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Mayor Straz debunks Berkot’s rumor

By Tim Hadac Staff reporter

Persistent rumors of a Berkot’s supermarket coming to the vacant Dominick’s site in Palos Heights were laid to rest Tuesday night by Mayor Bob Straz.

Questioned briefly after the City Council meeting, Straz said that the construction activity at the shuttered grocery store, 6401 W. 127th St., is actually demolition of the gas station that had been operated by the defunct grocer.

“Safeway (Dominick’s parent company) is pulling the gas tanks out,” he explained. “They don’t want the liability.”

Straz said the city has nothing to disclose right now about who the next tenant might be in the Dominick’s spot. “We’re still negotiating at this point,” he said as he walked out into the frigid night, “but it’s not (Berkot’s).”

Next month marks a year since Dominick’s left Palos Heights after a mostly prosperous 40-year run. Speculation about what will go there next has run

the gamut this year—everything from another grocer to a carpeting/flooring store to a health club or a large church.

Rumors about Berkot’s grew legs several months ago, in the wake of the 15-store chain’s announcement that it would add a new store in Midlothian, set to open Dec. 4 in the old Sentry supermarket space at 4640 W. 147th St. Berkot’s typically opens stores in existing supermarket spaces, rather than build new, which helped fuel speculation about the Palos Heights Dominick’s.

Also Tuesday, without comment or elaboration, City Clerk Thomas Kantas announced that a public hearing on “the proposed tax levy increase” is scheduled for 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2 at City Hall, 7607 W. College Drive.

Small Business Saturday

In advance of the holiday shopping season, Alderman Jeffrey Key (1st) talked about the observance of Small Business Saturday on Nov. 29, the day after Black Friday, saying the city would not be host-

ing a public event that “would make it obvious,” but added that “we want to highlight the businesses in town.”

“We’re always talking about the disappointment we have when a business closes in town, but the fact of the matter is that they’re only going to stay open one way, and that’s if we use these businesses,” he added. “I’d like to see us all — especially on that Saturday — shop at or visit one of these (Palos Heights) See HEIGHTS, Page 2

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Residents protest plans to develop 72 townhouses

By Tim Hadac Staff reporter

A proposal to construct a 72unit townhouse development on the remaining 3.6 acres of the former Colette Highlands Condominiums property was put on hold Monday in the face of opposition from neighbors who complained about congestion to Orland Park village officials.

The site is at the northwest corner of Park Station Boulevard and Somer Glen Lane.

“The best thing about Orland Park is the neighborhood feel that we have,” said homeowner George Canellis. “We’ve got open space, we’ve got the ability to spread out. We don’t live in the city of Chicago.

“One of the reasons my wife and I moved from the city is so we can have space, have the ability to move around and not be on top of each other,” he continued.

Canellis urged the Village Board’s Development Services, Planning and Engineering Committee to negotiate “from a position of strength” and not develop the land for its own sake.

“Colette Highlands is one of the premier subdivisions in Orland

Photo by Tim Hadac

A FAMILY TALE Orland Park author Nancy Gee displays her book, The Secret Drawer, at the Palos Heights Public Library, where it will be available.

Close encounter with a critter inspires Orland Park grandmother’s children’s book, The Secret Drawer

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By Tim Hadac • Staff reporter

ost people who find a live forest rodent in their house might shriek and call an exterminator or the local animal control office. Orland Park resident Nancy Gee wrote a children’s book — The Secret Drawer — about it.

“This happened years ago at our house,” she explained during a conversation last week with The Regional News. “It’s a long house with a balcony, which drops off to a creek, about 30 feet.

“We had a painter, Peter, who was working at the house, and while he was going back and forth, bringing all his equipment in, he left the door open,” Gee continued.

“No one thought anything of it, until hours later, when Odis, our family cat, comes and he parks himself in front of a sock drawer in our bedroom.”

Gee and her husband, Matthew Pordugal, were puzzled by the cat’s behavior.

“I said, ‘Odis, there’s nothing there’ and I opened all the drawers and all the cabinets to show him, but the cat wouldn’t move,” Gee said. “Next day, same thing, he’d go down and have his dinner then come right back up to the bedroom and park himself. We knew something was wrong but couldn’t figure out what it was.

“Then on the third day, my husband opened that sock drawer and out flew — and I mean flew — this thing,”

“The best thing about Orland Park is the neighborhood feel that we have. We’ve got open space, we’ve got the ability to spread out.”

— Orland Park homeowner George Canellis Park — based on the aesthetics, the layout, the proximity to Centennial Park and Centennial Park West,” he added. “It’s beautiful, it’s awesome. I love my house. I love coming home, I love hanging out.”

The six local residents who spoke echoed Canellis’ comments, with one woman describing life in Collette Highlands as “my little piece of heaven” that would be spoiled by the plans laid out by developer Mark Lambert, builder Tom Cachey and their team.

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According to a briefing paper provided by village staff, the “subdivision of Colette Highlands (condos, single-family homes and See ORLAND, Page 2

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she recalled. “He raced around to the same door he came in, and the cat ran right after him, and I’m yelling to the cat, ‘Odis don’t kill him!’”

The small mammal had eluded detection

by Gee and her husband for days, hiding in the back of the drawer.

But in that moment, she had no time to ponder.

“The cat had waited three days and this was his treat,” Gee continued. “But for whatever reason, he came to a screeching halt and didn’t attack. Most cats will attack — I mean, it’s four legged, it looked like a rodent. But the two of them just stared at each other.”

Using a bucket and a plate, they captured the critter and then released it off the balcony. To their surprise, it spread its legs and tail as it glided toward the creek, where it landed and joined a similar creature.

“Now, my husband and I, we’re nature people, but we couldn’t figure out what it was,” Gee added. “It wasn’t a

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Swallow Cliff DAR chapter honors Vietnam veteran The Swallow Cliff Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution last Saturday heard Vietnam war veteran and Bronze Star-decorated Ted O’Connell, of Tinley Park, recount his experiences as an officer in the army during his tour of duty in 1965-66.

The meeting recognized the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. Coming from a military family, at age 21 O’Connell decided to apply early for the draft. Eight days before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, he headed to basic training and subsequently was accepted in Artillery Officers Candidate School.

He volunteered to go to Vietnam, where, as a second lieutenant, he was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division to be an artillery forward observer in the Central Highlands and call in supporting gunfire from naval artillery. He later served as an aerial observer for an artillery company, riding in helicopters and two-man planes, and experienced being shot down

by enemy fire.

O’Connell vividly described the difficult living conditions caused by the heat, humidity, and monsoons and harrowing experiences during his tour of duty. Most poignant was the juxtaposition of the beauty of the surrounding jungle with the devastating losses of close friends in battles there.

For his service, O’Connell was awarded not only the Bronze Star and an Air medal, but also the Vietnam Gallantry Cross for valor and heroic conduct in combat with the enemy. He remembered President Kennedy’s inauguration speech challenging to Americans to “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” He knew that what he did was simply, for him, “the right thing to do.”

At the conclusion of his talk, Swallow Cliff presented O’Connell with a certificate of appreciation from the National Society Daughters of the AmeriSubmitted photo can Revolution for his honorable service to the United States of Swallow Cliff Vice Regent Gale Shafer (from left), decorated Vietnam war veteran Ted O’Connell and Regent Eles Miller gather at the DAR meeting last Saturday at the Palos Heights Public Library.

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Orland Payor Dan McLaughlin joins Nemer Ziyad and Tinley Mayor Ed Zabrocki at the Arab Heritage Celebration Tuesday at the Shish Kabob House in Orland Park in honor of Arab Heritage Month in Illinois.

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Continued from Page 1 townhomes altogether) was master planned and approved by the Village Board in 2003.

In 2005, ZAUSA Homes took over the condominium part of the project from the original developer of Colette Highlands (Huguelet), but proposed the same site plan and product as the original Colette Highlands master plan first indicated. The Colette Highlands Condominiums were approved by the Village Board the same year.

“Following the successful completion of the first condominium building at the northwest corner of Somerglen Lane and Park Station Boulevard, the economic downturn of 2007-08 prevented the completion of the project. A second condominium building broke ground shortly before the further downtown in the housing market. As a result, a foundation was installed but the building was never finished and the project went dormant.”

For seven years, the Colette Highlands Condominium property has remained unfinished. In that time, various development proposals were floated to finish the project but none ever reached the point of petition, village officials added.

Canellis and others essentially agreed that the long-fallow parcel needs to be developed.

“My wife and I and several neighbors agree. The property needs to be developed, no question about it,” he said. “There’s an eyesore back there. I see that eyesore every day. I see it out my family room window and my kitchen window, and I know it needs to be dealt with.

“But this particular project is not the appropriate project. It is inconsistent with the overall design of the project,” he added. “It changes the rules in the middle of the game. If we knew all these [new townhomes] popping up in our back yards, we’d have stayed in Lakeview.

We wouldn’t have moved out to Orland Park. We could have moved to the South Loop, we could have moved anywhere in the city, where people live on top of each other.”

With time running short in the meeting and even bleeding into the time allotted for the main Village Board meeting at 7 p.m., Trustee Kathleen Fenton suggested that the committee vote to table the matter, but urge village staff, the developers and local residents to get together as quickly as possible to hammer out solution—which they did on a 3-0 vote.

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Arab Heritage Month celebrated in Orland Park Contributions of Arab Americans to nation are honored on Veterans Day

Officials from local and regional government attended an Arab heritage cultural event last week in Orland Park held to recognize the achievements and contributions American Arabs have made to America.

The annual Arab Heritage Month in November was first designated as a state commemoration by then Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar and has been celebrated every year with cultural events and dinners showcasing Arab Heritage in Illinois.

On Veterans Day, honoring the thousands of American Arabs who served in the American Armed Forces during World War II, Vietnam, Korea and in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Shish Kabob House Restaurant, 9328 W. 159th St. co-hosted the celebration offering a Middle East buffet feast for 75 officials from Orland Park, Tinley Park and Orland Hills.

“We’re very honored to have all of you here tonight to celebrate the contributions that American Arabs have made to this great country,” said Amjad Alowisi the owner of the Shish Kabob House, which opened more than a year ago.

Alowisi and his wife, Faye, opened the restaurant, located in the Jewel-Osco Mall on 159th Street at 94th Avenue, more than a year ago and offer a menu of freshly made Middle Eastern and Mediterranean

food delicacies including Mansiff, hummus, stuffed grape leaves, kifta and a variety of salads including Tabouleh and Jerusalem Salad. A musician playing the Oud (Arabian Lute) performed popular Middle East music as the guests dined.

“I am proud to have served honorably in the U.S. Air Force, active duty, during the Vietnam War,” said media consultant Ray Hanania who served as emcee for the evening. “My father and uncle came to this country from Jerusalem in Palestine and they both served in the U.S. Military during World War II, enlisting immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. And so many Americans of Arab heritage served in the Marines, the Air Force, the Army and the Navy. We are proud to be Americans.”

The Southwest Suburbs are the home to more than 250,000 Americans of Arab heritage originating from Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan. There are an estimated 4.5 million Arabs of the Christian and Muslim faiths living in the United States. The largest majority of American Arabs are Christian, but Christian and Muslim Arabs share a common bond and cultural heritage and live together in communities throughout the United States. The Southwest Region is home to several Christian Arab Churches including St. Mary’s

Church in Palos Heights, and two Mosques, the first ever built in the region, the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, and the Orland Prayer Center in Orland Park, which was opened in 2004.

Nemer Ziyad and his brother Nazmy, owners of Ziyad Brothers Importing which is one of the largest wholesalers of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Foods, also welcomed the guests who included Orland Park Mayor Dan McLaughlin and Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki.

Many of the local trustees from the two communities also attended the event, including Orland Trustees Pat Gira, Ed Schussler, Carole Griffin Ruzich and Dan Calandriello. Members of the Orland Park Chamber of Commerce also attended. Congratulatory messages were sent by others who could not attend because of scheduling conflicts, including Cook County Commissioner Elizabeth “Liz” Doody-Gorman and Orland Fire Protection District Board President James P. Hickey.

“It is gratifying to know that so many are here to recognize the hard work American Arabs also put into making this country great. Thank you all,” said Nemer Ziyad.

The Alowisis donated the buffet of food and offered information on each of the food items to guests that attended the event.

“good” and “bad.” McGrogan cited “bad” charities as the American Red Cross, the March of Dimes, United Way, UNICEF, and Goodwill Industries, a notfor-profit which McGrogan described as “a business.”

While the intention was good, the alderman was apparently unaware that the email, which has circulated widely (especially around the holiday season) since 2005, is laden with factual errors and other inaccuracies, according to snopes.com, a website that debunks myths, hoaxes and urban legends.

Also Tuesday, aldermen voted unanimously to authorize the city attorney to draft an ordinance that would close a loophole and require senior citizens who own residences that receive a city discount on water and sewer bills, to actually reside in the dwellings.

Straz also announced that a hearing has been set for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall to consider a request for a liquor license for AneMoNe Neapolitan Caffe, 6431 W. 127th St. The next meeting of the City Council is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2 at City Hall.

Alderman Michael McGrogan (left) reads from an email he received about “good” and “bad” charities, as Alderman Jerry McGovern listens during Tuesday night’s Palos Heights City Council meeting.

Photo by Tim Hadac

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Maintaining a holiday theme, Alderman Michael McGrogan (4th Ward) encouraged everyone making year-end donations to choose charities wisely and examine which ones make best use of dollars donated.

As an example, he read from an email he said “came across my iPad” and which separated charities into

Continued from Page 1 chipmunk because there was no stripe on its back.”

They later learned that the mystery visitor was a flying squirrel.

For about a decade, the story was a fun, gentle story in the family lore.

Others urged Gee to bring the tale to a wider audience, which she eventually did, teaming up with artist Raye Ann Saunoris, who is a painter and has taught pre-school at The Children’s Farm of The Center in Palos Park.

Working with Ampersand Inc. founder and publisher Suzie Isaacs, as well as graphic designer (and Palos Heights native) David Robson, the team made “The Secret Drawer” a reality, with the colorful children’s book telling a fast-paced yet sweet tale of flying squirrels Al and Sal and their encounter with Maddie and her kitty.

The book, using a singsong style and cheerful couplets, is perfect for parents and grandparents to read aloud and teach youngsters to joy of books. Gee says she wrote it with her own grandchildren in mind.

It also gently encourages children and everyone else to respect nature and look for the joy in simple things.

“I’m very pleased with the result,” said Gee, who is now making the rounds at book signings, media appearances, and visits to school and homes for the elderly. “I think others will like it, as well.”

Gee is the daughter of the late James Gee Sr., founder of the iconic Gee Lumber and Hardware Co. and developer of Orland Plaza [formerly at 143rd Street and La Grange Road], the village’s first modern shopping center.

With most family-owned lumber yards long ago felled by the rise of big-box home improvement retailers, Gee today is the owner of Maywood Industries, headquartered in Alsip, which manufactures specialty crating and sells building materials throughout the Chicago area.

“The Secret Drawer” is available for $18.95 in hardcover from better bookstores and online retailers. For more information, visit anancygeebook.com.

Raye Ann Saunoris, a professional artist, muralist and designer, is the illustrator of the colorful children’s book The Secret Drawer. The book is chock full of whimsical pictures, including the one above.

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Chicago man charged with burglary from pickup in Palos Park Palos Park police charged Bradley D. Klein, 35, of Chicago, with burglary from a motor vehicle after he allegedly stole about $20 in loose change from a pickup truck parked at a home in the 12400 block of South 81st Avenue, just before 2 a.m. Nov. 11.

Using video surveillance footage provided

by the victim, a 42-year-old man, police suspected Klein, a convicted burglar on parole who frequents the area, police said.

Three days later, at 3:10 a.m. last Friday, police spotted, chased and apprehended Klein near the 123rd Street bridge that spans the Metra rail tracks. Police said they found in his

possession they about $78 in U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Jamaican coins and currency, as well as two pocket knives, two wrenches, various gift cards, a set of collectible coins, and assorted jewelry and pairs of sunglasses, according to the police report.

In response, police asked the public to check

Military Collectors Show brings history to Orland

their vehicles for missing belongings. Klein was later taken into custody by Orland Park police, who said Klein was wanted there as a suspect in a case of burglary from a motor vehicle, as well as unlawful use of a credit card. Bond was set at $75,000, and Klein was due in court in Bridgeview on Tuesday.

Archbishop Cupich thanks Cardinal George, begins his ‘humbling’ job “So many are left unconnected because of poverty spread across generations, racism or not having mentors to guide and inspire them about the value of education, hard work, and the self-discipline needed for personal stability.”

By Bob Rakow Staff Reporter

Helmets, daggers and ceremonial swords mingled with less menacing military markers,such as patches and medals, at the event, as Phil Stebbins and Renatta Ridge, of Elwood (behind table) talk nostalgia with Joliet resident Ed Masters.

Once-hated symbols of a brutal and barbaric enemy, battle flags of the Empire of Japan and the Third Reich are, 70 years later, little more than artifacts from the ash heap of history, owned in this case by Vietnam veteran Dan Stranich (right), of Kankakee. He was among about 20 collectors exhibiting and selling memorabilia at the Orland Park Veterans Commission’s Military Collectors Show, held Sunday at the Orland Park Civic Center.

Below: Air Force veterans Leon Stremlau, of Tinley Park (left), and Steve Admonis, of Channahon, stand ready to encourage veterans to join the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Memorial Squad, which provides military honors at burials and comfort to veterans’ families.

About 200 people attended the event, currently held twice a year, but which may be seen more frequently in 2015. Those interested in learning more about the Orland Park Veterans Commission are encouraged to call Recording Secretary Gail Blummer at 403-6115.

Photos by Joan Hadac

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On a night when bone-chilling cold gripped Chicagoland, incoming Archbishop Blase J. Cupich predicted, “We will probably end up rattling some bones” during his first homily at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.

Monday’s night’s Mass, which was followed by a reception, marked the start of a three-day celebration that saw Cupich installed as the ninth Archbishop of Chicago. He officially started his duties Tuesday.

“Notice that the spirit evoked brings about a rattling of the bones, not to assemble skeletons as individuals, but as a vast army,” Cupich said. “There is a dryness in many people’s lives because they have little experience of being connected in society. For them, the only economy that counts is one that depends on connections they never had and never will.

“So many are left unconnected because of poverty spread across generations, racism or not having mentors to guide and inspire them about the value of education, hard work, and the self-discipline needed for personal stability.”

Cupich succeeds Cardinal Francis George, who is retiring as he battles cancer. He served as the spiritual leader of more than 2 million Catholics since 1997.

Cupich, 65, was the bishop of the Diocese of Spokane, Wash., when he was selected by Pope Francis to succeed George.

Cupich went on to laud the charitable works he has witnessed since arriving in Chicago.

“Already, in the short time I have been here, I have been edified by the great work so many of you are doing through various charities, apostolates, labor unions, the business community, government programs, schools, volunteer and civic groups and you should be encouraged to know that helping people get connected, experience being a part of society, is where God is active, working and gracing you in your dedicated ministry and labors. You are using your connections to help those disconnected and that is the work of God,” he said.

— Archbishop Cupich

Local pastors and religious leaders are impressed with Cupich.

“He seems to be open and outgoing,” said the Rev. Wayne Svida, the pastor of Our of the Ridge parish in Chicago Ridge.

“I think he’s a little bit more to the people.”

For example, Svida said, an Our Lady of the Ridge parishioner sent Cupich a congratulatory note shortly after he was named the new archbishop. Cupich replied a few weeks later with a thank you card that included a handwritten note.

“I thought that was very nice,” said Svida, who attended Monday’s night’s service.

Cupich led off his remarks on Monday praising Cardinal George for his service the archdiocese.

“On behalf of all of us, all those whose faith and lives have been enriched by your witness and your ministry, I want my first words on this occasion to be ‘thank you Cardinal Francis George.’

He also thanked those who attended the Monday’s service when Cupich knocked three times on the front door of the cathedral, in accordance with tradition, before being ushered in to receive the archdiocesan stole.

“For me it is quite humbling as I come to offer servant leadership to this local church to be associated with lay women and men, clergy, religious and bishops who continue to have an enormous impact in society,” Cupich said.

Cupich will celebrate six welcome Masses throughout the diocese starting in January, be-

ginning Jan. 8 at St. Rita High School, 7740 S. Western Ave., Chicago.

The Rev. Tom McCarthy, St. Rita’s chairman of the board, expects Cupich to do well in Chicago, but asked people not to compare him to his predecessor.

“I hope people don’t compare the two. It’s kind of unfair,” McCarthy said.

Ultimately, McCarthy said, Cupich’s task is “to bring people closer to Jesus.”

“Let him be our pastor, our leader,” McCarthy added.

Cupich said he does not have a detailed agenda because having one would be a disaster.

“No, the agenda has to be God’s, which is beyond our imagining and our abilities. And unlike our priorities, God’s agenda has staying power, it endures,” he said.

Cupich also reached out to young people throughout the diocese.

“There are others who feel little sense of belonging and stability.

Many youth have no dreams, no real aspirations, no sustaining hope. And so they turn to a destructive world of drugs, gangs and lethal violence.

“There are no easy answers to this, but I am aware that good people within our parishes and in the city are working imaginatively to address this issue. I admire the creativity of bringing gang members together for sports and in other venues to ease growing tensions. I believe that shoring up and strengthening family life and education are also essential ingredients.”

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An approach filled with gratitude T DR. LIZ

hanksgiving Day, which is quickly approaching, is often a time to take at least a day of vacaInterim President • tion to gather with Trinity Christian College friends and family over a delicious meal.

In 1863, this specific date became an official federal holiday, which has given rise to many traditions that have been passed on from generation to generation. I grew up in Ann Arbor, Mich., where members of my family were friends with many international students who were studying at the University of Michigan.

Since my home became their gathering place on Thanksgiving Day, we ate the traditional American turkey and gravy, mashed potatoes, and pie, but also ethnic foods that our international friends baked. As I, along with my brothers and sisters, tasted new foods, sometimes with a bit of caution, we learned of traditions that others held near and dear. Of particular importance for my family was a tradition following the meal, at which time each person seated around the extended table took time to share items of thanksgiving. An attitude of appreciation permeated the room.

Yet, an approach filled with gratitude is not limited to those weeks and days on either side of the specific day that we have termed Thanksgiving. Rather, a grateful perspective means that the ordinary, common actions allow us to find joy in our lives. For example, I am thankful that Trinity Christian College is located in a vibrant community that provides amazing opportunities. When the Palos Area Community Advisory Board recently met, I heard about progress on the Cal-Sag Trail, new and interesting restaurants, and several cultural and arts events. Trinity’s students enjoy the many options for shopping and that they do not need to travel far to purchase both immediate needs and special gifts. The surrounding area attracts students to the college, for they recognize that they are not alone but can become part of a larger community that includes limitless opportunities.

I am particularly grateful for Trinity’s celebration of the Christmas season, known as the annual Christmastide concert. This year’s theme is “Mystery Revealed.” The event will include traditional songs, carols, as well as gospel hymns. It will take place on Saturday, Dec. 6, at 4 p.m., in the Ozinga Chapel Auditorium.

More than 100 Trinity students will share their talents with the community, including performances by the College’s Concert Choir, Gospel Choir, Honors Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, Brass Quintet, and Woodwind Ensemble. For more information, please call 597-3000.

As I seek to live each day in gratitude, I know that Trinity has much to be thankful for— it is truly a blessing to be part of this flourishing and active community!

RUDENGA

Dr. Liz Rudenga is the interim president of Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights

OPINION READERS WRITE A don’t-miss Palos Village Players show this weekend Dear Editor: Last Friday night I heard the man sitting behind me mutter, “I paid $135 a ticket last week downtown for a play that wasn’t half this good.”

The occasion was the Palos Village Players production of “These Shining Lives,” the story of the women working in an Illinois watch factory whose jobs resulted in radium poisoning. The special effects, set design and lighting were spectacular and the acting very professional. Palos Village Players always gives a good evening’s entertainment but this show is outstanding.

There are performances Friday and Saturday nights, Nov. 21 and 22, at the Palos Park Recreation Center, 8901 W. 123rd St. Call 877-PVP-TIX for tickets.

Don’t miss this show.

—Pat Martin Palos Park

School Dist. 128 residents: We need You! Dear Editor: Three seats on the seven-member Palos Heights School District 128 Board of Education will be filled at the April, 2015 election. It’s not too late to decide to run!

It is my hope that several qualified, passionate people will run for this very important board. As a parent in this district, I would be thrilled to see a number of people run — so that we have many qualified, committed candidates to choose from. I also think that it would be great to see candidates from a variety of backgrounds — finance, accounting, education, law, social work, stay at home parents, special education, marketing, business, etc. I believe that diversity on the board is critical since it has such broad responsibilities.

And I think that temperament is in many ways as important as a candidate’s professional background. There will be tough decisions to make and strong opposing viewpoints. “If you have sound judgment, an even temper, a willingness to collaborate and a sincere interest in public education in your community, you might consider running for your local school board.” See “What Makes a Great School Board Member” at www. greatschools.org.

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E-mail letters to: theregional@comcast.net To be eligible to serve, a school board member must be a US citizen, at least 18 years of age, a registered voter, and a resident of Illinois and of District 128 for at least one year. The school board election is nonpartisan and board candidates do not run under political party affiliation.

The types of topics that I have observed the Board discussing at board meetings and/or read about in meeting minutes include: The district budget, finances, and expenses. State mandated initiatives (like Common Core) and how they are being implemented at the schools. Test results (MAP, ISAT). Employee / personnel issues (staffing needs, contracts, retirement, FMLA, etc). Enrollment and registration. Managing and improving district property, facilities, and other resources. Litigation. Student services (such as bus services), etc.

This isn’t a decision to make lightly.

And I do not think that being on the Board is for everyone. But I think that it is important to step up and participate in our community wherever and whenever we can.

Information about running can be found on the Illinois State Board of Elections web site: http://www.elections. il.gov. See the “2015 Candidates Guide” for detailed information.

Signed petitions must be turned in to the County Clerk’s office or the County Board of Elections Commissioners between Dec.15 and Dec.22.

The next D128 school board meeting is on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. at the District Offices (in Indian Hill).

Dear Editor: Chicago Alderman Edward Burke insists that there be adequate security 24-7 for the “all-cash” business of medical marijuana cultivation and distribution.

Why is it an all-cash business? a thinking person would ask.

Because public officials have outlawed the use of banks, checks, money orders, credit cards, wire transfers and 20th century business practices in the 21st century business world when it comes to marijuana regulation. Politicians made drug prohibition legal and in the process made medicinal marijuana illegal that in turn makes communities unsafe from gangs and their guns, the mobsters and their weapons attracted by prohibition prices and profits to the drug business.

Burke worries, and the Chicago’s Zoning Committee draft of a medical marijuana ordinance says, that we members of the public cannot see cannabis or “cannabis-infused products” from any “sidewalk or public private right-ofway.” How does one see cannabis in a baked Brownie, candy bar or tincture?

Ludicrous. The public must not look upon the forbidden fruit, or violators will turn to pillars of salt, loose their sight or become instantly “gatewayed.”

Marijuana prohibition is an anachronism, a public policy made by dinosaurs preying upon the fears of the public to wield political power on the pretense of protecting the public, though actually jeopardizing it by enabling the Al Capones of the city.

In Orland Park, the Village Board passed an ordinance that banned the issuance of a business license to any marijuana dispensary or cultivation center, not in such clear words that diverge from public opinion, but under the cover of refusing to issue a business license to any business not compliant with “both federal and state law.”

I’m glad we don’t burn witches at the stake anymore or impose the death penalty for smoking tobacco as decreed by the Sultan Murad IV of the Ottoman Empire, circa 1650.

—James E. Gierach Palos Park Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

—Karen Wright Palos Heights

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I was fortunate my first assignment to cover Chicago City Hall in 1978 occurred at the same time that Jane M. Byrne, the former Chicago commissioner of Consumer Services, announced her candidacy for mayor against Mayor Mike Bilandic and the Chicago machine.

Byrne, who died Friday, looked to be a longshot. I have written much about her career online (www.TheMediaOasis.com).

But Jane Byrne was a dynamo earning the nickname “Fighting Jane.”

Byrne was motivated to run for mayor because of revenge against the “Cabal of Evil Men” whom she identified as Ald. Ed Vrdolyak (a convicted felon), the surviving and brilliant Ed Burke, and the late representative of the Chicago mob, Ald. Fred Roti.

Vrdolyak, Burke and Roti, Byrne alleged, had corrupted Bilandic, who became mayor after the death of Richard J. Daley.

No one believed Byrne could win. Burke blew her off saying she was like is aunt.

Vrdolyak scoffed. Roti just took orders. And Bilandic fumbled through one of the worstrun campaigns for election I have ever seen in 40 years of covering Chicago politics.

Bilandic’s stumbles were driven by his failure to deal with a record snowfall that hammered Chicagoland at the end of 1978 and early 1979. Instead of removing snow, Bilandic gave a sweetheart deal contract to his former deputy mayor, Ken Sain, who produced a 90-page report ($1,000 a page)

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RAY HANANIA that basically said when it snows, shovel it.

Bilandic continued his tumble, ordering the CTA trains to skip past black inner city stops to get white voters back to their homes. Most were suburbanites. Black commuters simmered as they watched train after trains speed past while they froze in the bitter January arctic chill.

Then, Bilandic promised to remove snow from the white neighborhoods, announcing a plan to shovel neighborhood streets urging homeowners to park their cars in local parking lots so the plows could race through. But the snowplows dumped the snow in the same parking lots, burying the parked cars.

Next, as the snow crippled O’Hare Airport and brought it to an unprecedented standstill, Bilandic and his socialite wife, Heather Morgan, stood at O’Hare Airport and accepted an award claiming that O’Hare was one of the best run airports in the country. Behind the Bilandics, as they posed for pictures, were mounds of luggage and stranded commuters who were stuck at

the airport for days.

Byrne got the support of Mike Royko, whose columns gave her the 30,000 votes that helped put her over the top in the election.

After winning, the humiliated aldermen bowed, fearing the new mayor would strip them of privilege, clout and perquisites.

Byrne tapped Aldermen Bill Lipinski, Marty Oberman and John Aiello to run her administration. But the trio stumbled so badly, Byrne cut a deal with Vrdolyak to take their place.

All the reforms Byrne promised went out the window. Byrne allied herself with the same cabal that ran Bilandic’s failed administration, including the controversial housing kingpin, Charlie Swibel.

Byrne took her rage against the media focusing on me because I was from the Southwest side, “Daley Territory,” believing I was his ally. Her attacks against me were unprecedented and relentless.

The pinnacle was when her husband, Jay McMullen, threatened to punch me in the nose, pushing my career into the media stratosphere, which I loved.

Yet, I have to say with sincerity, we miss you Jane Byrne. You deserved far more respect than you received.

Ray Hanania is an award winning former Chicago City Hall reporter. Reach him at rghanania@gmail.com.

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“General Norman Schwarzkopf. I like hard, tough leaders.

They make a decision and stick by it.”

“General George S. Patton is a leader I would have liked to serve under. World War II vets called him a soldier’s soldier. He was all for the regular GI.”

“General Jimmy Doolittle. He was an awesome leader, but a bit of a rebel.

He got things done.

I also admire Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf.”

“General Patton.

He was kind of a maverick of a guy.

He didn’t follow the exact line dictated to him.”

“General Patton.

What’s really interesting about him is that he believed in reincarnation. When he was in Italy, he told his men he had been there before, fighting with the Romans.”

• Asked Sunday at the Military Collectors Show at the Orland Park Civic Center. Photos by Joan Hadac

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POLICE BLOTTER: ORLAND PARK SUV theft prankster charged with disorderly conduct

lice station, police said they learned that Peel was wanted on a battery warrant out of Wheeling. He is due in court in Bridgeview on Wednesday.

A Tinley Park man who told police he was Woman charged with battery playing a prank on his cousin was charged with disorderly conduct. Dhiya Ali, 22, allegedly preLisa M. Smith, 46, of Blue tended to steal his cousin’s SUV after he spotIsland, was charged with batted it parked, unlocked and the engine running, tery after she allegedly punched outside the Vitamin Shoppe, 15131 S. La Grange and pulled the hair of a woman Road, at 7:49 p.m. Oct. 27. The victim, initially she accused of sending nude thinking his vehicle was actually being stolen, ran photos to her husband via cell outside the store and chased it through the parkphone. The incident occurred ing lot before Ali drove it onto 151st Street and at 1:56 a.m. Oct. 29 near a around the block a couple of times, according to loading door at a Chicago the police report. Multiple police units respondTribune warehouse at 16400 S. Smith ed to the victim’s 911 call of an auto theft in 105th Court, according to the progress, and officers said they explained to Ali police report. The victim denied that the prank endangered the safety of other sending photos, police said. Smith was given a motorists, as well as police themselves. Ali was court date of Dec. 15 in Bridgeview. scheduled to appear at a hearing at the Orland Bulldozer part stolen Park Civic Center on Tuesday.

The owner of a New Lenox construction comThefts strike shoppers pany told police that someone stole the exhaust A woman told police that a thief stole her stack from a Caterpillar bulldozer from a work green snakeskin purse from a shopping cart while site at Evergreen Senior Living, 10810 W. 183rd she was at Savers, 15625 S. 94th Ave., from 2:30 St., between 5:30 p.m. Oct. 25 and 9:30 a.m. the to 3 p.m. Oct. 29. The purse contained a credit following day. Also stolen was a fuel tank pump card, a checkbook, and $4 cash, among other belonging to an oil company based in Sheridan, items.

Ill., according to the police report.

A pink wallet containing credit cards was stolen after a woman forgot it on a counter at Pane- Man accused of theft and battery at pub ra Bread, 15845 S. Harlem Ave., at 11:30 a.m.

Oct. 21. The victim did not discover the theft until seven hours later, when a PNC Bank clerk Police charged Michael R. Guerrero, 48, of called to say that the card had unusual activity, Orland Park, with battery, theft, and resisting a including $10 spent at a gas station and $350 at peace officer after he allegedly stole $16 cash the Jewel-Osco in Frankfort. that was sitting on a bar at Mackeys’ Pub, 9400 A woman reported that her wallet was stolen from W. 143rd St., at 4:41 p.m. Oct. 29. Witnessher unzipped purse as she shopped at Goodwill, 7400 es told police that Guerrero took another bar W. 159th St., at 2:10 p.m. Nov. 5. The purse was in patron’s money off the bar and then head butted a shopping cart, and the wallet contained credit cards another man when confronted, police said. He and a driver’s license, among other items. allegedly fought with those who held him for police and then resisted arrest, according to the Man charged with battery police report. Police said they later found $16 Police charged Armel J. Peel, 35, of Lansing, inside the pocket of Guerrero’s jacket. He is due with two counts of battery and one count of in court in Bridgeview on Wednesday. assault in connection with a confrontation that Man charged with cannabis occurred at the Apple Store in Orland Square Mall at 4:37 p.m. Oct. 29. Peel allegedly shoulNijem A. Abderrhman, 19, of Orland Park, was der butted one employee, then used both fists to charged with possession of cannabis and posstrike a manager in the chest and raised a first session of drug paraphernalia. Police curbed his to threaten a third person. Responding to a 911 vehicle in the 9500 block of West 151st Street at call, police apprehended Peel a short distance 11:43 p.m. Oct. 28 after he ran a red light, police away during a traffic stop. The alleged victims said. A search of the vehicle yielded a glass were brought to the scene and made a positive smoking pipe and three small plastic bags conidentification, police added. Peel said he was taining cannabis, according to the police report. merely defending himself, according to the police Abderrhman was scheduled to appear Tuesday at report. While he was being processed at the poa hearing at the Orland Park Civic Center.

Red Ribbon Week vs. drug abuse

St. Alexander School in Palos Heights recently recognized the 2014-15 Student Council members for their work coordinating St. Alexander’s Red Ribbon Week campaign.They organized events to fight drug abuse, including a Red Ribbon Prayer Service, Sock it to Drugs Day and Tune Out Drugs Day. Student Council members are Quinn Kennedy, Ryan Cummings, Liam Law, Julia Crowley, Connor Casey, Emmalyn Budd, Norah Sullivan and Marissa Stepanek.

POLICE BLOTTER: PALOS HEIGHTS Charged with driving while license suspended Palos Heights police charged Tiffany T. Woods, 34, of Alsip, with driving on a suspended license, as well as operating a motor vehicle with an unsafe tire. Police curbed her vehicle in the 7100 block of West 127th Street at 12:28 a.m. Friday, after they said they saw it riding on a flat tire at about 20 mph, 15 mph under the posted limit.

Bond was set at $1,500, and Woods is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on Dec. 29.

In other Palos Heights police news, Amina M. Martin, 28, of Justice, was charged with driving on a suspended license, as well as no proof of insurance. Her vehicle was pulled over by police in the 6700 block of West College Drive at 12:29 p.m. Friday, after a random plate check. Bond was set at $2,000, and Martin was given a court date of Dec. 3 in Bridgeview.

Police charged Leeroy Acosta, 32, of Chicago Ridge, with driving on a suspended license, as well as texting while driving. Police stopped his vehicle in the 7100 block of West 127th Street at 7:50 p.m. Sunday. Bond was set at $1,500, and Acosta is due in court in Bridgeview on Dec. 29.

Police charged Jose A. Garcia, 39, of Blue Island, with driving on a suspended license, no proof of insurance, and operating a motor vehicle with expired registration. Police curbed his vehicle in the 12000 block of South Ridgeland Avenue at 4:32 a.m. last Thursday after a random plate check.

Charged with speeding Eric Fisher, 37, of Gary, Ind., was charged with speeding after police said they spotted his vehicle traveling at 65 mph, 30 mph over the posted limit in the 12800 block of South Harlem Avenue, at 1:17 a.m. Sunday. Bond was set at $1,500, and Fisher was given a court date of Dec. 29 in Bridgeview.

Man charged with DUI A 43-year-old Matteson man is in custody on a $150,000 bond, charged with DUI, possession of a controlled substance, driving on a revoked license, no proof of insurance, operating a motor vehicle with no rear registration light, and failure to signal a turn. A vehicle driven by Vincent J. Boettger was curbed by police in the 12700 block of South Harlem Avenue at 1:43 a.m. Friday. He is due in court in Bridgeview on Oct. 29.

Mayor McLaughlin elected chairman of Metropolitan Chgo. Mayors Caucus

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Orland Park Mayor Dan McLaughlin was elected executive board chairman of the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus on Nov. 10, having previously served as the group’s secretary.

Created in 1997 by then Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, the group offers a forum for top elected officials to collaborate on common problems and work together for the benefit of the millions of residents of the area.

“The Metropolitan Mayors Caucus is a great cooperative effort among Chicago area municipalities,” McLaughlin said. “And, while each of the member towns has its own issues to address, we come together as a group to look at what affects the entire area from a regional perspective,” he said.

Palos Hills Mayor Jerry Bennett, a past caucus chairman and current president of the Southwest Conference of Mayors, is pleased with McLaughlin’s election.

“We are very happy that Mayor McLaughlin was elected chair, both to have representation from the southwest suburbs and because he looks at things from a regional perspective,” Bennett said. “It’s going to be a very exciting year for the caucus and we are thrilled to

Palos Park police charged a Chicago man with criminal trespass to a residence after a 53-year-old homeowner said he caught him rummaging through a bedroom closet in his home in the 7700 block of West McCarthy Road at 10:16 a.m. Nov. 11.

Omar Aguirre-Gonzalez, 25, was Aguirre-Gonzalez one of about 12 men employed by the victim, who owns a home-based construction company, and routinely had access to an attached garage to punch a time clock and obtain tools and supplies. The victim told police that the door connecting the garage and residence was unlocked and that in recent months, he noticed that up to $11,500 cash had gone missing from the home. Aguirre-Gonzalez is scheduled to appear in court in Bridgeview on Dec. 2.

have two southwest suburban mayors serving on the executive board — Orland Park’s Mayor McLaughlin as chair and Frankfort Mayor Jim Holland, repreMayor Dan senting the Will McLaughlin County Governmental League, serving as secretary,” Bennett said.

It is estimated that over the next 15 years, the region’s population will grow to 11 million. According to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning’s Go To 2040 Plan: “The Metropolitan Chicago area is poised to prosper in an increasingly interconnected world.

Our region is among the nation’s few global economic centers, and assets include our diverse mix of industries, our vast physical infrastructure and open space, our preeminent educational, cultural, and arts institutions, and our network of unique, identifiable communities.”

Municipal organizations that participate in the caucus are the city of Chicago and nine partner suburban municipal groups: the DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference,

Palos Heights police will be out in force Thanksgiving week Police and safety officials in Palos Heights are reminding residents to fasten their seat belts and drive sober over the Thanksgiving holiday or run the risk of receiving a ticket.

The Police Department is joining the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), the Illinois State Police (ISP) and local law enforcement agencies across the state to save more lives by strongly enforcing seat belt and impaired driving laws.

“Whether you’re going across town or across the state this Thanksgiving, please make sure everyone in the car is wearing their seat belt. By law in Illinois, everyone must wear a seat belt no matter what seating position,” said Sgt. Jeff Crowley. “Our officers are prepared to ticket anyone who is not wearing a seat belt and arrest those choosing to drive impaired.”

IDOT reports that Illinois has a 94.1 percent daytime seat belt usage rate. However, far too many

drivers and passengers still do not buckle up – especially late at night. During the 2013 Thanksgiving holiday weekend in Illinois, seven people lost their lives and 723 motorists were injured in motor vehicle crashes- three of those deaths involved alcohol.

Remember – wearing your seat belt is your best defense against an impaired driver.

“Our goal is to save more lives, so the Palos Heights Police will be out enforcing seat belt laws around the clock,” said Sergeant Crowley.

“Additional enforcement will take place late at night when belt use is at its lowest and impaired driving is the biggest problem.”

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, seat belts saved more than 12,000 lives nationwide in 2012.

“Buckle up and encourage your loved ones to do the same. You will save the cost of a ticket and may save a life.”

Lake County Municipal League, McHenry County Council of Governments, Metro West Council of Governments, Northwest Municipal Conference, South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association, Southwest Conference of Mayors, West Central Municipal Conference and the Will County Governmental League. Member municipalities of each of these organizations are also considered members of the caucus.

On its website, the caucus reports that it has worked cooperatively with the city of Chicago, the Suburban Councils of Governments and the Illinois Municipal League over the past few years to oppose the state’s attempts to take from local revenue sources.

The group vows to continue its coordinated efforts to protect and defend all municipal revenues.

“There are many issues affecting communities across the country and the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus is a vibrant, regional collaboration that comes together to share ideas, keep leaders current on what’s happening in the state and work together to serve our citizens,” McLaughlin said. “I’m honored to serve as the group’s chair.”

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Suspect caught in home’s bedroom closet, police say

Charged with cannabis Cody Earle Worsech, 23, of Palos Hills, was charged with possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police curbed his

vehicle in the 11900 block of South 89th Court at 11:23 p.m. Nov. 7, after they said they saw it swerve out of its lane. A search of the vehicle yielded a smoking pipe and a small amount of cannabis, police said. Worsech is set to appear at a hearing at the Kaptur Administrative Center on Dec. 3.

No valid license: cops Police charged Keri Thirstup, 29, of Hometown, with driving without a valid license, as well as talking on a phone while driving. Her car was pulled over by police in the 12000 block of South Southwest Highway at 4:20 p.m. Nov. 12.

Bond was set at $1,500, and Thirstup was given a court date of Dec. 23 in Bridgeview.

Suspended driver charged also with speeding: police Yesenia Meza, 31, of Chicago, was charged with speeding, as well as driving on a suspended license. Police stopped her car in the 11900 block of South La Grange Road at 2:13 p.m. Nov. 5, after they said they saw it traveling at 50 mph, 15 mph over the posted limit. She is due in court in Bridgeview on Dec. 23.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE FOR THE CITY OF PALOS HEIGHTS A public hearing to approve a proposed property tax levy increase for the City of Palos Heights for 2014 will be held on December 2nd, 2014 at 6:45 p.m. at the City Administrative Center, 7607 West College Drive, Palos Heights, Illinois.

Any person desiring to appear at the public hearing and present testimony to the taxing district may contact Thomas Kantas, City Clerk, 7607 West College Drive, Palos Heights, IL 60463, telephone (708) 361-1800.

The corporate and special purpose property taxes extended or abated for 2013 were $6,395,267.00.

The proposed corporate and special purpose property taxes to be levied for 2014 are $7,071,525.00. This represents an increase of 10.57% over the previous year.

The property taxes extended or abated for debt service and public building commission leases for 2013 were $330,310.00.

The estimated property taxes to be levied for debt service and public building commission leases for 2014 are $0.00. This represents a decrease of 100% over the previous year.

The total property taxes extended or abated for 2013 were $6,725,577.00.

The estimated total property taxes to be levied for 2014 are $7,071,525.00. This represents an increase of 5.14% over the previous year.

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Chicago Christian High School recognizes outstanding students Chicago Christian High School in Palos Heights held its annual Student Recognition Assembly on Nov. 5 to recognize 35 students who excelled in one of the following categories in the classroom during the first quarter: academic excellence, classroom contribution, or perseverance. Each department honored a freshman, sophomore, junior and senior. Honored students are Ellie Gallman, Mike Alrdino, Stephen Fry, Cassie Bulthuis, Cyril Nikolovski, Eddie

Damstra, Jimmy Brady, Mark Schaaf, Alexis Van Ryn, Lydie Hamstra, Katelyn DeBlecourt, Allie Boss, Melanie Belstra, Grant Bollman, Emma Kamp, Kailey Pujdak, Brooke Boulais, Caitlyn Kern, Haley Kits, Bridget Cusack, Susie Cook, Kayla Kamp, Charlie Blim, Colby Roundtree, Collin Pujdak, Jonah Lopez, Abby Haan, Carly Byrnes, Mattie Mikitka, Allison Kooiman, Alyssa Rumbuc, Lauren Jelderks, Cody Boquet and Jacob Bulthuis

SCHOOL NOTES ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ to be performed at Chicago Christian High The Chicago Christian High School Theater Department will perform “The Diary of Anne Frank” at 7:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 21 and 22.

Tickets are general admission and are on sale now in the main office of the school in Palos Heights.

Tickets are $5 adults and $3 for students and seniors. Tickets will also be sold the box office the night of the show at 7 p.m. Shannon Kuiper, who played Lucy Pevensie in “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,” will play the title role.

Open house Sunday at Marist High School Marist will host an open house event this Sunday, Nov. 23, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the school, 4200 W. 115th St. in Chicago.

Open house gives grade school students and their families the chance to tour the school; meet with teachers, coaches, and staff; and review the academic, athletic, and extracurricular programs available at Marist. Visitors can see Marist’s Academic Resource Center, student activity center, technology enhanced classrooms, athletic facilities and other stateof-the-art amenities.

Marist will host two Meet Marist events on Wednesday, Dec. 10, and Friday, Jan. 9, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. both dates. The events will provide students and families with a brief presentation about the school, followed by an abbreviated tour and the chance to talk with students, teachers and coaches.

The opportunity to shadow at Marist as part of the Fridays at Marist program is available through Dec. 12. Students can register in advance at www.marist. net. For more information on these events, call 773-881-5330.

Providence Catholic open house on Sunday Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox welcomes all grade school students and their families to attend its annual Open House this Sunday, Nov. 23, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Faculty, staff, coaches, students and

parents will be on hand to share information about and their experiences with the various academic, spiritual, athletic and extracurricular programs that Providence has to offer.

Providence Catholic offers competitive athletics and comprehensive extracurricular offerings. The school currently holds 27 state championship titles; the most among private high schools in the state of Illinois. In 2014, the school’s varsity baseball team captured the state championship title and the poms and cheerleading teams both placed third at state.

For information about the open house, call Rachel Ellingson at 815-717-3160. The school is at 1800 W. Lincoln Hwy. in New Lenox. For more information, visit www.providencecatholic.org.

District 230 accepting Legacy Hall nominations Nominations of outstanding alumni from Sandburg, Stagg and Andrew high school are being accepted now for the District 230 Foundation Legacy Hall.

Legacy Hall was established to recognize and showcase graduates who exemplify the core mission of District 230: adults prepared to realize their life-long potential in an ever-changing world.

The Foundation is accepting nominations through Dec. 1 for candidates to be inducted into Legacy Hall in the following categories: Arts and Entertainment, Business and Commerce, Community and Volunteerism, Education and Humanities, Government and Military, Philanthropy and Non-Profit, Science and Technology, and Sports and Recreation.

Nominees must have graduated from a District 230 high school at least five years prior to nomination and made significant contributions and demonstrated leadership/character in his or her field and community. Posthumous nominations are accepted.

A listing of all 77 Legacy Hall members can be found at www. d230foundation.org . The nomination form can also be found there.

Legacy Hall Class of 2015 will be honored on April 17 during a dinner event at Silver Lake Country Club.

LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of a public hearing (Docket 2014-18) to be held before the Palos Heights Zoning Board of Appeals on Monday, December 8th, 2014 at 7:00 PM at the Palos Heights City Hall, 7607 W. College Drive, Palos Heights, IL to consider the following petition filed by Deno & Suzanne Moustakas at 12103 S 73rd Ave (PIN 23-25-220-001-0000) for a 8’ front yard variance to replace a front porch and a 4’ front yard variance to expand an existing garage.

All interested parties are invited to attend and will be given an opportunity to be heard.

Michael Parella Community Development Coordinator

LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of a public hearing (Docket 2014-20) to be held before the Palos Heights Zoning Board of Appeals on Monday, December 8th, 2014 at 7:00 PM, at the Palos Heights City Hall, 7607 W. College Drive, Palos Heights, IL to consider the following petition filed by Dr Mohamed Shalabi at 12750 S Harlem Ave (PIN 23-36-204-021-0000) for a special use designation to operate a B-1 service use--doctor’s office--in a B district.

All interested parties are invited to attend and will be given an opportunity to be heard.

Michael Parella Community Development Coordinator

LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of a public hearing (Docket 2014-19) to be held before the Palos Heights Zoning Board of Appeals on Monday, December 8th, 2014 at 7:00 PM, at the Palos Heights City Hall, 7607 W. College Drive, Palos Heights, IL to consider the following petition filed by Robert Kusper at 12233 S 70th Court (PIN 24-30-128-004-0000) for a 5’ side yard variance for the construction of a garage.

All interested parties are invited to attend and will be given an opportunity to be heard.

Michael Parella Community Development Coordinator

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Pacesetters Isabel Martinez and Ashleigh Hughes help serve beverages to more than 150 senior citizens in attendance at the annual holiday breakfast at Palos South Middle School.

Palos South fetes veterans and seniors Palos South Middle School was bustling with activity last week as they honored 35 local servicemen at their assembly on Veterans Day, and hosted more than 150 local senior citizens last Thursday for Palos 118’s senior holiday breakfast.

The annual Veterans Day service paid tribute to the parents, grandparents, and other family members and friends of the students of Palos School District 118 who

have served the country. Organized

by Palos South’s Student Council, the program included the placing of the POW/MIA flag, remarks from student council officers and local dignitaries, and performances by the Cardinal Band and Choir.

Veterans were recognized individually by students and presented with small mementos of gratitude.

Vets also stood to be recognized as the Cardinal Symphonic Band played musical tributes to all of

the service sets.

Welcoming remarks for the third annual Senior Holiday Breakfast last Thursday were given by Student Council President Ashleigh Hughes, with entertainment provided by Palos South’s Performing Arts Ensemble and the Cardinal Red Jazz Band. Staff and administrators served guests a buffet-style breakfast, while students from the Pacesetters service club escorted seniors to and from the cafete-

ria, cleared tables, and conducted school tours.

“Our students honored local veterans and welcomed Palos senior citizens to South this week,” said Palos South Principal Stuart Wrzesinski. “There is nothing greater we can teach our children than respect and reverence for those who have served, and sharing their time and talents with those who have contributed to our community.”

— School District 118

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COMMUNITY NOTES Southwest Symphony Christmas concerts The 35-member Southwest Symphony Orchestra will give its Holiday Memories concert of Christmas music twice: at St. Michael Church, 14327 S. Highland Ave., Orland Park, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, and again at St. Francis of Assisi, 15050 S. Wolf Road, Orland Park, at 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 14.

Highlights include Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride and a medley from Disney’s Polar Express.

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will be members of the music ministries from both churches and the Voices of the Valley singing the John Rutter Gloria. The Austrian Mixed Choir of Chicago will also perform at St. Francis.

Tickets, $20-$25, can be purchased at the door, or in advance by calling 1-800-838-3006 or online at southwestsymphony. com. Seniors pay $16.

Instrumentalists wishing to audition for the orchestra should call the number above or email southwestsymphony@ gmail.com.

CRAFTS & BAZAARS Shepard High School’s Fall Arts/ Crafts show will be held Saturday, Dec. 6, from 9 to 3 p.m., at the school, 13049 S. Ridgeland Ave. in Palos Heights.

Entrance cost is $2 per person at door 12. Parking is free and concessions will be available all day. More than 100 crafters.

*** Incarnation Parish will hold a craft and vendors fair this Sunday, Nov. 23, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the parish’s Bernadin Center, 5705 W. 127th St. Free admission. Crafters, vendors, raffles, split the pot, bake sale and much more.

SIMPLE GIFTS Orland Fire Dist. toy drive for kids with cancer Area residents and businesses can cheer children and teens fighting cancer by donating a new toy or gift during the Orland Park-based Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation annual holiday toy drive.

Toys or gifts may be dropped off Nov. 26 through Dec. 23 at every Orland fire station in Orland Park.

Stations are at 9790 W. 151st St., 15100 S. 80th Ave., 15101 S. Wolf Road, 16565 S. 94th Ave., 8851 W. 143rd St. and 17640 S. Wolf Road.

For information, contact Colleen Kisel at 687-TOYS (8697) or visit the POTCF website at treaurechest. org.

LIBRARY NOTES Heights Library upcoming events • The Palos Heights Library will close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 26, and it will remain closed in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, Nov. 27.

The library will re-open on Nov. 28 at 9 a.m.

• Featured Database/Product – Driver Education Program: Free DMV Permit Practice Tests.

This database contains a variety of practice tests for obtaining or renewing your Drivers License.

Passenger vehicles, Motorcycles, and Commercial Drivers Licenses (CDL) are covered, as well as Fines and Limits, Road Signs, and other special topics covered on the actual DMV tests.

• The following clubs meet at the Palos Heights Public Library, 12501 S. 71st Ave. No registration necessary. Needle Club – Bring your projects to the Needle Club, and enjoy the company of others while working, on Tuesday, Nov. 25, from 10 a.m. to noon. New members always welcome. Mah jongg – Meet at the Library and bring your game to play American Mah Jongg on Tuesday, Nov. 25, at 1 p.m. Novice and experienced players welcome.

• Streaming video – Learn how you can stream movies right to your computer or other device.

All you need is your library card.

OverDrive Media On Demand and Freegal movies and television will be discussed on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 2pm.

• Author Johanna Shapard will be at the library today (Thursday), at 6:30 p.m. to discuss her “Journey from Page to Publishing.”

Aspiring authors will not want to miss this candid and informative program covering everything from style and formatting to selecting an agent and publisher.

• Visit the library’s new Techol-

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Christmas is coming on Thanksgiving

ogy Lab on Floor 1 for “Facebook The calendar says that next Thursday is Thanksgiving. But in Hickory Hills, Thanksgiving is going to co-headline with Christmas. The Sabrettes are apand Social Media,” this Friday, pearing next Thursday at the Sabre Room’s annual Thanksgiving dinner and show. Seating starts at 1:30 p.m. and there will be a visit from Santa with Nov. 21, at 2 p.m. Get practical toys and candy for the kids. The Sabre Room is located at 8900 W. 95th St. in Hickory Hills. For more information, call 708-598-1200. advice for building and maintaining your social media persona.

Program registration for events is recommended. Register for events online at www. palosheightslibrary.org, by callRoundtable will meet at 7 p.m.

The Christmas Walk will start baskets and the Win-Win. HomePalos Heights ing 448-1473, or in person. All today (Thursday) at Smokey with a full breakfast Palos Coun- made cookies will also be sold.

Garden Club programs are free and open to Barque restaurant, 20 Kansas St. try Club and shopping from many From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., several the public unless otherwise noted.

The Palos Heights Garden Club in Frankfort. vendors selling Christmas and food local homes decorated for the holwill meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Ray Glick will present Horses items. Raffles include several gift idays will be open for viewing.

Heights library Nov 24, at Lake Katherine Nature in the Civil War. Arrive by 6 p.m. youth programs Center, 7402 W. Lake Katherine if coming for dinner.

Drive in Palos Heights.

Palos Heights • Bluestem Buddies - StuMaster Gardener Debbie Rea Woman’s Club dents in grades 3-5 are invited will present Kitchen Garden Mainwithoutdiscount discount service. without service. to explore a 2015 Bluestem nom- tenance, how she maintains an orChristmas Walk inated book, and enjoy activities, ganic kitchen garden — her favorIt’s accident no accidentmore morepeople people trust It’s no trustState StateFarm.

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Ave. in Palos Heights, or from a • Doctor Who Party - StuThe South Suburban Civil War member of the club. dents in grades 6 and up invited to attend a Doctor Who party all things Whovian with games, crafts, snacks and trivia this Sunday, Nov. 23, at 2 p.m.

Registration is appreciated for this event.

• App Test Drive - An all ages program for parents and kids to try out a variety of helpful apps and learn how to use them on Monday, Nov. 24, at 7 p.m. No registration is required for this event.

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Natural remedies for indigestion and heartburn Q: I have problems with indigestion and heartburn a few times a week. I usually just take an antacid (although sometimes it doesn’t really fix it). Recently I read that antacids were not really great to take. Is there anything you would suggest as an alternative?

A: Heartburn and indigestion can be an uncomfortable thing to deal with. Antacids would not really be something I’d recommend, however, since there are a number of other things that would probably work better and be healthier as well.

The first thing I’d say is that for most people who take antacids, they are not taking one or two, but closer to a handful to quell their symptoms. The trouble with this is that excess calcium is not a good thing (antacids are usually made from calcium carbonate). The body can only absorb about 500mg of calcium at one time, so taking more than that at a time can raise blood calcium levels, and when taken at excessive dosages on a regular basis can lead to kidney stones, arterial calcification, and more.

Next, it’s interesting to note that in many cases, indigestion and even heartburn is caused by a lack of stomach acid, rather than an excess like it may seem.

Hydrochloric acid (HCL) is produced in the stomach and is needed for the proper digestion of food. With age, the amount of HCL present in the body decreases. There is an easy test to see if your indigestion and heartburn caused by not enough HCL; next time you have digestive troubles, try taking a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar or lemon juice mixed with some water.

If it makes the indigestion go away, you need more stomach acid. If it makes your symptoms worse, then take care to avoid supplements that contain HCL. If it does help, taking apple cider vinegar with meals would be a good idea to enhance digestionI would particularly recommend Bragg’s apple cider vinegar- it’s the best apple cider vinegar I’ve ever used.

Digestive enzymes would also be a good idea. Digestive enzymes help the body to break down food more easily. Both our bodies and the foods we eat contain enzymes, though our body’s own natural enzymes decrease with age, and cooking food, as well as storage methods of our groceries,

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reduce those enzymes further. Supplementing with digestive enzymes at meals will just help the body to digest foods easier, helping to prevent both indigestion and heartburn.

People who have frequent indigestion or heartburn will often take digestive enzymes with each meal. Other people, myself included, will take them only as needed, e.g., when you eat a meal at a restaurant and you know you’ve overdone it. In a case like that, digestive enzymes can just give your body the boost it needs to digest the rock in your stomach. We also have digestive enzymes available that contain additional HCL for people with low stomach acid.

Aloe vera juice is another supplement that can help with heartburn as well as a variety of other digestive problems.

Aloe is very calming and healing to the digestive tract, and for many people, taking one-fourth cup morning and night can relieve a host of digestive issues.

The last supplement I’d recommend is actually called, “Stop Acid Reflux”

by Caleb Treeze. It’s a mix of apple cider vinegar, ginger, and garlic (which I know sounds kind of awful, but it’s actually a refreshing taste) that is said to stop acid reflux in 60 seconds. I’ve used

PICK OF THE LITTER Maybe take pet to the vet instead of diagnose online Dear Dr. Fleming, I already have a vet but she won’t help me. My dog Lucy is an 11-year-old Lab and she is losing it. I went on the Internet and now I think she has cognitive dysfunction, and the advertisement said to try Anipryl.

I want to do this, but my vet says I have to have her examined first. I had her in to the vet clinic two years ago for a nail trim, and three years ago for a distemperment shot, but my vet won’t give me a subscription (sic) without an exam. Will you?

Brenda, Oak Lawn Dear Brenda, Please just stay where you are. Your vet is quite right to examine Lucy before putting her on Anipryl. For those who don’t know what cognitive dysfunction (CD) is in dogs, just think of Alzheimer’s disease in people.

Reportedly, 28 percent of dogs 11 to 12 years of age and 68 percent of dogs 15 to 16 years of age show at least one sign associated with CD. The clinical presentation in cats is more ambiguous, but aren’t most things in cats?

Some signs of CD in dogs are anxiety (e.g., restlessness, fear or phobias, separation anxiety), alterations in social interactions with you and other pets and a break in housetraining. Altered social interactions could present as an increase in neediness, or becoming more aloof or more vocalization, especially at night.

One of the most troubling things for caregivers are changes in the sleep-wake cycle: dogs may remain awake throughout the night and whine and pace. We do use Anipryl as the brand name of selegiline but more often than not we have it compounded from the generic drug to save cost for the pet owner.

Even though you and the Internet have diagnosed Lucy with having CD, there are some medical problems that can present similarly and your vet is correct not to let you self-diagnose her.

For example, many old dogs get Cushing’s disease due to a small tumor in the pituitary gland.

That little brain tumor can cause a dog to drink more water and all you see is a dog that was previously housebroken peeing in the house. That small tumor may also be just large enough to cause forebrain disease and thus “behavioral” changes.

JOHN FLEMING DVM • Prairie StateVet.com Addison’s disease, diabetes and hypothyroidism can also present with behavioral problems including house soiling (secondary to polydipsia and polyuria and/or lower urinary tract infection), irritability, aggressions and lethargy. Metabolic disorders such as kidney or liver dysfunction can trigger behavioral signs such as disorientation, mental dullness, irritability and house soiling. Painful conditions such as osteoarthritis, neoplasia and skin disorders can make it painful to find comfortable resting positions and the pet may appear restless, anxious, irritable or aggressive. High blood pressure can cause anxiety, restlessness, changes in activity, confusion and disorientation. And we all know that sensory loss (vision and hearing changes) can lead to confusion, disorientation, changes in movement, irritability and house soiling.

Also Brenda, even though Anipryl can be helpful, there are a number of other things that should be considered by way of treatment for a dog with CD. Besides managing any comorbid conditions as discussed above, there are environmental and behavioral modification techniques that can be employed.

Nutritional supplements such as fatty acids, L-theanine, SAMe, phosphatidylserine and other antioxidants can be tried and other pharmacologic interventions such as Prozac or Zoloft have been beneficial in some dogs. Sleep aids such as melatonin, benzodiazepines and trazodone can help reset the sleep-wake cycle, providing patients and their caregivers rest.

Do yourself and Lucy a favor Brenda. Stay out of Walmart for a day or two and take the money you saved by not going shopping and get your dog checked out.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

—Dale Carnegie in How to Win Friends and Influence People

it and was amazed how well it worked.

Finally, if your heartburn persists or grows worse, be sure to speak with your doctor to rule out any more serious problems.

To submit a question to be answered in a future column send an email to healthyanswersforlife@gmail.com or mail to Healthy Answers for Life c/o Pass Health Foods at 7228 W. College Drive, Palos Heights, IL 60463 This column makes no claims to diagnose, treat, prevent, mitigate, or cure diseases with any advice or products. Any health related information in this article is for educational purposes only. The ultimate responsibility for your choices and their effect on your health are yours and before applying any therapy or use of herbs, supplements, etc., you should consult your health care provider.

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Members of the Keep Palos Heights Beautiful Committee recently presented an award sign for Business Beautification to the Mona Lisa Boutique on Harlem Avenue, just in time for the shop’s 23rd anniversary. Shown are Mona Lisa co-owner Wendy Evans (center), with committee co-chairwomen Eileen Lunter (left) and Lois Duran.

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Charitable giving pays off … for everyone Americans are pretty generous — in fact, 83 percent of us donated money to charitable organizations last year, according to a Gallup survey. And now that we’re entering the holiday season, charitable giving well may be on your mind. Your key motivation for making charitable gifts, of course, is to help those organizations whose work is meaningful to you. However, by supporting these groups, you can also make life less “taxing” for yourself.

Specifically, by making charitable contributions, you may be able to receive some valuable tax breaks. To claim a deduction, though, you need to itemize your taxes, and you need to make sure that the organization you’re supporting is qualified, from a tax-deductibility standpoint. If you’re unsure whether a group is qualified, just ask to see its letter from the IRS. (Many organizations now post these letters on their websites.)

Here’s how the charitable tax deduction works: If you give $200 to a qualified charity, and you’re in the 25 percent tax bracket, you can deduct $200, with a tax benefit of $50, when you file your 2014 taxes. Consequently, the net “cost” of your donation is just $150 ($200 minus the $50 tax savings).

Of course, you are not confined to making cash gifts. In fact, if you donate certain types of noncash assets, you may be able to increase your tax benefits. Suppose you give $1,000 worth of stock in ABC Company to a charitable group. If you’re in the 25% bracket, you’ll be able to deduct $250 when you file your taxes. And by donating the ABC stock, you can avoid paying the capital gains taxes that would be due if you had eventually sold the stock yourself.

Keep in mind that if you want to deduct your contributions for the 2014 tax year, you’ll need to make your gifts by Dec. 31. One more reminder: Retain your paperwork. If you made gifts totaling over $250 to any single charity — or noncash contributions of any items worth over $500 — the IRS requires written acknowledgments for your contributions.

If you want to take a longer-term approach to

JIM VAN HOWE

Edward Jones Investments charitable giving, while incorporating your gifts in planning for your estate, you might want to consider establishing a charitable remainder trust.

Under this arrangement, you’d place some assets, such as stocks or real estate, into a trust, which could then use these assets to pay you a lifetime income stream. When you establish the trust, you may be able to receive an immediate tax deduction based on the charitable group’s “remainder interest” — the amount the charity is likely to ultimately receive. (This figure is determined by an IRS formula.) Upon your death, the trust would relinquish the remaining assets to the charitable organization you’ve named. This type of trust can be complex, so to create one, you’ll need to work with your tax and legal advisors.

While the tax benefits associated with charitaSubmitted photo ble giving are significant, they should not, ultiPotter Karen Stasky will display her work at the Christmas Art Show this Sunday at The Center in Palos Park. mately, drive your gifting decisions. You should also consider the effect your gift will have on the other areas of your estate considerations — so make sure you communicate your plans to your family members.

In any case, though, be as generous as you can this holiday season and in the years to come.

Your generosity will be a rewarding experience — for everyone.

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 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.

Orland Park T L Swint Ind Inc to Orland Sq LLC, 24 Orland Square, $1,500,000; Mrf Illinois One LLC to Millennium Trust Co LLC Custodian, 8701 162nd St, $125,000; Manning Robert Fitzgerald to Salman Bahloul, 8320 Hillcrest Dr, $177,000; Miroballi Joseph J to Odenbach James R, 43 S Silo Ridge Rd East, $1,275,000; Moore Nicole L to Ardolino Michael Jr, 9299 Erin Ln, Unit #B, $145,000; Barbera Thomas W to Hausner

Mary Lee Tr, 9750 W Koch Ct, Unit #3H, $130,000; Van Meter Mary S Tr to Zawisza Yara Koht, 14661 Crystal Tree Dr, $532,000; Grosser Eugene to Maryniarczyk Stanislaw, 15226 74th Ave, Unit #55, $139,000; Fessler James W to Onorio Joseph, 11120 W Dover Ct, $435,000; Vroegh John Jr to Costello James R, 7719 Sycamore Dr, $320,000; Alfirevich Joseph P to Alfirevich Mary M Tr, 16211 S 107th Ave, $459,500; Suntrust Bk to Orland 143rd LLC, 7931 143rd St, $380,000; Porcellino Robert to Zurawski Jozef Trust, 17624 Greenfield Dr, $330,000; Marquette Bank Tr to Rbt Industries Series A LLC, 9425 171st St, $1,450,000;

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Giving away, giving back in Orland Township

Christmas Art Show and sale at The Center

The Center will host its annual students. Shown is potter Karen and family artwork. Some inChristmas Art Show and Sale this Stasky, who will display her work structors will be demonstrating Sunday Nov. 23, from noon to 4 at the Christmas Art Show. their artwork throughout the p.m., at 12700 Southwest HighIncluded in the show will afternoon. way, Palos Park. be watercolors, pen and ink Blanche Sanders and the Center The art show and sale will fea- drawings, handmade baskets, staff and volunteer Fellowcraftture the works of Lenox Wallace, weavings, stained glass, pottery, ers will also have a bazaar of Lois Hrejsa, Marge Boyd, April quilts, knitting, pastels, collag- Christmas crafts for sale, such as Schabes, Dan Snyder, Georgann es, woodcarvings, mandalas, wooden reindeers, tin bell swags, Ring, Nettie Botts, Dan Snyder, lapidary, jewelry, calligraphy, and holiday wreaths. For more inDave Sanders, Keith Miller and nature photography, handmade formation, call 361-3650 or visit Valasek Jacquelyn R Tr to Men- other Center art instructors and papers, folk arts, and children’s www.thecenterpalos.org. doza Michael, 10257 151st St, $167,000; Sterchele Brian to Kopec Anna, 9138 140th St, Unit #203, $79,000; First Midwest Bk Tr to Sterling Where Leadership Begins Rdg Bldg P S LLC, 14544 S Humphrey Dr, Unit #2A4, $200,000; Jerzak Olga Tr to Lachut Krysztof P, 8320 Red Oak Ln, $263,000; Chicago Title Land Trust Co to Webber William R, 18238 Oklahoma Ct, Unit #300, $224,000; Grady Kathleen M Tr to Elias Gerald J, 8924 Palos Springs Dr, $318,000.

ST. LAURENCE HIGH SCHOOL

Palos Heights Koeppen Christian C to Divincenzo Joseph, 13005 S Meade Ave, $330,000; Kamper Randall J to Djikas Megan, 12312 S 75th Ave, $225,000; Girten Rosemary T Tr to Graney Colleen, 12345 S 74th Ave, $235,000; Compton Anita Jeanne to Joudeh Mohammad, 13151 Westview Dr, Unit #131512A, $153,000; Rubio Walter to Mason Jacklyn M, 6433 W 126th Pl, $224,500.

Palos Park Defranco John N to Fletcher Bradley, 10711 Sedgwick Dr, $397,500; Costello James R Tr to Schilling Nicholas J, 1 Mccord Trace, $357,500; Mihalkanin Peter Tr to Slavin Kathleen, 1 St. Moritz Dr, Unit #9102, $170,000; Lazzeroni Stephanie Wilz Tr to Serenity Valley, 46 Old Creek Rd, $280,000; Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr to Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr, 12323 Wolf Rd, $248,000.

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Volunteers collected enough electronic materials to fill two semi trailers at Orland Township’s annual 3-In-1 recycling event held on Nov. 8 at the township Highway Department in Orland Park. It was the township’s final “Sustainable Saturday” of the year. Cars lined up to drop off old computers, televisions, fax machines and radios. It raised funds for the Orland Township Scholarship Foundation, in addition to collecting food and $1,700 in cash for the township food pantry.

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RATES 4.000 3.750 3.125

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DEATH NOTICES Jesse Adamus

Jesse Adamus, 58, of Palos Park, died Nov. 15 at Advocate Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn.

Beloved husband of Annette (nee Sapata). Devoted father of Jamey (Jennifer), Jason (Yvette), Gionna Adamus and Angelina (Felix) Rodriguez.

Loving grandfather of nine. Dear brother of Donna Adamus, Kathy Janusas, and the late Cecelia Gauthier. Cherished son of the late Euzebiusz and Jozefa Adamus. Also survived by many loving family members and friends. Former co-owner of Fine Line Hair Design-Brighton Park.

Visitation was held Wednesday at the PalosGaidas Funeral Home, Palos Hills. Funeral today (Thursday) 9 a.m. from the funeral home to Our Lady of the Woods Church for 10 a.m. Mass.

Mr. Adamus was born in Germany. He worked as a barber.

Patricia A. Barun

Patricia Barun (nee Butt), 86, formerly of Palos Park.

Beloved wife of the late John A. Dear sister of the late Dolores Schusler. Dear daughter of the late Francis and Loretta Butt. Loving aunt of Catherine Ziebarth, Marianne Barun, Susan Accardi and great aunt of Bethany Soreng. Mrs. Barun was born in Chicago. She worled as a secretary; many years of service at St. Xavier College.

Visitation this Friday 9-11 a.m. at Palos-Gaidas Funeral Home in Palos Hills. Funeral Friday 11 a.m. from the funeral home to Sacred Heart Church for 1130 a.m. Mass. Interment St. Mary Cemetery.

Joan M. Herman

Joan M. Herman, nee Travis, 81, of Orland Park, died on Nov. 15.

Visitation was held at Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Orland Park on Nov. 17. A funeral service was held at the funeral home on Nov. 18.

Interment was private.

Sertoma Centre’s Holiday Bazaar on Friday, Dec. 5, will load tables with homemade crafts, Christmas ornaments Mrs. Herman is survived by her daughter, Lori and holiday décor. Sales will benefit individuals with disabilities.

Rizvi; her son, Edward; three grandchildren,

Holiday Bazaar will again benefit the good works of Sertoma Centre From Sertoma Centre

clients to provide lovely gift items for shoppers this year. There are a record number of Sertoma Centre vendors and a few outside vendors all making sure there is a great selection of items.

If you are looking for gift ideas that won’t break the bank, Holiday Bazaar has just what you need. There will be craft items that range from $1 to $10. Free gift wrapping is included. Grab some lunch at the North Pole

Café or enjoy a sweet treat and some hot chocolate at Mrs. Claus Bake Shoppe. The proceeds from each of Sertoma Centre Vendor Booths will go directly to the programs that participated, so come out and support people with disabilities.

For more information, contact head elf Laura Gardner at 7306211 or lgardner@sertomacentre. org, or visit the website at sertomacentre.org.

Orland Fire District toy drive for kids with cancer

Neat Repeats warmth dropoff for Crisis Center

Area residents and businesses can cheer children and teens fighting cancer by donating a new toy or gift during the Orland Parkbased Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation annual holiday toy drive.

Toys or gifts may be dropped off Nov. 26 through Dec. 23 at every Orland fire station in Orland Park. Stations are at 9790 W. 151st St., 15100 S. 80th Ave., 15101 S. Wolf Road, 16565 S. 94th Ave., 8851 W. 143rd St. and 17640 S. Wolf Road.

For information, contact Colleen Kisel at 687-TOYS (8697) or visit the POTCF website at treaurechest.org.

Donations of new and gently used winter coats, clothing and toys for women and children at the Crisis Center for South Suburbia shelter are being accepted at Neat Repeats Resale stores in Worth, 7026 W. 111th St., ph. 361-6860; and Orland Park, 9028 W. 159th St. ph. 364-7605.

Neat Repeats Resale is open seven days a week. All sales benefit Crisis Center programs for victims of domestic violence.

of community members to help make the holidays a bit brighter for women and children who are residents of the Crisis Center by asking groups, organizations, and individuals to consider donating gifts for its clients.

A holiday wish list is available on the Crisis Center’s website at www.crisisctr.org, or can be obtained by contacting Kerri at 4297255, ext. 126, or email kerrit@ crisisctr.org.

The Tinley Park Public Library is again a drop-off site for holiday gifts donations from Nov. 21 through Dec. 14. Look for the donation box library, 7851 Timber Drive.

The Crisis Center provides emergency shelter and other essential services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence.

Sertoma’s Holiday Bazaar will be held on Friday, Dec. 5, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Sertoma Centre, 4343 W. 123rd St. in Alsip.

This is a great way to start your holiday shopping. Friends, neighboring schools, churches and area organizations are welcome to stop in to shop. Many of Sertoma Centre’s departments and programs have been working hard with the

SIMPLE GIFTS

Holiday gift drive for residents of the Crisis Center The Crisis Center for South Suburbia is enlisting the assistance

BILLY GRAHAM’S “MY ANSWER” Q: I don’t know why my wife and I ever got married because we’re so different. All we do is pull and tug at each other, trying to get the other person to change.

But I know now that it’s not going to happen. Is there any hope for our marriage? — D.G. A: Yes, there is hope for your marriage — and not just for its survival, but for its happiness and joy. And with God’s help it can happen. God’s original reason for marriage is still valid: “It is not good for the man to be alone”

(Genesis 2:18).

Your marriage probably won’t survive, however, if it remains a constant tug of war, with each of you spending all your energy trying to get your spouse to change. The harder you try to make that happen, the less likely it becomes, because it only gets the other person upset and more determined to get you to change. The Bible wisely says, “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger” (Proverbs 15:1).

But what if you spent the same

HOUSES OF WORSHIP The Wayside Chapel Palos Park A Communion service will be held on Thanksgiving, next Thursday, Nov. 27, at 9:30 a.m., in the Wayside Chapel at The Center, 12700 Southwest Highway in Palos Park. The Rev. Chris Hopkins invites all persons who wish, to participate. (361-3650)

Christ Lutheran Church, Orland Park The church is supporting the residential and foster care ministry of Lutheran Child and Family Services again this Christmas.

Angel Tree ornaments will be available in the narthex beginning Nov. 22 with specified gifts for children at the Lutherbrook Center

due by Dec. 14. On Dec. 6 and 7, a door offering will be received to support the LCFS Foster Family Christmas Party.

The church is at 14700 S. 94th Ave. For more, call the church at 349-0431.

amount of energy trying to please your spouse? What if you gave up trying to make her conform to your will, and learned instead to compromise? That’s the way of true love — love that seeks what is best for the other person, instead of seeking to gain an advantage over them. The Bible says, “Love is patient, love is kind.... It is not proud.... it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs” (1 Corinthians 13:4-5).

Is this possible? Yes, when you make Christ the center of your marriage and your life. Together ask Him to come into your lives, and then ask Him to fill you with His love.

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.

Mary C. Kirby

Mary C. Kirby (nee Speece) age 82, of Palos Park, died on Nov. 14 at home.

Beloved wife of Jim. Devoted mother of Meg (Tom) Noone and Kim Kirby. Loving grandmother of Shannon Aardema, Heather Yandel, Kelli Molck Kerbi Seabolt and G.G. of 7. Dear sister of Peggy Hughes and the late Caryl McGrath. Mary was a member of the Palos Newcomers Club and past member of Ridge and Midlothian Country Clubs.

Visitation was Tuesday at the Palos-Gaidas Funeral Home, in Palos Hills. A funeral Mass was held Wednesday at St. Alexander Church in Palos Heights.

Mrs. Kirby was born in Chicago. She was a homemaker.

Phyllis M. Mulqueen

Phyllis M. Mulqueen, nee Kelly, 80, of Orland Park, died on Nov. 12 at Manor Care West in Palos Heights.

Visitation was held at Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Orland Park on Nov. 14. A funeral service was held at the funeral home on Nov. 15.

Interment was at St. Mary Cemetery.

Mrs. Mulqueen is survived by her son, Thomas Mulqueen III, her brother, Ken Kelly, and many nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Mulqueen was born in Chicago. She was a retired administrative assistant for Fireman’s Fund Insurance.

Joan Herman, former Orland Township trustee and dedicated community servant Joan Herman, a former Orland Township trustee and township activist, died on Nov. 15. She was 81.

Mrs. Herman was an extremely devoted individual who lived the life she sought to inspire in others.

This life was one of service and dedication- service to our community and dedication to every individual within it, especially our youth.

Mrs. Herman served the community as an Orland Township trustee for 31 years, from 1973 to when she retired in 2001. She returned to fill an unexpired term from 2006 to 2009.

During her time at Orland Township she participated in Youth Commission meetings and events, such as the Youth Commission Race and “Haunted Woods” program.

She strived to teach young people the importance of giving back to

their community through community service, and with her diverse volunteer portfolio she was an exemplary model for our youth to look up to.

Whether it was helping at a health fair or immunization clinic, contributing her efforts to one of the Food Pantry’s annual assistance programs, volunteering her time at a senior event or serving as an Orland Township Scholarship Foundation committee member, Mrs. Herman was always present with unwavering enthusiasm and a caring smile. Mrs. Herman’s genuine concern for others showed in everything she did- all of her actions were heartfelt and with a

purpose, that purpose being the betterment of our neighbors and community as a whole.

“Former Trustee Herman will always be held in high regard by the Administration and staff of Orland Township. She will never be forgotten,” said Supervisor Paul O’Grady. “We will miss her selfless spirit, and only hope that others can follow in her inspirational footsteps.”

Mrs. Herman’s kindness overflowed into all aspects of her life.

She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother who never missed an opportunity to spend time with her grandchildren. She leaves behind a legacy of commitment and compassion, and will remain an inspiring figure to all of us for years to come.

—Orland Township

Orland Kiwanis Club donates $1,000 to Pediatric Treasure Chest Foundation The Orland Park Kiwanis Club recently presented a donation of $1,000 to the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation of Orland Park.

The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation is a notfor-profit organization dedicated to providing comfort and distraction from painful procedures to children and teens who have been diagnosed with cancer, by providing gifts from a treasure chest.

“The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation helps raise the spirits of kids who are battling cancer,” said Edward Schussler, Kiwanis Division 4 lieutenant governor. “The Orland Park Kiwanis Club is honored to be able to make a contribution towards their efforts.”

Submitted photo The POTCF depends on contri- Orland Park Kiwanis Club member Herb Walker presents a $1,000 donation butions of money, toys and gifts check to Colleen Kisel, founder and CEO of the Pediatric Oncology Treasure through private and corporate Chest Foundation, based in Orland Park. donations to provide comfort and distraction from painful procedures to children and teens diagnosed with cancer.

Supporting programs that support children is something that the local Orland Park Kiwanians hold dear. The club provides funds to such local organizations as the Orland Township Food Pantry, Together We Cope and The Bridge Teen Center, as well as help to individual families in need, as needs arise.

9236 ROBERTS ROAD The Orland Kiwanis meets at HICKORY HILLS, IL 7:45 a.m. at Denny’s on La Grange 708-430-5700 Road, and welcomes new members who want to join the club. Email OPKiwanisPR@gmail.com.

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Father Rudcki Heritage Concert Series will present their annual Christmas Concert at 3:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 7, in the parish’s Crosby Center, 7025 W. 126th St. in Palos Heights.

her sister, Jerri Ide; and two brothers, Lee and Ronald Travis.

Mrs. Herman was born in Blue Island. She was a wedding consultant. She served as an Orland Park village trustee for 28 years, was an election judge for 50 years and an Orland Township Youth Commission advisor for many years.

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE "You Can Say That Again!"

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40 Years Ago This Week

Lifetime Lions member: Carl Richards, retired publisher of The Palos Regional (left), receives a certificate representing an honorary lifetime membership in the Palos Lions Club from Al Larson in January, 1953. Mrs. Richards looks on. Richards was one of three men who attended a meeting held to organize the Palos Lions.

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IMPRESSIONS

Is sitting around for three weeks the best idea to save money?

First off, I like having a big-screen TV set.

I don’t use it as much as the kids do. But when I watch TV, I have such a fondness for High Definition that when there is a non-HD channel on, I grumble.

If I go to a friend or relative’s house and there is a smallish TV without HD, it’s a severe disappointment. I feel sorry for those people.

How did we live without HD and seeing every blemish and freckle on an actor or actresses face?

That said, I would not go to the great lengths that Vicky Torres and Juanita Salas have been going through just to get a bigscreen, HD-TV for $199. They would be saving about $300 which is not a small amount of scratch.

These two are in the middle of a 22day stretch in which they are waiting outside of a Best Buy in Beaumont, Calif., to be the first in line for the store’s Black Friday sale, which will happen late Thursday afternoon. It’s a story that has the smell of publicity stunt written all over it.

But they claim they are doing it to save money.

I don’t know these women and I will resist the easy scoffing and insults that I am tempted to make. But I will offer a solution that beats the heck out of sitting out in front of a store for three weeks.

First off, if they are working, they are losing three weeks of pay, which makes no sense.

Second, if they are not working, they are spending 528 hours or so, sitting on chairs, when they could be working.

California minimum wage

JEFF VORVA is 9 smacks per hour. If they thought ahead, they could have worked somewhere for just 20 hours a week for five weeks, which would have given them $900 to play with.

Take away some of that for taxes and stuff, but add the $199 seed money they already had to buy the marked-down TV and they are still in the $900 range to buy an upgraded set with more pixels and bells.

Then they could have spent the rest of their weeks with their families, helping the poor, sleeping in their own beds and a

variety of other things that…well…make sense.

Good luck ladies. I hope you enjoy your $199 TV set later this month. You earned it…I guess.

The Bears aren’t this bad

When the Bears gave up back-to-back 50-point games to New England and Green Bay, they were linked in history with the Rochester Jeffersons. That team was the only other in NFL history to accomplish that and the Jeffs (what a cool name) did that in 1923.

But that shouldn’t count. That was an era that was a lot different than what we have now. The Jeffs played a fourgame season that was so bad, it makes this year’s Bears campaign look like one in which Marc Trestman would deserve a 10-year contract extension.

The Jeffs opened the ’23 campaign on Oct. 7 at Normal Park in Chicago, where they suffered a 60-0 defeat at the hands of the mighty Chicago Cardinals. Then the following week, they travelled to the Quad Cities, where the Rock Island Independents buried the Mutts, er, Jeffs, 56-0.

The Jeffs then had five or so bye weeks as their next game came Nov. 24 when they lost to the Toledo Maroons at home, 12-6. They closed the season on Dec. 1 with a 13-0 loss to the Buffalo All-Americans.

So the Bears are having a much better season than that.

I’m glad you feel better, Bears fans.

WHATIZIT?

Photo by Donna Hirsch

Last week’s WHATIZIT? may have set the WWR (WHATIZIT World Record) for accepted answers.

It is properly known as Maclura pomifera but the confused pinheads on the Board of Directors would have accepted Osage oranges. Or hedge apples.

Or hedge balls. Or even horse apples, Or bowwood. These immature dolts would have accepted monkey balls and would have been laughing like a bunch of goofy teenagers for the rest of the week if someone would have guessed that. Little things amuse little minds.

The shutterbug who took the picture calls them “#*&^#%” because they litter his lawn every year. They would have accepted that, too.

Worth’s Theresa and George Rebersky were first with the right answer as they guessed hedge apple.

Worth’s Mike and Linda Martin guessed Osage orange. Worth’s Celeste Cameron guessed hedge ball.

Hickory Hills’ Shirley Dragas guessed an Osage orange and hedge apple and added it repels spiders.

Palos Hills’ Karen Gruns called it an Osage orange and zeroed in on its botanical name, Maclura pomifera. Karen wins style points for that.

Finally, Palos Heights’ John Heffernan asked if it’s an Osage orange as if we were playing Jeopardy. Alex Trebek says he is correct.

Incorrect answers were a seed ball from a Sweetgum tree, a frog’s tongue and a frog.

In keeping with our plant theme, we have a guest photo from Worth’s Donna Hirsch.

The clue is that this flower was once featured on the old TV comedy “Dennis the Menace” but it’s a plant that’s not funny.

Send those guesses to thereporter@ comcast.net with WHATIZIT? in the subject line by Monday night. Don’t forget your name and hometown (someone did this week but we won’t say who).

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Think warm thoughts Was it ever this warm out? PalosOrland veterinarian John Fleming, our Pick of the Litter columnist, and his wife Connie’s granddaughter, Julina, gazes out over Green Bay at Pebble Beach in Sister Bay,Wis., last August.

He and we all hope to be there again.

Palos artist sculpts Red Bull cans into antlered artwork

Her ‘Red Bull Rack’ is selected for exhibit at Millennium Park

Photo courtesy John Fleming

By Tim Hadac • Staff reporter

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ore than 50 years after Andy Warhol made a Campbell’s Soup can a work of art, Palos Park artist Asta Razma did the same with a can of Red Bull.

Her sculpture, “Red Bull Rack,” was one of only 30 works of art chosen from among 300 and exhibited earlier this month at Chase Promenade South in Chicago’s Millennium Park.

The Red Bull Art of Can exhibit is a juried art competition billed as “a nationwide hunt for creativity, where artists are asked to conceptualize and create pieces of art using only Red Bull cans as their primary material.”

“I learned about the contest about six months ahead of time,” said Razma, a pharmacist by training who grew up in Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood and moved to Palos Park in 1988, when she got married. “I follow Red Bull on Instagram and Twitter, and I learned that Art of Can was coming back to Chicago. (The traveling competition last visited Chicago in 2007.)

I decided to give it a try. It seemed like a fun challenge.”

Rather than use whole cans of the popular energy drink as her medium, Razma “popped the top off, and then I would just cut the can in a circular fashion, all the way down, so it was like one really long strip in the end.”

She decided that her work would depict a stag’s head.

“The brand is Red Bull, a global king of energy drinks,” Razma explained in a conversation with The Regional News. “I like the idea of the stag’s head because the stag is sort of like the king of the forest—very stately, very proud, and it’s been around since forever—a classic and classy representation. The leader.”

She gave the work a skeletal form by building “an armature out of, kind of, steel wire that you can get at the hardware store,” she recalled.

“Then I just wrapped the strips around and around until I had my final sculpture.”

She follows in the tradition of her favorite artists (Warhol, Jeff Koons, and Roy Lichtenstein), all of whom explored the use of “everyday cultural objects” to express themselves, she added.

While not a classically trained artist, Razma said her experience shows that people with talent and passion can and should move forward to express themselves.

“Art has been my hobby since I was a child,” she said. “My family had a home in Union Pier, Mich. We would collect rocks, and on rainy days I would paint the rocks, I’d paint faces or pictures on them.”

Her avocation continued into her adult years.

“Whenever my kids (now both young adults) belonged to any kind of organization, I’d be the parent who would come up with the invitations or the theme of the party or decorating the hall or things like that,” Razma recalled. “I was a kind of Martha Stewart type.”

Currently a full-time artist, she works in acrylic painting, and she has gained a following for her portraits of people’s dogs.

Some of her work is currently shown at Frazier Studios, 1023 W. Fulton Market, Chicago.

Razma has also worked on TV, as an extra on a number of shows, including Chicago Fire, and once worked as a judge on the “Best of Chow” show on cable TV’s Cooking Channel.

She also is a publicist who helps small businesses, especially start-ups, get noticed in the Loop news media and entertainment world.

Razma said she is “kicking around the idea” of entering Red Bull’s next Art of Can competition, set for Philadelphia in 2015.

“I just want to see where my art takes me, where my publicity stuff takes me,” she concluded.

Palos Park artist Asta Razma dons a top hat to pose with “Red Bull Rack,” her work of art that was one of just 30 on display at a national exhibition in Chicago’s lakefront Millennium Park.

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No longer a Spartan existence

Lucas steps down as Oak Lawn football coach

By Ken Karrson

As for his handling of Oak Lawn’s varsity program, Lucas Having prepped at Providence felt he and everyone around him Catholic, Sean Lucas enjoyed a had done a good job each year of heaping helping of football suc- “addressing where we might have been lacking something and takcess.

The sampling size at Oak Lawn ing steps to make it better.” There was far smaller. And never did was one specific thing, though, it include anything beyond the he would have changed — or, in truth, not changed. regular season.

That was not the primary rea- “The first two years we lifted son Lucas recently stepped down [weights] as a team,” Lucas said. from his head-coaching post with “We had our seniors leading it. the Spartans after four years. The last two years we got away However, there was no definitive from that.

“We suggested PE lifting so they factor he was willing to cite.

Lucas leaves after compiling an could get their lifting in at school 11-25 record, but he is not the or get a job [if need be]. If I could only man who has been unable go back in time I wouldn’t have to build sustained excellence at done that because it [negatively] Oak Lawn. Since 1953 only two affected our continuity.” coaches — John Lewis (1953-58) That being said, Lucas has no and Bob Kunde (1966-75) — fin- real regrets about his time spent ished their careers with plus-.500 in charge of the Spartans.

“We ran a year-round football ledgers.

The Spartans have reached the program, the kids did communipostseason six times since 2003, ty-service work and I have a clear but only twice did they manage a conscience,” he said. “It’s been a winning record. Four of those play- great experience and I wouldn’t off years ended with 5-5 marks. trade any of it.

Photo by Jeff Vorva When asked what makes coach- “We worked hard. My staff was Richards quarterback Hasan Muhammad-Rogers is pressured by Lemont defenders Hunter LeDuke and Jason Koepke during ing at Oak Lawn a challenge, outstanding, the kids were great Lucas offered a couple theories. to be around and I had a blast Saturday night’s Class 6A quarterfinal game at Korhonen Field. Muhammad-Rogers avoided the sack but threw incomplete on the play. The Bulldogs rallied late but wound up dropping a 19-13 decision to the Indians.

“Richards looms large over the doing it.” whole [South Suburban] confer- What’s in store for Lucas? ence,” he said. “A couple other He doesn’t intend to sit idle, teams have won conference titles, although he’s not sure whether but over the last 20 years it’s he’ll immediately pursue another pretty much been Richards [as head-coaching position or become the pacesetter]. And there’s five someone’s assistant for a while. private schools within 10 miles, “Whatever opportunities come so it’s a very competitive area up, my wife and I are going to sit down and think about any posifor kids.”

Lucas and his staff did their tion and discuss it,” Lucas said. best to try to bring neighborhood “There are some people who’ll kids into the fold — the Oak Lawn say, ‘Let’s apply for every head Outlaws feeder program, for in- job that’s open’ and others who stance, uses the Spartans’ field think that just being able to coach as their home base — but never football without having to worry were youth games played without about a lot of the other stuff is By Ken Karrson four seasons. them from certain defeat. till the whistle blew.” representatives from some private the way to go.”

The Indians will meet Peoria It nearly happened. After re- While Sheehan rightfully adinstitutions around the area in For over 46 minutes of Satur- Notre Dame, a 49-27 victor over covering an onside kick, Richards mired his guys’ refusal to roll over, (Continued on page 6) attendance. day’s Class 6A quarterfinal game East St. Louis in the quarterfinal used a 14-yard hookup between he couldn’t help but consider what Richards was stuck at zero. round, this weekend. Richards, Muhammad-Rogers and Willett might have been had some earlier Then it zeroed in on Lemont’s which played for the 6A cham- to draw within six. One more possessions concluded more favorend zone — not once but twice pionship a year ago, closed the successful onside kick was forth- ably. Richards made five other trips and very nearly a third time. books on a 10-2 campaign. coming, but the Bulldogs had only into the Indians’ red zone and had Had that last attempt also paid Bulldogs coach Tony Sheehan a few seconds to work with and nothing to show for those series. off, the Bulldogs would have com- called the outcome “frustrating” Nagel stepped forward with his One in particular that stuck pleted what was likely the great- but said his club “just ran into a rally-killing breakup. out occurred in the second period. est comeback in school history team that was better that night.” “I’m not going to lie — if we Bulldogs defender Anthony Quinn and probably one of the finest But the Indians weren’t better would have had 20 seconds [in- scooped up a fumbled Lemont snap rallies ever seen in Illinois’ high by much. stead of less than five], I think and raced to the Indians’ 4-yard school football tournament. But Lemont appeared to be in the we’re going to score again,” Shee- line. when the Indians’ Flynn Nagel, a driver’s seat when Richards began han said. “We almost had it [any- Seemingly Richards would bite former Marist RedHawk, batted a series with 1:42 left and down by way]. If somebody would have into Lemont’s 14-0 lead, but the down Hasan Muhammad-Rogers’ 19. Ryan Willett’s 30-yard touch- caught that ball, it would have former’s four plays that followed final pass the visitors held on for down reception with less than a been one [heck] of a comeback. included two sacks and an incoma 19-13 win at Korhonen Field minute to go finally erased the “We had them reeling. That’s plete pass. A penalty undermined Photo by Jeff Vorva that moved them into the state Bulldogs’ goose egg, but nothing a testament to our kids — they semifinals for the third time in short of a miracle could rescue never gave up and kept fighting Sean Lucas resigned as Oak Lawn’s football coach.

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To the bitter end Class 6A playoffs

Despite furious rally, Bulldogs fall to Indians

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OK, he didn’t really say that, but he might be thinking about it. Just two weeks left in the season. Where did the time go?

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Babies, it’s dry inside (Reprinted from Jan. 28, 2010) Having once worked in the advertising field, I early on learned a truism about product marketing.

When you want to sell something, at least one of these three elements should be featured in ads: pretty girls, animals and babies. In Madison Avenue circles, those are considered foolproof attention-grabbers.

And it really doesn’t matter what’s being hawked. We’ve all seen TV commercials that spend 20-to-25 of their 30 seconds focusing on one — or more — of those things without ever mentioning the actual items for which the spots were originally created.

Does that method work? It must because we keep seeing it used to peddle everything from cars to clothes to carbonated beverages.

I bring this up as partial explanation for the recent email I received from the company that makes the world’s most popular brand of diapers. I won’t identify that brand since I haven’t figured out how to make the registered-trademark symbol on my keyboard — and by failing to include it in print I’d risk angering the manufacturer, whose corporate lawyers would proceed to send another, much nastier email my way — but trust me when I say that you’d recognize the name to which I’m not referring.

Anyway, this diaper company’s correspondence was sent to announce its partnership with Team USA, which comes on the eve of the 2010 Winter Olympics. What a great moment for a tie-in, but where’s the connection?

Sure, most of these Olympians are young, but it’s young as in “I’m still not old enough to vote,” not young as in “I

made big caca in my drawers.” Many jocks may act like babies from time to time, but that doesn’t mean diaper rash has overtaken athlete’s foot as a primary source of physical discomfort.

According to the diaper company email, the little ones who are offspring of Team USA members will be the first to test-soil the newest bottom-lining creation. The product will then be made available to non-Olympian babies in March.

A spokesperson for the diaper manufacturer stated her company chose to cross-pollinate with the Olympics because it was “proud to partner with these world-class athlete families, who are also parenting inspirations by training and succeeding while raising young, active children.”

That’s swell, but just whom are we fooling? “Parenting inspirations?” Since when did elite athleticism become synonymous with child-rearing excellence?

I’m sure some of those kids have a decent upbringing, assuming their nannies or baby-sitters are doing what they should. Evolving into a worldclass athlete requires endless hours of practice and preparation, and it’s probably safe to say that running laps is more important to someone like that than wiping runny noses.

And even if an athlete were earnestly trying to be a good parent and stay involved with his or her tyke, it’d be difficult. For example, think of how many seconds a cyclist would add to his time with a baby seat attached to the handlebars of his bike, although, to be fair, the toddler would certainly aid in wind resistance.

What about long and triple jumpers? Sure, they could let their children play in the sand pit while they perform, but if mom or dad accidentally lands

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on the little one’s pail and breaks it, all hell will break loose. And crying kids have a long history of disrupting concentration.

Another reason stated in the email for the whole infants-Olympics union is that said diaper company is trying to equate a typical baby’s daily activities with those of sports figures. It claims a “cruising” — and by this, I assume the company is not referring to a tot tooling around in a sports car trying to pick up miniature versions of the opposite sex — baby in one day can take as many steps as a marathon runner does in a 26.2-mile race, and that a 9-month-old can crawl up to 400 meters in 20 minutes.

Come on, that’s slower than I’d cover that amount of ground, and nobody’s anxious to watch me in motion, unless I’m moving out of their sight line. So why is there such a baby fixation?

It comes back to what I said at the very beginning: Wee ones are very valuable sales tools. On top of that, women become particularly gushy around a baby, and since NBC has made a point of seeking out a heftier female audience — and by that I mean a large number of women, not just large women, although they can be included in the viewing group, too — during recent Olympics broadcasts, the diaper manufacturer is exercising some real marketing savvy.

And speaking of exercise, I’m tired of giving my digits a workout. So I’ll stop now, reach for the remote control and get put to sleep by the sound of boring commercials.

Assuming, that is, the puppy doesn’t bark, baby doesn’t cry and pretty girl doesn’t draw too many loud whistles.

in men’s soccer.

Gutierrez, a junior forward, is a repeat member of the all-conference squad, having garnered second-team honors in 2013. He led SXU’s 2014 offensive effort with team-best totals of 10 goals, six assists and 26 points in 19 matches.

Senior defender Leon started 17 times for the Cougars and recorded two goals and one assist. He also keyed a defense that allowed just 29 goals this season (1.47 per-match average). Freshman midfielder Aldape had a solid debut with SXU as he registered seven goals and three assists over 18 matches.

The Cougars went 10-8-1 and tied Judson University for second place in the CCAC standings.

Cozzi, a junior forward, was SXU’s lone representative on the All-CCAC women’s team as she made her third straight appearance on the second unit. She took 30 shots, put 20 on target and finished tied for the team lead in goals (five) and assists (four). Cozzi saw action in 16 of 18 matches.

The Cougars posted a 4-11-3 ledger this fall.

VOLLEYBALL Hackert and senior defensive specialist/outside hitter Jessica Galotta each posted nine kills to lift the Cougars over Judson in firstround CCAC Tournament play last Tuesday at the Lindner Fitness Center in Elgin.

SXU defeated the Eagles 25-23, 25-16, 25-17. Also chipping in to the victory were junior right-side hitter Meghan Falsey (eight kills), freshman outside hitter Anna O'Hara (eight kills), Shaffer (37 assists, six digs), Gregerson (seven kills, three total blocks, one solo) and senior libero Dominique Aramburu (19 digs).

Top-seeded Cardinal Stritch University ended the Cougars’ tourney stay — and their 2014 season — two days later as it notched a 25-23, 25-21, 25-15 triumph at Panella Court in Milwaukee.

O’Hara (eight kills), Hackert (seven kills, solo block) and Shaffer (21 assists, eight digs) were the headliners for SXU (24-16).

Also playing well in defeat were Aramburu (14 digs), Galotta (10) and Gregerson (six kills, six assisted blocks).

MEN’S BASKETBALL So who’s counting?

Tom O’Malley might not be, but a number of other people realized that Saturday’s 89-52 thrashing of Clarke (Iowa) University in Trinity Christian College’s Troll Classic was the 900th victory in his long

SXU moves up to No. 3 in rankings after win

By Ken Karrson

Maybe it’s destiny.

That was one of Mike Feminis’ observations after a Saturday to remember for St. Xavier University. While the longtime leader obviously enjoyed the Cougars’ 36-6 vanquishing of Olivet Nazarene University at Bruce R. Deaton Field, that Mid-States Football Association Midwest League victory was only part of the good news.

Also making headlines for SXU were Saturday losses by the NAIA’s top-ranked team, Morningside (Iowa), as well as No. 4 Southern Oregon and No. 5 Georgetown (Ky.). What those outcomes meant was that the No. 6 Cougars moved up to third in the latest national poll and, because of that position, are in line to host two rounds of playoff games.

SXU (8-2, 4-1) will square off with Campbellsville (Ky.) in Round 1 on Saturday at 1 p.m. The two schools have never before met.

“I thought if things shook out we could get in the top eight and host a first-round game,” said Feminis, whose club was stationed outside the top 16 at one juncture. “It was kind of a long shot to get to [No.] 4 or better. Obviously some pretty good things happened.

“To have two losses and come in at No. 3, it’s a great situation. I think we’re peaking at the right time.”

Certainly, Olivet players and coaches weren’t about to disagree. The Tigers found themselves having to climb out of a 15-point hole less than nine minutes into the contest.

Randall Wells capped the Cougars’ game-opening fourplay drive with a 33-yard scoring catch and Khary Ferguson reached the end zone a while later on a 3-yard dash. In between SXU picked up two points on a safety, courtesy of a combined tackle for loss by Greg Hayward and Nick Cemeno behind the Olivet goal line.

Given the Tigers’ struggles this season, the Cougars’ ability to quickly assert themselves wasn’t too surprising. However, Feminis didn’t want his guys to coaching career. Before taking allow Olivet to stay competitive over the Cougars program in the in its “biggest game of the year” late 1990s O’Malley had stints at any longer than necessary.

Evergreen Park, Reavis and Leo high schools.

It’s not wins, however, that keep him going. It’s the athletes.

“I don’t remember a team where I didn’t like anybody,” O’Malley said. “It doesn’t take great players to make great teams; it takes great kids who are willing to do what By Anthony Nasella needs to be done. I’ve had a lot of wonderful experiences with some Chicago Christian bowling wonderful young men.” coach Andy Andrew has been That includes this season, one bringing along a boys' program he in which SXU is trying to break launched three years ago and was in some new guys. deeply optimistic entering this “If we keep progressing, that’s season about his team’s chances all I’m looking for at this point,” of not only competing but also O’Malley said. “I think we’re mak- succeeding on a consistent basis. ing progress.”

After just one week the Knights The Cougars (3-1) definitely are making Andrew a believer. made some between Friday and Christian opened with three Saturday. Actually, the start of wins last week as it beat ImmacSXU’s improvement occurred in ulate Conception, Westminster the second half against York (Neb.) Christian and Lyons Township.

College, which had the Cougars With the early success has come playing from behind for a big chunk an unexpected but pleasant of Friday’s encounter. dilemma for Andrew: keeping Sixty-two percent shooting over active seven bowlers who have the last 20 minutes and a 19-8 run all made significant contributo begin the second half tilted mo- tions already. mentum SXU’s way, and it rallied “I’ve challenged these boys for an 83-77 triumph that served as as a goal to make it to the seca springboard into Saturday. O’Mal- tional,” Andrew said. “I had ley likened the two-day sequence to a good feeling that we would an earlier one when the Cougars be a competitive because they held their own opposite NCAA were bowling well at the end Division I Oakland University in of last season. I expect them the second half of an exhibition to be in the top 10 in every contest and then displayed crisp tournament. execution the next time out versus “Four of my bowlers I’ve had Silver Lake College. all three years. I also have a It was a similar scenario against junior, sophomores and a freshClarke, which was held to 26 first- man bowling well. It’s a nice half points and then got victimized problem to have as a coach and by the Cougars’ 63 percent accuracy it’s making each one of them after the break. Jack Krieger’s 13 better bowlers.” points led a balanced SXU attack. In last Monday's 2,771-2,402 Depositing 11 points apiece were Metro Suburban Conference Tony Core, Mitch Uratchko and victory over IC, junior Jake Kyle Huppe.

Fremouw had a 247 game and Huppe’s 3-pointer with 12:08 re- senior Kyle Starostka rolled a maining gave the Cougars a hefty 598 series to propel the Knights 57-41 edge and SXU never took at Brunswick Zone in Glendale its foot off the gas. Behind seven Heights. Tuesday's 2,784-2,337 points from Uratchko the Cougars conquest of Westminster at Orwent on a clinching 17-4 tear. Just land Bowl was spearheaded by as important to the locals’ welfare senior Patrick McCarthy (585 was a 46-23 advantage on the glass series) and 2014 regional champ and a defense that limited Clarke Lyons was vanquished 2,843to a 36 percent success rate from 2,721 Thursday at Rolling the floor.

Lanes.

“A lot of people just stare at “We need all of boys bowling points, but points aren’t always up to their potential," Andrew a tremendous factor in the game,” said. "We have some good boys' O’Malley said. programs in this region. Lyons *** was our first big test and we It was improved defense that gave beat them.

SXU a lift on Friday as the Cougars “We’ve got a big tournament were able to slow an aggressive York this Saturday that has 48 teams attack after intermission. [including] Andrew, Lockport “They were getting to the basket [and] Romeoville. We’re pretty a little too much in the first half,” excited. I’m treading a fine line O’Malley said. “We were trying to as a coach in what I should tell the boys and just letting (Continued on page 5) them bowl.”

Several Cougars garner awards Honors were plentiful for St. Xavier University last week.

Several were of the postseason variety as the fall campaigns for most sports teams have concluded.

Nick DeBenedetti plays on, however, and the senior football athlete continued to positively impact the Cougars enough to be recognized for his efforts.

Following SXU’s 45-23 win over Trinity International University on Nov. 8, DeBenedetti was selected as the Special Teams Player of the Week by both the NAIA and MidStates Football Association. The latter pegged DeBenedetti for the second straight week.

He became the first Cougar tabbed for the national weekly award since linebacker Zach Dolph in October of 2013.

His performance versus the Trojans included 210 return yards that were almost evenly split between kickoffs and punts. His 51-yard runback of one punt resulted in a touchdown and two other DeBenedetti returns set up SXU scores.

“What a great honor for a great player and person,” Cougars coach Mike Feminis said. “Nick is definitely one of the most talented players in the NAIA and it is nice to see him get recognized at the national level for his efforts. He has been a large reason for our success this season.”

DeBenedetti currently ranks 11th in the NAIA in total punt returns and 14th in average return yards (11.6). *** Earning All-Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference recognition in their respective sports were volleyball players Marie Hackert, Kelli Shaffer and Heidi Gregerson and soccer players Rene Leon, Marco Gutierrez, Ricardo Aldape and Lexi Cozzi.

Hackert, a senior middle hitter, was a first-team all-conference choice for the second year in a row.

She led SXU this season with a .287 hitting percentage while totaling 356 kills and 106 total blocks, both of which ranked second on the squad. Hackert concluded her career as the Cougars’ 11th-best blocker (335) and No. 18 in kills (922).

Shaffer, a senior setter, and junior outside hitter Gregerson were both named All-CCAC for the first time as members of the second team.

Shaffer topped SXU in assists (1,223) and service aces (47) and complemented those numbers with 304 digs and 115 kills. She leaves the program as its No. 9 assist person with 2,261 for her career.

Gregerson paced the Cougars in kills (309), total blocks (119) and solo blocks (27) in 2014. *** Leon, Gutierrez and Aldape all were first-team All-CCAC selections

Cougars on the rise “I’m very happy with the way we played,” Feminis said. “We have a pretty mature group — they get it. It’s nice to jump out on people and start teeing off a little bit.

“From top to bottom our conference schedule was probably tougher than it’s ever been. Our league is so close [that] there’s nobody on the schedule where you can say we can put our helmets on and win the game [without trying hard].”

The Tigers erased the shutout when Gage Buckley tallied on a 27-yard run. That sliced SXU’s lead to 15-6 in the first period, but Olivet crossed midfield only three other times during the afternoon and never advanced beyond the Cougars’ 40.

Twenty-six SXU defenders had some sort of statistical entry, with Tyler Hoeg’s five-tackle performance leading the way.

One of the stops resulted in lost yardage and Hoeg also broke up a Tigers pass. Other key figures were Marcus Maas (four solo stops, one assist, two tackles for loss, one sack, forced fumble, blocked extra point) and Hayward (two solos, two assists, 1½ tackles for loss, one sack).

While Olivet ran only 47 offensive plays and totaled 126 yards, the Cougars countered with 95 snaps, 547 yards and over 39 minutes’ worth of possession time. SXU converted 13-of-22 third- and fourth-down plays.

“From an offensive standpoint we probably are more equipped to play in all kinds of weather,” Feminis said. “We’ve got some good depth, too.”

He was able to tap into that depth eventually as TD catches

by Nick DeBenedetti (33 yards) and Wells (45 yards) padded the Cougars’ advantage to 27-6 before halftime. Abdul Mahdi’s 24yard field goal and Mark Strbjak’s 3-yard keeper completed SXU’s output in the third period.

“I’m pretty happy about getting everybody in to play in our last two games,” said Feminis, who went deep into his bench one week earlier as well in a win over Trinity International University.

“For a period of about four years we were [often] blowing people out at the half and our reserves were playing as much as our starters. We haven’t had a chance to do that very much this year.”

Now it’s on to the 16-school national tournament, a destination for the Cougars most of the past decade. Their absence in 2013 was a definite motivator for everyone within the SXU program.

“It seems like it’s been forever,” Feminis joked. “It was a long offseason last year and we’re not used to long offseasons. For us to be where we’re at is pretty satisfying.

“I kind of like the idea of playing somebody new. It brings a sense of excitement to both sets of fans. I’m sure [Campbellsville] has heard of us and knows about our history against their conference.”

The Cougars are 9-0 versus foes from the Mid-South Conference of which Campbellsville is a member. Five of those triumphs have come in postseason matchups.

Statistics Olivet Nazarene 6 0 0 0 - 6 St. Xavier 21 6 9 0 - 36

First downs Yds. rushing Yds. passing Total yds.

Att./comp.

Fumbles/lost Had intercepted Penalties/yds.

Punts/avg.

ONU SXU 8 30 51 216 75 331 126 547 22-8 42-29 2-2 1-1 0 1 4-35 9-121 8-38.9 4-37.0

Scoring SXU — Randall Wells 33 pass from John Rhode (run failed) SXU — Safety (Greg Hayward, Nick Cemeno make tackles in Olivet end zone) SXU — Khary Ferguson 3 run (Abdul Mahdi kick) ONU — Gage Buckley 27 run (kick blocked) SXU — Nick DeBenedetti 33 pass from John Rhode (kick failed) SXU — Wells 45 pass from Rhode (kick failed) SXU — Mahdi 24 field goal SXU — Mark Strbjak 3 run (kick failed) St. Xavier Rushing: Simms 7-45, Hunter 4-43, Ferguson 12-30, Strbjak 8-22, Rhode 7-21, Feeney 4-21, Ivlow 5-14, Scalzetti 1-9, DeBenedetti 1-8, Frederickson 1-3, Wells 1-2, King 2-(-2). Passing: Rhode 31-20-232, Strbjak 9-8-99, King 2-1-0. Receiving: Wells 9-108, Simms 6-48, DeBenedetti 3-56, Frederickson 2-45, Carroll 2-17, Ladd 2-11, Feeney 2-8, Vilimek 1-22, King 1-10, Ferguson 1-6.

Sports Wrap *** Sandburg split a pair of SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue matches last week as it fell to a 1,991-1,952 defeat to Joliet West on Monday before rebounding to down Joliet Central by 100 pins (1,743-1,643) on Thursday.

Danny Griskell led all individuals with a 279 game and 527 series at Town & Country Lanes on Monday. Three days later Jared Saba led the way for the Eagles with a 207 high game at Crest Hill Lanes. *** Decisions over Argo (1,7231,353) and TF North (1,9301,879) last Monday and Wednesday, respectively, enabled Stagg to have a winning week. The Chargers missed out on a sweep when Lockport claimed 2,018-1,799 SWSC Blue victory Thursday.

Max Downs registered a 411 series at Palos Lanes to fuel the triumph over Argo while Dylan Otruba produced a 441 series and 277 high game at that same site to help Stagg beat the Meteors. *** Shepard matched Sandburg by going 1-1 last week. The Astros knocked off Hillcrest (1,884-1,703) last Tuesday at Centennial Lanes behind Eric Walters, who rolled a 268 high game and two-game series of 462.

Walters (634 series) was Shepard's ringleader again on Thursday, but Tinley Park survived his individual excellence to post a 3,034-2,734 win at Centennial.

GIRLS' SWIMMING On the strength of 10 firstplace finishes Sandburg captured the title of its own sectional in convincing fashion on Saturday. The Eagles piled up 310 points to qualify for this weekend's state meet.

Claire Lawlor was a twotime individual winner as she touched out first in the 50-yard freestyle (23.94 seconds) and 100-free (52.91). Lawlor also took part in a pair of triumphant relays, teaming up with Devin Apps, Caitlyn Olsen and Mia Robin to place first in the 200-free relay (1:38.40) and joining Olsen, Robin and Is-

abella Wood as the swimmers in the 400-free relay (3:39.06).

Apps was also a member of the victorious 200-medley relay quartet along with Tricia Mangila, Stephanie Pappas and Madison Stuursma, who combined to clock a 1:50.81. Individually, Apps set the pace in the 100-breaststroke (1:05.41).

Completing Sandburg's impressive exhibition was Rachel Apter, who swept the Athletes with Disabilities category with wins in the 50-free (33.58), 100free (1:12.95), 100-breaststroke (1:48.36) and 200-free (3:12.93). *** Shepard was sixth at the Sandburg Sectional with 104 points as it finished in the top 10 in six events.

Shining brightest for the Astros were Mary Lippert and Annie Rangel. Lippert garnered a fifth in the 50-free (25.39) and sixth in the 100-free (57.31), while Rangel wound up sixth in the 200-free (2:07.24) and seventh in the 100-butterfly (1:05.26).

In addition, the two girls competed in the 200-free relay (fifth in 1:48.65) and 400-free relay (third, 3:56.23). Joanna Rangel and Becca Gleich completed the shorter-race quartet, while Gleich and Grace Spindler rounded out the 400-free foursome. *** Stagg took third at Saturday’s Downers Grove South Sectional with 175 points.

Lauren Johnson's third in the 500-free (5:18.66) represented the Chargers' best showing.

She also placed eighth in the 100-breaststroke (1:11.13).

Lauren DeAngelis provided Stagg with a fourth (200-free; 1:59.50) and sixth (100-backstroke; 1:01.76); Megan Vallance supplied a fourth (50-free; 24.92) and seventh (100-free; 54.77); Alexandria McGurk gave the Chargers a fourth (100-backstroke; 1:00.48) and fifth (100-butterfly; 1:01.23); and Elsa Stoffel delivered a sxith (100-fly; 1:02.88) and eighth (200 IM; 2:18.21).

Also chipping in were divers Elle Mannix (380.75 points) and Claire Van Damme (348.80), who were fifth and seventh, respectively.

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CHICAGO CHRISTIAN 2013-14 Record: 9-17.

Head coach: Linda Stuursma.

• Who’s gone: Kaycee Pittman, Kersten Merrick, Anica Pausma, Anna Persenair.

• Who’s back: Abbie Bulthuis, G, Sr.; Kate Pruim, C, Sr.; Breanna Vollan, C, Sr.; Emily Lemmenes, G, Sr. • Who’s new: Jess Workman, G, Jr.; Leah Kamp, G, Sr.; Emily Bulthuis, C, Fr. • Outlook: The Knights look to improve on last season’s effort behind four returning seniors, plus an influx of new talent. Leah Kamp, a standout in volleyball, is giving basketball a shot in her final year of high school. Chicago Christian coach Linda Stuursma is counting on speed and enthusiasm to fuel a more aggressive and pressing style of play than the team has utilized in past sea-

sons. The Knights opened their campaign by competing in the Harvest Christian Academy Thanksgiving Tournament for the first time.

• Coach’s comments: “Thankfully we have some experience coming back and some young girls with a lot of talent.

Abbie and Emily definitely complement each other. We [were] hoping for better results at the Harvest Christian Tournament because we [would be] playing teams more our size.

“Our goal is winding up at the top of our [Metro Suburban] conference and doing well in our division against opponents like Illiana Christian and Guerin Prep. These girls will be getting at it on defense. We haven’t had the best success in terms of overall record in the past few years and we’re working to turn that around.” — Stuursma.

CHICAGO CHRISTIAN

No. Name 2 Emily Neal 5 Lexi VanRyn 10 Jess Workman 11 Emily Lemmenes 12 Kate Pruim 14 Maribeth Karnia 20 Abbie Bulthuis 21 Madison Riemersma 24 Emily Bulthuis 25 Leah Kamp 32 Cheyenne Slager 33 Bre Vollan 34 Bethany Regnerus

EVERGREEN PARK 2013-14 Record: 15-14.

Head coach: Bruce Scaduto.

• Who’s gone: Erica Carridine, Zoe Monks, Jonie Nard.

• Who’s back: Megan Pfister, G, Sr.; Nicole Larkin, F, Sr.; Maddie Vojack, G/F, Jr.; Kortni Lewis, C, Jr.; Lashondra Johnson, G, Sr. • Who’s new: Vivica Price, F, So. • Outlook: After falling just seven points short of a Class 3A sectional title last year, the Mustangs return three starters and will take aim at more postseason glory. Evergreen, which came alive in the state tournament after going only 4-9 in South Suburban Conference Red play, has captured consecutive regional crowns under coach Bruce Scaduto’s leadership. Spearheading the latest edition of the Mustangs is senior Megan Pfister, who has earned all-conference recognition in each of her first

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three varsity campaigns.

As a junior, Pfister averaged 12 points and four assists per game. Support for her will come from Nicole Larkin (10.0 ppg, 7.5 rpg), another fourth-year veteran, and Maddie Vojack, who should play a greater role following the graduation of Zoe Monks and Erica Carradine. Expect Vojack to improve measurably on her per-game average of four points.

• Coach’s comments: “Like every season, staying healthy is a key. I believe this group can play as a team, but we’ll see how our bench can also contribute -- that is something we’ll be looking closely at.

“We’re definitely going to be led by our core of three returners, who are very good shooters.

Nicole and Megan have started since their freshman years, so we know what they bring to the table.”

— Scaduto

MOTHER MCAULEY 2013-14 Record: 18-9.

Head coach: Ashley Luke-Clanton.

• Who’s gone: Elizabeth Nye, Raven Willis, Jasma Williams, Molly McGinty, Lauren Carlson.

• Who’s back: Amy Balich, F, Jr.; Ashley Bryja, G, So.; Erin Drynan, C, Sr.; Caitlin Jandacek, G, Jr.; Ashley Koll, G, Sr.; Molly O’Malley, G, Sr.; Shea O’Malley, G, Jr. • Who’s new: Molly Corcoran, C, So.; Nicole Corley, F, Jr.; Kelly Gallagher, G, Fr.; Vanessa Gavin, G, Fr.; Colleen Liston, G/F, Jr.; Tara O’Malley, G, Fr.; Claire Riemersma, G/F, Jr. • Outlook: The Mighty Macs’ 2013-14 season was ended abruptly by a smoking Oak Lawn team in a Class 4A regional title contest. Making matters worse is that Mother McAuley must try to make another run with a revamped lineup as five big contributors from a year ago have departed. Among that group were Elizabeth Nye, now at the University of Chicago, and current Benedictine University students Raven Willis and Jasma Williams.

Those graduation-induced personnel losses are making Macs coach Ashley Clanton-Luke Name Amy Balich Ashley Bryja Molly Corcoran Nicole Corley Erin Drynan Kelly Gallagher Vanessa Gavin Caitlin Jandacek Ashley Koll Colleen Liston Tara Omalley Molly O’Malley Shea O’Malley Claire Riemersma

adopt a wait-and-see attitude toward the current club. Senior guard Molly O’Malley is the lone returning starter and, thus, McAuley’s one sure thing entering the campaign. Ashley Koll and Erin Drynan are both expected to play bigger roles this time around after logging a fair amount of court time in a reserve capacity. Early matchups with Morgan Park, Buffalo Grove and Marist will test the Macs right out of the gate and an appearance in the Chi-Town Shootout should toughen them further. Also on the docket later on are games against such formidable foes as Trinity, Hillcrest, Loyola Academy, Neuqua Valley and Crete-Monee.

• Coach’s comments: “This will be an interesting year to see who surfaces. We have three freshmen, which will take a while to work on, [but] we’ll know what we have in about a week.

“We’re not starting off easy, [so] we’ll definitely find out a lot about this team. I think it will be fun and it will be exciting to see how the kids respond to the challenges.”

— Luke-Clanton

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OAK LAWN 2013-14 Record: 28-2.

Head coach: Mark Sevedge.

• Who’s gone: LaTondra Brooks, Brooke Annerino, Jannah Mahmoud, Dunya Shatat, Kelsey Luckett.

• Who’s back: Brianna Markusic, C, Sr.; Kellie O’Connor, G, Jr.; Alyssa Radoicic, F, Sr. • Who’s new: Kelly Touchie, F/C, Jr.; Kira Melvin, G, Jr.; Ashanti Murillo, G, Jr. • Outlook: Former St. Laurence coach Mark Sevedge takes over for Janet Haubenreiser, who guided the Spartans to a Class 4A sectional championship game in her final season. Oak Lawn set a single-season school record for wins, but three big MARIST of competing at the highest catalysts for that achievement 2013-14 Record: 13-16. level the RedHawks plummet- — Player of the Year LaTonHead coach: Mary Pat Connolly. ed back down to earth a year dra Brooks, Brooke Annerino • Who’s gone: Brooke Wyder- ago. Marist overcame a sub-.500 and Jannah Mahmoud — have ski, Claire Finn. regular-season record to claim graduated.

• Who’s back: Dajae Black, G, a Class 4A regional title but Jr.; Lorna McCall, F, Sr.; Claire now must forge ahead without Seemingly Sevedge is inheritAustin, F, So.; Tehya Fortune, Brooke Wyderski, the heart and ing a rebuilding team, but the G, Jr.; Skylar Patterson, G, Sr.; soul of the 2013-14 squad. Coach cupboard isn’t completely bare.

Brillana Rosa, G, Jr.; Katelyn Mary Pat Connolly does have All-South Suburban Conference Rosner, F, Jr.; Daniela Boricich, a number of credible perform- Red performer Brianna MarkuF, Sr.; Katie Houbolt, G, Sr.; Alexis ers on hand, including main sic, the other member of the Jones, G, Jr. scoring threats Tehya Fortune Spartans’ Big Four from a year • Who’s new: Gabby Moran, and Katelyn Rosner. Fortifying ago, is back to lead the way.

G, Jr.; Rachel Ryan, G, Jr.; Bridget the RedHawks’ roster are Sand- Sevedge, who is coaching girls’ Bilek, G, Sr.; Julia Ruzevich, G, burg transfers Julia and Kate So.; Madeline McHugh, G, Jr.; Ruzevich, both of whom should Kate Ruzevich, G, Jr. make an impact sooner rather QUEEN OF PEACE • Outlook: After a couple years than later.

2013-14 Record: 2-26.

Head coach: George Shimko.

MARIST • Who’s gone: Jelyn Thua, No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Jaclyn Pulido, Caitlin Cahill.

10 Dajae Black G 5-7 Jr. • Who’s back: Ally Herman, 12 Gabby Moran G 5-4 Jr. F, Sr.; Abby Bennett, G, Sr. 13 Lorna McCall F 5-8 Sr. • Who’s new: Kara Shimko, 14 Rachel Ryan G 5-3 Jr. G, So.; Jackie Ivers, G, So.; Erin 15 Claire Austin F 6-0 So. Foley, F, Fr. 20 Katie Houbolt G 5-9 Sr. • Outlook: George Shim21 Tehya Fortune G 5-7 Jr. ko’s maiden voyage with the 22 Sky Patterson G 5-8 Sr. Pride was spent on rough wa23 Bridget Bilek G 5-8 Sr. ters, but a calmer scene should 24 Julia Ruzevich G 6-0 So. be in store this time around.

25 Madeline McHugh G 5-10 Jr. Shimko, who has run his own 30 Kate Ruzevich F 6-0 So. successful basketball school in 31 Brillana Rosa G 5-8 Jr. Oak Lawn for the past two de32 Katelyn Rosner F 6-1 Jr. cades, likely has a few tricks up 33 Daniela Boricich F 6-0 Sr. his sleeve that will make hoops 35 Alexis Jones G 5-7 Jr. life more palatable for everyone

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basketball for the first time, must find enough complementary pieces to keep Markusic from having to assume a one-girl-gang role that would limit Oak Lawn’s potential. The Spartans opened at the Glenbard East Thanksgiving tournament and met up with Geneva and Downers Grove South, two clubs that have a couple of top-50 players on their roster. Other challenges will come from within the SSC as everybody is anxious to knock off the defending Red Division champs.

• Coach’s comments: “Brianna is our best all-around player in the area of scoring and rebounding [and] logged a lot of time as a junior. Losing the amount of talent we lost will bring us back down to earth.

We’ll need a little time to get used to the competition, [but] I’m excited about the challenge.

“It’s a big difference from coaching boys, but the girls are working hard and giving me everything they can. We’ll be doing things different than in the past, [such as] utilizing a lot more man-to-man coverage, and [I’ll be] teaching them the way I know.” — Sevedge within the Queen of Peace program. Seeing as how one of the Pride’s wins was garnered in the postseason, it would appear as if Shimko’s teachings were starting to have their desired effect toward the end of the 2013-14 campaign. A mixture of old and new will be used as the fuel for this season.

• Coach’s comments: “We are going to have a young, hard-working team and we will have the ability to develop over the season. These players have a great work ethic, competitiveness and love for the game, which will be key factors in building a quality high school basketball program.” — Shimko.

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“We have a great group of ladies who are tons of fun to be around. We are expecting great things from them on and off the floor. If we continue to work this hard, good things will happen. I am excited about this season.” — Kortz

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Four Trolls qualify for NAIA cross country final 12th overall with a season-best effort of 18:36.3.

Behind that trio the Trolls posted their highest finish ever in a national race. Also contributing points for Trinity were Kasey Zaremba (46th in 20:13.8) and Leah Van Tol (61st, career-best 20:34.0). Monica Czajkowski (101st, 22:05.6) and Andrea Sanchez (105th, 22:15.0) rounded out the Trolls’ lineup.

On the men’s side NAIA qualifier Cody Velthuizen set the pace for Trinity in the 8K race by completing his run in a career-best 25:36.4, which landed in the No. 7 position in a field of 131. Velthuizen’s clocking was nearly 45 seconds faster than his previous best.

Michael Potter (35th, 26:38.8), Tyrell Natewa (68th, 27:42.8), Alex Clark (77th, 27:53.2) and Mark Bohdan (84th, 28:03.6) were the Trolls’ other scorers.

Natewa, Clark and Bohdan all ran season-best times.

Also competing for Trinity were Sam DeKryger (115th, 29:31.1) and Joshua Whitten (120th, season-best 29:45.6).

Bos will be making her fourth straight appearance in the NAIA National Championship.

Her best showing was in 2011 when she was 35th. This year the women’s field will include 37 teams and 84 individuals.

Disselkoen is headed to Kansas for the second year in a row while Jourdan qualified for the first time. The men’s race will feature 75 individuals in addition to Velthuizen and a total of 36 programs.

The women’s race begins at 10:30 a.m. with the men’s to follow at 11:45.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The Trolls saw their 2014 season end on Saturday in Elgin as Judson University doled out a 2-1 setback in the NCCAA North Region championship match.

Trinity (11-7-2) was ahead at halftime thanks to Katie Linehan’s goal in the 12th minute, which came off Adrianna Puente’s free kick. That lead lasted until 10 minutes of the second half had been played. The Eagles needed just four minutes of overtime to boot home the winner.

Judson outshot the Trolls 14-8 and Trinity keeper Jesse Bultsma was called on to make eight saves. Bultsma, Rachael Webb and Kayla Diemer were each chosen for the All-CCAC first

team while Linehan, Samantha Burgess and Brooke Ellis all secured spots on the second team.

VOLLEYBALL Also running into a postseason roadblock was the Trolls volleyball squad, which bowed out in the semifinal round of the CCAC Tournament. However, the season is not yet over for Trinity (30-10), which hosts the NCCAA North Central Region Tournament on Saturday.

Judson, Bethel College and Lincoln Christian University are also part of the tourney field.

The winner will advance to the NCCAA National Championship.

Olivet Nazarene eliminated the Trolls from the CCAC Tournament last Thursday with a 25-21, 25-21, 20-25, 25-21 victory. The Tigers were seeded sixth coming into the match and had lost twice to second-seeded Trinity during the regular season.

The Trolls were behind most of the opening set and could not capitalize after narrowing the gap to 20-19. Game 2 featured Trinity in front a few times, including at 19-17 following a Lauren Macadlo kill, but Olivet took advantage of a few late hitting errors by the Trolls to nail down a second triumph.

Kills by Macadlo, Tori Mantel and Danielle Oeverman were instrumental in getting Trinity over the hump in the third set, but the momentum couldn’t be carried into Game 4. The Trolls did climb within 22-21 in the late going on three Macadlo kills, but the Tigers answered in kind to complete their upset.

Olivet recorded 10 blocks and six service aces to aid its cause. It totaled 46 kills and posted a .127 attack percentage, compared to Trinity’s respective 56 and .144 numbers.

Macadlo put down 19 kills for the Trolls while Mantel added 12 and Rachel Verhage 10. Mantel also scooped 17 digs to equal Karleigh Krhcmery. Erynn Schuh chipped in 44 assists and 14 digs. *** To reach the semifinals, Trinity dispatched Indiana University-South Bend in straight sets (25-17, 25-16, 25-18) last Tuesday.

The win enabled the Trolls to avenge a late-season loss to the Titans.

Three kills from Macadlo and one by Brittany Dykstra sparked a 6-0 run that gave Trinity control of Game 1 at 17-9. The second

SHEPARD 2013-14 Record: 6-20.

Head coach: Jenna McCormick.

• Who's gone: Daejae Williams; Courtney Dalton; Naujia Easton; Alyssa Dechene, • Who's back: Myrissha Mitchell, G, Sr.; Abbie Newsome, G, Jr.; Jenny Payne, F, Sr. • Who's new: Jamie Bledsoe, G, Sr.; Quinise Blake, F/C, Jr. • Coach’s comments: “We • Outlook: Third-year coach have a lot of girls returning Jenna McCormick enters the with experience [who also] season with optimism as three had a great summer and re- experienced players return to a ally came together as a team. program that is generating greater They have been working really interest than in recent years. Alhard this preseason and [in] the most 75 girls tried out for all levels early parts of this season. We of basketball at Shepard, about look forward to the challenges 25 more than last year. Myrissha of competing in a very tough Mitchell is a four-year starter and [SouthWest Suburban Confer- Abbie Newsome is in her third ence] Blue.” season as a regular. Both will be — Hellrung counted on to lead by example

while McCormick observes which other players will fit into the core.

The Astros were prepared to be challenged at the Lyons Township Thanksgiving Tournament and Riverside-Brookfield Christmas Tournament.

• Coach’s comment: “The players are going to make me play them based on how hard they work in practice. The opportunities will be there. We’re still kind of evaluating things, this being the beginning of the season, but we’re very excited about the season.

"I’m really pleased with how Jenny Payne has found her way.

She’s come a long way and is passionate about getting better. We won 75 percent of our games over the summer, so I’m excited to get the season going to see where we stand.” .— McCormick

By Amy Strong What has already been a memorable cross country season for some Trinity Christian College runners will conclude on the biggest stage.

Three Trolls women and one man will compete in Saturday’s NAIA National Championship at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kan., after qualifying out of the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship on Nov. 8. Never before has Trinity sent four athletes to the national event in the same year, nor has one Trolls squad been represented by as many as three individuals.

In preparation for the final race Trinity’s qualifiers — along with the rest of the team members — participated in the National Christian College Athletic Association National Championship in Houghton, N.Y., last Saturday. There, in near-freezing temperatures and amid snow flurries, the Trolls women wound up third in a 17-team field while the men were 10th among 19 schools.

Anna Bos, Jessica Disselkoen and Ashley Jourdan, Trinity’s three NAIA-meet entrants, all earned NCCAA All-America honors by finishing among the top 15. Bos, the NCCAA Student-Athlete of the Week for the week ending Nov. 8, ran her fastest 5K time of the season as she reached the chute at Field of Dreams Cross Country Course in 18 minutes, 16.9 seconds and placed third overall in a 117-runner lineup.

Disselkoen was less than two full seconds behind her teammate in fourth place as she clocked an 18.18.1. Jourdan was

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Trinity Christian College’s Ryan Tubbs drives to the basket during Saturday’s matchup with York (Neb.) College in Palos Heights.

The Trolls fell short by an 86-81 score.

SANDBURG 2013-14 Record: 18-12.

Head coach: Chris Hellrung.

• Who’s gone: Lauren Bauer, Kelly Pocza.

• Who’s back: Sam Youngwirth, G, Sr.; Rachel Distor, G, Sr.; Victoria Stavropolous, F, Jr.; Jessica Merino, G, Jr.; Lauren O’Leary, G, Jr.; Taylor McGiles, F, Sr.; Carly Whiteford, F, Sr. • Who’s new: Gina Offerman, F, Jr.; Lanie Mackle, G, Jr.; Grace Bauer, G, So. • Outlook: With a significant group of rotation players returning from an 18-win squad that competed for a regional championship last season, the Eagles have their sights set high this year. Sam Youngwirth was one of Sandburg’s most conName Grace Bauer Rachel Distor Laine Mackl Taylor McGiles Jessica Merino Gina Offerman Lauren O’Leary Victoria Stavropoulos Carly Whiteford Samantha Youngwirth

sistent offensive performers in 2013-14 and gives coach Chris Hellrung a go-to figure right from the outset. More senior leadership will come from Rachel Distor, Taylor McGiles and Carly Whiteford, while junior Victoria Stavropolous had some shining moments as a varsity sophomore.

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STAGG 2013-14 Record: 15-12.

Head coach: Bill Turner.

• Who’s gone: Casey McMahon, Hannah Henderson.

• Who’s back: Mia DiGiacomo, F, Sr.; Katie Dwyer, F, Sr.; Alex Abed, G, Sr.; Noor Elmosa, G, Jr.; Kate Adams, G/F, Jr. • Who’s new: Michelle Rentauskas, F, Jr.; Erin O’Leary, G, Jr.;

Hayley Gartner, F, Jr. • Outlook: Losing all-time 3-point leader Casey McMahon (St. Xavier University) strips the Chargers of an obvious source of offense, and the graduation of versatile Hannah Henderson (Elmhurst College) creates another fairly sizable hole in the lineup. However, Stagg coach Bill Turner still has some proven weapons at his disposal. He’ll look

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Trinity Christian College freshman guard Jonathan Zandstra calls out a play in Saturday’s contest against York (Neb.) College. The two teams combined to sink 27 3-pointers, but the Trolls wound up on the wrong end of an 86-81 final. set featured the Trolls amassing a .310 attack percentage and, except for two ties, holding sway over IU-South Bend the entire way.

Trinity’s strong play continued into Game 3, which was highlighted by 12 kills and only one hitting error in 30 attempts by the hosts. The Trolls spotted the Titans a 5-1 lead but overtook IU-South Bend for good when Verhage’s ace handed them a 7-6 edge.

Macadlo (12 kills, .409 attack percentage, seven digs), Oeverman (11 kills, .588 percentage, three blocks), Schuh (33 assists, six digs) and Krchmery (11 digs) were the mainstays for Trinity, which ended with 37 kills and a .289 team attack percentage.

Macadlo was coming off a week in which she collected NCCAA and CCAC Player of the Week recognition. In the week ending Nov. 8 the outside hitter helped the Trolls go 3-1 by totaling 51 kills on a .281 attack percentage.

Macadlo had double-doubles against both the University of Rio Grande (11 kills, 17 digs) and Taylor University (career-high 23 kills on a .339 attack percentage, 16 digs) and narrowly missed doing it two other times. She registered 10 digs and nine kills

in a loss to the University of St. Francis and produced nine digs and eight kills while making only one hitting error in 22 attempts opposite Purdue-North Central.

Schuh was tabbed as the Player of the Year and Setter of the Year in the CCAC, Kaitlyn Van Dellen was a first-team All-CCAC pick, Courtney Samudio was selected to the second team and Oeverman was named Freshman of the Year.

MEN’S BASKETBALL The Trolls opened play in their own Troll Classic on Friday with a 76-60 triumph over Clarke (Iowa) University.

Five Trinity players scored in double figures, a group led by Cody Rhorer (17 points, five rebounds). Contributing 14 points apiece were Joe Hehir (four rebounds, three assists), Jared Jones and Trey Johnson. Jones drilled two 3-pointers in rapid succession to create a nine-point halftime advantage for the Trolls.

Others making their presence felt on Trinity’s behalf were Marcus Devers (11 points), Jonathan Zandstra (five assists) and Ryan Tubbs (five assists). *** The Trolls (3-2) had to settle for a tourney split as York (Continued on page 6)

to the trio of Noor Elmosa, Kate Adams and newcomer Erin O’Leary to keep the Chargers viable along the perimeter.

Co-captains Mia DiGiacomo and Katie Dwyer are experienced performers up front, and juniors Hayley Gartner and Michelle Rentauskas could also be factors there. Stagg has better height, which should lead to more inside scoring and improved rebounding, and in Turner’s opinion the Chargers also have superior depth. Those are welcome sights as Stagg tackles another daunting slate, beginning with defending Class 3A champion Montini. Fellow SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue member Sandburg, Hinsdale Central, Neuqua Valley and Reavis were all part of the Thanksgiving tournament schedule at Hinsdale

South, and Mother McAuley pops up later on.

• Coach’s comments: “This year’s team will have a much different look than the past couple of seasons. While we still want to play an up-tempo game, the addition of some significant size will give us more of a post presence, making us more difficult to defend in the half-court.

“With our very competitive schedule early on we will be able to assess where we are and where we need to get. This group has strong leadership and seemed to develop good team chemistry.

They are working very hard every day, expectations are high and the girls cannot wait to compete. This should be a fun team to watch.”

— Turner

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Second-chance success Crusaders drub De Paul Prep in return to field

By Ken Karrson

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Former Marist star Flynn Nagel, who transferred to Lemont in January, races upfield after making one of his 11 catches against Richards Saturday night. Nagel’s knockdown of a Bulldogs pass on the final play of the evening locked up a 19-13 win for the visiting Indians in a Class 6A quarterfinal contest.

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the ‘Dogs deep in Indians territory another time and Sheehan also pointed to “six bad snaps and two throws that bounced off receivers.”

“We couldn’t get in a flow at times,” he said. “It could have been a totally different story. You want to play your best and I wish we could have played a little better offensively.

“But Lemont played lights-out and their defense was swarming to the ball. In the first half they had us back on our heels.”

The Indians scored once in each of the first two quarters, using quarterback Ryan Dawson’s 19-yard sprint and Nagel’s 12-yard reception to supply the touchdowns. The TD was Nagel’s 27th this season.

“He made 11 catches for 76 yards — that’s containing him,” Sheehan said of Nagel, who’ll attend Duke University next fall. “He’s a great athlete.”

Sheehan had a few of those on his side, too, including the Illinois State University-bound Muhammad-Rogers. Richards’ graduating class compiled a 22-4 record over the past two years that included a half-dozen postseason victories.

“It’s sad to see the seniors go out this way,” Sheehan said. “It shouldn’t end like this. It’s heartbreaking for the kids.

“This was a special group of seniors — great football players and great kids who put us back on the map. We told the young guys, ‘You’ve got a lot to live up to.’”

Fortunately for the 2015 Bulldogs, the cupboard won’t be bare.

Several juniors and a few sophomores saw varsity playing time this season and joining next year’s roster will be members of a 7-1-1 sophomore squad. Richards’ fresh-

man team went 8-1 this season.

“That’s the fun of it,” Sheehan said, referring to preparing a fresh batch of athletes for the rigors of varsity play and expectations attached to the Bulldogs each fall.

“It’s a new challenge, but we’ve got a lot of guys who can play.”

Lemont’s remaining points against Richards came on a safety and Marcin Orszulak’s 30-yard field goal. Anchoring the Indians’ defense — which limited the Bulldogs to less than 2 yards per carry on the ground — were Hunter LaDuke and Tim Houlihan, both of whom registered a couple of sacks.

Statistics Lemont Richards

First downs Yds. rushing Yds. passing Total yds.

Att./comp.

Fumbles/lost Had intercepted Penalties/yds.

7 7 5 0 - 19 0 0 0 13 - 13 LE HLR 13 9 195 49 150 197 345 246 31-20 35-14 1-1 1-1 1 0 7-75 5-50

When life offers a second chance, it’s wise to not waste it.

That was the philosophy Brother Rice followed last Thursday night at Joe Johnston Field. While coach Brian Badke had hoped to be preparing the Crusaders for further action in the Class 8A tournament, defending champion Naperville Central ruined that plan in Week 10.

The Redhawks were later bounced from the state playoffs themselves, but while their 2014 season concluded Rice’s moves on.

Such is one of the advantages of being a Chicago Catholic League member, and the Blue Division co-champion Crusaders returned to the field after a week off.

They did so with style and few signs of rustiness. Although Rice (7-4) did not distance itself from visiting DePaul Prep until the second half, it eventually secured a convincing 41-0 win over a Rams club that had advanced in the Catholic League playoffs with a 14-7 triumph over St. Laurence.

Now it’s the Crusaders’ turn to step forward. They’ll clash a second time with Loyola Academy, a 31-3 winner over St. Rita in the other semifinal contest, Friday night in Chicago.

“We’ve got to play better than we did the first time,” said Badke, whose club beat the Ramblers during the regular season and is undefeated at home this fall.

“They’re much improved offensively and still very good defensively, and they’re getting some confidence.

We took advantage of mistakes [before].”

DePaul Prep made a few of those itself as it had two punts blocked,

lost a pair of fumbles and got intercepted once. Rice scored 21 points off Rams miscues, one of which was a Marcus Jones pickoff.

“Defensively, we didn’t give them anything,” Badke said.

That was a bit of an understatement as DePaul Prep finished with just 62 total yards, which paled in comparison to the Crusaders’ 397-yard output. Starring for the hosts’ on the prevention side were Tahj Silas (eight solo tackles, three assists), Steven Robinson (six solos, two assists) and Jack Nelligan (six solos). Eighteen Rice players in all were credited with at least one stop.

With that kind of resistance being demonstrated, Rice didn’t need much to gain the upper hand. It did so on Clifton Taylor’s 1-yard plunge and then tacked on six more points in the second quarter when Taylor hauled in a 34-yard pass from Alex Alarcon.

Badke believed the Crusaders could have done even more damage prior to intermission, but a field goal was missed and another promising series lost steam before Rice could strike. He admitted that, despite the coaching staff’s efforts to refocus the Crusaders after the state-playoff loss, it was “tough bouncing back.”

“The kids were extremely disappointed [after the Naperville game],” Badke said. “And the bye week was definitely tough. You don’t want to have a bye week, but you make the most of it when you do. [Time off] can work both ways, but to be able to rest your body and get fresh legs is a positive.

“We told the players, ‘At the end of the season, on Thanksgiving weekend, there’ll be nine champions crowned and you could be one of them.’ It’s always a goal to play on Thanksgiving weekend.

There’s nothing better.

“We wanted it to be at Memorial Stadium [in Champaign], but it didn’t work out for us. But to go and play at Soldier Field is a great opportunity. It kind of comes down to who wants it more.”

Photos by Jeff Vorva

Brother Rice’s Marcus Jones stretches for extra yardage on a carry last Thursday versus DePaul Prep. Jones and the Crusaders blanked the Rams 41-0 at Joe Johnston Field to advance to Friday’s Chicago Catholic League championship game against Loyola Academy.

On this occasion it was Rice, but Badke credited DePaul Prep with hanging tough for a while.

“They have a D-lineman who’s 6-5, 280 and can go anywhere in the country [for college],” he said.

“They’ve got some talent, but [with them] only having 30-some kids we kind of wore them out.”

Jones’ 10-yard dash increased the Crusaders’ edge to 20-0 in the third period and then the home team broke things open in the fourth behind reserve quarterback Cam Miller. After replacing Alarcon, Miller completed 5-of-6 throws for 62 yards and fired 15-yard scoring passes to both Zach Hayes and Bill Webber. Sandwiched between those was Jack Desmond’s 1-yard touchdown run.

Eight different players had at least one reception and Taylor paced a seven-man ground-gaining corps with 84 yards on 15 carries.

Along with the balanced offense and

Bodies fly as Brother Rice defenders halt Paulie Rivas’ progress in last Thursday’s Catholic League semifinal contest against DePaul Prep.

First downs Yds. rushing Yds. passing Total yds.

Att./comp.

Fumbles lost Had intercepted Penalties/yds.

Punts/avg.

0 0 0 0 - 0 7 7 6 21 - 41 DPP BR 6 17 38 255 24 142 62 397 7-2 20-9 1 1 2 0 8-65 7-50 7-26.6 2-33.0

Brother Rice Rushing: Taylor 15-84, Alarcon 7-72, Jones 11-71, Desmond 2-17, Valladay 1-5, Houston 1-3, Kubil 1-3. Passing: Alarcon 14-4-80, Miller 6-5-62. Receiving: Webber 2-25, Blain 1-36, Taylor 1-34, Desmond 1-15, Hayes 1-15, Jones 1-10, Kubil 1-7, Houston 1-0.

Tennis team courting notoriety

The tennis season is over, but Moraine Valley College continues to reap the benefits of a strong showing.

The Intercollegiate Tennis Association put out its official fall rankings and the Cyclones women, who were among the top five teams in Region IV of the National Junior College Athletic Association, were situated in the No. 20 position nationally.

And the rankings didn’t end there.

A number of individual players were also recognized, including Liz Dominguez, who was 48th among singles players and part of the No. 25 doubles team along with Queen of Peace product Kaitlyn Seldal. Also garnering national honors were the doubles pair of Stagg alumnus Agnieszka Szudy and Lindsey Walker, who earned the 34th spot.

VOLLEYBALL With new leadership and a mostly new roster, the Cyclones surprised many people this year with positive takeaways following their appearance in the NJCAA Region IV semifinals.

Photo by Jeff Vorva Richards’ Pat Doyle gets tripped up by Lemont’s Joshua Rogers By going 20-15 overall, Moraine but manages to gain a few extra yards before losing his balance took second place in both the Illinois Skyway Collegiate ConferSaturday night at Korhonen Field. ence and Region IV. Those were noteworthy results according to first-year coach Mark Johnston, who had a number of holes to fill following May graduations.

Where the Cyclones ran into trouble was with injuries. Several athletes played out of position to cover the deficits, yet Moraine was still close in many of its losses.

There also were some stellar individual performances.

Marist grad Carolyn Yerkes ranked 11th in NJCAA Division II in digs per set (6.03) and was a candidate for All-America

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Statistics

Scoring BR — Clifton Taylor 1 run (Matt Pikowski kick) BR — Taylor 34 pass from Alex Alarcon (Pikowski kick) BR — Marcus Jones 10 run (kick failed) BR — Zach Hayes 15 pass from Cam Miller (Pikowski kick) BR — Jack Desmond 1 run (Pikowski kick) BR — Bill Webber 15 pass from Miller (Pikowski kick)

Scoring LE — Ryan Dawson 19 run (Marcin Orszulak kick) LE — Flynn Nagel 12 pass from Dawson (Orszulak kick) LE — Safety (Richards recovers bad snap in own end zone) LE — Orszulak 30 field goal HLR — Ryan Willet 30 pass from Hasan Muhammad-Rogers (pass failed) HLR — Willett 14 pass from Muhammad-Rogers (Andrew Calderon kick) Richards Rushing: Muhammad-Rogers 19-20, Johnson 5-31, Tears 1-3, Doyle 2-(-5). Passing: Muhammad-Rogers 3514-197. Receiving: Boykin 4-51, Johnson 4-36, Tears 2-54, Willett 2-44, Bridgewater 1-7, Moore 1-5.

staunch defense, Badke also liked the role his special teams played in hamstringing the Rams.

“Our special teams did very well,” he said. “Every fourth play there’s [involvement], so you’ve got to make sure you’re solid and sound there and have players who can do the job.”

The winner of the Rice-Loyola rematch will face the Chicago Public League champion, either Hubbard or Curie, the Friday after Thanksgiving in the Prep Bowl.

status. She was named to both the All-Region IV and All-ISCC squads along with Carly Trinley. Kayla Manthei was another all-region selection.

Johnston compared Yerkes with Kara Kentner, a two-time Cyclone All-American who played at Moraine in 2012 and 2013.

“Yerkes was amazing — without her we don’t win a lot of games,” Johnston said. “She’s smart and works her [tail] off in games and practice. Additionally, Trinley is a workhorse. She does anything we ask and did it 100 percent. “Those two had the best attitudes and are what you want on a team.”

Alex Bojan and teammate Brynn Flannery (Mother McAuley) both received nods to the All-ISCC second team as well as the conference’s all-tournament contingent.

MEN’S BASKETBALL The Cyclones finally added to the win column last Tuesday as they soundly defeated Daley College 75-55.

Niko Cahue led the charge with 22 points and eight rebounds, but Brian Townsend was equally stout as he finished with 21 points and nine boards. Also contributing were Deland “DJ” Deere (17 points, eight rebounds, five assists), Paulius Otruskevicius (five points, seven rebounds) and Vicpatrick Harris (five rebounds, four assists, four steals).

Moraine followed up that victory with another one two days later as it used its best defensive effort of the young season to thwart Harper College 62-56.

Townsend (18 points, eight rebounds, two steals) and Cahue (16 points, 10 rebounds) were once again a potent 1-2 punch, but additional help came from Harris (16 points, four assists) and Deere (six assists, three

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Moraine Valley College volleyball player Carolyn Yerkes ranked 11th nationally in digs per game and was a National Junior College Athletic Association Division II All-America candidate. steals).

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL After going nearly two weeks without a game, the Cyclones were happy to return to the court on a successful note as they took down Harper College 61-55 last Thursday.

Moraine prevailed despite going just 6-of-28 from 3-point territory against the Bulldogs’ 2-3 zone defense.

“I predicted teams would struggle [by] playing a 2-3 against us this year and I still believe that to be the case, but we didn’t show it against Harper,” Cyclones coach Delwyn Jones said. “Being off for 12 days played a role in the rust, but we made a lot of mental errors and had a number of unforced turnovers.

“Harper played very well and they work together very nicely.

[It] doesn’t hurt that they have a fantastic player who hit us for

31 points.”

Leading the way for Moraine was Rachel Ruzevich, who totaled 18 points, nine rebounds and a couple of steals. Megan Beckow scored 11 points while Nariman Jaber had 11 rebounds and six blocked shots to augment her seven points. *** The news wasn’t as good for the Cyclones the next night as they dropped a 56-49 verdict to Black Hawk College-East. Moraine did not net its first points until six minutes had elapsed, but it played defense well enough to be within seven (25-18) at intermission.

However, the Cyclones could never overtake the Warriors in the final 20 minutes.

Duneya Shatat (Oak Lawn) paced Moraine with 16 points.

Jaber added 14 points, eight rebounds and five blocks.

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Thursday, November 20, 2014 The Regional News - The Reporter

Community Sports News ESCC names top athletes in football, volleyball soccer

The East Suburban Catholic Conference named its top student-athletes for the fall sports season and a total of 11 Marist RedHawks were among the honorees.

Representing Marist on the All-ESCC football squad were three defensive players and one from the offense. Seniors Marty Ryan (linebacker), Marty Meyer (defensive back) and Nick Gasbarro (defensive back) were the prevention-side selections, while junior Darshon McCullough was tabbed as a receiver/running back. McCullough became the RedHawks’ primary ball carrier after Jawill Aldridge and Micah Awodiran both went down with injuries.

Four Marist athletes were also members of the All-ESCC volleyball team. Senior setter Lizzie Zaleski was chosen for the second year in a row, while earning recognition for the first time were senior middle blocker Colleen Reilly, junior outside hitter Cameron Enright and junior middle blocker Anne Marie Stifter.

Picked for the All-ESCC soccer squad from Marist were senior defenders Grant Kenney and Joe Kezon and sophomore midfielder David Regan.

Evergreen defeats Rich South in boys’ bowling opener

Behind Isaiah Colon’s 403 series and Shaun Quinn’s high game of 212, Evergreen Park ushered in its boys’ bowling season with a 1,650-1.307 rout of Rich South at Arena Lanes in Oak Lawn.

The Stars were paced by Martese Jackson, who rolled a 355 series.

The Mustangs do not feature any seniors on their eight-man roster. Along with junior Colon and sophomore Quinn are six more juniors: Will Doran, Nick Montano, Nick Moreno, Jacob Ottenfeld, Malak St. Clair and Trovoy Terry. Quinn advanced to the sectional round of last year’s state tournament.

Ron Pula is Evergreen’s head coach and Destiny Miller is his assistant.

Stagg’s Mantas signs with Kent State

Stagg senior Lexi Mantas has signed a National Letter of Intent

softball squad, will attend Loyola University in Chicago. She will enter her fourth varsity season with the RedHawks next spring.

Stimac, a catcher who also plays for the Chicago Cheetahs softball team, plans to enroll at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Five Sandburg athletes sign with colleges

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Marist softball players Brooke Wilson and Maggie Stimac made their college selections last week. to play volleyball at Kent State University beginning next fall.

Mantas, a four-year starter for the Chargers, received a full-ride scholarship.

Mantas tied Stagg’s season record for service aces this year and was one of the area’s top kill producers. Her career stats include 90 aces, 376 service points, 598 digs, 299 blocks and 1,080 kills.

“Lexi is a standout player on any team she is part of,” Chargers coach Deanna Storino said. “Her level of skill is a dominant force on offense as well as defense. She has also played at First Alliance Volleyball Club.”

Marist golfer Kelly Barker and softball players Brooke Wilson and Maggie Stimac all made their college choices official by signing National Letters of Intent last Wednesday during a ceremony at school.

Barker, from Palos Heights, will be a student-athlete at Benedictine University, where she will pursue a degree in special education. She was a four-year varsity performer for the RedHawks and served as their captain in 2014.

Barker, who sports a handicap index of 11.1, was a two-time All-East Suburban Catholic Conference selection and three-time

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get out on their shooters and bother them, but [our] guys were [sometimes] getting beat.

"We made sure we had somebody to block the baseline [later on]. We figured if they were going to beat us, we were going to make them beat us with the 3-pointer.”

SXU expunged a 10-point halftime deficit and inched in front by one (55-54) after Huppe sank three free throws with just over 14 minutes remaining. The Cougars got up by six points several times after that and then withstood one final challenge by York when Krieger drilled a 3-pointer and Huppe nailed another foul shot.

Krieger, who is quickly assuming the leadership role previously held

by Brad Karp, supplied 27 points and nine rebounds toward the winning cause. Junior guard Stanley Moore posted a double-double of 20 points and 10 assists and Huppe tossed in 18 points.

It’s the emergence of the latter two, plus a few others that has O’Malley optimistic.

“I’m not worried about Jack Krieger — he works hard and is very crafty,” O’Malley said. “But we have to fill the other spots to get the Jack Krieger [type of player] for Jack Krieger that he was for Brad Karp.

“These kids don’t know what they can do themselves, but when you’re developing people something you want is seeing one thing they’re doing positively. Stanley Moore proved he belongs and guys like Kyle Huppe and Mitch Uratchko

have been contributing.”

Before it asserted itself over the last 20 minutes, SXU endured 39 percent shooting and a 10-rebound shortage versus York. While the Cougars weren’t at their best, O’Malley attributed some of that difficulty to the opposition’s level of play.

“Sometimes you don’t know what you’re up against until you see it in person,” he said. “We weren’t entirely prepared for them. They’re very athletic and a better team than a lot of people thought.”

SXU squared off with another good team, 2013 NAIA Division II national champion Cardinal Stritch, this past Wednesday at the Shannon Center. It was the Cougars’ first CCAC contest. — Ken Karrson WOMEN'S BASKETBALL With all 13 players on the roster scoring at least two points, the No. 6-ranked Cougars pulled away early en route to a 73-37 victory over Trinity International University in both teams’ CCAC opener last Wednesday in Deerfield.

SXU (5-1, 1-0) jumped out to 23-2 lead and was ahead 35-11 at halftime. Freshman guard Kara Krolicki was the only Cougar to score in double figures as she tossed in a game-high 11 points to go along with four steals. The latter stat was also tops in the contest.

Morgan Stuut, Mikayla Leyden and Sidney Prasse each finished with nine points, while Suzie Broski tossed in eight. Stuut also led the Cougars in rebounding with eight boards SXU was dominant on the glass as it out-rebounded the host Tro-

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Palos Stampede 13U team looking for players

Palos Stampede Baseball’s 13U team is looking for two Gold-level players to fill out its roster for the 2015 season.

Pitching experience is a plus.

Players must be 13 years of age

by May 1.

Winter workouts begin in early January. The Stampede play a competitive schedule that includes appearances in several tournaments, including one outof-town event, and their main goal is preparing players for high school baseball.

For more information or a private tryout, contact Dan Szykowny at 906-7148 or dannyszy@ yahoo.com.

SPBL seeking players

Marist’s Barker, Wilson, Stimac make college choices

Stagg’s Lexi Mantas signed a National Letter of Intent with Kent State to continue her volleyball career.

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sectional qualifier.

In addition, she won the 2014 Illinois Golfer Jr. championship at Glenwoodie and is a two-time Midlothian Country Club Girls

Five Sandburg student-athletes committed to colleges last week by signing National Letters of Intent.

Golfer Frankie Saban, who helped the Eagles make consecutive state appearances and place fifth in Class AA this fall, will attend Bradley University.

Saban was a four-year member of Sandburg’s varsity girls’ squad and a three-time team MVP. Volleyball players Julia Borschel and Sami Knight, signed with North Carolina-Ashville and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, respectively. Borschel amassed over 500 kills as an outside hitter during her prep career while being a member of three 30-win Eagles teams, all of which captured regional titles. She is in the top 10 percent of her senior class and a member of various notable academic organizations,

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Marist golfer Kelly Barker is joined by her parents Julie and Jim and PGA pro Jerry Vidovic while signing a National Letter of Intent with Benedictine University. Jim Barker (center) is the RedHawks’ coach.

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“I am excited to continue my education and playing career at Benedictine University," Barker said. "I want to thank Marist, my teachers and coaches, my teammates and friends, [PGA pro] Jerry Vidovic and my family for helping me earn this opportunity and prepare for college. I feel a special education degree, coupled with college golf, will prepare me to be an effective teacher upon graduation and be well prepared to teach my future students.”

“We are very proud of Kelly’s golf results and leadership over her four years as a varsity starter," Marist coach Jim Barker said. "She will be missed. We wish Kelly the best and know she will continue to improve and grow her golf game and success at BenU.” The RedHawks were 20-7 over the past two seasons, their best two-year stretch in the 13-year history of girls' golf at the school.

Wilson, a senior outfielder from Orland Park who was part of Marist's 2012 state-champion

including the National Honor Society.

Knight was a four-year varsity player for Sandburg and ranks third all-time in assists. The senior setter has twice been an all-state selection and team MVP. Two softball players, Katie Krzus and Kristen Zarate, also made their college selections as they will enroll at Georgia Tech and Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, respectively. Zarate topped the Class 4A runner-up Eagles in singles, doubles, runs scored and walks last spring.

jans 59-38 and its defense was also stout. The Cougars had 16 steals and forced 27 turnovers in all while holding TIU to just 29 percent shooting (16-of-55).

“It was an easy win on Wednesday,” SXU coach Bob Hallberg said. “We had a couple of good games back-to-back and we’ve put up a 5-1 record without playing a single game at home.”

That fifth win came Sunday against No. 20-ranked St. Ambrose University, which was defeated 86-68 at Lee Lohman Arena in Davenport, Iowa. What made the triumph especially satisfying for Hallberg was that it was realized with measurable input from several athletes.

While Stuut (21 points, 15 rebounds, seven assists, six steals) and Broski (10) were influential figures as usual, the Cougars also benefited from strong play by Krolicki (21 points), Leyden (15 points, nine rebounds, six assists) and Caitlin McMahon (11 points, six blocks).

“It was a great to have five players in double figures against a team like St. Ambrose,” Hallberg said. “To have a freshman like Kara Krolicki score 21 points — that was a great effort. Mikayla has also really stepped up her game and made big contributions.

“Leyden was doing a great job coming off the bench, but she was playing too well to not start. She shoots and scores well for her size and is a tremendous rebounder.

She hits the boards with a great deal of energy.”

Also cited by Hallberg were center Megan McMahon and forward Margaret Wildner, who

stepped in for injured center Brittany Collins (sprained ankle) and delivered decent defense for SXU. The Fighting Bees shot only 35 percent and were victimized by 17 Cougars steals.

SXU used a 12-4 run to close out the first half and assume a 12-point lead at the break. Its margin never went below double digits over the last 20 minutes.

The Cougars met No. 12-ranked Cardinal Stritch this past Wednesday at the Shannon Center and will hit the road again on Saturday when they travel to Upland, Ind., for a matchup with Taylor University.

The Southside Pony Baseball League is seeking players aged 13 and 14 for the 2015 season.

Players must be in grades 7-9 as of May 1.

All games will be played at the Spartan Athletic Complex in Oak Lawn. The season runs April through June.

For more information, email pony@oaklawnbaseball.com. To register, go to www.oaklawnbaseball.com.

Online registration for Oak Lawn baseball, softball

Oak Lawn Baseball and Softball is currently conducting online registration and accepting payment for the 2015 spring season.

Registration in both sports is

Moraine looking for basketball alumni

Moraine Valley College is reaching out to its former basketball players.

In celebration of the school’s new basketball courts and Health, Fitness and Recreation Center, the Cyclones are inviting anyone who has played for either the men’s or women’s hoops program over the past 35 years to attend a basketball doubleheader on Jan. 17. The first game will begin at 1 p.m. and a reception will be held at the conclusion of the second contest.

In addition, athletic director Bill Finn will name Moraine’s all-decade teams. For more information, call 974-5727 or email NagelM3@morainevalley.edu.

U.S. Baseball Academy returning to Oak Lawn

U.S. Baseball Academy, which operates a national network of affordable hitting, pitching, catching, fielding and base-running camps for players in grades 1-12, will be returning to Oak Lawn High School for a winter session.

The session is scheduled to run Jan. 4-Feb. 15 under the direction of Spartans head coach Bill Gerny. Registration is now underway at www.USBaseballAcademy.com and will conclude approximately six weeks before the beginning of the session, although last year’s camp filled up before that.

For more information, visit the website or call 1-866-622-4487.

Screaming Eagles take gold

The Oak Lawn Park District Special Recreation Department’s Screaming Eagles unified volleyball team brought home state gold recently.

The Eagles were one of eight unified teams to compete at the state tournament, which was held Oct. 26 at Harlem High School in Rockford. For more information

“So far it seems like we don’t have a gym, so finally having a home game is a good thing," Hallberg said. "Cardinal Stritch was a Final Four team last year, [so] it will be an interesting matchup.”

— Anthony Nasella

Trinity

(Continued from page 4)

(Neb.) College got the better of them by an 86-81 count on Saturday. The Panthers used 9-of-13 shooting from behind the arc in the opening 20 minutes to establish themselves and construct a 14-point cushion by the break.

York added four more longrange buckets in the second half, but Trinity was no slouch itself as it connected on 8-of-13 3-balls to keep heat on the Panthers. It was a layup by Tubbs, however, that brought the Trolls within 84-81 with 1:45 left. They would get no closer.

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The Oak Lawn Screaming Eagles won a volleyball championship in late October.

Moraine

early scoring punch. The Cyclones raced out to a 10-0 lead, increased the margin to 18 points (Continued from page 5) at one juncture and held Lincoln at bay. *** The Cyclones capped a three- Jaber continued her early seagames-in-three-days stretch by son excellence with an 18-point, blowing past Lincoln College 67- 11-rebound, six-block stats line.

55 despite the missing-person Ably backing here were Ruzevich status of guard Shavonna Lewis, (15 points, six rebounds, four who was sidelined with an injury. steals), Kailey Foster (12 points) Unlike the day before it was and Sharnita Breeze (nine asMoraine beating its foe to the sists, seven rebounds).

Coach

Lucas admitted he liked running his own program but said he’d pursue only head-coaching positions at public schools because of financial considerations.

As for any potential assistant positions — well, he has an idea

of where he’d look for those as well.

“I saw the Mt. Carmel-Lincoln-Way East and Wheaton[-Warrenville] South-Providence [quarterfinal] games — I want to be in those games,” Lucas said. “You can go anywhere, but if I’m going to be an assistant I want to have a reasonable chance at playing 14 games.”

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Allie Plauchniak’s free throws with three seconds left were the difference for the Trolls as they slipped past Indiana University-Northwest 70-68 last Tuesday. The Redhawks had received votes in the NAIA Preseason poll.

The score was knotted eight times over the final 20 minutes and neither team was ahead by more than five points. Katie Moran’s jumper pushed Trinity (3-3) in front at 68-66, but IU-Northwest forged a tie at the foul line.

An empty possession by each club set the stage for Palcuhniak’s trip to the line. *** Viterbo (Wis.) University hung

on for a low-scoring win over the Trolls last Thursday at DeVos Gymnasium.

A late basket by DeHaan again gave Trinity a halftime advantage and the Trolls maintained that lead for much of the second half. However, the V-Hawks never fell behind by more than six points and, with 4:30 remaining, inched in front 51-50 on a 3-point basket.

Paluchniak’s charity toss evened the score with under a minute to go, but Viterbo was perfect on its last six tries from the line and managed to pocket the victory. DeHaan’s 3-pointer was merely a cosmetic touch in a 59-56 defeat.

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For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB DBA CHRISTIANA TRUST AS TRUSTEE FOR HLSS MORTGAGE MASTER TRUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE HOLDERS OF THE SERIES 2014-1 CERTIFICATES ISSUED BY HLSS MORTGAGE MASTER TRUST Plaintiff, -v.RICHARD KAMPANATKOSOL, CHOMRAWEE SOMKUL Defendants 12 CH 015408 10630 S. LORI LANE 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 September 3, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 2:00 PM on December 10, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 10630 S. LORI LANE, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-13-110-025. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the KLJKHVW ELG E\ FHUWLÂżHG IXQGV DW WKH FORVH RI WKH 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 WR H[FHHG LQ FHUWLÂżHG IXQGV RU ZLUH WUDQVIHU is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS ISâ€? condition. The sale is IXUWKHU VXEMHFW WR FRQÂżUPDWLRQ E\ WKH FRXUW 8SRQ payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser ZLOO UHFHLYH D &HUWLÂżFDWH RI 6DOH WKDW ZLOO HQWLWOH the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after FRQÂżUPDWLRQ RI WKH VDOH 7KH SURSHUW\ ZLOO 127 be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION ROUNDPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING CORPORATION Plaintiff, -v.FIRST MIDWEST BANK AS TRUSTEE U/T/A DATED 1/22/2004 A/K/A TRUST NO. 1-5992, HERITAGE COVE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES OF FIRST MIDWEST BANK U/T/A DATED 1/22/2004 A/K/A TRUST NO. 1-5992, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 14 CH 007830 11112 E. COVE CIRCLE UNIT #3-1D 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 September 5, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 15, 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 11112 E. COVE CIRCLE UNIT #3-1D, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-22-200-109-1034. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale WHUPV GRZQ RI WKH KLJKHVW ELG E\ FHUWLÂżHG 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 purFKDVHU QRW WR H[FHHG LQ FHUWLÂżHG IXQGV RU wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.BRIAN ROHLICEK, KRISTIN ROHLICEK, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR GMACM HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2005-HE1 Defendants 14 CH 004580 8930 TALLY HO LANE 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 September 19, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 22, 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 8930 TALLY HO LANE, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-15-213-007. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down RI WKH KLJKHVW ELG E\ FHUWLÂżHG IXQGV DW WKH FORVH RI 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 WR H[FHHG LQ FHUWLÂżHG IXQGV RU ZLUH WUDQVIHU 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 IXUWKHU VXEMHFW WR FRQÂżUPDWLRQ E\ WKH FRXUW 8SRQ payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser ZLOO UHFHLYH D &HUWLÂżFDWH RI 6DOH WKDW ZLOO HQWLWOH the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after FRQÂżUPDWLRQ RI WKH VDOH 7KH SURSHUW\ ZLOO 127 be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

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For Sale COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION BANK OF AMERICA, NA P l a i n t i f f , v s .

MARILYN C. CIGER, EAGLE RIDGE II C O N D O M I N I U M A S S O C I A T I O N D e f e n d a n t s , 14 CH 7052 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, December 1, 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 17824 Bernard Drive Unit 3D, Orland Park, IL 60467.

P.I.N. 27-32-101-007-1072.

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.

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For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION US. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, AS RECEIVER FOR DOWNEY SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, F.A. Plaintiff, -v.ODEET SYRIANI, SOUZAN SYRIANI, ANTON SYRIANI, HARRIS, N.A. F/K/A HARRIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK, CITIBANK, N.A. F/K/A CITIBANK, FSB, CENTENNIAL VILLAGE UNIT II TOWNHOME ASSOCIATION Defendants 08 CH 018549 15715 LIBERTY COURT ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 8, 2014, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 10, 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 15715 LIBERTY COURT, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-16-407-009. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down RI WKH KLJKHVW ELG E\ FHUWLÂżHG IXQGV DW WKH FORVH of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted.

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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 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; P l a i n t i f f , v s .

KELLY A. MCGUIRE; ORLAND GOLF VIEW CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; D e f e n d a n t s , 13 CH 9346 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 Friday, December 19, 2014 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 27-14-401-021-1059.

Commonly known as 15714 South Sunset Ridge Court Unit 2N, Orland Park, Illinois 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.

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(708) 903-9865 For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.RORY SLOAN A/K/A RORY J. SLOAN A/K/A RORY J. SLAUGHTER, CITIBANK, N.A., SILVER LAKE GARDENS VILLAS I CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Defendants 12 CH 032004 15354 AUBRIETA LANE 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 November 6, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 4, 2014, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive - 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 15354 AUBRIETA LANE, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-13-200-024-1040. The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% GRZQ RI WKH KLJKHVW ELG E\ FHUWLÂżHG IXQGV DW WKH 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 WR H[FHHG LQ FHUWLÂżHG IXQGV RU ZLUH WUDQVIHU 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;AS ISâ&#x20AC;? condition. The sale is IXUWKHU VXEMHFW WR FRQÂżUPDWLRQ E\ WKH FRXUW 8SRQ payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser ZLOO UHFHLYH D &HUWLÂżFDWH RI 6DOH WKDW ZLOO HQWLWOH the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after FRQÂżUPDWLRQ RI WKH VDOH 7KH SURSHUW\ ZLOO 127 be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property.

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Wolfgang Puck’s Kitchen

by Wolfgang Puck

Keep your side dishes light for a healthier holiday feast The holidays are fast approaching. Right now, home cooks everywhere are thinking about two important matters. The first involves planning what to cook for the best holiday feast ever. And the second, of course, is how to avoid gaining weight while enjoying all those festive meals.

I’ve read reports saying that people can put on anywhere between one and five extra pounds during the holidays. Yet, too many people who dream of keeping their weight in check at this time of year fail to do any serious advance planning about how they might maintain some discipline. The result of such a lack of foresight can leave you all the more in need of making serious New Year’s resolutions.

That’s why I’d like to share with you here a couple of my own favorite strategies for celebrating the season more healthfully.

The first is, I think, the most important, and I can best sum it up by reminding you of one of Thanksgiving’s most enduring icons, the cornucopia or horn of plenty. This ancient Roman harvest symbol is always depicted as overflowing with fresh vegetables and fruits, and I always try to plan my own Thanksgiving and other holiday menus with the cornucopia in mind. That means including an abundance of produce, from appetizer salads to side dishes, stuffings and dressings to desserts. The more vegetables and fruits you serve and eat, the less room you leave for dishes that can be your downfall.

At the same time, it’s important not to add too much fat, sodium, or sugar to that produce.

The trick is preparing them in healthful ways that maximize flavor, texture and appearance. My recipe for Low-Fat Caramelized Brussels Sprouts, adapted from my book “Wolfgang Puck Makes It Healthy,” achieves that goal in several simple ways.

In recent years, people have discovered that Brussels sprouts can be beautiful and delicious if you undercook them to a bright emerald color and crunchy consistency. People love them even more if they’re browned to a caramel color that brings out a natural edge of sweetness. Unfortunately, most such recipes achieve that goal by loading them up with lots of butter or bacon fat, plus too much sugar.

The recipe you see here, though, achieves similarly delicious goals without compromising smart eating. No butter or oil is used — just some nonstick cooking spray. A hint of brown sugar per serving helps develop rich color and flavor. The amount of salt is entirely up to you.

The result is a wonderful side that is easily doubled or tripled to serve larger gatherings. Yet, each serving contains just 64 calories, only 2 from fat.

Now, isn’t that a holiday dish for which it’s worth giving thanks?

‘In 1994, the original “Dumb and Dumber” arrived and brought us two bumbling idiots: Jeff Daniels, as Harry Dunne, along with Jim Carrey, as Lloyd Christmas.

Some 20 years later they are back reprising their roles as Harry and Lloyd In “Dumb and Dumber To.” The “to” is, sadly, not a misprint.

That is the first of many unfunny attempts at humor in the film.

The funniest part of the movie is that Jim Carrey, 52, and Jeff Daniels, 59, think they are not too old to play such idiots. Twenty years ago, it worked because they were younger and funnier. Now they are both at an age where this dumb humor doesn’t work for them. Honestly, this juvenile humor probably wouldn’t work well for anyone.

Maybe this movie would have worked if it had been made soon after the first. This is a prime example that shows not everything needs a sequel, but in the world of Hollywood, money talks.

This is a complete rehashing of the original, just far less funny.

Instead of going on a road-trip to deliver a briefcase filled with

of others. In the first they were protagonists, but in this one they are just annoying bullies worth ignoring.

Peter and Bobby Farrelly, who have written and directed decent by films such as “There’s Something Tony Pinto About Mary,” fail miserably here.

It’s bad enough that this film is money, this time they just go on a rehashing of the first - it’s the a road-trip to deliver a different fact they needed the help of four kind of package. Both films end more writers to write the film up having so-called bad guys who that makes it even worse.

This review can’t be all negajust want money. This time the bad guy is played by Rob Riggle. tive, so let’s talk about the lone Basically, the movie follows the positive of the film, not counttwo on a road-trip to deliver a ing the part when the film finally package to Harry’s daughter, who ends. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels he just found out about. Nothing do a decent job in the roles they is as simple as it seems with these play. They do the best they can two, and unfunny gags ensue. As with such bad writing. Neither of stated earlier, if it happens in the them will win an award for this, first film, it happens again, just but they do show they can act no matter how bad everything else is. in a not so funny way.

“Dumb and Dumber To” is a Number two, or ‘to’ is more mean spirited than the first, very accurate title as this movie which hurts its charm. Instead is much dumber than the first. If of being fun-loving idiots, they you want to see Harry and Lloyd are now mean-spirited idiots. In in all their glory, go watch the the original, they were the butt original and stay far away from of the jokes, but in this one the this crash grab.

—Tony Pinto’s grade: F-minus so-called jokes are at the expense

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St. Nicholas dard Bank - 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at The Center bowl of ice water. Leave them to Nov. 21, Family Feud game night LOW-FAT cool for several minutes. Drain for students with Standard Bank CARAMELIZED Actor Terry Lynch will porBRUSSELS SPROUTS thoroughly, and then pat the Brus- and with free food samples from tray St. Nicholas at a luncheon sels sprouts completely dry with White Castle. on Tuesday, Nov. 25, from noon Serves 4 a clean kitchen towel or paper • Brown Bag Lunch - 1 to 2 p.m. to 2 p.m., at The Center, 12700 • Kosher salt towels.

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• 1 tablespoon chopped Cook until the undersides of fresh Italian parsley (NOTICE: Ratings for each film Good As It Gets,’’ the two films Half-fill a large saucepan with the Brussels sprouts are caramel- begin with a ‘star’ rating — one share a screenwriter (Mark Anwater and bring the water to a boil ized and a deep brown color, 5 star meaning ‘poor,’ four meaning drus). Douglas portrays a cranky over high heat. Meanwhile, place a to 7 minutes. Drizzle them with ‘excellent’ — followed by the Motion realtor who needs help when his colander in the sink. Partially fill the broth and continue to cook, Picture Association of America rat- granddaughter (Sterling Jerins) is a large bowl with ice cubes and stirring, to dissolve the caramel- ing, and then by a family-viewing left with him by estranged son, so he water and place it near the sink. brown glaze on the bottom of the guide, the key for which appears appeals to a widowed-singer neighbor (Diane Keaton) with whom he’s When the water in the saucepan pans and lightly glaze the sprouts below.) is boiling, salt the water, if you with the liquid, 1 to 2 minutes STARTING THIS WEEK: never gotten along. Reiner gives like. Add the Brussels sprouts and longer.

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Omarr’s Weekly Astrological Forecast ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): The best things in life are free. You’ll find that the less money you spend this week, the happier you’ll be.

Time you spend alone, devoted to hobbies or personal projects, may give everyone some much-needed breathing space.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Do what needs doing. Keep an eye out for little things that need attention or maintenance this week.

Fix a leaky faucet, tighten up a loose screw, or clear away the cobwebs. The smallest improvement helps keep things running smoothly.

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Asserting unwarranted authority over others could cause resentment this week. Don’t be overly inquisitive regarding matters that are none of your concern. Be tactful, polite and discreet.

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Top Pop Albums 1. 5: The Gray Chapter, Slipknot, Roadrunner Records 2. Paperwork, T.I., Columbia 3. Melody Road, Neil Diamond, Neil Diamond 4. That’s Christmas To Me, Pentatonix, RCA’ 5. Under Pressure, Logic, Def Jam 6. Anything Goes, Florida

Georgia Line, Big Machine Records 7. Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean, Broken Bow 8. Pain Killer, Little Big Town, Capitol Nashville (Universal) 9. Partners, Barbra Streisand, Columbia 10. Nostalgia, Annie Lennox, Blue Note Records

Top Pop Singles 1. All About That Bass, Meghan Trainor, Epic 2. Bang Bang, Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj, Lava Music/Republic Records 3. Shake it Off, Taylor Swift, Big Machine Records 4. Habits (Stay High), Tove Lo, Island 5. Animals, Maroon 5, Interscope

6. Black Widow, Iggy Azalea, featuring Rita Ora, Island/ Def Jam 7. Don’t Tell ‘em, Jeremih, featuring YG, Def Jam 8. Hot Boy, Bobby Shmurda, Epic Records 9. Take Me to Church, Hozier, Columbia 10. Stay With Me, Sam Smith, Capitol Records (Universal)

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‘For one brief, shining moment…’

1. Neighbors, Universal Pictures, R 2. Sex Tape, Columbia PicSome 30 members of the Palos Park Woman’s Club enjoyed a luncheon performance of the musical “Camelot” last Thursday at the tures, R 3. Deliver Us from Evil, Drury Lane Theater in Oak Brook. Ladies who attended included Sherry Termaat and Patt Bailey (top left), Janine Schmaedeke and Nancy Screen Gems, R Mitchell (top right), and Arlene Adams (above from left), Helga Fuller, Mary Ann Parkins and Maureen Lake.

4. Chef, Open Road Films, R 5. The Prince, Grindstone Entertainment, R 6. The Fault in Our Stars,

Watercolors by Norman at Noral Jewelers elegant wine and cheese showing is ahead The former owner of Noral Jewelers will again return for an elegant showing of his paintings early next month. The art show will feature at least 75 paintings.

Come and meet artist Norman Swiderek on Friday, Dec. 5, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 6, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Noral Jewelers, 12227 S. Harlem Ave. in Palos Heights.

Wine and cheese will be served while you browse among more than 75 of Swiderek’s paintings.

In 1958 Norman Swiderek opened the first Noral Jewelers. The name Noral was derived from the NOR of Norman and AL from his wife’s name Alice. A few years later, a Noral Jewelers opened in Tinley Park and later a third in Palos Heights.

Over the years, Swiderek designed many unique pieces of jewelry. When a customer brought Grandma’s diamond ring in and asked to have the diamond put into a more modern setting, he would design a ring or necklace based on the person who was going to wear it. He would possibly draw ad design two or three sketches so the customers could choose the design they preferred.

In 1995 Swiderek retired and Noral Jewelers is now owned by his son Brett. The artist now lives in Strand Country Club in Naples Florida seven months of the year and returns home to Palos Heights the other five months of the year. In Florida he and his wife enjoy playing golf and socializing with new friends from all over the country.

In 2006 Swiderek had surgery.

While recovering he developed a severe case of pneumonia. Before he recovered, he had a relapse.

He couldn’t play golf and soon depression set in. With some coaxing from his wife, Swiderek enrolled in a watercolor class at Barron Collier High School.

The instructor was Betty Wilson who taught basic watercolor painting for the beginners. He later moved on to intermediate and advanced watercolor with Anika Tigchelaar. In Florida approximately 75 paintings hang on his freshly painted walls in his garage, what he refers to as “My Studio”.

Swiderek held his first Art Show at the Orland Park Rotary Club. The show featured 63 paintings, seven of which were sold. The second show was at the

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www.beverlyenvironmental.com Strand Country Club. There he featured 75 paintings of which 12 were sold. And in the third show held at the Naples Florida Baptist Church, where he was only allowed to feature seven paintings. He particularly enjoyed this show because it also featured 40 local artists and their paintings. The artists made a point of browsing and examining each other’s work. He was told his paintings were very well done with outstanding details.

Thanks to his improved health

and his new-found talents, his hope is to get out into the field, perhaps painting scenes from the Boardwalk at the Big Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Florida.

Among his favorite paintings is his grandson enjoying the warmth of a fire during a tailgate party in front of Soldiers Field, two five foot paintings of white horses for his granddaughter’s new condo, and mallard ducks in flight for his son, an avid hunter. In all, he has painted approximately 350 paintings.

Process The VILLAGE of PALOS PARK presents

The Centennial VILLAGE TREE LIGHTING & HOLIDAY MARKET Friday, December 5 5:00 - 9:00 pm

What better way to welcome in the Holiday Season than with neighbors, family and friends at this Centennial Village event. As the Holiday Market opens, the grounds fill with the anticipation of Santa’s arrival as he and Mayor John Mahoney illuminate the Village tree. This event has

something for everyone.

Village Green and Recreation Center 8901 West 123rd Street 708 671 3760

5:00 pm 100th Anniversary Celebration Time Capsule Dedication

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C A N P R E V E N T F O R E S T www.smokeybear.com

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Holiday Merchants, Food Vendors & Holiday Drinks Community Tree Decorating Contest Bon Fire, Holiday Music & Performance by Palos Park Presbyterian Church Musicians 6:30 pm Santa Arrives Courtesy of The Center Hayrack Express along Forest Glen 6:40 pm Tree Lighting & Holiday Greeting from Mayor Mahoney Hayrack Rides & Visits with Santa