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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Photo by Tim Hadac

Palos School District 118 Superintendent Anthony Scarsella makes a point during last Tuesday’s discussion of upgrades at Palos East Elementary School, as Board Secretary Marijo Calacci (right) and President Sheila Pacholski listen.

Palos East project done despite rains But who will fix swamped backyards of its neighbors?

by Tim Hadac staff reporter Palos School District 118 officials gave themselves an “A” earlier this week for their performance on the renovation of Palos East Elementary School, 7700 W. 127th St., Palos Heights.

“This [$4 million] project is on time and under budget, by any measure, by about $100,000,” said Chief School Business Official Justin Veihman at a meeting Tuesday at district headquarters, 8800 W. 119th St., Palos Park.

There were minor delays along the way, said Superintendent Anthony Scarsella, mostly caused by the summer’s wet and unpredictable weather.

The delays meant that final touches were not finished when Palos East opened its doors for the new school year, and Scarsella thanked the faculty at East for its patience.

“The conditions were not ideal to come back to, but everyone was great about making adjustments, and we have thanked them immensely,” he said. “We’re up and rolling, and we couldn’t be more pleased.”

Board President Sheila Pacholski thanked Scarsella and Veihman “for the long summer you spent on this. I know the rains were making this project difficult at times, so I really appreciate your persistence and for pulling this through.”

Giving the district a very different grade was Palos Heights Alderman Dolores Kramarski (3rd Ward), whose backyard—in the 7600 block of West Carmichael Drive—is one of about 10 that abut Palos East’s campus grounds.

Kramarski this week reiterated her complaint from earlier this summer that district officials are “not good neighbors” because the Palos East construction work has flooded the rear of her backyard, eroding the soil, and undoing tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of improvements she has made in recent years.

Her next door neighbor, Ray Palmer, has voiced similar complaints, including concerns that a

newly built berm will cause storm water to flow directly into and over the banks of a small drainage ditch that runs through their back yards.

Scarsella has said that the district does not decide where storm water runoff exits the Palos East property. The decision, he said, was made by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.”

Kramarski plans to get an estimate on fixing the damage to the rear of her yard and present it to Public Works officials at City Hall—who, in turn, she said, would act as a liaison with district officials, she said.

Beyond structural concerns, Kramarski raised a public health issue, adding that she is a breast cancer survivor, and a number of her neighbors are medically fragile. “With that in mind, we don’t need stagnant water in our backyards, which is a breeding ground for mosquitoes that carry the West Nile Virus.”

Kramarski also ripped the MWRD, saying that an unnamed engineer inspected the site and told her, “This will all be taken care of,” but never got back to her.

Neither Kramarski nor Scarsella has actually sat down with each other to discuss the matter, although both say they are willing.

With deep roots in the community and a grandchild in school at Palos East, Kramarski said she is a longtime supporter of schools, but remains infuriated at what she described as a situation where her own tax dollars were used to damage her property and possibly endanger her health.

“I’ll tell you this,” she concluded. “If this district ever goes to the voters for a tax increase, I will contact everyone I know to defeat a referendum.”

Photo by Tim Hadac

Preliminary trail blazing has started on a section of the Cal-Sag Trail at the western edge of Lake Katherine in Palos Heights, offering convenience for nearby residents and breathtaking natural views for hikers and bicyclists. Work on the section is expected to be complete in the weeks ahead.

Palos Heights blazing Cal-Sag Trail

by Tim Hadac staff reporter Ninety days after ground was broken on the western section of the 26-mile Cal-Sag Trail, local enthusiasm grows as the Palos Heights portion of the bikeway nears completion.

“Great things are happening at the trail, only most people don’t know it yet because so much of the trail is hidden by greenery at this point,” said Palos Heights resident Denise Hyker, a longtime advocate of the bicycle trail and other recreation-related developments in the city.

“This is a very exciting time,” Hyker added. “To see years of public advocacy by so many good people in different ways, come to fruition is a thrill. Like any good thing, this trail did not happen by itself.”

Construction of the hikebike trail’s western section, which runs along the south bank of the Cal-Sag Channel from Cicero Avenue west to Route 83 near Lemont, is underway. The Palos Heights

section of the trail is expected to be completed within weeks, Hyker said.

A gateway-style arch will be erected soon near the Buzz ‘n’ Bloom Prairie at the Lake Katherine Nature Center and Botanic Gardens, Hyker added. The bike trail will detour away a bit from the channel as it passes Lake Katherine, and will neither touch nor affect the wood-chipped walking trail around the lake.

The rest of the trail’s western section may be completed this fall, although advocates are playing it safe and not planning a ribbon-cutting until spring, according to Steve Buchtel, executive director of the non-profit Trails for Illinois.

Sections of the eastern segment of the trail, which will extend to the Burnham Greenway (near the state border with Indiana), are expected to open at various points next year, with some opening as late as 2017.

Federal trail grants are providing 80 percent of the $21 million construction cost.

Local agencies and individual

Photo by Tim Hadac

Earth was moved from parking lot to path this week, as construction crews took advantage of mild weather to carve and smooth the trail along the southern edge of the parking lot at Lake Katherine. and corporate donors will provide the remaining 20 percent, about $4.2 million. About $2 million is still required to complete the eastern segment of the trail.

While the idea of a trail along the channel is nothing new, organizing and advocacy began in earnest a decade ago, when about a dozen advocates and local leaders met over pizza at the Lake Katherine Nature Center and Botanic

Gardens.

When the trail is complete, it will connect with trails that lead to many other places, including towns as far west as the Mississippi River.

More than a pleasant walk or bike ride, the Cal-Sag Trail is expected to improve the health of nearby communities, advocates say.

It will attack obesity and (See Cal-Sag Trail, Page 3)

Background

At issue is the current capital improvement project at the campus. District officials said this week that work is about 96 percent finished, with minor landscaping work to be done. The job includes: (See Palos East, Page 3)

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Festival restores Monarchy at Lake Katherine this Sunday The netted butterfly tent is the place to be this Sunday, Sep. 14, when the annual Monarch Butterfly Festival returns from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Lake Katherine Nature Center in Palos Heights.

This popular event offers activities for all ages. Enjoy close encounters with the gentle, winged creatures in the butterfly tent. The event will also feature hayrides, children’s games, animal exhibits, rock climbing wall, an arts and crafts fair, educational displays and food vendors. Canoe and kayak rentals will be available throughout the day, and attendees can build a scarecrow for a $10 donation.

Admission is $5 per person. Children 3 and under are free. Visitors can park in the Palos Heights City Hall parking lot and take the Photo by Tim Hadac Workers lay a carpet of seed mats on the sides and bottom of a free shuttle to Lake Katherine.

For more information, call 361-1873 or visit www.lakekatherine.org. Lake Katherine Nature Center & Botanic Gardens is at 7402 W. newly constructed stormwater detention pond on the north side of Lake Katherine Drive. the grounds at Palos East Elementary School.

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The Regional News Thursday, September 11, 2014

Voices of Palos-Orland

Take this day to remember, serve and become Prepared From Palos Park Police Chief Joe Miller Palos Park Mayor John Mahoney asks that we all take time to remember Sept. 11, 2001, and all that this day means.

Upon the 13th anniversary of 9/11, our thoughts are once again with all those who lost loved ones on that tragic morning. We remember the names, faces, and lives of the men, women, and children who were killed, and look for ways to ensure that each and every one of them is not forgotten.

We ask all to join us in remembering 9/11 and all that this day means. There are numerous ways to participate in the annual commemoration and one of the most powerful is performing acts of service in your communities in remembrance of the victims of 9/11.

When you choose to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11, you are playing an important part in memorializing those who were killed, honoring the sacrifices of the first responders, and remembering the spirit of unity that emerged in the aftermath of 9/11.

However you choose to commemorate this anniversary, thank you for joining us as we take a day to remember and honor.

Preparedness Month

September is National Preparedness Month. It is a time to prepare yourself and those in your care for an unexpected emergency. The Ready Palos Park campaign encourages residents to be ready for all types of emergencies.

Develop a disaster plan and decide where you and your family will meet in the event of an emergency. Gather emergency supplies — some to keep in your home and others to keep in backpacks in case you must leave your home in a hurry.

Finally, learn how to keep informed about the hazards, disasters and crime patterns.

While our staff drills and holds table-tops [exercises and drills] dealing with various disasters, we know emergencies can happen unexpectedly, tornados, floods and flash floods, and even water main breaks and power outages affecting people for days at a time.

Mayor John Mahoney and Police Commissioner Dan Polk ask that we use September to prepare and plan in the event you

must go for three days without electricity, water service, access to a supermarket, or local services for several days.

Mayor Mahoney recommends we follow these four steps: 1. Be Informed: Free information is available to assist you from federal, state, local, and territorial resources.

You can find preparedness information by: • Accessing Ready.gov to learn what to do before, during, and after an emergency • Contacting your local emergency management agency to get essential information on specific hazards to your area, local plans for shelter and evacuation, ways to get information before and during an emergency, and how to sign up for emergency alerts if they are available • Contacting your local firehouse and asking for a tour and information about preparedness 2. Make a Plan: Discuss, agree on, and document an emergency plan with those in your care. For sample plans, see Ready.gov . Work together with neighbors, colleagues, and others to build community resilience.

3. Build a Kit: Keep enough emergency supplies on hand for you and those in your care: water, non-perishable food, first aid, prescriptions, flashlight, and a battery-powered radio. For a checklist of supplies, visit Ready. gov .

4. Get Involved: Our community leaders agree the formula for ensuring a safer homeland consists of volunteers, a trained and informed public, and increased support of emergency response agencies during disasters. Major disasters can overwhelm firstresponder agencies, empowering individuals to lend support.

Police, fire, and rescue may not always be able to reach you quickly, such as if trees and power lines are down or if they’re overwhelmed by demand from an emergency. The most important step you can take in helping your local responders is being able to take care of yourself and those in your care; the more people who are prepared, the quicker the community will recover.

It is clear that Individuals and families are the most important members of the nation’s emergency management team. Being prepared can save precious time if there is a need to respond to an emergency!

Letters Policy

Readers Write Keep ban on video gambling in Palos Heights Dear Editor: According to the Regional News Aug. 21, the Palos Heights City Council [may once again] consider removing the ban on Video Gambling in Palos Heights. Alderman [Michael] McGrogan purports that the city of Palos Heights would reap $35,000 to $42,000 a year from one bar alone. The city is allowed five percent of the money lost in the machines.

That money would come from local residents. With so many video gambling places all around in other suburbs, we could not expect Video Gamblers to come from a distance to gamble here. Hence, the money would come from the pockets of our citizens, who might otherwise have spent that money at Ace or Cleo or Noral. In order for the city to receive $42,000 from one bar, local residents will have to lose $700,000 to $840,000 there every year. This is a terrible way to raise revenue.

Still worse is the locating of this most addictive kind of gambling where it is convenient in neighborhood restaurants

and bars. Young people could ride bikes to these familiar businesses with no danger of being carded, like they would be in regular casinos.

Letters protesting lifting the ban on video gambling were presented Sept. 2 and Sept. 4 to the City Council and the mayor from clergy of l2 Palos Heights churches.

Please join THE protest.

Beth Paschall Palos Heights

Dist. 128 survey seeks input on school chief decision Dear Editor: The Palos Heights School District 128 Board of Education has begun the process of selecting a new Superintendent to replace the retiring Dr. Kathleen Casey. Dr. Casey will be completing her eighth year as District 128 Superintendent upon her retirement on June 30, 2015.

The selection of a new Superintendent is the most important decision that a school board can undertake. The process will take time, determination and the full cooperation of our entire educational

community. Although the seven members of the school board hold the ultimate responsibility for the appointment of a new Superintendent, the Board of Education strongly believes that input from our community and staff members is essential in this process.

To achieve this goal, we are asking for your help. The Board of Education has developed an online survey, which highlights specific desirable characteristics of successful Superintendents. The survey is available on the district’s website at www.palos128.org. and will remain open until tomorrow (Friday, Sept. 12 ).

Each survey also has space provided for additional suggestions that you may wish the board to consider. All surveys will remain anonymous and a signature is not required.

As our school board moves forward with the selection of our new Superintendent, your participation in the process is vital. Thank you very much for your time, your effort and your interest in this most important task.

Deb Yerkes President, Board of Education School District 128

Inside the First Amendment

Executing journalists a savage, futile act

by Gene Policinski When will these ISIS terrorist thugs realize that the phrase “U.S. journalist” concerns geography, not political science?

Killing journalists from this county does get you headlines, but history tells us that it’s an ignorant, tragic and foolish belief to think that the government of the United States will change geo-political directions because journalists die.

Clearly, those who Tuesday killed journalist Steven Sotloff — and who killed photojournalist James Foley on August 19 — are as ignorant or deliberately dismissive of how a free press functions as they are brutal in their methods of gaining the world’s attention.

Journalists from a nation with a free press do not control the news. They do not make the news. And they do not collaborate with, nor are they controlled by, those who do. Here’s a headline from the real world: There is no direct line between the Pentagon, White House and any news organization in America where policy

is set or strategy is determined.

For more often, the press in America — whether reporting domestically or from other nations — is seen as a counterweight to official statements by U.S. government officials, and a watchdog on whether the nation’s leaders are doing what they say they are doing.

Yes, at times, the U.S. press wrongly has taken government at its word: The failure to fully pursue what turned out to be unsupported claims of “weapons of mass destruction” still echoes today. But more often, journalists operating under the shield of the First Amendment have been seen as critics or even opponents of what the nation’s political leaders recommend or the course being pursued.

Famously, a U.S. press reporting freely from Vietnam is blamed by some as a reason “America lost the war.” Reports from journalists on the scene called into question information from U.S. military briefings and enemy body counts. The famed “credibility gap” that plagued several administrations was rooted

in the difference between what high White House officials said about the progress of that war and what the nation on a daily basis read in newspapers and saw on TV. It’s difficult to think of an important public issue on which there is not some American journalist asking the difficult questions or challenging official accounts, which makes the fate of Foley and of Sotloff — who disappeared while reporting from Syria in 2013 — as senseless as it is tragic.

If ISIS was serious about changing American public opinion, it would not do so with tactics that will simply harden public support for U.S. military strikes against it. We need look no further than the most serious terrorist strike against America, on Sept. 11, 2001. American policies in the Middle East hardened amidst a surge in patriotism and increased public sentiment for a military response against those who carried out the attack.

A sad irony also follows both deaths. Neither Foley nor Sotloff’s work focused on the political or

military aspects of whatever ISIS wants from the Obama administration. Each was focused — and perhaps more vulnerable to the abduction that put them in ultimate harm’s way — by reporting directly on the “people” angles of the Syrian civil war and other conflict in the region.

About a week ago, Sotloff’s mother, Shirley Sotloff, made a video plea to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi not to kill her son. In it, she said, “Steven is a journalist who traveled to the Middle East to cover the suffering of Muslims at the hands of tyrants. Steven is a loyal and generous son, brother and grandson,” she said. “He is an honorable man and has always tried to help the weak.”

In the most recent video, the terrorist speaking to the camera said, “I’m back Obama and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State, because of your insistence in continuing your bombings.

Just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.” A third captive

journalist, a British citizen, was shown at the end of the Sotloff video, with warning of a third execution.

Yes, Sotloff apparently was forced in the video, just prior to his death as was Foley, to recite a statement questioning U.S. involvement in Iraq. But that recitation does not politicize his work as a journalist nor in any way justify his senseless execution. And with many news organizations declining to show the most recent video, as they did with one of the Foley murder — the desired policy impact is even more remote.

The only real message — so cruelly delivered not by the news media but these online merchants of deaths — is one of futility and shame on those who composed the statements, held the cameras, posted the videos and wielded the knives.

Lynne Marie Treat, Palos Heights “The library has made a huge difference in my family’s life. We moved here before my oldest son turned 3. We have participated in many youth programs. Now that he’s in junior high, I have another little one. This library has programs for all ages. It’s a diamond in Palos Heights. We are here once a week, or every other week for the youth programs.

They have nice adult programs as well.”

Jane Berryman, Palos Heights “Reading is an adventure.

This particular library offers everything, music, drama, information, technology, and it is all right here. The staff is outstanding. They also work with my granddaughter and give her the same gracious treatment.

It’s a magical wonderland up there in the children’s department.”

Lori Czech, Palos Heights “I don’t buy as many books.

I read theirs. They also offer DVDs. I love the programs here. They offer a diversity of things. Since I’ve retired, I’ve been spending more time here.

I’ve made friends here.”

Gene Policinski is chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and senior vice president of the Institute’s First Amendment Center. He can be reached at gpolicinski@newseum.org.

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How has a public library or school library made a difference in your life?

(Asked at the Palos Heights Public Library 70th anniversary celebration.)

Photos by Joan Hadac

Dawn Bronson, Palos Heights “You can grow up in a library. It’s a place I remember since my grandmother brought me to the library in Blue Island. It’s a place for friends, a place for comfort. It’s like a second home to me. A library opens doors to a lot of places. It’s the best place I can think of, next to my home and church.”

Fredi Baron, Palos Heights The library has made such a difference here. I’ve used it for my children when they were growing up and now I use for my grandchildren. You have everything at your fingertips here. It’s a beautiful library and the workers are extremely friendly.

The Regional News Thursday, September 11, 2014

Palos Park will ‘Never Forget’ 9/11

by Michael Gilbert correspondent

anniversary of 9/11, you are playing an important part in memorializing those who were killed, honoring the On the verge of the 13th anni- sacrifices of the first responders versary of the terrorist acts of Sept. and the spirit of unity that emerged 11, 2001, Palos Park Police Com- in the aftermath of 9/11.”

Although Palos Park does not missioner Dan Polk had a simple message for the Village Council and have a 9/11 memorial as do neighthe residents present at Monday’s boring Palos Heights or nearby Oak meeting – take time to honor the Lawn, it did sponsor a granite paver victims of one of America’s dark- brick in the walkway of the 9/11 Memorial Plaza at the National est days.

“Our thoughts are once again September 11 Memorial & Muwith all those who lost loved ones seum in New York City. The brick, on that tragic morning,” Polk said. which was purchased with funds “We remember the names, faces raised by residents and members and lives of the men, women and of the Palos Park Woman’s Club, children who were killed, and look reads “The Residents of the Vilfor ways to ensure that each and lage of Palos Park, IL will Never every one of them is not forgotten.” Forget.”

“We thought that rather than Polk said a way to honor the victims of 9/11 is to go out and try to duplicate something that has perform an act of kindness or already been done, we’d go with service in the community. “When the brick because the funds [from you choose to commemorate the the brick paver program] go to the

victims,” Polk said. “We thought that was a better deal.”

Thirteen years may have passed since the horror of 9/11 – when al-Qaeda suicide-hijackers crashed commercial airliners into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania killing more than 2,900 people – but for Polk it is a day he still remembers vividly and probably will for the rest of his life.

“I was coming home from work after a 24-hour shift at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, and was on the Stevenson at La Grange Road listening to the news on the radio and they said an airplane had flown into one of the towers,” Polk recalled following the council meeting. “I didn’t know it was a commercial airliner so I thought maybe it was a Piper Cub that flew into the tower. A few minutes later my wife calls me and says ‘Oh my god, I’m watch-

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ing ‘Good Morning America’ and a commercial jet has flown into the Twin Towers.’ Then she called me nine minutes later and said another plane had hit the towers.

“It was one of those days that I don’t think I will ever forget.”

Sell it Again

Also Monday, Village Clerk Marie Arrigoni invited all to the Woman’s Club’s Sell it Again Palos rummage sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 27, at Palos Park Metra Station, 123rd Street and 82nd Avenue.

Arrigoni said most vendors are coming from Palos Park, but there are a handful of people from Chicago and Homer Glen to sell their wares.

“We’re up to 40 sellers,” Arrigoni said. “We’re real happy [to have that many vendors] now we just need people to come and join us.”

Worth permits site on Harlem Ave. for medical marijuana dispensary

by Bob Rakow Staff Writer An emotional Bonnie Cosentino recalled her battle with cancer Friday night as she pleaded with Worth officials to approve a special-use permit for a marijuana dispensary on Harlem Avenue.

“I was sicker than a dog,” said Cosentino, a Worth resident. “Nothing worked for me. I was reduced to buying weed on the street. The benefit of this is amazing. I did not do this to get high. “I’m pleading with you to pass this. If you vote this down, shame on you.”

Cosentino was one of several residents who attended Friday’s real estate development committee meeting, which preceded a special meeting of the village board.

Residents spoke in favor and against the plan, but ultimately the village board unanimously approved the Windy City Cannabis Club’s request for a special-use permit and location for a marijuana dispensary at 11425 S. Harlem Ave. The real estate development committee, which met prior to the village board, approved the specialuse permit but rejected WCCC’s proposed location, saying it was too close to a residential neighborhood and lacked sufficient parking.

“I know that there is a great need for this,” said committee

member Rocco Carioto. “I do have apprehensions about bringing it into the neighborhood. This is all new territory for us.”

But committee member Victor Roti said the dispensary was being held to separate set of standards.

“Would we be asking Walgreens or CVS all the same questions?” he said.

Worth Mayor Mary Werner said trustees did not reach their decision lightly.

“This is something the board has been thinking about very, very seriously,” Werner said.

She defended the location, saying it was easily accessible and might help the village attract other businesses to the Harlem Avenue corridor.

“I don’t think anybody would disagree that there’s a need for it in our society,” Werner added.

But other residents who attended Friday’s meeting voiced concerns about locating a marijuana dispensary in the village.

They complained that the clinic was too close to a residential area and could attract drug addicts or resellers.

“I don’t think this is a good idea for the village,” said resident Jack McGrath, who said medical marijuana should be distributed at hospitals or pharmacies.

Susan Banks, who lives across the street from the proposed

clinic, expressed concerns about additional traffic and the impact on the neighborhood.

You’re right in the neighborhood,” Banks said. “You’re involving the neighborhood. You got too many kids in this neighborhood and it’s all we need.”

But Worth resident Shannon Beverley, a nurse’s assistant, said dispensaries have better control over medical marijuana because they are smaller and more secure.

“From everything I read, this place is going to be like a bank vault,” Beverley said.

She added that medical marijuana is too expensive for drug dealers to obtain and resell it at a profit. Additionally, she said, there is distinction between medical cannabis and “the street drug (that) makes you high.”

“If you’re getting it, you need it,” she said.

“There’s no profit margin,” said Steve Weisman, head of the WCCC ownership group. “The normal person has a medical card and does not have an incentive to resell.”

Weisman detailed the dispensary’s security plan, which will include 38 cameras and two-door entry system. Cashiers will sit behind secure teller window and delivery of the medical marijuana and the transport of cash will be handled by an armored truck.

“This has more security than

any bank you’ve been to,” Weisman said.

The Harlem Avenue location is one of only a few in Worth that meets the state’s zoning requirements that prohibits clinics from locating within 1,000 feet of a school or day care center.

The WCCC ownership group had considered locations in Chicago Ridge, but had difficulty finding one that met the zoning requirements.

Chicago Ridge does not allow the clinics within 1,000 feet of parks or recreation facilities, which made the finding a location in that community even more difficult, Weisman said.

WCCC’s Worth clinic would be the sole dispensary for a region of the state that includes Worth, Calumet and Stickney townships.

The state’s medical cannabis act took effect on Jan. 1. The law allows the use of marijuana by individuals who have a medical need and a permit. Qualifying patients must be diagnosed by a physician as having a debilitating medical condition. A qualifying patient with a state card can purchase 2.5 ounces of marijuana every two weeks.

Clinics are expected to open in spring 2015, which does not give selected clinics much time to prepare their sites for business and prepare a security plan.

You could call it letter perfect Palos Hills vets and students write 1,500 letters showing an appreciation for Lutz

by Michael Gilbert Correspondent Nearly a decade has passed since George Lutz retired as Palos Hills’ public works commissioner, putting an end to a 25-year career with the city.

But the man Mayor Gerald Bennett described as a “true professional” is anything but forgotten, even if Lutz now calls Burr Ridge home and health problems have limited his trips back to Palos Hills.

But Palos Hills residents have done him a good turn in recent weeks.

Lutz, 94, was a major topic of conversation during the city council’s committee meeting last Thursday.

The World War II veteran was scheduled to take part in Honor Flight Chicago’s trip to Washington D.C. on Wednesday to view the monuments and memorials in the nation’s capital.

The free, all-day trip was scheduled to conclude at Midway Airport with plenty of fanfare as veterans are traditionally welcomed home by their family, military personnel, boy scouts and members of motorcycle clubs for a special reception.

Perhaps more special than seeing the memorials and the homecoming ceremony is what occurs on the trip back to the airport. Shortly after take-off, veterans are surprised with a bag filled with letters from family, friends, fellow soldiers and students thanking them for their service.

A great majority of those letters come from Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion posts,

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and that – in Lutz’s case – poses a problem.

Lutz, who held the rank of major in the United States Army Air Corps, never joined either of those organizations, and he has outlived most of his fellow comrades. Fearing his father may have but a handful of letters to open during the mail call, Charles Lutz contacted his dad’s former employer to see if the City of Palos Hills could help.

“I heard from Honor Flight Chicago that most veterans receive between 200 to 500 letters, and our list of contacts was only about 30,” Charles Lutz said in a phone interview Friday.

“We didn’t want my father to be embarrassed so I asked the city if the people who know my dad wouldn’t mind writing a letter for him to read back on the flight back.”

Learning of this request, Bennett reached out to North Palos School District 117 to ask if its students would write letters to George Lutz. At last week’s council meeting, cards were also available for any resident in attendance to write a brief note of thanks to George Lutz.

The response to the request in Palos Hills has been overwhelming, and George Lutz has likely gone from the veteran with the fewest letters to open to the one with the most.

“The letters from Palos Hills along with the letters my daughter collected from the school district she works at total about 1,500,” Charles Lutz said. “I never imagined this type of response. I’m ecstatic and I know it will mean so much to my dad when he reads all these letters.”

Bennett said he was “honored” to come to the assistance of his longtime friend.

“George is a great, great person,” Bennett said. “I feel so great for him that he is going on the Honor Flight.”

While in the Army Air Corps, which was the forerunner to today’s United States Air Force, George Lutz was a pilot and was stationed in India for most of his service flying over the Himalaya Mountains into China to supply troops, fuel and other supplies to the Chinese and American troops fighting the Japanese.

Charles Lutz said it took some “prodding” to get his father to agree to go on the Honor Flight but now that the day is fast approaching his father is very excited to go on the trip.

“My dad always felt that he was just doing his job and never felt that he should be honored,” Charles Lutz said. “But after about five years of asking him and telling him that he should be honored for his service he finally agreed to it.

“I know he’s looking forward to the seeing the World War II and Vietnam memorials. It should definitely be a day to remember.”

It also figures to long one. The veterans have to arrive at the airport at 4:30 a.m. and don’t return until 8:45 p.m. Charles Lutz has volunteered to make the flight with the group and the 61-year-old isn’t as much concerned about his father as he is himself.

“I know my dad will be so excited that he’ll do fine,” Charles Lutz said days before the flight.

“I’m just hoping that I’ll be able to hold up.”

off and pick up in the front of the building;  Designation of dedicated visitor parking spots in the front parking lot to provide more convenient parking for parents and guests visiting Palos East during the school day;  Relocation of afternoon bus loading to the rear of the building, eliminating the current

double row of buses in the front of the building that district officials say creates a serious safety hazard, with students moving between rows of buses to load; and  Improvement of the current playground area by relocating the playground equipment to the back of the property and installing a soft playground surface.

Photo by Michael Gilbert

Gunlocks giveaway from Palos Park police The Palos Park Police Department has a limited number of free gunlocks like the one pictured available to residents.

The gunlock giveaway is part of “Project Child Safe,” a nationwide program Palos Park is participating in to promote safe and responsible firearm ownership and storage. The locks can be obtained by visiting the police department, 8999 W. 123rd St. Police will also deliver a gun lock to one’s home if the resident does not have transportation to the police station.

“We encourage all gun owners to store their weapons in a location that is not accessible to children, and to store your ammunition separately from where your weapon is,” Palos Park Police Commissioner Dan Polk said. “Come into the station and we’ll be happy to give you some literature [on gun safety] as well as a free gun lock.”

The gunlock is inserted through the breech of the gun making the weapon in operable, Polk said. For more information, contact Palos Park Police Chief Joe Miller at 671-3770.

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sedentary lifestyles by offering an attractive exercise option to the estimated 185,000 people who live less than a mile from it.

It will contribute to environmental health by encouraging people to leave their cars, vans and trucks at home and choose walking and bicycling instead.

It will give a shot in the arm to local businesses by bringing thousands of consumers to the area.

Advocates have predicted that the Cal-Sag Trail will be the best- utilized trail in the area, second only to the 18-mile-long Chicago Lakefront Trail.

Walkers and bicyclists in the area appear to share the advocates’ enthusiasm.

“We’re looking forward to giving it a try,” said Palos Park resident Vicki Garcia, as she walked on a Palos Woods North path near Route 83 and Submitted photo Former Palos Hills Public Works Kean Avenue with her cousin, Commissioner George Lutz, Luz de la Torre, of Worth. shown in his World War II days, “I mean, this right here is was scheduled to board an beautiful and we use it for Honor Flight on Wednesday. Lutz fitness walking, but I’ve heard the Cal-Sag Trail will be even is 94 years old.

better.”

Bicyclist Peter Wronski, of Palos Heights, said he hopes the trail will have a surface sufficiently solid and consistent to make cycling easy.

“I’m ready to go for a spin on the trail,” he remarked as he watched heavy equipment build a section of the trail along the east parking lot at the Lake Katherine Nature Center and Botanic Gardens.

Security is something on the mind of Sue Ann Murphy, a Palos Heights resident who said she wants to ensure that her grandchildren use the trail, but do so in safety.

“I hope it will be well lit, and that police and ambulances have quick access to it,” she said.

Hyker said that Palos Heights is “ahead of the game and setting the pace” on trail construction and that “once it’s finished, an entirely new view will open up. It will be beautiful, with views of the waterfall (on the north bank of the Cal-Sag Channel, just east of Harlem Avenue). People will see a whole new side of Palos Heights they have not seen before.”

For more information and updates on trail construction, visit calsagtrail.org online.

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Youth Services Librarian Debbie Larsen shows off the library’s new multi-media room, which includes green-screen technology that enables children and adult users to make a video of themselves that can later be mixed with backgrounds of any types—much as TV weather forecasters have for decades.

Mugging for the camera are Sam (from left), Ben and Margot VanderWheele, who were at the event with their grandparents, David and Cathy Larsen.

Photos by Tim Hadac

U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski (left) offered a few words of support before presenting a U.S. flag, which he said has flown over the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., to Administrative Librarian Elaine Savage and Library Board President Timothy Geary.

Palos Heights library showcases its staying power now and into future during 70th anniversary open house

Photo by Jack Murray

Karen Skocik (from left), Terry Fleckenstein and Mary Johnson are among library staff members who earned praise in remarks by library officials for the friendly, helpful, professional service Palos Heights library patrons invariably receive from the outstanding, dedicated workforce at the library.

Myrna Brejcha (left) and Estelle O’Connor staffed the Friends of the Palos Heights Library table, answering questions and enlisting new supporters for the organization.

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Musicians, magician and magic teacher Gary Kantor and other artists brought learning to life at the 70th anniversary celebration of the Palos Heights Public Library, held last Sunday. Several hundred local men, women and children turned out to show their support for the venerable institution and tour the newly renovated facility.

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The library’s entrance served as a festive, seasonal reminder of its long history in Palos Heights. A library has stood at 12501 S. 71st Ave. since 1972, according to Administrative Librarian Elaine Savage, with several locations before that elsewhere in the city. The library’s present-day renovations include computer upgrades and expansions designed to serve patrons of all ages for the next decade. Much of the new technology will allow patrons to plug into vast databases and other storehouses of information and knowledge using their laptops, Kindles, smart phone apps and other cutting edge media technology.

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Driver charged with DUI Palos Heights police charged Adam C. Foley, 29, of Oak Lawn, with DUI, improper lane usage, and operating a motor vehicle with expired registration. His vehicle was pulled over by police in the 13400 block of South Ridgeland Avenue at 12:58 a.m. last Saturday. Bond was set at $3,000, and Foley is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on Oct. 23.

In other Palos Heights police news, Christopher M. Monson, 25, of Oak Lawn, with driving on a suspended license, no proof of insurance, and no light over the rear license plate. Police curbed his vehicle in the 12700 block of South Harlem Avenue at 3:20 a.m. last

block of South Harlem Avenue at 1:23 a.m. last Friday, after they said they saw a burned out headFriday. Bond was set at $2,000, light. Bond was set at $1,500, and and Monson is scheduled to appear Moore-Price is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on Oct. 8. in court in Bridgeview on Oct. 8.

Police charged Motassam ElPolice charged John K. Sarantopulos, 31, of Bridgeview, with matari, 36, of Tinley Park, with DUI, as well as disobeying a stop possession of cannabis, as well as sign. His vehicle was stopped by operating a motor vehicle with no police in the 6800 block of West front license plate. Police curbed Edgewood Road at 3:32 a.m. last his vehicle in the 13300 block of Thursday. Bond was set at $3,000, South Ridgeland Avenue at 2:34 and Sarantopulos was given a court a.m. last Sunday. A search of the vehicle yielded a small bag containdate of Oct. 8 in Bridgeview.

Sonia D. Moore-Price, 45, of Mat- ing cannabis, according to the police teson, was charged with driving report. Bond was set at $1,500, and on a suspended license after police Elmatari is set to appear in court stopped her vehicle in the 13000 in Bridgeview on Sept. 30.

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Scam alert: Woman calls cops on phony health insurer caller Palos Park police on Monday responded to a reported phone scam in which the offender purported to be calling from Medicare.

The caller claimed to be updating Medicare information and insisted on verifying the would-be victim’s address and date of birth.

He threatened that if she refused to comply her insurance would be canceled. Police suspect the caller was “phishing” for the woman’s personal information in a potential case of identity fraud.

The woman described the caller as a young man with a “heavy east Indian accent.” He claimed that he was not allowed to tell her the name of her health-care insurance company when she became suspicious and asked him to tell her the name of her insurer. That’s a red flag for which potential victims should be aware, police said. The suspect then told the woman he is doing a verification of his records and wants her date of birth. That is also a red flag, police said. The would-be victim told police that her caller ID showed the incoming call’s phone number area code was listed as 646.

In other Palos park police news, a 31-year-old construction worker from Lowell, Ind. told Palos Park police that someone stole a leaf blower from his vehicle while he was doing brick work on the south side of the Walgreens at 13027 S. La Grange Road at 10:13 a.m. Aug. 28. His vehicle was parked on the east side of the building.

A 53-year-old man reported that his SUV was pelted with eggs while it was parked at his home in the 11800 block of South Winslow Road.

The victim said he discovered the crime at 3:30 a.m. Aug. 30, when he left home to go to work.

Police charged Kelly M. Wielgos, 38, of Tinley Park, with DUI, speeding and improper lane usage. Her car was stopped by police in the 13100 block of South La Grange Road at 2:16 a.m. Sept. 1, after

PALOS PARK POLICE they said they saw it traveling at 65 mph, 20 mph over the posted speed limit. The vehicle was towed and impounded, and Wielgos is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on Oct. 6.

Daniel J. Peterson, 26, of Orland Park, was charged with driving on a suspended license, as well as no proof of insurance. Police curbed his vehicle in the 12500 block of South La Grange Road at 8:18 p.m. Aug. 28 after conducting a random plate check. Bond was set at $2,000, and Peterson was given a court date of Oct. 6 in Bridgeview.

Police charged Victor A. LugoRuiz, 30, of Lemont, with driving without a license, as well as no light over the rear license plate. His pick-up truck was stopped by police

near 104th Avenue and McCarthy Road at 9:03 p.m. Aug. 27. Bond was set at $1,500, and Lugo-Ruiz is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on Oct. 6.

Nicholas F. Wirth, 23, of Homer Glen, was charged with DUI and improper lane usage after police said they saw him driving erratically in the 9000 block of West 123rd Street at 12:13 a.m. Aug. 23. Bond was set at $1,500, and Wirth is set to appear in court in Bridgeview on Oct. 6.

Police charged Eddie D. McGregory, 37, of Chicago, with driving on a suspended license, as well as no proof of insurance. His car was pulled over by police in the 12300 block of South Fox Lane at 7:16 p.m. Aug. 23 after they conducted a random plate check. Bond was set at $1,500, and McGregory was given a court date of Oct. 6 in Bridgeview.

Palos Park PD offers villagers free gunlocks The Palos Park Police Department will provide village residents, or gun owners with children in Palos Park, free gunlocks and gun safety literature as part of Project ChildSafe.

Project ChildSafe is a nationwide program whose purpose is to promote safe firearms handling and storage practices among all firearms owners through the distribution of key safety education pamphlets and free gun locking devices. The program is supported by the United States Department of Justice.

The Palos Park Police Department has obtained 200 gun safety kits through Proj-

ect ChildSafe. These kits will be made available to any village resident or gun owners within the Palos area.

Police Commissioner Dan Polk said: “We encourage all gun owners to store weapons in a location that is inaccessible to children, regardless of age, with ammunition stored separately.” Anyone interested in receiving a free kit can stop by the lobby of the Palos Park Police Department.

Police Chief Joe Miller said: “Even one accidental death from a firearm left unattended or accidentally discharged is one too many. It’s a horrible tragedy every time it happens and it’s preventable.”

Woman allegedly leaves baby in car during quick stop at store A 35-year-old Chicago woman was charged with endangering the life of a child after she allegedly left her infant son in a locked SUV for about 4 to 5 minutes while she shopped at Whole Foods, 15260 S. La Grange Road. Ilona B. Lukaszczyk was reported to police by a 23-year-old employee of the store, who said she saw her leave the child in the vehicle at about 10:50 a.m. Aug. 20. Police responding to a 911 call said the vehicle’s windows were rolled up completely, except for the driver’s door window, which was rolled down about 3 inches.

The weather at the time was 75 degrees and sunny, according to the police report. When questioned by police, Lukaszczyk allegedly said that she was only going in quickly to purchase one item, and that the reason she left her son in the car was that he was ill and she did not want to disturb him, according to the police report. She added that the two were late for a pediatrician’s appointment, police said. The child was checked

by Orland Fire Protect District paramedics and not found to be in any heat-related distress before the child was released to his father, police said. The police report gave no indication of a court date.

In other Orland Park police news, a man reported that a burglar stole nine golf discs and a backpack from his unlocked vehicle, parked in the 9900 block of Franchesca Court. The victim discovered the crime at 6:40 p.m.

Aug. 12.

A 40-year-old woman told police that someone stole her purse while she shopped at Goodwill, 7400 W. 159th St., at 3:36 p.m. Aug. 13. The victim said her purse contained $300 cash, and well as a credit card and an unknown amount of Mexican pesos.

Police charged Russell J. Ford, 77, of Orland Park, with DUI and improper lane usage at 11:10 p.m.

Aug. 16 after he allegedly crashed his car into a light pole in the 15300 block of South Wilshire Drive, police said. He was taken by Orland

ORLAND PARK POLICE Fire Protection District paramedics to Palos Community Hospital, where he was treated and released, according to the police report. His vehicle was towed and impounded, and Ford is scheduled to appear in court today in Bridgeview.

Jeremy T. Leonard, 22, of Orland Park, was charged with speeding and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police curbed his car near 159th Street and Will-Cook Road at 5:08 a.m. Aug. 13, after they said they detected it traveling at 60 mph, 15 mph over the posted speed limit.

A search of the vehicle yielded a glass smoking pipe, according to the police report, which gave no information on a court date.

Police charged Fernando Escalona-Cordero, 33, of Orland Park, with aggravated DUI, driving on a revoked license, no proof of insurance, and failure to use headlights when required. Police stopped his car at 2:33 a.m. Aug. 17 in the parking lot of Republic Bank, 15790 S. Harlem Ave. A computer check showed that his license had been revoked in 2006 and 2007 for DUI-related offenses, according to the police report, which gave no indication of a court date.

Joseph C. Peca, 18, of Orland Park, was charged with possession of cannabis, as well as failure to wear a seatbelt. Officers on bike patrol said they confronted Peca in his car after it stopped in a parking lot at 14300 S. Ravinia Ave. at 3:48 p.m. Aug. 22. Police said that a small amount of cannabis was found in the vehicle.

Peca is set to appear in court in Bridgeview today.

Police charged Herbert D. Adamson, 78, with retail theft after he allegedly stole a bag of Ghiradelli chocolates from a pharmacy in the 11200 block of West 143rd Street at 10:07 a.m. Aug. 11. He was scheduled to appear at a hearing at the Orland Park Civic Center last Tuesday.

Steven H. Cieslinski, 27, was

charged with possession of a narcotic instrument, as well as failure to wear a seatbelt. He was a passenger in a vehicle curbed by police in the 15100 block of South West Avenue at 8 p.m. Aug. 11. Police said that a search of the vehicle yielded five syringes, a breath-mint tin that police said was used as a heroin cooker, aluminum-foil folds covered with tan-colored powder residue, and a bottle of loperamide, an anti-diarrhea medication that can also be used as an opioid.

Cieslinski is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview today.

Police charged Luz M. Gallegos, 27, of Justice, with aggravated theft after she allegedly processed nearly $700 in fraudulent returns at an Orland Park auto parts store where she was employed. She was taken into custody by store security, and then police, at 4:24 p.m.

Aug. 12, according to the police report, which gave no indication of a court date.

Andres U. Gonzalez, 24, of Hickory Hills, was charged with possession of cannabis, possession of drug paraphernalia, and failure to wear a seatbelt. Police curbed his SUV in the 15600 block of South La Grange Road at 11:43 p.m. Aug. 15. Police said they found a glass smoking pipe, as well as a plastic bag containing cannabis, in the vehicle. Gonzalez was set to appear at a hearing at the Orland Park Civic Center last Tuesday.

Police charged Abdulmuhaimin N. Uqdah, 35, of Joliet, with DUI, disobeying a traffic signal, improper lane usage, and no front license plate. Police stopped his car in the 11400 block of West 159th Street at 1:53 a.m. Aug. 16. The vehicle was towed and impounded, and Uqdah was given a court date of Sept. 27 in Bridgeview.

Jae I. Song, 66, of Tinley Park, was charged with retail theft after he allegedly stole a bathroom scale and a package of golf balls from a thrift store in the 7400 block of West 159th Street at 1:29 p.m.

Aug. 15. He is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on Oct. 9.

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Centennial Celebration Autumn In The Park Festival Festival Hours: Friday, September 19, 5:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 20, 12:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Parade Start 11:00 a.m.

Free Admission / Free Parking Palos Park Village Green, 8901 West 123rd Festival Highlights: 9/19 Music by ‘Maggie Speaks’ 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

9/20 Music by ‘Wall of Denial’ 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Music by ‘Infinity’ 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

• Chili Contest and Tasting • • BBQ Rib Competition and Tasting • Wine Tasting • For further information and a complete list of activities, visit www.palospark.org BBQ Cook or Judge ~ Chili Cook or Judge? For information call 708-671-3700

Annual Book Sale— Palos Park Library Special Preview Night, Thursday, Sept. 26, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. $5.00 Admission The library will take donations of gently used books for the sale.

All proceeds go to the library.

Palos Heights Farmer’s Markets— Every Wednesday thru October Located at the Municipal Parking Lot, 12217 South Harlem Avenue 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Chamber Tree Lighting Friday, December 5, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 @ The Palos Fire Station, 123rd Street & Harlem Avenue

Annual Dinner Friday, January 30, 2015, 6:30 p.m. @ Palos Country Club, 13100 Southwest Highway, Orland Park

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Chgo. Christian Astronomy Club builds telescope

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Sweet pep rally at Chgo. Christian

A group of students from Chicago Christian High School’s Astronomy Club, under the direction of Chicago Christian High School teacher Lisa Dykstra passes out free donuts to students at the conMr. Barry Latham, recently built a telescope. clusion of the pep rally last Friday. Sophomore Jim Hoeffler won a pie-eating contest at the pep rally.

Shown with the telescope are Chicago Christian students Tommy Findysz, of Worth (from left), Mat- The Knights hosted Hope Academy in that night’s football game on the campus in Palos Heights. thew Orsic and Lauren Guth. The telescope is an Orion Starblast 6i (6-inch aperture). It has a database of 14,000 celestial objects, and combined with the push-to-programming time can be spent looking at rather than finding objects in our suburban skies. Although an out-of-the-box telescope, the students had to disassemble it using simple tools, install the electronics, and then reassemble it. Alignment will take place each night the telescope is used.

The Astronomy Club will meet every Thursday after school to explore some aspect of astronomy.

Evening viewings using the telescope will take place near or on campus, but will also be a part of an out-reach program to local community and church groups.

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Colleen Kisel, the founder of Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation, appears with Richards High School physical education teacher Bob Peck. Richards will sponsor a 5K, Running with the Bulldogs, on at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21 as a fund raiser for POTCF.

Richards run to help the Treasure Chest Foundation

By Bob McParland Distrct 218 Colleen Kisel knew she could not spare her son the fear and pain of cancer treatment.

Desperate to intervene in any way, she thought: Give him something, a little source of comfort, to divert his attention.

Martin Kisel endured many painful procedures, including intensive chemotherapy, to fight acute lymphocytic leukemia. So Colleen Kisel started to buy her seven-year old a small new toy each time.

“I discovered that it became a calming distraction from his pain,” said Kisel, an Orland Park Submitted photo and text resident, of her idea hatched in February 1993.

Martin would win his fight. And then Kisel conceived a way to reIncarnation Catholic School in Palos Heights kicked off its 50th anniversary celebration on Monday produce on a massive scale what with Mass for students, alumni, parents and staff, followed by birthday cake for all. Later, the students she had done for her boy. formed a human number 50 for a photo on the school grounds.

Shown before the cutting of the cake are Incarnation Church’s pastor, the Rev. Arek Falana, and school Principal Cynthia Zabilka.

Incarnation School celebrates 50th year

In 1996 she founded the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation, which provides free toys, gifts, and gift cards to children and teenagers in treatment for cancer.

It is the only charity of its kind in the nation. POTCF serves many hospitals throughout the Chicago area, including Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn, and the nation.

The past two years, Richards High School has organized a 5K run and walk as a fund raiser for POTCF. The event has generated more than $20,000 in donations.

Richards, located at 10601 S. Central Avenue in Oak Lawn, will support POTCF this year, too.

Running with the Bulldogs, set for Sunday, September 21 at 8 a.m., again will serve as a fund raiser for Kisel’s organization. Anyone can register at www.runwiththedogs. com.

The mission of POTCF spoke to

Richards teacher Bob Peck, who’s invested hundreds of hours of personal time planning and organizing Running with the Bulldogs.

“The idea of giving a child a gift after their treatment gives them a piece of hope every time they visit the hospital,” Peck said. “It gives them a chance to still feel like a kid and have enjoyment during a day that might seem gloomy by spending it in a hospital.”

For Kisel, the fight remains personal.

“When a child must endure the rigors of cancer treatment, there is little anyone can do to take away the pain. However, through the efforts of the Treasure Chest Foundation, children are provided with comfort and distraction during the times they need it most. It is our goal to keep these treasure chests full of toys so that each time a child needs that distraction, it’s there,” she said.

Sandburg and Stagg among America’s top high schools Sandburg, Stagg and Andrew high schools have been named among America’s Top High Schools by The Daily Beast.

District 230 high schools ranked among the top 640 in the country and the top 40 in Illinois.

The publication used U.S. Department of Education data to develop an initial list of schools with graduation rates of at least 85 percent.Those schools were sent a survey to complete. About 1,200 schools took part.

According to the publication, it considered “six indicators culled from school surveys to compare public high schools in the U.S., with graduation and college acceptance rates weighed most heavily. Other criteria included: college-level courses and exams, percentage of students with free or reduced lunch, as well as SAT and ACT scores - another mark of how well a school prepares students for college.”

Student News Luke Oosterbaan, of Palos Heights, is one of 74 transfer students to enroll at Lake Forest College this fall. Oosterbaan St. Alexander School’s 1st graders are ready to learn as the new school year begins. The students was awarded a Forester Alumni will use iPads as educational tools to explore new concepts and state-of-the-art technology in the Scholarship. Oosterbaan comes to classroom. St. Alexander School is committed to quality Catholic education and the enrichment of Lake Forest from Knox College in Galesburg.

God’s children. For more information, call 448-0408 or visit www.stalexanderschool.com.

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iPads are learning tool at St. Alexander School

“The top indicator of success for District 230 is having our graduates prepared for whatever path they choose upon graduation,” said Superintendent Dr. James M. Gay. “External recognition of our schools’ success brings us great pride. It reinforces the commitment our students, parents, staff and community have to providing a high quality education for each of our students.”

This recognition was previously announced by Newsweek magazine, which has since purchased The Daily Beast and moved the recognition to that publication.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING City of Palos Heights Liquor Hearing The City of Palos Heights Liquor Commissioner, Mayor Robert S. Straz will hold a public hearing to consider the request for a Retailer’s Class G Liquor License, on property located at 12207 S. Harlem Avenue, petitioner Frank Serio, a/k/a Joe’s Italian Villa, Inc., d/b/a Joe’s Italian Villa.

The Liquor Hearing will be held on Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 5:15 p.m. at the City of Palos Heights, City Hall, 7607 W. College Drive, Palos Heights, IL 60463.

Mayor Robert S. Straz City of Palos Heights Liquor Commissioner

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Community Notes Monarch Butterfly Festival at Lake Katherine

ter & Botanic Gardens is at 7402 W. Lake Katherine Drive.

Saturday, Sept. 20, at 9:30 a.m. at Lake Katherine Nature Center in Palos Heights.

The forum will learn more about Palos GOP picnic township government and services The annual Monarch Butterfly Festival will be held this Sunday, The annual Palos Township Re- from local township Supervisors Sept. 14, from 11 a.m. to 4:30 publican picnic will be held this Colleen Grant Schumann of Palos p.m., at Lake Katherine Nature Saturday, Sept. 13, from 12:30 to and Paul O’Grady of Orland.

The event is free and open to Center in Palos Heights.

3:30 p.m., at theWaters Edge Golf This popular event offers activi- Club pavilion area, 7425 W. 115th the public, but the League asks for responses via phone at 389-2888 ties for all ages. Enjoy the butterfly St., in Worth. tent, hayrides, children’s games, Food will include hot dogs, or email barbaralwv@aol.com. animal exhibits, rock climbing hamburgers, chips, snow cones, wall, arts and crafts fair, educa- popcorn, snacks, soda, water, beer Crab Orchard tional displays, and food vendors. and wine. Activities will include Class of 1974 Canoe and kayak rentals will be a live band and DJ, jump houses, 40th reunion available throughout the day, and face painting, bag toss, pony rides, attendees can build a scarecrow games and crafts. Meet GOP canThe Crab Orchard School in for a $10 donation. didates running in the November Palos Heights Class of 1974 will Admission is $5 per person. election. gather for its 40th reunion on SatChildren 3 and under are free. Visiurday, Sept. 27, from 7 to 11 p.m., tors can park in the Palos Heights at Trio restaurant, 11845 SouthLeague of Women City Hall parking lot and take the west Highway, Palos Heights.

Voters Palos-Orland free shuttle to Lake Katherine.

Cost is $40 per person at the breakfast meeting For more information, call 361door (tip not included). Find the 1873 or visit www.lakekatherine.

The local League begins its reunion Facebook page for more org. Lake Katherine Nature Cen- 55th year with a breakfast on information.

Club Activities Daughters of the American Revolution

12501 S. 71st Ave. Constitution Week will be the focus for the meeting. The NSSwallow Cliff Chapter, Na- DAR is a non-profit, non-political tional Society Daughters of the organization dedicated to preservAmerican Revolution, will begin ing American history, securing its 2014-15 program year at 1 America’s future through better p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 13, at education, and promoting patriothe Palos Heights Public Library, tism. Membership in the DAR is

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Southwest Symphony offers Suite Overtures

The Southwest Symphony Orchestra tunes up to present its first concert of the season titled Suite Overtures at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, in the Ozinga Auditorium of Trinity Christian College, 6601 W. Route 83 in Palos Heights.

Suite Overtures will give listeners a potpourri of musical delights. Repertoire includes Verdi’s The Force of Destiny Overture; Massenet’s Scenes pittoresques (Suite No. 4) which transports listeners to the French countryside in the late 1800s; Rossini’s Semiramide Overture; Dvorak’s American Suite, a melding of American and Slavic sonorities; and Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture. a unique opportunity to honor Tickets, $5 to $25, can be purchased at the door, in advance by calling 802-0686 or online at www. one’s lineage and heritage as a southwestsymphony.com. Seniors, 65 and over, pay $16; students pay $5; and children 12 and under descendant of a patriot of the are free. Anyone wishing to audition for the orchestra should call the number above.

American Revolution.

Prospective members and guests from all south and southwest suburbs are welcome to attend. For more, email the chapter at swallowcliffdar@gmail.com.

The 19th annual Elim Dutch dogs. All food items are delicious enjoy bringing their families and Festival is quickly approaching on and affordable so make sure you people with disabilities.”

Elim’s mission is to equip chilSaturday, Sept. 27, and it offers come hungry.

Great entertainment acts will dren and adults with disabilities fun for the whole family.

Dutch Festival hours are 7:30 keep your fingers snapping and to achieve to their highest Goda.m. to 4 p.m. It is held on the toes tapping. Shop ‘til you drop given potential. Elim pursues grounds of Elim Christian Ser- at Elim’s Dutch Village shops this mission by providing eduWith 6,500 registered walkers, vices, 13020 S. Central Ave. in and colorful farmer’s market. cational, vocational, therapeutic, Adults and kids will love the and residential services to over the ALS Walk for Life is one of Palos Heights. the world’s largest gatherings for Kick off the day by treating your great activities that Dutch Fes- 1,000 people with developmental disabilities. the ALS community. In its 12- rumbling tummy to a delicious tival offers.

Admission to Dutch Festival In hopes that the Dutch Festival year history, the Walk for Life has pannenkoek “pancake” breakfast. raised more than $9 million. Reg- Then, snack the day away as you will leave a lasting impression on is free and free parking with istration is free, and participants sample Dutch and American cui- the community and on the people shuttle bus service is provided. are encouraged to fundraise for sine. Dutch Fest offers a variety who attend, Chairperson Renita Elim Christian Services is located the Les Turner ALS Foundation. of affordable Dutch and American Van Solkema states, “I hope peo- at 13020 S. Central Avenue in For more information, contact favorites and treats including ban- ple can see God’s love for everyone Palos Heights. Chicago.

For questions, contact Laura the Les Turner ALS Foundation ket (pastries with almond filling), there. I want people to be able to at 847-679-3311, or visit www. hutspot (beef and potatoes), pizza, have an enjoyable, entertaining Schnyders at 293-6509, or visit alswalkforlife.org. hamburgers, bratwurst, and hot day, and be at a place where people www.elimcs.org

Dutch Festival soon returns to Elim

Benefits and Fundraisers Les Turner ALS Walk

Schwarz of ABC7 and Kathy Hart of The Mix 101.9FM, the event will include music, entertainment, food Join the ALS community at the and children’s activities. The Walk 13th annual Les Turner ALS Walk for Life will occur rain or shine.

Most participants walk as a for Life on Sunday, Sept. 21, at Soldier Field. This 2-mile walk team, honoring those living with along Chicago’s lakefront is a ALS or in memory of someone who celebration of hope, courage and has passed away from the disease. camaraderie, and is an ideal way Teams have clever names such as to support those affected by Lou “I Love Lucy” and “Hike 4 Mike,” and nearly every group designs Gehrig’s disease.

Emceed by meteorologist Phil their own personalized T-shirt.

Library Notes Magritte lecture, collage workshop The Palos Park Public Library will host the “Magritte Lecture and Art Workshop” on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m.

Beth Leahy from the McCord Gallery will give a lecture on the Art Institute’s Magritte Exhibit and conduct a collage-making workshop based on Magritte’s art.

The lecture and workshop will be held at the library. All materials for the art workshop will be provided.

Register for this program online or call the library at 708-448-1530.

The library is at 12330 Forest Glen Blvd. www.palosparklibrary.org.

Heights library upcoming programs September is Library Card SignUp Month. Everyone should sign up for a library card during the month of September. Each person registering for a new card will be entered into a drawing for a gift card to a local restaurant. Come to the Circulation Desk or online at www.palosheightslibrary.org to register and enjoy all that the Library has to offer.

The following events will take place at the Palos Heights Public Library, 12501 S. 71st Ave. • Featured program – Astronomer Kevin Manning, a former consultant with NASA, has always been passionate about astronomy, and wants to share the excitement with you! At a special after hours

event this Friday, Sept. 12, at 6 p.m., Astronomy for Everyone: Size & Scale of the Universe, all ages can learn about the universe, the stars, and other celestial wonders using hands-on activities and assorted visuals. Following his indoor presentation, everyone is invited outdoors to view celestial objects in the night sky, such as the rings of Saturn, craters on the Moon, and more, weather permitting. A meal of pizza, salad, pop, and cookies will be served before the presentation. Cost is $5 per person. Reserve your spot and pay in advance at the Adult Services desk. For more information, call 448-1473.

• Bring your projects to the Needle Club and enjoy the company of others while working on Tuesday, Sept. 16, from 10 a.m. to noon.

New members always welcome.

Join others who love the game at the Scrabble Club on Tuesday, Sept. 16, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

New players always welcome.

• Meet at the Library and bring your game to play American Mah Jongg on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 1 p.m. Novice and experienced players welcome.

• The Tuesday Evening Book Discussion on Sept. 16, at 7 p.m., will discuss “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith.

• Thursdays at the Movies on Sept. 18 will show the film “Draft Day”. There will be three showings: 10 a.m.(with subtitles), 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

• At Internet for Beginners

on Monday, Sept. 15, at 2 p.m., become familiar with the World Wide Web. Learn how to search and get tips on internet security and privacy. This class is hands on, space is limited and registration is required.

• Learn about the numerous degree and certificate programs offered at Career Paths and Coffee with Moraine Valley Community College on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m.

• On Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 2 p.m., attend Clean Up Your Computer with Steve from Computer Greeks and learn how to get rid of the clutter on your computer. This class will also cover basic security issues and how it affects speed.

• Attend Social Media for Beginners and start networking using Facebook and beyond on Friday, Sept. 19, at 10 a.m. Email address and password required prior to class. This class is hands on, space is limited and registration is required.

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.

and ends Nov. 20.

Tiny Tots (birth to 23 months with an adult) Mondays at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Terrific Twos (ages 24 to 35 months with an adult) Tuesdays at 10 a.m.

Preschool Story Time (ages 3-6) Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

• Caudill Club – Students in grades 4 through 8 are invited to discuss books that have been nominated for the Rebecca Caudill Book Award today (Thursday) at 4 p.m. Registration is appreciated.

• Young Adult Book Discussion – Teens and adults who enjoy young adult fiction and nonfiction are invited to an evening discussion on Better Nate Than Ever

by Tim Fedrle on Tuesday, Sept.

16, at 7 p.m.

• New STEAM Nights – Children ages 3 and up are welcome to enjoy interactive fun with science, technology, engineering, arts, or math concepts on Wednesday, Sept.

17, at 6:30 p.m. No registration is required.

All programs are free and open to everyone at the Palos Heights Public Library, at 12501 S. 71st Ave. For more information or to register for a program, visit Heights library www.palosheightslibrary.org, call youth programs 448-1473, or stop by the Youth • Fall Story Time Sessions – The Services desk. library’s story times are designed to develop literacy skills, promote Storytimes at language development and instill Palos Park library a life-long love of reading. The 10week fall session starts Sept. 15 The following story time events

will take place at the Palos Park Public Library, 12330 Forest Glen Blvd.: Story Time prepares children for school by promoting language development and literacy skills.

Enjoy stories, sing songs, create special crafts, and make new friends. Parents or caregivers must accompany child in the library during story time. Seating is limited; call the library to register at (708) 448-1530. The 10-week fall session starts Oct. 7 and ends Dec.17. No story time the week of Nov. 27 due to the Thanksgiving Holiday.

• Good Morning Story Time (2 – through 5-year-olds with an adult) Tuesdays at 10:15 – 10:45 a.m.

• Tiny Tots Story Time (2 – and 3-year-olds with an adult) Wednesdays, 10 – 10:30 a.m.

• Pajama Story Time (2 – through 7-year-olds with an adult) Thursdays, 7 p.m.

The sessions will be held on Oct. 16, Oct. 30 and Nov. 13. Children are invited to wear their pj’s, bring their blankie, and a little “bedtime friend” and join us for stories and songs.

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Kiwanis Club of Palos Heights has been in partnership with the city in hosting the annual beer tent at the July 3 festivities for the past few years, and it has worked out well, Mayor Bob Straz said after the check presentation.

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HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye disorders. Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future.

Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays.

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For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/ sunglasses. A public service message from The Vision Council.

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40 Years Ago This Week Fall festival and carnival weekend – something special for everyone, courtesy of the Palos Heights Woman’s Club and friends. Bobby Jones enjoys the best of both worlds – delicious carnival food and a spin on one of the seven rides offered at the festival. Sure looks like fun…

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40 Years Ago This Week New bank under construction: Marvin A. Siensa, president of the Palos Bank and Trust Co., looks over a billboard featuring a rendering of the bank’s $1.25 million building now under construction at 126th and Harlem Avenue, Palos Heights.

Foundation work at the site is now in progress, following groundbreaking last month. Completion of the facility is scheduled within the next 12 months.

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GUEST WHATIZIT? Life is a beach for the WHATIZIT? wizards as many guessed last week’s photo of a sand dollar.

For the record, this was found at Imperial Beach south of San Diego and north of Mexico.

Don and Laura Heneghan of Oak Lawn were not a day late or a dollar short as they came in with the first correct guess but they were far from alone.

Other superior sand dollar guessers were Oak Lawn’s Donna and Jim Perisin, Diane Dee, Robin Fullarton, Dolores Graziadei and Carolyn Morrissey, Hickory Hills’ Jack and Burke Faddis, Chicago Ridge’s Kathy Higgins, Dan Higgins, Jan Short, Dana Oswald and Patty Vandenberg and Evergreen Park’s Henrietta Mysliwiec, Jim Long andVince Vizza.

Also getting it right were Worth’s Mary Kurdziel, E.J. Oahueke, Robert Solner, Russ Martin, Jerry and Carol Janicki, Carol Wozek, Theresa and George Rebersky, Sandy Joiner and Frank and Donna Hirsch, Alsip’s Carol DenBesten, Palos Hills’ Mike McKinney and the Friday Night Ladies Poker and Beach Club of Oak Lawn, Orland Park and Oak Park.

There was one incorrect answer of a Chinese maple leaf.

This week, we have a guest WHATIZIT photographer as Robin Fullarton of Oak Lawn provided this gem. The clue is that it’s not Rice Krispies, but they will snap, crackle and pop in your mouth.

Send those guesses to thereporter@comcast.net with WHATIZIT in the subject line by Monday night. Don’t forget your name and hometown.

Usually I like to write about the good things our paper does.

I like patting ourselves on the back when we win awards or when people praise our work.

But this is not one of those columns.

This is a piece about some of the dumb things that can happen when running a newspaper.

Mistakes.

There is no such thing as a small mistake in my book. They are all major.

But some are more major than others. They are egregious errors that can set us up for ridicule.

I fondly called them “how-thehell-did-that-happen?” mistakes.

We had a couple of doozies last week.

One came in a story that appeared in the Regional. In one of my stories for the news section, I talked about how during week 1, Shepard’s football team beat Niles North in the first paragraph.

Shepard lost the game.

How the hell did that happen?

Basically, over the weekend, I checked out the score via Googling Shepard and Niles North.

One of the first things to pop up was the Niles North Maxpreps website. It said that our heroes won 31-18. But Maxpreps is not one of my favorite websites and is very spotty. Still, you figure it would at least get the score right.

Since I don’t trust Maxpreps, I tried another source–the long established and credible Associated Press score list. There it was.

Shepard beat Niles North 31-18.

So it wasn’t until after our paper went out that I realized that Shepard actually lost that game, 49-14.

I did plenty of cursing when I found that out.

I also found out that the Illinois High School Association – a fine organization when it comes to compiling football scores — claimed that Wilmington lost a football game in the first week of the season that it actually won.

So I was in good company.

But it didn’t make me feel any better.

That leads us to the second mistake, which appeared in the sports section.

A couple of my photos ran on page 3.

One was of Richards’ Kush Baxter returning a kickoff. The other was of his teammate, Patrick Doyle, running with the ball.

But the captions were switched Baxter was identified as Doyle and Doyle was identified as Baxter.

One player is white. The other is African-American. Their numbers were clearly shown in the photos.

What the hell happened?

The process from the actually shooting of the photos to the

finished product is filled with traps, hiccups and burps involving people who were not at the game. On a minute-by-minute basis under deadline, things get changed for various reasons in order for everything to fit on a page. Once in a while, especially when two photos are similar, captions get inadvertently switched.

In a great majority of cases at newspapers, the photographer is helpless and has no say or input in the process.

Here, as Reporter editor, I have a chance to give the sports pages a quick look for something like that and I neglected to do that this time.

I can easily say “Well, it’s not my section so it’s not my responsibility” but since I was the only person in this process to be at the game, it’s my responsibility to take a peek to make sure that Baxter is Baxter and Doyle is Doyle.

We have some great people

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working here and we are human and will make some dumb mistakes. It’s a microcosm of the universe. But our mistakes are public and when we make them, some people lose a little faith in our credibility.

Making big boners like this is nothing new or not exclusive to Regional Publishing.

The Tribune had their “Dewey defeats Truman” moment of infamy.

I’ve seen some newspapers make such gargantuan gaffes that they had to burn valuable front page space trying to explain those foulups.

I call those “what-the-$&^#happened?” mistakes.

And I hope and pray that I won’t ever have to write about one of those.

Photos by Jeff Vorva

Richards’ Patrick Doyle, left photo, and Kush Baxter, right photo, were inadvertently misidentified in last week’s sports section. We think we got it right this week!

The Regional News Thursday, September 11, 2014

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Health Beat Pick of the Litter

Medicare open enrollment seminar at Palos Township

By John R. Fleming, DVM • PrairieStateVet.com

Dear Readers,

the veterinary drug ClavamoxR. The clinical cure rate was 88.6% for Group 1 and 87.9% for Group 2, essentially the same numbers.

In humans with uncomplicated UTI, short treatment duration and decreased dosing frequency of antibiotics have been reported to increase compliance, lower costs, and decrease side effects. This is the first study of this type in dogs that I have seen and additional studies will be necessary for guidelines on protocols, but when I get back to work next week I’m going to give this protocol a try. Three days of enrofloxin is a lot less expensive than 14 days of ClavamoxR.

Correction: There was a typographical error in last week’s column. Out of 27 flea and tick medications that I reviewed, I found nine that I considered acceptable, not just one as was stated in the article.

Dear Readers,

This is a good time to remind you about Baylisascaris procynotis and humans. B.procynotis is the common roundworm of raccoons and is most pathogenic for intermediate hosts like humans. Dogs also are susceptible to infection and can shed its eggs. One worm can shed more than 100,000 eggs per day so a raccoon with only 10 worms could shed 1,000,000 eggs into your yard daily and the eggs, which can withstand freezing, can remain infective in the soil for years. Infections in humans have four different presentations: Neurologic (when the worms are living in the brain), Ocular (when the worms migrate in the eye), Visceral (when the worms migrate through the liver and other organs, and Subclinical. (vague signs of illness). Clinical neural larval migrans has been diagnosed in the United States, mostly in toddlers or young children; some cases were fatal and the remaining cases had neurologic impairment. Ocular larval migrans usually affects just one eye and is considered the most common cause of diffuse unilateral subacute neuroretinitis syndrome. Prevention and control are focused on avoiding contact with raccoons and their feces. This is not a common disease but uncommon things do happen.

Dear Dr. Fleming,

I have had many dogs in my

Dear Readers,

Many of you have dogs with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that are managed with diet, and/ or immunosuppressives such as prednisone, azothioprine or cyclosporine. In cats we have had good success over the years with EntocortR (budesonide), along with Submitted photo Meet Katie and Olive from Oak Forest. Olive is a 4-year old bulldog/ dietary management. Recently Pietra et. al., reported on the efficacy beagle mix. of budesonide in dogs with IBD life and have treated many bladder had an article in the Journal of (Am J Vet Res 2013;74:78-83). infections. In my experience the vet Veterinary Internal Medicine en- They found that budesonide was always treated my dogs with 10 to titled “Evaluation of the efficacy rapidly absorbed and metabolized 14 days worth of antibiotics. My and safety of high dose short dura- and gradually accumulated and husband took Daisy and a urine tion enrofloxin treatment regimen resulted in adequate therapeutic sample to the vet yesterday and for uncomplicated urinary tract response with no adverse effects. found that she had a bad bladder infection in dogs”. Their random- This is good news for those dogs infection. My husband came home ized, controlled, blinded clinical that only respond well to predniwith three days of antibiotics. Do trial compared the effectiveness sone as it offers an alternative to of high-dose short-duration, once- long-term prednisone and it’s atyou think this is OK? Marge, Berwyn daily (HDSD) enrofloxin treatment tendant side effects.

(Group 1) with a convention 14-day I believe that justice is instinct course of twice daily amoxicillinDear Marge, Traditionally we have treated clavulanic acid (Group 2) in treat- and innate, the moral sense is as urinary tract infections in dogs ing uncomplicated UTI. There were much a part of our constitution as with antibiotics for 10 to 14 days. 68 dogs in the trial. Most of you the threat of feeling, seeing and Your vet must have been doing her know amoxicillin-clavulanic acid as hearing.

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Palos hospital earns national accreditation with commendation from Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACoS) has granted three-year accreditation with commendation to the cancer program at Palos Community Hospital.

To earn voluntary CoC accreditation, a cancer program must meet or exceed 34 CoC quality care standards, be evaluated every three years through a survey process and maintain levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered care.

Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation is only awarded to a facility that exceeds standards requirements at the time of its triennial survey.

“Accreditation from the Commission on Cancer further exemplifies the quality cancer care offered at Palos,” says Terrence Moisan, M.D., interim CEO of Palos Community Hospital.

“From detection and treatment to cancer rehabilitation, Palos offers an array of services to meet the health care needs of our community.”

Accreditation by the CoC for cancer programs ensures patients at Palos receive: • Comprehensive care, including a range of state-of-the-art services and equipment • A multidisciplinary team approach for the best available

treatment options • Information about ongoing clinical trials and new treatment options • Access to prevention and early detection programs, education and support services • A cancer registry that offers lifelong patient follow-up • Ongoing monitoring and improvement of care • Quality care close to home The American Cancer Society estimates more than 1.6 million cases of cancer will be diagnosed in 2014. There are currently more than 1,500 CoC-accredited cancer programs in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, representing 30 percent of all

hospitals. CoC-accredited facilities diagnose and/or treat more than 70 percent of all newly diagnosed cancer patients.

Established in 1922 by the American College of Surgeons, the CoC is a consortium of professional organizations dedicated to improving patient outcomes and quality of life for cancer patients through standardsetting, prevention, research, education and the monitoring of comprehensive, quality care. Its membership includes Fellows of the American College of Surgeons.

For more information, visit www. facs.org/cancer — Palos Community Hospital

The Kid’s Doctor

by Sue Hubbard, M.D. Children need a good night’s sleep to wake up happy, rested and ready to learn. Numerous studies have shown that elementary school age kids need about 10 hours of sleep a night, while tweens and teens need a good 8-9 hours of sleep.

I wonder how many children really get the recommended amount of sleep? I think too few.

I know from personal experience that teens seem to operate on a different sleep schedule and rarely are in bed as early as they should be.

Most of us have relaxed bedtime a little during the summer and chil-

dren are staying up later and sleeping longer in the mornings. This is great during the lazy summer months, when schedules are also different. Now the pressure is on!

To minimize grouchy and tired children (and parents) during the first days and weeks of school, going to bed on time is a necessity.

Re-adjusting bedtimes now will make the transition to a school schedule easier.

If your children have been staying up later than usual, try pushing their bedtime back by 15 minutes each night, gradually shifting back to the “normal” school-year hour.

At the same time, especially for older children, wake them a little earlier each day to re-set their internal clocks.

Why is it pre-schoolers want to get up early, no matter what, while school-aged children are happy to sleep through their alarms? Such is life.

Also, make sure your kids are not only getting up more sleep, but also have time for breakfast!

As always, this remains the most important meal of the day. A good night’s sleep followed by a healthy breakfast has been shown to improve mood, attention, focus and

over all school performance, and even helps prevent obesity.

Start off the school year on the right foot. Remember, it’s easier to begin with good habits than to try and break bad ones.

(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.)

SHIP (Senior Health Insurance Program) counselors at Palos Township will sponsor an open enrollment seminar for Medicare Part A, Part B and Part D prescription drug coverage on Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 9 to 11 a.m., at Palos Township, 10802 S. Roberts Road, Palos Hills.

Topics will cover Medical/ Hospital Billing Issues; Is your physician Medicare approved?Medicare/ MedicaidDualEligibilityandProblemsaffording brand name drugs?

Counselors will be on hand to cover all of the above. Time will be allocated for questions and answers. Open Enrollment Period for changes to Medicare Plans is Oct. 15, through Dec. 7.

For more information, call 5984418.

Palos Hospital offers advance directives class Palos Community Hospital offers a free class from 6 to 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 24, at Palos Primary Care Center, 15300 West Ave., Orland Park, to explain the details o advance directives.

Serious illness and death aren’t easy to discuss, but having a living will and other advance directives in place helps put loved ones at ease regarding such treatment efforts as resuscitation and lifesupport. This free class will cover the Illinois Power of Attorney for Health Care (short form), Illinois Department of Public Health: Uniform Do-Not-Resuscitate Advance Directive form, and the Living Will.

Registration is required; call

226-2300. For information on all classes offered by the hospital, visit PalosCommunityHospital. org.

Palos Hospital offers bladder and bowel matters class Palos Community Hospital offers a free presentation to discuss control issues when it comes to bladder and bowel matters.

Urinary and bowel incontinence, or loss of bladder or bowel control, can occur at any age and is not a normal part of the aging process. Participants will learn about behavioral techniques and lifestyle changes that can improve their control of these muscles from a specially trained Palos Community Hospital physical therapist.

This program is from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Palos Health & Fitness Center, 15430 West Ave., Orland Park. To register, call 226-2300.

Palos Hospital ‘Treat Your Feet’ Our feet are the foundation of our bodies and often are taken for granted. Learn how to “Treat your Feet” during this free presentation offered by Palos Community Hospital.

Board-Certified Podiatrist Duane Brann, D.P.M., will focus on common foot problems, treatment options and when it’s time to consider surgery.

The class is 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at Palos Health & Fitness Center, 15430 West Ave., Orland Park. To register, visit PalosCommunityHospital.org or call 226-2300.

Skeeters love some folks better than others It’s been a question I’ve pondered since I can remember.

There never seemed to be an adequate answer.

It’s a little late in the season, but here goes: Why do mosquitoes seem to feast on some people while totally ignoring others? Also, how can mosquitoes spot us from 50 yards away?

Well, according to Dr. Joseph Mercola, he believes there are many answers. Some of the reasons include microbes (bacteria) on your skin from body odor.

Mercola writes, “Humans have only about 10 percent of these microbes in common—the rest vary between individuals. Some of us have a collection of microbes that are particularly irresistible to mosquitoes.”

Another reason is chemical compounds. Among the favorites are octenol from human breath and sweat, lactic acid, ammonia, carboxylic acid and carbon dioxide we emit. Mercola says the more we emit, the more attractive we are to mosquitoes. He explains larger people emit more than smaller people, which is why adults generally, seem to provide a better host than children.

Another attraction is movement and heat. If you are exercising outside and short of breath, you are emitting more carbon dioxide, and thus, a target.

Mercola explains that it was once believed mosquitoes were attracted to human sweat but there’s a hitch to that theory. They are actually attracted to old sweat, not fresh sweat. Chemical changes in old sweat changes its pH from acidic to alkaline as various components decompose into ammonia. Mercola refers to this sweat as ‘fermented.’

The study he wrote of also stated malarial mosquitoes were more attracted to foot odor and that the malarial mosquitoes actually bit into old heavily worn socks the researchers hung outdoors. So keep those socks clean!

The good news is that some human odors have confounded mosquitoes and lessened their ability to locate humans. These compounds are secreted by our bodies. There is

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by Dee Woods a question as to B-vitamins helping to emit an odor mosquitoes don’t care for.

Mercola states, “One of these compounds is 1-methylpiperzine, which blocks mosquitoes’ sense of smell so effectively that they are rendered oblivious to the presence of a juicy human hand nearby. Insect sprays containing 1-methylpiperzine are in the works, but thus far scientists have not been able to determine how to keep the substance from evaporating off of your skin, as naturally occurs over time.”

Certain of us seem to secrete more natural substances than others that make us invisible to mosquitoes.

Mercola warns that we must steer clear of chemical repellants. He feels the very dangerous, DEET is used in hundreds of products in very high concentrations up to 100 percent.

In speaking of DEET, he warns, “If a chemical melts plastic or fishing line, it’s not wise to apply it to your skin—and that is exactly what DEET does. Children are particularly at risk for subtle neurological changes because their skin more readily absorbs chemicals in the environment, and chemicals exert more potent effects on their developing nervous systems.” He explained DEET can cause headaches, shortness of breath, tremors, seizures, and many other dangerous and toxic side-effects. The fact is, it’s a pesticide.

There are many great natural products on the market that can help repel mosquitoes. My favorite is Buzz Away, which is made with citronella, cedarwood, Eucalyptus, lemon grass and peppermint. It has done the trick for us.

Dee Woods can be reached at deewoods@comcast.net.

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McCord Faculty Exhibit McCord Gallery & Cultural Center is celebrating the creativity of their distinguished staff of art instructors with an exhibit of their work through Monday, Sept. 29.

Showcased will be the oils and drawings of Beth Leahy, the pastels and oils of Liz Wall, the watercolors of John Howard, Carmello Schifano, and Maria DeCaprio-Sunta, the silk paintings of Karen Snow, the drawings of Tony Crnkovich, the pastels of Gary Wick, the jewelry of Jeanne Krapauskas and the art journals of Lorelei Jones.

Pictured are “Out of Strasbourg” by Gary Wick and “Where’s Norm?” by Liz Wall. McCord is proud to announce that both paintings received awards at the Chicago Pastel Painters’ Fifth Biennial Member Juried Exhibition “Stroke’ V 2014” in August.

McCord Gallery & Cultural Center is at 9602 W. Creek Rd. (129th and LaGrange Road.), Palos Park. To register, call 671-0648 or visit www.mccordgallery.org.

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The Regional News Thursday, September 11, 2014

Orland firefighter dies after crash into pole on I-57 on way to work

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Bundle Weekend at Incarnation Church Accepting donations of clothing, household items and even Halloween decorations are Eileen Connaughton (from left), Rich Hurth and Michael Connaughton at the annual Bundle Weekend event held last weekend by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul at Incarnation Church, 5757 W. 127th St., Palos Heights.

Parishioners and others filled a trailer with items, which will be sold at a Society of St. Vincent de Paul thrift store. The nearest store had been in Midlothian, but is in the process of moving to a larger location at 7010 W. 159th St., Orland Park, with opening anticipated within weeks.

Those unable to participate but who want to donate are advised to call (312) 655-7181 or visit svdpchicago.org.

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is an international non-profit organization dedicated to serving the poor and providing others with the opportunity to serve. The Chicago Diocesan Council has been assisting Cook County and Lake County families since 1857.

Orland Fire Protection District officials this week expressed shock and grief over the loss of a comrade.

Firefighter Wesley B. “Wes” Peak, of Manteno, died last Sunday morning when his northbound vehicle struck a pole on Interstate-57. OFPD officials said he was on his way to work when the one-vehicle crash occurred.

“Wes was with the Orland Fire Protection District for seven years,” said OFPD Chief Ken Brucki, in a statement released Sunday evening. “He touched so many lives in a positive way. It is equally heartbreaking to the organization, as it is on his family.”

Mr. Peak was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:43 a.m., according to published reports.

The crash on I-57 in south suburban Matteson remains under investigation, officials said.

Mr. Peak is survived by his wife,

The 7th annual Blackhawk Alumni & Friends Charity Softball Classic will take place this Sunday, Sept. 14, at Saint Xavier University in Chicago.

Join Blackhawks greats like Jack O’Callahan, Brian Noonan, Reid Simpson, Cliff Koroll, Murray Bannerman, Troy Murray, Reggie Kerr, Grant Mulvey, Mark Lavarre, and many others as they come together to support Chicago police and firefighter charities.

This event is scheduled from outperforms most other charities in port. Our focus on ‘neighbor help- 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the RichAmerica,” wrote Ken Berger, presi- ing neighbor’ has brought out the ard R. Ferrell Memorial Field at dent and CEO of Charity Navigator. best in so many people. This rating SXU’s Chicago campus, 3700 W. “This ‘exceptional’ designation from from Charity Navigator helps us 103rd St. Admission is free and Charity Navigator differentiates as we strive to deserve the trust gates open at 11 a.m. The event Together We Cope from its peers so many have placed in us.” benefits the Chicago Firefighters’ Together We Cope is a nonprofit EMWQ Retirees’, Widows’ and and demonstrates to the public it agency based in Tinley Park that is worthy of their trust.”

Kathryn Straniero, executive serves families in crisis from 22 director of TWC, said the agency south suburban communities is thrilled with the recognition. “Of through a food pantry, resale every dollar donated to Together shop and financial aid for some The United Moravian Society We Cope, 92 cents goes to programs costs like rent and utility bills. will hold its 75th annual Moravian and services for our clients,” she More information is at www. Day Festival Saturday through said. “While the need continues to togetherwecope.org.

Sunday, Sept. 20 and 21.

— Together We Cope grow, so does our community supThe event, which is open to the public, will begin with a welcoming dance and concert at 7 p.m. on Saturday night in preparation for the main program, which will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21.

Both events will be held at the Lithuanian World Center, 14911 E 127th St. in Lemont. Donation Study – at 9:45 a.m.; GEMS is $20 for adults.

Orland Park Church Girls’ Club for girls 2nd-8th The program on Sunday will Is your life crazy busy? Do grades at 6:30 p.m.; Cadets consist of traditional Czechoslobills, marriage, kids, work have Boys’ Club for boys 3rd-8th vak dances and songs, performed grades at 6:30 p.m.; “Ready to you stressed?

Recharge Wednesdays offer Launch” Parenting Class 6:30 respite at the church, 7500 W. pm. (Orlandchurch.com) Sycamore Drive. It gives opporWomen’s Bible Study will tunities for the whole family to get reconnected and recharged study Beth Moore’s “Children of – to take a breather from your the Day,” from 1 and 2 Thessabusy schedules to put your life lonians beginning Monday, Sept.

15. Two sessions are available: back into focus.

Q: By the time you get this, The following opportunities 9 a.m. (with childcare) or 7 p.m. I’ll be back in school. But I’m are available on Wednesdays: (no childcare). Call the church at kind of scared this time, because Coffee Break Women’s Bible 532-4900 if you’d like to attend. I recently gave my life to Jesus

The church, at 7059 W. 127th St., offers a community Bible study for women called Coffee Break at 9:30 a.m. Tuesdays, beginning Sept. 16. Join in and learn to trust God and fully rely on God through difficult times.

No Bible knowledge is necessary.

Enjoy a casual small group setting.

Childcare is provided. For more information, call 448-0186 or visit www.paloschurch.org.

Children’s Assistance Fund, the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation, and other related police and fire charities. During the past six years, the Blackhawk Alumni and Friends have raised more than $300,000 for the families of the Chicago Police and Fire Department. The event has also brought attention to the challenges faced by many of these families in their time of need.

Chicago Blackhawks current players and alumni will “faceoff” in a softball game with members of the Chicago Police Departments (CPD) and Chicago Fire Departments (CFD). The event also features the annual CFD vs. CPD City-Wide Softball Championship. The event marks

the fifth year BMO Harris has served as a presenting sponsor.

Other major sponsors include CME Group, WGN TV and Radio, Saint Xavier University, Jewel/Osco and Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2. Sponsorship opportunities are still available.

Families can enjoy food and non-alcoholic beverages, as well as an inflatable play-area and games for children, raffles, and autographs from players. Special units from the Chicago Police and Fire Departments are scheduled to participate and a variety of antique fire and police equipment will be on display.

For more information, visit: www.widowsandchildren.org.

Moravian Day Festival next weekend in Lemont

Houses of Worship Palos Heights Christian Reformed Church

Wesley B. “Wes” Peak

Blackhawk Alumni & Friends Charity Softball Classic at SXU

Together We Cope ‘outperforms most other charities in America’ In bridging the gap for south suburban families in crisis, Together We Cope “outperforms most other charities in America,” according to Charity Navigator.

The charity evaluator granted the Tinley Park-based homeless prevention agency a four-star rating for the fourth year in a row, commending TWC for sound fiscal management and commitment to accountability and transparency.

“Only 7 percent of the charities we rate have received at least four consecutive four-star evaluations, indicating that Together We Cope

Melissa (nee White); son, Jaxson Wesley, age 2; parents, William and Linda (nee Baldridge) Peak; brothers, Phillip (Maria), Douglas, and Andrew Peak; mother-inlaw, Sandi White (Jeff Winfield), father-in-law, Rob (Debbie) White; sister-in-law, Jennifer Goncher; brother-in-law, Rick (Tara) White; nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

Visitation for Mr. Peak will be held from 3 to 9 p.m. today (Thursday) at Colonial Chapel, 15525 S. 73rd Ave., Orland Park.

A funeral service is scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow (Friday) at Parkview Christian Church, 11100 Orland Parkway, Orland Park. Interment will be at Peotone Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to The Jaxson Memorial Fund. Details are available online at colonialchapel. com.

by children, teens and adults in authentic costume. A bazaar with traditional Czech items, food, and refreshments will be available throughout the day. A dance and concert will take place after the program with the 14-member Czech Brass Band, Lanžhotčanka, visiting from the Czech Republic.

“Our organization has succeeded in continuing the Czechoslovak traditions and heritage in the Chicago area for 75 years,” said Roman Bobcik, president of United Moravian Societies. “We encourage anyone to come out and enjoy the talented dancers,

hear the traditional music, and help us celebrate this magnificent milestone.”

The United Moravian Society is a non-profit organization that promotes Czech, Moravian, and Slovak folklore by demonstrating the ethnic customs of folk dancing, singing, storytelling and crafting.

The first Moravian Day festival was held on Sept. 24, 1939 in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago.

For more information or to purchase your tickets online, visit unitedmoraviansocieties. org, or contact Denise Kadlcek at 785-2294.

Billy Graham’s “My Answer” at a high school church camp. I want to live for Jesus, but I’m afraid I’ll just go back to my old ways. How can I stay true to Jesus? — A. McL. A: I’m very thankful you have given your life to Christ; it’s the most important decision you will ever make. I’m thankful, too, that you’ve made your decision while you’re young. The older we get, the harder it usually becomes to hear God’s call.

The most important thing you can do is to learn to walk with Jesus every moment of the day.

You are not alone as you walk the halls of your school, sit in class, or talk with your friends. Christ is with you every step of the way, and He wants to encourage and help you. Jesus’ promise is true: “Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).

How can His presence become a reality? First, draw strength from other believers. You mention you made your decision for Christ at a church camp; has that church (or another church) become part

of your life? Ask God especially to give you new friends who love Christ and are seeking to live for Him. Then draw strength from God’s Word, the Bible, and from prayer.

Through the Bible we listen to what God wants to say to us; through prayer God listens to what we want to say to Him. Don’t be intimidated by the Bible’s size, but make it part of your life every day (beginning perhaps with one of the Gospels, such as John).

(Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201; call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM, or visit the Web site for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: www.billygraham.org.)

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St. Alexander School’s Family School Association (FSA) recently hosted an ice cream social to welcome students back to school.

Students created custom ice cream sundaes with an assortment of tasty toppings.

All smiles sharing laughs as they gather with friends and enjoy their sundaes are 2nd graders Cassidy Holland (from left), Nora Wagner and Leah Conway (photos clockwise from top left). Second-graders Samantha Buschman and Bridgette Kennedy enjoyed each other’s company and ice cream treats.

Third-grader Alex Antkiewicz adds toppings to his ice cream creation. Organizers keep the servings coming and toppings filled for the kids lining up on one of the sweetest days of the school year.

The Regional News Thursday, September 11, 2014

Prepare yourself for the unexpected Are you ready for this? September is National Preparedness Month. Sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Preparedness Month seeks to educate Americans on preparing for natural disasters and other types of emergencies. But you’ll also need to prepare for unexpected events in many other areas of your life — particularly those events related to the financial security of you and your family.

Here are some of the most important of these events, along with possible preparations for them: • Unanticipated early retirement – If you encounter a “downsizing” or other occurrence that results in the loss of a job, or even the end of a career, before you expected it, would you be able to avoid major disruptions to your lifestyle? To help prepare for such a loss of income, make sure to fully fund your IRA each year. The maximum contribution is $5,500 per year plus an additional $1,000 for those age 50 and older.

• Disability – Even a shortterm disability can seriously harm your finances — and a long-term disability could prove devastating. Your employer might offer some form of disability insurance, but it may not be sufficient. So you may need to explore private coverage.

• Personal liability – If someone were ever injured on your

property or due to some action of yours, you could face legal actions demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars. To help protect yourself, consider adding umbrella liability insurance.

• Changing family situation – Changes in your life — marriage, divorce, remarriage, children, stepchildren — can drastically affect your estate plans and the type of legacy you want to leave.

To prevent unpleasant surprises for your family, make sure you periodically review beneficiary designations on your investment accounts, such as your IRA and 401(k), and work with your tax and legal advisors to update your estate-planning documents — will, living trust and so on — as needed.

• Outliving your money – Once you reach retirement, your greatest concern may be that you’ll outlive your money. To help prevent this from happening, create a sustainable withdrawal strategy — that is, determine how much you can take out each year from your investment and retirement accounts, and stick to this amount.

• Need for long-term care – You can’t predict whether you will ever need to enter a nursing home or require the assistance of a home health care worker, but one thing is for sure — these services are extremely expensive.

Consider this: The national average for a private room in a nursing home is nearly $84,000

Jim Van Howe

per year, according to a recent survey by Genworth, a financial security company. To help prepare for these costs, you may want to consult with a professional financial advisor, who can suggest appropriate solutions.

• Untimely death – Your absence could jeopardize your family’s financial security, particularly if you passed away while your children were still at home.

To help ensure that your family could remain in the home and that your children could go to college, if they choose, make sure you have adequate life insurance.

Your passage through life will be filled with twists and turns, and you can’t always see what lies ahead. But you can ease your journey by preparing yourself for the unexpected.

Jim Van Howe is a financial advisor with Edward Jones Investments, in Palos Heights. His office is at 7001 W. 127th St. He can be reached at 361-3400. This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

Area Property Transfers Burrow Russell C Tr to Smith John N, 10629 Maue Dr, $306,000; Ernst Charles to Cain Dalia, 15711 Chesterfield Ln, $120,000; Lipka Robert W Tr to Ciszewicz Christopher M, 10959 Colorado Ct, Unit #72, $170,000; Clingen Robert Tr to Ashkar Orland Park First Midwest Bk Tr to Park Bassam, 7705 Sycamore Dr, Patricia, 18251 Oklahoma Ct, $230,000; Wille Richard E Tr to ShinUnit #295, $196,000; Fiotakis Georgia Tr to Dean nick Thomas J, 14405 Golf Rd, Melissa M, 14051 Norwich Ln, $320,000; First Midwest Bk Tr to MehUnit #103, $140,000; Truesdale Maribeth Tr to ringer Raymond, 15651 Garden Alqammaz Ali, 7813 158th Ct, View Ct, Unit #12D, $100,000; First Midwest Bk to Vinksna $167,000; Mayer Paul C to Eberhardy Vainoras, 16735 S Winterberry Joshua J, 7716 Cashew Dr, Ln, $265,000; Beno Carol to Saplis Jim, $290,000; Hennessy Kathleen R to Dertz 14445 John Humphrey Dr, Alexander, 17125 Ashwood Ln, $375,000; Hughes Duane C to Thielen $285,000; Palumbo Chester J Tr to Ota Steven R, 17232 Deerview Dr, Yoshi, 7921 W 157th St, Unit $456,000; Marquette Bk Tr to Egner #79211N, $144,000; Moylan Michael P to Pahl Barbara A, 15721 Deerfield Ct, Laura, 15832 Centennial Dr, Unit #157211E, $118,000; Fournier Robert J to Kealy $200,000; Paciorek Joseph R to Connolly Michael K, 14430 Country Club Ryan F, 8751 167th Pl, $190,000; Ln, $367,500; 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.

Federal Home Loan Mtg Corp to Malik Saadat A, 7305 W. 157th St, Unit #73051D, $88,000; Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr to Bufka Joseph, 7337 153rd St, Unit #107337, $138,000.

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Talmontas Eleanor A to Romanas Robert Tr, 6100 W 123rd St, $210,000; Witry Paul G to Kalousek Katherine, 7931 Lakeview Ct, Unit #79311A, $124,000; Schaar Dolores R Trust to Callaghan William III, 7670 White Pine Pl, $248,000.

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Aciro Milagros T to Szafraniec Kamil, 10530 Ridgewood Dr, $313,000; Lovejoy Mary Ann Tr to Kornelsen Tanya M, 11553 Autobahn Drive East, Unit #11553102, $140,000; Hazel Robert Hollis Tr to Walkowicz Andrzej, 8115 124th St, $265,000; First Midwest Bk Tr to Lynch Steven, 3 S Woodland Trl, $310,000.

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Open house at CNB Bank & Trust Palos Heights Police Chief George L. Yott Jr. (from left) and Deputy Chief William Czajkowski were among dozens of local business and civic leaders, public safety officials and others who stopped by on Monday and offered congratulations to Robert Straz and other executives and staff at CNB Bank & Trust, 12727 S. Ridgeland Ave. Through Saturday, the bank is hosting an open house. Straz said that all are welcome to stop in during business hours to have a look around, speak with staff, and enter a drawing to win various prizes.

The bank, which opened its doors in June, is doing a brisk and steady business, with new commercial and individual customers opening accounts every day, according to Straz, CNB local market president and mayor of Palos Heights.

Headquartered in Carrollton, Ill., CNB traces its lineage to 1854 and describes itself as Illinois’ oldest bank.

Business Notes Moraine Valley seeks employers for Mock Interview Day The Job Resource Center at Moraine Valley Community College is seeking employers to participate in Mock Interview Day on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 2 to 5 p.m., in the Moraine Business and Conference Center (Building M), on campus, 9000 W. College Pkwy., Palos Hills.

Interviewers must be affiliated with a business and have experi-

ence conducting interviews on a professional level. They will engage in a formal, 30-minute mock interview with students, alumni and community members. During the first 20 minutes, employers will ask a series of general interview questions provided by the college. The remaining 10 minutes will be used to offer feedback and helpful tips to the interviewee.

Business people who can volunteer time as interviewers should call 974-5313 or email jrc@morainevalley.edu.

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Camille’s Confections will sweeten the Palos Farmers Market on Wed. Palos Arts Commission hosts painting demonstration Palos Heights own Camille’s Confections will join the Palos Heights Farmers Market on Wednesday, Sept. 17. Camille’s Confections offers homemade English Toffee. The Famous Original flavor features a buttery toffee with walnuts and semi-sweet chocolate. Other flavors include White Chocolate Cranberry Almond, Dark Chocolate Blueberry Pecan, Nutty Buddy and Sassy Sea Salt. The toffee makes perfect gifts, personal or corporate. More information is available at camillesconfections@earthlink.net, call 361-1005, or follow on Facebook.

The Palos Arts Commission will also join the market on Sept. 17. October is Illinois Arts Month, and the organization will have information about the 16 new sculptures located around Palos Heights.

Information about the upcoming dedication ceremony, to be held on Oct. 18 will be available. Additionally, information about the “Free Little Library” in the Art Garden, an upcoming mural competition, and “Community Pop-Up Art Gallery” will be provided. A local artist will be on site doing a painting demonstration from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Stop by the Richert-Phillips Farm stand to sign up for the 2015 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Half and full share prices will be available at the stand at a discounted price for early sign-up, and a limited number of shares are available. Participation in CSA allows the purchaser to “buy into the farm”. A basket will be ready for you when you arrive each week, making it a very convenient way to participate in the market, such as stopping at the market early to pick up your basket before work.

Additional information is available at 574-274-6019.

Congratulations to Margie Spayth, of Palos Heights, winner of the Sept. 3 Palos Heights Recreation Department Fitness Punch Card Raffle. The market would like to sincerely thank the Recreation Department for its support of the market all season.

Come to the market for the freshest produce available! The market has not only summer, but early fall produce in very large quantities, with very good pricing. Fresh picked apples and fall squashes are coming into the market in large quantities! In addition to the produce, eggs, cheeses (hard, soft, spreads and fresh mozzarella), butter, bakery and bread items, beef, pork, and chicken, olive oils and vinegars, pizza products and pesto, tamales, salsas, pasta sauces, jams, jelly and local honey, hot and iced coffee and nutritional drink products, desserts and more. In addition, pick up a beautiful perennial plant, Pampered Chef, and Shaklee products are also available. Finally, make sure to have your knives sharpened at Super Sharp. Additional services from Super Sharp are also available. Stop by the tent for more information.

Stop by the City Tent for the latest recipe from Dr. John Principe MD of the WellbeingMD Center for Life. Make sure to have your Frequent Shopper Card endorsed. Ten visits and you are entered into a year-end market raffle. Photo note cards, featuring beautiful Palos scenes, are also available, with proceeds benefiting the market.

The Palos Heights Farmers Market is open Wednesdays, rain or shine, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 12217 S. Harlem Ave. More information can be found at www.palosheights.org, by calling 708-361-1800, join our email update list, or follow us on Facebook.

Marquette will mark Good Neighbor Day Marquette Bank, a locallyowned neighborhood bank, in honor of National Good Neighbor Day, Sunday, Sept. 28, will celebrate on Saturday, Sept. 27, with refreshments in all 22 branch locations, along with a special donation to one lucky nonprofit.

Marquette Bank’s Good Neighbor Gift Project awards a donation of $2,500 and 25 hours of volunteer service to a local nonprofit nominated by a Marquette Bank employee.

“Our Good Neighbor Day Gift Project gives our employees a chance to reach out to local charities and nonprofits in the areas they live and work,” Christie Cox, Neighborhood Director, said.

“This project allows Marquette Bank to help a local nonprofit organization that is close to an employee’s heart.”

In order to qualify, nonprofits must be a 501(c)(3) or a 509(a) (1) organization.

Once nominated, qualified organizations will complete a short application, which includes: • An overview of the organization, including: mission, vision and goals • A detailed plan of how the funds would be used • A detailed plan of how the volunteer hours would be used • A project timeline • A description of how the funds/volunteer hours would

benefit the neighborhood.

Completed applications must be received by Oct. 3; the organization selected will be chosen by the Marquette Neighborhood Committee by Nov. 14. Marquette Bank’s participation in National Good Neighbor Day and its Good Neighbor Gift Project are part of the Marquette Neighborhood Commitment, where each quarter the bank focuses on giving back to its communities in four areas of need: shelter, hunger, education and health/wellness.

Previous organizations chosen to receive a donation include: International Human Relations Council in Chicago; P.O.W.E.R. Connection in Bolingbrook; and Operation Blessing of Southwest Chicagoland in Crestwood.

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Palos Park parades march from 75th to 100th milestones To celebrate Palos Park’s 75th Anniversary Parade in 1989, Doug Blount had this six-horse team and wagon brought down from Osseo, Wis., for L.T. Blount Realtors’ “team” of real estate agents to ride in.

Everyone dressed in Edwardian-style clothes, harking back to 1914, the year the village was incorporated. Beautiful weather shined upon that parade day of Sept. 23, 1989. The six horses, two men,

wagon and immense van in which they had all traveled from Wisconsin were able to stay overnight at the The Children’s Farm of The Center in Palos Park.

This year for Palos Park’s 100th anniversary parade scheduled for Sept. 20, Dorothy Blount (visible far right riding on the wagon above) will be one of several longtime residents chosen as grand marshals She will be riding in an open-top 1957 Thunderbird.

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Not the Marian kind

Astros end long skid by beating Spartans

By Ken Karrson Shepard was not the kind of team Marian Catholic expected to encounter Friday night.

The Spartans had owned the Astros in Week 2 of the 2013 season, winding up a 49-3 winner in a game that was as lopsided as the final score indicated. Given that previous result and the fact Shepard went down to defeat again in its 2014 opener at Niles North, it’s somewhat understandable if Marian players figured success was an easy 48 minutes away.

The Astros, however, had other ideas and wound up treating their Chicago Heights guests quite unkindly. With sophomore DemePhoto by Jeff Vorva Hope Academy quarterback Raheem Johnson tries to retain possession of the ball while getting trius Harrison as its ringleader, sacked by Chicago Christian's Clay Bouquet Friday night. Bouquet and his defensive mates posted Shepard stunned the Spartans 14-7 to nab its first triumph the Knights' first shutout in two years as Christian captured its home opener 14-0. since 2012.

Harrison helped the Astros stop an 11-game slide by producing 118 rushing yards on 24 carries, including touchdown runs of 23 and 8 yards. The latter, which came on the heels of a 35-yard reception

by Keyon Lansdown, broke a 7-all shutout was the Knights’ first in three solo stops.

By Ken Karrson tie in the fourth quarter. since a 21-0 whitewash of Guerin “These [Hope] kids are really Something besides the end of Winning was a Hope-less cause Prep on Sept. 22, 2012. fast and they ran wild the week his team’s skid pleased Shepard “I was thrilled — that was so before, but they had nowhere to coach Dominic Passolano the Friday night for the visiting team rewarding for our kids and the go [in this game],” Bolhuis said. most. in Palos Heights.

Host Chicago Christian made coaches,” Christian head coach “Steve Gallagher would hold his it so by hamstringing John Hope Jim Bolhuis said of the defensive ground and either make the tackle Academy throughout the evening. exhibition. “That was probably or bounce them back inside and The Eagles, who were coming off a the best part [of the win]. it frustrated the kids from Hope.

“Defense was all we practiced. resounding Week 1 win over Little “The kids responded well and Village, had little luck versus a We practiced tackling like crazy we held firm. We played a team Knights defense that appeared and made sure every kid on our game for each other, which was very susceptible in the team’s team knew the gaps they had to great to see.” control and that they stayed in season-opener.

The Eagles’ best chance for a But defensive coaches Dennis those gaps. If we had not cor- breakthrough occurred when they By Ken Karrson Duffy and Steve Bouck — who rected our mistakes from Week drove to Christian’s 20-yard line prepped at Brother Rice and Mt. 1, [the victory] wouldn’t have on their earliest possession. That Marcus Jones’ football-playing Carmel, respectively — made meant much.” series ended quietly, however, and days won’t end when his prep The Knights (1-1) registered Roundtree’s 11-yard scoring dash career does. the necessary adjustments that led to vast improvement. After nine tackles for loss and two in the second period pushed Hope But even with a future at Northsurrendering 56 points to West- sacks. Leading the way were into what proved to be an ines- ern Illinois University in store for him, Brother Rice’s senior mont and giving up nearly 300 Steven Gallagher (five solos, one capable hole. rushing yards to one Sentinels assist, 2 ½ tackles for loss, one-half Christian Bolhuis increased running back — as well as all player, Christian slammed the sack), Jack De Vries (five solos, the Knights’ edge to 14-0 with his classmates on the Crusaddoor on Hope by allowing just two assists) and Clay Bouquet his 24-yard scamper in the third ers’ roster — would have been (four solos, three assists, four quarter. Chicago Christian could left with a void had neighboring 87 total yards.

The Knights’ own offense was tackles for loss, 1 ½ sacks). Col- have inflicted further damage, but Marist never been defeated. not overly productive on the score- by Roundtree (one assist), Nick two dropped balls, an overthrown Rice has had success against board, but it did enough to ensure Malak (two tackles for loss, one pass toward a wide-open receiver the RedHawks before, but not since the current upperclassmen a 14-0 victory for Christian. The assist) and Luke Boss all chipped (Continued on page 3)

For Hope, there is none Knights defense hamstrings foe in shutout

“This was the first time Shepard’s beaten a private school [in football] in history — that’s a big deal,” he said. “No one will admit it, but there’s always a little bit of an inferiority complex. But the kids were loose and had fun and they have confidence now they can beat a private school.

“The kids stepped up this week.

We stopped their run game, we controlled the line of scrimmage, [we were] more physical and we wore them down. Usually [when] you play a private school you’re beat up at the end.”

As for Harrison, he continued to soften the blow of Kyle Dye’s absence. The all-area performer is expected to miss a few more weeks with an injury, but Passolano said Dye has already expressed a willingness to switch positions when he returns in order to keep Harrison on the field.

“He ran hard and he ran tough,” Passolano said of Harrison, who was due to remain with the sophomore team until his presence was required by the varsity. Without Harrison the sophs lost to Marian.

“You don’t [always] realize one kid makes a world of difference,” Passolano said. “You need those kids who can make big plays. We

didn’t have that last year.”

The Astros (1-1) had exhibited signs of a revival against Niles North, a game that was competitive until “it just fell apart at the end” for them in the fourth quarter. There would be no such collapse in Week 2, however.

“We did a good job with [reducing] penalties and we didn’t shoot ourselves in the foot for the most part,” Passolano said. “Our defense manned up and it was a total team effort. Usually one side has carried the other when we’ve won.”

While Shepard’s offense racked up over 240 yards, its defense made sure the Astros “controlled field position the entire time.”

Lansdown (seven solo stops, two assists, interception), Jaime Herrera (four solos, three assists, two tackles for loss), EJ Rueck (four solos, interception) and Chris Goldschmidt (two tackles for loss) were the notables.

Passolano also liked what he saw from sophomore kicker Mike Iturbe, who made both his conversion kicks and narrowly missed connecting on field goals of 40 and 43 yards.

“The ball just fires off his foot,” Passolano said. “I think he’s going (Continued on page 3)

Getting the final say Crusaders seniors break through vs. RedHawks arrived on the scene. The last varsity win came in 2010.

The dry spell ended Friday night, ironically on an evening featuring wet conditions. But a rain-induced late start to the contest at Joe Johnston Field and short delay after play had begun couldn’t dampen the Crusaders’ quest.

And appropriately Rice’s most heralded offensive weapon had a large say in what transpired.

Jones rushed for 102 yards and scored three touchdowns during the middle two periods to stake

the hosts to an insurmountable lead.

“He’s such a disciplined, hard-working young man,” Crusaders assistant coach Tim Lyons said of Jones. “He embodies what a Brother Rice student-athlete is all about.”

With Jones leading the charge, the Crusaders constructed a 21-point advantage and survived a little late noisemaking by the RedHawks to collect a 27-20 triumph. The win squared Rice’s record at 1-1, but Lyons felt the (Continued on page 5)

Different year, same story Chargers bounce Spartans for second straight time

By Ken Karrson

second-half touchdowns enabled the Chargers to bag a 30-7 victory On paper this had the look of a in Oak Lawn and begin 2-0 for the second consecutive season. down-to-the-wire matchup.

Once on the field, however, “Going into the season we knew Stagg proved that appearances our [SouthWest Suburban] conference schedule is elite,” Fahey really can be deceiving.

Even though his team had van- said. “We’re going to show up and quished Oak Lawn with relative compete, but we’re happy to be ease in 2013, Chargers coach Mike 2-0. It’s the best you can be to Fahey was anticipating a stiff chal- start off.” lenge from the Spartans Friday That’s the record the Spartans night. After all, Oak Lawn boasted were striving to reach as well, but a far more experienced roster than too many faulty plays undermined the year before and had rolled over their quest.

“We had seven turnovers and Kenwood Academy in Week 1.

“Anytime you play a game you seven dropped passes — those wonder what kind of adjustment are plays that move the [yarda team makes from year to year,” age] sticks,” Oak Lawn coach Sean Lucas said. “We put on a Fahey said.

But just like before, Stagg held [mistake-filled] clinic. the upper hand — by a rather “They were all self-inflicted sizable margin. The contest was wounds and we found a different close at halftime, but a couple way to do it each time. And our

defense couldn’t get off the field on fourth down.”

That latter scenario played out multiple times on Stagg’s initial possession, which lasted 18 plays, erased almost 10 minutes from the first-quarter clock and featured three fourth-down conversions.

The Chargers concluded their downfield trek with Dennis Egan’s 1-yard run.

Egan (seven carries, 38 rushing yards) saw his prep career come to a halt a bit later when he suffered a torn ACL. “Dennis is hard to replace,” Fahey said. “He’s a captain, a three-year varsity player, and he was pretty productive for us until the time he went out. We lost a great player in Dennis Egan and we’ve got our work cut out for us.”

But not here, even though Fa(Continued on page 6)

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Coaches and officials confer during an early delay in Friday night's Brother Rice-Marist game. The contest began 75 minutes later than scheduled because of inclement weather and was stopped again briefly when a referee thought he had seen lightning. Play finally resumed and the Crusaders went on to register a 27-20 victory at home.

FOOTBALL FORECAST

The first week we fumbled the ball. Sharp-eyed reader Rich Menke of Evergreen Park noticed some errors in our records and that newcomer Bob Rakow didn’t finish ahead of the seasoned vets and that the Unholy Trinity of Karrson, Vorva and Maholy were the tri-leaders with an 8-2 mark. After Week 2, Unholy Maholy took a razor-thin one-game lead thanks to his pick of Geneva’s razor-thin victory over Richards. In Week 3, the gang of goofs agree on just four of the 10 games so look for some movement among the ranks. And hopefully we won’t have to make poor Rich Menke work hard to correct our mistakes…

Last week: Overall: Shepard at Richards Marist at St. Viator Argo at Evergreen Park Lockport at Sandburg Lincoln-Way East at Stagg St. Laurence vs. St. Ignatius Aurora Chris. Cath. at vs. Chicago Christian Oak Lawn at Reavis U. of Indianapolis at St. Xavier

Ken Karrson Jeff Vorva 6-3 6-3 14-5 14-5 Richards Richards Marist St. Viator Evergreen Park Evergreen Park Sandburg Sandburg LWE LWE St. Ignatius St. Laurence ACC ACC Reavis Reavis Indy Indy

Anthony Nasella 4-5 11-8 Richards Marist Evergreen Park Sandburg Stagg St. Laurence ACC Reavis St. Xavier

Jason Maholy Wally Findyz 7-2 6-3 15-4 11-8 Richards Richards Marist Marist Evergreen Park Evergreen Park Sandburg Sandburg LWE LWE St. Laurence St. Laurence ACC Chicago Christian Reavis Reavis Indy Indy

Bob Rakow 6-3 13-6 Richards St. Viator Evergreen Park Sandburg LWE St. Laurence ACC Reavis Indy

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When it comes to sensibility, all bets are off Bartosh (Reprinted from Jan. 10, 2013) Try as some parties might to keep the two entities separated, sports and gambling will forever be linked.

Not every sports fan places bets, of course, but enough of them do to make gambling serious business. And sometimes when those wagers become seriously large ones that don’t pay out as hoped, the biggest losers can expect to receive friendly visits from bill collectors named Guido and Sal, who’ll politely remind each of their boss’ clients that locating a wallet is much easier accomplished when one’s arms remain unbroken.

Bets are taken on almost anything, even happenings outside the sports realm. People of a certain age will recall that, three-plus decades ago, Las Vegas bookmakers listed odds and accepted wagers on various characters in the then-popular TV show, “Dallas,” one of whom was guilty of shooting J.R. Ewing in a season-ending cliffhanger.

(By the way, it was J.R.’s sister-in-law who did the deed. The actress portraying the character was the daughter of legendary singer Bing Crosby, who was never under suspicion.)

But despite periodic forays into such decidedly non-sports areas, the gambling world’s bread-and-butter commodity remains athletics. Nevertheless, most of us figured there were still limits as to how low it would go.

Betting on professional sports is an obvious source of income for bookies, but interest in college athletics is also quite high among gamblers. Typically, though, we don’t expect to hear of much action being taken on events featuring high school athletes.

And don’t even consider any game where individuals younger than that participate. Putting money on such a contest would seem downright silly.

At least that’s what we’ve al-

ways believed. Suddenly, however, we’ve learned that there really is no bottom rung and nothing is truly off-limits to some people.

A while back, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel ran a story about nine men who were charged with — are you ready for this — betting on pee-wee football games. Dubbed “Operation Dirty Play,” the sting operation conducted by several law enforcement agencies within the Sunshine State and the U.S. Marshalls Service took more than a year to complete.

If you’re like me, your initial reaction ran something along these lines: Isn’t this a tremendous waste of public resources? It’s probably just a bunch of dads being stupid, so how much money could we possibly be talking about?

Well, according to the Sun-Sentinel article, that dollar amount exceeded $100,000. Hardly kid stuff, to be sure.

But my goodness, what comes next? Betting on the outcome of PlayStation or X-box games?

And why stop there?

Maybe the already-subterranean standards should be further reduced and wagers taken in preschool classrooms. Hey, who knows how high those toddlers can stack building blocks or how far they can fling applesauce with a spoon?

In all honesty, how can putting money down on such activities be construed as more ridiculous than doing the same thing on youth sports contests? Kids at that age aren’t concerned with point spreads and typically are not driven by a mad desire to excel, but rather by the chance to roll around in the dirt without getting yelled at for their show of sloppiness.

And let’s remember, too, that a number of kids initially join sports teams solely to appease frustrated parents, whose own athletic skill levels were sadly lacking but view their offspring as a fresh opportunity to capture never-before-possible glory.

That, frankly, is pathetic, but

the negative aspects of “Operation Dirty Play” extend beyond the psychological. As was pointed out in the Sun-Sentinel story, there are potentially grim physical considerations.

You see, eight of the nine men who were charged by authorities were coaches in the South Florida Youth Football League and allegedly bet on games involving their own teams. That means players’ well-being could very easily have been compromised in order to strengthen a club’s odds of winning.

If a coach’s best player is nursing an injury, the usual procedure is to hold the youngster out of action while he recuperates.

Of course, in most instances, that same coach wouldn’t have a C-note riding on the outcome of a game so he’s not likely to put team welfare above that of any individual.

Pete Rose has been kept out of baseball’s Hall of Fame because he bet on the sport while managing the Cincinnati Reds.

Former NFL players Paul Hornung and the late Alex Karras were once given a year’s suspension for gambling, and one of the only blemishes on Michael Jordan’s professional reputation stemmed from his alleged love of big-money wagers.

But none of those guys sought to make money off kids, at least in that way. MJ didn’t mind earning lots of revenue from young people’s frequent purchases of overpriced basketball shoes bearing his name, but that’s not the same thing.

The nine men snagged by Operation Dirty Play need to pay a stiff penalty, whether that translates into hefty fines, jail time or a combination of the two. Prison-yard softball games would seem an ideal athletic alternative for them.

And if by chance they balk at whatever punishment a judge eventually metes out, those gambling men need to be reminded of one thing.

They could have run afoul of Guido and Sal instead.

Tightening up on the ‘Bolts Eagles make full recovery at Andrew’s expense Following a Week 1 loss to Lincoln-Way Central, Sandburg had some loose ends to tie up.

Friday night in Tinley Park the Eagles tightened things considerably at the ‘Bolts expense.

Sandburg could never overcome a deficit versus the Knights, but it turned the tables on host Andrew as it shoved the Thunderbolts into a 21-0 halftime hole.

A completed Hail Mary pass gave the Eagles their third touchdown with only 16 seconds remaining in the second quarter, a play that had lingering ramifications beyond the scoreboard.

“Psychologically it might be a bigger barrier than the actual score,” Sandburg coach Dave Wierzal said. “Can you imagine how that feels to them?”

Obviously it was a feeling Andrew players would have preferred to avoid. The T’bolts didn't completely wilt under the weight of the Eagles’ sizable edge, but Andrew’s two second-half scores also did not signal a full-fledged rally against its District 230 rival.

Sandburg held on for a 27-14 win to continue its mastery over the T’bolts and, more importantly, push the sting of that earlier defeat to Lincoln-Way Central further out of everyone’s minds.

“We all sleep better after a game like that,” Wierzal joked of Friday’s triumph. “Our coaches agreed the [opening-week] problems we were having were about 90 percent fixable. It had more to do with execution things, not ability or attitude. We were OK.” Actually, the Eagles’ offense was much better than that, at least in comparison to what it had been seven days earlier. After netting a mere 106 total yards against Lincoln-Way Central, Sandburg accrued more than that on rushes alone. Along with 118 yards on the ground, the Eagles piled up another 217 through the air and

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“We said we can’t be in a situation every game where we’re relying on our defense to give us a chance to win by keeping the game low-scoring,” Wierzal said. “With everybody going [with a] hurry-up offense and no-huddle now, it’s not all on their shoulders. We need the offense [to work well].”

It did, starting with Jim Robley’s 47-yard sprint that put Sandburg ahead on its third possession of the game. The Eagles ventured down to the T’Bolts’ 31 one series later before running out of gas, but they weren’t denied shortly after that as Lavelle Johnson’s 43-yard catch set up a 1-yard plunge by Josh Scheldberg that upped Sandburg’s edge to 14-0.

Johnson was also the target on the Hail Mary that covered 47 yards. Triggering the Sandburg attack was junior Avery Verble, who started under center for the first time and completed 13-of-18 passes.

“We told him, ‘Don’t worry about making a mistake — just go out there and have fun,’” Wierzal said of Verble. “He played like the free spirit he can sometimes be. I think I was more nervous.”

That was true even after Johnson’s second TD gave the Eagles a comfortable lead.

“We weren’t in a position where we could be casual about the score,” Wierzal said. “That would have been a really, really bad idea.”

Indeed, Andrew didn’t slink away. A 25-yard collaboration between Bob Kmak and A.J. Malzone, in fact, gave the T’bolts a jolt and shaved Sandburg’s advantage midway through the third period.

But before Andrew was able to inflict greater damage the Eagles stole momentum back. Tamonte Brown returned the ensuing kickoff to midfield, Robley peeled off a 26-yard run after the visitors had been backed up by two penalties and Adam Valiga provided a payoff with his grab of Verble’s 7-yard scoring throw.

“To me, that was critical,” Wierzal said. “If we had gotten stopped there on third-and-forever and we have to punt, they’re going to get good field position.

If they score to make it 21-14, it’s a [competitive] game.

“That drive and that score to

kind of respond — I was super proud of our kids on offense.”

The defense earned some kudos, too, by repelling the T’bolts at the Sandburg 8 after that. Anthony Lopez’s tackle on a fourthand-1 run got the ball back for the Eagles, who advanced only to Andrew’s 48 but lopped valuable minutes off the clock.

“We were getting in the area where you start to feel safe,” Wierzal said. “That was a great possession.”

Although the T’bolts tacked on one more score, Sandburg’s defense was solid most of the way. In addition to Lopez (four solo tackles, one assist), the Eagles’ effort was spearheaded by Graham Hevel (five solos, three assists), Brian Krasowski (five solos, one assist, interception), Greg Ostrowski (four solos, one sack), Joey Parrish (four solos, one sack), Mike Saylors (four solos), Shawn O’Brien (four solos) and Patrick Brucki (three solos, four assists).

Sandburg begins its SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue slate Friday night against Lockport.

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CS VJA First downs 17 10 Yds. rushing 118 42 Yds. passing 217 210 Total yds.

335 252 Att./comp. 18-13 27-16 Fumbles/lost 3-1 0-0 Had intercepted 1 1 Penalties/yds. 7-50 5-35 Punts/avg. 6-33.5 8-30.0 Scoring CS — Jim Robley 47 run (Jonathan

Milazzo kick) CS — Josh Scheldberg 1 run (Milazzo kick) CS — Lavelle Johnson 47 pass from Avery Verble (Milazzo kick) VJA — A.J. Malzone 25 pass from Bob Kmak (Mike Brennan kick) CS — Adam Valiga 7 pass from Verble (conversion failed) VJA — Ben DeVries 2 run (Brennan kick) andburg Rushing: Robley 11-93, ScheldS berg 13-37, Johnson 1-0, Fidan 1-(-1), Verble 11-(-11). Passing: Verble 18-13217. Receiving: Carney 5-77, Johnson 2-90, Valiga 2-19, T. Brown 2-10, Hevel 1-11, Razik 1-10.

Volleyball roundup

Knights operating at peak efficiency

By Anthony Nasella When Chrissy Gust coached her first match at Chicago Christian in late August, it was on the floor of her high school alma mater.

She knew that, regardless of the outcome, the moment would be memorable. And it was, but for more reasons than the obvious.

After the Knights absorbed a 25-15, 25-14 defeat against Shepard, Gust gathered her players together and everyone regrouped.

The result since then has been almost nonstop success.

Christian ran off an 11-match win streak that wasn’t broken until the championship match of the Joliet Central Invitational, where Yorkville ruled in a hard-fought three-set encounter. Prior to that the Knights had won the title at their own tournament.

Also part of last week’s showing were two-set triumphs over Oak Lawn and Guerin Prep before the Joliet event and four more victories there. Beaten at the invitational were Sandwich (2511, 25-14), the host Steelwomen (25-16, 25-20), Bishop McNamara (25-17, 25-6) and TF South (25-17, 21-25, 26-24).

“They’ve really turned it around since the Shepard match,” Gust said of her players. “They really didn’t want to lose to Shepard.

After that match they all knew something had to change.

“We had to figure some things out. I had watched them practice, but it was different seeing them play for the first time. We have Photo by Jeff Vorva eight seniors, but not a lot of them Richards' Dana Wujcik hits the floor and rolls after digging a played last year, [and] we have an shot in the Bulldogs' 24-26, 25-18, 25-22 loss to TF South last interesting dynamic on this team Thursday in Oak Lawn. with juniors coming up.

“We broke down the Shepard same trio stepped forward at the our success on the court,” Gust match and they started to under- start of the Joliet invitational as said. “And everybody else is filling stand what I expect from them. Leah and Anna Kamp both totaled in those holes that need to be They also now know what to ex- 15 kills in the victories over Sand- filled in.” pect from me.” wich and Joliet Central and Kubik In particular the coach has liked That fact became evident while dished out 42 assists. Anna Kamp Skala’s contributions as she is Christian posted a 5-0 record at also had nine digs and four aces. seeing extensive court time for its tournament and then got rein- And the heroics didn’t stop the first time. forced when the Knights bounced there. The Knights ended pool “Victoria didn’t play much last Oak Lawn behind Leah Kamp play on a high note as Anna year, but our defense was in great (five kills, five digs) and Sam Kamp (seven kills, three aces), need of being built up this year,” Kubik (five assists).

Leah Kamp (six kills) and Ku- Gust said. “And she was a player Kamp (nine kills, four service bik (16 assists) were joined by I really had to invest in for her aces) and Kubik (13 assists) were senior libero Victoria Skala (seven to become that consistent libero also instrumental in Christian’s digs) as difference-makers versus we need in order to be a success25-9, 25-13 conquest of Guerin, Bishop Mac. ful team. We worked with her a as was Anna Kamp, who finished “Anna, Leah, and Sam have defi- lot in practice and built up her with a team-best 11 kills. That nitely been playing a big part in (Continued on page 4)

Racing in Indy

Cougars overpower Marian in opener

By Ken Karrson St. Xavier University performed on a rectangular-shaped field rather than an oval track, but it still managed to race in Indianapolis.

What the Cougars sped by was host Marian University Saturday night at St. Vincent Heath Field. Coming off a year in which it missed the 16-team national tournament for the first time since 2008, SXU wanted desperately to get back to its version of business as usual as soon as possible.

“We need to get our swagger back,” Cougars coach Mike Feminis said. “We lost it last year.”

SXU very likely rediscovered it at the Knights’ expense. Marian, just two seasons removed from an NAIA national championship, looked every bit the contender in the early going as it shot out to a 10-0 lead after blocking a Cougars punt and causing a fumble within the first four minutes.

But settling for a field goal in that second instance may have actually given a boost to the visitors.

“It was huge,” Feminis said.

“That would have been just a very tough situation if they scored another touchdown there. It certainly got a lot better after that.”

Following the defensive stand SXU scored on an 84-yard pass to Stephen Simms, then tacked on two more quick scores. From there the Cougars pretty much maintained control as they collected a season-opening 65-38 win.

The point total was the most for SXU in a single game since scoring 63 in a rout of Concordia (Mich.) University on Oct. 29, 2011, a season that ended with a national title.

“It was a great way to start,” Feminis said. “We beat a good team on the road and I think we got some of the first-game jitters out, [so] I’m very pleased overall.”

That was especially true of the defense, which despite Marian’s point total was praised by Feminis for its work.

“You’d think the defense didn’t play that well, but actually they played great,” he said. “Three of the [Knights’] scores they didn’t give up.

“It was a crazy game — there were four blocked punts, both teams scored off one, we had two defensive touchdowns and Marian scored after a fumble recovery.

They played a very aggressive, blitzing defense that we weren’t necessarily prepared for. They

weren’t a pressure team when we played them last year, or in the other two games we saw on film.”

The Cougars’ prevention corps responded in kind, however, by forcing a total of six turnovers, two of which — interceptions by Joe DeMarco (68 yards) and Danny Lombardo (40 yards) — resulted in second-half TDs. SXU also kept Knights tailback Tevin Lake out of the end zone and did not give up any run longer than 12 yards to him.

“I’ll take that any day,” Feminis said of Lake’s output. “There was a lot of swarming to the ball and guys involved in every play.

Greg Hayward had a heck of a game and Joe DeMarco and Danny Lombardo made huge, momentum-swinging plays.”

Contributors to the Cougars’ show of resistance were plentiful.

Tyler Hoeg (seven solo stops, three assists), Lombardo (four solos, four assists, two tackles for loss and one sack in addition to the pickoff), Mark Williams (four solos, five assists, interception), Oak Lawn alumnus Hayward (four solos, four assists, three tackles for loss, two sacks, forced fumble), DeMarco (two solos and five assists in addition to the interception) and Dan Fitzgerald (two solos, six assists, two tackles for loss) were the headliners.

As for the SXU offense, Nick DeBenedetti (10 receptions, 84 yards, one TD), Simms (92 receiving yards, 37 rushing yards) and quarterback John Rhode (18of-37, 295 passing yards) were mainstays. Rhode also connected with Ryan Carroll for a 20-yard scoring strike and reached the end zone twice himself on runs of 11 and 14 yards.

Freshman Mike Ivlow (8-yard run) and Patrick Kelso (20-yard return of a blocked punt) had the visitors' other touchdowns. Abdul Mahdi’s 26-yard field goal completed the Cougars’ onslaught.

“We’ve got three or four big-play guys who can score at any time and we were hitting [Marian] with some big plays,” Feminis said. “It was a complete game for the first one, an all-around team effort.”

Feminis felt that ending a somewhat disappointing 2013 campaign with a pair of victories set a positive tone for the current one.

“We emphasized how important it was for us to win those last two games,” he said. “We had the

best attendance we’ve had in 15 years for our summer camp, so it was a great offseason.”

SXU’s home opener Saturday night presents a tall task as NCAA Division II University of Indianapolis comes to Bruce R. Deaton Field. The Cougars lost a road matchup last fall.

“It’s a great challenge for us, but I know we can play with them,” Feminis said. “We played with them for a half last year and this time they have to come here.”

Statistics St. Xavier Marian

20 14 14 17 – 65 10 13 7 8 – 38

SXU First downs 17 Yds. rushing 86 Yds. passing 295 Total yds. 381 Att./comp. 38-18 Fumbles/lost 2-1 Had intercepted 2 Penalties/yds. 5-39 Punts/avg. 7-26.0

MU 27 173 284 457 46-29 3-3 3 13-94 7-25.0

Scoring MU — Eric Price 5 return of blocked punt (Martin Waddick kick) MU — Waddick 28 field goal SXU — Stephen Simms 84 pass from John Rhode (kick failed) SXU — Mike Ivlow 8 run (Abdul Mahdi kick) SXU — Rhode 11 run (Mahdi kick) MU — Krishawn Hogan 27 pass from Hayden Northern (conversion failed) SXU — Nick DeBenedetti 9 pass from Rhode (Mahdi kick) MU — Jacob Pickett 2 fumble return (Waddick kick) SXU — Ryan Carroll 20 pass from Rhode (Mahdi kick) SXU — Joe DeMarco 68 interception return (Mahdi kick) MU — J. Walker 21 pass from Brandon Beitzel (Waddick kick) SXU — Rhode 14 run (Mahdi kick) SXU — Mahdi 26 field goal MU — Beitzel 4 run (Jeremy Shupperd kick) SXU — Danny Lombardo 40 interception return (Mahdi kick) SXU — Patrick Kelso 20 return of blocked punt (Mahdi kick) St. Xavier Rushing: Simms 5-37, Ferguson 5-17, Ivlow 4-10, Hunter 3-10, DeBenedetti 1-9, Scalzetti 1-7, Rhode 5-4, Feeney 1-3, Wells 1-3, Team 2-(14). Passing: Rhode 37-18-295, King 1-0-0. Receiving: DeBenedetti 10-84, Carroll 3-66, Simms 2-92, Wells 2-45, Ferguson 1-8.

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Oh, baby, what a week Birth of coach’s child overshadows Bulldogs loss

By Ken Karrson To Reagan Colleen Sheehan the outcome of Friday night’s game between Richards and Geneva didn’t matter very much.

She was busy with other things, like feedings and diaper changes. But her arrival late Thursday night swelled the ranks of Tony Sheehan’s family to four and helped her dad cope a little easier with his football team’s loss Friday night at Geneva.

Sheehan admitted Friday’s events were “a little hazy” to him, which perhaps was a good thing seeing as how the Bulldogs didn’t perform with the same sense of clarity that was evident so many times during the 2013 season. A week earlier they survived mistake-prone tendencies well enough to defeat Indianapolis Arsenal Tech, but similar good luck was absent against the Vikings.

Instead, Geneva and its Northern Illinois University-bound quarterback Daniel Santacaterina never trailed and eventually bagged a 22-19 triumph. But while Sheehan had no trouble proclaiming the Vikings a good team, he felt they benefited from Richards’ less-than-stellar display.

“To be honest we gave them the game,” Sheehan said. “We should have won by two or three touchdowns, [but] we made too many dumb mistakes and I did some bad coaching. I took a look in the mirror and I put it on me — I’m not creating that [winning] culture or sense of urgency.”

The Bulldogs (1-1) certainly didn’t help themselves by committing a dozen penalties for 94 yards’ worth of losses, one of which wiped out a 65-yard touchdown reception by Romello Boykin. That gave Richards 30 infractions in the season’s first two weeks.

“That’s the thing that kind of kicks you in the [gut],” Sheehan said. “There were too many penalties, some blown coverages, a lot of little things.”

The locals avoided turnovers, but could not cash in at all during the first half. The most glaring wasted opportunity came in the

second quarter, when the Bulldogs failed to score after reaching Geneva’s 2-yard line.

A penalty and incomplete pass helped stall the drive. A 25-yard field goal was then missed on fourth down, leaving Richards in arrears 7-0 with 3:30 left before intermission.

The Vikings, who had used a 74-yard Santacaterina-to-Pace Temple pass to forge ahead, then compounded the Bulldogs’ misery by striking again just nine seconds before the break. This time Justin Taormina hauled in a 17-yard touchdown toss from Santacaterina.

“We’ve been down before — this was nothing,” Sheehan said. “Our defense was playing pretty well, but we put them in some bad situations.”

Richards’ struggling offense finally shifted into gear in the third stanza as it went on a 15-play trek that concluded with Hasan Muhammad-Rogers’ 5-yard keeper. Another 15-play march a bit later drew the Bulldogs closer as Romeo Johnson capped it with a 14-yard TD dash.

“That’s what we want,” Sheehan said, referring to the time-consuming drives. “The objective of an up-tempo offense is not to score fast but to get a ton of first downs.”

Though Richards was suddenly breathing down Geneva’s neck, the hosts never wavered. The Bulldogs blocked a 27-yard field-goal try, but the Vikings soon added a third touchdown on Taormina’s 29-yard grab. To make matters worse the home team hit a twopoint conversion that stretched its lead out to nine.

“That put us in a little bit of a bind,” Sheehan said of needing two scores to overtake Geneva.

Richards made one last lunge at the Vikings as Johnson bulled in from a yard out to culminate a 12-play possession in the fourth period, but Geneva answered with a ball-controlling series that didn’t end until it was finally forced to punt with under 10 seconds remaining.

“We’re better than that,” Sheehan said. “Or maybe we’re not.

Some of the young guys who are

along for the ride need to understand that just being average isn’t good enough.

“This is serious football and some of these kids have got to grow up. I’m getting a little tired of the pampering that’s being done. You can’t snap your fingers and expect the light to go on Friday night — you can’t not do the little things in practice or take plays off.”

The Bulldogs begin their South Suburban Conference Red schedule Friday against District 218 rival Shepard, which ended an 11-game losing streak last week by beating Marian Catholic.

“Losing is never a good thing, but maybe it’ll help these guys Photo by Jeff Vorva understand there’s always a tar- Chicago Christian coach Jim Bolhuis discusses strategy with his son, Knights quarterback Chrisget on our back,” Sheehan said. tian Bolhuis, during a timeout in Friday night’s matchup versus Hope Academy. Chicago Christian “That’s part of being at [places won 14-0. like] Richards or Mt. Carmel or Lincoln-Way East.

“We’ve got to find out who can play and we’re going to get back at it.”

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Knights

Statistics Richards Geneva

0 0 7 12 — 19 7 7 0 8 — 22

HLR GE First downs 18 14 Yds. rushing 94 44 Yds. passing 249 299 Total yds.

343 343 Att./comp.

30-18 31-20 Fumbles/lost 0-0 0-0 Had intercepted 0 1 Penalties 12-94 — Punts/avg.

2-35.0 — Scoring GE — Pace Temple 74 pass from Daniel Santacaterina (Alex Brouwere kick) GE — Justin Taormina 17 pass from Santacaterina (Brouwere kick) HLR — Hasan Muhammad-Rogers 5 run (Andrew Calderon kick) HLR — Romeo Johnson 14 run (kick failed) GE — Taormina 29 pass from Santacaterina (Max Woodworth run) HLR — Johnson 1 run (pass failed) Richards Rushing: Johnson 8-63, Muhammad-Rogers 22-22, Doyle 5-10, Willett 2-(-1). Passing: Muhammad-Rogers 3018-249. Receiving: Boykin 8-48, Willett 7-173, Johnson 3-28.

Applying a soph touch RB Smart leads Vikings past Cavaliers

By Ken Karrson Just like the fictitious crime organization KAOS, Chicago Vocational School was unable to get Smart.

But while the group of TV evildoers were always given another chance to wreak havoc the very next week, the Cavaliers must wait a long time to meet up again with St. Laurence on the football field.

The Vikings left CVS frustrated Saturday afternoon at Gately Stadium — one player in particular doing so.

That would be St. Laurence sophomore running back Fayezon Smart, who scored two of the Vikings’ three offensive touchdowns, supplied a two-point conversion and rushed for 149 yards on 30 carries in his team’s 27-6 conquest of the Cavaliers. Smart tallied on runs of 1 and 28 yards in the first and third quarters, respectively.

What made his performance all the more impressive was that two of his blockers, linemen Lonnie Chambers and Doug Kosch, are also sophomores playing up on the varsity.

“They’re all learning together,” St. Laurence coach Harold Blackmon said of his youthful trio.

“We have a significant amount of starters who are seeing their first varsity action, so we’re getting guys used to the game speed and level of competition. Our talent level is not the issue; once our kids get more confidence in them it’ll get better.

“From an offensive standpoint, we’re still going through our growing pains. But I think our line is starting to understand what they’re supposed to do and receivers are getting to the right spot.”

And then there is Smart, who gives the Vikings an explosive threat for the first time in a few years. While Blackmon is by no means ready to declare him a polished product, Smart has nevertheless caught his coach’s eye with his mature approach to the sport.

“He’s a super humble player who’s thankful for the opportunity [to play] and trying to make the most of it,” Blackmon said. “He

Astros (Continued from page 1) to be better than [former all-area kicker] Tommy Eyer.”

Passolano said his guys were “excited and amped up” about playing the Spartans, and those feelings should be intensified this week when Shepard clashes with South Suburban Conference Red and District 218 rival Richards.

comes to work every day, and for his [smallish] size he’s taken a pretty good amount of hard hits from varsity players and kept going.

“He’s a good football player and I’m happy with what he’s done so far. I look forward to [watching] his progress.”

Smart’s first touchdown, delivered with less than two minutes remaining in the opening half, broke up a scoreless duel. It capped a 12-play, 66-yard drive that featured a 19-yard reception by Tim Delaney just before the TD and an 8-yard scamper by quarterback Alex Martinez on a third-and-3 play that kept things moving forward earlier in the possession.

St. Laurence (1-1) had an excellent chance to strike before that, but it was unable to take advantage of Ian O’Donnell’s punt block midway through the first period.

The Vikings’ offense went nowhere on the ensuing series and Mauricio Garibay’s 41-yard field-goal attempt was off the mark.

The Vikes finally created some breathing room for themselves by scoring twice within a span of 1 minute, 22 seconds in the third quarter. Bridging Delaney’s 15-yard touchdown catch and Smart’s 28yard gallop into the CVS end zone was Alex Salach’s recovery of a muffed Cavaliers punt return at the hosts’ 34.

St. Laurence’s shutout stayed in place until the later stages of the third stanza, when Miles Davis raced 25 yards to culminate a fiveplay, 61-yard march. Prior to that CVS had one other decent scoring opportunity, but its game-opening 8 ½-minute possession ran out of steam in Vikings territory.

Matt Gurgone (three solo tackles, five assists, one sack), Tom Lyons (three solos, five assists) and Carlos Baker (three solos, two assists, one sack) were St. Laurence’s defensive catalysts. Baker also supplied the contest’s last touchdown when he returned a Cavaliers fumble caused

by Brian Bunkowski 25 yards.

CVS finished with only 124 total yards, less than half of the Vikings’ amount.

“Defensively, we need to be more aggressive at the point of attack when we start playing [Chicago] Catholic League teams,” Blackmon said. “I’m coming out of this game feeling like there are still a lot of question marks as a football team.

We have a lot of things to work on, [but] they played hard and we’ll definitely take the win.

“I tell my guys in practice to get one day better and in games one week better. I can’t ask for anything more.”

On tap for St. Laurence is its Catholic League White opener against St. Ignatius Friday night at the University of Chicago. Blackmon is glad the Vikings will enter the contest with a win under their belts.

“You never want to end up with an 0-2 start,” he said. “The kids were happy on the way home [Saturday] and it’s a lot easier to correct mistakes after a win. I expect them to come back razor sharp.”

Statistics St. Laurence CVS

0 6 14 7 – 27 0 0 6 0 – 6

STL CVS First downs 19 9 Yds. rushing 187 84 Yds. passing 95 40 Total yds.

282 124 Att./comp. 20-8 9-4 Fumbles/lost 1-0 3-2 Had intercepted 1 0 Penalties/yds. 8-80 7-37 Punts/avg. 1-35.0 4-16.0 Scoring STL — Fayezon Smart 1 run (kick failed) STL — Tim Delaney 15 pass from Alex Martinez (kick failed) STL — Smart 28 run (Smart run) CVS — Miles Davis 25 run (pass failed) STL — Carlos Baker 25 fumble return (Mauricio Garibay kick) St. Laurence Rushing: Smart 30-149, Martinez 6-27, Aranda 2-8, Snee 2-3.

Passing: Martinez 20-8-95. Receiving: Delaney 3-50, Gamboa 2-32, Gurgone 1-11, Kolniak 1-5, Smart 1-(-3).

The Bulldogs are coming off a Had intercepted 0 22-19 loss at Geneva.

Statistics Marian Catholic Shepard

0 0 7 0 – 7 7 0 0 7 – 14

ABS Yds. rushing 114 Yds. passing 128 Total yds.

242 Att./comp.

17-9 Fumbles lost 2

Scoring ABS — Demetrius Harrison 23 run (Mike Iturbe kick) MC — Tyrice Richie 35 pass from Cameron Thomas (Matthew Taborn kick) ABS — Harrison 8 run (Iturbe kick) Shepard Rushing: Harrison 24-118, Hennington 6-(-4). Passing: Hennington 17-9-128. Receiving: Hufstedler 3-21, Rueck 2-55, McCaskill 2-11, Lansdown 1-35, Lopez 1-6.

and a reception ruled to have been made out of bounds at the Eagles’ 1 all worked against the hosts.

Coach Bolhuis wasn’t enamored of his club’s 1-of-11 success rate through the air, but that was easily offset by 243 rushing yards generated primarily by Roundtree (128 on 18 carries), Christian Bolhuis (74 on 13 carries) and Luke Rattler (32 on four carries).

“It’s tough to stop all three of them,” said Coach Bolhuis, whose squad averaged over 6 ½ yards per offensive play. “Other than [the erratic aerial attack] we moved the ball very well.”

But while he wouldn’t mind seeing a bit more continuity passing-wise, Bolhuis isn’t envisioning huge numbers in that area.

“Two years ago we really made an effort to open up the passing game,” he said. “It would be different if we had four different receivers to do that, but schools our size have a lot of two-way players.

Even if we score they’re running 35 or 40 yards downfield every play, then they’ve got to get back on defense and they’re exhausted.”

Aurora Central Catholic visits the Knights on Friday. The Chargers defeated Christian in 2013 while both schools were members of the now-disbanded Suburban Christian Conference, but Bolhuis pointed to the fact that the Knights were within 7-6 after one half.

“I’m looking forward to going

Photo by Jeff Vorva

This is the view many Hope Academy defenders got of Luke Rattler as the Chicago Christian junior picks up yardage on a carry Friday night in Palos Heights. against them again,” he said. “And Fumbles/lost we get them at home this time.” Had intercepted Penalties/yds.

Punts/avg.

Statistics

2-0 1 9-50 4-29.3

1-1 0 3-30 4-27.5

Scoring Hope Academy 0 0 0 0 – 0 CC — Colby Roundtree 11 run (Jeremy Chicago Christian 0 7 7 0 – 14 Slager kick) CC — Christian Bolhuis 24 run (Slager kick) HA CC First downs 9 12 Chicago Christian Rushing: Roundtree Yds. rushing 33 243 18-128, Bolhuis 13-74, Rattler 4-32, Yds. passing 54 11 Schmidt 1-12, Gallagher 1-(-3). Passotal yds.

87 254 ing: Bolhuis 11-1-11. Receiving: Hill Att./comp.

17-4 11-1 1-11.

Trinity sports report

Big week for golfers, runners

By Amy Strong The holiday week was a good one for Trinity Christian College’s golfers and cross country runners, all of whom realized some satisfying rewards for their labors.

The Trolls linksters notched the program’s first-ever tournament victory by besting a nineteam field in the Olivet Nazarene University Fall Invitational at Balmoral Woods Country Club in Crete. Trinity was in third place after Friday’s rain-shortened opening round but used a strong Saturday showing to vault to the top. The Trolls edged Holy Cross by one stroke.

Logan Vos fired a 113 for 27 holes, a score that made him the individual runner-up. He finished only one shot in back of the leader.

Tied for third was Trinity teammate Alek Svabek, who carded a 117 (44-73).

Spencer TenHaken (seventh with a 121; 41-80) and Evan Eissens (13th with a 124; 40-84) rounded out the Trolls’ scorers.

Scott Ebbeling was 30th with a 130 (44-86).

Trinity also had a second group compete as a team, and Jonathan Zandstra and Cody Tiesman both shot 123s on its behalf. That was good for a 10th-place tie.

The Trolls were scheduled to play the University of St. Francis this past Tuesday and will compete in Bethel College’s tournament in South Bend, Ind., on Friday and Saturday.

CROSS COUNTRY Like Trinity’s golfers, Jessica Disselkoen put forth a winning display last Friday.

Disselkoen reached the chute first at the Midwest Classic as she covered the 5K distance at Aspen Ridge Golf Course in Bourbonnais in 18 minutes, 45.19 seconds. Disselkoen, who was just two seconds off her career best, finished seven seconds ahead of her closest pursuer in a 77-runner field.

Anna Bos, who had supplied the Trolls with an individual triumph the week before at St. Francis’ Twilight Invitational at Channahon Park, was fourth here in 19:07.01. Bos, the school record holder for 5K, was recognized as Cross Country Runner of the Week by both the National Christian College Athletic Association and Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference following her debut effort that was highlight-

ed by a winning time of 18:52.17.

Also providing points for Trinity at the Midwest Classic were Ashley Jourdan (11th in 19:41.30), Kasey Zaremba (28th, 21:22.41) and Leah VanTol (33rd, 21:52). The Trolls were third in the team standings.

Trinity's men were unable to complete their 8K race due to stormy conditions. Runners were called off the course after three miles.

Both teams will participate in Friday’s Illinois Intercollegiates, which will be held at Aspen Ridge.

MEN’S SOCCER No victories were netted by the Trolls last week, but they did play to a 3-3 standoff with host Marian University on Saturday in Indianapolis. Mauricio Selgado, Caleb Steele and Getenet Timmermans all scored for Trinity (1-3-1), the latter’s marker giving the locals a lead early in the second half.

The Trolls had also gone ahead on each of their other two tallies.

Selgado’s goal put them in front at the 8:49 mark and Steele’s score, off Cole Boender’s assist, regained a one-goal advantage for Trinity late in the first half. Selgado also set up Timmermans’ goal.

Netminder Ivan Gomez stopped six Marian shots. The home team outshot the Trolls 22-17 overall. *** Scoring wasn’t much of a problem for Trinity last Thursday, but keeping Moody Bible Institute from doing the same wasn’t so easy. The Archers used three firsthalf goals to grab control of the match and hung on for a 4-3 win.

Moody tallied in the 16th minute, then notched a pair of scores within two minutes of one another later in the opening half. Another goal midway through the second half made the Trolls' uphill climb a steep one, but Trinity staged a valiant comeback before time ran out on it as Boender, Salgado and Timmermans all found the back of the net after the 70th minute.

Alex Tien set up Timmermans’ goal. Gomez made one save between the pipes for the Trolls, who outshot the Archers 10-9 on the day.

Trinity hosted Huntington University this past Wednesday.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The Trolls borrowed from

Moody Bible’s playbook last Tuesday.

Just as the Archers jumped out to a big lead over Trinity’s men, the female Trolls did likewise versus Bethel. And Trinity’s advantage was never relinquished as it defeated the Pilots 3-1 in Mishawaka, Ind. The Trolls (2-1) required only two minutes to gain an edge, doing so with help from Bethel, which scored an own goal. Kayla Deimer extended Trinity’s lead in the 11th minute and tacked on another score early in the second half off an assist from Katie Linehan.

That was more than enough cushion for keeper Jesse Bultsma, who was called on for just three saves and did not lose her shutout until the final five minutes. The Trolls outshot the Pilots 20-7, including 14-2 in the first half.

Trinity hosted Huntington this past Wednesday and visits Aquinas (Mich.) College on Saturday.

VOLLEYBALL The Trolls were without a match last week, but senior outside hitter Courtney Samudio still made news by being named Player of the Week by both the NCCAA and CCAC. The honor came after Samudio averaged 4.06 kills per set with a .269 attack percentage over four matches at the St. Xavier/Trinity Crossover Tournament.

Among three Trolls wins was a decision over NAIA No. 10-ranked Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) College.

Twenty-one of Samudio’s 65 total kills were delivered in that match, including the two that gave Trinity the points it needed to garner the victory. Samudio, who posted a .372 attack percentage against Lindsey Wilson, also scored five of the Trolls’ last eight points in their third-game victory that put them ahead 2-1 at that juncture.

Samudio recorded a double-digit number of kills in Trinity’s other three tourney outings as well: 12 in a loss to Cornerstone University, 17 versus St. Ambrose and 15 opposite Point Park (Pa.) University. In addition to her kills, she averaged 1.12 digs per set in the tourney and had five assisted blocks.

Trinity (3-5) returned to action this past Monday against Olivet Nazarene in its CCAC opener. A Wednesday conference date with Calumet College of St. Joseph also preceded a pair of Saturday encounters in Indiana against Goshen and Bethel colleges.

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Phoenix become ashes

Mustangs overwhelm Little Village at home

By Ken Karrson

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Richards' Taylor Yanke and Halee Barner team up to block a TF South spike attempt during last Thursday's South Suburban Conference crossover match.

Volleyball roundup

“I didn’t want to beat around the bush and tell these guys [the Phoenix] were world beaters,” Mankowski said. “I try to be upfront about that with the kids because they know what’s coming up.

“We didn’t have a good week of practice, and it’s mental for the kids. They knew these first two games were winnable games.”

Even the least imposing South Suburban Conference Red opponent is likely to give Evergreen a much more rigorous test than Little Village did. With that in mind, did Mankowski regret the Mustangs’ lack of obstacles to begin the season?

He said no, and he also didn’t think Evergreen’s athletes would be negatively impacted by those circumstances. Just in case, however, Mankowski reminded the Mustangs they are the defending SSC Red champs.

“People are wanting to take us out,” he said. “This is the season right now and you can’t take it easy.

“I thought [our performance here] was pretty good and I think the kids have their minds on straight. We’ll see.”

Evergreen opens conference play Friday by hosting Argo.

Statistics

Final Evergreen Park 68 Little Village 0 Evergreen Park Rushing: Moore 8-139, Ryan 3-91, Brown 5-77, Horton 5-39, Nichols 4-37, Rizzo 1-4. Passing: Ryan 3-3-44. Receiving: Horton 1-23, Matthews 1-17, Brown 1-4.

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“She’s really stepped and helped us hugely on defense. We’re still working on her. She’s not fully there yet, but she’s really contributing in big ways.”

Christian’s Big Three were at it again in the semifinal match against TF South. Anna Kamp put down 15 kills to go along with eight digs and two aces, Leah Kamp provided six kills and nine digs, and Kubik finished with 25 assists and seven digs.

Yorkville finally slowed the rampaging Knights but not before being pushed to the limit in a 25-21, 22-25, 26-24 finale. Once again Leah Kamp (13 kills, five blocks), Anna Kamp (12 kills, eight digs) and Kubik (26 assists) all played well on Christian’s behalf.

And Gust credits that opening-night setback as the catalyst for what has unfolded since then for the Knights, who are just four years removed from a state championship.

“The Shepard match was definitely an eye-opener for all of us,” she said. “But it’s been a good run since that match. I know it’s going to be a good year.

“The girls are feeling good, excited and confident as a team.

It’s a good place to be.”

An appearance at this weekend’s Leyden Tournament is part of another busy week for Chicago Christian. Also on tap were Metro Suburban Conference matches against Walther Christian and Illiana Christian.

MOTHER MCAULEY The Mighty Macs began last week with a 25-11, 25-12 victory over Lockport on Tuesday and then split a pair of matches at Saturday’s St. James Academy Triangular in Lenexa, Kan. Jane DeJarld dished out 20 assists and her sister Ryann tacked on six kills to ignite host Mother McAuley against the Porters. Both girls were at it again in Kansas, but Jane DeJarld’s 37 assists and Ryann DeJarld’s 23 kills and 14 digs couldn’t save the Macs from a 25-19, 25-18 setback to the host school. Kennedy Arundel had 20 digs in the loss.

McAuley rebounded, however, to down Dike-New Hartford of Iowa 13-25, 25-16, 25-18.

EVERGREEN PARK In a busy week, the Mustangs lost a pair of early matches but

Maybe this was why Little Village never showed up.

A year ago the Chicago Public League team was slated to open its 2013 football season at Evergreen Park. Bad weather forced postponement of a Friday night game, but that suspension became an outright cancellation when the Phoenix failed to arrive on Saturday.

Then-Mustangs coach Dan Hartman was given a couple reasons for the no-show, but what mattered most was that Evergreen had to wait until Week 2 to take the field for the first time.

Sure, the Mustangs were credited with a 2-0 forfeit victory, but there was nothing of consequence to be gained from that experience.

Of course, some might say the same thing happened Friday night when Little Village helped Evergreen usher in its 2014 home schedule. The Phoenix did so in a most accommodating fashion as they presented no challenge whatsoever.

So bad did the nonconference contest get that Mustangs boss Ray Mankowski reached a “gentlemen’s agreement” with his coaching counterpart to begin employing a running clock way ahead of time. Evergreen was up 41-0 after one period and it went on to crush Little Village 68-0.

Mankowski was uncertain as to whether or not his team’s point total represented a single-game school record, but of this he was sure: There was no sense of satisfaction derived from engaging

in such a lopsided affair.

“It was pretty bad,” Mankowski said. “I don’t want to ever do that to a team to make them feel bad. We weren’t trying to score [with our regulars], but I can’t tell kids [who are subs] not to score touchdowns.”

The Mustangs’ first-year leader recalled when another area club was in a similar position against Little Village and chose to take three knees during some series before punting.

“I think that’s even worse [as far as an embarrassment],” Mankowski said.

Mankowski said he “kind of saw it was going to be that way because they were playing a lot of sophomores and juniors,” but his own guys made sure to take care of business as quickly as possible. Getting up by six touchdowns before the first period had ended proved Evergreen (2-0) did exactly that.

Antwan Moore, who scored four times in the Mustangs’ season-opening rout of Lake Station, Ind., added three more TDs here while gaining 139 rushing yards on just eight carries. Quarterback Sean Ryan completed the only three passes he threw, one going for a touchdown, and he also reached the end zone himself while accumulating 91 yards on the ground in just three totes.

Other scorers included Kerron Brown (77 rushing yards), Michael Horton, Kristion Nichols, Mike Rizzo and Anthony Diaz.

Rizzo garnered his TD on a punt return, while Diaz ran back an interception.

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Kelly Lind prepares to serve for Richards during last Thursday's match against visiting TF South. wound up as the Copper Division champion at the two-day Aurora West Tournament over the weekend.

Leading the way for Evergreen Park in the tourney were Maddie Vojacek (47 digs, 23 kills, 10 blocks), Vivica Price (21 kills, 12 blocks), Gabby Lazinek (20 kills, 10 blocks) and Maggie Kehoe (68 digs). The Mustangs defeated Bartlett (25-15, 19-25, 26-24) and Streamwood (24-26, 25-19, 25-14), but lost to Sycamore (25-15, 2515), South Elgin (25-20, 25-21) and Plainfield East (25-4, 25-16).

Crete-Monee (25-20, 26-24) and Tinley Park (25-23, 25-16) got the better of Evergreen on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. Vojacek (five kills, 12 digs) and Price (four kills, three blocks) were the Mustangs’ leaders in the latter match.

SHEPARD The Lady Astros defeated Oak Forest in 25-17, 16-25, 25-20 in a South Suburban Conference crossover last Thursday.

Caroline Graham dished out 20 assists to spark visiting Shepard (6-2, 1-0) and Chasz Wells added five solo blocks.

SANDBURG The Eagles went 2-1 at last Friday’s Lyons quadrangular.

Sandburg topped Moline (25-22, 25-10) and Montini (25-8, 25-22)

but dropped a three-set decision to the host Lions (22-25, 26-24, 15-13).

Leah Lane totaled 23 kills and 12 assists for the Eagles (7-1), while Nicole Lahey added 24 digs.

STAGG The host Chargers (3-4) defeated Queen of Peace 29-27, 25-15 last Tuesday behind key contributions from Maddie Duffer (20 assists), Amanda Collins (15 digs) and Lexi Mantas (seven kills, nine digs).

MARIST York outlasted the RedHawks 27-25, 25-19 last Thursday despite solid performances from Colleen Reilly (seven kills, three blocks), Lizzie Zaleski (22 assists, nine digs, two service aces) and Cameron Enright (six kills, 10 digs) on Marist’s behalf.

The RedHawks entered the current week with a 1-1 record.

OAK LAWN In addition to their setback against Chicago Christian, the Spartans were edged by Lemont (23-25, 26-24, 25-20) in an SSC crossover last Thursday.

RICHARDS TF South outlasted the Lady Bulldogs 24-26, 25-18, 25-22 last Thursday in an SSC crossover.

Kelly Lind had 11 kills and 23 digs for Richards (3-3, 0-1) and Lexi Badon added 37 digs.

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Junior Janis Pastars wasted no time in establishing himself as an NAIA cross country force with which to reckon this fall.

Pastars’ third-place finish in the season-opening Twilight Invitational was actually better than it appears. The only two runners to surpass him were a pair of University of St. Francis alums, who ran as unattached competitors.

For being the first active collegian down the chute at the USF-hosted event Pastars was recognized as the initial Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week for 2014.

Pastars bested the remainder of a 51-runner field by clocking a time of 15 minutes, 50 seconds for 5K at Channahon Park. He beat out the Fighting Saints' Danny Bahret by just over three seconds.

USF, which was the NAIA national champion a couple years ago, also occupied the next 11 positions behind Bahret.

SXU continues its campaign Friday at the Illinois Intercollegiate meet at Aspen Ridge Golf Course in Bourbonnais. Olivet Nazarene University is the host school.

MEN’S SOCCER Aquinas (Mich.) College broke open a close match last Wednesday by scoring three second-half goals, a flurry that carried it to a 4-0 victory over the Cougars at Bruce R. Deaton Field.

The teams finished with 14 shots apiece, but SXU registered one more on-goal attempt (8-7).

Junior forward Marco Gutierrez accounted for eight of the Cougars’ total shots, six of which required saves to be made.

Junior Peter Brandenburg produced the Saints’ initial tally in the 13th minute on an unassisted header. The 1-0 score remained in place until the 69th minute, when junior Juan Torres converted a free kick. Aquinas (3-0) added insurance markers in the 77th and 81st minutes.

SXU senior keeper AJ Pfatschbacher stopped three shots before being ejected for using his hands outside of the goalie box on Torres’ score. Freshman Frank Valle finished the match for the Cougars but did not record any saves. *** Gutierrez’s second-half goal was the only offense SXU could muster on Saturday and the potency shortage couldn’t be overcome as the Cougars dropped their third straight decision. Host University of Northwestern Ohio

topped SXU 3-1.

The Cougars (0-3) had difficulty slowing down Racers freshman midfielder Pascal Debowiak, who finished the match with two goals and an assist. Debowiak opened the scoring in the 33rd minute by converting a feed from sophomore midfielder Carlos Suarez, then came through with an assist 25 minutes later as he set up a marker for junior forward Adam Waern.

Gutierrez sliced SXU's deficit in half in the 67th minute after receiving a pass from junior forward Roger Ciszewski (Marist), but Debowiak restored a two-goal margin for the Racers in the 83rd minute.

Valle made three saves for the Cougars in a losing cause.

SXU was on the road again this past Wednesday when it visited Goshen (Ind.) College.

WOMEN’S SOCCER With less than 10 minutes to play in regulation, freshman midfielder Katharina Schmalz’s unassisted tally snapped a tie and handed No. 20-ranked Ashford (Iowa) University a 3-2 victory over the Cougars (0-1-2) Friday night in the latter’s home opener.

Senior midfielder Morgan Graves and senior forward Anita Balciunas accounted for SXU’s scoring. Graves delivered the evening’s first score in the 27th minute after heading senior midfielder Monica Chavolla’s free kick into the Saints’ net.

Ashford required just two minutes to square things at 1-1, using the same method to score as junior forward Alicia Tamburro successfully finished off junior forward Danielle Boyd’s free kick. Schmalz gave the visitors their first lead right before intermission by tallying off a Rochelle Douglas assist.

Balciunas brought the Cougars even in the 68th minute after sophomore midfielder Julie Gawlak (Stagg) dished out the assist.

Senior netminder Danielle Koncius (Stagg) was credited with five saves. Ashford outshot SXU 11-6, but the Cougars placed four of their six attempts on goal.

The Cougars faced Cornerstone University this past Wednesday in Grand Rapids, Mich.

VOLLEYBALL After opening with a win, the Cougars (4-7) suffered three setbacks in a row at last weekend’s Julie Martin Memorial Classic in Livonia, Mich. Madonna University hosted the tournament.

Junior right-side hitter Meghan Falsey’s 13 kills and career-best seven block assists were key components in SXU’s 25-13, 25-18, 26-24 triumph over Rochester (Mich.) College in Friday’s first match. Also strong along the net were senior Marie Hackert and junior Heidi Gregerson, who backed Falsey with 10 and nine kills, respectively. Gregerson complemented her number with eight total blocks, which included four solos.

Other contributors to the win were seniors Kelli Shaffer (32 assists, six digs) and Danielle Aramburu (17 digs).

Falsey provided 11 more kills versus University of Windsor (Ontario), but the Cougars came up short in four sets: 13-25, 25-22, 25-23, 25-21. SXU lost despite also getting 12 kills and seven total blocks from Gregerson and 10 kills from Hackert.

Shaffer (36 assists, five kills), senior Jessica Galotta (eight kills, 11 digs, two service aces) and Aramburu (11 digs) also played well in defeat. *** No. 24-ranked Davenport (Mich.) University kept SXU on a slide, albeit with a fair amount of difficulty as the Cougars fought hard before dropping a 25-19, 2522, 25-19 verdict in Saturday’s morning match.

Falsey had another big outing for SXU as she put down 12 kills and registered three block assists.

Gregerson added nine kills, Hackert recorded five total blocks and Shaffer finished with 25 assists and three aces.

The No. 4-ranked host school then completed the Cougars’ tourney stay by doling out a 25-16, 22-25, 25-15, 25-19 defeat.

Falsey (18 kills, two block assists) and all-tourney selection Gregerson (eight kills, six total blocks) once again spearheaded SXU’s performance. Gregerson was one of only six players chosen from eight teams for the all-tournament squad.

Galotta (six kills, four total blocks, 13 digs) and Shaffer (32 assists, seven digs) were other notables for the Cougars, who opened CCAC play this past Tuesday by hosting Roosevelt University at the Shannon Center.

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Marist’s Jawill Aldridge, a huge factor in the RedHawks’ Week 1 rout of DuSable, did not have the same effect on Friday night as he exited the game against Brother Rice in the second quarter and did not return.

Crusaders (Continued from page 1) Crusaders’ season-opening loss to Brother Rice of Michigan had actually laid the groundwork for Friday’s performance.

“There are no moral victories, but we played a great football team in Week 1 and came out with a lot of confidence,” Lyons said. “We definitely saw the improvement in a lot of areas — and improvement is what it’s all about.”

Lyons specifically pointed to a ramped-up defensive effort, one that held always-potent Marist below 400 yards. Rice’s job was made easier by the early departure of RedHawks tailback Jawill Aldridge to an injury, but the Crusaders’ prevention corps still drew accolades.

“Up front we were able to control their running game [fairly well] and put more pressure on their quarterback,” Lyons said.

“We had a great game plan in place.”

That didn’t mean, though, Marist was exempt from creating a stir. After Rice jumped out in front on quarterback Alex Alarcon’s 1-yard keeper, the RedHawks (1-1) responded two series later with Aldridge’s 30-yard dash into the Crusaders’ end zone that established a 6-all tie.

“We knew what we wanted to do,” Marist coach Pat Dunne said.

“And Jawill is an unbelievable player and a great leader.”

“We took a punch and we knew Marist wasn’t going away,” Lyons said. “[But] us getting off to that quick start set a pretty good tone and we were very disciplined throughout the game.”

TD dashes of 16 and 17 yards

by Jones in the second stanza gave Rice some breathing room, but, as Lyons had insisted, the RedHawks weren’t about to quietly fade into the background even with Aldridge on the sidelines.

“Momentum is a great thing,

but overconfidence can be a killer,” Lyons said. “You always throw the Brother Rice and Marist records out the window [when they meet].”

Dunne agreed.

“This ballgame wasn’t over,” he said. “By no means did we feel the game was out of reach at all. [Our players] were ready to get back out there.”

But desire didn’t translate into results until much later, by which time Marist was forced to climb out of a deeper hole courtesy of Jones’ 2-yard run in the third quarter. However, the RedHawks did indeed go down fighting as they scored twice in the final period after embarking on journeys covering 88 and 91 yards.

Darshon McCullough (10-yard reception) and quarterback Brendan Skalitzky (14-yard run) tallied for Marist. Sandwiched between those touchdowns was a Marty Meyer interception, one of three pickoffs the RedHawks’ defense made.

Meyer also stole another Alarcon pass, as did Justin Weaver.

Others making their presences felt defensively were Marty Ryan (10 tackles), Sean McGuire (nine), John Carmody (six), McCullough (four) and Diata Drayton (four).

Rice standouts on that side of the ball included Jordan Boyd (nine solo stops, three assists, fumble recovery, one sack, one tackle for loss, one quarterback hurry), Julian Blain (seven solos, two assists), Jim Opoka (five solos, two assists, four hurries, one tackle for loss) and Steven Robinson (five solos, one assist, two hurries, one tackle for loss, forced fumble).

“We’re extremely proud of our guys and the way they played,” Dunne said. “We were playing such an experienced Brother Rice team and there were a lot of different things in this game we learned.

“It was an intense game all the way through. It wasn’t over until the final horn and a lot of guys stepped up in big situations. The experience [we gained] from the

third quarter on was real big and we’re very hungry to get back at it.”

Marist is on the road again this Friday as it opens East Suburban Catholic Conference play against St. Viator at Morris Field in Arlington Heights.

Rice enters Chicago Catholic League Blue action Friday when it hosts Loyola Academy. The Ramblers handed the Crusaders one of their only decisive setbacks of 2013.

“There is no easy week for us,” Lyons said. “I think the mind-set has to be consistency — don’t put anybody up above or below anybody else, stay consistent with our coaching and what we’re doing and stay true to our plan.”

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MA BR First downs 22 23 Yds. rushing 142 230 Yds. passing 247 173 Total yds. 389 403 Att./comp. 32-22 29-12 Fumbles/lost 1-1 0-0 Had intercepted 0 3 Penalties/yds. 6-50 5-60 Punts/avg. 3-36.7 1-44.0

A combination of experience and youth has proved a winning mix for Shepard’s girls’ tennis team thus far.

Behind the veteran 1-2 punch of former South Suburban Conference champion Rhonda Habbal and Martha Turown, plus a set of junior twins and pair of freshmen who are fortifying the doubles ranks, the Astros captured their first four meets of the season.

After defeating Bremen and Hillcrest in the opening week, Shepard continued its mastery over SSC Blue foes by knocking off Lemont (3-2) and Oak Forest (4-1) last Tuesday and Thursday, respectively.

Habbal, who won her conference crown as a sophomore, and fellow senior Turown both claimed victories opposite the Indians to lead the way. Among the triumphs versus the Bengals was one at first-doubles by the tandem of freshmen Rachel Habbal and Brooke Zielke.

Also performing well in the early going has been the doubles duo of Kelsey and Taylor Domina, both of whom are in their second varsity campaign.

“The girls have definitely been playing at — and above — their potential and I really believe they’re going to get better and better as the season progresses,” Astros coach Kelly Myron said.

“Hopefully, we’ll be able to compete and start really challenging the higher-tier teams like Sandburg and Stagg. We’re off to a good start so far.

“One of Rhonda’s goals is definitely to take back the conference No. 1 singles [title] she won as a sophomore. I really want her to get that back. Both Rhonda and Martha are doing well for us so far.”

Myron said the emergence of Rachel Habbel and Brook Zielke wasn’t immediate, but it quickly became obvious the two girls would work well together.

“Brooke was a surprise for us — one of those very nice surprises,” Myron said. “We’ll take it. They’re

Marist Rushing: Aldridge 9-64, McCullough 16-49, Skalitzky 5-29. Passing: Skalitzky 32-22-247. Receiving: McCullough 9-92, Dunican 4-44, Glascott 3-42, Keffer 3-31, Aldridge 1-21, Meyer 1-13, Condon 1-4.

Brother Rice Rushing: Jones 18-102, Alarcon 17-76, Taylor 7-27, Silas 1-25.

Passing: Alarcon 29-12-173. Receiving: Smalling 6-61, Hayes 3-35, Jones 1-38, Desmond 1-32, Blain 1-7.

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Oak Lawn bass tournament coming Oct. 4

The Oak Lawn High School bass tournament will be held on Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Des Plaines Conservation area.

In conjunction with Rayjus Outdoors, the tourney has been designated as an Illinois B.A.S.S. Nation high school championship qualifying event. Teams registered to compete in the Oak Lawn tournament can also fill out registration making them eligible to take part in the IBN tourney. The top five finishers registered with IBN on the morning of the Oak Lawn event will be qualified to fish the state championship on Lake Springfield in June 2015.

For more information, visit http://www.illinoisbassnation. com/Tournaments/HSTournaments.aspx

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on Tuesday, but those weren’t enough to carry the Astros past Lemont. The Indians prevailed 173-184 in the SSC crossover. *** Sean Ozinga’s round of 39 lifted Chicago Christian to an easy 167-213 Metro Suburban Conference East win over Ridgewood last Wednesday at Oak Meadows in Addison.

Sandburg (665) edged Normal University High by one shot for the team championship at Saturday’s Homewood-Flossmoor/Providence Catholic Invitational. The event was held on Green Garden’s Blue course.

GIRLS’ GOLF Haleigh Biernacki’s 50 led the field as Stagg defeated Andrew 213-233 in an SWSC crossover dual last Tuesday at Silver Lake’s North course. The Chargers dropped another crossover, 191-224, to Lincoln-Way Central last Wednesday at the Sanctuary. *** Sandburg kept flying high by beating Providence (164-176) last Tuesday at Woodruff in Joliet behind strong outings from Frankie Saban (38) and Emily Cosler (39).

Saban’s 77 on Saturday was good for third place individually and keyed the Eagles’ team victory at the Homewood-Flossmoor/ Providence Catholic Invitational.

Sandburg shot a cumulative score of 335.

BOYS’ CROSS COUNTRY Shepard’s Caleb Washington (15 minutes, 37.78 seconds) was runner-up in the three-mile race at Saturday’s Plainfield Central Invitational. Only Joliet Central’s Raul Rosendo (15:36.27) was able to eclipse Washington’s time.

The Astros were fourth in the team standings with 103 points.

BOYS’ SOCCER Sandburg lost 2-1 to Waubonsie Valley last Tuesday at the Best of the West Tournament hosted by Naperville Central. Dan Rohder netted a first-half goal for the Eagles (2-1). *** Stagg dropped a 3-1 decision to the host Indians in the third-place match at Saturday’s Lemont Cup.

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The Southside Shooters Boys’ Basketball Club will conduct tryouts on Monday at Moraine Valley College.

The session will run from 5:306:30 p.m. and is being held to fill spots on teams at the 4th- through 8th-grade levels. For more information, contact Bill Finn at 508Scoring 0170 or coachfinn34@yahoo.com BR — Alex Alarcon 1 run (conversion failed) MA — Jawill Aldridge 30 run (kick failed) BR — Marcus Jones 16 run (Matt Pitkowski kick) BR — Jones 17 run (Pitkowski kick) BR — Jones 2 run (Pitkowski kick) MA — Darshon McCullough 10 pass from Brendan Skalitzky (Kyle Gambla kick) MA — Skalitzky 14 run (Gambla kick)

both [normally] singles players, but they started to play together and I think they began to realize they had some chemistry.”

The Domina twins add depth at the No. 2 doubles slot while Mryon continues to work players in and out of the third-doubles position for the time being.

“Kelsey and Taylor won conference last year at second-doubles,” Myron said. “They’re very talented and a big part of this team, too.”

With matches scheduled for this week against Tinley Park, TF North and TF South, Myron hopes momentum can continue to be generated.

“We still have ground to take, but I like where we’re headed as a team,” she said. *** Stagg split a pair of matches last week as it defeated Mother McAuley 5-1 on Tuesday but fell 4-3 to Lincoln-Way East in a SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue match on Thursday.

No. 1 singles player Nicole Pamphilis was among the Chargers’ winners versus the Mighty Macs. *** Lincoln-Way North was no match for Sandburg last Thursday as the latter breezed to a 7-0 SWSC crossover triumph. Leading the Eagles was first-singles player Natalie Schultz.

BOYS’ GOLF Stagg went 1-2 last week, with the win being registered against Oak Lawn (165-174) last Wednesday at Stony Creek.

Pinning losses on the Chargers were Andrew (176-186) last Tuesday at Palos Muncipal and Lincoln-Way Central (169-189) on Thursday at the Sanctuary.

Both of those matches were SWSC crossover. *** Shane Wright’s nine-hole score of 40 earned him medalist honors last Thursday and helped Shepard knock off Oak Lawn (191-229) in a South Suburban Conference Red dual at Water’s edge.

Wright and teammate Johnny Korbakes both carded 45s

The M.C. Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to serving the financial needs of students at Mt. Carmel High School, will host a “Salute to the Champions” event on Saturday, Oct. 25, from noon-3 p.m. at Hawthorne

Race Course in Cicero.

The event honors coaches, players, captains, faculty and select individuals who have made valuable contributions to Mt. Carmel.

Honorees will include Man of the Year Jordan Lynch (Class of 2009); Man in the Arena award winners Tom Barry (2007), Carmen Bucci (1991), Peter Doyle (1967), B.J. Futrell (2008), Robert Gordon (1958), Jerry McPartlin (1968), John Papas (1981), Michael Power (1981), John Walsh (1967), Bob Lucid (1962), Coach John Kading and Dr. Michael Liston; and members of the 1965 city-championship team.

The latter group includes Tom Kilmartin, Greg Carney, Ken Wallace, Richard Kolovitz, David Lewis, Larry Moore, John Walsh, Emmet Lewis, Charles Plonczynski, Pete Doyle, John Noonan, Tim O’Sullivan, Ben Slowinski, Mike Atkins, Pat Ryan, Victor Morris, Fr. Michael O’Keefe, Fr. Dan Carroll, Norm Kaye, Wayne Durham and head coach Howie Fagan.

The cost is $60 per person or $600 for a table of 10, and includes clubhouse admission, buffet, racing program and door prizes. Checks should be made payable to the M.C. Foundation.

For more information, call Howie Fagan at 780-3679 or 426-5212, or Craig Ferguson at (773) 3590490.

Marist holding free baseball clinics

Marist baseball coach Kevin Sefcik is hosting free baseball clinics every Tuesday through the month of September for 8th-grade boys.

Late comers are welcome.

In the remaining weeks instruction specific to the following

positions will be given: Sept. 16 outfielders, Sept. 23 first and third baseman, and Sept. 30 pitchers.

All players must bring gloves, cleats and water bottles, but no bats or helmets are needed. Catchers should bring their own gear for workouts.

No preregistration is required.

Follow @MaristBaseball on Twitter for any weather cancellations or updates. For more information on the clinics, email Sefcik at sefcik.kevin@marist.net or call (773) 881-5300.

South Side Shooters running hoops sessions

The South Side Shooters Girls Basketball Club is conducting its “Skills, Drills and Scrimmages” sessions for players in grades 4-12 Tuesdays at Stagg.

Sessions run 6:30-9:30 p.m. For more information, contact Gary Ferguson at ssshootersbball@aol. com or (630) 935-1150, or visit www.shootersbball.com.

Queen of Peace sponsoring fundraiser

Queen of Peace will sponsor its “Swing for Peace” fundraiser on Sunday beginning with a 9 a.m. check-in.

The event is for individuals 21 and over to participate in a softball game that will benefit the Pride’s athletic programs. Play starts at 10 and a barbecue will be held afterward.

The cost is $40 per person, $480 for teams numbering no more than 15 members. T-shirts and food are included.

For more information, visit our website at www.queenofpeacehs. org/events.

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All’s perfect for Cyclones tennis players

By Maura Vizza    No athletic performance is completely without flaw, but Moraine Valley College tennis players were pretty close to perfect versus Concordia University the weekend before Labor Day.   That’s when the Cyclones notched their first shutout by capturing all nine matches against their foe. Liz Dominguez, Kaitlyn Seldal (Queen of Peace), Claudia Maka (Oak Lawn) and Lindsey Walker led the way in singles play, while the duos of Dominguez-Seldal and Walker-Agnieszka Szudy (Stagg) were especially proficient in doubles encounters.    “This was the first win of preseason play [and] all the women remained focused and played hard,� Moraine coach Nicole Selvaggio said. “Each day we are growing stronger and more confident in our abilities.�   Things didn’t come quite so easily against NCAA Division III Benedictine University last Thursday, but the Cyclones had enough fortitude to clear a major hurdle. The final doubles clash tilted Moraine’s way and, with it, came an overall team triumph by a 5-4 score in Palos Hills.   Tricia Poremba and Szudy spearheaded the singles success, and the latter also figured in the clinching match by teaming with Walker to close out Benedictine’s entry with just four minutes to spare before a 9 p.m. shutoff of the court lights.    “Even though this was another preseason match for us, it feels great to be keeping up with — and ultimately defeating — these four-year universities,� Selvaggio said. “I feel we are more than ready for all the junior colleges.

We are pumped for the road ahead.   “The Benedictine match was an excellent test for our mental toughness. There are a lot of positive takeaways from it.� ***    That mental toughness of which Selvaggio spoke was evident last Saturday as the Cyclones blew past Sauk Valley College 7-2 behind dominating efforts from Seldal and Maka in singles matches. Walker rallied from a first-set loss to defeat her singles opponent and Poremba also triumphed.   Moraine swept the three doubles matches, with Dominguez-Seldal delivering the strongest exhibition.   “This first road win against a regional rival is huge for us,�

Selvaggio said. “Each Cyclone displayed high-quality tennis.

My girls went into this match prepared and confident in their abilities.    “We will only get stronger from here. We know the road ahead and we will remain focused on our goals.�

CROSS COUNTRY    The Running Cyclones got off to a good start at Elmhurst College’s Early Bird Invitational as the men finished eighth among 13 teams and the women took ninth in an 11-school field on Aug. 29.    Yousef Khazneh (Richards) led his teammates over the 6K course in 21 minutes, 3 seconds, which was good for 40th place among 164 competitors. Following him down the chute were Evergreen Park grads Anthony Briante (46th in 21:21) and Justin Briante (75th, 22:19), Braulio Castellanos (85th,

Chargers (Continued from page 1) hey admitted the Spartans “definitely got our attention� with a four-play drive that immediately answered Stagg’s opening volley.

A 42-yard aerial hookup between Joe Cosenza and Dave Scanlon provided the payoff.    That was to be Oak Lawn’s last hurrah, at least scoring-wise. The Chargers, meanwhile, shrugged off Egan’s loss with contributions from a few players, most notably quarterback Joe Van Nieuwenhuyse, who ran for 128 yards and put his team ahead to stay with a 6-yard keeper in the second stanza.   Gary Kopca’s fumble recovery set up Van Nieuwenhuyse’s touchdown. Kopca (five tackles), Ryan Slager (six), Chioke Elmore (six), Frank Knaperak (interception) and Fernando Perez were other Stagg defenders who made life miserable for the Spartans.   Perez covered dangerous Oak Lawn wideout Joe Robinson and limited him to three catches and 25 yards in gains.   Still, the Spartans kept the Chargers within range through the remainder of the first half, although a safety resulting from a snap that flew over Cosenza’s head that extended the visitors’ lead to 16-7 loomed large in Lucas’ opinion.    “We didn’t start doubting ourselves, but I think it shocked us a little bit,� he said. “At no time did our kids stop playing, [but] that took the wind out of our sails.�

22:40) and Alejandro Montes (108th, 23:46).    Besides its scorers, Moraine was represented by Evergreen Park alumnus Brandon Ceh (111th, 23:55), St. Laurence product Sergio Villarreal (120th, 24:29), Jesus Rojas (124th, 24:42) and Anton Thauer (125th, 24:47).   As she did all last season, Aileen Gorman (Marist) paced the Cyclones women as she covered the 4K course in 16:19. That landed her in the 17th position in a field of 131 finishers. Also scoring for Moraine were Shepard alum Jackie Navarette (60th, 18:09), Crystal Flores (66th, 18:23), Abby Correa (69th, 18:37) and Marist grad Sarah McCann (75th, 18:58).   Rounding out the list of Cyclones participants were Shepard alum Amy Miller (76th, 19:01), Jessica Flores (106th, 20:20) and Nemy Hernandez (112th, 20:34).    “We had a good race,� Moraine coach Mark Horstmeyer said, referring to both of his squads. “We stressed finishing strong and they accomplished that. We’re pleased with their first effort — we’re heading in the right direction.   “They [all] got a really good idea of how competitive it is at this level. There’s nothing better than actually getting in there and mixing it up. They learned a lot, and that’s what the early part of the season is all about.� ***   Despite heat, humidity and threatening skies, the Cyclones women made it through their 5K race at last Friday’s Midwest Classic, hosted by Olivet Nazarene University at Aspen Ridge Golf Course in Bourbonnais. The men got only three miles into their 8K event before bad weather forced cancellation.   Moraine’s women were fourth in a six-school field. Gorman once again paced the Cyclones with her 21:08 showing that netted 26th place. Other scorers were Correa (46th, 23:25), Miller (50th, 23:50.90), Navarette (51st, 23:50.93) and Crystal Flores (57th, 24:21).   Completing Moraine’s lineup were Jessica Flores (62nd, 24:54), Hernandez (65th, 25:40), and Sandburg product Tonie Wasco (66th, 25:42). There were 78 runners who finished the race.   “Weather-wise it was challenging, especially for their first 5K of the season,� Horstmeyer said. “Times were slow and not indicative of what we’re capable of doing. The grouping of our [Nos.] 2-6 [runners] improved, but we still have a lot more to do to close the gap. We’re on the right track, however.�   The teams return to Aspen Ridge on Friday for the Illinois Intercollegiates.   “They have a rare opportunity for a ‘do-over,’� Horstmeyer said. “They have run the course and they gained another week of racing against top talent. If the weather cooperates, we should see a demonstration of what we’re   “Making it a two-score game took a little pressure off us and got our kids more comfortable,�

Fahey said.   Not hurting, either, were two more Stagg TDs after halftime as Tom Poskus (2 yards) and Tyson Felder (12 yards) both tallied on short runs.   “We were able to move the ball on the ground,� said Fahey, whose team amassed nearly 270 rushing yards. “We’re a run-first team and our backups responded [after Egan exited].�    Oak Lawn was held below the 200 mark in total yardage as Cosenza threw for 97 and Darius Gipson topped the runners with 46 yards on seven carries. Defensively, Robinson (10 solo stops, three assists, one-half tackle for loss), Joe Dodaro (six solos, seven assists, one-half tackle for loss), Ryne Melnik (five solos, four assists) and Peter Ruane (five solos, two assists) were the Spartans’ key figures.    “It’s unfortunate we didn’t give them our best shot,� Lucas said. “But we can’t lose confidence because of that. They’re all correctable mistakes.    “We played a challenging second game, so we’ll regroup and keep going forward. All the teams are evenly matched.�    The clubs to which Lucas was referring are those housed in the South Suburban Conference Red along with Oak Lawn. The Spartans begin league play Friday against Reavis, which has defeated them in 35 of the last 38 contests between the schools.

As Lucas pointed out, though, two

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Queen of Peace grad Kaitlyn Seldal (left) and doubles partner Liz Dominguez celebrate after winning a doubles match for Moraine Valley College’s tennis team last week. capable of achieving.�

GOLF    The Cyclones looked impressive last week as they took the top spot in their first Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference match at the Mission Hills Country Club in Northbrook.   Sophomore John Yerkes (Marist) topped Moraine with his 18-hole score of 72 on the par-70 course. John Orowick (77), Joe Knight (78), David Karowski (78) and Matt Contey (78) were tightly bunched behind him. Knight’s score was highlighted by four birdies, while Karowski had two birdies and an eagle.   “It was a good day [and] a good start,� Cyclones coach Bob Freudenthal said. “It’s always a good day [when you get] to win.�   Moraine was fifth among 13 teams at last Friday’s Duane Chanay Classic at Byron Hills Golf Course in Byron, Ill. MEN’S SOCCER    The Cyclones enjoyed a superb home opener Aug. 30 as they made off with a 5-0 victory over Daley College.    Moraine’s attack featured a pair of goals from freshman Giovanni Sanchez, plus single tallies by freshman Przemyslaw Tylka (Sandburg) and sophomores Gilberto Andrade and Jordy Padilla.

Assists were credited to Padilla, Sanchez and freshmen Jose Estrada and Jesus Sandoval.   Freshman Alan Garcia (Sandburg) kept a tight squeeze on the net for his first shutout of the season.   The news wasn’t so good last Thursday as the Cyclones were blanked 2-0 by Waubonsee College in an ISCC match marred by red and yellow cards. Red cards removed two Moraine players from the action and left the team shorthanded.    The Cyclones were still within a goal until the final five minutes, when the Chiefs were able to exploit a tiring Moraine crew for an insurance marker.

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   The Cyclones’ offense was unstoppable on Aug. 30 as Moraine crushed South Suburban College 9-2 in a nonconference match.   Cyclones coaches had stressed taking advantage of mistakes and Moraine athletes paid heed.

Freshman Maggie Hacker’s penalty-kick goal started the barrage, and it continued with scoring from Kristina Cypser (two goals), Alyssa Braun (two), Alejandra Hernandez-Lopez, Esmerelda Padilla, Denise Ruiz and Cecia Esquivel.

Five of the remaining eight markers were unassisted.    Doling out passes to scorers on the other occasions were Hacker, Braun and Esquivel.   Not to be ignored was the Cyclones’ solid defensive play.

In addition to netminder Alexis Boyer (two saves), Moraine’s key members in that area were Kathleen Gribbon (Marist), Sam Reyes (Marist), Kortnie Hanold (Shepard), Xitlaly Mandujano, Liliana Cabrera and Alexis Delgado. ***   In a battle of unbeatens last Saturday, the Cyclones overpowered Triton College 5-0 as Braun scored twice within the first 15 minutes off assists from Hacker.

Braun completed a hat trick just before halftime, which put Moraine ahead 4-0.   Kenya Torres set up Braun’s

third marker. Also tallying in the opening half was Cypser after receiving a pass from Diana Lozano (Richards) in the 39th minute.    With Boyer turning aside eight Triton shots and Gribbon, Reyes, Hanold, Mandujano, Cabrera, Delgado and Hernandez-Lopez all anchoring a sound defense in front of her, the Cyclones were in no danger of surrendering their hefty lead. Nevertheless, Ruiz tacked on one more goal off a Padilla assist.

VOLLEYBALL    With so many new players and a new coaching staff, the Cyclones faced their first real test last Tuesday against rival Kankakee Community College. In a thrilling four-set match, Moraine emerged victorious by a 25-21, 25-20, 1725, 27-25 count.    Marist alumnus Carolyn Yerkes (22 digs) and Kayla Manthei (20) were defensive stalwarts for the Cyclones, while Bridget Ferrin effectively ran the offense by distributing 26 assists among a variety of hitters. Supplying good play along the net were Carly Trinley (15 kills), Shepard product Jessica Chaput (11) and Alex Bojan (eight).   One day later Moraine roared past Triton College 25-19, 25-17, 25-5.    The middle hitters set the tone as they put down 23 kills on 39

swings. Chaput (13 kills, three service aces) and Bojan (eight kills) were the ringleaders, but Mother McAuley grad Brynn Flannery had an impressive season debut with six kills on 15 swings.   Manthei (six aces, three kills) and Yerkes (10 digs, two assists) also played pivotal roles in the win. ***    There were some highs and lows for the Cyclones last weekend as they split two matches in their own quadrangular.    Moraine couldn’t hold a 19-18 Game 1 edge over Sauk Valley and the Skyhawks eventually swept to a 25-21, 25-8, 2517 victory. One late highlight was 6-foot-3 Morgan Hickman (Stagg) stuffing two Sauk Valley kill attempts.   Yerkes (20 digs, 2.46 serve-receive efficiency) and Kate Patnett (seven kills, two blocks) were the Cyclones’ top performers.    Moraine bounced back to beat Highland College in straight sets, 25-16, 25-18, 25-19. Strong serving was a key as Manthei registered five aces and Patnett had two.   Patnett augmented her play with nine kills and three digs, while Manthei added eight kills and posted a 2.29 serve-receive efficiency. Trinley chipped in 10 kills and nine digs.

of those Oak Lawn victories have come in the last three years.    As for Stagg, its next opponent is a doozy: perennial power Lincoln-Way East.   “It’s a great challenge to see where we’re at,� Fahey said. “Our kids aren’t afraid. We just need to take that next step by keeping the game close in the fourth quarter and then letting the chips fall where they may.�

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.LEO P. SMIETANSKI, SHARON M. SMIETANSKI Defendants 14 CH 004473 9320 OAK STREET 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 July 11, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 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 9320 OAK STREET, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 2710-107-002. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted.

The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. 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 14-14-04738. 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. 14-14-04738 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 14 CH 004473 TJSC#: 34-12377 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S ďż˝ COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.; P l a i n t i f f , ďż˝ v s . ďż˝ STASYS BEKSTAS AKA S. BEKSTAS; BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.; SCENIC TREE CONDOMINIUM A S S O C I A T I O N ; ďż˝ D e f e n d a n t s , ďż˝ 13 CH 23621 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, September 23, 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 estate: Commonly known as 10205 South 86th Terrace, Unit 109, Palos Hills, IL 60465.

P.I.N. 23-11-302-003-1041.

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 Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611.

1 3 0 2 7 9 3 0 ďż˝ INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I623184

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I ďż˝ L L I N O I S ďż˝ COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Pďż˝ l a i n t i f f , ďż˝ vďż˝ s . ďż˝ UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF ROBERT W. BALL AKA ďż˝ ROBERT BALL; DAWN JERGER; TRACY BALL; JESSICA BALL; HIDDEN LAKE ESTATES ďż˝ C O N D O M I N I U M ďż˝ ASSOCIATION; RICHARD IRVIN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE ESTATE OF ROBERT W. BALL AKA ROBERT BALL; UNKNOWN OWNERS A N D ďż˝ NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS D e f e n d a n t s , ďż˝ 13 CH 28501 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, September 22, 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 estate: P.I.N. 23-22-200-082-1013.

Commonly known as 35 Lucas Drive, Palos Hills, IL 6 0 4 6 5 . ďż˝ 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 ďż˝ fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of legal 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 Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo Lindberg LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F13120206 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I623140 ďż˝

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ďż˝ ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.-ďż˝ ďż˝ ANTHONY J. CICIORA, KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Defendants 13 CH 027732 8518 FOREST DRIVE HICKORY HILLS, IL ďż˝ 60457 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 12, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corpoďż˝ ration, will at 2:00 PM on September 24, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wackďż˝ er 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 8518 FOREST DRIVE, HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457 Property Index No. 18-34-408052. 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 ďż˝ $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 14-12-35120. 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. 14-12-35120 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 13 CH 027732 TJSC#: 34-14222 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S ďż˝ COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. P l a i n t i f f , ďż˝ v s . ďż˝ ANTHONY M. LOIACONO AKA ANTHONY L O I A C O N O ; ďż˝ MANORHOMES OF SOMERSET PARK C O N D O M I N I U M ďż˝ ASSOCIATION NO. 1; LISA LOIACONO; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS D e f e n d a n t s , ďż˝ 13 CH 15982 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, September 23, 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 estate: P.I.N. 27-10-400-042-1124.

Commonly known as 9227 Montgomery Drive, Unit 2E, Orland Park, IL 60462.

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 Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo Lindberg LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F13060291 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I623170

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For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S ďż˝ COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS T R U S T E E , ďż˝ SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF A M E R I C A , ďż˝ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE AS S U C C E S S O R ďż˝

BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF BEAR STEARNS A S S E T ďż˝ BACKED SECURITIES I LLC, ASSET BACKEDCERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-EC1 Plaintiff, v s . ďż˝ THERESA POSPISIL; DAVID POSPISIL Defendants, 13 CH 18345 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, September 29, 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 estate: Commonly known as 8812 West 103rd Place, Palos Hills, Il 60465.

P.I.N. 23-15-202-008-0000.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611.

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For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S � COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL A S S O C I A T I O N , � P l a i n t i f f � V . � CHRIS REGALADO; SHERRY JONES; BALTASAR REGALADO A/K/A BALTASAR T. REGALADO; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD � CLAIMANTS; UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS, D e f e n d a n t s � 12 CH 11036 � PROPERTY ADDRESS: 8544 SOUTH 84TH � AVENUE HICKORY HILLS, IL 60457 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE � Fisher and Shapiro file # 12-057770 (It�is advised that interested parties consult with their own attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure s a l e s . ) � PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a � Judgment of Foreclosure entered on July 9, 2014, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on October 10, 2014, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property: Commonly known as 8544 South 84th Avenue, Hickory Hills, IL 60457 Permanent Index No.: 18-35-309-030-0000 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

The judgment amount was $ 303,723.88. Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds.

The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff.

Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at w w w . k a l l e n r s . c o m . ďż˝ For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only.

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ďż˝ IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S ďż˝ COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, ďż˝ AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR REGISTERED HOLDERS OF LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-WL3, ASSET-BACKED ďż˝ CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-WL3, P l a i n t i f f ďż˝ V . ďż˝ LOUIS F. REGA; BARBARA A. REGA, D e f e n d a n t s ďż˝ 11 CH 3877 Property Address: 15161 HIAWATHA TRAIL ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Fisher and Shapiro file # 11-049989 (It is advised that interested parties consult with their own attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure s a l e s . ) ďż˝ PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on June 30, 2014, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on October 1, 2014, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real property: Commonly known as 15161 Hiawatha Trail, Orland Park, IL 60462 Permanent Index No.: 27-16-105-014 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. �judgment amount was $ 257,145.50. Sale terms The for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds.

The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff.

Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at w �w w . k a l l e n r s . c o m . � For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between � 1:00 � p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, I L L I N O I S ďż˝ COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. P l a i n t i f f , ďż˝ vďż˝ s . ďż˝ YVONNE WOJEWODA AKA YVONNE T WOJEWODA; THE RIVIERA IN PALOS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION; D e f e n d a n t s , ďż˝ 11 CH 31891 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on June 23, 2014, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, September 26, 2014, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 23-23-112-008-0000.

Commonly known as 8 COUR MARQUIS, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a townhouse 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: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of ďż˝ which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the Sale premises after confirmation of the sale.

For information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only. Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1119920.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I623213

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(708) 903-9865 For Sale 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 SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-2 Plaintiff, -v.WASFI TOLAYMAT, CYNTHIA R. TOLAYMAT AKA CYNTHIA TOLAYMAT, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR AEGIS FUNDING CORP, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, KHALIL OUYUON, ENTERPRISE LEASING CO OF CHICAGO D/B/A ENTERPRISE RENT A CAR, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 11 CH 5840 7911 WEST 101ST STREET 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 July 11, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 14, 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 7911 WEST 101ST STREET, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-12-306-004. The real estate is improved with a two level, red brick, single family house; detached 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 PA1037061. 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) 4765500 Attorney File No. PA1037061 Attorney Code.

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Out & About

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Your Guide to Arts and Events in the Southwest Suburbs and Beyond

Broaden Your Horizons This week Living history at Isle a la Cache A living history demonstration will be held from noon to 3 p.m. this Sunday, Sept. 14, at the Forest Preserve District of Will County’s Isle a la Cache Museum, 501 E. Romeo Road, Romeoville.

Watch Isle a la Cache Brigade volunteers re-enact life in the 1700s as they portray voyageurs, couriers des bois, French women, Metis and Native Americans. Brigade members will demonstrate their skills as potters, musket shooters, cooks, seamstresses or craftsmen.

Registration is not required for the free program, which is held indoors and outdoors, weather permitting. For information, call 815-886-1467 or visit ReconnectWithNature.org.

Memoir writing and legacy letters Two writing workshop are offered at The Log Cabin Center for the Arts, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park, on six Thursday afternoons, beginning today by Personal Historian Beth LaMie of Kankakee.

From 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., students write Memoirs, or Family Stories. Using writing prompts, exercises, and techniques to capture memories, participants learn to organize their thoughts and experiences and how to elicit stories from other family members.

From 3 until 5 p.m., students will learn to write Legacy Letters to their families. These letters include personal values, history, life lessons and achievements, and hopes for the future.

By the end of the class, students will complete a legacy letter on archival paper.

The Legacy Letters and the Memoir Writing classes each have a class fee of $90 paid upon registration, plus a $10 workbook fee to be paid directly to the instructor in class. Students should bring a notebook or pad of paper and their favorite writing instruments. Advance registration is required.

Call 361-3650.

Wizard of Oz luncheon The Wizard of Oz will be celebrated at a luncheon on Tuesday, Sept. 16, from noon to 2 p.m., at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park.

Seventy-five years ago, Judy Garland starred in the beloved Metro Goldwyn Mayer rendition of “The Wizard of Oz.” Twenty years ago, The Center produced its own outdoor version of the Wizard of Oz, right in the hayfield of the Children’s Farm. Professional actor Ron Greene, The Center’s pastor at that time, played the role of the cowardly lion, and has agreed to come back, in costume, for a few friendly roars. Clips of both the Hollywood version and the hayfield version of the story will be shown. Anyone who loves the story of Dorothy in Oz in invited to come.

The luncheon begins at noon, costs $18 per and requires advance reservations. For further information, interested persons should call The Center at 3613650.

Fall papermaking workshop Artist Marilyn VandenBout of Evergreen Park will offer a papermaking workshop on Wednesday, Sept.17, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Log Cabin Center for the Arts, 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park.

VandenBout will help students to create handmade papers inlaid with petals from the garden. The papers which can be used for cards, stationery, or picture mats. The class cost $15 plus $5 materials fee. Advance registration is required. For more, call 361-3650.

The Bridge Teen Center events • Fitness For You: Core Workout — 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. today (Thursday) The Bridge Teen Center, 15555 S. 71st Court, Orland Park, will host a fitness program with Palos Health and Fitness to teach students how to strengthen their core during a workout.

• Welding — 4:30 to 6 p.m. today and Sept. 18, a program teaching students how to weld their own metal sculpture.

• DJ Night — 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. this Friday, Sept. 12, a DJ Night with a live DJ and with free food samples from Papa Joe’s.

• Clay Jewelry with McCord Gallery — 4:30 to 6 p.m. Sept.

16 and 23, a program with the McCord Gallery to teach student how to mold and design their own beads out of clay.

• Mr. Freeze’s Cryogenics — 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 17, a program to teach students about the science behind cryogenics.

• Light Painting with Harrington College 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 18, The Bridge Teen Center will host a program with Harrington College to teach students how to combine photography and painting to create a unique photo in a dark room.

These free events are for teens in 7th through 12th grade. For more information call 532-0500.

Upcoming Autumn pottery A pottery class for adults will be hosted at the Log Cabin Center for the Arts on three Wednesday afternoons, beginning Sept. 24, from 1 to 3 p.m. at 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park.

Instructor Heather Young will help students to create autumn leaf platters, windchimes, and other decorative pieces using leaf shapes and leaf impressions. The pottery will then be fired in the kiln, so that students can glaze their pieces at the last class, and then the pottery is fired in the kiln a second time to melt the glazes into a shiny glass finish.

The class fee is $45 plus an $8 materials fee. Advance registration is required. Call The Center at 361-3650.

World Peace Day Labyrinth World Peace Day will be celebrated on Friday, Sept. 19, at 9 p.m. and on Sunday, Sept 21, at 2 p.m., at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park.

Pastoral Director Chris Hop-

kins invites people to gather for this global movement to walk the labyrinth and pray for peace. For the evening program the labyrinth wil be ringed in candlelight. The labyrinth is a large circular stone path for spiritual meditation, located at the far north end of The Center parking lot.

There is no charge for the program, and no reservations are necessary. Call 361-3650 for further information.

Chita Rivera at Moraine venue Broadway legend Chita Rivera will star in a unique solo concert event celebrating her 80th birthday at Moraine Valley Community College’s Dorothy Menker Theater, 9000 W. College Pkwy. in Palos Hills, on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 for the general public and $35 for seniors and students.

Direct from her sold-out smash concert in New York, the multiple Tony Award winner will recreate signature moments from her legendary career including numbers from West Side Story; Sweet Charity; Chicago; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Bye, Bye, Birdie and The Rink. In addition to a special tribute to her dear friends John Kander and Fred Ebb, the timeless music of Leonard Bernstein, Charles Strouse, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim will also be featured, with live orchestral accompaniment conducted by Michael Croiter.

A theatrical icon and one of Broadway’s greatest triple-threat talents, Chita Rivera has won two Tony Awards as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and received seven additional Tony nominations. She recently starred in the successful production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood on Broadway and starred in the Broadway and touring productions of The Dancer’s Life, a dazzling new musical celebrating her spectacular career. of Freedom by President Barack Obama in August, 2009. She received the coveted Kennedy Center Honor in Washington, DC in December, 2002 and was the first Hispanic woman ever chosen to receive this award. In May, 2013, she was appointed to a special Kennedy Center Honors Advisory Committee. Chita’s current solo CD is entitled And Now I Swing.

Tickets can be purchased online at morainevalley.edu/fpac, by calling 974-5500, or at the Box Office, located on the south end of the Fine and Performing Arts Center.

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‘Forrest Gump’ is bigger and better than ever Have you heard the expression “bigger is better” before?

Well, in this case, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the movie “Forrest Gump” they have rereleased the film in IMAX. They’ve done the unimaginable and made a good film even better by putting it on an even bigger screen.

Many of you already know the lines including “Stupid is as stupid does,” the story and how the story goes, so this could be revisiting a timeless classic for you.

For those who haven’t seen it, this is the perfect opportunity to see it for the first time. It’s a cinematic masterpiece that should not be missed.

You don’t need to see it on an IMAX screen to appreciate the wonder that director Robert Zemeckis has created. This is just something that takes an already great movie and makes it even better.

Some of you might be wondering what IMAX is? In simple terms it’s a screen that’s 10 times larger than your average movie theater screen. It has a much more beefed up sound system too.

For those who haven't seen the movie yet, it stars Tom

Pinto’s Popcorn Picks by Tony Pinto Hanks, Sally Field, Gary Sinise, and many others. Tom Hanks plays a slow-witted man with an IQ of only 75. You grow up with him. You see the good and the bad. It ranges from him being an All-American football star to a soldier in Vietnam to being a shrimp boat captain.

Throughout his life he has to deal with people thinking less of him because of his slowness, but that never stops him. Throughout the movie, he meets many famous 20th-century icons including Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Even as the country loses its innocence, he never does. It’s kind of heartwarming.

It’s happy at times and it’s sad at times. At times you just might cry. It makes you feel and isn’t that what a movie should do.

The film is a hard one to categorize. Most great films don’t just fit into one category any-

way, so this fits in with that trend perfectly. Its part comedy, part drama, part fable, and part love story. Anything you could want in a movie it has.

At the time of the original release, the film was at the forefront of innovation in movie making technology. It currently is the 31st highest grossing film domestically of all time.

This is one of those few movies that stands the test of time.

You see and hear quotes from the movie all over pop culture including, “Run, Forrest, run!” which is arguably the most famous line from a movie ever and “Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get.”

Instead of a normal grade this week you will be left with this: It was nominated for 13 Academy Awards. It won six, including best picture, best director (Robert Zemeckis), best actor (Tom Hanks), and best screenplay. If that doesn’t scream must watch what will? So for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, what are you waiting for and for those who have, this is an opportunity to relive “Forrest Gump” on the big screen – the very big screen.

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by Jay Bobbin (NOTICE: Ratings for each film begin with a ‘star’ rating — one star meaning ‘poor,’ four meaning ‘excellent’ — followed by the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and then by a family-viewing guide, the key for which appears below.)

S TA R T I N G THIS WEEK: “GODZILLA”: Despite such notable human stars as Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”), David Strathairn, Elizabeth Olsen and Juliette Binoche, size still matters when it comes to the most notable cast member in this latest remake of the monster classic. Then again, he’s the title character, so what else would you expect? Fearsome as he is, Godzilla also is the piece’s hero as he battles creatures called MUTOs ... and that’s only the start of his terrifying opposition here. As often is the case, the special-effects masters earn the biggest nods here, but the actors also include Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins. DVD extras: Two “making-of” documentaries. *** (PG-13: P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand) “THE FAULT IN OUR STARS”: Teamed previously in “Divergent,” Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort are enormously affecting in director Josh Boone’s screen version of John Green’s best-seller about the relationship between two young members of a cancer support group. They share an offbeat, bemused approach to life that cements their romance, even taking them on an overseas adventure together. Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe and Sam Trammell also star in the film, which includes Charli XCX’s hit “Boom Clap” on its soundtrack. DVD extras: “making-of” documentaries; audio commentary by Boone and Green. *** (PG-13: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray) “THINK LIKE A MAN TOO”: Though the original acting ensemble from the first comedy based on Steve Harvey’s best-seller is back, this sequel is weighted toward Kevin Hart, whose movie stock rose significantly in-between the two films. The gang goes to

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Ladies' Halloween Tea The Center’s Witch tea hostesses Lois Lauer and Linda Kwiatt (left photo) invite ladies to enjoy spider brownies and more (right) at the third annual Halloween Tea on Friday, Oct. 10, from 4 to 6 p.m., at the Anderson Center of the Children's Farm, 12700 Southwest Highway, Palos Park.

Guests will be greeted by cackling witches serving spider cider tea, and a buffet table filled with goodies and tea sandwiches. Guests are invited to join the witch cackling contest, and are encouraged to wear a witch hat if they have one Tickets are now available must be reserved in advance; cost $30 per person. For reservations and more information, call The Center at 361-3650.

Las Vegas for a wedding, but the various couples have respective personal complications ranging from one spouse’s womanizing history to an effort to have a baby.

Michael Ealy, Taraji P. Henson, Romany Malco, Regina Hall, Terrence J, Gabrielle Union, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good and Wendy Williams also return, as does director Tim Story. DVD extras: two “making-of” documentaries; deleted scenes. ** (PG-13: AS, N, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On

Demand) “THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY”: The latest work for PBS by master documentary maker Ken Burns, this profile of a legendary American family interweaves the stories of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. In the traditional Burns style, a notable voice cast helps bring the historical information and personal writings to life, with Meryl Streep as Eleanor (Continued on page 10)

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Junior Farmers experience farm life New sessions of Junior Farmer Classes will begin at The Children’s Farm at The Center, Sept. 13 through 17. The Children’s Farm is at 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park.

Junior Farmers is an opportunity for children, age 3 to 12, to learn about and enjoy the life of the farm.

The fall session features pumpkin-picking, taking animals for walks around the farm, and learning about their care. The Junior Farmers program is led by veteran Farm program coordinator Kay Ardizzone, who says she learns as much or more from the children as she teaches them.

Junior Farmers classes meet one hour each week for six weeks. Classes are available for children age three to six, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and on Saturday at 10 and 11:30 a.m.; for children age 6 to 8 on Saturday at 2 p.m.; for children age 6 to 12 on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays at 4 p.m. and for children age 9 to 12 on Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. The cost of the six-week program is $78.

Registration is required. Call 361-3650.

Videoview (Continued from page 9) and Paul Giamatti — and Edward Herrmann, who has played FDR several times, reprising that part.

John Lithgow, Billy Bob Thornton, Ed Harris, Keith Carradine, Josh Lucas and (in one of his final projects) Eli Wallach also are heard. DVD extras: “making-of” documentary; deleted scenes. **** (Not rated) (Also on Blu-ray) “CASTING BY”: The casting director often is one of the unsung heroes — or heroines, as the case may be — of the entertainment industry, charged with finding the right performer for a role. Director Tom Donahue’s fine documentary, which HBO has televised, recalls one of the best in the business: Marion Dougherty, whose name can be seen in the credits of countless movies and television programs. Other veterans of that field, including Lynn Stalmaster, also are saluted here; among the many actors offering comments are Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen, Robert Redford, John Travolta, Jon Voight, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Danny Glover and Diane Lane. **** (Not rated: P) “THE BIG BANG THEORY: THE COMPLETE SEVENTH SEASON”: Or, “The Last Season of the CBS Sitcom Before Several of Its Stars Began Earning $1 Million-Per-Episode Paychecks,” as has been a big entertainment-news stories lately. Bob Newhart’s return as “Professor Proton” — with actual science guy Bill Nye as his rival in one scene — is among the highlights of this round. The season opens with Leonard (Johnny Galecki) away in the North Sea while Penny (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) is distressed to learn her embarrassing movie scene can be found on the Internet. Jim Parsons, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar and Mayim Bialik also star. DVD extras: five “making-of” documentaries; outtakes; 2013 Comic-Con panel. *** (Not rated: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray) COMING SOON: “NEIGHBORS” (Sept. 23): New parents (Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne) think they’ve found the ideal home ... until they meet the frat boys next door. (R: AS, N, P)

“CHEF” (Sept. 30): After his meltdown over a critic’s review, a restaurant chef (Jon Favreau, also the writer-director here) acquires a food truck and sets out cross-country, preparing edibles his own way. (R: AS, P) “24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY” (Sept. 30): Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) resurfaces to try to stop a terrorist plot in London in this sequel to the series. (Not rated: AS, P, V) “MILLION DOLLAR ARM” (Oct. 7): In this true story, Jon Hamm plays a struggling sports agent who travels to India in search of the next big baseball star. (PG: P) “A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST” (Oct. 7): Seth MacFarlane’s Western satire, he plays the new pal of a gunslinger (Charlize Theron) whose husband (Liam Neeson) isn’t happy about the friendship. (R: AS, P, V) “X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST” (Oct. 14): Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) goes back in time to try to alter events that otherwise will cause trouble for him and his fellow mutants in times to come. (PG-13: A, P, V) FAMILY-VIEWING GUIDE KEY: AS, adult situations; N, nudity; P, profanity; V, violence; GV, particularly graphic violence.

Top DVD Rentals 1. The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Columbia Pictures, PG-13 2. The Other Woman, 20th Century Fox, PG-13 3. Divergent, Summit Entertainment, PG-13 4. Sabotage, Open Road Films, R 5. Transcendence, Warner Bros., PG-13 6. Rio 2, Blue Sky Studios, G 7. Noah, Paramount Pictures, PG-13 8. Rage, Hannibal Pictures, Not Rated 9. Heaven Is for Real, Sony Pictures Entertainment, PG 10. God’s Not Dead, Pure Flix Entertainment, PG

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AUTUMN IN THE PARK FESTIVAL 2014 September 19th & 20th on the Village Green 8901 W. 123rd Street, Palos Park

Friday, September 19th ~ 5:00 PM to 10:30 PM Food Vendors, Beer, Wine & Spirits beginning at 5:00 PM Music by ‘MAGGIE SPEAKS’ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM Saturday, September 20th ~ 12:00 PM to 11:00 PM 2014 Centennial Parade begins at 11:00 AM Festival Grounds Open at 12:00 PM Music by ‘WALL OF DENIAL’ 3:00 PM TO 6:00 PM Music by ‘INFINITY’ 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM ‘Arts Colony’ Fine Arts Area ~ Sanctioned & People’s Choice Chili Contest / Tasting ~ Amateur BBQ Rib Competition / Tasting ~ Wine Tasting ~ Community Demonstrations ~ Kids Area Activities ~ Food Vendors ~ Beer, Wine & Spirits ~ Sports Cave ~ Televised College Football

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