isabel liked to tell stories of listening to O’Hara typing away on the book My Friend Flicka when Isabel was a child. Isabel attended the University of Wyoming, where she met her future husband, DuWayne Christofferson (“Chris”), of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The two moved to Chicago, where Chris worked as a civil and nuclear engineer for Chicago Bridge and Iron for over four decades, and started a family. In addition to being a loving and adored mother and grandmother, Isabel found time to model, play tennis, and indulge her passion for the arts; in particular, writing and film. Isabel passed her writing genes on to her children and grandchildren, several of whom are successful authors. Isabel’s other great passion was travel.
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Harriet M. Ruter, 95, of Colquet, Minn., formerly of Palos Park, died on July 29 in Colquet. Visitation was held at the Palos Park Presbyterian Community Church in Palos Park on Aug. 5 until the time of the funeral service at the church. Burial was at Willow Hills Cemetery in Willow Springs. Mrs. Rueter is survived by her son, James, her daughters, Lorraine Norrgard and Marilyn Nativity of the Gorney, grandmother, greatgrandmother and great-greatBlessed Virgin Mary grandmother of many. Ukrainian Catholic Church Faith United Methodist Church to achieve their highest God-given Mrs. Rueter was born in ChiPalos Park of Orland Park will host the sec- potential. cago. She worked as an accounThe church will hold its annual ond annual Singspiration Benefit Each day, more than 800 in- tant. She was active in her church picnic thisSunday, Aug.10, from Concert in the church sanctuary dividuals with disabilities turn choir and the Sew What Group. noon to 4 p.m., at the church, on Sunday, Aug. 17, at 3 p.m. , to ELIM for educational, voca8530 W. 131st St. in Palos Park. at the church, 15101 S. 80th Ave. tional, and therapeutic program- Edward A. Sprinkle Moleben for peace in Ukraine The concert will include singers ming. Over 400 staff members Edward A. Sprinwill be held at 10 a.m. before from area choirs and the commu- serve these children and adults kle, age 90, of OrDivine Liturgy at 10:30. nity, and will feature both sacred on one of ELIM’S two campuses land Park, U.S. Navy The picnic will include food, and secular choral works. The or within one of the 20 Discovery Veteran. Beloved drinks, dancing, music and fun for proceeds of a free-will offering Centers located within partnering husband of the late all. Raffle for five cashprizes. En- this year will be donated to Elim Christian schools nationwide. Marian, nee Carlson. tertainment includes music and Christian Services, a non-profit The concert is open to all and a games for children and adults. organization whose mission is to reception will follow in the church (361-8876) equip individuals with disabilities fellowship hall.
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Singspiration concert at Faith United Methodist will benefit Elim services
Billy Graham’s “My Answer” Q: Our pastor is always praying for our nation and our leaders and things like that, but does it honestly do any good? I can’t see that we’re any better off today than we were 50 or 100 years ago, and in some ways we’re probably worse. — Mrs. S.F.
an alarming decline in morals. I can’t help but wonder if we’re now living in the days of which the Bible speaks: “People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, A: You’re probably right; in brutal... lovers of pleasure rather some ways our society and our than lovers of God” (2 Timothy world are worse off than they 3:2-4). were 50 or 100 years ago. But that means we need to Not that those days were per- pray more, not less! After all, fect, for they definitely weren’t. A what would the world be like hundred years ago, for instance, if we didn’t pray, asking God to the world was on the brink of a restrain evil and give wisdom to horrific war that would kill or our leaders? Only God knows the maim millions. But today’s head- full answer to that question, but lines certainly indicate that we’re I have no doubt our world would seeing an upswing in violence, and be an even worse place if God’s
Spiritual companionship at The Center Spiritual Companionship is available each Tuesday at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park. Spiritual Companion Kathy Fontaine guides a person in prayer, meditation, and dialogue. Fontaine has been trained at the Institute of Spiritual Companionship in Chicago and is known to the Palos community as a spiritual growth leader and former kindergarten teacher. Fontaine calls spiritual companionship “holy listening.” The cost of Fontaine’s one-on-one service is $20 per hour, which she donates to The Center’s camp scholarship fund. For more Spiritual Companionship appointments, call The Center at 361-3650.
people didn’t pray. Be grateful for your pastor’s concern for our nation and its leaders. But may his concern also become yours! The Bible commands us to pray for all who are in places of authority — and we need to take that command seriously (see 1 Timothy 2:1-4). At the same time, never forget that Christ alone is our hope for a better world.
Georgia T. Janzow Georgia T. Janzow, 92, of Wilmette passed away August 2, 2014. Loving wife of Richard; loving mother of Lorel (Robert) McMillan; loving grandmother of Heather (John) McMillan Hoeppner and Robert (Kathryn) McMillan; proud great gandmother of Henry and John Hoeppner and George McMillan. Georgia earned an MBA from the University of Loving father of Edward Alan, Robert Steven and Susan Jane (David) Withers. Cherished grandfather of Alan Sprinkle, Steven (Amanda) Sprinkle, Elizabeth (Tim) Weselak, Paul (Meagan) Zima and Jennifer (Todd) Deutsch. Dearest great-grandfather of Stevie, Emily, Adeline, Piper, Quinn, Winston and Linus. Former AllPro Defensive End for the Chicago Bears from 1944-1955. Elected to the Helms Football Hall of Fame
Chicago in 1945 and began a teaching career in universities and high schools that spanned 40 years. Services are private. In lieu of flowers donations in Georgia’s name to the Morton Arboretum, 4100 Lincoln Ave, Lisle, IL 60532 are appreciated. Arrangements entrusted to Wm. H. Scott Funeral Home. www. wmscottfuneralhome.com in 1956 and the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame in 1984. Inducted in the Hardin-Simmons University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1990. Visitation was held Wednesday at Colonial Chapel funeral home in Orland Park. A funeral Service will be held today, Thursday, at 10 a.m., at The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Palos Heights, IL. Interment is to be held at Fairmount – Willow Hills Memorial Park, Willow Springs.
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Together, during a marriage that lasted over 50 years, Isabel and Chris traveled the world with their many wonderful friends; but they always returned to the West, spending a great deal of time in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, at the family cabin overlooking Lake Coeur d’Alene. In 1997, Isabel’s father—who, in addition to being a veterinarian, was the youngest to ever win the World Championship in bronc busting at Cheyenne Frontier days—was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame’s “Hall of Great Westerners,” joining the likes of Teddy Roosevelt, Sacagawea and Will Rogers. In typical Isabel fashion, Doc’s eldest daughter had fought tirelessly for this honor for her father. Speaking before a crowd of Western dignitaries and Hollywood stars, on that night, Isabel accepted the award for her beloved family with grace and humility. After Chris’s death, Isabel moved West for the final time, first to
Coeur d’Alene, to be with her children and grandchildren. In 2009, she moved to Seattle, to be near her youngest child, Lisa; Lisa’s partner, Leon Jackson; and the light of each of Isabel’s days: her granddaughter Chloè Isabella. Isabel stayed abreast of the news, enjoyed the company of her family, legions of friends and caretakers, and spoke up for those without voices until the very end. She was greatly loved and will be greatly missed. Tellingly, the day after Isabel’s strong spirit moved on, several of her caretakers confided to her children that they, too, had considered Isabel their “mom.” Isabel is preceded in death by her beloved husband, DuWayne; her siblings, Colleen Schroeder, Tom Carroll and Linda Smith; and countless beloved pets. She is survived by two of her siblings, Mary Palmer of Virginia, and Beverly Ball of Arizona; her children and their spouses/partners, Carroll Barry and Neil Robin of Chicago, Wayne and Barbara Christofferson of Coeur d’Alene, April and Steve Leach of Bozeman, MT and Lisa Christofferson and Leon Jackson of Seattle; seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Her feisty, fun-loving and compassionate spirit, as well as her belief that there are no limits to what we can achieve, lives on in each generation. The family requests donations to the Kootenai Humane Society (kootenaihumanesociety.com) in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in lieu of flowers. Nothing would please Isabel more.
Visit the Worth Township website for this list: www.worthtownship.com / Click on Youth Commission and Click on Apple Tree Worth Township’s Youth Com- Program. The Youth Commission mission is again sponsoring its accepts school supplies and monApple Tree program for families etary donations all year. experiencing financial difficulties. Donations can be dropped off This program provides children at the Township offices located with school supplies. While this at 11601 S Pulaski in Alsip. Use program is active all year long the South entrance. Children of replacing supplies as needed, the Worth Township must bring in greatest need for children is the their school supply list to benefit beginning of each school year. from this program. Apple Tree is made possible For more info, call the Youth by the generous donations of lo- Commission at 371-2900 , ext. 45. cal residents, businesses, church groups, schools and civic groups. Among the items needed by the Remember to children are: pencils, pens, folders, scissors, Kleenex, crayons, recycle this mechanical pencils, erasable pens, newspaper! colored pencils, markers, glue and backpacks.
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Your legacy is in your hands Unless you keep close track of obscure holidays and observances, you probably didn’t know that August is “What Will Be Your Legacy? Month.” Still, you might want to use this particular month as a useful reminder to take action on what could be one of your most important financial goals: leaving a meaningful legacy. A legacy isn’t simply a document or a bunch of numbers — it’s what you will be remembered for, and what you have left behind that will be remembered. It’s essentially your chance to contribute positively to the future, whether that means providing financial resources for the next generation, helping those charitable organizations whose work you support, or a combination of both. To create your legacy, you’ll need to do some planning. And you can start by asking yourself a couple of key questions: What are your goals? When you think about leaving a legacy, what comes to mind? First and foremost, you may well want to leave enough money to help your own grown children meet their financial goals. After that, you probably have other things you’d like to accomplish. Perhaps you want to provide resources for your grandchildren to attend college? Or set up a scholarship at your own alma mater? Give financial support to a cultural, social, religious or scientific group? By thinking about your goals and putting them on paper, even in
an informal sense, you’ll be taking who may end up unsure about what you want and what their roles are in carrying out your plans —and that’s an outcome you certainly don’t want to see. In fact, clear communications Jim are essential to developing a sucVan Howe cessful estate plan. You should not only tell your family members — and anyone else affected by your estate plan — what you are thinking of doing but also inform the important first step in leaving them about the professionals with the legacy you desire. whom you are working and the How can you turn your goals locations in which you are storinto reality? If you don’t take some ing any vital documents, such as concrete steps, your legacy just your will. won’t materialize. And the most By identifying your goals, workimportant step you need to take ing with the appropriate profesis to create a comprehensive es- sionals to create an effective estate tate plan. Your estate plan can plan, and communicating regube quite involved, because it may larly with your family members involve several legal documents, and other “key players” in your such as a will, living trust, health life, you can go a long way toward care power of attorney, and so on. leaving the legacy you desire. In creating these materials, you So, do what it takes to launch will need to work with your legal that legacy. and tax advisors because estate planning is definitely not a “doJim Van Howe is a financial it-yourself” endeavor. advisor with Edward Jones InvestYou probably shouldn’t wait un- ments, in Palos Heights. His office til you are deep into retirement is at 7001 W. 127th St. He can be to take action on your estate plan reached at 361-3400. This article because developing the necessary was written by Edward Jones for documents and arrangements can use by your local Edward Jones take a fair amount of time — and Financial Advisor. you’ll want to make these preparaEdward Jones, its employees tions when you’re in good mental and financial advisors are not and physical health. Also, the lon- estate planners and cannot provide ger you wait to set up your estate tax or legal advice. You should plan, the less likely it will be that consult your estate-planning atyou’ve communicated your wishes torney or qualified tax advisor clearly to your family members, regarding your situation.
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Joe Chval (right) and artist Paul Boeckman showcase hood art at a recent car show on La Grange Road. They previously exhibited their talents airbrushed on a muscle car and motorcycle, along with painted hoods, at Kallemeyn’s display booth in the Palos Heights Classic Car Event last month.
Kallemeyn Collision takes its auto body artwork to new level by Tim Hadac staff reporter
While a rec room, garage or anything else that might be described as a man cave is typically never thought of as a repository of art—at least nothing beyond a kitschy painting of dogs playing poker—a longtime Palos Heights auto shop aims to change that. “My wife told me years ago— by the Chamber on Aug. 11 from and I’ll never forget it—‘If it can 6-7:30 p.m. or Tuesday, Aug. 19 sit still long enough, you’ll paint from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Orland it, won’t you?’” said veteran artChamber office, 8799 W. 151st St. ist Paul Boeckman of Kallemeyn in Orland Park. Customs, a newly created division Both meetings will provide an of Kallemeyn Collision Centers, overview and specific details of the 12145 S. Ridgeland Ave., Palos trips so please choose the one that Heights. best suits your schedule. Boeckman, along with diviFor more information, please sion manager Joe Chval, were a visit our website at www.orland- crowd favorite at the recent Palos parkchamber.org or call 349-2972. Heights Classic Car Event, showcasing intricate, nuanced artwork airbrushed onto a muscle car, as well as Chval’s own Harley Davidson Street Glide. The stars of the show, however, were detached auto hoods with custom art painted on. “This is incredible, the quality of the artwork takes this to a whole new level,” said Sal Lanza, of Palos Hills, as he admired an auto hood with a Chicago Blackhawks logo that appeared to be bursting out of the hood. “I’d even hang this in my living room.” “Uh, no you won’t, honey,” corrected his wife, Delia, with a smile. “I agree with you about the quality and craftsmanship, but this goes in the man cave.” If Kallemeyn has its way, their custom artwork will grace man caves in homes and garages across the Chicago area. Their plan is simple: quality, affordability, convenience. A work of custom hood art can be had for as little as $450, Chval noted, and there’s no need to bring in a hood. Kallemeyn will supply the hood upon request.
Orland Chamber now offers travel The Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce has entered into a partnership with Chamber Explorations which has more than 100 years of group travel experience, a nationwide team of travel consultants and first class travel programs. Chamber Explorations is committed to providing the highest level of service, quality and value to chambers of commerce and
their travelers. The Chamber has scheduled three excursions in 2015. The first trip is 9 days in Peru and Machu Picchu leaving on April 13, 2015. In May, Spain & Portugal will be the destination and in October, we’re featuring an eight-day river cruise to Prague and the highlights of the Danube. There will be two information meetings for these trips hosted
Traverso’s celebrates 40th anniversary Area Property As hard as it is too imagine, there was a time in the not-toodistant past when Orland Park was a growing village of 9,000 with mostly farmland on the west side of the village. Harlem Avenue was a two-lane road with few stoplights and even fewer corporate chain restaurants. And Orland Square Mall was a mere design on an architect’s drafting table. It was the summer of 1974, and Traverso’s opened in what was a pioneering location at 156th and Harlem. The family-friendly restaurant featured the same homemade pastas and award-winning pizza that became famous at their other locations on the south side of Chicago. Combined with the work ethic and attention to
detail that comes with running a family business, they became a long-term success story and a landmark in Orland Park. In an era when suburban restaurants all seem to be part of a corporate chain – with recipes created in a boardroom – Traverso’s stands apart. “As Orland has grown, we’ve grown with it,” reminisces John Traverso who, along with brother and partner George, will be hosting a big 40th anniversary celebration at the restaurant. A celebration spanned two nights this week, with live music on the patio and plenty of surprises, great food and great old stories. “We have many wonderful memories here over the years, and we look forward to celebrat-
ing with friends old and new,” explains George. As Orland has changed, so has Traverso’s. The steady stream of customers has included everyone from people celebrating engagements to wedding anniversaries, from celebrities to regular customers who have become good friends. Over the years they have added a second dining room, a large parking lot, and a 100-seat outdoor patio, the first in Orland Park. But the quality food and attentive service has remained the same. It was a recipe that worked in 1974, and one that will work for years to come. Traverso’s is located at 15601 S. Harlem Ave. in Orland Park. The phone number is 532-2220. Open daily from 4 p.m., Sundays from noon.
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Following are the property transfers in the area, according to the latest report, as received from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds Office. The Regional News does not attempt to correct errors made by that office. Area Property Transfers were not available at press time, but will return next week.
Business Notes Susan Marie’s drawing for sewing machines Susan Marie’s Sewing Center, a Bernina dealer in Palos Heights, will give away three bernette sewing machines during a special truckload sales event Friday, Aug. 15, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, Aug. 16 from 9 a.m. to 2 noon. The event is free and will take place at the dealer, located at 6515 W. 127th St. Attendees can enter the drawing for the bernettes without making a purchase. The drawing will occur at 1 p.m. the following Monday, Aug. 18. The winner need not be present to claim the prize. In addition, Susan Marie’s Sewing Center will have special prices on Bernina’s 3 Series, 5 Series, 7 Series, and 8 Series machines. For more information, call Susan Marie’s Sewing Center at 371-9314. Susan Marie’s Sewing Center is a family-owned exclusive Bernina dealer. For more information, visit www.susanmariesinc.com.
Custom airbrushed hoods can beautify anyone’s ‘man cave’ “A lot of people looking for custom artwork don’t realize that it can be available at a collision shop,” Boeckman said. “So they go to specialty shops, and the problem with that is, customers are dealing with artists whose timeframes are bad. Simply put, the job takes too long. “By offering this service at a collision shop, we can shorten the timeframe. We can use our preppers, our painters and more to ensure that the job gets done a lot faster, yet maintains the same high quality,” he continued. “Normally a custom art job would take some painters six months. We want to change that. We want to be able that turn that job around in a month.” “Plus, have a warranty on the work,” Chval chimed in. The strength of the Kallemeyn name is expected to help put its new division on the map. Founded about 75 years ago near 72nd Street and Racine on Chicago’s South Side and later located near 89th Street and Kedzie in Evergreen Park, Kallemeyn moved to Palos Heights in 1975 and built upon its already strong reputation for reliability. Beyond hood art that can grace a car or hang on a wall, Boeckman said he can and does paint just about anything. “I’ve painted garbage cans, helmets, refrigerators, and more,”
he said. “You know, if you think about it, it’s funny. In the last several years, people have really dolled up their garages. People paint their garages, they put their cars in them. “What’s the last thing they do with their garage?” he asked. “They take an old fridge that they had in the house and they put it in the corner of the garage and don’t think about it. We take that fridge and paint it to match your car, your SUV, your truck, your motorcycle, or anything you want. And now that plain-jane fridge is a cool accessory to your garage or man cave.” An accomplished artist of some 30 years, Boeckman is quick to point out the practical side of what he does. “There are artists out there who unfortunately think they’re God’s gift to the world,” he said. “But if people can’t afford what you do, you’re going to be standing around, doing nothing. “I want to make art affordable and accessible, and that’s Kallemeyn’s vision, too,” he added. “Two years after I worked on Joe’s Harley, he called me, made me an offer, and here I am. [Kallemeyn] is a great place to work, so now I have good compensation, benefits, a retirement plan. “Before that, in recent years, I was a self-employed artist,” he concluded. “I began 30 years ago in the sign industry, painting billboards, hand painting, pin striping, graphics. But then when computers came around, they kind of made me obsolete—but computers can’t do this.”
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Heights filmmaker and local crew making indie movie titled ‘Broiled’ Megan St. John has spent the past few summers lounging by the Palos Pool, but this season she took on a task bigger than sun tanning: she decided to make a movie. St. John, a Palos Heights resident and University of Chicago graduate, is the founder and executive producer at Third Wheel Entertainment, a Chicago-based video production company specializing in promotional video work. “The ultimate goal is for Third Wheel to become a feature film production company,” said St. John. “My crew and I decided to take a step towards that goal this summer and produce our first film. It’s been an eye-opening experience so far, and a lot of fun.” The film, Broiled, is written and directed by St. John and stars both experienced and first-time actors, many stemming from the Orland Park area.
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in the film was donated to our production by Richard’s,” said St. John. “The guys there have been awesome to work with.” Broiled is currently in production, with the last weekend of A dark comedy set in small town on-location shooting to take place America, Broiled is the story of Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 16 and two girls and two boys who co- 17 in DeKalb County. The film will incidentally rob the town bank run 35 minutes in length and is on the same day. The result? A expected to be complete this fall. love story, a few dark twists and “We plan to submit Broiled to a whole lot of sweet potatoes. various film festivals, both locally All scenes will be shot on- and nationally, with Sundance belocation in DeKalb County, with ing our number one goal,” said St. three farmhouses and two diners John with a smile. “We will also serving as the primary locations. be hosting various local screen“We’ve been in the preproduc- ings throughout the fall and into tion phase for Broiled since early the spring.” February,” said St. John. “CoordiTo see behind the scenes nating something as big as this has pictures from the set of Broiled, been a stressful process, but we’ve visit Third Wheel Entertainment met a lot of people who are eager on Facebook, www.facebook. Elizabeth Stenholt (actress), from left, Jack Dwyer (actor), Trevor Kelley (director of photography), to help, which has been great.” com/thirdwheelentertainment. Megan St. John (writer/director), Andrew Smith (camera) and Julie Mitre (actress) pose for a picture Some of these eager-to-help For more information on Third after filming a scene on July 20 in Malta. people hail from Richard’s Bicy- Wheel Entertainment, visit www. cles in Palos Heights. “The bike thirdwheelentertainment.com.
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The Third Wheel crew filmed scenes for Megan St. John’s film “Broiled” last month at Jay’s Drive-in Jack Dwyer (actor), from left, Elizabeth Stenholt (actress), Andrew Smith (camera), Trevor Kelley (direcdiner in Oregon, in Dekalb County. tor of photography) and Michael Hickey (sound) film an exterior scene on July 19 in Malta.
Orland Fine Art Fair draws a crowd at Orland Crossing
Senior Notes Orland Township Dancing with the Senior Stars auditions
Banquets, 8800 W. 159th St. in Orland Park. The winning couple at Dancing with the Senior Stars will receive a cash prize as well as the coveted mirror ball trophy. All proceeds will benefit the Orland Township Scholarship Foundation.
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Renee Oswald, owner of Your Mind Over Matter, and Ann Scully from First American Bank distribute Frisbees to attendees at the Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce Fine Art Fair on July 19 and 20, held at Orland Park Crossing. The two are members of the Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce and volunteered their time at the community event.
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Heather Warthen and Keloryn Putnam show off their discoveries during the annual Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce Fine Art Fair. Warthen is chairwoman of the chamber’s Fine Art Fair committee and Putnam is the chamber’s executive director.
Shoppers view artwork during the Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce Fine Art Fair. The annual event is hosted by the chamber in partnership with the village of Orland Park and Orland Park Crossing. Over 50 artists displayed and sold artwork at the event. In addition to the artwork of the artists, the day’s events included three art projects open for the participation of all art fair attendees and entertainment provided by House of Music in Orland Hills.
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Beauty’s only skin deep — that’s deep enough Former pro Sefcik takes over at Marist By Ken Karrson
Bartosh At the risk of getting an angry response or two, I must ask one very basic question: When are women going to learn? I’m not talking about the kind of learning provided by institutions of higher education. These days there are more females graduating from college than males, or so we’re told. Even if that isn’t entirely accurate there’s no denying women aren’t being denied their right to receive instruction and are deriving plenty of benefits from it. And many of them have absorbed enough teaching to become doctors, lawyers and CEOs. Good for them. But if understanding transplants, transfers of ownership and multibillion-dollar business transactions doesn’t baffle them, why can’t these same ladies comprehend something as simple as what makes men tick? They obviously remain perplexed because if they weren’t they wouldn’t keep acting surprised whenever they witness guys acting in unflattering ways, which would be most of the time. Women think they can train men in the manner of Pavlov’s dog, assuming we’re as smart as canines or at least as obedient. We’re neither. We’re wholly predictable, though, almost never deviating from our genetic script. And what that script tells us is to be as shallow as a politician’s conscience when judging members of the opposite sex. Newsflash: Guys notice all pretty women, including those who wouldn’t dream of returning the gaze even if she and the leering fellow were the only two parties in the same room. Advertisers realized women’s captivating effect decades ago and decided to make attractive females one of three surefire ways — along with babies and furry little animals — to get consumers to pay attention to commercials about, well, anything. It’s the cuteness factor and it’s always been in place. That includes in sports, where good-looking female athletes achieve notoriety regardless of accomplishments — think tennis player Anna Kournikova or
1970s golfer Laura Baugh, both of whom had plenty of admirers in spite of their lack of success. Anybody who believes we’ve advanced as a society and no longer think in such Neanderthal terms, however, is mistaken. That was recently proved again when an Asian volleyballer was deemed “too beautiful” to play for her country. The story about 17-year-old Sabina Altynbekova ran on several Internet sites. She is competing in the Asian Under-19 Volleyball Championships, an event normally given less thought by media members than a daily luncheon special but suddenly of great interest because of Altynbekova’s presence. I confess I looked at photos of her, although only briefly lest I draw too much attention to myself for dawdling. But while her attractiveness could be described as better than average, Altynbekova is not “too beautiful” to play volleyball.” According to the various stories, the problem is that Altynbekova’s looks are overshadowing not only her own play but that of her teammates. One paper in Kazakh reported that “fans just stare at her and they are not following the championship anymore.” Another outlet coaxed this quote from Altynbekova’s coach Nurlan Sadikov: “It’s impossible to work like this. The crowd behaves like there is only one player at the championship.” Think Bill Belichik says the same thing about Tom Brady? Altynbekova’s actual volleyball skills were rarely mentioned in the stories about her, but that’s no shock. She’s obviously good enough to be playing on a prestigious team, but would her abilities have set her apart if she looked more like Pete Rose instead of a fair flower? We all know the answer to that. But before anyone gets too huffy about me addressing this point and trying to give credence to the beauty-is-onlyskin-deep theory, let us consider something else that occurs annually and masquerades as “sport.” I’m talking about the
World Naked Bike Ride, which happens every June somewhere in the northern hemisphere. The name pretty much describes the activity, although clothing is optional, as is body painting. The WNBR is supposedly conducted as a way to “promote positive body image” and “bring attention to people-powered transportation.” Yeah right. Since it’s a coed event, chances are very good that most guys enter in the hope of pedaling alongside a naked lady for a while because that’s a sight not seen too often in a public setting. Women are generally reluctant about removing clothing around an audience, whereas guys will do the same with no more than a drunken friend’s dare serving as motivation. And, luckily for all concerned, the men quickest to go the au naturale route are ones who appear to be six months pregnant. But let’s get back to the Altynbekova situation. Instead of bellyaching about the attention she’s getting those around her ought to embrace it because they can bask in the reflected glow. As opposed to performing in anonymity once again, the players and their sporting efforts are getting publicized. Don’t worry about the means if the end is justifiable. Besides, if the volleyball is good enough maybe a lot of people will continue to watch after Altynbekova is no longer a part of it and begin to appreciate the abilities demonstrated by all the players, not just statuesque ones. Who knows — perhaps because of Altynbekova volleyball will develop a much larger worldwide male fan base and the sport won’t need a “too beautiful” ambassador to promote it. If we’re not careful guys everywhere may soon discover a sense of depth within themselves and realize there’s more to women than what meets the eye. And before long all men will stop being crude, barnyard-like creatures and start using their brains as the dominant body part in determining what makes a woman truly beautiful. On second thought, naaaahhhh …
Teaching pros are commonplace at golf courses. They’re a little more foreign on high school baseball fields. Homewood-Flossmoor once had ex-major leaguer Steve Stanicek as its diamond boss. Now Marist has entrusted its varsity baseball program to another former pro. Kevin Sefcik, a 1993 St. Xavier University graduate who prepped at Andrew, spent part of seven seasons in Major League Baseball, most of those with the Philadelphia Phillies. His background shouldn’t hurt Marist when it comes to enrolling a greater number of male student-athletes. “It’s kind of cool,” Sefcik said, referring to his rare status as a major leaguer-turned-prep coach. “I hope that it gets kids interested in coming here.” Marist athletic director Bob Lim thinks Sefcik will be a definite asset. “The thing I like about Kevin is the fact that his major league career was made from him hustling and working hard and coming to work every day,” Lim said. “I think because of that he can relate more to these kids.” Sefcik’s interest was whetted by previous interviews with his collegiate alma mater and Brother Rice. He served as an assistant to John McCarthy with the Crusaders the past three years but still yearned for a head-coaching job of his own. A little help from his friends did the trick. “I felt pretty good [about Marist] because I had some people throw my hat in the ring,” said Sefcik, who preferred those individuals remain anonymous. “I felt that if I went through the [interviewing] process and everything went well that it would work out. “I think we had a good connection and it kind of feels right. I like the idea of being at a private school where you can get kids from all over and not just the
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Kevin Sefcik appeared on several baseball cards during his seven years in Major League Baseball. The former pro and St. Xavier University alumnus was recently named Marist’s varsity baseball coach. [immediate] neighborhood and I like their [baseball] facilities they put up.” Sefcik, who is a full-time coach for the Illinois Sparks travel program, said his 11 years of coaching experience — which also includes a couple seasons spent as an SXU assistant — is a much more important entry on his resume than his time in the majors. “Playing in the major leagues doesn’t [automatically] make you a good coach,” he said. “If I would
have tried to do this as soon as I got out, it probably wouldn’t have worked.” Sefcik, who played under highly regarded Frank Ganser while at Andrew, says he adopted the latter’s emphasis on “practicing with pride and playing with pride” and credits Ganser as the guy who “taught me how to play the game. We spent a lot of time on drills.” Sefcik plans on doing the same thing and he’ll go into next spring (Continued on page 2)
Titletown USA? It’s right here By Jeff Vorva
streak ended in 1996-97 but only briefly — another six-year run got underway beginning in the The 2014-15 high school sports fall of 1997. season officially opens Monday, One more empty year — 2003when boys’ and girls’ golf teams Area teams with the are able to compete. most state championships 04 — popped up before the current decade-long title string began. In The 12 schools in this paper’s coverage area have teams involved Mother McAuley volleyball — 14 all, 32 seasons have featured at least one champion from one of in several sports and each of them Sandburg wrestling — 5 Photo by Jeff Vorva nine schools. Shepard, Evergreen Evergreen Park’s David Payne, shown at Northwest Elementary School where he got his start in has dreams of winning a state Sandburg boys’ volleyball — 4 championship. Based on past per- Chicago Christian girls’ track — 3 Park and Queen of Peace have basketball, had a happy summer as his Full Package travel team won a national title during July yet to produce any state titles, in Las Vegas. formances, at least some of those Sandburg boys’ soccer — 3 although former Astros track star aren’t necessarily pipe dreams. April Griffin was an individual This is a region where the win- Sandburg cheerleading — 3 event champion at the state meet ning of state titles has become a pretty regular occurrence. Ac- six of them collected since the during the late 1990s. cording to Illinois High School start of the 1980-81 school year. As athletes get ready for 10Association records, a total of From 1980-81 through 1995-96 plus months of action during the 61 championships have been at least one top prize was brought 2014-15 school year, here are some captured by local teams, all but home by an area program. The (Continued on page 2) whom were dog tired by the end. compete no matter who we are By Jeff Vorva “It took all seven of us to win up against,” Full Package coach There were hundreds of travel the tournament,” Payne said. Edmond Pryor said. “I pushed basketball teams playing in sev- “One player broke his wrist be- him, scolded him and challenged eral tournaments in Las Vegas fore the tournament and another him. He responded remarkably.’’ during the last weekend of July. had started football, [so] it was Payne grew up in Evergreen Precious few went undefeated. hard. We were all sore and stiff Park and attended Evergreen Park High School for two years It was the final live period after each game. for summer teams and players “It was hard to enjoy the trip before transferring to Perspecto show their skills in front of and it was hot there [with tem- tives Calumet Leadership in NCAA Division I coaches. With peratures rising above 115 de- Chicago. He has reclassified and some of the country’s best high grees at times]. I thought Chicago will attend a boarding school in school players going against each summers were hot, but Vegas — either Atlanta or Florida before choosing a college. other, wins were understandably that’s something else.” Pro Skills crushed three pool- So far Colgate University has difficult to collect. But Full Package South, a round opponents by scores of shown the most interest, but Payne said Full Package’s title might enteam featuring Evergreen Park 94-39, 86-44 and 73-27. native David Payne, finished 8-0 The Texas squad continued its tice more coaches to call. Meanand won the Platinum Division surge in the Platinum Division while, he and his teammates — of the Las Vegas Classic after until meeting up with Payne and most of whom hail from Chicago — can savor a championship that beating Pro Skills 51-44 in the his teammates. title contest. Payne led the squad “During the tournament we many people didn’t see coming. with 17 points before enjoying a heard they were beating every- “Our motto was, ‘Always stay in the fight,’” Pryor said. “We boisterous celebration with his body up,” Payne said. But that didn’t matter as Full focused on giving ourselves a teammates afterward. That success came just a few Package triumphed. Payne played chance to win every game. hours after a five-overtime 73-69 a major role despite standing “Winning a tournament like victory over Greenline (Califor- 6-foot-4 and being asked to guard this doesn’t just happen — it was nia), which followed a 63-46 win players in the 6-10 range because a process and I challenged this Photo by Jeff Vorva team to commit to the process his team was undersized. over the Utah Chargers. Mother McAuley fans celebrated the school’s 14th state title when the Mighty Macs ruled over Oh, and the Full Package team “I told David what I tell all of and see it through. We came, we Illinois volleyball last fall. only had seven players, all of my players — I expect him to saw and we conquered.”
BRINGING HOME THE HARDWARE
Payne experiences pleasure Evergreen native helps hoops team go unbeaten
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Community sports news    The session is for 18U players and will run from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Registration can be made online. The Bo Jackson Sports Dome is located at 17130 Prime Blvd.   For more information, email Venus Taylor at Venus@taylormadesoftball.com.
Chicago Ridge Liberty 14U team takes first
   The Chicago Ridge Liberty 14U softball team took first place at a recent tournament in Flossmoor. Liberty won all five of their games at the event.   Team members include Melissa Carroll, Allison Wilson, Candace Kostial, Jamie Fields, Urte Barauskas, Ava Vaselakos, Alexa Minervini, Abby Minervini, Isis Rodriguez and Katie Strache. Liberty coaches are Mike Carroll, Tony Minervini and Jeff Kostial.    The Liberty 12U team also enjoyed a fine summer as it went 27-0.
Palos Heights Recreation Dept. offering sports camp
  The Palos Heights Parks and Recreation Department will sponsor a Chicago Bulls rookie and veteran camp for youngsters aged 6-12 Aug. 11-15 from 8:30-11:30 a.m. daily.    The cost is $209 for residents, $219 for nonresidents, and includes a pass for two to go to the United Center for a Q&A session with a former or current Bulls player, Bulls duffle bag, Bulls basketball, T-shirt, evaluation report and graduation certificate.   Registration is being taken at the recreation department, 6601 W. 127th St.
Oak Lawn Lightning begin evaluation dates
   The Oak Lawn Lightning have begun evaluation dates for their various 2015 baseball teams.    Remaining sessions will be held today for the 11U and 13U teams and Friday for the 14U squad. Today’s evaluations will run 5:307:30 p.m. at Kolb Field (11U) and 8-10 p.m. at SAC2 (13U). Friday’s session for 14U players will go from 7-9 p.m. at SAC2.   Players should be dressed in proper baseball attire (cap, T-shirt, pants, cleats) and must supply their own glove. They are also advised to bring something to drink.   For more information, contact Gregg Laurencell at seahawk1080@yahoo.com or John Attig at john.attig@gmail.com.
Three women will play for USA ball hockey team
  Danielle Strohmier, Eileeen Meslar and Lorissa Semus, three women who once played for Southwest Ball Hockey, will get a chance to put their skills on display in
Palos Heights to sponsor flag football league
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The Liberty 14U softball team went 5-0 at a tournament in Flossmoor. an international setting.   The three have been chosen as members of the USA women’s ball hockey team, which will compete at the 2015 IHBF World Championships in Zug, Switzerland, and the World Outdoor Ball Hockey Championships in Barrie, Ontario.
Sefcik
   “Our coaches like to give any kid that wants to the tools they need to get to the next level, whether (Continued from page 1) it’s college or the minor leagues. with one basic tenet. One of the selling points on him   “Don’t assume the kids know is the amount of contacts he has [about something],� he said. “Kids in terms of helping kids reach want to learn how to be better, that level.� [so] figure out a way to break it   Sefcik believes travel ball has down and explain it.� actually been a boon to developing   “When I interviewed him he more fundamentally sound athhad a very calm demeanor [and letes. What is missing, he says, was] very matter of fact,� Lim are some of the “team concepts, said. “He’s a pretty level-headed like hitting behind the runner and guy and he wants to do it the throwing to the right base [while right way and run his program on defense].� where he could teach the kids the   He insists he’s “not thinking fundamentals they need. of anything outside the box,� but
St. Laurence seeking JV hockey coach
Archdiocesan requirements to be considered. St. Laurence does not    St. Laurence is seeking an indi- presently have a varsity team, so vidual to serve as its junior-varsity the JV coach will head up the entire hockey program. The goal hockey coach. is to begin varsity play in a few   Interested candidates must years, with the JV coach being have previous high school coach- an integral part of the process. ing experience or an equivalent   Applicants should send a reand must meet all AHAI and sume and letter of interest to Sefcik is an admitted stickler for “practice organization.� Toward that end he will keep all three levels together as much as he can and break down sessions by grouping together those who play the same position for portions of each practice.    “It’s done in football [because] you’re getting more reps,� Sefcik said. “You maybe spend a halfhour on skill sets and then get the team stuff done. I want to make sure I see the freshmen and sophomores as much as I can so everybody’s ready for the varsity level.�    Before getting his position with
the Sparks Sefcik worked in the accounting field for a time and later owned a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop. A financially rewarding deal coaxed Sefcik to sell the business and turned his attention back toward baseball.   “It worked for my family and fits my lifestyle,� he said of his Marist position. “I feel like I didn’t get those other jobs [at SXU and Rice] so I would be free to take this one.    “I think the school offers a lot. And if I do a good job and people think I’m doing a good job, I think [more] kids will come.�
athletic director Tim Chandler at tchandler@stlaurence.com.
  The Palos Heights Parks and Recreation Department is accepting registration for an NFL Flag Football League it will sponsor this fall.   Coed teams are being formed for youngsters entering grades 3-8. Games will be held on Sundays from Sept. 7-Nov. 2 at Shepard. Practices will be held one day a week.
  The cost is $76 for residents, $96 for nonresidents, and the Tryout at Bo Jackson’s deadline to enter is Friday. All participants will receive a team Sports Dome   A final tryout for the Taylor jersey and participation award. Made softball programs will be   Individuals can sign up at the held today at the Bo Jackson Elite recreation department, 6601 W. 127th St. Sports Dome in Lockport.
Titletown (Continued from page 1) fun facts about area schools and state championships:   • The first area state trophy was brought home by Richards’ wrestling team in 1975.    • Mother McAuley’s 2013 volleyball team was the last local squad to win a state crown. The Mighty Macs have won 14 titles but went nine years between championships before ending that streak in November.   • Richards is the only area school to win basketball and football titles.   • Sandburg is the only school to win crowns in baseball and
softball.   • Sandburg is also the only school to win a state championship in both boys’ and girls’ volleyball.   • The 2001-2002 campaign brought the most titles as Sandburg won in boys’ soccer, Marist in boys’ volleyball and McAuley in both volleyball and water polo.    • Sandburg has the most state titles with 19, followed closely by Mother McAuley, which totals 18. Richards has claimed seven championships and Chicago Christian and Marist have five apiece.   • Sandburg’s wrestling (20052007), Christian’s girls’ track (1989-91) and McAuley’s volleyball (1980-82) teams have the longest runs with titles in three straight seasons.
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY Plaintiff, -v.ROBERT L. BREGIN A/K/A ROBERT LOUIS BREGIN SR., MARY MARGARET BREGIN A/K/A MARY M. BREGIN, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 11 CH 030636 522 LAKE TRAIL DRIVE PALOS PARK, IL 60464 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 10, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 28, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 522 LAKE TRAIL DRIVE, PALOS PARK, IL 60464 Property Index No. 23-28-305-017. The real estate is improved with a 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. 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. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. 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 14-11-19472. 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 Attorney File No. 14-11-19472 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 11 CH 030636 TJSC#: 34-12710 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. I619954
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB Plaintiff, -v.ELEFTERIS ELEFTERIADIS A/K/A LEFTERIS ELEFTERIADIS A/K/A ELEFTERIADIS LEFTERIS, DIMITRA ELEFTERIADIS A/K/A DEMITRA ELEFTERIADIS, BENEFICIAL ILLINOIS INC. DBA BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE CO. OF ILLINOIS, PLAZA BANK Defendants 13 CH 06666 15542 SOUTH HOLLYHOCK COURT ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 3, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 5, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 15542 SOUTH HOLLYHOCK COURT, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-13-403-016-0000. The real estate is improved with a one story single family home with a two car attached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce. com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1303308. 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. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1303308 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 13 CH 06666 TJSC#: 34-9975 I619838
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NA AS TRUSTEE FOR WASHINGTON MUTUAL ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES WMABS SERIES 2006-HE4 TRUST Plaintiff, -v.NAGLA T. ELHASSAN A/K/A NAGLA ELHASSAN, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., CIT LOAN CORPORATION F/K/A THE CIT GROUP/CONSUMER FINANCE, INC., WORLDWIDE ASSET PURCHASING, LLC, BROOK HILLS HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 09 CH 043338 11765 S. BROOKSHIRE DRIVE ORLAND PARK, IL 60467 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 4, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 4, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:Commonly known as 11765 S. BROOKSHIRE DRIVE, ORLAND PARK, IL 60467 Property Index No. 27-30-310-004. The real estate is improved with a 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 ISâ€? condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. 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 14-09-26139. 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 Attorney File No. 14-09-26139 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 09 CH 043338 TJSC#: 34-12846 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be ďż˝a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I620013
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY D I V I S I O N ďż˝ PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION P l a i n t i f f , ďż˝ v . ďż˝ BOGUSLAW OMIELAN, TERESA OMIELAN, PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION S/I/I TO MIDAMERICA BANK, FSB D e f e n d a n t s ďż˝ 12 CH 13733 10430 WINTER PARK DRIVE PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 29, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 2, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 10430 WINTER PARK DRIVE, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-14-105-069-0000. The real estate is improved with a two story single family home; two car attached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1207647. 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. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1207647 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 12 CH 13733 TJSC#: 34-9601 I619017
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W 0 9 2 2 8 1 � IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S � COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION HARRIS N.A., P l a i n t i f f , � v s . � MARIUSZ STYS; JOLANTA STYS; EDELWEISS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION A/K/A EDELWEISS O F � THE LAKE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; U N K N O W N � OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, D e f e n d a n t s , � _____________________________________________ � DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY O� N � BEHALF OF GS MORTGAGE SECURITIES CORP. G S A A � HOME EQUITY TRUST 2005-10 ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-10; C o u n t e r - P l a i n t i f f , � v s . � � MARIUSZ STYS; JOLANTA STYS; CONDOMINIUM O� F � EDELWEISS; HARRIS N.A.; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MARIUSZ STYS, IF ANY; U� N K N O W N � HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF JOLANTA STYS, IF A� N Y ; � UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD C�L A I M A N T S ; � C o u n t e r - D e f e n d a n t s , � 08 CH 38865 � NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on May 15, 2014 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real e s t a t e : � P.I.N. 23-23-416-027-1031. Commonly known as 11715 South Matterhorn Circle, � Unit 201, Palos Park, IL 60464. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call the Sales Clerk at Plaintiff's Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455 W 0 9 2 2 8 1 . � INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 � I616897
INďż˝THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY ďż˝ DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.ďż˝ MONIKA BEDNARZ A/K/A MONIKA M. BEDďż˝ NARZ-STOPKA, MACIEJ STOPKA, TIFFANY GARDENS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION #2 Defendants 13ďż˝CH 014238 7345 TIFFANY DRIVE UNIT #3E ORLAND PARK, IL ďż˝ 60462 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY ďż˝ GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 28, 2014, an agent for The Judicial ďż˝ Corporation, will at 2:00 PM on September Sales 3, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One ďż˝ South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real esďż˝ tate: Commonly known as 7345 TIFFANY DRIVE ďż˝ UNIT #3E, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-13-409-022-1003. The real estate is ďż˝ improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporaďż˝ tion. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abanďż˝ doned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, ďż˝ which is calculated on residential real estate ďż˝ 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 ďż˝ is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS ISâ€? condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, ďż˝ pay the assessments and the legal fees shall 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. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. 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 14-13-12882. 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 Attorney File No. 14-13-12882 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH 014238 TJSC#: 34-12946 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. I620242
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Section 2 Thursday, August 7, 2014
The Regional News - The Reporter
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, -v.FIRST MIDWEST BANK, AS POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF PALOS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE U/T/A DATED JULY 3, 2009 A/K/A TRUST NUMBER 1-7925, GREEN OAKS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF PALOS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE U/T/A DATED JULY 3, 2009 A/K/A TRUST NUMBER 1-7925, GEORGE N. REVELIOTIS D/B/A REVELIOTIS LAW PC, UNKNOWN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF PALOS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE U/T/A DATED JULY 3, 2009 A/K/A TRUST NUMBER 1-7925, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, RICHARD KUHN, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR KENNETH J. BORKOWSKI (DECEASED) AND MARY E. MAUGER (DECEASED) Defendants 13 CH 020990 9990 S. 84TH TERRACE UNIT #107 PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 15, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 2:00 PM on August 20, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 9990 S. 84TH TERRACE UNIT #107, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-11-301-006-1044 (UNDERLYING 23-11-301-005). The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. 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 14-13-20490. 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 Attorney File No. 14-13-20490 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH 020990 TJSC#: 34-9195 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. I617164
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.LAIMUTE SIMENIENE, SARUNE SIMENAITE, BROOKLODGE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION Defendants 12 CH 020701 10630 S. BROOKLODGE LANE UNIT 2A PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 17, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 19, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 10630 S. BROOKLODGE LANE UNIT 2A, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-13-103-023-1035. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. 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 14-12-15766. 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 Attorney File No. 14-12-15766 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 12 CH 020701 TJSC#: 34-10960 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. I620475
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.PEGGY WADE, MARCY SAUSER, DONALD J. MCKAY A/K/A DONALD J. MCKAY JR, JACLYN LANE A/K/A JACLYN L. LANE, LYNN SWIEKOWSKI A/K/A LYNN B. SWIERKOWSKI, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF ANNE MCKAY A/K/A ANNE T. MCKAY, IF ANY, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF DONALD G. MCKAY A/K/A DONALD MCKAY A/K/A DONALD G. MCKAY SR, IF ANY, THOMAS QUINN, SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DECEASED MORTGAGOR, ANNE MCKAY A/K/A ANNE T. MCKAY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 13 CH 25183 10410 SOUTH 83RD AVENUE F/K/A 10360 SOUTH 83RD AVENUE PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 5, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on September 9, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 10410 SOUTH 83RD AVENUE F/K/A 10360 SOUTH 83RD AVENUE, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 2314-219-051-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family home. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Effective May 1st, 2014 you will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues. For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce. com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number PA1314926. 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. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 Attorney File No. PA1314926 Attorney Code. 91220 Case Number: 13 CH 25183 TJSC#: 34-9957 I620306
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 Section 2
Out & About
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Your Guide to Arts and Events in the Southwest Suburbs and Beyond
Broaden Your Horizons This week The Bridge Teen Center programs • High School Meet-N-Greet — 2 to 3 p.m. today (Thursday), The Bridge Teen Center, 15555 S. 71st Court, Orland Park, will host a meet-n-greet for high school students to make an ice cream sundae and play games with students from their school. • Yoga in the Park — 4 to 5:45 p.m. today combines the benefits of yoga with the relaxation of being outdoors. • Christal Luster and Continuum — 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Aug. 8, Friday Night Live event with live music from Christal Luster and Continuum and free food samples from Peppo’s. • Max Dvorak and Casserole — 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Aug. 9, High School Saturday with live music from Max Dvorak and Casserole and free samples from Fannie May. • Summer Salads with Now You’re Cooking — 4 to 5:30 p.m. Aug. 12, culinary program with Now You’re Cooking will teach students how to make healthy homemade salad dressing, along with popular salad combinations that taste great and are good for you. • Electric Guitar — 5 to 6 p.m. Aug.12 and 19, program with Tone Wolf Music will teach students the basics of the electric guitar. • Ultimate Frisbee — 3 to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 13, a game of ultimate Frisbee for students against the Bridge staff and volunteers. • Charity Car Show at Chickfil-A — 5 to 9 p.m. Aug. 13, Chick-fil-A, 15605 S. La Grange Road in Orland Park, will host a charity car show to help raise money for The Bridge Teen Center's free programs and events. • Album Artwork — 4:30 to 6 p.m. Aug. 14, an art program with Art-A-La-Carte to allow students to make their own album artwork using acrylic on canvas. • The Science of Taste — 5 to 6 p.m. Aug. 14, a program with Wrigley Gum to teach students how your body tastes things. These free events are for teens
in 7th through 12th grade. For more information call 532-0500.
Upcoming Meditation retreat A daylong meditation retreat will be hosted on Saturday, Sept. 6, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park. Pastoral Director Chris Hopkins will lead a day of “letting go” of one’s own agendas and thoughts as we seek a greater connection with God. The day will include time for dialogue, quiet meditation, centering prayer, and walking the labyrinth. The cost per participant is $45, which includes lunch, leadership, and supplies. Registration is required. For further information, call The Center at 361-3650.
Palos Village Players auditions The Palos Village Players will hold auditions for their final show of the 2014 season, “These Shining Lives” by Melanie Marnich, from 7 to 9 p.m., on Sunday and Monday, Aug. 17 and 18, at All Saints Lutheran Church, 13350 La Grange Road in Orland Park. Enter from the rear parking lot. The play chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day, exploring their true story and its continued resonance. Catherine and her friends are dying, it’s true; but theirs is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as they refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits— or endanger the lives of those who come after them. The cast consists of four women and two men, with a few very small parts also for men. Previous acting experience is not necessary but would be helpful. The audition will consist of readings from the script. The actual performance dates are Nov. 14 through 22 at the Palos Park Recreation Center. The play will be directed by Kevin Haines of Burbank. For more information, call 598-8268.
Mondello City Grill such a lovely place Mondello City Grill 135th and Ridgeland (former Limestone location) by Kathy Lovitt I just can't say enough good things about Mondello City Grill. It is such a lovely place. The steaks are mouthwatering accompanied by — typically — mashed potatoes and a garnish of vegetable. Soup or salad is included and either is quite good. If you order the Caesar, it is nice full crisp romaine leaves and not chopped as in most restaurants. A very nice selection of wines starting at $7 per glass. I usually have the filet as Mondello is a steakhouse — not just Italian. As a matter of fact, the remaining entrees are rather eclectic. An interesting selection of appetizers, i.e., a cheese plate — in the South suburbs! Sometimes all I want is cheese, bread and wine and now I can get it. They also have a great bleu cheese/ steak bruschett, plus a calamari in a vodka-type sauce that is absolutely delicious for all you calamari lovers, among other choices. Saturdays typically offer live entertainment so lots of good dancing! The outdoor patio is quite lovely. Tables for dining — standard wrought iron 4-tops plus some hi-tops and a separate casual seating area…nicely landscaped even with flowering vines trailing up the pillars — and heat lamps for those cool evenings. I just can't say enough great things about it. As for the interior — little change from Limestone with the exception of all wall decor removed and now a half wall separates the bar area from the dining area. And fortunately, those lovely bar lights remain intact. Great
Readers Review mood lighting. So...do put this on your list and spread the word. It is such a lovely dining experience. I've not tried anything beyond the steaks and appetizers, but I would expect everything else to be good too. Two different sized filets...8oz ($22 I think) and a 10 or 12 oz., plus a hangar steak, which you don't see out this way very often, if at all, and prepared a bit differently than elsewhere. Send your Readers Review to Theregional@comcast.net.
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Girls ‘let love grow’ at The Bridge Teen Center The Bridge Teen Center offered its Girls’ Night In, one of its annual signature events, last weekend. This night was designed just for girls, focusing on inner and outer beauty through a variety of stations. This year, the theme was "Let Love Grow," where students experienced a night meant to be uplifting, encouraging and meaningful. The Bridge had five different stations throughout the night. The first station was called "Love Your Reflection," at which students were taught by Alison Andrews Day Spa and Salon Evangelos, the event sponsors, how to love themselves on the outside by taking care of their hair and skin (photos clockwise from top left). A later station, "Love others," had students make good deed bracelets. When they do a good deed they get to move a bead over on their bracelet. Their challenge is to do 10 good deeds a week. The fifth station was called "Love Letters.” Students were challenged to write a love letter to say what they loved about themselves and what accomplishments they were proud of achieving. The night finished off with a live performance from Lexi Elisha that had students dancing and singing along.
Omarr’s Weekly Astrological Forecast by Jeraldine Saunders ARIES (March 21-April 19): New isn’t necessarily better, although your originality and resourcefulness receives applause. Fight off a tendency to “stir things up,” “take a stand” or argue a debatable point during the second part of this week. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Professional restraint could be seen as a takeover bid. You may dive into a project later this week only to find that your diplomatic style has made someone suspicious of your motives. Play it cool. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Everything worth doing will get done in time. Don’t let anyone bully you into a tizzy of action in the week ahead. Some people could be more difficult than usual to deal with, so hold off on crucial negotiations. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Resistance is futile. In the week ahead, you’ll find it useless to fight city hall or anyone else. If rules are laid down to be followed, follow them, and if bills need to be paid, pay them. Save your energy for something worthwhile. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Put
the pedal to the metal in the early part of the week. By midweek, you may be forced to apply the brakes and slow down. It may be necessary to remain distant and professional in social situations; only relax with close friends. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Remain objective to reach your objective. Some situations will improve all by themselves, but you can help them along in the week ahead by being prepared for any eventuality. Be thrifty with your pennies. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Money is a symbol representing values and power. Don’t let a lack of cash dictate your mood this week. The most significant issues don’t always revolve around money. Exercising thrift may be useful to prove a point. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t put any more irons into the fire in the week ahead. Keep (Continued on page 6)
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Omarr (Continued from page 5) working to reach the goals you already have in place. You may be very wise to avoid the poker table or wild speculation with financial assets.   SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): You may be challenged to work hard in the week to come, but you can play hard, too. Remain self-disciplined about spending and don’t enter into any long-term contracts that require monthly payments.   CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Put on the push. Your ambitions could light up your life in the week to come. You should focus on applying yourself to the
utmost in the early part of the week and maintain a low prolife during the second half.   AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s only a problem if you think it’s a problem. In the week to come, you might find that other people are exacting and likely to promote high standards, although you may take it as personal criticism.   PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Perfectionism can impact your reputation in a favorable way. In the week ahead, remain accurate and be willing to go the extra mile. Spend extra time with loved ones and family whenever you find an opportunity.
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  1. Mandatory Fun, Weird Al Yankovic, RCA   2. YES!, Jason Mraz, Atlantic   3. The Black Market, Rise Submitted photo Against, Interscope Records   4. Kidz Bop 26, Kidz Bop Kids, Razor & Tie   5. Frozen, Soundtrack, Walt Disney Records Rummage sale donations are sought for The Center's upcoming enormous rummage sale. Beginning Aug. 11, the Children’s Farm will accept donations for its annual rummage sale, to be held on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 29   6. In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith, Capitol Records and 30, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., at 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park. The farm's large indoor horseback-riding arena will be filled with a huge assortment of house wares, hardware, sporting goods, kid’s   7. X, Ed Sheeran, Atlantic   8. Now 50, Various artists, UMe toys, craft items, clothes, books, audio and video equipment, and furniture. Donations should be brought directly to the farm. Old TVs and large entertainment centers will not be accepted. Call for pickup of   9. Trigga, Trey Songz, Atlantic   10. Based on a True Story, other large items. Blake Shelton, Warner Bros. All proceeds will benefit The Center. For more information and directions, contact www.thecenterpalos.org or call 361-3650.
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ overcomes shortcomings Film takes fun, lighter approach to the superhero genre “Guardians of the Galaxy� is a fun film that takes a lighter approach to the realm of superhero movies. It’s a welcome breath of fresh air in the usually serious superhero universe. The movie is based on the Marvel comic of the same name. The often-neglected black sheep of the Marvel universe is finally getting its day in the spotlight. With every movie Marvel touches blowing up, the hope for “Guardians of the Galaxy� is sky high, especially with a release date of 2017 already announced for the sequel. The movie rockets us from a young boy’s earth-shattering experience at a hospital to the other side of the galaxy. That young boy becomes Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) or, as he likes to call himself, Star-Lord. Quill is raised by the infamous thief, Yondu (Mi-
Pinto’s Popcorn Picks by Tony Pinto chael Rooker), who leads him to become a thief. Not a good start for a so-called superhero. Quill lands in prison where he befriends Rocket (Bradley Cooper), Groot (Vin Diesel), Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Drax (Dave Bautista). For various reasons, they all dislike a Kree terrorist named Ronan (Lee Pace), who is after a mysterious device Quill possesses. For their own selfish reasons, they strike up a temporary alliance. When they find out that the galaxy is in trouble, they realize
they need to put aside their selfish ideals and come together for the greater good of the galaxy. Besides the stars, the film features the likes of John C. Reilly, Josh Brolin, Glenn Close and Benicio Del Toro. With what you could call an ensemble cast, the movie is lead by Chris Pratt of the TV show “Parks and Recreation.� There are some misleading things about the cast — specifically with action star Vin Diesel — which may lead some to walk away slightly disappointed. Diesel plays an animated character that has only one, three-word phrase that is repeated throughout the film. Last week you learned about former WWE superstar turned actor Dwayne “The Rock� Johnson. This week, you get former WWE superstar Dave Bautista. In his first major acting role,
he’s not as polished as The Rock, but he’s improved from his roles in "Riddick" and "The Man With the Iron Fists." The real problems with the movie are the paper-thin script written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman. At 121 minutes, the story lacks depth. Yet, the film still works. Additionally, the movie is short on emotion. This film is different than the other Marvel superhero releases. If you go in with a blank slate, you will be led on a wild ride that is funny and action packed. This is one superhero movie that is not serious. If you’re looking for a film that a little family friendly (PG13) that doesn’t take itself too serious “Guardians of the Galaxy� is for you.
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to try to relieve Sofia (voice of Ariel Winter, “Modern Family�) of her very special amulet. None other than Snow White (voice of Katie Von Till) shows up to help Sofia recognize the advantage of recognizing people for who they really are. Wayne Brady and Tim Gunn also are in the voice cast. *** (Not rated)   COMING SOON: “BEARS� (Aug. 12): John C. Reilly narrates the live-action Disney documentary about young cubs who must deal with various elements of the environment in Alaska. (G)   “THE BLACKLIST: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON� (Aug. 12): James Spader plays the enigmatic “Red� Reddington, who teases an FBI novice (Megan Boone) with information about criminals, in the NBC mystery series. (Not rated: AS, P, V)   “A HAUNTED HOUSE 2� (Aug. 12): Various horror films are parodied in this satirical sequel; stars include Marlon Wayans
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